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One look at you and I can’t disguise, I’ve got hungry eyes.
Ilana Goldman and John Michael Schert discover the pillows are filled with rose petals at the Modern Hotel.
THURSDAY FEB. 11
SATURDAY FEB. 13
Lookin’ for Love
Cuttin’ a Rug
BW IS THROWING A SINGLES PARTY
TMP WORLD PREMIERE
It’s three days before Valentine’s Day. Your plans for Feb. 14 are to 1) spend the night slugging tequila with your equally bitter and love-hating single friends bitching about how V-Day is almost more over-commercialized than Christmas, 2) curl up in your designer Snuggie on your couch with a pizza, six-hours of slasher horror films and your dog, the only creature in the world that really loves you (which is why he is also willing to wear a designer Snuggie), or 3) make out with that super hot “Could Be Mr. Right” (or “Could Be Mr. Right Now”), whom you just met at BW’s Personals party. Door No. 3 it is—come on, what single guy or gal doesn’t like a hot make-out session with a new pair of lips? But first, you have to get yourself to the BW Personals party. Here’s how: Log onto boiseweekly.com/love and create your free Love profile. Shower, deodorize and get yourself looking good. Then head to The Lobby in downtown Boise, where you’ll find a room full of BW Love members playing games, hanging out with FameFifteen and throwing back $2 wells and domestic drafts, $3 micros and $5 FameFifteenis. Show up, scope out the crowd, have a drink and mingle. No obligations. No strings unless you want them. No blind dates. No speed dates. No cover charge. 7 p.m., FREE, The Lobby, 760 W. Main St. Information at boiseweekly.com/love or call BW at 208-344-2055.
Of choreographer Trey McIntyre, Dance Magazine wrote, “When so many people are trying to figure out how to make ballet accessible, McIntyre is doing it.” That’s true not only for audiences but for his dancers as well. As dancers, he gives them steps, and as artists, he gives them the freedom to express and explore their art. The work that 22-year-old dancer Ashley Werhun does with TMP is so important to her, she was willing to fight the federal government to continue doing it. A technicality with her work visa sent Werhun back to her home country of Canada last year and initially both she and TMP were unsure of when or if she would return. But with a three-year permit tucked into her toe shoes, Werhun leapt into rehearsals for the Saturday, Feb. 13, show with vigor, especially excited to work on a brand-new, as yet untitled piece—this will be its world premiere—and be a part of that constantly metamorphosing creation process. Those rehearsals are anything but rote. “When we create a new work, it’s never just doing the same thing over and over again,” Werhun said. “Each time something will change, and Trey will either say, ‘I love that’ or ‘Let’s change it a little.’ Often times with Trey, choreography will change up until a few days before the show. And even then, while on tour, it will change as we get a better understanding of the piece.” A piece may also be different choreographically because McIntyre is likely to make slight changes after each show. “It’s always evolving, which is exciting,” Werhun said. An audience member who sees, say, the Feb. 13 show and then catches another performance in another city three or four weeks later probably won’t notice changes in individual steps, but might perceive differences due to the dancers themselves. “It’s like meeting someone for the first time and then after a few weeks with them, you become more comfortable and you’re able to open up more,” Werhun said. “It’s like that with a new work; you open up more and more each time you do it. It’s a journey each time you do it on stage.” 8 p.m., $15-$50 (no children under age 6). Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Drive, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.
THURSDAY FEB. 11 Takin’ Note BLACK HISTORY MONTH AT IDAHO BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM This month, the Idaho Black History Museum celebrates Black History Month with a new exhibit, a new mural, two presentations and longer hours. The new exhibit, entitled “Economic Empowerment,” looks at a handful of black
Idaho business people, including former Boise City Council member Jerome Mapp; Dr. Karl Watts, founder and executive director of Genesis World Mission and the American Academy of Family Physicians Physician of the Year 2010; and Chef Roland of Chef Roland’s Cajun Cuisine. IBHM also now has a lending library, as well as a stunning new mural by local artist Pablo Rodriguez titled Slave to President. And on Thursday, local activist Yvonne McCoy will give a talk entitled, “The Audacity of Hope.”
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McCoy was born in Virginia in 1947, the last of nine children. As a youngster, she handed out fliers for John F. Kennedy during his presidential campaign and rallied against segregation by attending lunch-counter sit-ins and boycotts against public places with segregation policies. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in English and psychology from Howard University, she stayed in Washington, D.C., mentoring young women from Anacostia, a disadvantaged area of metropolitan D.C. McCoy and her husband moved to Boise about six
years ago. 6:30 p.m., FREE, Idaho Black History Museum, 508 Julia Davis Drive, 208-4330017, ibhm.org. IBHM is open Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. through the month of February.
FRIDAY FEB. 12 Grindin’ a Rail BINARY CODE FILM PREMIERE
If you think Binary Code is all about ones and zeroes, you’re sorely mistaken. Nosegrinds, kickflips and ollies? That’s more like it. Local clothing company MTtheory will host the premiere of their full-length skateboarding video Binary Code WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M