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Red Light Variety Shows highlights the “fatale” in femme fatale in its new show, NOIR.
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There isn’t much out there that goes better with burlesque than dirty jokes—or is it the other way around? Either way, Boise’s own Red Light Variety Show is pairing provocative dance routines and sidesplitting laughs in its presentation of NOIR, a night of entertainment complete with music, dance, chuckles, chortles, giggles, gags and burlesque. Accompanying Red Light regulars for the evening are comedy duo the Fool Squad, the delectable beauties from Off Center Dance Company and jazz band bad boys the Frim Fram 4. For those unfamiliar with the Red Light Variety Show, brace for a night of hula hoops, pole and belly dancing and assorted burlesque acts. As its name suggests, NOIR draws from film noir, presenting genre staples like detectives, murder, femme fatales and intrigue, and brandishing the sensual energy and jaw-dropping performances that Red Light is known for. Under the direction of Sarah Gardner and set during a time when the good and the bad were often one and the same, NOIR will appease fans of the scantily clad, so come down and let your freak flag fly. However, this is most definitely a show for grown-ups, so if you’re younger than 21, you’ll have to get your kicks somewhere else. NOIR runs every Friday and Saturday through Saturday, Jan. 26, and with a cast and crew like Red Light’s, you should make a point of catching a show—or two. 9 p.m. $15 advance, $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-4248297, redlightvarietyshow.com.
RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: NOIR
BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES PRESENTS: RAISING ARIZONA Humans are the exception to the rule of large numbers. If you roll a die enough times, the number of rolls resulting in one approaches the number of rolls resulting two, three, four, and so on. But as just about ever yone has obser ved, life isn’t fair and some people are just plain lucky. Now picture a scenario in which you’ve kidnapped a baby. You’ve been chased by bounty hunters, surrounded by crooks, and ultimately caught by the child’s parents—and you somehow manage to get away scot-free. Life isn’t like a roll of the dice; life is chaos. Leave it to the Coen Brothers to imagine such a scenario, call it Raising Arizona, and bring it to the big screen in all its hilarity. Hi (Nicholas Cage) is a recidivist. Ed(wina) (Holly Hunter) is a cop. When they get hitched, they discover Ed is infertile and they hatch a plan that shouldn’t work: They’ll kidnap one of the sons of a local furniture baron and raise him as their own. After absconding with the child, Hi and Ed crash into Hi’s escaped prison buddies, Hi’s new employer discovers the couple’s secret and a bounty hunter gets hot on everyone’s trail. Boise Classic Movies is presenting the comedy as part of its Coen Brothers series. To find out how Hi and Ed’s situation ends in their stolen baby becoming a football star and how Hi’s employer gets his due, check out Raising Arizona on Saturday, Jan. 12, at 7 p.m. Tickets are $11. 7 p.m. $11. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, boiseclassicmovies.com.
SATURDAYSUNDAY JAN. 12-13 script RE-ART: LETTER FLOURISHING WITH JEANETTE ROSS Kids these days seem to have little in common with their pint-sized predecessors who, without the use of a computer, jotted down ideas by hand. Armed with an inkwell
and pen, children once spent hours hand-writing essays with perfect penmanship. Pursuits of such perfect letters are known as “letter flourishing,” the art of creating beautiful longhand from a time before Microsoft Word. It’s a craft rekindled for Boise’s modern youth in the January installment of Re-Art, a one-hour seminar for kids ages 5 to 12 to get hands-on experience with both the arts and history. The second weekend of each month, the Re-Art program provides free art
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classes taught by local artists at all four branches of the Boise Public Library. On Saturday, Jan. 12, and Sunday, Jan. 13, Jeanette Ross will lead youth through the process of creating flowing script. Dipping pens and ink, children will put letters on paper creating letters complete with curlicues and loops, while experimenting with simple ink made from crushed blueberries. In partnership with the Boise City Department of Arts and History and the city’s sesquicentennial
celebration, Boise 150, this year’s Re-Art events explore old-timey pursuits to help Boiseans get in touch with their roots. Future installments include book binding with Justinian Morton in February, and theater acting with Nick Garcia and Hollis Welsh in March. Check out trica.org for more information. Saturday, Jan. 12, 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., 208-5624995; 3 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole, 7557 W. Ustick Road, 208-570-6900; Sunday, Jan. 13, 1 p.m. FREE. Main Branch Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-384-4076; 3 p.m. FREE.
Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, 208-5624996; boisepubliclibrary.org.
SATURDAY JAN. 12 kid lit 2012 IDAHO WRITING CAMPS ANTHOLOGY RELEASE PARTY As years pass, time seems to move more quickly. Once occasional events and activities now race by at a pace unthinkable to youth but familiar to adults. There are few activities
that evoke this sense of time more piercingly than reading through one’s old diaries or academic papers. Those early musings that seemed comparable to Hemingway when you wrote them are now foreign and, occasionally, slightly embarrassing. Still, they held the promise of youth and provide no shortage of nostalgia for later years. That’s a feeling that the young writers of the Idaho Writing Camps—a program by The Cabin literary center—have ahead of them in the form of two bound copies of the 2012 Idaho Writing Camps Anthology. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M