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PROPERTY WARS Payette County residents turn down gas developers’ cash offers FEATURE 15

PICTURE PERFECT The winners of the annual Black and White Photo Contest ARTS 32

JUST CHUTE ME Green Chutes hits its mark among artists REC 36

DROP A LINE Urban fishing holes in a high-water world

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NOTE BLACK AND WHITE AND LOTS OF GRAY This is one of those annual issues that we’ve been doing for a while. As you can see from the name of this week’s feature—“Boise Weekly’s Ninth Annual Black and White Photo Contest”—we’ve been at it nine years now. Like all of our contests, in which we turn over our pages and sometimes our cover to our talented readers, the number of submissions we receive for Black and White Photo grows every year, and the caliber of the work continues to improve and impress.

For those who are new to this issue, here’s how it works: The winner graces the cover and the runners-up are found on pages 15-20. Come November, when we auction off the lot of covers from the last year, Jordan Munroe’s grand prize piece will be among those sold to help fund Boise Weekly’s private arts grant.

Whether you’re an online reader or devoted to newsprint, I’d recommend checking out the photo contest at boiseweekly.com. We’ve been mucking around with a few elements of our website, including the slideshow element, and recently implemented vast changes to the look and functionality of it.

In fact, we dispatch our photog-intern army to various events each week with instructions to snap as many photos as possible. We create a slideshow of each event, and if you’re out and about on the regular, there’s a good chance we have a shot of your mug. Keep an eye on Cobweb for posts with “slideshow” in the title.

As for this edition, news editor George Prentice talks to property owners in Payette County, who say they are being pressured to sell their homes and land to make way for proposed natural-gas drilling. In Food, Guy Hand takes a romp through the woods and discovers a surprisingly decent meal. And in Citizen, BW chats up one of Boise’s most well known faces: Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s Sara Bruner.

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COVER ARTIST ARTIST: Jordan Munroe TITLE: Bird’s Eye View of New York City MEDIUM: Black and white digital photograph ARTIST STATEMENT: This picture came from me trusting the 57th floor windows of the Double Tree Hotel in Times Square and leaning against them taking shot after shot. I love all the people walking, sitting, taking pictures and just going about their lives.

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BIKE POLO’S DEBUT TOURNEY Boise Bike Polo held its first tournament on June 18, and BW was there catch it on video—in the rain. Visit boiseweekly.com and click on “Video.”

PLAN C FOR MEGA-LOADS? Now that the mega-loads of oil equipment moving along Highway 12 have kicked up some dust in Idaho, one company is piping up with a new plan to move the equipment that doesn’t require a trip through the Gem State. Details at Citydesk.

PAYETTE WOMAN LOOKING AT THREE TO 10 YEARS Catherine Carlson, the transsexual Payette woman who was arrested while naked on Highway 95 after setting her trailer on fire, was sentenced to three separate three-year prison terms for her crimes. Carlson will become the first post-op transsexual in custody in Idaho.

LOCAL AND ORGANIC Idaho Organic Week will be in full swing by the time this issue of BW hits stands. Want to know what’s local and organic? Details at Cobweb.

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EDITOR’S NOTE MAIL BILL COPE TED RALL NEWS Payette County residents turn down lucrative land offers from natural gas company CITYDESK CITIZEN FEATURE BW’s ninth annual Black and White Photo Contest BW PICKS FIND 8 DAYS OUT SUDOKU NOISE The Civil Wars: the accidental band MUSIC GUIDE ARTS The idea behind Green Chutes SCREEN Review-proof blockbusters REC Urban fishing holes PLAY The return of in-line skating FOOD Forest foraging WINE SIPPER FOOD REVIEW The Stuffed Olive CLASSIFIEDS NYT CROSSWORD FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

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HOLY SMOKES , THES E C OMMENTS MA KE ME F E EL LIK E I NEED TO GO HUG A ME XI CA N. ” — your pal skip (boiseweekly.com, Citydesk, “Idaho Hispanic Population Grows by 73 Percent,” May 26, 2011)

CONFUCIUS SAYS People think they don’t have what they want because they don’t know what they want. Not true.

They don’t have what they want because what they think they want isn’t what they want.

—Jamie Lynn Morgan, Coeur d’Alene

RESPECT VETS CEMETERY As veterans of the United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, we would like to express concern and disappointment regarding the policies involving the use of bicycles at the Idaho Veteran’s Cemetery.

During a planning session for a visit to the cemetery on Memorial Day, it was suggested by one of the vets in our group that we ride our bikes and walk in.

We figured that would be a good way to avoid traffic congestion in the cemetery and leave a small (non-existent) and very respectful noise footprint within that hallowed ground. Last year, we parked a car outside the gates of Dry Creek Cemetery and walked in.

There were cars, trucks and motorcycles everywhere.

Some were parked with wheels on the grass in Dry Creek Cemetery. Not a great situation.

During a call to the IVC to help plan the visit, the veteran who called was told in no uncertain terms that bicycles were forbidden in the cemetery. During

Memorial Day, even walking your bicycle into the cemetery could get you a ticket from a Sheriff’s deputy, and riding to any point in the cemetery may yield harsher measures against the rider, he was told.

When presented with a hypothetical situation, according to the person who represented the IVC, it is fine to drive or ride a motor vehicle into the cemetery but not acceptable to even walk a bicycle through since the motor vehicle is a form of transportation and the bicycle is a form of recreation.

The State of Idaho considers bicycles a form of transportation. Any type of vehicle, with a motor or not, can be used as a form of recreation.

We can understand the concerns the IVC caretakers have about people who thoughtlessly use the cemetery for a recreational facility. It is not a place for casual play. However it is important for reasonable people to see the difference between a caring, thoughtful, respectful veteran visitor who happens to use a small, quiet vehicle to get to the cemetery on a crowded day and someone who drives through on, or in their motor vehicle, including motorcycles, some with mufflers, some without.

As decorated veterans, we no longer feel welcome at the Idaho Veteran’s Cemetery. A simple request for information was met by insulting and disrespect-

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ful policies that make criminals out of anyone who chooses to enter that hallowed ground in quiet dignity, walking their bike.

Ridiculous.

—John Post, Boise, and Steve Scanlin, Boise

HAPPY BIKERS I know you’ve been hearing from me quite a bit lately, but I need to say kudos and take my hat off to some amazing reporting, photography, P4theP coverage and community support.

I spend a great deal of time checking out the online world of BW—don’t want to say I’m addicted because that would be the first step to recovery—but this week I was like a kid in a candy store. I can’t believe the amazing photos Will Jones took at Helladrome, the video and all the other event coverage.

On a separate note, Boise Weekly was the first to jump to aid with our recent break-in, which was the pits, for lack of a better term. Thanks BW, you and the community have provided a silver lining for a very dark, crappy cloud.

Within just a few days, the community has come to our aid and put the skip back in our step and the cadence back it our pedal stroke (how’s that for a bike nerd?).

For all the folks offering support, we appreciate everything and hope to see you at all the great events going on this month. Hard to be sad about a little setback when you’re popping wheelies into a bright future.

Thanks for the support, as usual, and keep up the good work.

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OPINION

GETTING FRACKED Learning to say no to big corporate interests KAI HUSCHKE Exploding gas wells, poisoned water, plummeting property value, dead fish, roadside dumping of toxic waste … the evidence that communities are being turned into resource colonies of gas drilling corporations is everywhere.

In cahoots with the gas industry are the state lawmakers who continue to clear the way for frackers. In Pennsylvania there’s a new exemption from clean air requirements, no regulation or monitoring of frack wastewater dumping in streams and rivers and a complete exemption from local control. In New York, citizens have been holding their breath waiting for the moratorium to expire and for the drilling to begin; they’ve been pushed out of the decisionmaking loop by a state preemption on local control over drilling corporations.

And here in Idaho it’s the same story— state legislators and the governor have become advocates for the privileges of drilling corporations and against the rights of people. Fracking in Payette County is scheduled to begin this year.

To say the game is stacked against regular citizens would be a huge understatement. To attempt to treat only the environmental, health and economic symptoms of this problem would be a mistake: We need to cure the disease that allows these symptoms to spread unchecked but first we need to understand what the barriers are.

REGULATORY LAW To regulate is to permit harmful corporate behavior in communities, whether the people want it or not, under conditions legalized by the state. Those regulations that have become law typically have been recommended, or negotiated for, by the regulated industry. Zoning, the most local of regulatory tactics, simply allows a community to decide where the fracking will occur. Zoning cannot prevent fracking—it simply allows a municipality or county to decide what parts of their locality it will surrender to the corporation.

CORPORATE RIGHTS Corporate constitutional rights are very real and very powerful. Among those corporate powers is the requirement that local governments must allow all legal uses within their communities—thus stripping away their authority to prohibit fracking. And when a community attempts to prohibit this corporate activity, corporate attorneys can sue the community, contending that the corporation’s property has been taken—a violation of the corporation’s Fifth Amendment rights.

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PREEMPTION In your community, who decides what is legal and what is not? Is it the people affected by governing decisions or is it someone else who calls the shots? Despite our tradition of defending the right to local self-governance as asserted in the Declaration of Independence, our local governing authority has been chipped away as more centralized control has been imposed for the purpose of protecting the privileges enjoyed by the corporate minority.

DOUBT Our biggest obstacle by far is our doubt that we have the duty, the authority and the competence to assert our rights and ban fracking. Those doubts are the result of corporate-state fear tactics intended to shake our resolve and cause us to surrender our communities without a fight.

We must shake off those doubts and act in cooperation and solidarity with our friends, neighbors and local governments.

So what are the options for the folks of Payette County facing the real prospect of having their environment, property values and overall quality of life damaged by fracking: 1. Do nothing … and get fracked. The question is: Although you have the freedom to decide for yourself, do you have the liberty to surrender your community today to the detriment of future generations?

2. Try to use existing law to protect your community … and get fracked. The stackeddeck of regulatory law offers no protection for your community from fracking.

3. Act on the knowledge that you have unalienable rights to local self-governance.

By choosing to do nothing or trying to use existing law you surrender your rights without a fight and getting fracked is a certainty. Through local law-making, communities are putting in place bans on corporate drilling and fracking and are challenging existing structures of law that override local democratic decision making and violate community rights.

More than 20 communities in Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and West Virginia have chosen option three. They are considering or have passed binding local law that recognizes the right to local self-government, the right to clean water, the rights of the environment and have banned fracking as an activity that would violate those rights. Will Payette County join the fight?

Kai Huschke is a community organizer with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund in Spokane, Wash.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

THE SLACKEST SLATE Ask Bill: Advice for the worried Cope, you insane perv Weiner dope, You suck and if there was anyone else to ask, I would not bother with a sicko sheep dip like you. But now that Tim Woodword has called it quits, there is no where else I can go to answer my question. Some of the TV people around here have got something called the Truth Platoon, so I called them up and asked them my question, but they said they were not that kind of Truth Platoon. I says, “Well what the hell kind of goddamn Truth Platoon are you then!” But she hangs up on me. So I have to ask you, much as it makes me want to puke to even think about the kind of libtard Barney Frank chihuahua snot you are.

My question is, why are the Republican president runners all looking like the kind of loser dopes you see in those movies about loser dopes with hangovers so bad they can not remember where they left their car?

What I am saying is: Why won’t someone run who is neither a total zero or a Mormon so we can send Hussein Obama back to Kenya with his tail between his legs? I got nothing against Mormons, but that Mitt Romney out-Mormons even my neighbor from across the coldysack, who wears a white shirt and a skinny tie even when he cleans gunk out of his gutter. And besides, how do we trust a guy which can switch sides on an issue faster than I can load a fresh clip in my Glock. My brother Earl said it is like someone is standing out of camera view, operating Romney with a remote! And I said, “Yeah, Earl, it is just like that!”

There is something also about Michele Bachmann that I cannot get my mind over. I like what she says, but if she were to turn around by mistake and we could see one of those jelly looking alien parasites attached to the back of her skull, sucking out the brain juice and telling her when to blink and stuff, it would not surprise me.

There is some other people whose names I cannot remember, and Tim Pawlenty, whose face I cannot remember, and then there is Newt Gingrich, who is supposed to be real smart. Not that you’d know it by anything he says. But I wish Donald Trump was still running is what I wish.

That would be the best day of my life to hear him look that Muslim Marxy in the eye and say “You’re Fired!” But now that won’t happen, not unless Sarah Palin wins, and then she would probably say “You’re Fired!,” too, because I am not sure she can talk very good unless she has borrowed the words from somebody.

So that is what has me worried, Cope you elitist piece of crawling Nancy Pelosi crap, that we will not have the right person who can beat Obama. How can that be? Why are all the big dogs like Jeb and Perry and that Christie honker decided not to run? And do not be thinking I will believe your answer. I have not believed you ever before, and I am not about to start now.

—Dick from Melba Dear Dick from Melba: So nice of you to think of me, even if what you think of me seems to be somewhat downwind from fresh cat poop. And as I’m certain that you’re going to hate what I have to say on this matter, it’s such a relief that you’re not going to believe it, anyway.

Ah yes ... the big dogs of the Republican Party. Jeb, the Bush boy who always seemed so normal when standing next to his brother. And Chris Christie, the first manatee-American to be considered seriously as presidential material. And of course, Rick Perry, or as I call him, “Rod Blagojevich South,” as Rick and Rod appear to have ordered their hair cuts from the same catalog.

There are indications Perry may join the race, but you’re right about the others. Along with Haley Barbour and Indiana’s Mitch Daniels, all the great white hopes have declared their intentions to not run. And why is that? Are they so terrified of being the second man in history to lose to an African-American?

Probably. Yet I believe there to be another reason … the ugly truth that you will undoubtedly let run off your brain like Coors Lite off a Simonized chin: There aren’t any substantial candidates in contention for the GOP nomination because the substantial ones know what they’re peddling doesn’t work.

The evidence is what our country has become. After 30 years of privatizing government functions, exporting industry to cheap-labor markets, deregulating financial institutions, tax breaks for the rich and stagnation for the middle class, we are neck deep in the abysmal failure of conservative ideology. And the smart ones know it. Bush and Barbour, Christie and Daniels ... they understand there is no chance whatsoever that the same policies that put us into this hole could possibly pull us out.

But they have backed themselves into a corner, haven’t they? Because of the dementia that has infected the GOP, candidates have no choice but to preach the radical gospel, or they will find themselves squatting out on the sidewalk with no party over their heads. Besides, they probably realize the truth in what economists have been telling us since the bottom fell out— that there is no end in sight for the unemployment and entropy, that even if Obama is denied a second term, it will be just as bad under the next president as it is now, and certainly worse if the war lords of laissez faire are allowed to pillage at will.

So there’s that answer you’ll refuse to believe, Melba Dick. It’s much safer to stand on the sidelines and bitch that Obama isn’t fixing the economy fast enough, isn’t it? Especially when you know it might not be fixable.

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Will Tahrir Square come to Washington, D.C.?

LOS ANGELES—People are rising up in Tunisia, Egypt, Jordan and Syria. Patriotic Afghans, Iraqis and Yemenis are fighting puppet dictators propped by U.S. military occupation. They demand an end to violent, corrupt governments that serve themselves but not their citizens. People in the Middle East and European countries such as Greece refuse to accept systemic poverty and unemployment so that a tiny slice of corrupt, well-connected elites can continue to amass wealth.

Why can’t we have a Tahrir Square?

Here in the United States, corrupt politicians and their corporate overlords have raped the wealthiest nation in the history of civilization, reducing one out of five Americans to unemployment as the income of the rich skyrockets. They tell us our schoolchildren must do with less and that we cannot afford to see doctors when we are ill. Meanwhile they start prolonged, seemingly endless wars of aggression against nations that posed no threat.

Organizers are calling a demonstration planned for Thursday, Oct. 6, in Washington’s Freedom Square “the biggest story on the progressive sphere of the Internet tomorrow.”

Oct. 6 marks the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. This, they say, will not be the usual sad protest demonstration in which people show up, chant slogans, march around, then pack up their signs and go home.

The idea behind Oct. 6 is to recreate Tahrir Square two blocks from the White House.

[Full disclosure: I have endorsed Oct. 6.]

“We are not packing up and leaving this time,” says Tarak Kauff, one of the organizers.

“We are preparing to stay as long as we possibly can or until some basic demands are met.

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If we are driven out, we will return.”

“Previous demonstrations were one-day events, which were simple for the administration and Congress to ignore,” Margaret Flowers, another organizer, told me. “The large demonstrations usually happened on weekends when there was little going on in Washington. This is different because it is an occupation that begins on a Thursday, a day of business, and will continue.”

All the participating groups have pledged to remain nonviolent. But a real demand for real change? The system will view that as a threat.

Flowers: “If the police respond violently, we will do our best to maintain a nonviolent response. If we responded with violence, it would reinforce the police violence, and they have weapons, so more people would be hurt ... It will be very unfortunate if the police and others working for the security state choose violence. But that is a possibility as we are seeing in this country and around the world.

Empires have a history of violence. We want a different kind of society—one that is peaceful, just and sustainable. That is the kind of society we intend to model during our occupation.”

Unlike previous demonstrations, on one issue like globalization or gay rights, Oct. 6 is an attempt to unify the American left into a holistic attack upon the main cause of most of the problems we face: the hegemony of big business that is the inevitable culmination of late-stage capitalism.

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NEWS GEOR GE PR ENTIC E

Sen. John McGee, more accustomed to wearing a suit and tie when appearing before a camera, wore a suit of a different variety on June 20. The four-term state senator donned a standard-issue jumpsuit, courtesy of Ada County and appeared via video from the jail for arraignment on charges of misdemeanor DUI and felony operating a vehicle without the owner’s consent. Sitting at the Ada County Courthouse, members of McGee’s family looked on somberly.

McGee sat silently as his lawyer, Scott McKay, stressed that the bizarre events of the previous 24 hours were “out of character” for the Majority Caucus leader. In the early morning hours of June 19, Ada County Sheriff’s deputies said they found McGee passed out in the backseat of a stranger’s Ford Excursion after jack-knifing the vehicle, which was towing a 20-foot trailer, in the driveway of a residence on Knapp Way in Meridian. Police said McGee had been drinking at a Boise golf course. Lawmen said it was unclear exactly how McGee got behind the wheel of a stranger’s vehicle. Prosecutors said damages to the SUV topped $2,000.

Police said the 38-year-old senator’s blood alcohol content was measured at .15, nearly double the legal driving limit of .08.

McGee was taken into custody shortly before 5 a.m. and spent the remainder of Father’s Day in Ada County Jail.

During McGee’s arraignment, McKay chronicled the accomplishments and “outstanding community service” of the senator, noting McGee’s current position as marketing director for West Valley Medical Center and his work with such organizations as the United Way of Treasure Valley, the Caldwell Rotary Club and the College of Idaho, where he serves as chairman of the Board of Trustees. First elected to the State Senate in 2004, McGee represents the citizens of Caldwell, Greenleaf and Wilder in District 10.

He sits on three senate committees: Local Government and Taxation, State Affairs and Transportation.

Pointing to the presence of family and friends in the courtroom, McKay also took time to praise McGee’s family and its connections to the Treasure Valley.

McKay pleaded with Magistrate Kevin Swain to set a bond no higher than $1,000.

But McGee’s accomplishments aside, Swain agreed with prosecutors, ruling “the seriousness” of the charges could “not be ignored.”

Bond was set at $5,000, which McGee posted later that afternoon.

During the arraignment, McKay said there was “still a lot to be investigated about this case,” noting “possible health concerns” would be brought up in future proceedings.

McKay’s preliminary hearing in Ada County Court is scheduled for Friday, July 1.

To avoid any possible conflict of interest, the Malheur County District Attorney’s Office will handle the prosecution.

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SENATOR’S ARREST

NO SALE Some Payette County residents won’t negotiate with Bridge Resources GEORGE PRENTICE Mike Dalton wants Bridge Resources to know he is not for sale—not his land, not his mineral rights and not his silence. Yet Bridge, the Colorado-based company that has been poking holes in Payette County looking for natural gas, hasn’t given up. For the better part of four years, Dalton said Bridge representatives have been calling or showing up on his New Plymouth doorstep, looking to strike a deal.

“Somebody from Bridge even sat in his car out on our driveway, waiting for us to come home,” said Dalton. “They keep coming Mike and Cindy Dalton at their 40-acre New Plymouth farm, where they raise Highland Cattle. back. And they keep calling. They left four messages in the last two weeks, but I just erase them.”

Wendy and Jerry Stelling live down the when I decided these guys aren’t legit.”

It turns out that Dalton’s farm, which he road at AC&D Farms. It’s a busy time for the BW has asked Kim Parsons, Bridge’s exshares with his wife Cindy and a dozen Highploration manager, for an in-person interview couple and their three sons (AC&D is named land cows, is a hot property, literally. for Austin, Connor and Dillon). You name to talk about fracking and her company’s “According to Bridge, we live in a hot operations, but the request, to date, has gone it, they grow it: asparagus, beets, carrots and zone,” said Dalton. “They think they could just about every other letter in the alphabet is unanswered. definitely strike gas here.” represented by their crops.

“As if all of this wasn’t enough,” said Bridge has been exploring for natural gas “We’re so busy, honestly, we hadn’t heard Dalton. “Travis Fisher stopped by my house in New Plymouth for nearly two years. The two weeks ago and said, ‘Have you heard the about this proposed facility until recently,” company has already drilled 11 wells. Four said Wendy. “But now, we have a lot of our have been dry, three have been successful and latest?’” neighbors dropping by, wondering what’s goTravis and Tina Fisher were also apBridge has plans to “frack” the rest, the coning on. We have a lot of questions.” proached by Bridge to sell their mineral troversial process of shooting high-pressured The Stellings chose to build their farm rights. After about four months of conversaliquids and sand down a well to enhance gas on Custer Road in New Plymouth because tions, the Fishers signed an agreement, but flows. But company officials don’t want to of the beauty and bounty of the land. On that was before they knew about Bridge’s stop there. latest venture, a natural gas compression and a pristine June afternoon, the only sounds In a series of interviews with New Plymdrifting through the region were children dehydration facility, to be built on a parcel outh residents, BW learned that Bridge emlaughing more than a mile away and an ployees have been busy going door-to-door in of land right next to their SW 2nd Avenue occasional moo echoing from a dairy two an effort to secure landowners’ mineral rights home. miles away.

“I had no idea they were going to pull in anticipation of an ever-expanding natural “When we first moved here years ago, we this,” said Fisher. gas operation. sat out in the alfalfa fields for a while and The dehydration facility, “Their first offer is usually listened to the quiet. Now we’re faced with which Dalton and Fisher call around $5 an acre for five Payette County Planning and the noise from this plant and trucks cona “refinery,” would serve as years,” said Dalton. “For a Zoning Commissioners will stantly hauling oil or water down the road,” a central terminal linking all farmer who is trying to eke meet on Bridge Resource’s said Wendy. “That’s why we’re very thankful of Bridge’s gas wells. There, out a living and he has, let’s proposal to build a compresmoisture would be pulled from for Farrell.” say, 800 acres, well, that’s not sion and dehydration facility on Thursday, July 14, at Wendy was referring to Farrell Rawlthe pipeline (tens of thousands a bad check to help him buy a 7 p.m. at the Payette County ings, a Payette County Planning and Zoning of gallons of oil and connew piece of equipment.”

Courthouse. commissioner who challenged Bridge offidensation are expected to be But Dalton said he had cials at a May 12 hearing (BW, News, “Paysegregated out daily). a long list of reasons for “If they put that plant in here,” Fisher said ette Planning and Zoning Denies Permit,” being skeptical of Bridge, beginning with May 18, 2011). pointing just a few feet away from his home, the fact that Idaho has yet to write its own “For you to sit there and tell us everything “we’re ruined. Literally ruined. My land and set of rules governing natural gas explorais going to be fine is just a bunch of baloney,” my home will be worth next to nothing.” tion. The earliest the Idaho Legislature will Rawlings told Bridge at the May hearing Before Bridge gets approval to build the consider the rules currently being negotiated before joining the majority of commissioners plant, Payette County commissioners might (BW, News, “A is for Act,” June 8, 2011) in tabling the issue. want to consider another challenge: The will be early 2012. But Dalton’s ultimate But Bridge is expected to revive its effort justification for not signing with Bridge was Fishers manufacture commercial firearms in to build the plant at the next P&Z meeting, a shop next to their home, directly next to more basic. scheduled for Thursday, July 14, at 7 p.m. In “They didn’t tell me the truth,” said Dal- where Bridge wants to build its facility.

“I’m worried about the potential of them the meantime, the company will continue its ton. “I point-blank asked them if they were door-to-door negotiating. But they can probshutting down my ammunition company,” going to frack, and they said no. I asked ably cross Mike Dalton off their list. said Fisher. them twice, and they said no twice. That’s WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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Then commander-in-chief-to-be at Boise’s Taco Bell Arena in February 2008.

THE STRAIGHT FACE TEST Is Obama violating the War Powers Act? MARIAN WANG, PROPUBLICA President Barack Obama is facing a swell of bipartisan criticism for continuing military engagement in Libya without congressional approval. Even supporters of the Libya intervention have complained that the administration is flouting the law.

So, is it?

Well, the president is certainly sidestepping the controversial law known as the War Powers Act, but in doing so, he’s following a well-worn path.

The Vietnam-era law requires the president to seek approval from Congress after 60 days of military engagement. The law was passed in 1973 after the United States fought the Korean and Vietnam wars without actual declarations of war. But it’s always been controversial.

President Nixon actually vetoed the law, but Congress overrode him.

According to a 2004 Congressional Research Service report, “every president since the enactment of the War Powers Resolution has taken the position that it is an unconstitutional infringement on the president’s authority as commander-in-chief.”

President Obama, in defending the legitimacy of the Libyan operation, hasn’t actually made that argument. On June 15, he submitted a report to Congress arguing that his administration isn’t in violation of the act at all, despite the fact that the 60-day deadline for congressional approval of Libya operations came and went in May. White House spokesman Jay Carney has argued that the United States’ “constrained and limited operations” in Libya “do not amount to hostilities” because the United States doesn’t have or intend to place soldiers on the ground and has not sustained the casualties typical of such hostilities.

The United States in April pulled its cruise missiles and attack planes out of combat in the NATO-led Libyan mission, though it still has them on standby. It’s currently providing support such as aerial refueling, surveillance

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and reconnaissance, according to the Associated Press.

Speaker of the House John Boehner has said the White House’s stance “doesn’t pass the straight-face test.”

President Obama is far from alone in finding creative ways around the War Powers Act. As The New York Times has noted, the Clinton administration continued the bombing campaign in Kosovo past the 60-day deadline, arguing that Congress had implicitly approved the mission when it approved funding for it.

(The act specifically says that funding doesn’t constitute authorization, the Times notes. And Obama wouldn’t be able to use that reasoning anyway—the administration is using existing funds for the Libya mission.)

Clinton’s successor, President George W. Bush, did request—and receive—a resolution of support from Congress for the Iraq war, but Bush also made clear that his compliance with the War Powers Act didn’t mean he agreed with the act’s constitutionality.

While presidents have long inveighed against the act, lawmakers have just as frequently invoked it, often as a political weapon.

Last week, a bipartisan group of 10 House members—a combination of Republicans and antiwar Democrats—sued the Obama administration over the War Powers Act. But the move may be little more than symbolic. As NPR notes, lawmakers have never successfully used the War Powers Act to end any military mission, and in 2000, the Supreme Court refused to touch the issue when lawmakers complained about Kosovo.

As we’ve noted, the Obama administration has sought to downplay its role in the Libya conflict since it began in March—though there’s been some mission creep. The Obama administration originally said that the goal of the intervention was not regime change in Libya, but it has since suggested that its measure for success will be Muammar Gaddafi’s departure.

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SARA BRUNER A love/hate relationship with the theater GEORGE PRENTICE

Is it fair to say that playing Katherine is a significant change for your career?

It’s a huge deal for me, mostly because I’m consciously and intentionally graduating from all of Shakespeare’s ingenues and moving on to the leading ladies. I’ve never played anyone like this before. We’ll see how it goes.

Many actresses aspire to a lot of the parts that you have already played. Have you ever had a checklist of roles?

I never had that list. When I was growing up in Burley, I couldn’t even name three women in Shakespeare.

Yet you started with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival when you were 18.

It was very different for me in those days.

But it’s that way for a lot of young actors.

Honestly, when you’re young, you can get into some bad habits, like partying a bit too much.

Did that ever catch up with you?

OK, now remember, I was very young at the time. I threw up once on stage. Honestly, I was hungover. We were on tour and I was playing Juliet and I just wasn’t feeling well, so I drank a little to much red All Sport [energy drink].

I was downstage center and one of the other actors was delivering a speech about poison, and I was hoping that he would just talk faster.

Finally it just happened, and I threw up. This is so gross. I threw up in my hands, and of

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course, it was red All Sport. I had to run off stage and run back to finish the play. That was the worst, totally self-inflicted, ridiculous, embarrassing, awful moment.

What might you say to those people who are a bit surprised that you’re still in Boise and not on the New York stage?

It’s a question that frustrates me. I’ve never been the type of actor who gravitated toward New York. Even my parents sometimes say things like, “Maybe you’ll go to Broadway.”

There’s something very naive about that.

Most people don’t realize that there’s an entire subculture of actors who are functioning in regional theater. They don’t realize that many of the actors in New York come to places like Boise to work.

In addition to your acting, you hold the title of artistic associate. What does that mean?

I assist Charlie Fee [producing artistic director] on most things. I’m casting a lot of the time. It’s mostly artistic odds and ends.

When can we expect you to direct one of ISF’s main productions?

It will happen.

Are you talking about it now?

The truth is, I’ve been declaring for a while that I want to be a director. But it’s a more difficult transition than I had expected.

What are the chances of you directing a production on the main stage in the next two years?

Pretty high.

But don’t you have to say the words, “I’m ready?”

I absolutely do, and I absolutely have

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Sara Bruner is one of the most recognized faces in Boise, yet few people really know her. They certainly know her work. For 15 years, Bruner has transformed into Ariel, Rosalind and dozens of the classical theater’s greatest ingenues.

Later this summer, Bruner graduates to one of the most sought-after roles in the Shakespeare canon: Katherine in Taming of the Shrew.

not said them yet.

When you see a younger version of yourself in a girl who aspires to be an actress, what might you tell her?

You always have these people coming at you with what they think is the answer to success. I always liken it to religion—everyone seems to think they know the way to God. The trick for an actor is to not believe in one particular way but to carry around your own bag of beliefs. Acting is so easily ego-driven—to be a star, to be recognized in the community—but it’s important to me to demystify that.

But you have had more than a taste of that kind of success.

In all sorts of ways. I just don’t think it’s healthy to ride that kind of energy.

Can you see yourself doing this for the rest of your days?

I think I’ll always be in the theater, but I think I’ll always be redefining where I fit in.

Is it a love that is constant for you or does it change?

It’s love/hate definitely. Just like a relationship.

Where are you currently?

Love, definitely. It’s a summer of love [strong laughter]. Theater and I are doing quite well now.

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othing is black and white, not even black-and-white photography. From the gentle shades of gray to blistering whites and deep blacks, the depth of black-and-white photography is what engages viewers and creates compelling images.

It takes a mastery of the subtleties—as well as composition and subject matter—to catch the attention of those judging Boise Weekly’s Black and White Photo Contest. But the images in this edition stood out from the 213 entries in the ninth annual contest. And stand out they did, which is an achievement made even more impressive considering that our panel of distinguished judges all noted this year’s higher degree of technical skill and artistic eye across the entries.

That panel included several returning members, including Paul Hosefros, a longtime photog with The New York Times whose recent book, Idaho Wine Country, is filled with stunning images of Idaho’s vineyards. Also back was photographer Laurie Pearman, whose images are routinely found in the pages of Boise Weekly publications. In fact, Pearman won this very contest several years ago.

They were joined by newbie Deborah Hardee, whose artistic approach to photography has put her images in the likes of Vanity Fair, Vogue, Forbes and The New York Times. And rounding out the quartet was BW Art Director Leila Ramella-Rader.

Thank you to all the photographers who submitted images, as well as to the judges who donated their time—we couldn’t do this without you.

—Deanna Darr

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The Smog will clear at Neurolux during Bill Callahan’s non-smoking show.

Bill Blahd explores the haunted lives of military vets.

THURSDAY JUNE 23

music BILL CALLAHAN

art ARTIST DIALOGUE WITH BILL BLAHD Though Bill Blahd’s soldier-themed exhibit, In Our Name: Bill Blahd Paintings 2010-2011, speaks volumes by itself, gallery-goers will have the unique opportunity to hear Blahd tell the stories behind his paintings on Thursday, June 23.

His artist’s dialogue will include a panel of U.S. veterans who will engage in a discussion relating to Blahd’s pieces, which depict veterans’ stories of struggles both on the battlefield and at home after war. The collection was inspired by the artist’s work as an ER doctor at the Veterans’ Affairs Medical Center in Boise.

Blahd’s career in emergency rooms spans 30 years, but three years in the VA hospital emergency room led him to interpret his patients’ stories on canvas. Though the veterans featured are anonymous, they still have a powerful presence. His hope is for people to experience the emotions of soldiers.

“I’ve created and am sharing these works of art not so much for the returning vets, but more so for the public, in whose name these soldiers are sent to fight,” Blahd wrote in his artist’s statement.

Blahd also hopes that his work will act as a catalyst between returned soldiers and their friends and families to ignite discussions about how their service affected their lives and their hopes for the future.

5:30-7 p.m., FREE. The Gallery at the Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

FRIDAY JUNE 24 fun run MAIN STREET MILE Shoes tied. Body hydrated. Carbs loaded. Streets

FRIDAY JUNE 24

closed. Boise’s annual Main Street Mile will once again take over downtown to raise awareness of prostate cancer on Friday, June 24.

Join Boise Mayor Dave Bieter in the Mayor’s Mile for a fun run or join your kids in the children’s half miler, when they chase an

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ice cream truck through the streets. Or if you’re feeling competitive, take on the open mile for everyone 18 years and older, with prizes for top finishers. If you’ve put your competitive shoes back in the closet but feel young, run in the Beauty and the Beast mile for those 40

Bill Callahan is the Raymond Carver of musicians. He creates audio short stories that channel a minimalist, working-class aesthetic with simple but resoundingly powerful lyrics. Callahan sing-speaks with an uninflected baritone that borders on spoken word. Lines like “Dress sexy at my funeral / my good wife / for the first time in your life,” off the album Dongs of Sevotion convey a sense of resignation that is less tragic than it is celebratory.

Describing Callahan’s music, John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats said his style “is to sort of smuggle in scenes of remarkable emotional and, I gotta say, spiritual weight within these fairly light constructions.”

With 11 full-length albums recorded under the moniker Smog and three full-lengths and a live album under his full name, Callahan has cultivated a devoted fan base of fellow musicians and non-musicians alike. His latest seven-song record, Apocalypse (Drag City), was released in April and includes some of his most writerly, reflective lyrics. On songs like “Universal Applicant,” Callahan asks, “Without work’s calving increments or love’s coltish punch / what would I be?” Other songs like “Baby’s Breath” lament lost love amid distorted guitar that squalls like a truck horn on a desert highway, “Oh, I am a helpless man / so help me / I’m on my knees / gardening / It was not a weed / it was a flower / My baby’s gone.”

With such a lyrical focus, it’s no surprise that Callahan also recently released a fictional epistolary novel titled Letters to Emma Bowlcut. According to Drag City, the 79-page book features “62 letters from a nameless protagonist to a woman he saw at a party.”

You can see Callahan perform with Neal Morgan at Neurolux on Friday, June 24. Marlboro men and women beware: It is a non-smoking show.

8 p.m., $10. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

and older.

Those who prefer to get their blood pumping in a different way can stop by Hooters between noon and 4 p.m. on Friday and get their cars washed by the Hooters girls for $10. All proceeds will be given to the Main Street Mile folks.

The mission of the Main Street Mile “A Mile for Men’s Health” is to eradicate prostate cancer as a life-threatening disease by advancing awareness, education and screenings. So even though Father’s Day has passed, show your support for dads everywhere embracing the

ol’ latex glove test by running the Main Street Mile.

6:15 p.m., $10 children, $25 adults. Sixth and Main streets. For more information or to register, visit mainstreetmile.com.

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The stars at night, shine big and bright ... deep in the heart of Bogus.

Have an elephant-astic time at the El Korah Shrine Circus.

SATURDAY JUNE 25

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ANNUAL SUMMER STAR PARTY

THE SHRINE CIRCUS Three Dog Night said it best when lead singer Danny Hutton belted out, “I must let the show go on.” So however rational those fears of manic-depressive clowns in oversized, neoncheckered coveralls may be, you won’t want to miss what’s going on at this year’s Shrine Circus, rolling into Boise from Friday, June 24, to Sunday, June 26.

Trapeze artists will defy gravity—and sanity—with highflying maneuvers. Lions and tigers (no bears, sorry) will evoke “ooohs” and “ahhhs” from audience members with their primal roars, while towering elephants will provide trips around the ring to eager riders and families. And as always, don’t forget all the fantastic circus fare that you are hard-pressed to justify consuming on any other occasion (like Marge Simpson coif-esque cotton candy). There will also be a 10 a.m. circus parade to kick off the weekend on Saturday, June 25, at the El Korah Shrine in downtown Boise.

This event will have your senses tingling and your children (and, let’s be honest, you) giddy with excitement. Tickets are $12 for adults, $6 for children under 12, and free for children under 3. Buy yours online at elkorah.org, at the El Korah Shrine (1118 W. Idaho St.), or at select Zions Bank locations.

Friday, June 24, 7:30 p.m.; Saturday, June 25-Sunday, June 26, 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.; $6-$12. Qwest Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-424-2200, elkorah.org. Visit boiseweekly.com and click on “Promo” to win tickets.

activities for your entire Chaco-clad family to enjoy.

This free, two-day festival celebrates all types of Idaho recreation, including bikes, boards, bocce, beers, basketball and lots, lots more.

From workshops to demos to kids’ activities, Boise Rec Fest will educate the rec neophyte as well entertain the weekend warrior—and maybe teach both a few tricks and tips.

SATURDAYSUNDAY JUNE 25-26 recreation BOISE REC FEST Boise Rec Fest is back in its second year with even more skateboard ramps, climbing walls and kite-flying

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Ever wanted a non-stalker reason to stare through a telescope late on a Saturday night? Now you have one.

All space voyeurs have been invited to the stargazing party at the Frontier Point Lodge at Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area on Saturday, June 25, when everyone is free to ogle heavenly bodies without shame.

The Boise Astronomical Society’s press release encourages folks to bring “a date … your family … scout troop … youth group … anyone interested in a fun outdoor adventure away from the valley ‘light pollution!’” While we’re not quite sure why they surrounded light pollution with irony quotes, we have a good idea of what direction they’re heading (hint: a dark, wooded area outside city limits).

You can bring the scope you use at home to the star party, but they’ll also have a variety of high-powered viewing devices set up. Everybody will be eyeing moon curves (waxing fans beware—it’ll be a waning crescent on the June 25).

But if you get there at the right time, you can catch a peek of the sun, albeit, stripped bare of all those blinding rays to reveal the hot stuff taking place beneath. Because the sun is hot.

Anyone interested in attending is encouraged to bring a jacket or blankets. Everyone is also reminded to park so that their headlights will face away from the more self-conscious ’scopers.

7 p.m.-midnight, FREE. Frontier Point Lodge and parking lot at Bogus Basin. For more information, call 208-332-5190 or visit bogusbasin.org.

Two separate stages will house a gaggle of local and touring bands. The main stage features Boy Eats Drum Machine, a turntable wizard from Portland, Ore., along with Boise mainstays Finn Riggins. Ella Ferrari, the Boise BBoys and Workin’ On Fire will hold down the youth stage. Boise Rock School, the Freedom Footbaggers,

There’s something both stunning and overwhelming about the colorful rows of spices—deep yellow turmeric, burnt red chili powder, green-beige cumin and yellow-brown fenugreek—lining the shelves at the new India Foods on Fairview Avenue. The plastic packages conceal a universe of flavors and textures unfamiliar INDIA FOODS to the average Idaho palate.

6020 W. Fairview Ave. But once you wade past the 208-387-0000 spices and into multi-hued bean territory, things get even more confusing—bags of masoor, kabuli chana and moong dal all call out for culinary experimentation. But if figuring out what to do with these ingredients sounds intimidating, fret not. India Foods also offers something familiar to American tastebuds: ice cream.

But this ain’t no Ben and Jerry’s. Reena’s brand ice cream comes in exotic flavors like mango, fig, cashew raisin and, our fav, the Kesar Pista blend of pistachio, saffron and almond. This barely sweet, delightfully creamy treat is ideal for folks who detest cloying desserts. After the initial bite, an unmistakable, yet indescribable burst of saffron hits your tongue and blends with the rich cream and light crunch of pistachios and almonds.

Reena’s ice creams come in 4-ounce, pint and half-gallon sizes. Whichever size you get, we doubt you’ll make it out of the parking lot without polishing off the whole thing.

—Tara Morgan

the Pat Harris School of Dance, the Dance Arts Academy and the Metamorphosis Performing Arts Studio will also preform.

Saturday, June 25, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, June 26, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; FREE. Ann Morrison Park. For more info, visit boiserecfest.com.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY JUNE 22 Festivals & Events ALIVE AFTER FIVE—Unwind mid-week with friends, live music and a cold beverage during this family friendly concert series. 5 p.m. FREE, The Grove, Boise, downtownboise.org.

NATIONAL OLDTIME FIDDLER’S CONTEST—The best of the best show up to compete in this fiddling contest in Weiser. Catch some of them in action, or take advantage of the plethora of events surrounding this weeklong festival, including beer gardens, food vendors, breakfasts and meals, car shows, a biker’s rodeo and more. Visit weiserfestival.com for more info and a complete schedule. $8-$25, $30-$60 for five-day pass.

Citizen BIGGER THAN CANCER—Silent and live auctions, live music by The Naughties, raffle prizes and more comprise this fundraiser for cancer patient Melissa Eldredge.

5:30 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Fatty’s, 800 W. Idaho St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208-514-2531, drinkfattys.com.

THURSDAY JUNE 23 Festivals & Events NATIONAL OLDTIME FIDDLER’S CONTEST—See Wednesday. Visit weiserfestival.com for more info and a complete schedule. $8$25, $30-$60 for five-day pass.

Farmers Markets CALDWELL FARMERS MARKET—5-8 p.m. FREE. Located on the corner of 12th and Dearborn streets next to the library.

Odds & Ends VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF IDAHO—7-10 p.m. FREE, Modern Hotel and Bar, 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244, vpsidaho.org.

On Stage THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)—Three actors armed with an outrageous assembly of outerwear and props cram all of Shakespeare’s plays and two sonnets into this two-hour show. 8 p.m. $12-$40.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

On Stage THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA—Valentine and Proteus’ friendship is put to the test in this comedy by the Bard. 8 p.m. $12-$40.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Food & Drink BLACK BUTTE TASTING PARTY—Visit with the folks from Deschutes Brewery and taste the newly released Black Butte XXIII, paired with special chocolate from the Chocolat Bar. 7 p.m. FREE. Front Door Northwest Pizza and Tap House, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9201, thefrontdoorboise.com.

ALIVE AFTER FIVE AFTERPARTY—The patio will still be kickin’ with music and beer from Deschutes Brewery in celebration of its 23rd anniversary so you can keep the party going after Alive After Five is over. 7 p.m. FREE. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

BARREL, BREW AND BARBECUE—Enjoy an afternoon of brats and beer-tasting with Deschutes Brewery’s Black Butte XXII, XXIII and more. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Boise Co-op, 888 W. Fort St., Boise, 208-472-4500, boisecoop.com.

Literature BOISE NOVEL ORCHARD—Writers meet on the second and fourth Wednesdays of the month to edit, critique and encourage the continuation of their work.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks. org.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT BOOK CLUB—Adult readers meet monthly to discuss the featured selection. For more information and to register, call 208-5624996. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

NOISE/CD REVIEW ZOMBI: ESCAPE VELOCITY If there has been one common thread through the music of Pittsburgh’s Zombi, it is the feeling of being chased. A recurring image conjured from repeat listens is asphalt flying beneath tires, one bandaged hand on the wheel, the other, bruised and hanging out the open window, grasping at rushing air. It’s about charging forth, chasing freedom, being grungy from days on the road fleeing mutant beings. That wouldn’t be too far off considering Zombi has built its unique instrumental sound around the classic horror flicks of the ’70s—the best of George Romero and Dario Argento (Germany’s Goblin being a primal source of inspiration and the architects for the soundtracks of those directors’ most beloved films).

Escape Velocity doesn’t deter from what Zombi does best— creating stunning, minimalist, all-instrumental audioscapes using heavy synths, warring drums and razor wire guitars. It’s music to be relayed into the racing mind. But the most disappointing aspect of Escape Velocity (Relapse) is that the escape itself leaves much to be desired in length—clocking in at a lean 33 minutes, this is Zombi’s shortest album to date, compared to 2009’s equally excellent (and gloriously longer) Spirit Animal. The artwork done by Black Mountain’s Jeremy Schmidt (reminiscent of the classic Hipgnosis covers designed for Pink Floyd) may well be worth the price of vinyl alone. But make no mistake. Escape Velocity’s five tracks—“Escape Velocity,” “Slow Oscillations,” “Shrunken Heads,” “De3” and “Time of Troubles”—are killer additions to the Zombi canon and well worth the $5 that you can get it for from iTunes.

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8 DAYS OUT FLEMMING—Comedic thriller in which Henry Flemming sells off his lucrative business to become a detective and finds his calling. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

WATERING SYSTEMS CLASS— Eight-week course on constructing, growing and maintaining a home garden. Sign up for the series or individual classes.

5:30-7:30 p.m. $25 per class, $160 for series of eight classes.

Earthly Delights Organic Farm, 372 S. Eagle Road, Suite 353, Eagle.

Food & Drink DELI DAYS 2011—Celebrate culture, tradition and good eats during this two-day festival. Load up on fave foods, learn Israeli dances and take a tour of the synagogue. See Food News on Page 40 for more. Noon-7 p.m.

FREE. Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, 11 N. Latah St., 208-343-6601, ahavathbethisrael.org.

DESCHUTES BREWERY ANNIVERSARY PARTY—Celebrate Deschutes Brewery’s 23rd anniversary. Sample the Black Butte XXII from 2010 and this year’s XXIII, along with others.

5-10 p.m. FREE. Tavern at Bown Crossing, 3111 S. Bown Way, 208-345-2277, tavernatbown. com.

Workshops & Classes JOB SEARCH AND RESUME CLASS—Reps from the Idaho Department of Labor will help you improve your resume. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., 208-4722941, gardencity.lili.org.

Art

Farmers Markets

ARTIST DIALOGUE: BILL BLAHD—The artist will speak about his new exhibit, In Our Name. The work was inspired by his experiences as an ER doctor at the VA hospital and the stories veteran patients have shared with him.

See Picks, Page 20. 5:30 p.m.

FREE. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-3850111, thelinenbuilding.com.

Literature

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—4:30-8:30 p.m. Downtown Boise, Eighth Street from Bannock Street to Main Street, capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

MERIDIAN URBAN MARKET—5-9 p.m. FREE. downtown Meridian on Idaho Avenue between Main and Second streets, 208-331-3400, facebook.com/ MeridianUrbanMarket.

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AUTHOR TALK: KEVIN HALL— Bring the family to hear the author of Aspire: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Words. 6:30-8 p.m. $10 adults, $5 kids ages 8-16. Center for Spiritual Living, 600 N. Curtis Road, Boise, 208-375-0751, spiritual-living.org; and for professionals and business leaders at 8:30-11:30 a.m. $37 adv., $47 door. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Idaho St., Meridian.

THE MEPHAM GROUP

SCOTT MARCHANT PRESENTATION AND SIGNING—The hiking expert and local author will discuss his favorite hikes and secrets about hiking in the area, followed by a signing of his book The Hikers Guide to McCall and Cascade. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP—6 p.m. FREE. Sapphire Bar & Grill, 622 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-363-7277.

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2011 SHRINE CIRCUS—Featuring acrobats, clowns, balancing and juggling acts, exotic performing animals and more in this two-hour extravaganza. Tickets are available at Zion Banks, Quick Cash, Ridley’s, El Gallo Giro, elkorah. org and at the gate. See Picks, Page 21. 7:30 p.m. $12 adult, $6 kids ages 12 and younger.

Qwest Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, qwestarenaidaho.com.

NATIONAL OLDTIME FIDDLER’S CONTEST—See Wednesday.

Visit weiserfestival.com for more info and complete schedule. $8$25, $30-$60 for five-day pass.

On Stage THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., 208-3369221, idahoshakespeare.org.

FLEMMING—See Thursday.

8:15 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

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IMPROVOLUTION—The improv comedy troupe performs its fastpaced, interactive show, incorporating everything from stand-up to skits and games. 7:30 p.m. $5. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

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THE WIZARD OF OZ—Family friendly production of the beloved story in an outdoor setting. 8 p.m. $10-$24. Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middlefork Road, Crouch, 208-462-5523, starlightmountaintheatre.com.

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8 DAYS OUT Food & Drink

Food & Drink

Farmers Markets

DELI DAYS 2011—See Thursday. Noon-7 p.m. FREE. Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, 11 N. Latah St., Boise, 208-343-6601, ahavathbethisrael.org.

FIRST OF HARVEST PARTY— Enjoy wine poured straight from the barrel, the first cherries of the season, live music and more.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Williamson Orchards and Vineyards, 19692 Williamson Lane, Caldwell, 208459-7333, willorch.com.

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-345-9287, capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

Workshops & Classes

KUNA FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-noon. FREE. Bernard Fisher Memorial Park, Swan Falls Road and Avalon Street, Kuna.

DESCHUTES DOWNTOWN PUB CRAWL—Hit the Chocolat Bar, North Face, Bittercreek Ale House, Old Chicago, Grainey’s, Bardenay and Bar Gernika for Deschute’s delish brews during this pub crawl. 5-11 p.m. FREE.

Kids & Teens GREAT AMERICAN BACK YARD CAMPOUT—Register online at rei.com/boise for this sleepover at the zoo. REI, Idaho Wildlife Federation and Boise Rec Fest host participants interested in camping but don’t know how to get started during this family friendly intro. 6 p.m. $35. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, 208-384-4125, zooboise.org.

SATURDAY JUNE 25 Festivals & Events 2011 SHRINE CIRCUS—See Friday. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12 adult, $6 kids ages 12 and younger. Qwest Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-4242200 or box office 208-3318497, qwestarenaidaho.com.

CELEBRATION OF FLIGHT AIR SHOW—Celebrate the spirit of aviation with a family friendly air show featuring daring aerobatics and airborne excitement. 9 a.m. $12. Caldwell Airport, 4403 Aviation Way, Caldwell.

SPINNING FIBER PREP CLASS—Learn to turn raw fleece into yarn on a spinning wheel.

Call to pre-pay and register. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $58. Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208407-3359, puffymondaes.com.

Literature BOOK SIGNING: KEN SCHOLES—Stop in and have the author sign your copy of Antiphon, Canticle and Lamentation. He will read from and discuss his work. Noon and 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3764229, rdbooks.org.

Citizen CIR-KYS BOISE—Celebrate National HIV Testing Day by getting yourself tested for free at this community outreach event. Results will be available in 20 minutes. Vendors and local musicians will offer info also.

Sponsored by A.L.P.H.A. 8 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, 777 S. Eighth St., Boise.

EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle.

MERIDIAN FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Crossroads shopping center at Eagle and Fairview Roads. meridianfarmersmarket.com.

MIDDLETON FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Roadside Park at the corner of Highway 44 and South Middleton Road. middletonfarmersmarket. webs.com.

NAMPA FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Located on Front Street and 14th Avenue South in Lloyd’s Square, nampafarmersmarket.com.

Odds & Ends ANNUAL SUMMER STAR PARTY—The Boise Astronomical Society will have high-powered stargazing equipment set up outside for everyone to view the night sky. There will be food to purchase there or you can bring your own picnic. Call 208-3325190 for more info. 7 p.m.-midnight. FREE. Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, 208-332-5100, bogusbasin.org.

BOISE REC FEST 2011—All you need to know about enjoying all of the outdoor fun Idaho has to offer. The festival includes exhibits, demonstrations, giveaways, workshops, live music, food, drinks and more.

See Picks, Page 21. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, boiserecfest.com.

NATIONAL OLDTIME FIDDLER’S CONTEST—See Wednesday.

Visit weiserfestival.com for more info and complete schedule. $8$25, $30-$60 for five-day pass.

On Stage FLEMMING—See Thursday.

8:15 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL—The cast and crew of starlight Mountain Theatre perform Disney’s much-loved musical. 8 p.m. $10$24. Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middlefork Road, Crouch, 208-462-5523, starlightmountaintheatre.com.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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

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8 DAYS OUT BOISE BASIN QUILT SHOW— Check out the guest guild, a display by a three-generation family of quilters, vendors and more.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, expoidaho.com.

HOLISTIC AND WELLNESS FAIR—Card readings, psychic and channeled readings, dream analysis, Reiki healing, massage and more. Find out your anti-oxidant score, view and purchase art work, jewelry and more. 1-6 p.m. FREE. Her Spirit Center for Growth, 5181 Overland Road, 208-345-3588.

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BOISE OPEN MIC MONDAY— With Larry Buttel. 8 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny Irish Pub and Grill, 855 Broad St., Ste. 250, Boise, 208-343-5568, hapennybridgepub.com.

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BOISE BASIN QUILT SHOW— See Saturday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $5. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, expoidaho.com.

MONDAY JUNE 27 On Stage

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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL—See Saturday. 8 p.m. $10-$24.

Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middlefork Road, Crouch, 208-462-5523, starlightmountaintheatre.com.

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10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise, boiserecfest. com.

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SATURDAY CRUISE NIGHT— Stop by for music, food, hot rods and Hot Wheels drag races for the kids. 5-10 p.m. FREE. Bad Boy Burgers 2, 7000 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-373-0020.

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FREE. Meadow Lakes Village Senior Center, 650 Arbor Circle, Meridian.

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LAST CALL TRIVIA—8 p.m.

FREE. Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208336-1313, thebalconyclub.com; 9 p.m. FREE. Applebee’s-Nampa, 1527 Caldwell Blvd., Nampa, 208-461-5330.

PIONEER TOASTMASTERS— Work on public speaking. Guests and new members are always welcome. For more information, email personalityonpaper@ yahoo.com. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE, 208-559-4434. Perkins Family Restaurant, 300 Broadway Ave., Boise.

Literature LITERATURE DISCUSSION BOOK CLUB—Join others to discuss Hisham Matar’s book In the Country of Men about the initial days of Muammar Gaddafi’s Great Revolution. 7 p.m. FREE. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1315 N. Milwaukee, 208-3754454, barnesandnoble.com.

2011 SHRINE CIRCUS—See Friday. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $12 adult, $6 kids ages 12 and younger. Qwest Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-4242200 or box office 208-3318497, qwestarenaidaho.com.

Kids & Teens AFTER-SCHOOL ART—A chance for kids ages 6-12 years old to express themselves artistically.

4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

On Stage THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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TUESDAY JUNE 28 On Stage THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12-$40.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

THE WIZARD OF OZ—See Friday. 8 p.m. $10-$24. Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middlefork Road, Crouch, 208462-5523, starlightmountaintheatre.com.

Food & Drink UNCORKED IN THE GARDEN—Enjoy wine and music in the garden. 6-8:30 p.m. FREE members, $5 nonmembers.

Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, 208-3438649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Literature ECLECTIC BOOK CLUB—Craig Johnson’s The Dark Horse is the discussion selection for this meeting. 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3764229, rdbooks.org.

Talks & Lectures EXPLORE THE WILD BOISE RIVER—John Heimer will lead two 45-minute walks along the Boise River. Learn about its natural features, hear historic and modern tales associated with it, and learn to spot wildlife and birds. Presented by United Rivers Idaho. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Hall, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2900, gardencityidaho.govoffice.com.

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Canyon County Fair July 28 - 31 http://www.canyoncountyfair.org Caldwell (has designated smoking areas)

North Idaho Fair Aug. 24 - 28

Coeur d’Alene

http://www.northidahofair.com Coeur d’Alene (has designated smoking areas)

Twin Falls Fair Aug. 31 - Sept. 5 http://www.tfcfair.com Twin Falls (has designated smoking areas)

Eastern Idaho Fair Sept. 3 - Sept. 10 http://www.funatthefair.com Blackfoot (has a designated smoking area)

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Yoga - Nicole Vickerman Music by Fiona Luray Lululemon Athletica Birds of Prey Mark Purdy - Peregrine Fund Hiking and Running Steve Stuebner Mountain and Road Biking Steve Stuebner Hiking McCall and Cascade Scott Marchant Exploring the Idaho-Oregon Snake River Water Trail Tom Chelstrom - REI Wilderness Medicine Sam Splint - Geoff Harrison Experiential Adventures Camping Basics Kirk Hall - REI

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Boating Safety Class with Captain Keith Colburn from Deadliest Catch (Sunday noon)

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“Olympic Spirit� Hot Air Balloon

by Coca-Cola Lacrosse Exhibition Games

by Lacrosse Idaho Helmet Wearing Prizes

by Safe Routes to Schools and ProHelmet Bocce Ball Tournament by the Idaho Bocce Ball Club Mobile Recreation Area

by Boise Parks & Recreation Open Footbag Circles

by Freedom Footbags

Open Climbing Wall

by Experiential Adventures

Skateboard Ramp

by Boise Skateboard Association

Stand Up Paddling Simulator

by Idaho River Sports/Glide Paddle Boards

Sleeping Bag Rollup Races

by Girl Scouts

Book Signing with Margaret Fuller (Sunday 12:30-1:30)

by Idaho Trails Association & Rediscovered Bookshop

Gyotaku Fish Prints for Kids

by Sierra Club

Leave No Trace Traveling Trainers

by Subaru/Leave No Trace Youth & Family Activity Area

by Wings Center

Kangoo Jumps

by Dr. Bounce Disc Golf Hole-In-One

by Gem State Disc Golfers Cornhole Games

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Tennis 101

by Idaho Tennis Association

Tree Climbing Demos

Basketball Clinics

by Idaho Sports Foundation

Motorbike Safety Simulator

by Idaho Parks & Recreation

Soccer Kicks & Exhibition Game

by Southern Idaho Soccer League

Personal Watercraft Safety Simulator

by Idaho Parks & Recreation

Scottish Obstacle Course for Kids

by Scottish American Athletic Association

Chair Massages

by Elements Therapeutic Massage Emerald

Open Kite Flying

by Idaho Kite Festival Bike Acrobatics Demos

by Boise Bike Trials Club

Spin Art

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Ron O’Brian is our emcee. Note: Schedule is subject to change.

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Boise Rock School Fleet Street Klezmer Band RumbleďŹ sh Dada Sol The Fav Decade Blues Band Jeff Crosby and The Refugees Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles

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Alexa Cashen Workin’ on Fire Boise Rock School Freedom Footbaggers Ella Ferrari (band)

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Dance Arts Academy Pat Harris School of Dance Wings Center Pat Harris School of Dance Boise Bboys Boise Rock School Dragon Bushido

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BEER PONG TOURNEY—Eight tables set up for play, $4 pitchers and a cash prize. 10 p.m.

FREE. Fatty’s, 800 W. Idaho St., Ste. 200, 208-514-2531, drinkfattys.com.

STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT— Test out your routine during open mic night, hosted by Danny Amspacher. 8:30 p.m. FREE. Quarter Barrel, 4902 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-322-3430.

IDAHO CAPITAL CITY KENNEL CLUB—The monthly meeting of the Idaho Capital City Kennel Club. 7 p.m. FREE, Idaho Fish and Game Headquarters, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-3455197, icckc.org.

Dakotah Brown and Neil Brookshire test the bounds of friendship as Proteus and Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona at ISF.

THE TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA Matters of the heart are never simple, but when your best friend goes after your girlfriend and in the process gets you banished from your city, that will put a strain on a friendship.

Such is the situation that arises in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, the opening production of the new season at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. The comedy is full of the Bard’s favorite devices: forbidden love, rejected lovers, stern parents, comedic servants and a touch of cross-dressing. But the production offers a fresh interpretation of the classic, creating a sort of Bohemian-coffeehouse take on the tale.

From the costuming by Star Moxley that combines modern and traditional pieces to the use of pop music performed by a live band, the production manages to feel both extraordinarily contemporary and timelessly classic. The singing voices of Sara Bruner and Jodi Dominick help transform the play into a musical of sorts, each interlude serving both as a transition and a guidepost.

Neil Brookshire and Dakotah Brown play the lead roles of Valentine and Proteus respectively, two best friends who are separated when Valentine goes off to see the world while Proteus stays put in order to win the heart of his beloved Julia (Lee Stark). But when Proteus is forced to follow Valentine, things get messy.

Valentine has fallen in love with Silvia (Nika Ericson), whose father intends to marry her off to a man she hates. The wouldbe lovers’ plot to run away is thwarted after the newly arrived The Two Gentlemen Proteus falls in love with Silvia of Verona runs through and betrays Valentine. In the Friday, July 29. meantime, Julia sets her sights IDAHO SHAKESPEARE on Proteus and dresses like a FESTIVAL young male page so that she Idahoshakespeare.org can follow him.

ISF veterans David Anthony Smith and M.A. Taylor provide the bulk of the play’s comic relief. Smith in particular faces a daunting duty: acting opposite an animal. The animal in question is a French bulldog (Scooter Moose de Chumber) who may well be the most laid-back pup to ever grace a stage. Including an adorable animal is a guarantee that any human actor will be upstaged, yet Smith makes the most of it, creating some of the most memorable moments of the production.

The set design is stunning, yet simple and functional.

Clean lines of a scaffolding tower connected by two movable staircases and a rotating backdrop of bright orange, red and blue work perfectly to create the foundation of the production, while the actors’ skills lead the audience’s imagination to fill in the blanks.

The overall effect is a production that audiences will be sure to embrace, as well as serve as an amuse bouche for the rest of the season.

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WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 Festivals & Events ALIVE AFTER FIVE—See Wednesday, June 22. 5 p.m. FREE, downtownboise.org. The Grove, Boise, downtownboise.org.

On Stage THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE (ABRIDGED)— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12-$40.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Literature AUTHOR READING: ALAN HEATHCOCK—Listen to the local award-winning author read from Volt, his most recent work. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Farmers Markets CALDWELL FARMERS MARKET—5-8 p.m. FREE. Located on the corner of 12th and Dearborn streets next to the library.

Odds & Ends BIOTZETIK BASQUE CHOIR— You don’t have to speak Basque and there are no tryouts, just singing. The choir meets at Bishop Kelly High School. Please call 208-853-0678 or email averquiaga@hotmail.com for more info. 6 p.m. FREE, 208853-0678.

LAST CALL TRIVIA—8 p.m.

FREE. The Lift Bar and Grill, 4091 W. State St., Boise, 208342-3250, theliftboise.com; 7 p.m. FREE. Eastside Tavern, 610 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-3453878; 8 p.m. FREE. Buffalo Wild Wings, 3223 E. Louise Drive, Meridian, 208-288-5485, buffalowildwings.com; 9 p.m.

FREE. Applebee’s-Emerald, 7845 W. Emerald, Boise, 208-3781890.

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THE CIVIL WARS Reckless Abandon will rock Canyon County.

BOUQUET BACK UP If Thursday comes along and you’re dying to get your groove on, a dose of Downtown Nampa Nights should do the trick. The free family-friendly series happens in Nampa’s Lloyd Square every Thursday night from 5:30-8 p.m. through Aug. 25 and offers live music, food, wine and beer.

One notable act is the festival’s only modern-rock offering, five-piece Reckless Abandon. The group, whose sound is infused with hip-hop vocal lines and acoustic guitars, will perform on June 23.

But all of the acts are worth seeing.

Catch Loose Change on June 30, The Chancellors on July 7, Gerry and the Dreambenders on July 14, The Flavors on July 21, The Almost Dangerous Band on July 28, Straight Away on Aug. 4, the 504 Plan on Aug. 11, The Matrix Band on Aug. 18 and Come Together on Aug. 25. Grab some lawn chairs, grab the kids and get to Nampa.

For more information, visitdowntownnampa.com.

In recent months, it’s been tough to get much of anything on at The Bouquet. The building was headed into foreclosure, the liquor license was temporarily suspended and irregular business hours had people wondering about the fate of the place.

Owner Tyson Twilegar said that, hopefully, that’s all in the past.

Along with booking The Bouquet’s live music, Twilegar has also been running the front of the house.

“One of the reasons we’ve had spotty hours is that I’ve been covering a lot of the shifts personally and doing a lot of the legwork,” Twilegar said. “And when we were closed for two weeks, we were doing our [liquor license] renewal process. That was tough.”

Twilegar has decided to see the closing and re-opening as an opportunity to start “from the ground up and organize everything the way it should be.” He said the live music calendar turned out to be a bigger chore than he had imagined, but he’s sorting that out. The listings on The Bouquet’s Reverbnation venue page are current and he’s working on getting the bar’s Facebook and Myspace pages updated as well.

“I’ll get there,” Twilegar said with a laugh.

The old website, thebouquet.net, is defunct, so if you want more information, check out reverbnation.com/venue/thebouquet or call 208-345-6605.

It’s all good fortune and good times with this music duo HEATHER LILE It happened by accident about two years ago.

Joy Williams and John Paul White each signed up to attend a songwriters’ camp in Nashville, Tenn.—and then both tried to get out of it.

They didn’t know each other then but fate was about to step in and unite the two in a serendipitous collaboration that has taken them on a musical journey.

“It was pretty eerie,” White said of the meeting. “It was just one of those things that you couldn’t, you couldn’t walk away from.”

The frustration the two had felt as individual artists trying to make it in the business for the previous 10 years came to a screeching halt when they were paired up at a song-writing camp like bus buddies on an elementary school field trip. Williams, a songwriter, was under contract with Warner/ Chappell Music and White was at a crossroads: He wasn’t sure what he wanted to do for the self-described “little band that could.” as an artist.

The Civil War’s debut full-length album, “I don’t think either of us would’ve been open to the idea of singing together had we not Barton Hollow, was released independently in February. It landed on myriad music charts, ingone through all of the things leading up to cluding an 18-week (so far) stint on Billboard’s that moment in time,” said Williams.

200, Folk, Rock, Independent and Digital They couldn’t have planned that meeting Albums charts. better or hoped for better results. Anyone Williams attributes much of the band’s who has caught the duo’s video for “Barton Hollow” or “Poison & Wine” on CMT, VH1 success to word of mouth—both from people who happen to catch live shows and famous or Youtube can bear witness to the chemistry fans. Their second performance together at between them. The duo’s folk-rocky, gothic Eddie’s Attic in Decatur, Ga., was recorded, Americana instrumentation and haunting posted online and has been downloaded more lyrics blend seamlessly, resulting in music that than 170,000 times. In addition, they have crosses boundaries. heavy-hitters like Sarah Bareilles and Boy “We are pretty happy not to fit into any of those boxes, to be honest, but we never set out George singing their praises to their millions of followers in the twitterverse, Taylor Swift to do that,” Williams said of the Civil War’s mentioning them in an interview she did with undefined style. “It was never conscious, we Rolling Stone in April, and Adele tweeting just made music that moves us and made us that the Civil Wars are the best band she’s happy, and at the end of the day, we’re really ever seen perform live. proud to put our name on it.”

“Word of mouth is the best gift that you To drive that point home, they are VH1’s can give to an artist, “Posted” artist for especially an indepenthe month of June dent artist like us,” said and were also recently Williams.

With Rayland Baxter. Monday, June 27, 8 nominated for CMT’s p.m., $16.

The fans and folDuo Music Video of lowers of the band are the Year alongside EGYPTIAN THEATRE 700 W. Main St. at least as varied as the country music veterans 208-345-0454 music they listen to Sugarland. They will egyptiantheatre.net themselves: Lots of old find out in October country, Daughter and if they beat fellow AC/DC all make for nominees Mumford an interesting play list. and Sons, Avett BrothWhite and Williams both grew up listening to ers, and Robert Plant and the Band of Joy for the Americana Association award for best duo/ various styles of music that, Williams says, “is group of the year. That’s pretty good company still in our veins, still in our blood.” Those in-

Joy Williams and John Paul White are more than civil.

fluences come through in vastly different songs like “Barton Hollow” and “C’est La Mort,” and the cover songs they choose to surprise audiences with, like “Disarm” by the Smashing Pumpkins and Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean.”

Watching them perform, that chemistry is clear. They are completely in tune with one another. They leave an impression that they are either madly in love or fantastic friends.

According to Williams, writing and performing with White feels like family, like they’ve known each other for ages, and that they’ll be longtime friends and collaborators. White seconded that sentiment. Both married, they say their spouses are happy enough to just grin when people ask if the duo if they are a couple.

Neither of them knows exactly where the raw emotion that burns when they perform together comes from. Williams laughed when White said, “Lots of hard drugs. Yeah, that’s what it was.” All kidding aside, White said that he wished he knew, because then he could bottle it and make millions.

“These things, for whatever reason, fall out of the sky sometimes, and they tend to fall out of the sky a lot more often, a lot more easily, when we write together,” White said.

The success the Civil Wars have enjoyed recently has been 10 years in the making with both of them getting to this point where things just fell into place. It was that chance moment that led to what Williams refers to as a great adventure full of excitement and inspiration, surprises and hard work.

“I’m just so proud of what we’re doing and excited about this thing that has yet to unfold,” she said.

—Amy Atkins and Trevor Villagrana

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY JUNE 22 ALIVE AFTER FIVE: BROTHERS COMATOSE—With Sarah Sample. 5 p.m. FREE. The Grove AMY WEBER AND BEN BURDICK TRIO—9 p.m. FREE. Sapphire DAN COSTELLO—5:45 p.m.

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ANTSY MCCLAIN, JUNE 24, EGYPTIAN THEATRE Antsy is an odd moniker. You might as well go with Can’t-SitStill Jones. But for the musician Ron “Antsy” McClain, antsy is as much a description as it is a name.

For the high-energy Antsy McClain and Trailer Park Troubadours, it’s all flamingoes, pompadours, a little swagger and a lot of Americana music when they pull into a town. They regale faithful followers—called “flamingoheads”—with songs that are an homage to the archetypal residents of small-town America like “I Was Just Flipped Off By A Silver Haired Old Lady With A ‘Honk If You Love Jesus’ Sticker On The Bumper Of Her Car” and “Living in Aluminum.” A la Garrison Keillor, McClain tells stories from the make-believe Pine View Heights Trailer Park as if he and the Troubs are lounging on the front lawn of their trailer house with 600-700 of their closest friends.

Let your hair down—or pomade it up—and as McClain would say, “enjoy the ride.”

This show is a benefit for NAMI. —Amy Atkins 7 p.m., $22. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., egyptiantheatre.net. Win tickets at “Promo” at boiseweekly.com.

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GIZZARD STONE—9:30 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s HIP-HOP NIGHT—Featuring Burnell Washburn, GeorgeLife, Pigpen and Pat Maine, Charles Engels and the Family Matters, DJ Rukus, the Boise B-Boys, P-Dirt and Oso Negro. 9 p.m.

FREE. Red Room JEFF CROSBY AND THE REFUGEES—7 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s KEVIN KIRK—With Jon Hyneman and Phil Garonzik. 7 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers PRIORY—With A Seasonal Disguise. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage RICHMOND FONTAINE—8 p.m. $5. Neurolux SOUL SERENE—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

THE THROWDOWN—Featuring The Defenders, Scorch the Fallen and White Bread. 8 p.m. FREE. Liquid

THURSDAY JUNE 23 ALLEN WENTZ AND FRIENDS—8 p.m. FREE. Bouquet ARCHEOLOGY—With Finn Riggins. 8 p.m. $5. Flying M Coffeegarage

RIZING TIDE—8 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle ROYAL BLISS—8 p.m. $12-$30.

Knitting Factory TRAVIS MCDANIEL BAND— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Twig’s TSOL—With Civet, Wilt Chamberlins Baby and Social Antidote. 8 p.m. $12. Red Room

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LANA REBEL—With Neo Tundra Cowboy and Johnny Shoes. 9 p.m. $5. Bouquet LEE PENN SKY—With Matt Harlan and Brian Hudon. 7 p.m.

FREE. Willi B’s THE NAUGHTIES—9:30 p.m. $3. Grainey’s PILOT ERROR—9:30 p.m. $5.

Reef RYAN WISSINGER—5:45 p.m.

FREE. Solid SHON SANDERS WITH AMY WEBER—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

ANTSY MCCLAIN AND THE TRAILER PARK TROUBADOURS—See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $22. Egyptian Theatre

SOUL SERENE—9 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle

GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: SIGNATURE SOUND—6:30 p.m. $7 members, $10 general. IBG

BILL CALLAHAN—With Neal Morgan. See Picks, Page 20. 8 p.m. $10.

Neurolux

TREMULANTS—With Jar, Storie Grubb and the Holy Wars. 9 p.m. $3. Red Room

JAZZ AT THE RIVER—7 p.m. $15. Blue Door

DAN COSTELLO—8 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper

KEVIN KIRK—With Steve Eaton and Phil Garonzik. 7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

JIMMY BIVENS—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

DOWNTOWN NAMPA NIGHTS: RECKLESS ABANDON—5:30 p.m. FREE. Lloyd Square FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

LAST BAND STANDING—9 p.m. $3. Grainey’s MEAT PUPPETS—With Bad Weather California and Black Box Revelation. 8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux REBECA SUAREZ AND JULIANNA MARIE—6 p.m. FREE. The Modern

JOHN HANSEN—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid JOHN JONES, MIKE SEIFRIT AND JON HYNEMAN—With Kevin Kirk and Sally Tibbs. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

TECH N9NE—8 p.m. $22-$55.

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SATURDAY JUNE 25 BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY WEBER—8 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper BIG WOW—9 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle DAVID AND CROSBY—7 p.m.

FREE. Willi B’s

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FREE. Twig’s JON HYNEMAN—With Sally Tibbs and Kevin Kirk. 7 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s MATT HOPPER—9 p.m. $5. The Red Room MICKEY AVALON—With The Divine and Nathan Fast. 8:30 p.m. $16-$45. Knitting Factory THE NAUGHTIES—9:30 p.m. $3. Tom Grainey’s PILOT ERROR—9:30 p.m. $5.

Reef POP CULT KIDS—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid RICK DELLARATTA—6 p.m. $35. Egyptian Theatre ROBERT WYNIA—With Jeff Crosby. 8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux RYAN WISSINGER—5:45 p.m.

FREE. Solid SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub T. MILLS WITH GOLDENWEST— With Stop Drop and Party and Inner City Wildlife. 7 p.m. $10.

The Venue TRAVIS MCDANIEL BAND—9 p.m. $3. Bouquet

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SUNDAY JUNE 26 BEN BURDICK AND BILL LILES—Noon. FREE. Grape Escape

LARRY BUTTEL—7 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny PUNK MONDAY—8 p.m. $3.

Liquid THE SHAUN BRAZELL TRIO— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

CHRIS MARSHALL—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Bouquet ELITE FORCE—With Dinner at the Tompsons. 9:30 p.m. Reef FIREFIGHTER’S BENEFIT CONCERT—Featuring Loose Change. $10, FREE for kids 10 and younger. Ste. Chapelle Winery GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY: THE SIDEMEN—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers PANIC AT THE DISCO—With Fun and Funeral Party. 7 p.m. $28$65. Knitting Factory

TUESDAY JUNE 28 THE ATARIS ACOUSTIC WITH DON’T PANIC—7 p.m. $10. The Venue JEFF MOLL AND GUESTS—8:30 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny KEVIN KIRK—With Cheryl Morrell Trio. 7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LADY TRAMP AND DJ FREDDY SPIN—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

MONDAY JUNE 27

LUCAS CATES BAND—8 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye

BEN BURDICK AND BILL LILES—7:30 p.m. FREE. Bouquet

SKRILLEX—With Porter Robinson and Zedd. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $25-$45. Knitting Factory

THE CIVIL WARS—With Rayland Baxter. See Noise, Page 28. 8 p.m. $16 adv., $19 door. Egyptian Theatre JONATHAN JONES WITH ADAM STIP MUSIC—With Stop Drop and Party and Inner City Wildlife.

7 p.m. $10. The Venue

RUSS PFEIFER—5:45 p.m.

FREE. Solid

UBER TUESDAYS—Featuring Follow that Bird, Teens, Art Fad and Hypno Safari. 7 p.m. FREE. VAC

WEDNESDAY JUNE 29 ALIVE AFTER FIVE: GIRLS GUNS AND GLORY—With Neo Tundra Cowboy. 5 p.m. FREE. The Grove THE BELLRAYS—With Jumping Sharks. 8 p.m. $5. Neurolux GIZZARD STONE—9:30 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s KEVIN KIRK—With Jon Hyneman and Phil Garonzik. 7 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers THE THROWDOWN FINALS— Featuring the winners of the three previous weeks. 8 p.m.

FREE. Liquid WIDESPREAD PANIC—6:30 p.m. $35. IBG

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SKRILLEX, JUNE 28, KNITTING FACTORY California-based 20-something Sonny “Skrillex” Moore is relatively new to the world of electronic dance music. But the young DJ has already found a huge following among people for whom steady beats comprise the soundtrack of their lives.

Moore’s 2010 EP Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites was released on Mau5trap, DJ Deadmau5 label. It’s a coup for any producer of EDM but especially for one with only about five years of experience under his belt.

Electronic music lovers are like oenophiles: every note, sound, slider move, instrument, beat, beatmaker and rhythm is as defining as the oak smell or citrus undertones of a fine wine. They are also as discerning, often only listening to a specific genre. Spin magazine called Moore a “dubstep darling,” and while he may be, Skrillex has skillex—the nine-song SM&NS exhibits such a mastery of the music that even the most die-hard downtempo, drum-and-bass, progressive listener out there may want to lend an ear.

—Amy Atkins With Porter Robinson and Zedd. 8 p.m., $25-$45.

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NEWS/ARTS ARTS/CULTURE

MURDER CITY SHAKEDOWN In the mid-’70s a manhunt was under way for a killer known as the Oakland County Child Killer: Four kidnap-murders of Detroit, Mich.-area children were attributed to the killer, and he or she was suspected of another five. Local filmmaker/actor/ author J. Reuben Appelman was 7 years old and growing up in Detroit at the time.

Walking home alone one day, he was nearly enticed into a stranger’s car. Almost 30 years later, he remembered the incident and began to connect the pieces.

For five years, Appelman has been researching the unsolved OCCK murders—and working on a book: Murder City Shakedown. As “creative non-fiction” it is the story of the victims, the investigation and the city of Detroit. Appelman has traveled back to his hometown, pored over tens of thousands of documents and photos, and interviewed members of the original police task force. He has also spoken with family members of the victims of the killer, sometimes referred to as “The Babysitter” because the children For more information, visit were fed murdercityshakedown.com. and bathed before they were sexually assaulted, asphyxiated or shot.

Appelman’s motive for chronicling this cold case is not simply to expose what he calls gross incompetence and a “criminal investigation hushed up for political reasons.” Nor is it to name the killer. Murder City Shakedown aims to accomplish both but at the heart lies a family man who has had his own experiences with violence and for a long time been upset at the thought of “four kids, 4,000 kids or 4 million kids” suffering the ravages of abuse. Also a poet, Appelman’s creative writing often explores “the fragility and vulnerability” of children.

“In a way, I’m obsessed with the story a little more than most people,” Appelman said. “But I have been hearing from people in Detroit … they’ve been touched by these crimes. Not only am I trying to obsessively solve the case, but as a piece of literature, I think it’s important because it has become a story of how people live with the insinuation of violence into their lives.”

New DNA evidence has recently been discovered—or uncovered—in the murders, and Appelman said that he’s still about nine months ahead of the Detroit-area media and he wants to maintain that lead. Regardless of who gets to the finish line first, Appelman believes this will be a win for Detroit, “something the city needs.” And by bringing all of the information he has to light and finding justice for the OCCK victims, everyone touched by these crimes may also be afforded a small victory.

—Amy Atkins

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J. Reuben Appelman shakes down a 30-year-old injustice.

CHUTES AND LADDERS Green Chutes gives local artists a boost up TARA MORGAN Not long ago, the Collister Shopping Center was another rundown State Street strip mall, its main attraction an aging bowling alley. But after a few million dollars in storefront facelifts and a little native-plant xeriscaping, the shopping center has become an epicenter of urban culture outside of the downtown core.

“We said, ‘Well, if we’re going to own the property for 20 years, what do we want to do here?’ We spent about $2 million renovating the shopping center and basically signed back up all of the tenants that we wanted to keep Nancy Zurcher stands among artists’ work at Green Chutes. at the property,” said new owner Philip Voorhees, a real estate investor based in California.

Will Hay of Coup Clothing recently moved art—everything from abstract splatter paintThough Voorhees kept more tradihis business from his garage to the elevated ings and landscape photography to mosaic tional businesses like 20th Century Lanes platform at the back of Green Chutes. Hay sculptures and handcrafted stationery, soaps and Baskin- Robbins, he also set aside a makes pigeon-themed, custom screenprinted and jewelry.

12,000-square-foot warehouse space for shirts on up-cycled thrift store T-shirts’s using “I think the thing that’s really cool about something innovative: Green Chutes artists cothis environment is that a lot of people that do environmentally safe, water-based inks. op and Salt Tears Coffeehouse and Noshery.

“They were actually courting a couple of not go to art galleries are coming here. A lot of For the uninitiated, the Salt Tears/Green tattoo artists, so I kind of want to make it Chutes concept is hard to describe. It’s part art it is because of the restaurant … They are out feel like a tattoo shop because I want to do mingling now among artwork that they norgallery, part co-op, part retail center, part cofcustom designs with my T-shirts … basically mally wouldn’t go out and see,” said Nancy feeshop, part restaurant and part event space. tattoos on T-shirts,” said Hay. “I think at the start, we didn’t really know Zurcher, Green Chutes business manager.

Zurcher hopes that Green Chutes will Green Chutes currently has 115 artist what was going to happen and, candidly, we continue to grow and act as an incubator for thought, well, we might as well try something members who hang their work in ministations scattered around the building. Artists local artists and fledgling business owners. that will be unique and additive,” said VoorHer plan is to have 200 artist members but, pay $60 a month and have to work 12 hees. “Now it’s not a question of if it’s going she jokes, her goals tend to grow once she to make it, if it’s going to succeed or not, but hours in the gallery to be a part of the Green reaches them.

Chutes Co-op. If artists don’t want to work how big it gets and how it evolves.”

“With the way that the economy is now, in the gallery, they pay $100 a month. MemOn a cool early summer evening, patrons starting your own business is really, really bers can help vote in new artists at a weekly lounged on the Salt Tears patio, sweat beadtough … When you have a co-op like this, it jurying panel. ing down glasses of sauvignon blanc and allows a bunch of people to start their own “The idea was to create this focal point bright orange cheddar dripping off openbusinesses in one area and share expenses,” for the artistic community in Boise … a faced tuna melts onto beds of bitter, gardensaid Zurcher. location and venue where they could have fresh greens. Through a rolled-up garage But Voorhees believes, with the upbeat door, others could be seen wandering through an address, where they could get mail, where confidence of a career investor, that this they could have wireless access the light-dappled Green Chutes concept will do more than just provide artists for Internet, where they could warehouse space, stopping to and artisans with an opportunity to grow have all of their business services stare at paint-splashed canvases GREEN CHUTES their businesses. He thinks it will help launch and have their art on display all and running their fingers over 4716 W. State St. Boise talent onto the national scene. the time,” said Voorhees. knitted wool purses and feath208-342-7111 “I would be stunned if, in three years, you Vintage chaise lounges and ered jewelry. greenchutesboise.com don’t see an artist that’s in the Green Chutes couches are scattered around the “I think the restaurant and stable go to the national level and really start space, allowing visitors to get Green Chutes have played pretty to get some acclaim,” said Voorhees. “What comfortable while they peruse well off of each other,” said Salt magazines or zone out looking at the artwork. we’re trying to do is provide this base of expeTears co-owner Andrea Maricich. “It keeps rience and exposure so that people can pursue “We don’t want to be like anybody else, a captive audience, I think, on both sides … their ambitions to their fullest extent.” so it’s not a traditional co-op; it’s not a because of the nature of the two businesses, But before that can happen, the communitraditional gallery,” said Zurcher. “So we’re people stay.” ty has to understand and embrace the Green taking little pieces from all of those busiWhen you walk into the building, the Chutes/Salt Tears mission. ness models and putting them together to Salt Tears counter and open kitchen are on “It’s going to take at least two years if not make something unique to Boise. It’s a fairly the right. Modern chairs and tables dot the inexpensive platform for artists to show their three years to season the concept … it’s just floor and a row of licorice-red vinyl curgoing to take a long time to change customer work, but above all, we are a retail store.” tains wall off the cafe from the rest of the perspective and get them to actually make But that won’t always be the case. Down expansive Green Chutes space. Patrons can the turn off State Street into Collister to see the road, Green Chutes also hopes to offer grab a small-batch drip coffee and a muffin what’s here,” said Voorhees. working studio space to artist members. and wander past the curtains among the WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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LISTINGS/SCREEN Special Screenings

SCREEN/THE BIG SCREEN

CABLE ONE MOVIE NIGHT—Bring your lawn chairs, snacks (or purchase some there), blankets and the entire family to watch a flick on an inflatable screen in the park every Friday night at dusk.

The movie this week is Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (PG). Friday, June 24, FREE. Settler’s Park, corner of Meridian and Ustick roads, Meridian, meridiancity.org/movienight.

Bridesmaids, The Hangover Part II, Kung Fu Panda 2: Whether sublime or schlocky, these blockbusters will make big bucks.

DUDAMEL: LET THE CHILDREN PLAY—An inspirational film about the positive influence music has on the lives of children, featuring Gustavo Dudamel. Thursday, June 23, 7 p.m. $12.50.

Edwards Boise Stadium 22 and IMAX, 7701 W. Overland Road, 208-377-9603, regmovies.com.

GASLAND—Filmmaker Josh Fox travels the country documenting natural gas fracking activities. Idaho Conservation League Program Director Justin Hayes will lead a discussion about the consequences of chemical drilling and fracking proposals in Idaho. Wednesday, June 29, 7 p.m. $10. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3424222, theflicksboise.com.

LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE—Part of the TM Justice Series. An educational film on human trafficking and child prostitution in the United States, followed by a panel discussion and Q&A period.

Thursday, June 23, 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Trademark Church, 1723 Eastman St., Boise, trademarkchurch.com.

LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RETURN OF THE KING EXTENDED EDITION—Check out a special screening of this third movie in the trilogy.

Tuesday, June 28, 7 p.m. $12.50. Edwards Boise Stadium 22 and IMAX, 7701 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-377-9603, regmovies.com.

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CRITIC-PROOF Blockbusters coast to box office gold GEORGE PRENTICE What’s the point? The review will have little Critics were not overly kind to Pirates of to no influence on the ultimate success of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, but the movie and whether the franchise will Johnny Depp would tell them to walk the plank. The reviews were also not particularly continue. A good critic doesn’t simply offer a synopsis of the plot. Rather, a critic needs great for The Hangover Part II, but the boys to seek out filmmakers who advance the art on the bender could not care less. Those two form, taking filmgoers to new or adventurmovies, each surpassing $200 million in doous places, examining the human condition mestic box office gross receipts, join the long without being hurtful or cruel. list of summer blockbusters that are simply For the record, Super 8 is this summer’s critic-proof: Bridesmaids, Kung Fu Panda exception. It’s a big-budget, major studio 2, Fast Five. When each opened, they had release. But with no the security of built-in stars, an original audiences—moviegoscript and a trailer ers who didn’t give a For movie dates and times, visit boiseweekly.com and click on “Screen.” that left more quesrip what the reviews tions than answers, it said. Either a previous was a significant gamincarnation (almost ble, and it paid off (BW, Screen, “Abrams’ all of them are sequels) or a successful ad Instant Summer Classic,” June 15, 2011). campaign (Bridesmaids had tremendous I believe there are two types of movies: pre-opening day buzz) lured in millions of good ones and bad ones. I love a big, populist viewers worldwide. movie as much as anyone. This year, I found I struggle with film critics who give thumbs much to admire in Pirates of the Caribbean up or thumbs down on big blockbusters.

and Fast Five. I laughed my ass off at all of Bridesmaids and a good amount of Hangover II. I’ll be among the first in line to see the next Harry Potter installment, but there isn’t much I can bring to the party—it has a built-in audience with high expectations.

Conversely I believe it is a critic’s responsibility to champion smaller films or provide insight into more complex efforts. Movies such as The Shawshank Redemption, Fargo, Sideways and Little Miss Sunshine never would have enjoyed their success if critics didn’t discover them first.

In just the past year, BW readers learned about The King’s Speech and Black Swan six months before they became Oscar winners and eventual box office successes. And that’s the biggest difference: These movies were offered on their merits and never jammed down an audience’s throat. Why do we not always critique the big films? Because it’s too easy. Why are we so tough on smaller films?

Because we expect more.

SCREEN/THE TUBE had to be The Paul Reiser Show on NBC, which was co-written by Paul Reiser and canceled after two episodes—not even enough to make a A cursory glance over the list of canceled TV shows in 2011 feels whole DVD. like trying to remember people you met at a raging party: “Hellcats? Oh, The sitcom starred Reiser as a former television star who hasn’t had was that the one that barfed on the couch and then flipped the cushion a show for several years. It didn’t work. over? Yeah, I think I remember what it But just wait a few seasons when Reiser looked like.” comes back with a show about a former TV writers are a justifiably dismal lot. television star who hasn’t had a show for It’s a good thing books don’t get canceled several years following the cancellation after the first few chapters, because Mark after two episodes of his show that was Twain probably would have disapproved of about not having a show.

Huckleberry Finn remaining a racist brat.

Meanwhile if your favorite show was Authors of books don’t have to walk canceled, try to see the glass half full. around explaining to their friends: “No, it Think of all the shows you can look forwas supposed to end with a frozen dinoward to getting into next year—inevitable saur thawing out and then a big whooshabominations like Law and Order: Tiny crunch-bang effect ... It was going to blow Cops Unit or CSI: Kuna—and then lamentyour mind if you got a chance to see it ing their premature demise. ... Oh, and the main alien was actually a Bolivian drug mule.”

Paul Reiser is Mad About Being Cancelled.

—Damon Hunzeker Easily, the worst writing in TV this year

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BAD TEACHER—Cameron Diaz stars as a foulmouthed, hungover middle-school teacher on the hunt for a sugar daddy to take her away from the job she despises in this comedy by director Jake Kasdan. Justin Timberlake stars as the object of her affection. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 CARS 2—Owen Wilson and Larry the Cable Guy reunite in Disney’s follow-up to the beloved tale of talking cars and friendship. (G) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 35

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THE TREE OF LIFE— Brad Pitt and Sean Penn star in this visually stunning science fiction drama about life and morality from director Terrence Malick. Winner of the Palme d’Or award at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. (PG13) Flicks 34

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HAPPYTHANKYOUMOREPLEASE Josh Radnor is best known as Ted Mosby from the sitcom How I Met Your Mother. His directorial debut, HappyThankYouMorePlease, follows themes of HIMYM but with fewer laughs and more warm fuzzies.

A group of 20-somethings struggle to find love in New York City. Radnor stars as Sam Wexler, a writer who finds a lost boy and brings him home because the kid doesn’t want to go back to his foster home—and because Sam can use him to get a girl (Kate Mara). Malin Akerman is Annie, a woman who dates the wrong guys, and Zoe Kazan and Pablo Schreiber play a couple facing some major obstacles.

HappyThankYouMorePlease won the Audience Award: Dramatic at Sundance in 2010.

CEDAR RAPIDS In this official selection of Sundance 2011, Tim Lippe (Ed Helms) has never left his hometown, never even stayed in a hotel. To say he is sheltered is just the tip of the metaphorical iceberg.

Tim is given his first taste of the sweet life when he is asked to represent his company at an insurance convention in big city Cedar Rapids, Mich. Against his boss’ warning, Tim makes friends with the annual conference’s notorious troublemaker Dean Ziegler (John C. Reilly). Joan Ostrowski-Fox (Anne Heche) and Ronald Wilkes (Isiah Whitlock Jr.) assist in the weekend of Tim’s life.

Cedar Rapids goes for some dirty jokes—not surprising from Helm and Reilly—but is overall a heartwarming tale.

—Lizzy Duffy

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APP/SCREEN HOW THE HEY TELL ARE YOU? With text messaging, the “Hey, how are you? How are the kids?” pleasantries of telephone calls are replaced by “Come over at 6 p.m.” or “Do you want to go to a movie?” when texting. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. Occasionally you do want to hear the other person’s voice, but you need to get right to the reason for calling.

Hello HeyTell.

HeyTell is a free “cross-platform voice messenger” app—available for iPhone and Android—that works like voice text messaging.

Download the app, add contacts and then push a button and talk.

If your contact doesn’t have the app open, he or she will receive a notification that you left a HeyTell message. When the person opens the app, your message plays. If the app is open, messages are played almost instantaneously.

The downfall is that messages play through the speaker, so everyone around you can hear them—discretion is advised. The upside is, you can ask your mother what time she wants you to come over without spending 10 minutes listening to her talk about your father’s bladder issues. She can save that for the dinner table.

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NEWS/REC BIKING NEAR AND FAR

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CITY FISHERS Taking the kids fishing doesn’t have to be a chore RANDY KING ing spots with cast placement is best. Also, Standing in front of a Walmart in Canyon cast light for little fish. While as an adult County isn’t in itself a weird thing. HowI might find the idea of catching a 19-inch ever standing in front of a Walmart holding brown trout much more appealing than a fishing pole may look a little strange. But the fishing was too good for me to care. I tried to convince myself that I didn’t mind if everyone driving by knew I like everyday low prices ... and trout.

Right now in the valley, every fishing spot I know of on a river is flooded: Swan Falls is a wreck, the Parkcenter Bridge is a flood danger, and I won’t take the boat out on the Snake River anytime soon. But Wilson Creek runs right smack in front of the Walmart on 12th Avenue Road in Nampa, and Idaho Department of Fish and Game stocks it regularly with trout. And it was there that I did some “urban fishing.”

For me urban fishing is all about getting my kids out of the house, so I tend to pack light. I sport a pole, a bobber and some worms.

Not everyone fishes as equipment-challenged as I do. Bruce Dunn, a sales associate at Sportsman’s Warehouse in Meridian, recommends the “Flying Bubble Technique” for most of the ponds. It involves using a clear bobber and a dry fly cast out onto a pond.

“Reel the fly in slow, like a bug on the top of the water,” Dunn explained simply. This technique is like fly fishing but does not require the skill and years of practice and is much easier to do while fishing from the catching a dozen small bluegill, my children bank of a tree-lined pond. don’t really care. So be prepared to catch Fishing can be a fun, relaxing way to little fish. For the kids, I use a very light spend the afternoon with the kids—unless they don’t catch anything. Their disappoint- setup: a size 10 hook (that is fairly small), a bobber and a little worm. The bobber is for ment can turn into a fit of frustration. Here training: it makes it easy to tell when the are a couple of ways to increase the odds action is happening. Holding the attention of reeling in prizes for the youngsters and span of a 5-year-old decreasing the chances is hard enough, so of a meltdown. giving a kid a bobber First, fish the covFor more information on fishing rules and regulations, visit fishandgame.idaho.gov. to check on every erage, which means few moments is a fish where a fish can good idea. hide. Cast under IDFG maintains programs that let trees, near the plant line along the shore or hatchery-raised fish loose in public waters in any area that is not wide open. Fish can for recreational fishing and to increase the be skittish, so luring them out of their hid-

odds of success, Dave Parrish of the IDFG recommends doing a little research before heading out. “[Check] out the Idaho Fish and Game website to find stocking numbers and dates for the ponds around here,” he said.

Even when fishing in an urban area, there are rules. Anyone age 14 or older needs a fishing license.

They are sold in sporting goods stores and many big-box retailers. Certain areas have seasons, but most of the ponds and canals in the Treasure Valley are open and unrestricted year-round.

All of that information can be found at fishandgame. idaho.gov.

These next-to-a-supermarket fishing areas are never going to yield trophy fish, so I look at urban fishing as training time. I work on my form and use the time to teach my children—and urban fishing is easier to get to than people might think.

Boise has a number of accessible spots. Two of my favorites are the Bernadine Quinn Riverside Park—otherwise known as the Clock Tower Pond—on Pleasanton Avenue near 30th Street, and Veterans Memorial Park Pond near State Street and Veteran’s Parkway. You can find a whole host of other in-town fishing holes at cityofboise.org.

In Eagle, the best spots are at the ponds right on the corner of Eagle Road and State Street. They are all stocked with some large fish and a number of small bluegill, which makes these some of the best places to take the kids.

In Caldwell, one of the easiest urban fishing spots to get to is the redone Indian Creek Park right in the heart of downtown.

You can walk on the tidy greenbelt, watch the waterwheel spin and toss in a line at the same time.

As I watched my son reel in another fish in front of Walmart, a passing car honked at me. Maybe they were mocking me or maybe it was a honk of solidarity. Either way, I hope it wasn’t someone I know unless they could see the fish on the end of my son’s line.

BEN WILS ON

The slopes at Jackson Hole Mountain Resort are known for steep and deep conditions all winter, but once the snow is gone, what’s to be done with a world-class ski hill? The crew at JHMR decided to create a summer adrenaline junkie’s heaven.

The resort recently opened its new bike park but get visions of nicely paved pathways out of your head (although there is one of those near the resort, too).

Nope, this bike park is smack on the side of the mountain and was designed by Gravity Logic.

Of course, “logic” might well be replaced by “reality” since the course is sure to have more than a few solid drops. Resort officials swear it was designed for ever y level of rider, with an array of trails, buffed landings and terrain.

Advanced riders won’t be bored—designers included jumps and bridges to keep things interesting.

There is no lack of gorgeous surroundings. The area is adjacent to Grand Teton National Park, after all. Bikers even get the nasty uphill part eliminated. They are swept to the top of the hill via a highspeed quad lift.

Yes, we know, this isn’t exactly a runover-after-work jaunt, but those looking for some new mountain-biking adventures probably won’t mind making a weekend out of it.

The bike park opened June 18, but will mark its official grand opening on Saturday, July 9, from 1-6 p.m. with a free party at Teton Village at the base of the hill. The park will be open through the beginning of September and day passes are $25.

Check it out at jacksonhole.com.

If you’re looking for bike-oriented fun a little closer to home, there are a few days remaining in the Pedal for the People fundraiser for the Boise Bicycle Project, including the Bare As You Dare ride on Friday, June 24. Yes, bikers are encouraged to wear as little as they like, but the good news is that the action doesn’t start until 9:45 p.m., so there’s always the saving grace of darkness.

The final celebration will be Saturday, June 25, from 6-10 p.m. on Eighth Street between Idaho and Bannock streets.

Visit boisebicycleproject. org/p4thep for a listing of all events and details.

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REC/LISTINGS Register BAREFOOT RUNNING—Call ahead or visit rei.com to register for this class on barefoot running to be held Wednesday, June 22.

Ken Bob Saxton is the author of Barefoot Running Step by Step and will teach the class. 7 p.m.

FREE. REI, 8300 W. Emerald, Boise, 208-322-1141, rei.com.

FALL SLOW PITCH SOFTBALL TEAM REGISTRATION—Get your team of 12 together and register online at cityofboise.org/parks to play slow pitch softball this fall.

Register online through Friday, June 17, or at the City Rec office through Friday, June 24. Fees are due at registration. Divisions include men’s, women’s, men’s senior and coed. Must be 16 or older. Email sports@cityofboise. org for more info. $362, plus fees per player. Boise City Recreation office, 110 Scout Lane, Boise, 208-384-4256, cityofboise.org/parks.

IDAHO STATE BOCCE BALL CHAMPIONSHIP GAMES—Register through June 23 for men’s and women’s singles championship tournament to be held Saturday, June 25, at 10 a.m. Visit idahobocceballclub.com for more info and to download registration forms. $10. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise.

MAIN STREET MILE—Register online at imathlete.com through Friday, June 24, for this run to raise awareness for men’s health. $15. Downtown Boise, mainstreetmile.com.

TOTALLY BOGUS HILL CLIMB— Register online at sportsbaseonline.com for one or both of these mountain bike hill climbs through Saturday, June 25. The first event will be held on Sunday, June 26, and the second will take place on Sunday, July 3. $25. Bogus Basin.

ULTIMATE URBAN CHALLENGE—Teams of four bike through Boise following clues to a secret destination and completing an assigned challenge to benefit the Make A Wish Foundation. Register online at idaho.wish.org through the day of the event.

Saturday, June 25.

Check in at 7:30 p.m. $55-$65.

Caven-Williams Sports Complex, Boise State, 1201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise.

Events & Workshops BOISE HAWKS BASEBALL—vs. Tri Cities Dust Devils. June 22-24, 7:15 p.m; vs. Spokane Indians. June 25-27, $6-$12. Hawks Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., 208-322-5000, boisehawks.com.

PEDAL FOR THE PEOPLE—Two-week festival for bicycle enthusiasts to get together to get together and celebrate biking. Visit boisebicycleproject.org for more info.

Through Saturday, June 25.

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REC/PLAY GET BACK IN-LINE, SKATES As slow as warm weather was in getting here, we should remember that many Idaho residents have endured a lengthier transition to warmer temperatures. My work takes me up a few thousand feet in elevation and 100 miles north. In McCall winter lingers and “mud season” is just getting under way.

For me, the challenge of this season lies in finding outdoor entertainment. My favorite winter sports—Nordic skiing and snow-shoeing—have melted away with the ice sheet that was Payette Lake. My summer passions—trail running and mountain biking—are stymied by the miniature glaciers still hiding the trails that weave under the shade of the forest. And almost every off-road surface that has thawed is now mud.

Several weeks ago, I paced along the taxiway at McCall Municipal Airport, waiting for a flight and contemplating the end of my rookie season as a skate skier. As much as I looked forward to summer, I couldn’t help but mourn the skill degradation that would inevitably accompany the rising snow line. I had invested too much time building that unique and specific fitness to let it silently slip away.

And that’s when it hit me. Staring at the vast expanse of tarmac, I realized that I might be able to salvage some skateski technique while waiting for the snow to melt and the dirt to dry. All I needed was a pair of in-line skates.

Procuring said skates was not easy. Though trendy in the ’90s, rollerblading is now on a par with the grunge music and cargo pants. Despite a recent surge in popularity, the roller derby scene had done little to propagate an easy-to-find supply of shoes on wheels. Phone calls to sports shops yielded nothing in the way of rental skates. It was looking like I would have to make a purchase, sight-unseen, from an online retailer.

In one last-ditch effort, I swung into a used sporting goods store. A pair of almost-new ladies’ skates, size 9, was sitting there as if expecting me. The next day, I was gliding past hangars and dodging twin-engine double-props, totally digging a new way to roll.

Apart from an occasional backcountry pilot making a short final approach, or an unexpected crack in the pavement, I couldn’t have asked for a more hazard-free environment. It was perfect for practicing balance and developing lateral hip strength without skis or poles. In fact, thanks to my wrist guards, knee pads and elbow pads, I wasn’t even afraid of my own klutziness. And in the event of a face-plant at the end of the runway, well, my office—the Life Flight helicopter and crew—was parked nearby.

As the blazing sun heats the tarmac like a giant griddle and the snow rises ever higher up the mountains, I’ll be skating through “mud season” in anticipation of the next winter.

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CAN YOU DIG IT? The art of food foraging The Basque Market switches from sammies to bocadillos.

GRUB NEWS It’s time once again to bone up on your favorite phlegmy Yiddish words. Let the back of your throat get a good workout as you practice pronouncing things like “oy vey,” “chutzpah,” “Mazel Tov” and “kvetch.”

Once you can say “l’chaim” with the armgrabbing intensity of a Jewish bubbe, you’ll be ready for Deli Days.

This year, Deli Days will take place on Thursday, June 23, from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., and Friday, June 24, from 11 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel at 11 N. Latah St. The annual fundraiser will feature everyone’s favorite Jewish deli dishes like pastrami, corned beef on rye and kosher hot dogs. There will also be a bevy of homemade desserts like babkas, bundts, tortes and strudels.

In addition to all the grub, Deli Days will also feature traditional and contemporary Jewish music from artists like Ellie Shaw, Danny Beal, Dan Costello, Rex and Beverly, the Fleet Street Klezmer Band and the Moody Jews. Rounding the celebration off, this year’s festival will host a mock, glasssmashing Jewish wedding so that shiksas and shegetz can experience the craziness firsthand. For more information, visit ahavathbethisrael.org.

Moving from Jewish to Basque, there’s some unfortunate news on the downtown lunch front (especially for alt-weekly journalists who obsess over simple, fresh manchego-topped sammies). The Basque Market recently announced that it will no longer offer a weekday, made-to-order lunch menu beginning Friday, July 1. Instead it will feature tapas from noon to 2 p.m., Monday through Saturday. According to the newsletter, new menu items include “mini-versions of the sandwiches you love (bocadillos), along with other select items such as croquetas and meatballs. Our delicious soups, salads, olives and rice pudding will still be available.”

In addition, The Basque Market will stay open late on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, offering “more elaborate” tapas from 5-7 p.m. It has also expanded the popular paella on the patio special at noon on Wednesdays to Fridays, as well. Find more information at thebasquemarket.com.

In non-kosher news, John Berryhill’s brunch/lunch venture Bacon is offering free delivery in downtown Boise on its Bacon Bike. Now you can pork out on dishes like the Kurobuta bacon mac or the chevre bechamel-filled bacon lasagna without leaving your desk. Apparently, pigs don’t need to fly when they’ve got a slick pair of wheels. To check out Bacon’s menu, go to johnberryhillrestaurants.com.

—Tara Morgan

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GUY HAND Like a shaman’s cape, her knee-length, earthtoned jacket billowed behind Darcy Williamson as she moved silently through the woods near her McCall home. Even as she zigzagged her way through lodgepole pines, her eyes darting from tree limb to ground to middle distance, she never slowed her pace. She’d already lost her three companions and even I, unburdened with a collection basket and tools, found it hard to keep up.

“I move through a forest pretty quickly,” Williamson said as she brushed strands of graying hair behind an ear, “and I don’t like to A Forageable Feast that would leave Hemingway speechless. linger in one spot because that tends to cause over-harvesting.” years and said she inherited the foraging bug Only when she spotted something edible did books on herbalism and foraging, as well as from her gold mining grandparents. develop a business called From the Forest that she slow down enough for the others to catch John Davidson, another in our group, came deals in medicinal plants, seeds and preparaup. Often that edible thing was invisible to to wild plant collecting more recently. He lives tions. On this day, though, Williamson was me until Williamson carefully plucked it from south of McCall on the Payette River, and looking for lunch and helping the rest of us the ground, brushed off the soil and pushed it find it in McCall’s still-snow-dotted mountains. when two of Williamson’s apprentices pitched toward my face. a tent on his land a couple of years ago, they “This is a Brown’s peony,” she said of a “Should I try it?” I asked of something mentioned that he had all kinds of edibles on handsome, low-lying plant covered in univory-colored and pea-sized. his property. opened, burgundy-colored flower buds as she “If I hand it to you,” she said with only “I had no idea that all about were plants I began plucking several marble-sized specimens. the slightest hint of a smile, “I expect you to “We’re going to take some of those. They taste could use for food,” Davidson said with the eat it.” same surprised look I was periodically flashing. similar to Brussels sprouts.”

When you’re in the woods with a wellAfter a couple of hours, the five of us had A short beeline from there, Williamson known forager like Williamson, you have no collected a lunch’s worth of wild produce at found a large patch of stinging nettles. She choice but to trust her. Thankfully, that small corm—she called it an Indian potato or turkey knelt down beside the dark green plant covered no cost and with none of the usual paper-orplastic supermarket conundrums. And Wilin nasty, stinging hairs. pea—was sweet and starchy. In fact, nothing liamson’s pace had slowed to the point I could “What we want for food are the shortest, she offered me that day was odd-tasting, unask a non-what’s-that question: “Do you think pleasant or emergency-room worthy, and soon tightest ones,” she said. “We want these that are still kind of closed at the top and that snap the art of foraging is becoming more popular?”

I was at her heels like a fledgling bird begging “I believe so,” she said as she chewed off real clean like an asparagus.” for more. thoughtfully on the tender end of a young catThe young stems gave an audible pop as For most of us, the art of foraging fell out Williamson broke them off at the base with her tail sprout. “I believe it’s going to become more of favor a few thousand years ago—thanks to popular still as food costs go up and more that invention we call agriculture—but not ev- bare hands. toxins and pesticides are found in our food.”

“All right, don’t stand around,” she said eryone abandoned the impulse to gather. Back Williamson estimated that there are to the rest of us. “I’ve got gloves here for the in the early ’60s, Euell Gibbons grew famous hundreds of edible plants in the McCall area sissies.” from his book Stalking the Wild Asparagus. alone, many available year round. The catch is As we trailed Williamson in her zigzag More recently, urban foragers like Iso Rabins identifying them and, of course, knowing what through the woods, we soon found mint, edin San Francisco and Sam Thayer in Washingto avoid. ible lichen and flowers, tubers, bulbs and wild ton, D.C., have made it hip to hunt city parks “There are only a few poisonous plants in garlic. We even munched on a lodgepole pine and vacant lots for food. Here in Idaho, WilIdaho or in any region, for that matter,” Wilappetizer. liamson has been foraging the forests around liamson said. “So you do the backward thing: “The cambium layer on that pine is very McCall since she was old enough to walk.

You learn the toxic plants. It’s a lot easier to rich in sugar and starch.” WilIt all started when a naturallearn what’s going to poison you than what’s liamson said. “And the needles ist friend of the family began For more information, visit going to feed you.” are high in vitamin C and A.” showing the 2-year-old Wildarcyfromtheforest.com.

It’s also good to take a class and grab a She plucked a few young liamson woodland plants. At field guide or find an experienced tutor, like needles off a branch, then 5, Williamson was treating sick handed them to me with the as- Williamson. animals with her growing colThe growing interest in foraged foods, surance that “lodgepole is like a smorgasbord lection of medicinal herbs.

“By the time I was 6, I would go off into the on a stick.” I dutifully nibbled, expecting noth- Williamson believes, is a positive developwoods to live off the land but never got to stay ing more than the taste of Pine-Sol, but again I ment and a logical extension of the local food was surprised by a mildly spicy flavor that was movement. After all, what’s more “local” than overnight because my mother would get wornative and naturalized plants that sponried about me,” Williamson said. Mom would entirely pleasant. taneously pop up all around you? But One of our group, Eloris Chisholm, said occasionally have to entice her home with she also feels it’s increasingly important 42 promises of chocolate malts and cheeseburgers. lodgepole pine needles also make a great tea. to teach students environmentally She’s been working with Williamson for 20 Now 62, Williamson went on to write 23 WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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sensitive foraging practices. That’s why she doesn’t linger in one spot, forages lightly and only picks from abundant plants. When she digs a bulb, she carefully pats the ground back in place to hide the hole. It’s not only to preserve the resource, which is reason enough, she said, but to also ensure that a potential increase in foraging doesn’t raise the ire of land management agencies like the Forest Service.

David Olson, public affairs officer for the Boise National Forest, said that although the Forest Service doesn’t officially encourage foraging, it currently has no regulations prohibiting gathering plants for personal use in Idaho’s national forests.

There are, however, regulations against harvesting threatened and endangered species. Olson said, knowing what you’re picking is not only essential to health but also will keep you out of legal trouble.

Back in Williamson’s expansive kitchen, our group prepared lunch with everything we’d foraged—and it wasn’t the hardscrabble, survivalist’s, wish-I-had-a-steak meal I’d feared it might be. Our foraged lunch was, in fact, stunning: a delicate salad of tender chopped cattail stems, young huckleberry leaves, wild garlic and bright yellow lily flowers, surprisingly delicious steamed nettles (they lose their sting when cooked), nutty-tasting sauteed Brown’s peony buds, meaty snowbank mushrooms and a soothing lodgepole pine needle tea.

The nettles were particularly flavorful and research suggests that wild greens are often more nutritious than store-bought greens.

“It puts spinach to shame,” Williamson said as I went for another helping.

“Greens are expensive when you buy them fresh in the market,” she added. “But you can go out in your field or backyard and have some of the best tasting greens on earth.”

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Stuff your face with eggplant parm at The Stuffed Olive in Eagle.

THE STUFFED OLIVE “Bread for one!” my server screamed into The Stuffed Olive’s back kitchen, saloon doors flapping behind her. She emerged, amid more frantic door swinging, with arms full of bubbling pasta dishes. I pulled my magazine closer and sunk in my chair. The Stuffed Olive—while quaint, with its salted-butter walls, cascading natural light and warm breeze circulating from spinning ceiling fans—is not really a place you dine alone.

Outside on the strip mall Eagle patio, a young dad cut up his kid’s dinner, while a middle-aged couple nursed their wine and swabbed hunks of bread in oil and balsamic. Soon my server—the only one tending to the 10-or-so-table establishment—swooped by, edging a bread plate and dipping dish onto my table before quickly disappearing. After a disinterested bite of the crumbly, not-baked-in-house baguette, I pushed the dish aside and steadied myself for the impending calorie bomb: eggplant Parmesan with a side of penne pasta alfredo ($12.95).

Eggplant is one of those line-in-the-sand kinds of foods— one camp contends the spongy nightshade is the king of veggies while the other winces at its oozy, seeded innards. I’m firmly pro-eggplant, provided it’s cooked and seasoned well— which The Stuffed Olive’s was.

The dish arrived with a nottoo-thick blanket of three white THE STUFFED OLIVE cheeses and a sprig of fresh 404 S. Eagle Road thyme. Under the cheese sat 208-938-5185 three lightly battered eggplant thestuffedolive.net discs ladled with tart, oil-glistened, housemade marinara.

“It’s a secret family recipe,” explained co-owner Janice Darelli, whose great-great grandfather owned a bakery on Mulberry Street in New York City. “It’s been in my family for five generations.”

The eggplant, steaming and gooey, held up without disintegrating to mush under the weight of my fork. And while the penne was cooked agreeably, just south of al dente, the alfredo was flavorless and lacked structure—like half-and-half poured on pasta. Slivers of pre-shredded parmesan and a pickled, stuffed green olive didn’t do much to salvage the side.

As I worked on a glass of too-warm Folie a Deux zinfandel, I heard my server explain to a couple of men at nearby table that the calamari would take a while because it’s “hand-cut and hand-breaded to order.” Though The Stuffed Olive’s take on Italian-American food is nothing new or inventive, it’s these little flourishes—fresh-battered calamari, fresh cut flowers, fresh herbs—that set it apart from all the Macaroni Grills and Olive Gardens. Now if only they’d extend that philosophy to their table bread.

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DRY CHENIN BLANC Chenin blanc is one of the most versatile white wine grapes, responsible for everything from crisp and refreshing quaffers, to rich and long-lived sweet wines. It also forms the backbone of a variety of sparklers. Originating in France’s Loire Valley in the ninth century, it has spread across the globe.

Much of what is grown goes into mostly forgettable bulk wines, but at its best, it offers solid quality at a great price. Here are the panel’s top picks: 2009 DRY CREEK DRY CHENIN BLANC, $9.99 For as long as I can remember, this winery has championed chenin blanc, sticking with the variety since its first vintage in 1972. With its lightly floral, honeyed-melon nose backed by a characteristic bit of black walnut, it remains a California classic. The soft fruit flavors and light acidity make for an easydrinking value of a wine, perfect for summer sipping.

2010 MAN CHENIN BLANC, $8.99 South Africa has a special affinity for this grape, and Man’s has always been a standout.

Also known by the name Steen, it is that country’s most widely planted variety. There’s a nice richness to the nose in this wine, offering a mix of ripe peach and lemon pound cake. Impeccably well-balanced on the palate, crisp peach and lime mingle with spice and fresh garden greens. This one is a consistent bargain.

2010 PINE RIDGE CHENIN BLANC VIOGNIER, $14.99 Chenin blanc makes up 79 percent of this California entry—the viognier adds a definite depth to the blend. It’s filled with ripe apple and tropical fruit aromas, and there’s a certain zest to the fruit flavors that are marked by gooseberry, pineapple and lime.

Until the end of the month, you should be able to find this wine for around 10 bucks but then the price goes up to $14.99 in July.

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BREWS NEWS When we first heard that Deschutes Brewery was rolling into town—and swinging by the B-Dub offices—for an event they’re calling Base Camp Week, we uttered a collective “radsweetsicktight.” But when we learned that the caravan would be accompanied by a traveling beer barrel named Woody, we ate our exclamatory mishmashed words.

Immediately, the image of a corny dancing mascot popped into our heads and killed our anticipatory buzz.

Luckily, it turns out Woody is not, in fact, a mascot. It is a mobile bar (!!!) tricked out with Deschutes Brewery beers, a stereo and a disco ball. That’s an idea we can hop behind. Base Camp Week started on June 21 and continues through Sunday, June 26. The week will be filled with beer-licious events, including a beer-bque at Boise Co-op featuring “Black Butte Porker” sloppy joes from food truck Archie’s Place, a downtown pub crawl and Deschutes’ 23rd anniversary party on the roof of the Tavern at Bown, where they’ll pour both the Black Butte XXII imperial porter from 2010 and the Black Butte XXIII. For info, visit deschutesbrewery.com or see 8 Days Out, pages 22-27.

Speaking of beer, mark your calendars for the Idaho Brewers Festival, taking place Friday, July 8-Sunday, July 10, at Lakeview Park in Nampa.

Hosted by Nampa’s Crescent Brewery, the event will feature brews exclusively from Idaho. A 20spot gets you in the gate with a tasting cup and tokens to sample 16 fourounce pours of local beers. For more info, visit idahobrewfest. com.

—Tara Morgan

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Golden orb spiders from Madagascar spin robust webs.

Their silk is stronger than steel, yet able to bend when struck by insects. Here’s an equally amazing facet of their work: Each morning, they eat what remains of yesterday’s web and spend an hour or so weaving a fresh one.

Your task in the coming weeks has similarities to the orb spider’s, Aries: creating rugged but flexible structures to gather what you need and being ready to continually shed what has outlived its usefulness build what your changing circumstances require.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The year is almost half over, Taurus.

Shall we sum up the first part of 2011 and speculate about the adventures that may lie ahead in the next six months? The way I see it, you’ve been going through a boisterous process of purification since January. Some of it has rattled your soul’s bones, while some of it has freed you from your mind-forged manacles.

In a few short months, you have overseen more climaxes and shed more emotional baggage than you had in the past three years combined. Now you’re all clean, clear, fresh and ready for a less exhausting, more cheerful kind of fun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Advertisements are often designed to make you feel inadequate about your life so you will be motivated to “improve” your lot by buying what they’re selling.

In this short horoscope, I don’t have room to express how much soul sickness this wreaks upon us all. Recently, HBO unleashed an especially nefarious attack.

Promoting its new streaming service, it informed us that “The story you could be watching is better than the one you’re in.”

Fortunately, Gemini, you won’t be tempted to swallow that vicious propaganda anytime in the coming weeks. Your personal story will be profoundly more interesting and meaningful than the narratives that HBO or any other entertainment source might offer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A company that manufactures processed food made a promotional offer: If you purchased 10 of its products, it would give you 500 frequent flyer miles. An American man named David Philips took maximum advantage. He bought 12,150 pudding cups for $3,000, earning himself more than 1 million frequent flyer miles—enough to fly to Europe and back 31 times. This is the kind of legal trick you’re now in a good position to pull off, Cancerian. So brainstorm freely, please: How could you play the system or subvert the Man? No need to break any laws. The best gambit will be an ethical one.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While watching fast-talking politicians on TV, my Polish grand-uncle would sometimes mutter, “zlotem pisal, a gownem zapieczetowal.”

I only learned what those words meant when I turned 18 and he decided I was old enough to know the translation: “written in gold and sealed with crap.” One of your interesting assignments in the coming weeks, Leo, will be to identify anything that fits that description in your own life. Once you’ve done that, you can get started on the next task, which should be rather fun: expose the discrepancy and clean up the mess.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago, I did a book tour that brought me to Eugene, Ore., where my sister, her husband and their daughter live. My Virgo niece Jasper was 7 years old at the time. I was surprised and delighted when she heckled me several times during my talk, always with funny and goodnatured comments that added to the conviviality of the moment and entertained everyone in attendance. Who said Virgos are well-behaved to a fault? Your assignment this week is to be inspired by my niece: With wit and compassion, disrupt the orderly flow of any events that could use some smart agitation.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on,” wrote author Samuel Butler. Ain’t that the truth! You may be practicing as diligently as you can, gradually trying to master your complex instrument, but in the meantime, your lack of expertise is plainly visible to anyone who’s paying close attention. Luckily, not too many people pay really close attention, which gives you a significant amount of slack.

Now and then, you have growth spurts—phases when your skills suddenly leap to a higher octave.

The coming weeks should be one of these times for you, Libra.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In August and September, millions of seabirds known as sooty shearwaters leave their homes in New Zealand and travel thousands of miles to the Gulf of the Farallones, just off the coast of San Francisco. Why do they do it? The feeding is first-class; the tasty fish and squid they like are available in abundance. I suggest you consider a sooty shearwatertype quest in the coming weeks, Scorpio. The very best samples of the goodies you crave are located at a distance, either in a literal or metaphorical sense.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I really thought I’d understand sex better by now. After all these years of doing it and

studying it and thinking about it and talking about it, I still can’t regard myself as a master of the subject. The kundalini’s uncanny behavior continues to surprise, perplex and thrill me with ever-new revelations. Just when I imagine I’ve figured out how it all works, I’m delivered to some fresh mystery. How about you, Sagittarius? Judging by the current astrological omens, I’m guessing you’re due for a round of novel revelations about the nature of Eros. As long as you keep an open mind, heart and libido, it should all be pretty interesting.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A few years ago, Eve Ensler took her famous play The Vagina Monologues to Pakistan. She and a group of local Muslim actresses wowed a crowd in Islamabad with discourses on vibrators, menstruation and “triple orgasms.” I invite and encourage you to try something equally brave in the coming weeks, Capricorn. Give your spiel to a new audience, take your shtick to a wild frontier, show who you really are to important people who don’t know the truth yet.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When my “macho feminist” memoir The Televisionary Oracle was published in 2000, I suffered from comical delusions about its chances for mainstream acceptance. For example, I tried to get a review in The New York Times. As I know now, that had as much likelihood of happening as me traveling to the moon in a rainbow canoe carried by magical flying mermaids. But in lieu of that kind of recognition, others arrived. One of my favorites: My book went along for the ride with a group of goddess-worshipers on a spiritual tour to the ancient matriarchal city of Catal Huyuk in Turkey. They read my writing aloud to each other, amused and entertained. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience, Aquarius: having to “settle for” a soulful acknowledgment that’s different from what your ego thought it wanted. Take it from me: That’s actually better.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My favorite plant food for my African violets is a natural fertilizer called Big Bloom. One of its key ingredients—the stuff that makes it so effective—is bat guano. I’d like to suggest that you’re about due to embark on the Big Blooming phase of your own cycle, Pisces. And it’s more likely to reach its deserved pinnacle of fertility if you’re willing to summon just a hint of bat-shit craziness from the depths of your subconscious mind. But remember: just a dollop, not a giant heap.

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