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MOB MENTALITY These flashers don’t wear trenchcoats.

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BASEMENT BEGINNERS A new crew heads underground.

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BIKE FUSION Cyclocross clears hurdles in Boise.

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ALIBABA Rocking the spud, Iraqi style.

“I have no explanation for why he’s confused about the species thing.”

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Giving new meaning to the phrase “food fight.”

NO SHADES OF GRAY HERE A new art gallery and tat shop is readying for an opening on Sixth Street downtown. Owner Jay O’Leary plans to open Spit Shade on Friday, Nov. 13, but until then, the bright green and purple paint on the building’s facade is likely to draw some pre-opening attention.

SOAKERS STEAMED OVER HOT TUB POOL RECLAMATION Citydesk reported that the U.S. Forest Service is planning to tear out a series of cascading pools at Rocky Canyon Hot Springs near Crouch that were built anonymously on public land. The hot springers aren’t too happy about it.

BIKE SAFETY RECS OUT The City of Boise’s Cycling Safety Task Force released its final draft of bicycle safety recommendations after studying the issue all summer. The report includes 24 recommendations, which, as of BW press time, were to be presented to the City Council on Oct. 27.

LAST CALL With less than a week to go before the election, time is running out to ask the candidates what they think. Electionland.boiseweekly.com is where you ask the questions and the candidates answer.

EDITOR’S NOTE BILL COPE TED RALL NEWS The race for mayor of Nampa The elk that thinks he’s a cow CITIZEN TRUE CRIME / MONDO GAGA FEATURE Playing with flash mob BW PICKS FIND 8 DAYS OUT SUDOKU NOISE Local label launches in Boise MUSIC GUIDE ARTS New crop at Basement Ballet legend visits TRICA SCREEN Where the Wild Things Are MOVIE TIMES VIDIOT REC Cyclocross. All the cool kids are doing it FOOD Arabic, not Mediterranean WINE SIPPER CLASSIFIEDS HOME SWEET HOME NYT CROSSWORD FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

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I ran into “Markâ€? last week. I went in for an early evening drink at this joint where he used to work, and there he was, in for an early evening drink himself. I hadn’t seen him in ďŹ ve years, not since he’d moved on to his new job.

I always liked Mark. We were never bowling buddies or ďŹ shing pards or anything like that, but I enjoyed talking with him. He was just a kid when we met. A bright kid and a student.

He would tell me about this Harvard professor he admired, Henry Gates Jr., and I would tell him about meeting James Baldwin in the esh. Mark is no longer a kid, or a student, but he’s still pretty young. And still bright.

So we’re catching up when one of the guys at the next table over starts telling Mark how he looks like Cuba Gooding Jr. I’m trying to wage varying degrees of repartee with a number of people at once, so I’m slow to pick up on the exchange. But I hear, “No, no. Not Cuba Gooding Jr. It’s Chris Rock he looks like.� Then the third guy says, “Wesley Snipes, that’s who.�

I have my back to the guys doing the famous people comparisons, but it’s not difďŹ cult to guess whom they’re talking about. Mark is the only black person in the joint. I look him over and decide he’s nowhere near to looking like Cuba Gooding Jr., and even farther from looking like Chris Rock or Wesley Snipes. I decide if he looks like any famous person at all, except for that one thing, it would have to be Federal Reserve Chief Ben Bernanke.

OK, two things, actually. Bernanke has a beard and Mark is clean shaven.

I kept my contribution to myself, though.

I imagine those guys at the other table would have thought I was either drunk or nuts to suggest Mark could look like Ben Bernanke.

In fact, it seemed clear they had only one criterion for picking out famous people for Mark to look like. Had the conversation gone on longer, we might have heard mention of Denzel Washington. Or Samuel L. Jackson.

As far as that goes, since they were only seeing that one thing—that one detail out of all the components that makes Mark Mark— they might have decided he was a dead ringer for Halle Berry or Oprah.

The conversation didn’t last much longer than it took me to realize it was going on.

Mark was obviously not having as much fun with the exchange as they were. He was smiling, but it was the kind of smile you might see on a guy just about to ask for a divorce. He said, “Bill, I don’t want to deal with this shit right now. I’ll get back to you later.� And he moved on to another corner of the joint, presumably where people appreciated him for something beyond

whatever African-American movie star they thought he most resembled.

U Those guys at the next table didn’t mean any harm, I’m sure of it. I’ve known them for a while, too. They’re jolly, good-natured gents and in this situation, there was nothing in their attitude or tone that indicated they meant to hurt Mark’s feelings or demean him—that I felt.

But I emphasize “that I felt,â€? because I was not the one being reduced to a transparent reection because I shared one characteristic with widely recognized men. (After Mark left, I briey considered asking the three guys who they thought I looked most like—Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves—but dropped it, suspecting it was a joke only I would get.) Plus, I can never understand, as African-Americans have understood for centuries, what it’s like to be recognized for their skin and little else.

Or ‌ had Mark been older, more seasoned, more adapted to the idea that so many white Americans feel the need to ďŹ nd a familiar and comfortable point of reference to cling onto when they come face to face with one of their black neighbors—that so many white Americans think that by bringing up race ďŹ rst, early and in a genial way (i.e., “I have a niece on my wife’s side who married a black dude. Darn nice fellow, from what I can tell, and can he toss a mean horseshoe!â€?), then they have proven their magnanimity—he likely would have shrugged off the incident as just one of those doofussy things white folks do.

Yet we white folks are making a mistake if we think that racism has to come wrapped in vicious and hateful sentiments to be true racism. The root of it all is one simple thing, one simple sentiment: You are different from me in a way that I can never forget. Viciousness and hate are merely two of the more toxic symptoms that sprout from that root.

There are many more, with varying degrees of toxicity, and never in my memory have so many of those symptoms been on such vivid public display as right now. Worse, almost all of them are accompanied by hollow disclaimers that the deluge of scorn and ridicule, paranoia and irrationality, the insistence that “we want our country back,� is a matter of policies and philosophies only, and has nothing whatsoever to do with that which they can never forget about the man they want their country back from.

But racism—even the genial, gentle versions of it (i.e., “Know what? You look like Cuba Gooding Jr.�) is a little like rape in that it’s not up to the offender to say what is and what isn’t racism. That’s the privilege of the offended. And if we ever wish to be as decent as we pretend to be, it behooves us to trust our neighbors when they tell us something hurts.

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DROP THE DRONES Remote attacks inflame Afghan anti-Americanism SAN FRANCISCO—“The killing of Afghan civilians, usually caused by inadvertent American and NATO airstrikes, has become the most sensitive issue between the Afghans and their Western guests.” So reports The New York Times Magazine in the latest installment of its ongoing “There’s a new general in charge and he’s cool and maybe he can win the war” series.

“Inadvertent” airstrikes? “Guests”?

Many of the botched airstrikes have been carried out by Predator drone planes remote-controlled by CIA and U.S. Air Force personnel thousands of miles away. One click of a mouse and a Hellfire missile bearing a 20-pound blast fragmentation warhead zooms toward its target. Despite numerous killings of civilians, drones are popular with the military because they keep soldiers out of harm’s way.

Like a lot of ideas, it only seems like a good one until you think about it. America’s obsession with protecting its people is at the heart of Afghans’ contempt for the U.S. occupation.

And Afghan resentment is the biggest reason the war effort has been doomed from the start.

To Afghans on the ground, drones symbolize American callousness and project a smug sense of superiority.

Gen. Stanley McChrystal knows that every “inadvertent airstrike” prompts a certain number of Afghans to join or support Afghan resistance forces. “Gentlemen,” he told a morning briefing of NATO generals, “we need to understand the implications of what we are doing. Airpower contains the seeds of our own destruction. A guy with a long-barrel rifle runs into a compound, and we drop a 500-pound

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bomb on it? If we use airpower irresponsibly, we can lose this fight.” The Times reporter who recorded that statement wrote that McChrystal said he planned on “banning bombs and missiles in populated areas unless his men were in danger of being overrun.”

An improvement, no doubt. But in Afghanistan, all use of airpower is irresponsible.

Whether piloting a B-52 at 35,000 feet or wiggling a joystick 8,000 miles away, fighting a war at a distance means chucking ordnance willy-nilly into people and situations you can’t see or know anything about.

In the short term, remote drone warfare offers the tantalizing prospect of killing your enemies without risking your own forces.

In the long term, however, the geopolitical risks eclipse any short-term gains. Drone plane attacks brought Pakistani anti-Americanism to a boil and led to the collapse of the dictatorship of Gen. Pervez Musharraf, a U.S. ally.

Meanwhile, like most cell-based guerilla organizations, al-Qaida’s structure ensures no man is indispensable.

In an ideal world, President Barack Obama would sign legislation outlawing the manufacture, deployment or use of Predator and similar drone bomber technology, and urge other nations to do the same. In a somewhat decent world, he would withdraw from Afghanistan.

And in the crappy world we call home, the least we can do is kill Afghans with flesh-andblood soldiers rather than drone planes.

Ted Rall is the author of To Afghanistan and Back, the first book about the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.

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CITYDESK/NEWS DIRTY LAUNDRY IN CAMPAIGN’S FINAL STRETCH

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NEW GROUND IN NAMPA Nampa mayoral race hits regular issues, new subtext MATHIAS MORACHE Rival campaign signs dot the interstate and restaurant marquees in Nampa. As a transgender former construction company owner scrambles for votes against two hamburger-joint owners and incumbent mayor Tom Dale, who seeks a third term, Nampa citizens are being forced to consider a broader political agenda than perhaps any time in the past.

Mayoral hopeful Melissa Sue Robinson’s campaign has attracted attention far beyond

When it comes to the Democratic Party, I take their equal-rights stance,” said Robinson.

Busy behind the grill at Blazen Burgers, a takeout hamburger joint, Brad Blamires stepped out of the kitchen and next door to his other establishment, Generations Restaurant and Lounge, a steak and seafood eatery that was still closed before the dinner rush to discuss his campaign. A longtime Nampa resident, Blamires speaks with the steady LAU RIE PEARMAN

Less than a week remains before Boise’s City Council election. By next Wednesday, the election will most likely— barring any Afghanistan-like or Florida-like shenanigans—be over. But there is still a place you can get your election questions answered, and it is called Electionland: Electionland.boiseweekly.com.

We launched this Q&A forum with candidates just a few weeks ago, but the candidates for Council Seat 6 have been particularly active, answering and even asking one another questions.

For example: Maryanne Jordan and David Webb agree that the economy is the most important issue facing Boise in the next five years. That’s David Webb original.

Jordan writes: “Businesses have more choice than ever as to where they locate. We must keep Boise a healthy and vibrant city that will keep and grow local businesses, as well as attract those who can choose to locate almost anywhere.”

And Webb adds: “The Boise City Council needs to re-group from several years of poor business development in my opinion. The next five years are SO important because of this recession. The direction the council decides to take now will ultimately affect Boise’s economic vitality either positively or negatively. Tell your councilmen it is time to stop wasting your money and start investing in your future.”

That sound bite is best followed by the second part of Jordan’s answer: “Civil public discourse. More than ever, we have to have in-depth conversations as a community. The important issues we face cannot and should not be reduced to sound bites.”

Candidate Lucas Baumbach also tried out Electionland, registering his opinion on the streetcar and on his favorite street in Boise: Roosevelt.

KBOI hosted a surprisingly civil debate Saturday with three hours of town hall-style questions to the candidates. But the race turned a bit uncivil in its dying moments as comments on a Boise Weekly story brought to light a child TJ Thomson chose to give up to the mother when he was 21.

Thomson submitted his response, which wound its way into other media outlets.

“About 12 years ago, I was in a serious relationship and we had a child. Abortion was never an option and child support was always paid. I commend the mother today for her decision to choose the gift of life, as I did then.”

Thomson added that he has never tried to hide the incident.

“The mother and I mutually agreed that, as I understood that she was in the planning stages of a

Melissa Sue Robinson has high hopes for Nampa.

Nampa. A 58-year-old male-to-female post-op transgendered person, as she described herself in an early campaign announcement, Robinson’s uncommon background in the conservative enclave of Nampa has drawn interest from national media such as The New York Times, the L.A. Times and the Chicago Tribune, all of which ran a wire story about her. Robinson, a Lansing, Mich., native who has lived in Nampa for almost a year, emphasizes that her business background as a former owner of a Michigan construction company and her educational background in management make her the right woman for the job. When it comes to politics, Robinson’s stature and stern countenance make for a no-nonsense approach—her daily press releases and updates have flooded reporters’ inboxes for months. Seated at a table at Flying M Coffeegarage in Nampa, Robinson described her campaign and her values.

“I’m neither Democrat or Republican, I’m a middle-of-the-road candidate. I take things from both parties. When it comes to the Republican Party, I take their business stance.

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composure of a soldier, perhaps from his time in the Army, as he describes what he sees as the financial blunders of city government.

“Nampa outsources so much of their taxpayer dollars. At the Civic Center the caterer down there is based out of Maryland. We have to get the Civic Center to where it quits losing money. The Idaho Center is a money pit. Even the golf course has lost money this year. Let’s get in there and find a way to make these entities work where they’re not a tax payer burden and they’re actually helping the community,” said Blamires.

Like Blamires, Jim Dorsey also takes exception to how taxpayer dollars are spent.

Seated in the corner of Squeezer’s, his 1950’s-style diner, while rock and roll plays over the speakers, the animated and outgoing Dorsey flips through a stack of papers six inches thick detailing his version of the misdoings of city officials. Flashing a smile, Dorsey talks with the ease of a practiced public speaker as he enthusiastically outlines plans for shaking things up in local government. He is

incredulous about Mayor Dale’s plans to build a new, larger library while the current library is faltering.

“It’s just been irresponsible. They’re open two less days, they’ve cut the resources in half, their staff has taken voluntary cuts, they’ve dismissed one person, but the two people on top, why aren’t they looking at those two?” said Dorsey.

When BW spoke on the phone with Dale, a longtime city councilor and then mayor in Nampa who had just finished an interview at a Spanish language radio station, he was adamant that the library is necessary but would not start construction just yet.

“Rebuilding the library is a big part of the revitalization plan for downtown Nampa that was formulated when the economy was quite different than today. With the changing landscape, we are re-evaluating the library and looking at funding to make it a reality,” said Dale.

While crime has been an issue in Nampa elections for decades, Robinson and Dorsey have different ideas about what to do.

“Mayor Dale says crime is going down.

I did an investigation and, yeah, it’s going down in petty crime, but when it comes to violent crime and robbery, it’s going up. We need to stop this crime and stop it yesterday,” said Robinson.

Dale has plans for a new public safety building for the Nampa Police Department.

Dorsey, however, is incredulous about the need for this expense.

“They want a new police station. Why do we need three police chiefs when crime has been down like the mayor says?” asks Dorsey.

Dale, however, defends the project.

“The crime rate has dropped every year for the last six years and is down 22 percent.

I attribute this to the City Council and my commitment to giving the police department adequate resources,” said Dale. “The present police station was built when we had a police force of about 48 people. Currently, it houses 150 people. The need for more room is very evident.”

Aside from the perennial topics of public safety, urban renewal and spending, Robinson’s presence in the race has injected Nampa with a conversation on gender identity. While her critics have been quick to make it an issue, such as creating a derogatory fake Twitter profile for her entitled “Woman with a Penis,” Robinson does not want gender politics to be the focus of her campaign.

“I’m for civil unions, but I haven’t given it enough thought whether I’d be for same-sex marriage. I want the citizens to know I didn’t come to town to push the gay-rights agenda,” said Robinson. “If I was campaigning on that issue, it’d be in San Francisco, not Nampa, Idaho.”

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wedding, the best option would be to allow the child to be raised in a strong two-parent household,” he wrote.

And Thomson opponent David Litster also submitted his own version of a bankruptcy that Boise Weekly reporter Andrew Crisp reported on last week.

To that story, we append this clarification: Dave Litster’s $80,000 credit card debt was discharged in his bankruptcy filing, but the remainder of his personal debt was reaffirmed, meaning he continued to pay off his mortgage, car loan and other items.

If you think the City Council race, particularly Seat 4, is hot, you should meet some of the Southwest Idaho hot spring enthusiasts who are steamed at the Forest Service decision to remove a series of cascading pools that a yet unnamed man built at Rocky Canyon Hot Springs near Crouch.

The Forest Ser vice and the ShoshonePaiute Indian tribe assert that the rock and mortar pools were built illegally and need to go.

Hot springers on a Yahoo! Idaho outdoor listserv and a hot spring blogger are making calls to try to stop the imminent reclamation of the slope down to the Middle Fork of the Payette. Some are even calling Boise Weekly to ask for a reprieve, one woman even ranting about Indians and welfare to make her point.

Recall, dear soakers, that many hot springs are sacred to the Native American tribes of Southwest Idaho and also that the hot spring in question is on public land, and thus held in sacred trust to all Americans.

As Sho-Pai cultural resources director Ted Howard told KTVB-7: “What we prefer is to leave it in its natural state. Nobody is saying (people) can’t go and enjoy themselves at the hot spring. Just leave it natural. It’s a spiritually significant site.”

Finally, the City of Boise is out with a final draft of its bike safety recommendations after studying the issue all summer. The recommendations are largely the same as in the previous draft, which was presented to the public and available for public comment in August.

One important debate since the Bike Safety Task Force took its recommendation public is the retention of a “when possible” clause to the three-feet-topass ordinance. The summar y of the report notes that this was a controversial addition, taking some teeth out of the proposed ordinance, but that it was necessar y to make the law relevant on narrow city streets. Some cyclists maintained that if there is not three feet available on a particular street, motorists should wait to pass, said Michael Zuzel, a Task Force member representing the Mayor’s Office.

The recommendations fall into several categories, including new city ordinances like three-feet-to-pass, an anti-harassment of cyclists law and a reckless cycling law. There are also education initiatives and recommendations to prioritize certain street engineering projects—widening and bike lanes—to be coordinated with ACHD.

ERNIE THE ELK Animal anomaly turns heads at Harris Ranch MIKA BELLE In the middle of a scenic riverside meadow on the frontier of Boise’s stalled eastern sprawl is an elk that likes to run with the bulls.

Meet Ernie, a Harris Ranch legend for the past three years. Although he has been known to hang out with the local bulls and cows, he was also reported chasing some white-tailed deer last year.

“I have no explanation for why he’s confused about the species thing,” said Ed Mitchell, conservation information supervisor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game.

Mitchell said he has seen the elk for at least the last two years. Curious onlookers can see Ernie by pulling off Warm Springs Avenue about a mile east of the new East Parkcenter Bridge and looking off to the south. Recently, he was bedded down less than 100 yards from the street.

“He’s not very shy, as long as you don’t get too close,” Mitchell said.

Keith Bryant is an East Boise resident who first noticed Ernie before the animal grew the large antlered rack that crowns him today.

“We were driving out there about three years ago, and we thought he was a cow,” Bryant chuckled.

Since that time, Ernie has proudly matured into what some people call a “royal,” an animal with six pointed tines on each side of his head, for a total of 12. Bryant took a recent drive to the area to show off the great elk to some acquaintances.

“He’s been kind of a mascot for Harris Ranch,” Bryant explained. “They even have some nice pictures of him at the clubhouse, playing with the bulls.”

Dr. Richard Kinney is a Boise State political science professor and Harris Ranch resident who took those photos on display, as well as a youthful picture of the elk that can be seen at Lucky 13 pizzeria off Warm Springs Avenue.

He said the opportunity to take those photos was given to him by chance.

“I was just walking along the Greenbelt

one day, and I saw the elk,” he said. “I had my camera and just started taking photos as he was playing with the bulls.”

Kinney said he had another comedic sighting of the elk last spring, just after the animal had lost its antlers for the year.

“I saw the elk trying to herd a calf,” he laughed. “His antlers were gone, but he was going down to the calf as if they were still there.”

Harris Ranch was once envisioned to be Idaho’s largest planned community although numerous setbacks have put it on a longer schedule than originally anticipated. Ernie appears to be safe from developers—for the foreseeable future, anyway.

Although elk are normally herd animals that migrate throughout the year, Ernie seems to prefer kicking back with the cattle in the City of Trees.

“He’s definitely a Boise elk because he sticks around town here,” said Bryant.

Ed Bottum is a biologist for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, and he estimates the elk to be about three-and-a-half years old.

Bottum has spotted the elk for the past three years, but has no idea if the animal has an official name.

“I have heard Ernie,” he said. “But I’ve heard a number of names for him.”

Bottum cautioned drivers to slow down in that area because Ernie and deer sometimes cross roadways. Ernie will jump fences to run with the bulls, “kick it” with the cattle and dodge around deer.

Each fall, Ernie reportedly wanders off to go back to his roots during the rut, or mating season. Bottum said Ernie is too young to mate now, but he will get a shot within two years. As it is, the elk always finds his way back to the safety of Harris Ranch, an area protected from hunters year-round.

“He’s got a good spot there,” Bottum said.

“I wish him a long and healthy life, he’s a cool animal to have around.”

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YASMIN AGUILAR Community organizing in and out of Afghanistan NATHANIEL HOFFMAN

Have you been back to Afghanistan?

Yes, I went in 2007. It was 100 percent different, for the worse. I left in 1992. The [Northern] Alliance attacked our house because my dad was in the Air Force. We all fled, with nothing, to Pakistan. As a kid, I was going to school, we could afford to go to tuition centers [after-school programs].

We went on picnics, visiting family, everything was green, no distractions. For us, life was good, no scare of bombings or rapes, but when I returned back, everything was so different, in 1991. There was curfew at night, after 9 or 10 you could not go out, and you couldn’t go alone because everywhere was explosions. It wasn’t organized.

Muslim groups were fighting with the government. Girls were kidnapped. If you weren’t covered, they would attack you.

You studied medicine in the Czech Republic?

I was 16 when I went to the Czech Republic, and I was 21 when I came back.

I did my residency [in Afghanistan and Paki-

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stan], two years in the hospital, in gynecology and orthopedics because those were the only two available. The Western system was different from the system there, the equipment, the diagnoses, the medications, the names are generic names, and also the quality. You have to study the system.

How did you address reproductive health?

I had to talk to the men first to get permission to talk to the women. I just used the facts, not to try to manipulate them or lie to them or mislead them. And they were listening and it was good. The goal was birth control, prenatal, postnatal care, sexually transmitted disease care. For example, there was a man who had three wives and only one wife saw the symptoms and she kept coming to the hospital. The reason she never cured was because the other two wives and the man thought they were healthy. Safe delivery, immunizations for the kids, sanitation, proper use of water ... the most challenging was reproductive health, that nobody wanted to implement. They were scared that the Taliban would attack and stuff like that. But with me, I was yeah, kidnapped twice in Pakistan, but I survived.

You were kidnapped because of the work you were doing?

I was also monitoring the 13 basic health units. For example, how much antibiotics came and how much is used and how much is left. I found a couple of times Pakistani doctors who were supposed to serve the refugees but they were in their private clinics. So I had to report them, so that’s why they don’t like a woman being in power.

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Yasmin Aguilar began working with the Agency for New Americans soon after her arrival here in 2000, as a new American and a refugee from Afghanistan. Aguilar and her family had fled Kabul for Pakistan, but her public health work in refugee camps there put her life at risk. Now she continues similar outreach for newly arrived refugees, providing cash assistance grants and raising money from the community in Boise, to assist with resettlement.

Aguilar recently sponsored her parents who just moved to the United States after a three-year immigration process. We spoke with her about life in Kabul, her work in the camps and health-care reform.

their immunizations, prenatal and postnatal checkups. Those oils were disappearing, with fake immunization cards. I was acting like a detective, so they didn’t like me.

Did you want to work in medicine here?

I wanted to at the start. But it was hard. When I asked people, you needed recertification. I was lazy to search for it and also, of course, I had to support my family financially back in Pakistan. So I just ignored it and said, “OK, there are many hospitals with intelligent doctors.” I thought to be a social worker, in this field, and help refugees. I am still missing it, especially the preventive part.

What do you think of health-care reform in the United States?

First of all it should be free and second, doctors should spend more time with patients than just 5 minutes. I spent more time with my patients. If somebody said they had a headache, I wouldn’t just say take aspirin.

I would check: does she read books, does she watch a lot of TV, does she have a problem with her family, does she eat proper food? Here there is no connection between patient and doctor.

Read more about Aguilar’s parents’ experience in Afghanistan through the war, the Boise Afghan community and Hamid Karzai’s wedding at boiseweekly.com.

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NEWS/TRUE CRIME FLOWERPOT INCIDENT LEADS TO VANDALISM ARREST The midnight quiet of the neighborhood just southeast of Curtis and Franklin roads shattered Oct. 23 along with the glass in one kitchen window. The female occupant investigated, only to find a flowerpot had been heaved into the room. She called the Boise Police Department.

Reports say officers found a 27-year-old Boise man lying in the woman’s back yard. He was shirtless. And soaking wet on an otherwise dry night.

Further investigation led to a trail of wet footprints. Which led to another nearby home.

There, officers found a kicked-in garage door.

And an interior that had been soaked— apparently with a garden hose—as well as a wet sweatshirt police believe belonged to the suspect. By the time officers filed their report, it remained “unclear” why he was there.

An arrest ensued on felony charges of malicious injury to property, and the suspect was allegedly found to be under the influence of marijuana and meth.

We can see the “Not Even Once!” TV commercial now.

BARSTOOL FLING LANDS CONCERTGOER IN JAIL “Don’t be an asshole. So you paid more than you could afford for the tickets. And waited for hours for the concert to begin. And it really, really pissed you off when your favorite rapper cancelled at the last minute. So what?

“That doesn’t give you the right to pick up a solid-wood barstool and throw it at the stage.

Especially when there are other human beings between you and that stage. Get yourself some effin’ help.”

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Unfortunately for a woman out in Bodo for a fun, music-filled Oct. 17, a 25-year-old Caldwell man evidently didn’t get the above message from his brain’s impulse-control center.

According to BPD arrest reports, a female concertgoer sustained serious injuries when the suspect reacted to the cancellation news at Knitting Factory by heaving a solid-wood barstool into the crowd. The identified flying object knocked the woman to the ground.

She was transported to a nearby hospital, he to the Ada County jail, where he was booked on an aggravated battery charge—a felony.

NEIGHBORHOOD NARCS HELP COPS BUST TWO DRUG HOUSES Eagle-eyed neighbors grew suspicious. They relayed those suspicions to their Boise Police Department Neighborhood Contact Officers.

Investigations ensued.

On Oct. 20, police raided a residence on the 1400 block of Rand Street. According to reports, officers recovered 1 gram of meth and 144 grams of marijuana, along with packaging materials, scales and paraphernalia. They arrested a 40-year-old Boise man, suspecting delivery of a controlled substance, a felony.

Then on Oct. 22, a second citizen tip led police to a house on the 4300 block of West Clark. There, officers allegedly found 1.5 ounces of marijuana and the obligatory scales, packaging materials and paraphernalia.

One resident—a 25-year-old male—was arrested on a felony intent-to-deliver charge, as well as a misdemeanor for paraphernalia possession. Cops also slapped two others in the house—a 24-year-old resident and his 53-yearold mother—with misdemeanor paraphernalia charges. At least the 24-year-old won’t have to explain his arrest to his mother.

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idgeting, I made hurry-up eyes at the checker who was taking her dear, sweet time ringing up the customer in front of me. I glanced at my phone: nine minutes. That was nine minutes to pay for a sack of balloons and an umbrella, squeal out of Rite Aid, find a parking spot downtown and full-out run to the post office. With just three minutes left, heart pounding, I plodded through a back alley downtown, adjusting the reusable grocery bag that was thrown over my shoulder. Inside, there was one lime green umbrella, one inflated pink balloon, a can of garbanzo beans and an iPod containing roughly nine minutes of an unknown MP3. All this for a silly flash mob.

By now, the term flash mob has nudged its way comfortably into our popular culture. YouTube is teeming with videos of jubilant food court musicals, train station freezes and massive, impromptu pillow fights. When dozens of strangers suddenly broke into dance on the Showtime drama Weeds, a befuddled Nancy Botwin asked what was going on and the stranger next to her casually replied, “Oh, it’s a flash mob.” Then there was Oprah’s “surprise” 20,000-person choreographed dance to a Black Eyed Peas song.

All of these happenings have been lumped together, accurately or not, as flash mobs.

In 2004, the Oxford English Dictionary defined the term flash mob as: “a public gathering of complete strangers, organized via the Internet or mobile phone, who perform a pointless act and then disperse again.” But Boise Flash Mob administrator Will Schmeckpeper has a more colloquial description: “A flash mob is like a good bank robbery. You’re in, you’re out, nobody knows what happened.”

Schmeckpeper started the Boise Flash Mob group on Facebook not quite a year ago, and membership has climbed to nearly 2,400 members. BFM has already organized five events since January—a mall freeze, a pillow fight, a squirt gun battle, a slow motion walk through the Curb Cup and the aforementioned MP3 experiment.

Though Schmeckpeper, a low-budget documentary filmmaker, has been on the front lines organizing these mobs, he’s hesitant to claim full ownership or responsibility for the community.

“The Facebook group is pretty open; I consider myself the Internet liaison at the very most.

Anybody can post anything they want to on that board. If it’s offensive, I’ll take it down,” said Schmeckpeper.

But Boise Flash Mob isn’t the only game in town. Before the group planned its first mission, there was another, brainier flash mob crew lurching through the streets. In 2006, Wendy Fox helped organize the first Boise Zombie Walk along with pals Lisa Money and Jake Hite.

“It started during the Bush administration: There was this idea of following the leader, all this mindless following …

That’s what zombies do, they’re only after one thing,” explained Fox. “It wasn’t political per se, but to me, zombies seemed like an interesting form. We had this idea to do a quick little zombie walk, which is just one form of a flash mob.”

Though the event started out small, with a dozen zombies participating, the living dead spread, and by the next year, around 80 people showed up. Web developer Erik Goodlad and his son Johnathan were some of the zombie pioneers who stooped and shuffled their way through downtown in 2007 and ended up at Pioneer Cemetery.

“We met at the Modern Hotel, and I remember getting close and looking to see if there are other people dressed like zombies, because I look like a zombie and it’s still daylight out. I remember there was that weird feeling,” said Goodlad. “But as soon as you saw one person, you were like, ‘OK, at least there’s one other.”

The Goodlads had such a rad time that in 2008, they returned with daughter/sister Lydia in tow. That year, Julia Green and Leigh Ann Dufurrena took the organizing reins, and more than 150 zombies oozed into the streets of downtown.

But these zombie walks didn’t begin in Boise. Wikipedia lists Sacramento, Calif., as the host of the first documented zombie walk. The event, billed as the Zombie Parade, went down in August 2001 as a part of the Trash Film Orgy movie festival and has now become an annual tradition. Since those early days, zombie walks have exploded worldwide—with cities from Pittsburgh to Seattle to Brisbane, Australia, all vying to set the Guinness World Record for most zombies in attendance.

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While a zombie walk is one form of a flash mob, the term encompasses much more than that. The word flash mob was initially coined

by Sean Savage of cheesebikini.com in 2003, referring to an event staged in New York City

by Harper’s Magazine senior editor Bill Wasik.

The event was a convergence of 200 strangers in the Macy’s rug department, all of whom were instructed to inform sales associates that they were shopping for a “love rug” to decorate their Long Island commune. Though Wasik initially concealed his identity, he later outed himself in an article in Harper’s in 2006, explaining his motives in the following way: “The basic hypothesis behind the Mob Project was as follows: Seeing how all culture in New York was demonstrably commingled with scenesterism, the appeal of concerts and plays and readings and gallery shows deriving less from the work itself than from the social opportunities the work might engender, it should theoretically be possible to create an art project consisting of pure scene—meaning the scene would be the entire point of the work, and indeed would itself constitute the work.”

But, by the time 2006 had rolled around, Wasik’s biting social commentary on the vacuousness of hipsters had been overshadowed by the immense popularity of the flash mobs he created. From Barcelona to Hong Kong, strangers were taking to the streets, performing random acts for no apparent reason and then dispersing just as randomly. Spurred, in a large part, by the increased accessibility and organizing potential of cell phones and the Internet, these flash mobs started to get much larger and garner considerably more attention.

A group based out of New York called Improv Everywhere was, and remains, at the forefront of the flash mob craze. Though IE explicitly states that the events they organize are not flash mobs—in fact, they started doing them in 2001, well before the term was coined—many of their missions have become widely used models for flash mobbers around the globe. In addition to inventing the nowfamous No Pants subway rides in New York, IE is also behind Slo-mo Home Depot, where agents walk through a chain store in slow motion; the Grand Central Freeze, where agents stop and freeze for five minutes in a crowded place; and the MP3 Experiments, where thousands of people download the same MP3, then meet in the same place, push play and follow the instructions. Charlie Todd, founder of IE, credits a large part of the group’s success to the Internet and availability of new technology.

“We did the first MP3 Experiment in 2004 at a point where iPods were becoming pervasive,” explained Todd via e-mail. “I don’t think we could have pulled it off in 2003. Well, maybe, but it would have been a bunch of people with burned CDs and Discmans.”

While groups like BFM are now wholly reliant on the social networking prowess of Facebook to facilitate communication with members, Todd is quick to credit YouTube over social networking sites for the widespread attention Improv Everywhere receives.

“We were organizing and mobilizing large groups of people long before MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc.,” said Todd. “That said …

IE could not have happened in the same way in the 1990s. Had we started then, we would not have been able to expand past my friends and a few friends of friends. We would not have had the global audience YouTube provides us.

We would not have been able to affordably

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document our work. The Internet has democratized the means of communication, production and distribution. Anyone with a great idea can make a huge impact, regardless of their connections.”

And it’s this democratic “anybody can do it” sentiment that inspired Schmeckpeper to organize the Boise Flash Mob after he watched some of Todd’s videos on YouTube.

“It’s one of those things where you see it on the Internet and say, ‘Whoa, that’s cool,’” said Schmeckpeper. “Then you think about it and say, ‘Yeah, I could do that.’”

To get a feel for how the Boise community would respond to flash mobs, Schmeckpeper chose the Boise Town-Square mall as the first event location. Participants met up beforehand in a nearby parking lot and received their instructions. The mission: At the sound of a horn, flash mobbers would freeze for five minutes in the middle of the mall then disperse.

Sound familiar? That’s because Schmeckpeper lifted the idea from IE’s Grand Central Freeze.

“While I’m a creative guy, I’m not above stealing ideas from people that have done things before,” explained Schmeckpeper.

The mall freeze went generally well. Around 40 participants showed up and froze in a variety of poses, thoroughly confusing passersby.

Freeze attendee Seth Ogilvie remembers the awkward seconds before mobbers assumed their positions.

“The funniest thing was the moments right before, when everyone’s clocks weren’t completely set right and people started to freeze, but they weren’t sure,” said Ogilvie. “Some people had their really cool positions but then lost it because the timing wasn’t quite right.”

While most observers hurried by with perplexed looks on their faces, some stopped to inspect the situation.

“I think this happens with a lot of Idaho events where people don’t know completely what’s going on, most people just kind of walked by—like snuck a peek but didn’t really engage in all of what was going on,” remembered Ogilvie. “There were only one or two people that walked through it and actually started looking, and they seemed to love it. But most people tried to ignore it.”

But there was one group of people who couldn’t ignore what was happening—the mall’s cops. Though it took them a good three

minutes to arrive at the scene, they immediately began hassling people with video cameras.

“The mall’s an interesting place because, while they do have a policy against videotaping in the mall, they don’t have a policy against standing still,” said Schmeckpeper. “So [mall security] could chase the photographers around, but they couldn’t do anything with the people that weren’t moving.”

When Boise State student Caley Christian organized her own mall freeze in early October with members of her church youth group, she called mall security ahead of time to make sure they were aware of the plan. At the same time, she also made sure that the event would be clandestinely documented.

“Everybody knows that at a flash mob, you bring a camera, so everybody has their cell phones,” explained Christian. “Usually there are a few people that don’t want to participate, so they’re like the camera crew and then they basically film people’s reactions.”

Documentation, it seems, is one of the inherent requirements of a flash mob. If there’s no YouTube video or Flickr album, did it happen? While most mobbers agree that part of the fun is creating spontaneous, you-won’tguess-what-happened-to-me-today moments for complete strangers, they also acknowledge that having physical evidence of their stunt is paramount. But this excessive documentation can also have drawbacks. In a number of local flash mob situations, there have been a disproportionate number of people lurking on the sidelines, viewing the action through a camera lens instead of actively engaging.

“The pillow fight we had at the beginning of summer was very successful … we had about 100-120 people there,” said Schmeckpeper. “But around them, we had probably 30 people taking pictures.”

One of those people was first-time flash mob attendee Greg Harley, who snapped action-blurred photos of folks smacking each other upside the head with their soft sacks.

Though Harley had been notified of other flash mob events, he wasn’t able to go for one reason or another.

“They were at locations that I didn’t want to attend because it was too far away, or whatever,” explained Harley. “I’m a little outside of that [age] demographic in general … I’m about twice as old as most of the people that would WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

be there. It did seem to be predominately younger folks; there were some older folks there but not a lot.”

Even though Harley has only attended one flash mob event and didn’t technically participate in it, he’s now part of an elite community, according to Schmeckpeper.

“Of the people that respond and say they’re going to show up to an event, I can depend on 10 percent of them,” said Schmeckpeper.

“So it’s a difficult thing because a lot of people want to play, but when it comes down to it, there’s a lot of hemming and hawing.”

Whether it’s age, location or fear of looking stupid in front of strangers, it’s easy to make excuses for shrugging off an event that has no real meaning. I recently took a completely unscientific survey of my pals who are members of BFM on Facebook—out of 17 people I know in the group, only one has ever attended a mob. Though many people like to think they’re crazy, what-the-hell types who’d participate in a flash mob, when it comes down to it, they’re not.

“A part of it is social media, people want to feel like they belong to anything and everything,” said Schmeckpeper. “Part of it is they don’t want to look like idiots, but they sure as heck want to be in a place to watch other people look like idiots.”

And while it’s easy to criticize those who don’t participate, heading to a random place— at times dressed like a zombie—and letting loose with a bunch of strangers is much harder than it seems. Ask Schmeckpeper. He’s never actually participated in a BFM event.

“I’m a voyeur, man. I’m the organizer,” he explained. “There’s got to be somebody watching the machine. I’m usually watching to see if there are people reacting in a negative manner; there’s always concern about police, security guards.”

But for the small percentage of people who show up to these mobs and actually participate, their rationale for attending is highly varied. Some, like Goodlad, really enjoy the social aspect of the experience: “Since the [zombie walks], I’ve actually gone and done other things with people that I met … I work from home, so things like this are another way to get out and meet people because I don’t go to an office every day.”

Others, like Christian, who organized the second mall freeze, are in it to get a rise out of people: “The funniest part is watching it and getting a good laugh at the fact that people have no idea what’s going on.”

Others still, like Dufurrena, last year’s zombie walk organizer, see flash mobs as a vehicle for artistic expression: “I view flash mobs as performance graffiti. Street art. Living amusement.”

And then there are some, like Fox, who approach it from an ego-deflating, inner-growth perspective: “Part of this is encouraging people to take small risks, to break out of their normal lives in a very safe way. I think anytime you take on a separate persona and play in a space in time, it really helps your self-grandeur come down a little bit. It kind of keeps your ego in check.”

Still, there are others, like Schmeckpeper, who get involved for surprising and entirely different reasons altogether: “I had ulterior motives, and I still do. I do film stuff and … one of the hardest things we have to do is get a large crowd of extras at any given place at any given time. I wanted to see if Facebook WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

would allow me to develop a large group that I could have access to that might be interested in doing something for half-an-hour on any given day.”

And this is where the more sinister aspects of this seemingly innocuous trend can come into play. Be they flashy or not, flash mobs, at their core, are still mobs. As Wasik penned in his Harper’s piece “My Crowd,” flash mobs are “all about the herd instinct … about the desire not to be left out of the latest fad.” It follows, then, that both those who control these herds and those who populate them, have a considerable amount of power that they can choose to use in a variety of ways.

“It’s one of those things that could be used in a detrimental way,” explained Fox. “Like anything, anytime there’s mob mentality, you get people into a situation which is hyper-real and they can do a lot of wacky things. You get soccer game mobs.”

While many are uncomfortable with the fact that flash mobs are now being used to sell products—like Ford and Sony’s Fusion Flash Concert series or recent flash mobs promoting the movie Fame—others are uncomfortable with the idea that they could become pawns in someone else’s chess game. Referring to the initial BFM mall freeze event, Ogilvie explained: “I guess I had an apprehension about it because of the pre-planning of it. There’s an element where, for me, when it’s planned that much, it seems like I’m kind of being put into a situation for someone else’s amusement. It doesn’t seem spontaneous and fun.”

Panting, I arrived in front of the downtown post office just in time to hear the crack of a gun. I rustled through my bag, slid my headphones over my ears and pressed play on my iPod. But I was too late. The voice telling me to turn and face toward the north seemed to be telling everyone else to jump in place. The friend who had accompanied me was also in a bad spot—as about 30 people pulled inflated, multi-colored balloons out of their bags and began to wage a fierce battle, she frantically scrolled through her music trying to find the MP3. Unable to catch up and join the mob, we retreated to the sidelines with the photographers and watched in silent amusement.

A few minutes later, after the crowd had collapsed to the ground, stood up again, popped open umbrellas, given each other high fives and shaken their respective rumps, they dispersed, each leaving a can of food to be donated to the Idaho Foodbank. Though first-time flash attendee Gary Winterholler also had problems getting his MP3 to play, and, like others, was thrown off by the faulty signal horn, he chalked it all up to experience.

“The beauty of doing things live is all of the flubs and mistakes, I think. The reality of it, the life in it,” said Winterholler.

In the end, it seems, no matter how planned out a flash mob might be, it will never go off completely as intended. A number of unforeseen variables ensure that the mob will never be totally uniform or completely in tandem.

The discipline of the flash mob is unpredictable. But in that planned spontaneity and playful group think, a lovely experience may emerge. A mall cop may have a story to tell his buddies. Or a deskbound mouse jockey may just find inner peace.

“There’s always what you start out with intending, and then what happens,” said Fox. “Really, anything can happen, and sometimes it does.”

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Old Idaho Penitentiary inmates peel fruit near the Sally Port gate, circa 1955.

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DRACULA AT THE FALCON

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We all know the pointy toothed, black-caped, supple-white-neck-lusting Dracula made famous by Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel.

Many of us also know Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992 dark masterpiece starring Gar y Oldman as Count Dracula, Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker, Winona Ryder as the Count’s loveinterest, Mina and Anthony Hopkins as professor Abraham Van Helsing.

But Dracula, in fact, has a historical basis outside of popular culture. Bram Stoker’s character was loosely based on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, or Vlad the Impaler. Vlad III ruled Transylvania (modern day Romania) from 1456 to 1462 and got his nickname from his large-scale impalings—he purpor tedly offed 30,000 people in the city of Brasov.

So, whether you’re a Romanian histor y buff, a Stoker-stalker or a dark prince of the night, Thursday, Oct. 29, is your evening at the Falcon Tavern. The Coppoladirected Bram Stoker’s Dracula will be projected on the Falcon Tavern’s outside wall at 7 p.m.

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It’s not often that you’re asked to dress up as your favorite plant or animal species, but when the opportunity arises, you have to be ready to don your glitziest Tagetes erecta attire and saunter down the red carpet. As chance would have it, this Halloween that opportunity has come knocking. Advocates for the West will host the All Species Ball, a benefit put on to support the organization. Based in Boise, Advocates for the West is a conservation group comprised of lawyers and scientists who work hand in hand to make sure Federal and state agencies manage public lands and wildlife properly across the West, as well as adhere to environmental law.

Environmentalism has gotten a lot more glam since the days when folks chained themselves to bulldozers and the “All Species Ball” is a celebration of that progression.

Costumed revelers can shake their tail feathers to animalthemed tunes provided by the Boise Mobile DJs, while the quieter critters can try their luck at the silent auction. Prizes will be awarded to participants with the best furry fashions, with categories including “scariest costume” and “best use of faux feathers or fur.” With a title like “All Species” you can’t go wrong, so muscle up a mussel costume and take a walk on the wild side.

8 p.m.-1 a.m., $25 per person or $45 per couple, Doubletree Riverside, 2900 Chinden Blvd., 208-342-7024, advocateswest.org.

scene-setting as a foggy Transylvanian horizon, there will be plenty of red wine and cozy patio-heater warmth to make you mighty glad you’re not hanging out with Vlad.

7 p.m., FREE, Falcon Tavern, 705 W. Bannock St., 208-947-3111, falcontavern.com.

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THURSDAY OCT. 29 fun bags PINK SOCIAL No dull drawers or ugly unmentionables here. For the last month, downtown

Spending Halloween in prison may sound like a drunken night gone wrong, but this Halloween, the Old Idaho Penitentiary wants to show you the other side of the bars—don’t worry, they’ll let you back out. For the first time in 10 years, this historic prison will be celebrating the haunting holiday with a new event, Frightened Felon’s Halloween. Guests will be taken on a haunted tour through the prison facility, so watch out for escaped convicts lurking around every corner. The Treasure Valley Storytellers will be on hand to spin spooky yarns, and kids (preferably over 6) will find plenty to do while discovering clues during a prisoner scavenger hunt. For those who are older and bolder, special tours begin after 8 p.m., featuring executions, ghosts and other mental madness. No scary soiree would be complete without a costume contest, so scrounge up your best prison outfit and take home top prize. Food and drinks will be available for all hardened criminals across the way at the famous Bishop’s House. If you like a little history with your mystery and haunted houses just aren’t cutting it, check into the slammer for a night of eerie entertainment.

6 p.m.-10 p.m., $8-$10, Old Idaho Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, 208-334-2844, idahohistory.net.

Boise merchants have had bras on the brain, courtesy of Susan G. Komen’s Race for the Cure. Working in conjunction with Breast Cancer Awareness Month, local artists turned their boring ol’ bras into amazing works of art. These holsters have been hung up in galleries spread throughout the downtown scene, and this October, they’re being put to good use. These new-age negligees will be auctioned off during the Susan G. Komen Pink Social. Organizers will distribute $425,000 in grants to 19 county ser vice areas. The event will feature guest speakers galore, as well as a pumped-up per formance by the Boise State Cheerleaders and Maneline Dancers. The St. Luke’s and Saint Alphonsus Mobile Mammography vehicles will be on hand to provide tours and information, joined by other educational booths

spread throughout. As the month comes to a close, tie on that pink ribbon, salute a sur vivor and check out those delightfully decorated boulder holders. RSVP at 208-384-0013.

5 p.m., FREE, The Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., 208-384-0013, komen.org.

FRIDAY OCT. 30 face-melting MONSTER MASH AT RECORD EXCHANGE What do you get when you mix kids, candy and rock ’n’ roll? Some ampedup youngsters playing face-melting, heart-thumping rock. Kicking the Halloween weekend off in style, Boise Rock School will take the stage at Record Exchange

for a freaky free concert. Focusing on band instruction and per formance, Boise Rock School teaches young musicians how to unleash their inner rocker. These pint-sized per formers will ham it up at the Monster Mash, with many of the bands dressing up as their favorite groups and playing their favorite hits.

One band of mini musicians is likely to whip things into shape wearing Devo gear. Those not tackling familiar tunes will light up the store with their own mind-blowing original jams.

Roughly 10 bands will take the stage, and Record Exchange will be decked out with all sorts of ghoulish decorations to inspire the rocking-est of Rock School rock shows.

5:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m., FREE, Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., 208-3448010, boiserockschool.com.

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Nothing says fun like a big ol’ ball smack to the face.

SATURDAY OCT. 31 finger jam THINK FAST! The never-ending salvo of big red balls. The flutter of panic as the beefy redheaded kid picks you out of the crowd. The sharp sting of humiliation as the homing missile of a playground ball strikes you in the gut. Sound like a distant memory? Don’t look now, but dodgeball is back. This Halloween, the junior-high sport returns, all grown-up and ready to dish out some punishment. The Garden City Boys and Girls Club invites you to witness the madness that is 8 Man Mayhem, an 18-and-up dodgeball extravaganza. The tournament will pit 32 teams of eight against one another in red-balled battle until only the dodgiest remains. More than $4,000 in prizes up for grabs. All proceeds will be donated to the Boys and Girls Club of Ada County, so you can feel good about yourself as you wallop opposing players relentlessly.

9 a.m., $200 per team of eight, Garden City Boys and Girls Club, 610 E 42nd St., 208-376-4960, 8manmayhem.com.

SATURDAY OCT. 31 farce GROVE HOTEL MURDER MYSTERY Calling all gumshoes and super sleuths—the Grove Hotel has a case for you.

This Halloween, the hotel will partner with the Wishing Star Foundation for a onenight myster y event dubbed

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David Sedaris, master of satire, heats up the Morrison Center.

SATURDAY OCT. 31 funny DAVID SEDARIS If a land existed where censorship was viewed as a curse word and P.C. meant “pretty cool,” David Sedaris would be king. His sharp wit and sardonic tone have made him a national favorite and a pop-culture icon, and this October, he’s coming back to Boise. The author of numerous New York Times bestsellers, including Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames, Sedaris has made a habit of slicing through cultural decorum and ignoring all that is politically correct. His books, as well as his appearances on NPR and This American Life, have garnered Sedaris a great deal of critical acclaim. The Cabin will present the master wordsmith in a one-night Halloween engagement: “An Evening with David Sedaris.” Held at the Morrison Center, this event will be his second stop in Idaho this go around after a reading in Sun Valley. Sedaris will present his unique views on the human condition as well as provide his own brand of social commentary, undoubtedly proving why he is hailed as “the master of satire.” Irreverent, off-putting and unapologetic, these ingredients combine to form a master storyteller. This Halloween, prepare to scream with laughter with one wickedly funny guy.

7:30 p.m., $40-$55, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, thecabinidaho.org.

Murder Myster y Night at the Grove Hotel. Turns out there has been a murder, and it’s up to you to find out who dunnit. Participants will spend the evening searching for clues and putting the pieces together until the culprit is caught. The answers are hidden in the details so don’t forget your oversized magnifying glass.

After the puzzle has been

pieced together, contestants will meet to determine which suspect they should point their collective accusing finger at. Prizes will be awarded to the winners, and after ward, a dessert auction will be held courtesy of Chef Lou of West Side Drive-In fame. Though the cost is more than a typical Halloween outing, the end result is more rewarding. All

The human eye can perceive about 10 million colors. Marketing firms suggest it’s not enough to refer to colors with descriptors that we learned at the same time we mastered using the big kid potty. Orange, red, blue, green ... they don’t suffice.

Mercedes Benz car company takes color adjectives to a new level: astral silver, unimog green, tropic black (really?), autumn beige (beige in autumn?), Jupiter red (come on!). Luxury vehicles also come in colors impossible to visualize without a Germanto-English dictionary: spindelrot, nutria, byzanzgold, lindgrun, pastellweiss.

As any lipstick or nail polish wearer knows, cosmetic companies do the same thing. During a recent mail-order purchase at Sephora, a lovely customer service rep informed me that my order would come with a free Bare Escentuals Buxom Lips sample.

I was faced with choosing my sample from the likes of Bambi, Bianca, Candi, Trixie ...

What the hell color is Trixie? (It’s a shimmering golden rose by the way.) But then the unshakable rep said something that made me blush and tinged my entire colorful quandary. I was also eligible for a sample DOUG size of Urban Decay’s Pocket Rocket lipsephora.com gloss. Did I want Doug? Julio? Kirk? Full-size Pocket Rockets (tee hee) each have a photo of a handsome fellow in the lid. Like the cheesy pens that used to fill Vegas souvenir shop shelves, Kirk, Julio, Doug and the rest of the gorgeous gang are fully dressed when the tube is upright. Tip it upside down and their hip duds disappear, leaving each man modeling his skivvies (only the barely dressed version graces the sample sizes). I smiled and chose Doug as much for the iridescent sparkling pink lipgloss as for his turquoise blue boxer briefs. And decided maybe sometimes describing something as plain yellow really isn’t quite enough.

—Amy Atkins

proceeds go to the Wishing Star Foundation. All ages are invited to the event, and costumes aren’t required but are encouraged.

6 p.m.-9 p.m., $60 per person, $450 for a team of 8, The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-472-3352 or 208-345-3008, wmaple@ grovehotelboise.com.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY OCT. 28

HALLOWEEN/FAMILY

On Stage THE PAVILION—A play about a couple of sweethearts who meet again during their 20-year high school reunion. 8 p.m. $21.

Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater. org.

Workshops & Classes ADULT POTTERY CLASSES—Six week sessions of adult pottery classes. For more information, call 208-378-1112. The Potter’s Center Gallery, 110 Ellen St., Garden City, 208-378-1112, www.potterscenter.com.

BEGINNER DRUM CLASS— First-time drummers are encouraged to drop in and learn basic concepts and techniques of drumming. 6-7 p.m. $7 with studio drum; $5 with your personal drum. Drum Central, 2709 W. State St., Boise, 208-424-9519, www.boisedrumcentral.com.

THE PERFECT WORKSHOP— A four-week course for middle school girls on empowerment coaching and how to relieve the pressure to be perfect. For more information, visit www. perfectnow.org. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $25 (scholarships available).

Eastwind Community Church, 4750 S. Surprise Way, Boise, 208-387-0818, www.eastwindcc. com.

LISTEN LOCALLY. THINK GLOBALLY.

STRENGTHENING FAMILIES— This the fifth of an eight-part series focusing on stronger parenting. Registration is required.

6:30-8:30 p.m. $15. 208-3277499, www.cdhd.idaho.gov. Central District Health Department, 707 N. Armstrong Pl., Boise.

WRITING UNTIL I GET IT RIGHT—This workshop will focus on teaching participants how to get articles published in magazines, e-zines and other formats. Meet at IdahoSBDC, 1021 Manitou, Boise. 2-5 p.m. $50. 208-426-3875, www.

IdahoSBDC.org.

Art FIRST LIGHT: FIVE PHOTOGRAPHERS EXPLORE YOSEMITE’S WILDERNESS— Join Boise resident and photographer Keith S. Walklet for a multimedia presentation on the collaborative book First Light: Five Photographers Explore Yosemite’s Wilderness. 7 p.m.

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

Literature PATRICK MCMANUS—Join author Pat McManus for a book reading and signing of his third installment in the Sheriff Bo Tully comic series, The Double-Jack Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery. 7 p.m. FREE. Borders Books and Music, 350 N. Milwaukee, Boise, 208-322-6668, www.borders.com.

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Take a stroll along scarecrow row.

HALLOWEEN FAMILY EVENTS BRONCO ELITE’S HALLOWEEN PARTY—Featuring a costume contest, ghoulish games, pumpkin decorating, movies, pizza, face painting, a cake walk, a bake sale and more. Fri., Oct. 30, 6:30-11 p.m. $25 ages 4 to 12. Bronco Elite, 1187 W. River St., Boise, 208-389-9005.

CORN MAZE—Maneuver through the twists and turns to find your way through a 12-acre corn maze. Other harvest activities on the farmstead include pony rides, a pumpkin patch, pig races and more. A separate corn maze, the Haunted Field of Screams, is open on Friday and Saturday nights through Halloween. Mon.-Thu., 4-9 p.m.; Fri., 4-11 p.m.; Sat., 10 a.m.-11 p.m. $10 general (12 and older), $7 (4-12) and FREE for ages 3 and younger; Field of Screams pass includes both mazes, $15 (ages 12 and older), $12 (4-11). The Farmstead, 8685 S. Meridian Road, Meridian, 208-922-5678.

DCI AFTER DARK—An evening of spooky fun for the entire family featuring a haunted house, games and science demonstrations. Fri., Oct. 30, 6-10 p.m. Adults $6.50, seniors (60+) $5.50, children (ages 3-17) $4, members FREE. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, www.scidaho.org.

EVIDENCE OF HAUNTING—Visit the spookily transformed Bush Mansion with your goblins and ghouls for a haunting portrait, taken by the professional photographers at Boise Associated Photographers. Sat., Oct. 31, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $5 or 3 cans of food. Bush Mansion, 1020 W. Franklin St., Boise.

FALL FOR GIRL SCOUTS—Join the Girl Scouts for a fall harvest festival. Participate in pumpkin painting, apple cider tasting, a costume contest at 11. Sat., Oct. 31, 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. FREE. 208-377-2011.

Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, www.capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

HALLOWEEN COOKIE CLASS—Bring your child, ages 9 to 11, for a class on kooky cookies for Halloween. Sat., Oct. 31, 11 a.m. $35. Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

HARRY POTTER HALLOWEEN PARTY—Kids will participate in a broom race, taste treats from Honeydukes and Bertie Bott’s, make potions, wands and play Potter trivia games. Sat., Oct. 31, 1-3 p.m. FREE, 208562-4996, www.boisepubliclibrary.org. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise.

HAUNTED HISTORY TOUR—Take a 75-min. tour of haunted locations in Boise. No one under 13 allowed. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m. adults $18, students $16. Boise Trolley Tours, 602 Julia Davis, Boise, 208433-0849, www.boisetrolleytours.com.

HAUNTED WOODS—Put on every year by the Eagle Volunteer Fire Fighters Association to support the Burn Out fund. Dusk until 11 p.m. $10 adults, $6 kids 5-12. www.eaglefire.org. Merrill Park, 637 E. Shore (in the Eagle River Development), Eagle.

INAUGURAL PUMPKIN CARVING CONTEST—Design and carve a pumpkin. Winners will be chosen at 4 p.m. All proceeds benefit the Boise Sculptors Guild, a nonprofit organization. Fri., Oct. 30, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. small pumpkins $4, medium $5 and large $7. Boise State, 1910 University Dr., Boise, 208-426-1000, www.boisestate.edu.

SCARECROW STROLL—The garden is full of scarecrows designed and created by local businesses, artists and organizations. Daily. Garden admission during normal hours. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, www.idahobotanicalgarden.org.

TALES FROM THE DORKSIDE—Prairie Dog Playhouse puts its own spin on three Halloween classics. Oct. 30-31, 7:15 p.m. $7-$13. Prairie Dog Playhouse, 3820 Cassia St., Boise, 208-336-7383, www.pdplayhouse. com.

TRUNK OR TREAT—Drop in for especially spooky burger goodness, games, prizes and a costume contest. Bring by some canned goods to benefit the Idaho Foodbank. Sat., Oct. 31, noon-3 p.m. Patty’s Burger Time, 1273 S. Orchard, Boise, 208-424-5073.

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THE PINK SOCIAL—See Picks, Page 16. 5 p.m.

FREE. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-3810483, www.parklaneco.com.

CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC FORUM—Join moderator Dr. Jim Weatherby in a question and answer forum with candidates for Boise City Council. 7-9 p.m.

Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, www.boisepubliclibrary.org.

On Stage BEAUTY AND THE BEAST— A modern classic based on the Academy Award-winning animated feature about a love story between the beautiful Belle and the kindhearted Beast and how love can soften the most hardened soul. 7:30 p.m. $15 adult, $14 seniors and students; $20 door, 208-468-2385, www. mtionline.org. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa.

Odds & Ends VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF IDAHO— Aiming to preserve vinyl music heritage by promoting record collecting, record playing and all associated matters of analog musicology regardless of listening tastes. Keep it spinning. 7-10 p.m. FREE, www. vpsidaho.org. Modern Hotel and Bar, 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244.

COMEDY NIGHT FEATURING LONNIE SWONGER—The comedian from Nampa performs a family friendly show to get the audience chuckling. 7:30 p.m.

FREE. Music of the Vine, 2805 Blaine St., Ste. 130, Caldwell, 208-454-1228, www.musicofthevine.com.

THURSDAY OCT. 29

FRANKENSTEIN 1930—Bishop Kelly Theatre Arts presents a play in two acts. 7 p.m. $7 general, $5 over 65 and children under 6. Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Rd., Boise, 208-375-6010, www.bk.org.

Festivals & Events FALCONS GO LIVE—Check out exceptional flying falcon demonstrations. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

THE MOUSETRAP—Agatha Christie’s long-running mystery is the perfect production for the spookiest month. 7:30 p.m. $11 general, $9 seniors and students. Boise Little Theater,

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THE PAVILION—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $21.

Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater. org.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC—Based on the story of the Von Trapp Family Singers, The Sound of Music by Rodgers and Hammerstein is a musical for the entire family. Settle into the seat for the beloved story of Maria, the high-spirited postulant who becomes governess to the seven children of Captain Von Trapp. 7 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 333 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-385-0021, www. kedproductions.org.

Concerts OCTUBAFEST—Performance by the Boise State Tuba Ensemble.

7:30 p.m. $5 general, $3 seniors, FREE students/faculty, 208-426-3980. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, www. mc.boisestate.edu.

Food & Drink POLYNESIAN CUISINE BY CHEF DREW LEGER—Drew will show participants how to filet a whole salmon, make salsa and sauces, cook and cool the rice.

6:30-8:30 p.m. $50. Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

Screen DRACULA—See Picks, Page 16. 7 p.m. FREE. Falcon Tavern, 705 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-9473111, www.falcontavern.com.

Workshops & Classes MICROSOFT OFFICE INFO. AND WORKSHOP—This program will teach small business owners tools and tricks when using Microsoft Office. 1-4 p.m. $35. TECenter Boise State West, 5465 E. Terra Linda Way, Nampa, 208-426-1974, www. idahosbdc.org.

WHOLISTIC TREATMENT AND PREVENTION OF COLDS AND FLU—Learn simple home remedies and herbal formulas to use for the prevention and treatment of cold or flu. The class will also cover steps that can be taken to enhance the immune system. 5:30-8:30 p.m. $36. The Wellspring School for Healing Arts, 723 N. 15th St., Boise, 208-388-0206, www. thewellspring.org.

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Literature PATRICK MCMANUS—Join author Pat McManus for a book reading and signing of his third installment in the Sheriff Bo Tully comic series, The Double-Jack Murders: A Sheriff Bo Tully Mystery. 7 p.m. FREE. Hastings, 680 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208345-9428.

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8 DAYS OUT Talks & Lectures 13TH ANNUAL DISTINGUISHED HUMANITIES LECTURE AND DINNER—National Humanities Medal-winner and Abraham Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer will speak at the Idaho Humanities Council’s 13th Annual Distinguished Humanities Lecture and Dinner. To make reservations, call the IHC at 208-345-5346 or reserve online at www.idahohumanities.org. 7 p.m. $55 general, $125 beneficiary. Idaho Humanities Council, 217 W. State St., Boise, 888-345-5346.

FRIDAY OCT. 30 Festivals & Events COLLEGE NIGHT—All highschool and college students will receive a 10 percent discount on purchased items. Also featuring pizza and live music from 4-10 p.m. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Urban Outfitters, 328 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-344-9900.

FALCONS GO LIVE—Check out exceptional flying falcon demonstrations. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

MONSTER MASH WITH BOISE ROCK SCHOOL—See Picks, Page 16. 5:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, www.therecordexchange.com.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW—See Noise News, Page 23. A blend of comedy, song and dance— including belly, pole, corde lisse, burlesque and hoop. With Le Fleur and Nollifur. Tickets on sale now at The Costume Shop and The Record Exchange. $15.

Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.visualartscollective.com.

THE MOUSETRAP—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $11 general, $9 seniors and students. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, www. boiselittletheater.org.

THE PAVILION—See Wednesday. $32, $12 previews, students and guests 25 and younger. Boise Contemporar y Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-4423232, www.bctheater.org.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $15-$39.

Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 333 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208385-0021, www.kedproductions. org.

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7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La Tea Room, 1800 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-424-0273, www. shangri-la-tea.com.

SATURDAY OCT. 31 Festivals & Events 8 MAN MAYHEM DODGEBALL TOURNAMENT—See Picks, Page 17. 9 a.m. $200 team fee includes two game minimum, team T-shirt, team photo and sponsor bag, www.8manmayhem.com. Garden City Boys & Girls Club, 610 E. 42nd St., Garden City, 208-376-4960.

KEN MCCONNELL—Join local author Ken McConnell as he discusses his newest release, Null Pointer. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. The Rediscovered Bookshop, 7079 Overland Road, Boise, 208-376-4229, www.rediscoveredbookshop.com.

ALL SPECIES BALL AND SILENT AUCTION—See Picks, Page 16. 8 p.m.-1 a.m. $25 per person or $45 per couple.

Doubletree Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, www. doubletree.com.

Green

EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET— The weekly outdoor market features art, fresh produce, wine, flowers and live music. 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Continues through Oct. 31. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle.

GARDEN COFFEE HOUR—Friends, neighbors and the green of thumb meet in the Garden Cottage on the last Friday of the month to talk to a gardener and learn what is being planned for the garden. 8:30-9:30 a.m.

FREE. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, www. idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Odds & Ends NATIVE FLUTE PLAYERS— Enjoy the sounds of mellow and relaxing native flute players.

FALCONS GO LIVE—Check out exceptional flying falcon demonstrations. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

FRIGHTENED FELON’S HALLOWEEN—See Picks, Page 16. For the first time in 10 years the Old Pen will grant access to haunted tours, executions, escapes and tall tales. This event is not

SALSA THRILLER—Featuring beginner merengue, bachata and salsa lessons, a full bar and a costume contest. 9 p.m. $5 single, $7 couple. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., 208-3456605, www.thebouquet.net.

On Stage BEAUTY AND THE BEAST—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $15 adult, $14 seniors and students; $20 door, 208-468-2385, www.mtionline.org. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa.

FRANKENSTEIN 1930—See Thursday. 7 p.m. $7 general, $5 over 65 and children under 6.

Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Rd., Boise, 208-3756010, www.bk.org.

GOUNOD’S FAUST—Gounod’s Faust sung in French with English subtitles with Robert Franz, conductor, and Doug Copsey, director. 7:30 p.m. $99 for six events, with the best seats available for $299; single tickets $15-$69. South Junior High School, 805 Shoshone St., Boise, 208-854-6110.

The Sockratic Method by Jacob Good and Daria Kanevski was the 1st place winner in the 7th Annual Boise Weekly Bad Cartoon Contest.

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8 DAYS OUT recommended for children under the age of 5. 6-10 p.m. $10 ages 12 and up, $8 ages 6-12.

Old Idaho State Penitentiar y, 2445 Old Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208-368-6080, www. idahohistor y.net/oldpen.html.

THE GROVE HOTEL MURDER MYSTERY— See Picks, Page 17. 6-9 p.m. $60 per person, $450 for a team of 8$60 per person, $450 for a team of 8. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000.

$40-$55. Morrison Center for the Per forming Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, www.mc. boisestate.edu.

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FRANKENSTEIN 1930—See Thursday. 7 p.m. and Sun., Nov. 1, 2 p.m. $7 general, $5 over 65 and children under 6. Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Rd., Boise, 208-3756010, www.bk.org.

Festivals & Events

THE MOUSETRAP—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $11 general, $9 seniors and students. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, www. boiselittletheater.org.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW—See Noise News, Page 23. A blend of comedy, song and dance— including belly, pole, corde lisse, burlesque and hoop, with Nollifur and Pussygutt. Tickets on sale now at The Costume Shop and The Record Exchange. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.visualartscollective.com.

THE PAVILION—See Wednesday. 2 and 8 p.m. $32, $21 matinee. $12 previews, students and guests 25 and younger. Boise Contemporar y Theater, 854 Fulton St., 208-442-3232, www. bctheater.org.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $15-$39.

Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 333 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208385-0021, www.kedproductions. org.

SIXTH ANNUAL WINEOPOLY TOURNAMENT—Something spooky is going on at Music of the Vine on Halloween. Play nice during an alternative game night featuring the famous board game with a wine twist. Prizes are awarded for best costume.

Sign-up requested. 7:30 p.m.

FREE. Music of the Vine, 2805 Blaine St., Ste. 130, Caldwell, 208-454-1228, www.musicofthevine.com.

Concerts YOUTH PIANIST SHOWCASE— Noon-3 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill & Co. Restaurant and Wine Bar, 121 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208387-3553, www.berr yhillandco. com.

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST— See Thursday. 1:30 and 7:30 p.m. $15 adult, $14 seniors and students; $20 door, 208468-2385, www.mtionline.org.

Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa.

COMMUNITY GREEN BUILDING WORKSHOP—Earthcraft Construction Inc. and EcoLibrium will present a workshop on straw bale construction and passive solar design. RSVP to Mark, 208-921-8707. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE.

DAVID SEDARIS—See Picks, Page 17. The Cabin presents the raves and rants of humor writer David Sedaris. Laugh along as Sedaris shares his outlook on society, culture and how to not be politically correct. Sedaris is a featured contributor on This American Life. 7:30 p.m.

FALCONS GO LIVE—Check out exceptional flying falcon demonstrations. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-3628687, www.peregrinefund.org.

HELLRACER 5—Three Warlocks Bicycle Club presents Hellracer 5, an alleycat race followed by a Sunday brunch in hell. Register at 10 a.m. sharp. 11 a.m. wbcboise.blogspot.com. Veterans Memorial Park, 930 N. Veterans Memorial Parkway, Boise.

On Stage FRANKENSTEIN 1930—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $7 general, $5 over 65 and children under 6.

Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Rd., Boise, 208-3756010, www.bk.org.

GOUNOD’S FAUST—See Friday.

2:30 p.m. $34. South Junior High School, 805 Shoshone St., Boise, 208-854-6110.

Citizen IDAHO CAMPAIGN TO END ISRAELI APARTHEID—The group meets every Sunday at Papa Joe’s, 1301 S. Capitol Blvd., and is continually working to educate and lobby for a just and truthful U.S. policy that works to end apartheid. For more information, e-mail lamalucynasser@yahoo.com. 6 p.m. FREE, idahocampaign.wordpress.com.

Religious/Spiritual THE ENDEMIC DREAM—An international scientific dream experiment intended to culminate in a quantifiable result. Participate in the collection phase of this social experiment. ShangriLa Tea Room, 1800 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-424-0273, www.shangri-la-tea.com.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

MONDAY NOV. 2 Festivals & Events THE BLACK DOG WALK—According to animal shelter employees, it appears that black dogs are passed up more than dogs of any other color. In order to raise awareness of this phenomenon, a number of local nonprofit pet organizations have put together a walk.

Get out and show a little love to our black dog friends. Held at the military reserve dog park. 2 p.m.

FREE. Military Reserve, Mountain Cove Road and Reserve Street, Boise, www.cityofboise.org.

Workshops & Classes LIVING WITH ARTHRITIS CLASS—A workshop on living with and identifying arthritis. 67:30 p.m. FREE, 208-362-2859.

Saint Alphonsus Family Center, 900 N. Liberty, Ste. 100, Boise.

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8 DAYS OUT Kids & Teens FAMILY FUN FOR SCHOOLAGED KIDS—The library’s new weekly program series, Family Fun for School-Aged Kids, held Monday evenings in the Hayes Auditorium includes guest presenters, crafts, old-fashioned-fun, board game nights, video gaming and more. 7 p.m. Continues through Nov. 30. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, www.boisepubliclibrary.org.

endary ad man, George Parker.

Musical entertainment by The Naughties will follow. 5:30 p.m. $25 members, $35 nonmembers, $15 students, $5 after 8 p.m. 208-336-7511. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, www.parklaneco.com.

Workshops & Classes COMPUTER BASICS—Part of an ongoing series, this threeweek course will focus on basic computer functions and terminol-

ogy. 9 a.m. FREE, registration required, 208-562-4996. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise.

CPR & PEDIATRIC FIRST AID— Offering childcare providers the American Heart Association Heartsaver CPR and Pediatric First Aid class. 9 a.m. $15, 208-327-7499. Central District Health Department, 707 N. Armstrong Pl., Boise, www.cdhd. idaho.gov.

TUESDAY NOV. 3 Festivals & Events

HALLOWEEN/ADULT

PERFORMANCE POETRY WORKSHOP AND POETRY SLAM OF STEEL—The Slam of Steel is a chance for poets to perform their own brand of spoken-word poetry—a combination of literature and performance—in front of a crowd. Signups are at 6:30 p.m. and the show is at 7 p.m. FREE for workshop; $5 poetry slam, www.boisepoetry. com. Woman of Steel Gallery and Wine Bar, 3640 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-331-5632.

Literature PARTNERS IN CRIME WRITING GROUP—Join both writers and readers of mystery to listen to speakers and discuss trends in mystery writing. 7-9 p.m. FREE. The Rediscovered Bookshop, 7079 Overland Road, Boise, 208-376-4229, www.rediscoveredbookshop.com.

POETRY READING—Poetry host Scott Berge invites poets to share their own work or favorite poems during a fun night of poetry readings. Sign up at 6:30 p.m. and start waxing poetic at 7 p.m. For more information, email ScottBerge@live.com. FREE. Alia’s Coffeehouse, 908 W. Main St., Boise, 208-338-1299.

Kids &Teens THE METROGNOMES—Instructor Vashti Summervill teaches students about pitch, rhythm, meter, harmony and melody.

12:30-1:30 p.m. $42 per month, 208-344-2220, www.trica.org.

Hyde Park Meeting Place, 1520 N. 12th St., Boise.

WEDNESDAY NOV. 4 On Stage THE PAVILION—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $21, $12 previews, students and guests 25 and younger.

Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater.org.

Talks & Lectures AN EVENING WITH GEORGE PARKER—A night of righteous indignation, brutal honesty and surprising inspiration from leg-

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Bust out the zombie in you.

ADULT HALLOWEEN EVENTS BLACK ROCK HALLOW’S EVE—Featuring DJs Stormshadow, Manic, AzN Crew, Jeff Lynn, Aaron Liven and McCabe Reed. Costume contest at midnight. Sat., Oct. 31, 9 p.m., $10, The Grizzly Rose.

COSTUME PARTY—Join ghosts, goblins and sexy bunnies for a Halloween costume party. Winner will go home with $500. Sat., Oct. 31, Cowgirls, 353 Ave. E, Kuna, 208-922-9522, www.cowgirlsaloon.com.

HALLOWEEN BASH—Featuring a local band, treats, drinks and a costume contest with cash prizes. All proceeds go to fund Stage Coach Theatre operations. Sat., Oct. 31, 7 p.m. $10 admission, $5 alcohol wristband. Stage Coach Theatre, 5296 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208342-2000, www.stagecoachtheatre.com.

HALLOWEEN KARAOKE COSTUME CONTEST—Door prizes, $100 to the best costume and free appetizer samples after 9 p.m. Sat., Oct. 31, 8 p.m. FREE. Cool Hand Luke’s Steakhouse/Saloon, 291 E. Shore Dr., Eagle, 208-939-5860, www.coolhandlukes.com.

HALLOWEEN NIGHTOLOGY LIVE—An adult evening of fashion, art, DJ culture, costume contests and after-hours revelry. Sat., Oct. 31, 9:30 p.m. $8 presale, $10 door, $6 students with ID. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, www.thelinenbuilding.com.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD—A three-block Halloween party featuring “The Flaunt Foxxes,” professional go-go dancers from Las Vegas, prize giveaways, over $1,600 in cash for costume contest winners, games and music. Sat., Oct. 31. Dirty Little Roddy’s and China Blue are offering a $10 single-bar access, or you can purchase a $20 three-bar block party pass, which includes all three bars. China Blue, 100 S. Sixth St., 208-338-6604; Main Street Bistro, 609 Main St., 208-345-9515; Dirty Little Roddy’s, 100 S. Sixth St., 208-338-6604.

TREAT YOUR TRICK—Stop in for an adult goody bag. Sat., Oct. 31, Noon. FREE. ALPHA, 500 W. Idaho St., Suite 220, Boise, 208-4247799.

TRICK OR SWEETS FUN AND FOOD DRIVE—Sample tasty wines and bewitching sweets, keep your Ste. Chapelle wine glass and a special gift from Weiser Classic Candy. Proceeds will benefit the Idaho Foodbank.

Sat., Oct. 31, Noon-5 p.m. $5. Ste. Chapelle Winery, 19348 Lowell Road, Caldwell, 208-453-7843, www.stechapelle.com.

ZOMBIE CRAWL 2009—Featuring Jack Crowne and the Coronas. Prize for the best zombie costume. Sat., Oct. 31, 8:30 p.m. FREE. Hooligan’s Pub, 10704 Overland Road, Boise, 208-376-9800.

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NEWS/NOISE NOISE

A GERMANYSEATTLEBOISE CONNECTION

Watch your back, old man Rainbowbeard.

LOVE AND VILE SPACE VILLAINS

New record label Spark & Shine sheds light on Boise music AMY ATKINS “For my ears, the Boise sound is so hip at the moment. It’s incredible,” said Hamburg, Germany-based Karsten Kuestner, founder of Spark & Shine Records. “I think it could be Boise band RevoltRevolt sit back and wait for the revolution to come to them. the next Seattle sound.” That is exactly what he wanted on the U.S. arm of the record label.

The first Boise band signed to Spark & Spark & Shine is following in a long Though the current musical climate doesn’t Shine is RevoltRevolt, a rock three-piece tradition of preserving and perpetuating seem conducive to a record label start-up, this that has been together for about a year. This non-mainstream music. This year marks the year marks the one-year anniversary of Spark summer, RevoltRevolt went into the studio 20th anniversary of stalwart indie record label & Shine. With Brian Olson running an arm with Seattle producer Conrad Uno (MudMerge Records. During an NPR interview, of Spark & Shine in Seattle and Jason Sievers honey, SuperSuckers, Young Fresh Fellows) label founders Laura Ballance and Mac doing the same thing here in Boise, the label is and came out with Chordata, a weighty rock writing its own chapters of a musical narrative. McCaughan—of Chapel Hill, N.C., band Superchunk—said they started Merge as a way album, with songs swirling in grungy ’90s Kuestner started Spark & Shine when he guitar. Chordata is the band’s debut fullto document a “scene they really liked.” discovered a desire by Europeans—Germans length album and is scheduled to hit streets On the Seattle side of things, Olson said in particular—for Japanese media. He founded Tuesday, Nov. 17. Having it on a label is a he likes the idea that Spark & Shine may, like Kastella Media, a media licensing company, rather impressive first step for a young band.

Merge and other indie in 2007 in order to RevoltRevolt’s Chris Bock whole-heartedly labels of its ilk, serve license Japanese music RevoltRevolt plays Wednesday, Oct. 28, with agrees. that same purpose. and films to German Larry and His Flask, 8 p.m., $3 “We’re really excited to work with [Spark “I like the documenand other European NEUROLUX & Shine],” Bock said. “They’re really up tation aspect of it. I companies. He was in 111 N. 11th St., hadn’t really thought of front, really straight forward.”

Japan talking to Sony 208-343-0886 It’s a mutual adoration, because Revolit that way, but I think Music when they asked neurolux.com tRevolt is a band that completely fulfills that’s a neat way to if he would distribute their end of the bargain as far as touring is look at it,” he said. one of their artists, the concerned. Sievers had done several of their Olson said that while Sievers would never J-pop/J-rock singer and Lolita-meets-Robert tour posters, and once Bock and his bandgive himself enough credit, what he brings to Smith fashion icon Nana Kitade.

Calling via a crystal clear Skype connection the Spark & Shine table is helping to shape the mates started talking with Sievers about the label, they discovered that it would all be a direction the label will take. at 1:30 a.m. Tokyo time (where he was), Kuegood fit.

“At first, Brian and I weren’t really sure stner said, “I always wanted to have a label so Finding those fits won’t always be easy, of what our strategy would be, so we’ve been I decided it was time to bring [more] artists to but according to Kuestner, Olson and Sievlooking at music from the Northwest and Germany.” So he started Spark & Shine with ers, the Germany-Seattle-Boise connection distributing it along our bands’ tour lines,” Kitade as its first artist. is a strong one and they won’t make label Sievers said. “Wherever the bands are willing Getting fellow music aficionados Olson to play, our distributor is pretty flexible. We’re decisions without a consensus. To date, the and Sievers on board wasn’t difficult. They not sending the CDs to Tallahassee, Fla., if the toddler-aged label has a well-rounded group attended high-school together in Lewiston of artists: Nina Kitade and RevoltRevolt, bands aren’t playing there. We aren’t starting (Kuestner was an exchange student) and had Seattle bands The Tripwires and Curtains small necessarily, just strategically.” kept in touch. Olson, who also owns half for You, the recently signed Israeli band Billy Along with the music they make, a band’s interest in a recording studio, was already in the Spark & Shine loop, and when the three of ability and/or willingness to tour is a huge part and the Firm (the album is due out in early 2010) and The Disciplines, of which Posies of whether they’ll be a good fit for Spark & them met up in New York in June of this year for a couple of Posies shows, it wasn’t long be- Shine. All three partners agreed that the label’s songwriter Ken Stringfellow is a member.

It’s a small but growing lineup that shows success will be based on a collaborative effort fore all three were partners. Sievers had taken remarkable promise for Spark & Shine. by all involved. a large selection of CDs by Boise musicians to “We are a new small label right now,” “Different artists have different degrees of New York with him, and Kuestner and Olson what they’re able to do as far as lives and fami- Kuestner said. “We aren’t a billion-dollar were impressed not only by the quantity of lies and touring,” Olson said. “But we want to company. Yet.” Sievers’ CDs but with the quality of music as find really great music and put it out there for well. Kuestner said that after hearing Sievers’ more people to hear.” And part of getting it CDs, he was amazed at the sound coming out For more information, visit out there is touring. of Boise, describing it as “so fresh.” sparkandshine.com.

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Last Sunday evening at Visual Arts Collective, musician Noel Weber fussed with a giant, glowing space bubble. On the opposite side of the room, crafter and BW staffer Chelsea Snow stooped over a sewing machine, mending a multicolored strap-on felt beard. Up in VAC’s elevated sound booth, videographer Wendy Fox tinkered with a projector casting abstract images on a giant screen. Staging a space alien invasion takes more preparation than you might imagine.

On Friday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31, Weber will join local burlesque troupe the Red Light Variety Show to throw a twonight Halloween spectacular called “Love and Vile Murder.” Weber, who performs electronic pop under the name Nollifur, is no stranger to incorporating elaborate theatrics into his performances.

“I’ve been playing shows for quite a few years,” said Weber. “Every time I try to amp it up a little more and do something a little bit more.”

But this show is, by far, Nollifur’s most involved. While Weber cranks out “sci-fi fantasy songs,” “space jams” and “cheeky love songs,” audience members will watch as gold spandex-clad space folk invade a planet populated by rainbow-bearded nomads. A space battle involving fuzzy pom pom balls ensues and, amid the chaos, audience abductions are highly probable.

“It’s mostly just about having lots of fun and trying to get people to do weird things and creating a spectacle,” said Weber. “I don’t have any concept behind it other than to entertain.”

But Nollifur isn’t the only act on the bill.

The Red Light Show also promises an elaborate performance with zombies, poisonings and an arsenal of fishnets. If you’re worried that all this sexy, spacey stimulation will leave you longing for a solid dose of rock, catch locals Le Fleur opening the show on Friday evening and Pussygutt kicking things off on Saturday.

—Tara Morgan Friday, Oct. 30, and Saturday, Oct. 31, 9 p.m., $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297. For tickets, visit brownpapertickets.com.

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NOISE/GUIDE THURSDAY OCT. 29

FRIDAY OCT. 30

THE DAREDEVIL CHRISTOPHER WRIGHT, A SEASONAL DISGUISE, SPONDEE—8 p.m., $5, Visual Arts Collective

AUDRA CONNELLY CD RELEASE PARTY—7 p.m., FREE, The Record Exchange CHAD COOKE—6:30 p.m., FREE, DaVinci’s

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT, THE HENRY CLAY PEOPLE, RED CORTEZ—See Listen Here, this page. 8:30 p.m., $15, Knitting Factory

DANCE NIGHT—8 p.m., FREE, The Grizzly Rose

BLUES CONTROL—8 p.m., $5, Neurolux

FRIM FRAM 4—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

THE BODO BROTHERS—8 p.m., FREE, Sockeye

DARIUS RUCKER, THE LOST TRAILERS—7 p.m., $29.50$39.50, Idaho Center JEREMIAH JAMES GANG— 9:30 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT, OCT. 30, KFCH When even the smallest sniffle is indicative of a pandemic, The Airborne Toxic Event is an unfortunate name for a band.

Fortunately, their music is a curative.

The Los Angeles five-piece’s poetic lyrics revel in both literal, universal emotions as well as grand metaphor, made all the larger by ripping guitar, pounding keys and insistent violin.

Similarities to The Arcade Fire bleed through Airborne Toxic Event songs, but seem a little less willfully weird.

The single “Sometime Around Midnight” mixes simple yet profound stor ytelling with the musical arrangements of a fine orchestra. And as band founder/vocalist Mikel Jollett sings, “The room suddenly spinning / she walks up and asks how you are. / So you can smell her per fume / you can see her lying naked in your arms,” a bow raking across a violin sounds like heartbreak.

—Amy Atkins Friday, Oct. 30, with The Henry Clay People and Red Cortez, 8:30 p.m., $15-$35, Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 28

JONAH SMITH—9 p.m., $6, The Bouquet KEVIN KIRK, JON HYNEMAN AND PHIL GARONZIK—7:30 p.m., FREE, Chandlers LARRY AND HIS FLASK, REVOLTREVOLT—8 p.m., $3, Neurolux LIVE DJ—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish NATHAN J MOODY & THE QUARTERTONS—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid ROCCI JOHNSON BAND— 9:30 p.m., FREE, Hannah’s SOUL SERENE—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s TWISTA LIVE!, ROCKY G, CADILLAC COUPE, PLAYMAKA, JHUSTLE, BILLY BLOW, ISELDA GONZALEZ, POPPA JOE— 9 p.m., $25 advance, $30 door, Knitting Factory

GET DIRTY THURSDAYS— 9 p.m., FREE, The Bouquet

CHAD COOKE—6 p.m., FREE, Woodriver Cellars

JONATHAN WARREN & THE BILLY GOATS, THE ACOUSTICATS, DUDE BRO MAN AND THE FUNK YEAHS—9 p.m., $3, Terrapin Station

FIVE SMOOTH STONES, MONKEY BIZNESS—9 p.m., FREE, Monkey Bizness

KEVIN KIRK AND SALLY TIBBS—7 p.m., FREE, Chandlers KINETIC KARMA—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid MAT KEARNEY, VEDERA— 8 p.m., $18, Knitting Factory

Le Fleur LE FLEUR, NOLLIFUR— Red Light Variety Show: Love and Vile Murder. 8 p.m., $15, Visual Arts Collective

GAYLE CHAPMAN— 8:30 p.m., FREE, Piper Pub

THE MURDERS, 3MACHINE, BOVALEXIA—Prizes for the best Courtney Love costume. 9 p.m., $5, Terrapin Station

INDIE DISCO—8 p.m., FREE, Club Redfire

NAUGHTIES—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s

KEVIN KIRK, JOHN JONES, JON HYNEMAN AND MIKE SEIFRIT—7 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

OCTANE—9 p.m., $1, Liquid REBECCA SCOTT—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s ROCCI JOHNSON BAND— 9:30 p.m., $5 after 10 p.m., Hannah’s

OLDIES NIGHT—9 p.m., FREE, Club Max THE PACK AD, REVOLTREVOLT, LA KNOT— 8 p.m., $5, Visual Arts Collective

SIR REALIST—spinning danceable, non-Top 40 hits on vinyl.

Midnight, FREE, Liquid

THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m., FREE, The Buffalo Club

SPINDLE BOMB—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s Basement

SPINDLE BOMB—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s Hit the Lights

TERRI EBERLEIN DUO—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

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AFTER MIDNIGHT PROJECT, DREAMING OF EDEN, INNOCENCE BETRAYS, BLESS THE MARTYR—See Music News, Page 23. 7 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door, The Venue

BEN BURDICK, BILL LILES— Noon, FREE, Grape Escape

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION—8 p.m., FREE, Rodeway Inn

DJ—9:30 p.m., FREE, The Balcony

ACOUSTIC SHOWCASE— 9 p.m., FREE, Terrapin Station

FUEGOGO!—9:30 p.m., FREE, Terrapin Station

ANDY DAVIS, GIZZARD STONE—8 p.m., $5, Neurolux

KEN HARRIS—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

J.TILLMAN OF “FLEET FOXES,” PEARLY GATES MUSIC— 8 p.m., $10, Neurolux

COSMIC FAMILY BAND— 9 p.m., FREE, The Bouquet

NOCTURNUM WITH DJ BONES—9 p.m., FREE, Terrapin Station

MONDAY MADNESS KARAOKE—9 p.m., FREE, The Buffalo Club

JEREMIAH JAMES AND NED EVETT—7:30 p.m., FREE, Lock, Stock & Barrel

OPEN MIC—4 p.m., FREE, Terrapin Station

OPEN MIC MONDAY—9 p.m., FREE, Terrapin Station

JOSHUA RADIN, THE WATSON TWINS—8 p.m., $16 adv., $18 door, Knitting Factory

BILLY ZERA, AWA AND SONY DISC—7:30 p.m., FREE, Mai Thai-Eagle FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, SHADOWS FALL, OTEP, 2 CENTS—7:30 p.m., $20, Knitting Factory FIVE SMOOTH STONES, MONKEY BIZNESS—Costume contest. 9 p.m., FREE, Monkey Bizness JEREMIAH JAMES GANG— Halloween party. 8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s JIMMY BIVENS—Halloween Party. 9 p.m., FREE, Piper Pub KEVIN KIRK, STEVE EATON AND PHIL GARONZIK—7 p.m., FREE, Chandlers LANGHORNE SLIM, DAWES— 8 p.m., $5, Neurolux MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m., FREE, The Airport Lounge NAUGHTIES—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s

JIM LEWIS—11 a.m., FREE, Focaccia’s MICKEY AVALON, BEARDO— 8 p.m., $16 advance, $18 doors, Knitting Factory Wilson St. Pub and Sluthouse Band NOLLIFUR, PUSSYGUTT— Red Light Variety Show: Love and Vile Murder. 8 p.m., $15, Visual Arts Collective

OPEN MIC NIGHT—7 p.m., FREE, Library Coffeehouse

OCTANE—9 p.m., $1, Liquid

PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid

POCONO BILL—8 p.m., FREE, Groove Coffee

REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL OPEN MIC—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND— 9:30 p.m., $5 after 10 p.m., Hannah’s THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m., $5, The Buffalo Club SIR REALIST—spinning danceable, non-Top 40 hits on vinyl. Midnight, FREE, Liquid

OPEN MIC WITH CHAD SUMMERVILL—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish OPEN MIC WITH DAN COSTELLO—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s SMOOTH, GIZZARD STONE— 7 p.m., FREE, Liquid

WILSON ST. PUB AND SLUTHOUSE BAND—9 p.m., FREE, The Plank

JAM NIGHT—8 p.m., FREE, Montego Bay JIM FISHWILD—6 p.m., FREE, Highlands Hollow JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m., FREE, Lock, Stock & Barrel KEN HARRIS—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill KOFFIN KATS—8 p.m., $8, The Grizzly Rose LIVE DJ—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish NATHAN J MOODY & THE QUARTERTONS—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid ROCCI JOHNSON BAND— 9:30 p.m., FREE, Hannah’s

TERRI EBERLEIN DUO—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

SPINDLE BOMB—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s

ZOMBIE NATION—9 p.m., $5, Terrapin Station

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Bike messenger/artist Patrick Sweeney usually tries to avoid traffic cones, unless it’s art.

SWEENEY SPIES THE CITY Ask anyone whose main mode of transportation is two wheels, and he or she will tell you that when traveling by car, you miss so much. Northstar Cycle Courier co-owner Patrick Sweeney knows this to be true and makes a point of chronicling his world one point-and-click at a time.

“My work as a bike messenger allows me the opportunity to see the city from new and different angles every day,” Sweeney said. “And I always try to carry my camera.”

Sweeney has always expressed himself artistically, but it wasn’t until recently that he began looking at his photos as more than family scrapbook fodder. He sorted through about 7,000 photos and culled 14 for an exhibit at Thomas Hammer Coffee that runs through the end October.

Though he often snaps pictures outside, the 14 photos in Sweeney’s exhibit seem less about the external world and more about items that surround him.

“I guess [being a bike messenger] inspires me more than actually contributes to the work,” he said.

What makes the photos especially interesting is not only what is in the frame, but also what is right outside of it. The photos in Sweeney’s exhibit feature bright shots of color, sometimes focused in so tight on an item that viewers must step back and add the missing elements themselves.

In one, a close-up of a small blue-green car on a floor offers slightly out-of-focus, intriguing glimpses of the room surrounding it. A photo of a fallen traffic cone—that Sweeney took while in Hollywood and the only non-Boise photo in the bunch—hints at construction or maybe an accident. In another, the camera is zoomed in on a white bib emblazoned with a happy little bright red tricycle. The baby wearing it is clearly there, but not visible; the viewer can add whatever sweet little face is in his or her mind.

Because this is Sweeney’s first exhibit, he featured photos that he thought were visually pleasing.

“It’s a strange thing to pick things you think an audience will appreciate,” Sweeney said.

But they are more than pretty pictures.

The images are interesting and engaging, and the subject matter is broad enough to have wide appeal. And they’re for sale. If you buy one, Sweeney would probably be more than happy to deliver it. Just give him a little time. He’ll probably have to stop and take a few pictures along the way.

—Amy Atkins Through October, Thomas Hammer Coffee, 298 N. Eighth St., 208-433-8004, hammercoffee.com.

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(Left to right) Keith Farnsworth, John Padlo, Cody Evans, Kelly Knopp and Tony Rios.

THE NEW CROP Basement Gallery embraces emerging artists TARA MORGAN “I usually do somewhat repetitive shows Frequent Flying M-ers might feel a wave of yearly, and they’re usually themed,” said deja vu wash over them upon descending Perry. “This is a bit out of my norm to just into Basement Gallery this November and go handpick a few guys and throw them on December. For the subterranean gallery’s the wall, but I’ve been keeping an eye on 13th Annual X-mas X-hibition, owner Perry these guys all year long.”

Allen handpicked and hung the work of five While there’s not necessarily a uniting Boise-area artists. Two of those artists—Kelly theme that runs through the Knopp and John Padlo—coinciexhibit, each artist has qualities dentally just had their first-ever Opens Thursday, that are notably Basement— solo shows at Flying M. Nov. 5, FREE bright colors blended with a cer“Flying M is a really nice tain cartoonish capriciousness taster, it gives you a good taste BASEMENT GALLERY 928 W. Main St., and an often dark undercurrent. of what [artists] have,” said Per208-333-0309 Also, except for Padlo’s large ry. “But until they get into the oil paintings of childhood toys full-blown gallery environment, and Farnsworth’s mixed-media you really don’t know if they “faded mind signs,” a majority of the work have enough work to fill the walls or not.” in the show is illustration-based.

Knopp and Padlo will be joined by illustra“The last few years, I’ve been leaning a tor Cody Evans, painter and illustrator Tony lot toward the illustrators,” said Allen. “The Rios and mixed-media artist, illustrator and three-time Basement veteran Keith Farnsworth. young illustrators are really doing some great Though in years past, Allen’s Christmas exhibi- work, a lot of them coming right out of the university here … It most definitely deserves tion has been an all-group show, this year he a place in the fine art world.” decided to do things a bit differently.

Basement Gallery has built its reputation showing work by noted Boise illustrators like Bill Carman, Ben Wilson and Mike Flinn. But now there’s a new crop of artists that Allen is also enthusiastically embracing. He stumbled across Evans while jurying the Boise State student show last year. He gave Evans some time to build up his body of work and “get the school system out” before inviting him to participate in the Xmas X-hibition.

“I think I’m starting to find my own voice more and kind of break free from the work that I did in school,” said Evans. “It kind of describes me more, my personality, which is maybe a little dark, but still really fun and kind of whimsical.”

And while Evans, Knopp and Padlo are all relative newcomers to the professional arts world, Rios and Farnsworth should balance out the show with a dash of seasoned expertise.

“New faces, new energy, new work. I’m really excited,” said Perry.

D’AMBOISE EN BOISE Living ballet legend visits the Treasure Valley JEREMIAH ROBERT WIERENGA Every art form has its hidden heroes, honored in their own sphere, but largely unknown outside of it. Such a man is Jacques d’Amboise, a legend to both ballet audiences and arts educators. Following more than two decades with the New York City Ballet and appearances in Hollywood films, d’Amboise founded the National Dance Institute in 1976 to introduce New York schoolchildren to the power of dance and music. The influence of his work has spread throughout the globe, with 11 affiliated schools in the United States and institutions as far-flung as Madras, India.

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munity dance class and choreographed a work for TRICA’s Leap Troupe.

At 75 years of age, d’Amboise still has the energy and enthusiasm to match his young pupils. A firm believer that the arts should be taught by those practiced and disciplined in its craft, d’Amboise, assisted by TRICA artistic director Jon Swarthout, instructed the students in timing, direction and intention, all the while creating an environment of success and support. The best teachers, d’Amboise asserts, are not degreed individuals, but those who combine experience with a heart for encouraging artistic growth.

“I have no formal education,” says

d’Amboise, who dropped out of school at 15.

“But I’ve got a lot of learning.”

Saturday evening, d’Amboise shared stories and film snippets of his dancing days. Following his talk, the Leap Troupe performed his somber, newly created work “Radiation March,” highlighting d’Amboise’s belief that “if pollution grows, children won’t.” On his first visit to the Boise area, d’Amboise was appreciative of the Treasure Valley community.

“There’s a pride and participation here, but not an arrogance,” he said. “It’s like a scene from Norman Rockwell.”

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ART New Jonze film a forest of fantasy JEREMIAH ROBERT WIERENGA Spike Jonze is a master of the mind trip.

Whether directing stories of head games gone haywire (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation), subverting societal ideas of adult behavior as producer of the Jackass series, or staging a psuedo-serious public dance performance—as seen in Fatboy Slim’s 1999 video for “Praise You”—he has been a constant source of consternation to straightforward thinkers. With the release of the adaptation rarily tamed by Max’s bravado, are children of Where the Wild Things Are, based on the lean but well-loved picture book by Maurice writ large, prone to the changing winds of whimsy, and Max’s continued safety among Sendak, the text of which amounted to only them may only last as long as his next 10 sentences, Jonze demonstrates that his planned adventure. psychic cinematic perambulations are not Where the Wild Things Are is not necessarily suitable for the PG set. a children’s movie. Despite its familyUsing the book as a bare-bones basis friendly rating and picture-book origins, for the story, Where the Wild Things Are the melodic pacing follows Max (Max and sophisticated Records), a rambuncWHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE (PG) subtext will leave tious, imaginative Directed by Spike Jonze most young viewers 10-year-old who has Stars Max Records, with the voices of out of their depth. little supervision and Lauren Ambrose, James Gandolfini, They may enjoy the engages in tempesCatherine O’Hara fantastic creature tuous tantrums. design—a seamless After a devastating Now playing Edwards 9, Edwards 22 mixture of CG and snow fight with his Henson-created hair older sister’s friends suits—and the amusing antics of the wild and being threatened by his mother’s (the rumpus, but the film’s ideas and intent are fantastic Catherine Keener) new male decidedly adult. The inspired screenplay, companion, Max dons his favorite wolf co-written by Jonze and novelist Dave suit, stages a scene and runs away into the night. Through his fertile imagination, Max Eggers, is complex, deft and frequently encounters a bereft dory, climbs aboard and unfathomable. The Wild Things, a mindless herd in the book, have unique and sails into a storm that carries him to the volatile personalities. While having the land of the Wild Things. After convincing disposition of children, ready to play at the massive creatures of his magical prowa moment’s notice, their emotional and ess, Max is made their king and invents a mental complexities—exclusion, depresseries of games and crafty capers to ensure sion, unrequited love—firmly inhabit the their loyalty. But the Wild Things (voiced adult world, a realm of maturity as foreign by the likes of James Gandolfini, Catherine O’Hara and Forest Whitaker), while tempo- and unknowable to Max as the zoology of

“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”

the creatures themselves. Eggers and Jonze never give us many particulars of the Wild Things’ troubles, their struggles underscoring the uncertainty of Max’s position as their king. We can never quite forget that these lumbering giants are feral animals, their sometimes petty temperaments leading to violent destruction.

But all this heaviness is largely intangible, tucked in the corners of the film. At the forefront is Max’s incredible journey.

The world of the Wild Things is remarkable. Filmed primarily in Australia, this hidden island has a forest, desert, warrens of tunnels and stunning Andy Goldsworthy-like stick structures. It’s an ideal playground, beautifully lensed by cinematographer Lance Acord. The spooky-sweet soundtrack, composed by Jonze’s girlfriend and Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen Orzolek, is a marvelous mixture of ululating war cries and soft whisper-songs. While the artistic decision to turn a child’s fiction into an art-house meditation on childhood loneliness may not win Jonze any new fans, Where the Wild Things Are is an impeccably crafted movie. The hidden intimations and profound ponderings of the screenplay may leave some viewers unimpressed and disappointed, but as a creative, esoteric riff on a classic story, Where the Wild Things Are is a visionary success.

SCREEN/LISTINGS special screening BLESSINGS—A documentary based on a trip led by Tsoknyi Rinpoche III to study and explore the lives of over 2,000 Eastern Tibetan Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns.

Sun., Nov. 1, 12:30 p.m. $10 benefits the Tsoknyi Nangchen Nuns. Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, www.theflicks.boise.com.

HILLSONG UNITED THE I HEART REVOLUTION: WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER—Live from Australia, this one-night event features an introduction by lead singer Joel Houston, followed by a Hillsong United performance from their home church in Sydney and ends with the debut of their cause-based documentary The I Heart

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Revolution: We’re All In This Together. The documentary follows the band as they are confronted by the stories of remarkable individuals facing injustice and hardships around the globe. Wed., Nov. 4, 5:30 p.m. $15, Edwards 22, 7701 W Overland Rd., 208-555-8355.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: TOSCA ENCORE— Entangle your senses in

this triangular love story of an infamous opera singer, easy-going painter and stern chief-of-police. Met music director James Levine describes the performance as a combination of “Puccini’s glorious musical inspiration and the melodramatic vitality of one of the great Hitchcock films.” Recorded live on October 10, 2009.

Wed., Oct. 28, 6:30 p.m.

and Thu., Oct. 29, 1 p.m. $9.50 adult, $7 matinee, $6.75 children and seniors.

Edwards 22, 7701 W Overland Rd., 208-555-8355, uatc.com.

opening A SERIOUS MAN—The Coen Brothers once again present an ordinary person

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SCREEN/LISTINGS struggling internally from the pressures of extraordinary outside forces. It’s 1967 and physics professor Larry Gopnik (Michael Stuhlbarg) is watching his life disintegrate around him—his wife is leaving him; his layabout brother won’t get off his couch; someone is anonymously hurting his chances at tenure; his son is a slacker; his daughter is a self-absorbed thief. Rather than let himself be dragged under by his circumstances, Larry turns to three rabbis for guidance on becoming a mensch, a serious man. (R) Flicks MORE THAN A GAME—Hailed as the “chosen one,” LeBron James rocketed to basketball superstardom straight out of high school. More Than a Game documents James and four of his teenage teammates—Dru Joyce III, Romeo Travis, Sian Cotton and Willie McGeeon—on their long journey, which peaks at the national high school basketball championships. (PG) Flicks

SCREEN/MOVIE TIMES WEDNESDAY, OCT. 28 - TUESDAY, NOV. 3 A SERIOUS MAN—

Flicks: F-Su: 12:40, 2:45, 4:50, 7, 9:15; M-Tu: 4:50, 7, 9:15

AMELIA—

Flicks: W-Th: 4:55, 7:15, 9:35; F-Su: 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30; M-Tu: 5, 7:15, 9:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15

ASTRO BOY—

Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:10, 4:55, 7:45, 10:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:40, 1:55, 4:10, 6:45, 9:05

BLESSINGS— BRIGHT STAR—

Flicks: Su only: 12:30 Flicks: W-Th: 4:45, 8:55; F-Su: 2:35, 7:20; M-Tu: 7:20

CAPITALISM, A LOVE STORY—

Flicks: W-Th: 4:20, 6:55, 9:25; F-Su: 12:10, 4:55, 9:35; M-Tu: 4:55, 9:35

CIRQUE DE FREAK: THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT— Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:50

continuing AMELIA—Hilar y Swank stars as famed aviator Amelia Earhar t.Alongside Richard Gere and Ewan McGregor, Mira Nair has created a film that explores more than just the successes and failures of flight, but also the trials of love and relationships. (PG) Flicks, Edwards 22

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 3D—

ASTRO BOY—This classic Japanese manga series is an actionpacked tale of a robot boy who discovers what it means to be a hero and a human. (PG) Edwards 9, Edwards 22

FLAME AND CITRON—

BRIGHT STAR—In 19th centur y London, a secret love affair has formed between English poet John Keats (Ben Whishaw) and his neighbor, outspoken fashion student Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). (PG) Flicks CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY—Returning to the issue that began his career, Michael Moore presents the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have. (R) Flicks CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE’S ASSISTANT—Two teenage boys are in for more than they can guess when they attend a one-night-only freak show that’s a little freakier than usual. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS—Inventor Flint Lockwood creates an apparatus that makes water into food.

(PG) Edwards 22 IMAX COUPLES RETREAT—Add one adulterous couple, one cradle-rocker, one couple on the verge of divorce and one happy couple, and you get a hilarious look at real world problems.

(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 FLAME & CITRON—This Scandinavian film documents the effor ts of Bent Faurschou-Hviid, aka Flame and Jorgen Haagen Schmith, aka Citron. Together, the two Danish freedom fighters attempt to subver t the invading German army during World War II, 1944. The Danish-subtitled drama stars Mads Mikkelsen of Casino Royale villainy. (R) Flicks Ends Thursday

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Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:55, 3:10, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05 COUPLES RETREAT—

Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:05, 4:10, 7, 9:45 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:55, 1:45, 2:45, 4:30, 5:30, 7:05, 8:05, 9:30, 10:35 Flicks: W-Th only: 4:30, 7, 9:30

THE INVENTION OF LYING—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:10

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN—

Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1, 4:05, 7:10, 9:55 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:25

MICHAEL JACKSON’S: THIS IS IT— Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:15, 1:10, 2:10, 2:45, 3:50, 4:45, 5:15, 6:30, 7:20, 7:45, 9, 9:55, 10:15 MORE THAN A GAME—

Flicks: F-Sa: 12:50, 3, 5:05, 7:10, 9:20; Su: 3, 5:05, 7:10, 9:20; M-Tu: 5:05, 7:10, 9:20

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY—

Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:40, 4:35, 7:40, 10:25

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:50, 12:50, 2, 3:05, 4:20, 5:15, 6:55, 7:35, 9:20, 9:50 SAW IV—

Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:20, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:40, 4:40, 7:25, 10:25

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE—

Flicks: W-Th only: 7:05

STEPFATHER— SURROGATES—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:05, 3:55 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:50, 2:50, 5:05, 7:30, 9:45

TOY STORY 3D DOUBLE FEATURE— WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:10, 4, 7:55 Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:25, 4:30, 7:30,

10:05; F-Tu: 1:25, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:45, 1:15, 2:10, 3:40, 4:35, 6:05, 7, 8:30, 9:25 ZOMBIELAND—

Edwards 9: W-Tu: 1:50, 4:45, 7:50, 10:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1, 3:20, 5:40, 8, 10:20

T H E A T E R S Edwards 22 Boise, 208-377-1700, www.regmovies.com; Edwards 9 Boise, 208-338-3821, www.regmovies.com; The Egyptian Theater, 208-345-0454, www.egyptiantheatre.net; The Flicks, 208-342-4222, www.theflicksboise.com; FOR SECOND-RUN MOVIES: Northgate Cinema, Towne Square Reel, Country Club Reel, Nampa Reel, 208-377-2620, www.reeltheatre.com.

Overland Park $1 Cinema, 208-377-3072, www.opcmovies.com.

Movie times listed were correct as of press time.

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LISTINGS/SCREEN VIDIOT/SCREEN

THE INVENTION OF LYINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;In a world where ever yone speaks the absolute truth, Mark Bellison (Ricky Ger vais) invents a remarkable thing: the ability to lie. (PG-13) Edwards 22 LAW ABIDING CITIZENâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) and his family become victims of a brutal home invasion. Ten years later, Shelton kills one of the invaders and orchestrates a series of brutal murders from jail.

(R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 MICHAEL JACKSON: THIS IS ITâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A companion to the single â&#x20AC;&#x153;This Is It,â&#x20AC;? this ďŹ lm offers a behind-the-scenes look at Michael Jackson before his death, as he readied for a 50-night concer t residency at Londonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s O2 Arena that was to take place this year.

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles: Some travel companions are better left at home.

TERROR TITLES: OUT. HALLOWEEN CANDY: IN. Each year near the end of October, I scour video stores and netďŹ&#x201A;ix.com for ďŹ lms in hopes of assembling a horror movie marathon. But my attempts always fail. Between the difďŹ culty in ďŹ nding titles in-stock that I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t yet seen and simply ďŹ nding free time, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m usually lucky if I can squeeze in a single frightening ďŹ lm before the holiday passes. Discovering that the birthday of one of my favorite comic actors falls on Oct. 31, I said screw it and adopted an entirely new style of Halloween candy this year: the late John Candy.

Over the course of a week, I watched a bowlful of Candy ďŹ lms. For a moment, my festival seemed built for All Hallows Eve. I made it through 25 minutes of his putridly unfunny ďŹ nal ďŹ lm, Wagons East, in which Old West settlers hire a drunken trail boss (Candy) to guide them back to the East Coast. I had to shut it off 25 minutes in for fear it would give me nightmaresâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the kind where I arrive at school in my underwear.

But I knew that in his heyday, Candy was a comic genius.

In Stripes (1981), Volunteers (1985) and Whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Harry Crumb (1989), he takes the lovable oaf to new heights. Whether Candy dons disguises, storms the jungle in a trance or wrestles bikini babes in a mud pit, I am powerless to stop giggling.

Per imdb.com, a career slump prompted Candy to attempt more serious ďŹ lms in the early â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s, and while his bit part as a shady Southern lawyer in JFK (1991) deďŹ nitely didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell me on his versatility, Disneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s uplifting Jamaican bobsledding dramedy Cool Runnings showed Candy could, however, do sweet and fun without relying on goofy.

Still, it was roles in John Hughes ďŹ lms that made Candy a legend. In Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987), The Great Outdoors (1998), Uncle Buck (1989) and even in a bit part in Home Alone (1990) you get classic Candy: the physical comedy, quick wit, understated but hilarious facial expressions and that contagious Candy-coated laugh.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sad to think he only made it to age 44. How many movies, parts and jokes did the world miss out on with John Candyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s passing? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to say, but I know that if I only ever get this kind of Candy on Halloween from now on, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be more than happy.

That being said, if you care to join me next year for Halloween Candy 2010, I love Twix, so bring some of those with you.

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; When a young middle-class couple moves into a quiet star ter house, they ďŹ nd that a presence inhabits their new home. The increasingly disturbing creature continues to haunt their dreams, waking them from sleep each night in this Blair Witch Project-esque thriller. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 SAW IVâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Special Agent Strahm is dead, and Detective Hoffman (Costas Mandylor) has emerged as the unchallenged successor to Jigsawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s twisted legacy.

But as the FBI closes in, he sets in motion a game that is designed to reveal Jigsawâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand scheme. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Anna Wintour, the famed editor of Vogue, was involved with all 700 pages of the September 2007 issue, along with creative director Grace Coddington.

Documentarian R.J. Cutler and cinematographer Rober t Richman teamed up to chronicle the inside world of high fashion.

(PG-13) Flicks Ends Thursday STEPFATHERâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Nip Tuckâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s handsome blue-eyed Dylan Walsh takes an evil turn as the charming David, the new man in Michaelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s motherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Sela Ward) life. Michael (Penn Badgley) knows David makes his mom happy, but something just ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t right about David and as Mr. Hyde begins to replace Dr. Stepdad, Michael has to ďŹ nd evidence to suppor t his suspicions that David is a killer before the stepdaddy turns his deadly sights on his new family.

This ďŹ lm looks to be a remake of the 1987 original starring Terr y Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Quinn. (R) Edwards 22 TOY STORY: 3D DOUBLE FEATUREâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Disney and Pixarâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Toy Stor y and Toy Stor y 2 make a comeback to the big screen.

(G) Edwards 22 WHERE THE WILD THINGS AREâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Spike Jonze brings the beloved classic to life in an adventure tale for all ages. (PG) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 ZOMBIELANDâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;When brainhungr y zombies overrun the world, what do you do? If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re Tallahassee (Woody Harrelson) you kick ass. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22

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IDAHO FALLS, ADVENTURE CAPITAL While many Boiseans might picture rolling farm fields when they think of Idaho Falls, apparently the editors of National Geographic Adventure have a very different vision our Eastern Idaho neighbor.

The October issue of the magazine lists Idaho Falls as one of the 100 best outdoor towns in the United States along with places like Jackson, Wyo.; Sisters, Ore.; and Moab, Utah.

The award had us scratching our heads a bit, but according to the article: “Big-box stores and cookie-cutter housing developments may give Idaho Falls that ‘anywhere USA’ vibe, but no other major metro area is as well situated alongside the legendar y trout waters of the South Fork of the Snake River.”

While we can’t argue that it’s near the river, we did find it amusing that the photo accompanying the write-up is from an area far closer to the towns of Victor and Driggs than it is to Idaho Falls.

The good news is that Driggs made it on the list itself—a fitting honor for the town that is literally on the other side of the Tetons from Jackson Hole.

The only other Idaho town to make the list is Sandpoint, so congrats to our in-state brethren, but we have to claim a bias for the great rec at Boise’s doorstep.

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Ever wondered what the proper etiquette is for clearing one’s nose while running?

Should you carry a tissue or do that onenostril, pressure-blast thing as you go?

Well, the folks at Runner’s World magazine have decided to answer all those pressing questions in The Runner’s Rule Book: Everything a Runner Needs to Know— and Then Some.

Put together by author Mark Remy and editors from the popular magazine, the book ($17.95, hardback) focuses on what press releases call “the wry” side of running.

Want to know the finer technical points of how to set up a sanctioned race? This is not the place. Instead, The Runner’s Rule Book is dedicated to the everyday, sometimes random questions that flit through a runner’s head as he or she pounds away the miles.

Do you have to say hello to every other runner? Is it ever OK to run shirtless? What constitutes the fine line between a runner and a jogger?

Editors of the book promise that it’s an entertaining read, and to make sure, they included cartoons for those with short attention spans.

BIKE FUSION Cyclocross amps up the fun factor in bike racing DEANNA DARR Combine mountain biking with road biking and a steeplechase, and throw in a bunch of mud, sand and some rowdy, cow-bell-ringing fans, and you have what has become one of the fastest growing segments of bicycle racing in the country.

Boise’s own cyclocross race series started its season just a few weeks ago, and already organizers are seeing more would-be cyclocross racers taking their first tentative turns around the track.

Brad Streeter, who organizes a series of races at Eagle Island State Park, said the average number of racers has gone from 80 last year to more than 100 in just the early races of the season. It’s the continuation of a trend he has seen over the past several years, which has recorded roughly 20 percent growth.

Streeter organized races for 10 years, including the Southern Idaho Cyclocross Series—races in which riders can earn points toward overall national standing—but this year, he stepped back to hand over the series to the crew from Broken Spokes Cycling. BSC is using one of Streeter’s Eagle Island races with select others held at Sandy Point and the Idaho Velodrome and Cycling Park to make up the official points series.

The racing season began in early October and will quickly wind to an end before Thanksgiving, making the cyclocross season as fast as one of its races. But considering the sport was created to fill the short fall off season, when both road and mountain bike racing have wrapped up, the abbreviated season makes sense.

“People who did road racing wanted to stay in shape,” Streeter said of the origins of cyclocross, adding that it has the added benefit of breaking up Boise’s abnormally long road racing season.

The sport first showed up in the United States on the East Coast, but has quickly made its way west. In larger Western cities, cyclocross races can draw more than 1,000 racers.

So, what’s the appeal of a sport with such a short season? For many, it’s simply the chance to have some laid-back, yet high-energy fun.

“It was a hoot,” said Broken Spokes race organizer Jared Rammell of his first exposure to cyclocross. “You’re out there just doing such a phenomenally weird sport that you couldn’t do it and not have a smile on your face.”

Rammell, who came from a road racing background, quickly fell for cyclocross.

“When else do I get to wear a leotard and ride a bike and jump off and get muddy and drink a beer after, or during?” he said.

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Cyclocross racers take a jump at a recent race at Eagle Island State Park.

to go around, or jump off and carry their bike to navigate.

Streeter loves the technical aspect of the sport, since it forces racers to use strategy to make it through as quickly as possible.

“You’re always on edge the whole time,” he said. “There’s no rest, you’re pushing the whole time.”

Cyclocross is also proving to be a draw for spectators who often start the party early from a vantage point that takes in the entire two-mile course. From there, they watch the battle as they ring cow bells, shout and patron the beer garden.

While the roughly 50 people who have been turning out to watch area races can’t compare to the 20,000 that cyclocross races draw in Europe, the numbers are still a marked increase, Streeter said.

From the eyes of a racer, cyclocross is a very accessible sport.

“There doesn’t seem to be as much ego in this sport,” Rammell said. “So it’s less intimidating to get started.”

“It’s a very open and welcoming group of people and it seems to attract not only cyclists, but people, who want to try something new,” Streeter added.

Cyclocross is also a more affordable sport to start. While more advanced riders usually invest in a specialized cyclocross bike—featur-

ing a road-bike style frame with knobby tires and brakes that allow the bike to roll better— most racers usually start out with a mountain bike, and “that’s not shunned,” Rammell said.

Entry fees for races are even less than in other types of bike racing, with $25 allowing a racer to compete for points standing, and $15 for those who just want to ride. Points earned in local races go toward increasing a rider’s standing nationally.

This year, the national finals will be held in Bend, Ore., in early December, meaning many local racers will be making the trip west.

And while cyclocross has had a limited season, the construction recently started on a permanent course at the Velodrome, which will allow racers to practice year round and organizers to have an established home.

For this year, though, the race series will continue, with a race scheduled at Eagle Island on Saturday, Nov. 7. Races will also be held on Saturday, Nov. 14 and 21, and Sunday, Nov. 22, at Sandy Point. For more information on the series or practice rides, check out the message boards at idahocyclocross.com.

Both Streeter and Rammell hope more riders, as well as fans will turn out to take in the spectacle that is cyclocross.

“Heckling is encouraged,” Rammell said.

“For some reason cyclocross and beer go hand in hand.”

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REVIEWS/FOOD On one plate then the other ... BW sends two critics to one restaurant.

ALIBABA ARABIC RESTAURANT

LAU RIE PEARMAN

I’ve known him only as Ali, since the summer of 2003. The summer A recent immigrant to the East End, I pass by the lonely-looking I got married. A few days before the wedding, Ali, my elementary strip mall housing Alibaba and Boise Fry Company multiple times school buddy Ben, Ibrahim (the former owner of what is now a day. On occasion, I’ll pause before pulling open the door to Boise Alibaba Arabic Restaurant) and I picked up four sheep in Nampa, Fry Co., thinking, “Should I try something new?” A hot second went to Ibrahim’s back yard and did the sheep. later, after fried air escapes through the door, I know my answer.

We did them, as in laying them on a board, slitting their throats, Late one recent evening, my boyfriend and I broke that patbleeding them out, hanging, skinning, gutting them and then tern and waltzed straight into Alibaba. The interior was nothing transforming them Bedouin style—the entire body cavity filled with like I had imagined—etched plastic lampshades threw watercolor aromatic rice and spices—into the best lamb dish ever. splotches of light across a handful of tables. Elaborate murals dotted I have many memories from that day, and still aspire to some with sphinxes, columns and pyramids clung to both walls. I was day match Ali’s mad knife skills. Earlier this year, Ali took over immediately set at ease, recalling a similarly kitschy Mediterranean half the space that dive under the JMZ was for many years train near my apartAladdin’s Egyptian ment in Brooklyn.

Restaurant and reAfter realizing the branded it pan-Arab joint was booze-free, cuisine, including we forlornly ordered a focus on dishes “just a water” and from his homeland a Turkish coffee of Iraq. ($2.50). But when The flavors in my tiny cup full of Alibaba’s food were dark, thick liquid alternately familiar came rattling out and new to me. of the kitchen, we The hummus plate started singing a ($3.99) presented a different tune. The light, fluffy chickpea coffee was starpuree reminiscent of tlingly smooth and the Old City in Jepotent, with nary a rusalem, with only a trace of bitterness. tad less tahini flavor.

When our server Topped with olive brought out a plate oil and a kalamata of baba ghanouj olive and ringed with ($3.99)—encircled hot slices of pita, I by a crown of pita recalled breakfasts triangles cut with a in Ras Al Amoud, precision that would Did you ever know that you’re my gyro? And everything I would like to eat?

Israeli truck stop shame the most food, slicing lemons protractor-happy ALIBABA ARABIC and smashing garlic geometry teacher— RESTAURANT in the Holy Land. we asked for another 111 Broadway Ave., The soup could be an old Aladdin’s recipe: a piping cup of the dark brew. Though Alibaba’s baba had a Ste. 115 hot bowl of liquefied lentils, skinny macaronis and an pronounced zip of lemon and bitter sesame bite, it was 208-343-4536 Open seven days Egyptian spice combo that took me back to a table in under-spiced and generally forgettable. The pita, which 11 a.m.-9 p.m. the Cairo souk, complete with the Arabic pop soundcould’ve saved the dip, was instead gummy, adding to track playing in the background. the app’s overall blandness.

The entree, baked chicken served over rice with Luckily, a bowl of creamy lentil bisque (which came a side of Iraqi potatoes ($9.49), was new for me and covered in a with the meal) erased all previous thoughts. It was by far the best secret spice rub, which the waitress would only say has lemon and lentil soup that’s ever warmed my tongue—welcomingly hearty, curry in it. The rub thoroughly infused the small, half-chicken with without any of the thick mealiness that often afflicts its peers. a barbecue flavor, but also tasted a bit dry. The buttery, yellow rice The Assiette Falafel tray ($7.99) and the Assiette Crevettes scattered with peas and crunchy onion bits helped moisten the bites. ($11.99) were shruggable in comparison to the soup. Though the And just when you think you’ve had every potato dish, along falafel looked amazing—six uniform fried dollops—their smooth come Iraqi potatoes, chunked and fried with the same secret, we’ll innards suffered from the same blandness that afflicted the baba call it Cradle of Civilization rub, which I’d prefer with some chile. ghanouj. They had none of the pronounced cumin kick, garlic bite The food at Alibaba’s is authentic, and Ali has not tried to conor cilantro zing that I’ve come to expect from good falafel. The dry ceal its origins by calling it Mediterranean or some other euphemism grilled shrimp were brushed with the same dark red, curry-seasoning for Arabic food. I’ll give his Iraqi spiced chicken another chance. blend that coated our sides of Iraqi potatoes and benefited markI finished my lonely trip down memory lane—I was the only one edly from a dunk in the cucumber-y tzatziki and a chaser of moist, in the restaurant until another party arrived for a late lunch—with a slightly sweet, pea-flecked rice. cup of dark mint tea, two sugars, just like we used to do after every As we tilted our empty coffee cups and searched for a fortune in meal and before every meal and pretty much all day long when I the remaining sludge, I decided that the next time I ponder swinging was rolling in the Middle East. into Boise Fry Co., I’m calling Alibaba first. If they’ve got a pot of lentil soup waiting, I might just change up my pattern.

—Nathaniel Hoffman likes his shawarma wrapped in old copies of Al-Ahram.

—Tara Morgan needs a nudge on how to read her sludge.

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SOMETHING SUSHI THIS WAY COMES Can we start this episode of Food News by saying it’s refreshing to have new restaurants to write about? For a while there, it was all doom and gloom with closings.

Writing an entire column about sushi takes me back to the old days of ’05, when sushi joints were popping up on every corner.

First, let’s give a round of applause for newcomer Yoi Tomo in Bodo. A crew has been ripping out the guts of what was KB’s Burritos at the corner of Capitol and Broad and readying the place for the sushi joint’s grand opening the first week of November.

If you’re a sushi fiend, it’s an opening you’ll want to mark in your calendar because Yoi Tomo is doing something its competition is just going to hate: AYCE. Allow me to translate: all you can eat. All day. Every day.

A proper fish gorge fest at lunch will set you back $17.99, and at dinner, you’ll have to fork over $24.99 for a sushi buffet. And here’s another curious little thing Yoi Tomo is offering: 5 percent off if you show up in the 30 minutes after they open or before they close, which means before noon or after 8:30 p.m. That’s right, when most restaurants are trying to kick you out so they can close up shop, Yoi Tomo is actually encouraging you to come in. 405 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-344-3375, yoitomo.us.

On the other hand, if you’ll only consume that much sushi when it’s a food challenge (maybe you were recently inspired by the Boise edition of Man V. Food) and you have the chance at food fame and glory (aka, your picture on the wall of shame ... er, fame), take your happy ass up Eighth Street to Superb Sushi for a challenge. The standing deal is four La Bomba Rolls with miso soup and four portions of Asian cole slaw.

One hour, no bathroom breaks. A few other rules apply and your prize depends on how much you eat. If you’re up for the challenge, check out superbsushidowntown.com for info. 208 N. Eighth St., 208-385-0123.

And the last item of business is a BW Card member update. New to the card is Chopsticks Gourmet Buffet on Main Street and soon to be up and running is Yokozuna Teriyaki on Vista Avenue. Hope you card members are as into Asian food as Food News is. For more information on participating restaurants or for information on acquiring your very own super fabulous BW Card, visit boiseweekly.com and click on the “BW Card” button, or ring up BW Office Manager Shea Sutton at 208-344-2055. Tell him Food News sent you.

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FOOD/DINING North Boise 20TH CENTURY LANES—The list of respectable establishments in which you can find a chili dog is no foot long. Indeed you can get one at 20th Centur y Lanes, but you can also get a family feeding of sliders and fries, Idaho’s ubiquitous food (fingersteaks), and—believe it or not—breakfast. 4712 W. State St., 208-342-8695. $ SU OM .

36TH STREET BISTRO—Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in the sprawling 36th Street Garden Center. Set in the windowed west wing of the store, the cafe ser ves espresso and pastries for breakfast, sandwiches and salads for lunch and the dinner menu is ever-changing depending on what’s fresh and in season. The rotating menu features locally grown and raised foods. 3823 N. Garden Center Way, SU 208-433-5100. $-$$ .

BOISE CO-OP DELI—You just can’t leave the Co-op without at least one deli delight in your bag.

Each day brings a new selection of delicious foods made with the freshest ingredients. 888 W. Fort St., 208-472-4500. $-$$ SU OM. BUNGALOW RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE—Sometimes sweet and other times savory, always delightfully delicious. Stop in for a light lunch or dinner with entrees cover the dining spectrum. 1520 N. 13th St., SU 208-331-9855. $$-$$$ OM .

CAFE VICINO—Chefs Richard Langston and Steve Rhodes serve up fresh and innovative foods, offering a casual lunch menu with choices like daily quiche, salads and portobello mushroom sandwiches. Dinner choices lean toward finer dining, offering carpaccio, a variety of pastas and entrees that run the gamut from braised lamb shanks to a New York steak to cioppino.

808 W. Fort St., 208-472-1463.

OM. $-$$$ FANCI FREEZE—Shakes, malts, spins, sundaes and the Boston shake (one part sundae, one part shake) are what have made Fanci Freeze a Boise favorite for years. But because we can’t live on ice cream alone, Fanci Freeze also serves a whole mess of burgers, some of the crispiest tots in town and even a grilled cheese for the non-meat-eater.

1402 W. State St., 208-344SU OM. 8661. $ GOODY’S SODA FOUNTAIN— From the moment you walk in, the smells of fresh caramel corn, homemade ice cream, hand-dipped chocolate and every kind of sugary delight hit you like a ton of gummy bricks. 1502 N. 13th St., 208-367-0020. $ SU.

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HIGHLANDS HOLLOW BREWHOUSE—Whether it’s the appetizers (Monty’s Hummus, Hollow Hot Wings), their entrees (Pan Fried Oysters, Mess-OChops) or the burgers and sandwiches (Black Bean Chili Burger, Reuben), stopping in at Highlands Hollow after winter skiing or hiking up Camel’s Back hill in the summer is always a great idea. 2455 Harrison Hollow, 208-343-6820. $-$$ SU OM. HYDE PARK PUB—Harr y’s is that special bar that’s inviting no matter what your mood. With its dog-friendly patio and a menu chock full of twists on American classics, this is a neighborhood bar that feels like it’s in your neighborhood. 1501 N. 13th St., 208-336-9260. $ SU. LULU’S FINE PIZZA—Big Apple-style gourmet pie for pizza lovers of ever ywhere kind. Get a wheel or go by the slice. Check out the usual toppings or get adventurous with some tasty things you’re not used to seeing on a pizza menu. 2594 Bogus Basin Road, 208-387-4992.

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MAZZAH—Visit the Med over lunch or drop on by for dinner. Gyros, hummus, falafel and baklava on the quick.

Try the fatoosh salad—you won’t be disappointed. 1772 W. State St., 208-333-2566. $-$$ SU OM .

O’MICHAEL’S PUB & GRILL—It’s a North End institution with one waitress who’s been serving there for 40 years. The casual menu is full of traditional and specialty sandwiches (check out the slaw burger that’s no burger at all), fish and steaks, and the best giant fried prawns in town. 2433 N. Bogus Basin Road, SU. 208-342-8948. $-$$ PARRILLA GRILL—Serving breakfast, wraps and burritos, Parrilla’s patio is a summer favorite. 1512 N. 13th St., SU. 208-323-4688. $ SUNRAY CAFE—SunRay holds down the coveted corner patio at the cross of 13th and Eastman streets. The menu is familiar to that location, featuring salads, subs and pizzas named for geographical features in Idaho.

Bring your dog, all your friends and break pizza crust with a pitcher of beer. 1602 N. 13th St., SU. 208-343-2887. $-$$

FOOD/RECENTLY REVIEWED BOISE FRY COMPANY 111 Broadway Ave., 208-495-3858, boisefrycompany.com “It’s a menu of meat and potatoes—which we further humbled by ordering to go—but our meal was so damn delicious, it should have been prefaced by a maitre d’ checking for our reservation and ended with us each dabbing our mouths with linen napkins folded in the shape of a crane. It was that good.”

—Amy Atkins

SOCKEYE GRILL AND BREWERY 3019 N. Cole Road, 208-658-1533, sockeyebrew.com “I ordered a seven-beer sampler ($6) and studied the menu.

Sampling from light to dark, I was struck by two things. First, each of the seven beers shared a common Sockeye flavor.

It was a slightly soapy and not quite bitter enough taste, but unique and highly drinkable nonetheless. Second, I realized as I ran the gamut from the seasonal and blonde ales to the Hell Diver Pale Ale and the Powerhouse Porter, that I really do prefer darker, thicker beers, as much as I support our regional hoppy IPA love affair.”

—Nathaniel Hoffman

BIG JUDS 1289 Protest Road, 208-343-4439, bigjudsboise.com “Vegetarians, consider this your warning: stop reading this now. We are going to talk about meat because, let’s face it, no one really goes to Big Juds for the grilled cheese. They go for the burgers.”

—Deanna Darr

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Listings rotate based on available space.

Updates from diligent readers and listed restaurateurs are heartily encouraged.

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DINING State BURGER â&#x20AC;&#x2122;N BREWâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Boise favorite whose name says it all: burgers and beer. 4295 W. State St., 208-345-7700. $-$$ SU. BUZZ CAFEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Coffee, lunch and breakfast early in the day. Wine tastings and music aplenty at night. 2999 N. Lakeharbor Lane, 208-344-4321. $-$$ SU .

up over 17 beers. 3515 W. State St., 208-342-8887. $-$$ SU. FLYING PIE PIZZERIAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longest-lived and most inventive pizzeria.

They have their own beer (the impeccable Triple Pi Belgianstyle ale), and pies to please even the pickiest eaters. 4320 W. State St., 208-384-0000. $ SU.

CORONA VILLAGEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gut-busting burritos, incredible chips and Dos Equis on tap make the Village stand out among Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s family style Mexican restaurants. 4334 W. State St., .

208-338-9707. $-$$

THE GREEN CHILEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Southwestern cuisine in Boise with green and red chilis, chimichangas and chile rellenos. The menu also features burgers and salads right along side sopapaillas.

5616 W. State St., 208-853.

0103. $-$$

DUTCH GOOSEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Homemade ďŹ nger steaks, fresh steamed clams, soup, sandwiches and great hot wings. They also ser ve

THE LIFT BAR AND GRILLâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A neighborhood bar and grill boasting daily homemade soups and chili, Angus burgers,

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sandwiches, vegetarian options and an extensive variety of beers and wines to choose from. Bring your dog by to relax on the back patio. 4091 W. State St., 208-342-3250.

SU. MADHUBANâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A daily lunch buffet and a huge menu including all the favorites. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gonna love the curr y. A great place for vegetarians. 6930 W. State St., 208-853-8215. $-$$ SU OM. MERRITTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COUNTRY CAFEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This 24-hour Boise mainstay is the place to land after a long night on the town.

The â&#x20AC;&#x153;home of the sconeâ&#x20AC;? ser ves up grub that turns customers into regulars. 6630 W. State .

St., 208-853-9982. $ MONTEGO BAYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;We love this restaurant/bar on the water.

With docks right on the lake, a sprawling patio, an outside bar, two bars in side and live music, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a happening party nearly ever y night of the week. And then thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the food. Pub food is the standard but oh, the tartar sauce. 3000 N. Lakeharbor Lane, 208-853SU. 5070. $-$$ PIZZALCHIKâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;PIZZa sALad and CHIcKen. Get it? Per fect robust salads, plus delicious original pizzas and whole chickens roasted in a 6,000-pound stone-hearth oven. Many toppings made in house. 7330 W. State St., 208-853-7757.

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CHENIN BLANC Chenin blanc is one of the most overlooked, but one of the most versatile white wine grapes. In its home in France, it is responsible for everything from light and refreshing charmers, to some of the longest lived dessert wines. As a sparkling wine, it provides both quality and value. We tried drier versions of chenin blanc from around the globe, with those from the United States edging out the competition. Here are the panelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top picks: 2008 DRY CREEK CHENIN BLANC, $9.99 This wine sees no oak and is ďŹ nished bone-dry, resulting in a marvelously refreshing white. Bright citrusâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;lemon, lime and grapefruitâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;dominates the nose along with subtle hazelnut and a light hit of whipped butter. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lively, creamy citrus on the palate, rich but with balancing acidity and touches of peach and mango. A California mainstay since 1972, this one has always been a value-priced charmer.

2008 Lâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ECOLE NO. 41 â&#x20AC;&#x153;WALLA VOILAâ&#x20AC;? CHENIN BLANC, $11.99 An exceptional effort from this Walla Walla, Wash., winery. It could pass for a French vouvray with its classic hit of black walnut backing ripe apricot and melon on the nose. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deďŹ nitely on the richer side with unctuous peach, papaya and mango playing against sweet citrus that turns tangy on the ďŹ nish.

2008 PINE RIDGE CHENIN BLANC-VIOGNIER, $14.99 A bit of a ringer from Napa Valley, with a blend that includes 19 percent viognier. That grape deďŹ nitely comes through on the nose, adding honeysuckle and sweet stone fruit to the tangy citrus. On the palate, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd ripe honeydew melon balanced by tangy lemon and blood orange. The ďŹ nish is long and lively with a nicely balanced mix of tropical fruit and cleansing acidity. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;David Kirkpatrick This Weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Panel: David Kirkpatrick, Boise Co-op Wine Shop; Cindy Limber, Bardenay; Karen McMillin, Youngâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Market; Kevin Settles, Bardenay; Scott Sprague, Idaho Wine Merchant WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

WESTSIDE DRIVE-INâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;From the mind of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Best Chef,â&#x20AC;?

Chef Lou, come some of the most scrumptious foods for dine-in, take-out or frozen to use when cooking is the last thing you want to do. 1939 W. State St., 208-342-2957. $-$$ SU .

Downtown + Fringe ADDIEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The language of breakfast is spoken here.

Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never seen so many meats followed by â&#x20AC;&#x153;& Eggsâ&#x20AC;? on one menu. Come early to beat the rush for Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best gravy.

510 W. Main St., 208-3381198. $ OM .

ALI BABAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Middle Eastern cuisine and all the fun and ďŹ&#x201A;avor that comes with it. 111 S Broadway Ave., 208-343-4536.

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ALIAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S COFFEEHOUSEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A bagel shop thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not just bagels. Get pastries, smoothies and lattes, or get beyond breaky with a cheesesteak sandwich, a ham and brie bagel, or any of River Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fresh soups and salads. 908 W. Main St., SU OM .

208-338-1299. $ ANGELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Upscale dining in a casual and relaxed atmosphere.

Featuring such tasty delights as Idaho Trout and Crab, Rosemar y and Juniper Lamb Rack and Halibut Oscar. 909 Main St., 208-342-4900. $$-$$$ RES SU OM. ASIAGOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Innovative Italian pastas, salads, sandwiches, soups and seasonal specials ser ved amidst rustic Italian countr yside decor. 1002 W. Main St., 208-336-5552. $$-$$$ SU.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): You may be as flooded with briny emotion as a Pisces on a meandering binge. You might be as embedded in a labyrinth of your own creation as the Geminis who verge on being too clever for their own good. You may be as cagey a listener as a Scorpio who’s searching for a hidden vulnerability in an ally. In other words, you’re not exactly yourself. But it’s one of those rare times when that’s a good thing.

Costume suggestion: the opposite of what you think you are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In my ideal version of Halloween, we wouldn’t scare ourselves with images of ghoulish skeletons, eyeballs floating in cauldrons and hissing, three-headed snakes. Rather, we’d confront more realistic fears, like the possibility that the effects we have on the world are different from our intentions or that we have not yet reached our potential or that people we like might completely misread and misunderstand us. Then Halloween would serve a more spiritually useful purpose. It would bring us face-to-face with actual dangers to our psychic integrity. Costume suggestion: exorcist. (Begin by exorcising yourself.)

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During this phase of your cycle, you’ll generate good fortune if you brainstorm and meditate about your relationship with work. I urge you to empty your mind of everything you think you know about the subject. Adopt a fresh and innocent perspective.

Here are some questions: 1.

What’s the quality of the experience you want to have as you earn a living? 2. What gifts do you want to give to life as you toil at challenging tasks that are interesting to you? 3. What capacities do you want to develop in yourself while doing your work? (For Halloween pretend you’re doing your dream job.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai witnessed the full range of experiences that life on this planet has to offer, from war to love and everything in between.

During an interview he gave in 1994, he said, “I can stand on my balcony and tell my children, ‘Over there I was shelled for the first time, and over there, to the right, just beneath those trees, I was kissed for the first time.’”

I suspect his words will soon be meaningful for you, Cancerian.

It’s likely you’ll have a breakthrough or epiphany near a place where you once suffered disappointment. Halloween costume suggestion: the phoenix.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Author Gary Smalley says that the sexual nature of men is like a

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microwave oven, while women resemble a crockpot. I’d advise you Leo men to be like crockpots not only in the bedroom but everywhere else. To spot the subtle opportunities that will be available, you’ll have to be gradual, deliberate and thorough.

Leisurely foreplay should be your all-purpose metaphor. As for you Leo women: I’m betting there are ways that you have fallen under the sway of the microwave meme. If I’m right, it’s time to fully re-embrace the spirit of the crockpot. Costume clues: the tortoise, not the hare; a 400page novel, not Twitter.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “The more beautiful the bird, the poorer the singer,” wrote L. M. Boyd. “Peacocks scream, macaws screech. Birds of Paradise croak.” Among the most interesting singers, on the other hand, are birds that are far less spectacular in appearance: the Black-capped Chickadee, the Willow Thrush, and the White-throated Sparrow. Keep that in mind as you navigate your way through the coming week’s dilemmas. My personal inclination is to favor inspiring singing over comely appearance.

It’s important to recognize the nature of the options before you.

Halloween costume: Incorporate plain beauty, secret genius, disguised power and open secrets.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown has a unique way of stimulating his imagination: He dons his gravity boots and meditates on complex storylines while he’s inverted. It’s also a good way to overcome writer’s block.

“You think differently upsidedown,” he says. Do you have an equivalent method for providing gentle shock therapy to your perspective? This is a good time to use it. If you don’t already have a creative aid like that, hunt around for one. In the days ahead, it will come in handy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When Sheelah Ryan won $55 million in the Florida lottery, she used the money to create an organization dedicated to helping the disadvantaged. “I guess I’ve disappointed a lot of people,” she told a reporter. “I could be traveling all over the world, or have a beautiful mansion on the ocean, or have a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce. But that’s not my style.” She’s your role model for the coming weeks, Capricorn.

When good fortune comes to you—and I’m almost positive it will—I recommend that you look for ways to share it. The ironic fact of the matter is that if you’re generous as you tap in to your gift, there’ll be more.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): At a family planning conference in Beijing, a researcher from Ghana presented testimony about tribal issues that he had in part gleaned through interviews with dead ancestors. He said spirit mediums acted as his “translators.” When he was met with skepticism from colleagues, he was defensive. “If I only heard from the living,” he explained, “I wouldn’t get a very good balance.” His perspective would be smart for you to adopt. To make the wisest decisions and take the most righteous action, draw inspiration from what has passed away as much as from what’s alive. Costume suggestion: a spirit medium.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I did a performance in Santa Fe, N.M., a few years ago, a woman in the audience came up to me after the show and made a sardonic proposal: Would I like to join her 12-step program for writers who are overly fond of vivid adjectives and adverbs? With all the uppity mock politeness I could summon, I told her that I was preposterously happy with my scintillating addiction to brazen language, and didn’t regard it as a raggedy problem that needed invasive correcting. I’m advising you to be like me and follow your heart when it tells you to be bigger, bolder and brasher than ever before. Shiny intensity is your sacred duty! Halloween costume suggestion: the sun.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Behind every face, there are a thousand faces,” says film director Bryan Singer, who worked on two of the X-Men movies. He deals with professional actors, who specialize in revealing the myriad faces beneath the surface. But I think his assessment applies to lots of people, especially you Scorpios—although it must be said that you do have mad skills at hiding all the action going on beneath your surface. This Halloween, I urge you to show five or six of the real you’s lurking below your poker face. Costume suggestion: be inspired by a “hero with a thousand faces.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I hope you won’t merely wander around the frontier. I hope you’ll undertake a meticulous yet expansive exploration of that virgin territory. How to proceed: 1. Formulate specific questions about what you’re looking for.

2. Develop a hypothesis for the experiments you want to carry out. 3. Ignore what doesn’t interest you and pounce only on what stirs your fascination. Costume suggestion: an alien anthropologist visiting Earth from another planet; a time-traveler from the future who’s doing a documentary on this historical moment; a religious pilgrim who’s keeping a detailed journal.

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