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EDITOR’S NOTE HOT OFF THE PRESS While it has been cooling down outside, things have been heating up at Boise Weekly. We’ve made some schedule changes, like moving our insanely popular Best of Boise™ issue up to coincide with our becoming-insanely popular Big LeBoise street festival. BOB nominations open next week, so check out the March 7 BW for info and dates. We are currently wrapping up We Are Boise, which hits stands March 7. We Are Boise is the newest addition to our super slate of special publications and the one in which the people and places that make this such a great place to live tell their stories in their own words. We’ll soon be working on a Summer Guide— with plans to include another iteration of Brew Times— as well as our beautiful and useful (beauseful?) city guide, Annual Manual. And now, here’s a look at what’s cookin’ this week ... On Page 6, News Editor/Resident Film Fanatic George Prentice gives the backstory on why a YA novel was pulled from the shelves of Meridian School District middle-school libraries; plus he shines a light on Illumibrate, a big one-evening festival at JUMP on Friday, March 2. On Page 19, Prentice delivers the lowdown on highlights of the Sun Valley Film Festival 2018, which kicks off Wednesday, March 21; and on Page 17, he chats with A-lister Kate Bosworth, who is both taking a new movie to and receiving an award from SVFF 2018. Staff Writer Lex Nelson gives us a guide through Mapping the Present, a new exhibit at Boise Art Museum, on Page 16; and on Page 17, Nelson covers some new ground with info about how the City of Boise will sell excess compost wholesale. Also on Page 17, Senior Staff Writer Harrison Berry deconstructs the Devil, one of the delicious menu offerings at new BoDo sandwich shop Tasso. Find all this and more inside this issue of Boise Weekly. Like Nelly said, it’s getting hot in here. —Amy Atkins
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ARTIST: Suzanne Lee Chetwood TITLE: “Night Cap” MEDIUM: Acrylic on gallery wrap canvas ARTIST STATEMENT: With all this lunar activity I just want to drink in the night sky! Join me at The Finer Frames Gallery Kickoff event for my show March 17th 10am4pm in Eagle Idaho! Visit my website at www.suzanneleechetwood.com Cheers!!
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FIRE AWAY Boise Police Department officers involved in a September 2017 shooting have been cleared of all charges. Read more on the decision at News/Citydesk.
GALACTIC GROOVE See an astronaut dancing with the stars in a new video released by performing arts collective LED. Read more at Arts & Culture/ Stage.
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I REALLY BELIEVE I’D RUN IN THERE, EVEN IF I DIDN’T HAVE A WEAPON ... THE WAY THEY PERFORMED WAS REALLY A DISGRACE.” —President Donald Trump on Feb. 26, referring to the Broward County Sheriff’s deputy who allegedly
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remained outside during the Feb. 14 Parkland, Florida, school shooting in which 17 people were killed.
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MAIL NOW, IF YOU’LL ALL TURN TO PAGE 666 It is clear from recent events that we are living in the End Times. The Book of Revelation says that a rider on a pale horse will open the sixth seal and the Sun will become dark and the Moon will become as blood. Both events have happened. The Book of Revelation predicts two beasts will arise. The second beast, which is referred to as a false prophet, will cause people to worship the first beast. The second beast is clearly Vladimir Putin who used false information to rig the 2016 election for Trump. This means Donald Trump is the first beast, a man who is worshipped intensely by his followers despite his constant lying. The Book of Revelation furthermore tells us that all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This means that Trump and his entire entourage plus those Trump voters who still believe his falsehoods will end up in a very hot place for all eternity. The only hope for the Trump supporters is to fall on their knees, pray for forgiveness, renounce Trump,
take a vow of poverty, and turn to Jesus Christ. —Gary L. Bennett, Boise
HAIL, YES In response to the Feb. 21 Editor’s Note, BW Editor Amy Atkins received the following email, with a grammar correction. The email writer is right. Don’t you mean “fluctuating weather” instead of “fluctuating climate”? Weather may fluctuate on a daily basis. Climate does not as it is long term. Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get. —Thom England
PERMANENT TERMINATION On Jan. 8, Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen announced her decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation for El Salvador. On Nov. 20, 2017, Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke announced her decision to terminate the Temporary Protected Status designation for Haiti. These decisions jeopardize lives and are not supported by
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facts that the immigrants are a threat to the U.S. The following are reasons that the TPS should not be terminated: “For more than a century, innumerable studies have confirmed two simple yet powerful truths about the relationship between immigration and crime: immigrants are less likely to commit serious crimes or be behind bars than the native-born, and high rates of immigration are associated with lower rates of violent crime and property crime. This holds true for both legal immigrants and the unauthorized, regardless of their country of origin or level of education.” (American Immigration Council, “The Criminalization of Immigration in the United States,” Walter Ewing, Ph.D.; Daniel E. Martínez, Ph.D.; and Ruben G. Rumbaut, Ph.D.; July 13, 2015) “While the financial contributions of TPS holders are noteworthy, what is even more compelling is the fact that Salvadoran TPS holders are parents to an estimated 192,000 U.S.citizen children.” (VOX.com, Jan. 9) “A continued inflow of immigrants is needed to support the growing ranks of U.S. retirees, and the entrepreneurial dynamism of immigrants is needed to fight the decrease in new-business formation.” (Bloomberg, March 24, 2017, Noah Smith) —Noah Brudenell, Boise
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