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WATER WOES The Boise River needs a cleanup FEATURE 11

EXECUTION COUNTDOWN Idaho’s execution playbook from final meal to a mild sedative ARTS 24

COVER TO COVER BW raises $17,500 for the arts, plus a look at how last year’s money was spent FOOD 30

GARLIC WARS Why growing garlic in Southern Idaho is so damned hard

“Isn’t it remarkable what the GOP considers presidential material anymore?”

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NOTE THIS WEEK’S FEATURE WILL HAVE PEOPLE TALKING, BUT WHAT WILL THEY BE SAYING? As this week’s main feature, “A View to a Kill,” started to take shape, my bet was that it would cause quite the stir among Boise Weekly readers—those against the death penalty specifically. Though what we’ve published is a fairly clinical, unbiased account of the events leading up to an execution, my gut feeling was that it would somehow be perceived as condoning, or even supporting capital punishment.

As I chatted about the piece with a friend the week before it went to press, his comments were quite the opposite of what I’d expected. In his opinion—though he was relying solely on my account of the piece, not having read it himself—the story was glaringly anti-death penalty for the personal connection it forged between Paul Rhoades and the reader.

And so as we go to print with this edition of Boise Weekly, I expect that I’ll have plenty of mail to print next week about the story. Whether it’s perceived to have been written with a particular slant in mind, I suppose, will depend on what opinions the reader brings to the piece. For our part, we strived to keep it in neutral while essentially reprinting the instructions given to the men and women who have to carry out the task of putting Rhoades to death.

Also in this issue is a recap of last week’s Cover Auction, where we raised roughly $17,500. Thanks to those of you who bought a piece of artwork. Better luck next time to those of you who, like myself, were repeatedly outbid.

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ARTIST: Karen Woods TITLE: 15th Street MEDIUM: Oil on canvas ARTIST STATEMENT: “What is any ocean but a multitude of drops?”

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ALL ABOUT ELIZA BW sat down with Eliza Rickman for the latest edition of Scenes from a Scene. Want to catch the interview in all its glory? Check out Cobweb or scan the QR code.

BEVERAGE BONANZA There are two more reasons to cheer in Boise: 1. A new coffee shop, The Crux, is opening downtown. 2. It will not only serve Portland, Ore.’s Stumptown Coffee, but microbrews and live music are on the menu, too. Get the scoop at Cobweb.

OCCUPY THIS Occupy Boise set up camp on Nov. 5 on the east side of the old Ada County Courthouse, adjacent to the State Capitol. BW was on the scene, delving into the logistics of life in camp. Get the full rundown at Citydesk.

CRUMBLING BRIDGE Bridge Resources—the company with big plans to drill for natural gas in Payette County—has hired a company to divest Bridge’s assets. What does that mean for the future of natural gas in Idaho? Check out the details at Citydesk.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

MY HOPEFUL SPEECH The depressing half This column is a speech I gave at an Idaho Democratic Party function in October. I don’t get asked to do many speeches, possibly because my delivery is so stilted, dry and unfriendly that the audience probably thinks I’m having a problem with gas.

But I work harder on a speech than I do on a regular column, knowing I will have that live audience in my face. By the time I’ve finished, I am usually pleased enough with my efforts that it seems a shame more people weren’t there to hear it. Ergo, I have no compunction about getting double duty out of a speech by running it as a column.

Or in this case, two columns. Here’s the first.

U I was asked in June if I was interested in speaking here tonight. I explained to the lady who contacted me that I am a horrible public speaker, that I talk either too fast or too slowly, that I mumble, mispronounce my words, lose my train of thought in the middle of sentences, and frankly, that I would make no sense whatsoever unless I read the speech verbatim without any hint of spontaneity, and without making any eye contact with anyone in the audience.

“I’m sure you’ll do fine, Bill,” she answered. Then, I wouldn’t swear to it, but I thought I heard her say under her breath, “We aren’t expecting much more than that out of you, anyway.”

I call this “My Hopeful Speech.” The coordinator gave me no guidelines to follow, other than she felt something hopeful was in order, an antidote to this depressing year of radicalism the right has inflicted upon our nation. Far too many citizens have in one form or another been assaulted in ways that even two years ago we would have thought absurd and impossible.

Our public workers, our teachers, our firemen and police, our federal agencies, the very people who work to protect us from threats ranging from ignorance to crime to food poisoning to environmental hazard have been villainized, marginalized and defunded. Our president can’t open his mouth without a barrage of filth and nonsense erupting from people who have less respect for the truth than a neighbor’s cat has for your flower bed. And we have grown increasingly aware that a handful of kingly rich right-wingers are strong-arming America into a shape we hardly recognize.

With such circumstances in mind, all summer long, I watched the news unfold like a hawk circling an empty lot, expecting that out of all those weeds and Tea Party litter, there would eventually pop up little gophers of hope that I could strap together into one combined trend which would elevate our spirits here tonight and give us the energy, the faith and commitment to battle on. Just since agreeing to speak, I have seen ...

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UÊ V i iÊ >V > ]Ê, V Ê*iÀÀÞÊ> `Ê Herman Cain announced they were running for president. And isn’t it remarkable what the GOP considers presidential material anymore?

UÊ Ã Ê°°°Ê ÕÛi iÊ`i µÕi ÌÃÊvÀ ÊÌ iÊ Tea Party gang chose to play chicken with the American economy in the debt ceiling travesty.

UÊ Ã Ê°°°ÊÜiÊ i>À i`ÊÌ >ÌÊ> Ì iÀÊ vÊ those Koch-funded stealth organizations, the American Legislative Exchange Council, has been for at least 30 years, passing legislation through the back door to rightwing legislators for approval. In Idaho, we have the unctuous Wayne Hoffman, whose Freedom Foundation is spoon-feeding our ,i«ÕL V> Ê > À ÌÞÊÜ Ì Ê«Ài ` }iÃÌi`Ê i}islation. (To be fair, those Idaho legislators might be writing their own bills, if only they weren’t so busy letting their cronies Phil Hart, Tom Loercher and John “Fibber” McGee off the hook for the stuff they do when they think nobody’s looking).

UÊ Ã Ê°°°ÊÃÌ>ÌiÊ>vÌiÀÊÃÌ>Ìi]Ê V Õ` }Ê Idaho, has imposed new rules dealing with voter identification. As time goes on, we come to understand more fully that the voter suppression and general chicanery that defined the elections in Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004 were no aberrations, but were very likely what we can expect from ,i«ÕL V> ÃÊÕ Ì ÊÌ >ÌÊÕ v ÀiÃii>L iÊÌ iÊ when somebody starts going to prison for it.

UÊ Ã Ê°°°Ê ÀiÊÌ > ÊnäÊ iÜÊL ÃÊÜiÀiÊ introduced in state legislatures, all designed to whittle away a woman’s right to make the decisions regarding her own health and reproductive choices.

UÊ Ã Ê°°°Ê ÌÊLiV> iÊ LÛ ÕÃÊÌ >ÌÊÌ iÊ ,i«ÕL V> ʺ*À iÊ ÀiVÌ Ûi»Ê ÃÊÌ Ê ii«ÊÌ iÊ wealthy’s wealth safe and secure from the threat of even the most modest of tax rate hikes. It is less clear if they actually believe the drivel coming from their own mouths— that billionaire hedge fund managers and those who stash their money in Cayman à > `ÊL> ÃÊ>ÀiÊÌ iʺ LÊVÀi>Ì ÀÃ]»Ê ÀÊÌ >ÌÊ the bottom half of the economic spectrum should be expected to pay more taxes on what they can only wish they had.

UÊ Ã Ê°°°ÊÌ iÊÀ } ÌÊ >ÃÊÃ vÌi`ÊiÛiÀ ÀiÊ À } ÌÜ>À`°Ê/> iÊ ÌÌÊ, iÞ°Ê vÊ iÊÜiÀiÊ a ratchet wrench, we could hear the clicks coming from his neck as he struggles to unscrew himself from his record in Massachusetts.

But if the GOP candidates weren’t scary enough themselves, the audiences they attract are absolutely ghoulish, applauding as they have done for the most executions or the libertarian ideal of letting uninsured coma victims die.

By now, you’re probably wondering when I’m getting to the hopeful part of “My Hopeful Speech”—Next week.

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THE OCCUPIERS’ CHOICE Will the Occupiers choose violence or failure?

In a revolution, one set of elites gets supplanted by another. There has never been a nonviolent revolution.

Gandhi was nonviolent. But his allies did resort to violence on numerous occasions. And India wasn’t a revolution. It was an independence struggle. The rich remained rich; the poor stayed poor. Conversely, there has never been a revolution in which violence was the primary tactic. Even the bloodiest revolutions relied more on national strikes, sabotage, marches and demonstrations than shooting people. Revolutions are mostly nonviolent. But violence must always part be of the toolkit.

Sometimes against the will of many of its members, the nascent Occupy movement is being propelled forward into its second phase: increasingly direct confrontation with the security apparatus of the American police state.

The consideration of violence as a tactic is the inevitable result of Occupy’s own internal logic, resulting from a combination of its timing and its leaderless structure.

Never in history have the wealthy or powerful voluntarily relinquished substantial amounts of money or power. The corporate elite and the political class that enables them— the “1 percent,” as Occupy calls them—will never give into the Occupiers’ demands to reduce their power or wealth unless faced with violence or the credible threat thereof.

If voting or writing letters to the editor worked, we wouldn’t need Occupations.

The Occupy movement can wind up one of two ways: failure, or success, partly via the occasional use of violence and/or the credible threat of violence from sporadic outbursts.

First let’s define terms. Vandalism, theft

and destruction of property are not violence.

Inanimate objects do not suffer. Violence can only be inflicted upon living beings. Breaking a window may or may not be morally justified, but it is never violence. Further, violent selfdefense is not the same as violence. Until now, the violence at the Occupations has all been initiated by the police. When policemen fire rubber bullets, bean bags, tear gas and pepper spray at unarmed, peaceful protesters, their victims have every right to defend themselves.

What makes the Occupy movement so compelling is that it moves beyond going through the motions toward real resistance against tyranny for the first time since the 1960s. Seizing territory without a permit and refusing to relinquish it, as has happened at Occupy Wall Street and hundreds of other cities, presents an inherent threat to the system.

They can’t do nothing. Tolerance signals legitimacy, even tacit approval of OWS and its message. Can’t have that.

But crackdowns make the movement grow even bigger. A video of a NYPD official pepper-spraying four women without provocation inflamed public opinion and drew more people to Manhattan’s Zuccotti Park. A plan to evict OWS was scrapped after hundreds of people traveled there to gird for battle.

Meanwhile, as politicians feel more pressure to crack heads, Occupations will have to move indoors. Freezing temperatures have arrived in much of the country. Tensions will rise. As clashes with the authorities intensify, the ridiculous fetish of nonviolence—a faithbased tactic with no more basis in historical fact or reality than creationism—will be forgotten and, one day soon, laughed at.

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CITYDESK/NEWS CATCH MANAGER FORCED TO RESIGN

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Officials at Boise City Hall are usually more than happy to talk about Charitable Assistance to Community’s Homeless, the city’s award-winning program that provides long-term housing and services for homeless families. More often than not, civic leaders have credited much of the success to Greg Morris, project manager of CATCH since its inception. But while city officials answered questions about the future of the program, no one would talk on the record regarding Morris, who, Citydesk has learned, was recently asked to resign.

“Greg’s status is a personnel issue,” said Adam Park, communications director for Mayor Dave Bieter. “I really can’t talk about it.”

That’s a significant contrast to November 2006, when Bieter introduced Morris and CATCH, saying the program was “a wonderful example of our community coming together to assist our neighbors in need.”

It’s also a major turnaround from February 2009, when Morris picked up, on behalf of CATCH, the prestigious Silver Award for Municipal Excellence from the National League of Cities. In August of that year, a sister program was launched in Caldwell.

Since 2006, CATCH has provided permanent housing to nearly 100 homeless families–maintaining a success rate of 85 percent, with success being measured by families’ ability to pay their own rent within six months.

While Boise city officials wouldn’t talk about the mystery surrounding Morris’ forced resignation, they did confirm that administrative changes were in the works at CATCH. “We’re enhancing the program,” said Bruce Chatterton, the city’s Planning and Development director. “CATCH will be brought under our Housing and Community Development department. Plus, we’re going to move the CATCH offices to a new location on Miller Street.”

Chatterton said that CATCH, which had been headquartered across the street from the River of Life men’s shelter on River Street, is being relocated to the Pioneer Community Center, a city-owned building.

“The move will save the city some money, and we hope to apply some of those savings toward things like case managers and administrative folks,” said Chatterton.

But Chatterton wouldn’t say whether the city would be hiring a new manager for CATCH anytime soon.

“That’s related to the personnel action,” said Chatterton. “We should know about that in a few weeks.”

Meanwhile, Morris has decided to remain tight-lipped about the controversy, though he confirmed that he was asked to resign and was offered a severance package. Morris has also huddled with legal representation and CATCH’s board of directors, which he said “was 110 percent supportive of me and the program.”

When asked, Chatterton had high praise for Morris.

“Greg did great things. He really was instrumental to the program’s success,” said Chatterton. “But the real focus is on the strength of the initiative and how it has changed people’s lives.”

—George Prentice

VIDEO: Watch the hydrologists in action.

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey and the City of Boise test water quality of the Boise River each year, measuring levels of phosphorous and other nutrients.

BOISE RIVER CURRENT AFFAIRS The urgency of remedying the Boise River’s excess phosphorous content STEPHEN FOSTER On a crisp, clear fall afternoon, a team of scientists gathered along the banks of the Boise River near Barber Park, collecting samples of fish, insects and algae. One biologist fastened a weighty metallic device to her back. Moving into the water, surrounded by scientists wielding buckets and nets, she lowered two wire tentacles into the river, delivering an electric shock to the fish, rendering them motionless. The scientists scooped the water, raising stunned fish into barrels for examination, before discharging them back into the river.

The scientists, from the U.S. Geological Survey and the City of Boise, were collecting samples to test the quality of what is commonly known as the city’s lifeline.

“We’re monitoring for phosphorous and other nutrients to say whether or not they’re meeting targets set by the [Environmental Protection Agency] and Department of Environmental Quality,” said Alex Etheridge, a hydrologist with the USGS. “It’s long-term trend monitoring. We look for change in flow, change in runoff periods, and how that affects the insects and the fish population.”

“Excess phosphorous causes nuisance algae growth and excess plant growth, which alters the quality of the water,” said Dorene MacCoy, a biologist with the USGS. “Algae takes up a lot of oxygen. This creates anoxic conditions in the water; when you go into more anoxic conditions, things become toxic.”

The much-stricter EPA regulations are slated to take effect in 2012. Under these new guidelines, the City of Boise will be required to lower the phosphorous content in the Boise River from 5,550 micrograms per liter to 70 micrograms per liter. This could mean, at the very least, re-engineering the designs of the municipal water system. At worst, if nothing is remedied, fines of up to $37,000 per day could be slapped on municipalities.

Either way, citizens will feel the impact of an

supports healthy aquatic communities of bugs, increase in sewer bills. birds, plants, animals and fish.”

There are a couple of different sources for According to Paul, the integrity of the Boise this excess phosphorous.

River is vital to the community.

“It comes from inputs from urban use such “The cleaner the Boise River is, the more as wastewater treatment plants, runoff from valuable it is for us in terms of recreation, people’s lawns and fertilizers,” said Etheridge. property values and aesthetics,” she said.

“Then further downstream there’s a ton of “Every week, thousands of people fish in it, agriculture use.” they float, they swim, their dogs swim in it, “The majority of phosphorous is coming they ride their bikes along it, they look at the off of farm fields and feedlots and getting into birds, they see all kinds of creatures.Why the Boise River that way,” said Liz Paul, do people come here, why do businesses campaign coordinator with Idaho Rivers come here? A lot of it can go back to the United. “The Clean Water Act exempts value of the Boise River. That value is agriculture, so there’s no regulatory stick diminished as phosphorous levels and for dealing with that.” the sediment levels rise.”

Near Barber Park, the water The quality of the Boise River quality is pristine. But, as it flows also affects the quality of the downriver, the quality worsens community’s drinking water, substantially. most of which comes from “That it goes from a pretty groundwater sources. pristine fishery, and within 20 “There’s an interaction miles it’s degraded to the point between groundwater and where people don’t want to surface water; those are not swim in it, is cause for concern. separate sources so there is It’s a pretty short and dramatic interaction,” said Tim Merrick, change ... it effects not only the science information manager people that live around it, but the with the USGS. “The healthier populations within the river,” the whole watershed is, the said MacCoy. healthier we’re going to be, the Etheridge, whose job is to reBOISE RIVER healthier the wildlife are going turn to the Boise River each year PHOSPHOROUS LEVELS to be; it’s a holistic system.” to gauge its integrity, insisted Currently: Cleaning up the excess that the stretch near Barber 5,500 micrograms per liter phosphorous in the Boise Park “was probably the cleanest River will take time, effort and water in the state.” He’s hoping Needs to be: 70 micrograms money, but according to Macto “push” the pristine part of the per liter Coy, it’s a worthy pursuit. river downstream.

“It makes it more in balPaul agreed. ance,” she said. “It helps the “The Boise River is not impaired for phosphorous until you get a ways river reach an equilibrium. If we can get it to equilibrium where it’s not super-saturated down it,” she said. “What we’re hoping for with phosphorous and nitrogen, I think we’ll in the long run is a Boise River that is fishable be OK.” and swimmable all the way to the mouth, that WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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CITIZEN

DIANE BAWCOM Taking giant leaps at BabySteps GEORGE PRENTICE

What was your big dream when you were growing up near San Francisco?

When I was in eighth grade, for my community service project, I volunteered as a candy striper at a community hospital. I wanted to work in the gift shop, but it was full, so I ended up in what they called extended care.

I was 13 years old and pretty naive. I was expecting to see elderly people, but what I saw was a lot of young men. I would fill their water pitchers and help them with their meals. One day I would feed them. The next they were gone. At the time, we didn’t know what was going on, but by 1984-1985, we knew. It was AIDS. Not long after, my friend and I would watch her father, who was a reporter, cover huge gay-pride parades in San Francisco. If you saw the movie Milk, well, we were right in the middle of that.

And did that influence your college years?

I started off as finance major. And I was a resident assistant. Well, we had a suicide epidemic on campus – in one semester, we had a suicide attempt every week. I even walked in on someone attempting suicide. At that point, I shifted from finance to social work.

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That’s a lot of exposure to tragedy at an early age. What kept you from running away?

I opened a door, but I really didn’t know what I was walking into. I just couldn’t imagine being so desperate. I ended up going to graduate school at the University of Texas in Arlington, and I knew that I wanted my thesis work to be on death and dying. I focused on children’s grief.

And now you work on the other end of life’s spectrum. How is the BabySteps program different from the time that you walked in the door?

The program started in 2003. Since I started here in 2007, the diversity of the program and the scope of our services have totally morphed. We know through research that low birth weights can be turned around with proper pre-natal care, medical supervision and education.

What are the requirements for participants?

You must be an Ada County resident and low income. To put that into normal language, that means for a family of four, it’s around $20,000 a year. For a married couple with a baby on the way, that’s about $31,000 a year. Women join while they’re pregnant, and they’re with the program until their baby is 15 months old.

But it’s only a one-time enrollment.

We’re not a charity program. That was a rule when I started. We used to re-enroll people and we had a revolving door. That, quite simply, doesn’t break the cycle of dependence on social services. I believe that my role is to educate, inform and empower–to find meaningful employment, complete their

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Diane Bawcom’s job is all about life. As director of BabySteps, a nonprofit education and incentive program for limited-income moms-to-be, Bawcom spends her days with scores of women and newborns.

The program–now in its 11th year at St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral in Boise– awards points to pregnant women and new mothers participating in educational and prenatal-care classes: moms earn extra points for healthy behaviors for themselves and their babies. Points are then redeemed at the Baby Steps boutique for diapers, clothes and baby furnishings.

education and find community resources.

You’re either part of the problem or part of the solution.

Are your classes bilingual?

All of our classes are taught in English.

Part of that is that I can’t find presenters who are multi-lingual. What I ask of the women who have limited English skills is that they concurrently enroll in ESL classes.

Those are really done well at the College of Western Idaho and the Learning Lab. So, our participants are only really limited with their English in those first few months. They pick it up really quick.

How can you best describe the women who walk through your doors?

The face I see at BabySteps is an average 23-year-old mom. At the time they walk in, three-fourths of them live with the baby’s father. By the time they deliver the baby, that drops to about half.

Is that because the relationships weren’t appropriate?

There’s that “Oh my God” factor. I really don’t care whether they’re legally married.

It’s always better to be in a healthy relationship, or no relationship, than a bad one. I tell them, “You can do this just fine. We will surround you with support of women helping women, and you can define your family by whoever you want.”

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The countdown to Idaho’s ďŹ rst execution in nearly two decades GEORGE PRENTICE

n Oct. 19, Seventh District Judge Jon Shindurling issued death warrants for Paul Ezra Rhoades, 23 years after Rhoades was sentenced to death. The orders made their way to the desk of Brent Reinke, director of the Idaho Department of Correction. He knew exactly what to do—start the clock.

Reinke accessed IDOC’s standard operating procedure for capital punishment, even though there was nothing standard about what would happen in less than 30 days. In fact, if Rhoades is put to death as scheduled at 8 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 18, it will be the ďŹ rst Idaho execution since 1994, and only the second since 1957.

While the clock ticks down the days, hours and minutes, some residents of Eastern Idaho vividly recall the grisly crimes that sent Rhoades to death row.

On the morning of March 1, 1987, the body of 21-year-old Stacy Baldwin was found off a rural road about ďŹ ve miles northwest of Blackfoot. She had been shot three times. Law enforcement initially thought that her murder was part of a robbery since she was a nightshift clerk at a nearby convenience store.

Then on the morning of March 17, 1987, 20-year-old Nolan Haddon was found in the walk-in freezer of another Blackfoot convenience store. Haddon had been shot ďŹ ve times. He was rushed to Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center where he died a few hours later.

On March 21, 1987, the body of 34-year-old Susan Michelbacher was found in a desolate lava ďŹ eld about seven miles west of Idaho Falls. She had been abducted from the parking lot of an Idaho Falls supermarket, raped and shot to death.

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Four days later, on the evening of March 25, 1987, Rhoades was arrested while gambling at the 4-Way Casino in Wells, Nevada.

Ballistics linked the three murders to a .38-caliber Smith & Wesson and a box of bullets found near Rhoades’ car. Rhoades agreed to a plea bargain in the Haddon case, in which he was sentenced to life in prison. But in two other trials, he was sentenced to death for the murders of Baldwin and Michelbacher.

Today, Rhoades is the lone inmate in F Block of the Idaho Maximum Security Institution south of Kuna. “F Block is a state-of-the-art execution chamber,� Reinke told BW. “We wanted to make sure as we moved forward that we had an execution chamber that encompassed three areas: professionalism, respect and dignity.�

Reinke said he knew “a fair amount� about Rhoades, through Maximum Security Warden Randy Blades’ interactions with the condemned prisoner. “For what I have been told by our staff on the scene, he’s doing quite well,� said Reinke. “He has good days and, at times, he has bad days, as do many of our individuals serving on death row. But at this point, I’m not equipped to speak to his character or how he’s addressing his past.�

Reinke is a manager known for strict attention to detail, but perhaps no other event in his career has required as much attention.

From now until the morning of Friday, Nov. 18, Reinke and his staff will be closely following policy 135.02.01.001, the 24-page guideline detailing how Idaho will put Rhoades to death. The following is taken directly from the ofďŹ cial timeline.

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Catch this fedora-ble duo at the Blues Brothers Revue.

THURSDAY NOV. 10 Fall Head over heels for Alley Rep’s new play by Oliver Russell Stoddard.

musical THE OFFICIAL BLUES BROTHERS REVUE

WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY NOV. 9-12 theater HEAD AT ALLEY REPERTORY THEATER In 2004, Marconi and Tiny, two Portland, Ore., radio DJs, were fired for playing audio of the beheading of American Nick Berg in Iraq on the air and making jokes about it. The general reaction was that there wasn’t anything funny about a beheading.

But Head, a new comedy being staged by Alley Repertory Theater, is giving it a shot anyway.

Written by local playwright Oliver Russell Stoddard and directed by Julia Pachoud Bennett, the play takes place in the aftermath of a beheading in Iraq. In the play, the ghostly head of a murdered truck driver from Idaho named Tommy confronts Ahmed, his killer, with demands to return his body.

But Tommy isn’t alone. Other notable headless historical figures like Marie Antoinette advise Tommy in a 12 step-style program intended to help him accept his predicament. Tommy doesn’t want any part of that noise, though, and is perfectly content to keep haunting Ahmed.

The play was well received during a summer reading, in part because of its brazen use of absurdities to broach sensitive topics that would be otherwise unapproachable. The play will run at Visual Arts Collective through Saturday, Nov. 19.

8 p.m.; Wednesday, Nov. 9-Thursday, Nov. 10, pay-what-you-want; Friday, Nov. 11-Saturday, Nov. 12, $10 students/military, $15 general. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, alleyrep.org.

SATURDAY NOV. 12 holy grail SPAMALOT You may choose not to go to Camelot—it is a silly place—but Spamalot is the kind of silly not to miss.

Though most folks are acquainted with at least one joke from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the movie that this musical “lovingly rips off,” this is not solely a show for those of us who have been lobbing holy hand grenades at killer rabbits since childhood. Newbies to Monty Python will bust a (coco)nut laughing as well.

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The mix of cheeky religious and political humor, slapstick gags and pop-culture references make for an entertaining night.

The story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table and their search for the Holy Grail is a classic. In Spamalot, it’s re-envisioned as a comedy, with Arthur and a motley crew of knights clip-

The Official Blues Brothers Revue is on a mission from God to energize crowds with its onstage antics and songs from the 1980 Blues Brothers movie, as well as classic music from a time when the Motown, Stax/Volt and Atlantic record labels ruled the airwaves.

There have been many Blues Brothers impersonators and performers throughout the years, but the Official Blues Brothers Revue is the only act to have gained official sanctioning by Dan Aykroyd and the estate of John Belushi to carry on the musical and comedic vision.

This official version of the Blues Brothers features Wayne Catania as Jake and Kieron Lafferty as Elwood. After working together for several years in Las Vegas performing as the fedora-clad duo in the Legends in Concert series, Catania and Lafferty were approached by Judith Belushi Pisano and Victor Pisano about auditioning for the Official Blues Brothers Revue.

According to Belushi Pisano, “We learned the day of auditions how hard it is to do what John and Dan did. Some looked the part but nobody had the whole package until Kieron and Wayne arrived.”

Since their first official performance in Chicago in 2004, Lafferty and Catania have been infecting crowds with their raucous energy and hilarious on-stage performances.

Although there are no high-speed car chases through crowded malls or crazy ex-girlfriends firing rocket launchers in this live performance, this production does a righteous job of capturing the essence of the Blues Brothers.

8 p.m., $22.50-$29.50. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

clopping their way across the countryside. They pester anarchic peasants into becoming knights and are in turn pestered by French guards with bovine projectiles, but the knights are unwavering in their sacred quest.

Spamalot, which opened in 2005, draws musical inspiration from Monty Python classics like The Life of Brian, as seen in the cheerful number, “Always Look on the Bright Side of Life.” It also parodies the Broadway musical formula in “The

Song That Goes Like This” and inserts songs from the 1975 film, like “Brave Sir Robin” and “Knights of the Round Table.”

For anyone who has somehow missed the film and some of its ubiquitous jokes, this is a great lesson in one of the funniest and most enduring bits of pop culture. Longtime fans will appreciate the deference given the source material—and the irreverence in handling everything else.

8 p.m., $45-$65. Morri-

son Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

WEDNESDAY NOV. 16 turn and cough BOISE STATE HEALTH FAIR When did it become so challenging to live a healthy WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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HEART COFFEE ROASTERS Rally your crew for street eats at the Idaho Foodbank.

FRIDAY NOV. 11

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eats FOOD TRUCK RALLY Food trucks have become an integral part of American food culture, providing cheap, tasty eats. They’re also a source of creativity, offering new takes on classics.

Now that the trend has finally parked itself in Idaho, the Food Truck Rally has become a monthly celebration of the street food scene in the Treasure Valley.

Because they’re mobile, sometimes it can be hard to find the food truck you’re looking for, but the Food Truck Rally has changed that, allowing the navigationally challenged to enjoy Boise’s street food without having to decipher a map or consult a smartphone. If you haven’t tried some of these mobile meal merchants, the Rally is your best bet.

Vendors this month are B29 Streatery, Archie’s Place, RiceWorks, Calle 75 Street Tacos, Stuck in Your Grill and Brown Shuga Soul Food. Save room for dessert and grab a cupcake from A Cupcake Paradise, and wash it all down with a beer from Payette Brewing Co. Although these vendors are often genre-bending and category-defying, they all provide comfort food that will stick to your ribs and warm you up as the weather gets colder. You can also warm your soul since this month’s rally is located at— and benefits—the Idaho Foodbank.

While you street foodies are filling your stomachs, you will also be able to help the less fortunate fill their pantries. Bring canned goods and get $1 off each brew in the beer garden.

5-9 p.m., FREE. Idaho Foodbank, 3562 S. TK Ave., Boise, 208-336-9643, idahofoodbank.org.

lifestyle? Stress, rising costs and a lack of healthy food options have made it difficult, but not impossible.

The mission of Boise State’s annual Health Fair is “B a Stronger U,” and the event aims to promote healthy lifestyles on campus, as well as in the community at large.

The Health Fair is a great way to save time and money. Of course, it’s not a substitute for a doctor’s visit, but there will be health screenings available for cho-

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lesterol, bone density and blood pressure. Experts will offer fitness assessments and body mass indexes.

After you’re done seeking out ways to improve your health and well-being, stop by the exhibit for therapeutic massage. You deserve it.

This season is shaping up to be a whopper of a flu season, so if you haven’t had your shot yet, be sure to get it done at the fair.

Dr. Andrew Myers, author of Simple Health Value, will be on hand to sign copies

SATURDAY NOV. 12 art BAM COMICS WORKSHOPS It may have started on the funny pages, but now the art of comics can portray almost any story. Deservedly, comics are recognized as a legitimate art form, both in a visual and literary sense. Comics like the graphic novel Spell Checkers from Oni Press represent this.

Spell Checkers is a collaboration between visual artists Joelle Jones and Nicolas Hitori De, and writer Jamie Rich.

The volume follows snarky teenage witches, imparting a wealth of wit and humor with illustrations and dialogue that create a full-picture narrative. This type of evolution in the visual and written stor y is what Boise Art Museum’s Comics at the Crossroads: Art of the Graphic Novel exhibit is all about.

On Saturday, Nov. 12, fans can enjoy a whole day of all things comics at BAM. There will be two workshops, the first from 10 a.m. to noon, for aspiring artists ages 9-16, which covers the basics. Professional artists will work with participants in developing intriguing characters and storylines, which will result in a finished product.

The second workshop, from 2-5 p.m., is about making comics a career, for ages 17 and older. The workshop will feature Jones and Rich sharing info about drawing, publishing and pursuing a career in comic arts. The two will also be on hand from noon to 1 p.m. for a meet-and-greet and book signing.

From 7-9 p.m., you can check out Thought Bubbles: A Conversation with the ACLU, which features Erik Henriksen, a comics writer and editor for the Portland Mercur y, and a representative from the ACLU. They will dive into the histor y of comics and freedom of speech in conjunction with the exhibition.

10 a.m.-9 p.m., FREE booking signing (with BAM admission) $10-$20 for other events. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, 208-345-8303, boiseartmuseum.org.

of his book.

Take stock in your future and take a trip down the Health Fair for some helpful hints on how to live a more healthy, productive lifestyle.

Some coffee chains (cough, Starbucks) serve their drip so dark and sludgy that it could be used to spackle a wall.

The bitter bite of almost-burnt beans and borderline-solid consistency combine to make a jolting and gut-souring brew.

Not all coffee is created equal. And Portland, Ore.’s You can order Heart Coffee Roasters has set Heart Coffee directly out to prove that. from the website, The micro-roasting cofheartroasters.com. fee shop opened in October 2009 on East Burnside Road and roasts small batches of delicate, often single-source, aromatic coffee. On its website, Heart describes its coffeelosophy thusly: “Our roasting style comes from a balance of Scandinavian and Portland coffee cultures. We roast our coffee to the lightest degree possible, while fully developing the flavors each coffee has to offer. We strive to purchase our green coffee according to the harvest cycles of each producing country. Our green coffee is stored on site in a humidity- and temperature-controlled area, in order to best represent the integrity of the bean.”

If all that sounds like a lot more trouble than pulling off the vacuum-sealed foil top on a can of Folgers, we have two words for you: worth it. Heart’s recent Guatemala Santa Clara Bourboncillo roast—made from bourboncito, or dwarf bourbon plants, from the Finca Santa Clara farm in Guatemala—makes our hearts skip a beat.

—Tara Morgan

10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, Jordan Ballroom, 1910 Univeristy Dr., Boise, 208-426-1894.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY NOV. 9 On Stage HEAD—Local playwright Oliver Russell Stoddard examines the aftermath of a beheading in Iraq. Head explores beliefs and forgiveness.

8 p.m. Pay-what-you-can. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

THE HOT L BALTIMORE—This dramatic comedy by Lanford Wilson takes place in 1973 Baltimore, and follows the characters who call the hotel home. 7:30 p.m. $15 adults, $10 children and students. Langroise Recital Hall, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5011.

THURSDAY NOV. 10 Festivals & Events SALE AND GALA—Enjoy live music, food by Three Girls Catering, mini spa services and 50 percent off all estate-sale items.

Proceeds benefit the Idaho Humane Society. 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE. The Shabby House, 4906 W. State St., Boise, 208-8531005, theshabbyhouse.com.

VETERANS CELEBRATION— Come share memories and stories, and honor those who serve in the U.S. military. $5 wines and $3 beers. Must be 21 and older with ID. 6-10 p.m. FREE. Helina Marie’s Wine and Gift Shop, 11053 Highway 44, Star, 208286-7960, helinamaries.com.

FOOD TRUCK RALLY— Archie’s Place, B29 Streatery, Brown Shuga Soul Food, Calle 75 Tacos and RiceWorks Asian Food will fill your belly while you help fill the Idaho Foodbank’s warehouse. Visit Food Truck Rally Boise’s Facebook page for more info. See Picks Page 15. The Idaho Foodbank, 3562 S. TK Ave., Boise, 208-336-964, idahofoodbank.org.

PLAY ON—This play within a play centers on a low-budget company’s attempt to make the show go on, despite last-minute changes to the script. 6:30 p.m. $4-$6. Timberline High School, 701 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208854-6230.

Food & Drink GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY BOISE VILLAGE DINNER AND SILENT AUCTION—Fundraiser for the Clay Wilcox Dental Fund with music by Ella Ferrari. For more information, contact Mary Dorsch at 208-343-7726 or email mdorsch@good-sam.com. 6-9 p.m. $25. Salt Tears Coffeehouse & Noshery, 4714 W. State St., Boise, 208-275-0017, salttears. com.

On Stage PLAY ON—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $4-$6. Timberline High School, 701 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-854-6230.

Concerts BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA— Boise Baroque and the Boise Philharmonic Master Chorale will perform classic pieces by Mozart and Bach. 7:30 p.m. $6-$15.

Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-459-3405 or 208454-1376, caldwellfinearts.org.

FRIDAY NOV. 11 Festivals & Events

STUDENT UNION PERFORMANCE SERIES: ATHENS GUITAR TRIO—The trio from Athens, Ga., is known for its energetic performances. Call 208-426-1242 for more info. Visit idahotickets.com to purchase tickets. 8 p.m. $20-$60 for series of three performances, $5-$15 individual perfomances. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

SALE AND GALA—See Thursday.

11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. The Shabby House, 4906 W. State St., Boise, 208-853-1005, theshabbyhouse. com.

TUNNEL OF OPPRESSION—An interactive production that raises consciousness about various forms of oppression. Donations will be accepted for the Native American Coalition of Boise. Participants may also create a sticky note for the Add the Words, Idaho campaign. By appointment. FREE. Boise State Student Union Hatch Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1677.

Literature MFA READING SERIES: AUTHOR TYLER MCMAHON—The HawaiiPacific University professor will read from his works.7:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union (Simplot Grand Ballroom), 1910 University Drive, Boise.

On Stage BLUES BROTHERS REVUE—Jake (Wayne Catania) and Elwood (Kieron Lafferty) are back in action, and back on stage with the 10-piece Intercontinental Rhythm and Blues Band. See Picks, Page 14. 8 p.m. $22.50-$29.50.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

DANCING AT LUGHNASA—The story of the five unmarried Mundy sisters of Ballybeg, Ireland, and the return of their brother Jack after 25 years as a priest in Africa. For more info, call 208-426-3957. 7:30 p.m.

FREE for Boise State students and staff, $9-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu.

HEAD—See Wednesday.

8 p.m. Pay-what-you-can.

Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

THE HOT L BALTIMORE—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $15 adults, $10 children and students. Langroise Recital Hall, 2112 Cleveland Blvd., College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5011.

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8 DAYS OUT DOERR, HEATHCOCK AND WIELAND—The three renowned Boise authors will read from their works and sign copies of their books. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

On Stage

Workshops & Classes

DANCING AT LUGHNASA—See Thursday. FREE for Boise State students and staff, $9-$15.

Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu.

Odds & Ends

HEAD—See Wednesday.

8 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

BEGINNING FOXTROT WORKSHOP—Mini foxtrot workshop will teach new dancers frame, footwork and lead/follow. Perfect for those who want to feel more confident at their next wedding or social event. Light refreshments and practice follow the lesson.

Choose your ticket price in advance at teachmetango.com. 7 p.m. $10 at the door. Dance Arts Academy, 2989 Copper Point, Meridian, 208-936-5760.

VETERANS DAY IMPROV COMEDY NIGHT—Recycled Minds wants to make you laugh with a night of improvisational comedy.

7 p.m. $10, $3 with military ID, FREE veterans. Fatty’s, 800 W. Idaho St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208514-2531, drinkfattys.com.

SATURDAY NOV. 12 Festivals & Events BLUE TURF TAILGATE HOMECOMING PARTY—BW and 44 North are doubling the Boise State football fun. Enjoy an out-of-control tailgating party at two locations.

There will be vodka samples, tickets to shows, T-shirts, footballs and tons of other swag, as well as watching the game and having a good time. 12:30-2:30 p.m. FREE. Tablerock Brewpub and Grill, 705 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-0944, tablerockbrewpub.com. and End Zone, 1010 Broadway Ave., Boise, 208-384-0613.

THE HOT L BALTIMORE—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $15 adults, $10 children and students. Langroise Recital Hall, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208459-5011.

MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT—The 2005 Tony Award winner for Best Musical is part of the Fred Meyer Broadway in Boise series.

See Picks, Page 14. 8 p.m. $45-$65. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

PLAY ON—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $4-$6. Timberline High School, 701 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-854-6230.

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CHRISTMAS CARD AND GIFTWRAPPING PAPER CLASS— Print holiday cards, invites and wrapping paper, then swap with other students. No experience necessary. Reservations requested. Noon-3 p.m. $50.

Idaho Poster and Letterpress, 280 N. Eighth St., Ste. 118, Boise, 208-761-9538, idahoposterandletterpress.com.

COMICS ART MOB—Workshop, master session and evening event for comics fans, novices and professionals.

Organized in part by BAM’s Teen Advisory Committee. Early workshop for ages 9-16, later workshop for ages 17 and older.

Book signing in between. See Picks Page 15. 10 a.m.-noon and 2-5 p.m. $10-$20. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

Kids & Teens

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RE-ART: HILLBILLY JUG BAND—Re-Art encourages creativity and teaches children ages 5-10 about art, with a new project every month. For details, call 208-384-4200. 1-2 p.m.

FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-5624995, boisepubliclibrary.org. and 3-4 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

WILD FAMILY WEEKENDS— Enjoy games, a specialized tour, hands-on activities and an up-close animal encounter, and learn how monkeys make chocolate. 8:30-10:30 a.m., 1-2:30 p.m. $7 passholders, $9 Boise residents, $12 others.

Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-384-4125, zooboise. org.

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DANCING AT LUGHNASA— See Thursday. 2 p.m. FREE for students/staff, $9-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre. boisestate.edu.

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Concerts

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Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA—See Friday. 2 p.m. $20 general, $15 students and seniors, FREE for children.

Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

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8 DAYS OUT Kids & Teens

Workshops & Classes

RE-ART: HILLBILLY JUG BAND—See Saturday. 1-2 p.m.

FREE. Boise Public Library, Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., and 3-4 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

BEYOND TURKEY COOKING CLASS—Explore new side dishes for your Thanksgiving table. Everyone will take home a jar of cranberry chutney for their holiday. 6-8:30 p.m. $35. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 2201 Woodlawn Ave., Boise, 208-344-5731, boisefirstucc.org.

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CHRISTMAS CARD AND GIFTWRAPPING PAPER CLASS— See Saturday. $50. Idaho Poster and Letterpress, 280 N. Eighth St., Ste. 118, Boise, 208-7619538, idahoposterandletterpress.com.

Festivals & Events BOARD GAME CHALLENGE— Drop-in game-playing event with treats for school-age children and families. 4 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-3620181, adalib.org.

TUESDAY NOV. 15 Kids & Teens DINNER AND A BOOK—Enjoy Flying Pie pizza, ice cream, games and stories at the ninth annual Dinner and a Book event.

Limited seating; registration required. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

FAMILY GAME NIGHT—Celebrate Family Reading Week with board games and snacks.

6-8 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, and 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Talks & Lectures MICKI LIPPE LECTURE AND WORKSHOP—Visiting art metalist and renowned jeweler Micki Lippe will give a lecture. Students with basic soldering skills may participate in the workshop portion and make earrings. For more information or to register for the workshop, contact Anika Smulovitz at anikasmulovitz@ boisestate.edu. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-INFO, union. boisestate.edu.

Kids & Teens DINNER AND A BOOK—See Tuesday. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, boisepubliclibrary.org.

ONGOING Bazaars SEASONS HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE—Features everything from delicious gourmet treats to holiday decor. Thursday VIP preview shopping event, $2 entry, includes non-alcoholic beverages and appetizers. Call 208-9368006 for more info, or visit the Seasons Holiday Boutique Facebook page. Thursday, Nov. 10-Sunday, Nov. 13. Times vary.

FREE. Rockwell Village, W. Roosevelt Avenue, south of Middleton Road, Nampa.

HOLIDAY CRAFT BAZAAR—Features crocheted hats and scarfs, Miche bags, Scentsy and a variety of other items. Friday, Nov. 11-Saturday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Hillcrest Retirement and Assisted Living, 1093 S. Hilton, Boise, 208-345-4460.

BOISE SCHOOL DISTRICT’S 10TH ANNUAL BAZAAR— Features district employees and family members selling a variety of crafts and goodies.

Please bring a donation for the Idaho Foodbank or Toys for Tots.

Saturday, Nov. 12. 8 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. West Junior High School, 8371 W. Salt Creek Court, Boise, 208-854-6450, boiseschools.org.

BAZAAR—Crocheted, knitted, quilted items, handcrafted jewelry and baked goods for sale.

Saturday, Nov. 12, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Hillview United Methodist Church, 8525 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-375-0392, hillviewmethodist.org.

WEDNESDAY NOV. 16 Festivals & Events BOISE STATE HEALTH FAIR—Get healthscreenings, a massage and meet Dr. Andrew Meyers.

See Picks, Page 14. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Dr., Boise, 208-4261000, boisestate.edu.

On Stage DANCING AT LUGHNASA—See Wednesday, Nov. 9. 7:30 p.m.

FREE for Boise State students and staff, $9-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu.

HEAD—See Wednesday, Nov. 9. 8 p.m.

Pay-what-you-can. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

Skeleton Blues by Connor Coughlin was the 1st place winner in the 9th Annual Boise Weekly Bad Cartoon Contest.

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A SHORE THING Beanie baby: Toni Childs heads to Boise State.

BONUS TRACKS This week, the news in noise is all about bonuses.

Like, for example, the five bonus tracks recently added to the C.O.T. Mixtape. The original 20-track mixtape was released online by The City of Trees music blog in June, and featured a cross-section of established Boise bands like Finn Riggins and Hillfolk Noir, as well as newer groups like Youth Lagoon and Art Fad. The mixtape was updated with songs from Hypno Safari, The Dirty Moogs, Colby Meade, The Very Most, and Workin’ on Fire. It’s available via nameyour-price download at bandcamp.com.

Bonus tracks are also on the way from Amy Winehouse. A selection of alternate versions, demos and tracks she was in the middle of recording before she died will be released by year’s end. The album, Lioness, will include a cover of The Shirelles’ “Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow,” and a duet she recorded with Tony Bennett.

But sometimes, it’s not just more songs that make up a bonus, it’s an extra genre or two. Take for example, Gose, a technoaccordion glam-rock band from ArrasateMondragon, Basque Country. Gose will play a free show at the Basque Center in Boise on Saturday, Nov. 12 at 8 p.m.

If that’s a few too many genres for you, there’s always Grammy-nominated pop singer Toni Childs, who will perform at the Boise State Special Events Center on Sunday, Nov. 13. This show is a bonus, because Childs took a long break from music to recover from Graves’ disease after winning an Emmy Award in 2004 for the song, “Because You’re Beautiful.”

Also in the bonus category is the level of musical experience that went into Shakin’ Not Stirred’s latest album, In the Wood.

The self-described “older folks” in the folk/ swing band collectively bring more than 200 years of musical experience that whippersnappers making a racket down at the Neuro-what-have-you can’t touch. The band will celebrate the album’s release at The Linen Building on Friday, Nov. 11. That show starts at 7 p.m. and costs $10.

The final bonus comes from Radio Boise, which wrapped up its first-ever Radiothon pledge drive on Nov. 3. The station raised more than $37,000, exceeding its goal of $25,000. But Executive Director Jeff Abrams said the real bonus was the sense of community it fostered within the station.

“It really catalyzed the sense of community in our station,” said Abrams. “Because of the odd hours that people come in and do their shows, they don’t necessarily see each other. This made them feel part of the whole.”

—Josh Gross

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Future Islands hits its stride with On the Water STEPHEN FOSTER To record On the Water, Future Islands took refuge in a large 19th century Southern home in Elizabeth City, N.C., on the banks of the Pasquotank River. The secluded environment removed the band from distraction and allowed lead singer Samuel T. Herring room to clear his mind, focus his energy and absorb the comforting ambience of the immense river.

The result is an earnest synth-pop record full of passion and tenderness.

“Recording there allowed us to really relax and enter a different zone and kind of create our own world,” said Herring. “It kind of solidified what the album meant to us, just by experiencing something outside of ourselves.

I’d like to think that, ideally, these actual Future Islands’ gruff and grandiose synth pop will leaf you breathless. emotions are transferred through our instruments and the way they’re played. That’s a really beautiful idea.” the Water was me thinking about it. A lot of But no man is an island. Keyboardist Future Islands formed in 2006 in Greenwriting for me is about just trying to figure ville, N.C., while the members were attending Gerrit Welmers sculpts the trio’s sound with out what the hell is going on with me.” his post-wave synth lines and animated art classes at East Carolina University. They Whatever is going on, it appears to be soundscapes. Bassist William Cashion lays intended to start a casual art project and perform at friends’ parties—that didn’t last long. down fierce, drilling rhythms with his massive working. The new album has been met with much critical acclaim: Paste Magazine’s Carey The act’s audience grew rapidly, and members plucks and strums, giving the songs direction Hodges called it “not only the most accessible felt they needed to relocate to pursue their art and cohesiveness.

Future Islands release to date—it’s their best,” On the Water is Future Islands’ second with intensified vigor. album in the past 18 months—2010’s In Eve- and Pitchfork gave it a 7.7 and dubbed it In 2007, the band moved to Baltimore, “surprisingly moving.” where the local art scene provided ample sup- ning Air put the band on the indie map with “Our primary aim with this record was we port to the budding artists. The band chiseled its high-charged synth punk. Songs like “Tin Man,” and “Vireo’s Eye,” with their gleaming didn’t want to redo In Evening Air,” said Herout its aesthetic on stage, playing various art ring. “Five songs in, we realized that we were synthesizers, thundering bass and brokengalleries and restaurants throughout the city. creating something that’s entirely its own. hearted lyrics garnered the band a modest “You don’t get anywhere hanging around Then there was a fear about ‘would people national following. in your garage just playing and perfectunderstand this?’ Everybody has different On the Water is a less gloomy affair, ing songs; you have to go out and play for ears and everybody wants different things and although hints of sadness still linger in Herpeople,” said Herring. “When we write a people listen to music for different reasons. ring’s husky, theatrical vocal performance, song, we’ll almost immediately take it to the So all you can really do is make something with lyrics that reflect on bygone memories stage, even if it’s still in parts, just to see how honest to yourself and hope that there’s an and making peace with the past. But on this people respond to it. That’s where you find audience for it.” album, the band gives the music extra room out what the song is about, and where the And while the band’s studio output is no to expand, weaving in more detail and atmomelody lies, when you’re in front of people, doubt impressive, Future Islands really cuts sphere into its sonic palette. when the crowd is feeling you.” its teeth in front of audiences. The band’s “In Evening Air was definitely a break-up Herring is the focal point of Future Islands. concerts are raw and emotive, loud and album,” Herring said.

His voice is both gruff cathartic. The musicians aren’t afraid to take “It dealt with quesand grandiose—a cross their songs in different directions on a whim, tions I had, anger that between Meatloaf With Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. Friday, I had, fear I had. With or add colors and textures depending on the and David Bowie— Nov. 11, 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 door. atmosphere.

On the Water, the and he’s known for NEUROLUX “I think there’s something to be said for concepts emerged once his wild, on-stage 111 N. 11th St. the way a live show can change or be different all of the songs were theatrics: sweat drips 208-343-0886 than a recording,” said Herring. “We like to done and we looked profusely from his neurolux.com get up on stage with our songs and have fun at what we had and head as he performs how it worked. It’s me with them—you have to let the song live and abrasive dance moves breathe. The release of passion and energy growing more mature with intense facial is kind of an awesome thing for me, and the through actual life and being able to look at expressions. that relationship that I was so temperamental hope is that people can get something from “I do my best to grab everybody’s heart and take it for myself and give them my heart about and how I relate to it now. I’m not mad it. But it’s really up to them how they want to accept or deny that energy.” still. In Evening Air was me reacting, and On back,” he said.

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY NOV. 9

STAR ANNA AND THE LAUGHING DOGS—6 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange; 9:30 p.m. $5. Reef.

THE BOURBON DOGS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

TRAVIS MCDANIEL—6 p.m.

FREE. Lulu’s

DAN COSTELLO—5:45 p.m.

FREE. Solid

WILSON ROBERTS—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Flatbread-Bown

DUCHESS DOWN THE WELL— 10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s DYLAN SUNDSTROM TRIO—6 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown

KATHRYN CALDER, NOV. 9, FLYING M COFFEEGARAGE Kathryn Calder was 18 years old when her uncle, Carl Newman, asked her to fill in for Neko Case at a few New Pornographers shows. Since then, she’s become a permanent member, worked on three NP albums and toured around the world.

The now 24-year-old songwriter has also managed to put out two solo albums. On 2010’s Are You My Mother?, Calder penned a number of sweet, piano-driven tracks that highlight her chirpy soprano and hint at greater ambitions.

On 2011’s Bright and Vivid, Calder realizes these ambitions with big layers of guitars, keyboards and effects that elevate her sound out of the coffeeshop and into the nightclub.

But she hasn’t abandoned the coffeeshop. On Wednesday, Nov. 9, Calder will be in Nampa to per form at the Flying M Coffeegarage.

—Stephen Foster With Aaron Mark Brown. 8 p.m., $5. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533, flyingmcoffee.com.

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JIM FISHWILD—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow JIMMY BIVENS—7 p.m. FREE. Curb JUPITER HOLIDAY—With Acorn Project. 9 p.m. $5. Liquid KATHRYN CALDER—With Aaron Mark Brown. See Listen Here, This Page. 8 p.m. $5. Flying M Coffeegarage LARRY CONKLIN—11:30 a.m.

FREE. Shangri La MURS: THE HIP HOP AND LOVE TOUR—With Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz, McKenzie Eddy, Sean O’Connell and Da$h. See Listen Here, Page 23. 7 p.m. $10 advance, $12 door. Neurolux

THURSDAY NOV. 10 THE DIRTY HEADS—With Wallpaper. 8 p.m. $25-$50. Knitting Factory FRIM FRAM 4—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s HIGH DESERT BAND—6:30 p.m. FREE. Whitewater KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill LYDIA LOVELESS—8:30 p.m. $5. Neurolux REILLY COYOTE—7 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s ROBERT JAMES—5:45 p.m.

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ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. $5 after 10 p.m., FREE for ladies. Humpin’ Hannah’s

FRIDAY NOV. 11 BIG WOW—9 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle BRAD AGGEN AND RATTLESNAKE STATION—6 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub FUTURE ISLANDS—With Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. See Noise, Page 20. 8 p.m. $8 advance, $10 door. Neurolux GAYLE CHAPMAN—5:45 p.m.

FREE. Solid HOLY WATER BUFFALO—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock & Barrel MOIRA SMILEY—With VOCO. 6:30 p.m. $10-$30. Sun Valley Opera House

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MURS, NEUROLUX, NOV. 9 Murs is Kanye West, minus the teddy bears and robots.

Like Yeezy, he includes diverse samples on the same album, pairing artists like Michael Jackson with James Blunt. Murs, aka Nick Carter, also drips with that freestyle swagger that’s lost in today’s overly processed rap.

Murs’ breakout 2008 album, Murs for President, put the dreadlocked Los Angeles rapper in the limelight. But sometimes President feels preachy. The lyrics are more than just “guns and dope” as he states on “Can It Be,” but it’s a little like My First Manifesto.

His October 2011 album, Love and Rockets Vol. 1, redeems him, channeling Dr. Dre and Slick Rick. The homage to hip-hop, “Eazy-E,” uses a beat that’s far too bubblegum, but the rest are gems.

—Andrew Crisp With Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz, McKenzie Eddy, Sean O’Connell and Da$h. 7 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door.

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WE’VE GOT YOU COVERED BW Cover Auction grants give local artists a leg up TARA MORGAN

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Arms hoisted high above her head, Trey McIntyre Project’s Annali Rose twirled like one of the spinning tops in Onalee Bukovcik’s acrylic painting, as she showed it off to a crowd of curious bidders. Decked out in a floor-length evening gown, Rose and her TMP cohorts paraded artwork through the Linen Building’s packed aisles at the 10th annual Boise Weekly Cover Auction on Nov. 2.

At the end of the fast paced, tequila-soaked night, the auction raised almost $17,500 for Boise Weekly Cover Art Grants, with Heather Miller’s “Postcards” bringing in the top bid at $975. As event partners, TMP will pocket 20 percent of the evening’s proceeds, and the rest will be dispersed to local arts organizations and solo artists.

Last year’s grant recipients included everyone from TMP to Boise Open Studios Collective Organization to Boise Parks and Recreation. Some up-and-comers received grant funds as well, including Boise Bicycle Brigade, which invited 30 local artists and designers to create bike-themed poster art, and Searching for Quartzburg, a photo and audio documentary project that explored Idaho’s “dreamers, visionaries, eccentrics, hermits and those who live outside of mankind’s selfimposed boundaries.”

Another upstart, Welsh/Garcia Productions, received a $2,800 BW grant to stage an original horror play this winter. Comprised of former Alley Rep-ers Nick Garcia and Hollis Welsh, the company recently changed its name to Empty Boat Theatre Company and is gearing up to present the The Acheri (pronounced ack-er-eye), Friday, Dec. 2, through Saturday, Dec. 17. The play follows six weary survivors sequestered inside Sunny Sky Daycare as they hide from a malevolent force lurking in the snow-blanketed town of Victor.

“They’re in the middle of a terrible, terrible snowstorm and perpetual twilight, and

The Acheri’s director, Dwayne Blackaller, also received a $3,000 BW grant to fund a new program at Boise Contemporary Theater called BCT Theater Lab. “Theater Lab is a concept where we take junior-high and high-school students from around the valley and then they come in and we work on devising and creating new work for the stage,” said Blackaller. “So, it’s truly contemporary theater—in eight weeks, they create a play from scratch and produce it.”

Students will perform their original, multimedia-filled production, Yarn, on the BCT stage Nov. 8 through Thursday, Nov. 10, at 7 p.m.

“Everything that we had—props and costume-wise—was part of the Boise Weekly grant,” said Blackaller.

Local artist Tomas Montano also used his $500 BW grant to purchase supplies for his new series, Revolucion, A Subtle Uprising.

“It is a series of plywood screenprints with abstract imagery that kind of revolves around The 2011 Cover Auction’s prized pony: Heather Miller’s “Postcards.” some socio-political rhetoric—social unrest, some conspiracy theory, anger amongst the people going back to the revolution of Che follow that. This is much more intuitive, and as they try to figure out how to survive, they Guevara,” said Montano. as a group, we decided what is the story we’re try to figure out whether or not they’re going Montano’s grant proposal was accepted really telling and how does each person bring to be their own destruction, or whether their last March, before the Occupy Wall Street some piece of creativity to it?” humanity or something inside them is going protests brought economic unrest to the The play, which Welsh described as “a to help them rise above,” explained director forefront of our national dialogue. Though hopeful story in the face of human obliteraDwayne Blackaller. the exhibit isn’t tion,” will have Based on a Native American ghost story scheduled to show white-knuckled about a demon that prays on children, The See a slideshow of the auction. anywhere in the audience members Acheri will feature actors Garcia, Amy BurFor more information on how to apply near future, Montrembling in their ton, Arthur Glen Hughes, Amela Karadza, for a 2011 Boise Weekly Cover Auction tano agreed that seats during its Jef Petersen and Kristina Peterson. But unlike Grant, including submission requirethe topic matter run at the former most traditional stage productions, the actors ments, visit boiseweekly.com. is undoubtedly Ceramica building actually wrote the script through a series of timely. at 510 Main St. intense, late-night improv sessions.

“What you see is a really ornate piece of “It’s a very small-budgeted show, so the “The process that we’re doing is essentially art, but if you start to dig in and look deep, grant has helped us basically fund the projcalled collaborative devising,” said Blackaller. you’ll see a little bit more of the inflammatory ect,” Welsh said. “It’s been a Godsend. … It “It sort of eschews the traditional way of rhetoric, a little bit of the feelings of unrest helped us take this fun idea we had and make writing a play, where you have a playwright and injustice.” it a reality.” whose words are sacrosanct and then you

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SCREEN/THE BIG SCREEN

Martha Marcy May Marlene, a girl with a lot of names and even more issues.

CULT CLASSIC Martha Marcy May Marlene GEORGE PRENTICE lovely saucer eyes before? She is none other I first saw the film Martha Marcy May Marthan the younger sister of the billionaire lene on a warm September afternoon in a hot, twin prodigies Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen. stuffy theater. Thirty minutes into the film, I But their junior sibling shares none of their grabbed my jacket due to a sudden drop in ridiculous mugging from their Full House temperature. But the AC hadn’t kicked in. days. Instead, Elizabeth is haunting and, all Rather, I had surrendered to a movie that around, pretty tremendous. eases audiences from a nuanced tale of civiliOlsen’s co-star John Hawkes helped usher zation’s innocence into a cold, skin-crawling another unknown, Jennifer Lawrence, to expose of savage seduction. I still feel the chill. stardom and an Academy Award nomination Critics are overly kind to film debuts; but in last year’s Winter’s Bone. Hawkes (also niceties aside, Martha Marcy May Marlene Oscar nominated last year), is a wonder. His (the tongue-twisting title of the year) introperformances get better which each film. His duces us to two formidable talents that will not be denied. Freshman writer-director Sean craggy, wiry, but always intriguing persona is note-perfect for MarDurkin constructs a tha Marcy May Marpsychological thriller lene. He plays Patrick, with delicate weaves MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (R) a sensual, charismatic of slow-motion stoDirected by Sean Durkin but terrifying cult rytelling. In someone leader who instantly else’s hands, the film Starring Elizabeth Olsen, John Hawkes and Sarah Paulson lays claim to Martha might plod–here the soon after she stumbles mystery builds with Opens Friday at The Flicks upon his upstate New unspoken tension.

York compound.

But the real news is Hawkes’ resemblance the debut of Elizabeth to Charles Manson is not accidental casting.

Olsen. When you first spot her, you have the “You look like a Marcy May,” says Pateerie sensation that you’ve seen her previrick, rechristening her as his own. ously. Where might have you seen those

Patrick rapes all of the cult’s females, claiming, “we all love each other,” but takes a unique shine to Martha, singing creepy songs of adoration to her in front of others.

All the while, the cult’s young males mysteriously disappear to carry out assigned acts of off-screen violence.

The cult scenes alternate with Martha’s “normalcy,” where she escapes to the open arms of her estranged sister Lucy (in a great performance by Sarah Paulson) and brotherin-law Ted (Hugh Dancy). Martha is in constant search for a comfort she will never find, thanks in large part to her cult-damaged soul. In one particularly jaw-dropping moment, Martha curls up on the floor at the foot of a bed in which Lucy and Ted are making love. In fact, Martha has escaped one hell only to fall into another, this time manufactured by her nightmares.

The final act of Martha Marcy May Marlene is pretty scary stuff, but not in a traditional sense. Bone-rattling fears emanate from what is implied vs. what is shown on screen.

An open-ended conclusion might frustrate some but its effect is lasting and chill-inducing.

My best advice if you see this film (and I’m hoping you do) is to take a jacket.

SCREEN/LISTINGS Special Screenings BACKCOUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL—The Winter Wildlands Backcountry Film Festival makes its world premiere, highlighting the beauty and fun of the winter backcountry experience through nine different films. Afterglow Party to follow at The Falcon Tavern. For more info, log onto winterwildlands.org.

Friday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m. $10. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

BEYOND THE BOTTLE—Miir presents this screening of the documentary Beyond the Bottle, with proceeds benefiting the One Day’s Wages’ Horn of

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Africa Relief Fund. Saturday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

TWILIGHT SAGA TUESDAYS—Rewatch your favorite vampire movies and get prepped for the debut of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn-Part 1 on Nov. 18. Special features to precede movie screenings. Tonight’s movie: The Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Tuesday, Nov. 15, 7:30 p.m. Edwards Boise Stadium 22 and IMAX, 7701 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-377-9603, regmovies.com and Edwards Nampa Spectrum Stadium 14, 2001 N. Cassia St., Nampa, 208-467-3312, regmovies.com.

Opening J. EDGAR—Leonardo DiCaprio stars as J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI for more than 50 years, and whose personal life was filled with secrets that could have destroyed his career.

Naomi Watts, Judi Dench, Dermot Mulroney and Armie Hammer co-star.

Director Clint Eastwood also wrote the score. (R) Opens Friday, Nov. 11, at The Flicks.

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OLD-SCHOOL ARCHERY Traditional bow hunting makes a return RANDY KING “In the case of archery, the hitter and the hit are no longer two opposing objects, but are one reality.”

—Eugen Herrigel, Zen In the Art of Archery One arrow at a time is what I tell myself.

Become one with the arrow. The nock, the fingers, the pull, the focus and the release all play a part. When I strike true, my heart flutters and my blood pressure rises. I revel in Bill Dorsch, owner of Full Draw Custom Bows, practices the time-honored skills of traditional archery. my success. And that feeling of achievement is one reason I will not be alone in this fall’s late traditional archery, the opening of additional dozens of modern bows. archery season.

The difference between a traditional recurve elk zones would not have that big of an effect But I have a problem, if you could call it on harvest rates—that’s the theory behind althat; I have chosen to shoot traditional archery. bow and a modern bow is the technology. A lowing traditionalists additional access. compound bow is a combination of carbon I shoot a recurve bow. It does not have While traditionalists would like an expandfibers, metal wires, pulleys, fiber-optic sights sights for aiming, nor does it have wheels ed season, few places in the country actually and weight stabilizers combining to lethal efand pulleys to lower the amount of pressure I offer them. fectiveness. It’s capable of propelling an arrow hold before each shot. I am shooting a musket “I’m only aware of two examples of this: to about 70 yards with considerable accuracy. against the sniper rifle of modern archery. two isolated management units in Oregon, and My recurve bow uses essentially the same However, I am not alone in the traditional technology used in the 14th century: laminated McAllister military base in Oklahoma,” said archery field. Over the past few years, tradiDon Thomas, editor of Traditional Bowhunter tional and primitive archery have had a renais- wood with tapered ends and string to propel Magazine. the arrow. I can only shoot my longbow relisance of sorts. Stories of traditional archery “I can envision some possible compromise, have even made it into the Wall Street Journal. ably to about 25 yards. by reserving some hunting areas for traditional Add to the compound bow the advantages I wanted to talk to someone about this new archery tackle. However, that horse [modern popularity in traditionalism, so I contacted Bill of peep sights, light-concentrating sight pins, archery] is obviously well out of the barn now, carbon arrows and fall-away risers, and you Dorsch, owner of Full Draw Custom Bows in get a deadly weapon that is very dissimilar to a and from a political standpoint, we are best off Garden Valley to see why he became involved defending what archery seasons we have left,” traditional bow. in traditional archery. added Thomas.

To some, the difference between modern “I shoot traditional because I grew tired of Some would argue that the compound is all the gadgets it took for me to shoot. I bought and traditional archery is so vast that separate just the evolution of the traditional bow; the hunting seasons are being called for, with one one of the first compounds available and shot next cycle of the same weapon. set of rules for traditional archers and another them for years, adding things like sights, meIn Idaho, hunting regulations reflect a for modern archers. chanical release and such. parallel in the differences in technology; that Dorsch is an advocate of a traditional“One night I was bear hunting and could is why there are muzzleloader-only seasons archery-only season. not see the animal through my peep sight so I and center-fire rifle seasons. The fact that the “Traditional archers typically hunt only asked myself, ‘What the hell am I doing?’ I got accuracy and effectiveness is not equal between with traditional equiphome and tossed out the weapons is recognized. ment so what we are my compound. I found At the same time, isn’t the choice to be a proposing is opening someone to build me FULL DRAW CUSTOM BOWS traditional archer just that—a choice? So why all the elk hunting a recurve, like what I 10 Lookout Ct., Garden Valley, 208-949-4482, fulldrawbows.com should traditionalists be allowed additional zones for traditionalshot when I was a kid. access because they have made a choice to limit ists,” he said.

There was a purity to IDAHO ARCHERY COMPANY 5669 N. Glenwood St., Boise, their effectiveness? I don’t know the answer. I “What we want, the bow. And that’s 208-376-7057, idahoarchery.net do know that with or without a traditional-onand this is probwhy I build bows ly season, I will continue to shoot my recurve. ably gonna piss some now,” said Dorsch.

Perhaps the most enlightening comment on people off, is access to Even with the resurthe debate came from Thomas. other units [zones]. We are not trying to close gence, Dorsch and I are probably the excep“Personally, I’ve taken the position that the anything off to others, just open more up for tion. I recently asked Mike Gallegos, owner current state of affairs represents the inevitable traditionalists,” said Dorsch. “Let a traditionof Idaho Archery Company, if traditionalists result of human laziness meeting corporate alist hunt other zones as long as he only hunts made up 10 percent of the market. greed. I deal with it by ignoring it, and hunt“If that,” he replied. “More like 5 percent.” with his traditional bow.” ing in places where it really doesn’t matter: While Idaho does not keep traditional-only By looking around the Idaho Archery statistics, it is a safe assumption that tradition- wilderness Alaska and my own back yard in Company showroom, it is easy to see that traMontana.” alists don’t harvest as many animals as comditional shooting is not as popular as modern I’ll continue to practice in my own back pound hunters. So with low success rates and archery from a sales standpoint. Only four yard: the mountains of Idaho. only a small portion of total archers hunting recurve bows are on display, surrounded by

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LISTINGS/REC PLAY/REC AMBITION VS. REALITY A few simple statistics give a clue to the athletic demographic in the Treasure Valley. One recent national study placed Boise in the top five mostactive communities. Registration for the annual Race to Robie Creek (billed as “the toughest half marathon

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in the Northwest”) routinely ends minutes after it begins. And on any given Sunday, the Foothills crawl with hordes of people.

Now sunshine and 90-degree temperatures are but memories for weekend warriors and couch potatoes alike. The difference is that the couch potatoes are still happily sofasurfing while we wannabe jocks are licking our wounds from physical overuse. Such are the perils of a summer that lasted through the end of September. Thus, it’s no coincidence that an Internet search reveals more than 50 thriving physical-therapy practices in the Boise area.

As any athlete knows, making a sudden change in training is essentially punching your ticket for the injury train. We know this, and yet many of us subject ourselves to bouts of tendonitis, muscle tears and stress fractures, all in the name of getting into better shape. All summer, opportunities beckon us to set new goals, race against each other or push to new limits. Consequently, with the fall comes a literal fall, a natural acquiescence to a body that begs for a break. I can’t think of a riper irony—becoming more physically active has the potential to reduce us to inactivity when injury results.

Having had my fill of snow last winter, I leapt off the couch in March, attacking spring sports with all the enthusiasm of a Lab puppy. By August, I was running my third marathon of the year and challenging myself to pedal up Bogus Basin Road at least once a week. I’m no rookie; I should know better. Since I passed age 30, I’ve received constant physical reminders that my connective tissue, once stretchy and forgiving as saltwater taffy, now feels more like dried out rubber bands. If that sounds like a slight exaggeration, perhaps it is. But I don’t exaggerate the slightness—I’m being more honest than you might think.

I’ve discovered that mythological weak spots are a reality.

My very own Achilles heel, semi-crippled by a mild case of tendonitis, has forced me to incorporate physical therapy into my otherwise burly training regimen. Instead of logging miles on the trails, I’m counting calf raises in 10s and 20s, strengthening the muscles that support and contract the Achilles. In addition to packing the tendon in ice for 15 minutes three times per day, I’m stretching my soleus and my gastrocnemius as faithfully as a religious zealot prays.

Frustration with injury is inevitable. No athlete likes to feel like a slacker, but I have William Shakespeare to thank for providing me with an elegant redemption from being a wimp.

In Henry IV, Part 1, Falstaff comments that, “The better part of valor is discretion.” He’s right. At least I hope he’s right, because by exercising discretion more than I exercise my heart and lungs for a few weeks, I’m counting on valor alone to carry me through 26.2 more miles of running.

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Wednesdays. Boise State Rec Center, 1515 University Drive, Boise, rec.boisestate.edu.

MOUNTAIN WEST OUTDOOR CLUB—Member-led activities throughout the year, including hiking, camping, snowshoeing, and kayaking. Check the members-only Website for all recent posts. Memberships cost $15 per year. For information, call Mike Fritz at 208-3231383 or email mountainwest@ yahoogroups.com. groups.yahoo. com/group/mountainwest.

RUSH CREEK STAMPEDE, HALF MARATHON, 5K AND ONE-MILE FUN RUN/WALK— Register through race day for this half-marathon, 5K or one-mile fun run to be held Saturday, Nov. 12, in Cambridge. Register at bluecirclesports.com. $15-$45.

Cambridge Elementary School, 455 Hopper Ave., Cambridge.

TURKEY TROT RELAY—This four-person relay runs through Ann Morrison Park. Each racer runs two miles and the team closest to its predicted time wins a turkey for each team member.

Register online at bluecirclesports.com. Saturday, Nov. 19. $44 per team. Americana Boulevard, Boise, boiseystriders. org/turkeytrot.

CHRISTMAS RUN—Bundle up and rock a Christmas costume for this 2.5- or 6.1-mile family race. Visit ymcatvidaho.org for more info. Saturday, Dec. 17.

Boise Downtown Family YMCA, 1050 W. State St., Boise.

Recurring DROP-IN VOLLEYBALL—Drop in for a day game of volleyball. Nets and balls provided. Saturdays, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; Sundays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; and Mondays, Wednesdays, 9-11:30 a.m. $4 adults, $3 seniors, $2 youth.

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FOOD/YEAR OF IDAHO FOOD GU Y HAND

LABOR OF (C)LOVE The complications of growing garlic in southern Idaho GUY HAND In his book, A Garlic Testament, Stanley Crawford writes, “If you grow good garlic, people will love you for it.”

That’s surely true, but here in Southern Idaho, the space between the garlic growing and the love is littered with complexity.

Let’s say you’re a home gardener: It’s late fall—perfect garlic-planting season— but you haven’t found the time to hit your favorite nursery. Instead, you grab a fat head of garlic from the supermarket, break it up into cloves and plant those cloves— not in the pasta sauce for which they were intended, but in your garden.

What you’ve just unwittingly done, according to the Idaho State Department of Agriculture, is put the state’s $55 million onion industry at risk—and potentially cursed your own garden to a half century of white rot disease.

White rot is a vicious little fungus that can hitch a ride on seemingly untainted garlic, but once planted in the ground, that bad seed will turn the onion, garlic and other allium varieties in the near vicinity to mush.

In the late 1980s, a commercial Idaho garlic grower came down with “a big infestation of the stuff,” according to the ISDA’s Mike Cooper.

“Once it gets in a field or a garden, you’ve got it almost indefinitely,” Cooper said. “The more you grow onions or garlic in the field, the more the inoculate builds up, and it gets worse and worse.”

The only thing a gardener or farmer can do once the curse has been cast is give up growing alliums.

That ’80s outbreak understandably alarmed Idaho’s influential onion industry, which ranks fourth in the nation for onion production. It called for, and received, a white rot quarantine zone in Southern Idaho, where 9,000 acres of Idaho’s onion fields are located. Although the rule had no regulatory power over garlic shipped to stores as food (much of which comes from China), the quarantine dropped a thick curtain of bureaucracy over garlic destined to be planted in the ground as seed (individual cloves of garlic can either be eaten as “food” or planted as “seed”). All seed garlic growers in the Southern Idaho quarantine zone must now be inspected and certified, and all the seed garlic grown outside the zone is rigorously tested for disease before it’s allowed into the zone.

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Angie Hronek, a helping hand on Justin Moore’s garlic farm, holds up a clove of seed garlic.

pests, and no one I spoke to disputed the threat posed by white rot or the need for a quarantine zone—Washington also has its own white rot quarantine zone. But several Southern Idaho farmers and garlic retailers told me the quarantine had also stifled the growth of Idaho’s garlic industry.

Within Southern Idaho’s quarantine zone, only one garlic seed company has flourished: My Dad’s Garlic in Rupert. Every clove of Idaho garlic in every Southern Idaho nursery, and every clove bought by fellow Southern Idaho farmers and planted in their own fields likely came from stock supplied by My Dad’s Garlic.

“As far as I know, we’re the only certified garlic seed grower in this quarantine area,” My Dad’s owner Philip Webb said.

“We’ve got seven different varieties at this point,” Webb said of the 5-year-old seed garlic business that he and his wife bought from the previous grower, and named after his wife’s garlic-growing father.

The ISDA comes out three times a year to inspect Webb’s farm for white rot, but despite the close scrutiny, Webb said he has been able to expand from one-quarter acre to four.

“We’ve been selling out of seed every year,” he said.

And yet, Webb suggested, the opportunities for other garlic growers is limited.

“It’s just a very small niche market,” he said. “It’s very, very labor-intensive. All the hand-planting and hand-digging and laying it out on shelves to dry, then cleaning, grading, bagging—it takes quite a few people just for a few acres to get all that done. And people don’t realize sometimes how labor-intensive that is.”

Fledgling garlic farmer Justin Moore agreed.

“Yeah, it’s all a pain in the butt,” he said on a recent October day as he prepared to plant thousands of cloves of certified garlic in a plot near Boise.

All of Moore’s crop was grown from 40 pounds of garlic he purchased from Webb in

2010, planted last fall, then harvested early this summer.

“It’s not like you buy the seed, throw it in the ground and pick it,” Moore said. “You have to dry it all down perfectly, grade it, and then you have to break apart every single garlic head into individual cloves.”

It took Moore all the previous week to do just that and left his thumbs raw.

“Wake up 7 a.m., bust garlic,” he said.

“Come home [from a day of farming], sit down, bust garlic.”

New garlic farmers must repeat those steps through several growing seasons—harvesting a bulb of 10 or 12 cloves for each clove of garlic originally planted—before they’ve built up enough seed stock to sell commercially. Moore figured he’s still a harvest or two away from a real payoff.

And yet Moore, a self-confessed garlic nerd who admitted to carrying cloves around in his pockets as snacks, was undaunted.

“I just think garlic is one of the most wonderful plants that you can actually grow,” he said as he pulled boxes of parchment-colored cloves out of his truck. “And I think there’s plenty of room for more than one grower here. You go anywhere else in this country and there’s so many garlic farms in little, concentrated areas.”

In Vermont, where Moore is from, he said a lot of his friends grow seed garlic within a few miles of each other. Moore is growing his garlic organically, a first in Southern Idaho’s quarantine zone, and he hopes to bring in new varieties not yet available in the area.

“There’s something like 300 known cultivars of garlic in the world,” he said, “and a lot of places grow tons of varieties.”

To bring any of those varieties into the quarantine zone, a grower must first send every single clove of outsourced garlic to the University of Idaho’s Potato Tissue Culture Lab in Moscow, where it is prodded and probed for white rot at a cost of $1 32 or more per clove.

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FOOD/CON’T Of those cloves, 40 to 50 percent “wash out” during the testing process, according to Cooper, either because of disease detection or the damage they suffer from the test itself. The lab then sends the surviving and now-certified garlic back to the farmer.

Lori Bevan—one of seven growers Cooper said who have filed the paperwork necessary to start a seed garlic business in the quarantine zone—sent six new garlic varieties to the Moscow lab for testing.

She said the lab charged $2 a clove, and of those it certified and shipped back to her, half died once she planted them.

“I heard another farmer went through the same process and lost a lot of his as well,” Bevan said with a sigh.

On a blustery late fall day, Bevan said she’d often been frustrated by the lack of variety and limited quantities of garlic available to farmers in the Treasure Valley and was convinced that Southern Idaho needed more garlic growers—but she also seemed a little discouraged by both the quarantine’s complexities and garlic’s natural proclivities. Like fellow garlic growing newbie Moore, Bevan figured it would take her another two years of planting, growing, harvesting, drying, busting down heads and then planting cloves again before she’d have enough garlic to sell commercially.

For a new garlic farmer, the time it takes to yield a garlic crop must seem endless—add on a quarantine zone and that’s probably why Cooper said most of those who apply for certification don’t make it.

“It follows that you ought not to grow garlic unless you are willing to let it make you as patient as it needs for its purposes,” Crawford wrote in A Garlic Testament. “One of the singular characteristics of garlic is that it makes you wait.”

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The youngest of the trio, it’s the most fruit forward with flashy cherry and strawberry flavors laced with mocha, vanilla and a touch of leather. This is a nicely structured wine with good acidity and smooth tannins on the finish.

2005 CHATEAU MIREFLEURS, $13.99 The 2005 vintage was an outstanding one across the board in Bordeaux, and this merlot-dominated blend drinks beautifully after a few years in the bottle. Solid aromas of dark berry and plum are colored by touches of vanilla, cider and spice. Ripe plum and cherry dominate the palate, along with subtle hints of anise and leather. This wine is an excellent value.

1999 CHATEAU SIMARD, $27 If you are looking for a youthful fruit bomb, pass on this one. Bordeaux is known for its ability to improve with age, and a decade after the vintage, this wine has evolved into an elegantly supple red. Aromas of soft cherry and cassis are backed by earth, herb, brick and leather. The palate is smooth and round with lovely cherry and plum, and touches of anise, mushroom, forest floor, mint and herb. This is an enticing example of a mature Bordeaux at an attractive price.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE SECOND JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF KENT CHAMBERS, Deceased.

CASE NO. CV IE 1118472 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed Personal Representative of the above named estate. All persons having claims against the deceased are required to present their claim within four (4) months after the date of the first publication of this notice or said claims will be forever barred.

Claims must either be presented to the undersigned Personal Representative of the estate, or c/o Michael P. Wasko, P.O. Box 118, Cottonwood, Idaho 83522, and filed with the Court.

DATED this 26th day of October, 2011.

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I [Joseph Callan] am Executor to the JOSEPH CALLAN Estate as Witnessed by my Sole Ability to Personally

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The title of this week’s movie is Uproar of Love, starring the Fantasy Kid and The Most Feeling Machine In The World.

It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of espionage and undertones of revolution. Comic touches will slip in at unexpected moments. When you’re not up to your jowls in archetypes, you might be able to muster the clarity to gorge yourself on the earthly delights that are spread from here to the edge of the abyss.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How’s your relationship with your muse? Don’t tell me that you’re not an artist so you don’t have a muse. Even garbage collectors, farmers and politicians need muses. All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life’s next adventures. So I ask you again: What have you and your muse been up to lately? It’s high time for you to infuse your connection with a dose of raw mojo. And if for some sad reason you don’t have a muse, I urge you to go out in quest of new candidates.

(P.S. A muse isn’t necessarily a person; he or she might also be an animal, ancestor, spirit or a hero.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular consumption of Free Will Astrology can be effective in smoothing unsightly wrinkles on your attitude, scouring away stains on your courage, and disposing of old garbage stuck to your karma. They’ve also gathered testimony from people who claim to have experienced the spontaneous healing of nagging ailments and chronic suffering while under the influence of these oracles. If I were you, I’d try to take advantage of such benefits right now. You could use some healing. Luckily, it looks like there will be an array of other curative options available as well. Be aggressive about seeking them out.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Given the lush and exotic astrological factors coming to bear on your destiny, and due to the possibility that something resembling actual magic may soon make an appearance, I am taking a leap of faith. There is a hypothetical scene described by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) that would normally be too outlandish to take seriously, but I suspect it’s a possible match for your upcoming adventures. “What if you slept,” he wrote, “and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there

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plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I was musing on how slow I am to learn the lessons I need to master— how hard it can be to see the obvious secrets that are right in front of me. But I felt better after I came across the logo for the C.G. Jung Institute in San Francisco, which is dedicated to the study of psychology and psychotherapy.

The symbol that it has chosen to embody its ruling spirit consists of four snails creeping their way around a center point—a witty acknowledgment of the plodding nature of the human psyche. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it’s important for you to give yourself credit for how much you’ve grown since the old days—even if your progress seems intolerably gradual.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It will be a good week to have nice long talks with yourself—the more, the better. The different sub-personalities that dwell within you need to engage in vigorous dialogues that will get all their various viewpoints out in the open. I even recommend coaxing some of those inner voices to manifest themselves outside the confines of your own head. If you feel inhibited about giving them full expression where they might be overheard by people, find a private place that will allow them to feel free to be themselves.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): During the reign of President George W. Bush, many Americans viewed France as being insufficiently sympathetic with American military might. So enraged were some conservatives that they tried to change the name of French fries to freedom fries and French toast to freedom toast.

The culminating moment in this surrealistic exercise came when Bush told the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Tony Blair, “The French don’t even have a word for entrepreneur”—unaware that “entrepreneur” is borrowed from the French. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Libra: Make sure you know the origins of everyone and everything you engage with, especially as they affect your ability to benefit from entrepreneurial influences.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Cunnilinguistic Dicktionary defines the newly coined word “mutinyversal” as “rebellion against the whole universe.” I think it would be an excellent time for you to engage in a playful, vivacious version of that approach to life. This is one of those rare times when you have unique gifts to offer and so many invigorating insights to unleash, that you really should

act as if you are mostly right and everyone else is at least halfwrong. Just one caution: As you embark on your crusade to make the world over in your image, do it with as much humility and compassion as you can muster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In Mongolia, there’s a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a velociraptor is clawing a protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy’s arm. They’ve been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I’m shoving this image in your face, Sagittarius, to dare and encourage you to withdraw from your old feuds and disputes. It’s a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to give up any struggle that’s not going to matter 80 million years from now.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “In your experience, who is the best-smelling actor that you’ve worked with?” TV host Jon Stewart asked his guest Tom Hanks. “Kevin Bacon,” replied Hanks. Why? Not because of the bacon-as-a-delicious-food angle, although that would be funny.

“He smells like a mix of baby powder and Listerine.” Keep this perspective in mind, Capricorn. I think you should be engaged in a great ongoing quest to put yourself in situations with pleasing aromas. I mean this in both the metaphorical and literal sense.

To set yourself up for meaningful experiences that provide you with exactly what you need, follow your nose.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to my reading of the omens, Aquarius, you can finally take advantage of a long-standing invitation or opportunity that you have felt unworthy of, or unready for. Congratulations on being so doggedly persistent about ripening the immature parts of yourself. Now here’s an extra bonus: This breakthrough may in turn lead to you finding a lost piece to the puzzle of your identity.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My acquaintance Bob takes a variety of meds for his bipolar disorder.

They work pretty well to keep him out of the troughs, but he misses the peaks. Last time he saw his psychiatrist, he told her he wished he could stop taking the complicated brew of drugs and just take a happy pill every day.

The psychiatrist told him that if he ever found such a thing, she’d love to take it herself. Wouldn’t we all? I’m pleased to report that you are now very close to locating the next best thing to a happy pill, Pisces. It may require you to at least partially give up your addiction to one of your customary forms of suffering, though.

Are you prepared to do that?

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