It's always tough shooting with the lights out but the jumbo screens in the Dena'ina Civic and Convention Center helped make a picture out of next to nothing during the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation's 2010 Forecast Luncheon on January 27.

Nearly 1,400 people listened to the 2010 economic outlook for Anchorage and headline speaker Stephen Dubner. Governor Parnell's opening remarks on polar bears and a road to Nome had to complete with Dubner's lecture covering unwashed doctors, global warming and monkey sex.