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FROZEN BEAVERS AND SNOW LEOPARDS IN LOVE For two winters in a row, I dragged frozen beavers through the North Idaho mountains, looking for wolverines. Actually, they were half-beavers. The first one, in 2011, was a front end and the second, in 2012, was a tail end, so I guess that adds up to one whole beaver over two seasons. No matter, they were experiences to remember and ones my mother roped me into. She, my brother, my wife and I were taking part in an effort by Friends of the Scotchman Peaks Wilderness to capture wolverines, martens, fishers and other “mustelids” on film to establish an idea of how many of the animals live in North Idaho and the size of their range. The idea was to drag the sawed-in-half beaver bait to a prearranged GPS point somewhere in the mountains, hang the bait in a tree, affix the carcass with a device meant to snatch a few hairs from any scavenging mustelids, and set a camera trap to snap pictures. After a week we would collect the materials for the researchers on the project. The first year we got lost and spent the better part of five hours trying to figure out where the hell we were (by one reading of the GPS, we were in Canada). Nonetheless, we hung our beaver and set our surveillance. In that instance, we were skunked—metaphorically. The second year was more successful, and we returned with a photo of an ermine. The work was supported by a Zoo Boise Conservation Fund grant of nearly $30,000. Mustelids in general, and wolverines in particular, are notoriously elusive, and their numbers are hard to determine. In 2014, wolverines were considered for a threatened species designation, but wildlife officials opted not to list them. Still, identifying the animals in the wild is important work, which would often be impossible without organizations like Zoo Boise. This week, we feature a story about Zoo Boise’s wide-ranging conservation efforts, specifically a new facility that will help the zoo breed mammals in captivity (see Page 12). It is hoped that centers such as Zoo Boise’s will help build sustainable populations of at-risk animals that can be preserved in zoos across the country. If that doesn’t make you warm and fuzzy, then the love story of snow leopards Tashi and Kabita will. Happy Valentine’s Day. —Zach Hagadone
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DEADLINE The clock is ticking for Idahoans to sign up for insurance through the state’s Your Health Idaho insurance exchange. The open enrollment period for 2015 ends Sunday, Feb. 15. Details on Citydesk.
ART WITH ALTITUDE The Boise Airport unveiled its latest piece of public art Feb. 5, cutting the ribbon on “Sky Walk,” by Vermont artist Seth Palmiter. See some pics and get more info on the art on Cobweb.
HEAD START Arguing for a statewide pre-K program, a new report shows that 54 percent of Idaho school kids are ready to learn to read by kindergarten. Get more details on why that matters on Citydesk.
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MAIL STOP THE LAND GRAB For two years, the Idaho Legislature’s Federal Lands Interim Committee has considered how, and whether, Idaho should attempt to wrest control of up to 34 million acres owned by all Americans and now administered by the federal government. We appreciate the attention that the committee has given to this issue; however 40-plus hours of meetings and public testimony have failed to highlight significant new information. We also welcome that some members of the committee have toned down their rhetoric demanding an immediate transfer of title. Still, last week, the Interim Committee wrapped up their report and recommended continuing to waste tax dollars (more than $750,000 proposed for 2015 alone!) on this effort. We advise the Legislature to heed the words of the majority of Idahoans who testified against this pointless crusade. Let’s review what we’ve learned: • This idea is being foisted upon the people of Idaho by out-of-state ideologues pushing their own agenda. • Idaho’s Statehood Act and Constitution specifically forbid “any further or other grants of land for any purpose” from the federal government. • The new costs of managing fires, recreation and a
network of more than 60,000 miles of road would bankrupt the state and inevitably lead to the sale of Idaho’s public lands. • The attorney general and governor agreed that demanding the federal government turn over millions of acres is misguided and unrealistic. • Cooperative efforts across Idaho are creating jobs, attracting investments and building consensus among diverse stakeholders, yet the land grab threatens to undermine these productive efforts. • Idaho hunters, anglers and outdoors enthusiasts—and the businesses that support them—stand to be the biggest losers in this reckless gamble. There are some remaining questions. How did all of the wasted time and resources help the families and communities of rural Idaho? How did this exercise in futility help the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and other public land managers address their very real challenges? How does going deeper into this rabbit hole help safeguard Idaho’s clean water, protect communities from wildfire, and ensure access to ensure that future generations can enjoy Idaho’s outdoor traditions? Here’s the answer: This public land grab amounts to a big fat zero for the people of Idaho.
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The good news is that alternatives do exist. In collaborative efforts from the Panhandle to the Owyhees to Henry’s Fork, Idahoans are coming together to seek real-world solutions. Ranchers, loggers, water users, counties, land managers, conservationists, hunters, Native American tribes, motorized recreationists, hikers, anglers and others are rolling up their sleeves and doing the hard work of finding collaborative compromises to address disputes. For example, the Clearwater Basin Collaborative in northcentral Idaho has boosted National Forest harvest levels by 50 percent, brought in more than $16 million in direct investments, restored more than 3,000 miles of trail, reduced fire risk across 60,000 acres, and created or sustained more than 80 jobs each year. These efforts require patience and won’t solve every debate. However, if we’re actually interested in restoring lands, providing jobs and improving public land management, they can pay off. Unfortunately, extending this land-grab effort only undermines this progress. If members of the Idaho Legislature are merely interested in a quick and easy sound bite to trash the federal government, by all means, continue this effort. If, on the other hand, legislators are interested in actually finding real solutions to real problems that affect real Idahoans, please shift gears. —Jonathan Oppenheimer Jonathan Oppenheimer is senior conservation associate with the Idaho Conservation League. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
OPINION DEAR MR. PRESIDENT I probably should wait a couple of years... BILL COPE ...to send this letter, but you know better than I what’s coming. By the end of this year, we’re going to know for sure who’s running to succeed you. Then it’s going to be all Iowa this and New Hampshire that... Jeb said this and Christie said that and Cruz said WHAT!?... and Hillary leads by this many points, then Hillary leads by that many points... and blah blah blah... and before we know it, you’re going to be arranging your papers for the Barack Obama Presidential Library and checking out colleges for Malia. So while you’re still the central figure in Americans’ fleeting attentions, I have decided to get said what I want to say to you right now, which—if I’m any judge of history in the making—will come to be regarded as the apex of your entire presidency. And a magnificent presidency it has been, sir. For the past six years, every time I have been asked, “What d’ya think of him now?” by some smarmy, ignorant, dumbass Republican—of which there is no shortage here in Idaho—I have, without hesitation, answered, “Best president in my lifetime, pal!” I admit that until recently, much of that attitude has come from my passion for pissing off Republicans—particularly, the smarmy, ignorant dumbass ones. (Ha ha, as if there is any other kind, huh?) But now, as the record of your accomplishments, your triumphs, your powerful intellect and your steady resolve is solidifying, I can say it without irony, without doubt and without the ulterior motive of trying to infuriate someone: You are the best damn president in my lifetime. And that includes some stiff competition, going back to Harry S. Truman. Eleven presidents, ranging from the absurd to the sublime. (I’ll leave it to you, sir, to speculate which ones I would consider absurd and which sublime.) What sets you above even the best of those 11 isn’t so much what you have managed to achieve, but the unrelenting resistance to your getting anything achieved at all. Without that resistance, though—without the naked and insane hatred your enemies have so brazenly flaunted in your face—without the utter and disgraceful disrespect that they have shown you and your family—without their unholy vows to treat you as an irrelevant footnote in the American story—we might never have realized your true strength. I am confident you would agree that no single accomplishment of yours, or anything you hope to get done by the end of your administration, can compare in scope with, for instance, Eisenhower’s interstate freeway system, Kennedy’s space program, Johnson’s Civil Rights Acts or Nixon’s environmental initiatives. Even Obamacare, the jewel in the crown of your presidency, might be seen merely as a natural extension of something LBJ began 50 years ago. Historical perspective is always the most accurate judge of a person’s legacy. After the names of your detractors have faded into well-deserved obscurity, you will be understood as the man who, by the sheer force of his nature and steadfastness of his character, guided this nation through a perilous time—who stood, sometimes alone, against the looming corruption of our democracy—who showed those who despair at temporary defeats that, yes indeed, when the going gets tough, the truly tough get tougher—who led the decent people of this country in the way forward. Nowhere was that more apparent than in your State of the Union three weeks ago. And sir, I know exactly why John Boehner, there behind you, spent the entire address looking like he had to fart in the worst way. I know why the rest of his squalid party sat so sourly, so bitterly, on their soft, white hands. Because the ones with any remaining sense left in their shriveled brains could see that, once again, you were kicking their cheesy asses. That’s right, Mr. President, they understood within minutes after you started speaking that, in spite of their fleeting gains, you were racing ahead of them, that you were winning again. That your acceptance by the American people would rise and theirs would fall, and that there wasn’t a damn thing they could do about it. No, they won’t give you anything you propose. Not a single thing, probably. But when President Hillary Clinton gets the legislation through a less swinish Congress to provide that free community college opportunity to struggling young people, to raise the minimum wage to a livable level, to reform our immigration policies in a humane and sensible way, it will be understood by all who planted those seeds and set the stage for the future. You have invigorated our party for at least another generation, sir, and your name is immutably chiseled into that granite monument of leaders who have bettered American society forever. Incidentally, thanks for coming to Boise. And if in this letter I have embarrassed you by being, perhaps, overly fawning, excessively sycophantic and exceedingly florid with my praise, please excuse me. I mean every word I said, but I could have toned the adoration down a notch or two, yes? But sir, I personally have no problem praising you in such a mawkish and public manner, knowing that any of our local Republicans who read this will be chewing off their own tongues in aggravation. And that’s all the reward I need. Yours, B. Cope BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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OPINION HEISENBERG’S LEGACY We neither confirm nor deny JOHN REMBER In December 1999, Julie and I acted in a play at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End. The play was Michael Frayn’s Copenhagen. It staged a 1941 meeting between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg. This meeting of those two physicists—first collaborators, then enemies— may have kept the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb. One of the conceits of Copenhagen is that posterity gets to pass judgment on the guilt or innocence of its forebears. To represent that judgment, a jury box formed the back of the stage. Julie and I ended up in the jury box. We had shown up at the last moment for standing-roomonly tickets, and posterity was in short supply. We faced the audience. Six feet below us, actors representing Bohr and Heisenberg and Bohr’s wife Margrethe debated their future and our lives. The seats were the best we’ve ever had, a little public perhaps, but once the house lights came down, the audience was invisible. We put on our best judgmental faces, and listened to Frayn’s lines as he explored the moral questions of conceiving, producing and using atomic weapons. Copenhagen is a play about uncertainty, and sure enough, we left the theatre without a verdict. Werner Heisenberg may or may not have sabotaged the Nazi effort to build the Bomb. But since that night in 1999, I have come to a solid judgment. Heisenberg’s most diabolical invention would never have been the Bomb even if he had managed to produce 20 of them for Hitler. Instead, it would have remained his Uncertainty Principle. Heisenberg demonstrated that the more you know about the position of a subatomic particle, the less you know about its momentum, and vice versa. Put that way, it looks innocuous enough. But the Uncertainty Principle has become an out-of-control metaphor that has permeated humanity’s thinking to the point that all knowledge has become suspect, all data has become conditional. So: The more you know about where you are, the less you know about where you’re going. Truth exists only in a community that agrees on the questions it answers. The tiniest bit of contrary evidence can destroy a scientific theory that has held sway for centuries. Multiple universes exist for a single self. Reality does not exist apart from its measurers and measurements. Reality does not exist apart from language. Heisenberg didn’t come up with all these ideas. Most of them came from people who were trying to find a way around his Uncertainty Principle, yet the effect of their efforts was to make the world more uncertain. I like to imagine Heisenberg knew his principle would turn the 8 | FEBRUARY 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
world into a hall of mirrors. The tangible would become imaginary, the imaginary would become the real, the real would become metaphor and metaphor would become the tangible. I’m describing evolution, not solipsism here, and it’s an evolution more rapid and more brutal than the kind Darwin had in mind. It’s taken us into whole universes of metaphor, and there’s nothing we can do to get back home. Scientific instruments have extended human senses across the universe and into invisible wavelengths and subatomic dimensions and to the edge of black-hole singularities. We’ve come to have a deep faith in phenomena we’re not physically equipped to apprehend, and made leaps of faith comparable to the ones that once let us believe in utopias, triune gods, spirits in trees and an endless unspoiled planet. Faith-based derivative finances have abstracted wealth and its evil twin, debt, beyond any human event horizon. TV advertisements target areas of our brain that don’t have language, and we react on the level of fight or flight, ecstasy or horror, compulsion or conditioned aversion. If we check weather reports, we ignore their authors’ subtexts of disbelief. Medical science has disconnected age from death, transforming our bodies from spiritinfused flesh to landscaping projects. It has become easier to conclude that contemporary humans are what’s left over from a thought experiment: animal-imagination chimeras, the result of a weird selection taking place since Plato started messing about between the real and the ideal. The extent of that selection can be seen, not just in the fantastical, anthropomorphized creatures we call politicians, but in any face reflected in the glass of a computer screen. Even when evidence of a real world still persists, its nature is nonetheless obscured by issues of confirmation bias, who owns what, what borders are permeable to whom and what, what animals to legally protect, what politician to vote for, what game to put on the Wii, what plane to get on to interview for what job which will establish what identity residing at what address. These things make the past unreachable, and it’s only with great effort that you can peer through the trademarked hallucination, the groomed surface, the pixels and mechanical actuators and massaged video images and the ones and zeroes in a server somewhere—to a distant future where humanity is no more, to a world where crystals in windblown bedrock glint in undimmed starlight. That world is real. Not much else is. From John Rember’s short-story collection 100 Little Pieces on the End of the World. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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The Fowler House, at 413 S. Fifth Street, was built in 1894 for Edmund and Sophia Fowler.
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The St. Luke’s Master Plan proposes an expansion of approximately 567,000 square feet and the closure of Jefferson Street, but the Boise Planning and Zoning Commission voted to recommend denial of the plan, based primarily on the Jefferson closure. The Boise City Council will have the final say.
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Boise P&Z recommends denial of St. Luke’s Master Plan GEORGE PRENTICE It was once considered a frontier hospital: six beds to care for settlers, miners and their families struggling with scarlet fever, smallpox and typhoid. When St. Luke’s Hospital opened its doors in 1902, the city of Boise had been the capital of the newly formed state of Idaho for only a little more than a decade. The Idanha Hotel had recently opened in Boise, the city was talking about the possibility of creating a public library and the Davis family of Boise was offering up some of its orchards to become a public park named after daughter Julia. The following century saw an effort from the local Episcopal Church to keep the doors open at the modest hospital through what it called “Hospital Sunday” offerings on the weekend after each Thanksgiving; the construction of a four-story facility in the 1920s to “rival any modern hospital in the West”; the opening of a new “million-dollar wing” in 1952; breakthroughs in cancer research and treatment during the 1960s; the hospital’s first Medicare patient in 1967; its first open heart surgery in 1968; a $10 million south wing in 1977; a $48 million expansion in 1993; and the opening of Idaho’s only Children’s Hospital in 1999. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
However, St. Luke’s most ambitious growth, which some argue will see more than its share of growing pains, is still to come. In a 300-plus-page master plan, which met considerable opposition Feb. 9 during a fourhour-plus Boise Planning and Zoning hearing, St. Luke’s officials outlined a vision to grow its East Boise footprint—an expansion of its heart and vascular care, women’s care, ortho/ neuro services, children’s hospital and cancer treatment facilities. The master plan proposes a new 357,000-square-foot medical tower; a new combined central plant and parking garage; 100,000 square feet of additional medical office buildings; and a total floor-area expansion of approximately 567,000 square feet. The hospital also wants to move its main entrance farther north from Bannock Street to First Street near Fort Street. To date, City Hall staff like what they see. But the real show-stopper, and the cause for much of the opposition, is St. Luke’s plan to close a portion of Jefferson Street, cutting off its connections to Avenue B, the main thoroughfare linking Front Street to Warm Springs
and Broadway avenues. If St. Luke’s planners have their way, motorists would need to wind their way to State Street to the north or Idaho Street to the south to get to Avenue B. For the better part of two hours on Feb. 9, St. Luke’s officials, with help from the city’s planning department, outlined their master plan. Planning Director Hal Simmons, in a letter to P&Z commissioners, gave his department’s approval: “The various elements of the St. Luke’s Master Plan have been carefully reviewed for consistency with all chapters and subsections of the Boise City Comprehensive Plan, and no conflicts have been identified.” But the plan, and particularly the proposed Jefferson closure, drew the ire of some of St. Luke’s neighbors. “Clearly, the closure of Jefferson caught a lot of people off-guard. A lot of us still have trouble wrapping our heads around that,” said Erik Kingston, a certified professional community and economic developer and an East End neighborhood resident since 1994. “My concern as a neighbor is: How 10 do I get to the center of government, the center of commerce, through that
Boise’s Central Addition neighborhood had a bad year in 2014. Once one of the city’s most prestigious areas, 13 historic homes were reduced to 10, then eight, due to vandalism, fire or both. The key to saving any of the historic homes hasn’t been finding someone who wants to save the residences—it’s where to put them. Moving a historic home is one thing; purchasing an appropriate parcel of land and renovating the structure can be monumental. But Boise Weekly learned that a Boise couple have big plans for the Fowler House at 413 S. Fifth St., which was built in 1894 for Boise jeweler Edmund Fowler and his wife, Sophia “We’re proposing to save, move and restore the Fowler House,” said Josh Unger. “My girlfriend [Jenaleigh Kiebert] and I are always going on architectural walks and have been passionate about saving homes for several years. We’ve followed the Fowler House journey.” If Unger and Kiebert have their way, that journey would take the Fowler House to Boise’s North End (Unger was reluctant to mention the exact location since he was still negotiating for a lot big enough to fit the home). “It was ultimately important to us that we find the right fit for the house and make sure it’s saved in another historic district,” Unger told BW. “It’s a big project.” He’s not wrong: The home includes three upstairs bedrooms, one second-floor bathroom and a tiny kitchen on the main floor. “But the woodwork inside is amazing. It was never painted-over,” Unger said. “This is going to take a lot of work, but we would hope to bring it back to life as a single-family home.” Unger and Kiebert are not architects or builders. He’s a computer engineer, she’s a librarian at the Idaho State Archive, but they aren’t shying away from the task at hand: They’re negotiating with Boise-based Local Construct, owner of the Fowler House, and have bids in with two local movers, one of which will have the delicate task of rolling the home through Boise’s downtown. What’s more, Unger and Kiebert will need to stand before the Boise Historic Preservation Committee to detail their plans. “Local Construct, the city of Boise, everybody has been very supportive of this,” said Unger, taking a deep breath. “But, wow, this is going to be big.” —George Prentice BOISEweekly | FEBRUARY 11–17, 2015 | 9
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NEWS Jefferson corridor that we all use? To see something this massive, dropped into place and cutting off one of our major access points, has a significant impact that really isolates our neighborhood from the rest of the downtown core.” Kingston looked down at a map of the St. Luke’s Master Plan that shows a large new building being built where Jefferson Street traffic currently flows. “I think about Saint Al’s when I look at this,” said Kingston, referring to the campus surrounding Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center on Curtis Road, near the Boise Connector. “I look at the impact of the neighborhood around Saint Al’s and that massive facility,” he added. “They serve and function and employ a lot of people. But would I want to buy a house near that? No. And that’s the only thing I can think of that has a comparable scale to what’s being proposed here. But think of it: Saint Al’s has easy access—it’s right near the Connector.” Therein lies Kingston’s dilemma with a proposed shutdown of Jefferson Street. He’s not alone. “The closure of Jefferson Street would forever and negatively influence the principles [of Blueprint Boise] and set a horrible precedent,” wrote Alan Shealy to Boise Mayor Dave Bieter and Boise City Council members. “Having already blocked off Bannock Street, I view the intent to block Jefferson Street as being sheer arrogance on the part of hospital authorities.” Shealy should know. He spent nearly nine years as a Boise City Council member, approving and rejecting plans that were or were not in sync with the city’s development plan. In fact, he would routinely receive such letters from citizens concerned about encroachment. Shealy stood before Boise’s P&Z commission Feb. 9, to urge its denial of the St. Luke’s plan. Deanna Smith, a longtime Boise community activist and program coordinator for Idaho Smart Growth, said she remembers the last time St. Luke’s lobbied (successfully) to close off a Boise street. “It was the late 1990s. That’s where the journey starts for a lot of us, and that’s when we were asked to vacate Bannock,” said Smith. “We said, ‘We’ll support you. We have Jefferson.’ But back then, we had a genuine conversation. And honestly, back then, we had a sense that St. Luke’s was looking south or possibly out to Meridian for any major new expansion. That was then.” St. Luke’s officials insist that Smith and Kingston have been heard, along with a lot of other Boiseans, in a process that began in 2008. “The East End Neighborhood Association does not have unanimous opposition to the closure of Jefferson,” said Theresa McLeod, 9
Athlos Academies is eyeing the vacant 73,000 square feet that once housed Macy’s.
MACY’S BUILDING EYED FOR CHARTER SCHOOL HEADQUARTERS There’s plenty in store at the old downtown Macy’s location, dark since March 2010. “At the risk of jumping the gun, welcome to downtown Boise,” John Hale, chairman of the Capital City Development Corporation, told Jason Kotter and Ryan Van Alfen, cofounders of Athlos Academies at a meeting of the urban renewal agency Feb. 9. While Kotter and Van Alfen have plenty of heavy lifting ahead in order to turn 73,000 square feet of prime real estate into a charter school management organization, there was plenty of optimism at the CCDC session. “Let me congratulate you ahead of time. I know you have a way to go, but I give you a lot of credit and we couldn’t be any more pleased,” said Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, who does doubleduty as a CCDC commissioner. Bieter added that he was anxious to “throw out the first basketball” at Athlos’ grand opening, which, with any luck, could be in 2016. Athlos Academies, headquartered in Boise, may be one of the biggest education secrets in Idaho. The company manages athletics-driven charter schools in Arizona, Minnesota and Texas—there are seven in the Lone Star state alone. The former Macy’s building, at the corner of 10th and Idaho streets, would be used as a training and corporate facility. “Picture walking by our huge picture windows, and you’ll see 35 yards of striped astroturf on our main floor, plus a full basketball court,” said Kotter. “We’ll have teacher classrooms on the mezzanine, and the third and fourth floors will be office space. We want to occupy the entire space. “ The private investment is expected to be close to $9 million, and Kotter told CCDC commissioners that his company already has capital and a debt plan in place. “We need to take out all the drywall and plaster and leave just the timber to begin the demolition, which could be, best case, 90 days,” he said. “If we can get this done in a year, that would be great, because we really need the space.” CCDC Commissioner and former Boise Councilman David Eberle looked at the plans and smiled. “It’s not often I get surprised, but you surprised me,” he said. —George Prentice 10 | FEBRUARY 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
St. Luke’s expansion faces opposition because of its plan to close a portion of Jefferson Street, severing it from Avenue B, the main thoroughfare linking Front Street to Warm Springs and Broadway avenues.
director of community relations at St. Luke’s. “Our work has been to reach out to all people who have absolutely any concern about the closure of Jefferson and talking to them about what might actually improve connectivity and mobility in this whole area.” The city of Boise has already asked St. Luke’s to include and construct roadway improvements in its plan, including roundabouts, wider sidewalks, cycle tracks and bike lanes. “When we talk to cyclists and neighbors— moms with strollers, moms with young kids on bikes—they get excited about the opportunities that bring buffered bike lanes, cycle tracks and 10-foot-wide sidewalks,” said McLeod. “They get very excited about the mobility of the area.” None of that “excitement” was on display during the Feb. 9 P&Z hearing, as resident after resident expressed displeasure over the possibility of seeing Jefferson closed off. Four hours came and went as P&Z commissioners heard from a long list of people wishing to testify; and just before a Monday night was about to become a Tuesday morning, commissioners were faced with what many considered to be their biggest decision in recent memory. “Anybody?” P&Z Chairman Stephen Bradbury asked his fellow commissioners, hoping for someone to break the awkward silence. That’s when Commissioner Milt Gillespie leaned into his microphone and burst St. Luke’s bubble. “I recommend denial,” said Gillespie. “This
does not comply with substantial elements of the city of Boise’s Comprehensive Plan.” Opponents of the plan sat up in their seats, beginning to sense that their complaints had not fallen on deaf ears. “I think we need a thorough cost-benefit analysis and a hard look at the closing of Jefferson. This would clearly be the public loss of an important street,” said Gillespie. Commissioner Rick Just admitted to “going back and forth” on the issue “at least 16 times” during the evening’s hearing. “This is a very close call for me,” he said. “But connectivity trumps design in this case.” Commissioenr Rich Demarest agreed, saying, “I think the case has been made by the public that an undue burden would be placed on the public by closing Jefferson.” Only Bradbury voted in favor of the St. Luke’s Master Plan. “I struggled with this one, too,” said Bradbury. “But I prefer to defer action on this rather than to recommend a denial.” By then, Bradbury was a minority of one. The six other P&Z commissioners voted to recommend that the Boise City Council deny the St. Luke’s plan because it did not fit appropriately enough into the city’s bigger comprehensive plan. The Council will have the final say in the matter in a future meeting, possibly as soon as March. “Yes, we’re very, very happy,” Kingston told BW the next morning. “But we also know that this is far from over.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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on our ranch. I expect that I’m going to lose between 1 and 1.5 percent while they’re on public lands. On the other end of the spectrum, let’s create some openness and honesty from Fish and Game; let’s look at the impact wolves are having on our big game populations and what do we need to do there. And then from the “environmental” community, let’s also say, “Look, let’s make sure we’re not over-exaggerating this deal and not allowing any management of wolves to occur.” I think once we get past that, things will go along just fine.
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You have to know that people around Idaho were pretty surprised to see you win your election bid. I think maybe the difference that I bring is a difference in approach. I’ve always been really, really open. My door’s always open. I think I would try to listen to anyone who came into my office, and I would try to listen while trying to understand where they’re coming from and do that in a respectful way.
Merrill Beyeler is a man of contrasts: The rancher and former Lemhi County educator speaks French, doesn’t think wolves are the threat they’re made out to be and unseated 22-year veteran Challis Republican Rep. Lenore Hardy Barrett in the 2014 GOP primary election. The 69-year-old operates Beyeler Ranches, which raises 800 head of cattle on 2,400 acres near Leadore with his wife, their three sons and their families—a total of 11 grandkids live in Leadore; two daughters (with three kids total) live in Utah and Illinois. The freshman Republican House member took some time out to talk with Boise Weekly about his life, land ethic and linguistics.
Who’s running the ranch when you’re in Boise during the legislative session? We’ve been able to grow our ranching enterprise to where it’s large enough that it can accommodate really comfortably four families, so I have three of my sons that have been probably running the ranch anyway, waiting for dad to get a little bit away so they can run it right.
change jurisdiction—you move it from federal lands to state lands—that you’ve really accomplished anything. … We’ve been able to keep the decision-making process pretty darn local. I think at the end of the day, if [a state takeover] did occur, I’m not sure we’d be in any better place.
How long have you been in Leadore? In 1959, my folks bought a small ranch near Leadore, and so we’ve been there since then. There was a little bit of time I wasn’t there. I spent two-and-a-half years in France and then got a degree in education, started teaching in a small rural school north of Shoshone-Richville and taught there for four years. My father wanted to know if I was interested in the ranch, so we came home and bought the ranch, and I taught another 17 years in Leadore and we grew the ranch in the process. After 21 years of teaching, I left education and began ranching full-time.
You’ve been pretty proud of your conservation credentials; talk to me a litte about that. It goes back to how you see the world and what you value in the world. I remember the very first time that I went fishing with my grandfather. Just before we got ready to go fishing, he said, “You know there’s only one rule you need to remember: You can only catch one fish out of one hole. If you get one out of a hole, you’ve gotta go to the next one.” Then my father always said, “The one thing you want to do is you make sure that you leave it better than you found it.” It sounds like that may have been part of what spurred you to run for office. That is part of what made me think about running. I think private lands add value to the public lands as a whole. If you lose one part of it, you risk losing the whole of it. … There’s no reason that conservation should become a wedge. That brings to mind a big political issue: the proposal of state takeover of public lands. Do you favor that idea? On the very surface it seems pretty attractive. But I think as you begin to look at that a little more closely, I’m not sure if you just BOISE WEEKLY.COM
Another hugely political issue is wolves, and I know that your part of Idaho is one of the more heavily affected by that issue. Can you give me a thumbnail of your perspective? It’s really not that hard. Wolves are here. I’m just going to say that. They need to be controlled just like anything else on the landscape. The worst thing that I can possibly envision is if the wolves went back on the endangered species list and that would create a huge amount of problems for the citizens of Idaho—not only the livestock producers but the sportsmen, the big game populations and the citizens at large. It’s like anything else. We have to manage those resources; it’s just part of what we do in Idaho. How do we shift that conversation to one that’s less emotional? I have to be really careful that I don’t overexaggerate the impact that wolves are having
I have to say I’m a little surprised to hear the French connection. Well, I speak French and my son speaks French and my daughter speaks French. … I served a mission in France and don’t ask me why, but I started to learn French before that. … My son actually went back to the same mission that I served in. My daughter majored in human resources with a minor in French. We have at least three in our family that speak French. So it’s the official second language of the Beyeler ranch? That’s right. BOISEweekly | FEBRUARY 11–17, 2015 | 11
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hen Tashi met Kabita, he was in the midst of an identity crisis. Tashi came to Zoo Boise from the Potter Park Zoo in Lansing, Mich., at the end of 2007. Hand-raised by zoo staff, Tashi didn’t know if he was a snow leopard or if he should be more attached to humans. When Kabita walked into his life in 2009—rather flew into his life on a Delta Airlines jet from Kansas—he didn’t know what to do. Unlike her male counterpart, however, Kabita knew exactly what she needed. “When we got Kabita, we were very excited that [Tashi] was going to have a chance to breed with her,” said Zoo Boise Director Steve Burns. “Except when we put them together for the first time, he was scared to death of her.” It was up to Kabita to make the first moves, and make them she did: She rolled around on the ground seductively, let out yowls heard across the zoo and dragged her hips along the floor of her exhibit, attempting to get close to Tashi. Whenever she got near, though, he’d run away. The tale of unrequited love lasted through Kabita’s first year at Zoo Boise and into a second. The zookeepers knew they had one more shot to get the pair to breed. Kabita has valuable genetics and if Tashi couldn’t figure out what he needed to do, she would be pulled from the exhibit and sent to another zoo where she would have a better chance to have cubs.
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Burns thinking about the small zoo’s potential. Cupid’s arrow came in the form of mild “About six years ago, I just came to the resedatives, which the zoo’s vet gave Tashi to calm him down. After that, he didn’t scamper alization that we weren’t doing a good enough job in terms of breeding animals,” he said. away so quickly when Kabita came near. “And then, I kid you not, on Valentine’s Day “There was a time where we went several years and had no babies.” two years ago, we had some visitors tell us Part of that, he said, came from his that they saw some snow leopard action,” staff’s fear of putting animals together. If the Burns said. “It was sad because he lost all animals did dignity after have babies, that. He zoo didn’t followed her “ I th i n k w e l o s t o p p or t uni t y the necessararound like ily have the he was a to b r e e d an i m al s. We resources or little puppy facilities to dog. She j u s t d i d n ’ t h av e t he handle more would go p r op e r s p ac e t o p ut t hem animals. into her den Burns to eat, and to g e t h e r. S o w e d eci ded, When first joined he would sit Zoo Boise, outside and ‘L e t ’s b u i l d t h at s pa ce.’ ” there were just wait. It only 15 offwas sad to — S T E V E B U RN S exhibit holdsee. It was ing places just... it was for animals, over for him.” The matchmaking worked, and Kabita gave and only nine of those were heated. With 260 animals on-site, breeding more ran the risk of birth to two cubs named Marty and Ace in overpopulation. May 2013. One went to the Buffalo Zoo in Now, after more than $1 million dollars in New York and the other was set to the Roosprojects, the zoo has 80 holding spaces— evelt Zoo in North Dakota. crucial for successful breeding. The successful mating of Tashi and Kabita “We want to be a good partner with all marked something bigger than a love story. those other zoos in the AZA,” Burns said. Snow leopards are an endangered species. “We can’t just continue to look to those zoos According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, only about 6,000 snow leopards are left and say, ‘Can you send us animals?’ We also need to be adding to the collective collection, in the wild, so increasing the captive populaso we made an organization-wide decision to tion helps ensure the continued existence of be better at it.” the species. To make that happen, Burns sat down with That’s something Zoo Boise is getting his staff and examined why Zoo Boise wasn’t ready to do a lot more of. breeding its animals. Turns out, it wasn’t only a fear of overpopulation. The system itself was too rigid to allow the flexibilMATCHMAKING ity needed to successfully breed a variety of species. Steve Burns’ office shelves are peppered 14 Animals like Tashi and Kabita with cute stuffed bears, elephants and pencan’t just be put together and guins; a mug in the shape of a giraffe holds extra pens; and a giant framed print on the wall depicts a stampede of lions, zebras and rhinos—these are all things Burns has collected during his 18 years as the director of Zoo Boise Burns is a tall, soft-spoken guy with a thorough knowledge of exotic animals. Throughout his tenure, he’s striven to make wildlife conservation a higher purpose for both Zoo Boise and beyond. In 2002, he led the zoo through the intensive application process to successfully gain accreditation through the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, an honor held by only 200 other zoos in the country. Becoming part of the AZA got Zoo Boise Curator Lindsay Ruffner: “It’s not just a fun place for you to come and look at the animals.”
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Female snow leopard Kabita dons mud like makeup to attract her mate.
expected to breed. They have to be introduced slowly, first by only being able to see each other, then getting to sniff through a mesh fence and, finally, being put together for a few hours at a time until zookeepers can be confident they’ll get along. They can’t be kept together all the time, either. In the wild, snow leopards only come together to breed, then they go their separate ways until the following mating season. If they’re never apart, they develop a sibling-like relationship. A little bit of absence is needed to make the heart grow fonder but with its former limited off-exhibit space, Zoo Boise only had so many opportunities to invest the time and resources to encourage mating. “I think we lost opportunity to breed animals,” Burns said. “We just didn’t have the proper space to put them together. So we decided, ‘Let’s build that space.’”
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The space will also be connected to the front exhibits by four tunnels. The center won’t be exclusively for breeding. It can be used to keep animals warm during prolonged cold snaps and give them some respite from the public, but it was designed specifically to help give zoo staff the tools and resources for more successful breeding. Most importantly, the facility needed to be designed to accommodate the many loving lifestyles of various species.
gether, and that’s where the off-exhibit spaces will come in handy, too. “You might have to pull Dad off exhibit because in some cases, Dad might get very aggressive to the babies,” Burns said. “In some cases, you need to pull Mom and babies off the exhibit because Mom might get very aggressive to Dad because she doesn’t want him around. Or Mom might get pretty stressed out, so you want to give her and the babies a quiet space so she can do her thing.” “With the servals, we’ve noticed that this female has a higher success of not eating her kittens if she gives birth off-exhibit,” added Lindsay Ruffner, zoo curator. Ruffner has been zoo curator since November 2013, but her career at Zoo Boise started 14 years ago when she was hired as a zookeeper after earning a biology degree from the College of Idaho and volunteering for a few months. “I didn’t want to be a zookeeper,” Ruffner said. “I wanted to be a marine biologist or a lawyer. I argue really well. Probably comes in useful in this job. I’m sure the director would tell you it comes into play sometimes, but I always have the information to back my arguments, and that’s the important part.” Ruffner is a bit of a whirlwind. She doesn’t like nature documentaries because it makes her cry to see animals eat each other. Zipped up in a Zoo Boise fleece, her hair in short pigtails, Ruffner talks in fast, information-packed sentences about how breeding zoo animals
“It’s not just br eeding them to br eed them. … [U] nfor tunately, a lot of these animals ar e going to be extinct in the wild in our lifetime. The only place you’ r e going to see them is in a zoo, so we have to work har d to keep that captive population fr om becoming inbr ed and dying out.” —L I NDSAY RU FF NER
THE LOVE SHACK That decision set in motion a $250,000 project to build a 950-square-foot small animal holding center. The facility, located toward the front of the zoo, has corrugated metal walls colored a mossy green that blends in with the surrounding flora. It backs up to four front exhibits that usually hold servals and coatis. Construction is ongoing, with a finish date expected at the end of March. After it’s done, the center will provide a heated space complete with eight adjustable pens. All the pens will be interconnected, so zookeepers can open them to create different configurations, from one big pen to eight separate pens. 14 | FEBRUARY 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
“Sometimes you need more than one male and one female,” Burns explained. “Sometimes you need to have four or five in there. In some cases, you’ll have a male that will breed with multiple females or a female that breeds with multiple males. You gotta be able to have the facilities to allow for each of those situations to take place and mimic what would happen in the wild.” Burns said the facility will allow breeding of small mammals like coatis, South American raccoons, servals, ocelots, North American porcupines, African crested porcupines, hyrax and skunks. Keeping animals away from each other is as important to breeding as putting them to-
has become a big part of her job. As she explains, there’s nothing simple about it.
‘IT’S NOT JUST BOY-GIRL’ The new small animal holding facility going into the zoo will be great for breeding a multitude of small mammals that can live at Zoo Boise or be transported to other zoos. It will strengthen populations and help keep some species from going extinct, but a lot goes into deciding what to breed. “It’s not just, ‘Oh, boy-girl, put them together,’” Ruffner said. “That’s what zoos used to do.”
Ruffner instead abides by the matchmaking bible used by zoos across the country: the SSP, or Species Survival Plan. Every species of animal in the zoo world has its own SSP and for every species, there’s an SSP coordinator who keeps track of all the individuals in zoos around the country. SSP coordinators make assessments of what they need for a particular species, then they contact Ruffner to see if she’s happy with Zoo Boise’s current collection, if they could house more of anything or if they have anything they could send to another zoo that needs it. They also make breeding recommendations. “The best way I describe the SSP is it’s online dating with genetics,” Ruffner said. And it’s all about genetics when deciding what animals to breed in captivity. “It’s not just breeding them to breed them,” Ruffner said. “We’re breeding them because there’s a need for it. Snow leopards are endangered and threatened in the wild. Our captive population has to stay diverse because, unfortunately, a lot of these animals are going to be extinct in the wild in our lifetime. The only place you’re going to see them is in a zoo, so we have to work hard to keep that captive population from becoming inbred and dying out.” Examples of this strategic family planning exist all over the zoo. The male serval is fixed to keep him from mating with his female sister, whose genetics are already well represented. The red foxes are kept separate all the time so they don’t breed because there’s not a need for red foxes in zoos around the country. So many red foxes come into fish and game departments orphaned or injured that zoos can’t house any more. The red panda breeding program at Zoo Boise has been especially successful and helpful to other zoos. The West African crown cranes, however, won’t breed no matter what Ruffner tries. They are a valuable pair, so they may soon relocate to an environment where the female’s eggs can become fertilized. “Is there a need for North American porcupines in the zoo world?” Ruffner said. “Because if there isn’t, we’re not doing the zoo world a service, we’re creating more individuals that may not have homes. We have to be very careful about what we do, how we’re doing it and why we’re doing it.” That question comes up every time a new exhibit is freed up. Ruffner decides if she should stick with the species that used to be there, or if there is a different species she should take on that would help the SSP. Bringing on a new animal means examining what would go into its breeding and what level of hand-raising the animal would like, then BOISE WEEKLY.COM
putting together mate introduction plans and breeding protocols. “Sometimes I get exhausted just thinking about my day,” Ruffner said. Ruffner, like Burns, emphasizes that all this effort to contribute more animals to the nationwide collection is part of a bigger shift at Zoo Boise. “We’ve been trying to change the purpose of Zoo Boise,” Ruffner said. “It’s not just a fun place for you to come and look at the animals, or a place to house these animals. It’s a conservation facility.” Initiatives toward that goal include donating 15 percent of the zoo’s annual income to conservation efforts and developing a new set of exhibits that will feature animals from the Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique, Africa, where many animals have been driven out and killed during years of civil war in the region. “We’re a small zoo,” Ruffner added. “The other point that we’re trying to make is it doesn’t matter if you’re small, you can still make a huge impact.”
LOVE LIVES ON Tashi and Kabita found each other once again this month, when Ruffner decided it was time to give them another go at breeding. This time, the connection came easy. “They’ve been breeding all day long,” Ruffner said. The two snow leopards were laying on the platform of their exhibit on a recent weekday afternoon when Kabita cast a glance Tashi’s
way, got up, lumbered over to him and gave a growl. What followed was a pretty violent session of coupling, with Tashi biting on Kabita’s neck the whole time. “That’s totally normal,” Ruffner said. “This is exactly what we want them to do. You can see Kabita’s very muddy. She’s been rolling around seductively today.” Now that the pair mate without problem, Ruffner has a few new challenges on her hands. For one, she has to string caution tape along the exhibits windows so visitors don’t get too close. She said Tashi can become agitated around the glass, snarling at onlookers in an effort to keep his female. Another problem is maintaining some distance between the animals. While Tashi used to be terrified of Kabita, now they’re a little too inseparable, making it hard for zookeepers to get them apart and feed them dinner. Ruffner will let them breed for several days, then watch for cubs in the spring. In the meantime, the zoo staff has their sights set on creating another new couple: Jack and Paji, two sloth bears. Zoo Boise has never bred sloth bears before, but part of the new facility construction included overtaking the old Amur leopard exhibit and making it bear-proof, so the two could be kept separated until mating time. Ruffner has been increasing the bears’ food intake because she was told “a full bear has nothing else to think about but breeding.” The introduction will be slow, since they’ve never done this before, but Ruffner is excited for Jack to meet Paji, and for a new love story to blossom.
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Leopards in love: Tashi (left) and Kabita (right) doing what comes natural.
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COMPANY OF FOOLS: PROOF— David Auburn’s compassionate and knowing play is about a young woman, Catherine, who must confront a number of long-denied feelings and fears on the death of her brilliant but insane mathematician father. She must adjust not only to his death, but come to grips with her fear that his mathematical genius, which she has inherited, comes with a dreadful price and that she may be fated to the same mental degeneration as her father. Through Feb. 28. 7 p.m. $15-$35. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org.
BOISE CO-OP MERIDIAN GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY—Help the Boise Co-op celebrate its expansion into Meridian. There’ll be music from Transistor Send and the Thomas Paul Band and FREE samples from the Boise Co-op and local vendors, plus prizes and giveaways. 10-11:30 a.m. FREE. Village at Meridian, 3600 E. Fairview Ave. at North Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-888-1701, thevillageatmeridian.com. CWI PROGRAM AND CAREER EXPO—Explore more than 35 technical programs with hands-on activities, demonstrations, college readiness tips and refreshments. 4-8 p.m. FREE. College of Western IdahoNampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportu-
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the life they left behind comes knocking. This boldly theatrical thriller features a murder of talking crows, brought to life by Dwayne Blackaller, BCT associate artist and puppeteer. Through Feb. 21. 8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org. WEDNESDAY COMEDY OPEN MIC—You can try your hand at stand-up or just enjoy the laughs. Hosted by the sparkling comedic duo of Lady Bizness. There’ll be weekly themes and prizes. 7 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.
Workshops & Classes FAMILY SCIENCE WORKSHOP AND FAIR—Learn about great resources on science for young children, and talk about different ways to engage children with science experiments. Registration required. 6 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road,
Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org. GENEALOGY SERIES: FINDING YOUR ANCESTORS IN LAND RECORDS—Learn how to find your ancestors in federal and local land records from Steve Barrett, a reference archivist at the Idaho State Archives. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise. 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org/calendar. WINTER 2015 COMMUNITY EDUCATION CLASSES—Boise Schools Community Education classes are held Monday through Thursday evenings at Timberline High School and West and Hillside junior high schools, in addition to a number of off-site locations Mondays-Thursdays through March 19. Register up to the night a class begins (space permitting). Registration continues through the end of the session. For more info or to register, visit boiselearns.org/pub. Prices vary. WORD WORKSHOP: SHORT STORY LAB—Author Joel Wayne talks about scene choice, story arc, cliché, voice, pacing, editing
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and developing healthy writing habits. Wednesdays through March 4. Through March 4. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $180-$207. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org. WORD WORKSHOP: THE SHORT STORY—Kick off 2015 with an in-depth investigation of the short story led by Christian Winn. The six-week workshop will focus on assembling short stories through character development, scene choices, setting choices, building engaging story arcs, and working to both entertain and instruct a readership. Workshop students will be writing short stories, getting feedback though workshop discussion and detailed critiques, and working to evolve and revise their work thoroughly. The goal will be to produce publishable stories. Through Feb. 25. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $180-$207. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.
Art ALEXANDRA GRANT: A PERPETUAL SLOW CIRCLE—Ochi Gallery is pleased to present this survey of the Los Angeles-based artist’s “nimbus” series, made from 2004 to 2014. Make an appointment to see the exhibition, which runs through March 8. FREE. Ochi Gallery, 119 Lewis St., Ketchum, 208-726-8746, ochigallery.com. THE BRAIN: A BIG IDEA MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT—The Brain is a community-wide conversation about recent advances in neuroscience as well as a celebration of its wonder and mystery. For a complete list of related events, visit the SVCA website. MondaysFridays through April 17. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter. org. HEIDI HAISLMAIER: NEW WORKS—Fulton Street Showroom presents local artist Heidi Haislmaier, who’ll be exhibiting some of her newest pieces in a fun and
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Love is patient and kind but in Boise, it rides bikes, drinks beer and hangs out around the jail.
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR EARLY LEARNING
OPERA IDAHO: EVGENY ONEGIN
VALENTINE’S DAY DONE DIFFERENT
Count how many of the following brands you have or have ever had in your home: Crest, Gillette, Pepto-Bismol, Scope, Clairol, Crisco, Olay, Vidal Sassoon, Secret, Dolce & Gabbana, Tampax, Charmin, Tide, Duracell, Comet, Cover Girl, Pampers. If you counted even one, then you’re familiar with American corporate giant Procter & Gamble, or P&G, which was founded in the mid-1800s. P&G is often at the top of best-places-to-work lists, and former P&G CEO John Pepper spent 40 years with the company. Pepper is also the co-founder of the Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, which mentors young people, and he believes in the power of preschool and early child development. He’ll share his thoughts on pre-K education during his Andrus Center for Public Policy-sponsored talk, Politics for Lunch: The Business Case for Early Learning. 7 p.m., FREE. Boise State Student Union, 1910 University Drive, 208-426-3784, andruscenter.org.
Russian novels have a reputation for being thick, and keeping their characters straight in your head is a task. When it comes to Eugene Onegin, the verse novel by Russia’s most famous poet, Alexander Pushkin, the outlook is straightforward: Country girl Tatiana has a crush on the dandy Eugene, but he rejects her. When Tatiana grows into a cultivated woman, Eugene tries to seduce her, but it’s too late. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky adapted the story to an opera, Evgeny Onegin, being performed Friday and Sunday, Feb. 13 and 15, at the Egyptian Theatre. The opera will be sung in Russian, but never fear: supertitles will be projected above the stage, and Opera Idaho General Director Mark Junkert will conduct a talk an hour before each staging. Friday, Feb. 13, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Feb. 15, 2:30 p.m. $22-$69. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-3531, operaidaho.org.
On Friday, Feb. 13, lovers of bikes, beer and, well, love will gather at Boise Bicycle Project HQ for BBP Bikin’ 4 Lovin’ VI—a group ride to Woodland Empire Ale Craft for 20 oz. drink specials. If you need to find a riding partner for next year, head to the Old Penitentiary on Feb. 13 for the inaugural “Escaping Solitary: PreValentine’s Mixer.” There will be activities and, of course, social lubricant from Crooked Fence. On V-Day, Feb. 14, the Old Pen offers “Romancing the Pen: ‘Love’ Stories from the Penitentiary.” BBP Bikin’ 4 Lovin’ VI: Fri., Feb. 13, 6:30-9:30 p.m., FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. Old Pen Valentine’s Mixer: Fri., Feb. 13, 6-11 p.m. $8. Romancing the Pen: Sat., Feb. 14, 12-9 p.m. $3-$5. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, 208-334-2844, history. idaho.gov.
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CALENDAR energetic environment through Feb. 28. 11 a.m. FREE. Solid Grill & Bar, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3456620, solidboise.com. IN TRANSLATION: MARIA-MERCÈ MARÇAL—This interdisciplinary collaboration features an unusual and haunting intersection of words and images based on themes in the poetry of Catalan cult poet Maria-Mercè Marçal, with photography by Maria V. Garth and poetry translated by Clyde Moneyhun from the book Witch In Mourning by Marçal. Through March 28. MondaysSundays through March 28. FREE. Boise State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise. 208426-1246, mmmintranslation.com. INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART EXHIBITION—PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2 features 35 videos by international artists selected by 35 curators from six continents. Other People’s Feelings Are Also My Own, by Markus Hansen, utilizes photography and video to create double portraits in which he assumes the facial expressions, posture and emotional state of others to express what
they may be feeling. Monday-Friday through Feb. 18. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110, 1819 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu. KAREN WOODS: SHIFT—Longtime Boise artist Karen Woods captures the beauty of the everyday experience, such as the trail of a raindrop sliding down a windshield. She has recently begun exploring new interpretations of these scenes, inspired by 18th century Japanese artists Ike Taiga and Tokuyama Gyokuran. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Feb. 28. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208433-0593, stewartgallery.com. LAUNCH: 2015 ANNUAL STUDENT JURIED EXHIBITION—Check out this annual juried exhibition open to all Boise State students enrolled in Art Department classes. This year, juror Alice Vinson, visual artist and assistant professor of Visual Communication at the College of Idaho, has selected 31 artworks by 25 artists. Monday-Friday through March 18. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
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FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 1, Liberal Arts Building, Room 170, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-3994, boisestate. edu/art. LISA BOWER: FROSTED—Lisa Bower’s show, Frosted, will be showing Tuesdays-Saturdays through Feb. 28. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. Crossings Winery, 1289 W. Madison Ave., Glenns Ferry, 208366-2313, crossingswinery.com. LIU BOLIN: HIDING IN THE CITY— Chinese artist Liu Bolin creates compelling works that combine performance art, photography and protest. His most popular images are from his Hiding in the City series of photographic works that began as performance art in 2005. BAM’s exhibition highlights 52 performances from Beijing, Hollywood and New York. Through May 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. RED CIRCLE PRESS: TRANSLUCENCY—Student and alumni printmakers dissect the concept of translucency through a series of prints. Through July 12. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise. 208-4261242, finearts.boisestate.edu.
Literature THE CABIN PRESENTS AUTHOR MARKUS ZUSAK—Markus Zusak, bestselling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will read and talk about his books at the Riverside Hotel Grand Ballroom with a Q&A to follow. Rediscovered Books will provide books for sale at the event. 7:30 p.m. $15-$50. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City. 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.
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When Hairy met Sally.
WOO AT THE ZOO We’ll admit it—we’re all a little fascinated with how the animal kingdom gets it on. Isn’t that really the only reason we sit through nature documentaries? Zoo Boise knows how we feel, so they’ve created the perfect (and most exotic) Valentine’s Day event for the curious. Woo at the Zoo takes both singles and sweethearts 18-and-older on a guided tour through the zoo, complete with presentations by zookeepers on the mysterious and amorous ways of Animalia. (See Page 12 for more on mammalian mating habits.) The event includes a pasta dinner, dessert, non-alcoholic beverages, souvenir photos and take-home chocolates. Space is limited to 30 individuals. 4-7 p.m., $35-$45, Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, 208-6087760, zooboise.org.
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POLITICS FOR LUNCH: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR EARLY LEARNING— Featuring John Pepper, former CEO of Procter and Gamble. An optional lunch is served at 11:30 a.m. Reservations are required. Noon-1 p.m. FREE, $12 for lunch. Boise State Andrus Center in BODO, 301 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, andruscenter. org. 208-426-3784.
the moment And then it happens. Everything comes together. Time seems to pause just long enough for you to realize – this is what it’s all about.
Sports & Fitness SHU’S MOVIE NIGHT: 4 MINUTE MILE—4 Minute Mile tells the inspirational story of Drew, a high-school student struggling to overcome the inner-city surroundings that threaten to imprison him. Shu’s will provide the popcorn; bring a drink and any other movie snacks you want. RSVP: leone@idahorunningcompany.com. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Shu’s Idaho Running Company, 1758 W. State St., Boise, 208-3446604, idahorunningcompany.com.
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Vietnam. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, readmetv.com.
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Kids & Teens Festivals & Events OPEN NOH8 PHOTO SHOOT—Join the #NOH8Worldwide movement in Boise and add your face to the fight for equal human rights. Drop by anytime to pose for an official NOH8 photo by photographer Adam Bouska. No reservations needed. 4-7 p.m. Single/solo photos $40, couple/group photos $25 per person. The Community Center, 280 N. Eighth St., Ste. 130, Boise. 208336-3870, noh8campaign.com.
On Stage BIG FISH: THE MUSICAL NW PREMIERE—Centennial and Eagle High Schools present the Northwest premiere of the Broadway musical Big Fish, by Andrew Lippa and John August. Buy tickets at chsmeridian. seatyourself.biz. 7 p.m. $7-$12. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-939-1404, chs. meridianschools.org. COMPANY OF FOOLS: PROOF—7 p.m. $15-$35. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org. FATA MORGANA—8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.
GAMING TOURNAMENT: MARIO KART 8—All ages are welcome to enter this double elimination tournament on the Wii-U. Practice begins at 3:30 p.m. and tournament play starts at 4 p.m. There’ll be snacks and prizes for competitors. 4-7 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise. 208-5624995, boisepubliclibrary.org.
Food VALENTINE’S DAY AT TUCANOS BRAZILIAN GRILL—St. Valentine’s Special Lunch and Dinner offered Feb. 12-13 and all day on Feb. 14. Featuring rosemary herb salmon, roasted rib eye, grilled shrimp (dinner only) and chocolate Brazilian truffle. 11 a.m.-11 p.m. $19.95$29.95. Tucanos Brazilian Grill, 1388 S. Entertainment Ave., Boise, 801-456-2550, tucanos.com.
Festivals & Events BBP BIKIN’ 4 LOVIN’ VI—Gather at BBP HQ and drink a few winter warmers, courtesy of Woodland Empire Ale Craft, then bundle up and mount up for this one-of-akind ride to celebrate the love for other people who love bicycles. The sizzlin’ destination is Woodland Empire, where the infamous tandem bike photo booth will be set up. Ride participants can take advantage of the Two Tire drink special, which is 20 oz. pints for $3. 6:30-9:30 p.m. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise. 208429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. BOOKS, GALS & BOOZE: A GALENTINE’S DAY EVENT—Celebrate this special holiday the day before Valentine’s Day, when ladies all over the world gather to celebrate being women, loving their lady-friends and the importance of camaraderie. Tickets include talks from four romance novelists, two mimosas from Red Feather Lounge and two books. Speakers include Candis Terry, Sweet Surprise; Codi Gary, Return of the Bad Girl; Laura Lee Ghurke, Catch a Falling
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MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND—Don’t miss this amazing high-energy show, with special guest Red Light Variety Show. 8 p.m. $20-$25. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-3871273, egyptiantheatre.net. MODERN CLASSICAL CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES—Get in the mood for Valentine’s Day with classical love songs performed by The Chimera Duo, comprised of Lindsey Edwards on English horn and Matthew Tutsky on harp. 7:30 p.m. $12-$18. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871. brownpapertickets.com. VALENTINE’S COMEDY SHOW: TIM NORTHERN—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379. timnortherncomedian.com.
Talks & Lectures READ ME TREASURE VALLEY LECTURE SERIES—Boise State University History Professor Shelton Woods will offer a talk on “From French Failure to American Optimism in Vietnam,” about the history of French colonial occupation of Vietnam leading up to American involvement. Woods is an Asian historian and author of several books on
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CALENDAR Heiress; and Rachel Gibson, What I Love About You. 7 p.m. $25. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise. 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org. OLD PEN VALENTINE’S MIXER—Make plans to attend the Old Idaho Penitentiary’s first-ever “Escaping Solitary: Pre-Valentine’s Mixer.” Crooked Fence will be there, with scavenger hunts, a showing of the Old Pen’s episode on the hit show Ghost Adventures, prison-themed trivia with cash prizes, giveaways and a singles’ mixer. For 21 and older. Last admission at 9 p.m. 6-11 p.m. $8. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise. 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov. REQUIEM V: LOVE SUXXX—Go dressed dressed in your sexiest vampire attire for Luv Suxxx, A Vampire-Themed Love Affair. There’ll be a costume contest and prizes, including $50 for best male and female. Plus plenty of Goth, Post Punk, New Wave, Industrial and ’80s Dark Wave music. 9 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise. 208-505-7931, crazyhorseboise.com. ZHOO ZHOO VALENTINE’S OPEN HOUSE—Enjoy wine tastings, last
of vintage and reserve wines from both Zhoo Zhoo and parent brand Hells Canyon, treats and discounts on bottle and case purchases. 12-5 p.m. $5-$7. Hell’s Canyon Winery, 18835 Symms Road, Caldwell, 208-454-3300, hellscanyonwinery. org.
On Stage BALLET IDAHO: MOSAIC / RUBIES / PIRATES— Ballet Idaho’s winter program returns to the Morrison Center stage with a George Balanchine favorite, “Rubies.” Also on the program is one of the zaniest and funniest ballets, “Pirates,” danced to the witty and sparkling ballet music of Giuseppe Verdi, and “Mosaic,” danced to the music of Vivaldi. Tickets at mc.boisestate. edu. (See Arts & Culture, Page 28.) 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise. 208-4261110, balletidaho.org. BIG FISH: THE MUSICAL—7 p.m. $7-$12. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-9391404, chs.meridianschools.org.
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CATHEDRAL CONCERT SERIES: PIPE ORGAN SPECTACULAR— Join Cathedral of the Rockies organist David Young as he puts the church’s pipe organ through its paces. He’ll play some classical favorites as well as some surprising covers. 7:30 p.m. By donation. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511, cathedraloftherockies.org. COMEDYSPORTZ—ComedySportz is an all-improvised, for-everyone comedy match with two teams that compete against each other for points and laughs. 7:30 p.m. $9.99. ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedysportzboise.com. COMPANY OF FOOLS: PROOF—8 p.m. $15-$35. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org. DAPPER DOYLE AND THE REVELRY REVUE—Check out this stage show that will amuse, amaze and arouse. 7 p.m. $10. The Shredder, 430 S. 10th, Boise, 208-345-4355, facebook.com/shredderboise. FATA MORGANA—8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org. LIQUID MIDNIGHT MIC—FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise. com. LOVE LETTERS WITH BECKY AND KEVIN KIMSEY—Featuring hors d’oeuvres, plated dinner and Telaya Wine Co. tasting and wine education, with performance at 8:30 p.m. 6 p.m. $69. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-3431871, riversideboise.com/dining/ sapphire-room. OPERA IDAHO: EVGENY ONEGIN—Evgeny Onegin is the first Russian opera performed by Opera Idaho. Conductor Sara Jobin returns after having previously conducted the three operas of Opera Idaho’s Made in the USA Series. 7:30 p.m. $20-$69. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 208-387-1273, operaidaho. org. VALENTINE’S COMEDY SHOW: TIM NORTHERN—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379. timnortherncomedian.com.
Literature Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk. Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating. Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.
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LIT FOR LUNCH—Get together with other lovers of literature monthly through May. Selection for Feb. 13: Herman Melville’s 1855 novella, Benito Cereno. Noon-1 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-345-1510, boisepubliclibrary.org.
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CALENDAR Food BASQUE MARKET FRIDAY THREE-COURSE DINNER—Choose a starter, entrée and a dessert from weekly seasonal and locally sourced chef’s menu. Wine pairings for each course and pintxos will also be available for an additional charge. Call to RSVP. 4:30-8 p.m. $25. Basque Market, 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com. VALENTINE’S DAY AT TUCANOS—11 a.m.-11 p.m. $19.95$29.95. Tucanos Brazilian Grill, 1388 S. Entertainment Ave., Boise, 801-456-2550, tucanos.com.
SATURDAY FEB. 14 Festivals & Events BANBURY VALENTINE’S DAY BRUNCH BUFFET—Bloody Marys and Mimosas included. Children younger than 6 eat FREE. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $14.25-$28.50. Banbury Golf Club, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle, 208-939-3600, banburygolf. com. BRUNDAGE VALENTINE’S DINNER—Enjoy a romantic Valentine’s dinner. Visit the website for more details. 6-9 p.m. $59. Smoky’s Bar and Grill, Brundage Mountain Ski Resort, 3890 Goose Lake Road, McCall, 208-634-SNOW or 208634-4151, brundage.com/event/ valentines-day-dinner. FIFTH ANNUAL VALENTINE’S WINE AND CHOCOLATE TASTING—Sip in the seduction with Sawtooth Wine and gourmet cheese and chocolates this Valentines Day. Brides and grooms getting hitched in 2015 receive discounted admission. 12-5 p.m. $15-$20. Sawtooth Winery, 13750 Surrey Lane, Nampa, 208-467-1200, sawtoothwinery.com.
ROMANCING THE PEN— Looking for something other than roses or chocolates this Valentine’s Day? Stroll through the site and snuggle up with your Valentine or find the true meaning of “ball and chain” with presentations on all the bad things done for love—from theft and adultry to escapes and murder. Last admission at 8 p.m., with two-for-one admission. 12-9 p.m. $3-$5. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov. STE. CHAPELLE WINE AND CHOCOLATE—Sip and savor Ste. Chapelle wines while relaxing in the beautiful Chateau Room overlooking the Snake River Valley. Dip onto the chocolate fountain with pretzels, angel food cake, marshmallows and enjoy a decadent Valentine’s weekend. 12-5 p.m. $10. Ste. Chapelle Winery, 19348 Lowell Road, Caldwell, 208-4537843, stechapelle.com. VALENTINE’S HELICOPTER TOURS—Love is in the air, literally. Take your sweetheart on a Valentine’s Helicopter Tour with Silverhawk Aviation Academy. Call now to book flights. 6-10 p.m. $125 per couple, $150 for 3. Silverhawk Aviation Academy, 4505 Aviation Way, Caldwell, 208-453-8577, silverhawkaviation.net. VALENTINE’S DAY BALL WITH THE FABULOUS CHANCELLORS—8 p.m. $15. Riverside Hotel Ballroom, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise, 208-343-1871, brownpapertickets.com. VALENTINE’S DAY AT TUCANOS BRAZILIAN GRILL—11 a.m.-11 p.m. $19.95-$29.95. Tucanos
Brazilian Grill, 1388 S. Entertainment Ave., Boise, 801-456-2550, tucanos.com. VALENTINE’S DINNER—Experience food and art pairings with a special Valentine’s dinner at BAM. Tickets must be purchased in advance. For 21 and older. 6-9 p.m. $75-$90. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org. ZHOO ZHOO VALENTINE’S OPEN HOUSE—Enjoy wine tastings, last of vintage and reserve wines from both Zhoo Zhoo and parent brand Hells Canyon, treats and discounts on bottle and case purchases. 12-5 p.m. $5-$7. Hell’s Canyon Winery, 18835 Symms Road, Caldwell, 208-454-3300, hellscanyonwinery. org.
On Stage BALLET IDAHO: MOSAIC / RUBIES / PIRATES—8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, balletidaho. org. BIG FISH: THE MUSICAL—7 p.m. $7-$12. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-9391404, chs.meridianschools.org. BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: CASABLANCA—The ultimate Valentine’s Day movie, Casablanca, is the ultimate date-night capper. You can’t miss with this one. 7 p.m. $9. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-3871273, boiseclassicmovies.com.
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ICMS CABIN FEVER SWEETHEART’S BALL—Join members of the Idaho Coalition for Motorcycle Safety for an evening of fun and dancing. Doors open at 7 p.m., and music starts at 9 p.m. 7 p.m. $5. Shorty’s Saloon, 5467 Glenwood, Garden City, 208-794-8074, idahobikerrights.com. IDAHO CITY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CHILI COOK-OFF—Enjoy chili and family fun during the Idaho City Chamber of Commerce Chili Cook-Off. 6 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Idaho City, Hwy. 21, 40 miles past Boise, Idaho City, 208-392-4900, myidahocity.com. PINZ VALENTINE’S DAY BOWLING & BUBBLY—Enjoy a FREE glass of champagne or sparkling cider while you bowl with your sweetheart. 5 p.m.-12 a.m. Wahooz Fun Zone, 1385 S. Blue Marlin Lane, Meridian, 208-898-0900, wahoozfunzone.com. Overheard something Eye-spy worthy? E-mail production@boiseweekly.com
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CALENDAR COMEDYSPORTZ—7:30 p.m. $9.99. ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedysportzboise.com.
Janeiro and Moulin Rouge. Dress up, because rumor has it there could be a costume contest. 8-11 p.m. $10. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-343-4204.
COMPANY OF FOOLS: PROOF—8 p.m. $15-$35. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org.
FATA MORGANA—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org.
ECLEKTIC~ KA PRESENTS CARNIVAL-ESQUE—Indulge yourself in the decadence of the carnival experience, combining elements of circus, masquerade, Venice, Rio de
LOVE AND LAUGH COMEDY DINNER—AEN Playhouse’s Love and Laugh Comedy Dinner features the comic stylings of Art Krug and Pat Mac (rated PG-13). Two showtimes,
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with first show and dinner at 7 p.m., and second show only at 10 p.m. Cost is $99 per couple or $55 single for dinner tickets and $59 per couple or $30 for single for late show only. 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. $30-$99. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise. 208-7790092, aenplayhouse.com. LOVE LETTERS WITH BECKY AND KEVIN KIMSEY—Featuring hors d’oeuvres, plated dinner and Telaya Wine Co. tasting and wine education, with performance at 8:30 p.m. 6 p.m. $69. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-3431871, riversideboise.com/dining/ sapphire-room. OPERA IDAHO: EVGENY ONEGIN—2:30 p.m. $20-$69. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 208-387-1273, operaidaho.org.
REVIEW: BAM REVEALS LIU BOLIN IN BOISE The hottest ticket in Boise on Feb. 6 didn’t guarantee entry into a nightclub featuring a platinum-selling recording artist or a seat at a screening of an Oscar-nominated film. Instead, it promised an opportunity to witness a sold-out appearance by “The Invisible Man.” International sensation Liu Bolin stood on a modest platform to allow the packed-to-capacity audience in the Boise Art Museum’s sculpture hall to catch a glimpse of the man who deliberately disappears into iconic images. Bolin visited Boise as part of the muchanticipated Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City exhibition, in plain view at BAM through Sunday, May 24. “Thank you, everybody,” said Bolin, uttering the only sentence he would speak in English that evening. Bolin, a native of Shandong province, China, spoke with the aid of interpreter Kent Chao, a recent retiree of Hewlett-Packard. “People know about my photos best, but my background is in sculpture,” Bolin said. That was the first of many surprises of the evening. Bolin’s sculptures, primarily of the human-form, are spectacular and sculpting remains a passion—but most people are familiar with his photographs, which also include a human form: Bolin. The artist camouflages himself into background images, which began as a form of protest after he watched his village destroyed by a wrecking ball. “It came out of personal anger—not just myself but my fellow countrymen,” Bolin said. As he spoke, one of his first works appeared on a screen behind him, showing an historic building turned to rubble, with Bolin blending into the destruction. The image was the first of many to inspire “oohs” and “aahs” from the audience. For the following 45 minutes, attendees watched photos of Bolin disappearing—into the streets of Venice, Italy; a dried-out riverbed in China; a huge stack of lumber; and even a wall of thousands of cellphones—flash on the screen. As thrilled as Bolin’s audience was to shake his hand and thank him for flying from Beijing to Boise for the event, they were just as anxious to be among the first to see Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City at BAM, which is now open to the general public. Before saying goodbye, Bolin held up his smartphone and snapped a panoramic photo of the hundreds of attendees. “Be careful,” Chao said. “This may appear in his next project.” And just like that, Bolin disappeared. —George Prentice BOISE WEEKLY.COM
STARBELLY DANCERS SECOND SATURDAY PERFORMANCE—Enjoy and learn about the rich history of Middle Eastern dance with the Starbelly Dancers, who will be performing at BIM every second Saturday from 1-3 p.m. 1-3 p.m. FREE. Boise International Market, 5823 W. Franklin Road, Boise, boiseinternationalmarket.com. VALENTINE’S COMEDY SHOW: TIM NORTHERN—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379. timnortherncomedian.com.
Talks & Lectures FROM MORRISITES TO THE MAP—Rick Just, great-grandson of Emma Thompson Just, will tell the little-known story of the Morrisite War and how it became the defining moment for a pioneer Idaho family. 1 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary. org. SECOND SATURDAY CONSERVATION SERIES—Bryce Robinson, a Boise State graduate student, will discuss his work with The Peregrine Fund’s project to conserve the Gyrfalcon, a raptor that lives in the Arctic. 3-4 p.m. FREE-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise. 208-3628687, peregrinefund.org/index.php.
Sports & Fitness RUN 4 LUV HALF/10K/5K— Idaho’s Sweetest Valentine’s Race is back for the third annual Run 4 Luv. Tons of raffle drawings for Valentine-related items like stuffed animals and boxer shorts. Plus aid stations and FREE race pictures. 11 a.m. $30-$55. Ann Morrison Park, 1000 N Americana Boulevard, Boise. run4luv.com/register.
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CALENDAR bedroom-best on Valentine’s weekend to raise money for The Children’s Tumor Foundation. It’s a party with a run in the middle. 12-4 p.m. $30 and up. Tom Grainey’s, 109 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-3452505, cupidsundierun.com.
SUNDAY FEB. 15 Festivals & Events ZHOO ZHOO VALENTINE’S OPEN HOUSE—12-5 p.m. $5-$7. Hell’s Canyon Winery, 18835 Symms Road, Caldwell, 208-454-3300, hellscanyonwinery.org.
On Stage COMPANY OF FOOLS: PROOF—3 p.m. $15-$35. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org. FAMILY THEATER SERIES: DOKTOR KABOOM!—Join Doktor Kaboom! for a sidesplitting journey of increasingly spectacular (and often successful) original interactive science experiments designed to involve, excite, educate and entertain audiences of all ages. FREE parking. 2 p.m. $9.50. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, boisestatetickets. com/event/doktorkaboom. VALENTINE’S COMEDY SHOW: TIM NORTHERN—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379. timnortherncomedian.com.
Literature POETRY SLAM DELUX—Big Tree Arts’ Poetry Slam deLux has moved to Pengillys on the first and third Sunday of every month. Go share your words! Sign-ups open at 7:30 p.m. and the slam starts at 8 p.m. The grand prize winner gets $50. For ages 21 and older. All Big Tree Arts events are free-speech events; discretion is advised. 8-10:30 p.m. $5. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-629-9066, boisepoetry. com.
MONDAY FEB. 16 Festivals & Events TREASURE VALLEY SINGLES CLUB WALKS—Meet by the restrooms near the shelter. For more info, call Fred at 208-384-0438 or Naomi at 208-375-0919. 4:30
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p.m. FREE. Municipal Park, 500 S. Walnut St., Boise.
On Stage SUBTERRANEAN COMEDY—Yuk it up with some of Boise’s favorite comics. 10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement, 109 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-2505, tomgraineys.com.
TUESDAY FEB. 17 Festivals & Events FAT TUESDAY PARTY—Check out the Mardi Gras food specials, including gumbo, jambalaya, red beans and rice, and crawfish boil. There will also be great drinks and tons of beads. Plus live music by Soul Serene. 6 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub & Grill, 150 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-2444, thepiperpub. com.
On Stage BLUES SOCIETY MARDI GRAS PARTY—Boise Blues Society showcases four local bands at its annual Fat Tuesday celebration and fundraiser. The party features prizes for best Mardi Gras costume. 6 p.m. $7-$12. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City. 208-860-4432, boiseblues.org. GUITAR VIRTUOSO TOMMY EMMANUEL—Don’t miss your chance to experience the Australian virtuoso guitarist’s complex fingerstyle technique and energetic performances. You can see (and hear) for yourself why Emmanuel has managed to make a mark with his own style as a solo artist in recent years, and release award-winning albums and singles. With English guitarist and composer Clive Carroll. 8 p.m. $32.50-$44.50 adv., $34.50-$46.50 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.
Literature AUTHOR ANTHONY DOERR MEET-AND-GREET— Pacific Northwest Book Award winner and National Book Award nominee Anthony Doerr will chat with his fans about what he’s reading and what books would best suit their personalities. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise. 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.
WEDNESDAY FEB. 18 Festivals & Events 22ND ANNUAL BUY IDAHO CAPITOL SHOW—This is Buy Idaho’s signature trade show, with up to 100 booths in the Capitol Rotunda showcasing Buy Idaho members, products and services. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Idaho State Capitol Building, 700 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-433-9705, buyidaho.org.
Workshops & Classes PAELLA COOKING CLASS—Learn the traditional techniques for making chicken, chorizo and seafood paella. Also learn how to make olive tapenade. 5:45 p.m., $40. Basque Market, 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket. com. SEED STARTING AND GARDEN PLANNING—Learn how to successfully start seeds indoors for transplanting outside and which plants can be directly sown in the garden. Plan where to plant different vegetables for light requirements, temperatures and rotation. 6-7 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 3777 E. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-389-4769, northendnursery.com.
Talks & Lectures THE ECONOMICS OF THE WAR ON DRUGS— Boise State’s Students for Sensible Drug Policy, in partnership with the BSU Economics Association, hosts Dr. Bruce L. Benson of Florida State University to talk about “The Economics of the War on Drugs.” For more info, visit facebook.com/BSUEA. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu. IDEA OF NATURE LECTURE SERIES—Guest speaker Maria Tatar, Harvard’s John L. Loeb Professor of Folklore and Mythology, will present “The Wolf Trap: Entering the Woods Through Fairy Tales,” the first of three lectures in the Arts and Humanities public lecture series. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208426-5800. READ ME TREASURE VALLEY LECTURE SERIES—Boise State University History Professor David Walker will speak on the Gulf of Tonkin incident, which propelled the U.S. into the Vietnam War. Walker is a military historian with an interest in the history of the Cold War. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208384-4076. readmetv.com.
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The Vacationist blasts off, heads for home BEN SCHULTZ In early 2014, Cary Judd began work on his final album—hat’s what he thought, anyway. After four solo releases on the China Mountain Records label—Perfect Uncertain (2003), Looking Back from Space (2006), Goodnight Human (2009) and the EP Trillions (2010)— and one with the short-lived hard rock project The Blaqks, songwriting felt stale. “I looked at my first album that I released in 2003 and what I was working on now, and it almost didn’t relate,” Judd said. “I just kind of wanted to tie a ribbon on it.” Judd raised more than $8,000 through The Vacationist (Cary Judd, second from right) has a reservation for its hometown debut at The Bouquet on Kickstarter and retreated to The Wormhole, Friday, Feb. 13. You’re all invited. his Boise recording and production studio. After three months, he’d only finished a couple of tracks, so he reached out to sound to Africa. They were like, ‘Hey, come up to piece of equipment in Orson Scott Card’s engineer and fellow Wormhole producer Boise. Take care of the house and you can live Conor Souhrada, and Kaleb Aaron from local Ender’s Game as an example. there.’” “In that book, they call them ‘desks,’ but pop-rock group Waking Jordan, who sat in on While still performing as a solo artwhat they describe is exactly what an iPad is drums. ist, Judd played bass with local rock group “At that point, we thought, ‘Yeah, we could now,” Judd said. “I have this idea that science Fires In France from 2011 to 2013. He also probably do a show this way,’” Judd said. “And fiction becomes science fact. It’s just a matter performed as Danny Blaqk with The Blaqks— of getting there.” then one day, I was like, ‘This is a band.’” the group only lasted for about a year, but it This idea ties in with the album’s theme of What Judd thought was an end became the caught the attention of Paste Magazine in its discovery, a subject Judd holds dear. beginning of The Vacationist, now comprised article “10 Idaho Bands You Should Listen to “I love solving a puzzle. If you’re not of Judd, Aaron, local artist Sunnie Lynne on Right Now.” Paste praised the group, callbuilding a larger worldview—personally, I vocals and keyboard, Sam Carrier from A Sea ing it “catchy-as-all-get-out.” (Other groups feel stagnant and depressed,” he said. “If I’m of Glass on guitar and Scot Alexander from mentioned in the article include Hillfolk Noir, not putting a new piece in the puzzle—it’s Santa Barbara, Calif.-based rock group DishEdmond Dantes and The Dirty Moogs). a puzzle I’ll never complete, obviously—but walla on bass (Souhrada still helps out with Judd enjoyed his time with The Blaqks, but production). In Oct. 2014, the group released just seeing a little bit more of the picture, for was ready to move on. its self-titled debut on Bandcamp and on Jan. whatever reason, makes me really excited.” “[The Blaqks] was just catharsis bordering Judd has been putting the 1 of this year, on iTunes and on being funny,” he said. “With The Vacationpuzzle together for a while Spotify. The Vacationist was THE VACATIONIST ist, though, I feel like it’s more a demonstranow. Born and raised in named one of the Houston With Matt Coate, A Sea of Glass tion of what I want and what I want to be.” Thousand Oaks, Calif., he Chronicle’s Top 10 Albums and Tundra Brother. Friday, Feb. 13, 8 p.m., $10 adv., $12 at the door. Judd said he is especially grateful for his started playing in bands as of 2014, and made ReverbThe Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Vacationist bandmates’ contributions, which a teenager in the 1990s. He Nation’s front page twice. facebook.com/BoiseTheBouquet. include an elaborate light-and-projection began touring as a solo act The band plays its official show. in 2003, playing more than debut show at The Bouquet “I can’t pass this off as a solo album,” Judd 100 shows each year. Judd on Friday, Feb. 13, with losaid. “It’s way bigger than me now.” cal openers Matt Coate and indie-rock groups spent the next few years based near Jackson The Vacationist has plans to tour soon and Hole, Wyo., before heading to Boise, where A Sea of Glass and Tundra Brother. may release a second album in the summer. his parents now lived. Featuring tight production, radio-ready Wherever The Vacationist goes, Judd looks “At the time I moved here, I was actually pop tunes and upbeat dance grooves, The Vacationist tells the story of a group of people homeless,” he said. “I was doing my solo thing forward to making new discoveries. “The minute I walk through the door [of and getting in front of a lot of labels, and I who flee a dying Earth via spaceship, looking the Wormhole], I’m like, ‘I might make somefor a new planet to call home. It reflects Judd’s just didn’t have a place to live—I was couchthing cool today,” he said. “And who knows longstanding interest in science fiction, which surfing, camping. My parents are LDS and what it’ll be?’” decided they were going to go on a mission he considers a prophetic genre. He cited a BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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SKATE NIGHT WITH SOCIAL ANTIDOTE—8 p.m. FREE. The Shredder SOUL KITCHEN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow
CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers DAVE JAC KSO N
CURSIVE, FEB. 13, NEUROLUX Emo has its share of shoegazey, guy-linery, sad-sack songs but within the genre’s melodic, expressive framework, many musicians played with the dimensions, sounds and time signatures of punk and pop and created interesting, addictive music with lyrics relaying real experiences—literally and metaphorically—in a way that connected with listeners. Since Cursive was founded 20 years ago, the Omaha, Neb.-based band has clearly connected in big part because Tim Kasher has always delivered stories of heartache and the human condition that are almost tangible. Cursive is currently on tour behind the November 2014 reissue of its 2003 seminal release, The Ugly Organ (Saddle Creek). It’s an album wonderingsound. com called Cursive’s “most distinctive and inventive,” and with the addition of bonus tracks, The Ugly Organ is an even more gorgeous scrutiny of not-so-pretty things told through Kasher’s unique vocals. —Amy Atkins With Beach Slang and Slow Bird, 7 p.m., $15. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.
STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365
HOPELESS JACK AND THE HANDSOME DEVIL—With Gipsy Moon Rise, The Foxxtones and Parade of Bad Guys. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse
FRIDAY FEB. 13
JERRY JOSEPH AND THE JACKMORMONS—7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux
BREAD & CIRCUS—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill
SWING IS THE THING—6 p.m. $5. Sapphire Room
CRIZZLY—With K Theory and Antiserum. 8 p.m. $15-$35. Revolution
TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
CURSIVE—With Beach Slang and Slow Bird. 7 p.m. $15. Neurolux
TISPER-JOHN PRIMROSE—With Space Car. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse
Hellyeah HELLYEAH—With Devour The Day and Like A Storm. 8 p.m. $23 adv., $35-$50 door. Knitting Factory KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS—With host Emily Stanton. 10 p.m. FREE. Mulligans LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid SCOTT H. BIRAM—With Jesse Dayton and Parade of Bad Guys. 7 p.m. $13. Neurolux SEAN HATTON BAND—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement
WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAM—Hosted by For Blind Mice. 8 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Crizzly
THURSDAY FEB. 12
MARCHFOURTH MARCHING BAND—With special guest Red Light Variety Show. 8 p.m. $20$25. Egyptian TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
ANDY FRASCO AND THE U.N.—10 p.m. $5. Reef
BROTHERS GOW—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s
BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
THURSDAY KARAOKE WITH DJ BONZ—6:30 p.m. FREE. Six Degrees Nampa
FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
TOM TAYLOR—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365
DJ PRETT BERRY—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux FOUR HOUR WOODY—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers KAMINANDA—10 p.m. FREE. Reef KAYLEIGH JACK—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper LEFTOVER SALMON—9 p.m. $21$40. Knitting Factory A MIGHTY BAND OF MICROBES—6:30 p.m. FREE. High Note
HENRY WADE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s
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MUSIC GUIDE PATRICIA FOLKNER—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 REQUIEM V: LOVE SUXXX—Goth, Post Punk, New Wave, Industrial and ’80s Dark Wave music. 9 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse RIFF RAFF ’80S PARTY—8 p.m. $3. AEN Playhouse
SUNDAY FEB. 15 AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s
THE VACATIONIST DEBUT PERFORMANCE—8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Bouquet
SATURDAY FEB. 14
DAN COSTELLO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
TOMMY EMMANUEL—With English guitarist and composer Clive Carroll. 8 p.m. $32.50-$44.50 adv., $34.50-$46.50 door. Egyptian
THE MASTERSONS—7:30 p.m. $10 online, $12 door. The District
TYLOR AND THE TRAIN ROBBERS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
CHUCK SMITH AND DAN COSTELLO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
FAT TUESDAY PARTY—Featuring Soul Serene. 6 p.m. FREE. Piper
TERRY JONES AND CLAY MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill
THIRD ANNUAL CLUMSY FEST— Featuring the Clumsy Lovers, with The Last Chance Square Dance Band, The Country Club and Innocent Man. 7 p.m. $7. Hannah’s
BLUES SOCIETY MARDI GRAS PARTY—6 p.m. $7-$12. Sapphire Room
JIMMY BIVENS—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill August Burns Red AUGUST BURNS RED—With Miss May I, Northlane and Erra. 6:30 p.m. $20 adv., $23-$40 door. Knitting Factory HEAVENLY BEAT—With Asher Fly and Star Warrior. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse HIP-HOP SUNDAY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s NOCTURNUM! DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid
BROTHERS GOW—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s
GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
THE SUFFERS—With Lounge on Fire. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $12 door. Neurolux
DAN COSTELLO—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper
SWINGIN’ WITH ELLIE SHAW—2 p.m. $5-$7. Sapphire Room
CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JIMMY BIVENS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s KAYLEIGH JACK AND BARBARA LAING—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK— 7:30 p.m. $17.50-$35. Knitting Factory STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365
OPEN MIC—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s
TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
RADIO BOISE SOCIAL HOUR: DJ DUSKY DURANGO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Neurolux
THE UNION TRADE—With Red Hands Black Feet and Darling Rollercoaster. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse
RADIO BOISE TUESDAY: ISRAEL NASH—With The Wild Reeds and A Seasonal Disguise. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux
WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAM—Hosted by For Blind Mice. 8 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s
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KARAOKE TUESDAYS WITH DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. Crazy Horse
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DJ MANIK—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement ERIC GRAE AND REX MILLER—7 p.m. FREE. Berryhill FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers GAYLE CHAPMAN—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 JOHNNY SHOES AND THE RHYTHM RANGERS—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s LOVE IN HERE—Featuring Love Gunz and NTE OWL. 11 p.m. FREE. Reef ODESZA—With Little People. 8 p.m. $15 adv., $17-$30 door. Knitting Factory
MONDAY FEB. 16 CAPSULA (BUENAS ARIES)—With Emerald Lanes. 8 p.m. $5 adv., $7 door. Crazy Horse CHUCK SMITH AND NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CHUCK SMITH—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers MONDAY NIGHT KARAOKE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s
OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
ROCKEOKE VALENTINE’S DAY—9 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse
PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid
SHOTGLASS—7:30 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s
SOUL SERENE—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365
TERRI EBERLEIN AND MIKE RUTLEDGE—5 p.m. FREE. Berryhill THIRD ANNUAL CLUMSY FEST— Featuring the Clumsy Lovers, with a “Pickin’ Circle” with the Clumsies, Chicken Dinner Road and Hillfolk Noir. 7 p.m. $7. Hannah’s VALENTINE’S DAY BALL WITH THE FABULOUS CHANCELLORS—8 p.m. $15. Riverside Hotel Ballroom
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TUESDAY FEB. 17 BERNIE REILLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s
MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK, FEB. 18, KF Though it’s unhealthy to live in the past, it is perfectly reasonable for artists to remind us of the creations that introduced us to them in the first place. In a seeming spate of reissue/anniversary tours (see Cursive, Page 24), Minneapolis-bred pop-punk darlings Motion City Soundtrack join the fray by celebrating the 10th anniversary of 2005’s Commit This to Memory (Epitaph) with a multicity tour. Commit This, MCS’ sophomore release—particularly the single “Everything Is Alright”—was a hit, propelling the band into a headlining spot on the 2005 Nintendo Fusion Tour with fellow high-energy rockers Fall Out Boy. As human beings do, MCS members have matured since the band was founded in 1997 and so has the music, as evidenced by 2012’s darker, headier Go (Epitaph). Go may never have come to be had Commit not been what it was and for the fans who found MCS through the 2005 album, this is a case when repeating history has never been so much fun. —Amy Atkins With William Beckett and Brick & Mortar, 7:30 p.m., $14$35. The Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.
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The newest piece of public art at BOI, “Sky Bridge,” by Vermont artist Seth Palmiter
ILLUSIONS AT BCT; COLORFUL CONTRAILS AT BOI In Fata Morgana, the latest production by Boise Contemporary Theater, Tori (Kathy McCafferty) and Jack (Matthew Cameron Clark) are a married couple living on the shores of a contaminated lake. When they’re visited by their pregnant, teenage niece, Morgan (Danielle Sacks), who’s angling to deliver her baby far from her less-than-understanding immediate family, they grudgingly agree to help. Jack’s job is to hunt the crows crowding the toxic lake and one of them—a puppet manned and voiced by BCT Associate Artist Dwayne Blackaller—has begun to haunt Tori. In a devastating finale, there’s the revelation that Fata Morgana is a play about a pregnancy only under a microscope. Through a telescope, it’s about a terrible curse. Sacks’ Morgan was the image of a bratty, self-absorbed teenager; and McCafferty and Cherene Snow (Morgan’s nurse, Shelley), delivered stand-out performances. Fata Morgana packs a wallop. It’s clever overall, funny in parts and inventive in ways that will draw audiences in. Be warned, though: It isn’t for the faint of heart. From BCT, we go to BOI and “Sky Bridge,” created by Vermont artist Seth Palmiter. The new addition to Boise’s public art collection is made up of 120 pieces of translucent blue acrylic cut in wavy shapes and is suspended by thin wires from the ceiling of the pedestrian walkway connecting the parking garage to the second floor of the terminal at the Boise Airport. Boise Mayor Dave Bieter stood beneath it in a dedication ceremony on Feb. 5. “We work really hard on art at the city, and we’re really proud of what’s gone on,” Bieter said. The installation is part of BOI’s parking garage expansion, which cost around $13 million. The artwork itself cost $55,000. Palmiter was selected from 32 artists who submitted ideas for the national talent call. Airport officials said some of those who submitted were local, but it’s not uncommon to select outside artists for public art at BOI. About half of the art at the airport is local, while the other half is outsourced. “These days, we’re texting and hardly paying attention,” Palmiter said during the dedication, “but my intent was to be able to experience art as you’re glancing at the floor, and glance back up, it gives another chance to see the art change shape from one end of the walk to the next.” —Harrison Berry and Jessica Murri 26 | FEBRUARY 11–17, 2015 | BOISEweekly
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PETER, PAUL AND BALANCHINE Paul Boos is trusted with George Balanchine’s legacy HARRISON BERRY Paul Boos auditioned for the New York City Ballet in the mid-1970s, when he was a young dancer. He said the tryouts were physically intense and demoralizing and made him feel “untalented.” In 1975, NYCB Artistic Director and co-founder George Balanchine was the most recognized living ballet choreographer in the world, having revolutionized the artform through his creativity and musicality, and some of the most talented dancers in the world had also auditioned for his company. Boos almost despaired. Paul Boos leads a rehearsal of George Balachine’s “Rubies” with dancers from Ballet Idaho. “I was going to walk right up to [Balanchine] and say, ‘If I’m so terrible, there are 100 people here you can use,” Boos said. “‘So, please, use the story ballets. It’s not that they don’t have Boise Weekly sat down with Boos and Anasthem if I’m so bad.’” drama, there’s drama in the architecture. They tos to talk about the Trust’s role, Balanchine’s When Boos arrived at the studio to drop don’t have to have character names or a crown. views on women and why “Rubies” could out of auditions, he saw a sign on the door: PB: There’s this fear of “I don’t understand “Paul Boos report to company class.” He joined change the way local audiences feel about balit so I’d rather not spend the money to see it.” let. Read the full interview at boiseweekly.com NYCB in 1976. When you see this, they’re not asking you to Today, Boos works on behalf of the George understand it. If you like it, great. If you didn’t, Balanchine Trust, to “protect the integrity of the Boise Weekly: Beyond dance, what well, then we didn’t succeed. They’re not asking are some of the other things that you copyrights of George Balanchine’s work in the anything of the audience but to sit back and consider? present and for the future.” have a good time. It’s a very intense time that Paul Boos: I want to make sure the danc“My job is to ensure the integrity of [Balpeople will have. ers understand the material. There’s a dynamic anchine’s ballets], that everything is how it should be,” Boos said. “That includes the danc- and joy to this dancing: you can’t just stick your leg out and put it back in. It’s ing, costumes, the lighting, the How long does it take to prepare for a about bringing the audience in. Balanchine dance? music. It’s overseeing the whole MOSAIC/RUBIES/PIRATES You have to make the audience enchilada.” PB: I’ve been given a great deal of freedom Friday, Feb. 13 and Saturday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m., $38-$58. want to get on stage and do Boos is in Boise workhere and a lot of time to work with the dancers Morrison Center, 2201 W. Cesar this with you. And in order to ing with Ballet Idaho on its because this is something that’s new to them, Chavez Lane, 208-426-1100, get to that point, it almost has upcoming performances of but let’s say I work at the Bolshoi [Ballet in balletidaho.org. to be in your DNA. In the old Balanchine’s “Rubies,” which is Moscow, Russia] and I’m given one hour a day. days, it used to be that people part of Ballet Idaho’s upcoming There’s not much I can do in an hour. In that would walk outside of the theater—these were show, Mosaic/Rubies/Pirates, Feb. 13-14 at the case, I could be there for five to six weeks workMorrison Center. By the time the curtain opens, people off the street—and they were doing steps ing on one ballet simply because they don’t have from the ballet. It has to be infectious. Boos will have spent four hours per day for a the time for me. Then I could go someplace and Peter Anastos: I think “Rubies” is going do it in two weeks. Here, because this is somemonth working with BI dancers to make sure to make a lot more fans for ballet. People who the performance passes muster. thing very new to the dancers, I requested that “That’s why the Balanchine Trust exists,” said see “Rubies” are going to love ballet more than I have some extra time so that I could really just they did the day before. Peter Anastos, Ballet Idaho’s artistic director. shine it up and get it as sparkly as possible. PB: The only ballets people know of are the “The trust sends a light plot, what they want PA: The dancers need this time with him. story ballets. That’s the challenge of every ballet They need this time to learn it, rehearse it for the scenery. They send pretty complete company. instructions [which] should be done as if the but because “Rubies” is so complicated, he PA: What’s nice about Balanchine ballets is choreographer were here. Having Paul here to needed a lot more time. We set aside all the that they’re so good, the story’s unnecessary. You most important time for him to work with the represent the Trust means we’re going to have a realize there’s a whole world out there beyond first-class production.” dancers. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
SCREEN REMEMBERING ALICE Still Alice is Julianne Moore’s best GEORGE PRENTICE When Julianne Moore walks to the stage Feb. 22 to accept her Best Actress Oscar—I promise you she’s a lock to win—she’ll thank the many people who helped her create the definitive character of her career and the centerpiece of Still Alice, Dr. Alice Howland. Unfortunately, a good number of those people Moore will thank won’t remember who she is or why she’s so emotionally attached to them. “I spoke to so many people in my preparation for this film,” Moore told Boise Weekly in September 2014 at the Toronto International Film Julianne Moore in Still Alice: “I had an incredible obligation to get this right.” Festival. “I spent time in support groups and long-term support facilities, but mostly I listened direction to the cast, and it added everything to co-authored and co-directed Still Alice, and to people who were at all levels of Alzheimer’s. Glatzer’s own story is as compelling as Alice’s. The the film and Julianne’s performance.” Some had just been diagnosed. Some had for a In July 2011, BW spent some time with Dr. little while. I will be forever grateful to everyone same year he was presented with Lisa Genova’s Troy Rohn at his laboratory on the campus of titular novel for a possible screen adaptation of I met.” Boise State University. That’s where Rohn is trying Still Alice, Glatzer was diagnosed with ALS, or BW sat down with Moore just after the world to unlock the key to Alzheimer’s and his effort to Lou Gehrig’s disease. As he began crafting what premiere of Still Alice at TIFF. Oddly enough, craft an Idaho-centric plan to deal with what he would become the Still Alice screenplay, Glatzer the pre-festival buzz had been swirling around Moore’s performance in Maps to the Stars, another was gradually losing his ability to speak and as he called an epidemic. “Right now, there are between 26,000 and festival entry. Seconds after the lights came up fol- approached the daunting task of co-directing the 32,000 people in Idaho that are diagnosed with movie alongside Westmoreland, it was time for lowing the Still Alice screening, the audience had Alzheimer’s,” Rohn told BW, estimating that made its choice: This was the Julianne Moore film the duo to think about casting their film. Idahoans with Alzheimer’s would fill Boise State’s “Who do you think could do this?” Westmoto see, and it’s the best work she’s ever done in an Albertsons Stadium, and that number would reland recalled asking his partner. already great career. double within 14 years. Rohn told BW that “Julianne Moore,” typed Glatzer on his iPad. “I had such an incredible obligation to get Idaho’s death rate from Alzheimer’s is one of the That same day, the duo sent a message to Moore this right,” said Moore. “Everything you saw in highest in the nation, and Idaho is projected to about her possibly playing Alice. Days later, she this film is something that I had observed. If I soon have the fifth-highest increase in Alzheimer’s contacted Glatzer and Westhadn’t witnessed the behavior patients among all states. moreland, via Skype: “I’m in,” in Alzheimer’s patients that STILL ALICE (PG 13) I admit to some skepticism as I first apshe said. I had met, I didn’t want to Directed and written by Richard proached Still Alice. I was expecting an earnest but Months later, Glatzer was perform it. That was really, Glatzer, Wash Westmoreland on-set, co-directing on location sentimental disease-of-the-week offering. With really important to me.” Starring Julianne Moore, Alec BaldMoore’s breathtaking performance, however, I was during a brutal New York City Moore plays Alice, a win, Kate Bosworth, Kristen Stewart embraced and ultimately swept away by one of winter every day, despite his Columbia University linOpens Friday, Feb. 13 at The Flicks, the best films of the year. own incredible physical difguistics professor who has it 646 W. Fulton St., 208-342-4288, “Everything in the movie supports Julianne’s ficulties. all: a devoted husband (Alec theflicksboise.com. performance, because it’s all about Alice,” said “Richard brought a lot of Baldwin in his best big-screen Westmoreland. “The costumes, the beautiful his personal experience into role in years) and three loving score, this amazing supporting cast, even the camthe writing and co-directing of Still Alice. His children (Kristen Stewart, who is particularly era lens which, if you noticed, ever-so gently was presence infused the whole production with a great; Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish). One sense of deeper purpose. In essence, this was what unfocused at times—they all supported Julianne day, mid-sentence during a lecture, Alice loses a the movie was about,” Westmoreland told BW in in our effort to get inside Alice’s head.” key word and waits awkwardly until something Where the film truly succeeds is inside your comes to her. Thus begins Alice’s journey and the Toronto. “He would give anything to be here for heart. Take some tissues to this one because there the premiere. I should tell you that at the time of finest film to date about Alzheimer’s. will be tears. If my guess is right, you’ll instantly “Richard [Glatzer] and I talked a lot about my the film, he could no longer feed or dress himself recognize Alice. Perhaps she’s your daughter, your and could type only at certain angles with one performance, every day,” said Moore. finger; but there he was, directing with one finger wife, your friend. One thing is certain: you’ll As they did with 2006’s acclaimed Quinceanera, Glatzer and his partner, Wash Westmoreland, triggering some voice recognition software, giving never forget her. BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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Chile and Argentina are known for their value-priced wines but in the late 1980s, a few higher-level entries began appearing in the United States and during the past decade, we’ve seen an influx of superior South American wines. Still, this cabernet tasting was something of a revelation. The quality was impressive and while not cheap, these wines deliver a lot of bang for the buck. Here are the top three picks:
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Get your Valentine something unusual this Feb. 14 TARA MORGAN This Valentine’s Day, two Boise businesses are baking up treats that eschew the holiday’s ubiquitous chocolate-and-strawberry motif. Lilly Jane’s Cupcakes is experimenting with an unusual ingredient for Feb. 14: beef tallow. Owner Margaret Lagerstrom has created the Honey Bee My Valentine cupcake, which is topped with frosting made from Snake River Farms’ American Kobe-shi. Lagerstrom said the beef tallow can be substituted one-for-one for butter or shortening. “The cake is a vanilla cake, and I added cinnamon, honey and lemon,” she said. “And then the frosting is a honey cream cheese frosting, and it has the tallow in it, as well.” Lagerstrom said the beef tallow frosting stays softer than her standard buttercream, which can get a thin crust on the outside as it sits throughout the day. The tallow adds some subtle savory notes. “You can’t taste it initially, but you do get a little bit of a hint afterwards of the beef flavor,” Lagerstrom said. Lilly Jane’s will be selling Honey Bee My Valentine cupcakes at its two locations—664
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S. Rivershore Lane, Ste. 164 in Eagle and 1020 W. Main St., Ste. 111 in Boise—Thursdays and Saturdays through February. Lagerstrom suggests pre-ordering cupcakes for Valentine’s Day, which she says is the shop’s “craziest day of the year.” If you want to spice things up even more, Guru Donuts is cranking up the heat on a couple of its Valentine’s Day offerings. The Hot Lips donut, for example, is topped with a chocolate Sriracha glaze. “We’re going to doll up the Sriracha a little because Sriracha can be kind of savory when you first bite into it,” said co-owner Angel Moran. “So we’re probably going to add a little bit more of the pineapple juice notes that are already in the
Sriracha, so we’ll bring out the sweeter side. But it’s still a slow burn; it does have a nice finish of the heat.” Guru has also created the Stupid Cupid, a donut with a vegan Red Hot cinnamon glaze. “That one’s a square donut and it has a blush, baby pink color… It’s actually a hot cinnamon oil that we get from the Co-op; it’s an all-natural cinnamon flavor,” said Moran. Guru Donuts will carry these flavors, along with a couple of other specials, through the end of February at their storefront, 204 N. Capitol Blvd. The donut shop will also host musician James Orr on Saturday, Feb. 14, from 9-11 a.m., to serenade sweethearts.
FOOD/NEWS COLLA-BEER-ATIONS To celebrate Hiding in the City, Chinese artist Liu Bolin’s exhibition now open at Boise Art Museum (see Review, Page 20), Post Modern Brewers created a special oyster stout flavored with Szechuan peppercorns. “The oyster stout is a fairly traditional style of beer that’s not really done anymore,” said Head Brewer Marvin Kinney. “Where it came from was they used to use oyster shells as a fining agent. A fining agent is something that gets the proteins to precipitate out of the beer so it’s not as hazy.” To make its oyster stout, Post Modern Brewers reached out to neighbor Reel Foods to source whole Nisqually oysters. “In the boil for the beer, we boiled whole oysters, shells and all,” said Kinney. “So what that does is the extra calcium gives it a nice full mouth-feel and helps the head retention, so it has a really nice, mousse-like head on it.” Kinney flavored the stout with lemony Japanese hops called Sorachi Ace and floral Szechuan peppercorns. “Most people think they’re spicy and they’re not,” said Kinney. “They’re very floral, citrusy. They’re used in Szechuan cooking to actually numb your palette a little bit before the heat hits.” Post Modern Brewers will donate $100 from every keg of oyster stout sold to the Boise Art Museum. Kinney says the brew will be on tap “through most of the exhibit,” which runs until May 24.
In other unique collaboration news, Payette Brewing Co. recently teamed up with Portland, Ore.’s Hopworks Urban Brewery to create a beer that celebrates the Gem State’s most famous crop. “When we thought about Idaho, the first thing that came to mind was potatoes and then secondarily beer,” said Hopworks owner and brewmaster Christian Ettinger. “So we started thinking about using what was really a wonderful, organic version of your No. 1 cash crop in Idaho—knowing that it’s full of delicious starch, and you can make beer out of starch.” The Potato Gun Idaho Potato Ale features organic, Idaho-grown purple potatoes supplied by Boise Fry Company. “It was ridiculous,” said Ettinger. “We peeled a 55-pound box of organic purple potatoes by hand and boiled them up in a homebrew kettle for about 15 minutes until they were soft and then we mashed them with our hands. It was very much hand-crafted.” The IPA, which has also been referred to as a “Fry-PA,” contains three hop varieties: Amarillo, Crystal and whole leaf Zeus. “I think it’s probably one of the hoppiest things to come out of Boise in a while,” said Ettinger. The Potato Gun IPA debuted Feb. 6 at Payette and will be unveiled Wednesday, Feb. 18 at Hopworks. —Tara Morgan BOISE WEEKLY.COM
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WHO WILL WIN THE OSCAR? WE ASK CAROLE. The road to the Oscars, at least in Boise, runs through The Flicks. No other theater has screened more Academy Award nominees and winners and, true to form, every nominee in this year’s race has been or will be showcased at The Flicks, including Still Alice, which opens Friday, Feb. 13, (see Page 27 for our review) and stars Julianne Moore, the odds-on favorite to take home the Best Actress Oscar. We thought it would be fun to sit down with The Flicks owner Carole Skinner—between screenings, of course—to get her take on who she thinks will and/or should home take home the Oscar gold this year. Best Picture: “This is a really, really great list of films this year,” said Skinner. “I think Boyhood will and should win. I wouldn’t be disappointed if Birdman pulled an upset, but I’m pretty sure that Boyhood will take the top prize.” Best Director: “For the exact same reason, I think Richard Linklater [director of Boyhood] will win the Oscar. But we love Wes Anderson at The Flicks; his film, The Grand Budapest Hotel, was a huge hit for us throughout last summer.” Best Actor: “I think it’s Eddie Redmayne for The Theory of Everything. He should and will win. He accomplished an amazing feat of physical and emotional performance.” Best Actress: “It has to be Julianne Moore for Still Alice. Everybody else is great in this category and in any other year, I think Reese Witherspoon would win for Wild, but I’m pretty certain that Julianne Moore will take the Oscar.” Best Supporting Actor: “It’s definitely J.K. Simmons for Whiplash.” Best Supporting Actress: “For me, it’s between Patricia Arquette for Boyhood and Emma Stone in Birdman. I keep liking Emma Stone more and more in everything she does. But if I have to choose, it’s Patricia Arquette.” Best Foreign Language Film: “My absolute favorite movie of 2014 was Tangerines [from Estonia], but it still doesn’t have an American distributor. I can’t wait to show it people. That said, I think Leviathan [from Russia] will win. By the way, we have a couple of the other foreign film nominees coming to The Flicks and they’re great: Timbuktu [from Mauritania] and Wild Tales [from Argentina].” Best Original Screenplay: “It has to be Birdman, the most original movie of the year.” —George Prentice
FROM OUR MOSTCOMMENTED STORY ON FACEBOOK, FEB.4-10 (BW.COM, CITYDESK, “POLL: MORE THAN HALF OF IDAHOANS ‘STRONGLY OPPOSE’ LEGALIZING MARIJUANA,” FEB. 9, 2015): Waylon Brooks: Not a very large sample size and the [study] paper is put out by Zion’s Bank, an LDS company. Nothing to see here, folks. Melissa Brooks: They probably called landlines. Michael Smith: Depends on where and how you conduct your poll. I’m pretty sure I could randomly select 650 people and have an overwhelming number of them favor legalization. Without information about how the poll was conducted, the results are worthless. Derek Bradley Wardell: They also fall into the category of “strongly ignorant & willfully resistant of real scientific facts, & highly entrenched in the false science & negative propaganda that has spanned the better part of a century.”
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Patrick McCurdy: Was the survey taken in Preston? Bill Masters: I’m all for legalizing it for both recreational medicinal. What irritates me is all of the people that think it’s the cure all for everything that ails you. Modern day snake oil! Stacy Kriz: Not a very big cross section of Idahoans, there. Also, what demographics are we dealing with here? For example, if you’re conducting the study in Eastern Idaho, there is a huge LDS and conservative GOP base there, as opposed to Boise, Coeur d’Alene and Sun Valley, which have more liberal-leaning constituents. I say: put it to a vote! Let the polls speak for themselves! Christine Rizzo: They opposed with one hand, and held a beer with the other. Nick Brown: It’s OK, us Idaho folks will keep hopping over to the pro states and supporting their roads and schools with our Idaho dollars. Point is, we’ll buy our weed one way or another.
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REVIEW: EILEN JEWELL, LIVE AT THE NARROWS Fans of Eilen Jewell’s mix of folk, country, surf and rockabilly won’t find many surprises in Live at the Narrows (selfreleased, 2014). With a few exceptions, each of the album’s 29 songs appears on previous releases. Few surprises don’t equal few pleasures, though. Even if you own those earlier albums, you may still want Narrows for its smooth flow and consistently strong performances. Narrows would be the perfect introduction to those unfamiliar with Jewell’s work. The album serves as an ideal primer on a remarkably terse, clever songwriter by culling material from the entirety of her career. (More on boiseweekly.com/blogs/cobweb.) —Ben Schultz
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20 Most nominations without a win: sound engineer Kevin O’Connell
22 Most Oscars to a single person: Walt Disney
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B O I S E W E E K LY IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Lynnsey Hope Van Dyke Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1501401 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Lynnsey Hope Van Dyke, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Lynnsey Hope Escobedo. The reason for the change in name is: to restore my maiden name following divorce. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) MAR 17 2015 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change. Date JAN 30 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH
CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB FEB. 11, 18, 25 & MAR. 4, 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Riley Kae Riggs-Hurren Legal name of child Case No. CV NC 1501074 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of Riley Kae Riggs-Hurren, a minor, now residing in the City of Eagle, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Rylee Kae Riggs. The reason for the change in name is: to omit her 2nd surname (Hurren). A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) MAR 17 2015 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason
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sion undermines the dynamism of your relationship. Here’s the benediction, inspired by a Robert Bly poem: As you sit or walk or lie next to each other, you share a mood of glad acceptance. You aren’t itchy or fidgeting, wondering if there’s something better to be or do. You don’t wish you were talking about a different subject or feeling a different emotion or living in a different world. You are content to be exactly who you are, exactly where you are.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We assume that others show their love in the same way that we do,” writes psychologist Amy Przeworski, “and if they don’t follow that equation, we worry that the love is not there.” I think you’re on track to overcome this fundamental problem, Taurus. Your struggles with intimacy have made you wise enough to surrender your expectations about how others should show you their love. You’re almost ready to let them give you their affection and demonstrate their care for you in ways that come natural to them. In fact, maybe you’re ready RIGHT NOW.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Want to infuse your romantic interludes with wilder moods now and then? Want to cultivate a kind of intimacy that taps deeper into your animal intelligence? If so, try acting out each other’s dreams or drawing magic symbols on each other’s bodies. Whisper funny secrets into each other’s ears or wrestle like good-natured drunks on the living room floor. Howl like coyotes. Caw like crows. Purr like cheetahs. Sing boisterous songs and recite feral poetry to each other. Murmur this riff, adapted from Pablo Neruda: “Our love was born in the wind, in the night, in the earth. That’s why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know our names.”
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’d like to bestow a blessing on you and your closest ally. My hope is that it will help you reduce the restlessness that on occa-
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there any sense in which your closest alliance is a gift to the world? Does your relationship inspire anyone?
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Do the two of you serve as activators and energizers, igniting fires in the imaginations of those whose lives you touch? If not, find out why. And if you are tapping into those potentials, it’s time to raise your impact to the next level. Together the two of you now have extra power to synergize your collaboration in such a way that it sends out ripples of benevolence everywhere you go. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The poet Rainer Marie Rilke said that people misunderstand the role of love. “They have made it into play and pleasure because they think that play and pleasure are more blissful than work,” he wrote. “But there is nothing happier than work. And love, precisely because it is the supreme happiness, can be nothing other than work.” I’m sharing this perspective with you for two reasons, Virgo. First, of all the signs in the zodiac, you’re most likely to thrive on his approach. Second, you’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when this capacity of yours is at a peak. Here’s how Rilke finished his thought: “Lovers should act as if they had a great work to accomplish.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): About 2,600 years ago, the Greek poet Sappho wrote the following declaration: “You make me hot.” In the next 10 days, I’d love for you to feel motivated to say or think that
on a regular basis. In fact, I predict that you will. The astrological omens suggest you’re in a phase when you are both more likely to be made hot and more likely to encounter phenomena that make you hot. Here are some other fragments from Sappho that might come in handy when you need to express your torrid feelings: 1. “This randy madness I joyfully proclaim.” 2. “Eros makes me shiver again ... Snake-sly, invincible.” 3. “Desire has shaken my mind as wind in the mountain forests roars through trees.” (Translations by Guy Davenport.) SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the TV science-fiction show Doctor Who, the title character lives in a time machine that is also a spaceship. It’s called a Tardis. From the outside, it appears to be barely bigger than a phone booth. But once you venture inside, you find it’s a spacious chateau with numerous rooms, including a greenhouse, library, observatory, swimming pool and karaoke bar. This is an excellent metaphor for you, Scorpio. Anyone who wants your love or friendship must realize how much you resemble a Tardis. If they don’t understand that you’re far bigger on the inside than you seem on the outside, it’s unlikely the two of you can have a productive relationship. This Valentine season, as a public service, make sure that everyone you’re seriously involved with knows this fact.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Love and intimacy come in many forms. There are at least a billion different ways for you to be attracted to another person, and a trillion different ways to structure your relationship. Maybe your unique bond involves having sex, or maybe it doesn’t. Maybe it’s romantic or friendly or holy, or all three of those things. Do the two of you have something important to create together, or is your connection more about fueling each other’s talents? Your task is to respect and revere the idiosyncratic ways you fit together, not force yourselves to conform to a prototype. To celebrate the Valentine season, I invite you and your closest ally to play around with these fun ideas. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Anais Nin wrote the following passage in her novel A Spy in the House of Love: “As other girls prayed for handsomeness in a lover, or for wealth, or for power, or for poetry, she had prayed fervently: let him be kind.” I recommend that approach for you right now, Capricorn. A quest for tender, compassionate attention doesn’t always have to be at the top of your list of needs, but I think it should be for now. You will derive a surprisingly potent alchemical boost from basking in kindness. It will catalyze a breakthrough that can’t be unleashed in any other way. Ask for it!
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How many desires do you have? Take a rough inventory. Identify the experiences you continually seek in your quest to feel relief and pleasure and salvation and love and a sense of meaning. You can also include fantasies that go unfulfilled and dreams that may or may not come true in the future. As you survey this lively array, don’t censor yourself or feel any guilt. Simply give yourself to a sumptuous meditation on all the longings that fuel your journey. This is your prescription for the coming week. In ways you may not yet be able to imagine, it is the medicine you need most. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The German word Nachkussen refers to the kind of kiss that compensates for all the kissing that has not been happening, all the kissing that has been omitted or lost. If it has been too long since you’ve kissed anyone, you need Nachkussen. If your lover hasn’t kissed you lately with the focused verve you long for, you need Nachkussen. If you yourself have been neglecting to employ your full artistry and passion as you bestow your kisses, you need Nachkussen. From what I can tell, Pisces, this Valentine season is a full-on Nachkussen holiday for you. Now please go get what you haven’t been getting.
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