Boise Weekly Vol. 23 Issue 19

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OCTOBER 29 – NOV E M B E R 4, 2014

“Get out there and take some Selfies. Lots of Selfies.”

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Boise Weekly (finally) scores an interview with District judge candidate Rebecca Arnold

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Insight into what’s politically hot, plus prognostications and profanity

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MAIL WIN THE BATTLE, LOSE THE WAR A panel of federal judges has stricken down same-sex marriage bans in several Western states, including my own. After a brief stay, the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal, legalizing (for the time) same-sex marriages in a majority of states. Despite Gov. Otter and his ilk’s continued protestations, the green light seems to have been given.

On the face of it, this development is one which meets with my approval. Rest assured that I am a staunch advocate for the equality of marriage privileges for all Americans. However, I have an objection to what seems to be today’s zeitgeist—I think that the strategy currently pursued by most mainstream proponents of marriage equality is wrongheaded and likely to backfire.

Depending on which polls you believe—if any—and depending on which corner of our nation you are discussing, public support for same-sex unions and marriages varies greatly. In some areas, according to some polls, there is strong bipartisan support; in others there is equally strong and nearly (though lesser) bipartisan opposition.

Many states, my own included, have passed ballot initiatives, referendums or even state constitutional amendments prohibiting certain unions or defining marriage in narrower legal terms to be between one adult male and one adult female.

I’m not going to argue that we should follow public opinion on matters such as these. There was broad public support for Jim Crow laws and the wholesale massacre and relocation of American Indians in our national past, yet clearly both were morally reprehensible. Democratic public support doesn’t make something immoral or moral any more than a pop single’s million sales makes it a better song (as anybody who has, like me, been overexposed to Pharrell’s “Happy” can attest). A plurality of homophobia in the public doesn’t make it excusable or mean that we are justified in enforcing homophobic laws or policies.

It is for these reasons that Otter’s argument in favor of the now-stricken ban (namely that it was a voter-supported, popular act) holds no water.

However, we should all be aware of the consequences, good and ill, that our actions are likely to have. One must consider the principles of unintended consequences, which may have severely detrimental long-term effects. A case in point is the judicial, rather than legislative, legalization of same-sex marriages. There are several immediate consequences that are easy to see, but a few that are less obvious and may only manifest themselves over time spans that seem to be utterly unfamiliar to politicians and evening news anchors alike (i.e. any interval longer than “the news cycle,” which seems to be approximately 36 hours).

Legalizing anything through judicial fiat is likely to engender more push-back than legalization through legislation, civil law or public referendum.

The opposition is likely to feel, with some justification, that its opinions have been circumvented by so-called “activist” judges, who are usually (though not exclusively) unelected by the people affected by their decisions. This is the poison pill to the strategy of pursuing through lawsuits a legal remedy to the injustice of same-sex marriage or prohibitions—you may win in the short run, but in the long run you run the risk of losing allies of a more moderate bent or who may be on the fence with their support, and you will almost certainly embitter an already reactionary group of conservatives, causing them to redouble their efforts.

I can understand the sense of immediacy to the effort; many couples don’t want to wait years or decades more than they already have to be able to enjoy marriage. They see these laws for what they are—an injustice—and seek for them to be stricken down with all possible haste. My concern is that this is a shortsighted approach, which misses what might be a better long-term solution. If you change the hearts and minds, so to speak, of those who are either ambivalent about the issue or those who are against it, you will bring about a shift in the public opinion.

Such a shift is already under way. More and more people are beginning to realize that homosexuals are not deserving of our condemnation or oppression. Open homophobia is becoming less and less socially acceptable and mild slurs that would have barely registered have become potentially career-ending errors. This is real progress, and is the sort of momentum that the LGBTQA community should throw its weight behind. Neil Patrick Harris, George Takei and Stephen Fry have probably done more to advance the cause of their fellow gay men—and Ellen Degeneres for her fellow lesbian women—than any judge ever has by bringing homosexuality into the public eye Bringing more people into the fold and pressing home a decisive moral advantage are slower, though surer, methods than fighting complex constitutional law battles in court is. A time will come, and that time will likely come sooner than you think, when the overwhelming majority look back with the same disgust at current bans on gay marriage that we presently have for the antimiscegenation and school segregation laws of 50 years ago. Those who, like me, support equality of marriage privileges must consider the long-term ramifications of our strategy, lest we win the court battles but lose the larger war for the sentiments of Americans at large.

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OPINION THE MACHINE ROLLS ON And the toe jam rolls with it BILL COPE Rep. George Hansen, recently deceased, was one oI the Àrst in a line oI right-wing birds who haYe soiled Idaho politics Ior the past years. :hat he will undoubtedly be rePePbered Ior Post YiYidly are his prison terPs, the longest Ior Iraud in an inYestPent schePe he perpetrated aIter he was out oI oIÀce.

HoweYer, he did one thing that should still be reYerberating in the awareness oI Idaho citi]ens.

In , Hansen went chasing aIter a 6enate seat Ior the second tiPe and Iound hiPselI in a Iour-way priPary with -aPes 0c&lure, e[-GoY. Robert 6Pylie, and another guy. 0c&lure won that $ugust priPary. $Iter his loss, Hansen, in what Pight be interpreted as either an episode oI ethical conscience or oI sour grapes, told a &aliIornia reporter doing a story on Idaho politics that a year earlier, he and 0c&lure had been called to a Peeting with representatiYes IroP the Iour horsePen oI Idaho’s Pid-century corporate econoPy: Boise &ascade, 0orrison-.nudsen, 6iPplot and Idaho Power. $ccording to Hansen, that Tuartet oI heaYy hitters were worried that iI 0c&lure and Hansen split the hard conserYatiYe Yote, then it was likely the Poderate 6Pylie would win the priPary. 7hat wouldn’t do. $s popular as 6Pylie was with other Idahoans, he was anathePa to those IeYerish Republicans who, then as now, could tolerate no Poderate behaYior. It also seePs that eYen then, right-wing e[trePists were Pore syPpathetic to the best interests oI corporate God]illas than they haYe eYer been to the people on the ground being crushed underIoot.

7he deal they proposed was that Hansen should drop out oI the race, allowing 0c&lure a probable Yictory, and that as a reward, they would support hiP in a bid Ior goYernor two years later.

Hansen declined the oIIer. .eep in Pind, these reYelations oI Hansen’s were Pade public in 2ctober , after the priPary, indicating that they resulted Pore IroP the ´sour grapes¾ option than any ´ethical conscience.¾ $Iter all, iI he was really as outraged by this election rigging as he claiPed to be, he Pight haYe said soPething to the press about it Ponths earlier.

6till, he told the reporter that he resented ´a powerIul Iew Paking it their business to arrange the political cliPate in Idaho.¾ Had it not been Ior the then) Ànest weekly paper in Idaho, The Intermountain Observer, the story Pight neYer haYe been heard in Idaho. 7he Observer reprinted it two weeks beIore the general election, and I happened to haYe read it at the tiPe. I was certain such a reYelation would turn Idaho Yoters against this sort oI political puppeteering, but I was 6 | OCTOBER 29 – NOVEMBER 4, 2014 | BOISEWEEKLY

wrong. 0c&lure won the general election and went on to represent IdahoÂłor the corporate board rooPs oI Idaho, at any rateÂłIor years.

It seePs the Iolks on the ground getting crushed underIoot didn’t Pind it as Puch as I was conYinced they would. ‡‡‡ I bring it up now, si[ days beIore the election, because it all caPe back to Pe this past suPPer, when the Idaho $ssociation oI &oPPerce and Industry I$&I) announced it would be endorsing Butch 2tter in his race against $.-. BalukoII. 2I course, it wouldn’t do to e[plain siPply that the reason they liked 2tter was because, Ior the past Iour decades³throughout his reParkably undistinguished terPs as state legislator, 8.6. congressPan and goYernor³he has been on their leash, Ietching whateYer they wanted Ietched, as obedient to the coPpany whistle as any lap dog could possibly be.

1o, Must coPPending 2tter as their good little puppy wasn’t enough. 7hey Ielt they had to Pake 0r. BalukoII out as Barack 2baPa in whiteIace, a dastardly liberal bent on raising ta[es and spreading eYil health care around like MaP on toast. :orse yet, they haYe daPned BalukoII as a ´typical politician¾³ironic indeed, when their hand-licker-oI-choice has neYer worked a Mob in his adult liIe that didn’t coPe IroP either being Yoted into it or Parrying into it. $re Idahoans duPb enough to swallow this saPe-old, saPe-old slop that has leIt Idaho shoYeling up the droppings in the $Perican parade" we’ll Ànd out 7uesday, 1oY. . Better Tuestion Pight be: 'o Idahoans really know what this I$&I bunch e[pects out oI their pet politicians, especially since, behind the Iaoade oI respectability, it’s nothing but another lobbying racket that reIuses to Pake public who Iunds it" 7he list oI corporate powerhouses in Idaho has grown considerably since George Hansen’s day, and we Pust suspect that is due in large part to the Iact that Idahoans haYe shown repeatedly they will work Ior less, don’t seeP to care what shoddiness the Iuture holds Ior their children, and can be easily distracted by things like shiny new guns and phantoP Ieds. (ssentially, I$&I is nothing Pore than what those Iour secretiYe king-Paking corporations were back in ’ ³a cabal oI big Poney that works tirelessly to get hoPeowners, grocery shoppers and wage earners to Ioot the bill Ior giYing theP a coPIortable enYironPent to Pake eYen bigger Poney.

I’d like to end by saying Idahoans deserYe better, but Irankly, as long they keep choosing leaders whose only purpose is to keep theP Iooled and underIoot, I’P not conYinced they do.

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OPINION THE SCARY GO-PRO When the going gets scary...

JOHN REMBER A few Halloweens from now, Apple introduces the Bat, a tiny plutonium-powered drone carrying a high-deÀnition camera. It can follow you anywhere, even in a crowd of 10,000 people, by nesting it a few minutes in your armpit. 2nce tuned to your olfactory signature, it Áutters above you for the rest of your life, photographing your every move, recording your every word, relaying that information through a 5G network to a 10-yottabyte hard drive in your home.

The hard drive contains your identity, your life, your record of friendships and children and Mobs. It’s the 1st century eTuivalent of the photo album that used to accompany old folks to nursing homes. :ith a few button-pushes you can replay, on your wall-size TV, larger-than-life weddings, trips to Yellowstone and Yosemite, moments of great se[, Àrst drives in new cars, Àrst days on Mobs and the births of children. If you’re in a darker mood, you can replay divorces, your children’s divorces, tow trucks towing your rusted-out cars away, disastrous Àrst dates, awful exit interviews, stints in rehab, slow drives past fatal car wrecks³it’s all in there, along with hour-long commutes, corporate bonding retreats, tearful moments in therapists’ ofÀces, moments of not-so-great sex, annual check-ups, moments when you wanted to declare love but didn’t. :hen you die, your hard drive is archived with billions of other life-inscribed hard drives.

After a tasteful period of mourning—during which you are in digital limbo—people are able to check them out and spend their lives watching your life. (diting software allows for the collection of clips from many lives. &ollectors become connoisseurs of football concussions, prom dress atrocities, virginity losses and avalanche deaths.

Aside from a few privacy complaints, few folks obMect to the technology. It becomes popular to bestow a Bat, along with a name, at christening ceremonies. Apple’s ads feature the slogan, ´:hat have you got to hide" 1othing. :hat have you got that’s interesting" (verything.µ Wired magazine predicts the emergence of ´Bat 1atives,µ people who never have known an unrecorded moment. Wired further asserts that the unarchived life isn’t worth living. Academics begin writing Ph.'. theses on the digital self, and philosophers claim that human identity lies in the personal hard drive, with its incontrovertible evidence of existence. ´If it’s not digitized,µ the argument goes, ´you can’t prove it.µ 2rdinary people embrace the Bat. ´I like being the star of my own movie,µ the refrain goes. ´Before I got my Bat, my life was like an unwritten screenplay. 1ow I get to produce and direct and act, outtakes and bloopers and everything.

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And it really is interesting. To me, anyway.µ Apple’s market share hovers at 50 percent, even after Samsung and Lenovo introduce ridiculously cheap -'-printed competitors to the Bat. The number of ´personal drones,µ as they come to be called, surpasses the number of humans on the planet, especially after &hina decrees that its citizens have not one, but three personal drones buzzing about their heads, their data relayed directly to a newly constructed ´cloud citadelµ in the province of Tibet. Wired calculates that watching drone recordings is taking up 30 percent of the nation’s work time, not counting the people whose Mob it is to watch them.

Then everything changes. Google &orporation, after extensive Àeld-tests in 1orth .orea, introduces the &yborg (ye, a bioelectric-powered retinal implant that records visual and aural experience from inside the skull. Inserted by pneumatic injection, the device relays point-of-view data to a variety of destinations, and is advertised with the slogan, ´(verything you can see, (ye can see better.µ &yborg (yes become universal as a free public health service in the United States after they are marketed as a “vaccine of vigilanceµ against religious terrorism, newly designated by the &'& as a fatal contagious virus. &omplaints about the devices come not from privacy advocates but from the users themselves. )rom an early adopter: “I realize that intelligence agencies need this data, but I’ve gone from being the star of my own movie to being a stupid camera. I never realized my life was so boring.µ Philosophers again weigh in with their Tuestions: “2nce the camera starts recording, does its person exist anymore" Is there room for a self when point of view is sTueezed to a point" 'oes experience itself matter, once it’s digitized"µ Psychotherapists’ ofÀces across the country echo with a single agonized complaint: “'octor, I’m not sure anyone is in me. I don’t even know that there’s a me to be in. I can’t see it on TV.µ A self-help book, titled Who’s There? Who Cares? I Sure As Hell Don’t hits the New York Times best-seller list. Viewing other people’s experience becomes passé, even when it involves sex or death, even when giant eight-screened public viewing kiosks are erected in city sTuares. People start hauling their Bat drives out of the closet and hooking them up, just to see themselves again.

The president intervenes. “The entire country is experiencing a loss of self,µ he says. “That’s why I’m ordering Homeland Security to turn off all subcutaneous cameras and listening devices.

Go back to your Bats, people. Get out there and take some SelÀes. Lots of SelÀes. It’s time to get real again.µ BOISEWEEKLY | OCTOBER 29 – NOVEMBER 4, 2014 | 7

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Of the college students who do register, nearly 90 percent show up to vote.

IDAHO COLLEGE STUDENTS: WHAT ELECTION? With intensity building for federal, state and local races throughout Idaho, one particular voting bloc couldn’t care less. Once again, student are expected to largely abstain from this year’s electoral process.

“Young people have been turned off because of a lot of negativity and the lack of getting things done,” Boise State University political science professor Jaclyn Kettler told Boise Weekly.

Kettler points to the well-established theory that most students or young voters don’t know where to register to vote or simply haven’t bothered to find out.

According to the Campus Vote Project, more than 25 percent of possible voters on college campuses reported they didn’t register to vote in the 2010 midterm election because they didn’t know where to go.

“They find that college students don’t know the laws of voting or how to register,” said Kettler. “Even if they get interested in voting, they can’t because it’s too late.”

Additionally, college students say they’re just too busy to engage politically.

“Students are busy and often not directly connected with the communities in which their universities are located,” said Justin Vaughn, also a political science professor at Boise State.

Simply put, students’ heads and hearts are somewhere else and they would rather spend their limited time engaging elsewhere.

“One thing that scholars show us about the current generation of college students [is that] voting is less important than other forms of engagement, ranging from community service to activism,” said Vaughn.

On top of all that, the professors added, is the overriding reality that many voters lack knowledge of issues and candidates, resulting in continuously poor turnouts at the polls.

“I find many students and adults alike don’t really understand the issues or candidates they vote for—[not] being able to recognize differences in candidates,” said Adam Weber, a student and vice chairman of the Boise State College Republicans.

Weber added that many students conclude their vote doesn’t matter.

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THE CANDIDATE BECOMES THE ISSUE Boise Weekly ÀQDOO\ VLWV GRZQ ZLWK 5HEHFFD $UQROG GEORGE PRENTICE The story you are about to read is nowhere near the story that it started out to be. In anticipation of Tuesday’s election, %RLVH :HHNO\ set out to write an engaging, but somewhat pedestrian, overview of the race for Idaho 4th Judicial District Court.

When Judge Mike Wetherell announced that he would be retiring at the end of this year, it opened the door to a rare opportunity for the public to consider four candidates in the May 20 primary election. But none of the four emerged with more than 50 percent of the vote, thus setting up a run-off between Rebecca Arnold, an Ada County Highway District commissioner and corporate attorney with Boise-based W.H. Moore Company, and Sam Hoagland, a 32-year veteran Idaho trial attorney. %: asked to sit down with both candidates and Hoagland complied, telling us how he’s practiced nearly every type of litigation—contracts, employment, estates, custody, probate—and made thousands of court appearances in district, appeals and even the Idaho State Supreme Court.

Speaking with Rebecca Arnold was a different matter altogether. Beginning on Oct. 3, %: made multiple reTuests to talk with Arnold. At Àrst, she agreed to a conversation. Then she changed her mind. Then she agreed again. Then she insisted that questions be submitted in advance. Then she said her professional and political schedule couldn’t accommodate our request. We tried to access Arnold at a candidate forum at the Idaho State Bar, but Arnold was a last-minute no-show.

Most importantly, as time was passing, our questions for Arnold continued to grow, particularly concerning a group of public and private citizens from the city of Stanley who are desperate to see Arnold lose Tuesday’s election (more on that in a bit). )inally, in a Áurry of emails between %: and Arnold—some of which were rather testy—the candidate agreed to a sit-down, but only hours before our deadline. To her credit, Arnold answered all of our questions; but it became apparent that Arnold herself had become

Sam Hoagland (left) and Rebecca Arnold (right) are vying for to become a justice in Idaho’s 4th Judicial District Court.

the No. 1 issue for the campaign.

“My opponent might have thought she was walking into the lion’s den,” said Hoagland at the Oct. 17 candidate forum at the Idaho State Bar Association. “This was the closest opportunity where we would appear side-by-side.”

When %: asked ISB Litigation Chairman Howard Belodoff about Arnold’s no-show, he conÀrmed that she had accepted but, “She did question how the open meeting law applied. I wanted to let her know that anyone could attend and that included the press.”

“Is she avoiding you?” Mahmood Sheikh, ISB deputy executive director, asked %RLVH :HHNO\.

Arnold insisted that she wasn’t avoiding us and had been “unavoidably” detained. Nonetheless, questions for Arnold were accumulating.

“I had a question or two,” said Boise attorney Jim Harris. “First of all, I would have like to have heard her explanation for her DUI arrest.”

Harris was referring to a 2000 incident in which Arnold was charged with suspicion of driving under the inÁuence.

“It was 14 years ago,” Arnold said in a lastminute meeting with %: at a Shari’s restaurant.

“I don’t think it’s particularly relevant. I pleaded guilty to inattentive driving to save time and signiÀcant expense. I had two physicians prepared to testify on my behalf and I, for the past 14 years, have wished that I had gone to trial.”

Arnold said she has never interacted professionally with Harris, but insisted that he was a supporter of Hoagland’s campaign.

The DUI was far down our list of questions when we Ànally met Arnold. We were more curious about her tangles with Stanley ofÀcials.

“She tried to pull the wool over the eyes of a small Idaho town,” said Hannah Stauts. “I’m here to tell you that she’s very disrespectful.”

Stauts, who was 22 years old when she was elected to a four-year term as mayor of Stanley in

2006 (the youngest mayor in Idaho history), told %: that she went “toe-to-toe” with Arnold on multiple occasions. Stauts said Arnold has sued the city of Stanley on multiple occasions over disputes involving land development.

“Stanley’s legal bills are close to $186,000,” said Stauts, pointing to a rather stunning page on the ofÀcial Stanley city website that chronicles its legal tangles with Arnold. “She has a history of being very harassing. I don’t have a dog in this Àght, but I get riled up because a community I love is too afraid to stand up to her.”

But Stuat’s’ claim not to have a “dog in the Àght” may not be entirely true. She created Concerned Citizens of Stanley and has paid for campaign ads that read, “Citizens: We urge you to vote against Rebecca Arnold,” without mentioning Arnold’s opponent once. For the record, the Custer County city of Stanley doesn’t even sit inside the 4th Judicial District.

Arnold couldn’t disagree more with what she calls Stauts’ “version of the truth.”

“I’ve been in public ofÀce for 10 years,” said the three-term ACHD commissioner. “You make enemies if you’re standing up for what you believe in. There are always going to be people who don’t like you because you take a strong position.

Some people are just vindictive. I don’t like controversy. But I refuse to run away from it.” %: also quizzed Arnold on several other issues, including a past wrongful termination against Albertsons, her former employer (“It was settled,” she said) and the ISB survey of candidates, which gave her an overall average score of 1.84 (versus Hoagland’s 3.6) out of a possible 4 points (“I don’t think we should allow our judicial elections to be decided by a small group of attorneys who are hiding behind a cloak of anonymity,” she said).

But again, for the record, Arnold did answer our questions. Finally.

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“I thought we had a chance,” said Boise Fire Chief Dennis Doan, thinking back to the night of Nov. 5, 2013. “When they started counting the early votes, it was something like 72 percent in favor. I got my hopes up pretty quick.”

Doan and a good number of other Boise public ofÀcials were keeping a close eye on the election night 2013 vote for Boise Bond No. 1, which would have set aside $6.8 million for construction of a new ÀreÀghter training facility and another $10.1 million to upgrade or replace four aging Àre stations.

“Throughout the night, the number slowly dropped but I still thought we had a chance,” said Doan.

But as Tuesday night became Wednesday morning, the bond failed to secure the two-thirds super majority to pass, failing by about 640 votes.

With the taste of defeat in his mouth, there was only thing for Doan to do: go for pizza.

“It was 1 or 2 in the morning, and Mayor Bieter and I decided to go get a slice. Pie Hole was the only place open, so that’s where we went,” said Doan. “The mayor said: ‘This is a priority.

We have to get this done. It’s a priority for the city and it’s a priority that we take this back to the voters.’ We were disappointed, but the mayor was pretty encouraging that night.”

Thus began the unofÀcial campaign to rework the Ànancing for the $17 million package. By June 13 of this year, Bieter made it a lot more ofÀcial, using his State of the City address to announce that this time, there would be no tax hike attached to the bond. Rather, the city would pay down approximately $19 million—the $17 million plus interest and fees—over 10 years.

The Boise Fire Department’s shopping list is the same: a new training facility and upgrades or replacements of four Àre stations. But the request, said Doan, has greater urgency. When %RLVH :HHNO\ asked the chief if there was risk to the city, based on the need, he paused for a moment.

“Yes and no. Let me qualify that,” Doan said.

“Our facilities still work and our ÀreÀghters can get to the scene pretty fast. They do an excellent job. But we need to talk about our training facility again.”

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Boise Fire Chief Dennis Doan stands in front of an engine at Fire Station No. 16, one of the facilities being considered in the Boise Fire Bond vote.

that his department’s current training facility, off of Americana Boulevard, is pretty close to being worthless. The concrete tower doesn’t meet national ÀreÀghting standards, and the surrounding building has a stairwell that is nowhere close to being similar to a real house. So, in the meantime, the department is forced to rely on citizens and businesses to donate old homes or buildings slated for demolition to be used as controlled Àre situations.

“And that’s pretty dangerous. Across the nation, ÀreÀghters are killed and or injured on liveÀre training every year,” said Doan. “So to answer your questions directly: No, citizen safety is not compromised, but our ÀreÀghter safety is.”

Then Doan dropped a bit of a stunner into the conversation, pointing to a recent ÀreÀghting exercise on the campus of Boise State University. Most of Boise heard about how ÀreÀghters practiced their skills as the old Boise State Alumni Building was torched on Aug. 18. What they didn’t know is that a ÀreÀghter was badly injured in that exercise.

“We had a ÀreÀghter suffer third-degree burns on his ears,” Doan told %:. “These Àres are pretty unpredictable and you don’t want your ÀreÀghters injured in a training exercise that you can’t control. We need to take those precautions.”

Doan added that the ÀreÀghter was off duty for a while but is “doing OK” now.

“We just don’t want a scenario that the Àrst time a rookie goes into a Àre is somebody’s house ablaze,” said the chief.

Doan and the city are already looking at 17 acres of public land off of Joplin Road, near the city’s water treatment plant, for a new training facility. But that’s only one piece of the bond

package. Boise also wants to remodel Fire Station No. 4 on Ustick Road to accommodate the relocation of a ladder truck; build a new Station No. 5 on South 16th Street (the oldest and busiest station in Boise); relocate Station No. 8 on Overland Road to improve response times to the Central Bench and Boise State; and renovate Station No. 9 on State Street and Sycamore Drive, primarily because of gender equity issues (it only has one bedroom, shower and bathroom).

The main question voters will ask this year will be the same as in 2013: Will this impact my taxes?

“The short answer is no,” said Jonny Carkin, spokesman for Keep Boise Safe and Livable, the campaign muscle to secure “yes” votes. OfÀcials insist that the city will pay down the $19 million by “using savings from lower ÀreÀghter pensions, interest rates and construction costs.”

Carkin’s organization is well funded—enough to stuff mailboxes across the city with glossy mailers urging a “yes” vote. The campaign war chest came close to $100,000 in contributions and signiÀcant expenses to the Boise ofÀce of Strategies 360 ($30,000 has been funneled to the so-called “strategic positioning” and marketing group). But Carkin acknowledges that voter turnout is key.

“We anticipate greater success in some neighborhoods. Yes, we’ll go after the low-hanging fruit,” he said. “Door-to-door is still effective.

And you should see an adequate number of mailers.”

Meanwhile, Doan remains conÀdent.

“I think it’s going be close, maybe even razor-thin. Two-thirds of the vote is a high bar to meet,” said the chief. “But my conÀdence level is pretty high.”

CITYDESK feel their vote matters [enough] to go to the polls,” Weber told BW. “I think especially for college students, social issues are what motivates them to vote. These are issues they can understand a lot better as opposed to, say, tax reform or some other issues pertaining to the economy.”

Even if students are aware of the issues, Weber said many of them don’t know what to make of the issues and “all the political mumbo jumbo” during campaign season.

“I think for some students, they aren’t sure where they stand on many issues; it is overwhelming for students to research candidates and issues with all the attack ads and misinformation that both parties spread,” said Weber. “Once students can better understand issues from non-biased sources, it is easier for them to vote.”

To the person, everyone BW spoke to on the Boise State campus concluded that if students indeed turned out to the polls in substantial numbers on Election Day, their collective vote would actually have a profound impact.

“If students registered to vote, they would certainly have an impact on the [Boise] City Council race or for the [Idaho House and Senate] seats that represent the area nearest Boise State—that’s if students voted en masse,” said Vaughn.

But without any significant representation at the polls, Kettler said students routinely find themselves without a voice in city and state government.

“The issues of younger people are not well represented,” she added. “This is due to the relative lack of participation and there is not a lot of push for elected officials to represent younger people because they just don’t turn out to vote.”

So what can be done to fix this current trend?

“I would have resources that would provide this information very clearly and easily,” said Kettler. “It could be either an app or some sort of social media site that students already go to.”

Boise State professors said social media was key to turning the trend around, especially since so many students turn to familiar social media platforms for their primary source of news.

“I am excited for new age information such as Twitter, Facebook and just the Internet in general,” said Weber. “We’re able to access unlimited amounts of information at our fingertips, leading us to make more informed decisions at the polls. “ And there’s one final note of optimism for the future of political engagement among college students: According to the Campus Vote Project, of those students who had registered to vote in recent elections, a stunning 87 percent said they showed up at the polls to make a difference in the outcomes. <8

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But the dynamics of society have changed pretty dramatically.

Now, many of our poll workers are recently retired. Unfortunately, it’s a 14-hour day.

How many unique ballots might you have?

During this year’s primary, we had 530. For this election we have at least 145 unique ballots.

Politics, Post-it notes and piggy banks

Can you point to tangible instances of possible voter fraud in Ada County?

It has happened, not frequently.

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Can you count them on your fingers.

Yes. But we pursue them pretty aggressively.

Right now, there’s a case that’s being turned over to the Idaho attorney general. It had to do with someone who had voted but moved. And in March, someone voted in Mountain Home, drove to Boise, registered and voted in Boise on the same day. The last I heard of it, it was turned over the (lmore County Sheriff ’s OfÀce.

The Àrst thing you’ll notice when you approach the ofÀce of Phil McGrane, chief deputy of the Ada County clerk, is that every inch of his door is covered with Post-it notes—scores of them.

It turns out that, just before going on vacation in September, McGrane told his colleagues that they could leave questions or concerns on his door. When he returned there were one or two questions, but there were also dozens of nonsensical messages: “Chicken is the best meat.” “The all-time major league batting average is .262.” “96.7 percent of all statistics are made up.”

The next thing you might notice are the many trophies and ribbons for his prized barbecue sauce, but Boise Weekly asked for a few rare minutes to talk with McGrane about being the man in charge of Ada County elections—especially considering that Ada County is already on pace for record-setting early voting.

Take us back to 2005, when you came to this job. What did you know about the mechanics or science of elections?

To my beneÀt, >Ada County Clerk] Chris Rich looks for unique things in folks when he’s hiring.

My degree was in philosophy; and one of my Àrst jobs was to recruit and train poll workers—we use up to 1,200 on (lection Day. And in my time with Habitat for Humanity, we once built 40 homes in one week. So I had overseen a lot of volunteers.

What’s the secret sauce of that? I don’t think a lot of people are that good at recruiting and holding on to volunteers.

If the work is just busy-work, that’s the quickest way to lose a volunteer. If you value their time, they’ll return the favor.

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How about the demographic of your volunteers?

Historically, poll-working is a very maternal system. It was easier for a woman to work all Tuesday long without interruption. A mom or grandma ran the polling place and their daughters or sisters worked with them. For years, we didn’t have to recruit too often.

Is that a felony?

Double voting is a felony. Attempted double voting is a misdemeanor.

Can you paint a word picture for our readers of elections headquarters? I’ve been in the counting area prior to election nights and I must say that it reminds me a bit of a hospital. It’s almost antiseptic.

Two hundred-250 people are there on election night. You won’t see purses or water bottles. All of the pens are green ink; our machines scan those differently. Your sterile description is a good one.

And a lot of windows.

Transparency, quite literally, is very important.

Ballots are not too different than money; they’re fairly sacred.

Let’s talk about the phenomenon of early voting.

In 2012, we had 800 people on the Àrst day.

On one of the Ànal days, there was a two-hour wait. It was pretty awesome.

How will you prepare for 2016?

It’s a mission of Chris Rich to have more early voting sites around the valley.

I would be remiss if I didn’t ask about your own foray into politics [McGrane lost to Lawerence Denney in the GOP primary race for Idaho secretary of state]. How surprised were you at the outcome?

I was mentally prepared. The people around me weren’t.

What was the best or worst lesson learned?

I had never run for ofÀce before and sometimes that showed. But I don’t have any regrets.

Was it as exhausting as one would guess?

Much more exhausting.

And the cost of running a statewide race?

The biggest costs are intangible: family sacriÀce. There was a Daddy-Daughter Day at my daughter Mackenzie’s pre-school. >Pause.] They gave us little cards with a sentence that read, “I love my daddy because BBBBBBBBB.” >Another pause.] Mackenzie had written, “I love my daddy because he plays with me, but he’s really busy.” I carried that around for the rest of the campaign.

Pardon me, but that’s wonderful and heartbreaking all at once.

You asked earlier if I was prepared for the result. A week and a half before the election, Mackenzie went upstairs and got her piggy bank >longer pause]. I hope I can get through this without crying.

I have a feeling I know where this is going.

She brought her bank to my wife. >Another long pause.] I’m sorry. She knew that I needed it to win.

Let’s take a moment for you to grab a Kleenex.

It was one of the few donations I didn’t actually accept.

Are you paying attention to the general election race for secretary of state between Lawerence Denney and Holli Woodings?

More than anyone else.

Have you made up your mind of how you’ll vote?

Not in any public fashion. I know Holli well and consider her a friend. I got to know Lawerence and, despite his public image, he was the nicest person to me on the campaign trail. That meant a great deal.

Would I be terribly surprised if I saw your name on another ballot in the future?

I wasn’t deterred. We ran a great campaign. If a few circumstances had been different, I like to think that there might have been a different result.

But that’s the way democracy works.

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Boise Weekly and Jasper LiCalzi preview the 2014 election

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t’s getting pretty scary. No, not the Halloween ghosts and goblins adorning Boise homes, but those frightening campaign signs that trick-or-treaters will need to navigate. And if you have any plans to watch a television marathon of your favorite horror Àlms, here’s a warning that you’ll also want to duck under the covers when the spine-chilling specters of A.J. and Butch haunt your screen. Be afraid, be very afraid.

The shadow of Election Day is upon us once again and, true-toform, it has plenty of tricks: - Some particular nastiness between Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter and Democratic challenger A.J. Balukoff.

- A Balukoff TV ad featuring an Idaho educator who has never voted in Idaho.

- A sticky-Àngered Otter, who took campaign donations from the operators of a private prison while his staff negotiated with the prison company.

- A laundry list of questions swirling around GOP state school superintendent candidate Sherri Ybarra, including her voting record (or lack thereof), her own education and even her marital status.

- A number of Statehouse veterans being ousted by their own party in the May GOP primary (Sens. John Goedde and Monty Pearce and Reps. Lenore Barrett, George Eskridge, Doug Hancey and Ed Morse).

It appears that the only treats this political season are going to the sales managers at local radio and television stations, who are reaping the beneÀts of what feels like a never-ending parade of campaign advertisements.

With just a few days left before all of this madness subsides, Boise Weekly sat down with Dr. Jasper LiCalzi, chair of the Department of Political Economy at the College of Idaho. You’ll see LiCalzi’s live analysis on KIVI-TV on election night, but we asked him to provide some insight into some of this political season’s most interesting races. Additionally, we consider the political futures of some of Idaho’s more colorful politicos and even look down the road to the 2016 presidential election.

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his year’s ballot includes Republican incumbent Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, Idaho’s chief executive since 2007; Democrat A.J. Balukoff; the Constitution Party’s Steve Pankey; Libertarian John Bujak; and independents Jill Humble and Pro-Life.

In what scenario do you see A.J. Balukoff having any chance to win this race?

I don’t see Balukoff getting 50 percent. I think the only way he has a chance is by Bujak pulling down a substantial number of votes.

But does Bujak take votes from Otter or Balukoff?

He pulls in Libertarian, Tea Party-types or supporters of Russ Fulcher [who won 43.6 percent of the vote in the May GOP primary].

These are the people who simply don’t like Otter. I don’t know how many there are, but they like Bujak. And Bujak is against Otter, Obama, Common Core, wolves… he’s against everything. Otter is too much of the establishment in the eyes of Bujak’s supporters. If Bujak could somehow get 8 to 10 percent of the vote, then Balukoff has a chance.

But for Bujak to pull down 8 to 10 percent statewide, won’t he have to pull down nearly 30 percent from Canyon County? Nobody really knows him outside of Canyon.

I’m not saying that it will necessarily happen, but that’s the only scenario I see for Balukoff to win. If Otter was smart, he would say, “A vote for Bujak is a vote for Balukoff.”

Otter has obviously tagged Balukoff as a tax-raising intellectual. Do you think he has successfully pushed back against that?

Balukoff has a problem—and I think [Democratic U.S. Senate candidate] Nels Mitchell has the same problem. They want to run, but when the election is over, they don’t want to feel dirty about it.

They want to walk away clean. They’re just not going to get too far into the dirt.

If Balukoff performs extremely well in Ada County, does he significantly narrow the statewide margin to a singledigit?

I think he could, but not all of Ada County will go for Balukoff.

I only think it gets close to a 10 percent, or less, margin, if Bujak does very well.

Do the other fringe candidates also pull away Otter votes? Is it your sense that Otter’s greatest asset is affability?

If they get anything, they’ll pull from Otter.

Butch has come to talk with many of my classes. I think he’s absolutely terrible when it comes to the State of the State address, Bujak is the former Canyon County prosecutor and has but when you get him in a group of 15 or 20 people, he’s just great. plenty of baggage, being charged with fraud, money laundering and obstruction. The voters of Canyon County IDAHO SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC know him better than anyone. Are you saying that a good INSTRUCTION amount of them will forgive him of his transgressions? hen current Superintendent Tom Luna announced that he Oh, they’ll tell you that he’s never been convicted. They like that. would not be running for re-election, it left an open seat So many of them are OK with him. to be challenged by Democrat Jana Jones, who lost a narrow 2006 election to Luna, and Republican Sherri Ybarra, whose >12

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campaign has been deÀned by several issues: accusations of plagiarism, failure to vote in most Idaho elections, and problems with telling her life story (saying she forgot the exact dates of her marriage and divorce). <11

What’s with Mrs. Ybarra’s string of miscues? Has this race not become the Democrats’ to lose?

The biggest reasons that Democrats have for winning this is that school superintendent is truly a competency position. It’s not really too partisan. Plus, this is the last statewide position that Democrats have won ['HPRFUDW 0DULO\Q +RZDUG ÀOOHG WKH SRVW IURP 1999-2006]. People can picture a Democrat in that ofÀce. I think a lot of Idahoans see themselves as independent, so they have no problem in voting for a Democrat. And the superintendent’s race would be the one this year.

Do you see Jana Jones getting enough of those independent and even Republican votes?

I do. Teachers love her. And the teachers’ union loves her.

Idahoans may hate teachers’ unions but their love their teachers. They’ve watched as education has gone down and they want somebody in that ofÀce that knows what she’s doing.

And Mrs. Ybarra’s missteps?

I think when she won the May GOP primary, it caught everybody by surprise, including her. If one of the other candidates had won the Republican primary, I think they would probably have won the general election.

while, Àrst-term House member Holli Woodings emerged as the Democratic candidate, and has repeatedly aligned her promises with the legacy of Ysursa. Rumors have bounced around the Statehouse that Ysursa’s choice as a successor would be Woodings—in fact, Idaho Conservation League Executive Director Rick Johnson insists that Ysursa “didn’t vote for the guy.” Ysursa wouldn’t conÀrm the rumor, but did say he had cast his ballot.

Do you think this race has tightened in the final days of the campaign?

My sense is that Republican faithful are really closing ranks around this because they don’t want a Democrat in that position.

But Ysursa strongly endorsed Denney’s opponent in the GOP primary and has been notably silent in the general election.

I still think that Republicans are way too worried about a Democrat in the ofÀce that runs elections.

But Woodings has debated particularly well.

Sure, Denney is a grumpy guy. And she comes across fairly well. But I must fault her for something. During one of the debates, someone asked her to rebut something and she said, “I have no answer to that.” You should never, ever say that. You have to take that opportunity, even to talk about something else.

If indeed there is a wedge figure inside the Idaho Republican Party, isn’t that Lawerence Denney?

He’s their asshole.

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Are you saying that he may be an asshole, but at least he’s their asshole?

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ncumbent Ron Crane served 16 years in the Idaho House before being elected to the Idaho State Treasurer’s OfÀce in 1998—an ofÀce he’s occupied ever since. But this year, Crane has pushback from Democratic challenger Deborah Silver, primarily due to alleged scandals that swirled around his ofÀce concerning

investment strategies, using a state credit card to put fuel in his personal vehicle and riding in stretch limos while visiting Manhattan on business trips.

What’s your prediction?

It’s not going to be that close.

Crane has never lost an election.

Lost? He’s hardly ever been opposed.

Yet in his most recent term, he has made his share of some pretty controversial headlines concerning investment strategies and limo rides.

But they’re more incompetence than malfeasance. Investing money poorly is more of a screw-up. Where his opponent should have hit him harder is those trips to New York and taking limos around town. That’s the kind of stuff that really gets to voters.

But still, it’s not salacious. It’s not Larry Craig-type scandal.

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very seat of the Idaho Legislature—70 in the Idaho House and 35 in the Idaho Senate—are up for grabs on Election Day. But a number of the races don’t include more than one candidate, leaving a number of incumbents to “walk over” to victory after surviving their own party’s primary in May. Are we approaching the stage where legislative primaries in May have greater weight than November’s general election?

Twenty-seven of the districts throughout Idaho have all-Republican representatives. Five districts have all Democrats. There are only three districts in all of Idaho that are split among Republican and Democratic representatives or senators. Why aren’t there more competitive races in the general election? Because there aren’t many competitive districts.

Plus, this year’s general election won’t include some pretty big names like Barrett, Goedde, Pearce and Eskridge on the ballot because they got bounced in the GOP primary.

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The one that I really can’t get over is Lenore Barrett’s loss. As far as I can tell, she got pushed out by an environmentalist lobby.

Conservation Voters for Idaho pushed a bit of money into that race [GOP challenger Merrill Beyeler beat Barrett by nearly 1,000 votes].

When you get a challenger who gets some money and works really hard, they can beat an incumbent in the primary.

THE NAME GAME I would like to throw a number of names at you. Boise Mayor Dave Bieter isn’t on any ballot this year; but, in short order, he’ll need to decide his political future as 2015 will wrap up his current term. Do you see him running for governor anytime soon?

For Democrats, there really isn’t anybody else. It’s rather surprising that he hasn’t run for state ofÀce. And because the mayor is elected in an odd year, he could run for anything while still holding onto his current ofÀce. I think he likes being mayor. I know he’s been asked to run for other things.

Granted, it’s not easy to win a statewide election for a Democrat. But it’s not impossible, either.

He’s got a record in Boise that may not Áy well in some other parts of the state.

If I forced you to bet one way or another if Dave Bieter would run for governor, what would you wager?

I think he has to do the numbers and see if he could win.

Maybe he wins against [U.S. Rep. Raul] Labrador. If he gets a lot of support from the business community, he could have some success by saying Labrador is a media hound, an extremist, stuff like that.

How about Brad Little?

He’s just waiting to be governor. I don’t know if he can get elected if he’s not the incumbent. That’s why you have to consider the possibility of Otter stepping down in his next term just so Little can be governor and run for election while sitting in that ofÀce. But I’m not entirely conÀdent he even wins that.

Little has been a good political soldier for the governor.

Absolutely, and the Republican Party, too.

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Do you think Labrador has his sights on the Statehouse?

Absolutely. And that’s why I think Otter ran for re-election this year. If Otter hadn’t run, Labrador would have run and would have beat anybody else, including Little. I think Otter has been a good political soldier for the party, too; and to a large degree, was talked into running again this year by the GOP. I think Otter likes being governor, but I don’t know how much he likes dealing with the Legislature.

How about Lori Otter’s future?

That’s the other person who pushed Otter to run.

I keep seeing her campaigning to be superintendent of public instruction someday soon.

Yes, especially if Jana Jones wins this year. But I don’t know how well Lori Otter wears with some in the GOP. It’s the Hillary Clinton thing. Can you see her in political ofÀce? Sure, she would have Butch behind her and presumably a good deal of money.

I’m certain the Otters would hate being compared to Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Sorry, but that’s what I think of when I think of that scenario.

Lori Otter hasn’t really be out in front on policy issues, but maybe that will change in Otter’s next term.

Would it surprise you if Lori Otter’s second act was in Idaho politics?

Not at all. It’s just not as obvious as it could be.

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n 2012, more than 44,000 Idaho Republicans participated in the Gem State’s Àrst-ever GOP presidential caucuses. Mitt Romney (the ultimate winner), Ron Paul and Rick Santorum all visited Idaho in anticipation of the event and generated a lot of attention and considerable campaign donations. State Republican ofÀcials said they couldn’t wait to repeat the scene in 2016.

Let’s jump to 2016. Do you sense that Idaho Republicans might lean toward Jeb Bush?

The people who will get really Àred up and spend all night at the caucuses will be supporters of Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.

But Jeb Bush has some powerful friends in Idaho.

Otter, Risch, Luna, the establishment-types, they’ll all be for Bush. How should I put this? The mouth-breathers will go for Paul and Cruz.

How is it that Idaho’s Hispanics have yet to crystallize as a major voting bloc in Idaho?

A good amount of that is maturation. You go to Caldwell High School and half of the kids are Latino, but half of Caldwell isn’t. I promise you, in 10 years, you’re going to see some real changes.

What’s the level of political engagement among your students?

Pretty low. I think it’s been that way for years. Candidates just aren’t talking about the issues that students care about. They’re more concerned about exams, getting a job, a girlfriend or boyfriend. You know what they do care about? Equal rights for samesex couples. If you did a poll among college students, 95 percent would support same-sex marriage. In 20 years, it’s a non-issue.

Speaking of polling, why doesn’t Idaho have any adequate political polling?

It’s expensive and it’s pretty hard given that so many people have given up their landline phones. Some of the top pollsters are getting it pretty wrong lately. Twenty-Àve percent undecided?

That’s crazy.

We’ve heard some polls indicate there were 15 percent of voters still undecided.

That’s just not true. They’re either lying to you or they’re not going to vote.

What issues do you think will drive votes this year?

It’s pretty partisan out there. There are barely any swing voters anymore. Whoever turns out more of their own people to the polls will win. It’s that simple There aren’t issues anymore. There are Republicans and Democrats. And yes, it’s pretty partisan.

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY OCT. 29 Festivals & Events BENGAL BROWN BAG SPEAKER SERIES—Idaho Secretary of State Ben T. Ysursa will speak about his experience in Idaho politics in the West Conference Room. 11:45 a.m. FREE. Joe R. Williams Building, 700 W. State St., Boise.

SCARECROW STROLL—Scarecrows can be found peeping out around the trees and shrubs welcoming guests to the Garden for the Seventh Annual Scarecrow Stroll. Members and guests of all ages can join in on the fun by voting on their favorite. Through Oct. 31. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE-$7.

Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage VENUS IN FUR—Zip up your boots to kick off season 19 with a very funny and wickedly smart thriller by David Ives about sexual power and the ways we wield it.

Through Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $26-$32.

Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org.

Workshops & Classes EARLY YEARS CONFERENCE— Learn how to make the most of children’s early years. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. $150. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-INFO, sub. boisestate.edu.

HALLOWEEN TAPAS COOKING CLASS—Get adventuresome for Halloween with three recipes that are not for the faint of heart. 6 p.m. $40. Basque Market, 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-4331208, thebasquemarket.com.

WED, FRI-SAT, OCT. 29, 31-NOV. 1

JAMMING CLASS—Join Erin Corwine of Radish and Raven Provisions to learn how to alter canning recipes for altitude and how to safely adapt your favorite flavors with new spices and herbs. Call 208-726-9358 or email dan@sbgarden.org to reserve your spot. 6 p.m. FREE. Sawtooth Botanical Garden, 11 Gimlet Road, Ketchum, 208-7269358, sbgarden.org.

RESEARCHING YOUR FAMILY HISTORY—Get tips on researching your family history from Steve Barrett, a reference archivist at the Idaho State Archives. In the Marion Bingham Room on the third floor. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

RESEARCHING YOUR HISTORIC PROPERTY— Get an overview of several state archive resources, including how to find, use and interpret each. Presented by Tricia Canaday, State Historic Preservation Office architectural historian. 1-3

p.m. FREE. Idaho State Archives, 2205 N. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2620, history. idaho.gov/idaho-state-archives.

Art GAIL GRINNELL: ANGLE OF REPOSE—Seattle artist Gail Grinnell combines drawing, sculpture and the craft of dressmaking to create grand-scale installations that reference her family history and agrarian lifestyle growing up in Hanford, Wash. Through Nov. 30. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6.

Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

NAMPA ART GUILD 29TH CENTENNIAL JURIED ART SHOW—Featuring over 100 works of art by local and regional artists in a variety of genres and mediums. All entries are available for purchase. Through Oct. 29. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

SATURDAY, NOV. 1

TVAA: MONSTERS—Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance presents this macabre and oh-so-quirky show, offering a colorful look at a host of inner demons, childhood nightmares, and a few ghouly, cooly creeps. Through Oct. 31.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Public Radio, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, boisestatepublicradio.org.

It” discussion of The Ornament of the World by Maria Rosa Menocal. Led by Dr. Megan Dixon and Dr. Maimuna Islam (Dali) from the College of Idaho. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-3620181, adalib.org.

Literature

MAD HATTER’S HAT & WIG DONATION PROJECT—Get in on this community collection of new and gently used hats, wigs and scarves for area women and children undergoing cancer treatment. Donation sites include all DL Evans and Idaho Independent banks, Les Bois Credit Unions, Perks of Life, and Moxie Java in Meridian and Nampa. Get more info and a full list of donation sites at idahomadhatter.com.

Through Oct. 31.

AUTHOR PATRICK LEE—Author Patrick Lee will read from and sign copies of his book Kickers: A Novel of the Secret War, which places three young smokejumpers in the 13-year CIA war in Laos in the 1960s and ‘70s. 6 p.m.

FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

BRIDGING CULTURES: MUSLIM JOURNEYS— Join the “Let’s Talk About

Citizen

RAKE UP BOISE RAKING BAD FUNDRAISER—Here’s your chance to prank your friends and neighbors for a good cause.

SATURDAY, NOV. 1 TRESSA MARTIN

Body check this.

IDAHO STEELHEADS VS. STOCKTON THUNDER Hockey is one of the only sports where you will be carrying your beer to your seat and accidentally bump into someone, only to have that person apologize to you. It’s a Canadian thing.

It might be one of the more violent sports, where fighting is allowed as long as both players remove their gloves, but the fans are some of the most sociable—when they’re not hooting over a player being smashed into the plexiglass.

Yes, the puck has officially hit the ice in the Idaho Steelheads 2014-2015 season. The opening game kicked off on Oct. 17 against the Utah Grizzlies—which the Steelheads won 3-1. The season runs all the way into April, with upcoming home games on Oct. 29, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1.

6:30 p.m., $17-$50, CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-331-8497, idahosteelheads.com.

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Things going bump in the night.

COFFINS, CRYPTS & CONTEMPORARY ART: A WALKING TOUR OF MORRIS HILL CEMETERY Cemeteries are like historical libraries, each headstone, plaque and grave marker a symbol of a person who was a member of the community. Cemeteries are also architectural archives, the headstones representing not only the people who lay beneath them, but the artist who created them and the era in which they were made. Join historians Dan Everhart and Amy Pence-Brown for walking tours through Boise’s historic Morris Hill Cemetery, as they explain how cemeteries combine architecture, landscaping, statuary and glasswork to document the history, ethnicity and culture of their residents.

4 p.m., $10, tickets are available at brownpapertickets.com.

Morris Hill Cemetery, 317 N. Latah St., facebook.com/preservationidaho.

Come Mr. DJ, song pon de replay.

BOISE RECORD SHOW AND SWAP Despite changing technology, vinyl records have never fallen out of vogue—ask brothers Chad and Travis Dryden. The pair founded the Vinyl Preservation Society as a way to share their love of the LP, and VPS’ annual Record Show and Swap takes that adoration a step further, bringing together collectors, dealers (from Colorado, Idaho, Oregon and Washington), aficionados and neophytes alike. Thousands of records in nearly every genre imaginable will be for sale, as will pieces of vintage audio equipment—including turntables-—raffles, giveaways and DJs spinning all day. Each paid admission receives one raffle ticket.

A portion of proceeds benefit KRBX Radio Boise.

10 a.m.-4 p.m., $5; 9 a.m. VIP early admission, $10. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com, facebook.com/vinylpreservationsociety.

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CALENDAR Make a donation and nominate your victim for having leaves dumped on their yard. They can make a donation and have the leaves dumped on somebody else’s yard. All proceeds will benefit Neighborhood Housing Services’ annual Rake Up Boise project. Get more info at rakingbad.org. Through Nov. 15. $100.

Odds & Ends HALLOWEEN HAUNTED TROLLEY TOUR—The tour is 75 minutes with two stops, daily through Halloween. Must be 13 or older to ride. Oct. 31 will be a three-hour special tour (18+) and will include admission to the Old Pen Frightened Felons Adult night show for $30. Call 208-433-0849 for reservations. For more info, visit americanheritagetrolleytours. com Through Oct. 31. 8 p.m. $18. Joe’s Crab Shack, 2288 N. Garden St., Garden City, 208-3369370, joescrabshack.com.

THURSDAY OCT. 30 Festivals & Events BEYOND BOUNDARIES: BUILDING THE BENCH— Local historians Jim Duran, Angie Davis and Barbra Perry Bauer will trace the history of the Bench from the early farmer and rancher settlers to current residents and businesses. 6-8 p.m.

FREE. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3200 Cassia St., Boise, 208-344-7741, mormon.org.

THE MAZE ON TAFT—Enjoy this all-ages, family friendly backyard spooktacular. Take two canned goods for the Idaho Foodbank and receive $1 off admission.

Through Nov. 1. 6-10 p.m. $3.

3801 W. Taft St., Boise.

SUNDAY NOV. 2

MONSTER BASH—Don’t miss this annual Halloween festival featuring wicked fun activities and free food for children and their families. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Lookout Room, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2468.

On Stage 2014 BOISE YOUTH BARBERSHOP FESTIVAL—Featuring more than 600 high-school vocal students along with the Ringmasters, this year’s teaching and performing quartet from Stockholm, Sweden, who are European and international champions. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF—This Tennessee Williams classic has it all: greed, sins of the past, and desperate, clawing hopes for the future as the knowledge of impending death slowly makes the rounds. Through Nov. 1.

7:30 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater. org.

INSERT FOOT THEATER—Insert Foot’s Halloween Improv Show will feature short- and longform improv comedy, based on audience suggestions. Plus a costume contest at intermission. 8 p.m. Pay-What-You-Can donation.

Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

POPPIN’ CHERRIES—Have a cherry-poppin’ good time at this monthly showcase for “first time” acts, featuring an assemblage of local burlesquers and other varieties of talent. 8:30 p.m. $5. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6605.

It’s a dead man’s party, who could ask for more?

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS CELEBRATIONS El Dia de los Muertos is a holiday in which the dead are honored with parties, food, drink and music, all of which those who’ve passed are invited to join in. El Dia de los Muertos originated in Mexico and is now celebrated around the world, including in the Treasure Valley. At 11 a.m., Idaho Smart Growth is hosting a Neighborhood to Market bike ride to the newly opened Boise International Market, idahosmartgrowth.org/N2M. Celebrate Dia in Downtown in Nampa with traditional music, dancing, food, art and attire. 5:30-9:30 p.m., FREE, 12th Avenue and First Street. Boise State University has an exhibit celebrating El Dia de los Muertos, sponsored by Multicultural Student Services, the Student Involvement and Leadership Center, and Traditional Multicultural Expressions, up through Friday, Oct. 31 in the Student Union Building Atrium, sub.boisestate.edu.

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THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW MUSICAL—Do the Time Warp again as Dr. Frankenfurter shows Brad and Janet a crazy good time in the cult classic sci-fi/horror musical by Richard O’Brien. Strong language, sexual situations. Buy tickets online at eventbrite.com.

Through Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. $20.

Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-3422000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Art CATE BRIGDEN: IN THE GARDEN—Artist Cate Brigden has drawn inspiration from a poem by 5th century Chinese poet Hsiao Yen to create multi-layered and vibrantly colored works on paper that capture the ephemeral essence of her garden. Open Thursdays through Nov. 21. 3-8 p.m. FREE. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-991-0117, ensoartspace.com.

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CALENDAR Literature AUTHOR RANDY STAPILUS: THROUGH THE WATERS—Learn how water administrators and users joined with legal and technical professionals to decide water rights for thousands of Idaho users. A book-signing will follow.

7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Citizen NOSFERATU—Don’t miss the 1922 silent horror movie classic, featuring organist Sean Rogers on the 1927 Robert-Morgan organ. Presented by Capital City Kiwanis Club; proceeds benefit local Kiwanis community service projects. Call 208-375-2794 for tickets. 7 p.m. $5-$12. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.

Kids & Teens

VOTE

SAMUEL A.

HOAGLAND

HALLOWEEN PERFORMANCE

BY JULI DRANEY AND FRIENDS—Get in the spirit of the holiday at this Halloween Performance by Juli Draney and Friends. Plus finalists in the 103.5 KISS FM Pet A Balooza Pet Costume Contest will walk the runway, and you can get your photo taken with a superhero. 6 p.m. FREE. Village at Meridian, 3600 E. Fairview Ave. at North Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-8881701, thevillageatmeridian.com.

ing, socializing, costume contest and major fun throughout the evening. For 21 and older with ID. 8 p.m. $10. Helina Marie’s Wine and Gift Shop, 11053 Highway 44, Star, 208-286-7960, helinamaries.com.

FRIGHTENED FELONS ADULT NIGHT—Make your way through the only haunted cell house in Boise, watch the zombie “Thriller” performance and cash in on $200 in costume contest prizes.

Plus food trucks, beer and wine.

Last admission is 9:30 p.m. 7 p.m. $15-$30. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov/oldpen.html.

GRANGER QUILTING GUILD HOLIDAY BAZAAR—This bazaar and bake sale features quality handmade quilts and Boise State items of all kinds, plus one-ofa-kind stockings, ornaments, Christmas wreaths, stocking stuffers and more. Through Saturday, Nov. 1. 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

FREE. Maple Grove Grange, 11692 W. President Drive, Boise, 208-376-1120.

HARVEST FESTIVAL—Enjoy safe family fun, games, candy, soup and coffee. Everyone welcome.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Silver Sage Baptist Church, 5858 S. Maple Grove

Road, Boise, 208-362-0309, silversagebc.com.

HEROES & VILLAINS HALLOWEEN PARTY—Featuring Pilot Error. 10 p.m. $10. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

JACK O’ LANTERN TOSSING— Get two hours of unlimited cosmic bowling for one low price. 5-9 p.m. $9.99, plus $3 shoe rental.

Wahooz Fun Zone, 1385 S. Blue Marlin Lane, Meridian, 208-8980900, wahoozfunzone.com.

LIQUID HALLOWEEN BASH— Featuring The SAMHAIN Spirit Gathering, with live bands and DJs, fire, burlesque and pole performances, mixed-media art show, costume contests, drink specials and more. 8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

RIVERSIDE HOTEL HALLOWEEN BALL—Dance the night away to music by The Fabulous Chancellors. 7 p.m. $10. Riverside Hotel Ballroom, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Boise, 208-343-1871.

TRUE PAINTBALL ZOMBIE HUNT—Test your limits against the undead in three stages of family friendly zombie hunting action. 8-11:30 p.m. $30. True Paintball Adventure Park, 3131

MILD ABANDON

By E.J. Pettinger

FOURTH DISTRICT JUDGE

COMPARE THE CANDIDATES

FRIDAY OCT. 31

Idaho State Bar Survey

Bar members were asked to rate the qualifications of the judicial candidates on a scale of:

1 - Unacceptable 2 - Average 3 - Above Average 4 - Excellent

Samuel A. Hoagland

Rebecca W. Arnold AVERAGE

Integrity and Independence Knowledge and Understanding of the Law Judicial Temperament and Demeanor Legal Ability and Experience

Overall Average

1.90 1.93 1.69 1.84

1.84

AVERAGE

Integrity and Independence Knowledge and Understanding of the Law Judicial Temperament and Demeanor Legal Ability and Experience

Overall Average

3.66 3.53 3.63 3.56

3.60

The Idaho State Bar does not interpret or express any opinion about the results of this survey.

For more information on the Idaho State Bar Survey, contact Dan Black at the Idaho State Bar - (208) 334-4500 or dblack@isb.idaho.gov. See the full survey at: http://www.isb.idaho.gov/pdf/temp/fall_judelection_results2014.pdf

Only One Candidate Deserves Your Vote See more at: www.hoaglandforjudge.org

Festivals & Events ALL HALLOWS EVE PARTY— The Community Center and Liberating Spirit MCC invite you to enjoy a spooktacular good time. There’ll be DJ music, scary munchies and drinks (no booze), costume contest with prizes and performances by The Idaho Imperial Gem Court. All ages welcome.

7-11 p.m. By donation. The Community Center, 280 N. Eighth St., Ste. 130, Boise, 208-336-3870, tccidaho.org.

FATTY’S HALLOWEEN PARTY— Don’t miss the party you’ve been dying to attend all year, with tons of killer drink specials, three costume contests with $100 top prizes and DJ Zuz spinning tunes.

8 p.m. $5. Fatty’s, 800 W. Idaho St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208-5142531, drinkfattys.com.

FRIGHT FEST HALLOWEEN PARTY—Enjoy food, music, danc-

Paid by Committee to Elect Sam Hoagland District Judge - Dan Luker, Treasurer

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CALENDAR W. Harvard St., Boise, 208-3637230, truepaintball.com.

WILD 101’S HALLOWEEN CASH BASH AND BABY BASH—Party down with the DJs from Wild 101. For ages 18 and older.

7:30 p.m. $15-$50. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. 9th St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

ZOMBIES RIDE ZOMBIES—Anyone dressed in a zombie costume gets one free ride on Zombies on the new XD Dark Ride. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. Wahooz Fun Zone, 1385 S. Blue Marlin Lane, Meridian, 208-898-0900, wahoozfunzone.com.

On Stage HOMEGROWN THEATRE: A HORRIFIC PUPPET AFFAIR—Watch six short tales from writers Heidi Kraay, Dakotah Brown, Erin Chancer, Chad Ethan Shohet, Jamie Nebeker, Jon E. Waters and Declan Kempe.

Through Nov. 1. 8 p.m. $5. Woodland Empire Ale Craft, 1114 W. Front St., Boise, facebook.com/ hgtheatre.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: BONESHAKER— Enjoy this Halloween evening of costumes, dance music, cocktails, performance art, aerial acrobatics, and so much more. Featuring DJs Kissee and Reflektion. 7:30 p.m. Pay What You Want. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

Food DINE OUT DOWNTOWN BOISE RESTAURANT WEEK—Do not fail to indulge your palate during Boise’s celebration of our slew of unique downtown eateries. Simply choose your favorite participating restaurant or somewhere new throughout the week to enjoy special prix fixe menus. No passes, tickets or coupons are required; contact the restaurants directly for reservations. Through Nov. 9. $10-$30. Downtown Boise, downtownboise.org.

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| SUDOKU

SATURDAY NOV. 1 Festivals & Events DEATH CAFE—Drink tea, eat cake and discuss death, with the aim of helping people make the most of their (finite) lives. For more info, visit deathcafe.com. 10 a.m. FREE. Shangri-La Tea Room, 1800 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-424-0273, shangri-latearoomandcafe.com.

FRIGHTENED FELONS FAMILY NIGHT—All ages are welcome to enter the only haunted cell house in Boise. Last admission is 9:30 p.m. 7 p.m. $10-$30. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208334-2844, history.idaho.gov/ oldpen.html.

ST. MICHAEL’S HOLIDAY BAZAAR—Check out the arts and crafts, home-baked goods, gift items and silent auction. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, 518 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-5601.

IDAHO GOURD SOCIETY FESTIVAL—Featuring beautiful gourd art, vendors, and a variety of classes. For more info, visit idahogourdsociety.org. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$2. Boise Hotel and Conference Center, 3300 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-343-4900, theboisehotel.com.

Capital City Kiwanis Presents 1922 Silent Movie Classic

Nosferatu Featuring Organist Sean Rogers

T H U R S DAY

LIQUID HALLOWEEN BASH—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

REQUIEM: MASQUERADE DANCE PARTY—Celebrate Halloween and the Day of the Dead with a costume contest and some free stuff. DJ Dynysus and DJ Inferno will be spinning tunes. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-982-4294, crazyhorseboise.com/calendar.

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On Stage SERENATA ALMOST FAMOUS CONCERT— The Serenata Chamber Orchestra celebrates composers who didn’t quite make it big. 7:30 p.m. By donation. South Junior High School, 3101 Cassia St., Boise, 208-854-6110.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating.

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

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

Literature JOANNE PENCE AT THE SATURDAY MARKET—The author of the Rebecca Mayfield Mystery series will be on hand to read from and sign copies of her books. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

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CALENDAR Citizen GIRLS ON THE RUN PLANK-OFF BENEFIT—Hold the plank the longest and win prizes in men’s, women’s and children’s categories. Proceeds benefit Girls on the Run. 1 p.m. FREE-$25. Bronco Elite, 1187 W. River St., Boise, 208-389-9005, broncoelite.com.

SUNDAY NOV. 2 Festivals & Events IDAHO GOURD SOCIETY FESTIVAL—9 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE-$2.

Boise Hotel and Conference Center, 3300 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-343-4900, theboisehotel. com.

MONDAY NOV. 3 Festivals & Events OPERATION KIDSAFE SAFETY WEEK—Operation Kidsafe provides fingerprinting of children.

Parents take home the only record of the visit, a bio-document that is ready to hand to law enforcement in an emergency. Get more info at operationkidsafe. org/index.html. Through Nov. 7.

8 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. Volkswagen Audi of Boise, 8400 N. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-371-0905, volkswagenofboise.com.

TUESDAY NOV. 4

WEDNESDAY NOV. 5

Festivals & Events

Citizen

AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION EDUCATION AND SUPPORT EVENT— “Frankly Speaking About Cancer: Lung Cancer” will feature Benjamin Bridges, MD, of St. Luke’s Mountain States Tumor Institute, and Alicia Rosales, LCSW, OSWC, also of MSTI. Dinner included.

For more info and to register, call Kera Goold at 208-345-2209 or visit lungidaho.org. 6 p.m. FREE. St. Luke’s Anderson Center, 100 E. Idaho, Boise, 208-381-9000, stlukesonline.org.

BOISE TO BELIZE—Experience Global Service Partnerships’ impact through meeting many who have been transformed by their experience in Belize, and enjoy an evening of community and giving, highlighted with a performance

by Amuma Says No! 6:30 p.m. $25-$35. Basque Museum and Cultural Center, 611 Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

Workshops & Classes LGBT ESTATE PLANNING—Bob Thomas of Varin Wardwell will talk about LGBT estate planning, taking into account recent legal actions. Guests will also learn about market conditions and strategies. Plus appetizers and wine. Email Jacob Stalnaker at Jacob.stalnaker@ml.com or call 208-338-3143 to RSVP. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Plantation Country Club, 6515 W. State St., Boise, 208-853-4793, plantationcc.com.

MILLION MASK MARCH—Meet other like-minded individuals for networking before marching to the State Capitol to remind the world that fairness, justice and freedom are more than just words. For more info, visit millionmaskmarch.com. 3 p.m. FREE. Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial, 777 S. Eighth St., Boise.

Workshops & Classes MAKERS: ARDUINO ORNAMENTS—Program your own holiday ornament and learn a new skill with this class on Arduino, an open-source electronics platform.

Register at boisepubliclibrary.org/ calendar. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

Literature HAPPY HOUR BOOK CLUB—The Cabin’s program manager Laura Roghaar will lead a discussion about Chris Abani’s newest novel, The Secret History of Las Vegas. Wine will be served. 5:30 p.m. FREE-$5. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.

Talks & Lectures CWI VISITING SCIENTIST SERIES—Dr. James Nagler talks about “Environmental Factors Affecting Fish Reproduction.” Held in the CWI Library. 6 p.m. FREE. College of Western Idaho-Nampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportunity Drive, Nampa, 208-562-3400, cwidaho.cc.

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REC NEWS

THE STOR(IES) OF SKIER GIRL(S)

Boise parks have long suffered goose abuse.

RELEASE THE HOUNDS The black coyote cut-outs at Ann Morrison Park kept the geese away for a little while before they no longer felt threatened. The Boise Parks and Recreation Department, along with the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, then addled the goose eggs—covering them in oil to keep them from hatching. That worked, too—sort of.

The department has tried lasers, noise and hazing with park maintenance vehicles.

Still, the geese return every fall and winter by the thousands, making the sidewalks slick with their leavings. Parks and Rec spokeswoman Amy Stahl said kids fall into the mess and the elderly have trouble navigating it.

The goose problem has gotten worse in recent decades, according to Mike Keckler, of the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and not just in Boise, but across the country.

“It’s difficult to get them out,” Keckler told Boise Weekly. “We’ve done surveys and studies to try and determine if these geese are actually living here year round. We’ve banded them in the summer and tracked them and what we find is, most of these geese are migrating through, but a lot decide to stay here for the winter.”

Keckler said it’s not easy to relocate the geese, either. If they’re moved, others fill in the space for them. Plus, “they’re able to find their way back rather quickly,” Keckler said.

While geese love any place free of predators, with expanses of grass and warmer weather—as Boise winters continue to heat up—many park users contribute to the problem by feeding the geese.

Two years ago, Parks and Rec found a solution that works, when it first opened a section of the park as an off-leash dog park.

This winter, the city is doing the same thing.

From Nov. 1-Feb. 28, 2015 the east end of Ann Morrison Park, from the fountain to Americana Boulevard, Boiseans can let their dogs loose to chase the geese away.

It’s a win-win, giving area dog owners another dog park option and it keeps the geese from making messes and damaging the turf as they pull grass out by its roots.

“This is an excellent opportunity to not only be good stewards of the park, but also provide a fun opportunity for dog owners,” Stahl said.

—Jessica Murri

LYNS EY DYER

RECREATION

‘Pretty Faces’ kicks men out of the picture

BY JESSICA MURRI Appearing in more than 15 ski Àlms—including several from big-name production companies like Warren Miller Entertainment and Teton Gravity Research—professional skier Lynsey Dyer kept getting frustrated with the Ànished product.

“I watched my own footage either get Nicole Yavis heliskiing Eagle Pass, at Revelstoke, British Columbia, with her trusty GoPro camera. overlooked or just not have the impact that I hoped,” Dyer told Boise Weekly. “I knew if that was happening to me, it was happening to girls “models or props,” either, as Hinson said she ofbut in between classes and pouring beer for Payeverywhere.” ten sees in other ski Àlms. According to Unicorn ette Brewing, Hinson spends all of her free time Three years ago, the 31-year-old Sun Valley Picnic, only 14 percent of the athletes appearing native called the production companies and asked promoting the nontraditional ski Àlm. in major ski Àlms last season were women. In She followed her own nontraditional path them to send all their unused footage of women 2012, it was 9 percent. onto the slopes, moving from California to Mcskiing. She edited some of the clips together and Hinson said this ski Àlm brings more impact Call in high school. posted it online. After it gained some attention, to the screen, despite the relative tameness—em“I didn’t grow up skiing,” she said. “I was the she decided to make the project into something phasis on “relative.” The movie still encompasses new girl in high school and I didn’t play in the bigger. big mountain skiing, park stunts, snowmobiling snow. I learned how to snowboard when I was The Ànished project—titled Pretty Faces: The and BASE jumping. She said this Àlm is actually 15, but I didn’t learn how to ski until my 20s.”

Story of a Skier Girl, produced by Unicorn Picrelatable to her as a skier.

She got so wrapped up in ski culture that she nic—will drop into the Egyptian Theatre on Oct. “Don’t get me wrong, I love Teton Gravity started hosting ski 29 at 7:30 p.m. Àlms, like 2012’s Into Research, but when guys are hucking big cliffs, Dyer turned to Kickstarter PRETTY FACES: THE STORY OF A SKIER the Mind, by Sherpas I can’t relate to that,” Hinson said. “This movie when she couldn’t generGIRL plays on the struggles girls go through, the fear of Cinema, as a side ate enough interest among Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m., $15. Egyptian Theatre, dropping into a big line.” project.

That helped sponsors for an all-female 700 W. Main Street, 208-387-1273, She said that along with lots of dancing, gigher make the conski movie. The Àlm raked in egyptiantheatre.net. gling, pink gear and “colorful stuff,” it also plays nections to manage double the goal and became Friday, Nov. 7, 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., $12. off of the sense of community ladies create. this tour. the most successfully funded Alpine Playhouse, 1210 Roosevelt Ave., Mc“That’s how women are, we wait for each “I was really neraction sports Àlm on the Call, 208-634-5594, alpineplayhouse.org. vous at Àrst because other at the lift, ski together, go pee together, evplatform—without a single erything,” Hinson said. “I hope girls can connect it’s a niche comdude in it. at the movie, become friends on Facebook, go “It’s proof that people do want to see this and munity,” Hinson said. “It’s a population within a skiing together. That’s different from traditional population.” there is a market for it, even though I heard over ski Àlms.”

The Àlm features only one guy, only once— and over that there wasn’t,” Dyer said.

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and tickets cost $15. and he’s a hitchhiker. Hinson said the absence of The Àlm tour kicked off Sept. 30 in Boulder, RafÁe items at the show include a backcountry Colo., and it’s weaving its way through the United males on the screen shouldn’t discourage guys snowmobile trip for two, Smith goggles and lift from checking out the show.

States, with stops on both coasts and Alaska, tickets to Brundage. The movie will also show “We all ski together, we go to the movies that as well as Canada. It will also jump the Atlantic 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., Friday, Nov. 7 at the Alpine have boys in them and get stoked. So support Ocean and show in the Netherlands, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and cities in the U.K. So far, your skier girlfriends and wives. Dads, bring your Playhouse in McCall.

After spending so much time getting the daughters,” Hinson said. “Plus, there’s all the hot every show has sold out. word out about the movie, Hinson said she can’t babes.”

Managing the global Àlm tour is the job of a wait to see it on the big screen “with a good Both Hinson and Dyer admit these ladies 27-year-old skier girl named Alexa Hinson. She’s sound system, screaming with friends, an IPA in aren’t jumping off the biggest cliffs or taking earning her degree in communications, cinema hand.” and digital media arts from Boise State University, the gnarliest lines, but they’re not being used as

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LEVI B ETTW IES ER

BEFORE IT FADES

ARTS & CULTURE

Levi Bettwieser talks about the Rescued Film Project and the moments we could lose forever HARRISON BERRY In 2009, China-based French photographer Thomas Sauvin discovered more than half a million 35-mm Àlm negatives at a Beijing recycling plant. The archival series that resulted, Beijing Silvermine, details the lives of ordinary Chinese citizens between 1985 and the early 2000s.

“I often hear people saying that these images show a face of China they haven’t seen before,” Sauvin told The New Yorker (“Thomas Sauvin’s Beijing Silvermine,” Oct. 20, 2014).

Artist Levi Bettwieser inspects raw film as part of his Rescued Film Project.

That concept is familiar to local artist Levi Bettwieser. Organizer of the Rescued Film Project, he knows that Àlm snapshots have a photography age. In the Rescued Film Project’s way of capturing how people lived, rather than lives. One of the Àrst batches of Àlm Betarchives, subjects are out of focus or the frame how they would like to be seen to have lived— twieser processed was 60 rolls of Àlm he puris crooked. Friends and relatives look dour chased at a storage unit sale. That much Àlm, and they’re part of an aging legacy that needs he said, represents between one and four years or caught off guard. Oftentimes the photogto be preserved. rapher’s emphasis is on capturing a moment of a family’s life. In one photo, a man sits on To that end, Bettwieser has been collecta toilet with a black eye and a red bandana, his rather than composing the perfect image. Film ing rolls of Àlm photographs—totaling more shooters, unlike their digital descendents, were than 3,500 images so far—developing them by genitals tucked between his legs. In another, not snapping photos for public consumption. the same man stands in a gravel driveway, hand in his kitchen sink and archiving them That’s especially true of 360 images of 35-mm online. During the past two years, he has spent shirtless and in jeans, with a red plastic Dixie Àlm that Bettwieser developed from a single cup in his hand. hundreds of hours on the project, and has source. Many of the photos are of Àreworks “They seem fairly white trash. There are a accumulated photos from Europe, Australia over the New York skyline, but one roll—36 and across the United States. One objective of lot of party pictures,” Bettwieser said. “All of them generally look pretty happy. It’s a fun life. photos—are of a woman sitting on a stoop the Rescued Film Project is to reunite photos outside an apartment, apparently snapped from with the amateur photographers who snapped It’s interesting to look into someone’s life at inside another apartment. Others appear to that capacity.” them. In mid-October, he connected a batch have been taken for voyeuristic reasons—shot The shift from Àlm to of Àlm to its original owner through someone’s window at night. digital—from photo albums to for the Àrst time, and said he rescuedfilm.com “I can’t tell if he’s a creepy voyeur or police photo streams—has changed hopes the project will keep how we think about snapshots, or a photojournalist or something. I’ve been gaining momentum. Apart looking at them trying to Àgure out who this if not why we take them. Between the advent from the satisfaction of reuniting a photoof popular Àlm photography in the 1930s and person is,” Bettwieser said. graph and its owner, the project has added The snoopy element is native to any founddigital photography in the early 2000s, people urgency—unlike digital images, Àlm can be Àlm endeavor, and though Bettwieser said he’s developed their snapshots and stored them in damaged or deteriorate over time. photo albums; but the rise of social media has largely aloof from the inner lives of photos’ “I’m actively looking and searching and shooters and subjects, and that he has dediasking people to donate Àlm so you can rescue led to millions of photos being shared online cated his energies primarily to developing and and curated for the approval of users’ peers. the images because Àlm is an organic subarchiving the photos, he admitted that posting One Instagram user, Toronto-based Internet stance. It degrades over time. The idea is that such photos online is an invitation for people marketing manager and blogger Mayoli Weiyou are rescuing it because if you’re not Àndto try to connect the dots of the lives unfolding it and actively developing it and scanning it delich, told The New York Times that she and a ing across photo series sometimes hundreds friend spent 10 minutes composing a photo and preserving it, it will all be gone eventuof images long. of a margarita glass over a plate of tacos at a ally,” Bettwieser said.

“It’s pretty voyeuristic. You’re watching restaurant.

Because Bettweiser often processes many people in their most intimate, private moments Millennial self-awareness is often absent photos from a single source, his archive is full that people never get to see,” he said. from the candid, rough snapshots of the Àlm of stories pulled from anonymous peoples’ BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY OCT. 29 BERNIE REILLY—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

STANDING STUPID ALBUM RELEASE SHOW—With Camas and The Headcases. 7 p.m. $5.

The Crux TYLOR BUSHMAN—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m.

FREE. Reef

WAYNE ‘THE TRAIN’ HANCOCK—With Old Death Whisper.

7 p.m. $15. Neurolux

METHOD MAN AND REDMAN, NOV. 2, REVOLUTION CONCERT HOUSE

CLAY MOORE & FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

WILD WOMEN WEDNESDAYS WITH DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

Musicians sometimes reach a level of fame that no longer has to do with music. You might know any Kenny Rogers songs, but you saw all the buzz around his post-plastic surgery face. You might not know any Xzibit lyrics, but you might know he loves to turn a 1997 Geo Metro into a dance club on wheels. Maybe you only know Method Man and Redman as Silas P. Silas and Jamal King from 2001’s How High; or the two guys in the Right Guard Xtreme Sport “slingshot cyclists” commercial. Or you recognize Method as Tug Daniels in Oz or Calvin “Cheese” Wagstaff in The Wire. However, Method and Red have been a musical pair since before their first full-length, 1999’s Blackout! (Def Jam). They still work together musically and are currently on the road, headlining The Smokers Club World Wide Rollers Tour with B-Real (Cypress Hill), Berner and Mick Jenkins as support. It’s a chance to see the Men as you’ve maybe never seen them before.

—Amy Atkins

CRAIG SLOVER ACOUSTIC JAM—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s

8 p.m., $20-$125. Revolution Concert House, 4983 N. Glenwood St., 208-938-2933, cttouringid.com.

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SONS OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel TERRY JONES SOLO PIANO—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers TODAY IS THE DAY—With Psychomachy. 8 p.m. $7 adv., $10 door. Crazy Horse WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKS—With The Twilight Sad. 8:30 p.m. $15-$20. Knitting Factory

CRAZY HORSE EXTREME HALLOWEEN MADNESS PARTY— Featuring Boys, Couches, The Kitchen and Clarke & the Himselfs. 8 p.m. FREE. Crazy Horse

THURSDAY OCT. 30

FRIDAY OCT. 31

DOUGLAS CAMERON—5 p.m.

FREE. Bar 365

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BERNIE REILLY BAND—7 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye Grill

DYRO AND BASSJACKERS—8 p.m. $15-$45. Revolution

DAVE MANION AND BERNIE REILLY—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

BILL COURTIAL AND CURT GONION—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

JOHNNY SHOES & KENNY SAUNDERS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

DAVE ROBINETTE—7 p.m.

FREE. Jo’s

CRAZY HORSE KARAOKE HALLOWEEN PARTY—Featuring Boise Rockeoke Live Band Karaoke. 8 p.m. FREE. Crazy Horse

MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY— With Andy Byron and Sean Hatton. 6:30 p.m. $25-$65.

Sapphire Room

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s KEITH KENNY—10 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s

CRUX HALLOWEEN: BANDS DOING BANDS—6 p.m. FREE. The Crux

THE SHIVAS AND JEFFREY LEWIS—With John Primrose & The Attack. 7 p.m. $7. The Crux

DC3 DAN COSTELLO TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DJ DOUG—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux DUCK CLUB HALLOWEEN BASH—Featuring Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Jesus Sons and Dirty Crown. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux FRANK MARRA SOLO PIANO—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers GRAINEY’S BASEMENT HALLOWEEN—Featuring Audio/ Visual DJ. 9 p.m. $10. Grainey’s Basement GRAINEY’S HALLOWEEN—Featuring the Dirty Moogs, Piranhas BC and the Moonpies. 9 p.m. $10. Tom Grainey’s HECKTOR PECKTOR—8:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s IN THIS MOMENT: HARD ROCK HALLOWEEN—Twelve Foot Ninja, Starset and 3 Pill Morning.

8 p.m. $25-$55. Revolution JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. Kay and Traci’s POKE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s REBECCA SCOTT—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub ROB HARDING—6 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

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MUSIC GUIDE SATURDAY NOV. 1

WHITE MYSTERY AND RUBY FRAY—With Dirty Crown and Tisper. 8 p.m. $7. The Crux

WEDNESDAY NOV. 5

DC3 WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

TUESDAY NOV. 4

DECODED—With Rogue Gallery and Keegan Lawler. 9 p.m. $5.

The Crux

GALEN LOUIS—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

LIKE A ROCKET—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

JAZZ AT THE RIVERSIDE KICKOFF CELEBRATION—With The Jazz Angels, featuring saxophonist Brent Jensen. 7 p.m. FREE$7. Sapphire Room

MEGAFAUNA—With Obscured

By The Sun and Bliiss. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux

LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

MOSSI WATENE—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

TYLOR BUSHMAN—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow

MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. FREE. Kay and Traci’s

RADIO BOISE DJ BRETT NETSON—5:30-7:30 p.m., FREE, 20 percent of drink sales benefit Radio Boise. Neurolux

WILD WOMEN WEDNESDAYS WITH DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

FRANK MARRA SOLO PIANO— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

SHON SANDERS—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

GARETH EMERY—8 p.m. $20$40. Knitting Factory

SHON SANDERS—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

SSSSNAKE—10 p.m. FREE. Reef STANDING STUPID—8 p.m.

FREE. Artistblue TAMBALKA—6 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 TECH N9NE—Performing with full live band. Featuring Krizz Kaliko, Stevie Stone, Zero and Tyler Denbeigh. 8 p.m. $20-$55.

Revolution WHITECHAPEL—With Upon A Burning Body and Glass Cloud.

7:30 p.m. $18-$30. Knitting Factory

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SUNDAY NOV. 2 FREAK VIBE—With Meth House Party Band and Mr. Lester’s Stink Hole. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid YEAR OF NO LIGHT—With Take Over and Destroy and Crowbath.

8 p.m. $5 adv., $8 door. Crazy Horse YG—With Mill Bill, Yung Verb and Bonaphied. 8 p.m. $35-$100.

Knitting Factory

MONDAY NOV. 3 1332 RECORDS PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid GARTH OLSON SOLO PIANO— 5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 ORIGINAL JIM MODERN ONEMAN BAND—6 p.m. FREE. Bodovino SATANARCHIST—With Unhallowed and Pork Chopper. 8 p.m. $3. Crazy Horse

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AGES AND AGES, NOV. 3, NEUROLUX In 2009, former Boisean Levi Cecil spoke to Boise Weekly about the then-innovative way he was funding a new CD: he asked friends, family and fans to help him finance the project.

“It was really only partly about the money. I really wanted to engage people,” Cecil told BW. Cecil’s proto-crowdfunding campaign showed he had moxie, and the result, Everything is Fine, confirmed he had talent, both of which have surely served him well as member of Portland, Ore., rock collective Ages and Ages. With founder Tim Perry at the helm, the seven-member band makes bright, layered, choralesque music wrapped around meaningful lyrics. Ages and Ages sophomore release, Divisionary (Partisan Records, March 2014), was made during a time of lows (deaths) and highs (marriage, birth) for band members, situations Perry is quoted as calling “some dark-ass shit” (partisanrecords.com). Ages and Ages was able to reach the light at the end of the tunnel, however, and the evidence is Divisionary—NPR called the title track“an anthem for everyone.”

—Amy Atkins With Gipsy Moon and The Very Most. 7 p.m., $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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BEERGUZZLER IMPECCABLY IMPERIAL STOUT Summer is over and even with the unseasonably warm weather we’re having, things tend to cool down by early evening.

This is the perfect weather for those big, bold, brooding imperial stouts, with their malt flavors and high alcohol content, which can top 8 percent. Here are three versions of the imperial style, originated in 18th century Britain but brewed for the Russian court:

FOOD

BIG SKY BREWING IVAN THE TERRIBLE IMPERIAL STOUT, $2.99-$3.69 This brew pours the darkest of brown and is topped by a twofinger mocha froth that quickly collapses. The nose opens with boozy bittersweet chocolate, candied date, fig and spice. Dark chocolate dominates the palate, with a hit of bitter hops on the finish. Some heat comes through as well— not surprising given its 9.5 percent alcohol content. Delicious.

GOOSE ISLAND THE MUDDY IMPERIAL STOUT, $3.19-$3.89 Ebony in the glass, this beer has a thin head and leaves little lacing.

There’s a sour, vegetal quality to the nose along with dried fruit, roasted grain and anise. Fruit cake flavors dominate the palate, backed by chocolate-y latte and black licorice. This brew weighs in at 9 percent ABV, but it’s well hidden.

A different take on the style.

NORTH COAST BREWING OLD RASPUTIN RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT, $2.29-$2.99 This jet black brew throws a rich tan, threefinger head that persists nicely and leaves a lovely lacing. The nose is a combo of toasted malt, dark chocolate and espresso. It’s beautifully balanced with sweet malt flavors playing against heady hops, all colored by roasted chocolate and herbs. An American classic.

—David Kirkpatrick

THE DEALS OF RESTAURANT WEEK We do the math on Dine Out Downtown Boise TARA MORGAN New York’s Restaurant Week is a biannual bacchanalian blowout where bargain-seekers can sample prix-Àxe fare at highend hangouts like Morimoto or Le Cirque for $25 during lunch or $38 at dinner. Though that’s a screaming deal in New York City, it often doesn’t translate so well in Boise.

Restaurants that participate in Dine Out Downtown Boise Restaurant Week—which runs this year from Friday, Oct. 31-Sunday, Nov. 9—can opt to offer three prix-Àxe menus: a $10, two-course lunch; a $15, two-course dinner; or a $30, three-course dinner. Unfortunately, most spots only offer the $30 dinner, which can sometimes be more spendy than ordering the same items a la carte.

We decided to crunch the numbers to Ànd the best- and less-bang-for-your-buck deals during Boise’s Restaurant Week.

Best Bang

Less Bang

BEST BANG FOR YOUR BUCK:

LESS BANG FOR YOUR BUCK:

Juniper Kitchen and Cocktails, $30 Dinner. Order the duck conÀt spring rolls ($8 regularly) with the grilled Áat iron ($23) and the Áourless chocolate torte with huckleberries and whipped mascarpone ($5) and you’ll save $6 off Juniper’s regular menu prices.

Saint Lawrence Gridiron, $30 Dinner. Order the radish and burrata salad ($9), the brisket platter with grilled bread, rye gherkins and house mustard ($23) and the bourbon bread pudding ($5). You’ll save $7 off the normal menu prices.

Red Feather Lounge, $10 Lunch. Order the halibut Àsh tacos with salsa cruda and cilantro slaw (regularly $11.50) with a cold November side salad and a plate of butterscotch beignets ($6.50) and you’ll save at least $8.

Bodovino, $15 Small Plates. Bodovino’s small plates special includes two glasses of wine, like the NXNW Columbia Valley Red or the BODO White Blend (each $7.42), along with any Áatbread—like the Pig and Fig ($8.48) with prosciutto, Àg, chevre and balsamic glaze—for $15. This special saves you $8.32 regularly or $1 during happy hour, when Áatbreads are $6 each and wines by the glass are $5.

Angell’s Bar and Grill Renato, $30 Dinner. Order the house salad ($6) with the pate mariniere ($35), which features clams, mussels, jumbo prawns and petite scallops tossed with pasta, and you’ll save $11 before dessert, which includes any of the restaurant’s daily offerings.

Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse, $30 Dinner. Order the Caesar salad ($8.50), the 6-ounce Àlet with shrimp (regularly $44 for two, 4-ounce medallions with shrimp) and mashed potatoes ($8.50 a la carte) and you’ll save around $31 before your Chocolate Sin cake even arrives. This one’s a steal.

Alavita, $30 Dinner. First course: butter-poached shrimp skewer with local cherry tomatoes (not on the menu). Second course: Butternut squash ravioli ($15) or cavatelli with spicy Italian sausage ($15). Dessert: vanilla budino ($8). Total approximate value: $28-$37. It’s unlikely you’ll save more than a couple dollars, depending on the price of the app.

Kindness, $30 Dinner. First course: House salad ($5) or grilled kale and romaine Caesar ($5). Second course: Kurobuta pork shank ($21), local organic half chicken ($18) or wild Alaskan salmon ($18) with choice of two sides, including soft mascarpone polenta and sauteed wild mushrooms. Dessert: House-made macaroons ($5), warm bread pudding ($6) or raspberry jalapeno chocolate torte (not on the menu). Total approximate value: $28-$32. You might lose a couple bucks or save a couple.

Either way, meh.

Red Feather Lounge, $30 Dinner. First course: Cold November greens salad ($5.75) or kale Caesar ($5.25). Second course: Columbia River king salmon with rice and baby bok choy ($16.50); seared duck breast with duck conÀt, crispy spatzle and roasted peach preserves ($17.50); or a grilled Berkshire pork chop marinated in a house whiskey brine with creamy polenta and apple cider gastrique ($18.75). Dessert: butterscotch beignets ($6.50) or bourbon pumpkin camp pies ($6.50). Total value: $28.25-$31.

Ha’Penny Bridge Irish Pub, $30 Dinner. First course: House salad ($4.95) or Caesar salad ($7.95). Second Course: Top sirloin with sauteed mushrooms, baby red potatoes and asparagus ($14.95). Dessert: chocolate cake ($5.85) or tiramisu ($5.85). Total value: $25.75-$28.75. You’re losing money here.

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SAINT BE PRAISED: BILL MURRAY EARNS HIS WINGS IN ST. VINCENT GEORGE PRENTICE

Murray, co-stars and writer-director Theodore MelÀ stepped on stage to soak in an ovation from the soaked-to-the-skin crowd.

“I think Bill Ànds what Bill is supposed to do,” said MelÀ, talking about Murray’s far-from-typical acting method. “It’s well documented.”

Murray didn’t miss a beat, adding.,“Ted MelÀ couldn’t get Jack Nicholson for the part. It’s well documented.” The moment was hilarious; but in truth, the only adequate comparison to Murray’s St. Vincent is Nicholson’s Oscar-winning performance in As Good As It Gets.

There are so many more reasons to worship St. Vincent, including 12-year-old Jaeden Lieberher, a wonderfully natural talent, as nextdoor-neighbor Oliver, who helps polish Vincent’s (Murray) halo, and Melissa McCarthy as Oliver’s mom in a smartly dialed-down performance. Also in the near-perfect cast are the always-great Chris O’Dowd as Oliver’s priest/teacher and Naomi Watts as Vincent’s pregnant stripper/girlfriend/ housekeeper (Oh, hell. She’s a prostitute).

You’ll notice I shared little about St. Vincent’s plot or surprises, of which there are many. That’s because of how much I love this Àlm and how much I want you to see Murray’s Ànest 102 minutes to date. I will tell you this: Take some tissues.

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has more than a little in common with Waiting for Godot, though Rushin says his inspiration was the Book of Ecclesiastes, which asks the faithful to ponder, “What is the meaning of life?”

Two-time Oscar winner Christoph Waltz brings his trademark hyper-energy to the role of Qohen (Billy Bob Thornton and Ewan McGregor were previously attached to the project, but it’s hard to imagine anyone other than Waltz in this fantastical Àlm). Also in the cast are the delicious Melanie Thierry (Blue Is the Warmest Color), who lights up the screen as Bainsley, Qohen’s temptress and savior; Tilda Swinton as a virtual therapist; and even Matt Damon as an all-powerful proÀteer, known only as Management.

Zero Theorem probably won’t pull in a mass audience, but it’s smart, gorgeous and bends more than a few conventions; it’s it well worth seeing.

CREEPY CRAWLIES: NIGHTCRAWLER IS A SLUGGISH TAKE ON TELEVISION STEREOTYPES Bill Murray had been crying. He was wiping at his eyes when the lights came up after the world premiere of St. Vincent at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 5. Murray wasn’t the only one: Nearly everyone at the screening had shed a few—mostly happy—tears “I hadn’t seen the movie before then,” Murray later told Boise Weekly. “It caught me by surprise.”

So it is with St. Vincent. On paper, St. Vincent’s storyline is another adorable-kid vs. grumpyold-man yarn. But there’s a reason we watch movies rather than read scripts; and the best reason is Murray.; he turns average material (Get Low, Broken Flowers) into good material and good material into icons (Caddyshack, Stripes, Ghostbusters, Groundhog Day).

It came as no surprise that a new holiday happened during TIFF 2014: Sept. 5 is now Bill Murray Day. Bill Murray Day saw TIFF swing its doors open for all-day free screenings of Murray’s best. Fans waited in a steady rainstorm for hours to relive some of their favorite Murray memories, and as day became night, fans had one more memory: St. Vincent, perhaps Murray’s best work and closest bet to grab another Oscar nomination (his Àrst was 2003’s Lost in Translation). Hundreds of fans squeezed into the world premiere screening of St. Vincent and were rewarded when BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT: TERRY GILLIAM’S ZERO THEOREM The Àrst and last thing you need to know about Zero Theorem is that it’s the latest Àlm from the madness that is Terry Gilliam, who hovers somewhere between genius (Brazil, 12 Monkeys, The Fisher King) and incomprehension (Tideland, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus). Gilliam is also famous for being the only non-Brit member of the quite-English Monty Python’s Flying Circus.

If you were to ask me what Zero Theorem is about, my Pythonesque answer would be: It’s about 100 minutes. I will say that the movie is a fantastical examination of existential angst, but don’t let that scare you away from one of Gilliam’s better efforts.

Zero Theorem opens with a naked and bald Qohen Leth sitting in front of a series of computers in a steampunk-inspired home where he “crunches entities”... every minute of every day of every year. Qohen’s ultimate motivation is to receive an elusive phone call that may never come. To that end, the story from screenwriter Pat Rushin

Perhaps the scariest specter this Halloween is Jake Gyllenhaal’s face in Nightcrawler. I don’t mean to enrage Gyllenhaal’s many fans who appreciated his good looks in Brokeback Mountain, Love and Other Drugs and Prince of Persia. But I defy you not to be visibly disturbed when Gyllenhaal’s eyes bulge out in Nightcrawler, a highly predictable indictment of local television news and its bloodlust for sensationalism.

I worked for several years in television newsrooms and clearly remember the Àrst time I heard about so-called “nightcrawlers,” a term used to describe off-the-reservation photojournalists who lurked in the shadows with police scanners, eager to pounce when tragedy strikes. People in the TV news business know that such nutcases usually have their own private stash of videos showing fatal accidents, Àres and crime scenes. That’s the warped world where we Ànd Gyllenhaal’s hyperkinetic Louis Bloom, a young man anxious to break into television at any cost.

When Bloom gets excited, Gyllenhaal’s eyes bulge from his very taut face (Gyllenhaal reportedly dropped considerable weight to prepare for this role). Unfortunately, that’s the most horrifying element of Nightcrawler, which portrays a rather typical stereotype of an emotionally unbalanced individual eagerly exploited by a television executive (played by Renee Russo, wife of Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy).

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Fellow humans, pay heed: We are nearing the Singularity long promised by futurist Ray Kurzweil—the day when technology exceeds human capability and elevates existence to a hyper-efficient state that may or may not have room for mere mortals.

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Set on two wee tank treads and sporting a rotating set of blades and brushes, the Looj is a simple contraption. Set it in your gutter, turn it on, and it will churn through all those dead leaves, gunk and squirrel droppings that humans, in more barbaric times, would have been expected to dig out with their—gasp—hands.

Granted, you still have to climb up a ladder and point a remote homedepot.com $299.99 control at it, but now you can hold a cup of coffee or stare into space while doing so.

According to the Home Depot website—the Looj is an online-only product—this innovation is either a stunning leap forward, or a complete let-down. From the reviews: “It was great! I’ve long been a fan of robotics, and this task is great for one!”; “I knew going in that it was a gamble on whether or not it would work…..and it didn’t. Not even close.”

Like the future, the Looj is uncertain—and at $300, it is a gamble indeed. But we won’t get to the Singularity without lazy people willing to shell out hard-earned cash to facilitate further laziness. Ask yourself: What would Ray Kurzweil do?

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Darian M. Willis Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1419188 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Darian M. Willis, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Darian Thompson.

The reason for the change in name is: want to change to mothers maiden name. Never have ever had any contact w/ biological Father.

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Despite claims from opponents, including Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, same-sex marriages are little different from heterosexual marriages—there are things to be dealt with like home ownership, raising a family, sharing job and government benefits, and navigating all the other legal aspects of joining together two lives.

The new legal reality for same-sex couples has prompted a number of local professionals to host LGBT Estate Planning, scheduled for Tuesday, Nov. 4, at 5:30 p.m. at Plantation Countr y Club. There, LGBT couples can learn about the new rights and responsibilities that

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): If you live in Gaza, you don’t have easy access to Kentucky Fried Chicken. The closest KFC is 35 miles away in the Egyptian city of El-Arish. But there was a time when you could pay smugglers to bring it to you via one of the underground tunnels that linked Egypt to Gaza. Each delivery took four hours and required the help of two taxis, a hand cart and a motorbike. (Egypt destroyed most of the tunnels in early 2014.) I recommend that you be as determined and resourceful to make your longed-for connections.

Halloween costume suggestion: smuggler, bootlegger, drug-dealer, black-marketeer.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s urgent that you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can’t lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you’re better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mold.

This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here’s a photo: bit.ly/yellowslime.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom Futurama, Leela is the mutant

captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing. The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil’s outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Craig Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context.

Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing Ebola protective gear, science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper, a cat wearing a dog costume or vice versa.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sitting Bull (1831-1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man. He led his people in their resistance to the U.S. occupation of their land. How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-Holy-Door. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love. May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future. May the mystery of her name rouse you to find the sacred portal that ushers you to your next big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): This is one of those rare times when it’s OK for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash. It’s also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months’ worth of emotions in a few hours, and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner. Don’t make any of these things habits, of course. But for now, it’s probably healthy to allow them. Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Homo erectus loved to eat delicious antelope brains. The fossil evidence is all over their stomping grounds in East Africa.

Scientists say that this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves. These days it’s harder to make animal brains part of your diet. The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains. I’m confident that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don’t partake of this exotic dish. Take advantage of your enhanced intelligence. Solve tough riddles!

Think big thoughts! Costume suggestion: a brain-eating Homo erectus.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability.

So why not be graffenbent?”

So said Noah’s ex-wife Joan of Arc in her interview with St. Crocodile magazine. Heed Joan’s advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious. I’M KIDDING! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn’t assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn’t understand.

In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way.

Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shock-proof bullshit-detector. (For inspiration, check out these visuals: http:// bit.ly/bsdetector.)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In AMC’s famous TV drama, a high-school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show’s title, Breaking Bad, refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does “breaking good” mean?

Urbandictionary.com defines it like this: “When a criminal, junkie or gang-banger gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens, and picking the kids up from school.”

I’m concerned that you are at

risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that’s fine as long as you don’t lose your edge. Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gang-banger or a Buddhist monk junkie.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I’ve got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion.

You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word “lalochezia.” It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language. The second remedy is contained in the word “tarantism.” It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy. For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenityspouter.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You are at a point in your astrological cycle when you deserve to rake in the rewards that you have been working to earn. I expect you to be a magnet for gifts and blessings. The favors and compliments you have doled out will be returned to you. For all the strings you have pulled in behalf of others’ dreams, strings will now be pulled for you. Halloween costume suggestion: a beaming kid hauling around a red wagon full of brightly wrapped presents.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Two physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes.

For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower. It’s time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence.

I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven’t dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: The X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary Native American creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The African nation of Swaziland has passed a law prohibiting witches from flying their broomsticks any higher than 150 meters above ground. That will a big problem for Piscean witches.

There is currently an astrological mandate for them to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as they want to. The same is metaphorically true for all Piscean non-witches everywhere.

This is your time to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as you want to. Halloween costume suggestion: high-flying witch, a winged angel, the Silver Surfer or a mythic bird like the Garuda.

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NEWS go along with lifting Idaho’s ban on same-sex unions, including a primer on changes in real estate law from Bob Thomas of Varin Wardwell Attorneys at Law. “It’ll be similar to a heterosexual couple getting married now with all the changes, but even though it’s similar, LGBT couples still need to get education on it—if they’ve titled proper ty in a cer tain way and now they’re married, that might have to change a little bit,” said Jacob Stalnaker, event organizer and Merrill Lynch financial adviser.

Attendees will also get a heads-up about market conditions and strategies from Br yan Pacana, a financial adviser with AllianceBernstein. Though legal and financial firms will present information about the law and financial matters, Stalnaker said that the event is purely informative in nature, and no financial products or ser vices will be pitched to those in attendance.

Though the event is geared toward same-sex couples, Stalnaker said there’s nothing LGBT-specific about financial planning.

“A market update’s a market update,” he told Boise Weekly.

The striking down of Idaho’s ban came in the middle of the planning stages for the event, and while one might suspect that the historic ruling would send lawyers scrambling to suss out its legal implications, the right for same-sex couples to marr y has simplified, rather than complicated, their legal situations.

“When all of this was happening, we were thinking, ‘What does this do to the seminar? Does this change it?’ and the attorney said, ‘Well no, maybe they’ll get benefits that weren’t available before,’” Stalnaker said.

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