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CAMPAIGNING FOR ‘PINK SLIME’ / 6 Three governors eat burgers, defend meat industry by Pamela White

Begin April 16th • Register Online

THE FOLLY OF COMPULSORY NATIONAL SERVICE / 6 Reinstituting the draft would be fraught with problems by Paul Danish FARMERS, SEED GROWERS FILE APPEAL TO MONSANTO RULING / 11 Colorado-based group seeks protection from patent-infringement claims by Joel Dyer ON THE COVER: TAKE THE WEEK OFF / 12 Conference on World Affairs beckons with political bent by Jefferson Dodge (See full schedule on page 31)

buzz MY KINGDOM FOR SOME SHAKESPEARE / 27 IFS devotes week to films inspired by the Bard by Amanda Moutinho Overtones: Borgore ruined dubstep before anyone else / 30 Overtones: Original Flecktones lineup makes a stop in Boulder / 30 Arts & Culture: Roger Ebert’s CWA legacy lives on / 37 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 39 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 47 Screen: Mirror, Mirror / 48 Cuisine: Taking it to the tap / 50 Cooking with Cynicism: Pesto and veggies / 50 Cuisine Review: Salt Bistro / 51

departments Letters: Valmont in perspective; In poor taste; Danish’s flawed logic / 5 The Highroad: By axing parks, politicos are stealing the people / 5 In Case You Missed It: Gone but not forgotten / 8 Boulderganic: Of mountains and molecules / 17 Adventure: Chasing the White Horse / 21 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 57 Boulder Marketplace: Your community resource / 58

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Valmont in perspective

The series of articles on the Valmont site are quite impressive, some of the best journalism I have read in Colorado in years. However, they do not properly consider the relative risk of the site compared to many other risks clamoring for limited public funds: street safety, fire, flood and auto exhaust, not to mention low vaccination rates, police protection and a host of others. It is now frequently discussed in the social science journals that people, particularly in groups, are not good judges of relative risks. Could it be that all the public agency evasion is an implicit attempt at turning a blind eye to a risk that is not as serious as others clamoring for limited public funds? In which case, the evasion is providing a public service: Let’s not get too excited about a low threat. I am reminded of all the hubbub about electromagnetic radiation from power lines and GMOs. Let’s include discussion of the relative scale and probabilities of the risks from Valmont. Good work. Congratulations to all who put it together. Stephen Colby/Boulder

On the wrong road

Thanks for running “The Truth About Kerouac’s On the Road” (cover

story, March 22). And I look forward to reading Gerald Nicosia’s One and Only: The Untold Story of On the Road, which at last presents the perspective of Lu Anne Henderson. Nicosia is an excellent critical scholar and Henderson may indeed be the “Rosebud” of the saga. However, in Lionel Rolfe’s account of Nicosia’s book, he states (about Henderson): “After Neal’s death, she went into her own terrible decline. She had already weathered Kerouac’s death, but Cassady had been her soulmate.” The trouble with that is, Cassady died on Feb. 4, 1968; Kerouac, on Oct. 21, 1969. Such a glaring mistake undermines the premise of the article’s title. With you in Rockland,

Junior Burke, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, Naropa University/ Boulder Editor’s note: We agree the wording of that sentence doesn’t make sense, and we’ve asked the author for clarification.

In poor taste

As a lifetime Democrat and social liberal, I often am proud of those who share my political beliefs. However, “Another Reason Southern GOP Women Need Contraception” (ICUMI, March 15) knocked the wind out of me. Dealing with recent polls in Alabama and Mississippi concerning President Barack Obama’s faith, the story does not provide context. Fortunately, national

news organizations conducted substantive research and made it possible to interpret the polls accurately. The headline is hateful and misogynistic, caricaturing an entire region and an entire political party. Imagine making the statement about any other group: “Another Reason Latino Women Need Contraception” or “Another Reason White Suburbanites Need Contraception.” It would be unthinkable. The president cannot win re-election without the support of moderates and independents. Those who read Boulder Weekly expect a certain political bias, but headlines and stories such as this one see LETTERS Page 9

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million visitors a year to their grand vistas, historic sites, wildlife, campgrounds, educational centers and lodges. Parks are literally a tangible expression of America’s democratic ideals, common ground for every man, woman and child to enjoy and experience. For the middle class and the poor — who can’t jet off to luxury resorts for a getaway or vacation — these spaces offer a form of real wealth, something that each of us literally “owns,” knitting us together as a community and nation. Yet, too many spiritually shriveled, small-minded and short-sighted state officials are snuffing out this uniting social force, stupidly treating parks as nothing but a budget number or — worse — a piece of the “nanny state” to be axed in the name of ideological purity. Top politicos in most states are

By axing parks, politicos are stealing the people by Jim Hightower

orry, we’re closed.” In one of the saddest signs of the times, this message is popping up all across the country as governors and legislators are cutting off funds (and shutting off access) to one of the finest, most popular assets owned by the people of our country: state parks. More than 6,600 of these jewels draw some 700

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closing many of their For more information on Jim Hightower’s parks, slashing hours and work — and to subservices at others, or simscribe to his awardply handing over the pub- winning monthly newsletter, The Hightower lic’s asset to profiteering Lowdown — visit www. corporations: Idaho’s govjimhightower.com. ernor has proposed eliminating the entire parks department; California shut the gates of a fourth of the state’s parks last year; officials in Arizona and Florida intend to privatize their parks; Washington state has cut off most of its park funding; and Ohio has okayed oil drilling in its parks to replace state financing. As Woody Guthrie said of outlaws, “Some’ll rob you with a six gun/Some with a fountain pen.” Shutting parks is theft by the in-laws, the political insiders who’re stealing The People’s property — stealing from America itself. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com April 5, 2012 5

uncensored Campaigning for ‘pink slime’ by Pamela White

t was so Orwellian it was laughable — three governors touring a factory where connective tissue from cattle carcasses is transformed into a food product the meat industry wants to call “finely textured beef,” but which one USDA scientist dubbed “pink slime.” Dressed in hairnets, caps and white coats, the governors were led through a Beef Products Inc. (BPI) plant in Nebraska that manufactures the substance. Media were allowed to accompany them and to film and photograph them walking about in their hairnets, but were not allowed to ask questions. After the tour, the media were then invited to listen while the governors, now apparently experts on pink slime, stumped for the pink-slime industry and stuffed their faces with burgers. The governors — Rick Perry from Texas, Terry Branstad from Iowa and Sam Brownback from Kansas — chastised the media for creating an issue where they insist there isn’t one and causing people to lose good jobs. BPI has reportedly shut three of its four plants due to lack of orders, as grocery stores, including Kroger, have reacted to consumer demand and stopped using pink slime as filler in their ground beef. Branstad told everyone that America’s obesity problem will get worse if this very lean meat product is removed from ground beef. “It’s beef, but it’s leaner beef, which is better for you,” he said with a completely straight face. “Let’s call this product what it is and let ‘pink slime’ become a term of the past,” Texas Gov. Rick Perry said, very clearly driving his message at reporters. OK, Rick, let’s do that. No more calling it “pink slime.” Let’s call it what it is: ammonia-treated bovine connective tissue. Hungry now? How odd it was to watch three alleged supporters of free-market capitalism using their taxpayer-funded time to champion an industry that a great number of consumers no longer wish to support. Perhaps they’ve forgotten, but consumer choice is the foundation of the free market. If consumers don’t want ammonia-treated bovine connective tissue in their ground beef, then those who earn their living making and 6 April 5, 2012

selling ammonia-treated bovine connective tissue might want to reskill and do something else. That’s capitalism. Unless, of course, you’re getting campaign contributions from BPI, as Branstad is, in which case it’s a crisis that requires a governor’s full attention. The three burger-munching governors made it very clear that their main concern was jobs. But just because manufacturing a product provides jobs does not mean we need the product. Take cigarettes, for example. If the whole country quit smoking overnight, that would mean a significant loss of jobs — and a huge gain in our health and well-being. If the food-product industry were paying attention, it would notice a substantial and growing shift on the part of consumers toward eating real food. What is real food? It’s fruits and vegetables that haven’t been doused in chemicals, meats and dairy products without hormones and antibiotics, and whole grains that aren’t processed. It’s foods that aren’t laced with cancercausing nitrates, dyes, artificial flavors, sodium, high-fructose corn syrup, added sugar and genetically modified ingredients. More people are growing their own fruits and vegetables, while others are partnering with farms through CSAs (community support agriculture). Still others are shopping at natural food stores where they know what they’re getting. They want control over what they ingest, free from dangerous additives and awkward surprises — like discovering their burgers have long contained ammonia-treated bovine connective tissue. Some food corporations are beginning to take this to heart. Kroger recently removed the high-fructose corn syrup from some of its store brand breakfast cereals and is proclaiming that fact in bright red on the boxes. Its CEOs know that health-conscious shoppers are reading labels and choosing not to buy products that contain high-fructose corn syrup, so they’re trying to remain competitive. And that’s what the meat industry has to do, too. It must adapt. If people don’t want to grill patties of ammoniatreated bovine connective tissue, a threesome of governors is not going to convince them to do otherwise. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

danish plan The folly of compulsory national service by Paul Danish

he New York Times columnist David Brooks wants to bring back the draft. Or at least some form of compulsory universal national service. He thinks it will bring Americans back together again. Brooks rolled out the idea with an off-hand comment at the end of a column in which he was discussing libertarian author Charles Murray’s book, Coming Apart. The book portrays America as a country increasingly polarized on social, economic, educational and moral lines into upper and lower classes. Brooks thinks the polarization of the upper and lower classes has advanced to the point that it would be more accurate to refer to them as “tribes” than classes.

And he thinks compulsory national service for all young Americans is the way to close the divide. “I doubt Murray would agree,” Brooks wrote, “but we need a National Service Program. We need a program that would force members of the upper tribe and the lower tribe to live together, if only for a few years. We need a program in which people from both tribes work together to spread out the values, practices and institutions that lead to achievement. “If we could jam the tribes together, we’d have a better elite and a better mass,” he said. He’s delusional, of course. The last time America had a draft see DRAFT Page 8

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was during the Vietnam War. It did not bring Americans together. It tore the country apart. Millions of upper-class American males avoided military service by sitting out the war in college, and millions of lower-class American males, including a disproportionate number of blacks and Hispanics, ended up in the military. When members of different classes ended up serving together, they didn’t always join hands and sing “Kumbaya” and “God Bless America.” This was the period when the word “fragging” entered the English language. Moreover, a case can be made for the proposition that the draft helped fuel the class polarization that Murray is talking about. For one thing, the wide8 April 5, 2012

spread aversion to military service that took root among upper-class Americans during the Vietnam War, in large part due to the draft, did not end with the war. It exists to this day. The draft did not create nearly as much resentment during World War II as it did during Vietnam for several reasons: 1) it was much more universal, 2) the fascist threat was seen as existential and, 3) unlike Vietnam, the goal was victory (as opposed to the Vietnam goal of containment), and every effort was made to win the war as quickly as possible. The sort of draft that Brooks is contemplating would be no World War II-style mobilization. Draftees would be called to the colors in the absence of a

clear national threat or even a clear national mission, which is likely to inspire resentment, draft avoidance and desertion, not patriotism. There are some practical problems with Brooks’ idea as well. Assuming women as well as men are drafted, and assuming the length of service is two years, the same length as the Vietnam and Korean War drafts, some eight million young Americans would be doing their national service at any given time. Which would give rise to some pesky expenses Brooks may have overlooked. The government would have to erect see DRAFT Page 9

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undercut your credibility and justifiably inflame the opposition. Jan Whitt/Superior

Danish’s flawed logic

(Re: “Climate change and the ingratitude of the eighth generation,” Danish Plan, March 8.) It’s tempting to think we clever apes will be able to survive and prosper on a drastically warmed planet. Paul Danish carries this to a surreal apotheosis, stating that should we succeed in slowing the runaway greenhouse effect even slightly, eventually DRAFT from Page 8

barracks — or, since this is the 21st century, after all — dormitories capable of housing eight million conscripts or pay them a housing allowance. It would have to provide 24 million meals a day or pay them a food allowance. It would have to pay them wages, probably based on what military conscripts would make today if the services started drafting again. It would have to offer them veterans benefits, including G.I. bill with educational benefits. And so on. But the real question is just what on earth would the government do with eight million conscripts with minimal work skills? It can’t put them in the military. There are only 1.5 million slots in all the services combined, and they are all filled with volunteers. Besides, we’re downsizing the military. There are only so many trees to be planted, trails to be cut, and picnic tables to be built in the national parks. There are only so many bed pans to be carried in the nation’s hospitals. The country does not need several million additional teachers who lack life experience and have only the foggiest idea about how to teach. We aren’t into mega-projects like the Hoover and Grand Coolie Dams these days. Besides, organized labor would raise hell if the government tried to build them with conscript labor. And so on. But come to think of it, there is one way the federal government could use 8 million conscripts: It could deploy them as border guards and neighborhood watch grunts. At least that way the draftees would be providing a legitimate governmental function — public safety and national security — instead of doing make work. And it would almost certainly result in a big drop in illegal border crossings and street crime. What could possibly go wrong? Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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n Feb. 24, Judge Naomi Buchwald dismissed a lawsuit filed by Coloradobased Organic Seed Growers and Trade Association (OSGATA) against Monsanto. But OSGATA is not giving up. Before being dismissed, the lawsuit had been receiving worldwide attention and had become a rallying point for the Occupy movement. The reason for the original lawsuit was to prevent Monsanto from being able to sue farmers whose organic crops had become contaminated by drift and other factors with the company’s patented genetically modified (GM) seeds. According to OSGATA, during the past 15 years, Monsanto has sued 144 American family farmers as

well as settling an additional 700 cases out of court while imposing gag orders on those farmers. But the farmers and seed companies who filed the original suit against Monsanto aren’t done. On March 28, in the Federal District Court in

farmers’ request to reinstate their case. According to OSGATA’s website, “The farmers are determined to move forward with their lawsuit challenging Monsanto’s patents on genetically engineered seed technologies in order to continue their pursuit of Declaratory Judgment Act court protection from Monsanto’s claims of patent infringement should their crops become contaminated by Monsanto’s seed.” — Jim Gerritson, “Farmers have the OSGATA president right to protect themselves from being falsely accused of patent infringement by Monsanto before they are contaminated by Monsanto’s Manhattan, OSGATA filed a notice of transgenic seed,” said Dan Ravicher, appeal to Judge Buchwald’s dismissal, executive director of the Public and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), a Federal Circuit has agreed to hear the

“We’re not asking for one penny from Monsanto.”

not-for-profit legal services organization based at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law that represents the plaintiffs. “Judge Buchwald erred by denying plaintiffs that right and they have now initiated the process of having her decision reversed. “Farmers are under threat. Our right to farm the way we choose, and to grow pure organic seed and healthy food on our farms for our families and for our customers is under assault,” said Maine organic seed farmer Jim Gerritsen, president of OSGATA. “We are honor-bound to challenge an erroneous ruling which denies family farmers the protection the law says we deserve. We’re not asking for one penny from Monsanto. Ultimately, our fight is for justice and is waged to defend the right of the people to have access to good and safe food.’” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

Bypassing voter approval for public debt backfires by Joel Dyer

he recent announcement that the prison complex known as Colorado State Penitentiary II will be closing its doors in 2013 provides a good lesson in what happens when politicians and bureaucrats bypass the traditional funding restraints derived from the democratic process. It is an expensive lesson to be sure. What should have happened, but didn’t, is that in 2003, when the state legislature decided it wanted to build yet another prison, the state should have been forced to put a $160 million bond issue on the ballot for voter approval. The politicians didn’t do this because by 2003 they knew that such a ballot issue would most likely have failed. Beginning in the late 1980s, more and more municipalities and states began to have trouble getting voter approval for their bonds, particularly bonds aimed at prison construction. In one state after another, including Colorado, voters began to say “no” to the largest prison expansion in history. This prison boom started in the early 1970s and accelerated through the next two decades, thanks primarily to politically expedient hard-onBoulder Weekly

crime legislation such as “truth in sentencing,” “three strikes” and the “war on drugs.” Increasingly, taxpayers understood that building more and more prisons was siphoning off funds for things like higher education, child welfare programs and infrastructure. By the end of the Reagan administration, it was a tradeoff they had become unwilling to make, and they began voting down funding for the prison expansion. This clear action to deny funds for the expansion should have brought it to an end and forced a more restrained approach to criminal justice, with a greater emphasis on cheaper alternatives to prison such as alcohol and drug rehab programs, closely supervised parole and electronic monitoring. But a funny thing happened when investment bankers like Goldman Sachs and politicians came face to face with voter-enforced fiscal restraint — they ignored it by inventing, or at least repurposing, a variety of funny paper with names like “Lease Revenue Bonds” and “Certificates of Participation” (COPs). By using these financial instruments

in never-before-heard-of ways, those who profited either financially or politically by building more prisons were able to continue to create and sell investment-grade debt without voter approval. It was political sleight of hand at its best. By changing the name of the financial instruments from bonds to COPs, the debt no longer had to be shown as debt on the books, so voter approval was no longer required. It works like this. A $100 million bond to be repaid with interest over 25 years is a debt. Investors buy the bond, then the state or municipality uses the money to build the prison. The state is obligated to pay back the money no matter what. To raise $100 million through the sale of COPs, the state promises to lease the prison from a nonprofit entity created to sell the COPs to the investors whose money is actually used to build the prison. So the state figures out how much it would cost if it were paying off a 5 percent interest bond over 25 years and divides the total payout by 25. It then agrees to pay that amount per year as a lease payment for 25 years to the holders of the COPs. At the end of 25 years, the COP holders agree to deed the prison to the state. Because the state has to reauthorize the lease payment each year, it is legally not considered debt, and thereby no voter approval is needed. What started as a novel process to occasionally bypass voters when politicians thought they knew best has now see DEBT Page 12

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t’s an election year, and that usually makes for an especially interesting Conference on World Affairs, Boulder’s favorite weeklong think jam. There is a palpable political theme running through the set list for the 64th annual CWA, which will be held primarily on the University of Colorado campus April 9-13. Alice Rivlin, whose various highranking economic and public policy positions include founding director of the congressional budget office, will

deliver Monday’s keynote, “Can the Center Hold: Democracy and Governance in a Polarized America.” On Wednesday, Republican political strategist Mark McKinnon, cofounder of No Labels, will speak on “The Architecture of a Successful Message.” And on Monday, New York Times columnist Drew Westen, author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, will deliver the Howard see CONFERENCE Page 13

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become a multi-billion dollar industry that empowers the investment class to suck up profits at the taxpayers’ expense on one illadvised building project after another. Consider Colorado State Penitentiary II. In 2003, legislators passed HB 1256, allowing them to bypass voters and sell $162 million worth of COPs to construct the 948-bed prison in Cañon City. The prison finally opened in 2011 with about one-third of the beds being used. However, between 2003 and 2011, the state of Colorado hired an outside consultant to help it re-evaluate some of its practices. As a result of changes in policy around the use of administrative segregation, the prisoner population in Colorado has now been falling each year since 2009 and is expected to continue to do so well into the future. This is the type of costeffective, innovative thinking that often comes about when voters say no to continued prison and jail expansion. Unfortunately, it came too late for taxpayers this time. Even though the newly constructed

Colorado State Penitentiary II will be closing and left empty a mere 18 months or so after its grand opening, taxpayers will still be spending $18 million a year in lease payments to the investors holding the COPs until the year 2021. While the state legislature could legally refuse to authorize any further lease payments — after all, that’s why COPs aren’t considered debt — it won’t happen. Refusing to reauthorize the annual lease payment would leave the COP investors holding the bag, and the state wouldn’t be able to float future COPs to bypass voters for the next building project. While such a default would be a good outcome for taxpayers — if it limited the state’s ability to sell future COPs — it would be an unacceptable imposition for the politicians, investment bankers and investors who currently enjoy and profit handsomely from this new system where public debt and high-interest payments have been magically transformed into a simple lease. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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Higman Memorial Plenary, “How Politics Lost the American People.” “There’s a really nice spectrum of people,” says CWA Director Jim Palmer. But, as usual, it won’t just be about politics. Appropriately, the theme of this year’s conference is “Everything conceivable.” That really narrows it down. Palmer tells Boulder Weekly the diversity of the conference is reflected in the opening morning lineup, which includes panels on Latin music, soldiers peeing on corpses, environmental issues, the rise of India and China, death and Mitt Romney. “We really are trying to highlight the hot-button issues,” Palmer says, citing a timely panel called “The 2012 Supreme Court and the Hot-button Docket.” (See full schedule, page 31.) And, as usual, the panel topics are almost as fun as the conversations themselves. This year’s cleverly coined turns of phrase include “No Future for Millennials: Even Your Parents Think You’re Screwed,” “Reproductive Rights: Sluts Vote,” “Are Corporations People: Would Texas Execute One?” and “Read My Lipstick: Women in Elective Office.” Palmer, who is in his 14th year as director, has upheld his commitment to make sure that at least 40 percent of the 100-or-so participants are new to the CWA each year. In addition to Rivlin, McKinnon and Westen, notable newcomers include Carrie HesslerRadelet, deputy director of the Peace Corps; Andie Grace, communications manager for Burning Man; and Diana Ryall, former managing director of Apple Australia. Boulder Weekly

Wednesday’s highlights include Bill Reinert, national manager of advanced technology for Toyota Motor Sales, discussing “Peak Oil” at a Wednesday plenary, and Chicago Sun-Times tech columnist Andy Ihnatko speaking on “Steve Jobs and Apple.” Other prominent participants include Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife Federation, and Comeback America Initiative founder and former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, who will speak alongside Rivlin at Tuesday’s Molly Ivins Freedom-Fightin’ Memorial Plenary, “America 2030: Why We Must Act Now.” The popular film dissection now known as Ebert Interruptus in honor of Roger Ebert, who led it for years before hand-picking film critic Jim Emerson as his successor, will feature Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Sometimes, the conference even pushes its own broad limits. One panel is titled, “My Best Sexual Experience Ever and How to Do It.” “The conference has a reputation for both candid and intimate conversations, even in front of 400 people,” Palmer says. “Roger Ebert talked about his cancer and his alcoholism. I can’t explain it, but there’s something about the conference that makes people be more open and intimate than they would otherwise. And it’s all to our advantage. I’ve sometimes been startled by what people are willing to say and share. There’s a lot of trust among the participants and between the audience and the participants.” Four panels will be held at Boulder

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made the decision to come to the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2008. When I told my grandfather, who has two degrees from CU, he was thrilled. My grandpa is a teddy bear of a man, and I’d bet he gives the best hugs this side of the Mississippi. When he found out that I would attend his alma matter, he pulled me in to one of those big hugs, then put on a stern manner and a furrowed brow and said, “Now Hadley, there’s one thing you have to remember at CU. No matter what you do, you have to volunteer for the Conference on World Affairs.” When my grandfather attended CU, from the fall of 1959 to the summer of ’64, the CWA was just a hint of what it is today. Still, it left an impression on him that would last into a new millennium. INSIDER from Page 15

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High School, including “Modern Media and the Teenage Mind.” In addition, local radio station KGNU (88.5 FM) will broadcast CWA events every day at 8:30 a.m. Palmer adds that storytelling has become a key element of the conference, and this year storytellers from Ireland and Israel are on tap. In a similar vein, a Thursday panel is titled “Shakespeare Read vs. Shakespeare Said.” And the musical element is alive and well at the CWA. In addition to the popular Tuesday night jazz concert, on Friday, Grammy-winning brothers Dave and Don Grusin will take to the Macky stage. “They’ll play a little, they’ll talk a little, and they’ll spar a little,” Palmer says with a laugh. “You’ve gotta have a little sibling rivalry.” In the Friday plenary “Secretariat (Reprise),” longtime Sports Illustrated writer William Nack, author of Secretariat: The Making of a Champion, will be introduced by Penny Chenery, the real-life breeder and racer of the famous Triple Crown winner. Chenery,

who now lives in Boulder, was played in the film version by Diane Lane. During the plenary, Nack will show the three races. Planning for the CWA begins in earnest every August, when eight subject committees begin mulling possible panels and participants. The participants who are invited are asked to submit a list of topics they are interested and well-versed in. “Some send eight, some send 56,” Palmer says. CWA planners then lock themselves up for a long weekend with sub sandwiches and pizza to organize the whole thing, although final panel names aren’t finalized until later, at an afternoon titling session. “We have to be careful who we invite, because most people we invite come,” Palmer says of the participants. “We need to have the right dynamic, the right mix.” As for this year’s CWA, he says “the talent, topics and timing are aligned for an excellent conference.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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This year, the conference celebrates its 64th year of bringing in participants from all over the world to speak on any topic imaginable. And as with most events that pack in the masses, behind the conference is a staggering amount of work done mostly by volunteers. I am one of those volunteers. A year’s worth of work goes into the planning and execution of the CWA, starting as soon as the first panel ends. Each panel is ranked by the people running it, which helps the committee analyze what worked and what didn’t for the next year. The CWA has seven subcommittees, each representing various areas of expertise: Arts, Business, Human Condition, International Affairs, Politics and Media, Science and Technology, and Students. Each subcommittee has student editors and editors from the community. These editors run weekly meetings, at which other student and community volunteers decide who will be invited to the CWA. The decision process takes almost the entire first semester, and is handled with extreme care. Before a participant is invited, he or she must be approved by the group of editors. The editors discuss each potential participant, ruminating on types of panels they could speak on and what they would contribute at the conference. Once the participants pass the gauntlet of editor voting, they are formally invited. The next step in the process is the fun part. The committees get together and discuss what topics will be interesting, thrilling, thought-provoking, inappropriate, funny and relevant come April. As a freshman, it was these meetings that inspired me to volunteer for the conference for the next four years of my life. These brainstorming sessions overflow with topics and titles. The topics are born from ideas that conference participants suggest themselves, and then are molded into panels by the committees. In mid-February, the committee meets for “Planning Weekend,” where from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every panel that has been concocted is presented, complete with a tentative title and at least four participants. The participants are checked and double-checked to ensure that they will be able to speak well on the topic, and that they are all on at least one panel per day. The process of placing panels correctly takes hours, but by the end of Planning Weekend, a skeleton schedule for the entire week of the conference is complete. Though these are the main meetings involved in putting together the CWA, many others occur to ensure that the whole week runs smoothly. One whole meeting is devoted to tweaking titles, while others are held to coordinate housing for the participants, plan out the schedules of the student volunteers, organize producers and moderators for each panel, design marketing, choose the conference theme, and much more. Without the work of the volunteers and the staff who have made the conference their life’s work, none of it would be possible. P.S. If you want the advice of a true CWA veteran, these are my Grandpa’s picks of panels to attend for the week: Monday: “Can the Center Hold: Democracy and Governance in a Polarized America” Tuesday: “Is Anybody Normal?” Wednesday: “A Spiritual Soup: Defining Faith” Thursday: “Prisons: The Caging of America” Friday: “Shifting Sands in the Middle East: New Players, Policies and Directions” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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rlene Blum, Ph.D., has crossed mountains and conquered mountainous obstacles. Her unique blend of career paths has her coming to Colorado on a multi-tasking mission: She’ll be speaking at Conference on World Affairs panels on extreme living and environmental health, approach the EPA to talk about toxic flame retardants, and cap the week off with an induction into the Mountaineering Hall of Fame. Blum wrote about her career in an essay published in Thinking Reed, an alumni publication for Reed College in Portland, Oregon. She agreed to have this excerpt from that essay reprinted here. My memoir of mountains and molecules called Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life describes how my life changed after Bruce Carson, a brilliant young climber and environmentalist, tragically fell to his death through a summit cornice on our expedition to Mount Trisul in India in 1975. Devastated by the loss, I decided to continue Bruce’s work of helping protect the world’s environment. And so I found my current adventure: bringing science out of the laboratory and into the policy arena in an effort to reduce toxics and protect our health and environment. My work began when Bruce Ames, a biochemistry professor at the University of California at Berkeley, suggested I study the flame-retardant chemical tris (2,3,-dibromopropyl) phosphate, commonly known as Tris, which was used in children’s pajamas in the 1970s. Ames suspected Tris caused cancer and was worried that most of the children in America were exposed to it every night. To prevent children’s burn injuries, manufacturers added organohalogen flame retardants to pajamas. No one apparently considered that the flame retardant would move from

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Of mountains and molecules Taking on industry in the name of safety by Arlene Blum the sleepwear to inside the children or that most chemicals in this family were known to be toxic, long-lived and likely to bioaccumulate. Tris, the most widely used flame retardant, was layered onto pajamas in amounts of about 10 percent of the weight of the fabric. When I added a small amount of Tris to petri plates of growing bacteria, it caused a very high level of mutations or changes in the bacterial DNA. Tris was a potent mutagen and likely to contribute to cancer. And almost all the children in America, including newborn infants, wore Tristreated pajamas — a tragic example of the good intention of preventing burn injuries gone very wrong. At about this time I was invited to

join the 1976 American Bicentennial Everest Expedition, the first time an American woman had the opportunity to climb the world’s highest mountain. Although I was writing an article warning of the dangers of Tris, I couldn’t turn down this invitation. I continued working on the article while climbing amidst the ice falls on Everest. At 21,000 feet, I received the final galley proof from Bruce Ames, edited it, and sent it by mail runner back to Katmandu. Although scientific articles traditionally call for further study rather than action, Bruce and I subtitled our piece, “The main flame retardant in children’s pajamas is a mutagen and should not be used.” It was published as

a lead article in Science three months after our team reached the summit of Everest. Three months later Tris was banned in children’s sleepwear — an example of how good science can influence policy to protect human health. When Ronald Regan took office in 1980, he cancelled funding for environmental work and moved brilliant EPA scientists to desk jobs. I had always dreamed of walking across the Himalayas, and his term seemed the right time to take a break from my science policy work. This break lasted 26 years, much longer than I could ever have expected. During those years, I led the first ascent of 21,000-foot-high Bhrigupanth in the Indian Himalaya and hiked 3,000 miles along the Great Himalaya Range of Bhutan, Nepal, and India. My favorite adventure began with the birth of my daughter Annalise Gomersall Blum in 1987. Motherhood and memoir writing eclipsed mountains and molecules while Annalise was young. I wanted to fully enjoy raising my daughter and also to understand how my own childhood and my years at Reed in the 1960s nurtured my climbing and science careers. Annalise attended third grade at the Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica, and eigth grade at Lincoln School in Kathmandu while I worked on writing my memoir. Each year we enjoyed mountain trips: in the Cascades and Sierra when she was young and the Himalaya, Andes, Alps as she grew older. In September 2006, with my memoir, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, finished, Annalise starting college, and my mother having recently passed away, I See BLUM Page 18

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to sell off the rights to unallocated water. As should have been expected, when an auction is attended by oil executives and farmers all trying to buy up the same thing, the farmers came out on the short end. Nearly all of this year’s available water was snatched up by the oil and gas companies to be used for their fracking operations. This situation has a couple of negative implications considering our current drought conditions. First, farmers who don’t have enough water to grow their crops could lose their farms as a result, and that takes its toll on not only the family farmers but also our culture and heritage. Secondly,

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It takes millions of gallons of water to hydraulically fracture a well. Not good news considering that this looks to be a very dry year going forward from one of the driest Marches in Colorado history. That being the current situation, it is clear that something had to give when it came to water, and that something is our area farmers. Each spring the state holds an auction

when farmers irrigate their crops, the water is, for the most part, returned into the ecosystem where it will eventually be used again. That’s not the case with water used for drilling and fracking. Such water used by energy companies becomes contaminated with a whole host of toxic chemicals and therefore has to be permanently removed from the ecosystem or run the risk of creating groundwater and surface contamination. The consequences of this somewhat unfair competition between farmers and oil companies for Colorado’s truly most precious commodity, water, would be tough to swallow in a normal year, but in a dry year like this, it may be disastrous for all of us. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

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wanted to return to science policy work and find a way to use my knowledge of chemistry to reduce toxics and protect public health. Although I had no idea how to return to a career I had left 26 years earlier, I attended a green chemistry meeting in Oakland and found my next mountain. Since I believe working with industry can lead to the most rapid change, I introduced myself to Bob Leudeka, the director of the Polyurethane Foam Association who wore a suit and stood out from the casually clad activists and scientists. When I told him I had studied flame retardants decades ago, he looked very interested. “Flame retardants are a big problem for us,” he said. Surprised, I asked him to explain. “The foam we make for California furniture has to be flame-retardant and

the chemical penta (pentabrominated diphenyl ether), which we have used for years, was banned a couple of years ago. I don’t know much about the replacements. Our chemical suppliers tell us everything is fine, but they told us Penta was fine too. Maybe you can give us some advice.” “What chemicals do you use?” I asked. His response astonished me. The foam manufacturers were using Tris, the same flame retardant my research had helped remove from children’s sleepwear 30 years earlier. Bob invited me to be the keynote speaker at the annual polyurethane foam meeting in the fall to tell the chemical industry about the toxicity of Tris. “Why don’t you tell them yourself that Tris is a mutagen and carcinogen?”

I asked. “You don’t need me.” “I can’t tell them,” he replied. “They’d kill me!” “And you want me to tell them?” My stomach turned a somersault, but my climbing courage returned, and I agreed to give the talk. The audience at the meeting would include the companies who manufactured Tris and similar chemicals. As I unearthed my old lecture notes and learned that little had changed since 1980, I became more worried, about both the world’s continued exposure to Tris and the reception for my talk. Friends told me they would wait outside to help me escape in case the audience turned into an angry mob. At the meeting I listened with incredulity as the chemical producers claimed Tris and its chemical cousin

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icah True was a man to be run after. When Christopher McDougall chased him down to write Born to Run, he followed an elusive trail of clues through desert canyons. Time and again he heard that True, the man called Caballo Blanco, the White Horse, had just been there. Last weekend, True’s friends ran out into the canyons after him again. This time, Boulder-based ultrarunner True had gone out for a 12-mile run toward the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument in New Mexico, and had not come back. After four days and hours of non-stop, high-altitude running, they found him. From appearances, he had paused on his run to sit down beside a stream and dip his feet in, and see TRUE Page 22

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died. True’s body was found on March 31 “It was weird to realize, after the in terrain so difficult that it necessitated fact, that the guy could not have that he be carried out on horseback. dreamed of a better memorial if he There were no obvious signs of trauma. wanted to, that ultrarunners from “There was just this sort of shock around the country just came speeding when we got the message and we just down and spent days running around sort of stood there in silence,” the wilderness because of him,” says McDougall says. “And before I had McDougall, who also went to New anything to say, I just looked around at Mexico to assist in the search after True everyone and I thought, you know, I went missing March 27. He estimated never would have known these people, I 20 or 25 runners came, as did many never would have been here if it wasn’t Laura McNamara other people, to participate in the search. “There was a park ranger there who said he’s never seen a search that intense before,” McDougall says. The morning after ultrarunner Scott Jurek, also of Boulder, heard that True had gone missing, he left for the Gila Wilderness. By the time he arrived, he says, there were 50 people searching, helicopters, horse search and rescue groups, infrared technology and border Micah True, known patrol search dogs assisting, and as Caballo Blanco, a plane relaying radio signals in Mexico among those parties. “It was this thing where I’m sure Micah would have just said, ‘What for Caballo.” are you guys doing?’ because he was not Had it not been for True, he says, somebody for a big spectacle,” Jurek he also would not have been running says. for hours through the desert. This time of year, the Gila McDougall was 42 when he first Wilderness is hot by day, and below met True, and his time spent running freezing at night. The search area was consistently impeded by injuries. included 200,000 acres of high desert The limit of his coaching had been: and canyons forested in a mixture of You’re 6’5” and 250 pounds; pick a difcacti, pine, juniper and oak. Sacred hot ferent sport. True had different guidsprings and cliff dwellings are hidden ance to provide. there. And for four days, so was True. “When I met him down in the can“Micah obviously was somebody yon, what was eerie was we were the who was very strong and we all had same height, the same shoe size, and I hope that he’s going to get out of here,” was the same age that he had been Jurek says. “But as the search became when he first went down to the candeeper and deeper, and it was so extenyons, and he had been kind of broken sive, we just couldn’t figure out, how down and struggling with injuries when did he just disappear?” he first went down there,” McDougall

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says. “And yet here I meet him at this point, 15 years later, and he’s like this sleek, tan, leggy, loping animal cruising through the canyons. And he’s like, ‘Yeah, easy, anybody can do it. Just learn how to run, learn how to do it right.’” McDougall went home, followed True’s advice, and returned nine months later 40 pounds lighter. “I had gone from 0 miles to 50 miles in nine months,” he says. “I’ve come to think it’s just not that hard; the key, though, is you don’t want to practice or rehearse pain. You go out, you run hard, it’s painful and you start to associate it more and more with an unpleasant experience. Caballo did the opposite. He practiced fun, so every time he had a run, if he was tired he stopped, he had a drink of water, he was constantly associating it with pleasure and it made it easier to go further and further.” Born to Run, which talks about the inspiration True drew from the Tarahumara tribe and the race he started in their native Copper Canyons, was one of the launch points for the minimalist running movement, the trend of thinner, more flexible running shoes and barefoot runners. “But the bigger thing that book did is it got people off the couch out running again, if they used to run, as well as if they never had before. And I think that is a testament to Micah’s personality and his spirit and kind of his legacy that he left,” says Jurek. Part of that legacy lies with what he tried to give back to the people who taught him to run. True started the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon, a 50-mile race with an estimated 9,300 feet of climbing and equal descent, to encourage the Tarahumarans to continue to value their tradition of running as a way of traveling, despite the roads

being built into their canyons as mining and logging operations expanded into the canyons. Racers from the United States and Europe run against Tarahumarans. The Tarahumarans keep the prizes, both cash and the awards of 500 pounds of corn and beans given to the top 10 finishers. True wouldn’t have liked the term “relief effort,” says Jurek, who ran the race in 2006, but the race was a way of supporting the native tribe. “Don’t know about any of you, but, sometimes I take myself too darn seriously,” True wrote in his message from the race director for this year’s Copper Canyon Run. “Sometimes, since I have been sponsoring this run, I have felt like I am standing on the corner of Broadway and Canyon, out in cyberspace, holding a sign that reads ‘will run for frijoles.’ Kind of humbling; and humility, like frijoles, is a good thing.” He didn’t want money, he clarified, just some “maiz” to carry the people over until the next harvest. “The Copper Canyon run is now free, like running should be,” he wrote. “The frijoles and Maiz are on us.” “I don’t want to make him into a Barbie doll, he was a real guy with sharp elbows, he was an opinionated, sharp-minded guy,” McDougall says. “I think why people really warmed to him was he never asked for anything, ever. He was all about just doing it. If you want to come, come, if you want to participate, participate.” And come they did. Weeks before his death, True hosted the Copper Canyon Run with a record 500 runners who paid a donation to run courses through the canyons of various lengths, the ultra marathon course revised to reduce some of the danger and with expanded support systems. It was a blast, McDougall says. “I don’t want to trivialize this, see TRUE Page 24

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because he was a very healthy man who died prematurely, but there was a sense of appropriateness,” he says. “He’d just put on the best version of his race that he’d ever done. … He had come back and was making his plans for the coming year, he went out for a six-hour trail run in the Gila Wilderness, which he loves, and then, from what I understand, he just sat down by a cool stream and passed away. So, believe me, I’m sure if you gave him a choice right now, he’d much rather be alive, but on the other hand you feel like this is the way he would have wanted to go.” And if Caballo Blanco were going to choose a place, besides the Copper Canyon, Jurek says, the Gila Wilderness would have been it. The land has long been significant to ancient tribes and ancient runners, and it was a landscape he loved. “I think the key thing is that he wasn’t somebody who was looking to be this inspirational figure or somebody that millions of people would look up to, and I think it’s a testament to all of us that you don’t have to be a largerthan-life character or anything like that, you just have to follow your passion and live in a way that benefits other people. Caballo gave everything he had and lived very simply, and I think that’s a lesson for all of us,” Jurek says. “He was somebody who didn’t decide to put on a race that was going to be publicized to the degree that it became, but things like that just happen.” Even after he became a well-known runner, True continued to work summers in Boulder running his one-man moving company. “He’d come out of the canyons, back to Boulder, and fire up his old truck and take moving jobs and work like a beast for a couple months, bank his money, and then head back into the canyons,” McDougall says. “He was very connected to the natural world and very simple. He wasn’t

bogged down with a lot of materialistic things,” says Brian Metzler, editor in chief of Competitor. “To him, running was just pure freedom and pure love, and he was all about that and that was kind of the message he spread to everybody near him.” By the time he died, he had moved beyond running as a competition, and it had become an experience to be shared, and he gave out his love of the sport, his sense of the fun it could be, and what he knew about running and the natural world even while logging the miles. “It was really like taking a history, biology, anthropology, sociology, psychology class all in one when you went for a run with him because he would point out the plants and the geological features of the trail, and he would talk about ancient running wisdom that native tribes such as the Apache followed and the Tarahumarans and the Rarámuri,” Jurek says. “He was all about being in tune with his surroundings and showing people that running wasn’t just about going out and pushing the body or exercise, it was something that we were meant to do.” At 4 p.m. on Friday, April 6, those who want to commemorate True are invited to do so, and as he would have preferred: with a one-hour run starting at the Chautauqua lawn. Metzler, longtime running journalist Mike Sandrock and local trail runner Buzz Burrell are organizing the event. “I think that’s what he would have liked,” Metzler says. “He was all about just having fun and running and just being out there, so that’s probably the best way we could possibly do it.” At 6 p.m., there will be a gathering to share a few words about Caballo. McDougall says he thinks someone will come forward to manage the Copper Canyon Run in future years. That person simply hasn’t emerged from the canyons yet. Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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“What Does America Sound Like? Diversity in the Media” — NPR Vice President Keith Woods on how the media report on diversity issues and how that’s changing in the era of digital media and citizen journalism. 5 p.m. Eaton Humanities, Room 250, CU-Boulder campus, Boulder, 303-492-0460.

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hether it has robots, high school politics or rival gangs dance fighting — film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s beloved plays vary across all genres. And this week, the International Film Series is bringing you a taste of the variety with a week of Shakespeare on film. The IFS and the Colorado Shakespeare Festival are co-sponsoring a week of films that kicked off April 4 with West Side Story and continues this week with 10 Things I Hate About You, Richard III, Macbeth, and Forbidden Planet. The idea for the collaboration started with the Colorado Shakespeare Festival Guild, a private organization that supports the festival. Joe Bicknell, the incoming president of the guild, was a major force in creating the film week. When he joined more than a year ago, he noticed a film-sized hole in the Shakespeare see SHAKESPEARE Page 28

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buzz Movie Schedule All shows are at 7 p.m. at Muenzinger Auditorium on the CU campus. Tickets are $7 for the public, $6 for CU students and seniors. THURSDAY, APRIL 5 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) — based on The Taming of the Shrew

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operation. Not surprising, considering that when getting his master’s in Shakespeare studies, Bicknell wrote a paper about the 48 movie versions of Hamlet. “Film seemed like a natural step for the festival,” Bicknell says. “Shakespeare permeates our culture, and film is no different.” Along with movies, the festival is organizing presenters and talkbacks after the screenings with professors and festival members, to provide insight about the films. The presentations will also feature a preview of the upcoming Shakespeare festival season, which runs June 9 through Aug. 12 with productions that include Twelfth Night and Richard III. “Our job is to show how there’s lots of different ways to take a source play and turn it into a film because film is a different medium than a stage play,” says Philip Sneed, producing artistic director for the festival. “Our job is to educate, and we’re not advocating a purist Shakespeare position, we want to talk about some of those decisions filmmakers make in an adaptation.” When selecting the lineup of movies for the week, IFS Director Pablo Kjolseth says he was trying to tap into different demographics and attract a wide audience. But he says he also wanted to maintain the independent spirit of the IFS. “I like to do things that open up the IFS program to more people,” Kjolseth says. “Forbidden Planet appeals to families, Richard III to fans of independent movies, Macbeth is for the international fans, 10 Things for students, and West Side Story is for everyone.” The films are also accessible to audiences that aren’t familiar with the playwright’s stylistic lingo. “You don’t have to know any of the iambic pentameter — you can have a

great film that’s enjoyable,” Bicknell says. This week will be a test for future co-productions with the festival, Kjolseth says. If the Shakespeare week is successful, it could become a regular IFS feature, which, due to the abundance of films inspired by the Bard, would make programming easy. Before narrowing the selection down to five movies, other films considered for this year included She’s the Man, Taming of the Shrew, Scotland, PA, Romeo Must Die and silent-film adaptations. Part of the selection process was choosing films with 35-mm prints available, Kjolseth says. He managed to find prints of all the movies except Forbidden Planet, which will be projected digitally. Hundreds of years after his death, people are still turning to Shakespeare for entertainment. Sneed says these movies show the versatility of the playwright. The films help spread his material to a wider audience. “A play like Romeo and Juliet has over 100 adaptations. That attests to the power of the source materials,” Sneed says. “Audiences of all ages and backgrounds find power in Shakespeare. Some people can access Shakespeare directly, and some need a vehicle like a movie like West Side Story.” For Bicknell, exploring different settings and different time periods can add volumes to appreciating Shakespeare’s material. The modernday adaptations, he says, serve to show parallels between the worlds of Shakespeare and today — similarities that are surprisingly familiar. “West Side Story is a timeless story of boy meets girl,” he says. “10 Things I Hate About You is great fun teen movie that shows boys and girls going at it just like Petruchio and Kate did so many years ago.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com Boulder Weekly

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orgore wears YouTube troll- release, with more than 20,000 votes for ing like a fat gold chain or against it. around his neck. “So people are talking about it, When haters blasted y’know? If it was shit — if it was prophim for “ruining dubstep,” er shit, if it wasn’t a good tune — peothe young Israeli producer (born Asaf ple would just ignore it,” Borger says. Borger) named his third full-length “Even when a big artist is releasing a release Borgore Ruined Dubstep Pt. 1. It tune that no one cares about, no one became a breakout release and set the talks about it, for good or worse.” tone for his characteristically carefree Furthermore, Borger says the disidentity. likes are mostly his fans who feel cheatNow he’s at the top ed that the absurdly of his game, ready to misogynistic lyrics of return to Colorado for “Flex” are auto-tuned ON THE BILL: Borgore headlining shows in for the remix and plays the Ogden Theatre on Tuesday, April 10. Doors at 8 Fort Collins and mostly incomprehensip.m. Must be 16 to enter. Denver after taking ble. “They’re like ‘Yo, Document One and Dirt we were expecting over the Fox last Monkey open. Tickets are $22 in advance, $27 day of show, offensive lyrics, and we December. plus service fees. 935 E. Colfax could not understand Borger’s latest, Flex Ave., Denver, 303-830-2525. what you are saying,’” EP, has built plenty of Borger says with a momentum. The striplaugh. pers might have helped. More on that “Flex, along with most of my work, is later. just fun, y’know?” he continues. “It’s just Borger is naturally unfazed that the a joke. The songs make me laugh and I video for “Flex (Borgore’s Dubstep went all the way with it. Some people Remix)” has more negative votes on think we’re serious, and they like us for YouTube than positive. He referred to being serious. That’s funny stuff, too.” the song as “next-level offensive,” and the video features him with an entouOn the other hand, the response is rage of strippers dancing around a solidly positive for Borger’s favorite tricked-out station wagon. track from Flex: “Kiss My Lips,” a less “If you see the number of likes and chauvinistic (but equally shallow) track dislikes on this video, it’s humongous,” featuring electro-pop vocalist Dev (best he says. “There’s big numbers on both known for her part in Far East sides.” Movement’s ubiquitous hit “Like A The video has collected more than G6”). one million views total since its Jan. 27 “Kiss My Lips” sounds like what the

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Bela Fleck and the Flecktones’ stop in Boulder with original lineup might be its last

by Dave Kirby 30 April 5, 2012

controversial “Britney Spears dubstep” track should have sounded like. Therefore, it’s no surprise that BBC radio has given it mainstream rotation and Rolling Stone supported the video on its site. Coming from a producer who is known to be among the “filthiest,” it’s mounting evidence that pop is becoming inseparable from dubstep. “Dubstep doesn’t exist anymore,” Borger says bluntly. “The only people that are staying with their heads above the water are people who don’t think it’s only dubstep at this point. The only people that are still killing it are people that will do a dubstep track and a house track and a moombah track and a drum and bass track. Right now, as far as the EDM scene, if you want to be a sick DJ, you need to be versatile.” The real question is not “who” ruined dubstep, but what. The answer: pop music. It “ruins” everything, right? Pop is increasingly swallowing EDM. It has already become the core of dubstep’s genius commercial appeal, where female-friendly “builds,” driven by vocals and clean-cut synths, counterbalance the aggressive bass “drops” that give dubstep its phallocentric image. “Kiss My Lips” is this formula in action.

t was a big deal when the original Flecktones quartet reunited back in 2010, but kind of a small deal as well, since banjoist Bela Fleck had recorded and toured with Victor Wooten and Futureman (aka Roy Wooten, Victor’s older brother and drummer in his band) off and on between their various solo projects in the 18 years since harpist/ pianist Howard Levy took an extended break from the band. So for fans of the original Bela Fleck and the Flecktones franchise, the band’s Grammy win in February for Best Instrumental Composition for “Life in Eleven” came as a welcome gift, a kind of promise re-fulfilled. The cut itself, a sprawling, multi-sectioned, chops-

Amidst all of the EDM bastardization, attitude is the only thing clearly separating DJs — and Borger crafted his from the start. “I always said, and always believed in it 100 percent, that you must have a character,” he says. Most of his fans, anyway, understand that the rude, confrontational, absurd quality of “gorestep” is not true to life. The Borgore persona is a joke, and Borger is strongly defensive about how he carries himself in person. The strippers on stage? Not a joke. “Lasers are cool … but I’m going back to basics. Lasers, oh lasers! Whatever,” Borger says “Strippers … now we’re talking.” Skrillex could not pull off having strippers on stage, Grammy win or not. He would never hear the end of it. But Borgore makes it work — similar music, different attitude. Dubstep purists might puke at the idea, but some people, like Asaf Borger, just like strip clubs better than dubstep clubs. “I’m working on the next-level Borgore show,” he says. “It’s gonna be whatever you’re about to see on a different scale. It’s gonna be pretty much [like] going to a show in Las Vegas.” Respond: letters@boulderweekly.com

aplenty affair, is more or less the center of gravity of the band’s reunion CD Rocket Science from 2011, combining dizzying syncopated lines and flourishing solos by Victor, Levy and Fleck himself. Vintage Flecktones. Fleck talked about it a little in a recent interview with us. The piece sounded to us like a composition that stitched together some improv bits wrapped around a central piano-based figure of Howard’s, but Fleck said that analysis was … well, kinda close, but not really. “There is very little improv until the ‘gospel section’ that occurs about halfway through,” he explains. “It is largely a set piece that explores the various ways to see BELA FLECK Page 35

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UMC Center Ballroom eyond Slacktivism: B How to Make a Difference When You Have No Time Andrew Butcher Colin Goddard Matt Howard Peter Morales Moderator: Paula DuPré Pesman

3:00-4:20 UMC East Ballroom 3714 The New Masculine Tom Edmonds William Nack Howard Schultz Eric Wilhelm Moderator: Lew Harvey

3:00-4:20 UMC 235 3715 Alzheimer’s/Dementia Patrick Boel Simon Hoggart Vivian Siegel Liz Weir Moderator: Robert Pane 3:00-4:20 3716

UMC West Ballroom hy Video Games W 1:00-2:20 ATLAS Black Box Matter 3515 Music: Death by Internet Mark Frauenfelder 9:00-10:20 Macky Auditorium 10:30-11:50 UMC East Ballroom Justo Almario Devin Hurd 3111 The 2012 Supreme 3263 Charlie Bisharat Andy Ihnatko A Spiritual Soup: Court and the HotDefining Faith Mark Frauenfelder Moderator: Peggy Mansfield button Docket Lillian Boutté Jeff Lieberman Margot Adler Peter Morales Moderator: Dan King 3:30-4:50 Chemistry 140 Gene Nichol Willow Wilson 3761 Terrorized by Terrorism John Nichols George Wolfe 1:10-2:25 Boulder High School Chip Berlet Alice Rivlin Moderator: Marjorie Schaffner 3529 Selling Creativity Joe Cirincione Moderator: Mary Jo White Rony Barrak George Jabbour 10:30-11:50 UMC West Ballroom Devin Hurd Jay Parker 9:00-10:20 UMC Center Ballroom No Pity: The Evolution of Clare Murphy Moderator: Richard Polk From Khadafi to Komen: 3264 3112 Disability Pride James Tanabe The Power of Social Michael Bérubé 4:00-5:20 Muenzinger Auditorium Media Henry Butler 1:30-2:50 UMC Center Ballroom 3811 Altared States of Marriage Andie Grace Rick Guidotti 3561 My Best Sexual David Bender Scott Olsen Moderator: Cindy Donahue Experience Ever and Guy Benson Jay Parker How to Do It Daniel Sladek Limor Shiponi 11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box Margot Adler Sanho Tree Moderator: Dave Burdick 3314 Beatles to Bassnectar: Evelyn Resh Moderator: Scarlet Bowen The (De)evolution of Howard Schultz 9:00-10:20 UMC West Ballroom Music Moderator: Jane Saltzman 4:00-6:00 Macky Auditorium Ethics and the New 3113 Charlie Bisharat 3831 EBERT INTERRUPTUS II Genetics Dave Grusin 2:00-2:50 UMC 235 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy Michael Bérubé Devin Hurd 3601 PERFORMANCE Jim Emerson Joseph McInerney Abraham Laboriel Three Guitars Vivian Siegel Moderator: Mikhy Ritter Oscar Castro-Neves 4:30-5:50 UMC Center Ballroom Glenn Treisman Gooding 3862 Revolting Youth: Arab Moderator: Larry Gold Feargal Lynn Spring to Occupy Moderator: Bal Patterson Robert George Ross Haenfler Gigi Ibrahim Scott Olsen Moderator: Suzy Ageton

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UMC 235 hotography: Images P From the Mind’s Eye Michael Fink Rick Guidotti Jeff Lieberman Moderator: Louise Grauer 4:30-5:50 3864

Old Main Chapel E fficient Energy Makes Economic ¢ents Maggie Koerth-Baker Donna Morton Douglas Ray William Shutkin Moderator: Joel Edelstein 4:30-5:50 3865

ATLAS Black Box ew Media and N Business: Low Cost, High Impact Steve Katz Jo Muse Tom Preston-Werner Jon Sinton Moderator: Clint Talbott

4:30-5:50 ATLAS 100 3866 The Urban Homestead Patrick Boel Andrew Butcher Dan Ferber Julie Pezzino Moderator: John Tayer

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UMC East Ballroom hen the Shooting W Stops: Rebuilding After Conflict Sarah Holewinski Elaine Miller-Karas Phillip Walker Ike Wilson Moderator: Tim Plass 4:30-5:50 3868

9:30-10:50 UMC Center Ballroom 4166 Afghanistan: An Eye for an Eye Leaves Everyone Blind Sarah Holewinski Phillip Walker Ike Wilson Moderator: Lynn Guissinger

9:30-10:50 Old Main Chapel 4167 Shakespeare Read vs. Shakespeare Said Gordon Adams Michael Bérubé Simon Hoggart Jay Parker Moderator: Philip Sneed

9:30-10:50 UMC 235 4169 The Food, Energy and Environment Trilemma Dan Ferber Jay Harris Ted Nace Julie Pezzino Moderator: Dan Powers 9:30-10:50 ATLAS Black Box 4171 Music of the Americas, Music of the People Justo Almario Oscar Castro-Neves Abraham Laboriel Moderator: Brenda Romero

11:00-12:20 UMC Center Ballroom 4311 Appearance Is All That Matters—The Disease of Perfection Rick Guidotti Elaine Miller-Karas Evelyn Resh Diana Ryall Moderator: Kaye Howe

UMC West Ballroom endition, Detention R and Targeted Killings Don Grusin Heather Hurlburt Robert Kaufman Ted Nace Moderator: Bob Morehouse

11:00-12:20 Macky Auditorium 4312 OMG, Politics in the Name of Heaven! Chip Berlet Heather Hurlburt Peter Morales Ike Wilson Moderator: Jane Brautigam

9:30-10:50 Macky Auditorium 4162 Racism: Not a Pigment of Our Imagination Peter Morales Judith Morrison Jo Muse Marie Wilson Moderator: Alphonse Keasley

11:00-12:20 Old Main Chapel 4315 US Presidential Campaign: Soap Opera or Reality Show Tom Edmonds Alvin Felzenberg Jay Harris Ted Nace Moderator: Paul Schauer

THURSDAY

11:00-12:20 UMC East Ballroom 4313 Reduce, Recycle, Repair: Saving the American Dream 8:30-9:30 KGNU 88.5 FM/1390 AM Arlene Blum 4051 RADIO BROADCAST Andie Grace A Public Affair Maggie Koerth-Baker Presidential Politics 2012 Julie Pezzino Chip Berlet Moderator: Paul Sperry Lou Dubose Robert George 11:00-12:20 Math 100 Moderator: Maeve Conran 4314 The Next Scientific Revolution 9:30-10:50 Muenzinger E0046 Jeff Lieberman 4161 Tales From The Road Joseph McInerney Charlie Bisharat Kiki Sanford Krissy Clark Seth Shostak Limor Shiponi Moderator: Thomas Blumenthal Moderator: Lawrence Anderson

olf Law Wittemyer 9:30-10:50 W Courtroom How Our Genes Define 4163 Us Rick Guidotti Joseph McInerney Kiki Sanford Vivian Siegel Moderator: Edward Brody

9:30-10:50 UMC East Ballroom Delayed Gratification in 4164 an Instant Gratification Society Gooding Jeff Lieberman George Wolfe Moderator: Shelley Schlender

9:30-10:50 UMC West Ballroom Homelessness and 4165 Addiction Rony Barrak Feargal Lynn Elaine Miller-Karas Glenn Treisman Moderator: Louis Diamond

11:00-12:20 ATLAS Black Box 4316 Netflix, eBooks, Hulu, Zite: The Rebirth of Media Andy Ihnatko Sidney Perkowitz Steve Sauer Jon Sinton Moderator: Allen Carmichael

11:00-12:20 Chemistry 140 4317 Military Governments Louis Goodman Sarah Holewinski Gigi Ibrahim George Jabbour Moderator: Robert McNown

11:00-12:20 Wolf Law Wittemyer Courtroom 4318 The New McCarthyism David Bender Michael Bérubé Steve Katz Gene Nichol Moderator: Marianne Wesson