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Trumponomics: Batman... or Dracula? by Jim Hightower

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ven if a White House report is just a pack of lies, it still can reveal some awful truths.

Take the recent forecast by the White House Council of Economic Advisers. It essentially hails Trump as genius-on-a-stick, claiming that his economic policies will achieve magical growth and prosperity for the people in perpetuity. Never mind that most of his policy proposals aren’t even being considered, much less enacted.

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for helping prepare it.

Mockery aside, the report does reveal that Trump & Company are quietly pushing a radical right-wing deregulation agenda under the ruse of stimulating economic growth. For example, it calls for eliminating minimum safety and educational standards for operators of child care centers, complaining that such regulations to protect children can “increase the cost of obtaining care, thus serving as a disincentive [for parents] to work.” Yeah, just shoo the little tykes into unregulated corporate pig pens, so mom and dad can work minimum-wage jobs, thus boosting corporate profits allAPRIL 4, 2019

around… and then call the whole mess “progress.”

Meanwhile, the president’s economists admit that the only way they can get America’s economic growth above a dismal 2 percent a year is for Congress to make two big changes: 1) roll back labor rules that protect America’s workers from corporate exploitation, and 2) pass another round of even deeper tax cuts for corporations and billionaires, since the 2017 cuts didn’t work.

Do they think we have sucker wrappers around our heads? Trump’s economic report is not written by superheroes like Batman, but by Goofy, Dracula and Scrooge.

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trikes have been breaking out all over the country.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, some 485,000 workers were involved in strikes in 2018. This was the largest number since 1986.

Tens of thousands of K-12 teachers have gone on strike in Republican-dominated states such as West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, North Carolina and Arizona, but also in California, Colorado and Pennsylvania. The fever spread to hotel workers in several cities, university employees (grad students, regular staff and faculty), Lyft and Uber drivers and tech employees at Google and Amazon.

Why is this happening? We may have an economic “recovery” but many ordinary people don’t feel like celebrating. Profits are definitely up, and the unemployment rate is low.

But wages are stagnant and income inequality is grotesquely high.

Historian Colin Gordon notes in Dissent: “One in four U.S. workers labor in low-wage jobs (those paying less than two-thirds of the median wage) — easily the highest rate among our democratic and economically developed peers, and a rate that is growing. Since 2007, the lion’s share of new jobs has been in lower-wage I

occupations than those lost during the preceding recession. And projections of future job growth are heavily skewed toward low-wage service occupations.”

The labor movement’s invigorated militancy reflects the spirit of the times, according to Sharon Block, executive director of the Labor and Worklife Program at Harvard Law School. She told veteran labor reporter Steven Greenhouse, “When there’s a lot of collective action happening more generally — the Women’s March, immigration advocates, gun rights — people are thinking more about acting collectively, which is something that people hadn’t been thinking about for a long time in a significant way.”

Women are frequently playing a dominant role. In his piece in The American Prospect, Greenhouse quoted Rebecca Garelli, a seventh grade math and science teacher in Phoenix who was one of the leaders of the Arizona strike. She said Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos “fired up a lot of people.

Then you have Black Lives Matter, #MeToo, and the women’s movement, and the growing resistance, especially among women — remember teaching is over 70 percent see THE ANDERSON FILES Page 7

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women — and all the talk about arming teachers, and a lot of teachers just got fed up and angry.”

Will this wave of strikes lead to a sustained resurgence of the movement? Unions have been severely weakened and have been on the defensive for decades. They have suffered from offshoring of jobs and weakened labor laws. They have been battered and bruised by aggressive attacks by corporations, the courts, right-wing billionaires and GOP politicians. The share of workers who belong to a union is now 10.5 percent. For private sector workers, it is 6.4 percent. Public sector unions are stronger but their power is unevenly distributed. In the last several years, the right-wing has relentlessly attacked their bargaining rights, particularly in Republican-controlled states.

Back in the 1950s, unions were a much stronger political and social force. Almost one-third of all workers were unionized. For decades, unions boosted wages for all working people.

When the percentage of workers who are union members is relatively high, wages of non-union workers also benefit. Non-union employers increase pay and benefits in order to prevent their workers from unionizing.

Unfortunately, the opposite is true. Numerous studies have shown that declining unionization is a crucial reason for the precipitous deterioration of American living standards.

From one-third to one-fifth of the growth in inequality is due to the decline of unions, according to a

2011 study in the American Sociological Review by Bruce Western of Harvard University and Jake Rosenfeld of the University of Washington. They conclude: “In the early 1970s, unions were important for delivering middle-class incomes to working-class families, and they enlivened politics by speaking out against inequality... These days, there aren’t big institutional actors who are making the case for greater economic inequality in America.”

What can be done? In electoral politics, unions obviously support candidates who are the most prolabor, pressure the wishy-washy ones and try to defeat their enemies. But they also play a significant role in pushing for legislation that benefits all working people, such as progressive taxation, expanded Social Security, affordable health care, and extended sick time and family leave.

In organizing, unions sometimes reach out to the public and attempt to pressure companies with corporate campaigns (using investor pressure and media shame tactics), engage in one-day publicity strikes and join in social justice coalitions with community and faith groups.

It is a tough fight. The power of big business and their buddies in government seems overwhelming. As an individual, you can feel helpless.

But we are powerful when we unite.

That is what unions are all about.

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In his two years working for American Medical Response (AMR) on an ambulance crew in Boulder, Reilly Capps saw all of that and more. He says nothing he’s encountered on the job so far has been heavy enough to haunt his dreams, but many of his coworkers haven’t been so lucky.

Capps describes one friend from his ambulance crew who has been tormented endlessly after responding to a fatal car accident involving two parents and their young child. While the EMT attempted to save the couple in the front, their baby cried helplessly in a car seat in the back, watching as her parents slipped away.

“Every time he closes his eyes he sees that scene,” Capps says. It is far from an uncommon story. “Babies seem to get to people a lot.”

EMS providers, paramedics and EMTs, like Capps and his friend, deal with some intensely stressful situations on a daily, even hourly basis. Work on an ambulance long enough and eventually a person is bound to encounter some traumatic scenes that can (and often do) scar the psyche.

“People are calling you on their worst day,” Capps says. “You try to do what you can for them, but sometimes you can’t do anything.”

How PTSD is affecting the EMS industry and those who save our lives

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WORK AS AN EMT Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is regularly LONG enough and talked about in regards to the military, police officers and you will see something that will haunt firemen, but paramedics and EMTs are often left out of you unless you get the discussion. Regardless of the inherently stressful proper help. nature of their work, support services for those in the EMS community suffering from PTSD are lacking.

According to a 2016 industry survey of 40,000 EMTs, paramedics and EMS managers from the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians (NAEMT), less than half of EMS agencies provide any kind of mental health services for their employees. This, despite the fact that 37 percent of those surveyed reported having contemplated suicide (10 times the rate for average adults in the U.S.) and 6.6 percent reported having actually tried to commit suicide (13.2 times the average rate).

Devastating statistics such as these were the motivating factor behind Senator Leroy Garcia’s (D-Pueblo) recent Peer Assistance Medical Service Provider bill (SB19-065), which passed unanimously through the Colorado State Senate on Thursday, March 14. The bill has since been introduced in the House where it is being reviewed and amended before it heads to Governor Polis’ desk.

A former paramedic himself, Senator Garcia has seen the effects of PTSD in the EMS industry firsthand. He recognizes the clear need for a more comprehensive support system — something that could aid EMS providers who are suffering emotionally, psychologically or physically. It’s especially important for those providers who don’t have access to support services through their employer.

Some EMS agencies provide Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs), which usually include access to therapists and are specifically designed to support first responders and their families. But not all agencies offer such programs. In many rural areas and for many volunteer EMTs and paramedics, there is no such support system.

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responders] who just couldn’t cope with it anymore,” Senator Garcia says. This includes police, corrections and security officers, as well as dispatchers and firemen; 11 of those suicides were EMS providers. Garcia adds that unaddressed PTSD is also a huge contributor to the high turnover rate in the EMS industry. “This is a real thing that’s impacting providers in the EMS realm,” Garcia says. “And we know that a lot of these rural counties and a lot of agencies don’t have services available for them to access.”

SB19-065 will provide counseling and support for EMS providers across the state, as well as education and assistance for physical, emotional and psychological injuries, and evaluating and referring EMS providers for further treatment if needed. It’s like an EAP for the entire state. So now, even if an EMS provider is working in an extremely rural region of Colorado, on a small volunteer ambulance crew, they’ll still have access to help if they need it.

All it’s going to take is an additional $2.55 tagged on to Colorado’s EMS certification and re-certification fees. According to Garcia, that’s the “peerassisted” part. He likens it to the Colorado Search and Rescue fund that comes with a fishing and hunting license in this state. Every hunting and fishing license contributes a small amount to an “insurance pool,” which covers the cost of search and rescue operations should one of those fishermen or hunters get lost or stranded in the wilderness.

In the case of EMS, “Practitioners of all levels are going to pay this $2.50 every year and that will help provide services for someone who needs them,” Garcia explains.

It’s certainly not a cure-all, but it’s a step in the right direction; a flotation device that can be thrown to anyone who cries out for help.

But it won’t do much for those who are struggling silently. Even in cities like Boulder and Denver, where EMS crews have access to EAPs through their agencies, many emergency workers choose to bury their trauma and move on, Capps says.

“I think it goes back to the fact that a lot of these guys are from military backgrounds and they have this attitude of ‘we should be tough and nothing should get to us,’” Capps continues.

He describes how, after shifts, crews will hang out and exchange stories about the day, what they saw and how they dealt with it. But they generally don’t debrief or decompress from something traumatic. Capps says it’s more like they’re trying to impress or one-up each other. “I don’t know if I ever heard the discussion drift toward ‘are you OK?’” Capps says.

It seems to be a widespread pattern: 48 percent of the NAEMT survey respondents said that they do not feel comfortable talking about mental health issues with their colleagues. It’s a trend that Chris Williams, AMR’s regional director for northern Colorado and Wyoming, has also observed.

“Historically, the people that you see coming into this career field often are those that don’t talk,” he says.

This presents a real challenge when getting these services to the people who need them most, since addressing PTSD among EMS providers relies largely on self-diagnosis. According to Williams, it’s really up to the individual to reach out and ask for help.

Williams’ duty is to provide these support services for his employees if requested, he says, but not to determine who needs them. AMR Boulder has an EAP and their EMS providers also have access to Building Warriors, a nonprofit specialty group that offers direct services and training for emergency responders.

“If people come to us with problems, we can push them in the direction to find the help that they need depending on what level of issue they’re having,” Williams says. “But it’s a fine line, right? We want to respect their privacy but we also want to make sure they’re OK.” However, according to Thom Dunn, a clinical psychologist, statistics professor and paramedic field-instructor for Denver Health, self-diagnosis is a challenging way of addressing mental health issues.

“Just like any other mental illness, there’s sort of a stigma around [PTSD] and a lot of people don’t like talking about it, a lot of people don’t like admitting it,” Dunn says. “Instead, it will pop out in things like drinking too much and

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And even for EMS providers who have access to an EAP or something like Senator Garcia’s peer assistance bill, people are often reluctant to access those services on their own. Dunn says that sometimes a person’s peers will suggest they get help if they notice out-of-character behavior like repeatedly showing up late to work or smelling like alcohol on the job. Other times significant others will suggest a person seeks help if they notice problems at home. Rarely, though, do EMS providers recognize the symptoms of PTSD in themselves and take steps to get better without any external encouragement — often for fear of repercussions at work.

As one respondent in the NAEMT survey put it, “Initiating mental health services through the EAP is an invitation for mandatory competency evaluation, grounds for dismissal.”

Another said, “Most of the people in my organization do not feel comfortable using any service provided by the organization for fear that the information will come back and be used against them in the future.”

Around 20 percent of EMTs and paramedics suffer from some level of PTSD, according to research published in the Emergency Medical Journal. And Dunn says even those numbers might underestimate the problem.

“It’s hard to do research in this area,” he explains. Ideally, researchers would round up a sample of EMS providers who had quit the job and ask why they left. That might provide a more accurate number of how many are actually suffering from PTSD, Dunn says. “But most of our current research is with people who are in the profession, who are still hanging in there and still able to go to their jobs, do a great job and who are able to be resilient.”

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Senator Garcia’s Peer Assistance bill, can be implemented to confront this issue?

On the front end, Dunn suggests screening people more thoroughly to make sure that those who are hired as EMS providers are mentally stable, resilient and cut from the right cloth to handle the inevitable stress of the job. “If I had my way we would screen everybody,” he says.

There’s also the option for more resiliency training, like what Building Warriors offers. This type of training teaches EMS providers how to deal with stress, how to reach out for help, and how to recover from a traumatic event.

Most EMS agencies provide some level of resiliency training, although for many it’s not enough to combat the horrors they encounter on the job.

On the back end, things are trickier. Counseling and therapy are usually the most effective response treatments for PTSD, which EAPs provide in some areas, and the peer-assisted program aims to expands services throughout the state. Unfortunately, though, there’s no easy remedy for EMS providers experiencing PTSD, no panacea that could more effectively treat the problem.

But there might be something close.

“I told so many people, ‘You need to try some MDMA therapy,’” says Capps, who has benefited from the treatment himself. “MDMA therapy could make a huge difference in EMS, because they can’t talk about it. Even if they had counselors to talk them through seeing a kid surviving, who watched its parents die in a car, most people will really have a hard time talking through that.”

It’s an intriguing idea, especially considering that the Food and Drug Administration recently designated MDMA-assisted psychotherapy for PTSD as a “breakthrough therapy.” In clinical trials sponsored by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), 68 percent of the study participants were relieved of their treatment-resistant PTSD after only their second session of MDMA therapy. Of the 26 study participants 22 were veterans, three were firefighters and one was a police officer.

However, MDMA-assisted psychotherapy is still very much in its infancy as a treatment. Studies have only just begun and the drug itself still carries a stigma. To many, MDMA is just a party drug with little-to-no application outside of nightclubs and raves. It may be a while yet before this is an easily-accessible and culturally acceptable option for suffering EMS providers.

Whatever treatments or services are pursued, it’s clear there’s a lot of room for improvement when it comes to mental health services for EMS providers.

Dunn, Williams, Garcia and Capps all seem to agree on that. Fortunately, steps are being taken to fill the gaps.

“In our field, it’s been under a cloak of darkness for a long time,” Williams says. “And now it’s kind of moving to the forefront of, ‘let’s help people before they start to have issues.’”

The need for skilled, mentally healthy EMS providers isn’t going anywhere, and the nature of their work is never going to be less intense. The only real hope for lifting the psychological burden is creating a better support system for those who risk their mental and physical well-being to help their communities on a daily basis.

“I still think we have a long way to go but I think we’re getting better as an industry,” Dunn says. “It’s not a pandemic but it’s something that has rightfully needed a lot more attention than it’s been getting.”

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ast November, City of Boulder voters approved a measure by a nearly 3-to-1 margin to allow electronic and online signature-gathering for future ballot initiative, referendum and recall petitions. That means residents want to be able to add their signature to ballot initiatives, online, from home, instead of having to find signature-gatherers scattered about the city, sign in print, and, for the gatherers at least, wait for those signatures to be verified. At the very least, the measure allows signature-gatherers to use tablets to collect signatures, which automatically verifies signers’ residency and voting status.

There’s only one problem: It’s not clear that software exists yet to implement such a system.

The Boulder City Council determined as much last month after talking to City Attorney Tom Carr, a working group assembled to research implementing the measure (Ballot Question 2G), and city staff.

City staff recommended on March 5 that 2G be implemented in two phases: First, allow for electronic signature-gathering before the 2019 election by purchasing and using software developed by the City and County of Denver, eSign, for about $21,000 up-front, with a $1,500 fee per year to continue using it. By agreeing to adopt this software, Carr said, “There will be something in place to honor what the voters passed last year,” and to “let voters know we’re working on this.”

In the second phase, City staff would research software that would allow for online, athome signatures, and would address issues like privacy, data-sharing, voter verification and more.

Working group member Matt Benjamin agreed with Carr that breaking implementation into two phases would be “expeditious,” as “phase two of online petitioning is a different beast unto itself.”

But Council was hesitant to adopt eSign because it seemed like a short-term, expensive fix. Plus, it would be hard to adopt before the 2019 election because the City and County of Denver has their own elections in May they need to handle and wouldn’t be able to assist Boulder until June.

“If this is a one-off, one-year thing that doesn’t have community support for tablet signatures, we shouldn’t bother,” Councilman Sam Weaver said.

Too, working group member Evan Ravitz suggested implementing phase one would give an unfair advantage to signature-gathering efforts with more money at their disposal — they’d be able to purchase tablets to collect signatures, and would be able to collect signatures more quickly as signatures would be verified on the spot.

So Council tabled the discussion and sent staff

back to the drawing board. City Manager Jane Brautigam said staff will spend time determining what exactly they’d like to find out in a request for information (RFI), and would present those findings to Council in mid- to late-April.

There is a muddied precedence for implementing electronic and online signature-gathering. Utah, Nebraska, Arizona and Tennessee all attempted to pass legislation that would allow for electronic signature-gathering, but all those efforts were defeated. Two companies that have developed software to collect electronic and online signatures, Verafirma and Allpoint Pen, have since had their efforts challenged in court.

Denver, then, may ultimately represent the best case study, at least in electronic signature-gathering. And it claims it is the first jurisdiction in the U.S. to develop such capabilities. The eSign app interfaces with voter registration records for onthe-spot verification of petition signers, and the app keeps a running tally of total signatures.

Though still nebulous, Boulder staff indicated they’d be working with internal IT staff to determine the City’s existing capability to develop software that will allow for online signature-gathering.

In the meantime, they will determine what kinds of information they need from outside tech companies, potentially those in Boulder, to move forward with fulfilling 2G.

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Wilson knew that observations of sunspots spanning more than 200 years had revealed a remarkable order, a magnetic heartbeat that appeared to pulse every 11 years. He wondered whether other stars would show similar heartbeats, so he began collecting regular measurements to find out.

More than 50 years later, the complete archive of Wilson’s data has found its way to Boulder, sparking renewed interest in the magnetic evolution of stars like the sun, and a possible connection to the development of complex life.

When Galileo projected the light of the sun through his telescope in 1610, he noticed dark spots on the surface. Astronomers eventually discovered that these sunspots were strongly magnetic, inhibiting the flow of heat from the interior and creating a cool patch that appears darker than its surroundings. Two centuries later, German astronomer Samuel Schwabe conducted regular observations of the sun for many years and made a startling discovery. The number of visible sunspots appeared to change over time, increasing and decreasing in a regular pattern that repeated, on average, every 11 years. Modern observations have revealed both the rich complexity and the underlying order of this pattern, showing modest fluctuations around a steady rhythm.

Olin Wilson’s experiment took advantage of a fingerprint of stellar magnetism that is revealed when passing the light of a star through a prism to produce the full spectrum of its intensities. At the blue end of the spectrum, a feature caused by calcium was sensitive to the strength of a magnetic field. Patient observations of this feature on the sun clearly showed its 11-year heartbeat, so Wilson decided to monitor the same feature on other stars. Using the 100-inch telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory in California, he made monthly measurements of nearly 100 stars for more than a decade. What he found was tantalizing: Many of the stars showed variations like the sun, but there were also differences that would require more observation to understand. The Mount Wilson survey, as it is now known, finally ended in 2003 after nearly 40 years of unprece-

and combined with more recent observations to make a new discovery.

His second request was for the two dozen stars that most resembled the sun, which became the central sample of his thesis. He used the old data to make significant new discoveries, gaining the confidence of the Mount Wilson team and demonstrating that their survey data contained a lot of unexploited value. While attending a science conference in Boston last summer, Egeland met with his contact from the Mount Wilson team and explained why he wanted to curate the complete archive of observations and make them more broadly available.

“The data were acquired in an earlier age, when things like open data policies were not technically feasible, dented measurements. let alone standard practice,” Egeland THE IMAGE ABOVE “Ideally in science you would says. “We agreed to work toward publicillustrates the variation like to run experiments, to change ly releasing the full archive, but doing so in solar activity during the conditions and see how the in a well-organized way that documents the 11 years of a sunspot cycle. object under study responds,” says the technical details and the history of Ricky Egeland, a postdoctoral felthis unique data set.” low in the Advanced Study The full archive of Mount Wilson Program at the National Center for data is now in Boulder, and Egeland is Atmospheric Research (NCAR). “The sun can be working to incorporate it into a public database thought of as one experiment, but the stars give us with observations of the sun and stars that he many more.” established during his doctoral work. The smaller Egeland is originally from Minnesota, where he sample that he analyzed during his thesis suggested studied physics and started working with an interthat stars like the sun may show a dramatic shift in national team developing software for a large parti- their magnetic heartbeats around the middle of cle physics experiment at the European Center for their lifetimes. From the best information currently Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. After available, our sun appears to have entered this relagraduating in 2003, he took a job at CERN as a tively stable phase a few hundred million years ago, database software developer, but his passion for just as life was emerging from the oceans onto physics prompted him to return to the U.S. in 2011 land. to enroll in a Ph.D. program at Montana State It might just be a coincidence, but the discovUniversity. In 2014, a graduate research fellowship ery suggests that more mature stars may be the at NCAR brought him to Boulder to work with best places to search for technological civilizations. the experts in solar physics at the High Altitude Younger stars bombard their planets with radiation Observatory. He defended his Ph.D. thesis in and charged particles that are hostile to the devel2017, and since then has continued working at opment of complex life, but older stars appear to NCAR to understand what the magnetic heartquiet down and provide a more stable environment. beats in other stars can teach us about our own The release of the complete Mount Wilson survey sun. data in the coming years will facilitate a more thorAt the beginning of his doctoral research, ough examination of these fascinating ideas.

Egeland contacted the astronomers who were Travis Metcalfe, Ph.D., is a researcher and science responsible for the Mount Wilson survey, hoping communicator based in Boulder. The Lab Notes series is to gain access to the complete data set. He started made possible in part by a research grant from the by asking for one star, which he quickly analyzed National Science Foundation.

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tewardship of the Earth is a religious tenet of almost every faith. In Christianity, mankind was given care of the Garden of Eden to “dress it and to keep it.” Judaism provides scriptural protection for certain trees and has rules in Mishnah against harming the public domain. And in Islam, it is believed that God created the environment as a reflection of love and reality, as something that could teach humanity the profound truths of life.

However, sustainability is still not a widespread goal for most congregations in the U.S. In fact, most churches, no matter the denomination, inhabit large buildings largely reliant on fossil fuels for heating and lighting.

According to an analysis by the energy comparator Selectra, the average church uses about 22,000-30,000 kilowatt hours of electricity annually. That is two to three times the rate of electrical usage of the average American household.

But in Colorado, a coalition of five different faith-based organizations is working to change that.

On April 11-12 this coalition will gather in Denver for the state’s first-ever Interfaith Green Building Conference.

“Our hope is to not only motivate people but provide the skillset for other congregations to move forward along the pathway to sustainability,” says Tom Abood, cofounder of First Universalist Green Task Force and long-time member of First Universalist Church of Denver.

The Interfaith Green Building Conference is largely a response to the 2018 report by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which warns that communities around the world need to make rapid and comprehensive changes within the next 12 years if we’re to limit global warming and preserve human health (and civilization at large).

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by Will Brendza Light, Eco-Justice Ministries, the Jewish sustainability nonprofit Hazon, and First Universalist Church, the conference aims to empower congregations and other nonprofit organizations to set a responsible environmental example. This union of faith-based organizations is resolving to lead the charge towards sustainability, reduce their buildings’ carbon footprints, however possible, and spread the message of sustainability far and wide.

Attendees will not only have access to some delicious, locally sourced food, but they will also be learning from experts and other congregations that have already pursued renewables themselves, Abood explains.

“All of our cosponsors are very committed to reducing our impact,” Abood says. “We want to consider how do we mitigate climate change? Not just looking at limiting what we’re using, but also looking at sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.”

The goal is to encourage more churches and nonprofits to become net-zero operations, perhaps

even net-positive, producing sustainable energy for the grid instead of consuming fossil fuel energy from it.

Dr. Scott Denning, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University will give the conference’s keynote address on the April 11, with panel discussions and workshops continuing through the following day, covering a variety of topics from waste reduction, to energy conservation, sustainable energy options, carbon sequestration, implementation of the energy transition and more.

“This conference is really going to focus on the building itself, and how to motivate your congregation, how to get people on board and what some of the financing options are,” Abood says.

Naturally, this conference will be held inside a “green building” — First Universalist Church’s newly renovated carbon-neutral facility in Denver, which uses geothermal heat, solar panels and energy efficient lighting.

“This new building challenges us to live up to the goal of replacing carbon burning fuels with renewable energy sources,” Gary Norton, another member of First Universalist Church, says of the renovation.

“Maybe 50 years from now, this building won’t seem like an end point but like a stepping stone.”

If every church in the U.S. strived toward carbonneutrality, it could mean a significant reduction in carbon emissions. That goal represents a way for these churches to uphold the tenet of Earthly stewardship, and preserve the land we live on for future generations.

“It’s going to be a really great conference,” Abood says. “And it’s hopefully going to give a lot of congregations some good resources to move forward toward sustainability.”

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The pleasure of a good conversation Anticipating the 71st Conference on World Affairs

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ON THE BILL: 71st or one week each spring, throngs of Conference on World people overrun the University of Affairs. April 9–13, Multiple times and Colorado’s picturesque campus seeklocations. See pages ing the pleasure of a good conversa32-34 for a full tion at the Conference on World Affairs. schedule.

Despite the highfaluting name, the Conference on World Affairs (CWA to regulars) has no prescribed academic bent handed down from upon high, does not bestow visiting scholars with awards and has no defined direction. For these reasons and more, there is little about CWA that is dull. Talking during a movie is encouraged, dancing breaks out in Macky Auditorium during the annual jazz concert and no one nods off during a lively debate about the merits of sex with robots.

And what do CU students and the community get out of this? Almost 200 panels, performances and movie screenings completely free and open to the public. Try shaking a stick at that.

How does CWA do it? By inviting over 100 speakers and performers from all over the globe (19 countries will be represented this year) to make their way to Boulder on their own dime and having them stay in guest bedrooms provided graciously by local supporters. Speakers are asked to add their voices to panels covering a wide range of topics — some of which they are experts in, others in which they are not. And for this, they receive no remuneration.

An odd set of rules, sure, but they have come to define the soul of CWA. And experts across the globe come; they come to discuss science and technology, politics and media, art, business, international affairs and the human condition. Many of them come back year after year. In keeping with a strategic plan set a few years back, nearly 60 percent of this year’s speakers will be first-timers. Bummed your favorite from last year isn’t coming back? Fret not; they were most likely asked to hold off until next year so the program committee could make room for new faces and ideas.

And who puts this all together? The Boulder community and CU students, volunteers all. Helmed by CU associate professor of political science John Griffin as faculty director, Laurie Hathorn as community chair and Margaret Hollingsworth as program chair, the CWA team invite speakers, envision topics, build panels and program the conference. In

KEYNOTE SPEAKER Leyla Acaroglu (top) is an Australian designer, sociologist, entrepreneur and United Nations Environment Programmer Champion of the Earth.

Musician Rony Barrak (right) will join others on stage for the conference’s signature jazz concert.

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the interest of full disclosure, I was on Pixar’s 2008 masterpiece. the program committee from 2015–2018 Previous Larsen picks include: as the chair of the Film Subcommittee.

Rushmore, the first time a comedy was This year I join the conference merely as given the Interruptus treatment; and Mad an invited moderator, hence why I, with Max: Fury Road, the first time an action shameless self-promotion, open this movie was discussed, Wall-E will be the batch of recommendations with one of first animated movie to take center the conferences’ signature events: Ebert stage. And considering Wall-E’s remarkInterruptus. able images, spectacular story structure Thanks to the advent of DVD and and clever cultural commentary, few films Blu-Ray technology, are as worthy of such watching a movie a a dissection. frame at a time can be According to an everyday activity, director Andrew but the beauty of Stanton, Wall-E was Ebert Interruptus is born as an idea the discussions that roughly 10 years ensue. Named in before the little trashhonor of Roger Ebert compactor graced the — Chicago Sun-Times silver screen. At the film critic and longtime time, the concept of CWA speaker — the humanity fleeing Interruptus program Earth as the refuse was first brought to piled higher and highBoulder in 1975 with a er was a perfect sciweeklong discussion ence-fiction idea. and dissection of Over the 10-year BERIT ANDERSON, Citizen Kane using a development, fiction slowly the CEO and edistop-action 16mm probecame fact, and in the eleven tor-in-chief of jector — the kind footyears since Wall-E’s release, the Scout.ai, will host ball coaches used to Friday’s Disruptive movie’s ecological bent seems study game film. The even more prescient.

Technology keyidea was simple: While Practically all CWA panels are note: The Internet watching the movie, if family friendly — consult your and Humanity. anyone in the audience guide to be on the safe side — but saw something noteWall-E, in particular, is the perfect worthy, they yelled, entry point for students and “STOP,” and the movie was brought to a younger community members interested halt while the person spoke. Others in what the conference is all about. Join jumped in to contribute or contradict, and the conversation in Macky Auditorium, once the mini-conversation concluded, Tuesday–Friday, 3:30–5 p.m. Larsen will the movie rolled on, usually for another be hosting our discussion in the dark; I’ll 20 seconds or so before someone else be the one running the Blu-Ray player. saw something and yelled, “STOP!” • • • • “Every year we find something absoKeeping with the theme of firsts, lutely amazing, totally amazing, in the 2019 will be the first year CWA does not films. It’s not there, but we find it,” Ebert screen the movie in its entirety prior to once said. CWA founder Higman called it the Interruptus sessions — thankfully, “Democracy in the dark,” and it has gone Wall-E can be found online just about by many other names: Persona, How to anywhere, and the Boulder Public Library Read a Movie, Decoding a Movie, system has 10 DVDs you can check out.

Analyzing a Film, Cinema Interruptus 2019 also marks the first year where the and, after the Pulitzer Prize-winning writ- conference holds panels on a Saturday er’s death in 2013, Ebert Interruptus. The (CWA starts on a Tuesday this year) to name has stood ever since. accommodate those who have always Guiding this year’s Ebert Interruptus wanted to attend, but couldn’t get away is returning CWA favorite Josh Larsen, a from work or school.

Chicago-based critic and co-host of the 2019 also marks the first time in the popular podcast Filmspotting. conference’s history that half of the invit2019 is Larsen’s third year at the ed speakers will be women, a long-held conference, and like his previous two goal for the program committee.

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By Design (April 9, 11:30 a.m., Macky Auditorium), delivered by Leyla Acaroglu, an Australian designer, sociologist, entrepreneur and United Nations Environment Programmer Champion of the Earth; and the Molly Ivins Memorial Plenary featuring Amy Klobuchar (April 13, 4 p.m., Macky Auditorium), the senior United States Senator from Minnesota and a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

Peruse CWA’s schedule — found on pages 32-34 of this edition of the Weekly, online at colorado.edu/cwa, in your phone’s app store or in print at several locations around town — and you’ll notice similar keynotes, panels and roundtable discussions. These are the governing themes of the 71st CWA: Design for Connection, Women and Girls Changing the World, and Disruptive Technology.

From the 2016 presidential campaign to on-demand services like Netflix and Uber, disrupters have changed how we interact with the world. Some look at these and focus on the benefits they provide while many only see the harms they hold. But it makes no difference if you skew optimistic or pessimistic, CWA’s Disruptive Technology track has eight panels to breakdown and illuminate how this shift has and will continue to affect us. From autonomous vehicles (Nobody is Driving Miss Daisy, April 10, 9 a.m., Koelbel Business School 210) to artificial intelligence and blockchain (April 12, noon, UMC East/West Ballrooms).

Capping it off will be Berit Anderson, the CEO and editor-in-chief of Scout.ai, at Friday’s keynote: The Internet and Humanity (April 12, 10:30 a.m., UMC Center Ballroom).

Disruption got you down? Check out the Design for Connection: Breaking the Bubble track. This collection of seven panels, Tuesday’s keynote and one film screening look at how our built environment shapes who we are, and how we can shape the future through designing that environment and the objects we use to populate it. Check out the sustainability focused documentary Enough White Teacups (April 9, 2:30 p.m., Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater), and your mind is likely to go immediately to Wall-E. Not bad programming there.

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Chancellor’s Auditorium) — one roundtable, one film (Brave Girl Rising, April 9, 6 p.m., Dairy Arts Center, Gordon Gamm Theater), and a special presentation from Olympic and World Cup Champion Hope Solo, Sports as a Force for Empowerment, Social Activism and Gender Equality (April 12, 3 p.m., UMC Center Ballroom), this is a collection of conversations you won’t want to miss.

And there is more, so much more.

Former Simpsons’ writer, Mike Reiss discusses his book Springfield Confidential with local writer and co-author, Mathew Klickstein (April 13, 10:30 a.m., Macky Auditorium), along with a special reading to kids big and small with The Big Kid Who Writes Kids’ Books (April 13, 3 p.m., Old Main Chapel). Former NFL player Chris Borland returns for his second year to talk on six panels, from Is Masculinity Toxic (April 9, 4:30 p.m., UMC 235) to Difficult Conversations: Communicating When the Stakes Are High (April 13, 3 p.m., UMC 235). And no CWA would be complete without the conference’s signature jazz concert (April 10, 7:30 p.m., Macky Auditorium). Joining musical director Brad Goode on stage will be the incomparable talents of Cyrille Aimeé, Bijoux Barbosa, Rony Barrak, Howard Levy, Adam Nussbaum, Thom Rotella and Ernie Watts.

• • • • When Higman started CWA in 1948, it was meant as a one-off tribute to the newly formed United Nations. Much has changed since. There is more transparency in some areas, and the Boulder community has a stronger voice in others, but there have been a number of disputes along the rocky road. Some become attached to particular aspects of the conference and refuse to let go.

Others have been unceremoniously left behind. Those clouds will hang over CWA in the years to come, but they won’t linger forever. Each year new participants and new attendees will come along and find something that they love about the conference. They will then nurture that aspect and allow it to blossom and grow, and CWA will change with them.

It is crucial that those who build the conference and those who attend allow it to change further still. Writing in 2008, Ebert reflected on the creation and success of the Interruptus program with thoughts that best capture the spirit of CWA: “The results were beyond my imagination. I wasn’t the teacher and my students weren’t the audience, we were all in this together.”

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The delightful imperfections of Frances Cone

by Angela K. Evans

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t’s a story Christina Cone, frontwoman of Brooklyn-founded, now Nashville-based indie pop outfit Frances Cone, has only told once live — the story behind the band’s most popular single “Arizona,” a song that had been percolating behind the scenes for more than a decade.

Cone had flown into Arizona to meet her brother, and as they drove north to the Utah Shakespeare Festival, he told her he’s gay and she was about to meet his first boyfriend. Not only had she and her brother grown up in a deeply religious home in the South, but the boyfriend, now one of Cone’s closest friends, grew up Mormon, both cultures traditionally rejecting anything other than heteronormative relationships. The revelation began a process of unraveling Cone’s belief system, a story she couldn’t help but share while out on tour last year.

She found herself once again in Utah, playing a venue that was really more like a “glorified shed,” she says.

But when she saw the throngs of young people, presumably with deeply religious backgrounds in Mormonism, she felt compelled to explain the song, hoping at least some in the audience might relate.

“I worry about when they realize that none of it is true,” she says. “I wish sometimes that I could still believe in [organized religion] and I just can’t... ” Raised in South Carolina, the daughter of a Southern Baptist preacher, Cone has, over the years, cultivated a worldview that she can’t seem to reconcile with the faith tradition in which she was raised. And yet, she continues to pay tribute to her heritage through her music, even if she chose to walk away from most of it a long time ago.

“I don’t resent anything about how I was brought up, so while I can step back and don’t necessarily agree with... Or our truths aren’t the same anymore,” she says, “I still respect it and I feel grateful for that community.”

Forgoing the trend of clever band names, Cone named the group after her BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

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dad and greatgranddad, both named Frances Cone, both born on Sept. 11 decades apart, both musicians, who “had a lot of similarities,” she says. “I just liked it as a homage to our family.”

In an increasingly polarized culture, Cone seems to balance the tension between tradition and progress effortlessly. She may not resent the way she was raised, but she’s vocal about the parts of the culture with which she disagrees.

While she may personally reject some of its tenets, she refuses to reject the people that hold them.

“I think everybody is on a different journey,” she says. “That’s so cliché but you know what I mean.”

It’s been five years since her debut album, Come Back, released in 2013 as a solo project backed by a variety of musicians. Soon after she auditioned Andrew Doherty. While she always liked the idea of a four-person band more than the concept of a “duo” (a title she loathes, yet doesn’t have a better option: “There’s not really an alternative, I looked.”) over the years the chemistry between Cone and Doherty became increasingly obvious, both professionally and personally.

Frances Cone is now most decidedly a duo and the two are engaged, planning a ON THE BILL: Frances Cone — with Whitacre and Susto. 8 p.m.

Sunday, April 7, Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder. Tickets at foxtheatre.com.

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“We’d played with a bunch of people along the way and just found in the past couple of years that the real core of the band has become the two of us,” she says. “I think it was true for a lot longer than we admitted that it was true.”

The result has been a slow release of new material, beginning with “Arizona” in 2016, as the band toured, played festivals and continued to garner attention for their distinctive soulful sound, built around sweeping harmonies, building drums and electrifying guitar.

There’s a certain authenticity to Cone’s music and life, a willingness to admit her own shortcomings, fears, struggles, as well as joys. It’s mixed with a relatable humility that opens the door for listeners to reconsider assumptions, both about the world and themselves.

Perhaps “Failure” off the new album most embodies this spirit: “It’s a love song to the things that we’re always so worried about ourselves,” she says, and one she usually plays toward the beginning of a set to help set the tone of a show.

“There’s this safety in admitting that it might not go that great. And most of the time when you let that pressure off it just works much better,” she says. “And then we’re better connected with the people and then they don’t have to feel like they have to be perfect either.”

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usical Journeys” is the thread running through the the orchestra has, and I’ve learned what a good soloist does, or 2018–19 season of the Longmont Symphony doesn’t do. There are some soloists that you get the sense they Orchestra (LSO), and it takes different forms in each of don’t realize that there are 100 people behind them, and then there three works on their next concert, to be performed are some who come and play chamber music with the orchestra, Saturday, April 6. and make sure they are just one part of a greater whole. That’s Most obvious is Bedřich Smetana’s tone poem The Moldau, what I aspire to as a soloist.” which describes the river Moldau flowing from the mountains, In line with the LSO’s season thread, Roffman speaks of the conthrough the villages of Bohemia and on to the sea. certo itself as a musical journey. “When you’re listening to a piece like Also on the program is Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in a perthis you have to pace yourself to go on a long journey,” she says. “I formance that recalls career journeys of always enjoy putting stories with [the COURTESY OF SHARON ROFFMAN music I play], so I encourage audiences to the soloist, Sharon Roffman, and the LSO’s conductor, Elliot Moore, who have do that, too. For me, listening to music is a known each other since they were 15. time that I can be alone in my head.

The Tchaikovsky is one of the first con“Listening to classical music is the certos Roffman learned, and she has chance to process emotions and have a recently returned to it after 10-plus years. little respite from the world.”

Her journey over that time, playing chamMoore sees the Bartók Concerto for ber music, solo engagements and in Orchestra as an essential piece for orchestras, has deepened her underorchestras. “To me, it is absolutely a standing of the concerto.

20th-century classic that showcases The final piece on the program is each section of a very large orchestra,” Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra, which he says. “I wanted to highlight the wonthe Hungarian composer wrote at the derful musicians of the Longmont end of a journey that brought him to the Symphony and the asset that we have in United States during World War II. Moore this orchestra.” programmed the Concerto for Orchestra The most familiar concertos, like in order to highlight the LSO’s journey Tchaikovsky, feature a single soloist in during his two years as music director. contrast with the orchestra. “Most audi“There were two reasons that I proences think of the concerto as a virtuosic grammed this,” he says. “One is to show piece for an instrumentalist,” Moore what an amazing orchestra we have here explains. The Concerto for Orchestra in the community, and the other is to con“ties into a concerto by highlighting varitinue the thread we have through the ous sections of the orchestra — that eleseason, which is this musical journey.” ment of featuring soloists.”

ON THE BILL: Tchaikovsky Roffman’s musical journey has Moore views The Moldau as much more than a Violin Concerto — with taken her to the concertmaster’s chair of musical description of a river. “To me it’s almost a reliLongmont Symphony the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. gious work,” he says. “While obviously it is about this Orchestra; Elliot Moore, conductor; Sharon In that position she has recently made river that flows from the mountains into Prague, for me Roffman, violin. news in the classical music world when what it’s really describing is the cycle of life.

Smetana’s ‘The Moldau;’ a guest conductor canceled his engage“It begins in its tiniest form, and as it flows and goes Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. ment. At the suggestion of orchestra on its journey, it experiences joy, it experiences love, it 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 6 members, Roffman will replace him, experiences passion, and it also experiences difficulties.”

Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, leading the orchestra from the violin secThe music describes the river flowing past a village, Longmont. Tickets: 303-772-5796. tion in performances of Beethoven’s where a wedding is in progress — representing love, in Fifth Symphony.

Moore’s view — and there are rapids — representing She has played Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto many more the struggles of life. At the end, it flows out into the sea, beyond times as a member of the orchestra than as a soloist, an experiwhere we can see. ence that has given her a broad familiarity with the work and “To me, that’s more the journey,” Moore says. “About this changed her goals as a soloist. “I think I’ve probably heard the incredible life that impacts more life. It impacts others in ways that piece thousands of times — I wouldn’t even be able to count,” she we don’t know, because we’re now gone. says.

“It’s a beautiful, beautiful work that fits very well our thread of “I’m playing it differently now, because I know what the rest of musical journeys.”

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events ‘OBSTINATE PEARL’ — WITH 3RD LAW DANCE/THEATER AND BOULDER BACH FESTIVAL.

7:30 p.m. Friday, April 5, Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826. More performances on Saturday, April 6 at 3 and 7:30 p.m.

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The Boulder Bach Festival has collaborated with 3rd Law Dance since 2013. If you missed their performance of ‘Obstinate Pearl’ the first time, now’s your chance to catch it. BBF Artistic Director Zachary Carrettín brings a trio of electric instruments to merge the classical and contemporary worlds of music and dance. This performance will feature works by Barbara Strozzi, Robert de Visée, Heinrich Biber and J.S. Bach. Dancers and musicians draw us forward from the 17th century into the modern era through original choreography. Tickets are $30 for adults, $25 for students and $18 for youth 18 and under at thedairy.org.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 4 J. David Powell (The Poetry of Physics). 5 p.m.

Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Open Improv: Long Form. 7 p.m. Wesley Chapel, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Doug Walsh — Base Camp Denver. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 Write Your Story Writing Class. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

G. Willow Wilson — The Bird King. 7:30 p.m.

Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Open Poetry Reading. 10 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 Minor Disturbance Weekly Workshop + Open Mic. 1 p.m. Prodigy Coffeehouse, 3801 E. 40th Ave., Denver.

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Amanda Cote. 6 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

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An Evening with Art Lande, Boy/Girl Band, and S-Band. 7 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826.

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Weekly Open Poetry Reading. 7 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

Kim Tomsic — Guitar Genius. 7:30 p.m. Boulder Book Store, 1107 Pearl St., Boulder.

Natalie Sharp. 6 p.m. Innisfree Poetry Bookstore & Cafe, 1301 Pennsylvania Ave., Boulder.

W. H. S. Gebel ­— Nature’s Hidden Dimension.

7:30 p.m. Boulder Public Library, Canyon Theater, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder.

FILMs All movies show at the Dairy Arts Center’s Boedecker Theater, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-440-7826, thedairy.org.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 ‘Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People.’ 4:30 p.m.

‘Cold War.’ 6:45 p.m.

‘Vox Lux.’ 8:45 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7 ‘Van Gogh: Of Wheat Fields and Clouded Skies.’ 1 p.m.

‘Shiraz. 3:30 p.m.

‘Graphic Means.’ 7 p.m.

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‘Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People.’ 4:30 p.m.

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‘Cold War.’ 4 and 8 p.m.

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‘To Dust.’ 4:30 p.m.

Jimi Hendrix Experience: ‘Electric Church.’ 7 p.m.

GiddyUP! Film Tour. 7:30 p.m.

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Flosstradamus Presents: Hdyfest Global Warming Tour. 8:30 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

The Mighty Pines. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Steve Itterly, The Moonlit Wild. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Ruby Boots. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

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So, You’re a Poet. 8:45 p.m.

Wesley Theater, 1290 Folsom St., Boulder.

Jack Grace. 6 p.m. Oskar Blues (Home Made Liquids & Solids), 1555 Hover St., Longmont.

Overslept. 7 p.m. Marquis Theatre, 2009 Larimer St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

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Dooley Big Band. 7 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

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Sunday Night Poetry Slam. 7 p.m. Mercury Cafe, 2199 California St., Denver.

THURSDAY, APRIL 4

Boulder Drum Circle. 7 p.m. The Root Kava Bar, 1641 28th St., Boulder, 707-599-1908.

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Bill Hearne. 7:30 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 East Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

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Poetic Brain. 3:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Sierra Hull. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Women of Rock. 7:30 p.m. Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

ZOSO: The Ultimate Tribute to Led Zeppelin — with Mr. Majestyk’s 8-Track Revival. 7 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030.

APRIL 4, 2019

Ballet MasterWorks. 7:30 p.m. Ellie Caulkins Opera House, 1101 13th St., Denver, 303-837-8888.

Black Dog. 6 p.m. Bluff Street Bar & Billiards, 2690 28th St., Boulder, 303-931-5856.

Colin Robison & Julian Peterson. 7 p.m.

Georgia Boys BBQ, 250 Collyer St., Longmont, 720-999-4099.

Crowboy. 8:30 p.m. Oskar Blues, 303 Main St., Lyons.

Dreamboat Annie & Project Foreigner. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Echos. 9 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Expeditions Plus One Featuring Katie Glassman. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 East South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Fiesta Flamenco — with René Heredia and his Flamenco Fantasy Dance Theatre. 6 p.m.

Caffè Sole, 637 S. Broadway, Boulder, 303-499-

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The Foggy Tops Bluegrass Band. 7 p.m.

Großen Bart Brewery, 1025 Delaware Ave., Longmont, 214-770-9847.

Hozier — with Jade Bird. 8 p.m. Bellco Theatre, 700 14th St., Denver, 303-228-8000.

Jazz Is PHSH — with Sky Pond & Kaleid.

8:30 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Los Fear of Shrimp. 5 p.m. The Tasty Weasel, 1800 Pike Road, Longmont, 303-776-1914.

Mama Magnolia and The River Arkansas.

8 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Rachel Ann and the Toymaster. 6 p.m. Still Cellars, 1115 Colorado Ave., Longmont, 720-204-6064.

Ramaya & The Troubadours — with Jeb Bows, Dechen Hawk, Taylor Tuke. 8 p.m.

The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731. see EVENTS Page 36

BOULDER COUNTY’S INDEPENDENT VOICE

TUESDAY 9:30-10:40 UMC Center Ballroom 1101 Populism and the Alt

Right Around the

World

Ben Teitelbaum

Bob Dreyfuss

Jennifer Fitzgerald

Maggie Mitchell Salem

09:30-10:40 UMC 235 1102 Modern Plagues:

Obesity, Addiction,

Stress... Life Might Just

Kill Us

Colleen Wise

Deliana Garcia

Allen Lichter

Mark J. Thomas

Charlie van der Horst

9:30-10:40 UMC Center Ballroom 1103 Republicans: Where Do They Go From Here?

Dan Gould

John C. Eastman

Michael Gerson

Robert G. Kaufman

Henry R. Nau

9:30-10:40 UMC West Ballroom 1104 Democrats: Where Do

They Go From Here?

Scott Schaefer

Lisa Graves

Heather F. Hurlburt

Ian Millhiser

Lis Smith

9:30-10:40 Old Main Chapel 1105 It’s Not ALL Bad News:

Doing Good For

Humanity

Kurt Firnhaber

Nancy Donaldson

Nancy Janus

Morgan Keay

Marcelle M. Wahba

11:30-12:45 Macky Hall 1201 Keynote Address:

Disrupting the Status

Quo... By Design

Philip P. DiStefano

Leyla Acaroglu

1:30-2:40 UMC Center Ballroom 1401 How Trump has

Transformed the Media

Quentin Young

Ana Cabrera

Michael Gerson

Lisa Graves

Steven Hayward 1:30-2:40 1402

1:30-2:40 1403

UMC 235 Global Hegemony Competition: US vs EU vs Russia vs China Svetoslav Derderyan Joe Cirincione Peter Rupert Lighte Maggie Mitchell Salem Ross Wilson

UMC East Ballroom DNA: Creating Hope or Raising Ethical Problems?

Ariel Conn Andrea Gittleman Matthew Meselson Peter J. Whitehouse Po Chi Wu

1:30-2:40 1404

1:30-2:40 1405

2:30-4:00 1406

3:00-4:10 1501

3:00-4:10 1502

3:00-4:10 1503

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3:00-4:10 1505

3:00-4:10 1506

UMC West Ballroom The Melting Arctic: Geopolitical Stakes are High Mark Serreze Carolina Behe Lyssa Freese Julienne Stroeve Alexander Verbeek Old Main Chapel Subcultures: Different Strokes for Different Folks Madeline Pettine Lux Alptraum Jessica L’Whor Marie Pasinski Michelle Thaller Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater Film Screening: “Enough White Tea Cups” Jenny Filipetti Michelle Carpenter Lesley Price UMC Center Ballroom U.S. Foreign Policy: America First?

Steve Chan Bob Dreyfuss Heather F. Hurlburt Robert G. Kaufman Henry R. Nau UMC 235 Loneliness Emily Dubosh Miana Bryant Ross Chapin Ty Tashiro Charlie van der Horst

UMC East Ballroom The Dance of Story and Culture: Who Leads, Who Follows Matt Chasansky Christopher Horsethief Carolina Quiroga Stultz Reza Ramazani Mary Reynolds Reynolds Thompson UMC West Ballroom Sense and Cents: Business and Social Causes Scott Burridge Nancy Donaldson Matija Goljar April Rinne Patricia J. Royak

3:00-4:10 1507

3:00-4:45 1508

3:30-5:00 1509

4:30-5:30 1601

4:30-5:30 1602

4:30-5:30 1603

4:30-5:30 1604

4:30-5:30 1605 Wolf Law Wittemyer

Courtroom

The Constitution: We

Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change

Hal Bruff

John C. Eastman Lisa Graves 4:30-5:30 Ian Millhiser 1606 Robert F. Nagel

CASE Chancellor’s

Auditorium

Stories Women Tell:

Sharing the Defining

Moment in Their

Journeys

Pesha Rudnick Nancy Janus Deborah Koff-Chapin Christina Lowery Lydia K. Murithi September Penn Susi Snyder

Old Main Chapel Intertwining Ecology and Art Rebecca DiDomenico Joshua David Basia Irland Mary Mattingly Tali Weinberg

UMC Aspen Rooms CWA Speaker Chats: 8 Speakers, 11 Minutes, 8 Times Andrew Sorensen Maya Averbuch Sarah M. Kaufman Conor Lyne Moses Ma Kimberly Y. Moore Ivan Penn Seth Shostak Macky Hall Ebert Interruptus I: “WALL-E” Michael Casey Josh Larsen UMC Center Ballroom The Era of Identity Politics Albert Hand Elizabeth Eastman Steven Hayward Lis Smith

UMC 235 I s Masculinity Toxic?

Amasa Smith Chris Borland Tulio K. Cardozo Priya Jha Jerry Michalski Teresa Younger

UMC East Ballroom A Digital Revolution: Information Wants to be Free John Tayer Berit Anderson Brandon D. Anderson Alexander Bard William Hertling Greg Mahowald

UMC West Ballroom Positive Aging: Getting Older, Getting Better Rick Moody Ann B. Daigle Rick Moody Michael Spencer Peter J. Whitehouse Old Main Chapel China’s Strategy for World Domination Tom Galey Lyssa Freese Morgan Keay Peter Rupert Lighte Ross Wilson

Boulder Public Library Canyon Theater Advancing Justice and Opportunity Through Public Participation Michelle Gabrieloff-Parish Nadia Firozvi Andrea Gittleman Priti Krishtel Jose Vasquez

4:30-5:30 1901

Dairy Arts Center Gordon Gamm Theater Film Screening of “Brave Girl Rising” Laura Deluca Nadia Firozvi Christina Lowery Lydia K. Murithi Esther Nakajjigo

WEDNESDAY

11:00-12:10 Old Main Chapel 2205 Education Equity in the U.S.: A Dream Deferred

Tina Marquis

Hasira Soul Ashemu

Kimberly Y. Moore

Dick Scruggs

Peter J. Whitehouse

9:00-10:10 2101

9:00-10:10 2102

9:00-10:10 2103

11:00-12:10 CASE Chancellor’s 2206 Auditorium

Women and Girls Changing the World Keynote Address: Our Voices, Our Time

Ginny Corsi

Krystal Covington

Teresa Younger

11:00-12:10 CU Art Museum 2207 Gallery Walk Talk: UMC East Ballroom Documenting Change: Analogies and Our Climate (Past, Anecdotes: Crafting

Present, Future) Creative Connections

Hope Clark Saska Eric Klinger

Mary Mattingly Priya Jha

Julienne Stroeve Carolina Quiroga-Stultz

Alexander Verbeek Mary Reynolds Reynolds Tali Weinberg Thompson

9:00-10:10 2105

ld Main Chapel O Welcome to the Machine Scott Peppet Berit Anderson Alexander Bard William Hertling

9:00-10:10 2104

UMC Center Ballroom Looking Ahead to the 2020 Election Sam Fuqua Michael Gerson Steven Hayward Lis Smith

UMC 235 Fracking, Hacking and Cracking the Earth: U.S. Oil and Gas Policy Suzanne Jones Ivan Penn Steven Rubin Chris Wright

10:30-11:40 UMC West Ballroom 2204 Driving to Canada for

Medicine: The Rising

Cost of Prescription

Drugs

David Bachrach

Kelli Fritts

Priti Krishtel

Allen Lichter

UMC West Ballroom The Science of Self Care Emma Levy Michael D. L. Johnson Marie Pasinski Mark J. Thomas

9:00-10:10 Koelbel Business School 2106 210

Nobody is Driving Miss Daisy: Autonomous Vehicles

Bill Rigler

Jon Haveman

Lauren Isaac

M Waleed Kadous

Sarah M. Kaufman

Harry Surden 10:30-11:40 UMC Center Ballroom 2201 Hate Speech and

Violence

Stan Garnett

Andrea Gittleman

Heather F. Hurlburt

Andrew Lehren

10:30-11:40 UMC 235 2202 The New Age of DACA

and Birthright

Citizenship

Violeta Chapin

Ana Cabrera

Ming Hsu Chen

John C. Eastman

Miriam Jordan 10:30-11:40 UMC East Ballroom 2203 China’s Growing Pains

Tim Oakes

Peter Rupert Lighte

April Rinne

Timothy B. Weston

Po Chi Wu

1:30-2:40 2402

1:30-2:40 2403

3:00-4:10 2501

3:00-4:10 2502

3:00-4:10 2503

12:00-1:10 UMC Center Ballroom

2301 The Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Business and Labor

Ariel Conn

Berit Anderson

Moses Ma

C. David Seuss 3:00-4:10 12:00-1:10 UMC 235 2504 2302 How I Got Here

Trish Thomas

Ali C. Barta

Nadia Firozvi

Michael D. L. Johnson

Lis Smith

12:00-1:10 UMC East Ballroom 2303 Are Movie Theaters 3:00-4:10

Doomed?

2505

Glenn Webb

Priya Jha

Josh Larsen

Christina Lowery

Seth Shostak

12:00-1:10 UMC West Ballroom

2304 From Arab Spring to Arab Winter 3:30-5:00

Gregory D. Young 2506

Morgan Keay

Maggie Mitchell Salem

Marcelle M. Wahba

Ross Wilson 4:00-5:00 12:00-1:10 Old Main Chapel 2507 2305 Mobilizing Your Passion

George Deriso

Alexander Bard

Matija Goljar

Deborah Koff-Chapin

Conor Lyne

September Penn

1:30-2:40 2401

MC Center Ballroom U Finding the Truth in Today’s Media Ralph Gregory Michael Gerson Lisa Graves Robert G. Kaufman Ian Millhiser

UMC 235 Women in White: The Changing Face of Politics Jan Burton Ana Cabrera Angelique Espinoza Leslie Herod Teresa Younger

Old Main Chapel on’t Forget to Take D Your Meditation Rachel Vanderkruik Chris Borland Miana Bryant Jerry Michalski Marie Pasinski

UMC Center Ballroom S ocial Media: 20 Years Later Casey Fiesler Ali C. Barta Jason Breed William Hertling Reza Ramazani

UMC 235 oday’s Arsenal of War T Bryan Taylor Berit Anderson Bob Dreyfuss Matthew Meselson Susi Snyder Margo Squire UMC West Ballroom Home Sweet Hostel: How to Make Travel a Lifestyle Bill Rogers Conor Lyne April Rinne Keith W. Sproule Marlon Ivan Venegas Hidalgo

CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium Trata de Personas y la Reinserción Social de las Víctimas Elena Aranda Patricia González Henry R. Nau

Old Main Chapel The Meow Wolf Effect: The Fuzzy Line Between Entertainment and Art Melissa Fathman Anthony Guida Mary Mattingly Michael Spencer Tali Weinberg

Macky Hall bert Interruptus II: E “WALL-E” Michael Casey Josh Larsen

Fiske Planetarium n-Topia: An Immersive, Full-Dome Performance Monica Bolles Ben Efram Janet Feder Joe Shepard Michael Sperandeo Charles Veasey

4:30-5:30 2601

4:30-5:30 2602

4:30-5:30 2603

UMC Center Ballroom Tax Cuts in 2018: The Winners, The Losers Richard Wobbekind Jon Haveman Robert G. Kaufman Dick Scruggs Sloan Speck UMC 235 Dangerous, by Design Lynn Guissinger Ann B. Daigle Joshua David M Waleed Kadous Sarah M. Kaufman

MC East Ballroom U “Those Who Do Not Learn History Are Doomed To Repeat It.” Martha Hanna Peter Rupert Lighte C. David Seuss Christopher M. Thomforde Peter J. Whitehouse

9:00-10:10 3103

9:00-10:10 3104

9:00-10:10 3105

UMC 235 Trade Wars: A Chance We Must Take or a MAGA Mistake?

Allen Carmichael Heather F. Hurlburt Robert G. Kaufman Henry R. Nau Reza Ramazani

UMC East Ballroom Resilient Design for Inevitable Change Michael Anthony Ross Chapin Ann B. Daigle Sarah M. Kaufman Lesley Price UMC West Ballroom The Gen Z Economy Erick Mueller Lux Alptraum Joshua David Matija Goljar Sarah Kessler

6:00-7:10 2901

7:30-9:00 2902

9:00-10:10 Old Main Chapel 3106 Mental Health

Check-Up

Judy Amabile

Brandon D. Anderson

Chris Borland

Miana Bryant

Priya Jha

Boulder Public Library 9:35-10:35 Boulder High School Canyon Theater 3107 Ha! Just Keep Laughing Searching for a Better

Carolina Quiroga-Stultz Life: Stories of Migrants, Seth Shostak Refugees and Immi Ty Tashiro grants Bertha Bermudez Tapia 10:30-11:40 UMC Center Ballroom Maya Averbuch 3201 Science “Fact” vs.

Deliana Garcia

Science “Fiction” Nancy Janus

Andrew Calabrese Miriam Jordan

William Hertling

Ann Reynolds Fiske Planetarium

Michelle Thaller Shale Play Julia Spicher Kasdorf 10:30-11:40 UMC 235 Steven Rubin 3202 The Girl Effect

Cindy Sepucha

Christina Lowery Macky Hall

Lydia K. Murithi Jazz Concert

Anisa Salat Cyrille Aimée

Maggie Mitchell Salem Bijoux Barbosa

Susi Snyder Rony Barrak Brad Goode 10:30-11:40 UMC East Ballroom Howard Levy 3203 Global Trade Wars Adam Nussbaum

Clara Park Thom Rotella

Nancy Donaldson

Ross Wilson Ernie Watts

9:00-10:10 3101

Macky Hall Climate Change Innovations Sam Weaver Steven Hayward Bonnie Keeler Ivan Penn

4:30-5:30 2604

4:30-5:30 2605

UMC West Ballroom Magic in Mentoring Lisa Morzel Michael D. L. Johnson Bonnie Keeler Priti Krishtel Kimberly Y. Moore

THURSDAY

9:00-10:10 3102

UMC Center Ballroom U.S. Aristocracy: Pass the Privilege, Please Carol Conzelman Nadia Firozvi Michael Spencer Po Chi Wu

11:00-12:10CASE Chancellor’s 3207 Auditorium

Ripped from the Head

lines: International

Edition

Thomas Gibb

David H. Bearce

Bob Dreyfuss

Hun Shik Kim

Alexander Verbeek 12:00-1:10 3301

12:00-1:10 3302

12:00-1:10 3303

12:00-1:10 3304

12:00-1:10 3305

12:00-1:10 3306

1:30-3:00 10:30-11:40 UMC West Ballroom 3401 3204 Music Rewards Us; How Should We Reward

Musicians?

Ron Bostwick

Alexander Bard

Howard Levy

September Penn 1:30-2:40

Thom Rotella 3402

10:30-11:40 Old Main Chapel

3205 Wisdom Worldwide

Jane Brautigam

Christopher Horsethief

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Deborah Koff-Chapin

Moses Ma

Christopher M.

Thomforde 1:30-2:40

Peter J. Whitehouse 3403

11:00-12:10 Boulder High School

3206 Changing Climate,

Changing Economics

Ann B. Daigle

Lyssa Freese

Rebecca Masterman

1:30-2:40 3404

1:30-2:40 3405

1:30-2:40 3406

UMC Center Ballroom

Oops, I Said It Again:

Normalizing Taboos

Micheal Robinson

Lux Alptraum

Ali C. Barta

Miana Bryant

Tulio K. Cardozo 3:00-4:10 3501 UMC 235

The Effects of a Divided Congress

Scott Adler

John C. Eastman

Robert G. Kaufman

Ian Millhiser

Lis Smith 3:00-4:10 UMC East Ballroom 3502 Can the U.S. Hold Its

Lead in Innovation?

Brad Bernthal

Sarah Kessler

Allen Lichter

C. David Seuss Po Chi Wu 3:00-4:10 3503 UMC West Ballroom

Design That Lives (On) Michael Leccese

Dana Crawford

Joshua David

Michelle Delk

Macky Hall Doomsday Clock: Two Minutes to Midnight Michael English Joe Cirincione Susi Snyder Margo Squire Gregory D. Young

Old Main Chapel Out-of-Office: Life Beyond Work Aaron Brockett Matija Goljar Priti Krishtel Brigitte Nettesheim Dick Scruggs

Macky Hall Jazz Master Class Rony Barrak Howard Levy Adam Nussbaum Thom Rotella Ernie Watts

UMC Center Ballroom Reaching the Top of Your Game Mara Abbott Chris Borland Conor Lyne Jim Small Hope Solo Christopher M. Thomforde

UMC 235 Global Migration and Crimes Against Humanity Douglas Snyder Maya Averbuch Deliana Garcia Andrea Gittleman Steven Rubin Marcelle M. Wahba

3:00-4:10 3504

3:00-4:10 3505

3:30-5:00 3506

4:30-5:30 3601

UMC East Ballroom Let’s Compare Notes: Interdisciplinary Problem Solving Bob Morehouse Leyla Acaroglu Carolina Behe Bonnie Keeler

4:30-5:30 3602

4:30-5:30 3605

UMC 235 The President’s Latest Battleground: Free Speech on Campus Frances Draper William B. Allen Richard B. Collins Robert G. Kaufman Ian Millhiser

9:00-10:10 UMC East Ballroom 4104 Elegant Density:

Designing for

Community

Danica Powell

Ross Chapin

Ann B. Daigle

Renee Martinez-Stone

Esther Sullivan UMC West Ballroom

Women Left Behind UMC East Ballroom 9:00-10:10 UMC West Ballroom Eliza Woloson Design Thinking for the 4105 The Supreme Court: Nancy Donaldson Next Century

Defining the New Priya Natarajan Madeline Allen

Normal Michelle Thaller Leyla Acaroglu

Scott Skinner-Thompson Teresa Younger Moses Ma

John C. Eastman Joe Toscano

Ian Millhiser Old Main Chapel

Stephen B. Presser How Women Lead and 4:30-5:30 UMC West Ballroom

Succeed: Workplaces 3604 Vetting the Headlines: 9:00-10:10 Old Main Chapel That Work For All

How to Be a Smart 4106 Family Matters: Hannah Davis

Consumer of News

Modern Family Fred Haberman

Mike McDevitt

Dynamics Jerry Michalski

Alexander Bard

Bette Erickson Brigitte Nettesheim

Andrew Lehren

Ali C. Barta Patricia J. Royak

Ivan Penn

Tulio K. Cardozo

Ann Reynolds

Nancy Janus UMC Center Ballroom

Carolina Quiroga-Stultz When Fiction Predicts 4:30-5:50 Old Main Chapel

Fact: Writers Imagine 3603 A Discussion of 9:00-10:10 Hellems 252 Our Future Reality

“Becoming” by Michelle 4107 Immigration Policies’ Joni Teter

Obama

Impact on U.S. William Hertling

Kate Thompson

Industries Seth Shostak

Cynthia Scott

Rachel Friend Mary Reynolds Reynolds Aaron Makaruk

Jon Haveman Thompson

Rebecca Masterman

Peter Rupert Lighte

Lesley Price

Reza Ramazani UMC 235

Why Do We Lie? 4:30-5:30 Boulder Public Library 9:00-10:10 Koelbel Business School Nikhil Mankekar 3606 Canyon Theater 4108 210 Lux Alptraum

Will Bees Save the

Sears Dies, Amazon Dick Scruggs

World?

Thrives: The State of Mark J. Thomas

Cynthia Scott

Retail

Aaron Makaruk

Yvette Bowden

Rebecca Masterman

Sean Maher UMC West Ballroom

Lesley Price

Nathan Nguyen China’s Global Business

Patricia J. Royak Initiatives 6:00-7:30 Boulder Chamber of

Lori Seward 3901 Commerce 10:00-11:30 University Theater Joe Cirincione

Growing Our 4109 Charlotte York Irey Peter Rupert Lighte

Community Vision

Theatre Jim Small

Together

Dancers at Work: Po Chi Wu

Dana Query

Exploring

Michelle Orge

Improvisation CASE Chancellor’s

Patricia J. Royak

Rony Barrak Auditorium

Onye Ozuzu Breaking the Bubble...

Thom Rotella

by Design

Marianne Holbert 10:30-11:40 UMC Center Ballroom

Ross Chapin 4201 Disruptive Tech 9:00-10:10 UMC Center Ballroom Anthony Guida

Keynote Address: The 4101 Saving the Planet: All Mary Mattingly

Internet and Humanity

Countries on Deck Danica Powell

Alison Cool

Max Boykoff

Berit Anderson

Cassandra Brooks Old Main Chapel

Lyssa Freese Expressing Indigenous 10:30-11:40 UMC 235

Bonnie Keeler Knowledge and Culture 4202 Honesty is Passé

Alexander Verbeek Through Arts and

Matt Duncan Language

Matt Duncan 9:00-10:10 UMC 235 Mary Young

Jerry Michalski 4102 Attacked, Jailed, Christopher Horsethief

April Rinne

Expelled and Killed: Onye Ozuzu

Christopher M.

The Hazards of Carolina Quiroga-Stultz

Thomforde

International

Keith W. Sproule

Journalism 10:30-11:40 UMC East Ballroom

Hun Shik Kim Macky Hall 4203 Sex and the Cinema:

Maya Averbuch Ebert Interruptus III:

Representation of

Bob Dreyfuss “WALL-E”

Women and Sexuality

Miriam Jordan Michael Casey

in Arts

Margo Squire Josh Larsen

Michele D. Simpson

Lux Alptraum 9:00-10:10 Humanities 1B50

Priya Jha 4103 Science for UMC Center Ballroom

Julia Spicher Kasdorf

Nonscientists 180 Degrees: Flipping

Twila Moon Your Life Trajectory 10:30-11:40 UMC West Ballroom

Michael D. L. Johnson Paul Cure 4204 Mobilizing Social

Seth Shostak Brandon D. Anderson

Activism

Ty Tashiro Ali C. Barta

Leanna Luney

Michelle Thaller Chris Borland

Miana Bryant Tulio K. Cardozo

Sun-Ming Jessica Pan Nancy Janus

Charlie van der Horst

FRIDAY

10:30-11:40 Old Main Chapel 4205 Your Brain: The

Three-Pound Universe

Amelia Schafer

Rebecca Masterman

Marie Pasinski

Mark J. Thomas

Peter J. Whitehouse

10:30-11:30 Fiske Planetarium 4206 n-Topia: An

Immersive Full-Dome

Performance

Monica Bolles

Ben Efram

Janet Feder

Joe Shepard

Michael Sperandeo

Charles Veasey

1:30-2:40 4402

1:30-2:40 4403

1:30-2:40 4405 11:00-12:10 CASE Chancellor’s

4207 Auditorium

The Elephant in the

Womb: Women’s

Access to Reproductive

Healthcare

Alexis Halkovic 1:30-2:40

Deliana Garcia 4406

Lydia K. Murithi

Brigitte Nettesheim

12:00-1:10 Macky Hall

4301 A Path to Peace for the World’s Most Violent

Countries?

Janine Davidson 1:30-2:40

Rachel Kleinfeld 4407

12:00-1:10 UMC Center Ballroom

4302 U.S. Foreign Policy:

From the Outside

Looking In

Megan Shannon

Joe Cirincione

Bob Dreyfuss 1:30-2:40

Marcelle M. Wahba 4408

Ross Wilson

12:00-1:10 UMC 235

4303 Is Social Media the New

Frontier for Women’s

Rights?

Jamie Skerski

Lux Alptraum

Berit Anderson

Miana Bryant 3:00-4:10

Daisy Khan 4501

12:00-1:10 UMC East Ballroom

4304 Artificial Intelligence

and Our Society

Andy Franklin

Alexander Bard

William Hertling

M Waleed Kadous 3:00-4:10

4502 12:00-1:10 UMC West Ballroom

4305 Blockchain: Why All

the Attention?

Hunter Albright

Moses Ma

Theresa M. Szczurek

Po Chi Wu 3:00-4:10

4503 12:00-1:10 Old Main Chapel

4306 When the Weather is

Uggianaqtuq

Katja Friedrich

Carolina Behe

Julienne Stroeve

Michelle Thaller

12:00-1:10 Koelbel Business School 3:00-4:10 4504 4307 210

EntreprenYOUrship

David Spiro

Matija Goljar

Kimberly Y. Moore

Nathan Nguyen

1:30-2:40 Macky Hall

4401 Rhythm and Words

Rony Barrak

Deborah Koff-Chapin

Thom Rotella

Michael Spencer

Mary Reynolds Reynolds

Thompson

UMC Center Ballroom A Laughing Matter: The Role of Comedy in Social Change Jim England Lisa Graves Mike Reiss Seth Shostak Ty Tashiro UMC 235 When Heroes Fall Eric Budd Michael D. L. Johnson Josh Larsen Onye Ozuzu September Penn

UMC West Ballroom Biomimicry: Nature-Inspired Design Seth Wilberding Ross Chapin Mary Mattingly Lesley Price

3:00-4:10 4505

3:00-4:10 4506

3:30-5:00 4507

4:30-5:30 4601

4:30-5:30 4602 Hale 270

Past the Turing Test: The Future of Artificial Intelligence

Tim O’Shea William Hertling

Christopher Horsethief Ivan Penn 4:30-5:30

4607 Koelbel Business School 210

“March for Their Lives” and More: Young

People Making a

Difference in Politics Serene Singh 4:30-5:30 Hadley Heath Manning 4603 Sun-Ming Jessica Pan

Lis Smith

UMC Center Ballroom

Athlete Activism:

Sports as a Force for

Empowerment, Social Activism and Gender Equality 4:30-5:30 Roger Pielke 4604 Hope Solo

Chemistry 140

Spiritual, Not Religious: Nuns vs. Nones

Mary Kate Rejouis 4:30-5:30 Daisy Khan 4605 Christopher M.

Thomforde

Ernie Watts

UMC 235

Xenophobia: History

and Hysteria Adrian J. Shin 4:30-5:30 Joe Cirincione 4606 Nadia Firozvi

Miriam Jordan

Carolina Quiroga-Stultz

UMC East Ballroom

From Ride-Share to

Home Care: Tech

“Drives” the Sharing

Economy 4:30-5:45 Nathan Schneider 4901 M Waleed Kadous

Jerry Michalski

Ivan Penn April Rinne Old Main Chapel Health Care Changes and Me Amy Howard Andrew Lehren Allen Lichter Brigitte Nettesheim Charlie van der Horst

The The 69th 69th

UMC West Ballroom UN or U Out? Conor Seyle Nancy Donaldson Susi Snyder Margo Squire Alexander Verbeek Ross Wilson

SATURDAY

9:00-10:10 U MC Center

Ballroom 5101 Second Chances: Life Beyond Prison

Joanne Belknap

Tulio K. Cardozo Old Main Chapel

Kimberly Y. Moore What You Know

Dick Scruggs Depends on Where You Christopher M. Live

Thomforde Seth Levine

Carolina Behe 9:00-10:10 UMC 235 Christopher Horsethief 5102 Women and Girls Mark J. Thomas

Changing the World Po Chi Wu

Cynda Collins Arsenault

Daisy Khan Macky Hall

Rebecca Masterman Ebert Interruptus IV:

Onye Ozuzu “WALL-E”

Susi Snyder Michael Casey Josh Larsen 9:00-10:10 UMC East Ballroom 5103 Space Travel: The Final UMC Center Ballroom

Frontier Universal Health Care: Josie Heath Do We Want It?

Priya Natarajan Robert Vissers

Ivan Penn Andrew Lehren

Keith W. Sproule Hadley Heath Manning

Michelle Thaller Ian Millhiser Reza Ramazani 9:00-10:10 UMC West Ballroom

5104 Why Can’t I Sleep?

UMC 235

Kenneth P. Wright Government For Sale?

Moses Ma James C. Pribyl

David E. McCarty Elizabeth Eastman

Marie Pasinski Lisa Graves

Peter J. Whitehouse Robert G. Kaufman Dick Scruggs 9:00-10:10 Old Main Chapel 5105 Peace Through Poetry Humanities 1B50

Brian Buckley Beauty, Culture and the Lisa Graves Body

Basia Irland Kirk Ambrose

Julia Spicher Kasdorf Onye Ozuzu

Mary Reynolds Reynolds Marie Pasinski

Thompson September Penn 9:00-10:10 Hellems 252 UMC East Ballroom 5106 Passing the Economic Where Has the Silence Torch to the Next Gone?

Generation Katherine Schultz

Mark McIntyre Rony Barrak

Jon Haveman Ross Chapin

Conor Lyne Michael Spencer

Nathan Nguyen Mary Reynolds Reynolds April Rinne Thompson 10:30-11:40 Macky Hall UMC West Ballroom 5201 Springfield Space... Why Bother?

Confidential David Klaus

Mathew Klickstein Priya Natarajan

Mike Reiss Seth Shostak

Michelle Thaller 10:30-11:40 UMC Center Ballroom 5202 Ripped from the Old Main Chapel

Headlines: U.S. Edition Can You Feel It?

Al Manzi Numbness to Tragedy

Lyssa Freese Claire Levy

Robert G. Kaufman Tulio K. Cardozo

Ian Millhiser Sun-Ming Jessica Pan

Lis Smith Ann Reynolds Steven Rubin 10:30-11:40 Chemistry 140 5203 What I Learned From Boulder Public Library Remarkable People Canyon Theater

Rita Klees Vaccines: What You

Priya Jha

Don’t Know Can Hurt

Andrew Lehren Everyone

Ann Reynolds Anie Roche

Tali Weinberg Deliana Garcia Michael D. L. Johnson 10:30-11:40 UMC 235 Moses Ma 5204 Is the Science in Science Charlie van der Horst

Fiction Movies

Accurate?

Visual Arts Center 1B20

Benjamin John Robertson Film Screening: “Brave William Hertling Girl Rising”

Josh Larsen Christina Lowery

Seth Shostak

10:30-11:40 UMC East Ballroom 5205 Take Me Home, (Newly

Paved) Country Roads

Charlie Danaher

Ann B. Daigle

Dennis Kyle

Jerry Michalski

Reza Ramazani

10:30-11:40 UMC West Ballroom 5206 The Kingdom of Saudi

Arabia: Friend or Foe?

John Willis

Joe Cirincione

Bob Dreyfuss

Margo Squire

Marcelle M. Wahba

10:30-11:40 Old Main Chapel 5207 Race: Please Select One

Hillary Potter

Maya Averbuch

Nadia Firozvi

Deliana Garcia

Carolina Quiroga-

Stultz

12:00-1:10 UMC Center Ballroom 5301 Sustainability and Me:

Our Role in Saving

the Planet

Mathew Davis

Mary Mattingly

Lesley Price

Keith W. Sproule

12:00-1:10 Chemistry 140 5302 Life in the 22nd Century

Jill Tietjen

Ross Chapin

Christopher Horsethief

Moses Ma

Seth Shostak 12:00-1:10 5303

UMC 235 Swipe Right for a Meaningful Relationship Emma Perkins Johnson Lux Alptraum Miana Bryant Kimberly Y. Moore Ty Tashiro

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UMC West Ballroom The Future of Work Rollie Heath Nancy Donaldson Sarah Kessler Allen Lichter April Rinne

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Conference on WORLD AFFAIRS

UMC East Ballroom ow Music Inspires Me H Christopher Sarson Michael D. L. Johnson Rebecca Masterman September Penn Ernie Watts

Old Main Chapel Piggy Banks, Student Loans and 401K: Teaching Financial Survival Sacha Millstone Matija Goljar Jon Haveman Nathan Nguyen

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Film Screening and Talkback: “JFK: The Last

Speech” Jamie Krutz Neil Bicknell

UMC Center Ballroom “A Big, Beautiful Wall” Lee Shainis Maya Averbuch John C. Eastman Nadia Firozvi Deborah Koff-Chapin Reza Ramazani

UMC 235 Opioids: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Jamie Feld Brigitte Nettesheim Dick Scruggs Mark J. Thomas

UMC East Ballroom Powering the Future Daniel Kaffine Bonnie Keeler Ivan Penn Alexander Verbeek

UMC West Ballroom Closing the Technological Divide: Access and Resourcese Julia Richman Maya Averbuch Alexander Bard Tulio K. Cardozo Po Chi Wu CASE Chancellor’s Auditorium Mapping the Heavens and Unraveling the Dark Side of the Universe Matt Benjamin Priya Natarajan UMC Center Ballroom ussia’s Foreign R “Affairs” Tatiana Mikhailova Joe Cirincione Margo Squire Ross Wilson Chemistry 140 Traveling with a Purpose Kaye Howe Nancy Janus Steven Rubin Keith W. Sproule

UMC 235 Difficult Conversations - Communicating when the Stakes are High Kimberly Campbell Chris Borland Daisy Khan Kimberly Y. Moore Ty Tashiro Christopher M. Thomforde

UMC West Ballroom Evolution of the Modern Work Environment Clif Harald Matija Goljar Sarah Kessler Allen Lichter Jerry Michalski Old Main Chapel The Big Kid Who Writes Kids’ Books Mike Reiss Macky Hall Molly Ivins Memorial Plenary “A conversation with Senator Amy Klobuchar” Thomas Zeiler Amy Klobuchar

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1984. Benchmark Theatre Company, 40West Arts, 1560 Teller St., Lakewood. Through April 13.

theater

The Basque Things in Life.

The BiTSY Stage, 1137 S. Huron St., Denver. Through April 14.

Between Us. Denver Center for Performing Arts, Off-Center, 1101 13th St., Denver. Through May 26.

Live Entertainment Nightly at our 1709 Pearl St location

The Diary of Anne Frank.

Arvada Center for the Arts and Humantiies, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 17.

THURSDAY APRIL 4

Every Brilliant Thing. Vintage Theatre, 1468 Dayton St., Aurora.

Through April 14.

BOULDER ARTS WEEK

STEVE ITTERLY 8PM THE MOONLIT WILD 9PM FRIDAY APRIL 5

Heathers: The Musical — presented by Equinox Theatre. The Bug Theatre, 3654 Navajo St., Denver. Through April 27.

‘BETWEEN US’ is a set of three truly unique one-on-one experiences with just you and an actor, created by some of the country’s leading immersive theatre artists. Head to a downtown Denver destination to share each other’s company and connect in a very real way. Presented by Denver Center for the Performing Arts Off-Center through May 26, denvercenter.org.

Our Town. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden. Through April 28.

Silent Sky — presented by Evergreen Players. Center Stage, 27608 Fireweed Drive, Evergreen. Through April 7.

Sin Street Social Club. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 19.

Hello, Dolly! Denver Center for Performing Arts, Buell Theater, 14th and Curtis streets, Denver. Through April 7.

Magnets on the Fridge. Buntport Theater, 717 Lipan St., Denver.

Shows the first Wednesday of the month from February-June.

Jekyll & Hyde, The Musical. Jesters Dinner Theatre, 224 Main St., Longmont. Through April 14.

The Moors. Arvada Center, Black Box Theatre, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Through May 18.

Skeleton Crew. Curious Theatre Company, 1080 Acoma St., Denver. Through April 13.

Three Billy Goats Gruff — presented by Miners Alley Children’s Theatre. Miners Alley Playhouse, 1224 Washington Ave., Golden.

Through April 27.

Trav’lin – The 1930s Harlem Musical. Arvada Center, 6901 Wadsworth Blvd., Arvada. Runs April 9 thru 28.

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RAMAYA & THE TROUBADOURS 8PM SATURDAY APRIL 6 BOULDER ARTS WEEK

VERONIQUE VAN PELT PRESENTS:

THE DEEP CUTS SHOWCASE NO. 4 8PM SUNDAY APRIL 7

GRUPO CHEGANDO LÁ AND FRANCISCO MARQUES 8PM MONDAY APRIL 8

CALEB MILLER 8PM DOMINICK ANTONELLI 9PM CHRIS KOZA 10PM TUESDAY APRIL 9

WOMENCRUSH MUSIC 8PM WEDNESDAY APRIL 10

RABBLEFISH 8PM THURSDAY APRIL 11

JOSEPH KASPRZYK, SILVER STEVEN, ANDREW STURTZ & COURTLYN CARPENTER 8PM FRIDAY APRIL 12

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CU INFO.

Rock 4 Roland. 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-526-2127.

Wendy Woo CD Release Party. 8 p.m. Dairy Arts Center, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder, 303-4407826.

Wobbleland: Rusko, Kill The Noise, Minnesota & Eprom. 6 p.m. Fillmore Auditorium, 1510 Clarkson St., Denver, 303-837-0360.

Events Film Night. 6:30 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-651-2787.

Free Comedy Show. 7:30 p.m. Front Range Brewing Company, Lafayette, 303-339-0767.

Spaceship Earth: What Can I Do?. 9 a.m.

Boulder Prep School, 5075 Chaparral Court, Unit 1, Boulder.

SATURDAY, APRIL 6 Music Blues Night ­with Robert Johnson & The Boulder Blues Quartet, Deborah Stafford & The State of Affairs, 7 p.m. Dickens Opera House, 300 Main St., Longmont, 720-297-6397.

Broods — with Bad Sounds. 8 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

Dear Jon & the Whale Riders. 6 p.m.

Bootstrap Brewing Company, 142 Pratt St., Longmont, 303-652-4186.

Donovan Woods & The Opposition. 9 p.m.

Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

The Dream is Alive: Denver Pops Season Finale. 4 p.m. The Church, 1160 Lincoln St., Denver, 303-832-2383.

Dreamboat Annie & Project Foreigner. 7:30 p.m. Nissi’s, 2675 Northpark Drive, Lafayette, 303-665-2757.

Front Country, The Mighty Pines. 8:30 p.m.

Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Jack Grace band. 8 p.m. Oskar Blues Tap Room, 921 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-776-1914.

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THURSDAY, APRIL 4

SUNDAY APRIL 7

Holocaust Remembrance Week — Refugee Talk: Escape From Hitler’s Europe: Barbara’s Story. 5 p.m. Hale Science, 230, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

University Singers and University Choir: Elements. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

LASC Speaker Series: Decolonizing Predatory Masculinities in the AMC series ‘Breaking Bad’ and ‘Mosquita and Mari.’ 6 p.m. Eaton Humanities, 135, 1610 Pleasant St., Boulder.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9

Science and Society: Work and Self-Worth in the Age of AI. 7 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

FRIDAY, APRIL 5 TEDxCU 2019: Push & Pull. 6 p.m. University Memorial Center, Glenn Miller Ballroom, 1669 Euclid Ave., Boulder.

Early Music Ensemble: Handel in Rome. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

SATURDAY APRIL 6 Astronomy Day 2019 — Family-friendly activities, telescope observing, and planetarium shows focused on our Moon. 1-10 p.m. Fiske Planetarium and Science Center, 2414 Regent Drive, Boulder.

Larry Temkin and Jason Brennan on Capitalism: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly. 5:30 p.m. Hale Science, 270, 1350 Pleasant Drive, Boulder.

Visiting Artist Lecture: Tuan Andrew Nguyen.

6:30 p.m. Visual Arts Complex, Art & Art History Building Auditorium 1B20, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Latin American Ensemble. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10 Urgent Elements: Eco-Video from Southeast Asia. 5:30 p.m. ATLAS Institute, Room 102.

Silicon Flatirons Entrepreneurs Unplugged: Sarah Shrader, Bonsai Design. 5:30 p.m. Wolf Law, Wittemyer Courtroom, 2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder.

Pendulum New Music Ensemble: Rising Stars Finale. 7:30 p.m. Imig Music, Grusin Music Hall, 1020 18th St., Boulder.

Dorrance Dance. 7:30 p.m. Macky Auditorium, 1595 Pleasant St., Boulder.

Kero Kero Bonito. 8 p.m. Oriental Theater, 4335 W. 44th Ave., Denver, 720-420-0030.

Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337.

Longmont Symphony: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. 7:30 p.m. Vance Brand Civic Auditorium, 600 E. Mountain View Ave., Longmont, 303-772-5796.

Saturday Sing-Along: Era of Jazz. 3 p.m.

Boulder Public Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Native Lands: A Musical Journey Through the Americas — Boulder Chamber Chorale. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Auditorium, 400 Quail Road, Longmont, 303-554-7692.

Resonance Women’s Chorus: The Light on the Land. 5 p.m. First United Methodist

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The Subdudes. 8 p.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. see EVENTS Page 38

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arts An Act of Selection. Dairy Arts Center, MacMahon Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14.

All Aboard! Railroads in Lyons. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons.

Aftereffect: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26.

Amanda Wachob: Tattoo This. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26.

Andrew Jensdotter: Flak. Museum of Contemporary Art, 1485 Delgany St., Denver. Through May 26.

Ansel Adams: Early works exhibit.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

Through May 26.

Clyfford Still & Photography. Clyfford Still Museum, 1250 Bannock St., Denver. Through April 28.

Colorado’s Most Significant Artifacts. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

Don Coen: The Migrant Series. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St.,Boulder.

Through May 27.

Dinosaurs: Land Of Fire and Ice. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 12.

Documenting Change: Our Climate, the Rockies. CU Art Museum, 1085 18th St., Boulder.

Through May 2019.

Entropy — Angela Faris Belt. Nalanda Gallery, 6287 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder. Through April 19.

Eyes On: Erika Harrsch. Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Nov. 17.

Eyes On: Julie Buffalohead. Denver Art

NEARLY 70 PHOTOS from the

(LEFT) BROKEN TREE TRUNK ON CLYFFORD STILL’S FARM, WESTMINSTER, MD, 1974.

PRINT FROM 35 MM SLIDE. (RIGHT) PH279, 1942. (PHOTO: JAMES FLORIO)

Clyfford Still Archives (which holds some 23,000 photographic images) ranging in date from 1905 until the mid-1970s are included in ‘Clyfford Still & Photography,’ along with six comparative paintings and other related archival materials such as photography books, magazine clippings and ephemera. ‘Clyfford Still & Photography’ is now showing at the Clyfford Still Museum in Denver through April 28.

Museum, Hamilton Building, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through April 21.

Everyday Magic: Mixed Media Paintings by Arthur Secunda. Bricolage Gallery, 2860 Bluff St., Boulder. Through April 6.

First Reruns — Photographs from ’90s TV Shows, by George Lange. Dairy Arts Center, Polly Addison and MacMillan Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14.

Fossils: Clues to the Past. University of Colorado Museum of Natural History, Paleontology Hall, 15th and Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing exhibit.

Frédérique Daubal: Vibrant Femmes. Dairy Arts Center, Hand-Rudy Gallery, 2590 Walnut St., Boulder. Through April 14.

Front Range Rising. Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont. Permanent exhibit.

Google Garage. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Ongoing, but activities change.

The Incubation Effect. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Sept. 9.

Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze. Denver

Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through Aug. 18.

Karen Kitchel: Grasslands. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder. Through April 21.

Living with Wolves. Museum of Boulder, 2205 Broadway, Boulder. Through May 20.

Matthew Pevear: Mastering the Art of French Cooking. BMoCA at Macky, Macky Auditorium Concert Hall, University of Colorado Boulder, 1595 Pleasant St., Unit 104, Boulder. Through May 5.

Month of Photography: Noah Mclaurine and Leah Schretenthaler. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont.

Through April 7.

Our Planet — Art Exhibition on the Environment in a Changing Climate. National Center for Atmospheric Research, UCAR Gallery I & Gallery ll, 1850 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder.

Through May. Pard Morrison: Heartmouth. Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, 1750 13th St., Boulder.

Through Sept. 1.

Poveka: Master Potter Maria Martinez. Museum of Natural History (Henderson), Anthropology Hall, 1035 Broadway, Boulder. Through Sept. 8.

Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection. Denver Art Museum, 100 W. 14th Ave. Parkway, Denver. Through January 2020.

Vance Brand: Ambassador of Exploration.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

Permanent exhibit.

Water Flow: Under the Colorado River.

Longmont Museum, 400 Quail Road, Longmont.

Through May 26.

World War II Diary Transcribed at the Museum. Lyons Redstone Museum, 340 High St., Lyons. Ongoing exhibit.

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Their Way. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

Lyons Old-time Square Dance. 7 p.m. Oskar Blues Grill & Brew, 303 Main St., Lyons, 303-827-6322.

Upstate. 7:30 p.m. Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Mad Hatter Tea Party. 5 p.m. Firehouse Art Center, 667 Fourth Ave., Longmont, 303-827-9153.

Veronique Van Pelt presents: the Deep Cuts Showcase no. 4. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Meet Local Artists: Michael McGinnis and Michael Hollenbach. 2 p.m. Boulder Arts and Crafts Gallery, 1421 Pearl St., Boulder, 303-443-3683.

Wash Park. 8 p.m. The Wild Game, 2251 Ken Pratt Blvd., Unit A, Longmont, 720-600-4875.

Events Count Me In Boulder Volunteer Management Training. 10 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

First Saturday Yoga. 11 a.m. George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

The Ira Liss Show Fundraiser for Block 1750. 7 p.m. Block 1750, 1750 30th St., Boulder, 303-618-9778.

LARCFest and Craft Fair. 9 a.m. Boulder County Fairgrounds, 9595 Nelson Road, Longmont.

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Pella Crossing: History and Habitat. 1 p.m.

Pella Crossing Open Space, Longmont.

Saturday Morning Groove. 10:30 a.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

Sunset Photography Session. 6:30 p.m. Ron Stewart Preserve at Rabbit Mountain, 15140 N. 55th St., Longmont.

UNAFF Traveling Film Festival Denver. 10 a.m. Sie FilmCenter, 2510 E. Colfax, Denver, 317-993-8100.

SUNDAY, APRIL 7 Music African Singing Community Fiesta. 3 p.m.

St. John’s Episcopal Church, 1419 Pine St.,

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Boulder Friends of Jazz Jam Session. 1 p.m. Avalon Ballroom, 6185 Arapahoe Road, Boulder, 303-875-2292.

Brian Golden: Pianist, Composer & Recording Artist Concert. 5 p.m. Boulder Piano Gallery, 3111 Walnut St., Boulder Colorado, Boulder, 303-440-4893.

Grupo Chegando Lá and Francisco Marques. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Khabu’s Magic Number Series. 7 p.m. Muse Performance Space, 200 E. South Boulder Road, Lafayette, 720-352-4327.

The Longmont Chorale presents: A Celtic Spring. 3 p.m. Westview Presbyterian Church, 1500 Hover St., Longmont, 303-776-3242.

Major League 30th Anniversary Party feat. The Gin Doctors. 1 p.m. Summit, 1902 Blake St., Denver, 303-487-0111.

The Music of Widespread Panic for Kids featuring Thin Air. 11:30 a.m. Boulder Theater, 2032 14th St., Boulder, 303-786-7030. see EVENTS Page 39

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Portland Cello Project. 7 p.m. Swallow Hill Music, 71 E. Yale Ave., Denver, 303-777-1003.

Resonance Women’s Chorus: The Light on the Land. 3 p.m. First United Methodist Church, 1421 Spruce St., Boulder, 303-473-8337.

Susto — wth Frances Cone. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Events Boulder Comedy Show. 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

Bohemian Biergarten, 2017 13th St., Boulder, 720-767-2863.

The Brewery Comedy Tour. 7 p.m. Colorado Technical Center, 657 S. Taylor Ave., Louisville, 303-604-6675.

Events

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10

Boulder World Affairs Discussion Group.

10 a.m. Meadows Branch Library, 4800 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Music

Conversations in English Tuesdays. 6 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

CWA at BPL: Film Screening of ‘Enough White Tea Cups.’ 2:30 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Youth Maker Hangout. 4 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Boy Harsher. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Clandestine Amigo (duo). 6 p.m. East Moon Asian Bistro, 2144 Main St., Longmont.

Drop-in Acoustic Jam. 6 p.m. 300 Suns Brewing, 335 First Ave., Unit C, Longmont, 720-442-8292.

Mothraship. 8 p.m. Lost Lake, 3602 E. Colfax Ave., Denver.

Soccer Mommy. 9 p.m. Fox Theatre, 1135 13th St., Boulder, 303-447-0095.

Valerie Bhat. 7 p.m. Rosalee’s Pizzeria, 461 Main St., Longmont, 303-485-5020.

Events Al Jackson. 8 p.m. Comedy Works, 1226 15th St., Denver, 303-595-3637.

BeeChicas: Beeswax Pouches. 4 p.m.

Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Lafayette Sustainable Film Series: ‘Straws’ and ‘End of Snow’ (Double Feature). 6:30 p.m. Arts Hub, 420 Courtney Way, Lafayette, 303-229-1127.

Doris’ Sunday Matinee ‘Return to Oz’ (113 min.). 1 p.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Murder at the Chocolate Factory. 2 p.m.

George Reynolds Branch Library, 3595 Table Mesa Drive, Boulder, 303-441-3120.

The Pedal It Forward. 2 p.m. Roosevelt Park, 700 Longs Peak Ave., Longmont.

MONDAY, APRIL 8 Music Acid Mothers Temple. 8 p.m. Larimer Lounge, 2721 Larimer St., Denver, 303-291-1007.

Caleb Miller, Chris Koza, Dominick Antonelli. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Can’t Be Satisfied: Blues Night. 9 p.m. HiDive Denver, 7 S. Broadway, Denver, 303-733-0230.

Head Room Sessions No. 32 w/ Von Disco & Devon Parker. 6 p.m. ReCreative Denver, 765 Santa Fe Drive, Denver.

Mdou Moctar. 8 p.m. Globe Hall, 4483 Logan St., Denver, 303-296-1003.

Petite Musique: The Three Bears. 10 a.m.

Boettcher Concert Hall, 1000 14th St., Denver, 720-865-4220.

Wee Harmony Toddler Music Class Demo.

9 a.m. and 10 a.m. Harmony Music House, 2525 Broadway St., Boulder, 303-444-7444.

Events Conversations in English Mondays. 10:30 a.m. Boulder Library, 1001 Arapahoe Ave., Boulder, 303-441-3100.

Exploring the Outer Solar System. 7 p.m.

Chautauqua Community House, 900 Baseline Road, Boulder, 303-440-7666.

Kick Up Your Heels: Line Dancing for Enthusiastic Beginners. 6:30 p.m. Manhattan School of the Arts, 290 Manhattan Drive, Boulder, 720-561-5968.

Movement Mondays. 7 p.m. Free Motion Dance Studio, 2126 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-379-8299.

TUESDAY, APRIL 9 Music WomenCrush Music. 8 p.m. The Laughing Goat, 1709 Pearl St., Boulder, 720-201-3731.

Yumi Hwang-Williams, violin. Noon. Saint John’s Episcopal Cathedral, 1350 Washington St., Denver, 303-831-7115.

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When Everything Falls Away

by CM Brown

This is the place of the dead.

Smooth, square, polished stones stand in a meadow.

There are names carved on these stones As if to say, “This is who I was.”

There are two dates. One announcing A little speck of life springing onto The surface of the earth. And one, the end, The last desperate cry that cries to the other Stones and the occasional anonymous visitor.

“Remember me? I was someone who loved.

I lay in the dark wondering at the mystery of life Just as you wonder now, looking at the little bump of ground Where this once lusty body rests in an old brown box.”

Over the fence there is the prairie And across the prairie, the mountains.

They too are made of stone but now They appear hazy in the late evening sun.

And here I am–alive, sitting on a Mound of dirt, drinking a cup of coffee From the little café in town where We all go at one time or another To converse with one another to Pretend as best we can and try So desperately to make sense of this place where We have been plopped down like a broken water balloon.

But in those dark nights of wondering our Grinding brains grind and grind, trying to figure it out.

And, then the brain crashes and all those Thoughts; the childhood friends, the facts We devoured with such enthusiasm, And, worst of all, those old, dusty philosophies, theologies, And moralities fall into a hole under the bed. And you know, Just like you know what it feels like to be hungry, that There is nothing left to do but to remember all that has been loved and how That love hums like the last note of a song that you can barely remember.

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Me without you

Letting the past burn in ‘Ash is Purest White’

by Michael J. Casey

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sh is Purest White is a gangster movie. Well, ON THE BILL: Ash is Purest White. Landmark sort of. Sure, the movie opens with a room Mayan Theatre, 110 full of low-level gangsters gambling, but Broadway, Denver. Opens openings can be deceiving. From there, it’s April 4. only a matter of minutes before one gangster pulls a loaded gun on another. Not exactly an unusual item in New York, Los Angeles or Chicago, but in mid’90s China, an unregistered firearm is illegal and comes with a devastating penalty. Showing the gun is enough to make your point; firing it would seal your fate.

Bin (Liao Fan) is the gangster on his way up, and Qiao (Zhao Tao) is his girlfriend.

It isn’t obvious at first, but this is her story. Over a century of cinematic storytelling has taught us to pay attention to the loudmouthed male full of bravado. Partly because we have a feeling of where his temper and mouth will land him, and partly because there is sick satisfaction in watching the yapping dog get his.

Rival gangs are a constant menace, and sudden attacks are a way of life. Most are harmless. One even involves a case of mistaken identity. But, when one challenge threatens Bin’s life, Qiao takes action, pulls out Chekov’s pistol and, with a simple squeeze of the trigger, condemns herself to the next five years behind bars. When she re-emerges, it’s the 21st century, and Bin is nowhere to be found. With little other recourse, Qiao sets off on a quest across China in search of her long lost boyfriend.

This quest takes up the majority of Ash is Purest White’s 137-minute runtime, most of it Qiao alone amidst a sea of strange faces and stunning landscapes. Director Jia Zhangke, working with cinematographer Eric Gautier, captures these moments with precision. It doesn’t matter if Qiao is seated in a dim sum restaurant, among misty mountains, or standing in a concrete courtyard; every locale isolates her more and more. But, she soldiers on, convinced that if she could only find Bin, her isolation would evaporate. Zhangke leads the audience to a similar conclusion, but when Bin finally appears, Qiao’s isolation is compounded further still.

Written by Zhangke, Ash is Purest White is a sprawling odyssey of a film, traversing one of the largest countries on the planet through the prism of the past 20 years.

There’s a sense that Qiao’s wanderings are also an opportunity for Zhangke to capture a vanishing present — a feeling most evident in the movie’s third act. Here Zhangke and Tao work in perfect harmony to portray a sense of both time-passed and timepassing, and the futility of trying to hold on to either.

And yet, there is poetry at work here that eschews fatalism. Zhangke and Tao have been working together since 2000’s Platform and married since 2012. Though Ash is Purest White concludes with a final isolating image, previous ones suggest symmetry.

Though we may be lonely, nothing ever dances alone.

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Just watching that exertion is likely to make you hungry, and luckily the Chautauqua Dining Hall is steps away. What a place to get a breakfast, brunch, lunch, tea or whatever you’re craving. A unique, Colorado-inspired menu and unparalleled environs make it a dining experience like no other in Boulder County. We dove into the beet-cured trout benedict: rich, beautiful small filets of trout are piled onto crispy potato cakes and topped with spinach, poached eggs and hollandaise sauce. Balanced in flavor and texture, it’s just what you need to get back out on the lawn. $12.

asta’s Kelly Whitaker has been making moves over the last few years, opening several culinary hot-spots, including a new heritage-grain-focused bakery with esteemed pastry chef Jeb Breakell. But don’t let that obscure the fact that Basta is still at the top of its game with a menu of Italian specialties, and of course the wood-fired Neapolitan pizza. Simply put, there’s no better pizza of this style in the state. Taste for yourself — the crust is like nothing you’ll find outside of Southern Italy. Light, but chewy, perfectly crisped and lightly charred, it’s the star of Basta’s artisanal pies. It doesn’t hurt that on the Cart-Driver, sausage, mozzarella, crispy kale, chile and fennel pollen ignite your taste buds and satisfy your stomach. $18.

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If you are a newcomer — someone who has moved to Boulder County since November — we welcome you to the nexus of the Boulder food scene, where chefs, farmers, sustainable living advocates and foodies converge and create community and lunch.

On opening day, the Farmers Market brings local back to the table

OLLIN FARMS (which grew the radishes above) is one of many local farms represented at the Boulder County Farmers Markets.

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Frankly, I’m jealous of you. I wish I was seeing spring in Boulder County for the first time, especially the Boulder County Farmers Market (BCFM), which opens for the season Saturday, April 6 in Boulder and Longmont. It is the longest farmers’ market season in Colorado. The Boulder Wednesday market opens May 1, Union Station’s on May 11 and Lafayette’s June 6.

The markets will be jammed, and BCFM Executive Director Brian Coppom offers one piece of advice: “Dress for the weather.” Coppom notes that on previous Market opening days it has ranged from cold rain and snow to windy, sunny and hot… sometimes all in the same spring day. Layers are the answer.

This week, the fresh, local produce items will include overwintered spinach.

“I love overwintered spinach,” Coppom says. “It’s so sweet. It’s my favorite. It looks like the farmers have a good supply. There will also be some overwintered carrots and onions and some good early-season crops growing in hoop houses.”

Even as a Market legend, Oxford Gardens’ “Carrot Guy” Peter Volz, has retired, two new farms join the family: Brown’s Farm and Oxford Farm.

Since its inception 33 years ago, the nonprofit BCFM has insisted on being as local as possible. You can’t pick up pineapples at the Market because they are not grown in Boulder County or in Colorado.

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More often vendors use market produce in specials because an ingredient on the menu isn’t always in season here. Another challenge has been health department rules that prohibit Market food vendors from using the fresh produce from a farmer who is selling 100 feet away from them. It has to go to a health-inspected kitchen to be washed first and then brought back.

New this year in the food court will be chalkboard signs for each vendor detailing the local produce and ingredients they are using that day. All of the familiar foods from dumplings to tamales will be back, along with the newest food vendor: Pupusas Familias.

The BCFM has received grants to continue its program of making fresh, local produce available to low-income families. WIC and SNAP benefits are accepted and the Market provides up to $20 additional in fresh fruits and vegetables for SNAP purchases.

Among the new tastes in the vendor booths (both permanent and guest) are Micro Tea (microgreen teas), Table Mountain (goat milk caramels) and Bolder Bites (protein bites). There is a fresh oat milk booth and lots of fermentation and probiotics, with two picklemakers, three kombucha brewers and St. Vrain Cidery.

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LOCAL FOOD NEWS Basta’s new Dry Storage is open at the southeast corner of The Peloton, offering fresh breads and pastries made from heirloom grain flour milled in-house. Toast is served with housecultured butter and jam. The lunch menu includes mushroom onigiri, egg salad “sandos,” miso soup and prosecco on tap. … Boulder’s Ginger Pig isn’t quite going brick-and-mortar, but the Asian street food truck is now setting up shop Wednesday through Saturday at Lafayette’s Isabelle Farm store. …

The Colorado Jewish Food Fest is Sunday at the Boulder JCC with tastings, workshops, farm tours and exhibits on sustainability. coloradojewishfoodfest.com … If you are wondering what to do with mystery vegetables in your CSA share box each week, Boulder’s Food Lab is offering the Using Your CSA (June 19) class series partnered with Cure Farm’s CSA. foodlabboulder.com. … The only local James Beard Award semi-finalist to survive the Ides of March is Frasca Food and Wine, a finalist for Outstanding Service along with Brigtsen’s in New Orleans, Saison in San Francisco and Zingerman’s Roadhouse in Ann Arbor. … I never did take the Coors brewery tour when it was free. Now, the tasting tour of the giant MillerCoors plant is $5 for Colorado residents, $10 for others, and under-21 non-tasters and military are free. … Louisville’s Moxie Bread Co.

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TASTE OF THE WEEK I experienced fried chicken near-nirvana at Julep, a hipster Southern eatery on Larimer Street in Denver. It was more than worth the wait for genuine fried chicken to arrive with a perfectly crunchy crust and fall-off-the-bone moist meat goodness; Julep also serves admirable baked-to-order buttermilk biscuits with house-made preserves, marmalade and sausage gravy. I added a side of sorghum. The quintessential starter: Pimento cheese ball crusted in toasted pecans with Triscuits.

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Not every bakery is created equal

Babettes’ Steve Scott on grain sourcing, fermentation, retail leases and crafting beautiful baked goods

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teve Scott is not your typical artisanal baker. After nearly two decades baking in shops from California to Colorado, the former semi-pro cyclist opened Babettes in Denver with his wife, Catherine, five years ago. Late last year, Babettes moved to the Prospect neighborhood in Longmont, bringing with it a rotating menu of over 300 museum-ready pastries, artisanal wood-fired pizza and bread varieties rarely seen in the U.S. With the arrival of Babettes, Boulder County suddenly has an impressive list of artisanal bakeries.

But what sets Scott apart is his commitment to the process, specifically the fermentation process. While other bakeries tout using local, heritage, ancient grains — and for good measure, Scott says, “I’m not gonna shit on other bakers here” ­— the ethos at Babettes is that any grain, raised and milled right, can be turned into delicious, digestible baked goods with a good, long fermentation.

“Ninety percent of them are garbage,” Scott says of ancient grains, the ingredient du jour of artisanal bakeries across the country — old varieties of wheat, rye and other grains forgotten in the switch to industrial agriculture over the last 60 years, which are heralded for their health benefits.

No, a 40-hour fermentation and a freshly milled Yecoro Rojo artisan bread flour from Washington’s Cairnsprings Mill is all Scott needs.

We chatted with Scott about Babettes’ move from Denver to Longmont, fermentation and the artisan bread movement.

Boulder Weekly: We have a number of artisanal bakeries here that seemingly popped up overnight. There’s Moxie Bread Co., Kelly Whitaker’s opening Dry Storage, and now Babettes, all in Boulder County in the last five years. So what’s going on here?

Steve Scott: Denver drove us out. It was too expensive. Real estate development is at an all-time high. ... We looked in Boulder. Boulder was exactly the same.

We’re super excited to be part of the Longmont community. We just wanted to bring this home to more of a community. There we were in Denver, which is going through such an upheaval and construction. They’re reshaping it into something that I don’t really think supports our style of business.

BW: Was there something about Boulder County, and Longmont, that made you want to move here?

SS: I think now is a really good time. It’s growing slowly. I think slow growth is better for this style of business than the quick intense growth. I think for me personally as a professional baker, I’ve been doing this over 20 years. High-end dining is dead. It’s kind

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of a waste of time to go and sit some place where it’s stuffy. I’d rather sit some place where it’s a fast casual environment, and it’s a neighborhood place. That became more and more important to us, for the style of food we like to cook and the dining experience we like to have.

BW: I’ve talked to several restaurant owners, and several bakery owners [Will Frischkorn at Cured, Jake Rosenberger at Kim and Jake’s] who used to be professional cyclists. Is there something about bike racing that lends itself to the food world?

SS: Not really. When I was racing bikes, that was pretty singular and super one dimensional. I didn’t really pay attention to what was going on outside. Once I got into baking ... I just started developing my own ideas of what I wanted to see, and trying to get a decent croissant in the U.S. was pretty hard. So I took it upon myself to learn how to laminate (a pastry technique of folding dough) and get good at [baking] what I wanted to eat.

BW: On Babettes’ website, you highlight the process of baking more than the ingredients you use. Is that something you’re drawn to, the science of baking?

SS: You know, we spend a lot of time with different styles of fermenting.

Cold ferment or warm ferment. Small inoculation or big inoculation. We don’t like to mix a lot. Grain that’s grown in the U.S. doesn’t need it. We’re using Skiget Valley [Washington grain]. It’s kickass stuff. As far as local grains go, they have a long way to go. Over the course of the last 20 years, we’ve used every ancient grain you can name, and we’ve always wound up with issues. A lot of guys will use ancient grains but pair it up with vitamin C to strengthen it up.

I’m not a huge believer in the ancient grain movement. All the grains we use are ancient from somewhere. They had to come from somewhere. There isn’t some ancient grain warehouse laying around where you can get seeds. They have to come from somewhere. I put a lot of faith in farmers, and their organic farming responsibly, that they’re keeping care of the farm and the crop.

I’m pretty passionate about finding incredible products and produce to use. I don’t want to use “local” because I think it’s overused. As far as I’m concerned, since we come from the U.S., the U.S. is local because there’s so many awesome producers.

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BW: So when a bakery or a restaurant says they use ancient or heritage grains, is that more of a marketing buzzword, or are there good bakeries that have just figured out how to make these grains taste good without adding in other things?

SS: If you’re buying the right grain from the right farm and a great miller then it’s gonna taste great, but you also have to know how to ferment. ...

Learning what different grains do, how do you make them digestible? If you eat a spoonful of grain freshly milled, it’s pretty disgusting. It doesn’t feel good. If you ferment it properly, if you bring out the flavors of that grain, all of a sudden it becomes a digestible thing. But that’s a good 36 hours of fermentation.

BW: Where do you get ideas on new items to make?

SS: These days it’s just traveling.

When we’re going to San Francisco or Los Angeles or Copenhagen or Paris, I just look at different ways of doing things and different things people are doing. It’s just an image. It’s not fermentation, we’ve got that technique down. If I get excited about something food-related it’ll be a vegetable.

BW: Can you think of a recent example off the top of your head?

SS: The cardamom roll (an elegantly shaped cinnamon sticky bun bursting with cardamom flavor). We saw them all over the place in Copenhagen. I wanted to make one not necessarily [based on] what we tasted in Copenhagen but that pulls from the stuff I had as a kid. We got the shape from Copenhagen, but I got the flavor from when I was a kid.

BW: Speaking of the cardamom bun, I can’t remember seeing a more beautiful pastry. How much does aesthetic factor into wanting to create something?

SS: It’s super important. It’s one of the more important pieces. When I’m cooking up something, I always look back to what it looks like. How do we get there? Sometimes it happens at once.

Sometimes it takes a little while to get there. What the overall look is supposed to be, that becomes pretty important.

BW: I know you just got here, but what’s next? Another location...

SS: Nope, we’re a one-shop crew. I don’t see any reason to try and be some corporate, multiplex type of bullshit.

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aseball is back, which allows us the perfect opportunity to explore one of the only beers ever to be born at the ballpark: Blue Moon Belgian White.

Originally crafted in 1995 by Keith Villa at the SandLot Brewery (a 10-barrel system located in Coors Field behind the right-field stands), Blue Moon took its time taking off. At the time, Coors Brewing — pre-Molson and Miller merger — owned Blue Moon lock-stock-and-barrel and had a hard time figuring out what to do with the unusual brew. It didn’t help that the Colorado brewing giant obscured its relationship to the label, nor did a 1999 lawsuit filed by the Confederation des Brasseries de Belgique claiming Blue Moon was misleading drinkers to think the beer was a Belgian product.

COURTESY BLUE MOON BREWING COMPANY But then in the mid-2000s, the Belgian-style wheat ale and its iconic orange wedge clinging to the rim of a tall, curvaceous weizenbier glass soared, outselling the imported Hoegaarden and sparking brewer and consumer interest in all beers Belgian.

In 2017, over 2 million barrels of Blue Moon were shipped, keeping it one of the nation’s top-selling beers.

Brewed with wheat, oats, coriander and Valencia orange peel, Blue Moon Belgian White pours fresh with a softly crackling head of foam. True to style, the beer is unfiltered, evidenced by the light haze kicked up in the glass. The aroma is fresh, citrusy and enticing.

The mouth is soft, loaded with orange and coriander and slightly sweet. Not any more than you might like, and not any less either. It’s almost a perfect beer, one that tastes just as good no matter where you drink it: be it the ballpark on a hot sunny day, an airport concourse while you wait for the early flight, or on the patio with a plate of grilled shrimp tacos while watching the sun slip behind the Rockies.

As it is with most big brewers, Blue Moon releases a series of seasonal variants they call, “Brewer’s Select.” Currently, you can find the O.G. Moon alongside Mango Wheat — which swaps out the Valencia orange peel for ripe mangos — and Honey Wheat, which adds a healthy dollop of clover honey to complement the orange peel.

Both beers are pleasant: Mango Wheat has a fresh fruit quality that doesn’t overrun the biscuity malts, while Honey Wheat is one of the rare beers that gets better, smoother and richer as the beer is allowed to warm.

Villa retired from Blue Moon and MillerCoors in early 2018, but not from brewing.

His current endeavor: Ceria Brewing Co., a brewery that specializes in de-alcoholized cannabis beer. Grainwave is their first release, and the base beer is, unsurprisingly, a Belgian-style white ale.

According to ceriabrewing.com, a THC-infused American lager and India pale ale are in the works — look for them at all your favorite dispensaries. For the rest of you thirsty readers looking for a pour of Blue Moon, they can be found pretty much everywhere.

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MARCH 21-APRIL 19: A mushroom shaped like a horse’s hoof grows on birch trees in parts of Europe and the U.S. If you strip off its outer layer, you get amadou, spongy stuff that’s great for igniting fires. It’s not used much anymore, but it was a crucial resource for some of our ancestors. As for the word “amadou,” it’s derived from an old French term that means “tinder, kindling, spunk.” The same word was formerly used to refer to a person who is quick to light up or to something that stimulates liveliness. In accordance with astrological omens, I’m making “Amadou” your nickname for the next four weeks.

TAURUS

APRIL 20-MAY 20: “Human beings are not born once and

for all on the day their mothers give birth to them,” wrote novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. “Life obliges them over and over to give birth to themselves.” Here’s what I’ll add to that: As you mature, you do your best to give birth to ever-new selves that are in alignment with the idealistic visions you have of the person you want to become. Unfortunately, most of us aren’t skilled at that task in adolescence and early adulthood, and so the selves we create may be inadequate or delusory or distorted. Fortunately, as we learn from our mistakes, we eventually learn to give birth to selves that are strong and righteous. The only problem is that the old false selves we generated along the way may persist as ghostly echoes in our psyche. And we have a sacred duty to banish those ghostly echoes. I tell you this, Taurus, because the coming months will be en excellent time to do that banishing. Ramp up your efforts NOW!

GEMINI

MAY 21-JUNE 20: “When spring came, there were no

problems except where to be happiest,” wrote Ernest Hemingway in his memoir. He quickly amended that statement, though, mourning, “The only thing that could spoil a day was people.” Then he ventured even further, testifying, “People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” I bring these thoughts to your attention so as to prepare you for some good news. In the next three weeks, I suspect you will far exceed your quota for encounters with people who are not “limiters of happiness” — who are as good as spring itself.

CANCER

JUNE 21-JULY 22: It’s time to prove that Cancerians

have more to offer than nurturing, empathizing, softening the edges, feeling deeply, getting comfortable and being creative. Not that there’s anything wrong with those talents. On the contrary! They’re beautiful and necessary. It’s just that for now you need to avoid being pigeonholed as a gentle, sensitive soul. To gather the goodies that are potentially available to you, you’ll have to be more forthright and aggressive than usual. Is it possible for you to wield a commanding presence? Can you add a big dose of willfulness and a pinch of ferocity to your self-presentation? Yes and yes!

LEO

JULY 23-AUG. 22: General Motors manufactured a car

called the Pontiac Aztek from 2001 to 2005. It wasn’t commercially successful. One critic said it looked like “an angry kitchen appliance,” and many others agreed it was exceptionally unstylish. But later the Aztek had an odd revival because of the popularity of the TV show . The show’s protagonist, Walter White, owned one, and that motivated some of his fans to emulate his taste in cars. In accordance with astrological omens, Leo, I suspect that something of yours may also enjoy a second life sometime soon. An offering that didn’t get much appreciation the first time around may undergo a resurgence. Help it do so.

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She’s referring to the hunger “for anything, for food, sex, power, education, even love.” She continues: “If we have desires, we are expected to conceal them, to control them, to keep ourselves in check. We are supposed to be objects of desire, not desiring beings.” I’ve

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That’s triply true if you’re a woman, but also important if you’re a man or some other gender. You have a potential to heal deeply if you get very clear about what you hunger for and then express it frankly.

LIBRA

SEPT. 23-OCT. 22: Only one of Nana Mouskouris’s vocal

cords works, but over the course of an almost 60-year career, the Libran singer has sold over 30 million records in twelve different languages. Many critics speculate that her apparent disadvantage is key to her unique style. She’s a coloratura mezzo, a rare category of chanteuse who sings ornate passages with exceptional agility and purity. In the coming weeks, I suspect that you will be like Mouskouris in your ability to capitalize on a seeming lack or deprivation.

SCORPIO

OCT. 23-NOV. 21: Your tribe is symbolized by three

animals: the scorpion, the eagle and the mythological phoenix. Some astrologers say that the scorpion is the ruling creature of “unevolved” or immature Scorpios, whereas the eagle and phoenix are associated with those of your tribe who express the riper, more enlightened qualities of your sign. But I want to put in a plug for the scorpion as being worthy of all Scorpios. It is a hardy critter that rivals the cockroach in its ability to survive — and even thrive in — less than ideal conditions. For the next two weeks, I propose we make it your spirit creature.

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declared that it’s “our duty is to feel what is sublime and cherish what is beautiful.” But that’s a demanding task to pull off on an ongoing basis. Maybe the best we can hope for is to feel what’s sublime and cherish what’s beautiful for 30-35 days every year. Having said that, though, I’m happy to tell you that in 2019 you could get all the way up to 95-100 days of feeling what’s sublime and cherishing what’s beautiful. And as many as 15 to 17 of those days could come during the next 21.

CAPRICORN

DEC. 22-JAN. 19: Sommeliers are people trained to perceive the nuances of wine. By sampling a few sips, the best sommeliers can discern facts about the type of grapes that were used to make the wine and where on earth they were grown. I think that in the coming weeks you Capricorns should launch an effort to reach a comparable level of sensitivity and perceptivity about any subject you care about. It’s a favorable time to become even more masterful about your specialties; to dive deeper into the areas of knowledge that captivate your imagination.

AQUARIUS

JAN. 20-FEB. 18: Every language is a work-in-progress.

New words constantly insinuate themselves into common usage, while others fade away. If you traveled back in time to 1719 while remaining in your current location, you’d have trouble communicating with people of that era. And today linguistic evolution is even more rapid than in previous ages. The Oxford English Dictionary adds more than a thousand new words annually. In recognition of the extra verbal skill and inventiveness you now posses, Aquarius, I invite you to coin a slew of your own fresh terms. To get you warmed up, try this utterance I coined: vorizzimo! It’s an exclamation that means “thrillingly beautiful and true.”

PISCES

FEB. 19-MARCH 20:

One of history’s most audacious con men was George C. Parker, a Pisces. He made his living selling property that did not legally belong to him, like the Brooklyn Bridge, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Statue of Liberty. I suspect you could summon his level of salesmanship and persuasive skills in the coming weeks. But I hope you will use your nearly magical powers to make deals and perform feats that have maximum integrity. It’s OK to be a teensy bit greedy, though.

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Dear Dan: I’m an adult man, and I have developed a trans attraction after following a particular Tumblr blog. That blog is now gone, sadly, since all adult content has been purged from Tumblr. It wasn’t just porn; it consisted of all the things I really enjoy — images of oil paintings and antique furniture, scenic landscapes, wild animals and then pictures/gifs of trans women. Some women appeared to have had top surgery while others didn’t. But all of the women featured on this blog had penises. I had never considered a relationship with a trans woman before, but after browsing the blog for a year, I can honestly say I’d do it in a heartbeat. I would actually like to date a non-op trans woman. I know that many trans women don’t like having their male parts touched or acknowledged, but I didn’t know that a trans woman can only have a functioning penis if she isn’t taking female hormones, and I hadn’t considered the effect that might have on somebody’s gender dysphoria. How can I meet a trans woman who is hopefully comfortable with her male parts and seeking a relationship? I live in a conservative Bible Belt state — Utah — and I am woefully uneducated on this subject.

—Girl’s Heart, Man’s Parts Dear GHMP: “My penis and balls

BY DAN SAVAGE aren’t ‘man’s parts,’” said Bailey Jay, the three-time AVN Award–winning transsexual porn star. “They’re mine. I own them.

Not some random man.”

In fairness, GHMP, you acknowledge being woefully uneducated on trans issues, something your letter demonstrated again and again. But let’s start here: A trans woman doesn’t have boy parts. She has girl parts—unique girl parts, as girl parts go, but girl parts just the same.

“I’m on hormones and my cock works great,” said Jay. “Every trans woman is going to be different and have different experiences, and that’s the best first bit of advice I can give GHMP. We can smell it a mile away when we are all being lumped in together as a concept. Treat any trans woman you’re romantically interested in as an individual.”

As for places to find trans individuals who might be up for dating cis men, well, you might want to sit down, GHMP, as this is pretty shocking.

“I’ve heard OkCupid is inclusive, and I

have friends on there whose profiles even help people navigate discussing their bodies in a respectful way,” said Jay. “And finding a trans woman to date who hasn’t undergone bottom surgery is pretty easy. The surgery is expensive and even scary to some. It’s not terribly common that a trans woman has had that particular surgery.”

But just because a trans woman hasn’t had bottom surgery doesn’t mean she doesn’t want bottom surgery, so you shouldn’t assume a trans woman with a penis plans to always keep her penis.

“The real question is what her relationship is with her current genitals,” said Jay. “Maybe she’s very dysphoric about them.

Maybe she doesn’t even want you to see them or touch them. Even if her body is your preference, there’s a chance it isn’t hers. I personally love my penis and even like talking about it. But bringing up genitals right away can make you seem insensitive or like you’re dehumanizing your date.”

Jay recommends looking for trans women on mainstream dating apps and then following their lead.

“Now, genitals and curt sexual dialogue are kind of my jam,” said Jay, “so I

wouldn’t even flinch or blush. But this can be a very charged subject for people.”

Look to the profiles of trans women you’re interested in for cues about their approach to personal subjects. One woman might put it all out there and welcome questions about her experiences as a trans woman; another woman might be open about being trans but prefer not to focus on it.

“Still, never use genital questions as an icebreaker,” said Jay. “You’ll know when your evening with someone is going well enough that there’s a certain amount of trust,” and at that point, you may be able to bring it up.

“And please make sure to talk about both of your bodies,” added Jay. “This isn’t all about if her body is right for you. Make sure your body meets her standards and preferences, too. I always joke that cis men should have to disclose as well. Any expectation you find yourself putting on her, split the responsibility.”

You can find Bailey Jay at her foradults-only website TS-BaileyJay.com.

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THC level not a reliable indicator for driving impairment by sidni west

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he more often people consume cannabis, the with some level of cannabinoid in their blood killed 139 less dangerous they consider driving while people in 2017, according to the Colorado State Police. stoned to be. According to a survey released by Of those fatalities, 67 percent involved a driver who also the Colorado Department of Transportation last had alcohol or other drugs in their system. year, 69 percent of respondents reported that The blood tests do not necessarily indicate impairthey had driven under the influence of cannabis at least ment, only presence in the body, meaning the current once in the past year, with 27 percent admitting they laws are outdated, shrouded in stigma and lack critical drive high almost daily. Some respondents said they research. As a medical patient with a high tolerance and were always under the influence and considOREGON DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS ered high to be their normal state. Almost half of the regular users surveyed said they felt they weren’t a danger on the road after consuming, relying on personal experience instead of government information to determine their impairment.

And it’s not just Coloradans. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control, 13 percent of nighttime and weekend drivers in the U.S. have cannabis in their system.

Spoiler alert: I am one of these people. I didn’t participate in the survey, but I’ve been stoned almost every day for the past five years, so like, I get it.

I also believe in the need for a reliable roadside test that can identify drivers that are too high to be operating a motor vehicle. The test doesn’t exist yet because there is currently no agreed-upon blood concentration of THC analoan average metabolism, even when deemed sober by a gous to the .08 blood alcohol level that can be used to doctor, my active THC levels are almost triple the legal determine if a person is impaired. Six states have estab- limit. I could stop consuming cannabis today but a drug lished legal THC driving limits so far, but these limits test would technically consider me inebriated 3-4 weeks vary widely. In Colorado, it’s 5 nanograms per milliliter of from now because that’s the average amount of time it blood. takes for THC to leave the body.

Last year, Colorado officers cited 421 people for canIn fact, the level of cannabis that causes driving nabis-only DUIs, a 25 percent increase over 2017. The impairment in occasional cannabis users is actually lower percentage of fatal vehicle accidents in which a driver than the residual cannabis levels found in regular users tested positive at or above the legal limit of .5 ng/mL of even when they haven’t consumed cannabis recently.

THC decreased from 52 in 2016 to 35 in 2017. Drivers These new findings, published in March in an American

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Association of Clinical Chemistry journal, add to a growing body of evidence suggesting that no legal driving limit for cannabis can catch impaired recreational users without unfairly penalizing unimpaired regular or medicinal users.

Just last week, after spending nearly two years exploring the issue, a Michigan commission tasked with studying the effects of cannabis while driving has recommended that the state not impose limits on the amount of THC that can be present in drivers’ bodies. The committee determined that while cannabis use can have an effect on driving, the level of THC in a driver’s blood is not a reliable indicator of driving impairment.

Do you hear that Colorado? It would be detrimental if people found out that Michigan has a more progressive attitude toward cannabis consumption than us. Think about our brand.

Luckily for us, the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health is conducting a study designed to learn more about driving performance under the influence of cannabis.

Researchers are planning to follow subjects who consistently use daily or weekly, as well as a control group of non-users. The volunteers will take an initial sober driving test using a VR headset and an iPad to assess eye-hand coordination and eye movement. They would then be asked to consume cannabis before running through the test again while intoxicated.

Basically, they’re looking for stoners who want to get paid to smoke weed and play a hand-eye coordination game on an iPad. If you’re a cannabis enthusiast with a license to drive in Colorado, you are encouraged to apply at dhharedcap.ucdenver.edu. This is the kind of research we need to keep exploring so that we can have laws that make sense while keeping the road safe for everyone.

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The price of pot in Colorado – wholesale edition

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As of April 1, 2019, the average market rate (AMR) for a pound of Colorado bud (or if you prefer, flower) JIM MAKOS via FLICKR

came to $806, or $50.38 cents an ounce.

The AMR is the statewide average price of what growers are charging for a pound of marijuana. The Department of Revenue calculates it quarterly because the State of Colorado levies a 15-percent excise tax on wholesale marijuana sales.

You don’t see the excise tax on your dispensary receipt, since it’s paid by the grower and not the retailer. The

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excise tax is rolled into the price of the pot sold at the dispensary level.

The taxes that do appear on your dispensary receipt include 1) the 15-percent state retail marijuana sales tax, and 2) the regular 2.9-percent state sales tax, and 3) any city, county, and special district taxes that may apply.

The first time the Colorado ganja revenuers posted an AMR figure for wholesale marijuana was on Jan. 1, 2014, the month that the state’s first recreational dispensaries opened for business.

The wholesale AMR came in at (sharp inhaling of breath here) $1,876 a pound, or $117.25 an ounce. We’ve come a long way since then.

Still, the $806-perpound April 1 wholesale price represents a $25-perpound increase from the $781-perpound price on Jan. 1 of this year, and a $47-per-pound jump from the $759-per-pound Oct. 1, 2018 AMR. The latter was the record low.

The record high AMR was $2,007 per pound on Jan. 1, 2015.

The Department of Revenue calculates AMRfor several categories of wholesale cannabis besides smokable buds. The most recent AMR for trim, for example, was $425 per

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pound. Buds earmarked for extraction fetched $227 per pound, while trim destined for extraction came in at $177 per pound.

The taxman’s reach also extended to single immature pot plants, which currently have a $4 AMR and to whole wet plants that have a $151 AMR. The average wholesale price of a single seed is pegged at $5.

When you take a dispenary’s operating costs, taxes and profit into account, those plus-or-minus-$100 ounces offered by a lot of local dispensaries are a pretty incredible bargain.

Life is good in Colorado.

• • • • Last year, Colorado Republican Senator Cory Gardner got a lot of attention when he joined with Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren to sponsor a bill that would exempt states that had legalized recreational or medical marijuana from the anti-cannabis provisions of the Controlled Substances Act. The bill, dubbed the STATES Act (for Strengthening the Tenth Amendment Through Entrusting States) died at the end of the last session of Congress.

Now it’s Colorado Representative Diana DeGette’s turn. According to the Marijuana Moment website, DeGette, who represents Denver, has filed a bill in the House to do the same thing

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as the Gardner/Warren bill.

Like the Gardner/Warren bill, DeGette’s bill, titled the Respect States’ and Citizens’ Rights Act, would amend the Controlled Substances Act to exempt states with legal marijuana from federal meddling.

“I just introduced legislation to block the federal government from enforcing its anti-marijuana laws in states where it’s legal,” Degette tweeted after filing the bill. “Colorado’s marijuana-related businesses contribute more than $1 billion a year to our state’s economy. They shouldn’t be treated like criminals.”

DeGette’s bill has a good chance of making it to a vote on the House floor. That’s because the new Chairman of the House Rules Committee is Rep. Jim McGovern, a pro-legalization Democrat from Massachusetts.

The previous chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions of Texas, was a marijuana prohibitionist dead-ender, who blocked virtually all marijuana reform legislation from reaching the floor.

Happily, Sessions was brusquely returned to civilian life last November in a re-election campaign in which legalization figured prominently.

McGovern said he expected both the Rules Committee and the full House would be taking up DeGette’s plan in a matter of weeks “and I think we will have a very strong vote.”

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