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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

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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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Last week in the Camera and Denver Post, “American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity” bought three very expensive full-page ads touting that coal is low-cost, reliable, increasingly clean and it is the better choice than burning natural gas. What is their motive?

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.”

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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.

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J

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.

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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.

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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.

Polls Last Week

Are solar gardens the way of the future?

• Of course! We should live off the sun!

59% • Nah. I’ll stick with my coal and gas. 7% • Um. What’s a solar garden? 14% • It’s an option among many others. 21%

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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!

Vote now! www.boulderweekly.com/poll30.html

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Slideshow Check out photos from the new exhibit at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Body Worlds & The Story of the Heart.

The exhibit will run from now until July 18, 2010.

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Spoon plays the Ogden Theater on Monday, April 5, and Tuesday, April 6. Doors at 7 p.m. Must be 16 to enter. Deerhunter, Micachu, and the Shapes open. Tickets are $25. 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-830-2525.

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Can’t-miss events for the upcoming week

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.

Consistency and innovation feed Spoon’s indie rock success

by David Accomazzo

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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.

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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.

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

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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.”

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Country controversy David Allan Coe’s stained legacy

by Ben Corbett

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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.

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Spinning strong

Vinyl music still selling despite crashing CD sales

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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.

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Upslope Brewing Co. Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No. 20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

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.

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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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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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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.

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Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

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Noon. Platt Middle School, 6096 Baseline Rd., Boulder, 303-415-0600.

Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

International Film Series — The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. 7 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Murder Mystery Dinner. 6:45 p.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

Pseudo Science. 7:30 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5002.

Radical Knitting Circle. 8:30 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder. 303440-4628.

Salsa Dancing. 10:30 p.m. Trattoria on Pearl, 1430 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-544-0008.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

12-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing Co. Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No.20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

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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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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

THURSDAY

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

THURSDAY

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

panorama boulderweekly.com/panorama Run Bambe Run — With FGift. 8 p.m. The Deli Zone, 1240 Ken Pratt Blvd., Longmont, 303-485-1600.

TSQ — Jazz. 6:30-9:30 p.m. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Vintage Rock and Soul Band. 7:30 p.m.

Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303665-2757.

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events Advanced Editing in Final Cut Pro. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Afternoon Tea. 2 p.m. Jill’s Restaurant at St. Julien Hotel, 900 Walnut St., Boulder, 720-4069696.

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Beginning/Intermediate Hoopdance. 10 a.m. O Dance Studio, 1501 Lee Hill Rd., #4, Boulder, 303-415-1877.

Benefit for Beacon School of Uganda. 5 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Dinner Detective Murder Mystery Dinner Show. Millennium Harvest House Hotel, 1345 28th St., Boulder, 888-575-3884.

Grace & Glorie — Directed by Robert Kramer. 7:30 p.m. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Ste. 200, Golden, 303-9353044.

International Film Series — Home. 7 p.m. & 9 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Lyons Old-Time Dance. 7-10 p.m. Odd Fellows Hall, Fourth and High streets, Lyons, 303-823-0816.

Music and Mimosas — Every Saturday 9-11 a.m. The Curious Cup Café, 1377 Forest Park Cir., Lafayette, 720-890-4665.

The Northern Colorado Bodybuilding & Fitness Championships. 9 a.m. & 5 p.m.

Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303786-7030.

Rocky Mountain Roller Girls. 7 p.m. The Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room.

12-6 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Upslope Brewing Co. Tap Room and Tours. 4-8 p.m. Upslope Brewing Co., 1501 Lee Hill Rd., No.20, Boulder, www.upslopebrewing.com.

Sunday, April 4

music Acoustic Jam — With Jax Delaguerre. 11:30 a.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 12-3 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover St., Longmont, 303-4859400.

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

Hammerfall — With Havoc. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303377-1666.

Henhouse Prowlers. 10 p.m. Mountain Sun Pub, 1535 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-546-0886.

Irish Session. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Jazz Jam with Mark Diamond — Players welcome. 7:30-10 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-

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Savoy —

Savoy has been rocking the Boulder dance scene for a while now, and they seem to be going nowhere but up. With Fresh2Death, J Flash and Hathbanger. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

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Jelly Roll Bakers. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Home Made Liquids & Solids, 1555 S. Hover Rd., Longmont, 303-485-9400.

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

Open Mic — Hosted by Hotfoot. 2:30 p.m.

Avery Brewing Company, 5763 Arapahoe Ave., Unit E, Boulder, 303-440-4324.

Swing State Band. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Tegan and Sara. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

events

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Chicago. 12 p.m. & 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303449-6000.

Free Open House. 10:30 a.m. to noon.

Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Easter Brunch Buffet. 10:30 a.m. Hotel Boulderado, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-4424344.

Easter Sunday Brunch. 10 a.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Easter Sunrise Service. 4:30 a.m. doors/6 a.m. service. Red Rocks Amphitheater, 17598 West Alameda Pkwy., Morrison, 303-640-2637.

Hawaiian Chant Class. 5:30-6:15 p.m.

Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4479772.

Hawaiian Hula. 6:30 p.m. Boulder Ballet Studio, The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-447-9772.

Sunday Afternoon Tea — Live traditional Japanese music with tea and traditional tea snacks. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Ku Cha House of Tea, 2015 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3612.

Monday, April 5

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theater Boulder/Denver Chicago. 6:15 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 9.

The Clean House. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 15.

Grace & Glorie. Miner’s Alley Playhouse. 1224 Washington Ave., Golden, 303-935-3044. Through April 25.

Jack & Jill: A Romance. The Dairy Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut

St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. April 1 & 2.

Mama Hated Diesels. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-8934100. Through May 9.

Othello. Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-893-4100. March 26 through May 1.

Schoolhouse Rock Live! Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities.

6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada, 720898-7201, through May 15.

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music Acoustic Plug-In. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

Jay Ryan’s Big Top. 7 p.m./6:30 p.m. sign-up, D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Milk Drive. 10 p.m. Southern Sun Pub, 627 South Broadway, Boulder, 303-543-0886.

Open Mic. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Cafe. 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Ste. I, Boulder, 303-443-5108.

Spoon. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

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Tuesday, April 6

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

Afroman. 8 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

The Atomic Pablo Band. 7 p.m. Rock N Soul Café, 5290 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303443-5108.

Blues Jam with Dan Treanor — Players welcome. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Outlook Hotel and Suites, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-4433322.

Clusterpluck — 9 p.m. Open jam. George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-9989350.

Getting Started with Final Cut Pro. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-875-0276.

Jazz Night — With Supercollider. 8:30 p.m.

Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Kevin Dooley & Friends — With Taylor and Bonnie Sims. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Mehko and The Ocean Birds — With Dustin Perricone and Gavin Castleton. 7 p.m.

D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303463-6683.

Open Mic — With Danny Shafer. 8 p.m./7 p.m. sign-up. Conor O’Neills, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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events Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Boulder County Alcoholics Anonymous.

Happy hour group. 5:30 p.m. 5375 Western Ave., Boulder, www.BoulderCountyAA.org.

Boulder Public Library Film Program — Siddhartha. 7 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CSS Based Web Design. 6-9 p.m. Boulder Digital Arts, 2510 47th St., Boulder, 303-8750276. Through April 7.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Meditation Instruction — Introductory talk and refreshments. 7-9 p.m. Boulder Shambhala Meditation Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-444-0190.

Magical Mexican Mondays — With live magic by Erica Sodos. Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon Release Party. 6 p.m. The West End Tavern, 926 Pearl St. Boulder, 303-447-0487.

“So,You’re a Poet.” 8 p.m. Laughing Goat Coffeehouse, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4404628.

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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northern colorado BodyBUilding & fitness championships tUes, april 6

straight no chaser Wed, april 7 la sportiva & BlUrr

movie: “core”

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Straight No Chaser —

An all-male a cappella group, Straight No Chaser started singing Christmas tunes and they’ve gone up from there. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

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Percussion Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Spoon. 8 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 835 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Straight No Chaser. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Weekly Bluegrass Pick — All levels welcome. 8-11 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

events American Sign Language Night. 4-8 p.m.

Avery Tap Room, 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit 1B, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Boulder Improv Jam Association — Public dance jam every Tuesday. 7:30-10:30 p.m.The Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 720-934-2028.

Flamenco Dance Technique. 5:50 p.m.

Kakes Studios, 2115 Pearl St., Boulder, 303786-7050, www.flamenco-boulder.com.

Full Cycle & Fleet Feet Gathering. 7:15 p.m. Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 7:30 p.m.

Harpo’s Sports Bar, 2860 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-444-9464.

The Slomski Brothers — Vaudeville comedy and music. 7:30 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver, 303-294-9281.

Travel Tips and Packing Light. 7 p.m. Free Traveler’s Tuesday program. Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Wine 101: Organic and Sustainable Wine. The Blending Cellar, 946 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-0475.

Wednesday, April 7

music Beach House — With Bachelorette. 8 p.m.

Bluebird Theater, 3317 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-377-1666.

The Clam Daddys. 7:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-463-6683.

Jazz Combos Showcase. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, CU campus, 303-492-8008.

Kamikazee Karaoke Gong Show. 9 p.m.

Juanita’s Mexican Food, 1043 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-449-5273.

People Under the Stairs. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theater, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Reggae Wednesday — Rude Boys.10 p.m.

Boulder Draft House, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-440-5858.

The Whiskey Bottles. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Dr., Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

events Arvada Business Connection. 5:30 p.m. D Note, 7519 Grandview Ave., Arvada, 303-4636683.

Avery Tasting Room — For tours and tastings. 12-8 p.m. Avery Brewing Co., 5757 Arapahoe Ave., Unit B1, Boulder, www.averybrewing.com.

Building Peace: A Journey of Service, Hope and Faith — Presented by Paula Green. Naropa University Performing Arts Center. 2130 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-2454622.

Chicago. 5:30 p.m. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre, 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000.

Climate Leaders: Creating Your Green Vision. 7:30 a.m. Boulder Chamber of Commerce, 2440 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4421044, ext. 122.

Compulsive Eaters Anonymous-HOW. 6 p.m. Community United Church of Christ, 2650 Table Mesa Dr., Boulder, 970-556-4740.

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Undergroup hip-hop doing its thing at the Fox. 8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-443-3399.

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz. 8 p.m.

George’s Food & Drink, 2028 14th St., Boulder, 303-998-9350.

Healing Space — With Alan McAllister.

12-2 p.m. Whole Being Explorations, 1800 30th St., Boulder, 303-545-5562.

International Film Series —Cloverfield. 8 p.m. Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, www.internationalfilmseries.com.

Just Sit. 7 to 9 p.m.. Boulder Shambhala Center, 1345 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-4440190.

Twisted Pine Brewing and Tap Room. 3-9 p.m. Twisted Pine Tap Room, 3201 Walnut St., #A, Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Kids’ Calendar Thursday, April 1 Drop-in Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

Friday, April 2 Pajamarama Storytime. 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble. Crossroads Commons, 2915 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-442-1665.

Preschool Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720685-5200.

Saturday, April 3 Just Write — Creative writing for teens.

Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Laser: Peter and the Wolf. 3:15 p.m. Fiske Planetarium, CU campus, 303-492-5002.

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10:30-11:15 a.m. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant Ave., Louisville, www.louisvillearts.org.

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Rise & Shine Storytime. 9:30 a.m. Barnes & Noble, Crossroads Commons, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349.

Tuesday, April 6 Drop-in Storytime. 4 p.m. Erie Community Library, 400 Powers St., Erie, 720-685-5200.

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

Teen Game Night. 3 p.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-4413100.

Wednesday, April 7 Children’s Storytime. 10:15 a.m. Boulder Public Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

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Should I stay or should I go?

by Dr. Jenni Skyler

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artner A says, “Go to hell.”

Partner B says, “Not when you live there.” The boxing gloves are on, and Kimbo Slice wouldn’t stand a chance in this fight.

If this is familiar territory, you may not have a hard time deciding whether to stay or go. But what should you do if the relationship is great but the sex sucks? What if the sex is stellar but the emotional intimacy is absent? What if you can communicate emotionally and sexually, but you lack intellectual, spiritual and social stimulation?

Thus begins the arduous tug-of-war between head and heart, ego and spirit — and you ask yourself, should I stay or should I go? “If I go there will be trouble, if I stay it will be double.”

Once the wet and juicy courtship has hardened into dry, flaky dirt, we are faced with the reality of the relationship. This is not to damn all relationships that make it down the aisle. Fifty percent of relationships go the distance with great success. The rest try to open up the relationship by swinging around, cycle through break-repair-breakrepair-break, or divorce.

Whether or not your relationship garden made it through the winter blizzard, you may have at one point asked the question: Should I stay or should I go? The answer is irrelevant. The process of how you came to either decision is what matters.

So what factors are needed before making that irreversible decision to stay or go? First, consider the quality of intimacy in your relationship. Because intimacy can be extensive and intricate, I often offer couples a map to measure eight types of intimacy in their relationship. The eight spheres are: Emotional, Intellectual, Physical, Sexual, Social, Spiritual, Affectional and Aesthetic. (For a visual map, visit my website at www.theintimacyinstitute.org/intimacyMap.html). Once you have identified strengths and gaps in each sphere, then you have mastered chapter one in the handbook of how to water your relationship garden to its full potential bloom.

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are divorcing, you may or may not want to bother with lawyer fees. Even if you are just separating, finances may be difficult to divide when it comes to coowning a home, plants, pets, kids, a 401(k), or a cool ’70s shag rug in the den. Can the two-household income now be independently sustained? Is it too much to juggle a mortgage, rent and child support versus agreeing to an untraditional, taboo, non-monogamous marriage?

To piggyback on factor two, for those who have kids, you may want to weigh the parenting issues. Who gets weekdays or weekends? How do we split major holidays? How do we agree to bedtimes, play-dates, babysitters, after-school activities? When do we talk to our kids about sex? How do we talk to our kids about sex?

Factor three entails dating issues.

You may have been out of the dating scene for several decades. You may wonder where to go and how to get out there again. Do I pay or go dutch?

When do we kiss? Should my kids meet whom I date? Even if you’ve only been out for a few years, you may struggle with the expeditious evolution of intimacy and whether to date electronically or face-to-face.

Factor four is last, but not least: sex. Ladies, gentlemen and (for those who read last week’s column) everyone in-between, we live in an era of sexually transmitted diseases. Dating today requires condoms and dental dams — doctor’s orders. But what about when to even have sex? And if you only feel so-so about your date, there might be a lack of lubrication or erectile issues.

If your relationship is withering on the xeriscape, deciding to stay or go requires assessing all spheres of intimacy and whether the hassle to stay is greater than the hassle to go.

So should you stay or should you go? Water the garden, weigh the fruits and, in the end, select the least odious option.

Jenni Skyler, PhD, is a sex therapist and board-certified sexologist. She runs The Intimacy Institute in Boulder, www. theintimacyinstitute.org.

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For a vegetable dissident, this leafy green presents a challenge in winter

by Kathleen Purvis

didn’t know it would be a mixed marriage.

After all, we agree on most things.

Same senses of humor, taste in music, politics.

There’s just this vegetable thing.

I love all of them. He doesn’t like many of them.

No Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage or cauliflower. No sweet potatoes or cooked spinach. He prefers iceberg lettuce to my romaine, and takes to winter squash like a duck takes to mud.

After years of trying to win him over, after stir-frying and roasting and strewing bits of bacon on things, I’ve mostly accepted defeat. I make whatever vegetables are seasonal and local, and I make sure there’s always salad for him. I look away discreetly when iceberg sneaks into the vegetable drawer.

Then comes kale season. And the real battle begins.

Most of the year, eating local is easy. Spring, summer and fall have bounties of vegetables. Even my non-vegetable husband can find a few things he likes.

We’re both happy with asparagus in spring and zucchini in summer.

But from January to March, what we have is kale.

Bags of it, piles of it, market tables covered with it.

To quote a famous New Yorker cartoon, my husband says kale is just leafy broccoli. And he says to heck with it.

No ruffled green kale, no wide leaves of black kale, not even red kale or purple kale.

Dane Fisher of Fisher Farms in Salisbury, N.C., says this has been a great year for kale.

See, kale loves cold weather. Usually, when leafy plants freeze, ice crystals rupture the cell walls, letting liquid leak. When the sun comes out and the plant warms up, it goes limp.

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Kale has a natural waxy deposit that keeps its cells from absorbing too much water. Less water means the cells don’t rupture when it freezes. In fact, when kale gets cold, its sugar content increases, acting like a natural antifreeze.

Fisher’s kale grew a little slower in January, thanks to cold weather. But that’s good for kale lovers — it means it will be around even longer this year.

Hear that, honey? Why, we could have kale into April.

If you only have one vegetable to eat, kale is a good one. It’s packed with vitamins A, C and E, folate, calcium, lutein and iron. It’s high in fiber, and it has seven times more beta-carotene than broccoli.

Kale even has a phytochemical called sulforaphane that may help your body get rid of carcinogens faster.

None of this will do any good if you don’t eat it.

There are plenty of ways to do that.

You can saute kale with garlic and red pepper flakes. You can simmer it in soups with cannellini beans and diced potato. It goes great with pasta. You

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Maybe my husband won’t ever become a vegetable lover.

But at least there’s always salad.

Tuscan Kale Salad Based on a New York Times recipe. The original calls for lacinato kale, also known as black kale or dinosaur kale, but I made it with a mixture of lacinato and the sweeter Siberian kale.

1 large bunch kale 1 slice country-style bread or 1/4 cup fresh bread crumbs 1 clove garlic, peeled 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons finely grated pecorino Romano or Parmesan Reggiano cheese, divided About 4 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, divided see KALE Page 44

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A happy taco discovery

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by Clay Fong

ver since the closing of the Friend Jon cheerfully commented that carniceria on Boulder’s Bluff this sweet brew, best served with plenty Street, I’ve been at loose ends of ice, was “a meal unto itself; it’s like trying to find a suitable subdrinking rice pudding.” stitute venue for bargainFor dinner, Jon’s wife Arleen went priced, traditional Mexican tacos. Word for a $6 Pollo Flauta platter, essentially on the street was that Longmont’s El an entrée-sized version of the familiar Taco Feliz served up what I was seektaquito appetizer. This jumbo example ing. I’m ecstatic to report that this eatconsisted of achingly tender chicken ery’s offerings are even better than morsels served up in a freshly fried torthose of the late, lamented carniceria, tilla. This piping hot wrapping posand that the tacos here are among the sessed the qualities of the best and very best I’ve had in freshest tortilla chip Colorado. you’ve ever had, with El Taco Feliz Taqueria connoisan addictive crunch 830 Lashley Street seurs know that fancy that nicely contrastLongmont décor is a negative ed with the lightly 303-776-7225 rather than a positive seasoned poultry. when it comes to a Ann’s choice of a cash-only spot like classic $5.25 carne this. Feliz’s nondescript strip-mall loca- asada burrito strayed from tradition by tion, coupled with a Spartan but bright- virtue of its considerable girth, making ly painted interior, ably passes the it closer to a San Francisco Mission humility test. Seating here is limited, District behemoth. The ample steak with only a handful of counter stools filling was packed with meaty flavor, inside and a couple of picnic tables out- and it was enlivened by a dash of salsa side. But what Taco Feliz lacks in verde. Less successful was $2.50 brace chairs, it more than makes up for in of sizable tamales, which could have service, as the amiable counterperson/ been improved with more pork and a cook happily answered our questions moister consistency. and offered up samples of the wide Dryness wasn’t a problem with Jon’s variety of meat fillings. $6.25 smothered barbacoa burrito.

Prices here are reasonable, with Barbacoa is slow-cooked beef, and this $6.25 quesadillas, a special $4.50 enchi- version clearly benefited from several lada plate and a $3.75 breakfast burrito. hours of cooking, creating melt-inBeverage selections include south-ofyour-mouth meat akin to a well-prethe-border soft drinks, including pared barbecued brisket. Hands down, Mexican Cokes, fruity Jarritos sodas this beef was clearly superior to the and a potent housemade horchata, the over-salted version offered by a ubiquisweet and creamy rice milk drink. tous corporate burrito chain. An ample

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here is a formal taco taxonomy, based both on method of preparation and the type of meat involved. A classic carne asada taco is a “taco de asador” or grilled taco, a category that also includes those made of chorizo sausage. Lengua, unsurprisingly, is a taco de cabeza, as it comes from the head.

Flautas fall into the definition of “tacos dorados” or “golden tacos,” which are named because of their color after frying.

The cylindrical form of this style of taco also provides insight into the origin of the flauta nomenclature — this snack’s shape resembles that of a flute.

smothering of tangy but not tongueburning green chile only enhanced Jon’s enjoyment of this stuffed wonder.

My smorgasbord of $1.20 tacos, simply garnished with the traditional cilantro and diced onion, were the stars of the evening. The barbacoa was equally enjoyable in taco form, and the chicharron, or pork rind, was luxuriously decadent, although its fatty qualities probably took a year or two off my life.

Lengua, or tongue, was simply the best I’ve ever had. Most versions are too salty, diluting the complex taste of fat and hearty meatiness. This interpretation was perfectly seasoned and a textural triumph, evidenced by a velvety soft consistency.

Simply put, if you’re at all serious about authentic Mexican fare, El Taco Feliz is a can’t-miss destination.

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Easter brunch at the Boulderado The Hotel Boulderado will host an Easter brunch buffet on Sunday, April 4, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Boulderado Ballroom.

The buffet menu includes roasted leg of lamb with Dijon demi-glace and mint jelly, honey-orange-glazed ham with pineapple and brown sugar, chicken roulade with grilled asparagus and orzo pasta salad, seared salmon, vegetarian Meditteranean crepes, assorted breakfast pastries, omelets, bacon and many more brunch offerings.

The cost is $35.95 for adults and $17.95 for children 6-12. Children five and under eat free.

Pappy Van Winkle party The West End Tavern will host a release party for its Pappy Van Winkle 17-year Bourbon on Monday, April 5, from 6 p.m. to close. In October 2009, the bourbon was hand-selected by Julian Van Winkle, Pappy’s grandson, especially for West End to try. The Van Winkle family, which owns the Old Rip Van Winkle distillery in Kentucky, has been involved in the bourbon industry for four generations. Pappy was at the forefront of the business, having started a distillery in the late 1800s. West End Tavern’s release party will feature the whiskey dedicated to Pappy, which has been aged for 17 years in Kentucky and is described as having a “rich depth and bold character,” with a mouthfeel that is “creamy, sweet and soft.” Along with the reg-

ular bar menu, a “Pappy Platter” will be available, featuring a fried chicken and waffle slider, a brisket slider, deviled eggs and fried pickles. For more information, visit www. thewestendtavern.com.

Local mixologist helps win gold After five days of competitions and cocktail challenges at the 42Below Cocktail World Cup in New Zealand, The Bitter Bar’s Mark Stoddard and Team USA took home the gold medal. The final event, called “Signature Cocktail,” contributed 80 percent of the total marks at the competition, and each team was allotted 10 minutes to prepare backstage and seven minutes to perform their routine.

Stoddard worked with Todd Thrasher of Washington, D.C., and Sean Hoard of New York to win the competition. Stoddard helped open Happy Noodle House and its latenight alter ego, The Bitter Bar, in 2009. He has successfully competed in numerous cocktail competitions.

Farmers’ Market opens Saturday The Boulder Farmers’ Market begins at 8 a.m. this Saturday, April 3. The market will run on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. until Nov. 6, and on Wednesdays from 4 to 8 p.m. from May 5 to October 6. More than 50 local growers and producers will sell their seasonal goods, and many companies offer prepared foods as well. For more information or to view a crop calendar, visit www.boulderfarmers.org.

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Juice of 1 lemon, freshly squeezed 1/4 teaspoon coarse or kosher salt 1/8 teaspoon red pepper flakes Freshly ground black pepper to taste Trim off the bottoms of the kale stems and discard. Pile up the kale leaves and slice them into ribbons about 1/2 to 3/4 inches wide. You should have about 5 or 6 cups kale.

Place the kale in a large serving bowl and set aside.

Toast the bread lightly, then pulse in a food processor or rub on the large holes of a cheese grater to make coarse crumbs. If using fresh bread crumbs, spread out on a pan and toast lightly.

Set aside.

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Pound the garlic clove into paste in a mortar with a pestle or with the back of a large knife. Place the garlic in a small bowl. (If you’re using a mortar, you can just make the dressing there.)

Add 1/4 cup cheese, 3 tablespoons oil, lemon juice, salt, pepper flakes and pepper and whisk to combine.

Pour over the kale and use tongs to toss well to thoroughly combine. Let stand at least 5 minutes and up to 15 or 20 minutes.

Add bread crumbs, remaining 2 tablespoons cheese and a small drizzle of oil and toss again before serving.

Yield: About 4 servings. (c) 2010, The Charlotte Observer (Charlotte, N.C.).

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Dessert Diva A local chef shares her sweet secrets

by Danette Randall

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h Spring, you are such a tease. Warm one day, snowing the next.

Almost as bad as those pesky hollow bunnies this time of year. You know that feeling: you get your taste buds prepared for a delicious mouth full of chocolate, only to have your teeth clamp together in pain and bits of chocolate buny crumble all over your favorite shirt. I might spearhead a movement. No more hollow bunnies. It’s Boulder; I’m sure I could find a few people to protest in front of the dollar store with me.

Well, I have a dessert that won’t be toying with your emotions or taste buds. Lemon Coconut Easter Basket Cake. Now, if you aren’t one to celebrate the Easter bunny phenomenon, then by all means this is just a Lemon Coconut Bundt Cake. And please, for the love of everything sweet, don’t pronounce the “d.” It is “bunt.” Why I feel the need to point that out is really beyond me. I’m a non-hollow-bunny, no-“d”-in-bundt-cake protesting diva.

Good thing I’m worried about the important things.

OK, this cake is really good. And the way we glaze and decorate it to resemble a basket is too cute. You place it on a platter right side up, just the way it bakes.

Cover with some tinted coconut to look like Easter grass, add a few touches here and there, and boom! Oh, it’s revolutionary, I know, really groundbreaking. I must admit, it is pretty darn cute.

Simple and delicious, and that, to me, is key for so many holiday treats.

And what’s even better is there are no hollow bunnies or Peeps involved. And haven’t Peeps really lost their swagger as of late anyway? Now that they are everywhere for every stinking holiday, the little chicks and bunnies aren’t so special anymore. Maybe they should stick a Peep inside a hollow bunny.

Now that would be a treat and an Easter Miracle.

But for now, the only Easter treat (or delicious bundt cake, if you prefer) you need, is this little recipe. I’m hitting the bunny trail like Peter Cottontail.

“Hoppy Baking” to you.

Now follow the directions, put some love into it and invite me over when it’s done.

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3/4 cup granulated sugar 4 eggs zest of 1 lemon 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cups flour 1 1/2 tsp. baking powder pinch of salt 1/4 cup lemon juice 3/4 cup shredded coconut 1 cup powdered sugar 2-3 tbsp. lemon juice 1/2 tsp. water few drops of green food coloring (any color you want, but this is for the Easter grass) 1 cup shredded coconut Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Grease an 8- or 10-inch bundt pan.

Cream together butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time until well incorporated. Add in zest and vanilla.

In small bowl, combine flour, baking powder and salt. Beat slowly into wet ingredients. Mix in lemon juice and fold in coconut. Pour batter into prepared bundt pan. Bake for 35 minutes or until toothpick inserted in middle comes out clean. Take out and let cool completely.

Flip cake over onto plate and then flip back right side up onto your serving platter (you want cake to be sitting on platter the same way it was in the pan). Mix powdered sugar and lemon juice to make glaze. You might need to add more or less lemon juice to get to consistency you prefer. Pour over top of cake, letting glaze drip down sides. Let glaze set.

To make Easter grass: Mix water and food coloring in small cup. Adjust color to your liking. Pour over coconut that has been placed in a plastic sandwich bag. Secure top and shake until coconut turns green. You may want more grass; just repeat the process.

Fill up hole in cake with candy, coconut, plastic eggs or such. Spread the green tinted coconut over top of cake, making sure not to get close to edges. You want it to look like grass in a basket. Arrange your favorite Easter candy over top of “grass.” Enjoy!

Note: Use your imagination with the candy and the coconut grass. You can fill up the hole in the middle of the cake with something special that falls out when you cut your cake. I use the robin’s eggs Whopper candy. You can fill up the hole with them and place them on top of grass.

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Spring Cleanse & Detoxification Program This program will guide participants through an 18-day gentle dietary liver cleanse. It will present the physiology of detoxification, and a step-bystep dietary plan that incorporates foods, herbs, supplements, and flower essences. Individual attention and group support will provide a container of wisdom, love and patience to foster a revitalizing detoxification process. Cleanse includes yoga, instruction, meals, cookbook, cleanse guide, and individual energy balancing sessions.

Seven Bowls Retreat Center, Lyons, CO Thursdays evenings | April 15-May 6, 2010 720-771-5737 | Nourishingec@yahoo.com | Sevenbowls.com Esther’s seasonal cleanses have changed my life. The meals are wonderful and you never feel deprived.

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It’s amazing to eat more than we usually do and still lose weight. ~Sharon K. Esther Cohen, M.S., R.D., C.B.P, I.C.N.T. has been in private practice for 25 years and is the founder and director of the Nourishment Education Foundation, and the Seven Bowls School of Nutrition, Nourishment and Healing. Her educational background includes a Masters in Science and Human Nutrition, and certifications in Functional Medicine, Intuitive Counseling, Sports Nutrition, Five Element Theory, Touch for Health, the Psychology of Symptoms, BodyTalk and Matrix Energentics. She is a Registered Dietician, Integrative Nutrition Therapist, Cookbook Author, and Professional Chef. Esther has taught extensively at numerous colleges and universities including Naropa University, University of Colorado, and South West Acupuncture College.

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pending $35 on the Chop House’s lobster tail dinner may be an irresponsible extravagance in these economic times.

However, even the cash-strapped can find luxurious indulgences at bargain prices off this restaurant’s happy hour bar menu.

From 4 to 6 p.m., all tavern menu items are half off, which means one can enjoy a prime rib or steak dinner for under 10 bucks. Starters such as cornmeal-encrusted calamari and warm kettle chips are also available for less than three dollars a helping. With the money you save, you can splurge on a full-priced dessert, such as the scrumptious bread pudding.

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roasted form. For a dollar more, one can add calamari, shrimp, or both. Select a broth according to spice level, and the addition of fresh vegetables and rice noodles makes for a fine entrée soup.

Thunderbird Burgers & BBQ 3117 28th St. Boulder 303-449-2229

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hunderbird Burgers & BBQ offers a surprisingly varied menu, with reasonably priced items such as a $4.99 hamburger. That’s not bad, considering that Thunderbird’s beef is of the fresh, never frozen variety. The priciest burger is the $12.99 “4x4,” which features four onethird-pound patties accompanied by four cheese slices. Healthier options include chicken sandwiches, veggie burgers and salads for all appetites. The barbecue menu offers ribs, chicken, brisket, pork shoulder and hot links.

The Boulder Draft House 2027 13th St. Boulder 303-440-5858

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ccupying the former Redfish location, Boulder’s Draft House lives up to its name, as it features numerous craft beers from the Colorado Brewing Company. This cavernous but inviting space also serves enticing food specials, such as Monday’s $7 burger-and-a-beer deal, and Happy Hour runs all day Tuesday. This eatery also goes beyond the predictable wings and nachos by offering options like a lobster mac and cheese and fried artichoke heart po’ boy sandwiches.

Elephant Hut 2500 30th St. #101 Boulder 303-284-0308

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lephant Hut is a swank Thai eatery, serving the obligatory staples of this Southeast Asian cuisine, such as curries, entrée salads freighted with fresh papaya, noodle plates and spicy, citrusy soups. While some dishes, such as the pad see ew, wide rice noodles stir-fried in soy sauce, are traditionally served with meat, vegan and vegetarian versions of most selections are available. One noteworthy choice is the duck noodle soup, which comes with a full-bodied broth, expertly cooked noodles and flavorful morsels of waterfowl.

Beau Jo’s Pizza 2690 Baseline Rd. Boulder 303-554-5312

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n $8.49 pizza and salad bar buffet is a darn near unbeatable bargain, as long as you’re not expecting a display of culinary trendiness. What you will get is a smorgasbord consisting of a soup of the day, an oldschool salad bar replete with Kraft dressings and potato salad, and an impressive array of Beau Jo’s pizza pies. On a recent visit, a meatless pepper and cheese number was a creamy-yet-spicy winner, and the peach dessert pizza was a cut above Beau Jo’s signature finish: dousing leftover crusts in honey.

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he breakfast menu here presents the proverbial something for everyone, including omelets and waffles, as well as biscuits and gravy, French toast and a Rocky Mountain-influenced trout and eggs. The breakfast burrito with chicken is particularly remarkable, loaded up with poultry, eggs and potatoes, and a zingy-but-not-pyrotechnic green chile sauce. A perfect venue for families, Le Peep presents everything from a sizable kids menu to espresso drinks.

Snarf’s 2128 Pearl St. Boulder 303-444-7766

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he offerings at Snarf ’s, which is indisputably a Boulder institution, are classic sandwiches, with the addition of entrée salads, such as the venerable Cobb; soups; and a multitude of specialty sandwich offerings. The latter includes the prime rib and provolone, rotisserie chicken and, for the vegetarian, a portobello and provolone combo. Standouts include the tangy eggplant parmesan and a winning French dip.

Spice China 269 McCaslin Blvd.

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hile the contemporary ambience and Guernica-sized mural of Chinese village

life suggest the potential for high prices, meals here are reasonable. Most lunches are priced well under $10, and there’s plenty to choose from off the predominantly ChineseAmerican menu. There are old chestnuts like broccoli beef and a winning chow fun, as well as more traditional tripe dishes, Shanghai-style cold plates and whole steamed fish.

ith its Roman Holiday décor, Antica Roma offers up a mix of panini, pizzas, pastas and entrées, ranging from an ambitious smoked salmon pizza to a more traditional chicken marsala. One standout is the rotolo di pasta, a sheet of pasta spiraling around a filling of ricotta and spinach and sliced to resemble a savory jelly roll. Another highlight is the fritto misto.

Tibet Kitchen 2539 Arapahoe Rd. Boulder, 303-440-0882

The Greenbriar Inn 8735 N. Foothills Hwy. Boulder, 303-440-7979

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Highway 36 landmark, the Greenbriar Inn is held in high regard for its luxurious Sunday brunch. A traditional feast in a welcoming — if not clubby — atmosphere, this brunch features such old standbys as carvedto-order prime rib and omelets prepared to your specifications. Other offerings include oysters on the half shell and an endearingly eggy French toast. As for desserts, the bitesized flans and hearty bread pudding are can’t-miss items. This restaurant is a Boulder classic!

Suki Thai Noodle House 675 30th St. Boulder, 303-444-1196

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uki Thai Noodle House carries on the proud Asian tradition of serving noodle soup as a satisfying and economical onedish meal. Their noodle bowls come with steak, chicken, tofu or pork, either in the form of meatballs or in honey-glazed red

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ffering light and healthy Asian, Tibet Kitchen also serves choices seldom seen in other restaurants. It offers cookedto-order momo, or Tibetan dumplings, with fillings of beef, vegetable and chicken. An array of vegetarian choices includes bean curd with baby bok choy, and a hearty dish of sliced potatoes with spinach and red bell pepper. There are also handmade pastas in a choice of broths.

The Huckleberry 700 Main St., Louisville, 303-666-8020

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hile it serves all three meals plus afternoon tea, Louisville’s Huckleberry is perhaps best known for its breakfast and brunch offerings, including pancakes, breakfast burritos and egg dishes. Southern standbys like chicken-fried steak and biscuits and gravy have also contributed to this eatery’s reputation. Also check out the baked goods. While wait times may be long, it lives up to its reputation as a great place for breakfast and brunch.

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Given the influence of the Dead on today’s music scene, Peter’s book illuminates some of the most fascinating and successful aspects of the Dead’s career. The Dead’s fan culture provides an interesting story, and Peter will be reading excerpts from the book, and sitting in with the band as he is a long time collaborator with individual members of 18 Switchbacks

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Keeping up with the Joneses

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he sky is the kind of perfect only find in

Saturday, April 3 Boulder Cycling Club Saturday Morning Road Bike Ride. 10:30 a.m.

Bicycle Village, 2100 28th St., # B-C, Boulder, 303-875-2241.

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clouds, no wind, no nothing.

Only the faint trickle of water from a frozen creek as

Sunday, April 4 Boulder Road Runners Sunday Group Run. 9 a.m. Meet at First National Bank, 3033 Iris Ave., Boulder, www.boulderroadrunners.org.

the sun spills its warmth down on the planet. Then the cat rumbles to life as we climb aboard, the snow scrunching under our ski boots. The sound of the cat shatters the silence, shatters the early morning calm

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Powder Addiction’s spring cat skiing special costs $200/per person, per day or $2,000 for a private cat. Skiers will average 6 to 9 runs a day at elevations ranging from 10,500 to 12,500 feet. Tours include lunch and aprés ski beers. Call 970-726-5442, or go to powderaddiction.com

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and adds to the healthy dose of adrenaline that is already pumping through our veins.

While we’ve been up since 6 a.m., we don’t need any coffee. The cat is enough.

Jones Pass sits on the eastern side of Berthoud Pass.

While less than 1.5 hours from Boulder, the area feels remote, far from the hoards that ply Interstate 70 en route to lift-served skiing and the crowded party ski scene of resorts like Copper Mountain and Vail. But the sense of solitude is deceiving. Snowmobilers and backcountry skiers ply their trades here on weekends, when Jones Pass becomes a home away from home for those in on the secret. The Henderson Boulder Weekly

Thursday, April 1 Snow, Bike and Penguins of Antarctica and Patagonia’s Peaks — presented by Stan Havlick. 8 p.m.

Neptune Mountaineering, 633 S. Broadway, Ste. A, Boulder, 303-499-8866.

U.S. Forest Service Wilderness Volunteer Program — Summer service with Indian Peaks Wilderness Alliance. For more information, visit IndianPeaksWilderness.org. Applications due May 1.

Friday, April 2 Thru-Hiking the Colorado Trail — With Alan Carpenter. 7 p.m. REI Store, 1789 28th St, 303-583-9970.

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molybdenum mine is also located here. With one of the largest molybdenum ore deposits in North America, the mine has produced more than 770 million pounds of ore since starting operations in 1976. Then there’s Powder Addiction cat skiing, the fledging guide company and the newest addition to the Jones Pass landscape. Powder Addiction has been feeding skiers and snowboarders a diet of fresh snow and great riding since starting operations in last winter and is quickly becoming an not-so secret secret as word-of-mouth advertising spreads the message about the epic terrain and great snow that the operation accesses.

We hit Powder Addiction on a quiet weekday, sharing the parking lot with fellow cat skiers, a couple of Nordic skiers and a guy with a snowmobile. The operation is headed up by Jamie Wolter, a ripping Telemark skier with a big smile who seems pretty satisfied with the line of work he’s found himself in. No stranger to Jones Pass, Wolter used to oversee avalanche control work and snow safety at the now defunct Berthoud Pass ski area nearby and is currently employed in a comparable position at Winter Park ski area. The years of knowledge he brings to the table at Jones Pass are comforting, as the cat operation doesn’t use explosives to run avalanche control on the terrain they take clients to.

We got a taste of this terrain on our first run, when the cat topped out as the highest zone the operation services.

The area, perched against the Continental Divide, was open and steep, perfect for skiing and also perfect for avalanches.

But with Wolter giving us the OK, it wasn’t long before we dropped in, creamy windbuff on the ridge quickly giving way to silky turns in the gut of the chute.

It’s this terrain that sets Powder Addiction apart from the competition. Serving 2,600 acres, the operation features some of the most expansive cat skiing in the state. And there’s little doubt that not only are Powder Addiction’s runs some of the

Monday, April 5 Ladies Bike Mechanics 101. 5:306:30 a.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Ste. 1000, Boulder, 720565-6019.

Tuesday, April 6 Travel Tips and Packing Light Clinic. 7 p.m. Free Traveler’s Tuesday program.

Changes in Latitude Travel Store, 2525 Arapahoe Rd., Boulder, 303-786-8406.

Tuesday Hiking. 9 a.m. North Boulder Park, 7th and Bellwood streets, Boulder, 303-494-9735.

Youth “Earn-a-Bike” Program.

5:30-7:30 p.m. Community Cycles, 2805 Wilderness Pl., Boulder, 720565-6019.

Wednesday, April 7 Pearl Street Runners. Meet at 6:15 p.m. for 5k run. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder. www.pearlstreetrunners.com.

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longest, but they’re also some of the steepest, too.

“We don’t really worry about spooning tracks or keeping people in a small zone to preserve the snow for clients coming later in the week,” says Wolter.

“There’s so much up here that we never track it all out. We have maximum of 12 clients per day, so there’s always plenty of snow to go around. Even the guides still haven’t skied some of the runs we can access.”

Wolter’s causal approach to “snow conservation” was underlined on our next lap, where we attacked a craggy ridge with several small rocky chutes.

The jagged chutes held six inches of untouched powder in their embrace. It was so good that when we suggested to Wolter that perhaps we should sample the zone again, he quickly agreed. Not only did we go back up, but we kept doing so until every line was fully skied out, and our grins were nearly as big as Wolter’s.

Not all of the terrain here is for experts, though. With a variety of open bowls, gladed tree runs and open meadows, the operation is ideal for neophytes who haven’t had the opportunity to test themselves in Colorado’s backcountry, are trying to get their powder legs under them or who are just becoming familiar with steeper terrain.

“We have something for everyone,” says Wolter, gesturing to an expanse of wide open white spaces. “And if people get bored of this, we can hike out those ridges for even more terrain.”

While we did end up hiking a bit, most groups will merely jump out of the cat, jump into their skis or snowboard and point ’em down.

And that’s just what we did on our next run, with the cat taking us to a point high on a ridge, where we could easily see the results of years of mining over at Henderson. While environmentalists will cringe at the site of the mine’s “glory hole,” the massive crater where ore has been mined is a living testament to Jones Pass’ extensive mining history. Before skiers and snowmobilers invaded this area, Jones Pass was home to gold and silver mining. In fact, 50 April 1, 2010

the current molybdenum operation is merely the continuation of decades of mining here.

That history is on display at nearby Empire. The town was founded in the late 1800s during Colorado’s silver and gold boom and is home to several historic structures, including the Peck House, one of the oldest hotels in the state. The establishment has hosted many luminaries, including P.T. Barnum, General Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant. It’s still possible to book a room here and enjoy an ambiance that captures the opulence and optimism of the late 1800s. Empire’s Peck House is joined by the original Hard Rock Cafe.

Built in 1932, the cafe — which has no relation to the modern establishment of the same name — catered to the hard rock miners who worked in the area.

Empire and the Jones Pass area are still home to numerous mining claims, although you won’t see any silver or gold mining on your cat excursion, despite the current investment craze for gold. Most of the ore was played out years ago, and things have also gotten quieter over at the Henderson Mine in the wake of lower commodity prices and slagging demand for molybdenum.

Despite the area’s rich history, no one really knows who Mr. Jones was or why the pass was named after him.

Even Wolter is stumped.

“I don’t really know why it’s called Jones Pass,” he admits between runs.

“I’m not sure.”

But if ignorance is bliss, then the last lap, off a high shoulder right at treeline, proved that you don’t have to be a student of mining, snow or even history to appreciate the modern riches that the area offers. The line was a massive avalanche chute that tumbled into powdery oblivion. We stopped at the top to take it all in: the huge crater of the Henderson mine, the innumerable peaks on the horizon, the Continental Divide and the sunburned smiles on the faces of our friends and the guides. It had been a good day, no, a great day.

And, with one more untouched shot plunging below us, it wasn’t over yet.

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Training in 3-D

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ow to Train Your Dragon, the latest film from Dreamworks Animation, tells the story of Hiccup ( Jay Baruchel), a young Viking and the only son of village chief, blacksmith and single dad Stoick The Vast (Gerard Butler).

Hiccup is attracted to Astrid (America Ferrera), a tough Viking girl who, unfortunately for the gentle Hiccup, is only interested in boys who want to kill dragons. The story begins in earnest when Hiccup is thrown into dragon training class with Astrid and other town children, while he is secretly befriending an injured dragon he names “Toothless.”

The animation style was delightfully whimsical, and many of the dragons were almost elementary school-style drawings with teeth impossibly big and curved. Still, when they spit fire and attack the village, it’s frightening and certainly might be a bit intense for the youngest of filmgoers.

I also really enjoyed the character names in the story: Just about every character in How to Train Your Dragon has an amusing name. Here are some of the best: Snotlout ( Jonah Hill), Phlegma the Fierce (Ashley Jensen), the twins Tuffnut (T.J. Miller) and Ruffnut (Kristen Wiig) and Spitelout (David Tennant).

Unlike films that retrofit the 3-D technology onto an already complete film (Alice in Wonderland), How to Train Your Dragon is rendered in 3-D from the first

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hloe is a conundrum.

Envisioned as a psychosexual thriller about a woman scorned, director Atom Egoyan’s latest puzzle is instead little more than a messy affair with mood lighting, sexy lingerie, heavy breathing and swelling, um, music.

Everyone here is dripping with money, lust and anxiety, all to bad effect. Julianne Moore is Catherine, a successful OB-GYN who suspects husband David (Liam Neeson), a college music professor, of something more than a pedagogical interest in one of his students.

The couple have a modern two-city marriage, a modern house of the sort that graces the pages of Architectural Digest and, despite the relative intelligence of everyone involved, a thoroughly mid-century (not modern) way of dealing with their issues. They don’t talk.

So, rather than have a conversation about her suspicions, or therapy, or get drunk with friends, Catherine hires a high-end hooker named Chloe (Amanda Seyfried) and sets out to trap her cheating spouse — if he is cheating.

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frame, and it shows. There’s more depth to the visuals and they’re rendered as three-dimensional objects rather than multiple 2-D layers. The exterior shots and the scenes where Hiccup and Toothless are flying high above the village, swooping through precarious terrain, are terrific.

However, there was a problem with the 3-D: In many scenes, there was a visible motion blur. In one scene the camera pans down the mountainside to show you the boats preparing to depart from the dock, and it’s not until it “stops” panning that the objects in the scene gain clarity. Once I noticed that effect, I saw it occur again and again as the scenery raced by in 3-D. Perhaps it’s a limitation of how our brains can process the forced dimensionality, but it marred an otherwise fine use of 3-D technology.

I was also startled at how much Toothless looked like Stitch from the 2002 Disney animated feature Lilo and Stitch. One’s a dragon and the other is an

Chloe falls flat

By Betsy Sharkey

that someone will get hurt, and Chloe leaves all manner of collateral damage lying around.

Egoyan and screenwriter Erin Cressida Wilson are using an unconventional premise to examine the nature of betrayal and the power of the imagination to fill in the blanks, a deep well the filmmaker has dipped into many times. The specific template has been given them by the 2003 French film Nathalie, with writer/director Anne Fontaine having a hand in

alien refugee, but the scenes where Toothless tries to smile or eats fish make him look a lot like Stitch. There’s another “inspiration” that seems to have impacted the Dreamworks Animation team: Avatar. The exterior mountaintops, constantly wreathed in clouds, are often remarkably similar to the planet Pandora in the James Cameron blockbuster.

Oh, and one more parallel: E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. What most stands out in my mind about E.T. was how it simplistically made all adults bad and untrustworthy and all kids good and able to really band together and save the day. In a similar way, How to Train Your Dragon has a strong subtext of adults ignoring children and being stupid and violent while children are valiantly working together to achieve harmony.

I enjoyed How to Train Your Dragon. The visuals were impressive, the story was predictable but lively and interesting, and the voice characterizations were amusing. It’s not a great children’s movie but would be a pleasant 98-minute diversion, particularly with its generally splendid 3-D imagery.

Dave Taylor has been watching movies for as long as he can remember and sees at least 500 films a year. You can find his longer, more detailed reviews at www.

DaveOnFilm.com or follow his movie updates on Twitter at @FilmBuzz.

adapting Chloe.

The issues about the sexual balance of power in relationships quickly lose steam, particularly when Chloe makes her reconnaissance reports sound like expensive phone sex and Catherine starts developing new obsessions as she gets pulled deeper into the mire.

Egoyan has always been good with actors, and Moore and Neeson are skilled at making trouble interesting to watch, if not as compelling as it should be. Seyfried, with that Rapunzel hair ever coming loose from its filigreed comb, certainly looks the seductress on the exceedingly lush canvas created by the filmmaker. Desire hangs like a heavy perfume in her crushed velvet world.

At times, the texture of the film is so seductive it is almost enough to forgive the flaws. Though the filmmaker has struggled in recent years (Adoration, Where the Truth Lies), when Egoyan is on point, as he was in his 1997 breakthrough The Sweet Hereafter, he turns hope, love and tragedy into something rare and too easily shattered.

In Chloe, it’s hard to care if anything breaks.

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reel to reel

For a list of local movie times visit boulderweekly.com ing key parts of the story. Nonetheless, it’s impossible not to be moved by the almost eerie film footage of the walls of the Barnes’ original home with the art removed, revealing bare hooks and patches of unfaded paint: ghosts, doomed to wander. Not rated. At Mayan. — Moira MacDonald

Aguirre: the Wrath of God A few decades after the destruction of the Inca empire, a Spanish expedition leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon river in search of gold and wealth. Soon, they come across great difficulties, and Don Aguirres, a ruthless man who cares only about riches, becomes their leader. But will his quest lead them to “the golden city,” or to certain destruction? At International Film Series. — IFS

The Blind Side

Based on a book by Michael Lewis, this film fumbles a true story of an African-American product of the Memphis projects who ended up at a Christian school and in the care of a wealthy white family, then went on to NFL glory. The star is Sandra Bullock, whose character is conceived as a steel magnolia with a will of iron. Michael Oher (Quinton Aaron), now a tackle for the Baltimore Ravens, has been sidelined in his own story. At its queasiest The Blind Side veers perilously close to the concept of poverty tourism. PG-13 (one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references).

At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

Ajami Co-directed by an Israeli Arab and an Israeli Jew, this potent, whirling film, set in Jaffa’s tense and sprawling multiethnic community, depicts a melting pot about to boil over. A 2010 foreign-language best picture Oscar nominee. Not rated (violence, profanity, drugs, adult themes). At Chez Artiste. — Steven Rea Alice in Wonderland Director Tim Burton’s new extravaganza, the second Disney-backed Alice and a bookend to the cheerily benign 1951 animated version, won’t be for everyone.

It’s a little rough for preteens, and it doesn’t throw many laughs the audience’s way, but along with Sweeney Todd, this is Burton’s most interesting project in a decade. Wonderfully well-chosen Australian actress Mia Wasikowska plays Alice, and Johnny Depp continues his fruitfully nervy collaboration with Burton by playing the Mad Hatter. PG (fantasy action/ violence involving scary images and situations, and a smoking caterpillar). At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips The Art of the Steal “If you’re going to leave your paintings somewhere,”

It’s no DeLorean...

John Cusack and company get sucked back to the 1980s, the heyday of their youth, in Hot Tub Time Machine.

warns an art expert in Don Argott’s passionate documentary The Art of the Steal, “don’t let there be a politician within 500 yards.” Argott’s elegantly shot film explores the fate of the art owned by Philadelphia’s Barnes Foundation, a remarkable private collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early Modern paintings, including 181 works by Renoir, 59 by Matisse and more Cezannes (69) than in the entire city of Paris. The Art of the Steal makes its point of view clear from the beginning: Argott ((Rock School))

sees the fate of the Barnes as a tragedy and a travesty. Pacing the movie like a crime thriller, he introduces us to many witnesses of the Barnes’ recent history, most of whom would agree with the characterization that this is “the greatest act of artistic vandalism since World War II.” You feel and appreciate the filmmaker’s conviction, even if the film ultimately feels incomplete: Without most of the voices on the other side of the argument (several key players, we’re told, declined to be interviewed for the film), we’re miss-

The Breakfast Club One of the finest John Hughes/Brat Pack features, The Breakfast Club is the unlikely gathering of the mascots of a high school’s most polarizing cliques: the princess, the jock, the nerd, the weirdo and the burnout (played by Judd Nelson, who looks like he’s 30 in this film). With Molly Ringwald and Emilio Estevez.

Rated R. At Esquire.

The Bounty Hunter Three films into his romantic comedy career, Gerard Butler has finally reached “watchable.” With The Bounty

local theaters AMC Flatiron Crossing, 61 W. Flatiron Cir., Broomfield, 303790-4262 Alice in Wonderland FriWed: 1:40, 4:35, 5:45, 7:40, 10:15 The Blind Side Thu-Wed: 1:35, 4:20, 7:15 The Bounty Hunter Fri-Wed: 10:50, 1:25, 4:05, 7:05, 9:45 Clash of the Titans Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:20, 4:10, 5:10, 7:05, 7:55, 9:40, 10:25 Diary of a Wimpy Kid FriWed: 12:40, 2:55, 5:05, 7:20, 9:35 Hot Tub Time Machine FriWed: 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 How to Train Your Dragon Fri-Sun: 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:25, 7, 8 The Last Song Fri-Wed: 1:50, 5, 7:30, 10:05 Percy Jackson & the Olympians:The Lightning Thief Fri-Mon: 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10 She’s Out of My League FriWed: 12:35, 3:05, 5:35, 8:05, 10:30 Shutter Island Fri-Wed: 1:20, 4:25, 7:25 Boulder Public Library Film Program, Boulder Public

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Library, 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, 303-441-3197 La Roue Mon: 7 p.m.

Century Boulder, 1700 29th St., Boulder, 303-442-1815 Alice in Wonderland FriWed: 11:0512:25, 1:45, 3:05, 4:25, 5:45, 8:25 The Bounty Hunter Fri-Wed: 10:55, 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 Chloe Fri-Wed: 2:20, 8:05 Clash of the Titans Fri-Wed: 11, 11:45, 12:40, 1:35, 2:30, 3:25, 4:20, 5:15, 6:10, 7:05, 8, 8:55, 9:50, 10:45 Crazy Heart Fri-Wed: 11:25, 2:10, 4:55, 7:40 Diary of a Wimpy Kid FriWed: 11:25, 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10 The Ghost Writer Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:35, 10:35 Green Zone Fri-Wed: 11:15, 2:15, 5:05, 7:45, 10:30 Greenberg Fri-Wed: 7:10, 9:45 Hot Tub Time Machine FriWed: 11:55, 2:25, 5, 7:30, 10:15 How to Train Your Dragon Fri-Wed: 11:30, 12:45, 2:05, 3:15, 4:30, 5:50, 7, 8:15, 9:30 The Last Song Fri-Wed: 11:20, 2, 4:40, 7:20, 10 A Prophet Fri-Wed: 12:20, 3:55, 7:15, 10:35 Shutter Island Fri-Wed: 11:10, 4:50, 10:40

Colony Square, 1164 Dillon Rd., Louisville, 303-604-2641 Alice in Wonderland FriWed: 1:30, 4:50, 7:50 Clash of the Titans Thu: 12:40, 1:50, 3:30, 5:10, 6:20, 8:10 Crazy Heart Fri-Sat: 1:20, 3:50, 6:40 Diary of a Wimpy Kid FriWed: 2:10, 4:30, 7:20 Green Zone Fri-Wed: 1:10, 4:10, 7:30 The Ghost Writer Fri-Wed: 1, 4, 7 The Hurt Locker Fri-Wed: 3:20, 6:50 Hot Tub Time Machine FriWed: 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 How to Train Your Dragon Fri-Wed: 12:50, 2:20, 3:40, 5, 6:30, 8 International Film Series, Muenzinger Auditorium, CU campus, 303-492-1531 Aguirre: the Wrath of God Sun: 4 p.m.

Cloverfield Wed: 8 p.m.

The Girl with the Dragon Home Sat: 7:00, 9:00 Tattoo Thu-Fri: 7 p.m.

Landmark Chez Artiste, 2800 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, 303-352-1992 Ajami Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:40 A Prophet Thu-Wed: 4:30, 8 Fri-Mon: 1:15 The Young Victoria Thu-Wed: 4, 7:15, 9:40 Landmark Esquire, 590 Downing St., Denver, 303-3521992 The Breakfast Club Fri: 11:59 p.m.

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Fri-Wed: 4:30, 8 Greenberg Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:30 Landmark Mayan, 110 Broadway, Denver, 303-352-1992 The Art of the Steal Thu: 6:40 p.m.

Crazy Heart Fri-Wed: 4 p.m.

Chloe Fri-Wed: 4:30, 7:15, 10 The Ghost Writer Fri-Wed: 6:45, 9:30 Vincere Fri-Wed: 4:15, 7, 9:45 Starz Film Center, 900 Auraria Pkwy., Denver, 303-8203456 The Hurt Locker Fri-Wed: 4:45, 7:45 Sat-Sun: 2, 4:45, 7:45 Prodigal Sons Fri-Wed: 5, 7:15

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Hunter, the bemused Scots leading man comes closer to setting off sparks with his newest leading lady, Jennifer Aniston. Butler plays Milo Boyd, a bounty hunter, tracking down crooks who skip out on bail, handcuffing them even if he has to chase them, on stilts, through the middle of a July 4th parade. When Nicole (Aniston) misses a court date and her bail bondsman is out $50,000, Milo takes the gig. Aniston doesn’t bring her old A-game to this. But at least she’s not quiet and no-energy, her approach to too many roles of late.

Director Andy Tennant makes sure the whole shooting match devolves into a shooting match, which only makes one appreciate Butler’s romantic comedy efforts more. If he’s co-starring with Jen, at least he’s not making another “Gamer.” Rated PG-13. At Century, Twin Peaks and Flatiron. — Roger Moore.

directing effort from Noah Baumbach, is another droll, sensitive essay in dysfunction. It’s a movie that falls midway between his exquisite The Squid and the Whale and his woefully miscalculated Margot at the Wedding. Ben Stiller leaves his silly side behind for this sometimes funny character study. Stiller walks a fascinating tightrope with this guy, underpinning much of what happens between medications with a midlife crisis: a generational angst that allows Baumbach to pass judgment on “kids today” even as his anti-hero alter ego is no one who should be passing judgment on anyone. Rated R. At Century and Esquire. — Roger Moore.

Green Zone

Finally, a remake that makes sense. The exceedingly cheesy 1981 cult classic gets a big-budget remake (and a last-minute conversion to 3D), starring Sam Worthington (Avatar) as Perseus, a god raised as a mortal who helps Zeus (Liam Neeson) fight off a coup d’etat by the evil Hades (Ralph Fiennes). Rated PG-13. At Century, Flatiron, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Rene Rodriguez

Director Paul Greengrass delivers a skillfully made package, but this feels like a too-soon proposition.

Green Zone is partly real and partly outlandish in its wishful thinking. An Army officer hunting for WMDs in 2003, the fictional Miller (Matt Damon) knocks heads with everyone in Baghdad, from a neocon Pentagon huckster (Greg Kinnear) to a scary Special Forces op (Jason Isaacs). Everyone’s after one of Saddam’s top military figureheads (Khalid Abdalla), who has gone underground and who knows what Miller wants to learn. Rated R. At Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

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See full review on page 53. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century and Mayan. — Roger Moore.

Described by director Ursula Meier as “a road movie in reverse,” Home is an assured and unsettling comedy. Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) lead a happily isolated life with their kids on the edge of an abandoned highway. Relishing their distance from the rest of society, the clan stage makeshift hockey matches, sunbathe in deckchairs near the road, and hold au fresco picnics in their extended backyard. With two veterans from Michael Haneke’s squirm-o-ramas playing the parents, however, it’s only a matter of time for the secluded idyll to be disrupted, contaminated, and dismantled. When the highway is reopened, the onslaught of cars zipping noisily by their house suggests a swarm of giant insects invading a garden. The family fabric crumbles: Marthe can’t fall asleep anymore, teenage daughter Marion (Madeleine Budd) becomes obsessed with the toxins released by the machines, and young Julien (Kacey Mottet Klein) goes from seeing adventure in the changes to succumbing to apathy. Not rated. At Muenzinger. — IFS

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Crazy Heart There’s a powerful symmetry at work in Crazy Heart. It’s a parallel between protagonist Bad Blake, a country singer at a nadir of disintegration, and star Jeff Bridges, whose exceptional film choices have put him at the height of his powers in time to make Blake the capstone of his career. It’s a mark of how fine a performance Bridges gives that it succeeds beautifully even though the besotted, bedeviled country singer has been an overly familiar popular-culture staple for forever. Rated R (language and brief sexuality). At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Kenneth Turan Diary of a Wimpy Kid Why Diary of a Wimpy Kid? Because you’re never too old for a good booger joke. Jeff Kinney’s irreverent illustrated diary about one tween’s nightmare middle-school experience comes to the big screen with all its boogers, bullies, bad decisions and maybe a few more trips to the toilet than you’ll remember. Crass, gross and juvenile in all the best (and worst) ways, Diary is aimed squarely at a tween “don’t touch the cheese” demographic. And if you don’t get it, maybe you’re just too old for a good booger joke. Rated PG. At Century, Colony Square, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore.

The Ghost Writer Director Roman Polanski turns a conventional conspiracy thriller into a triumph of atmospheric menace. A hated politician (Pierce Brosnan, playing a variant on ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair) owes his publisher an autobiography. Enter the ghost writer (Ewan McGregor), who arrives on Martha’s Vineyard to research his subject. Some may perceive this as an anti-Bush polemic, but Polanski is less intrigued by specific topical reference points than by the cramped corridors of power and what misdeeds lie in the shadows.

Rated PG-13. At Century, Colony Square and Mayan. — Michael Phillips The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo A violent, exhilarating and faithful adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s international bestseller, with Swedish actress Noomi Rapace in the role of Lisbeth Salander, the punky, pierced, perturbed, cyber-hacking heroine.

Not rated. (violence, sexual violence, nudity, profanity, adult themes) At International Film Series and Esquire. — Steven Rea Greenberg Something went wrong once for Roger Greenberg.

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He’s a guy devoured by the terror of expectations. At 41, unlike his peers, he never learned to “embrace the life you never planned for.” Greenberg, the latest writing-

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Hot Tub Time Machine Hot Tub Time Machine’s title may say it all. But just in case it doesn’t, here’s an alternative: “Back to The Hangover.” A sloppy, raucous, time travel farce in the grown-men-gone-wild Hangover style, it’s a surprisingly satisfying, if not exactly “LMAO,” riot. There are some big laughs, a few great running gags and the Back to the Future sweet moments of reflection mostly work. It’s not The Hangover, but at least this Hot Tub won’t have you hating yourself in the morning. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Roger Moore.

beach town in Georgia to spend the summer with their father, Steve (Greg Kinnear). This is a summer of discovery — both good and bad. The role of Ronnie pushes Cyrus to play a defiant, distraught and distant teen. It’s a huge stretch for Cyrus, and at this point in her acting career, the role is just beyond her reach. Only Cyrus’ scenes with Kinnear have a spark of truth. Kinnear has a knack for playing characters with heavy hearts who are more complex than they seem (As Good As it Gets, Auto Focus, Flash of Genius).

That ability is what makes The Last Song more sentimental than melodramatic. The Last Song doesn’t hit any major sour notes. It’s just a familiar tune that could have used some better supporting voices for Kinnear. Rated PG. At Century, Flatiron and Twin Peaks. — Rick Bentley Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief The first installment in Rick Riordan’s five-book series suggests that this could be the start of something adequate. Its limitations are less a matter of scale than of imagination. It may be director Chris Columbus’ fate to initiate a fantasy franchise destined to be improved by his successors, as with the Harry Potter juggernaut. Now, Columbus has taken on this fantasy construct in which Greek gods threaten war in modern-day America over Zeus’ missing lightning bolt. PG (action violence and peril, some scary images and suggestive material, and mild language). At Flatiron. — Michael Phillips Prodigal Sons Prodigal Sons tells the story of three fascinating siblings: filmmaker Kim, a transgender woman; Todd, a gay man; and Marc, their adopted brother who discovers he’s the grandson of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth. The bond between longtime rivals Marc and Kim, which defies both Kim’s gender and Marc’s pedigree, exists as the fascinating heart of the film, and is orbited by a colorful, articulate cast of characters, including jailhouse chaplains, Montana farmers, intrigued high school classmates, and Orson Welles’ soul-mate Oja Kodar, among others. Directed by Kimberly Reed. Not rated. At Chez Artiste and Starz. — Landmark Theatres A Prophet The crime sagas that end up ensnaring the public imagination often do so by delivering their thrills with a crafty sort of hypocrisy, casting the hero in a mold unnerving enough to keep the viewer on edge, but heroic (or attractively anti-heroic) enough to develop a rooting interest. Such is the case with A Prophet, a violent and gripping French film trafficking in both gangster mythology and the prison picture. It comes from Jacques Audiard, who has won many awards in France and beyond for what Audiard himself has described as “an antiScarface.” Rated R. At Century and Chez Artiste. — Michael Phillips

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See full review on page 53. Rated PG. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks.

Jay Baruchel is the 21st-century Don Knotts, and even in a forgettable film like this one, his adenoidal, sidewinding line readings can make the stupidest material sound temporarily funny. Half of this film takes place in a Judd Apatow comedy, or tries to. The other half takes place in a drably photographed Pittsburgh, where Kirk (Baruchel) works as a Transportation Security Administration employee. An attractive babe (Alice Eve) coming off a bad relationship decides to give Kirk a try, much to the bewilderment of his goofball friends. Rated R. At Century and Flatiron. — Michael Phillips

The Hurt Locker Vivid, assured and extremely suspenseful, director Kathryn Bigelow’s latest (and strongest) film takes moviegoers by the collar and throws them headlong into one horrifying life-and-death situation after another. Jeremy Renner plays a soldier in Iraq running toward the explosives while everyone else is ducking and covering. He’s a bomb tech whose job entails disarming one Improvised Explosive Device after another, day after day. Time will tell if this politically neutral war movie is a classic, but it’s certainly a formidable experience. R (war violence and language). At Colony Square, Starz and Mayan.

— Michael Phillips The Last Song Any film based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks is going to be sentimental. It’s how the actors wade through the emotional bogs that make or break the film. Miley Cyrus throws off the blond wig of Hannah Montana to play rebellious teen Ronnie in the latest Sparksborn production, The Last Song. Ronnie does nothing to hide her contempt when she and her little brother (Bobby Coleman) are sent from New York City to a

Shutter Island A U.S. marshal (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his amiable new partner (Mark Ruffalo) hunt for an escaped patient at an insane asylum run by a shifty doctor (Ben Kingsley), whose island clinic may harbor sinister doings in the name of progressive health care. The esteemed Martin Scorsese directs this adaptation of a Dennis Lehane novel, but Scorsese overcooks the stew. Not even supporting players as deft as Patricia Clarkson, Jackie Earle Haley and Emily Mortimer can make this more than classy, well-acted junk. Rated R. At Flatiron, Century, Colony Square and Twin Peaks. — Michael Phillips

Street of Shame The film tells the stories of five Japanese prostitutes, and was made at the moment that the Japanese government was considering legislation to better the lives of such women. Mizoguchi is one of the greatest masters of filmmaking to date. We will be screening a 35mm print recently donated to UCD, and with the permission of Janus Films and The Criterion Collection. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Teen Witch

Louise (Robin Lively) was just another misfit teenager who pined for a handsome boy and a popular life — until a chance meeting with Madame Serena (Zelda Rubinstein, Poltergeist) reveals she is a direct descendant of Salem witches! Now, if she can figure out how to use her powers, she’ll trump all her old antagonists and become The Most Popular Girl. Dick Sargent (Bewitched), Joshua Miller, Marcia Wallace and Shelly Berman co-star. Written by Second City alumnus Robin Menken and cult auteur Vernon Zimmerman (Fade to Black); directed by Dorian Walker. At Starz. — Denver Film Society Tyler Perry’s Why Did I Get Married Too? The next chapter in the lives of eight college friends struggling with the challenges of marital life. With Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Sharon Leal, Malik Yoba, Richard T. Jones, Tasha Smith, Lamman Rucker, Michael J. White, Louis Gossett Jr., Cicely Tyson and Tyler Perry. Written and directed by Tyler. Rated PG-13. At Twin Peaks.

Vincere A cinematic tour de force, Vincere is Italian master Marco Bellocchio’s (Good Morning, Night, Fists in the Pocket) portrait of Benito Mussolini (Filippo Timi), and Ida Dalser (Giovanna Mezzogiorno), the fiery woman who was his secret wife and the mother of his abandoned child. The closely guarded story of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s secret lover and son is revealed in fittingly operatic proportions.

Thunderstruck by the young Mussolini’s charisma, Dalser gives up everything to help champion his revolutionary ideas. When he disappears during World War I and later resurfaces with a new wife, the scorned Dalser and her son are locked away in separate asylums for more than a decade. But Ida will not disappear without a fight. Not rated. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres West of Pluto A look at a day in the lives of 12 Quebec high schoolers captures the nature of their teenage years.

Written and directed by Henry Bernadet and Myriam Verreault. In French with English subtitles. Not rated.

At Starz. — LA Times When a Woman Ascends the Stairs When a Woman Ascends the Stairs might be Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s finest hour—a delicate, devastating study of a woman, Keiko (played heartbreakingly by Hideko Takamine), who works as a bar hostess in Tokyo’s very modern postwar Ginza district, who entertains businessmen after work. Sly, resourceful, but trapped, Keiko comes to embody the conflicts and struggles of a woman trying to establish her independence in a male-dominated society. When a Woman Ascends the Stairs shows the largely unsung yet widely beloved master Naruse at his most socially exacting and profoundly emotional. Japanese with English subtitles. At Starz. — Denver Film Society The Young Victoria Starring Emily Blunt as the 18-year-old queen of England circa 1837, this delicious historical romance is a rich pastiche of first love, teen empowerment, fabulous fashion and fate.

Filmmaker Jean-Marc Vallee has captured that hot blush of pure emotion that comes before kisses, sex and heartbreak. Credit also goes to Blunt and to Rupert Friend, who plays the equally young Belgian Prince Albert. They have been given a lot to work with and make the most of it. PG (some mild sensuality, a scene of violence and brief incidental language and smoking). At Chez Artiste. — Betsy Sharkey

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March 21-April 19:

I’m worried about your ability to sneak and fake and dissemble. These skills seem to have atrophied in you. To quote Homer Simpson, “You couldn’t fool your own mother on the foolingest day of your life with an electrified fooling machine!” Please, Aries, jump back into the game-playing, BS-dispensing routine the rest of us are caught up in. APRIL FOOL! Everything I just said was a filthy lie. In fact, I admire the candor and straightforwardness you’ve been cultivating.

My only critique is that maybe you could take some of the edge off it. Try telling the raw truth with more relaxed grace.

TAURUS

April 20-May 20:

You’ll probably dream of falling off a cliff, or plunging out of a hot-air balloon or skydiving without a parachute. I’m very disappointed in your unconscious mind’s decision to expose yourself to such unpleasant experiences, even if they are pretend. APRIL FOOL! I told you a half-truth. While it is likely that you will dream of diving off a mountaintop or tumbling out of a hot-air balloon or flying through the big sky without a parachute, your unconscious mind has arranged it so that you will land softly and safely in a giant pile of foam padding and feathers next to a waterfall whose roaring flow is singing your name. Despite the apparent inconvenience in the first part of the dream, you will be taken care of by the end.

GEMINI

May 21-June 20:

On the Ghost Hunters TV program, paranormal researchers investigate places that are thought to be haunted by supernatural entities. One commercial for the show urges us, the viewers, to “Get fluent in fear!” That exhortation happens to be perfect advice for you, Gemini. APRIL FOOL! I lied.

This is not at all a good time for you to get fluent in fear. But more than that. It’s actually a momentous time to get unfluent in fear. You have an unprecedented opportunity to stop casually exposing yourself to anxiety-inducing influences. You have amazing power to shut down that place in your imagination where you generate your scary fantasies. The conquest of your fears could be at hand!

CANCER June 21-July 22:

Your gambling chakra is conspiring with your inner roughneck to pull a fast one on your dignity chakra and your inner wuss. If they get away with their scheme you may find yourself having ridiculous yet holy fun in high places.

And I wouldn’t be surprised if in the course of these hijinks, your spirit guides channeled some holistic karma into the part of your psychic anatomy that we in the consciousness business call your “spiritual orgy button.” APRIL FOOL! Sorry if that sounded a bit esoteric. I was invoking some faux shamanic jargon in the hope of bypassing your rational mind and tricking you into experiencing a fizzy, buoyant altered state, which would be an excellent tonic for both your mental and physical health.

LEO

July 23-Aug. 22:

“I eat pressure for breakfast,” says Leo-born James Cameron, director of Avatar and Titanic, the two highest grossing films ever made. Like many in your tribe, he has a very high opinion of himself. “Anybody can be a father or a husband,” he told his fourth wife Linda Hamilton. “There are only five people in the world who can do what I do, and I’m going for that.” He’s your role model. APRIL FOOL! I lied. While I do urge you to focus intensely on the quality or talent that’s most special about you, I strongly discourage you from neglecting your more ordinary roles. In Cameron’s case, I’d advise him to start working on his next fantastic project but also spiff up his skills as a husband and father.

VIRGO

superhero costume giving you a tray of red jello covered with marshmallows, gumdrops and chocolate kisses. And I knew immediately that it was a prime metaphor for your destiny right now. APRIL FOOL! I lied, sort of. Your imminent future may feature an unlikely offering from an unexpected source, but that offering will simply be like red jello from a possum — with no superhero costume, and no marshmallows, gumdrops or chocolate kisses.

SCORPIO Oct. 23-Nov. 21:

I sincerely hope that 2010 will be the year you stop worshiping Satan for good. Luckily, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to get that worthy project in gear. Despite the odd pleasures your twisted devotion to the Evil One seems to bring you, it actually undermines your ability to get what you want. The ironic fact of the matter is that pure unrepentant selfishness — the kind that Satan celebrates — is the worst possible way to achieve your selfish goals. APRIL FOOL! I know you don’t really worship Satan. I was just hoping to jolt you into considering my real desire for you, which is to achieve your selfish goals by cultivating more unselfishness.

SAGITTARIUS Nov. 22-Dec. 21:

According to Uncyclopedia.com, Riding the Snake is a book co-authored by Oscar Wilde and Jesus Christ in 1429 B.C. If you can find a copy, I strongly suggest you read it. You could really use some help in taming the unruly kundalini that has been whipping you around. APRIL FOOL! I lied. There is no such ancient book. But that doesn’t change the fact that you’d really benefit from getting more control over your instinctual energy. I’d love to see your libidinous power be more thoroughly harnessed in behalf of your creative expression.

CAPRICORN Dec. 22-Jan. 19:

Supermodel Selita Ebanks is your role model. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you arrange for the kind of special treatment she enjoys as she’s preparing for a runway show. That means getting five stylists to work for hours every day perfecting every aspect of your physical appearance. Please make sure they apply no less than 20 layers of makeup to your butt. APRIL FOOL! I lied. The omens say this is not a good time to obsess on your outer beauty.

They do suggest, however, that attending to your inner beauty would be smart. So please do the equivalent of getting 20 layers of makeup applied to your soul’s butt.

AQUARIUS Jan. 20-Feb. 18:

Would it be a wise idea for you to stage your own kidnapping and demand ransom money for your release? Should you appear on a reality TV show that will expose your intimate secrets to millions of viewers? Could you get your spiritual evolution back on track by joining a religious cult? APRIL FOOL! The questions I just posed were terrible! They were irrelevant to the destiny you should be shaping for yourself.

But they were provocative, and may therefore be the nudge you need to get smarter about formulating your choices. It has never been more important than it is right now for you to ask yourself good questions.

PISCES

Feb. 19-March 20:

It’s an excellent time to demonstrate how strong and brave and indomitable you are. I suggest you carry out some heroic feat, like lying on a bed of nails while someone puts heavy concrete blocks all over your body, then uses a sledgehammer to smash those blocks. APRIL FOOL! What I just said is only half true. While it’s an excellent time to prove your mettle, there are far more constructive ways to do it than lying on a bed of nails. For example, you could try shaking off a bad influence that chronically saps your energy.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22:

Do NOT, under any circumstances, express your anger at the mainstream media by taking a baseball bat into a superstore full of electronic gear and smashing 32 TV sets. Keep it to a minimum of 15 sets, please! APRIL FOOL! I lied. I definitely don’t recommend that you smash any TVs with a baseball bat. However, you do have permission to bash and smash things in your imagination. In fact, I encourage it. Engaging in a fantasy of breaking inanimate objects that symbolize what oppresses you will shatter a certain mental block that desperately needs shattering.

LIBRA

Sept. 23-Oct. 22:

As I studied your astrological data, a curious vision popped into my mind’s eye. I saw a scene of a perky possum in a

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