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Boise Bike Project will host a bike-in screening of The Triplets of Belleville. Quelle bonne idee.
WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY MAY 18-21 bikes NINTH ANNUAL BOISE BIKE WEEK If you’ve noticed a bike spike this past week, here’s the two-wheeled deal: We’re currently cruising through the thick of Boise Bike Week, the annual celebration of all things pedal-powered. Here are some remaining Bike Week events that have us spoke-stoked. PEDAL POWER POTLUCK PICNIC IN THE PARK Screw hand-mixed screwdrivers. At the Pedal Power Potluck Picnic in the Park on Wednesday, May 18, the Sierra Club is encouraging folks to trick out their rides, mad scientist-style. “Can you use your bike to create your dinner along the way? Mix the drink, whip the cream, or whatever? Let your imagination go wild.” Picnic participants will congregate at Boise Co-op, where registration begins at 6 p.m. Too lazy to make a bike-powered chocolate mousse? Pick up a bike basket-full of pre-made picnic provisions at the store. 6 p.m., Boise Co-op, 888 W. Fort St. Park in the Sierra Club parking lot, 503 W. Franklin St. For more information, visit idahosierraclub.org/middlesnake. Helmets and signed waiver required. BIKE-IN MOVIE All the sexiness of a drive-in movie, without any of the gas-guzzling guilt. This year’s bike-in flick will be hosted at the Boise Bike Project headquarters off Lusk Street on Friday, May 20. Though attendees are encouraged to cart down whatever butt-supporting devices they please— lawn chairs, La-Z Boys, couches—there is one caveat: you have to get it there by bike. The evening starts off with a “bike noir” short by local filmmaker Zach Voss, which will be followed by the Academy Award-nominated animated film The Triplets of Belleville. The show gets rolling at 6:30 p.m. and there will be a no-host beer garden provided by New Belgium brewery. 6:30 p.m., Boise Bicycle Project Shop, 1027 Lusk St., boisebikeproject.org. BIKE TOUR OF BENCH HOMES Learn the low-down on Spanish Revival and Mediterranean-influenced architecture on Saturday, May 21, with a free bike tour by Preservation Idaho. Host Dan Everhart will take attendees on a tour of Bench homes featuring these architectural styles at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Reservation and helmets required. For more information, visit preservationidaho.org or contact 208-424-5111, or email info@preservationidaho.org. PEDAL PARADE AND FINALE The Pedal Parade is the grand finale of Boise Bike Week and it goes down on Saturday, May 21. Riders decked out in frilly pink tulle, superhero spandex and full-body bearsuits will meet at Capitol Park at 4:30 p.m. and ride leisurely through downtown before capping things off back at Capitol Park with a party featuring refreshments and a prize raffle. 4:30 p.m., ride begins at 5 p.m., Capitol Park, on Sixth Street between Bannock and Jefferson streets. For more information, visit boisebikeweek.org.
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SATURDAY MAY 21 community THE COMMUNITY PROGRESSIVE Progressive dinner parties are rad-ass. Most work something like this: You go to one person’s house for appetizers and cocktails; another for wine and dinner; and yet another for dessert and aperitifs. It’s a three-course meal, often on wheels—if you bike your food-stuffed, buzzed butt from one house to the next. You can think of the Community Progressive like a huge progressive dinner party. But instead of gluttony, it celebrates “community building.” Sound vague? Here’s a rundown on United Vision for Idaho’s all-encompassing event, which runs all day on Saturday, May 21, at venues across downtown and Garden City. The event kicks off at 10 a.m. on the Capitol steps with a rally “honoring individuals in our community who embody progress.” The keynote speaker will be Rep. Cherie Buckner-Webb. From 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., you can join Todd Shallat for a walking tour of downtown Boise, examining the city’s progress through the years. From Noon-4 p.m., there’s a nonprofit fair at Beside Bardenay featuring organizations like The Idaho Human Rights Education Center, ACLU of Idaho and The Community Center. Also from noon to 4 p.m. there will be a variety of free public workshops hosted at various venues. One highlight includes “The Importance of Nonprofit Media, How We Form and Shape our Ideas” with Joan Cartan-Hansen, host of Dialogue on Idaho Public Broadcasting from 2-3 p.m. at the Alaska Building. There will also be a bevy of live music performances during the day at The Flicks, Eyes of the World Imports, Brown’s Gallery and The Modern, all capped off with two evening concerts. The first is at The Linen Building from 6-9 p.m. with Dan Costello, Tim Willis, Gayle Chapman and Sue Leonard, and Dave Andrews and Steve Fulton. The second is at Visual Arts Collective from 9 p.m. to midnight with Rebecca Scott Band, The Brian Bateman Blend, SFM Steve Fulton Music and Audio Moonshine. For more, see Citizen on Page 10. 10 a.m. until midnight, FREE. Various locations. For more info on the Community Progressive, visit uvidaho.org.
WEDNESDAY MAY 18 workshop LEGAL ISSUES FOR ARTISTS In what is likely to remain a case taught at law schools for decades to come, John Fogerty, singer for Creedence Clearwa-
ter Revival, was sued by Fantasy Records in 1988 because they claimed “The Old Man Down the Road,” a song from his 1985 solo album Centerfield, sounded too much like an old song they owned the publishing rights to: “Run Through the Jungle.” The catch: Fogerty wrote that one, too. Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing himself.
“This is a very important case,” Fogerty told The Oregonian. “At stake is whether a person can continue to use his own style, or is he to be prevented from ever sounding like himself again? I can feel the ghosts of Lennon and Shakespeare over my shoulder, saying, ‘Johnny, don’t you blow this.’” Fogerty eventually won the case and filed a WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M