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Thank you for your cover story on Boulder’s war on local bars [Re: “The new moral crusade,” Cover story, March 27]. This is the tip of the iceberg. Mention to some of the citizenry that Boulder is a police state and you will receive the standard look given a nut case. Some, however (fellow nuts, I suppose) will nod knowingly. Cities, in

general, tend to have petty, greedy and mean spirited governments, from councils to regulatory boards. Boulder is no different, except that it tries to make itself out to be progressive, and environmentally correct, of which it is neither. Particularly frightening is BLA member Lisa Spalding’s demand to have a bar owner defend his “moral character.” Such self-righteous vindictiveness is in itself, immoral. Sadly, she is not a loose

cannon, but exemplifies much of Boulder city and county government. Keith Richards, in his auto-biography Life, chides Mick Jagger for accepting knighthood from a government that once tried to jail him for “absolutely nothing.” A letter to the editor is far too small a venue to list the “absolute nothings” for which I and many others

gained from the crime spree, and you even get a $8.5 million pay raise! Of course, you and I would never get such outrageous, absurd, kid-glove pampering by legal authorities. But, then, we’re not the capo of JPMorgan Chase, America’s biggest bank and a crime syndicate that apparently is too big to jail. Jamie Dimon is the slick CEO who has fostered a culture of thievery during his years as a top executive at JPMorgan, leading to that shameful litany of crime. Yet, federal prosecutors have bowed to the politically connected Wall Streeter, refusing to ruffle his feathers with even a single criminal charge. Meanwhile, one of the scams that Dimon directly supervised produced a $6 billion loss for shareholders in 2012. And his reign of mismanagement and illegalities cost the bank’s shareholders another $20 billion in

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Highroad The mobsters of Wall Street by Jim Hightower

ssume that you ran a business that was found guilty of bribery, forgery, perjury, defrauding homeowners, fleecing investors, swindling consumers, cheating credit card holders, violating U.S. trade laws and bilking American soldiers. Can you even imagine the punishment you’d get? How about zero? No jail time. Not even a fine. Plus, you get to stay on as boss, you get to keep all the loot you

federal fines last year, resulting in a 16 percent drop in profits. You might think the bank’s board of directors would at least slap Jamie’s wrist for the loss of those billions, but no — in January, they rewarded him, raising his pay by some 70 percent to a sweet $20 million! The New York Times noted that, “To ordinary Americans,” such a reward for poor performance “may seem curious.” Curious? Uh-uh. Try incomprehensible, insane, and immoral. Wall Street’s haughty elites continue to demonstrate that they’re common mobsters — only not so ethical. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly. April 3, 2014 7

danish plan Marijuana along the Rio Grande

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he Arizona Republic printed a terrific story last Sunday on the on-going war on marijuana smuggling being waged along the Rio Grande River in Texas. Headlined “River of drugs runs through Rio Grande Valley,” the piece by reporters Bob Ortega and Rob O’Dell is a solid a piece of investigative journalism that paints a picture of an increasingly futile and ludicrous exercise in latter day prohibition that’s in the final stages of decay. Consider the vignette with which the piece opens. Earlier this month, officers in Rio Grande City, the county seat of Starr County, Texas, spotted a suspicious SUV. Their suspicions were aroused by the fact that bundles of pot were visible in the back of it. So they fell in behind it — which prompted the driver to fall in behind a school bus dropping off children. Stop by stop, the officers followed, watching the driver make calls on his cellphone. Then he swerved south toward the river, and before they could catch up, he jumped out, sprinted for the water and swam to Mexico, leaving 1,400 pounds of pot behind. It turns out the incident represents standard operating procedure for both the smugglers and the law. “They take advantage of the school traffic,” said Nat Gonzalez, an investigator for a multiagency drug task force in Starr County, Texas. “They know we won’t initiate a stop when there are students around.” “Encounters between agents and drug smugglers are frequent but rarely lethal,” Ortega and O’Dell found. “When cornered, drug runners are likely to abandon the loads of marijuana and escape back across the river.” And the narcs seem cool with that. Last year, Ortega and O’Dell reported, the Border Patrol and assorted other law enforcement agencies intercepted more than 3.5 million pounds (1,750 tons) of marijuana across the southwest. But for every load they seized, 10 got through — which implies that more than 17,000 tons a year of weed is making it across the Mexican border. In late 2003, federal study on mari8 April 3, 2014

juana availability in the U.S. (which, astonishingly, seems to be the last time a federal agency, the Library of Congress in this case, produced a more or less comprehensive report on the subject) estimated that in 2001 a mere 8,250 tons of pot reached the U.S. from Mexico and Colombia. In other words, the amount of marijuana entering the U.S. across the southern border since 2001 has more than doubled, despite billions of dollars spent on border security. Back to the Arizona Republic’s story. The story focused on the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the border, one of 20 administrative sectors along the southern border. The sector extends from the mouth of the river 320 miles to the west. Last year the Border Patrol seized 797,000 pounds of pot in the sector, the second largest amount seized in one of the sectors. (The Tucson Sector’s 1.2 million pounds was numero uno.) The river forms numerous ox-bows in the area (meaning many bits of U.S. territory are nearly surrounded by Mexico and vice-versa), and its banks are heavily vegetated (meaning its easy for smugglers to hide and to cache pot for later pick-up). “In 30 seconds, they’ll load a thousand pounds into the bed of a pickup,” said Carlos Garcia, the Starr County coordinator of a Homeland Securityfunded anti-smuggling program. “There can be 10 to 15 guys swimming across the river with loads on life rafts.” The pot gets through, Ortega and O’Dell write, “because the drug cartels closely monitor the Border Patrol and other law enforcement agencies. The cartels study their tactics and strategies and adapt quickly. They use that knowledge and the corrupting influence of money to win the daily cat-and-mouse games that define drug smuggling across the Rio Grande.” Among the corrupted are the former sheriff of Starr County, who in 2009 was sentenced to 64 month in prison for taking bribes from smugglers, as are nine members of an anti-narcotics team in nearby Hidalgo county. The reporters call the effort to stop the smuggling as “quixotic.” see DANISH PLAN Page 11

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have been dragged into the city’s court, but quickly, in my case, a nasty retort to a the abusive screaming of construction workers who blocked access to an emergency clinic resulted in a “fighting words” charge. The cop who wrote up an entirely one-sided, fictitious report, the city prosecutor and the tribunal before which I had to atone for my sins possessed the same degree of self righteousness demonstrated by Lisa Spalding. It made my skin crawl. Doug Richards/Eldorado Springs My name is Jonathan and I would like to say that I both enjoyed and appreciated the article, “The new moral crusade.” I have worked within the service industry for quite some time and have friends that own or owned bars within Boulder. I think your article was very non-partisan and informative. The one feature I think that the article is missing and would make it more complete is a set of instructions or means that readers could participate and influence the decisions being made. If, because the board is appointed and not elected, there are no means of public influence then that should be more definitively outlined. Although, I feel that by our fundamental democratic constitution the public should have a say. Anyway, great article and keep them coming! Please don’t let up on this issue and keep it in your headlines. Jonathan Volfson/via Internet Thank you for bringing attention to this “witch hunt.” It’s very simple:

Boulder is a college town. Don’t live on the Hill or near Pearl St if you don’t want to deal with college kids. I am still baffled by the number of people who support these ridiculous crusades against bars in Boulder when they moved in fully aware of the atmosphere of this town. Let me clarify: it is not a bad atmosphere. It is a safe and beautiful place where kids turn into adults and sometimes make mistakes during the process. There will be intoxicated patrons, unfortunately. However, most of the bars are locally and individually owned; Boulder has always stood up for small businesses. These attacks are not small hits to large corporations who can easily leave Boulder. These attacks cripple the lives of honest people and families working hard to support the high price of living in Boulder. The owner of Ks? Did anybody ever stop to think about him and how they took his livelihood away? The owners of Absinthe are truly genuine and wonderful. I do not personally know any other bar owners in Boulder, but I truly trust and believe in the community of Boulder. These bars are a huge part of that community. I believe these owners want a safe environment for people to enjoy themselves. They are not trying to profit from “over serving”. This committee needs to take anger management courses. They’re either insanely bored or unforgivably selfish. To think that it’s ok to take see LETTERS Page 11

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away the jobs and incomes of respectable bar owners simply because there are drunk kids running around bothering them, when they knowingly moved into a college town, is insane. Also, does this committee realize that if they successfully shut down every bar it will not end the partying or drunkards running around? Instead of paying for drinks (contributing to Boulder’s economy) and being safely monitored by cops and bartenders, everyone will resort to house parties and Frat parties where they can drink as much as they want at any age they are. Bars make the college lifestyle safer. It may sound crazy. But would you rather have your child drinking at a bar where he/she is monitored, or drinking at a Frat where they can literally chug a bottle of vodka and nobody will stop them? Whitney/via Internet Boulder, Colo. has become a gated country club of 20mph golf cart “driving zones.” Prim, disconnected xenophobes tip toeing around in fleets of the same color Prius. The town is a cultural waste land. There isn’t a live music scene, period. Paranoid heiresses with haz-mat face masks in place to protect themselves from exhaust pinch their noses and honk their horns at state of the art clean burning bio diesel rigs and everyone is afraid of the cops who are largely laying low in robot surveillance rigs. Boulder died twenty years ago. The latest contraction of freedom in this boring bland town really is no surprise. RIP Boulder, Colo. You snuffed your own light out. Say goodnight to Boulderwood. Pat Cole/via Internet I found the piece published on Thursday, Mar. 27 in the Boulder Weekly “The new moral crusade,” written by Josh Gross, to be well researched and highly relevant to the discussion of how different facets of the population in the city come together to create a unique culture and how these facets also often collide and disagree about important public issues. The research and presentation of data was well done, although I would like to point out a small grammatical error as I find that these errors always detract from article credibility for me as a reader. I found the article highly relevant and want it to have all the credibility it deserves. The error can be found in the second paragraph beneath the image of the

city poll results. Currently the paragraph reads: “Twenty-nine percent repeated that overconsumption wasn’t a problem when asked what the primary negative impacts of alcohol overconsumption was, and another 45.4 percent said the problems were insignificant and often exaggerated.” “impacts” should be changed to “impact,” “was” should be changed to “were” or the to be verb could be taken out all together. Again, want to thank Boulder Weekly for publishing this relevant article and Mr. Gross for his thorough research. Dana Hayward/Pagosa Springs

Speaking up on behalf of prostitutes everywhere

[Re: “No, it’s not the game. It’s the players.” News, March 27] When the police arrest customers of prostitutes and the prostitutes themselves: They try to get the adult women prostitutes to say that they were forced and victims of sex trafficking even though they weren’t. These adult women just flat out say, “Nope, that’s not what’s happening. No one is forcing me.” Then the U.S. Attorney general, senators, the police and government officials say: “We have to help them realize they are victims.” They must be brainwashed by their pimps, and johns. They say that adult women do not have the ability to make decisions for themselves about sex, therefore The government must make all their decisions about sex and who they have sex with for them. So… the police are trying to invent victims? Where no victim exist? The adult women say that no one is forcing them to work in prostitution and the police don’t believe them? So the police want these adult women to lie? and the police are forcing the women to lie about being forced? If the prostitute says she was not forced she goes to prison. If she says that was forced she is not arrested and gets many victim benefits from the government and charity. What would you tell the police? This will encourage prostitutes to lie about being forced. To stay out of prison and get victim benefits. I thought lying was wrong? And isn’t it against the law to lie? — Not for the police, attorney general and other government officials. A key point is that on the sidelines the prostitutes themselves are not being listened to. They oppose laws against see LETTERS Page 11

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“Report after report repeats the scenario,” they say. “Agents spot smugglers at the Rio Grande loading bundles of marijuana into a vehicle, usually an old pickup truck, SUV or van. Border Patrol agents give chase and get authorization to ‘spike’ the vehicle with a controlled tiredeflation device. “The smugglers bail out, often in a strategic spot, and flee… By the time the agents seize the drugs, the

smugglers either already have swum back to Mexico or are on their way… the Border Patrol agents, following agency policy, stay with the marijuana … to prevent smugglers doubling back and taking off in the vehicle again.” What are we to make of all this? The most striking aspect of the picture Ortega and O’Dell paint is that the smugglers are not so much fighting with the Border Patrol and the

Customs and Border Protection service as they are humoring them — and the feds, perhaps out of despair, cynicism or sheer exhaustion, seem to be playing along. The smugglers will spirit a shipment across the river and lead the agents on a merry chase that ends with the agents seizing half a ton of pot, while five more tons are slipped across elsewhere, which reach consumers. Hardly anyone is arrested, and at the

end of the day everyone involved is happy. As the 19th century robber baron Jim Fisk once remarked in a different context, “nothing is lost save honor.” Except for the fact that 50,000 or 60,000 Mexicans have died in drug war related violence, it would be kind of funny. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com This opinion column does not necessarily reflect the views of Boulder Weekly.

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prostitution. But no one wants to listen to the prostitutes themselves. Only to the self appointed experts that make up numbers and stories many of which have never met a real forced sex slave or if they did it was only a few. The media and government never ask the prostitutes themselves what would help them in terms of laws. Many women in the sex business are independent workers. They don’t have a pimp. They work for themselves, advertise themselves, and keep all the money for themselves. No one forces them, because there isn’t anyone to force them. They go out and find their own customers, set their own prices, and arrange everything by themselves. Sometimes they may employ others to help them, but these are not pimps. If for example, she hires an internet web design company to make a website for her, does that make the web design company a pimp? If she pays a phone company for a phone to do business, does this make the phone company a pimp? If she puts an ad in the paper, does this make the editor a pimp? If she puts the money she makes into a bank account does this make the bank a pimp? A lot of anti prostitution groups would say yes. Everyone and everybody is a pimp. These groups make up lies, and false statistics that no one bothers to check. A big reason they do this is because it provides high paying jobs for them. They get big donations, and grants from the government, charity, churches, etc. to have these groups, and pay these high salaries of the anti prostitution workers. For more information about sex trafficking check out this link: http://humantraffickingstatistics.wordpress.com/ Chris Watson/Fort Collins Boulder Weekly

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Doing the math on the sex trafficking

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Boulder City Council approves financial disclosure rules

n Tuesday, April Fools’ Day, Boulder City Council unanimously voted to accept the new financial disclosure guidelines that have been in development for more than 18 months. Tuesday’s vote followed the first reading of the new disclosure rules which were not discussed by council at that time, indicating that the expected heated debate over the new rules will likely occur sometime later this spring either at a work session before or at the time of the second reading. While a number of changes to the disclosure rules are being proposed, most are for the sake of clarity and will be adopted without much turmoil. The main point of disclosure contention involves Limited Liability Company’s (LLCs) or other types of business entities. The new regulations, as they stand today, would allow Boulder’s elected council members to conceal their business relationships and real estate holdings within LLCs or similarly organized entities whose members are blind to the public. The new disclosure rules would only require members of council or someone running for council to disclose the property they own by way of an LLC if they own more than 50 percent of the LLC. For example, if a council member and their partner in an LLC owned a $20 million office building, a member of Boulder City Council could own $9,999,999.00 worth of that building without having to disclose his or her ownership or reveal whom their business partners are in the ownership of that building. The councilmember could then potentially vote on issues that would increase the value of that property and it would be impossible for anyone, voters or media, to know whether or not the councilmember had properly recused themselves from the vote. In essence, these new rules would turn the entire elected city government into an honor system that can be easily gamed by anyone with the intent to do so. In their current form, the new rules — while bringing needed clarity to some aspects of the existing disclosure laws in the city charter — will actually weaken the existing rules rather than strengthen them as was the stated intent when council decided to update the disclosure requirements following the discovery in 2012 that several members of council had actually failed to properly disclose their required financial information . The public can have its say in this matter at the time of the second reading later this spring. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Is Big Ag squelching research showing its new RNAi GMOs may be dangerous? by Caitlin Rockett

fter nearly 30 years studying how plants use their genes to defend against viruses, Vicki Vance, a professor at the University of South Carolina, doesn’t see genetically modifying plants as a malevolent or arrogantly God-like endeavor. “There’s DNA in the world and it gets passed from one organism to another and it’s the natural thing. If that’s the problem you have with transgenic plants, that’s not a good reason to be against them,” Vance says. She does, however, have a problem with mega corporations allegedly using their money and power to hide the risks of new forms of genetic technology. “I didn’t use to be an anti-GMO person and I didn’t use to have strong feelings about Monsanto, but …,” she says, her voice trailing off. But that was before the Chinese research, before the calls from Monsanto, before she couldn’t get funding for work that she feels could change the way we treat cancer and other diseases. Her research put her at odds with one of the most powerful corporations in the world. Vance isn’t a nobody in the world of RNA research. At a June 2011 conference hosted by the nonprofit International Life Science Institute (ILSI), a group of academics, regulatory professionals from the Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Agriculture’s Environmental Risk Analysis Program and members of the biotech industry gathered in Washington D.C. They came to evaluate the environmental risks of a promising new technique to protect crops against pestilent insects — a gene-regulating process called RNA interference. Vance wasn’t just an attendee at the conference; she provided the introduction for the event. She’s studied small interfering ribonucleic acid molecules, siRNA, in plants for most of her career. Her name appears often in academic papers and conference proceedings on the topic of gene silencing, the main Boulder Weekly

function of so-called RNAi technology. At that time, views of Vance and the other attendees was relatively positive: “No plausible risk hypotheses were identified that can be considered unique to RNAi mechanisms when compared to other genetically engineered plants with similar traits.”

“At the time I was like, ‘Hell yes it’s safe — how is this gonna be dangerous?’” says Vance. “The corn rootworm will take up these siRNAs, which turn off production of essential proteins in pests. Apparently it works really well. Otherwise you’d have to use pesticides, chemicals that are toxic.” But her stance on RNAi as a pesticide would change shortly after the conference.

Controversial research RNAi has applications in both the medical world and in agriculture. But these two worlds are not after the same thing when it comes to RNA. While the medical community is trying to perfect processes that will cause the human body to accept modified RNA strands, agriculture corporations working in the GMO field are busy trying to prove that their RNA strands can’t be assimilated

by the human body at all. ing modified RNA could have major For example, some microRNAs implications for heart disease and other interfere with cell division and block health issues tied to cholesterol. cancer. These tumor suppressor RNAs “That had never been reported are missing in cancer patients. If they before. Nobody had thought about can be replaced — an experimental that,” says Vance. “What the hell, I treatment known as microRNA replace- mean, you’re eating a plant and taking ment therapy — then doctors could in plant RNAs and they are regulating theoretically stop the prolifera- the expression of your genes? I think tion of cancer cells. But in that has to be considered. … There’s agriculture where RNA is been a lot of resistance to that paper. being engineered as a pesticide When something really unexpected like designed to kill insects that that comes up, there’s always a lot of feed on crops — such as resistance.” Resistance was apparent even before Monsanto’s RNA efforts the Chinese study was published. The aimed at the Western corn team’s manuscript was rejected by wellrootworm, the most economiknown journals Science, Cell and cally destructive pest in corn Molecular Cell. Zhang told The Scientist production — it is paramount that the RNA in and/or on the Magazine it was because their discovery was “too extraordinary.” corn that is later eaten by “Most of the people [who speculate humans doesn’t subsequently infiltrate our cells causing who about our work] just don’t believe it knows what kind of unintend- because the concept right now, I have to say, is broken by my results,” Zhang told ed consequences. In short, the medical world Boulder Weekly in a recent interview from Nanjing. “They don’t want to needs the genetically modified believe until I have new data or the RNA to be assimilated by our other groups reproduce some of our bodies and the agricultural data. And of course some other people, world needs the opposite to for whatever reason I don’t want to say occur. … I don’t want to even touch … they In September of 2011, are just against our discovery no matter three months after Vance gave what it is.” her presentation on RNAi at The work was so controversial that the ILSI conference, a team another preeminent journal, Nature lead by Chen-Yu Zhang of Biotechnology, made a rather unusual Nanjing University in China move: They published a published a University of South Carolina letter from a team detailpaper in the journal Cell ing negative findings. In Research claiming that other words, it was a mammals (mice, in the study that presents no case of their study) take new conclusions, only an up small RNAs when unsuccessful attempt to they eat plants, and those recreate Zhang’s findings. plant RNAs regulate “[T]he new report, expression of mammalian resulting from a collabogenes — something the ration between miRagen science world refers to as Therapeutics and trans-kingdom gene reguVicki Vance, a professor of Monsanto, clarifies what lation. biology at the University of were controversial findThe team reported South Carolina ings in [the Zhang finding small RNA molestudy]. The latter study cules in the bloodstream … sparked vigorous debate because it and tissue of mice and humans. They reported the presence of plant microRfound that one particular molecule of NA in human blood plasma and sugRNA from rice could inhibit a protein gested that one in particular, miRNA that supports removal of low-density 168a, from ingested rice could traverse lipoprotein, or “bad” cholesterol from into the circulation of mice resulting in the blood. If such a finding proved to also be true for humans, it would potentially indicate that eating foods containSee MUZZLED Page 14 April 3, 2014 15

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the modulation of miRNA target genes in the animal.” The editorial goes on to say that the miRagen/ Monsanto study which used three different groups of mice o understand RNA, you have to activity, speeding it up or slowing it for control and comparison, down. understand DNA, deoxyribonufound no evidence of miRNA The binding creates a double cleic acid, those double-sided 168a in the plasma and liver stranded RNA molecule, setting off spring-like chains of genetic infortissue of mice fed a rice diet, alarms in cells. mation that determine the color of and they attributed altered “DNA is double stranded, but a human’s hair or the hue of a flowRNA is a single strand of nucleotides. er’s petals. If DNA acts as a blueLDL levels in the animal If a cell sees double-stranded RNA, print for living things, then RNA is the blood to differences in the it’s a signal that something’s wrong construction crew. Both DNA and nutrition available to mice in — it knows it’s RNA are made up Wikimedia Commons different groups. been invaded, like of four different “One of the issues with a virus is there,” types of chemicals says Vicki Vance, called nucleotides. eating rice alone without out a professor of bioMillions of any sort of protein source is logical science at nucleotides long, you can get effects on metabothe University of most DNA resides lism that really have to do South Carolina. tightly coiled inside with lack of a balanced diet To combat the the nucleus of a intruder, the cell cell. DNA’s funcinstead of the transit of suppresses any tion is to instruct microRNA and trans-kinggene with a amino acids on the dom gene expression,” says sequence matchoutside of the William Marshall, president ing that of the nucleus how to and chief executive officer for double-stranded form into specific RNA. proteins. Chemicals the Boulder-based miRagen “It’s an ancient inside the nucleus (pronounce mir-a-gin) pathway in allow DNA to interTherapeutics. miRagen is a eukaryotes [organact with the amino company researching RNA isms with complex cells]. Different livacids by making a partial copy of use in treating cardiovascular ing things make hundreds of these the DNA code called RNA. small RNAs and they control gene RNA looks just like DNA, but disease, metabolic disease and expression — whether or not a gene they’re smaller, shorter and only fibrosis. gets turned into a protein. Turns out have one side. Their diminutive size Marshall says he thinks it’s it’s important for virtually everything allows them to slip through pores in important that Nature in the cell,” says Vance. the nucleus where they dock with Biotechnology broke tradition Novel concepts for how to treat ribosomes to create proteins. and even cure cancer created Proteins assemble to form cells, and published the miRagen/ palpable excitement in the mediwhich amass to form tissues, which Monsanto study. cal science world in 1998 when gather form organs and eventually “One general issue in sciAndrew Fire and Craig C. Mello whole living organisms. ence publications is that negapublished a paper revealing the But the naturally occurring RNA tive studies are not often pubinterference process can change all RNAi process in the nematode worm. However, it’s proven difficult of that orderly business. lished. It’s like the finding to deliver RNAi drugs to humans; Even smaller molecules of RNA never gets reported because RNA is broken down quickly in the — microRNA (miRNA) and small science journals want to report bloodstream and often has trouble interfering RNAs (siRNA) — drive the on innovations and successes,” entering cells if it does survive the RNAi process. These small RNAs can he says. “But there’s this whole bind to specific messenger RNA bloodstream. molecules (the molecules responsireproducibility initiative that Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com. ble for carrying genetic codes outNature Biotechnology is part of side the nucleus) and alter their to really attempt to highlight these results, because if you don’t report that, there are questions about the validity of the study, then the study becomes sort able to transit [from the gut and blood unable to detect levels of plant miRof de facto the truth. That’s how scienstream into cells]. From our perspective NAs in the blood of healthy athletes tific literature works. And I think it’s it was disappointing, because we saw this who were fed RNA-laden fruit. The important that we rethink this old sysas a real opportunity to expand the hori- team also failed to find RNA traces in tem, and it’s becoming a really imporzon for all nucleic acid based drugs. This mice or bees. tant theme in science today. was going to be ground breaking and so “We conclude that horizontal Beyond that, however, Marshall says far we’ve not been able to reproduce it. delivery of microRNAs via typical he was disappointed that the team was And in the absence of really showing a dietary ingestion is neither a robust unable to recreate Zhang’s results. robust effect here, it’s very difficult connor a frequent mechanism,” wrote the “[miRagen] got excited about this templating taking it further.” authors. from the strict perspective of being able Monsanto and miRagen weren’t the In June, a research team from to develop microRNA drugs,” Marshall only team unable to reproduce the Johns Hopkins University published a piece in RNA Biology saying that says. “The unfortunate outcome was that results from Zhang’s study. In May of Zhang’s results were likely a false poswe could not observe that particular 2012, researchers at Brigham and itive resulting from the technique his microRNA [miRNA 168a] was actually Women’s Hospital in Boston were

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group used. In the Monsanto/miRagen study, the team suggested that Zhang’s results were skewed by environmental contamination of the sequencing equipment they used to detect plant microRNAs in humans. “That particular plant microRNA had been used in the past to Chen-Yu Zhang of normalize these studies and so the Eric Lam of Rutgers Nanjing University in University issue is that it could have been a China common contaminate that was used in a lab to do deep sequencing,” says “If [miRagen] repeated Zhang et Marshall. al.’s work it would have been a positive But the fact that miRagen collabofinding for their company, as I’m sure rated with Monsanto on this report they get plenty of criticism for the viagives rise to legitimate questions about bility of their potential therapies,” Folta credibility — the agricultural powerconcluded. house clearly has much to gain from The Monsanto/miRagen study using a genetic technology that will kill clearly states that Monsanto asked the the costliest parasite to the world’s most Colorado-based therapeutics company produced grain, but what about miRato participate in the reproducibility gen? study. Marshall says miRagen was in What’s at stake? contact with Monsanto even before the Some scientists, such as Kevin M. study because of the ag company’s interFolta, an associate professor in the horest in RNAi technology — which ticultural sciences department at the included their interest in preventing University of Florida, believe miRagen trans-kingdom gene regulation. had nothing to gain by discrediting the “So this [study] was a win-win sceZhang study. nario for both of us because essentially “[MiRagen has] a vested interest in we would learn why this particular identifying mechanisms to orally microRNA was able to transit and be administer miRNA and detect physioorally bioavailable, and at the same time logical outcomes,” Folta wrote in a blog we would work with Monsanto to piece in November 2013. understand the rules for the ones that

RNA interference technology as a pesticide

n January, Monsanto released their annual Research and Development Pipeline Review, detailing future products, their estimated rollout dates and projected impact for the agriculture industry. One such product is called SmartStax PRO, aimed at killing the Western corn rootworm. According to the United States Department of Agriculture, “the western corn rootworm has required more acres of conventional insecticide use per year than any other pest since it invaded the Midwest in the 1960s.” In recent years, Monsanto’s patented Bt trait corn has been the gold standard in genetically engineered pesticides. Bt is a naturally occurring soil bacterium that kills the corn rootworm by producing protein crystals that bind to essential receptors in the bug’s intestine. Bt corn accounted for 75 percent of all corn planted in the United States as of 2013.

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don’t,” Marshall adds. “And the idea was if you would want to engineer plants and prohibit any sort of transkingdom gene regulation then we would understand the rules behind that.” Vance is less convinced in the innocence of the partnership. “I think Monsanto was trying to get some legitimacy by bringing in these people from [miRagen] because they have some, what I would consider, establishment animal microRNA people — there are some highly thought of people on their scientific advisory boards,” she says. “But it’s Monsanto who’s spearheading this thing, and they have this company as first author and last author, whereas they’re all in the middle. That’s another thing that’s saying, ‘This isn’t really Monsanto. Pay no attention to the Monsanto people. First author and last author, that’s the important thing,’ and that is the important thing,” Vance says. “First author, that’s typically the one that did the most work. Last author, in [the microbiology] field, is the person usually who is the communicating author, the one who takes responsibility for the work. But is Monsanto driving this from behind?” Vance believes both companies have

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a financial interest in discrediting the Chinese paper. “On the other hand, I think [miRagen] has some interest in discrediting this Chinese paper. They are trying to use microRNAs therapeutically, and it’s hard to get them [through the blood stream to the cell], and so there’s all sorts of things you have to do to make them work and those things are expensive and they have their downsides. And so what this Chinese paper says is, “Well, you don’t have to do any of that stuff, all you have to do is make it in plants and then eat it. All you have to do is ingest it.” Such a finding would have major implications on drug industry research and development which desires to create

expensive, profitable medicines that can be sold as opposed to developing foods that could fight certain diseases simply by being ingested. While Zhang declined to comment directly on Monsanto steering any research, he did say he felt slighted by Nature Biotechnology. Zhang published a response to the correspondence from Monsanto/miRagen critiquing Zhang’s study, and while Nature Biotechnology published the response immediately following the critique, Zhang says he’s disappointed that the journal didn’t mention his response in the editorial about the importance of reproducibility. “They did not mention at all our reply, they just said, ‘Well, somebody

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n 2006, professional beekeepers in the U.S. began to report mass die-offs of their honeybee colonies, between 30 and 90 percent. Since then, “Colony collapse disorder” hasn’t slowed down. While CCD doesn’t account for all colony losses, the U.S. is seeing an average loss of about 33 percent Colony collapse disorder is contributing each year. A third of these to bee die-offs in the U.S. losses are attributed to CCD. It’s a big deal with bee pollination responsible for more than $15 billion in increased crop value each year. Voarra mites, a virus-transmitting parasite of honeybees, have frequently been found in hives affected by CCD. One possible use of RNAi technology, under development by Monsanto, is a product to kill the voarra mite, which has been at least partially blamed for recent mass die-offs of honeybee. But many scientists have questioned whether it’s a saturation of chemical pesticides that might be responsible for CCD. Jonathan Lundgren, a research entomologist at U.S. Department of Agriculture’s North Central Agriculture Research Laboratory, says that Big Ag players like Bayer Cropscience create programs to conserve pollinators while still producing chemicals that likely play in their death. “Take a look at Bayer BeeCare — they are putting a lot of neonicitinoid seed treatments on corn. Almost 100 percent of corn seed is treated with neonics, but Bayer at the same time has a BeeCare Project where they have this PR campaign to send educators out to the public to talk about how to conserve pollinators. And this is related to overuse of pesticides and the simplification of the landscape due to large production agriculture,” Lundgren says. In late 2011, Monsanto purchased international bee research firm Beeologics, which has searched for answers to honeybee destroying conditions like CCD and Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus since 2007. Lundgren sees RNAi technology as perhaps one part of the solution for CCD, but say it’s not going to completely solve the problem, but simply mask a symptom. “Can we use RNAi technology to potentially fight the voarra mite? Maybe. Can we use it to manage the corn rootworm? Maybe. But it’s not going to solve the larger problem of we need to diversify our landscapes in order to provide habitat and keep things sustainable, farm production sustainable for the long term,” he says.

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NA (ribonucleic acid) – large biological molecules that perform vital roles in the coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) – molecule that encodes the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms and many viruses Nucleotides – organic molecules that serve as the subunit of nucleic acids like DNA and RNA mRNA (messenger RNA) – family of RNA molecules that convey genetic information from DNA to the ribosome, where amino acids are assembled into proteins RNAi (ribonucleic acid interference) – a biological process in which RNA molecules inhibit gene expression, typically by causing the destruction of specific messenger RNA molecules miRNA (micro ribonucleic acid) – a small, non-coding molecule of RNA founding plants, animals and some viruses, which functions in regulation of gene expression siRNA (small interfering ribonucleic acid) – sometimes known as silencing RNA, is a class of double stranded RNA molecules, and it most notable for its role in the RNAi pathway, where it interferes with the expression of specific genes Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

reproduced this study and they couldn’t reproduce our data.’ I cannot believe — it’s really unbelievable — that such a decent scientific journal had such unfair and unprofessional behavior,” says Zhang. “I just want to say,” he adds, “obviously something is going on. It’s not pure science. I just think something is maybe behind them.” He pauses, then adds quickly, “I don’t want to say anymore.” Zhang seems uncomfortable saying the word Monsanto, often calling it “the company.” “I don’t want to attach to them,” he says. “[When the paper came out] they contacted me, the Chinese office. I don’t want to have any relationship to them. Even right now I don’t want to say anything about transgenic or GM food.”

Knock, knock? Who’s there? It’s Monsanto. Now show us your research. After the Zhang paper was published, Vance was so intrigued that she led her lab, without external funding, to design similar but distinctive experiments to test whether they could detect plant small RNA in animals simply by feeding them the plants. “We designed plants that make a cocktail of three human tumor suppressor RNAs and then fed those plants to mice,” says Vance. “We fed that to the mice once a day for 28 days. The tumor burden was significantly suppressed in the mice. We’re very excited about that. Seems like there’s huge potential here and our work suggests the Chinese paper was right.” “There’s no toxicity,” she says. “At Boulder Weekly

least in our studies there’s no toxicity, it just has these amazing therapeutic effects.” But Vance found that scientific journals weren’t as enthusiastic about her research as she is. “We still can’t get it funded. I don’t know what I’m going to do. Reviewers always say the same things: it stems from work that can’t be replicated, how can you prove the plant small RNAs get in, the Chinese paper is controversial, no one believes it,” she says. Zhang also dealt with questions about proving that plant RNA was present in human blood and tissue. Skeptical researchers questioned how to differentiate between plant RNA and animal RNA. As miRNA are very short, only about 22 nucleotides long (in comparison to the millions found in DNA), there could be matching sequences between animal and plant. Despite skepticism from both the public and scientific community, Vance and Zhang continued with their work. Vance says it was about a year after the ILSI conference when Andrew Roberts, deputy director for ILSI’s Center for Environmental Risk Assessment, called her up to ask if she would be the last author — essentially a point-of-contact for inquiries — on a white paper about the conference’s conclusions. “That was when I said — the Zhang paper had come out by then — I said I didn’t want my name on the paper,” says Vance. “That’s when Monsanto started to call me.” See MUZZLED Page 20

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A quick fall Prior to the release of the Zhang paper and Vance’s refusal to be listed on ILSI’s risk assessment paper, Monsanto had invited Vance to give a talk at the International Symposium of Biosafety of GMO Plants, a biennial international meeting organized by the International Society for Biosafety Research. The meeting was, perhaps oddly enough, held in St. Louis that year, where the agricultural behemoth Monsanto is headquartered. According

to Vance, Monsanto was in charge of the session on the safety of RNAi plants. “They asked me to give the same overview of RNAi that I had given at the [ILSI] meeting. They had already paid my way, made my hotel reservations, I had an abstract, I was listed on the schedule and everything. Then this fuss came up over the [Zhang] paper,” Vance says. “They called me and asked, was I going to talk about [the Zhang paper] at the symposium and I said, ‘Well yeah, that’s part of the story, it has to be discussed.’”

Vance says Monsanto was adamant that she not mention the Zhang paper in her overview. Her insistence on bringing it up only made the situation more complicated. “I had to participate in a conference call and [Monsanto] had lawyers present. They eventually called me back and uninvited me from the [International Symposium of Biosafety of GMO Plants],” she says. But the calls didn’t end. “They kept calling me because I’d said [my lab] had data consistent with

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More evidence Vance and Zhang aren’t the only researchers who claim to have promising results that indicate trans-kingdom gene regulation is possible. Eric Lam, a professor in the department of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers University, has been researching the transit of plant small RNA to animal cells for more than a decade. “The idea is to see if we can actually express small RNAs, which we call silencing RNAs or siRNAs, that target human pathogenic viruses, like the flu virus. Why we have to take flu shots is because viruses such as influenza have a very high neurogenic rate, meaning they can easily evolve new amino acid residues that allow them to escape new vaccines that [are] create[d] every year,” Lam says. Boulder Weekly

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ment …” he pauses to collect his thoughts. “Genetically modified crops are planted on 9 percent of the terrestrial land surface of our country. That scale elevates the importance of understanding the risks that are imposed by RNAi technology. It may be safe, it may not, but we should understand that before large deployment is realized,” he says. Vance still believes in the potential of transgenic plants. Unlike many people, she doesn’t see genetic modification of plants as “playing God,” and in fact sees the process as natural.

“A lot of good things can come from transgenic plants, but I do take objection that [Monsanto] are doing things I can see have a potential risk when they could avoid it. I’m a scientist and I make transgenic plants and I don’t feel like I’m playing God. If it’s a useful thing, we should do it. If a new risk comes up you shouldn’t fight it — if new data shows this is a possible risk, address it.” A simple step, in Vance’s opinion, would be to engineer corn plants to only express specific RNA in the roots of the plant where the corn rootworm will

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His longest running project produces transgenic tomato plants that express RNA targeted at viruses such as influenza and Hepatitis C. But reviewers weren’t convinced in the reliability of Lam’s preliminary study, saying it wasn’t clear that the team’s sequencing methods — the process of determining the precise order of nucleotides of the RNA molecules — were actually detecting plant small RNAs in their rabbit test subjects. “These are small RNAs — they are like 21 base nucleotides long. That’s very small in terms of sequencing. You have to have many copies of those to be such that it’s not just a fluke, just an artifact of the sequencing,” Lam says. Lam says this is the same argument that the Monsanto/miRagen study made about Zhang’s work. “The problem that came out, the controversy, is if you only see a couple of variants of one small RNA, how much could be just error of sequencing?” Lam explains. “The argument is whether these are sequencing errors or whether these are bonafide transport of the plant microRNA into the animal system. That’s really the crux of the issue that I saw in [the Monsanto/miRagen studied that was published in] Nature Biotech.” Lam says his group has been able to produce a tomato plant that contains a 400 base pair fragment of the influenza virus. “We know which 21 base fragments are present. Now we’re doing the rabbit blood RNA sample to try to find out whether multiple siRNA that are now in food should appear in the blood if this is true. Not a single one, but multiple ones,” Lam says. “Because of this, I believe we have the potential system to resolve this controversy.” Lam doesn’t feel slighted that his research has come under scrutiny. “I accept the [preliminary] review — extraordinary claims need extraordinary data to back it up. This is how science is done in the States anyway,” Lam says, no trace of frustration in his voice. “I fully realize there could be a lot of controversy and discussion if this proves to be true, and it could potentially really change the way we do medicine and also understand how we interact with our food. So it is an important finding that needs really tight scrutiny.” Jonathan Lundgren, a research entomologist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s North Central Agriculture Research Laboratory, Lundgren agrees that RNAi needs more scrutiny, especially when used as a pesticide. “Most of our experiences with RNAi and the risks that it poses have been done in a petri dish or on a sick person. With pesticidal RNA, the scale that we’re talking about, in terms of deploy-

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feed, avoiding consumption by humans. “Why do they have to express their RNAi in corn seeds? They don’t have to. They could just put it in the roots – it wouldn’t be hard to do. Why don’t they just fix their freaking plants so they won’t be dangerous to people? Even if there’s some small chance it’s dangerous,” Vance pauses as she has many times during conversations about Monsanto, clearly frustrated. “I just don’t understand the mindset,” she sighs. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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hen he was a little boy in El Salvador, Jaime Leon Rivas never wondered about George Washington even though the president’s face was everywhere. The U.S. dollar is the country’s official currency, but Rivas, who was poor and living with his grandparents, rarely saw any greenbacks. What he remembers seeing were bodies, dead, twisted and splayed open, the victims of the gangs. This didn’t happen in America – not in Colorado, where his mother lived and worked as a housekeeper. She carefully saved up the dollars she earned and, in 2005, when Rivas was 10, paid people smugglers – coyotes – to get her boy out. “I didn’t know where I was going,” Rivas says. “I only knew that I was going to my mom. That’s all that mattered.” So Rivas and one of his brothers, who was about three years older, were handed to the coyotes. Their destination, the crisp, cool air, big mountains and starry night skies of Colorado lay 2,600 miles away. And each mile was a slog as a bus rumbled over bumpy roads past weather-beaten towns into Guatemala, passing through vast, thick stretches of rainforest. Finally came Mexico. Lots of Mexico. It took days, maybe weeks, to work northward to the U.S. border. Rivas, now 19, can’t exactly recall how long it took. “I was just a kid,” he reminds. He remembers stopping in a town to wait A man with Mara Salvatrucha, or MS-13, tattoos flashes a gang sign for more travelers to join – more people looking for a safer life or just good work; more people with money for the coyotes. When the boys where their aunt met them. Asked by a judge if the crossed the Rio Grande River, it was December. They boys were ready to return to El Salvador, the aunt said, entered the United States outside of Hidalgo, Texas, a “not really.” Rivas’ mother didn’t want that. She was town with a history of chest-thumping Americans and afraid of the gangs in that country. Mexicans who’d make great characters for a spaghetti So, instead, Rivas and his brother were enrolled in western. Somewhere inside the winter-barren ranchschool in Colorado. Rivas learned English. He jumped land of southern Texas, Rivas and his brother realized in the snow. It seemed he was on track. Yet soon, his they were lost. life began to unravel. He just couldn’t stay out of trou“I remember it was really cold and we were just ble. waiting and waiting,” Rivas tells. “He was hanging out with all the wrong people and The coyote who was supposed to come never it caught up with him,” his girlfriend, Jenny Martinez, arrived. That was not a good place for that to happen: says. 500 people died crossing the border in 2005 from Rivas’ juvenile records are sealed, but he is open exposure, thirst and similar fates, according to the about his past. His attorney confirms the details. In Border Patrol. Now alone, Rivas and his brother began 2007, when Rivas was about 12, he had a misdemeanor to walk about aimlessly, looking for their coyote. For weapons charge. In 2009, Rivas ran afoul of the law hours they wandered until they finally found someone again, charged with trespassing into a vehicle, a felony. – or someone found them. In 2011, Rivas was charged with misdemeanor criminal “It was ICE,” Rivas tells Boulder Weekly in a phone mischief. interview from inside the U.S. immigration detention That same year, though the young teen was restrictfacility in Aurora. ed to Colorado because he was on probation, he decidICE stands for U.S. Immigration and Customs ed, almost on a lark, to go to Los Angeles because a friend was going. He’d never been there. He’d wanted Enforcement, and the agency took the boys into custoto see the beach. Thinking back, Rivas says, he was a dy. But the children weren’t deported. They were evenkid running away from his very adult problems. But his tually sent to Denver in immigration proceedings Boulder Weekly

troubles only followed him to L.A. There, through his friends, Rivas encountered members of the notorious, ultraviolent gang, the Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13. It almost seemed almost inevitable that a young runaway from the poor streets of San Salvador would fall into the hands of the MS-13, particularly in L.A. After all, the gang formed in the city during the gangland bloodbaths of the 1980s as a way for Salvadorans and other Central American immigrants to protect themselves. Through brutal machete killings and a long list of other crimes, including rape and money laundering, MS-13 members made the gang one of the most menacing ever to fall on the radar of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. And, because members of the gang were deported from the United States, they were able to establish an international network, taking over impoverished neighborhoods in Central America and using them as power seats. By 2006, FBI executive James “Chip” Burrus lamented over the crisis: “It was an eyeopening experience to see what it could come to at some point here if we don’t do our jobs correctly.” When Burrus toured San Salvadoran gangruled neighborhoods, or “maras,” which act like micro-dictatorships, he traveled in an armored van, sharpshooters monitoring every turn down every street. “There’s such freedom of movement between El Salvador and the United States,” Burrus noted, calling for more multi-national cooperation between enforcement organizations. Hundreds of alleged members of the gang have been arrested in the United States since then – several in Colorado in recent years, linked by prosecutors to meth and firearms distribution. Despite the crackdowns, MS-13 continues to shock authorities with its brutality. The most recent headline emanates from Long Island, New York, where prosecutors allege members shot Vanessa Argueta to death, execution style, along with her 2-year-old boy, Diego Torres, in a dispute in which Argueta disrespected the gang. The incident is but one of scores of killings attributed to the gang’s members, known for their extreme and intimidating posturing and heavy tattoos, often over their faces, with the letters “M.S.” There are countless alleged victims, including one from a decade ago – about the same time Rivas was dropped off in Texas. Boulder Weekly printed the story of 16-year-old Edgar Chocoy, killed in the streets of Villaneueva, a poor Guatemala town overrun by MS-13 gangsters. Chocoy, who had been lured into the gang as a boy in his home country, stood out because he had predicted his own death, telling federal immiSee DEPORTATION Page 24

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gration officials in Denver that if they deported him, he would be murdered. Chocoy explained that he had tried to distance himself from the gang by hiding with relatives and finally running away to L.A., where his mother worked. He had learned the hard way that MS-13 does not allow anyone to quit. And his ties to the gang did not seem to help his case in Denver. “I am certain that if I had stayed in Guatemala the members of the gang MS would have killed me,” he wrote in an affidavit. “I have seen them beat people up with baseball bats and rocks and shoot at them. I know they kill people. I know they torture people with rocks and baseball bats. I know that if I am returned to Guatemala I will be tortured by them. I know that they will kill me if I am returned to Guatemala. They will kill me because I left their gang. They will kill me because I fled and did not pay them the money that they demanded.” Just two weeks after he was deported, Chocoy was gunned down, sparking condemnation of U.S. actions in Denver by the United Nations’ high commissioner for refugees and Amnesty

International. While in L.A. in 2011, Rivas found himself amid MS-13 members. He was arrested. Because Rivas’ records are sealed, it is unclear what happened in the case, but it seems the arrest saved him. As a runaway from his family and his probation, he was returned to Colorado. He is clear that he never joined the gang and, to prove it, he never got a tattoo that intelligence analysts say is necessary for membership in the gang. Still, ICE has labeled Rivas as somehow affiliated with the gang, according to his attorney, citing documents. “They are trying to say I was gang affiliated,” Rivas acknowledges, making clear that he is not a member. “I’m not involved with the gang.” After his arrest in L.A., gangs would touch Rivas’ life again. Word had come to the family that his grandfather had been shot to death by gangsters in San Salvador for failing to pay protection money. His grandmother and the rest of the family, Rivas says, went into hiding. And, in June of 2012, came news of another death. This time it was a friend in L.A., Daniel Regalado, 18, who, along with a 19-year-old man, was gunned Boulder Weekly

news down. The shooting appeared to be gang related, according to the Los Angeles Police Department. The deaths literally made Rivas sick. He was already in the process of turning his life around and now he was more adamant. Gangs were not a way to build a life. At home, he enrolled in the alternative Snowy Peaks High School in Frisco, about 10 miles north of Breckenridge. There, Rivas, set to graduate in May, turned his life around for good. He aspires to become a counselor to help troubled teens. “I want to help young kids so they can learn the right way,” he says. But he may never get the chance to do that. On March 4, Rivas was summoned to an ICE office in Glenwood Springs. When he arrived, he was handcuffed and hauled away to the ICE’s Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora. That’s because in 2007, while still a child, he was issued what is called a “voluntary departure order” from ICE telling him to leave the United States within 90 days. Because he’s still here, he faces being deported. He may also be disqualified for years from gaining legal permanent residency, a “green card,” says his lawyer, Alexander McShiras, with the Chan Law Firm in Denver. “He lacked the capacity to understand what he was agreeing to at the time,” McShiras says. McShiras is asking ICE to either issue a stay or to defer action on Rivas’ case, buying him up to two years’ residence in the United States to argue the legal merits of the case. One point of contention is that Rivas’ initial immigration counsel years ago never advised his mother of the consequences her son would face for failing to leave the country. Also, the initial counsel failed to ask the boys if they had reason to be scared of returning to El Salvador. More time is needed, McShiras adds, because he doesn’t yet have access to all the documents to properly defend his client. The attorney has made requests for documents from four agencies, including ICE, using the Freedom of Information Act, the law that gives Americans the right to access information by the federal government. “I filed for expedited records because he is detained,” McShiras says. “Usually to get expedited records you have to show that someone is in deportation proceedings or that there is some exceptional need. He is not in proceedings, but he is detained and could be deported at any time so that is the exceptional need.” Boulder Weekly

Still, McShiras doesn’t know when – or if – all the needed records will come. ICE, he adds, almost never responds to such requests. As yet, Rivas isn’t even slated to see a judge. Ultimately, McShiras wants the feds to reopen Rivas’ case so he can apply for a “withholding of removal.” That would allow McShiras to argue, for instance, that Rivas’ anti-gang remarks were political and could trigger retaliation in El

Salvador. “If MS-13 is playing a role in controlling the country, when Jaimes says he’s opposed to gangs, it becomes a political opinion,” McShiras says. “That is to say that he is opposed to the government in El Salvador.” That might justify an asylum claim. As U.S. ambassador Roger Noreiga, now a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington,

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Colorado have already made up their minds. They say they have seen Rivas turn his life around. They want him to stay and they want everyone to know how they feel. On Rivas’ birthday – March 25 – dozens of supporters, including some of his schoolteachers, gathered outside the detention facility in Aurora. Some held “#FreeJaime” signs. His girlfriend, Martinez, called on President Obama to intervene in Rivas’ case. Brett Tomlinson, Rivas’ principal at Snowy Peaks, spoke to the crowd through a bullhorn: “When Jaime made some poor choices a few years ago, the system reeled him in. They spent a lot of time – my money and your money – on helping him become a better person so he can improve his community. However, like a bingo game, the system just randomly pulled his number years later, only to detain him here in this building.” ICE was not prepared to comment on the case by deadline, said Carl Rusnok, a spokesman for the agency. From his cell, Rivas, who could be deported at any time, says some people think he should be sent back to in El Salvador, but his home is now here: “I have nothing there. My grandfather is gone. His house is gone. They took it all. All of that is lost.”

And he is keenly aware that his disavowing of MS-13 to ICE and elsewhere, including to the press, could cost him. It’s hard to know if it is a slight, but it is clear that the gang doesn’t take kindly to the smallest of snubs. As lawyer Jeffrey D. Corsetti wrote for The Georgetown Immigration Law Journal in his 2006 article, Marked for Death: The Maras of Central America and Those Who Flee Their Wrath: “Unfortunately, the sad truth is that the maras rarely take no for an answer. To publicly oppose the gangs, through refusal to join them or open confrontation, is to risk death, not only for oneself, but also for one’s loved ones.” Rivas says whoever in America has the last say on his case, holds his life in their hands: “If I go back to El Salvador, I know I’m just going to get killed.”

‘My grandfather is gone. His house is gone. They took it all. All of that is lost.’ — Jaime Leon Rivas

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New Colorado wilderness held hostage in partisan congressional gridlock New conservation PAC aims to tip the balance by Bob Berwyn

fter the budget battles of the last few years, it’s clear that Congress is fiscally dysfunctional, but our elected lawmakers also face challenges in other areas — including finding the political will to support public land preservation bills that have local bipartisan support. That includes several proposals in Colorado, where the Hermosa Creek Watershed Protection Act, the San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act and the Browns Canyon National Monument and Wilderness Act are all stalled in the fog of partisan gridlock.

The San Juan bill has been reported out of committee and is on the Senate calendar, while the Hermosa Creek bill has been heard in the House and Senate, but hasn’t been reported out of committee yet. The Browns Canyon bill has been introduced, but not heard in committee yet. Another measure, the Central Mountains Wilderness bill, covering lands in Summit and Eagle counties, hasn’t even been re-introduced this session, and Rep. Diana DeGette’s Colorado Wilderness Act, covering about 750,000 acres across the state, is also languishing. Altogether, the conservation measures

would span about 1 million acres of public lands in Colorado. Nearly all the proposals enjoy widespread public support, but haven’t found favor with conservative Republican western lawmakers who chair key House committees. In numerous hearings, Republican congressmen like Rob Bishop (Utah) and Doc Hastings (Washington) have publicly stated their opposition to wilderness designation and environmental protection in general. The opposition to any meaningful land preservation measures is mostly based on a visceral strain of anti-federalism that runs deep in the GOP. But a pair of Coloradans with deep

The Central Mountains Wilderness bill, which would help to preserve land in the Gore Range in Colorado, is just one of several conservation bills stalled in Congress.

political roots are hoping to tilt the balance toward preservation with a targeted political action campaign aimed at supporting candidates who can find common ground on land preservation. In January, former Interior Secretary Ken Salazar teamed up with conservation philanthropist Louis Bacon to launch America’s Conservation PAC. In just a couple of months, the group has raised about $200,000, according to executive director Will Shaffroth, who helped establish Great Outdoors Colorado as a force for conservation in the state. See CONSERVATION BILLS Page 31

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by Boulder Weekly staff RESEARCHERS TAKE A STEP FORWARD IN THE QUEST TO CREATE A USABLE, HIGH ENERGY BIO-FUEL

Researchers using engineered E. coli to generate a high energy biofuel from pinene, a hydrocarbon produced by conifer trees, discovered an enzyme combination that has created the most powerful bio-fuel to date. According to researchers from the Courtesy of Georgia Institute of Technology, by Rob Felt

Pamela Peralta-Yahya, assistant professor at Georgia Institute of Technology, and graduate student Stephen Sarria, observing pinene synthesis results.

Georgia Institute of Technology and the Joint BioEnergy Institute, improvements must still be made to the process if the high energy biofuel is to reach the potency where it could be used in place of petroleumbased fuel. Petroleum-based high energy fuel has a high power-to-density ratio that is necessary for powering smaller machinery, such as in missiles and aerospace technol-

ogy. Since this fuel is in limited supply, the of 2008, known as the farm bill, allowed the demand drives the price up to $24 per United States Department of Agriculture to gallon. partner with state departments in order to “If you are trying to make an alternative improve the competitiveness of specialty to gasoline, you are competing against $3 crops through this grant program. Accordper gallon. That requires a long optimization ing to the Colorado Department of Agriprocess. Our process will be competitive culture, Colorado receives 10 percent of with $25 per gallon in a much shorter time,” its agricultural cash receipt from Colorado Pamela Peralta-Yahya, an assistant professpecialty crops. sor at the Georgia “The diversity of Colorado’s Institute of Technolo- Courtesy of Ollin Farm specialty crops is gy, said in a Georgia staggering. This Tech press release. grant helps speEven though the cialty crop growers researchers were and organizations able to increase the access valuable repinene production sources for research six-fold during their and promotion,” experiment, they will Casey Palmer, CDA need to increase the marketing specialist, productivity another stated in the Colo26-fold to produce rado Department of a biofuel that could Agriculture’s press take the place of release. petroleum-based Proposals to high energy fuel. obtain a grant from A specialty crop of heirloom tomatoes from Ollin Peralta-Yahya this program must inFarms. says that a molecule dicate how the speis inhibiting the cialty crop stakeenzyme’s ability to produce more pinene holder will use the awarded grant to make during biofuel production, so they may a beneficial impact on the specialty crops need to find a different enzyme that does industry for the greater good of the public not become inhibited or find a method that rather than a single organization, institution would use less amounts of the hindering or individual. Last year’s participant in the molecule in order for the biofuel to reach a program, Colorado State University, used strength equal to petroleum-based fuel. their awarded funds to provide technical —Mallane Dressel and financial support to small acreage specialty crop farms, and new specialty crop producers in order to generate specialty FUNDS AVAILABLE TO BOOST COLORADO crop production innovations and increase SPECIALTY CROP INDUSTRY marketing opportunities. This year the Specialty Crops Block Some of the proposed ideas posted on Grant Program has made $700,000 availthe Colorado Department of Agriculture able for the advancement of Colorado website include using the grant to advance specialty crops, such as fruits and vegetalandscaping practices, or possibly investibles, dried fruits and nursery crops including gating disease and pest issues. flowers and sod. —Mallane Dressel The Food, Conservation and Energy Act

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Shaffroth said the new PAC will build on a tradition of bipartisan conservation efforts exemplified as long as 100 years ago, when Republicans supported passage of the Antiquities Act. That bill was supported in Congress by Shaffroth’s grandfather. “He was concerned about the looting of Native American heritage sites in southwestern Colorado,” Shaffroth says, explaining that lawmakers of both parties have been able to see the value in preserving the country’s natural and cultural heritage. “Conserving land and cultural resources for our children and our children’s children is neither a liberal nor a conservative value. It’s not Republican or Democratic, neither an urban nor a rural idea,” says Bacon, a Republican who supported Mitt Romney in 2012. “It is so important to protect and preserve those physical places that truly define a region — however tough the fight — that we are coming together to help elected officials who support the future over the immediate.” It’s that long-term vision that’s been lacking in Congress for the past five years. Up until mid-March, not a single wilderness bill was passed during that span, as House Republicans focused most of their efforts not just on blocking any new preservation measures, but on trying to roll back existing conservation policies. Those attacks on the environment include repeated attempts to water down the Endangered Species Act. Last month, GOP lawmakers released a report that detailed their proposed changes to the bedrock environmental law. Among other things, the conservative lawmakers want to curtail opportunities for public involvement. The report also called for more scientific transparency, more accurate economic impact studies and safeguards for private landowners.

Republicans also made a push this session to privatize water that runs off public national forest lands with a measure that would strip the Forest Service’s ability to maintain flows for environmental purposes. H.R. 3189 originally was intended to address conflicts over water at ski areas, but extreme right-wing Republicans saw it as an opportunity for a massive water grab that could completely dry up some national forest streams. And most recently, the GOP pushed a bill that would take away the president’s authority to declare national monuments under the Antiquities Act. None of the anti-environmental bills are likely to gain much traction in the Democrat-controlled Senate, but the tone of the legislation shows how little consensus there is on public lands management. In the current political climate, it’s unlikely that enough lawmakers will cross party lines to enable passage of any of the proposed wilderness measures. The upcoming election also makes it less likely that Congress will act, as incumbents and candidates focus on voter bread and butter issues. But there is some hope for the coming years, according to Tim Mahoney, a public lands advocate with the Pew Charitable Trusts. Just in the past month, a few GOP members of the House Natural Resources Committee have expressed a willingness to talk about an omnibus land bill that could include several of the proposed measures for new wilderness in Colorado. Both the San Juan Mountains Wilderness bill and the Hermosa Creek proposal have been vetted by lawmakers from both sides of the aisle and could progress through Congress during the current session, Mahoney concluded. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Where’s the beef (coming from)?

Panelists discuss the world’s increasingly industrialized food supply at Conference on World Affairs by Caitlin Rockett

he costs of dishing up mechanized meals by the plateful is on the table for some Conference of World Affairs panelists, whose panel on the industrialization of the food supply is expected to cover the human gains and environmental costs of the changes in how we grow our food. Panelist Alicia Robb, a senior research fellow at the Kauffman Foundation in San Rafael, California, says she wants to address how food choices create environmental impacts that many people aren’t aware of. “We’re getting most of the meat we eat through factory farms and the environmental consequences are so large that you could drive seven Hummers and still be more environmentally responsible,” she says. According to FarmForward, factory farm facilities can house more than 125,000 animals under one roof. “If you think about all the food animals are fed just so we end up with the meat we eat, it’s very inefficient. Beyond that, there are greenhouse gas emissions, air pollution and water pollution that stem from large farming operations,” Robb says. “Ninety-five percent of the meat we get in U.S. is from factory farms. It’s not like we’re all eating locally and sustainably.” Fellow panelist Robert Egger, who speaks internationally on the subjects of hunger, sustainability, nonprofit political engagement and social enterprise, is

more focused on the societal aspects of agriculture. “I’m intrigued by the history of the agriculture industry. I’m interested in helping people understand how exciting times were when we birthed the modern industrial age,” Egger says. “For the first time after World War II, soldiers came home and didn’t have to go back to the farm. For many men and women it was like, ‘Hallelujah, science freed us.’ These people didn’t have to deal with drought and locust and loans.” However, Eggert says that we’ve let the industrialization of food “get away from us.” “I’m interested in, what’s the new medium?” he says. “What is the way our citizens can eat a decent meal? How does the big glorious hunk of America eat in this new world of food production? We have to find a middle ground between industrialized food production and local, sustainable options.” The free-range conversation at the Conference on World Affairs should allow panelists to explore both spectrums of the subject. “Fear Factor: Our Shocking Industrialized Food Supply” takes place at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 11 at the Conference on World Affairs. Panelists are Robert Egger, David Groenfeldt, Alicia Robb and Maggie Simbeye and the moderator will be Lee Shainis. A full schedule is available at www.colorado.edu/cwa/.

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Local collaborative films aerial dancer in the Flatirons by Elizabeth Miller

igh up on the southern side of Bear Peak at the southwestern edge of Boulder, the rock feature known as The Maiden hooks from the ground toward the western horizon. The rock monolith, dusted in lime lichen, catches the setting sun, holding on to the light after everything around it has drifted into shadow for just a few minutes. The west, overhanging face of the feature became the stage for an unlikely aerial play — a solo aerial dancer, who, with the help of a rock climber and in the company of a filmmaker/musician/art-

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ist, would anchor her red fabric about 200 feet above the ground, and lower into it on a harness she would then slip out of to dance, free solo, held at times only by the grip of her own hands on the fabric. While that dancer, Ashley Smith, worked her magic in the air, filmmaker Craig Muderlak rappelled from the top of the feature and scrambled to adjacent rock formations to film her in action. She spun on more than a dozen feet of red fabric, fluttering in the breeze below her, in the closing scenes of “Maiden Light,” a short film by

Aerial dancer Ashley Smith performs off the 200-foot western face of The Maiden.

Muderlak. But the film isn’t just about this fleeting moment of dance; it tells the story of a group of people — Muderlak and Smith, along with Tim Davis who had the vision for the project, Jen Friedberg who assisted with photos and audio, Jack Ellenberger who helped film — slowly coming together around a project perhaps only they could have created. “Tim [Davis] at some point said, ‘This wouldn’t be possible without all of the different people coming together,’” Muderlak says. “So that, to me, in some ways was the story. Almost more than

Ashley [Smith] dancing, the story was the collaboration.” The group faced the challenges of working with a natural lighting “sweet spot” that lasts 20 minutes, as well as the ever-changing weather conditions of Colorado summer afternoons, and filming was delayed multiple times by wind and rain after a two-hour hike to the location. “In some ways it was good that it didn’t go as planned the first time because it made for a more interesting see WILD DANCER Page 34

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story,” Muderlak says. Davis, one of the producers, was not only the centrifugal force that brought together the creators and performers for the film, he played the linchpin role of teaching Smith the rock climbing skills she needed to get to the top of The Maiden. He free-soloed the easier route on the face, a multi-pitch climb rated at 5.6, to drop a rope down for Smith, who used an ascender to climb the rope — something much easier on practice runs in the garage than on the rock. Couple pulling yourself up a couple hundred feet of rope with having hiked in with a load of climbing gear, she says, and her arms were wearing out. “By the time I went down to the fabric I was like, ‘Come on grip strength, you can do it, you’re still there,’” she says. Smith studied dance at the University of Colorado Boulder and was there while the artistic director for Frequent Flyers, a local aerial dance company, was completing a residency there. Eventually, she was invited to dance with them and offered as many classes as she wanted as compensation. “I just went crazy with it and was taking six different classes a week with them on top of a full schedule at school,” she says. She also completed their professional training track program and is now teaching at and dancing with Iluminar Aerial in Broomfield and performing with Moth Poetic Circus in Denver. Davis recruited Smith after a photo shoot under a bridge in Boulder for a show Smith was producing. “He was like, ‘Oh I have this idea to do it off this rock in the Flatirons, would you be interested?’” Smith recounts. “And I was like, ‘Yeah, of course.’ I love doing what I do outside and it sounded really amazing — I just didn’t realize it was so high up.” The initial response to seeing The Maiden, she says, was part nervousness and part excitement to get to take her

The filmmakers have announced plans to take the outdoor aerial dance performance to a natural arch in Utah.

art outdoors in a beautiful, wild location. “It’s kind of freeing, I guess, I get to be out in nature, kind of be suspended in mid-air and get to look around me and see mountains and trees and it was blue sky when we did it, so yeah, kind of a cool experience,” Smith says. There was talk at one point of rigging up more than one dancer, and a preliminary round at Royal Arch included other aerial dancers, but in the end, only Smith lasted for The Maiden. “I was the only one, I don’t know, dumb enough,” Smith says and laughs. “No one else wanted to go up that high. Everyone else was like ‘No, that one’s not for me.’ And I was like, ‘Oh sure, why not?’” “I don’t know how many people would be willing to do what she’s doing,” Muderlak says. “Ashley’s pretty quiet — not someone I think of as an adrenalin junkie or a thrill-seeker. It felt very controlled, it felt like she seemed like she felt pretty comfortable up there, but I think the head game and just being in a different environment was intimidating for other folks.” In a note of cautions, Smith says, she opted out of doing any drops — a dancer wraps up in the fabric and then spins down the length of it, unfurling it

as she goes. “When they’re on their fabric, they’re pretty darn secure-feeling, so, mentally, I think it could be challenging, but she felt very different from soloing on a rock climb,” Muderlak says. “She was pretty locked in with her hands and feet.” As he was filming, he says, it was easy to be so caught up in the rush to get the footage that he wasn’t worrying about her so much, he says, but in the months since August, as he’s been editing the film, he’s had more chance to look, and he notes, there are a couple moments where she’s just holding onto the fabric with her two hands. “Actually I got more comfortable when the harness finally came off because it’s more familiar for me, I was just on my fabric,” Smith says. On one of their first trips up, she got into the fabric with the climbing harness and a rope still on. “It was just getting tangled, and I was like, this is scarier than anything, I just need to get this harness off. It was a little nerve-wracking at first, so I just kind of locked in on the fabric, sat and took a couple breaths, and was like, ‘OK, this is all right now, it’s gorgeous. I’ll just do what I normally do.’”

In post-production, Muderlak has added illustrations, done with pen and ink and water color, that re-animate in the film and music he wrote and played himself. His illustrations of rock features recognizable to climbing and mountaineering aficionados — the faces of the Diamond on Longs Peak and Half Dome in Yosemite — as well as footage of him playing the film’s soundtrack on guitar, build an aesthetic for the film that trends more toward art and story than it does toward sports and adrenalin junkie fodder. It also, he says, adds a little bit of himself into the film — a person otherwise behind the camera and not really seen on screen. “I think I’m always compelled to just add something unique to my films beyond the cinematography, and really, cinematography is relatively new for me. I’ve been a musician and illustrator and painter for a long time,” he says. “The story was all of us coming together and so, at some level, the filming was part of the story. So I just felt very connected to this film and so I felt like adding a little of myself into it, and I think I like to make my films pretty personal, intimate.” Now, the posse is looking to reassemble themselves this fall to take their collaboration, now called The Restorative, to Utah to film a second installment. This time, Muderlak will be documenting the story of them wandering through canyon country, looking for an arch from which to hang another strip of fabric and let Smith dance in the ideal natural frame. “We know it will work on the arches, we know it will be beautiful, but I think what made the first film work well for me was the fact that it was challenging and there were unknowns,” Muderlak says. So they’re deliberately cultivating some of those unknowns — planning to go into a backcountry setting where they’ll search for just the right arch. see WILD DANCER Page 36

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While where they go may be left to chance, Smith says this time around, her dance routine will be more choreographed. “On The Maiden, it was a lot of improv, to be honest. There was a few things I’d thought about before going that I wanted to do,” Smith says. “But for the Utah trip I really want to have a very set routine that I choreograph in advance and have it be more like a show, more like a full piece, instead of little glimpses of poses.” While The Maiden has established climbing routes and fixed bolts at the top they could use to anchor the rigging for Smith’s fabric — a similar rig to the climbing gear Davis and Muderlak are more familiar with — working on arches in the Moab-area backcountry will require building natural anchors or setting only removable gear. They’ll be careful, he says, both about following a leave no trace ethic and not ruining anyone else’s experience of the desert. “We gonna play by the rules,” Muderlak says. “The story that we’re doing and the places that we’re doing it is not set in stone, we just know we want to do it in the southwest, in southeastern Utah and in canyon country. I don’t want people thinking that we’re going to sneak into Canyonlands and set this up on the arches and aggravate people.”

They’re running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the trip, asking for a relatively modest $4,600 — primarily to pay for the gas required to drive the crew to canyon country, food for them while they’re out there and a little for the time they’ll have to take to spend five or six days filming, not to mention the shipping and handling for the art given as incentives to people who donate to the campaign. A dream is to somehow acquire a quadchopper for aerial shots. “It’s a really hard kind of game to play, the Kickstarter, because it’s all or nothing, so it’s like, ‘What’s the least you can do it for?’ and then hope for more, because it’s going to end up being a lot of work, beyond the videos, all the stuff after it,” says Muderlak, whose post-production work will include completing the illustrations like those that spice up “Maiden Light.” “I’m excited to collaborate with everyone again,” Smith says. “It’s a great group of people, everyone kind of has different talents, and doing the project wouldn’t be possible without everyone contributing their different skills.” “Maiden Light” can be seen on www. blownminds.blogspot.com, Craig Muderlak’s website and the Kickstarter.com campaign can be found under The Maiden Project. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Not all who wander are lost CWA panel on exploring in your 20s by Caitlin Rockett

erhaps it’s true now more than ever that not all those who wander are lost. They’re just getting ahead of the game in an increasingly connected world. The panel “Wanderlust: Oh, the Places You’ll Go in Your 20s,” at the Conference on World Affairs, will bring together four diverse panelists — from career experts to graphic novelists to musicians — to talk about … well, whatever comes up. “I hope we’ll be talking about the importance of global awareness, developing a global mindset, and for these young people in their 20s, being able

to appreciate and understand the importance of the interconnected global world we live in, because it’s part of society whether we like it or not,” says Stacie Berdan, an international career expert and author who has been to more than 70 countries. As the conference takes place at the University of Colorado Boulder’s campus, Berdan says she expects there will be plenty of students in attendance. She hopes to highlight how studying abroad is relevant to all jobs. “Not just business people, but engineers, manufacturing jobs, teachers. Hopefully [students] will be inspired to study abroad, either as an Boulder Weekly

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m undergrad or a graduate student. responsibilities, you don’t have a Increasingly, it becomes a real differen- spouse or children to take care of and tiator in the hiring process,” she says. it’s okay to live a little bit more on a “If you really want [a study abroad budget.” program] to work for you and be a Hogan, who has spent the past career enhancer, integrate into your decade traveling the globe to improve studies so you can make the most of it. the effectiveness of international aid, Maybe take a deep will travel to her 81st dive into a language.” country this month. Tori Hogan, a Berdan says she INFO BOX “Wanderlust: Oh, the Places You’ll Go in researcher, filmmaker also hopes to address Your 20s” takes place at 9 and educator, agrees misconceptions about a.m. on Wednesday, April 9. Panelists are Stacie Berdan, with Berdan’s stance studying abroad, parGooding, Tori Hogan and on how travel can ticularly that it’s too Willow Wilson and the moderator will be Mary Dando. A enhance job prospects. expensive. Various full schedule is available at Hogan goes on to say programs inside and www.colorado.edu/cwa/. that travel provides outside universities lessons that traditional can fully or partially education can’t. help students cover “I personally feel that traveling travel costs. around the world in your 20s is better And to Berdan, the adventure is than any graduate degree you could simply too exciting to miss out on. “The world is so much more interget,” Hogan says. “Solo travel when esting than anything you can could you’re young is a great way to figure ever find in TV, on the Internet or in a out who you are and how you interact book,” she says. with others. There’s never gonna be a better time — you don’t have a lot of Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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World affairs to be conferenced includes no shortage of arts topics by Josh Gross

fter this many years covering it, there’s not a lot of new things BW can say about the University of Colorado Boulder’s annual Conference on World Affairs in a global sense. Since it was founded in 1948, it’s kept on keeping on with its half-spontaneous intellectual mashup format. The changes it has seen have come primarily in expanding to topics less worldly in their affairyness. And while its not new for the CWA to delve into topics of art and entertainment, this year’s conference delivers in a big way with an array of panels assembled to dissect compelling A&E topics in a whirlwind of academia. Here are BW’s picks for the top panels covering entertainment topics.

Ebert’s Cinema Interruptus Though the long-running CWA staple no longer has its founding namesake in charge, as with all things showbusiness, the show must go on. This year it will be doing so with David Bender moderating. The interruptus that Bender will be overseeing is a multi-day event focused 38 April 3, 2014

on discussing a film. On day one, the film will be shown straight through. On subsequent days, it will be shown again, but audience members are invited to shout out for the film to stop so they can raise a point for discussion. Once sufficiently discussed, the film is restarted and continues until stopped again. That process continues throughout the week. This year’s film is the Mike Nichols’ classic, The Graduate, starring Dustin Hoffman. So get your cougar references and plastics jokes ready now. Why The Graduate? “When Roger Ebert launched Cinema Interruptus in 1975, he began with what is still considered to be the greatest American film, Citizen Kane,” Bender said on the CWA website. “There’s a line from Kane — ‘It’s not hard to make a lot of money, if all you want to do is make a lot of money’ — that could well have been in The Graduate. Instead, screenwriter Buck Henry simplified it into one word, ‘plastics.’” The Graduate will be screened uninterrupted at 3 p.m. on Sunday, April 6 in Muenzinger Auditorium.

Interruptus sessions will be held Monday, April 7 through Thursday, April 10, in Macky Auditorium at 4 p.m. each day.

The New, New Golden Age of Television: How and What We’re Watching It used to be that TV writing was for hacks and talent tried to stay above the fray by sticking to films. Not so much anymore. “What’s happened in Hollywood is that the very best writers have abandoned screenwriting and they’ve all gone over to TV,” screenwriting guru Robert McKee told CNN in 2004. That migration is palpable, as the serial format has never been stronger. Shows like Lost, Breaking Bad or True Detective broke records and boundaries. But why are all the writers moving to TV, and what else is contributing to its renaissance? Trying to get to the bottom of it will be producer and agent Steve Sauer, the founding partner of MediaFour; producer Howard Schultz, who graduated from CU before creating shows like Extreme Makeover; actor, writer and producer Terrence McNally; and conservative commentator Guy Benson, who writes for Fox News, National Review and the late Andrew Breitbart’s trifecta of nutjob blogs, Big Government and Big Journalism, and the only thing that slightly relates to the big topic, Big Hollywood. Tuesday, April 8, 3:30-4:50 p.m., Muenzinger Auditorium

Vampires and Zombies Everywhere Between mashups, reboots, megapopular YA series and more, it seems like you can’t turn on your TV or visit a bookshop without getting a faceful of the undead. Why are vampires and zombies so popular in modern culture? Panelists Margot Adler, Christopher Douglas, Howard Schultz and Dovie Thomason will try to get to the bottom of it. And if you aren’t familiar with their work, it should be a unique conversation. A CU graduate and a storied TV producer, Schultz is the most obvious choice. But some of the more interesting points are likely to come from Douglas, an Oxford math professor specializing in quantum theories, and Thomason, a Lakota and Kiowa Apache folklorist. The panel will be rounded out with a journalist’s eye thanks to the participation of longtime NPR correspondent Margot Adler, who recently published Vampires Are Us, a book examining the popularity of vampires in culture. The panel will be moderated by Pablo Kjolseth, executive director of the International Film Series at CU. Friday, April 11, 9-10:20 a.m. Math 100.

TV as Cultural Historian: Downton Abbey, Modern Family, Tremé Celebrated mythologist Joseph Campbell spoke of myths as part of a unified national identity. But America

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12:30-1:50 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 4463 A Generation Behind Bars Stuart Butler Arthur Grim Steve James Sarah Shourd Moderator: David Spiro

2:00-3:20 UMC East Ballroom 4613 American Regionalism: Where We’re From Shapes Who We Are Stacie Berdan Ross Haenfler Kevin Kling Michael Stoff Moderator: Susan Barney Jones

3:30-4:50 Muenzinger Auditorium 4767 No Body’s Perfect Jeanne Marrazzo Joaquin Muñoz Tina Packer Jenni Schaefer Moderator: Susan Litt

9:00-10:20 UMC 235 5114 Romancing the Drone Gordon Adams Sarah Holewinski Tammy Schultz John Tirman Moderator: Paul Voakes

4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom 4831 EBERT INTERRUPTUS IV 5115 Political Gridlock: 12:30-1:50 UMC 235 2:00-3:20 UMC West Ballroom The Graduate House of Cards in Real 4464 Cable News: 4614 Impact Investing, a New David Bender Life Polarization Is Popular Concept of Philanthropy Guy Benson David Bender Andrew Butcher 5:00-5:50 Old Main Chapel Stuart Butler Jurek Martin Robert Egger 4901 STORYTELLING Abby Rapoport Ana Navarro Gabriela Enrigue Liars and Thieves Josh Rogin Jon Sinton Cheryl Polk Clare Murphy Moderator: Lynn Guissinger Moderator: Daniel Gould Moderator: Jane Saltzman Moderator: Pat McCullough 9:00-10:20 Math 100 12:30-1:50 UMC East Ballroom 2:00-3:20 ATLAS Black Box 5:00-6:20 UMC 235 5117 Vampires and Zombies 4465 Eco-tourism in Africa 4616 TALK AND PLAY 4911 Children at Risk Everywhere! David Groenfeldt Digital Sandbox Gooding Margot Adler Tori Hogan Avi Agababa Arthur Grim Christopher Douglas Maggie Simbeye Don Grusin Vivian Onano Howard Schultz Moderator: Lawrence Carlson Derek Nash Cheryl Polk Dovie Thomason John Roderick Moderator: Trina Faatz Moderator: Pablo Kjolseth 12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Daniel Sher 4466 A Conversation Among 5:00-6:20 UMC West Ballroom 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel Islamic Women 3:30-4:50 UMC Center Ballroom 4912 The Radical Notion That 5118 Sub-Saharan Africa: Shihana Alazzaz 4761 SuperPower Outage: Women Are People Explosion, Implosion Daisy Khan Are America’s Days Sasha Cagen Patrick Boel Shadia Marhaban Numbered Tina Dupuy Vivian Onano Willow Wilson Gordon Adams Shadia Marhaban Maggie Simbeye Moderator: Constance Holden Robert Kaufman Ana Navarro Moderator: Torkin Wakefield Jay Parker Moderator: Anthony Bastone 12:30-1:50 Macky Auditorium Ike Wilson 9:00-10:20 ATLAS Black Box 4467 TALK AND PLAY Moderator: Cody Oreck 5:00-6:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5119 Runaway Globalization The Musical Journey 4913 Spin It to Win It: Peter Lighte from Africa to America 3:30-4:50 UMC West Ballroom The Wonderful World Shadia Marhaban Lillian Boutté 4762 We Don’t Need No of Lying Judith Morrison Henry Butler Stinkin’ Data! Andy Ihnatko Moderator: Chris Allan Mama C Joel Gallant Tamsin Maxwell Tanya Ellsworth Judith Morrison John Roderick 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium Vasti Jackson Seth Shostak Howard Schultz 5122 States’ Rights Versus Moderator: Dorothy Rupert Michelle Thaller Moderator: Christopher Sarson Reproductive Rights Moderator: Monica Bennett Lou Dubose 1:30-2:50 Boulder High School 3:30-4:50 ATLAS Black Box 6:00-7:00 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM Sandra Fluke 4569 Obama’s Reading My 4763 Photography: 4981 It’s the Economy Mary Hughes The Big Picture Texts! It’s the Global Economy, Jeanne Marrazzo Technology and Privacy Shihana Alazzaz Stupid Moderator: David Bachrach Henry Butler Patrick Boel Robert George Steve James Judith Morrison 9:00-10:20 Eaton Humanities 150 Trey Lyons Derek Nash Moderator: Jim Banks 5123 Living an Inspired Life Limor Shiponi Moderator: Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz Charlie Bisharat John Tirman Tori Hogan 3:30-4:50 UMC East Ballroom Joaquin Muñoz 2:00-2:50 Macky Auditorium 4764 A Stumbling Dragon: Ricardo Silveira 8:30-9:30 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM 4600 PLENARY China’s Troubles Elle Woods 5061 Connections America’s Retirement Patrick Boel Moderator: Alice Madden In a Modern Crisis Bob Dreyfuss Middle East Roger Ferguson Tom Gold 9:30-10:50 UMC West Ballroom Shihana Alazzaz Moderator: Bernard Slack Peter Lighte 5161 Hi, Mom and Dad, Janet Breslin-Smith Moderator: Alice Renouf I Majored in...Now What? Moderator: Duncan Campbell 2:00-3:20 UMC 235 Sasha Cagen 4611 Controversies Inside 3:30-4:50 Old Main Chapel Don Grusin Science 4765 Why Vote–The Pollsters 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom Stuart Schoffman Gay Marriage: Judith Curry Have Already Read Our 5111 Michael Stoff The Future Is Now Francesca Grifo Minds Moderator: Jeffrey Cox David Bender Maggie Koerth-Baker Guy Benson Joel Gallant Melissa Sayres Tina Dupuy 10:30-11:50 Macky Auditorium Ellie Hill Moderator: Paul Sperry Abby Rapoport 5261 The Assault on Secular Moderator: Scott Beard Sanho Tree Law: 2:00-3:20 UMC Center Ballroom Moderator: Ralph Gregory Corporate Religiosity 9:00-10:20 Eaton Humanities 1B50 4612 Peace Between Israelis Margot Adler 5112 American Foreign and Palestinians: What 3:30-4:50 UMC 235 Stuart Butler Policy: Progress Looks Like 4766 From Woodstock to Sandra Fluke The Olive Branch and Suhad Babaa Coachella: Common Robert Kaufman the Arrow Richard Jones Threads in Festival Moderator: Mimi Wesson Richard Jones Stuart Schoffman Culture Trey Lyons Elias Zananiri Lillian Boutté 10:30-11:50 UMC 235 Jim Smith Moderator: Had Beatty Gooding 5262 Into the Future of Ike Wilson Vasti Jackson Science and Technology Moderator: Alan Rudy John Roderick Andy Ihnatko Moderator: Jane Menken Maggie Koerth-Baker 9:00-10:20 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 Melissa Sayres 5113 How Technology Michelle Thaller Enhances Creativity Moderator: Erin Frazier Dan Gillmor Gooding Jeff Lieberman Seth Shostak Moderator: Tom McKinnon

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10:30-11:50 Old Main Chapel 1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box 5263 “Socially Acceptable” 5511 WISE Women in Science Violence Against Women and Engineering Jeanne Marrazzo Francesca Grifo Sarah Shourd Maggie Koerth-Baker Willow Wilson Tamsin Maxwell Elle Woods Michelle Thaller Moderator: Lisa Radelet Moderator: Marjorie Leggitt 11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom 5311 Heroin’s Strange Return 5513 Football: Bigotry, Robert George Bullying, Big Bucks and Arthur Grim Brain Bashing Sanho Tree Ross Haenfler Moderator: Brad Weismann Steve James Jurek Martin 11:00-12:20 Fleming 155 William Nack 5312 Fear Factor: Moderator: Richard Lyons Our Shocking Industrialized Food Supply 1:00-2:20 UMC 235 Robert Egger 5515 What It Means to David Groenfeldt Be Successful Alicia Robb Henry Butler Maggie Simbeye Robert Egger Moderator: Lee Shainis Stuart Schoffman Liz Weir Moderator: Beverly Silva 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 5313 Quality of Services for 1:00-2:20 Eaton Humanities 150 Those on the Fringe 5516 Novels Versus Netflix: Joel Gallant The Importance of Linda Hilton Reading Cheryl Polk Dan Gillmor Steve Sauer Tina Packer Moderator: Sharon Adams Abby Rapoport Jenni Schaefer 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom Moderator: Elisabeth Hyde 5316 Revolt! Youth Empowerment! 1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom Tina Dupuy 5517 #Awakenings Ross Haenfler Arab or Otherwise Daisy Khan Bob Dreyfuss Vivian Onano Daisy Khan Moderator: William Wei John Tirman Elias Zananiri 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box Moderator: Richard Jessor 5322 TALK AND PLAY Rhythm and Movement 1:00-2:20 Hale 270 Avi Agababa 5518 Art and Social Change Mama C Lillian Boutté Sasha Cagen Don Grusin Tanya Ellsworth Jenny Seham Tamsin Maxwell Ernie Watts Jenny Seham Moderator: Radu Popescu Moderator: Jan Burton 1:00-2:20 UMC West Ballroom 11:00-12:20 Eaton Humanities 150 5522 What Dying Cities Can 5323 Women Breadwinners: Learn A World View From Thriving Cities Shihana Alazzaz Patrick Boel Janet Breslin-Smith Andrew Butcher Gabriela Enrigue Kevin Conger Judith Morrison Moderator: Jared Polis Moderator: Eliza Woloson 1:30-2:20 Old Main Chapel 11:30-1:20 Muenzinger Auditorium 5551 ARTFUL DUET 5381 SCREENING Stories and Strings My Neighborhood Charlie Bisharat Suhad Babaa Limor Shiponi Moderator: Paula DuPré Pesmen Moderator: Becky Roser 12:00-12:50 UMC 235 5401 Climate Change: It’s About the Data, Not the Politics Judith Curry Discussant: Kevin Trenberth

2:30-3:20 Macky Auditorium 5650 MOLLY IVINS FREEDOM FIGHTIN’ MEMORIAL PLENARY Making Our Voices Heard: The Millennial Genera12:00-1:20 Old Main Chapel tion 5411 Poems of Life and Death Sandra Fluke Gordon Adams Moderator: Erika Stutzman Terrence McNally Clare Murphy 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium Jay Parker 5831 Roger Ebert: Moderator: Shirley Berg Life Itself Steve James 12:30-1:20 Macky Auditorium Moderator: James Palmer, 5451 PERFORMANCE Beloved Director Four Guitars and Some Sax Gooding Vasti Jackson Derek Nash John Roderick Ricardo Silveira Moderator: Bret Saunders

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SUNDAY

1:00-2:20 UMC East Ballroom 1513 The Wisdom of Uncertainty Judith Curry 3:00-5:00 Muenzinger Auditorium Joel Gallant 0731 EBERT UNINTERRUPTUS Willow Wilson The Graduate Elias Zananiri Introduction: James “Chili” Palmer Moderator: Louis Diamond

MONDAY

8:30-9:00 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM 1051 RADIO BROADCAST A Public Affair: Why The Graduate David Bender Moderator: Sam Fuqua

1:00-2:20 UMC 235 1514 Solving Worldwide Poverty Gabriela Enrigue Judith Morrison Judithe Registre Maggie Simbeye Moderator: Bette Erickson

3:00-4:20 ATLAS Black Box 1718 Maker Culture Andy Ihnatko Richard Jones Jeff Lieberman Seth Shostak Moderator: Julia Halaby

3:00-4:20 Chemistry 140 1719 Life in the Military: Behind the Uniform Janet Breslin-Smith Tammy Schultz Ike Wilson Elle Woods Moderator: Tori Peglar

3:00-5:30 Muenzinger Auditorium 1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box 1741 SCREENING 1515 The Arts: Lost and Found Urban Warrior in the 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel in Translation African Bush 1111 Ex-Pat Nightmares and Stuart Schoffman Mama C Misadventures Jenny Seham Moderator: Patricia Bruck Sarah Holewinski Limor Shiponi Jay Parker Don Weingust 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium James Tanabe Moderator: Lawrence Anderson 1831 EBERT INTERRUPTUS I Willow Wilson The Graduate Moderator: Nicholas Flores 1:00-2:20 Macky Auditorium David Bender 1516 Eliminating Terrorism 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom or Creating Terrorists 4:30-5:30 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 1112 Snowden: Patriot or Robert Kaufman 1851 STORYTELLING Pariah Josh Rogin Forever Young Gordon Adams Tammy Schultz Liz Weir Tina Dupuy Jim Walsh Moderator: Sharon Nehls Andy Ihnatko Moderator: Albert Hand Trey Lyons 4:30-5:50 UMC 235 Moderator: Susan Graf 2:00-3:20 UMC West Ballroom 1861 Tea Time Is Over: 1611 Succeeding in the The GOP Civil War 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Global Workplace Robert George 1113 Young Entrepreneurs: Shihana Alazzaz Robert Kaufman Your Economy Needs You Stacie Berdan Neil King Andrew Butcher Peter Lighte Daniel Odescalchi Gabriela Enrigue Daniel Odescalchi Moderator: Scott Schaefer Gooding Moderator: Tom Chesney Alicia Robb 4:30-5:50 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Paul Heffron 2:30-3:50 Macky Auditorium 1862 Vengeance 1661 Negotiating With Iran: Suhad Babaa 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium An Opening or a Arthur Grim 1114 Obama Could Have Trojan Horse Tina Packer Done Better Joe Cirincione Dovie Thomason Janet Breslin-Smith Bob Dreyfuss Moderator: Mary Jo White Joe Cirincione Sarah Shourd Neil King Jim Walsh 4:30-5:50 UMC East Ballroom Michael Stoff Moderator: David Skaggs 1864 Gentrification, Moderator: Paul Levitt Homelessness and the 3:00-3:30 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM American City 9:00-10:20 UMC East Ballroom 1701 RADIO BROADCAST Andrew Butcher 1115 Globalization of Metro Kevin Conger Pollution What Women Politicians Robert Egger Kevin Conger Bring to the Table Melissa Sayres Tom Gold Mary Hughes Moderator: Greg Harms Francesca Grifo Moderator: Sandra Fish David Groenfeldt 4:30-5:50 UMC West Ballroom Moderator: Douglas Dupler 3:00-4:20 UMC Center Ballroom 1865 Tinder and Sexting: 1711 Journalism: Best of The Evolution of Dating 9:00-10:20 ATLAS Black Box Times, Worst of Times Sasha Cagen 1116 Show Biz Is Big Biz Madeleine Buckingham Tori Hogan Tina Packer Dan Gillmor Jenni Schaefer John Roderick Jurek Martin Howard Schultz Steve Sauer Josh Rogin Moderator: Allen Carmichael Howard Schultz Moderator: Steve Todd Moderator: Ron Bostwick 4:30-5:50 Duane Physics G1B30 3:00-4:20 UMC 235 1866 STEM Education 9:00-10:20 UMC 235 1713 Silent Killer: Depression Judith Curry 1117 Science Fiction or in the Millennial Christopher Douglas Science Fact Generation Tamsin Maxwell Margot Adler Ross Haenfler Moderator: Kaye Howe Clare Murphy Joaquin Muñoz Seth Shostak Cheryl Polk 4:30-5:50 UMC Center Ballroom Michelle Thaller Jenni Schaefer 1867 U.S. Miltary: When Was Moderator: Richard Foy Moderator: Micah Abram the Last Time We Won a War 11:30-12:20 Macky Auditorium 3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom Tammy Schultz 1350 KEYNOTE 1714 What the Needy Jim Smith The Globalization of Really Need John Tirman Health Robert Egger Ike Wilson Kathleen Sebelius Ellie Hill Moderator: Barry Baer Moderator: Phil DiStefano Linda Hilton Terrence McNally 4:30-5:50 UMC Gallery 12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel Moderator: Isabel McDevitt 1868 Family Matters 1461 Gender Equity: Madeleine Buckingham Women Leaning In 3:00-4:20 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 Kevin Kling Stacie Berdan 1716 I F-ing Love Shadia Marhaban Carrie Hessler-Radelet Theoretical Research! Cheryl Polk Mary Hughes Christopher Douglas Moderator: Linda Jourgensen Alicia Robb Maggie Koerth-Baker Moderator: Antonio Papuzza Tamsin Maxwell 4:30-5:50 Chemistry 140 Melissa Sayres 1869 Healthcare: It’s Big 1:00-2:20 UMC Center Ballroom Moderator: Christina Fiflis Bucks 1512 Mercy in the Justice Guy Benson System 3:00-4:20 Old Main Chapel Stuart Butler Lou Dubose 1717 The 100th Anniversary Joel Gallant Arthur Grim of the War to End All Jon Sinton Sarah Shourd Wars Moderator: Charles Steinberg Elle Woods William Nack Moderator: Amanda Tyler Jay Parker Sanho Tree Liz Weir Moderator: Phil Straus

4:30-5:50 Hellems 252 1871 The Commodification of Natural Resources Patrick Boel David Groenfeldt Vivian Onano Seth Shostak Moderator: Jerry Peterson 6:30-7:00 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM 1951 RADIO BROADCAST Outsources Gay Family Values Peter Lighte Moderator: Karen Raforth

TUESDAY

8:30-9:00 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM 2051 RADIO BROADCAST How on Earth Conquering the Energy Crisis Before It Conquers Us Maggie Koerth-Baker Moderator: Jim Pullen

9:30-10:50 Old Main Chapel 2161 Europe’s Influence in the World Patrick Boel Trey Lyons Jurek Martin Elias Zananiri Moderator: Joseph Jupille 9:30-10:50 UMC West Ballroom 2162 Humanitarianism: Handouts and Bootstraps Carrie Hessler-Radelet Tori Hogan Sarah Holewinski Judith Morrison Moderator: Elizabeth Dunn

9:30-10:50 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 2163 Undocumented Families Gabriela Enrigue Arthur Grim Linda Hilton Joaquin Muñoz Moderator: Joshua LePree

9:30-10:50 UMC 235 2164 The Political Crystal Ball David Bender Mary Hughes Ana Navarro Daniel Odescalchi Moderator: Suzy Ageton 9:30-10:50 UMC Center Ballroom 2165 Future of Nuclear Joe Cirincione Richard Jones Jim Smith Jim Walsh Moderator: Lloyd Gelman

9:30-10:50 UMC East Ballroom 2166 Medianomics: When Monopolies Threaten Media Madeleine Buckingham Dan Gillmor Steve Sauer Jon Sinton Moderator: Bob Greenlee 9:30-10:50 ATLAS Black Box 2167 The Fate of Higher Ed Janet Breslin-Smith Stuart Butler Judith Curry Tom Gold Moderator: Kathryn Keller

11:00-11:50 Visual Arts Complex 1B20 2301 ARIA Imprisonment Sarah Shourd Moderator: Gale Dunlap

11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box 12:30-1:50 UMC 235 2312 Virtual Space Versus 2467 Collateral Damage: Green Place: Reaffirming Civilians in War Community Bob Dreyfuss Andrew Butcher Sarah Holewinski Robert Egger Tammy Schultz David Groenfeldt Sarah Shourd John Roderick Moderator: Jenni Gasbarro Moderator: Carol Conzelman 2:00-3:20 UMC Center Ballroom 11:00-12:20 UMC 235 2611 Surrendering the 2313 Put Your Weiner Away: War on Weed Best Scandals Ever Ellie Hill Margot Adler Jeanne Marrazzo Tina Dupuy Terrence McNally Robert George Sanho Tree Ellie Hill Moderator: Fintan Steele Moderator: Clay Evans 2:00-3:20 UMC West Ballroom 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 2612 Technology: 2314 Science SOS: Decline, Job Killer or Job Maker Denial and Starvation Kevin Conger Joel Gallant Andy Ihnatko Francesca Grifo Seth Shostak Seth Shostak James Tanabe Michelle Thaller Moderator: Rex Whisman Moderator: Wallace Westfeldt 2:00-3:20 UMC East Ballroom 11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 2613 Asia’s Balance of Power 2315 Daily Life in Israel Peter Lighte and Palestine: In Shadia Marhaban Perpetual Pursuit of the Jim Walsh Ordinary Ike Wilson Suhad Babaa Moderator: Bruce Montgomery Stuart Schoffman Limor Shiponi 2:00-3:20 UMC 235 Elias Zananiri 2614 Bitcoin, Crowdfunding Moderator: Joseph Juhasz and the Disruptive Digital Economy 11:00-12:20 Wolf Law Christopher Douglas Wittemyer Courtroom Richard Jones 2316 College Drug Use Neil King Ross Haenfler Alicia Robb Jeff Lieberman Moderator: Paul Jerde Jenni Schaefer Moderator: Steve Eisler 2:00-3:20 Old Main Chapel 2615 The Downside of 11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel Democracy 2317 The Wit and Wisdom of Judith Morrison Molly Ivins, Roger Ebert Jon Sinton and Simon Hoggart Jim Smith Lou Dubose Michael Stoff Jurek Martin Moderator: Tom Blumenthal William Nack Moderator: Tracy Ehlers 3:00-3:30 KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM 2701 RADIO BROADCAST 12:30-1:50 ATLAS Black Box Metro 2461 Art in Schools Is Mid-term Rant Not a Luxury Lou Dubose Joaquin Muñoz Robert George Clare Murphy Moderator: Kathy Partridge Jenny Seham Don Weingust 3:30-4:50 Eaton Humanities 1B50 Moderator: Amanda Giguere 2761 From Betty to Bechdel: Representation of 12:30-1:50 UMC East Ballroom Women in Art and Media 2462 Being Fearless in Your Tina Packer Work and Life Michelle Thaller Shihana Alazzaz Willow Wilson Sasha Cagen Elle Woods Jeff Lieberman Moderator: Josie Heath Dovie Thomason Moderator: Lewis Harvey 3:30-4:50 UMC Center Ballroom 2762 International 12:30-1:50 Wolf Law Surveillance: Wittemyer Courtroom Every Breath You Take, 2463 The Peculiar Politics of Every Move You Make Immigration Reform Gordon Adams Lou Dubose Dan Gillmor Robert Kaufman Jay Parker Ana Navarro Jon Sinton John Tirman Moderator: Bob Morehouse Moderator: Rudy Harburg 3:30-4:50 UMC East Ballroom 12:30-1:50 UMC West Ballroom 2763 T hings You Shouldn’t Do 2464 Young Scientists While Traveling Making Their Mark Trey Lyons Christopher Douglas Vivian Onano Jeanne Marrazzo Maggie Simbeye Tamsin Maxwell Liz Weir Melissa Sayres Moderator: Ryan Chreist Moderator: Paul Beale 3:30-4:50 UMC 235 12:30-1:50 Old Main Chapel 2764 The Deepening 2465 One Person in the Right American Divide Place Can Change the Ross Haenfler World Mary Hughes Carrie Hessler-Radelet Neil King Tori Hogan Alicia Robb Trey Lyons Moderator: John Tayer Judithe Registre Moderator: Sandra Brodie

11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom 2311 Encouraging Indigenous Entrepreneurs in Africa Mama C Vivian Onano Alicia Robb Maggie Simbeye Moderator: Laura DeLuca 12:30-1:50 UMC Center Ballroom 2466 How Many School Shootings Will It Take Stacie Berdan Madeleine Buckingham Maggie Koerth-Baker Cheryl Polk Moderator: Michele Ritter

3:30-4:50 Math 100 2766 Authoritarian Governments Joe Cirincione Tom Gold Shadia Marhaban Josh Rogin Moderator: Nick Swett

WEDNESDAY

11:00-12:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 3315 Global Energy Economics Shihana Alazzaz 8:30-9:50 UMC 235 Richard Jones 3061 LIVE RADIO BROADCAST Maggie Koerth-Baker KGNU 88.5FM/1390AM Jim Smith A Public Affair Moderator: Ken Wilson Inequality: The Real Hunger Games 3:30-4:50 Old Main Chapel 11:00-12:20 UMC West Ballroom Gordon Adams 2767 Alternative Paths 3316 Science Ain’t What Robert Egger to Well Being It Used to Be Linda Hilton Gooding Judith Curry Neil King Kevin Kling Tamsin Maxwell Moderator: Roger Wendell Jenni Schaefer Melissa Sayres Jenny Seham Michelle Thaller 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Moderator: Cathy Comstock Moderator: Mary Ann Shea 3111 Alternative Energy: Hip to Be Green 3:30-4:50 Muenzinger Auditorium 11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom Patrick Boel 2768 The New, New Golden 3317 Never-ending Sectarian Andrew Butcher Age of Television: How Wars Maggie Koerth-Baker and What Sarah Holewinski Seth Shostak We’re Watching Trey Lyons Moderator: Bob Noun Guy Benson Tammy Schultz Terrence McNally Ike Wilson 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium Steve Sauer Moderator: Cathryn Hazouri 3113 Putin’s Plans Howard Schultz Joe Cirincione Moderator: Ginny Corsi 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box Robert Kaufman 3318 The Opposite Sex: Trey Lyons 3:30-4:50 UMC West Ballroom Beyond Stereotypes Jay Parker 2769 Lobbyists: The Fourth Ross Haenfler Moderator: Dan Powers Branch of Government Terrence McNally Stuart Butler Clare Murphy 9:00-10:20 Old Main Chapel Ellie Hill Limor Shiponi 3114 Wanderlust: Oh, the Linda Hilton Places You’ll Go in Your Moderator: Aimee Heckel Daniel Odescalchi 20s Moderator: Thomas Burke 11:30-12:50 UMC 235 Stacie Berdan 3361 Latin America: Gooding 3:30-4:50 ATLAS Black Box Boom or Bust Tori Hogan 2771 The Arts: Judith Morrison Willow Wilson Innovation and Ana Navarro Moderator: Mary Dando Inspiration Ricardo Silveira Mama C Sanho Tree 9:00-10:20 Wolf Law James Tanabe Moderator: Joan Brett Wittemyer Courtroom Don Weingust 3115 How Women Change Moderator: Kathryn 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4:30-5:50 UMC East Ballroom 3862 Internet: Technology to Control the People and Weaken the State Peter Lighte Sarah Shourd John Tirman Sanho Tree Moderator: Andrew Franklin

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is a melting pot, and the biggest thing that unifies us is what’s on TV. Trying to figure out who shot J.R. on Dallas was a national affair, as was the end of Seinfeld. TV binds us together. But how and why? And what does it mean that it does? Trying to answer that question will be TV producer Howard Schultz; writer, broadcaster and former Roseanne cohort David Bender; jazz pianist Henry Butler; and perhaps the most compelling choice for a panelist, scientific integrity official for the EPA Francesca Grifo. Wednesday, April 9, 2:30-3:50 p.m. Chemistry 140.

to get people from different fields and put them on panels and they’re not always experts on,” Adler says. “Sometimes that wouldn’t work, but sometimes it’s magic.” One particularly magical panel Adler remembers was on the topic of “View of the Earth From Space.” Most of the panelists worked in tech and aerospace, but what Adler brought to the panel was an expertise on vampires. Really. “They’re desperately struggling and often failing to be moral and I think that in some ways that is what we are,” Adler says. And according to Adler, one of the biggest ways humanity became aware of its own moral shortcomings was when Science Fiction or Science it first saw a photograph of the Earth Fact from space, putting all environmental Novelist Daniel Wilson said it best issues into a heartstopping context. This year, Adler will be able to put when asked about the popularity of his her background to more direct use book Robopocalypse: “I know a lot about through a panel specifically on vampires, something that used to be science fiction an opportunity for her to discuss her and is rapidly becoming science fact.” just-published book, Vampires Are Us, in We live in strange times. The cell which Adler delves deep into the topic. phone in your pocket is a vastly more Her interest in the topic began powerful computer than NASA used when she needed something “trashy” to send an expedition to the moon. to read on a plane trip. The first two And with the rapid onset of virtual Twilight books did the trick. But environments and wearable interfaces, almost immediatethe question of ly after she where the line returned home, exists, if it exists at ON THE BILL: The 66th Annual Adler’s husband all, is more relevant Conference on World Affairs takes place April 7-11 on the University of fell gravely ill, than ever. Colorado Boulder campus. despite his generTrying to Complete details are available at ally healthy lifeanswer it will be www.colorado.edu/cwa. style. Adler spent NPR’s Margot much of the next Adler, Londonseven months reading vampire books based storyteller and writer Clare by his bedside. Muireann Murphy, Assistant Director “I think in the beginning it was a of Science at NASA’s Goddard meditation on mortality, trying to Spaceflight Center, Michelle Thaller, understand how a healthy man could and Seth Shostak, the senior astronomer at the SETI (Search for Intelligent be struck down,” she says. Life) Institute in California and author But the interest went deeper, and of hundreds of articles on the search for before Adler knew it, she’d logged off-Earth life. nearly 300 vampire books and started Monday, April 7, 9-10:20 a.m. emailing Anne Rice in a quest to UMC 235 understand the phenomena. Most people Adler asked just said, Spotlight on a panelist “sex.” But Adler thought it was someAuthor and NPR reporter Margot thing deeper, and says that most of the Adler first came to the Conference on truly great vampire stories center World Affairs in 1978. And with the around one question: “Now that we’re exception of a few off-years around the top of the food chain, how do we treat birth of her son, she has been back humans? Like cattle?” every year since. Adler will also be serving on panels “I come every year and stay with addressing the natural in literature the same family,” Adler says. “It’s wonalong with the supernatural. One that derful.” she’s most interested to be on is The thing that keeps bringing “Science Fiction or Science Fact.” Adler back is the CWA’s generally “I was a big science fiction reader unpredictable nature. way before I read any vampire novels,” “There’s a lot of conferences around Adler says. “I think science fiction is and a lot of events that people go to the best source of original ideas in our with panels of various experts, but the culture. It takes risks that other forms thing that makes the conference differ- of literature don’t.” ent is Howard Higman’s original idea Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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But here the similarities end, because Vivaldi’s rhythms come from the courtly and pastoral dances of an agricultural claims. society, and the milieu is very much that of the 18th-century Juxtaposing Vivaldi’s familiar Four Seasons with the Four countryside, whereas the tango is a 20th-century urban dance Seasons of Buenos Aires by the Argentine nuevo tango com— and a subversive one, as Katsarelis has said. poser Astor Piazzolla, the program will be presented Friday, “Piazzolla is night-club, urban, downtown music,” she April 4, in Denver and Saturday, April 5, in Boulder, both says. “You will hear a string orchestra using a wide range performances starting at 7:30 p.m. (see http://www.promusiof techniques: playing behind the bridge, sliding up and cacolorado.org/2013-14_season_of_epics for details). down the strings, plucking the strings, and sometimes Violinist Lina Bahn will perplucking them so hard it hits Courtesy of Pro Musica Colorado form the solo part in both the fingerboard — and somehalves of the concert. times lush, beautiful melo“Tango is a subversive art dies. All of this conveying the form,” Katsarelis explains. “It sense of the tango, with all took in influences from the those romantic, perhaps overAfricans that were in heated gestures, and some Argentina. It took the lowervery beautiful ones.” class folk music and it got All of that falls well within the techniques of today’s raised to a higher art, sort of orchestral players. But what like our jazz did.” about Vivaldi? So much And like jazz, the perceived Baroque music today is persexuality of Tango’s form made formed by period-instrument it socially dangerous. ensembles, and Pro Musica is “It was coming out of an definitively a modern instruera that was repressed,” ment orchestra. Katsarelis says, “so any sort of open expression was subver“I really love the expressive sive, just like rock and roll and range of the modern instruElvis Presley’s hips.” ments,” Katsarelis declares. Subversive dance and Elvis “We do have more expressive Presley’s hips might be an range, even though the original unlikely topic for discussion instrument people have taught Lina Bahn will be tasked with highlighting the with most orchestral concerts, Violinist us so much about style. We’ve common threads in Baroque music and tango. but Katsarelis and the Pro learned a great deal about the Musica group have always dance influence in Baroque looked for new twists on old programs. music and what that means for the rhythms. “We love to do [both] familiar and innovative music,” “Before, there was a tendency to kind of smooth everyKatsarelis says. “Having new music on the program keeps the thing out, but Baroque music isn’t smooth. It’s got a more classical repertoire fresh and invigorated, jazzy kind of beat, strong and weak beats and this particular concert, which is that combine to really make you find the obviously really conceptual, seasons old groove and move. For me, nirvana is to ON THE BILL: “Epic Seasons” Pro Music Colorado Chamber and new, adds to our appreciation for appreciate what the original instrument Orchestra. Cynthia Katsarelis conboth pieces.” performers have shown us, and use it on ductor, with Lina Bahn, violin Pairing these pieces, separated by modern instruments.” 7:30 p.m. April 4 at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Denver almost 300 years, hailing from differNot every violinist can combine the 7:30 p.m. April 5 at First United ent continents and hemispheres, offers dance infused style of 18th-century Methodist Church, Boulder both connections and bracing conBaroque concertos with the grittier http://www.promusicacolorado. org/2013-14_season_of_epics trasts. The two pieces are connected, urban tango, but Katsarelis is confident most obviously because they both she has the right soloist for the job. depict the seasons of the year. But the “Lina Bahn is a spectacular violinist who relationship goes deeper, because the does both Baroque music and contemPiazzolla Seasons, originally conceived for a traditional porary music with a great deal of passion and commitment tango quintet, have been arranged into violin concertos and intelligence,” she says. similar to Vivaldi’s Seasons. In this form they pay homage, “She has a great energy that she will put into it, she’ll be and even contain deliberate references to Vivaldi’s music. able to maintain that for the entire program, which not “There are some direct quotes, there are some quotes that everyone can do. She puts it all out here and leaves it on the are slightly varied, with more up-to-date harmony,” Katsarelis field. 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overtones G-Love and Special Sauce learn to G-love their new album

Longtime Philadelphia band gets back to its roots by Alan Sculley

hiladelphia’s G. Love and Seattle session, “Come Up Man.” Special Sauce will be doing Ironically, that song had been rejecttwo consecutive nights at the ed in the initial review. Love recorded it Boulder Theater, Friday, anyway, feeling the song brought a difApril 11 and Saturday, April ferent direction to his funky blend of 12. But Sugar, the new studio album blues, hip-hop, folk and rock. dropping April 22 that Love is in town Stung by the reaction to his new promoting is not at all the album he was recordings, Love decided he’d give ready to release when he returned from Malloy, Noctra and Brown what they a recording session in Seattle last year. now wanted — an entire album built off Prior to that recording session, Love of “Come Up Man.” (real name Garrett Dutton) had done “I went back and picked out all of what has become Emmett Malloy standard procedure for his albums. He brought in a stack of new songs to Emmett Malloy, president of his label, Brushfire Records, Josh Nicotra, general manager of Brushfire and his personal manager, Jason Brown. Then this “committee” reviews the songs, offers its critiques and eventually chooses a group of tunes that are likely to make the album. Gee, Boulder loves G. Love. “Every one of the tunes is like my song, so it’s a little hard to hear [them say] the tunes that I had that fit in with that ‘This verse needs to be re-written’ or [song],” Love related. “That’s how we ‘This groove is nothing,’” Love said of got this record.” the process during a recent phone interActually, Love got something more view. “It’s pretty hardcore. So a lot of with Sugar: a CD that took him back to shit gets left on the cutting room floor. his 1994 debut album, G. Love and But I’ve made myself comfortable with Special Sauce. the process.” For the second recording session at But for Sugar, the Brushfire’s solar-powprocess became less ered studio in Los ON THE BILL: G. Love and Special Sauce. Boulder comfortable than usual Angeles, Love brought Theater Friday, April 11 and for Love when he back Jimi “Jazz” Saturday, April 12. 8 p.m. returned from Seattle. Prescott, the original $25. “After the Seattle bassist in Special Sauce, session, I was like ‘Wow, to play with the other we really did it. We realoriginal member of the ly got it this time,’” Love said. “And we group, Jeffrey “Houseman” Clemens. played it for the label, and [Brown] and Prescott had recorded with Love in they all just felt like it was falling short. Seattle, but the second recording session I was really pissed off, man. marked the first time in eight years that “I went in and did [the album] and, Prescott had worked with Love and like, excelled at it and killed it,” he said. Clemens. “And now you say you don’t like it? It wasn’t just the musicians that conWhat the fuck?’” nected back to the G. Love and Special That wasn’t the end of the confusion Sauce album. Like the debut, Sugar was for Love. His committee further said also recorded mainly live in the studio they liked only one song from the by the three musicians. What’s more, Boulder Weekly

Love feels Sugar draws from the same blues and hip-hop influences that shaped the sound on that 1994 debut album. Sugar, though, is not a re-run of the first album. Where the debut was laid back, with Love frequently rapping his lyrics over songs that mostly featured acoustic instrumentation, Sugar is decidedly harder-edged. “Come Up Man,” the album’s opening track sets the tone, with Love unleashing some electric slide guitar around the greasy hard-hitting groove generated by Prescott and Clemens. Songs that follow, such as “Nite Life” (which sounds like it could have been on a classic album by War), “Good Life” (with Love letting loose on harmonica), “Nothing Else Quite Like Home” (which might remind some of Ben Harper)” and the sharp and sassy title song also fit the rocking blues/hip-hop mold. Now the reunion of the original G. Love and Special Sauce is getting extended to a live setting, as the trio sets out on a tour that runs into mid-April. The group is using the outing to not only preview songs from Sugar, but to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the selftitled debut album. The first set of each show will feature the group playing G. Love and Special Sauce in its entirety, followed by a second set with material from across the other 10 albums (including Sugar) Love has released since the first CD. “It should be fun,” Love said. “The first set is going to be a real disciplined set for us, like a real presentation of the exact thing. And then also, we’re going to really play the record as it goes. A lot of times we play songs night in and night out where we jam out on them. This time we’re really going to stick to the [album] arrangements and keep things tight and right and do it like that. It will be a cool chance to be real disciplined with the first set and then come out on the second set and really bust loose on the new stuff.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 3, 2014 47

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arts & culture Down Southie

Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire works through some issues by Gary Zeidner

Photo courtesy of Film Buff Online

ver the years, I’ve had the pleasure of knowing a few people from the area of South Boston known as Southies. To a one, they have fit the Southie stereotype: No-nonsense, hard working, loud, proud and — sometimes — rude and crude. Most were Irish, and one even sported shamrock and Sinn Fein tattoos, a form of warpaint perfectly suited to hard drinking and the occasional bar fight. Being that far removed from Boulder’s genteel, hippie-centric college-town culture, Southie — or at least its people — is an experience I would recommend. But since a trip to Boston isn’t something many are likely to take just on my say, watching a performance of Good People is probably ON THE BILL: Good the next best thing. People plays through April Despite what it gets 19 at the Curious Theatre, wrong, it gets the 1080 Acoma Street in Denver. Tickets are $18-$44. Southie part right. For tickets or information, An overwrought call 303-623-0524 or visit dramedy filled with www.curioustheatre.org. desperate, struggling characters, Good People hits all the Southie high and low points. In the back alley behind the dollar store, Margaret (Dee Covington), who is almost universally referred to as Margie, loses her cashiering job due to perennial tardiness (or “tahdiness” in the Boston accent). Her boss, Stevie ( John Jurcheck), doesn’t want to let her go, but his hands are tied by unsympathetic upper management. Margie isn’t a drug addict or careless youngster unappreciative of her job. She is a middle-aged, single mother of a disabled child whose inability to find reliable child care led directly to her firing. She pleads with Stevie, invoking generations of neighborhood stories about him and his family. She offers to take a pay cut. When it becomes clear that his decision is

final, she lashes out, questheatrical therapy than it does tioning his sexuality and a work focused on being all it tossing casually racist jabs could be. The play seems to at his girlfriend. exist primarily to allow its Relating her ordeal to playwright to work through her landlady Dottie his survivor guilt at not only (Kathryn Gray) and best getting out of Southie but friend Jean (Leslie becoming a highly successful O’Carroll) over coffee in and — presumably — her kitchenette, Margie wealthy playwright/screenwonders how she will be writer/lyricist. able to pay her rent. As a Mike, the lace-curtain high school dropout with Irish success story, is obvia limited skill set, her ously a simulacrum for employment options are Lindsay-Abair. Margie, Jean, meager. Jean suggests that Dottie and Stevie are standMargie hit up her old ins for all the Southie-folk flame, Mike (Michael he left behind. After starting McNeil), a local boy made off strong, Good People sucgood who is now a wellcumbs to the fact that it is to-do doctor. more psychotherapy session Margie takes Jean’s than work of art, and that is advice, and in a series of a shame. If Lindsay-Abair scenes she alternately had been more focused on wheedles and needles storytelling and less on his Mike. At first she’s just own psychological catharsis, Playwright David Lindsay-Abaire explores neighborlooking for a job offer what ends up being a passhood survival guilt in his Southie chronicle, Good People. from Mike or one of his able script could have been a great one. acquaintances, but soon In spite of this inherent Margie embarks upon the most tortured and, ultimately, nonsensical and fruitless flaw, the Curious Theatre Company mounts a laudseries of plot contrivances this side of Plan 9 from able production of Good People. The acting is outOuter Space. This is where Good People becomes a lit- standing across the board, and the set, which transforms from a decrepit hodgepodge of linoleum tiles, tle bit frustrating. chain link fencing, corrugated metal, old shutters and David Lindsay-Abair is a Pulitzer Prize-winner. He obviously knows his way around plot and characthe like into the posh living room of Dr. Mike and back, is remarkable. All praise to the actors and to ters. Scenic Designer Caitlin Ayer. But he is also a human being, one from Southie, Respond:letters@boulderweekly.com no less, and Good People’s second act feels more like

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music Bluegrass Pick. 6 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Open Jam Sessions. 6 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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Cold River City. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

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way, Boulder, 303-447-3278.

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Friday, April 4 William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead. Theater

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What do you get when you combine poetry with zombies? William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead. John Heimbuch devised the witty dramatic comedy that imagines what would have happened if all of the victims of the black plague didn’t actually die, but turned into the “living dead.” The Theater Company of Lafayette celebrates Shakespeare’s 450th birthday with their production of the play. Shakespeare and horror nerds alike won’t want to miss this rendition of the bloody, Elizabethan zombie apocalypse.

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Opening Night of the MFA 2014 Spring Thesis Exhibition.

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MM Recital: Andrew Ramos, piano. 7:30 p.m. Grusin Music Hall, Imig Building at CU Boulder, 1020 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-1411.

High-caliber fine art will be displayed at the Spring 2014 exhibition of work by the University of Colorado master’s students at the CU Art Museum. The gallery features seven budding artists who explore a wide range of media and concepts, showcasing their mastery in the chosen area of emphasis. The opening night of the exposition is a celebration for the first presentation of the work, open to the public with free hors d’oeurves and drinks, and a chance to chat with the featured artists.

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What better way to celebrate the beginning of spring than to hang out outside and enjoy a nice breeze? The Arvada Kite Festival is celebrating its 12th year of “high flyin’ fun,” where children and adults alike can enjoy flying their own homemade kites and compete for the highest flying kite, the smallest kite, the largest kite, and the most visually appealing kite. The festivities include musical entertainment, food and activities. Trophies will be awarded to kite competition winners.

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MFA Exhibition. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder, 303-492-8300. Through April 21.

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New Growth — Artist Rashid Johnson. MCA Denver, 1485 Delgany St., Denver, 303-298-7554. Through June 15.

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Stephen Thurston Band. 7 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s,

1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Thursday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House,

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The Prairie Scholars: Brews & Tunes. 5 p.m.

Deviant Still Lifes And Zen Landscapes. All Day. The Great Frame Up Artists’ Gallery, 430 Main St., Longmont, 303-444-7172.

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The Yawpers. 8 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

EcoCreations5 at the WESTend. 11 a.m. Muse Gallery, 356 Main St., Longmont, 303-678-7869.

Hippieman’s Plan for America. 7 p.m. The Dairy

Center for the Arts, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

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Day. Louisville Center for the Arts, 801 Grant St., Louisville, 303-666-4361.

EcoCycle CHaRM Tour. 5-7:30 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

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DJ Rockstar. 8 p.m. Press Play, 1005 Pearl St.,

Hall, 1535 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-443-8696.

Art at the Armory: Imagine Community. 6 p.m.

Boulder National Guard Armory, 4750 Broadway, Boulder, 303-442-2688.

BioHarmoix. 7:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

Bonnie & The Clydes. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

The Boomers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Chando. 10 p.m. The Lazy Dog Sports Bar & Grill, 1346 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-3355.

Christina Perri. 9 p.m. Ogden Theatre, 935 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-832-1874.

Daniella Katzir. 5 p.m. Pearl Street Pub, 1108 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-939-9900.

The Delta Sonics. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400. Longmont, 720-297-6397.

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My Blue Sky — A Tribute To The Allman Brothers. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette,

Boulder, 303-442-2176.

Nolan McInnis Band. 5 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, 400 West South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Genessier. 9 p.m. 3 Kings Tavern, 60 South Broadway,

Paul Cataldo. 6:30 p.m. Gravity Brewing, 1150 Pine

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Issovee. 10 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St.,

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Head for the Hills. 9 p.m. Bluebird Theater, 3317 E

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Pink Mammoth. 9 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

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Quenby & the West of Wayland Band. 8 p.m.

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Hilary Scott. 7 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

The Lucky Few. 9 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

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Rob Drabkin. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community

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Rocktin Grove. 9:30 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Ryan McGarvey. 8 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300

Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Second Acts Jazz Quintet. 7 p.m. Caffé Sole, Signel-Z. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Watersong. 7 p.m. Odd13 Brewing, 301 E Simpson St., Lafayette, 303-997-4164.

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Silent Bear Electric Band. 10 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-BREW.

Trout Steak Revival. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill &

events Do You Know Who I Am? 7 p.m. Centarus High

Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-823-6685.

School, 10300 South Boulder Road, LaFayette, 303440-3682.

The Werks. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St.,

Live Painting Demo with Paul Cunningham.

Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Whiskey Autumn. 5 p.m. Kettle & Stone Brewing

Company, 6880 Winchester Circle, Boulder, 303-5300642.

The Whale Tales. 6 p.m. Upslope Brewing Company, 1501 Lee Hill Road, Unit #20, Boulder, 303-449-2911.

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Boulder Arts Week : HDT : Relation$#@*!. 8 p.m. The Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder, 303-443-3934.

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Cooperman, Hollander, and Hutchison. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303.

A Sliver of Light — Sarah Shroud. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

The Humor Code— Peter McGraw and Joel Warner with Ryan Warner. 7:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store. 2526 East Colfax Ave., Denver, 303-322-7727.

Tuesday, April 8 Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting — Some Ether. 7 p.m. Boulder Bookstore, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-4472074.

The Sibley Guide to Birds — David Allen Sibley. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074. Saturday, April 5 Breadboy — Tony Macaulay. 11 a.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303444-0349.

Plastic Purge — Michael SanClements. 7:30 p.m. Barnes and Noble, 2999 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-444-0349. Michael SanClements will speak about and sign his new book Plastic Purge at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 8 at Barnes and Noble.

Sea Salt — David Mason. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe. 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303-495-3303. Travel writing workshop. 2 p.m. Boulder Bookstore. 1107 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-447-2074.

Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1203 13th St., Suite A, Boulder, 303495-3303.

Burn Out — Kristi Helvig. 7 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050. Active Minds Lecture: Cybersecurity. 12:30 p.m. Tattered Cover Book Store, 9315 Dorchester St., Highlands Ranch, 303-470-7050.

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Brad Mehldau Trio. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

Eddie Palmieri Salsa Orchestra Saturday, April 5, 7:30 p.m.

The Month of Printmaking Exhibition Opening. 6:00 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave.,

Giddyup Kitty. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-4859400.

Longmont, 303-651-2787.

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

a.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-499-6363.

Mad Caddies. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Persian New Year Celebration. Dushanbe Tea

Open Band Night. 5 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Raising Backyard Chickens. 1-3 p.m. Agricultural

Places Perennial. 9 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

Movement Mass ~ Align with the Divine With Melissa Michaels and Friends. 10:45

House, 1770 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4993.

Heritage Center; 8348 Ute Hwy. 66, Longmont, 303776-8848

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Arvada Kite Festival. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Stenger

Danny Shafer. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-7761914.

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Soccer Complex, 11200 W. 58th Ave., Arvada, 720898-7000.

Comedy Night. 7 p.m. Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-328-8328.

Easter Egg Hunt. 10 a.m. Wameka Lake Park, 1600

Caria Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-0469.

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Electric Blues Jam. 7:30 p.m. Oskar Blues

Homemade Liquids and Solids, 1555 S. Hover Road, Longmont, 303-485-9400.

Kate Nash. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Open Mic. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues Tasty Weasel Tap Room, 1800 Pike Road, Unit B, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Refresh to Rebuild. 11 a.m. Twig Hair Salon, 1831

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th

Lazy Person’s Book Club. 3 p.m. Shine, 2707

Pick ‘n’ Brew. 8 p.m. West Flanders Brewery, 1125

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events Geeks Who Drink. 7 p.m. Twisted Pine Brewing

Company, 3201 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-786-9270.

Open Mic. 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Cigar Bar, 1801 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0884.

Trivia Night. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

And the Sun Stood Still. Boulder Ensemble Theatre Company. 1321 College Avenue, Boulder, 303-351-2382. Through April 20. Me, Myself and I. The Dairy Center for the Arts. 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. Through April 6. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont, 303-6829980. Through April 19.

Sisters of Swing: The Story of the Andrews Sisters. Boulder’s Dinner Theatre. 5501 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-449-6000. Through May 11. William Shakespeare’s Land of the Dead. Theater Company of Lafayette, Mary Miller Theater, 300 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 720-209Ruby Horsethief, 2154. Through April 26. Colorado River Me, Myself and I will play at The Dairy Center for the Arts through April 6.

Tuesday, April 8 music Awna Teixeira. 7:30 p.m. Shine Restaurant & Gathering Place, 2027 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-0120.

Boulder Women’s Drum Circle. 7 p.m. Enriching Elements, 2712 28th St., Boulder, .

Bonnie Lowdermilk Trio. 7 p.m. Caffé Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

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

Dave Tamkin. 6 p.m. Dicken’s Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Figure. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Open Mic Night. 8 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

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

Tuesday Open Mic. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

events Boulder Art Association Art Center Grand Opening. 2: p.m. Boulder Art Association Art Center, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder.

Tuesday Night Trivia. 10:30 p.m. The Sink, 1165 13th St., Boulder, 303-444-7465.

Wednesday, April 9 music Chance Trio. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-440-4628.

J. Roddy Walston & The Business. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1128 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Karaoke at the Attic. 9 p.m. Attic Bar & Bistro, 949 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-415-1300.

Lionel Young Trio. 8 p.m. Caffé Sole, 637R S Broadway St., Boulder, 303-499-2985.

Open Bluegrass Pick. 9 p.m. Conor O’Neill’s, 1922 13th St., Boulder, 303-449-1922.

Steve Itterly. 6 p.m. Dicken’s Tavern, 300 Main St., Longmont, 303-834-9384.

Wednesday Night Blues. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 North Park Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

events Jack Quinn’s Running Club. 6 p.m. Boulder

Running Company, 28th St. and Pearl St., Boulder, 1-800-807-6179.

Karaoke Night. 8 p.m. Catacombs Bar, 2115 13th St., Boulder, 303-442-4344.

Open Mic. 6:30 p.m. Cannon Mine Coffee, 210 S. Public Road, Lafayette, 303-665-0625.

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LE WEEK-END Academy Award winner Jim Broadbent (Iris) and Lindsay Duncan (Mansfield Park) give exquisite performances as Nick and Meg, a long-married British couple revisiting Paris for the first time since their honeymoon in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. During a two-day escapade, diffident, wistful Nick and demanding, takecharge Meg careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock of half a lifetime of deep tenderness — and even deeper regret. A surprise invitation from Nick’s old friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), an amusingly boorish American academic with a fancy Parisian address, soon leads them to an unexpectedly hopeful vision of what their love and marriage might still become. This magically buoyant, bittersweet comedy-drama is a new peak in the ongoing collaboration between Notting Hill director Roger Michell and screenwriter Hanif Kureishi. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE LUNCHBOX In the romantic drama The Lunchbox, middle-class housewife Ila (Nimrat Kaur) is trying once again to add some spice to her marriage, this time through her cooking. She desperately hopes that a new recipe will finally arouse some kind of reaction from her neglectful husband. She prepares a special lunchbox to be delivered to him at work, but, unbeknownst to her, it is mistakenly delivered to another office worker, Saajan (Irrfan Khan, Life of Pi), a lonely man on the verge of retirement. Curious about the lack of reaction from her husband, Ila puts a little note in the following day’s lunchbox, in the hopes of getting to the bottom of the mystery. This begins a series of lunchbox notes between Saajan and Ila, and the mere comfort of communicating with a stranger anonymously soon evolves into an unexpected friendship. Gradually, their notes become little confessions about their loneliness, memories, regrets, fears and even small joys. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres THE MISSING PICTURE Director Rithy Panh was 13 in 1975 when the Khmer Rouge turned Cambodia into a murderous experiment in ideology. He and his family were sent to starve in a rural re-education work camp. The Missing Picture explores Panh’s quest to create the missing images of that period, of his family and the life he recalled, as a celluloid act of remembrance. He comes up with a unique and inventive way to tell his story: he uses hundreds of intricately detailed clay figurines set up in diorama scenes, intercut with what archival propaganda footage he could find, to show what is indelibly recorded in his memory; he creates the missing pictures of what does not exist in photograph or film. Surprisingly effective, the film’s impact is mesmerizing and poetic. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres THE MUPPETS TAKE MANHATTEN Fresh out of college, Kermit, Fozzie and the entire Muppet cast of Kermit’s musical “Manhattan Melodies” head to the Big Apple with plans to turn the show into a big hit. They suffer rejection and heartache, but Kermit’s perseverance eventually pays off. Then, just when the lights of the Great White Way are within view, Kermit disappears. The third Muppet movie is notable for the introduction of the Muppet Babies as well as the long-anticipated “marriage” of Kermit and Piggy. At Esquire. — Landmark theatres NYMPHOMANIAC VOLUME I & II Lars von Trier’s much-anticipated motion picture event Nymphomaniac will be released as two full-length feature films. Volume I is the story

of Joe (Charlotte Gainsbourg), a self-diagnosed nymphomaniac who is discovered badly beaten in an alley by Seligman (Stellan Skarsgård), an older bachelor who takes her into his home. As he tends to her wounds, she recounts the erotic story of her adolescence and young-adulthood (portrayed in flashback by Stacy Martin). Volume I also stars Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Christian Slater, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Connie Nielsen and Udo Kier. Nymphomaniac marks von Trier’s follow-up to his critically acclaimed film Melancholia, and is his third consecutive collaboration with Gainsbourg. A groundbreaking filmmaker for more than two decades, von Trier’s other films credits include Antichrist, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark and Breaking the Waves. Note: Nymphomaniac contains graphic depictions of sexuality to a degree unprecedented in a mainstream feature film. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres OPERA: MANON — BERLIN STAATSOPER “Dream team” Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazón have long since conquered the entire world of music, and continue to do so in this production at the Berlin Staatsoper. Manon, the tragic heroine of Massenet’s work, is torn between flirtatiousness and profound love, between frivolity and deep commitment. Netrebko seems predestined for this role, with her body language alternating between girlish, introspective and carefree, and her voice radiating brilliance, warmth, mystery and longing. As the impoverished young nobleman Des Grieux, Rolando Villazón compellingly depicts the burning passion of an ultimately doomed lover with his glowing, supple, slender tenor voice. At Boedecker. — Boedecker Theater PARTICLE FEVER Imagine being able to watch as Edison turned on the first light bulb, or as Franklin received his first jolt of electricity. For the first time, a film gives audiences a front row seat to a significant and inspiring scientific break-through as it happens. Particle Fever follows six brilliant scientists during the launch of the Large Hadron Collider, marking the start-up of the biggest and most expensive experiment in the history of the planet, pushing the edge of human innovation. As they seek to unravel the mysteries of the universe, 10,000 scientists from over 100 countries joined forces in pursuit of a single goal: to recreate conditions that existed just moments after the Big Bang and find the Higgs boson, potentially explaining the origin of all matter. But our heroes confront an even bigger challenge: have we reached our limit in understanding why we exist? Directed by Mark Levinson, a physicist turned filmmaker, and masterfully edited by Walter Murch (Apocalypse Now, The English Patient, The Godfather trilogy), Particle Fever is a celebration of discovery, revealing the very human stories behind this epic machine. At Mayan. — Landmark Theatres TIM’S VERMEER Tim Jenison, a Texas-based inventor and the visionary behind the desktop video revolution, attempts to solve one of the greatest mysteries in all art: How did 17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer (“Girl with a Pearl Earring”) manage to paint so photo-realistically — 150 years before the invention of photography? The epic research project Jenison embarks on to test his theory is as extraordinary as what he discovers. At Chez Artiste. — Landmark Theatres WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO Come along for an up-close look at one of humanity’s most timehonored traditions. By following pilgrims from all walks of life as they attempt to cross an entire country on foot with only a backpack, a pair of boots and an open mind, we witness a magnetic and miraculous power, which changes lives. Driven by an inexplicable calling and a grand sense of adventure, each pilgrim throws themselves heart-and-soul into their physical trek to Santiago and, most importantly, their personal journey to themselves. At Boedecker and Chez Artiste. — Boedecker Theater Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 3, 2014 57

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(Douglas Booth), could get his barren wife, Ila (Emma Watson), preggers in order to continue the human race. At least Shem gets a wife. You think your “middle child” experience sucks? Noah named his second son after lunchmeat — Ham (Logan Lerman) — and won’t let him take a partner onto the ark. Thus, Ham gets tempted by the “mantakes-what-he-wants” philosophy of Tubal-cain (Ray Winstone), the leader of the sinners God is about to ixnay. This sets up a cray-cray final act in which Noah actually becomes the villain. They showed this to church groups. Ha! The studio went to churches and showed devoted followers a movie in which the “hero” contemplates baby murder. Man, those test screening comments have to be so entertaining. This isn’t to say Aronofsky is disrespectful; he isn’t. Redemption comes for all but the unrepentant wicked, and the moral of the parable remains intact. Aronofsky simply focuses on the most uncomfortable idea: following God’s will meant Noah was a partner in global genocide. Crowe masterfully crumbles beneath that unquantifiable moral weight, while Watson and Connelly do their best to match him. In the midst of asking the deepest religious/philosophical questions, Aronofsky somehow squeezes in a history of reality from nothingness to present day and whips up a tense final hour in which one life may mean more than the millions killed in previous scenes. Noah is gorgeous, chilling and challenging and, as such, is destined to part audiences like Moses and the Red Sea. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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ayonnaise is the top-selling condiment in the nation, and is on a trajectory to overtake soy sauce on the world stage. The reasons behind this popularity are diverse and are the subject of much speculation — by me, anyway. While the goodness of mayo largely boils down to the fats and flavors it delivers, there’s a lot of nuance in the special kind of love that mayo makes in your mouth. No mayonnaise gets around to the degree that Hellmann’s Real Mayonnaise does. Known as Best Foods in the Western U.S., Hellmann’s is the world’s most popular brand of mayo. It is a creamy, tangy conqueror of bellies, hearts and nations. For many of the world’s mayo lovers, Hellmann’s is like home: They may range far and wide, making their own or buying boutique brands, but they’ll always come back to Hellmann’s in their hour of need. So it stands to reason that if one really wants to understand why mayo is so popular, one should seek to understand why Hellmann’s is so popular. Having just celebrated its 100th birthday last year, Hellmann’s is the nation’s, and world’s, oldest commercially produced mayo, just edging out Duke’s,

Hellmann’s, it didn’t become the world’s favorite mayo by accident. Joanne Seltsam is a professional taster with Sensory Spectrum, Inc., which was established in 1917. Made with yolks, a consulting firm that focuses on how the senses relate rather than whole eggs like most other mayo makers, to consumer purchasing decisions. Seltsam specializes Duke’s remains a favorite in the South, but its distriin descriptive analysis, or the identification of sensory bution elsewhere is scarce. attributes and their intensities in food. She considers Hellmann’s a rare, high-quality product, a member of “Part of Hellmann’s popularity can be attributed an exclusive group of products that are so refined and to its sheer market dominance,” says Dr. Debra sophisticated that it’s hard for the average palate to Zellner, a food psychologist at Montclair State with us break them down Connect into their component flavors. University. “The tribute to Hellmann’s is that it is so difficult Zellner said via email that she thinks Hellmann’s for even a trained person to break down, to find the is the most popular “...because it is the most popular.” line between where one attribute stops and the other “People tend to be a bit neophobic (are afraid of starts,” Seltsam told me. “It’s what we would call a new foods) and like the familiar (the more familiar ‘beautifully made product.’ It just tastes like mayonthe better),” she says. “They will tend to like, and Connect with therefore choose, products with which they are familnaise. All us the flavors blend together. They’re balanced. iar.” Nothing sticks out. Everything is appropriate. ... Advertisers are all too aware of this, knowing that Hellmann’s is just so interwoven that tasters have a if they hook someone on a product early on, they very difficult time saying anything other than ‘it tastes might keep them for a lifetime, and even pass along like mayonnaise.’” their preferences to their children. see MAYO Page 66 While this is most certainly true in the case of

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The USDA estimates that as much as 15 percent of U.S. households are food insecure, meaning they don’t fully know where their next meal may be coming from. Add to that a recent study from the World Bank that found somewhere between one-fourth and one-third of all food produced globally for human consumption is wasted — one of the biggest obstacles to conquering poverty. Those are the sorts of issues local activists will be gathering to focus on for a two-day summit on food justice in Boulder this weekend. The Forward Food Summit will be going down on Saturday, April 5 and Sunday, April 6 at Impact Hub Boulder. “The Summit is open to the public, and costs $15 to attend both days. It will include talks, breakout sessions, field trips and a

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Hey there health nuts, are you looking for a new place to go health nuts? Well you’re in luck. The Protein Bar, a new rapid-service restaurant focused on the good stuff, has opened in Boulder’s 29th Street Mall. “Our focus is on serving healthy, flavorful food in a hip, trendy environment quickly and efficiently so you can get back to your day,” says The Protein Bar’s website. The menu is big on wraps and bowls, but subs quinoa for rice because everyone knows that soft vowels have less calories. Oh Protein Bar, you wily devils! There are also a selection of juices, blended drinks, chilis and breakfast items including yogurt bowls and egg-white scrambles. Many items on the menu are or can be made vegetarian or vegan. The chain is also working the bejeezus out of the Jared from Subway angle, with customer testimonials on its website out the gluten-free wazoo. “I have been eating Protein Bar for a little over two months now, and it has not only incredibly changed my lifestyle and confi-

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If you prefer your burritos to be a bit less healthy and a lot more charitable, then skip The Protein Bar and head to Illegal Pete’s which will be donating a portion of proceeds during April to help children with autism. “Illegal Pete’s will be donating $1 to The Joshua School every time a customer smothers their burrito,” reads a press release. The Joshua School is one of only a handful of schools in Colorado that is designed for kids with autism, a disorder which is estimated to affect 1 in 169 births in Colorado. Illegal Pete himself will also offer customers that like their burritos unsmothered the opportunity to give a dollar anyhow, but in exchange for a signed leaf to be hung on the wall instead of a ladleful of spicy heaven. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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he last time I went to The Post Brewing Company in Lafayette, it still hadn’t opened. What a difference a few months makes. The mess of ladders and power tools had been replaced with a buzz of activity as servers darted back and forth between the packed tables, delivering brunch to the large wooden tables lorded over by Big Rosie, the Post’s pet elk head. But despite the big-city bustle — and the discerning tastes of Big Rosie — my dining companion and I were seated and lost in the throes of a giant cup of coffee and a pecan roll almost as soon as we walked in. Not. Too. Shabby. The Sunday brunch menu has a few crossover items from the chicken-centric dinner menu, but focuses more on traditional breakfast items like roast beef hash ($11) and a delicious-sounding egg-battered slab of Texas toast dressed up in bourbon apples ($9). But my dining comThe Post Brewing panion and I went elseCompany where in Brunchtown. I 105 W. Emma St., ordered the chicken Lafayette, and waffles ($9) and 303-593-2066 she the veggie scramble, made with tomato, goat cheese arugula and a side of red potatoes ($9). On the side was a bowl of green chili mac and cheese ($3) — the cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast — and another waffle. While waiting — which didn’t take long — it became crystal clear that The Post is ‘effin cozy. Aside from its ode to decapitation, it’s done up in roughhewn wood decor, with light fixtures made out of whole logs suspended from the ceiling blended with a modern industrial vibe. It’s all very log cabin chic, and a great place to wile away a Sunday morning with an oversized cup of coffee or seven. ’Cause, holy bejeezus, does The Post give you a giant mug. Normally, you’d have to climb a beanstalk to get a barrel of coffee like that. Hayo! My waffle was a little soggy from the chicken atop it, a problem that might have been addressed with a

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itself. But it delivered. Her buttermilk side waffle ($3) came with a nice pecan butter that made it enough to serve as a meal on its own. But instead of accepting defeat, we ate it all. After which, our server pitched us on taking a pie to go. I was surprised he didn’t call us Hansel and Gretel because it was clear his plan was to fatten us up and eat us. My dining companion made the mistake of entering our behemoth of a breakfast into a calorie counting app on her phone. It pretty much said we ate all the calories. Everywhere. Suck it, Africa. This is Big Rosie’s house. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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Our ancestors could see the Milky Way Galaxy spread out across the heavens on every clear night. Galileo said it was so bright, it cast a shadow of his body on the ground. But today that glorious spectacle is invisible to us city-dwellers. The sky after sundown is polluted with artificial light that hides 90 percent of the 2,000 stars we might otherwise see. If you want to bask in the natural illumination, you’ve got to travel to a remote area where the darkness is deeper. Let’s make that your metaphor, Taurus. Proceed on the hypothesis that a luminous source of beauty is concealed from you. To become aware of it, you must seek out a more profound darkness.

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“Dear Gemini: I don’t demand your total attention and I don’t need your unconditional approval. I will never restrict your freedom or push you to explain yourself. All I truly want to do is to warm myself in the glow of your intelligence. Can you accept that? I have this theory that your sparkle is contagious -- that I’ll get smarter about how to live my own life if I can simply be in your presence. What do you say? In return, I promise to deepen your appreciation for yourself and show you secrets about how best to wield your influence. -Your Secret Admirer.”

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The Cancerian artist Rembrandt became one of the world’s greatest painters. It was a struggle. “I can’t paint the way they want me to paint,” he said about those who questioned his innovative approach. “I have tried and I have tried very hard, but I can’t do it. I just can’t do it!” We should be glad the master failed to meet his critics’ expectations. His work’s unique beauty didn’t get watered down. But there was a price to pay. “That is why I am just a little crazy,” Rembrandt concluded. Here’s the moral of the story: To be true to your vision and faithful to your purpose, you may have to deal with being a little crazy. Are you willing to make that trade-off?

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The Indian spiritual teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj offered a three-stage fable to symbolize one’s progression toward enlightenment. In the first stage, you are inside a cage located in a forest where a tiger prowls. You’re protected by the cage, so the tiger can’t hurt you. On the other hand, you’re trapped. In the second stage, the tiger is inside the cage and you roam freely through the forest. The beautiful animal is trapped. In the third stage, the tiger is out of the cage and you have tamed it. It’s your ally and you are riding around on its back. I believe this sequence has resemblances to the story you’ll be living in the coming months. Right now you’re inside the cage and the tiger is outside. By midMay the tiger will be in the cage and you’ll be outside. By your birthday, I expect you to be riding the tiger.

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What is “soul work,” anyway? It’s like when you make an unpredictable gift for someone you love. Or when you bravely identify one of your unripe qualities and resolve to use all your willpower and ingenuity to ripen it. Soul work is when you wade into a party full of rowdy drunks and put your meditation skills to the acid test. It’s like when you teach yourself not merely to tolerate smoldering ambiguity, but to be amused by it and even thrive on it. Can you think of other examples? It’s Soul Work Week for you.

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On my blog, I quoted author Ray Bradbury: “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” I asked my readers what word they would use in place of “writing” to describe how they avoided being destroyed by reality. Popular responses were love, music, whiskey, prayer, dreams, gratitude, and yoga. One woman testified that she stayed drunk on sexting, while another said “collecting gargoyles from medieval cathedrals,” and a third claimed her secret was “jumping over hurdles while riding a horse.” There was even a rebel who declared she stayed drunk on writing so she could destroy reality. My question is important for you to meditate on, Scorpio. Right now you must do whatever’s necessary to keep from being messed with by reality.

SAGITTARIUS NOV. 22-DEC. 21:

Does your mother know what you are up to these days? Let’s hope not. I doubt if she would fully approve, and that might inhibit your enthusiasm for the experiments you are exploring. It’s probably best to keep your father out of the loop as well, along with other honchos, cynics, or loved ones who might be upset if you wander outside of your usual boundaries. And as for those clucking voices in your head: Give them milk and cookies, but don’t pay attention to their cautious advice. You need to be free of the past, free of fearful influences, and free of the self you’re in the process of outgrowing.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19:

For the foreseeable future, I urge you not to spend much time wrangling with bureaucrats and know-it-alls. Avoid frustrating projects that would require meticulous discipline. Don’t even think about catching up on paperwork or organizing your junk drawer or planning the next five years of your career. Instead, focus on taking long meandering walks to nowhere in particular. Daydream about an epic movie based on your life story. Flirt with being a lazy bum. Play noncompetitive games with unambitious people. Here’s why: Good ideas and wise decisions are most likely to percolate as you are lounging around doing nothing -- and feeling no guilt for doing nothing.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18:

Are you waiting? Are you wondering and hoping? Are you calculating whether you are needed, and if so, how much? Do you wish the signs were clearer about how deeply you should commit yourself? Are you on edge as you try to gauge what your exact role is in the grand scheme of things? I’m here to deliver a message from the universe about how you should proceed. It’s a poem by Emily Dickinson: “They might not need me but – they might – / I’ll let my Heart be just in sight – / A smile so small as mine might be / Precisely their necessity -”

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

You will soon get a second chance. An opportunity you failed to capitalize on in the past will re-emerge in an even more welcoming guise, and you will snag it this time. You weren’t ready for it the first time it came around, but you are ready now! It’s probably a good thing the connection didn’t happen earlier, because at that time the magic wasn’t fully ripe. But the magic is ripe now!

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My boyfriend of three months, “Marcus,” told me last week that he is a trans man. He’s performed oral sex on me and fingered me, but he never let me reciprocate and told me he didn’t want to have penis-in-vagina sex yet because that was a large commitment. We go to college in a conservative part of the country, and almost no one here knows. He worried that if I found out, I would expose him and perhaps even press charges (because we had sex when I did not know he was trans). Truthfully, had I known, I don’t think I would’ve had sex with him. Before I found out he was trans, I was deeply attracted to him and was falling for him. Now, I no longer feel those things and don’t know if I can continue dating him. I feel like a small-minded bigot that my romantic feelings for Marcus are based on something as randomly distributed as a penis. Marcus wants to continue to date and to have sex to see if my feelings can change. I don’t think they will. But I’ve never been in this position before, and I don’t know anyone who has, so maybe this is a growing experience? Am I being a bigot? I feel very alone because I can’t talk to any of my friends about it. Do you have any advice? No Clever Acronym “NCA is clearly struggling,” said M. Dru Levasseur, a trans activist, attorney, and co-founder of the Jim Collins Foundation, an organization that funds gender-confirming surgeries for trans people. “She met a guy, she’s deeply attracted to him and is falling for him, and then she finds out something she didn’t expect. He’s trans.” Before dumping Marcus, Levasseur recommends exploring your feelings. “Does NCA not see Marcus as a man now? Is she sure he doesn’t have a penis? Trans guys have amazing dicks that are different from cis guys’ dicks (surgery or no surgery) — how does she know she won’t prefer it? Is she afraid of social rejection if people were to find out she was dating a trans person? If she really wants to explore this, she could talk to a therapist, read some books, or join a support group online (where she won’t risk outing Marcus). Who knows, Marcus could be the best sex and biggest love of her life.” My two cents: You’re also struggling with having had sex with someone you might not have if you had known a particular detail. Marcus should have told you he was trans before you hooked up, NCA. But messing around with someone you wouldn’t have if you had known [insert relevant detail here] is a common experience, NCA, and one most people bounce back from. And there are worse Boulder Weekly

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nondisclosures. Trans, poly, kinky and poz folks are pressured to disclose, but the world would be happier if abusers, users, assholes and Fox News “personalities” had to disclose before sex. “There is absolutely no legal duty to disclose trans status,” said Levasseur. “A person’s trans status is ‘excruciatingly private’ and constitutionally protected information. There are lots of reasons why trans people might be stealth (or not out) like Marcus—for example, the terrifying rate of violence against trans people or the overwhelming statistics of discrimination. But I think disclosure is a good idea early on because it allows people to love you for who you are. Why not know that the person you are getting close to wants you? All of you. Don’t you want to find that out pretty early on? There are many people out there who think trans men are the ideal guys. Don’t waste time on anyone else.” Okay, NCA, let’s say you’ve explored your feelings and you’ve decided not to keep seeing Marcus. Does that make you a bigot? “It’s okay to have a preference — no judgment there,” said Levasseur. “If trans guys are not her thing, no harm done. I would just hope she is kind when she lets Marcus go. From what she says, it sounds like he wants to convince her to want him or love him, and no one should be in the business of doing that. Everyone deserves to be loved because, not although.” Levasseur wanted to close with a message to any trans men reading this: “To the Marcuses of the world who will read NCA’s letter and think, ‘Oh no, who will love me, who will want me?’ and see it as just another message of rejection to add to a daily list of transphobia, body shame, and internalized self-loathing that fuels the staggering trans suicide attempt rate: Don’t go there. Trans men are hot and deserve to be loved for the amazing men they are. They did not have their masculinity handed to them. They earned it — often through journeys that take unbelievable resilience and courage. An intentional man. The full package. And we deserve not to settle for someone who doesn’t appreciate our bodies or our histories. Find someone who wants the full you.” Follow M. Dru Levasseur on Twitter @ DruLawyer. Learn more about the Jim Collins Foundation at jimcollinsfoundation. org. This week on the Lovecast, how to come out as polyamorous to your children: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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