news and views
SAINT MELINDA / 6 Melinda Gates should be the Patron Saint of Voiceless and Vulnerable Women by Pamela White
ON THE COVER: WHO’S AFRAID? / 10 Wyoming’s open hunting season on wolves could keep them out of Colorado by Elizabeth Miller
CITY DENIES REQUESTS FOR VALMONT MEETINGS, TOURS / 12 ‘Boulder Weekly,’ activist groups can’t speak with cleanup monitors by Jefferson Dodge, Joel Dyer and Elizabeth Miller
SHORT-TERM MEMORY LOSS HITS BOULDER POWER PLAYERS / 13 Phone records of D.A., city attorney and council member raise questions by Jefferson Dodge and Joel Dyer
buzz
EVIL CHEESEY RIDES AGAIN / 18 Local filmmakers to produce documentary about Boulder daredevil by Sebastian Murdock Overtones: Jane’s Addiction collaborates, emerges with different sound / 23 Arts & Culture: Upright Citizen’s Brigade incubates top talent / 25 Arts & Culture: Devil’s Thumb scratches itch and takes on ‘Bug’ / 25 Panorama: What to do and where to go / 29 Reel 2 Reel: Pick your flick / 35 Screen: The Dictator / 37 Cuisine: Vanilla journeys far in reaching your olfactory system / 42 Cuisine Review: Udon Kaisha / 43
departments
Letters: Brigham brouhaha; More on Carr; The facts of Komen / 5 The Highroad: Wild about wild chickens / 5 In Case You Missed It: Konfused Kevin; Watching Fox makes you stupider / 8 Boulderganic: Turn up the heat / 15 Adventure: Filmmaker floats 550-mile stretch of Yellowstone River / 39 Free Will Astrology: by Rob Brezsny / 49 Boulder Marketplace: Your community resource / 51
staff
Publisher, Stewart Sallo Editor, Joel Dyer
Director of Sales & Marketing, Dave Grimsland
Director of Operations/Controller, Benecia Beyer Circulation Manager, Cal Winn
EDITORIAL
Managing Editor, Jefferson Dodge Arts & Entertainment Editor, David Accomazzo
Special Editions/Calendar Editor, Elizabeth Miller Online Editor, Quibian Salazar-Moreno
Contributing Editor, Pamela White Interns, Michael Callahan, Sebastian Murdock, Hadley Vandiver
Contributing Writers, Peter Alexander, Krystal Baugher, Rob Brezsny, Chris Callaway, Paul Danish, James Dziezynski, Clay
Fong, Jim Hightower, Dave Kirby, Jessie Lucier, P.J. Nutting, Brian Palmer, Chris Parker, Adam Perry, Alan Sculley, Isaac
Woods Stokes, Tom Winter, Tate Zandstra, Gary Zeidner
SALES
Retail Sales Manager, Allen Carmichael Inside Sales Manager, Jason Wing
Account Executives, Andrea Craven, David Hasson, Lisa Secco, Brooke Sunness
PRODUCTION
Production Manager, Dave Kirby Art Director, Susan France Graphic Designer, Mark Goodman
Marketing Manager & Heiress, Julia Sallo
Office Manager/Advertising Assistant, Francie Swidler
CIRCULATION TEAM
Dave Hastie, Dan Hill, George LaRoe,
Jeffrey Lohrius, Elizabeth Ouslie, Rick Slama
12-Year-Old, Mia Rose Sallo
May 24, 2012 Volume XIX, Number 42 As Boulder County's only independently owned newspaper, Boulder Weekly is dedicated to illuminating truth, advancing justice and protecting the First Amendment through ethical, no-holds-barred journalism and thought-provoking opinion writing. Free every Thursday since 1993, the Weekly also offers the county's most comprehensive arts and entertainment coverage. Read the print version, or visit www.boulderweekly.com. Boulder Weekly does not accept unsolicited editorial submissions. If you're interested in writing for the paper, please send queries to:
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