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news & views Giving birth in chains / 6 Boulder Weekly editor discusses role in new shackling legislation by Pamela White Lawmaker: Stop shackling inmates in labor / 11 Sen. Evie Hudak calls current practice “inhumane” by Jefferson Dodge Affairs of the world / 14 Burgeoning CWA celebrates 62nd year by Katherine Creel

buzz On the cover: On a silver Spoon / 19 Consistency and innovation feed Spoon’s indie rock success by David Accomazzo Overtones: The Pharcyde’s influence felt in modern hip-hop / 23 Overtones: David Allan Coe’s stained legacy / 25 Arts & Culture: Vinyl music still selling despite crashing CD sales / 26 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Cuisine: The kale rebellion / 41 Cuisine review: El Taco Feliz / 43 Dessert Diva: Lemon Coconut Easter Basket Cake / 45 Elevation: Keeping up with the Joneses / 49 Screen: How to Train Your Dragon; Chloe / 53 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 54

departments Letters: Pot principles; Cheap, clean coal?; Weeping hypocrites / 4 The Highroad: The rebellion spreads to Wall Street itself / 4 Police Blotter: Beer burglary; Suspicious chemical; “Just drive straight” / 11 News Briefs: Mountain transit pass unveiled; Boulder Cannabis Festival / 15 In Case You Missed It: Conservative count; Pink tally / 17 Sophisticated Sex: Should I stay or should I go? / 39 Classifieds: Your community resource / 57 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 61

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Pot principles Anyone living in Boulder is no stranger to the medical marijuana dispensary phenomenon that has been unfolding recently. While the current situation is certainly a step in the right direction towards drug policy reform, prefacing all things marijuana with the term “medical” is a bit irking. Personally I enjoy, and have enjoyed, recreationally smoking marijuana for years. But as young, perfectly healthy co-workers, friends and neighbors retrieve their medical cards for things like chronic pain, or sleep apnea, I often ask myself who they are fooling. Of course, there are patients who greatly benefit from the service, but unfortunately all of the “patients” I know, understandably, just like to get high. While obtaining the privilege of buying exotic strands of organic, locally grown grass from a storefront is certainly alluring, the principle of lying to a doctor seems foolish. I suppose it’s a silly moral pedestal to stand on, thinking back to the days of being terrified to drive with a gram of marijuana in my possession, but for now it feels valid. The economic gain is certainly notable. Local papers can surely attest to the rise in advertising, the tax dollars don’t hurt either, and no one working for a dispensary is complaining. But I can’t help but wonder if the original proponents of the medical marijuana movement, and the patients who truly need it, feel a dishonor to their cause

when they open the paper to trendy, tie-dyed dispensary ads with hip and marketable business names. If suddenly the local paper was riddled with pharmaceutical ads and pharmacies were being built at the rate dispensaries are, it is likely that the reception wouldn’t be so hot. It is my hope that “medical” dispensaries are just a necessary formality towards complete legalization, a way of easing the public in gradually.

Clean, cheap coal? It appears that the coal industry is trying very hard to convince us that burning coal is the cheapest and the

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n odd brotherhood is joining the populist push to rein in the narcissistic greed of Wall Street giants: Wall Streeters themselves! There’s John Bogle, the 80-yearold founder of Vanguard Group: “I am a believer that the system has gone badly awry and needs massive reform,” bellowed the old Wall Street bull. That surely must’ve astonished the business-as-usual elites on Wall Street and the petite reformers in Washington, who want delicate tweakings of the system — not “massive reform.” Joining Bogle’s cry for change are such former financial barons as Nicholas Brady, William Donaldson and John Reed, all calling for structural reforms, rather than the timid regulatory proposals moving through Congress. And, good grief, can it be? Why, yes, it’s Alan Greenspan, the laissez-faire absolutist and former 4 April 1, 2010

So while I continue to illegally enjoy a puff now and again, I will wait patiently for legalization to appear on the ballot and hope that when it does, it passes. Robert Kyle Ussery/Boulder

The rebellion spreads to Wall Street itself Fed chairman, who was once hailed as the infallible guru of America’s economic policy. That was, of course, before his extremist libertarian theories expired in the fire of the recent Wall Street crash. Now, even Greenspan is on the reformist stump, urging the federal government to develop plans for splitting up financial empires that fail. Speaking of splitting ’em up, there’s been a stunning call from a surprising source to do just that — and to do it now! Richard Fisher, president of the

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Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a peer of Wall Street’s financial establishment, has broken rank from the tinkerers, calling for preemptive action against financial conglomerates considered “too big to fail.” Fisher notes that these outfits pose a systemic danger to the entire financial system and an inherent threat to our whole economy. “The sound thing to do,” he says, “is to dismantle them over time into institutions that can be prudently managed and regulated.” Amazing — the rebellion against Wall Street greed is even spilling into the Street itself! Who would’ve thought it? Boulder Weekly

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first learned about the shackling of inmates in labor back in 1999 after Amnesty International did its study of the issue and made its findings public. What I read in that report, titled “Not Part of My Sentence: Violations of the Human Rights of Women in Custody,” was deeply disturbing. Here are some highlights: Warnice Robinson, sent to prison for shoplifting, was shackled to the bed during her entire labor, which caused problems when it came time to push her baby out. “Because I was shackled to the bed, they couldn’t remove the lower part of the bed for delivery, and they couldn’t put my feet in stirrups,” she told Amnesty. “My feet were shackled together, and I couldn’t get my legs apart. The doctor called for an officer, but the officer had gone down the hall. No one else could unlock the shackles, and my baby was coming, but I couldn’t open my legs.” A labor nurse recalled seeing a young woman brought into the hospital, doubled over in pain, her prison uniform dripping wet with amniotic fluid, her wrist shackled to that of a prison guard twice her size. She was 15. Maria Jones, imprisoned in California on drug charges, told how the medical staff wanted her to walk to promote active labor. However, the guard refused to remove her shackles, so she shuffled along until her ankles were rubbed raw, suffering that additional pain and indignity, while also going through labor. “It was unbelievable,” she told Amnesty’s researchers. “As if I was going to go anywhere.” My initial response to Amnesty’s report was, “You have got to be kidding me.” As the mother of two, I couldn’t fathom how any woman in labor could be capable of running away, let alone overpowering an armed guard. More than that, I couldn’t imagine going through long hours of labor chained to a bed. The very idea gave me chills. As any woman who has given birth knows, being able to walk, rock, squat, lean, get on your hands and knees and move as your body demands during and

between contractions is one way to cope with the pain of labor and also helps to speed labor. Being chained in one spot, particularly if you’re flat on your back, has been proven to increase pain, prolong labor and increase the chance of complications. Reading that report, it seemed to me that those who run our prisons had forgotten to adjust the rules to accommodate the needs of women or the uniquely female circumstances of pregnancy and childbirth. They’d allowed the need for security to trump not only humanitarian concerns, but also common sense. Their focus on security had become myopic and, in these circumstances, cold and cruel. Amnesty’s report is now 11 years old, but the shackling of inmates in labor is still a common practice across the United States and here in Colorado, where 50 to 60 incarcerated women give birth each year. When I visited Denver Women’s Correctional Facility in January to interview pregnant inmates about the prenatal care they received, I had the opportunity to speak with two inmates who’d recently given birth. I was also able to discuss DOC’s shackling policy with officials. DOC’s official policy is to keep inmates who are in labor under armed guard and shackled to their hospital bed by one extremity. But as I learned during my interviews, it’s a policy that is enforced inconsistently. Some guards decline to shackle inmates in labor, perhaps realizing how ridiculous it is. And there are some nurses who will quietly insist that shackles be removed. So whether an inmate must endure her labor in chains depends entirely on which nurse and which guard have been assigned to her. That’s hardly fair. Of course, DOC’s policy applies only to state prisons. In Colorado, every city and county has its own policy regarding the shackling of pregnant and laboring inmates. Inmates who go into labor while at Boulder County Jail might be shackled while on their way to the hospital, but not once they arrive. In Denver County, on the other hand, see SHACKLED Page 7

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an inmate in labor will find herself leashed to the bed by a long chain attached to one ankle. Interestingly — and tellingly — doctors and nurses aren’t the ones who want these women to be shackled. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) has denounced the practice, calling it “demeaning and unnecessary,” as well as potentially dangerous to both mother and fetus. “Incarcerated women in labor constitute a particularly vulnerable population,” the official ACOG statement reads. “Preventing the practice of shackling these women is an important step toward assuring humanitarian care and social justice.” And yet only six states — soon to be seven with the addition of Pennsylvania — have statutes regulating the use of shackles on pregnant and laboring inmates. Other states have departments of corrections that have policies limiting shackling, but no state law to control the practice at the county or city level. As I digested this information in preparation for writing my article, “Pregnant in prison,” I came to realize how vulnerable pregnant inmates are and how that vulnerability puts not only them and their babies at risk, but also the state of Colorado. It’s only a matter of time before an inmate sues for the unnecessary pain and suffering she endured because of being shackled in labor. And when that lawsuit comes, it will stand on ground that is increasingly solid. Shawanna Nelson, who’d been sentenced to prison in Arkansas for credit card fraud and writing bad checks, went into labor three months into a six-year sentence. A corrections officer shackled her ankles to opposite sides of the bed and her wrist to the IV rail, drastically restricting her movement. He wouldn’t unshackle her to let her go to the bathroom, forcing her to use a bedpan instead. Her doctor and the nurses asked that the guard remove the shackles; he refused. Nelson endured her entire labor without pain relief while chained on her back. In an interview about the experience, she says she thinks the guard was trying to “teach her a lesson” by subjecting her to additional humiliation and pain. Understandably, Nelson sued. In October, the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Nelson vs. Norris that shackling an inmate in labor constitutes a violation of the Eighth Amendment and constitutes “cruel and unusual punishment.” The ruling enables Nelson’s suit to move forward. In January, I asked Joanie Shoemaker, deputy director of correcBoulder Weekly

tions, about the possibility of DOC changing its policy. “We periodically make changes in policies … [T]here’s been discussion at both our state level and the national level about what is appropriate,” she said. “There are always ongoing changes, and I’m sure that the discussion on the use of restraints in labor and delivery is something that we’ll continue to talk about … Colorado DOC prides itself on being responsive to what the environment is needing and to be progressive in the way that we manage our offender population.” DOC should, indeed, be actively reconsidering and revising its policy. It would be in good company should it choose to do so. The Bureau of Federal Prisons, which deals with approximately 1,300 inmate births a year, and the U.S. Marshal Service, which specializes in safely transporting fugitives and dangerous inmates, have both revised their policies to prohibit the shackling of inmates during labor, delivery and the recovery process. If they can do it, DOC certainly can. A spokeswoman for DOC tried to hammer home to me repeatedly that “these are dangerous women” and that shackling them is a way to protect “public safety.” And, indeed, some are dangerous. However, most women in prison are there for committing nonviolent crimes like theft and drug possession. The danger they represent is largely a danger to themselves in terms of unhealthy lifestyles and unsafe behaviors, not violence to others. In fact, the thing most female inmates have in common is that they are victims of violence, particularly sexual violence. But a change in DOC policy would only address the problem at the state level, leaving county and city jails without the guidance they need to protect both themselves and inmates and their babies. As I took in this information, it became clear to me that in order to abolish the practice, to ensure that pregnant inmates across the state are treated fairly, and to protect our cities, our counties and our state from lawsuits, a state law would be needed. I sat down and put all of this into my article, thinking that an activist group might take up the issue and move forward with a bill. But that didn’t happen. And so I reached a decision: I would push for a bill myself. I gathered my research, distilled it and forwarded it, together with my article, to a number of lawmakers from both parties. Senate President Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, was the first to

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call me, and soon I had an appointment with him to discuss the issue. After listening to a quick overview, he gave his approval for late-bill status. That same day, Dr. Eliza Buyers, a representative of ACOG, contacted me to say that their national organization was working to eliminate the shackling of laboring inmates nationwide. She contacted other organizations, including the Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights (COLOR), and suddenly we had a small coalition working on the issue. Before the end of the week, Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, had agreed to carry the bill. I took the wording from a number of similar bills and wrote a draft, which is currently being revised and will soon be introduced in the state Senate. Tentatively titled the “Safe Parturition for Inmates Act,” it would prohibit the shackling of inmates in labor during transport to the hospital and at the hospital until the inmate has recovered

from delivery. It also provides an exception for women who truly are dangerous or a flight risk. How the bill will fare in committee remains to be seen, but I feel optimistic that with the national momentum on this issue, Colorado could become the eighth state to eliminate this demeaning, potentially harmful and unnecessary practice. I’ve never done anything like this before, and as a newspaper editor and working journalist, I feel compelled toward full disclosure, hence this column. While at first I was hesitant to take on an advocacy role in news I was covering, I couldn’t stand the fact that my own state permitted women to give birth in chains. I had to do something about it. Being shackled during labor shouldn’t be part of any woman’s prison sentence. Going to prison means the loss of freedom and independence — not the loss of one’s humanity. I ask for your support in helping this bill to move forward. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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The fact is, the coal industry doesn’t want us to move beyond coal. Certainly, it has been proven to be fairly reliable, but “low-cost” and “clean”? Leslie Glustrom of Clean Energy Action (a Boulder nonprofit that is exposing the true costs and availability of coal — www.cleanenergyaction.org) recently noted: “The coal industry fails to mention that the price that Xcel Energy paid for coal in 2009 ($1.52/million British thermal units) is the price that in 2008 they had expected to pay in 2035. That means coal cost estimates were only off by about a quarter century.” Folks, the price is going up, and there is hard evidence that we don’t have a 200-year supply. Coal is not exempt from the law of supply and demand. Furthermore, “clean coal” is an oxymoron. Heavy metals (especially mercury — a deadly poison), particulates (asthma and lung disease) and toxic coal ash (poisoning our water supplies, feedlots and more) are being dumped into the environment every day, not to mention mind-boggling amounts of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide and others). When they say “clean coal,” it means that they will have to build a new kind of coal plant that can strip the carbon dioxide out of the exhaust and pump it into the earth. Carbon capture and storage is an unproven and costly technology with a host of serious problems (groundwater acidification and, “Oops, it leaked”). How many clean coal plants in the U.S.? At last count there were two demonstration plants. This is the answer to cleaning up coal? And what is the cost of a clean coal plant? Burning coal to generate electricity isn’t going away any time soon, but now that Colorado has a 30 percent Renewable Portfolio Standard, the coal industry’s dominance is starting to fade. Don’t listen to their propaganda. The health of the planet and of future generations is at stake. Renewable energy is the answer and the faster we bring it on board, the healthier we’ll all be. Teresa Foster/Longmont Boulder Weekly

Why I quit the Dems I’m no longer a Democrat. They have repeatedly let us down. We have more war and an expanded military budget with shrunken allocations for domestic needs that cry out for help. Truckloads of money went to banks, yet they still give monstrously large bonuses to the elite while they foreclose houses. President Obama has plans to expand “free trade” that is responsible for exporting jobs (e.g. NAFTA and WTO). Single-payer health insurance was off the table, and only a few would even consider it, although between 70 percent and 80 percent of us want it. The new bill makes cuts in Medicare and still leaves loads of people without coverage. How many times do we have to be let down before the picture is clear? The Democrats have little interest in what we want or need. Neither do the Republicans. Bob Kinsey is running as a Green for U.S. Senate. Check him out at www.kinseyforsenate.org. Tom Moore/Boulder

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Weeping hypocrites Poor [House Minority Leader] John Boehner! So bitterly you wept as you bemoaned the Democrats ramming health care through Congress, and so pitifully you sob that they’ve violated the will of the American people! But you see, John, I have an attention span, so I remember the past eight years, when both Congress and the entire Bush administration were doing both of those every minute, and you were loving it! Typical Republian hypocrisy. J. Andrew Smith/Bloomfield, N.J.

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state lawmaker is introducing a bill that would prohibit the shackling of pregnant inmates while they are in labor. The legislation was prompted by a Boulder Weekly investigation and article about the treatment of pregnant prisoners. Between 50 and 60 women give birth each year while incarcerated in state prisons. The state has no law regulating the shackling of pregnant inmates during labor, so policy is determined separately at the city, county and state levels. Sen. Evie Hudak, D-Westminster, says she was not aware of the issue prior to the Feb. 18 story “Pregnant in prison” by Boulder Weekly Editor Pamela White. But now Hudak says she’s convinced that there should be a statewide law prohibiting the practice. “It’s needed because it’s inhumane treatment of women,” Hudak says of shackling prisoners while they are in labor. “Maybe it’s based on a misunderstanding that men have, who have never been through labor and are generally in charge of the corrections system. One person said the women might escape. I think that shows a misunderstanding of how a woman feels during labor and after delivery.”

Hudak, who labored for 18 hours before undergoing a cesarean section when her child was born, says the idea that a female inmate might escape while in labor is ludicrous. “At the beginning of labor, contractions can be

20 minutes apart, but you don’t know when the next one is going to come,” she says. “When you’re in that pain, the last thing you want is to be away from see SHACKLING Page 13

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Beer burglary City of Boulder police are investigating a reported burglary that occurred sometime between 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 27, and 10:15 a.m. on Sunday, March 28, at the Boulder Beer company, in the 2800 block of Wilderness Place. The suspect or suspects smashed out a front window, broke into a safe and damaged an ATM machine. The case remains open. Suspicious chemical On the night of March 25, the Boulder Police Department, Boulder Fire-Rescue and the Boulder County Hazardous Materials Team removed a suitcase that contained a potentially toxic chemical from a locker at the homeless shelter at the corner of Lee Hill Drive and Broadway. According to a police report, Boulder authorities became involved in the situation after a person was Boulder Weekly

arrested earlier in the day by the Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office. That person reportedly indicated to investigators that he had hazardous materials stored in a locker at the shelter. Crews arrived at about 4:45 p.m. and evacuated five employees who were preparing the shelter for the night’s population. About 75 to 100 homeless people were temporarily moved to the Boulder Housing Partners building across the street until the operation was completed, the report said. The chemical, which was in sealed containers, was field screened and was determined to pose no hazard in its current state, police said. There was no release or exposure. No additional criminal charges are anticipated, Boulder police said. Drunk and packing heat On March 24, Boulder police arrested a 56-year-old man on charges

of felony menacing, three counts of crimes against at-risk adults and prohibited use of a weapon as a result of an incident in his home in the 4400 block of Laguna Place. According to the police report, the suspect is accused of pointing an unloaded gun and yelling at his 89-year-old mother, her caretaker and another relative. He was intoxicated at the time, police said. ‘Explosion’ at Efrain’s At around 4:30 p.m. on March 20, deputies from the Boulder County Sheriff ’s Office responded to a report of an “explosion” at Efrain’s Mexican Food Restaurant at 1630 63rd St. According to a police report, a pressure cooker had exploded while the restaurant was open for business. One employee suffered minor burns and was treated and released at the scene. The report said a customer received a “bump on the head” and was also

treated and released at the scene. The report added that other injuries were very mild, and that no foul play is suspected. ‘Just drive straight’ In the early hours of March 21, the driver of a taxi cab flagged down a Boulder County sheriff ’s deputy’s car at Arapahoe Ave. and Broadway. The driver told the deputy that the passenger in the backseat of the cab was drunk and did not know where she lived or her own name. According to a police report, she repeatedly told the driver to “just drive straight” without giving him an address. After talking with her, the deputy discovered the woman’s name and that she was from out of state, but could not determine where she was staying. Because she couldn’t pay the cab fare of $18.10, she was taken to the Boulder County Jail and booked and lodged on charges of theft under $500, police said. April 1, 2010 11

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a hospital or medical center. And running? Oh, my God. I’m sorry, but it’s just ridiculous to think that a woman could run at the speed necessary to escape. … That’s the time when women feel the most vulnerable and helpless in their entire life, because the body is in control, not you.” Hudak points out that there is always an armed guard either in the room or just outside the door when prisoners are in labor, which provides sufficient security. In addition, she says, shackling women — especially around the belly — poses a medical risk and can harm the fetus. “That’s why maternity clothes are loose-fitting,” Hudak says. “I understand that these women are being punished and incarcerated for a reason, but there’s no reason to punish the unborn child.” Dr. Eliza Buyers, legislative chair for the Colorado section of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), agrees that there are serious health risks associated with shackling inmates in labor. “It’s medically hazardous,” says Buyers, who is an obstetrician/gynecologist. “From my point of view, that’s the most important part to make clear. Guidelines would help put this practice to an end.” From the second trimester on, there should be nothing pressing against the belly, she says. “Even though the fetus is well-protected, there should be no rough pressure at that point,” Buyers says, adding that women even tuck their seat belts under their bellies during late-term pregnancy. “That is a blatant medical issue,” she says. In addition, Buyers says women shouldn’t have their legs shackled during labor, because “you need to be able to move your legs and be ready for a rapid delivery.” Buyers says ACOG is throwing its

support behind Hudak’s legislation. ACOG has been involved in the efforts to regulate the practice in most of the states that have passed shackling laws, according to Buyers. “I think that from the standpoint of a medical provider, someone who delivers babies, practically speaking, when there’s an armed guard at the door, there’s no reason for them to be shackled,” she says. In Colorado, Buyers says — and especially at Denver Health, where laboring inmates at the Denver Women’s Correctional Facility are sent — medical personnel insist that shackles be removed from prisoners in labor the majority of the time. But practice varies from county to county, and Hudak’s legislation would establish a consistent, statewide standard that all of the state’s law enforcement officers would have to follow. Buyers points out that without such a law, an armed guard who is new on the job might insist that the shackles stay on during labor. “There should absolutely be a policy on this,” she says. “Things are done well at Denver Health, but we need this for other areas where this may only come up every five years. … It’s an argument or discussion that shouldn’t need to occur.” Especially when the woman has had an epidural, Buyers adds. “When I tell people about this, they say, ‘What?’ It’s cruel and unusual punishment.” It can also be a liability issue. “The fact that there hasn’t been a lawsuit [in Colorado] is amazing,” she says. Colorado Department of Corrections spokesperson Katherine Sanguinetti told Boulder Weekly that the department’s deputy director, Joanie Shoemaker, is declining to discuss the proposal until the bill is introduced. “We can’t comment on something we haven’t read,” Sanguinetti says. But she added that the department probably won’t take a position on the bill.

In an e-mail sent to Boulder Weekly subsequently, she explained that the department is not “comfortable making any statements about the issue, as any comments may be misinterpreted as a stance on the bill. We will be happy to speak with you once the bill has been introduced and we have had time to assess the impact on the department and public safety.” Hudak is still in the process of identifying a House sponsor for the bill, and she says she may approach female legislators on the House Judiciary Committee. An early draft of the proposed legislation prohibits outright the use of leg or belly shackles during labor and delivery, and it prohibits the use of other forms of restraint unless there is a compelling reason to believe that the inmate presents an immediate and serious threat of harm to herself or others, or is a substantial flight risk that can’t be reasonably contained by other existing means. The draft states that the least restrictive form of restraint shall be used and that a corrections official must issue written findings within 10 days regarding the extraordinary circumstances that dictated the use of restraints. That documentation would have to be kept on file and available for public inspection for at least five years, although an inmate’s identifying information would not be made public without that person’s consent, according to the draft. Chris Carey, director of obstetrics/ gynecology at Denver Health, says that when it comes to shackling, his medical staff are advised to follow the wishes of the armed guard, since the guard knows whether the prisoner is dangerous or a flight risk, for instance. “We don’t know who’s in for a bad check and who’s in for cannibalism or something,” Carey told Boulder Weekly. His view is that restraints should be used in certain circumstances. “There are dangerous things in the hospital,” he says. “There are sharp things on the

table. In general, to have a rule that we shackle all women in labor is bad, but maybe we should have some exceptions codified.” Carey also says that escapes are not unheard of. When he was working at the University of Oklahoma, for instance, a pregnant inmate escaped from a medical center there after pretending that she was in labor. She was eventually caught when she checked into a hospital after her real labor began. “It’s not inconceivable to me that someone in early labor, who hasn’t had an epidural, could escape,” Carey says. He adds that the decision on whether to shackle should be made by law enforcement — maybe not the guard, but someone at the corrections agency who can determine which prisoners should be shackled and which should not. Carey says he recently performed a surgery on a female prisoner who was guarded by an officer who insisted on keeping the inmate in his sight at all times — even when she was under anesthesia. He says he personally would support the proposed legislation, given that it allows for restraints to be used when necessary. Hudak acknowledges that some may not have much sympathy for incarcerated women, because they are in prison for a reason. “Because these women are being confined, people are unlikely to be sympathetic to their concerns,” she says. “But none of these women are on death row. They’re all going to get out and hopefully reunited with their children. It’s already a bad situation, because they don’t get to bond with their baby. We have to have sympathy for human beings, regardless of the crime they committed. “The needs of women inmates are different than the needs of male inmates. The system has to adapt.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Faculty land NSF awards mance on multi-core and networked computers. Five University of Colorado at Boulder faculty Flowers’ research will use recent advances in have been selected to receive National Science thermochronological tools to investigate what is Foundation CAREER Awards. causing the uplift and erosion of the southern The NSF’s Faculty Early Career Development African Plateau, a large and elevated region of the boulderweekly.com/briefs Program, or CAREER, is one of the nation’s most continent’s interior. prestigious honors for young faculty. The 2010 McLeod is developing new fabrication techawards, which come with a five-year grant ranging niques for next-generation electronic chips by from $400,000 to $530,000, help faculty establish integrated research and educabreaking the existing limits on minimum feature size in optical lithography. tional activities while helping address areas of important need. Sankaranarayanan is investigating automatic verification techniques for finding Aaron Bradley, Robert McLeod and Li Shang, in the department of electrical, defects in embedded computer systems that monitor and control physical processes computer, and energy engineering, were selected this year to receive CAREER that are increasingly common in things like automobiles and medical devices. Awards, along with Sriram Sankaranarayanan of computer science and Rebecca Shang is investigating new communication technologies and system designs Flowers of geological sciences. for emerging “many-core” computer systems, which has been the key performance bottleneck in massive-parallel computer systems. Bradley’s award is aimed at developing a new model-checking technique for analyzing the properties of computational systems, to achieve increased perforRespond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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im Palmer attended his first Conference on World Affairs in 1966 as a film studies professor at the University of Colorado. He recalls hearing Ralph Nader speak about cars. Now, 44 years later, he’s still teaching full time, and he’s still regularly attending the CWA — only now he attends as the conference director. The difference between his first conference and this year’s event, which kicks off on April 5? “It’s bigger,” Palmer says. “It’s a lot bigger.” The conference is now so popular, in fact, that finding venue space is one of the toughest challenges. At last year’s CWA, some 90,000 thousand seats were filled over the week-long event. That’s compared to about 35,000 seats 12 years ago when Palmer first became director. The conference has grown so large that this year it will have a presenting partner: Toyota Motors. And there will be crowd control at every venue. Macky Auditorium, the University Memorial Center and Old Main, the three biggest venues, make up the axis of the conference, as Palmer calls it, where the majority of main-ring events will be held. Other venues include the Wolf Law Building, Muenzinger Auditorium and Boulder High School. Helping to fill these venues will be about 100 presenters participating in about 200 panels. Veteran conference speaker Roger Ebert will be in attendance for the annual Cinema Interruptus, where panelists and audience members have the chance to deconstruct the chosen film scene by scene. This

April 5, at 11:30 a.m. in Macky Auditorium. Gerritsen, who volunteered with CWA for four years before joining the staff in 2009, says his one can’tmiss event will be the talk “Everything You Know is Wrong,” by Bill Reinert, manager of Toyota’s advanced technologies. Reinert will present on April 6 at 5 p.m. in the UMC Ballroom. Professor and author Naomi Oreskes will be giving the NCAR/UCAR 50th Anniversary Lecture, “Communicating Climate Science: Why Is This So Hard?” at 1 p.m. on Monday in Macky Auditorium. “I’d imagine ‘The Politics of Avatar’ is going to draw a lot of people,” Palmer added, referring to the 9 a.m. panel on Friday, March 9. He said he himself would have a hard time choosing, however, between that and “Artful Duet: Aborigine Songlines and The Dreamtime,” which begins at the same time. Palmer also recommended the Tuesday night jazz concert, one of the annual highlights of the conference and one of the most popular. Performers this year include Don and Dave Grusin, singer Lillian Boutté and Tjupurru, a didjeridoo player from Papua New Guinea, among others. “It’s just a stunning list of people,” Palmer says. The conference will wrap up on April 9 with John Hockenberry’s talk, “Where Have All the Powers Gone?” at 2:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium. All CWA events are free and open to the public, though tickets are required for the jazz concert. These tickets can be reserved online for a processing fee of $1 each. More information and a full schedule of events can be found at www.colorado.edu/cwa.

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year’s pick is Aguirre, the Wrath of God, and the film’s director, Werner Herzog, will speak at the first two of the four Interruptus sessions, at 4 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday in Macky Auditorium. An uninterrupted screening of the movie will run before the conference officially begins, on Sunday, April 4, at 4 p.m. in Muenzinger Auditorium. Palmer and CWA staff member Graham Gerritsen point out other highlights and personal picks throughout the week, including the keynote speech by Lt. Col. Isaiah “Ike” Wilson, “Rethinking American Power.” Wilson will speak on Monday,

CWA Highlights Sunday, April 4 Film UNinterruptus: Aguirre, the Wrath of God 4 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium. Monday, April 5 FILM SCREENING: Plastic Bag 9 a.m. Visual Arts Complex 1B20. With Ramin Bahrani. KEYNOTE: Rethinking American Power 11:30 a.m. Macky Auditorium. With Isaiah Wilson. Communicating Climate Science: Why Is This So Hard? 1 p.m. Macky Auditorium. With Naomi Oreskes. INTERRUPTUS I “Aguirre, the Wrath of God”

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4 p.m. Macky Auditorium. With Ramin Bahrani, Roger Ebert, Jim Emerson and Werner Herzog. Tuesday, April 6 Swimming Against the Current 11 a.m. UMC Center Ballroom. With Jim Hightower. HOWARD HIGMAN MEMORIAL PLENARY: Everything You Know Is Wrong 5 p.m. UMC Center Ballroom. With Bill Reinert. INTERRUPTUS II “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium. With Ramin Bahrani, Roger Ebert, Jim Emerson and Werner Herzog. JAZZ CONCERT

8 p.m. Macky Auditorium. With Justo Almario, Bijoux Barbosa, Rony Barrak, Charlie Bisharat, Lillian Boutté, Oscar Castro-Neves, Brad Goode, Dave Grusin, Don Grusin, Mike Marlier, Shodekeh, Tjupurru and Nestor Torres. Wednesday, April 7 Out of this World: Is Music Solely a Terrestrial Art? 11:30 a.m. UMC Center Ballroom. With Lillian Boutté, Dave Grusin and Seth Shostak. INTERRUPTUS III “Aguirre, the Wrath of God” 4 p.m. Macky Auditorium. With Ramin Bahrani, Roger Ebert and Jim Emerson. Thursday, April 8

The Case for Capitalism 12:30 p.m. UMC West Ballroom. With Gordon Adams Patrick Boel, Malou Innocent and Jurek Martin Friday, April 9 Artful Duet: Aborigine Songlines and The Dreamtime 9 a.m. Visual Arts Complex 1B20. With Tjupurru and Liz Weir The Politics of “Avatar” 9 a.m. UMC Center Ballroom. With Jim Emerson, E. Benjamin Skinner, Sanho Tree and Erika B. Wagner. Where Have All the Powers Gone? 2:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium. With John Hockenberry.

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Mountain transit pass unveiled In partnership with residents of Gold Hill and other mountain communities, Boulder County has created a Climb Community Transit Pass to improve access to and from Boulder. The annual pass provides free, unlimited access to the “Climb,” a nonprofit bus route that connects Ward and Gold Hill to Boulder via Fourmile Canyon Drive and Gold Hill Road. Service on the route started in early 2009 and provides peak commute-time service to the Boulder Transit Center and Twenty Ninth Street mall along Canyon Boulevard. The pass is available to residents who live within a half mile of the Climb route, including the areas of Ward, Gold Hill, Summerville, Salina, Four Mile Canyon and Logan Mill Road. Residents and supporters of the Climb are asked to donate $120 per household to help provide the pass to their community. Residents who once paid $6 per day — or more than $120 per month — to ride the Climb can now ride the bus for an entire year for less than $120. Boulder County is contributing up to $11,500 toward the program. For more information about the Climb and the Climb Community Transit Pass, visit www.the-climb.com, or call 303-441-4958.

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tion call 303-776-8848, or visit the department’s website at www.bouldercountyopenspace.org. Boulder hosts cannabis festival The inaugural Boulder Cannabis Festival (BCF) will be held on Saturday, April 17, and will feature a day of art,

music and education to help support the state’s medical marijuana movement. Events will include live entertainment, an official competition, speakers, art exhibitions and dispensary tours. The festival will also provide the opportunity to connect with local dispensaries, growers, patients and connoisseurs. The BCF

will feature three main events: the CannaBall, featuring local and national music acts; the Best Bud of Boulder, a medical marijuana growers’ competition; and the Bud Cruise, a guided tour of Boulder’s premiere dispensaries. The BCF will also support charity causes, including the Susan G. Komen 3-Day for the Cure 60-mile walk, The Basics Fund to help artists pay for health insurance and the Red Cross’s Haiti relief efforts. For more information about the festival, visit www.bouldercannabisfestival. com.

ClimateSmart deadline extended Due to requests from commercial property owners for additional time and internal efforts to minimize program fees and costs, Boulder County has extended the ClimateSmart Loan Program application deadline for commercial properties to July 12. Approximately $12 million is available to commercial property owners in Boulder County to make energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements under the ClimateSmart Loan Program. The voluntary program provides financing for more than 70 different energy efficiency and renewable energy upgrades. Applications, the list of eligible measures and other important information is available at ClimateSmartLoanProgram. org. Agricultural Heritage Center opens The Agricultural Heritage Center at the Lohr/McIntosh Farm in Longmont is opening its gates for the 2010 season on Friday, April 2. The center will be open every Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. until Oct. 31. Tours of the site are held on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 11 a.m. Admission is free. The center highlights agricultural life between 1900 and 1925. The center is located at 8348 Ute Highway 66, west of Longmont. For additional informaBoulder Weekly

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Pink tally Speaking of counting people, have you returned your U.S. Census form yet? If so, you probably noticed that while the questionnaire asks about your ethnicity, it doesn’t ask about your sexual preference. Well, the GLBT community wants to be counted, too. We got a news release from the GLBT Community Center of Boulder Weekly

Billionaire bankers are people, too Poor little rich men. You’ve just got to feel sorry for them. One minute they were raking it in through sub-prime mortgages and other shell games, playing fast and loose with the nation’s economy. The next they’re getting billions in federal bailouts, big fat bonuses — and bad PR. Now all Wall Street bankers want is for you to like them again. To that end, they’ve launched a public relations campaign designed to help you trust them once more. Financial Services Roundtable, made up of 150 of the largest financial institutions in the United States, is planning a big campaign that includes a website and the use of social media. Anyone want to friend JP Morgan Chase? How about Citibank? Didn’t think so. “The only ones out there talking are our critics, and it’s our turn to set the record straight,” Scott Talbott, chief lobbyist for the Roundtable, told the Associated Press. Set what record straight? It’s all a matter of public record, how free market capitalist schemers took every advantage they could, squeezing out every dime of profit, until the whole subprime house of cards came tumbling down. But the economic collapse brought to us by Wall Street hasn’t hurt you big bankers as much as it’s hurt the average American. And now it bothers these bankers that people don’t like them. Well, tough shit. Given the difficulty they’ve put taxpayers through, Wall Street bankers are only getting what they worked hard to earn. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Colorado about its “Queer the Census” campaign. GLBT people are being provided with bright pink stickers to affix to their Census envelopes, to make a statement. The Census is used to calculate federal funding and political representation, and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force notes that when GLBT people aren’t counted, they don’t count when it comes to services, resources and representation. The bright spot? For the first time this year, same-sex couples who report themselves as legally married will be counted as married in the 2010 Census.

Top 10 Stories Week of March 25 -31 1. Panorama (3/25) 2. Sex and jealousy 3. Yoga can be a circus Braddon Hall has been practicing hatha yoga for 20 years. Four years ago, he was turned on to this variation called CircusYoga offered at a meditation retreat. Now he teaches it at the Yoga Workshop.

4. Environmental impacts of the Haiti earthquake 5. Spring break may be broken for Mexico resorts 6. Seabird flies into town 7. Astrology (3/25) 8. Sowing the seeds of sun 9. Zoso’s Led Zeppelin tribute is in some ways better than the original 10. Boulder to go dark for Earth Hour

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Conservative count Ultra-conservative Sen. Dave Schultheis, R-Colorado Springs, was beating the old anti-immigration drum again this week, although this time he took a slightly different, mischievous tack. Schultheis, who has made it clear that he wants to rid the state of all illegal immigrants, proposed an amendment to House Bill 1171 on March 29 that would have required schools to count students who are in the country illegally. Schultheis had the gall to claim in a news release that he was innocently trying to ascertain those figures to help the Department of Education with its budget planning. “This is simply a fact-finding mission,” he says. “School budgets are stretched to the limit. We’re only trying to get resources where they’re most needed.” Yeah. Right. Luckily, the Democrats knew Schultheis was up to his old tricks and sniffed out his seemingly innocuous plan. They killed the amendment. The lead paragraph of the Schultheis news release claims the Dems “shot down” the “common-sense proposal.” Common sense for narrow-minded bigots, that is. Schultheis showed his true colors when he offered a second amendment that would have let illegal immigrants or their children skip the state’s CSAP tests. Probably just out of the goodness of his heart, eh? Well, no. According to the Colorado Independent, he was doing it to raise CSAP scores, so that those pesky undocumented workers wouldn’t pull down the average. Thankfully, Dems called both failed amendments by their rightful name. Discrimination.

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Will you attend the Conference of World Affairs on April 5-9? • Yes, I go every year! • Eh. I’ll pass. • Never heard of it. • If Roger Ebert is there, I’m in!

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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo plays at the International Film Series Thursday night at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 1

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo — At the International Film Series. An underground horror film involving tattoos. 7 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU Campus, www. internationalfilmseries.com.

Friday, April 2

Cesar Chavez Commemorative March — In honor of a great hero. 12 p.m. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303415-0600.

Saturday, April 3

Rocky Mountain Roller Girls — Roller derby is a thing of the past. Just don’t tell any of the girls that if you value your face. 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

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ustin, Texas, indie rockers Spoon have flown under the radar for most of their nearly 15-year career, garnering an underground following but only emerging onto the above-ground scene after several poppy cuts from 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga wedged into radio rotation. But fame is a funny thing. Spoon’s catalog is consistent in that many of their albums arguably contain a potential hit. Their seven albums, spanning from 1996’s Telephono to 2010’s Transference, share much in common. Each album, though laced with trademarks of Spoon’s sound, such as driving, rhythmic guitars coupled with simple, danceable drum beats and somewhat esoteric lyrics, has a quality that it alone possesses, which gives it that uniquely easy-to-cherish quality that so many artists strive for but which Spoon appears to achieve effortlessly. Spoon has produced a body of work that, flippant Wilco comparisons aside, doesn’t sound like anyone else, but manages to consistently sound like Spoon and Spoon alone. Keyboardist Eric Harvey attributes this consistency to old-fashioned elbow grease courtesy of the group’s Boulder Weekly

remaining founding members, singer/guitarist Brit Daniels and drummer Jim Eno. “It’s the hard work and tenacity of Brit and Jim, to a large degree, because these guys have been doing this for like 15 years, and they’ve always focused on putting out a record every couple years and making it as good as they can,” Harvey says. “There’s a certain sort of steady growth to that pattern in the quality of the records.” Harvey is a relative newcomer, having joined Spoon in 2004. Harvey says he was living in the same apartment complex as the band. Spoon’s former bass player Josh Zarbo, a friend of Harvey’s, introduced him to the group. One thing led to another, and Harvey ended up joining. “You know, Austin is a pretty small town. Five, six years ago it felt a lot smaller, and I just happened to kind of know those guys. If you’re a musician in Austin, at some point you sort of network in with pretty much everybody,” he says. And over those five years, Harvey had the opportunisee SPOON Page 21

Sunday, April 4

Sunday Afternoon Tea — Live traditional Japanese music with tea and traditional tea snacks. 2:303:30 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612.

Monday, April 5

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room — Solid and inventive beers make this a great choice to ease the pain of starting the workweek. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Tuesday, April 6

American Sign Language Night — More like “learn a secret code to baffle your friends” night. 4-8 p.m. Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 1B, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Wednesday, April 7

Just Sit — If you came to stand, you’re at the wrong place. 7 to 9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190. April 1, 2010 19

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ty to participate in Spoon’s subtle genesis. The new album is a prototypical new Spoon album. Transference contains all the tools, and the rocking simplicity of singer/guitarist Brit Daniels’ songwriting is there — yet it represents a different direction from their previous work. It sounds more like Spoon’s 2001 breakthrough album Girls Can Tell than 2007’s Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. Where Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga contained tightly constructed, deliberately produced songs that made it onto radio and a movie soundtrack, Transference is more of a collection of creative breaths exhaled by the band over a period of time, giving the album a loose, improvised feel that contrasts with the uniform consistency of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. “On the last record, we kind of hunkered down in Austin and sort of made it all at once in one long stretch,” Harvey says. “This time it was broken up a little bit more in different cities in different times. [Lead singer/guitarist] Brit Daniels did a lot of the work. ... He’s always had kind of a home studio, but lately it’s gotten quite a bit more sophisticated, so, he’s able to do things at his house that are more album quality. So he’d do demos at home, and we’d meet up either in Texas, or sometimes we’d all go to Portland, and we’d rehearse there for maybe a week or so. We did a lot of recording in Brooklyn at the Rare Book Room with this guy Nicolas [Vernhes], so sometimes we’d do a short tour and try some new songs while we were on the road, and then we’d go straight to record them.” The result is that some of the songs on the album have a jam-session rawness to them, while others display the studio attention so prevalent on Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga. “Trouble Comes Running” is about as un-produced a song as you’ll hear from a band with a record deal (“The first sketch of that song became the final product,” Harvey says), and “Written in Reverse” conBoulder Weekly

tains carefully orchestrated interplay between the dissonant keyboard parts and sporadic bursts of bass notes along with Eno’s steady drumming and Daniels’ crafty guitar lines. While Transference might come as an unpleasant surprise to mainstream-leaning fans introduced to Spoon by Gimme Fiction or Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, it might be one of the best albums the group has ever made. “There’s certainly a lot of different songs from the last record. They’re a little bit more introspective,” Harvey says. “I feel a good word to describe them ... a little bit more elusive. Some of the songs on the last record, they were instantly accessible. There’s still a lot of weird songs on the last record, but it was sort of an instance of more crowd pleasers, like songs like ‘The Underdog,’ and on this record, the songs, some of them are kind of longer, some of them don’t really go to as many places. “Some of the lyrical ideas are a little bit more abstract, so I think it’s a little bit more of the kind of record you have to sit down and think about a little bit.” Your band doesn’t exist for 15 years without winning a few accolades, either. An unusual one came earlier this year as online review aggregator Metacritic.com named Spoon the best-reviewed band of the decade, an award Harvey says came as a pleasant surprise, especially considering the competition (namely Radiohead, the White Stripes and Bob Dylan, to name a few). Harvey seems excited by the prospect of touring with the new songs, many of which were honed on the road before recording anyways. “I’m really starting to get into ‘Who Makes Your Money’ and ‘Nobody Gets Me But You,’ which I think were at one point two songs I was kind of on the fence about, but now I’m really digging them … these science projects,” he says. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Looking in from the Pharcyde Hip-hop pioneers’ influence still felt today by Dan Hinkel

ame a group that released a debut album so potent it sustained interest in the group, with relatively modest help from from subsequent albums, for decades. Rock has Guns N’ Roses. Hip-hop has The Pharcyde. Seminal Los Angeles alternative act The Pharcyde dropped their debut, Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde, in 1992. The album, a cocktail of live instruments, buoyant party jams, an aching love ballad and lots of dirty jokes, demonstrated the diversity of a West Coast scene that was always broader and more interesting than MTV let on. They deserve mention alongside A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, the godfathers of “alternative” hip-hop. Bizarre Ride remains the proudest entry on The Pharcyde’s curriculum vitae. The pull of that album was apparent when the Rock The Bells summer festival’s organizers announced in 2008 that The Pharcyde would reunite for the tour. One critic wrote that the mere prospect of seeing each member rap his verse to “Passin’ Me By” from Bizarre Ride gave him goose bumps. I would make fun of the critic who wrote that, but I saw the tour’s first show in Chicago, and I was just as excited. Perhaps attendees will get a chance to plug into that feeling April 2 when three-fourths of the original group rolls into the Fox Theatre. The show, unfortunately, will not feature the band’s most noteworthy MC, Fatlip. Maybe between the live band and the three others — who all also contributed their share to Bizarre Ride — they’ll live up to that album’s magic. Brooklyn-based MC and producer Von Pea, who is preparing an album called Pea’s Gotta Have It, praised The Pharcyde as a technically innovative act that made jokes without being clownish. He placed them among A Tribe Called Quest and De La Soul, groups that have always attracted more recognition, probably because they made themselves more available

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to fame. “I feel like it gets forgotten sometimes, but [Bizarre Ride] is just as much a classic album as any of the other heralded hip-hop albums from the ’90s,” Von Pea said. Bizarre Ride is aptly named. The disc kicks off with a piece of laid-back live jazz before segueing into “Oh Shit,” an energetic ode to sexual mortification. For 16 songs, the disk caroms from sex to marijuana to your mom to the crushing burden of love unrequited. Fatlip is the group’s most competent MC, but the others, including the manic and high-pitched Imani, also work competently in the realm of jokey gross-out storytelling. “Ya Mama” is composed entirely of jokes, and pretty good ones at that. “They just had so much character and style in their delivery; and the way they brought the melodic singing and harmonizing with the rapping was unique at the time,” said Detroit MC and producer Black Milk, who is working on a release called Album of the Year. The album’s sharpest turn is also its most rewarding. “Passin’ Me By” is an earnest love note to the women that got away from Fatlip, Imani, Bootie Brown and SlimKid3. The verses sag with remorse, and the organ sample communicates that same haunt-

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ed regret. The song is an early hip-hop masterpiece from an album unique enough to feel lost in time. “Very few albums from that era age well, but Bizarre Ride still sounds just as fresh and zany as it did when it first dropped,” said Phonte, of heavyweight semi-underground group Little Brother. Like any truly bizarre band, The Pharcyde didn’t capitalize on Bizarre Ride’s success. They waited three years and turned out an album that matched its weird name, Labcabincalifornia. That disc didn’t live up to Bizarre Ride’s madcap enthusiasm, and subsequent efforts did little to build on the group’s legacy. Their lineup has remained fluid since the classic days, and awareness of the group has continued to depend on Bizarre Ride and “Passin’ Me By.” To be fair, there are those who prefer Labcabincalifornia. Those people are few. Sadly, 2008’s reunion didn’t hold. I couldn’t raise the others to comment for this story, but Fatlip said the festival tour didn’t end well. He is working on a solo album and making a documentary about his sour reunion experience. “I lost all respect for those dudes,” he said. Fatlip noted that the feeling is probably mutual. Even if the original Pharcyde is over, we still have Bizarre Ride. Phonte, whose group is readying a farewell album called Leftback, places Bizarre Ride among his favorite albums. The Pharcyde cut a path for such misfit acts as Souls of Mischief and Tha Alkaholiks, Phonte said. “The Pharcyde were extremely original because they were a group that merged free-spirited West Coast humor and attitude with East Coast production and rhyme cadences,” Phonte said. “Bizarre Ride really laid the blueprint for a whole new subgenre of hip-hop.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Country controversy David Allan Coe’s stained legacy by Ben Corbett

hen a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy,” wrote William Hazlitt, “it ceases to be a subject of interest.” Apply that maxim to country music legend David Allan Coe, and you’ll get a mixed bag of love and hate. At one extreme, you have the guy who wrote Tanya Tucker’s tender love song, “Would You Lay With Me (in a Field of Stone).” At the other end you have songs like “Masturbation Blues” and “N*gg*r Fucker,” just a couple titles from Underground (1978) and Nothing Sacred (1982) — two albums that, despite their obscurity (you could only order them from the back of Easyriders magazine), stained him with a racist reputation he still can’t shake. Out of print today, bootleg discs are fetching a hot nickel. (A used copy of Nothing Sacred lists on Amazon for $199, while Underground is going for $75. One reviewer wrote, “I was a little confused when it arrived in the mail with more warning labels than the anarchist cook book [sic].”) So inflammatory was the language that in 2000, New York Times writer Neil Strauss felt compelled to call them “among the most racist, misogynist, homophobic and obscene songs recorded by a popular songwriter.” A wave of accusations followed, pegging Coe as a white supremacist, a label he still defiantly rejects. Refuting the charges, he pointed out that his drummer, Kerry Brown (son of late blues great Clarence Gatemouth Brown) was black and married to a white woman. Moreover, he asked why he was condemned for pushing the envelope with creative license while Eminem was praised for similar explicit lyrics. It’s a good question. And whether you like his music or not, you have to respect the kind of blunt candor expressed by someone who feels no shame

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wailing on an electric guitar emblazoned with a Confederate flag. And aside from his ever-growing fan base, Coe’s industry peers appreciate him unconditionally. Guitar great Warren Haynes of Allman Brothers and Gov’t Mule fame cut his teeth as Coe’s lead guitarist from 1980 to 1984, and Johnny Cash recorded “Would You Lay With Me” in Rick Rubin’s living room for his final album. Meanwhile, Coe’s most recent achievement was more than 10 years ago when he joined heavy metal guitar god Dimebag Darrell Abbott, along with Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown from Pantera, for Rebel Meets Rebel, which fused Coe together with the most popular hardcore metal band of the day, creating a country-metal hybrid that had the critics singing praise while the slingers slung their mud. (The group recorded the album from 1999 to 2003 but didn’t release anything until 2006, after Abbott’s death.) Not that you’re gonna hear any of those X-rated songs streamlining the radio dial anyway. Or even anything else from Coe’s repertoire for that matter. At

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least not in the Clear Channel galaxy. You can’t put a bearded hillbilly freak with muddy tattooed sleeves side-by-side with lady-inwhite Taylor Swift without some confusion. If you want to hear Coe on the radio — aside from his hits “You Never Even Called Me By My Name” and “Take This Job and Shove It” — your best bet is Sirius Outlaw Country, which embraces him wholeheartedly as the cultural architect he is. Especially Mojo Nixon, the controversial DJ whose anthem is Coe’s “If That Ain’t Country (You Can Kiss My Ass).” As an American cultural phenomenon, Outlaw Country was born in the 1970s, when fringy songs about prison, hell-raising and bad women birthed this particular strain of country music as a genre in its own right. But it was country music Hall of Famer David Allan Coe with his rhinestone suit, Cadillac hearse and ex-con stature who gave it the mean-streets texture. Incarcerated for everything from car theft to armed robbery over the years, one of Coe’s main boasts is his 20-odd years spent in reform schools and prisons since age nine — a persona that gelled his status as country music’s hardcore mantelpiece. So why tour now? There may not be a new record, but he’s one of the last outlaw country legends of that generation still touring. And with 26 albums’ worth of wide-ranging material to pick from, the 71-year-old beer-gutted crooner certainly won’t be phoning it in. He has too much respect for both his fans and a hardearned dollar to cheat them of what they came for. Coe is an entertainer in the old-school sense, and, finally rolling into the late-career acclaim that so often befalls country stars-turned-icon, he’s living proof that for the next generation, there’s still plenty of ore to be discovered and mined. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Spinning strong

Vinyl music still selling despite crashing CD sales

by P.J. Nutting Katherine Creel

he Internet has really been the bully of the last decade. Like the mafia, it moved into town and immediately took a cut out of every lucrative opportunity there was. It broke journalism’s kneecaps, smuggled the breath right out of the music industry’s lungs, and dared fax machines and phone books to even try to say something about it. But of all the obsolete technologies of the past, who would guess that the very symbol of antiquity itself, the record player, would have the strength to answer back. No one would have guessed 20 or even 10 years ago that vinyl records had a chance of outlasting CDs. But in the sterility of our double-click lifestyle, people of all ages are rediscovering the tactile pleasure and the still-unexplainable draw of vinyl “warmth.” Even a few record companies are catching on, marketing new releases as record/download packages that cater to music lovers at home or on the go. While vinylphiles are likely better off in Denver, the city of Boulder has a very lovable record scene that has plenty of room to grow. The death of Bart’s certainly hasn’t helped anything vinyl-related, but it wasn’t the only store in town selling records. The Beat Book Shop has catered to east Pearl Street foot traffic for 20 years. Owner Tom Peters has seen locals, tourists, wandering strangers and traveling celebrities alike find their way to his discreet doorstep at 17th and Pearl. It’s easy to thumb through the janky but enticing outdoor bargain bins and somehow discover yourself inside a moment later. The crowded shelves are like a cocoon of culture and make the artistically sensitive life of the beatnik seem very attainable. Peters waits patiently behind the counter under a photo of Jack Kerouac taken by Allen Ginsberg, and will let you silently peruse the stacks until you ask him a question. Whether it’s about his past T.A. job for one of Ginsberg’s summer writing classes at Naropa, or about one of the 5,000 records in the alphabetized collection on display, he can enliven a discussion about any facet of

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culture you can produce. “Record collectors are solitary in nature, even if they are solitary spinning a record in front of 5,000 people,” Peters says. Not only does he collect and sell the standard 33s, but carries 45s as well as CDs and cassettes. If you ask nicely, he will even close the store just for you and reveal his hidden stash of 78s, so fragile that you really shouldn’t touch them unless you don’t mind breaking/buying them. Absolute Vinyl brings another Boulder collector to the surface. Doug Gaddy has been collecting records for 27 years, and reopened his gigantic collection the public two months ago. The store, which also sells books in the form of Little Horse Books, is quiet, well-lit, and immaculate. “Record stores are notoriously grungy, and I just don’t want that here,” Gaddy said. His 10,000-record store holds only a quarter of what he says he owns, and it will understandably take some time to put each through the ritual you can find him doing every day behind the counter: cleaning, researching and pricing. The records are very well-organized, making it easy to lose yourself in one genre to the next. Though Gaddy admits he is more of an expert with pre-1980s music, he has a solid selection of hip-hop and other DJ-centric

records toward the front of the store. It should only be a matter of time before the Hill population finds that the trek to his north Boulder location isn’t so far. “It’s not that close to Wyoming,” he says with a laugh, “we’re only 10 minutes from downtown!” Speaking of the Hill, Andy Schneidkraut has possibly the most widely-known record store in Boulder, though he says he faces the reverse problem: “There are many people who find coming to the Hill unsavory,” he explains in his usual hilariously deadpan manner. Though many of his sales are CDs, Albums on the Hill has a crypt full of hidden gems, tucked far away from the Hill’s student traffic. Since the Fox Theatre box office moved upstairs, stacks of records seem to accumulate every day, and serious archivists and curious customers alike can spend an eternity thumbing through records in the still basement air. The Root also keeps it real, holding a small record selection with more of a b-boy graffiti factor than many older vinyl fans are looking for. If you see a DJ you like playing at The Root’s basement venue across the hallway, chances are you can catch their newest release the day after the party. Boulder even boasts a few DJs who remain true to the label of disc jockey. DJ Vajra is perhaps one of the best known and most capable DJs in Colorado, and has been known to scratch that vinyl itch at ‘Round Midnight. DJ Rootz has distributed records to many of the venues listed above, and on the Hill one can occasionally catch a house party in true vinyl form. The stars may end up on Radio 1190’s hip-hop show Basementalism or pirate station Green Light Radio. But the very best thing about vinyl? Nothing is constant. Every new day brings a different selection out on the shelves, so take nothing as a constant and learn to enjoy a daily routine. Like the barbershops and newsstands of old, record shops are not meant to be passed through. Going once may be fun, going twice might be exciting, but going three times could be forever. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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music “Amparo” — With Dave Grusin and Lee Ritenour. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-8008. Annie Booth and Sterlin Stephan. 6:309:30 p.m.The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. April Fool’s Show — With Little Fyoder and The Inactivists. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Boa and the Constrictors. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. The Contribution — With Tim Carbone, Keith Mosely and others. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303377-1666. Douglas Cameron. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., 720-974-9490. Ginga. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Inside Out. 6:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. The Motet — With Euforquestra. 8:30 p.m. doors/9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Mountain Holler Bluegrass. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Cafe, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. Open Bluegrass Pick. 7 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. The Tom Gershwin Trio. 6:30 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

events Argentine Tango. 7 p.m. Pearl Street Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, www.tangocolorado. org. Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com. Beginning Flamenco Dance. 6:15-7:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-

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A local favorite, The Motet has the desire to make you dance and the chops to pull it off. With Euforquestra. 8:30 p.m. doors/9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com. Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Dance Home’s Barefoot Boogie — Freeform dancing. 8:30 to 11:30 p.m. The Solstice Center, 302 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-2074. Deacon Gray & Eugene Kenny — Comedy show. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Fly Fishing Film Tour 2010. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 6:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Happy Hour Benefit for Legacy of Learning. 4-6 p.m. The Boulder Chop House, 921 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-444-8422. Healing Meditation — With Alan

McAllister. 7-8:30 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-5455562. Intermediate to Advanced Flamenco Dance. 7:15-8:30 p.m. Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-786-7050. www.flamenco-boulder.com. International Film Series — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 7 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, www.internationalfilmseries.com. Picturing Writing. 1-3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413151. Pseudo Science. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5002. Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

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Ben Raznick. 5 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Bill McKay Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids 1555 S Hover Rd., Longmont 303-485-9400. Cameron Rafati — With Micahel Adam. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe. 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz. 7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667. Consider the Raven. 11 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Doug Yager Jazz Trio. 7-10 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475. Jababa. Baker St. Pub & Grill, 1729 28th St., 720-974-9490. Jalan Crossland Band. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-8236685. John McEuen — With Pete Kartsounes. 8 p.m. Daniels Hall, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303777-1003. “The Lyricists” — With the Boulder Chamber Orchestra. 7:30 p.m. First Congregational Church of Boulder, 1128 Pine St., Boulder, 303-583-1278. Mostly Joe Hawkins. 5:30 p.m. The Outback Saloon, 3141 28th St., Boulder, 303-444-0081. Mountain Holler. 8:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Old-Fashioned Hootenanny. 7 p.m. Tuft Theatre, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. Open Mic — For poets, comedians and musicians. 7 p.m. 8 Port Coffee & Tea House, 1727 15th St., Boulder, 303-955-2221. The Pharcyde — With Slim Kid Tre, Imani and Bootie Brown. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Boulder/Denver Area 100+ Years of Colorado Art —Paintings, sculpture, drawings and prints. Kirkland Museum, Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200, through April 4. Embrace! Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave., Denver, 720-865-5000, through April 4. Extraordinary Images of Ordinary Things — By Brad Hatch. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23.

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Face to Face — By Beverly McIver. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23. Landscapes — Navajo weaving and textiles. Colorado Museum of Natural History, 1030 North Broadway, 303-492-6892, through May 30. Life on the Range — Paintings from the Francis King Collection of Western Art, Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720-898-7200, through April 4. NCAR Community Art Gallery —

Artwork by Aura Liesveld and Elisabeth Wonnacott. NCAR Mesa Laboratory, 1850 Mesa Dr., Boulder, 303-497-2408. Through May 1. Naropa University Annual Student Exhibition. Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-862-1131. Through April 15. The Photography of Jim Post. The Cannon Mine Coffee Shop, So. Public Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0625. Relational Fabric in Space & Other Works for the Dark — By Steve Steele. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art,

1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23. Ropes — Pattie Lee Becker. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-2122, through May 23. Serendipity: Unexpected Paths to Expression — By Steve W. Whitehead. Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, through March 26. Weaving Memories — Prints by Melanie Yazzie. CU Museum, 1035 Broadway Ave., Boulder, 303-492-6892. Through May 30.

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panorama boulderweekly.com/panorama Phil Robinson. 5:30 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Radical. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628. Ricky Earl. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322. RJD2. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Salassie and the FaFa Family. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696. Savoy — With Fresh2Death, J Flash and Hathbanger. 9 p.m. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. The Say So. 10 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. That Eighties Band. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757. Zivanai Masango — With Pachedu. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

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Acoustic Brunch. 10 a.m. Rock N Soul Cafe, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-443-5108. Aden Harrell’s African Boom. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683. Andrea Ball. 9 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Andy White. 8 p.m. Tuft Theatre, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. An Evening with Moya Brennan — Celtic music. 7:30 p.m. Daniels Hall, 71 E.Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003. By All Means. 10 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858. Caper’s House Band — Traditional jazz. 7-10 p.m. Caper’s Italian Bistro & Tap, 600 Airport Rd., Longmont, 303-776-7667. Dave Beegle. 6 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683. Delta Sonics. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685. Doug Yeager Quartet. 6 p.m. Q’s Restaurant, Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303442-4344. Guitar & Viola Duo. 7:30 p.m. Rocky Mountain Center for Musical Arts, 200 East Baseline Rd., Lafayette, 303-665-0599. The Hi Beams. 9 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400. Lionel Young Band. 8 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303443-3322. JC & The Water Walkers. 7:30 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe. 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108. The Low Anthem — With Nathaniel Rateliff and Frontier Ruckus. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399. Mary Wallace. 4 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe. 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste I, Boulder, 303-4435108. Mestizo. 7 p.m. St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-406-9696. Mostly Joe Hawkins. 5:30 p.m. The Rock Inn, 1675 Hwy. 66, Estes Park, 970-586-4116. The Motet — With Euforquestra. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666. Ramaya. 9:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303-440-4628.

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Tuesday, April 6

Poetry Month Open Mic Night. 7 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303447-2074. Myung Oak Kim & Sam Jaffe’s The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea’s Economic Rise. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover, 2526 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

An Evening of Poetry — With Richard Jackson, William Root and Pamela Uschuk. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Monday, April 5

Dr. Nick Trout’s Love is the Best Medicine. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Open Mic Poetry — “So You’re a Poet.” The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628. Tim Hernandez’s Breathing, In Dust. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Wednesday, April 7

Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover, 1628 16th St., Denver, 303-436-1070.

Boulder Weekly

10:00-11:20 Boulder High School 4211 China Owns the U.S. Mel Gurtov Henry Levine Troy Senik Lewis Simons 10:30-11:50 Macky Auditorium 4261 Political Courage: Standing for Something Besides Re-election Jim Hightower Dan Odescalchi Susan Shaer Michael Stoff Moderator: David Brown 10:30-11:50 Old Main Chapel 4262 New Media Universe: The Ground Shifting Beneath Our Feet Michael Elliott Dan Gillmor Jay Harris Mark Schapiro Moderator: Matt Sebastian 11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 4311 How to Make a Bad Movie Michael Fink Stuart Schoffman Tom Shadyac Julia Sweeney Moderator: Ron Bostwick 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 4313 Pirates! Charlie Bisharat Bill Reinert Eric Selbin Liz Weir Moderator: Ron Stewart 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom 4314 The Rx for Reining in Big Pharma Gordon Adams Maria Alovert Paul Hochfeld Adil Shamoo Moderator: David Elm 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box 4315 Robots and Cyborgs: Our Human Future Achim Köddermann Kirsten Sanford Seth Shostak Erika Wagner Moderator: Holley Long 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 4316 Israel and Palestine: A Civil Conversation Robert Kaufman Rachel Kleinfeld Gerald Murray Peter Weiss Moderator: Murray Richtel 12:30-1:50 UMC Center Ballroom 4461 Health Care: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Reforum David Bender Robert George Paul Hochfeld Lewis Simons Moderator: Michael Ehlers

12:30-1:50 UMC 235 4463 A Big Conversation About Racism From Blatant to Subtle Chaz Ebert Jim Emerson Elizabeth Lozano Ike Wilson Moderator: Ginny Corsi 12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel 4465 AL SMITH MEMORIAL SESSION Nuclear Ambitions and the Doomsday Clock Mel Gurtov Jay Harris Lorelei Kelly Peter Weiss Moderator: Sue Deans

2:00-3:20 UMC West Ballroom 4617 Mexican Drug War Lou Dubose Charles Dusseau Malou Innocent Sanho Tree Moderator: Matthew Rich

2:00-3:20 Old Main Chapel 4615 Islamophobia: Frightening Reality or Stereotyping Chip Berlet Patrick Boel Val Koromzay Lewis Simons Moderator: Had Beatty

2:00-3:20 UMC Center Ballroom 12:30-1:50 UMC East Ballroom 4616 Genocide by Any 4462 Youth: Revolution, Other Name Resistance and Rebellion Judith Armatta Margot Adler Charles Jess Barbara Ibrahim Benjamin Skinner Eric Selbin Cora Weiss Janine Wedel Moderator: Marjorie Schaffner Moderator: Carol Byerly

8:30-9:30 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM 5001 RADIO BROADCAST Connections Afghanistan Lewis Simons Ike Wilson

10:30-11:50 Macky Auditorium 5261 The Dollar, The Euro, The ¥uan: Worldwide Currency Devaluation Patrick Boel Michael Elliott Val Koromzay Henry Levine Moderator: Adam Chase

2:30-3:50 Macky Auditorium 4661 Cronkite to Stewart: The Most Trusted 9:00-9:50 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 5311 New Science Frontiers Newscasters in America 5101 ARTFUL DUET Doug Ray Margot Adler Aborigine Songlines Kirsten Sanford Michael Elliott and The Dreamtime Adil Shamoo John Hockenberry Tjupurru Fintan Steele Susan Shaer Liz Weir Moderator: Fiona Caruthers Moderator: Dave Burdick Moderator: Beverly Silva

3:30-4:50 UMC East Ballroom 4761 Happiness Is Overrated Tom Dark 12:30-1:50 UMC West Ballroom Stuart Schoffman 4466 The Case for Capitalism Laura Simms Gordon Adams Michael Stoff Patrick Boel Moderator: Les Magee Malou Innocent Jurek Martin 3:30-4:50 UMC Center Ballroom Moderator: Paul Jerde 4762 Afghanistan: We Are at War, Are We at War 1:00-2:20 Macky Auditorium Robert Dreyfuss 4501 Catch and Release: Lorelei Kelly The Art of Fly Fishing Josh Rushing Dave Grusin Ike Wilson Don Grusin Moderator: Barry Baer Jim Hightower Moderator: Pete Steinhauer 3:30-4:50 UMC West Ballroom 4763 Personalized Medicine: 1:30-2:50 Boulder High School The Promise of Technology 4561 Neurobiology: Mars and Ruth Oratz Venus Revisited Adil Shamoo Roxanne Cason Fintan Steele Kyle Pruett Moderator: Larry Gold Kirsten Sanford Fintan Steele 3:30-4:50 UMC 235 4764 The Science and Politics 2:00-3:20 ATLAS Black Box of Climate Change 4611 Corporate Storytelling Arturo Ardila-Gómez Noa Baum Jaycie Chitwood David Bender Doug Ray Terrence McNally Bill Reinert Liz Weir Moderator: Radu Popescu Moderator: Paul Bauman 3:30-4:50 Old Man Chapel 2:00-3:20 UMC 235 4765 Republicans: The Wind 4613 ARTFUL TRIO Is at Our Backs Beat Box Fusion Robert George Rony Barrak Robert Kaufman Shodekeh Daniel Odescalchi Tjupurru Troy Senik Moderator: Patrick Steinhauer Moderator: Paul Schauer 2:00-3:20 UMC East Ballroom 4614 Forget Haiti, Rebuild America Lillian Boutté Judith Morrison Sarah Rich Nestor Torres Moderator: Ben Pearlman

FRIDAY

11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 9:00-10:20 UMC 235 My Dog Is Smarter than 5111 Brave New Digital-Visual 5312 Your Politician World Jim Emerson Michael Fink Michael Fink Dan Gillmor Liz Weir Andy Ihnatko Ike Wilson Seth Shostak Moderator: Jane Saltzman Moderator: Cindy Domenico 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom 5112 Stimulated by Crisis Chaz Ebert Andrew Kassoy Achim Köddermann Val Koromzay Moderator: Della Temple 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5113 The Politics of Avatar Jim Emerson Benjamin Skinner Sanho Tree Erika Wagner Moderator: Paula Pesman

11:00-12:20 Grusin Music Hall 5313 Harmony and Rhythm in Love, Work and Play Noa Baum Charles Jess Ruth Oratz Nestor Torres Janine Wedel Moderator: Millie Ramos

1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom 5511 Alternative Routes to Health and Healing Paul Hochfeld Elizabeth Lozano Ruth Oratz Laura Simms Moderator: Gale Dunlap 1:00-2:20 Old Main Chapel 5512 Modern Crusaders: Religion in the Military Chip Berlet Josh Rushing Ike Wilson Moderator: Alan Rudy 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5513 Obama: From Outsider to Insider Michael Elliott Troy Senik Susan Shaer Michael Stoff Moderator: Dayna Matthew 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom 5514 Green Collar Jobs: Re-energizing the Workforce Maria Alovert Charles Dusseau Doug Ray Tom Shadyac Moderator: Spense Havlick

1:00-2:20 UMC 235 11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5515 The Art of Improv 5315 Torture: Who, What, Why, Gordon Adams When and Where Rony Barrak Judith Armatta Shodekeh Saad Ibrahim Julia Sweeney Josh Rushing Moderator: Alphonse Keasley Peter Weiss 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Albert Hand 1:00-2:20 Macky Auditorium 5114 What Causes Messiahs 5516 Debt: Letting the Next Chip Berlet 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box Generation Clean Up Tom Dark 5316 Twisted Career Paths Our Mess Gerald Murray David Bender Arturo Ardila-Gómez Julia Sweeney Roxanne Cason Charles Jess Moderator: Geri Bellino Sarah Rich Jurek Martin Stuart Schoffman David Walker 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Moderator: Cynda Arsenault 5115 Climate Change: The Cost Moderator: George Epp and Opportunity for 11:00-12:20 Muenzinger Auditorium 1:30-2:20 Grusin Music Hall Poor Nations 5317 The Politics of Fear 5551 ARTFUL QUARTET Maria Alovert Gordon Adams Amor em Paz: Arturo Ardila-Gómez Malou Innocent Music of Brazil Barbara Ibrahim Lorelei Kelly Charlie Bisharat Judith Morrison Troy Senik Oscar Castro-Neves Moderator: Al Bartlett Moderator: Bob Greenlee Dave Grusin 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium Don Grusin 9:00-10:20 Wolf Law 4831 INTERRUPTUS IV 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom Moderator: Terrianne Steinhauer Wittemyer Courtroom Aguirre, the Wrath of God 5116 5318 2010 Elections: Government of, Roger Ebert Who Has the Fire 2:30-3:30 Macky Auditorium by and for Special Jim Emerson Lou Dubose 5650A MOLLY IVINS Interests Julia Sweeney Robert George FREEDOM FIGHTIN’ Margot Adler Clare Giesen MEMORIAL PLENARY Charles Dusseau 4:00-6:00 Imig Music Rehearsal Hall Moderator: David Friedman Where Have All the Paul Hochfeld 4832 Jazz Master Class Powers Gone Troy Senik Rony Barrak 11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel John Hockenberry Moderator: Harry Sterling Charlie Bisharat 5319 Spirituality: What Moderator: Stein Sture Oscar Castro-Neves Feeds My Soul 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium Dave Grusin Margot Adler 5117 Fallout From Bush Don Grusin Rony Barrak Cheney Tjupurru Chip Berlet Judith Armatta Nestor Torres Shodekeh Robert Dreyfuss Moderator: Brad Goode Moderator: Peggy Wrenn Robert George John Hockenberry 6:00-7:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM 12:00-12:50 Macky Auditorium Moderator: Robert Schulzinger 4901 RADIO BROADCAST 5400A PLENARY Hemispheres Comeback America: 9:30-10:50 ATLAS Black Box It’s the Economy Turning the Country 5161 A Lower Priority on Patrick Boel Around and Higher Education Val Koromzay Restoring Fiscal Mel Gurtov Daniel Odescalchi Responsibility Kyle Pruett Moderators: Jim Banks David Walker Eric Selbin Liz Lane Moderator: Keith Maskus Cora Weiss Moderator: Joe Neguse

MONDAY

11:30-12:20 Macky Auditorium 1350A KEYNOTE Rethinking American Power 4:00-6:00 Muenzinger Auditorium Ike Wilson 0831 UNINTERRUPTUS Moderator: Bruce Benson Aguirre, the Wrath of God 35mm Screening 12:30-1:50 Grusin Music Hall Co-sponsored by the 1461 Hollywood Eats Its Young International Film Series Chaz Ebert Howard Schultz 8:30-9:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Tom Shadyac 1001 RADIO BROADCAST Fintan Steele A Public Affair Moderator: Pat Chlouber Why Aguirre, the Wrath of God 1:00-1:50 Macky Auditorium Jim Emerson 1500A NCAR/UCAR 50TH Moderator: Sam Fuqua ANNIVERSARY LECTURE Communicating Climate Science: Why Is This 9:00-9:50 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 So Hard? 1101 FILM SCREENING Naomi Oreskes Plastic Bag Moderator: Rick Anthes Ramin Bahrani Moderator: Patti Bruck 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1511 The Slippery Slope of 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom Rationing Healthcare 1111 What I Do for Science Paul Hochfeld Naomi Oreskes John Hockenberry Doug Ray Ruth Oratz Seth Shostak Moderator: Louis Diamond Fintan Steele Moderator: Woody Eaton 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom 1514 Goodbye to the Decade 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom From Hell 1112 China’s Balancing Act David Bender Mel Gurtov Val Koromzay Charles Jess Mark Schapiro Henry Levine Michael Stoff Moderator: Sara Sheldon Moderator: Cathy Hazouri 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium 1113 Political Pundits: The Good, 1:00-2:20 Old Main Chapel 1515 Real Reel Characters the Bad and the Ugly Ramin Bahrani Gordon Adams Michael Fink Robert Kaufman Terrence McNally Jurek Martin Tina Packer Terrence McNally Moderator: Paul Gordon Moderator: Suzy Ageton

3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 1714 Tweeting the Conference: A Demonstration Dave Grusin Andy Ihnatko Kirsten Sanford Moderator: Peter Berntsen

4:30-5:50 Chemistry 140 1865 Mass Transit: Mass Delusion or the Way of the Future Maria Alovert Arturo Ardila-Gómez Erika Wagner Moderator: David Cook

9:30-10:50 UMC 235 2166 Ike Was Right: Taming the Military-Industrial Complex Gordon Adams Lorelei Kelly Troy Senik Moderator: Ric Porreca

3:00-4:20 Chemistry 140 1715 Food Porn: Out of the Kitchen and Onto the Couch Andrew Kassoy Julia Sweeney Sanho Tree Moderator: Bobby Stuckey

4:30-5:50 UMC Center Ballroom 1866 Democrats: The Winter of Our Discontent David Bender Chip Berlet Lewis Simons Moderator: Bob Morehouse

10:00-11:20 Boulder High School 2211 Medical Marijuana: Opening the Door Margot Adler Robert Kaufman Ruth Oratz Sanho Tree

3:00-4:20 Old Main Chapel 1716 Women in Politics: Forward, Backward, Sideways Clare Giesen Judith Morrison Susan Shaer Cora Weiss Moderator: Patricia Hayes

4:30-5:50 UMC West Ballroom 1867 As California Goes, So Goes the Nation Lou Dubose Don Grusin Jay Harris Troy Senik Moderator: Paul Levitt

10:30-11:50 Grusin Music Hall 2261 Cringe Humor From Shakespeare to Family Guy Robert George Tina Packer Tom Shadyac Julia Sweeney Moderator: Carroll Christman

3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1717 A Patriotic Case for a Newspaper Bailout Dan Gillmor Jay Harris John Hockenberry Jurek Martin Moderator: Allen Carmichael

TUESDAY

11:00-11:50 UMC Center Ballroom 2300A PLENARY Swimming Against the Current Jim Hightower Moderator: John Voorhees

8:30-9:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM 2001 RADIO BROADCAST How on Earth Burning Issues in Science 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 Kirsten Sanford 2311 Greening the Economy: Moderator: Shelley Schlender 3:00-4:20 Duane Physics G1B30 A Cost-Benefit Analysis 1718 Iran: Casting a Long Shadow Jaycie Chitwood 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom in the Neighborhood Mark Schapiro 2111 My Obsession Robert Dreyfuss Fintan Steele Lillian Boutté Mel Gurtov Moderator: Scott McCarty Werner Herzog Malou Innocent Julia Sweeney Moderator: Mark Loewenstein 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box Moderator: Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz 2312 The Lost Art of Reading Tom Dark 4:00-5:20 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 9:00-10:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 1811 I Never Let My Schooling Sarah Rich Corporate Citizenship Interfere With My Education 2112 Stuart Schoffman Molly Day Tom Dark Moderator: Mary Ann Shea Jay Harris Charles Jess Barbara Ibrahim Eric Selbin 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom Andrew Kassoy Shodekeh Truthiness and the 2313 Moderator: Roger Bohart Moderator: Mindy Pantiel Sliding Scale of Reality 1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom 9:00-10:20 Grusin Music Hall Dan Gillmor 1516 Displaced: Port-au-Prince 1114 Slip Slidin’ Away: 9:30-10:50 UMC East Ballroom 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium Terrence McNally and New Orleans Music Careers 2161 America: The Fat Lady 1831 INTERRUPTUS I Howard Schultz Arturo Ardila-Gómez Rony Barrak Has Sung Aguirre, the Wrath of God Janine Wedel Lillian Boutté Charlie Bisharat Robert Dreyfuss Ramin Bahrani Moderator: Steve Eisler Gerald Murray Oscar Castro-Neves Jurek Martin Roger Ebert Benjamin Skinner Nestor Torres Daniel Odescalchi Jim Emerson 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom Moderator: Stewart Hoover Moderator: Dorothy Rupert Lewis Simons Werner Herzog Latin America and 2314 Moderator: Peter Braun Its Discontents 2:00-2:50 UMC 235 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom 4:30-5:50 Eaton Humanities 1B50 Arturo Ardila-Gómez 1601 ARIA 1115 Mentoring Matters 9:30-10:50 ATLAS Black Box 1861 All the News That’s Elizabeth Lozano The Didgeribone Clare Giesen Underestimating TV: 2162 Fit to Tweet Judith Morrison Tjupurru Laura Simms The Boob Tube in the Gordon Adams Eric Selbin Moderator: Kwasi Ampene Benjamin Skinner 21st Century Dan Gillmor Moderator: Carew Boulding Michael Stoff David Bender Malou Innocent 3:00-3:50 Macky Auditorium Moderator: Sue Baer Michael Fink Sarah Rich 11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel 1700A PLENARY Howard Schultz Moderator: Rick Stevens 2315 Exile and Dissent Traveling on Foot 9:00-10:20 UMC 235 Moderator: Rudy Harburg Barbara Ibrahim Werner Herzog 1116 Indigenous Values 4:30-5:50 Old Main Chapel Saad Ibrahim Moderator: Daniel Sher Gerald Murray 9:30-10:50 Wolf Law 1862 Storytelling: Charles Jess Kavita Ramdas Wittemyer Courtroom A Pathway to Peace Adil Shamoo 3:00-4:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 Tjupurru 2163 International Law: Noa Baum Moderator: Barbara Lamm 1711 Teaching Empathy Sanho Tree Who’s on Board Laura Simms Roxanne Cason Moderator: Paul Shankman Judith Armatta Liz Weir 12:30-1:20 ATLAS Black Box Achim Köddermann Patrick Boel Moderator: Howard Bernstein ARTFUL DUET 2451 Elizabeth Lozano 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel Val Koromzay My Shakespeare Laura Simms 1117 New Tools, Old Traditions: Mark Schapiro 4:30-5:50 UMC 235 Gordon Adams A Renaissance in Journalism Moderator: Linda Jourgensen Moderator: Anne Mitchell 1863 The Ethics of War Tina Packer Robert Dreyfuss Judith Armatta Moderator: Jim Symons 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 Lou Dubose 9:30-10:50 Old Main Chapel Robert Kaufman 1712 Too Big to Fail: Automobiles, Robert George 2164 The Truth About 12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel Rachel Kleinfeld Banks, Countries Moderator: Malinda Miller-Huey Energy Policy 2461 Crisis du Jour Adil Shamoo Patrick Boel Maria Alovert Mel Gurtov Moderator: Jared Polis Charles Dusseau 9:00-10:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer Paul Hochfeld Clare Giesen Henry Levine Courtroom Malou Innocent Doug Ray 4:30-5:50 UMC East Ballroom Moderator: Frank Bruno 1118 War as a Persistent Benjamin Skinner Moderator: Marjorie Baumert 1864 Downwardly Mobile: Phenomenon Moderator: Michael Warden The Middle Class Ain’t 3:00-4:20 UMC West Ballroom Josh Rushing 9:30-10:50 UMC West Ballroom What It Used to Be 12:30-1:50 UMC West Ballroom 1713 Modern Day Hypocrisies: Stuart Schoffman 2165 Human Trafficking: 2463 Social Innovation: Charlie Bisharat Hybrid Hummers, Low Carb Susan Shaer The Price of a Life Millennials Engage Molly Day Bagels and Smart Bombs Peter Weiss Gerald Murray Molly Day Andy Ihnatko Lorelei Kelly Moderator: David Getches Kavita Ramdas Andrew Kassoy Janine Wedel Laura Simms Daniel Odescalchi Rachel Kleinfeld Benjamin Skinner Moderator: T K Smith Ruth Oratz Sarah Rich Moderator: Jeannie Thompson Howard Schultz Moderator: Eliza Woloson Moderator: Dan Friedlander

12:30-1:50 UMC 235 2465 Keeping Up With... Why We Care About Ray J and The Jersey Shore Terrence McNally Howard Schultz Shodekeh Moderator: Christopher Sarson 12:30-1:50 UMC Center Ballroom 2466 Possession and Transformation: The Myth of Vampires, the Practice of Vodou Margot Adler Werner Herzog Gerald Murray Moderator: Howie Movshovitz 12:30-1:50 UMC East Ballroom 2467 Iraq: Sink or Swim Daniel Odeschalchi Josh Rushing Adil Shamoo Moderator: Kaye Howe 1:30-2:50 Boulder High School 2561 Obama and the Politics of Paralysis David Bender Lou Dubose Robert George Susan Shaer

3:30-4:50 ATLAS Black Box 2762 Your BA Is Just BS Andy Ihnatko Tom Shadyac Michael Stoff Janine Wedel Moderator: Tim Stancliffe 3:30-4:50 UMC West Ballroom 2763 Philanthrocapitalism Roxanne Cason Molly Day Chaz Ebert Kavita Ramdas Moderator: Gene Gitin

3:30-4:50 Duane Physics G1B20 2761 War on Science Lou Dubose Kyle Pruett Seth Shostak Erika Wagner Moderator: Noah Finkelstein

8:30-9:20 UMC 235 3001 LIVE RADIO BROADCAST KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM A Public Affair Tempests in the Tea Party David Bender Chip Berlet Daniel Odescalchi Moderator: Maeve Conran

9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom 3111 SuperGeeks Changing the World 3:30-4:50 UMC 235 Dan Gillmor 2764 Worshipping Athletes: The Barbara Ibrahim Loss of Rational Thinking Malou Innocent Andy Ihnatko Jurek Martin Rachel Kleinfeld Terrence McNally Moderator: Peter Behrendt Bill Reinert Moderator: Doug Looney 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom 3112 My Terrorist, Your 3:30-4:50 UMC East Ballroom Freedom Fighter 2765 I Google Stalked You: Robert Dreyfuss The End of the Blind Date Eric Selbin Andrew Kassoy Lewis Simons Sarah Rich Ike Wilson Shodekeh Moderator: John Tayer Moderator: Christina Fiflis

3:30-4:50 UMC Center Ballroom 2766 Do Tell: Gays in the Military Josh Rushing 2:00-3:20 UMC West Ballroom Sanho Tree 2611 International Relations Ike Wilson Through the Eyes of Women Moderator: Michael Radelet Noa Baum Kavita Ramdas 3:30-4:50 Old Main Chapel Cora Weiss 2767 Obama’s Foreign Policy: Moderator: Ami Sadler Promise vs. Performance Robert Kaufman 2:00-3:20 UMC Center Ballroom Henry Levine Progressives Getting 2612 Troy Senik Their Groove Back Lewis Simons Chip Berlet Moderator: Michael Shea Jim Hightower John Hockenberry 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium Lorelei Kelly 2831 INTERRUPTUS II Moderator: Bruce Montgomery Aguirre, the Wrath of God Ramin Bahrani Roger Ebert 2:00-3:20 Old Main Chapel Jim Emerson Why We Still Go to 2613 Werner Herzog the Movies Jim Emerson 5:00-5:50 UMC Center Ballroom Michael Fink 2900A HOWARD HIGMAN Seth Shostak MEMORIAL PLENARY Moderator: Lew Harvey Everything You Know Is Wrong 2:00-3:20 UMC East Ballroom Bill Reinert Saving the Nation With 2614 Moderator: Phil DiStefano Math and Science Maria Alovert 5:00-5:50 UMC 235 Kirsten Sanford 2902 STORYTELLING Erika Wagner From Glen to Glen: Tales Moderator: Richard Byyny From Ireland and Beyond Liz Weir 2:00-3:20 ATLAS Black Box Moderator: Pat McCullough 2615 Engaging Enemies: Non-violent Communication 6:00-7:00 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM RADIO BROADCAST 2903 Judith Armatta Hemispheres Mel Gurtov Egypt and Palestine Liz Weir Saad Ibrahim Peter Weiss Rachel Kleinfeld Moderator: Cathy Comstock Moderator: Joseph Juhasz 2:00-3:20 UMC 235 2616 Immigration: The Eternal, Perpetual, Everlasting Controversy Charles Dusseau Judith Morrison Daniel Odescalchi Ike Wilson Moderator: Lee Shainis

WEDNESDAY

8:00-10:00 Macky Auditorium 2941 JAZZ CONCERT Justo Almario Bijoux Barbosa Rony Barrak Charlie Bisharat Lillian Boutté Oscar Castro-Neves Brad Goode Dave Grusin Don Grusin Mike Marlier Shodekeh Tjupurru Nestor Torres Introduction: Todd Gleeson

9:00-10:20 UMC Aspen Room 3114 A Woman’s Worth Judith Armatta Molly Day Clare Giesen Tina Packer Moderator: Elizabeth Dodds 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom 3116 (De)Globalization Patrick Boel Malou Innocent Mark Schapiro Troy Senik Moderator: Paul Heffron 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel 3117 Medical Research: First, Do No Harm Ruth Oratz Kyle Pruett Adil Shamoo Moderator: Raymond Hockedy 10:00-11:20 Macky Auditorium 3211 Peak Oil Andrew Kassoy Bill Reinert Seth Shostak Moderator: Peter Dietze

11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel The Brain vs. the Mind 3315 Roxanne Cason Achim Köddermann Kirsten Sanford Fintan Steele Moderator: Robert Pane 11:30-12:50 UMC Center Ballroom 3361 Out of this World: Is Music Solely a Terrestrial Art? Lillian Boutté Dave Grusin Seth Shostak Moderator: Tori Peglar

2:00-2:50 Old Main Chapel 3601 ARTFUL TRIO Middle Eastern Tales and Tunes Rony Barrak Noa Baum Charlie Bisharat Moderator: Bal Patterson

3:00-4:20 Old Main Chapel 3718 Friendship–From Internet to Intimate Andy Ihnatko Susan Shaer Benjamin Skinner Tjupurru Moderator: Claude d’Estree

2:00-4:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 3631 FILM SCREENING Goodbye Solo Introduction by Ramin Bahrani Moderator: Pablo Kjolseth

4:00-5:20 UMC Center Ballroom 3811 21st Century Parenting John Hockenberry Lorelei Kelly Kyle Pruett Julia Sweeney Moderator: Susan Osborne

11:30-12:50 Macky Auditorium 3362 The Future of Food Jim Hightower Terrence McNally Sarah Rich Mark Schapiro Moderator: Edie Hooton

2:30-3:50 Macky Auditorium 3661 The Cost of Filmmaking Ramin Bahrani Michael Fink Dave Grusin Tom Shadyac Moderator: Travis Wilkerson

12:00-1:20 UMC East Ballroom 3411 India vs. China: The Battle for the Century Mel Gurtov Robert Kaufman Henry Levine Lewis Simons Moderator: Celeste Landry

2:30-3:50 UMC West Ballroom 3662 Monogamy, Polyamory and Everything in Between Val Koromzay Howard Schultz Fintan Steele Janine Wedel Moderator: Steph Wilenchek

12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel 3461 Time, Memory and Landscape Saad Ibrahim Stuart Schoffman Eric Selbin Liz Weir Moderator: Clint Talbott

3:00-3:50 UMC Center Ballroom 3700A PLENARY Understanding the New Arab World Shafeeq Ghabra Moderator: Dorothea El Mallakh

1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box 3511 Hip-Hop, Be-Bop, Flip-Flop: The Political Role of Poetry and Music Gordon Adams Justo Almario Tina Packer Shodekeh Moderator: David Gloss

3:00-4:20 Duane Physics G1B30 3711 The Challenge of Renewable Energy Maria Alovert Jaycie Chitwood Charles Jess Doug Ray Moderator: Bob Noun

3:00-3:30 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM RADIO BROADCAST 3701 Metro Arts 1:00-1:50 UMC 235 3501 ARIA Colombian Dreams 2000 Years of Visual Effects in America Michael Fink Justo Almario Moderator: John Bennett Elizabeth Lozano

1:00-2:20 Macky Auditorium 3512 Intuition, Technology and Communication Esther Dyson 10:30-11:20 UMC Center Ballroom Chaz Ebert 3250A PLENARY Roger Ebert The HomeBrew Health Club Andy Ihnatko Esther Dyson Moderator: David Braddock Moderator: Bob Yates 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom 10:30-11:50 UMC East Ballroom 3513 Science for Sale 3261 Writing–the Process Maria Alovert Tom Dark Jaycie Chitwood Stuart Schoffman Adil Shamoo Michael Stoff Erika Wagner Janine Wedel Moderator: Jerry Peterson Moderator: Clay Evans 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom 3515 Shadow Elite: Today’s 3311 Teachings of Our Fathers, New Power Brokers Wisdom of Our Mothers Malou Innocent Justo Almario Andrew Kassoy Saad Ibrahim Sanho Tree Ruth Oratz Janine Wedel Kyle Pruett Moderator: Richard Jessor Moderator: Jane Elvins 1:30-2:50 UMC East Ballroom 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 Bankers, Bullies, 3561 3312 “You Lie”: The Erosion Bastards, Bonuses of Civility Lou Dubose David Bender Jay Harris Robert George Jurek Martin Jay Harris Moderator: Nicholas Flores Moderator: Jane Brautigam

3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 3714 Grassroots Development: Power to the People Barbara Ibrahim Judith Morrison Gerald Murray Kavita Ramdas Moderator: Terry Greenblatt

4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium 3831 INTERRUPTUS III Aguirre, the Wrath of God Ramin Bahrani Roger Ebert Jim Emerson

9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom 4111 Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Time for a Facelift Saad Ibrahim Mark Schapiro Sanho Tree Cora Weiss Moderator: Carl Tintsman 9:00-10:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 4112 Stagnation Nation: Why Washington Can’t Make Anything Happen Chip Berlet Clare Giesen Robert Kaufman Jurek Martin Moderator: Dick Miller

4:30-5:20 ATLAS 100 3852 STORYTELLING Rejoice, Regardless Laura Simms Moderator: Ferd Grauer

9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium 4113 Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh and O’Reilly: The Four Horses of the Apocalypse Robert Dreyfuss 4:30-5:50 UMC 235 Lou Dubose 3861 Playing 2nd Fiddle: Jim Emerson The Art of Accompaniment Charlie Bisharat Robert George Lillian Boutté Moderator: Kirk Siegler Oscar Castro-Neves Dave Grusin 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Mark Diamond 4114 Reinventing the Great 4:30-5:50 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 American Story 3862 Drawing the Line: Ramin Bahrani Compassionate Journalism Jim Hightower or Voyeurism Tina Packer Robert Dreyfuss Dan Gillmor Laura Simms Josh Rushing Moderator: Philip Sneed Stuart Schoffman Moderator: Paul Voakes 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom 4115 Start-up America: 4:30-5:50 UMC East Ballroom 3863 Peacemaking Redefined Innovating to Compete Noa Baum Esther Dyson Shafeeq Ghabra Andrew Kassoy Henry Levine Rachel Kleinfeld Cora Weiss Moderator: Dean Reed Peace Prize Erika Wagner Winner Moderator: Jim Curtin 4:30-5:50 UMC West Ballroom 3864 Metrofitting the City Arturo Ardila-Gómez Patrick Boel Charles Dusseau Sarah Rich Moderator: Louise Grauer

9:30-10:50 ATLAS Black Box Social Change: Truth 4161 Spoken Through the Arts Don Grusin Sarah Rich Tom Shadyac 3:00-4:20 ATLAS 100 4:30-5:50 Old Main Chapel Tjupurru 3715 Eating Ourselves to Death 3865 Microfinance: Closing the Moderator: Laura Hundley Gordon Adams Poverty Gap Paul Hochfeld Roxanne Cason 9:30-10:50 UMC 235 Daniel Odescalchi Don Grusin 4162 Faith or Falsifiability: Ruth Oratz Rachel Kleinfeld Moderator: Becky Roser Judith Morrison Religion and Science Moderator: Connie Holden Andy Ihnatko 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 Achim Köddermann 3716 21st Century Governance Fintan Steele With an 18th Century Constitution Julia Sweeney Margot Adler Moderator: Peter Ford 8:30-9:30 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Robert Kaufman 4001 RADIO BROADCAST Michael Stoff 9:30-10:50 UMC East Ballroom Peter Weiss A Public Affair 4164 Afro-Caribbean Moderator: Marianne Wesson Health Care Ethnic Identity Paul Hochfeld 3:00-4:20 Chemistry 140 Justo Almario Adil Shamoo 3717 Empty Space: Oscar Castro-Neves Rockets to Nowhere Elizabeth Lozano Esther Dyson Kirsten Sanford Judith Morrison Seth Shostak Moderator: Jane Menken Erika Wagner Moderator: Jonathan Hondorf

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