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IN SESSION Boise Weekly looks at the legislative forecast FEATURE 11

NOSH NICHE Finding a space where Boise food trucks can live CULTURE 20

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LOVE IN THE TIME OF A.I. Her asks us to rethink human disconnection

“The mass murderer. Yes, indeed. But I don’t remember him.”

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THREE PLEAS In his legislative preview, on Page 7, News Editor George Prentice provides a handy formula for typical early session prognostication. You’ll be hearing and reading plenty of spoton examples of the Prentice Template during the next couple of months, so I won’t go down that road. What I will do is issue a plea (or series of pleas) to our citizen lawmakers, who were gaveled in Jan. 6.

First: We know there are blinkered ideologues in your midst; please do not let them derail this session into grandstanding on issues that are neither germane to the interests of Idahoans, nor in your power to actually affect (read: repealing federal laws or any portions of the U.S. Constitution, debating toothless resolutions supporting or condemning various things that people in other states are doing, trying to advance some broader agenda with offensive legislation like messing with people’s genitals/sex lives/handwriting, etc).

Second: Idahoans make less at their jobs and therefore use more public assistance than almost anyone else in the country. You know this. Please do not forget it when you’re doling out tax breaks or otherwise smoothing the way for the state’s largest corporations.

Third: Just Add the Words, already. We promise it won’t hurt.

Those are pretty basic, I know, and anyone who even half pays attention to the work of the Legislature could probably come up with five or six more very specific requests: stuff about education (which you already know needs to be better funded), public lands (which we have the sinking feeling you’re going to spend way too much time talking about privatizing), health care (you know that expanding Medicaid would better the lives of thousands of your constituents) and prisons (we really don’t want to continue as the Gulag State).

But—call me a Pollyanna—I feel like there’s enough earnestness in the Statehouse that those first three pleas should appeal to a spirit of civic responsibility and humanism that more than a few of us can agree on.

Of course, we also know that this session is heading into an election year, which is going to make Plea No. 1 most challenging. This could be a transformative session for Idaho, or another formulaic descent into political cynicism. I think you know which one Idahoans would prefer.

—Zach Hagadone

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OPINION

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BILL COPE/OPINION

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From one imaginary friend to another Hi de hi Bill, It’s me. Anonymous, from the Cope’s-Latest-Column Discussion Group. I hope your holidays were as good as mine, except for that little utility room fire I had because the heat lamp I set up for Sniggles was too close to my sewing stuff. I think it’s probably a miracle that I had forgotten to dump the bucket of filthy drain water that I had scooped out of the big sink in that room when the plumbing all backed up because the pipes froze, so I was able to put out the fire just a minute or two after Sniggles came running by me while I was watching It’s A Wonderful Life, smelling like she had been rolling in a burned-up faux cashmere sweater like the one I’d put in there thinking I was going to cut it up and turn the pieces into cuddly covers for my scrap-book collection, which thankfully I don’t keep in the utility room or I would have to start all over.

But anyway, The Cope’s-Latest-Column Discussion Group took a week off between Christmas and New Year’s, mostly because I flew back East to spend Christmas with my daughter in Akron and ended up sleeping a whole night under a bench in the Minneapolis airport because of all that bad weather they had back there, which wasn’t so bad as it sounds because for all the trouble they put us through, the airport people gave us all gift certificates to that Cinnabuns shop, which I think was another miracle when you think about it.

So anyway, last night we had our first meeting since before Christmas and I have to tell you, we took a vote concerning how you fired Red from your column (BW, Opinion/Bill Cope, “Red B-Gone,” Dec. 18, 2013), and everyone there voted that it was mean of you to fire him. Even if the things he says are always jiggled up like there is a mouse in his mouth while he is trying to talk, that First Amendment thingy says he has a right to say them. I looked it up just to be sure and there is nothing in that whole Constitution that says a man has to enunciate his words properly. Even people who talk like they learned how to do it while they were being raised in the wilderness by coyotes have a right to free speech, and we all are surprised you do not see it that way, too, Bill.

And anyway, we of us in the Cope’s-Latest-Column Discussion Group all agreed that even if Red has more than his share of hillbillyish tendencies, we like him anyway. He is colorful, and I mean not in the Denzel Washington way. I picture him to look like Gabby Hayes from the old Roy Rogers movies. And maybe you should consider what would Roy Rogers be without Gabby Hayes, have you ever thought of that? Which is what you will be without Red. Think about it, Bill, and that is what I sincerely think.

—Sincerely, Anonymous Dear Anon, I am sorry to hear about your troubles over the holidays, especially the fire. By the way, you didn’t mention whether Sniggles is a dog, a cat or one of your children. Either way, I do hope she came out of it un-singed.

I must thank you for bringing Gabby Hayes once more to mind. There was a time when he was my favorite actor. Later, Davy Crockett came along and I almost forgot Gabby. Yet I can still hear him delivering that immortal line, “Dag nabbit, Roy! Them rustlers are gettin’ off with the whole herd!” It’s an American tragedy that he never received the recognition he deserved.

However, Red does not look anything like Gabby Hayes. Imagine instead that Harry Dean Stanton—you remember him, I’m sure, from Alien—had spent his entire life in the sun as a roofer perhaps, or the guy holding the Stop/Slow sign on a road construction crew. That is Red, as wiry as a Weimaraner with the complexion of a Slim Jim. He probably doesn’t weigh more than 120 pounds, and he’s the only guy I know who owns a camouflage three-piece suit.

You are right about one thing, though. Red’s a character, no denying that. And you’re affection for him comes as no surprise to me. America has had a long love affair with hillbillies—the Hatfields and McCoys, Li’l Abner, those Green Acres zanies and the Hee Haw bunch, not to mention Honey Boo Boo and her family, or the mutant cannibal strain so common to West Virginia.

And who can forget the long-running adventures of Jeb, Granny, Ellie May and Jethro? In fact, it was probably our nostalgia for the millionaire Clampett clan that set the stage for this current batch of rich hillbillies who have been in the news lately—the Duck somethings. You know who I mean... the hairy ones. And if there had been such a thing as homosexuals back when the Clampetts first moved to Beverly Hills, I’m certain this latest controversy would have been settled long ago.

But as to Red, I’m afraid my mind is made up. Yes, he has his endearing qualities, and he certainly has the freedom to butcher the English language in whatever ways he sees fit. But does that right require me to continue giving him a platform from which to do it? I think not. Red’s undisputed freedom to mispronounce everything that comes out of his whiskery mouth ends at my computer keyboard.

Anon, I do hope my decision does not have too negative an effect on your appreciation of my columns. And tell the discussion group not to worry about Red. I’m sure he will find new venues in which he might explore his inner hillbilly.

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OPINION/JOHN REMBER

PUTTING TRACKS IN THE DEEP STUFF Skiing and meta-skiing

Every five years, the college I graduated from in 1972 asks me to update my address, occupation, marital status and interests.

This data, and that of my classmates, is then published in book form. It’s a good read, mainly because the editors also ask for a brief autobiographical essay. Some excerpts from my 40th anniversary entry: “This winter I was a co-winner of a backcountry Powder 8 competition, on a pair of $30 skis I bought at a local thrift shop, against a field of athletic 25-year-olds on state-of-theart equipment. I felt like Ray Kurzweil on a resveratrol jag.”

And: “In the same competition, Julie won the prize for Most Graceful Turns. We both got T-shirts, but hers was the more graceful.”

And: “My current work-in-progress is A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World, a book on the inability of science, ethics or philosophy to influence public policy, and on the consequent collapse of industrial civilization. I’m on number 85, and can see the finish line, in more ways than one.”

And, finally: “I’m not unhappy to be in my 60s, even though I can read actuarial tables as well as anybody. Forty years from graduation is a good spot to recognize that soon enough, we will all rest with kings and councilors.

But we can consciously shape—at least in the microcosm—the days we have left, and their effects on the people we love.”

I doubt I impressed my fellow autobiographers. Their lives are a bigger part of a bigger world than mine will ever be. They’ve taken companies public, held cabinet posts, developed lifesaving drugs, become CNN analysts and partners in D.C. law firms. They’ve commanded task forces, run universities and directed international charities. They’ve founded free clinics in Africa, thought in think tanks and will neither confirm nor deny that they’ve worked for national security agencies.

I could spend the rest of my life trying to become as important as the least of them, but still wouldn’t catch up. I do have my powder contest T-shirt, but that doesn’t amount to much, if we’re comparing first prizes.

At times I feel they live in one world, and I live in another. Those worlds briefly touched during our college years, only to whirl off in opposite directions, headed for far galaxies.

Of course, there’s just one world, Earth, and it and its sun orbit a giant black hole at the center of this galaxy, once every 250,000 years. Even us prizewinners are stuck here, with this atmosphere, these oceans, these 7 billion other humans. Lots of things we took for granted during the last galactic orbit aren’t going to make it for even a tiny fraction of the next one. There are many finish lines ahead.

Rather than two worlds, it’s more accurate to say there are two types of people.

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Not Republican or Democrat. Not Liberal or Conservative. They are simply Insiders or Outsiders. It’s a bad situation because Insiders can do something about the world economy, a chaos-ridden climate, the general decay of the rule of law, iatrogenic disease, disappearing soil, polluted water supplies and pillaged natural resources—but they cannot see that any of these is a problem. Outsiders can see that they’re problems, but being on the Outside, they can’t do anything about them.

Being an Insider causes a grandiose blindness. I have no doubt that the citizens of Rome, circa 409 C.E., were certain that their Emperor and their Senate and their Laws would last forever, as would their city. It was only barbarians who could imagine an end to all these things, and imagine they did.

I suppose that’s why I inflict upon my classmates actuarial tables and councilors and kings. Because no matter how unaware and pampered you are at the center of things, humans and human institutions are terribly mortal, Ray Kurzweil and the Eternal City notwithstanding. And death, regardless of what you think happens after it, represents a radical change in perspective. Inside becomes Outside. The lichen-stained tombstones of the mighty remind us how little power can be exerted by what lies in the grave.

I’ve been surprised and disappointed by how many of my classmates didn’t write anything for the 40th anniversary book. It’s occurred to me they might be even further Outside than I am, and that because of their perspective they know something I don’t.

Maybe they know that pushing raw and dark perceptions onto lives rawer and darker than one’s own might afflict the comfortable but doesn’t always comfort the afflicted.

Still, I persist. And I hope it doesn’t irritate my Insider classmates to hear that the value of our lives, once all is said and done, lies in relationships and the small kindnesses that distinguish them. Maybe they’re old enough to see, even from where they sit, that power and privilege, plans and ambitions, awards and honors don’t always benefit marriages or friendships or life with the kids.

So, back to the powder slopes. By the time you read this, I hope they exist, because right now they all look like sagebrush farms. I hope I’ll have cleared the driveway of 5-foot drifts, and struggled up through soft snow to the wind-curled tops of mountains. I hope I’ll be training for the next Powder 8 contest, which wasn’t held last year because we didn’t get enough snow. I hope I’ll have found, in Julie’s graceful turns, joy and meaning enough to get up in the mornings, start the coffee, put our skis on top of the car, drive to Copper Mountain and climb up far enough to see what the world looks like from the margins.

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UNDA’ THE ROTUNDA NEWS

Previewing the 2014 Idaho Legislature GEORGE PRENTICE There are multiple previews of the Idaho Legislature, but nearly all of them fall into one of two categories: the view from the inside and the view from the outside.

Inside previews are usually reserved for pundits, political junkies and the men and women who spend an inordinate amount of time under the rotunda. The template for a boilerplate legislative preview goes something like this: Step 1: Gin up the politics. Accentuate the differences of the majority and minority caucuses—if it’s an election year, all the better: accentuate the differences within the parties themselves.

Step 2: Ask as many legislators as possible to guesstimate the length of the upcoming session.

Step 3: Compare the current session to the past four or five sessions.

Step 4: Prime the political pump a bit more by buttressing two quotes from two radically different legislators.

Step 5: Mention three or four controversial topics certain to be debated by the fringe elements of the parties (it’s always good to include wolves or health care).

But the view from the outside looking in couldn’t be more different. Putting politics aside, Idaho economists and employers couldn’t care less about partisanship or how long legislative sessions run, just as long as lawmakers craft a sensible budget and fund programs and agencies with sensitivity.

So it was with great substance (but very little media fanfare) that a team of nine Idaho representatives and nine Idaho senators hunkered down for two days Jan. 2-3, in an effort to come up with the number—the revenue projection to be sent to legislative budget writers who, in turn, will decide who gets what.

“We have some homework to do,” said Grace Republican Rep. Marc Gibbs, welcoming his fellow members of the Joint Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee.

To put it mildly, some of the committee members are better at forecasting revenues than others. For instance, a year ago, the EORAC committee predicted that Idaho would collect $2.67 billion in revenues for Fiscal Year 2013. But actual collections were $116.8 million more than what EORAC forecast. In fact, some of the committee members’ individual estimates were wildly off the mark. For instance, former Boise Democratic Sen. Nicole LeFavour’s forecast was off by a whopping $418 million. Closer to the actual FY2013 collections were Meridian Republican Sen. Russ Fulcher and Boise Republican Sen. Cliff BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

B RYAN ANTHONY M OOR E

THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN

Bayer, who were each $109 million off.

That was then.

Bayer, Fulcher and their EORAC colleagues are now facing blank work sheets for FY 2014. The lawmakers who make up the EORAC committee are already stocked to the gills with some solid data: for two solid days, they listened to a nonstop roster of speakers: economists, bankers, physicians, grocers, auto dealers, lumbermen, dairymen, agricultural scientists and a long list of state agency heads.

For 11 hours, the cumulative presentations represented an unprecedented look at Idaho’s economy—past, present and future.

Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter

STATE OF THE STATE: SLIDING MONEY AWAY FROM IDAHO TEACHERS, TOWARD FACILITIES

THE CHIEF ECONOMIST “We like to take national forecasts and then build our Idaho forecasts from there,” said Derek Santos, chief economist for the Idaho Division of Financial Management, flipping through a dizzying series of charts and graphs from IHS Economics/ Global Insight. Ultimately, Santos landed on one particular graph that made Idaho lawmakers sit up and take notice.

“This is what we’re projecting Idaho housing starts,” he said.

Simply put, housing starts are key economic indicators that track the number of residential construction projects. And Santos’ projections for the next two years were extremely encouraging.

“We think Idaho housing starts will turn the corner,” said Santos. “I know these numbers seem strong, because by 2016 (nearly 15,000 units) we’re showing three times the housing starts compared to 2011 (less than 5,000 units). But we really think this is sustainable.”

The committee members couldn’t take notes fast enough.

THE BUILDER Santos’ projections were music to Michael Arrington’s ears. He’s a third-generation Idaho builder and president of the Idaho Associated General Contractors.

“Construction employment in Idaho has risen 4.2 percent since this time last year and is estimated to total more than 32,000 jobs,” Arrington told the committee, but quickly added that “progress remains fragile.”

“Construction jobs don’t just appear overnight,” he said.” It takes the financial commitment of both private and public owners to put our industry to work.”

Hayden Republican Rep. Ed Morse pressed Arrington further, wanting some specific insights on what Arrington was experiencing in his own construction firm—Starr Corporation.

“What are you seeing out there?” asked Morse. “I really need your immediate outlook for the next 12 to 18 months.”

Arrington shared details concerning his firm’s Twin Falls and Pocatello offices.

“We experienced about a 5 percent increase for two years, and then last year, we had a 10 percent increase in business,” he said. “We’re definitely moving out of a holding pattern.”

The EORAC members continued to write feverishly.

GARDNER COMPANY: LOOKING UP “Notwithstanding the recession, we’ve done OK, “ said Geoffrey Wardle, vice president of development and general counsel for the Gardner Company. “I’m standing here in front of you to paint a picture that things are getting better and there are glimmers of hope.”

In short order, Gardner has become—quite literally—the highest profiled developer of commercial buildings in the Treasure Valley. In a matter of days, new tenants will be moving into Gardner’s Eighth and Main tower—Idaho’s tallest building—in downtown Boise.

“We’re not seeing any new speculative development in this market except in the downtown Boise core,” said Wardle, “And we’re starting to see a return to pre-recession conditions in the commercial market.”

But Wardle cautioned lawmakers that Idaho faces a major problem in finding the men and women that they need to help manage their next generation of office buildings.

“The availability of appropriately 8 skilled operations employees for com-

Scant seconds after Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter delivered his Jan. 6 State of the State Address, Idaho House Speaker Scott Bedke, standing one tier above Otter’s podium, thanked the governor for what he called a “general blueprint.”

Blueprint or wish list, Otter knew full well that the 105 men and women sitting before him would have the final say on a spending plan for schools, prisons and social services.

Otter rushed through his instantly forgettable State of the State as if he hadn’t prepared, let alone seen the speech before delivering it to a statewide audience. His performance, filled with flubbing some words and missing others entirely, wasn’t characteristic of Idaho’s most charismatic leader.

Even when he invoked Obamacare, wolves and fiscal restraint—issues that previously would have inspired fiery rhetoric, Otter spoke as if he had somewhere else he needed to be.

Otter spent the lion’s share of his time talking about education, saying that he wanted to make “a significant start ... to restore funding to public schools.”

But the governor’s idea of “significant” was a 2.9 percent increase—or a $37.4 million bump—for public education, a far cry from the nearly $100 million spending gap, which continued to widen through the recession. In fact, recommendations from the governor’s own task force, which he said he “enthusiastically endorsed” during his address, recommends $350 million in improvements, meaning Otter’s blueprint would take nearly a decade to achieve, not the five-year plan he trumpeted during his speech.

Additionally, Otter’s proposed public education budget would slide $21 million away from teacher bonuses and development.

“The governor has missed the mark in not providing tangible recognition for teachers,” said Penni Cyr, president of the Idaho Education Association. ”Facilities and technology are important tools, but they are of minimal value without qualified people to use them.”

Even Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna—who got a shout-out from Otter during the State of the State—wasn’t too pleased with what he was hearing.

“We can’t reduce teacher compensation in order to keep the lights on,” Luna told reporters after the address.

Luna, like Otter, faces re-election later this year. In his State of the State, Otter said he was courting support for his “key proposals in the coming year and beyond.”

But voters will have the final say on that “beyond” part.

—George Prentice

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NEWS

Controversial plan to arm North Idaho school staff triggers recall effort

C AM ER ON R AS M U S S EN

PACKING HEAT CAMERON RASMUSSEN Hundreds of people filled the seats at the Sandpoint High School auditorium Oct. 8, 2013—a crowd you might expect to see at a high-school musical. But no one was there to be entertained. A tightly coiled tension simmered throughout the room.

It was the first—and only—opportunity for public comment on a controversial policy to arm Lake Pend Oreille School District staff.

As proposed by school district trustee Steve Youngdahl, the policy would see select staff carrying concealed weapons. As an added measure of safety, the weapons would be equipped with an Intelligun system—a device that locks a pistol’s firing mechanism until it reads registered fingerprints.

At first glance, Tom Bokowy and Bill Aitken aren’t dissimilar from Youngdahl. All three are family men with strong ties to their community. Just as Youngdahl is a public official, so too is Aitken, appointed to a vacant seat on the Sandpoint City Council. Yet these very similar men would become the leaders in a charge to recall Youngdahl.

Youngdahl first proposed his armed staff policy, citing the at-least-20-minute response time for emergency personnel to reach Clark Fork Junior-Senior High School, one of

LPOSD’s most rural facilities.

“Our campuses are vulnerable,” Youngdahl argued. “When seconds count, we need a first line of defense.”

Youngdahl maintained that armed staff would be more effective, backing his assertion with data indicating a mass shooting stopped by law enforcement yielded an average 14 wounded individuals, while one halted by civilians produced about two-and-a-half casualties.

Youngdahl’s numbers prompted Bokowy and Aitken to examine his sources. Youngdahl pointed to an article published on examiner. com by author David Barker. Bokowy said Barker, a libertarian blogger, couldn’t be trusted as an objective statistician. Furthermore, Bokowy took issue with Barker’s methodology.

Youngdahl insisted that his numbers were backed up by an unnamed Homeland Security agent. Bokowy and Aitken requested a meeting with the agent to no avail. They said that was another reason for them to move forward with their effort to recall Youngdahl.

A mere 104 signatures were all it took to launch a recall election—and Bokowy and Aitken collected a sufficient number in about two months. The Bonner County Clerk has already confirmed that the special recall election is set

mercial buildings is becoming a significant issue,” he said.

7 Wardle said Gardner recently hired a number of property managers and building engineers, “but to fill those positions, we had to recruit employees from outside of the market.”

Wardle’s warning about an unskilled workforce was repeated several times by several presenters, not the least of which was the man tasked with keeping Idaho employed.

some challenges,” said Fick, always tacking on a cautionary note to anything that may come across as too rosy.

“We’ve recovered about 95 percent of the job loss, but the challenge in this recovery continues to be in terms of income,” he added.

Fick said the average annual wage in Idaho is currently $36,363, compared to a national average of $49,000.

But the real news in Fick’s presentation was his forecast of which Idaho sectors should see the most job opportunities in the coming year.

Topping the list was the construction sector, which the Department of Labor is forecasting should add 4,187 new jobs; the leisure and hospitality industry is expected to add 6,033 jobs, followed by waste management services and natural resources. The best news is in the health care industry, which is forecast to add 6,682 jobs by 2015 (see the chart to the right).

“These have been the real bright spots,” said Fick in a rare moment of optimism.

But just how lawmakers will translate Fick’s numbers, along with the endless amount of data submitted by other presenters is anybody’s guess. Quite simply, if you’re looking for the real substantive preview of the 2014 Idaho Legislature, seek out EORAC’s revenue forecast for the coming year. That should drive the full session.

UNSKILLED LABOR? Ken Edmunds’ message to Idaho legislators was blunt. The director of the Idaho Department of Labor said the Gem State didn’t have a job shortage as much as it had a problem with finding qualified applicants.

“Practically every employer I talk to tells me the same thing,” Edmunds told members of EORAC. “They say they’re not finding the employees they need at any level. I can’t think of a single employer who has told me that they’re getting the workers they need. ” Edmunds stood alongside Labor Department spokesman Bob Fick, known for his own brand of straight talk and general reluctance to overstate anything.

“Yes, the Idaho recovery has picked up substantially, but we still believe there are

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Tom Bokowy, one of the leaders behind the Steve Youngdahl recall, reviews petition signatures at his Sandpoint office.

for Tuesday, March 11.

But the recall effort has itself proven as controversial as Youngdah’s proposal. Youngdahl supporters—and even some of his critics—say that the recall effort amounts to an unwarranted show of political force. Even the editorial board of the Moscow-Pullman Daily News expressed a similar sentiment in an editorial.

“We vehemently disagree with Youngdahl’s proposal of arming teachers and believe it would only endanger students and staff, but his action doesn’t indicate he is unfit to fulfill his term or that it warrants immediate removal from office,” wrote the Daily News.

Meanwhile, Youngdahl—who was elected to his third four-year term on the LPOSD

board in May 2013—said he won’t back down, and that it was his duty as a trustee to bring the issue to the public.

“This is how options are considered and debated—this is how the process works,” he said.

“However, those who are [behind the recall] are acting on the misinformation that I have been on a lone crusade to arm school staff.”

There’s at least one thing that almost everyone agrees on, however, and that’s a concern for the security of LPOSD schools. District Superintendent Shawn Woodward said he’s spearheading a plan that includes facility upgrades, new security training for staff and the eventual addition of a school resource officer in the district’s rural western edge.

The jobs picture in Idaho is looking rosier for the construction, leisure and hospitality, and health care sectors, even as wages remain far below the national average.

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MIKE NUGENT On golf, the Idaho Legislature and Ted Bundy GEORGE PRENTICE He’s never been elected to public office. In fact, he may be the most apolitical man at the Statehouse; yet Mike Nugent might have a more profound impact on the Idaho Legislature than anyone else at the Capitol.

“Are all bills well-thought-out? Sometimes,” said Nugent, 62. “But sometimes, it’s just a concept or an idea and we’ll try to flesh it out and put it into language that will work.”

As manager of the Research and Legislation Division of the Legislative Services Office, proposed legislation needs to cross his desk before it heads to committee, and certainly before it heads to the floor of the Idaho House or Senate. As the 2014 Idaho Legislature gears up for another session, Boise Weekly got a rare few minutes to talk with the 36-year veteran of LSO about legislation, the nobility of public service, and his real passion: golf.

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I’ve heard that you wanted to be a pro golfer when you were a young man.

I was good enough for my high-school team in Elko, Nev., to win the state championship. But one day, when I was playing on the golf team at the College of Idaho, I was paired with a guy who was so good, I quickly thought I should do something else.

How good are you now?

If I break 80, that’s a great day and I call a press conference.

At one time, didn’t you want to be a lawyer?

I went to law school at the University of Puget Sound. I was a classmate of Ted Bundy.

Wait. What?

The mass murderer. Yes, indeed. But I don’t remember him.

I really don’t know where to go from there, but let’s talk about the Idaho Legislature. How did you get your start with LSO? It was 1977 and, to put it mildly, I was starving to death and living in Los Angeles. I was seriously considering going to Las Vegas to deal cards. I shotgunned my resume every-

where and one day, I got a call from Idaho. I thought it would be an interesting place for a year or two.

And now, it has been more than 36 years.

You must have flourished.

Yeah, I moved up the food chain. The work was interesting to me, in a geek-ish sort of way.

How many pieces of proposed legislation cross your desk?

In an average year, we’ll probably do 1,200 pieces of new legislation. We call them RS (routing slips), so the computer can track them. Of those, about 800 bills will be introduced. Of that number, maybe 300 or 400 will pass.

But the past few years have been anything but normal.

Quite frankly, there hasn’t been much money for programs. This year, we have some dough, so there will probably be some so-called “Do Good” bills. Republicans will want to lower taxes, while Democrats may want to expand some programs, or get more money for education.

When does it all gain steam?

Before the 35th day of the session—maybe mid-February. Minor committees can only introduce legislation until the 36th day.

Major committees can introduce all the way to Sine Die. Who is responsible for putting a price tag on the legislation?

The legislator is responsible for that. Each piece of legislation has to have a statement of purpose and fiscal note attached. I can attest that doing a fiscal note can be really gnarly.

Are there bills ready to go now for the current session?

State agencies will have a number of bills that go through the Governor’s Office and some members will have some bills ready to go.

How important is technology to your job?

Let me put it this way: the worst thing in our office is a blank computer screen. Technology is critical. Let’s say a legislator comes into our office and makes reference to a statute in Iowa. Well, we quickly access the Iowa statute and see if it fits here. And then, maybe we’ll put some of the wording in some “Idaho-ese.”

What in the world is Idaho-ese?

For example, we use the word “fund” a lot. Our accounting systems don’t recognize anything that’s an “account;” instead, everything is a “fund.” The Legislature is a tribal place, and it has its customs and its own language.

By design, I’m presuming that your department must be sheltered from politics?

We are very, very nonpartisan. When we hire people, we tell them that we understand that they didn’t come from Mars and they have their own political and sociological persuasions, but we pay them reasonably well to not have a personal opinion. We try never to say, “This is a good idea,” or “This is a bad idea.” One time, we interviewed a person and she said, “My husband and I are really good friends with the governor and first lady.” We said, “Thank you for your time.”

Have you ever asked yourself what has kept you at LSO for so long?

Each session is so unique. And a lot of it is the people you work with and some of the members. Ninety-five percent of the Legislature works really, really hard. It’s a 24/7 job and they’re getting part-time wages.

I’m guessing that you usually have good things to say about the Legislature.

I truly think that the Legislature gets a bad rap, but if the public at-large could come and see what we see, they would see some really good members solving problems.

Do you have a sense of how much longer you want to do this?

My youngest daughter is 16—a sophomore in high school—and I want to get her through college. So, I’m guessing seven more years. [Nugent and his wife also have a 25-year-old son and 21-year-old daughter].

Do you still love what you do?

When I started out, I was a baby. Now, people are saying, “Look at that tribal leader.

Look at that fossil.” But I’m still here and I’m not burned out.

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n a late summer evening, a glint of light shot through the parking lot across from the Modern Hotel. A tiny disco ball was dangling from Everett Beck and Brandon Alegria’s miniature food truck, The Shack, scattering beams of light with each small sigh of wind. Alegria passed a duck confit taco—tender shreds of duck, paper thin radish coins, cilantro and crumbles of cotija all cradled in a corn tortilla—through the trailer’s small window. At almost midnight, it was the best after-bar snack around. But The Shack was blocks away from any other bars.

Beck and Alegria built their trailer to meet city of Boise hot dog cart specifications, intending to park the tiny food truck on an authorized street vending medallion in the heart of downtown, where they would feed a bar crowd wary of wieners and greasy slices. But city regulations wouldn’t allow it.

“So the box itself is 9-feet by 5-feet by 7-feet, but they don’t allow anything to be on the ground—like your generator or your propane tanks—so we built a little hitch on the side of it to hold our generator and our gas tank,” said Alegria. “Because it was 3 feet longer than 9 feet, it just wasn’t allowed. … They said, ‘It’s

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not the same as a hot dog stand, three blocks to hopefully find a truck. Most basically, something that you can trucks don’t waste our time because we figure three blocks away from it all, they’re push around by yourself.’”

Because the city has banned not going to get there. So that’s very frusfood trucks from parking within the Busi- trating.”

Brian Garrett, owner of Saint Lawrence ness Improvement District—an area that Gridiron, agrees. spans from Fifth to 13th streets and State “I think it’s silly; to Myrtle streets—Beck and Alegria I think it’s counwere relegated to serving terproductive,” their eclectic eats— said Garrett. like poutine “Anything that with pepworks against per grapedestrian trafvy and fic in the downrisotto e town area t o t s c n ala ght b cks and works against with a i r t a h the city as a tomato od tru find t ta ng to g in the fo stment tha in i y r t whole.” ragu—on e e v “It’s bringin d t in ave ma a h n t According to the edges e g e betw recognizin t owners h shops.”

Cece Gassner, of downr n o a ura d-mort als a t e s s i assistant for town. By late e o r n lot of eir brick-a er, City of B economic develsummer, after n th s Gas opment at the city struggling to —Cece of Boise, the ban on food make ends meet, trucks parking in the downtown the duo sold the BID was put into place in the early 2000s. truck (somewhat “It was sometime around 2002 or 2003 ironically) to a hot dog vendor from Seattle when the prohibition of food trucks in the and found jobs in the service industry.

“It’s a bummer, but we just weren’t mak- BID came about. My understanding is that ing enough money supporting ourselves it came about from two things: One, some with the whole food truck thing, so we kind complaints from restaurants about having of needed to sell it to make some kind of the food trucks parking in the BID in front profit. … I’m not going to blame it on the of the restaurants or in places where they whole ‘we couldn’t be downtown’ thing, were taking up parking spots for patrons, but certain areas just really weren’t about but also because there were a couple of food our kind of food, so it was difficult to really trucks that were really flouting parking find a secure location where we were mak- laws,” said Gassner. “They would pull into some spaces at 9 a.m. and they wouldn’t ing enough money,” said Alegria.

Beck and Alegria aren’t the only ones la- move until 1 or 2 p.m., and they figured it was worth the tickets. At some point, City menting these regulations.

“A lot of the customers that visit these Council just said, ‘Enough is enough.’”

But during the past decade, the food food trucks, whether it’s mine or someone else’s, they complain that they … go out truck climate has changed drastically. TV on Saturday night, walk back out of the shows like The Great Food Truck Race and bars, and all they’ve got is hot dog carts,” Eat St. have helped glamorize the humble said Shane Anderson, owner of Cacicia’s roach coach, while food truck pioneers Cucinas Old World Sicilian Foods. “So it’s like Roy Choi of Los Angeles’ Kogi BBQ very inconvenient for them to have to walk Taco Truck have imbued street food with 11

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an epicurean flair. Today, food trucks are as Business Improvement District at 11th and integral a part of a city’s thriving culinary Front streets—a couple of days a week. But culture as brick-and-mortar restaurants.

Farber doesn’t think it would benefit downSo in the spring of 2013, Gassner orga- town restaurants if the city just “opened the nized a meeting to discuss changing Boise’s floodgates and let everyone in.” downtown food truck regulations.

“Brick-and-mortar places, they pay for “I did meet with food truck owners and I their spots and they can’t move and we can, did meet with some private restaurant own- so I think that it would be rude of us to park ers just to get a sense of what everybody in front of a restaurant,” said Farber. “But I was thinking about the issue,” said Gassner. can’t see that everyone would abide by just “One thing to note: Food trucks can be in a commonsense idea.” the BID if they’re on private property, so However, Cameron Lumsden, owner of if someone owns a private lot and you get downtown restaurants Fork and Alavita, permission from that person, that’s fine. We doesn’t believe it would be a problem. can’t really prohibit that, so it’s just parking “We are an advocate of allowing the food on the street right now that’s prohibited.” trucks to park downtown,” wrote Lumsden Gassner said the conversation focused on in an email. “We do think it would provide finding a way to allow food trucks down- a vibrancy to downtown. We do not think town without offending nearby restaurants. the food trucks would negatively impact “It’s trying to find that right balance our restaurants as it is two completely difbetween bringing in the food trucks and ferent ‘diners.’ One is looking for more of also recognizing that investment that a lot ‘sustenance on the go’ and the other is lookof restaurant owners have made in their ing for more of a full-service dining experibrick-and-mortar ence—with an adult libation, potentially.” shops. … The But downtown isn’t the be-all and food trucks end-all location for food very much trucks. To be successtend to unful, Farber said derstand the trucks also whole issue need to of parking think outright in front side the of a restauBID. rant, that “I think it’s sort of that some disrespectful of them hold and maythat downtown —Jas be against area as kind of on F arbe protocol in the Holy Grail r, Ar chie’ the restaurant of what you need s Pla ce world,” said Gasto be in to make it sner. “But then you get in the business,” said into, ‘Well, how do we put that Farber. “But as some into the ordinance? And we’re not tryof the older ones have ing to create an unwieldy ordinance to en- found out, you don’t have to be downtown force.” to do a good business. I think that you have Archie’s Place owner Jason Farber has to be willing to do some catering; I think an agreement with Pre Funk Beer Bar to you have to be willing to think outside the park in its lot—which hovers just inside the box and to fill up your calendar and be as

“I th in rude k that it fron of us to would b t of a res park in e taura nt.”

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busy as you need to be.”

As some of Boise’s more successful food trucks have discovered, events and caterings are often much more reliable—and much more lucrative—than the park-andsell model.

Calle 75 Street Tacos, which is opening a brick-and-mortar outpost in the Village at Meridian, bases most of its business around events. For the past few years, the cart has slung its grass-fed carne asada tacos at the Capital City Public Market and the recently shuttered East End Market at Bown Crossing, as well as at farmers markets in Hailey and Ketchum.

“We probably do more events, as many or more, than any food truck in the area. … March through November of last year we did 137 events,” said Calle 75 co-owner

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But not all events are worth the effort.

Anderson of Cacicia’s Cucinas, which is also opening a space in the Village at Meridian, said he considers a number of factors before he agrees to do an event.

“When you plan an event, a truck owner is looking for a headcount. It has to be worth our time. … We’ve got gas that has to be covered, so there’s minimums,” said Anderson. “Then when you do the multiple trucks, you want to plan your cuisine accurately. You don’t want to see [the same] cuisine off of a couple of different trucks.”

But there’s one local event that most food trucks won’t turn down: the Food Truck Rally. Started by Payette Brewing’s Sheila Francis in 2011, the rally features a rotating assortment of trucks that gather in a dif-

ferent location each month. While the rally well as make a profit—they are a business,” has earned a reputation for large crowds said Francis. “So I have a dual responsibility there, which can be very challenging.” and long lines, Francis said The Food Truck Rally has it’s difficult to strike the become so popular, in right balance between fact, that there the number of trucks and were two ralthe number of attendees. lies in De“We get over 500 cember: one people consistently and “I’m n at the Eagle it’s between seven to o t whole going t Sports Comnine trucks every time. thing ‘we could o blame it o ... but n’t be plex on Dec. … It’s one of the things n t h e it was find a down t d o s 14 and the other I struggle with the most e if w c fi n’ ure cu were makin location wlt to really at the North End because I want people g h e —Bran e don A nough mo re we Organic Nursery to have a big enough legria ney.” , The on Dec. 15. selection of food and the Shack Francis hopes lines to be manageable, yet if that the momentum I have too many trucks, each truck from these events will has to be able to cover their overhead as spur the creation of a more permanent food truck gathering place—or pod.

“I think the Food Truck Rally is kind of a testament that there’s power in numbers,” said Francis. “I think it would be useful to have a pod and I think it would help all of the food trucks out a lot.”

Food truck pods are already commonplace in cities like Austin, Texas, and Portland, Ore. In addition to offering a centralized street eats space for consumers, pods also provide basic infrastructure like picnic tables, lighting, bathrooms and sometimes even stages for live entertainment.

Calle 75’s Weems tried to spearhead the creation of a pod in the empty lot at 15th and Bannock streets last spring, but the idea was put on the back burner as he moved into his busy season.

“We had two or three meetings with basically a group of the food trucks that all started together. … Everybody’s on board and excited to do it, but nobody really has that time to organize it. … It’s not that we’re letting that go, it’s just that we’re trying to figure out a foundation for it and probably somebody that would actually manage it.

Everybody was kind of looking at me to figure a lot of stuff out.”

Weems thinks some sort of overarching food truck organization—like a food truck alliance—would help bring the pod concept to fruition. It could also help the trucks band together and advocate for access to the downtown core.

“I do feel strongly about [food trucks] moving into the downtown core in some way, shape or form,” said Saint Lawrence Gridiron’s Garrett. “I feel like regulation can be a positive thing for that. I’m not saying it should be renegade, park-whereveryou-want, serve-whatever-you-want kind of thing. But I think Boise’s ready for it, I think the food trucks are ready for it, and I think it would be wise for the city to kind of come on board with it and allow the trucks into the downtown area.”

According to Gassner, the city is on board.

“We have been taking a look at, and are still considering, a potential pilot program that could allow us to have certain zones where we say, ‘In this block or half block, for these food trucks to be able to come in, you still have to pay attention to the parking laws, but it might be allowed here.’”

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“I hadn’t heard from them in a while and I just thought, ‘Well, maybe they aren’t interested,’” said Gassner. “But if they are saying that they’re interested in potentially examining that, then it’s really just a matter of my taking a look at it again and bringing it back to mayor and Council to say, ‘Is this something that you may be interested in discussing further?’”

Garrett, who’s closing his truck to open a full-fledged restaurant in the former Redheaded Finn space this March (see Food News, Page 26), thinks allowing food trucks downtown will lead to a more lively city center.

“Urban cores live and die with pedestrian traffic so anything that draws people to the streets is good for the city,” said Garrett. “And I think I’ll stand by that, even as a brick-and-mortar restaurant operation.”

Gassner is also eager to see the effect food trucks might have on the vibrancy of downtown.

“I personally don’t see where it would detract from downtown. It will just be interesting to watch to see exactly how it might change things,” said Gassner. “I always think having different kinds of competition and different options makes for a better downtown, so I guess we’ll see what the effect might be.”

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Wheels on the stage go round and round.

As Uncle Joe famously said, “This is a big f-ing deal.” Now learn about it.

SATURDAY JAN. 11 high flying

THURSDAY JAN. 9

GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS CIRQUE ZIVA

obamacare AFFORDABLE CARE ACT PRESENTATION Years after the passage of the massive overhaul of America’s health care system, many still cling to misconceptions about the Affordable Care Act. Through a combination of bad intel, fear mongering and mistrust, the public’s knowledge of the ACA is sorely lacking.

For example, did you know that the ACA ends pre-existing condition exclusions in children’s health insurance policies? Or that participating policies provide preventative care and remove insurance barriers to emergency services? New rules minimize administrative costs, establish a Patient’s Bill of Rights and guarantee patients the right to appeal if policy funds are denied.

The public is invited to learn more about the ACA from someone intimately knowledgeable about Idaho’s implementation of the law, Covering Idaho Kids Program Director David Chase.

When Boise Weekly last caught up with Chase, he was running victory laps after Covering Idaho Kids, which assists Idaho families in providing health insurance for children and adolescents, was awarded a $500,000 grant by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Thursday, Jan. 9, at the Library at Collister Catalpa Room, Chase will debunk myths and provide information about the new law. It’s a chance to learn about how the ACA affects the cost and coverage of insurance, how it has changed the insurance industry and how it’s being put to use here in Idaho. Bonus: The presentation is free.

1:30 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, Catalpa Room, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-5624995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

FRIDAYSATURDAY JAN. 10-11 how is that my fault?

BLAME IT ON BOISE When Lauren Weedman came to town late last sum-

mer, ever y coffee klatsch, dinner party, inter view and get-together she went to was possible fodder for the September 2013 debut of Boise, You Don’t Look a Day Over 149.

Many of her outings and meetings made it into the solo play, and while she poked fun at Boiseans by regaling her audiences with tales of rabid Broncos

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fandom, Psychic Sheila, a baptist church ser vice and the Western Idaho Fair, she did it from the perspective of someone smitten. Yes, Weedman held up a mirror to our fair city, but on that mirror, she had written “I Love You” in cherr y-red lipstick.

We wouldn’t usually cotton to an outsider making jokes at our expense,

Imagine soaring through the air, your body rotating 720 degrees, the spin stopping just in time for you to catch another person in flight by their ankles. Now wake up from your daydream and sit up in your easy chair. Acrobats are a rare breed; some Americans hesitate to exercise at all, let alone fly through the air like a human firework. Speaking of fireworks and acrobatics, they share China as a country of origin. And speaking of fireworks, acrobatics and China, the Golden Dragon Acrobats are bringing their Cirque Ziva show to Boise. Since their establishment in 1967 by Lien Chi Chang, the Golden Dragons have been entertaining audiences the world over with their astounding displays of the ancient aerial art. Cirque Ziva is the latest show from Danny Chang, current artistic director of the touring company and son of Lien Chi. Since the debut of Cirque Ziva at New Jersey’s Paramount Theatre, the show has been incredibly successful, in no small part due to the work of renowned stage lighting expert Tony Tucci.

The Golden Dragon Acrobats are the only Chinese acrobatic troupe to tour year-round in the United States, and the group has been nominated for multiple New York Drama Desk Awards.

7 p.m. $20-$30. Morrison Center, 2201 W. Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, goldendragonacrobats.com.

but Weedman feels like a family member—that’s why, even though the title of her newest work is Blame It On Boise, we’ll show up in droves to see it.

Weedman returns to the city that, based on the title of this new play is apparently responsible for something, for a limited engagement of three performances: 8 p.m., Friday, Jan. 10; 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 11.

And for the first time, Weedman will also present a workshop in which she’ll teach writing exercises and offer creative types “direct and frank feedback … to

help shape a short per formance piece.”

The cost of the workshop is $50 and participants need to be prepared with an idea, an outline, a monologue or something similar to work on. To register for the workshop, contact kc@ bctheater.org or call 208331-9224, ext. 205.

Friday, Jan. 10, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Jan. 11, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $25 for evening per formances, $15 for Saturday matinee.

Boise Contemporar y Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Laruen Weedman returns with more tongue-in-cheek Boiseisms.

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His boots were made for walking, and that’s just what they did.

Time to buy a new belt with that “biggest loser” prize money.

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One of the most famous depictions of pilgrimage comes in Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbur y Tales, published in the 1300s. In it, a ragtag bunch of seekers hit the road for a variety of reasons: spiritual, social, economic, ar tistic.

It’s no different with the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, which crosses nor thern Spain to the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela, and provides a modern spiritual journey on which people forget the hustle and bustle of cell phones and traffic jams to spend their days crossing the Pyrenees and their nights in shelters, tents and hostels.

Kur t Koontz traveled the Camino to heal. He was physically fit; he’d packed his bags with ever ything he thought he might need, but on the path through the Spanish foothills, he found himself addressing personal issues like his past as an addict, his recover y—and love.

Stateside, he wrote a book, A Million Steps, in which he recounts the details of his journey—the high Pyrenic meadows, the winds of the Meseta Central, dusty trails marked by the seashell symbol of the Camino—and makes clear what a pilgrimage can mean, even when it’s not a religious journey, per se.

Koontz will be at the Idaho Outdoor Association Hall, Tuesday, Jan. 14 sharing stories about his time on the Camino, discussing the trail and how it changed his life.

7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Outdoor Association Hall, 3401 Brazil St., Boise, idahooutdoorassn.org.

A MILLION STEPS: KURT’S 500-MILE JOURNEY ON THE CAMINO DE SANTIAGO

ST. LUKE’S $10,000 WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE According to USA.gov, weight-, health- and fitness-related goals accounted for three of the top 10 New Year’s resolutions. And no wonder: The obesity rate for adults in the United States hovers at 27.2 percent, according to a 2013 Gallup Poll.

It’s one thing to make a New Year’s resolution and another thing to keep it. That’s where St. Luke’s $10,000 Weight Loss Challenge can help. The hospital provides participants with starter kits complete with shopping lists, recipes, meal planning, exercise regimens and nutrition classes to help them drop pounds and feel better.

Between Saturday, Jan. 11, and Thursday, June 5, they’ll eat better, get more exercise and watch the fat melt away, getting updates on their progress at monthly weigh-ins. Then, they’ll get half-price entry to the FitOne 5K foot race ThursdaySaturday, Sept. 18-20.

Fitness buffs hitching their weight-loss goals to St. Luke’s may have cash and prizes in store for them. Biggest loser prizes, as defined by the highest percentage of weight lost, are $2,400 for first place, $1,200 for second place and $800 for third place.

Swing by the kick-off party in the lobby of St. Luke’s Meridian for sign-ups, a weigh-in, blood pressure and sugar screenings, and a body mass index check. Then, get going on keeping that weight-loss resolution.

8 a.m.-noon, $40-$50. St. Luke’s Meridian, 520 S. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-381-7438, fitoneboise.org.

SUNDAY JAN. 12 snow, man CROSS COUNTRY SKI CLINIC Winter spor ts are a revered pastime, especially in the Rocky Mountain region of the United States. As soon as snow falls, eager skiers, boarders and snowshoers pack up their gear

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and head to their favorite winter wonderland for a new adventure. For beginners, however, learning something like Nordic skiing can be intimidating. Besides rounding up all the equipment, it can be difficult to find a willing teacher for a newcomer.

That’s where the Bogus Basin Nordic Team comes in. They are enthusiastically ready and able to teach you the ways of cross countr y

skiing. Anyone at any level is invited to attend in order to learn or improve Nordic skills.

There are two sessions available, and you can participate in one or both as you delve into skate or classic stride variations with the help of an instructor.

The new year is a time for change, and this is an oppor tunity to break out of your mold—literally, the butt groove you’ve imprinted on your couch—and ski your way to health and a blissful relationship with nature.

Creating music digitally is not new. Without Apple’s GarageBand and ProTools, much of EDM, hip-hop, nu-metal, pop, rock and even country wouldn’t exist—or it would sound a lot less like it took an orchestra to record it. Software has also allowed musicians thousands of miles apart to work together. But soundation.com making music that way requires notes, ideas and snippets of sound to be turned into the ones and zeroes of binary code and hurtled through the Internet via email and uploading—the sizzle of excitement that happens during moments of face-to-face collaboration is lost. PowerFX Systems, a Swedish music technology company, hopes its new cloud-based app, Soundation Studio for Google+ Hangouts, will land in the happy medium between old-school and new-school music making.

Soundation is a “Web-based sequencer application, with loops, effects and virtual instruments” that ranges in price from free for basic access to a still-reasonable price of $99 per year for premium access to storage, sound sets and the full library of loops and samples. The Soundation/Hangouts combo adds these high-tech tools to Google’s video chat capabilities and allows up to nine people to get together and create music in real time. And while remixing a song is certainly an option—and could be a great deal of fun—Soundation’s recording features mean a drummer in Denmark, a guitarist in Galway, a bassist in Boston and a singer in Singapore can jam without buying plane tickets.

—Amy Atkins

Recall the words of your physical education teacher imploring you to set SMART goals: Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Timely; this one fits the bill, so you can finally tell Coach GetUpYaLazyBum you’ve taken his advice to hear t.

See website for more information and registration.

10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. $42 for one session, $63 for both. Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, 208-332-5100, bluecirclespor ts.com.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY JAN. 8 Festivals & Events BOISE S-ANON MEETING— Troubled by someone’s sexual behavior? S-Anon can help. Email sanonboise@gmail.com for more info. 6:15 p.m. FREE. 1111 S. Orchard St., Ste. 112A, Boise.

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Kids & Teens

HOLIDAY CLEANUP—See Wednesday. 6 a.m. FREE.

THE SCIENCE OF SEEING— Kids ages 6-12 can check out various optical illusions and phenakistascopes. 4 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

YOGA AND SOAK—Enjoy a kids-free night with one hour of yoga and one hour of hot springs relaxation. Reservations required.

6 p.m. Varies. The Springs, 3742 Idaho 21, Idaho City, 208-3929500, thespringsid.com.

Religious/Spiritual CRYSTAL/GEMSTONE INFO/ HEALING SERIES—A weekly series with classes on crystal and gemstone basics, choosing crystals and gemstones, care and programming of crystals and gemstones, traditional uses, contemporary uses, healing uses, and grids, gazing and rituals. Taught by Rev. Linda Barlow, R.N., M.H. 7 p.m. $15.

Boise Holistic and Metaphysical Coop, 1615 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-429-6393, boiseholisticcoop.com.

Odds & Ends HOLIDAY CLEANUP—The City of Boise offers holiday cleanup week to those with a Christmas tree they’d like to unload. Set your tree and excess trash at the curb for pickup. 6 a.m. FREE.

THURSDAY JAN. 9 On Stage THE SECOND CITY LAUGH OUT LOUD TOUR—Chicago’s famous comedy troupe performs classic material, as well as scenes taken from morning headlines. 7 p.m. $27-$40. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208578-9122, companyoffools.org.

Literature FANTASTIC WORLDS BOOK CLUB—. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Talks & Lectures AFFORDABLE CARE ACT INFORMATION SESSIONS—Join David Chase, project director for Your Health Idaho and Mountain States Group, as he conducts a question-and-answer session.

See Picks, Page 16. 1:30 p.m.

FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-5624995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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AVALANCHE LECTURE SERIES— Members of the 705 Backcountry Ski Patrol will conduct a four-part series of avalanche safety classes. The classes are free and open to the public. This week’s class is titled Avalanche Awareness: Anatomy of an Avalanche and the Avalanche Triangle. 7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Outdoor Association Hall, 3401 Brazil St., Boise, idahooutdoorassn.org.

FRIDAY JAN. 10 Festivals & Events IDAHO LAUGH FESTIVAL—Idaho’s first comedy festival comes to town for two days of laughterpacked events. Choose from 16 comedy showcases and five workshops at five venues. There are events for all ages, so check the full schedule at idaholaughfest.com. Then head to Liquid for the afterparty at 11:30 p.m.

See Culture, Page 20. 7:30 and 10 p.m. $10. Various locations, various prices.

On Stage BLAME IT ON BOISE—A collaboration between Boise Contemporary Theater and Lauren Weedman.

See Picks, Page 16. 8 p.m. $15-$25. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

NOISE/CD REVIEW FOREVERLY, BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG AND NORAH JONES Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones walk into a bar. Before anyone knows what hit them, this unlikely duo is playing country, folk and Americana-style covers of The Everly Brothers. The big question: Does Foreverly (Reprise Records), the result of this collaboration, actually work?

Surprisingly, the answer is yes.

What it comes down to is harmonies and on every turn of this record, Armstrong and Jones perfectly weave their vocals together. “Long Time Gone” is a prime example of the sublime marriage of Jones’ dusky vocals and Armstrong’s higher-pitched voice, and this reversal of traditional male-female vocalizations is one of the most intriguing aspects of the record.

Both Armstrong and Jones shine on their own, too, as when Jones goes solo on “I’m Here to Get My Baby out of Jail,” while Armstrong has about half of “Barbara Allen” to himself.

Foreverly is not a lively or happy album, but Armstrong and Jones gamely commit to the tone. “Kentucky” features a heavy Americana influence and “Put My Little Shoes Away” is an ambient piano ballad that is the album’s highlight, even though it’s a kind of funeral dirge about the death of childhood. “Down in the Willow Garden” is a true-blue country tune about greed and murder, and the country-folk stylings of “Lightning Express” tug on the heartstrings as the duo sings of trying to get home to see their dying mother before it’s too late.

This album will be a shock to fans who individually love these artists but can’t imagine how they could team up for such an endeavor. But if they can look past that, they’ll find a real gem here.

—Brian Palmer B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

8 DAYS OUT RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: NOSTALGIA—Pay tribute to the sultry side of the past with burlesque, aerial arts, comedy and live music from Frim Fram 4. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

THE SECOND CITY LAUGH OUT LOUD TOUR—See Thursday. 7 p.m. $27-$40. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208578-9122, companyoffools.org.

SATURDAY JAN. 11 Festivals & Events IDAHO LAUGH FESTIVAL—See Friday. 7:30 & 10 p.m. $10. Various locations, various prices.

IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. L.A. D-FENDERS—NBA Development League basketball. 7 p.m. $8$380. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-4242200 or box office 208-3318497, centurylinkarenaboise. com/home.aspx.

ST. LUKE’S $10,000 WEIGHT LOSS CHALLENGE—Don’t miss the annual kickoff and official weigh-in. There will be door prizes, goodie bags, information and fun. The Challenge runs Jan. 11–June 5, 2014, but the information, health tips and support continue the entire year. See Picks, Page 17. 8 a.m. FREE. St. Luke’s Meridian, 520 S. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-381-2592, fitoneboise.org/fit365/ weight-loss-challenge.

Kids & Teens

On Stage

PRESCHOOL STORYTIME—Stories and fun for preschoolers. 10 a.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary. org.

BLAME IT ON BOISE—See Friday. 8 p.m. $15-$25. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Sports & Fitness

Odds & Ends HOLIDAY CLEANUP—See Wednesday. 6 a.m. FREE.

SUNDAY JAN. 12 Festivals & Events SHEEPHERDERS BREAKFAST—Enjoy traditional Basque breakfast, including sheepherders bread, churros, Basque potatoes, eggs piperade and chorizos. If you’re feeling spirited, bottomless sangria blanco and Bloody Marys are available. 8 a.m. $10, $15 with alcohol. Basque Market, 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com.

Literature

GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS: CIRQUE ZIVA—The troupe brings its latest show to Boise. See Picks, Page 16. 7 p.m. $20-$30.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

THE MEPHAM GROUP

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: NOSTALGIA—See Friday. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

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POETS AT THE DEPOT—Poets are invited to read their works aloud in a gallery setting. Free tower tours and historical displays as well. Poets check in five minutes before performance time. 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. FREE. Boise Train Depot, 2603 Eastover Terrace, Boise.

Sports & Fitness CROSS COUNTRY SKI CLINIC—Learn cross country skiing with the Bogus Basin Nordic team.

Choose either skate or classic stride instruction. See website for more information and to register. See Picks, Page 17. 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. $42-$63, bluecirclesports.com. Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area:Nordic Center, 2405 Bogus Basin Road, Boise, 208-3325390.

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Festivals & Events

TREASURE VALLEY DRILL TEAM—Girls 8-18 are being recruited for the drill team, which marches in parades throughout the region. Uniforms and boots are provided. 6 p.m. $40 per year. Eagles Lodge Boise, 7025 Overland Road, Boise, 208-3760115.

WOOLLYBUGGER MEETING— Children ages 7-16 are invited to join the largest fly fishing club in North America for monthly meetings. Family membership fees are $20 per year. Idaho Fish and Game Headquarters, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-3228118, bvff.com.

Sports & Fitness

Kids & Teens

DROP-IN VOLLEYBALL—Drop in for a day game of volleyball.

Nets and balls provided. 9 a.m. $4 adults, $3 seniors, $2 youth.

Fort Boise Community Center, 700 Robbins Road, Boise, 208-384-4486, cityofboise.org/ parks.

KIDS EXPERIENCE—A science and art program for children ages 6 and older held in The Secret Garden. 3 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Odds & Ends JUMP START NUTRITIONAL PROGRAM—Get back on track to better nutrition with Dr. Nicole Pierce, ND, featuring a sevento-21-day program that can be tailored for weight loss, detox or allergen elimination/challenge diets. Read more on the website.

Call to register. 5:30 p.m. $40.

Boise Natural Health, 4219 Emerald St., Boise, 208-338-0405, boisenaturalhealth.com.

WATSU MASSAGE—Get a Shiatsu massage while you soak in the hot springs. Reservations are required. 1 p.m. Varies. The Springs, 3742 Idaho 21, Idaho City, 208-392-9500, thespringsid.com.

TUESDAY JAN. 14

KINDERGARTEN READINESS— Prepare your children for kindergarten. 1 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

MR. PATRICK’S WORKSHOP— Young designers, inventors and engineers can bring their creations to life with Legos. Bring a shoebox full of your own if you’ve got them. Some will be provided for you if you don’t. 6:30 p.m.

FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

PRESCHOOL DAYS—Children ages 4 and younger can create sans studio fees. 11 a.m.

Ceramica, 1002 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-342-3822.

TEEN LEADERSHIP OPPORTUNITY—Help plan events by becoming a member of the Teen Advisory Board. Gain experience in program planning and satisfy volunteer hours. 4 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-5706900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

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. Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Road, Boise, bk.org.

DATE NIGHT—Featuring live music, massages and champagne.

6 p.m. Varies. The Springs, 3742 Idaho 21, Idaho City, 208-3929500, thespringsid.com.

LATIN NIGHTS—Instructors Tabish L. Romario and Becca Towler will teach salsa, bachata and Brazilian zouk lessons, followed by social dancing at 9 p.m. 7:30 $5. The Press, 212 N. Ninth St., Ste. B, Boise, 208336-9577, www.facebook.com/ thepressboise?sk=info.

LIQUID LAUGHS OPEN MIC COMEDY—Enjoy some of of the best stand up comedians Boise has to offer. 8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

MEDIA PROFESSIONALS LUNCH—Members of the media in Idaho are invited to have lunch and mingle, as well as discuss issues related to the media in our community. Visit website for more info. 11 a.m. Smoky Mountain Pizza and Pasta, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208429-0011, idahomediapro.org..

SCRABBLE GAME NIGHT— 6 p.m. FREE. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1315 N. Milwaukee, Boise, 208-375-4454, barnesandnoble.com.

Literature

SNIP’S BLACK DOG WALK— Join SNIP and dogs of all colors in a walk along the Boise River to bring awareness to the plight of black dogs and cats in shelters.

Enjoy tunes by Ted Coe, free dog training tips from Bad Behavior/ Good Dog and a free raffle with a chance to win three days at Camp Bow Wow and prizes from H3 Pet Foods. Noon. FREE. The Ram, 709 E. Park Blvd., Boise, 208-345-2929, theram.com.

AUTHOR KURT KOONTZ: A MILLION STEPS—Author Kurt Koontz will share his internal and external journey from his 500-mile walk on the Camino de Santiago. Following the presentation, Kurt’s book, A Million Steps, will be available for sale and signing. See Picks, Page 17. 7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Outdoor Association Hall, 3401 Brazil St., Boise, idahooutdoorassn.org.

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Talks & Lectures

SALSA DANCING—Every Sunday, enjoy a salsa dancing party, starting at 7 p.m. with a lesson, and then open dancing until 10 p.m. Contact Joe at 208371-3904 for more info. 7 p.m. $5. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6605.

WILD ABOUT LIFE LECTURE SERIES—Find out what the future holds for gray wolves from Hilary Cooley, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gray wolf coordinator.

Research equipment and items used in wolf identification will be on display. 7 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208467-9278, fws.gov/deerflat.

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MIRTH-ATHON Inaugural Idaho Laugh Festival brings two days of funny JESSICA MURRI Megan Bryant, organizer of the inaugural Idaho Laugh Festival—going down Friday, Jan. 10, and Saturday, Jan. 11 at venues across Boise—extended a lesson in talking to someone who does comedy for a living: Don’t ask that person to tell a joke.

“That’s the worst way to start an interview with a comic,” she said. “It doesn’t work like that. I mean, I can just tell you a joke, but stand-up needs to have a setting that’s appropriate for it.

“Like, here’s a joke: I ate a lot of cat food as a child,” Bryant began. She said she thought if she ate cat food, she would turn into a cat when she grew up. It obviously didn’t work.

“But as it turns out, the side effects just take a little bit longer than I thought. As I’ve grown older, I can see a little more each day that I’m turning into a cougar.”

Bryant said jokes have more impact in the right environment, where an audience can readily embrace them. And that’s the environment she’s hoping to create at the Idaho Laugh Festival.

The festival will feature family friendly comedy shows as well as R-rated late-night club scene material. Friday and Saturday are packed with 70 comedians at several different venues, including the Egyptian Theatre, Reef, Liquid Laughs, China Blue and ComedySportz.

Bryant—who runs local improv troupe Chicks n’ Giggles—got the idea for ILF from similar festivals happening in Wenatchee, Wash.; Austin, Texas; and Boston. She has watched Boise’s comedy scene gain momentum over the past few years, and she decided it was time to do something big.

“It’s like a ticking time bomb, in a good way. [We want] to give all the energy that’s building in the stand-up and improv communities another outlet, so we can show the public that this is what’s available,” Bryant said.

She didn’t expect her festival to grow quite so large, though. With working a full-time job managing media and marketing campaigns for volunteer firefighter recruitment, and raising two children under 6, she planned for a one-day event with a couple of shows but branded it to make it look like a bigger deal and sent an email to several of her comedian friends around the country.

“Within five weeks, I had 80 submissions from stand-up comics,” Bryant said.

Based on headshots and a five-minute tape of material, Bryant chose 70 comedians and improv players for ILF. Out of the 46 stand-ups, only eight are from Boise, and of the nine improv troupes performing, four are from out-of-town. And only the two headliners, Eddie Brill and Dennis Regan, are being paid.

Local comedian Heath Harmison has been in the standup and improv scene for more than a decade and comedy is his full-time job. He said festivals like these aren’t about the money. They’re considered “investment trips.” And in the case of ILF, it could be a very wise investment: Bryant said a producer from the Funny or Die comedy video website plans to attend.

“Festivals are meant for comedians to be seen, to build their network,” Harmison said. “It’s all about who you know.

Bookers will come to these festivals to see who’s doing what.

They want to see who’s going to be the next big thing.”

The fest will also feature comedy workshops, including a storytelling workshop led by Story Story Night’s Jessica Holmes; an introduction to improv; a stand-up workshop

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Seventy comics and improv players from around the country will descend on Boise for two days of yuks at a range of locations.

lead by headliner Brill, the warm-up comedian on the Late Since then, Foster has put on two Boise’s Best Bad Dancer Show with David Letterman; a musical improv workshop; contests and the well-attended, first-ever Boise’s Funniest and a seminar on the business of stand-up by Liquid booker Person competition at Liquid this past summer. She had her Jen Adams and Liquid manager Matt Bragg. Adams said the sights set on March 2014 for a Boise Comedy Festival. workshop is for amateur comedians who haven’t been in the Then she saw a Facebook post announcing the Idaho business very long.

Laugh Fest.

“I’ll answer questions from the booker’s angle,” Adams “I was disappointed and indignant,” Foster said, “But I said. “Things like club etiquette—showing up late, drinking just kinda stepped to the side graciously. [Bryant] pulled the trigger before I did.” too much, making rookie mistakes like that. ... There’s usuFoster said she doesn’t feel any resentment toward Bryally a wall between booking/management and the comeant or the Idaho Laugh Festival. She said Bryant even asked dian. This lets them know how to interact with the industry to meet up with her early on, but Foster didn’t want to be business side and get the best results as an up-and-coming part of someone else’s festival. She has comedian.” plenty to keep her busy promoting her Adams books comedians for own shows, including a live courtroom Liquid, and plans to attend as many IDAHO LAUGH FEST comedy with people who have minor shows as she can during the festival to Admission to individual shows FREE-$20; grievances, set for Saturday, Feb. 15, at “window shop” for the club.

VIP pass for all shows $100. For full Liquid.

“If I like somebody, I’ll take their schedule, visit idaholaughfest.com.

Bryant said she heard about the Boise information and book them,” she said.

Comedy Festival years ago and wanted Though this festival is the first of to participate but started to get impatient its kind in Boise, Bryant wasn’t the waiting for it to get off the ground. But she said she didn’t first person to have this idea. A few years ago, promoter and know until later that Foster wanted to hold Boise Comedy comedian Sarah Shamblin Foster had the same idea and even Festival in March. bought the domain name for a Boise Comedy Festival. She Bryant said she feels as ready for the festival as any comestarted looking for sponsors and comics. dian right before going on stage: ready, but not ready. But she “I was really excited,” Foster said, “But I was so new, I didn’t have the clout yet to go after those things, so I refunded has a feeling it’ll go well.

“This is going to be my baby,” Bryant said. “I’m going to everyone’s fees. I wanted to do it right, not do to it half-assed, watch it grow into adulthood. Into a cougar.” so I got several more shows under my belt.”

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Trey McIntyre is ending full-time dance at TMP to pursue other media, including filmmaking.

TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT TO REDUCE DANCE

Amanda Lowrey, of Sandpoint, is a national finalist for the online series Extreme Huntress, with winners set to be announced Friday, Jan. 10.

GAME PLAN One Sandpoint woman’s commitment to hunting her own food might make her the top huntress nationwide LEAH SOTTILE Amanda Lowrey bends at the waist, and takes her next steps carefully as she watches a herd of red sheep grazing lazily in the distance.

Her face is calm but stern under the brim of her cap, earrings dancing as she moves, eyes focused on her prey. Slow and steady, she drops to her knee, raises her rifle and peers down the scope.

“I’m gonna take the shot,” she whispers to two onlookers, who peer at the animals through binoculars.

Lowrey pauses, pulls the trigger and braces herself for the gun to kick back into her shoulder.

In the distance, one sheep drops in an instant. The echo of her gun sends the herd scattering. “Hell of a shot, young lady!” one of her companions, the host of Extreme Huntress, calls out as Lowrey jumps up and down, her hat flying off her head.

Lowrey, a 25-year-old Sandpoint native, remembers tagging along behind her father on a hunt when she was 5, watching him kill a deer and knowing that one day she would take up the sport. She got her hunting license when she was just 12. Ever since, she’s been shooting mountain lions, black bears, elk, deer, wild turkeys—anything she can feed her family with.

“We were raised that hunting was a way to put food on the table, and that’s why we started doing it,” Lowrey said. “Not just because we love it, but because it’s a necessity.”

Today, as a mother of two, she’ll venture miles into the Idaho wilderness to hunt her own food—sometimes on horseback, sometimes with a bow and arrow. She said right

now her freezer is packed with mule deer, whitetail and wild turkey, cut into steaks and made into sausages by her own hands.

In the past year, Lowrey has discovered her perspective on hunting to feed her family—not to mention the fact that she’s a female hunter—is rare. She’s part of a slowly growing population of Americans who hunt, which increased nationwide by 9 percent from 2006 to 2011, according to a survey by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

But it wasn’t just being a female hunter that recently propelled her to the top four of a nationwide competition and online series called Extreme Huntress.

As a part of the competition, she was flown to Texas this past summer to test her skills.

Lowrey knows her scores were toward the top of the ranks, but to win Extreme Huntress, she’ll have to rake in a hefty number of online votes and gain high marks from judges.

Lowrey, who works from home for a camouflage design company, said part of her reason for wanting to be on Extreme Huntress was its mission: to engage females in hunting. She watched her mother hunt as a child and hopes her own daughters will follow in her footsteps.

Lowrey thinks she might have had an edge on her Extreme Huntress competitors because she’s from Idaho and was raised hunting.

“I think I have a lot better survival skills because of where I live. I do probably the most do-it-yourself hunting,” she said. “My dad, he just taught me how to do a lot of different things, take care of my own animals and pack my own stuff.”

Lowrey likes to hunt by herself, which means if she makes a kill, she has to haul it back home by herself.

“I carry a pack with me with everything I’m going to need: knives, first aid, rope,” she said. That way, if she shoots something like a deer she can “dress it out, skin it, quarter it, debone it and start packing it out on my back.”

She laughed as she told a story of when she was out hunting with her husband at eight-and-a-half months pregnant, and she shot her first bear.

“It was a really horrible idea, but now it’s a fun story and we had a good laugh,” she said, noting that they had to haul the black bear up a steep hillside afterward. “That particular one was only about 200 or 225 pounds, so it was on the smaller side.”

She loves to hunt, obviously—and she said by doing it, she’s in control of what she feeds her family.

“A lot of people who don’t hunt think we’re just a bunch of buck-toothed hillbillies.

Personally, I like knowing where my food comes from. At the store these days, you don’t even know what’s in your food,” she said. “I like knowing that my food isn’t filled with a bunch of junk. When you go out and work really hard and you’re able to put food on the table for your family, it’s very rewarding.”

The winner of the 2014 Extreme Huntress competition will be announced Friday, Jan. 10. Read more about the contestants at extremehuntress.com.

This story was first published in the Pacific Northwest Inlander, Dec. 26, 2013.

Starting Tuesday, July 1, Trey McIntyre Project will take a turn in a “bold new creative direction”—one that involves less dancing.

One of the City of Trees’ past cultural ambassadors, TMP has called Boise home since 2008, three years after it was founded. It’s known for its accessible contemporary dance works, notably “The Sun Road,” “Arrantza,” “The Unkindness of Ravens” and, most recently, “Mercury Half-Life.”

But beginning in mid-2014, the troupe will no longer be a full-time dance company, as co-founder and artistic director Trey McIntyre pursues adventures in other media, including film, photography and lecturing. McIntyre will continue to work in dance, though current company dancers will be contracted for work on a freelance basis.

“The dance portion of it moves to a model a lot like what it was when we were a summer touring company. It was more of an incubation period,” McIntyre said.

Boise Mayor Dave Bieter expressed his optimism for TMP’s new direction.

“I’m sure TMP’s future will be as thrilling as its past,” he wrote in a statement.

Expanding McIntyre’s vision will come at a cost to TMP as an organization, however. Hiring dancers for one-off performances means that TMP will cut jobs, though representatives of TMP declined to indicate how many staff positions would be lost—or when.

“Production staff is becoming a little bit unnecessary. We won’t be bringing shows weekly around the country,” said TMP Chief Strategy Officer Caty Solace.

Solace said TMP is coordinating with similar organizations to place laid-off staff.

With TMP’s dance obligations scaled back, McIntyre said the 2014-15 season will include work on two documentaries, including Ma Maison, which chronicles TMP’s longtime collaboration with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band in New Orleans, and an as-yet untitled documentary about TMP’s first decade.

Beyond documentary filmmaking, McIntyre will also delve into multimedia presentations, beginning with an engagement at the Artosphere in Fayetteville, Ark., which will include a screening of McIntyre-produced films, lectures and an exhibition of his photographs.

McIntyre will continue to work with the Boise School District to bring dance presentations and education to area classrooms.

“We’re … making sure the engagement work we’ve done here in Boise is continued.

Our partnership with Boise School District is something we’ll continue to fulfill,” said Solace.

—Harrison Berry

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY JAN. 8

THURSDAY JAN. 9

FRIDAY JAN. 10

SATURDAY JAN. 11

BERNIE REILLY—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

B3 SIDE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DJ MALLWALKER—11 p.m.

FREE. Neurolux

BFD—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

CANDY’S RIVER HOUSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

Candy’s River House

DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

HOMETOWN HEROES—With Third Base and Upinatem. 9 p.m. $5. Shredder JOHNNY SHOES AND THE RHYTHM RANGERS—8 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye Grill

DUSTY 45S, JAN. 9, NEUROLUX Though rockabilly dates back to the earliest days of American rock ’n’ roll, it has a timeless quality and, if it’s done well, covers a broad spectrum—lovers of rock, western, swing, countr y and punk can find a beat, a melody or a message they can connect with. The Dusty 45s blend “roots styles as various as honky-tonk, jump blues and rock and roll” with twangy guitar, chunking drums, the thump-thump of the requisite stand-up bass and a surprising element: Singersongwriter Billy Joe Huels also blows a mean trumpet that, if the photos are to be believed, he sets alight, flames rising out of the bell. Add in duck tails and matching black suits, and what this stylish Seattle, Wash.-based band ultimately delivers is a party. They might need to consider a name change, though—there’s so much dancing at one of this band’s shows, the dust never settles.

—Amy Atkins With Fiddle Junkies and Alturas. Thursday, Jan. 9, 7 p.m., $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.

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With his black glasses, bushy beard, tousled hair and a propensity for suit jackets over button-up oxford shirts, Patterson Hood looks more like an author than a rockstar.

But Hood, the Athens, Ga.-based co-founder of and primar y songwriter for rock band Drive-By Truckers, is both. In fact, according to Pitchfork, Hood’s 2012 release Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance (ATO Records), was originally intended to be a book. And although he’s in the middle of a solo tour, Hood won’t have a lot of time to unpack before he’ll have to head back out on the road with Drive-By Truckers behind the band’s upcoming 12th release, English Oceans (ATO Records, March 2014), making it impossible to forget Hood definitely rocks.

—Amy Atkins Friday, Jan. 10, 8 p.m., $16. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.

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PLAY/REC REC

You won’t be saying “sweet” when you look at your bank statement.

MONEY FOR NOTHING It was a routine mission: I’d already fended off an attack on my supply depot, repelled an aerial assault and cut off the enemy’s supply route. But when it came to a reconnaissance in force, I found my left flank collapsing and my right flank outmaneuvered by a swift formation of light tanks. I dug in and called up my supply truck, but realized (too late) that I’d already spent all my funds securing reinforcements.

I assessed my options: face the slaughter, surrender or pony up for an infusion of gold. For $2.49, I could get 25,000 bits, $9.99 would net me 125,000 or I could go for the big money with $49.99 for 700,000. Considering I wouldn’t even pay 99 cents to remove the ads from Frozen Front 1941, Stalingrad would have to be taken by some other panzer commander.

It’s called “freemium” gaming, defined as providing a game to players free of charge, but levying fees for special features, powers or content, and it’s taking over— specifically on mobile platforms where, it accounts for 90 percent of all U.S. mobile app spending, according to Techi.com.

The biggest, best example of this trend would be Candy Crush, from British software company King. This past summer, there was a flurry of reporting on Candy Crush and its eye-popping analytics: About 45 million people played the game on Facebook each month during the first half of 2013, making it the most popular game on the site. At the same time, it was the most downloaded and highest grossing game on Android and Apple devices. Like Frozen Front 1941, players can make micropayments for things like additional lives. Those micropayments add up to macro revenue: $230 million a year, or, in the case of Candy Crush, about $633,000 per day.

Analysts see peril and promise in the rise of the freemium: It allows more users to experience more games, but can also cause ruin. Reports abound relating to people who have unthinkingly sunk fortunes into things like Candy Crush lives, My Little Pony gems and Smurf Village smurfberries.

Techi reports that the average user spends almost $13 a month on “virtual goods”—and that adds up. One hundred of those gems on My Little Pony might cost $10 or so, but, according to CNET, you’re going to need 2,555 of them to complete the storyline. Don’t want to pay for them?

Get ready to ride those ponies every day for 10 years.

—Zach Hagadone

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It’s cold and dark out there. Warm yourself with the glow from these stellar 2013 game releases.

GAME ON Top gaming picks for the year that was MICHAEL LAFFERTY Forget the clever cliches and silly superlatives that try to link the winter season with games. This is the guide to some of the best games of 2013 and ones that may bring hardcore gamers a little post-holiday joy and sleepless hours as they move through the dark, cold months glued to a PC or console.

Now, of course, it needs to be said that 2013 saw the release of two new consoles— the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. If you want to put your mitts on one of those, and can find them at retailers (and can afford the hefty price tags), that might not leave much room for games. But if you are looking to pick up one or two, then here are a few suggestions. The games presented here are in no particular order.

If you do decide to invest the $499 to buy the newest in the next-gen consoles, then you might want to look at a title like Ryse: Son of Rome or Forza 5. Both titles showcase the technological advancements of the new system, both feature stunning graphics and have the challenge that gamers are craving. The television commercials that have been airing are just the tip of the visual iceberg.

The Killzone series has long been a staple on the PlayStation, and Killzone: Shadow Fall showcases the new DualShock 4 controller, as well as giving gamers a visual treat. The PS4 clocks in at $100 less than the Xbox One and might be a viable option for the gamer who wants to enter the next-gen zone but check out the features on either before picking one over the other.

And there is a PlayStation counterpart to the Microsoft Forza titles—yep, what would a next-gen console be without a Gran Turismo title? GT 6 rolls out for the

PS3, but don’t be surprised if the graphics are boosted a bit and a PS4 version is also released.

OTHER TITLES TO LOOK FOR: Battlefield 4 (PS4, Xbox One, PC, 360 and PS3): Unless you have been living under a rock, if you have seen the TV ads for Battlefield 4, chances are you have been left with your jaw hanging open as a soft “woah!” has escaped your lips.

Call of Duty: Ghosts (PS4, Xbox One): With more than $1 billion in retail sales on the first day, CoD: Ghosts certainly has the buzz, and the developer on this title—Infinity Ward—has the pedigree to deliver the goods gamers want. The gameplay is outstanding, the emotional content is in place, and there is always the multiplayer to really extend the life of the title.

Dead Rising 3 (Xbox One): OK, this is a zombie game—and zombies are always popular—but what sets Dead Rising 3 apart is the weapon and character customization.

Beware of load times, and the violence hits a new high with this one.

Tired of the run-and-gun titles? How about some sports to brighten up the snow season?

Madden NFL 25 (360, Xbox One, PS3, PS4): A new mode powers this graphically pleasing offering and gives the Madden series some more pizzazz.

MLB 13: The Show (PS3, Vita): New attention to detail, a new mode and sterling graphic elements are certain to please the most discerning of baseball fans.

Want to put on the cape and tights and play superhero? Then maybe Batman: Arkham Origins is up your alley. This Xbox

360, PS3, PC, Wii U title is a prequel to the other two Arkham titles, featuring a younger Batman, and has a few problems—but you certainly can’t complain about the graphics and the chance to battle some of Gotham’s legendary villains.

Pikmin 3 (Wii U) offers wonderful graphics. OK, it’s been 10 years since a Pikmin title, but this may well be an update that offers what players have been waiting for. Pikmin are small explorers searching for food on a planet that is similar to Earth (maybe it is Earth and maybe it isn’t). This is a captivating and fun title.

Assassin’s Creed might not be everyone’s cup of covert mayhem, but Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag (Xbox One, PS4, 360, PS3) features some stellar graphic elements and is a rich period piece that continues to march the series down through history.

Of course, there are games for just about everyone, from a Scribblenauts title to a 3DS Zelda game, from LEGO to more zombies and a new Grand Theft Auto, not to mention its clones. And the sports fans might take to the next iterations of NCAA football, the 2K basketball franchise, soccer and NHL games.

This list barely scratches the surface.

The year was a decent one, although the hubbub over the release of the new consoles may have eclipsed releases of some game franchises. Re-releases and bundled games, like the complete Elder Scrolls V, will also cater to the fantasy fan while laying the groundwork for one of 2014’s more anticipated massively multiplayer games, Elder Scrolls Online.

And you can bet that developers will be pushing out all sorts of new titles in 2014 to take advantage of the graphic capabilities of the next-gen consoles.

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THE BIG SCREEN/SCREEN

HER: NO BODY IS PERFECT Rethinking the sense of self GEORGE PRENTICE Her, from director Spike Jonze, is a supernatural tale of our most natural emotion and more than an evening’s entertainment; it should inspire a full night of post-viewing conversation. To that end, Her is not only a great film, it’s a cultural touchstone.

At the heart of this gentle film—and, indeed, a pretty big heart beats here—is Joaquin Phoenix as horn-rimmed Theodore Twombly, reminding us that when he’s on his game, Phoenix rises to the top of his profession.

“I’m afraid I’ve felt everything I’m going to feel,” Theodore whispers with resignation to his new lover. His rediscovered ability to share such intimacy is coaxed by the ever-accepting Samantha (Scarlett Johansson).

“I’ve never loved anyone the way I love you,” he says gently.

“Me too,” Samantha whispers back. “Now we know how.”

But in fact, Samantha is more than Theodore’s lover. She’s his property—he purchased her OS1 software, an artificially intelligent operating system. In short order, OS1 names “herself” Samantha and she begins “living” in Theodore’s head (via an ever-present earbud). Think of her as an advanced version of iPhone’s Siri or your automobile’s GPS; Samantha is eager and, occasionally, vulnerable. Hers is the first voice to cheerfully greet Theodore in the morning and the last sweet-nothing he hears each night. She’s his assistant, advocate and, ultimately, his turn-on. Soon enough, Theodore is introducing her as his girlfriend.

The two very-real women in Theodore’s life, ex-wife Catherine (Rooney Mara) and close friend Amy (Amy Adams), react quite differently to the news.

“He always wanted a wife without the challenges of a real person,” says Catherine, marginalizing her ex’s new romance.

On the other hand, Amy offers patience and insight into Theodore’s reawakening “I think anyone who falls in love is a freak,” she assures him. “It’s a crazy thing. It’s like a socially acceptable form of insanity.”

It’s hard to believe that Her is the first feature film that Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malkovich) has directed from an original script of his own. Jonze’s quite perfect screenplay has Samantha ask questions of Theodore that naturally prompt us, as an audience, to consider our own answers.

“What’s it like to be alive?”

“How do you share your life with someone?”

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There is no Her without him. Joaquin Phenix is at the top of his game in Spike Jonze’s new romance.

research and development. And after that, their Heady stuff. capabilities will accelerate dramatically.”

But Her also asks us to consider the viAnd that’s the main reason that I can’t ability of artificial intelligence itself (or is it shake Her. It’s a beautiful piece of drama with herself?). A.I. is nothing new at the movies: some of the season’s best performances from Everything from 2001: A Space Odyssey to Phoenix and Johansson; but Her also wants Blade Runner to A.I. Artificial Intelligence to us to rethink our increasing War Games has offered cauinability to connect with one tionary tales. But in Her, we’re HER (R) another as humans. In our crualso asked if we’re prepared to elties, prejudices and derisiveupload human conditions such Directed by Spike Jonze ness, we’re driving one another as joy, pain, free will and even Starring Joaquin Phoenix, to isolation and even, quite love to the next generation of Scarlett Johansson sadly, to artificial experiences A.I. Opens Friday, Jan. 10, at The in order to find some kind of In a chilling new book, Our Flicks manufactured acceptance.

Final Invention, author James Her is something very speBarrat warns that A.I. could be cial: It’s a work of brilliant conceit that reveals “the end of the human era.” how perilously close each of us is to solitude.

“Right now, we’re creating machines Here’s hoping this Oscar-bound film inspires that are extremely good at playing chess or more human interaction. My best advice is to Jeopardy, or that do things like navigation rush to see this movie, and please carve out a or theorem proving—a bunch of tasks that couple of hours afterwards to to have a good, used to be ours alone,” Barrat writes. “Some old-fashioned, one-to-one conversation about day in the not-too-distant future, we’ll create machines that are good at artificial intelligence Her’s beguiling humanism.

LISTINGS/SCREEN Special Screenings: THE HUNGER GAMES—When 16-year old Katniss Everdeen’s younger sister is drafted to participate in a brutal elimination game against other contestants, Katniss volunteers to take her place. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson and Donald Sutherland. (PG-13) Thursday, Jan. 9, 2 p.m. FREE. The Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Rd., Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

UNWINED AT THE MOVIES: SIDEWAYS—Enjoy a screening of the film Sideways with a glass of wine and treats. Brought to you by the Idaho Wine Commission.

Thursday, Jan. 16. 5 p.m. $30.

Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

Also starring Scarlett Johansson, Amy Adams, Olivia Wilde, Chris Pratt and Rooney Mara. (R) Opens Friday, Jan. 10. The Flicks.

Opening

THE LEGEND OF HERCULES— Hercules must overthrow his stepfather to restore order to the land in this origin story of the Greek hero. (PG-13) Opens Thursday, Jan. 9. Edwards 9, 22.

HER—Joaquin Phoenix stars as a lonely man who falls in love with a women he created with an operating system in this unique love story from director Spike Jonze.

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BEERGUZZLER/DRINK A TRIO OF BREW FAVORITES In keeping with year-end tradition, last week I looked back on a few of my favorite wines from 2013. The common thread was restraint and balance. Now it’s beer’s turn, and the same criteria apply to my top picks.

Too many craft breweries seem to revel in pushing the envelope, with painfully bitter IPAs or high-octane efforts sporting dangerous alcohol levels. I’m done with those after a swallow or two. Here are three very drinkable favorites: PETRUS AGED PALE, $3.49-$4.49 This Belgian brew is aged in oak casks— which is not usually my thing, but it works here, with the oak coming through more on the nose than the palate.

Along with the oak, you get ripe apple aromas, sour citrus and a touch of herb. Crisp apple flavors are backed by lemon zest; the beer finishes smooth and dry. This one begs to be paired with food.

SIERRA NEVADA CELEBRATION ALE, $1.39-$1.79 Year in and year out, this is my favorite winter brew. While many holiday releases put the emphasis on sweet malt, Celebration is more about the hops. Pine-laced hops dominate the nose, with just enough sweet malt to keep things in balance. The flavors are fresh and lively, and a nice hop bite backs ripe citrus and malt. Bet you can’t drink just one.

STONE ENJOY BY IPA, $5.99-$7.79 Stone Brewing’s Greg Koch makes no apologies for preferring challenging brews.

Despite that philosophy, the Enjoy By is a remarkably fresh brew, with a floral nose that’s the perfect mix of hops and malt. On the palate, there’s an ever-present bitterness, but it never overwhelms the smooth, fruity malt flavors. Stone releases this 22-ouncer on a monthly basis. Unfortunately, the Boise market only saw three of those in 2013, the last being the 12.13.13. Keep on the lookout; it’s worth the search.

FOOD/NEWS

SAINT LAWRENCE GRIDIRON GETS GROUNDED And The Bouquet gives it another go TARA MORGAN Good news for those who worship the patron saint of smoked meats. You no longer need to chase the bright orange Saint Lawrence Gridiron food truck around town to secure a slab of barbecued beef. Saint Lawrence Gridiron is putting the brakes on its food truck business to focus on opening a permanent spot in the former Red Headed Finn space at 705 W. Bannock St. “We’re keeping the name and we’re basically just keeping the concept but moving it forward,” said owner Brian Garrett. “We’re using what we established with Saint Lawrence Gridiron the food truck as a springboard to become Saint Lawrence Gridiron the restaurant.”

Garrett has signed a lease on the space and is in the fledgling stages of demolition and working through preliminary design. Though Garrett, formerly an architect, said he’s keeping the spot’s general layout and patio, “everything that can change will change.”

Raised in Virginia and Maryland, Garrett wants to play up his Southeastern roots in his new brick-and-mortar location.

“We’re working on dishes that emphasize grits and cornbread and Johnnycakes—basically savory cornbread pancakes,” he said.

“We’re going to keep a lot of the stuff we did with the truck—as far as beef being a big thing in Idaho—and I feel like smoked meats kind of spin well for the West. We’re honestly in the midst of menu and recipe development right now.”

Though Garrett has hired a head chef, he’s keeping the name quiet until the restaurant gets closer to opening. Garrett plans to use local ingredients “as much as possible,” along with native plants, edible flowers and house-grown herbs. He also plans to experiment with cold smoking and hopes to eventually serve bourbon.

“We do not have a liquor license, but we’re building the bar to be able to scale it up for liquor, and we are investigating liquor licenses,” he said.

Garrett would like to have the space open by mid-March, but admits that might be a bit ambitious.

“Every day that goes by makes me

Saint Lawrence Gridiron is parking its popular food truck in favor of a permanent restaurant location.

nervous about saying that,” said Garrett.

“There’s plenty of work to do; we really are changing every single inch of the space so we’ve got a lot of work to do between now and mid-March.”

In the meantime, it looks like the Saint Lawrence Gridiron food truck might be parked for good.

“Right now, the idea is to not be running the truck, but we’ll see how that all works out,” Garrett said. “Me being new to the food profession, I want to commit 100 percent of my time to the restaurant at this point.”

In other changing-things-up news, the much beleaguered Bouquet space at 1010 Main St. is once again under new management.

Briefly (and confusingly) crowned The Ice Bouquet, the spot closed its doors in midNovember to undergo yet another remodel before reopening Dec. 18.

“Right now, we’re just trying to get everything lined up so that way the bar’s functional … redoing the stage, we redid the menu,” said general manager Ben Landon.

“So, basically, what we’re aiming for is to have different genres of music in there and to try to have different bands in there every day.”

Landon was tight-lipped about who’s behind the new management (“private investors that don’t wish to be named”) and how the space will change (“we really want to just see what people want to do with it and that’s what we’ll do”), but he was adamant that The Ice Bouquet days are done.

“We’re not trying to be like a Vegas-style nightclub,” said Landon. “We’re not trying to be China Blue or Fatty’s,” said Landon.

“We want it to be more relaxed, where people can come in and actually enjoy the live music.”

One change Landon did want to emphasize, though, was lower prices.

“I just felt like the price-points the prior

owners and management were using were extremely high, so I made it more neighborhood bar-priced,” said Landon. “On Fridays and Saturdays, we have a happy hour that runs from 6:30-11 p.m.; $2 wells and $2 domestics. Once we start opening at 2 p.m. in February, we’ll have the more traditional happy hour from 2-8 p.m. or whatever.”

The Bouquet is now operating Wednesdays-Saturdays from 6:30 p.m.-2 a.m. As of Saturday, Feb. 1, the club plans to be open from 2 p.m.-2 a.m., seven days a week.

Landon confirmed that Stevie Stone from Tech N9ne’s Strange Music record label is scheduled to perform Friday, Jan. 24.

And in closing news, after 18 years in business, Golden Phoenix Oriental Express officially shut its doors at 110 N. 11th St. BW freelance reporter Jessica Murri stopped by on closing day, Dec. 31, to ask owner Jimmy Yuan a couple of questions.

Here’s an excerpt from their interview. The full Q&A can be read online at boiseweekly.com: BW: So how do you feel?

JY: I’m glad. I’m sad and I’m happy. It’s been 18 years. I’ve come here every morning.

I feel sorry for the people who have come here the last couple weeks. I didn’t have good service, because so busy.

What’s the name of your restaurant, exactly?

We call it Golden Phoenix Oriental Express, because when we first came here, I actually wanted it called Golden Phoenix, but the city didn’t like it so I changed it to Oriental Express. The first few years here were kind of tough. People at first thought it was fast food. Then they come here and they try the food and they say, “Oh, you’re not fast food. Your food is tasty.”

When you look around your restaurant now, what do you think?

It’s my baby still, you know. Eighteen years, I’ve taken care of it. I stayed here more than my home.

—David Kirkpatrick

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35 Bit of hopscotch equipment 42 Shady spot 44 In a state of conflict 45 Bee product 48 Iowa’s ___ Colonies 49 Name that’s Hebrew for “pleasant” 50 “Something ought to finally go my way” 51 Philadelphia/New Jersey connector 54 Half of sechs 55 “Il était ___ fois” (French fairy tale start) 56 Brand name that’s an anagram of 31-Across 57 Rejections 58 Acted like a rat 60 “Howdy”

62 Item on a chain 65 Center of activity 68 Like some expenses 72 Pop icon?

73 Wash against, as the shore 75 Like some duties 76 Finsteraarhorn, e.g.

77 It’s often divided into sections 0, 2, 4, 6, etc.

80 Country where the Blue Nile originates: Abbr.

81 Part of the healing process 83 ___ distance 84 A balconette is a lowcut style of one 85 Mlle., in Madrid 86 Like a Monday morning quarterback?

87 Symbols of dirtiness 89 “___ the Air” (2009 Clooney movie) 90 Part of FEMA: Abbr.

91 Rat 92 “Shoot!”

93 Pass again on the track 95 Big dos 96 Fake 97 Precept 99 Dangerous person to play against for money 101 Old Olds 103 No-goodnik 106 Sounds from Santa 107 Sincere 113 Ad Council output, briefly 115 First president with a Twitter account 117 Decoration under a dish 118 2010 earthquake site 120 Walk heavily 121 Universal ___ 122 Blown out?

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14 Talk show starting in 2012 15 Miniature 24 To be, to Béatrice 25 Jazz quintet’s home 28 Half of the Nobel Prize winners, typically 30 Secret society in Dan Brown’s “Angels & Demons” 32 “Let’s call it ___” 34 Muslim ascetic 35 Low, moist area 36 On the way out 37 ___ worse than death 38 Hang (over) 39 Harold’s partner in comedies 40 Ice 41 Friendly term of address 42 Madam

43 “The Wire” antihero 46 Downhill sport 47 Tight ends?

52 “Come again?”

53 Scott of “Happy Days” 59 You’ll trip if you drop it 61 “Gross!”

62 Well-protected, nonrunning quarterback 63 Sign word often translated into multiple languages 64 Duds 65 Tries 66 Emotional peaks 67 Pressing needs?

69 Unlike eagles 70 Appropriate 71 Silver, say 73 Next-to-last #1 Beatles hit 74 Sully 78 Spits rhymes 79 Beer buy 82 Tongue-lash 85 Subject of a 2009 national tournament cheating scandal 88 “Meet the Press” guest, for short 94 Possibly 96 Formed rising bubbles

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE SATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Matthew Ray Bailey Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1322014 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Matthew Ray Bailey, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You can blame it on the coming full moon. You can blame it on the gorgeous storm or the epic dream or the haunting song or the suffering you’re struggling to vanquish.

All I ask is that you don’t blame it on the alcohol. OK? If you’re going to do wild and brave and unexpected things, make sure they are rooted in your vigorous response to primal rhythms, not in a drunken surrender to weakness or ignorance. I’m all for you losing your oppressive self-control, but not the healthy kind of selfcontrol.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When is the last time you did an experiment? I’m not talking about scientific tests and trials that take place in a laboratory. I’m referring to real-life experiments, like when you try out an unfamiliar experience to see if it appeals to you... or when you instigate a change in your routine to attract unpredictable blessings into your sphere.

Now would be an excellent time to expose yourself to a few what-ifs like that. You’re overdue to have your eyes opened, your limits stretched, and your mind blown.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To help take the edge off the darkness you have been wrestling with, I offer you these lines from a poem by Kay Ryan: “The day misspent, / the love misplaced, / has inside it / the seed of redemption. / Nothing is exempt / from resurrection.” In other words, Gemini, whatever has disappeared from your life will probably return later in a new form. The wrong turns you made may lead you to a fresh possibility. Is that what you want?

Or would you prefer that the lost things stay lost, the dead things stay dead? Make a decision soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not know what to ask for,” says the writer Malidoma Somé in his book Water and Spirit. “We are sometimes unable to get what we need because we do not know what we want.” With that in mind, Cancerian, hear my two pleas: first, that in the next six weeks, you will work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; and second, that you will cultivate your capacity to receive the goodies you want most by refining your skill at asking for them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Julia Morgan (1872-1957) was the first woman licensed as an architect in California. She designed more than 700 buildings in the course of her brilliant career, and thrived both financially and artistically.

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opportunities you may be invited to take on, as well as the tasks that your friends, associates and loved ones ask you to consider.

You can’t possibly know ahead of time how important it might ultimately be to apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of Beethoven’s music teachers said, “As a composer, he is hopeless.”

When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was “too stupid to learn anything.” Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because “he lacked imagination and had no good ideas.” I’m sure there was a person like that in your past—someone who disparaged and discouraged you. But I’m happy to report that 2014 will be the best year ever for neutralizing and overcoming that naysayer’s curse. If you have not yet launched your holy crusade, begin now.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) loved math. But his father, who homeschooled him, forced him to forego math and concentrate on studying the humanities. Blaise rebelled. When he was 12 years old, he locked himself in his room and immersed himself in mathematical investigations. When he emerged, he had figured out on his own some of Euclid’s fundamental theorems about geometry.

Eventually, he became a noted mathematician. I see the coming weeks as prime time to do something like the young Pascal did: Seal yourself away from other people’s opinions about who you’re supposed to be, and explore the themes that will be crucial for the person you are becoming.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1609, Dutch sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to America and came upon what we now call Coney Island. Back then it was a barren spit of sand whose main inhabitants were rabbits. But it was eventually turned into a dazzling resort—an “extravagant playground,” according to the documentary film Coney Island. By the early 20th century, there were three sprawling amusement parks packed into its two square miles of land, plus “a forest of glittering electric towers, historical displays, freak shows, a simulated trip to the moon, the largest herd of elephants in the world, and panoramas showing the Creation, the End of the World and Hell.” I mention this, Scorpio, because 2014 could feature your very own Henry Hudson moment: a time when you will discover virgin territory that will ultimately become an extravagant playground.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If men had wings and bore black

feathers, few of them would be clever enough to be crows,” said 19th century social reformer Henry Ward Beecher. That might be an accurate assessment for most people, but I don’t think it will be true for you Sagittarians in the foreseeable future. Your animal intelligence will be working even better than usual. Your instinctual inclinations are likely to serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You will definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Can you guess what combination of colors makes the most vivid visual impact? Psychologists say it’s black on yellow. Together they arrest the eye. They command attention. They activate a readiness to respond. According to my reading of the astrological omens, this is the effect you can and should have in the coming weeks.

It’s time for you to draw the best kind of attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize people with the power of your presence. Whether you actually wear yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as you cultivate a similar potency.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m guessing that in a metaphorical sense, you’ve been swallowed by a whale. Now you’re biding your time in the beast’s belly. Here’s my prediction: You will be like the Biblical Jonah, who underwent a more literal version of your experience. The whale eventually expelled him, allowing him to return to his life safe and sound— and your story will have the same outcome. What should you do in the meantime? Here’s the advice that Dan Albergotti gives in his poem “Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale.” “Count the ribs. Look up for blue sky through the spout.

Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats. Practice smoke signals. Call old friends.

Organize your calendar. Dream of the beach. Review each of your life’s 10 million choices. Find the evidence of those before you.

Listen for the sound of your heart.

Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): How do you like your tests?

Short, intense and dramatic?

Or leisurely, drawn-out and lowpressure? Here’s another question: Do you prefer to pick out the tests you take, making sure they’re good fits for the precise lessons you want to master? Or do you find it more exciting and adventurous to let fate determine what unpredictable tests get sent your way? Ruminate about these matters, Pisces. You’re due for a nice big test sometime soon, and it’s in your interest to help shape and define how everything unfolds.

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