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ON THE GREEN EXPO I attended last year’s Green Expo in Boise and was in awe at the participation and information that was presented. For months after the expo, my husband and I were telling people about the wonderful involvement and interaction that was the core of the expo. We had attended at least one lecture each hour of the expo during the two days and were overwhelmed by the knowledge we obtained and tremendous amount of intellectual stimulation that was generated by the open forums. During the year, we spoke with others that had been involved in 2008 and expressed our enthusiasm for the 2009 event. Throughout the year, we incorporated many of the things we had learned from the lecturers as well as from some of the people in the “audience” that like us, had ideas to contrib-

ute. We looked forward to the 2009 event with great anticipation.

Saturday morning we arrived at the Grove early and picked up the “Idaho Green Expo” program to find out which lectures we would be going to. Even though I had signed up last year for e-mail updates, I hadn’t received any notification.

When I talked to a 2008 lecturer earlier this spring, she told me of this year’s dates so I blocked out the weekend and I got online to look at the seminar lineup.

I couldn’t find it online but assumed it was a last-minute confirmation but that it would be in the printed program. Then when I didn’t find it in the program, I was certain there must be a schedule posted inside the expo. But I was wrong ... there was no schedule ... there were no lectures ... there was no interaction amongst people who really want to change the direction we’re going as a community.

Instead, the Green Expo was a big commercial. Lots of people trying to sell systems, and products and even investments ... people wanting petitions signed that they couldn’t even hold a reasonable conversation about ... but nothing relating to the individuals that have an existing home and

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are living a meager lifestyle trying to make a better environment for themselves and their community.

Last year, my husband and I spent every hour the expo was open absorbing and sharing information with like people. Saturday, we spent two hours at the expo, left totally deflated and then headed to a community garden in Boise to share thoughts with someone who was dealing with real environmental situations before heading home to work in our garden.

I will look on the Web site next year and evaluate the program to see what is being offered before wasting the gas and contributing to the pollution by driving from Eagle. I hope I will feel the enthusiasm I felt at Expo 2008. I won’t return if the agenda is similar to the 2009 format.

Last year, the expo provided computers and asked for feedback. This year, no one I spoke with wanted to listen to my comments.

Thank you for forwarding this information to anyone that might be interested in the input.

—Debra Helton, Eagle I loved the Boise Green Expo. I learned some new things and made some

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MAIL great contacts to assist with upcoming projects.

My only concern was the beer tasting afterward.

For $10 and a valid ID, you could get eight tasting coupons and a beer mug. Not a bad deal if you are a beer drinker, which by the way, I am not. (Being a non-beer drinker makes me a great DD for all of my husband and six of our eight children who are beer drinkers.)

I wanted to purchase a bottle of water. The only person selling bottled water wanted $7 a bottle, but it came in a reusable metal container. When I asked about regular bottled water, I was rebuffed and treated like an inbred backwoods hick. I was informed that, “We are discouraging the use of plastic because it is soooooo bad for the environment!”

My question is if they were really discouraging the use of plastic then why were all of the mugs that came with the $10 fee made of plastic? A bit hypocritical? I do believe the answer is yes!

I think we would be amazed to find out how many of the mugs were tossed into the recycle bin as people were leaving. I saw it happen numerous times. (The great people at the Brick Oven Bistro were more than happy to sell me a bottle of water.)

—Shar F., Boise

WINNABLE WARS, TED RALL AND MCNAMARA Ted Rall blithely flirts with a trip to Walden’s Pond in his shortsighted yet well-researched piece about

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winnable wars. To use [Robert] McNamara’s schismatic repast of regretful deeds to claim the United States is bordering imperialistic war crimes of historical weight only extends the call for terrorists and 13th century freedom hating nut groups like al-Qaida, Hamas, etc., to overrun the planet. Even [President Barack] Obama, far and away the most liberal president this country has ever seen, has had to curb his actions as he discovered the true world picture.

Ted’s Pollyanna position that McNamara was right only because he flipped in his nest as a dove from a hawk is the same old careless thinking that held open doors for Hitler, Stalin and Amin. Would he have laid belly up in Poland in 1939, suggesting Allies stay out of France and Italy because the war was unwinnable?

To suggest that Saddam did not encourage a civilized society to act defending freedom worldwide is not only peace monger rhetoric, and blatantly wrong, but supports a required practical, necessary response to tyranny and oppression.

The very chair Ted sits in was provided by those patriots standing on the value and universal just cause of liberty and freedom. No doubt any sane man abhors war, yet to maintain a balance over those insane who love it requires a defense, not white flag diplomacy and acquiescence to those choosing to pay the price in human lives.

To simply stand by as the Christian-hating Mus-

lims march JackBoot style (albeit in sandals) across Europe, determined to kill all those non-believers, is not promoting human existence, but condemning the world to hate, murder and endless suffering.

Finally, when using the debacles of Vietnam (U.S. involvement) and Afghanistan (Russian imperialism) as examples of why we should refuse to stand on our God-given right to freedom only exposes his argument as insultingly naive. To think that these acts are only of extremists is downright foolish and ignorant. It might be of good purpose for Ted to dig out the YouTube videos of infidels being beheaded before he unlocks the door to his daughter’s bedroom for the perpetrators to enter.

—Allan Roscoe, Boise

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OPINION

BY BRUCE WONG

A QUESTION FOR IDAHO’S ELECTED LEADERSHIP Do we have a plan?

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adies and Gentlemen: First and foremost, thank you for the selfless service you offer our state. Although it is easy to second guess from the comforts of the sidelines, as President Teddy Roosevelt said, it takes courage to “be in the arena.”

I followed this year’s legislative session with great interest as we all dealt with very diverse and challenging issues spanning a retreating economy, lost jobs, education funding, state government, and most controversial, road maintenance funding options.

Although we did come to somewhat of a conclusion on most issues, this session left me with a question I hope you can help me with: What is the state leadership’s vision for Idaho and have we collectively agreed upon a long-term strategy for a prosperous Idaho and defined those principles that we as Idahoans stand for? I ask this respectfully as a fellow Idahoan because not only do I not know, but I cannot find any reference to such a plan or process.

Although our governor and legislative leadership did commit years to promoting the need for specific programs and funding initiatives, it seemed to me, with respect to the very interesting and lengthy 2009 legislative session, it was not clear exactly what our collaboratively derived Idaho strategy is, what priorities the strategy drives, and as such, what strategic funding decisions had to be made to successfully achieve Idaho’s long-term goals and priorities. Some in the media have written we merely punted the tough decisions down the road. I sincerely hope not.

As strategy is the orchestration of means to accomplish ends, I was somewhat confused by what appeared to be a focus on the crisis or issue of the moment with no apparent guiding priorities founded on a clearly defined vision. This seemed to then frustrate the legislature’s ability to make the necessary adjustments to coordinated funding allocations that matched our state’s defined priorities and principles. Again, I could be mistaken but I just did not see it. Others suggested looking to Idaho’s constitution but having read it, I don’t believe it defines such a collaborative planning process or answers my question.

If, however, we have not built the long-term strategy foundation that allows our executive and legislative branches to fine tune it and as such, align funding priorities to established principles, then I offer the following as one Idahoan’s opinion as a possible planning template prior to the next legislative session.

In partnership, work to define Idaho’s vision, strategy and principles as: -Strategic: Where do we want Idaho to be five, 10 and 20 years from now?

-Operational: What do we need to accomplish in the next one to four years to attain our long-term goals?

-Tactical: What current planning and execution actions do we need to do today to shore up the operational foundation allowing us to achieve our long-term vision?

By accomplishing this, we establish and institutionalize Idaho’s “brand.” Next, re-structure to fit the strategy if needed. Truly forecast and plan Idaho’s near- and longterm activities to ready capacity and set goals. Remember, a vision without funding is a hallucination. Establish routine strategic, operational and tactical communication protocols and clearly and frequently communicate them between our elected leadership and most importantly, Idahoans. Finally, invest in yourselves, as your leadership is critical to Idaho’s future.

In conclusion, I believe the challenge for Idaho today, steeped in the traditions, paradigms and perspectives of the past, is recognizing opportunity, embracing it, and capitalizing on it before someone else at the federal level does it for us. Machiavelli said: “There is nothing more difficult to carry out, nor more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to handle, than to initiate a new order of things.” He might also have added that there is nothing more worthwhile.

Bruce Wong is a retired Air Force Colonel, prior Senior Vice President for a national merchandising company and former corporate manager for Albertsons/Supervalu.

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BILLCOPE I’M GOING OFF And I’m not altogether here now

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f anything I say in today’s column excites you so greatly that you feel you simply cannot live another minute without telling me personally how A) fabulous, or B) stupid you think I am, don’t waste your time trying to reach me. I’m not here. I’ve flown the coop. If anything worth writing about happens to me while I’m gone, it’s likely at some point I’ll tell you where I went and what I did. Other than that, it’s none of your business where I went and what I did.

You don’t tell me what you’re up to every time you slip out of town for a few days, do you? Of course you don’t. You would say—and you’d be right—that it’s none of my business what you’re up to.

So why should I tell you what I’m up to when I go away? Unless something happens that I can turn into a column, that is. If you’ve followed my methods for any length of time, you already know that my privacy ends where a column starts. Aside from my sex life and bathroom habits, there is virtually nothing left that you don’t already know about me. I imagine you can even tell when I’m stalling for time because I haven’t thought of anything good to write about yet. Am I right? Huh? Am I? Huh? I bet you know when I’m hemming and hawing around like a “D” student on book report day because he hasn’t read any books, let alone the one he was assigned to read … or in my case, because I have yet to come up with some proper subject matter.

What’s especially difficult for me are those times when A) I have yet to come up with some proper subject matter, and B) I will soon be going out of town for a few days, which means that a week ahead of the week I will be gone, I have to come up with not one proper subject, but two proper subjects, as I will not have time to prepare a column for the week after the week I will be gone. Following me? I mean, whenever you go out of town for a few days, there are things you can put off until after you get back, and things that absolutely have to be taken care of before you leave. Mowing your lawn, for example, can safely be put off until when you get back. But filling the parakeet’s feeder with a week’s worth of food needs to be done before you leave. Get it? Sure, you can fill the parakeet feeder when you get back, but there may not be a parakeet left to appreciate it.

U As often than not, it’s not the absence of proper subject matter that has me piddling about in an effort to get enough words on paper to fill this page before you notice I’m not really saying anything, but the abundance of it.

Right now, for instance, without even breaking a sweat, I can think of several proper subjects. The loss of so many iconic Americans, for one. Can I let Michael Jackson pass uncommented on? Or should I wade into the delicate question of whether Walt Minnick is a “DINO” (Democrat In Name Only).

Or I might be addressing Sonia Sotomayor and her confirmation hearings.

This very morning, just minutes before I started wondering what the hell I was going to write about, I’d been watching that scrawny Alabama bird (Sen. Jeff Sessions) give Sotomayor the third degree, hoping to hang her up on a racial comment or if at all possible, destroy her Supreme Court future, all part of his insane political party’s efforts to corrode Barack Obama’s WWW.BOISEWEEKLY.COM

presidency in any way they can, and I got to wondering: When, for God’s sake, is this great nation going to stop twiddling our intellectual thumbs while we wait for these backward Southern apes to evolve out of their cultural cave into decent, thoughtful, advanced human beings?

As a result, briefly, I considered making my column about how the South has been a curse and a drag and a cankerous sore on America since the powdered wig days. How that Joe Dirt thing of theirs has spread across the land like ringworm and corrupted every noble intention this country ever set out to accomplish. How Abe Lincoln would have done the future a tremendous favor had he whupped their asses, freed the slaves, and then let the rebs go ahead and secede into Okefenokee Swamp on the condition that they take all the stunted creeps and demented dips and mutant toads like Jeff Sessions with them, and that they never, ever come crawling back.

But after thinking about it a little longer, I realized that I’d have to leave town for more than a few measly days if and when I write that column.

U So I turned my attentions to Ted Rall, my next door neighbor in this Boise Weekly cul-de-sac. See, I’ve met him, broke bread with him, slurped beer with him. In fact, last fall, I was on the phone with him because there was a suggestion from the top floor of BW headquarters that he and I write something jointly.

Nobody was sure what this masterpiece would be, but the title presented itself: “Bill and Ted’s Big Adventure.” For a few days, the idea flopped about on the floor like a fish that had jumped the tank, and eventually died.

But I like Ted Rall. You would, too, were you to meet him. Lately, though, he’s been making me wonder why. There was that dretch about Obama turning America into some sort of latter-day Third Reich, remember? And his recent opinion where he claimed Obama is worse than Bush was the final blow. Somebody needs to remind him that he is behaving rashly, more than a little unreasonable, more than a little impatient, and more than a little spoiled. Somebody needs to remind him that nowhere, not in all of civilization or history, does everything get done at once.

Somebody needs to remind him that if he keeps up this tantrum of his, creeps like Jeff Sessions will be quoting him. Is that what he wants?

But, it’s not going to be me. When disagreements like this break out between people who have broken bread and slurped beer together, it should be private. Maybe I will organize an intervention. Yes, that’s it! That could be the “Bill and Ted’s Big Adventure” we were looking for. I will fill my car with disillusioned Ted Rall fans, drive to New York City, and surprise him in his home. “Ted, my friend,” I will say with great empathy in my voice, “we are here to guide you through this childish phase.”

Yes, I believe I can get a column out of that. But not this one. That column would take a lot of preparation and planning and most of all, time. And it is time that I’m running short of. I’m out of here in four ... five days, and I still have another column to get done. And I don’t have any good ideas for that one, either.

Uh ... excuse me for a moment while I count some words.

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TEDRALL OBAMA COVERS UP A DOZEN MY LAIS Were 3,000 Afghans murdered as U.S. troops stood by?

convoy estimates that an average of 150 to 160 people died in each container.”

According to Scottish filmmaker Jamie Doran, the butchery continued for three days.

Doran’s documentary about these events, Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death, was shown in 50 countries but NEW YORK—“I’ve asked my national pretended to surrender, then turned their couldn’t get a U.S. release by a media walsecurity team to ... collect the facts,” weapons on advancing Northern Alliance lowing in the amped-up pseudo-patriotism President Barack Obama told CNN. Then, soldiers—at least 8,000 Taliban POWs fell that marked 2002. Doran’s film broke the he said, “we’ll probably make a decision in under the control of Gen. Abdul Rashid story. (You can watch it online at video. terms of how to approach it once we have Dostum, an Uzbek warlord with a long google.com.) My column brought it to a all the facts together.” record of exceptional brutality. mainstream American audience: Probably.

I described what happened next in my “When the containers were unlocked at Such was Obama’s tepid reaction to column dated Jan. 28, 2003: Sheberghan,” I wrote in 2003, “the bodies a New York Times cover story about an “Five thousand of the 8,000 prisoners of the dead tumbled out. A 12-man U.S. alleged “mass killing of hundreds, perhaps made the trip to Sheberghan prison in the Fifth Special Forces Group unit, Operationthousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by backs of open-air Soviet-era pick-up trucks al Detachment Alpha (ODA) 595, guarded the forces of an American-backed warlord ... They stopped and commandeered private the prison’s front gates ... ‘Everything during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.” container trucks to transport the other was under the control of the American Obama sounds so reasonable. Doesn’t 3,000 prisoners. ‘It was awful,’ Irfan Azgar commanders,’ a Northern Alliance soldier he always? But his reaction to the massacre Ali, a survivor of the trip, told England’s tells Doran in the film. American troops in the Dasht-i-Leili desert is nothing more Guardian newspaper. ‘They crammed us searched the bodies for al-Qaida identificathan the latest case of his administration re- into sealed shipping containers. We had tion cards. But, says another driver, ‘Some fusing to investigate a Bush-era war crime. no water for 20 hours. We banged on the of [the prisoners] were alive. They were There are two things Obama doesn’t side of the container. There was no air and shot’ while ‘maybe 30 or 40’ American want you to know about Dasht-i-Leili. it was very hot. There were 300 of us in soldiers watched.”

First, the political class and U.S. statemy container. By the time we arrived in The Northern Alliance witness told controlled media have sat on this story for Sheberghan, only 10 of us were alive.’

Doran that American commanders advised six to seven years. Second, U.S. troops are “One Afghan trucker, forced to drive him to “get rid of them [the bodies] before accused of participating in the atrocities, one such container, says that the prisonsatellite pictures could be taken.” Inwhich involved 12 times as many murders ers began to beg for air. Northern Alliance deed, satellite photos reveal that Afghan as My Lai. commanders ‘told us to stop the trucks, President Hamid Karzai’s government The last major battle for northern and we came down. After that, they shot dispatched bulldozers to the mass grave site Afghanistan took place in the city of into the containers [to make air holes]. in 2006 and removed most of the bodies.

Kunduz. After a weeks-long siege marked Blood came pouring out. They were World’s Most Dangerous Places writer by treachery—at one point, the Taliban screaming inside.’ Another driver in the Robert Young Pelton, a colleague who (like me) was in and around Kunduz in November 2001, denies that Dostum’s men or U.S. Special Forces killed more than a few hundred Taliban prisoners. However, the U.S. government started receiving firsthand accounts of the events at Dasht-i-Leili in early 2002. According to the Times “Dell Spry, the FBI’s senior representative at ...

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, heard accounts of the deaths from agents he supervised there.

Separately, 10 or so prisoners brought from Afghanistan reported that they had been ‘stacked like cordwood’ in shipping containers and had to lick the perspiration off one another to survive, Mr. Spry recalled.”

“At the very least,” Doran says now, “American forces and CIA personnel stood by and did nothing ... But if numerous witnesses are to be believed, their involvement went much further than that.” Will Obama hold them accountable? Not unless we insist.

Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, is author of the books To Afghanistan and Back and Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East?

NOTE It’s been an ugly, hateful week, Boise.

Memories of my childhood are thick with racism. I can remember my fourth-grade teacher in Montgomery, Ala., explaining to the class why our majority-minority transfer option paperwork was important. I remember hearing racial jokes as a kid that I wouldn’t dare repeat as an adult. I also remember a group of girls in my chichi high school in Hawaii who liked to regularly call me a fucking haole.

I remember my sister taking a beating for being a white girl in her Honolulu junior high. I learned young that racism and hatred are facts of life, but I’d apparently forgotten that as an adult.

In my progressive, BW world, where I associate with people of many different colors, genders and sexual persuasions, I’d lost sight of the fact that not everyone is as open-minded as I like to think.

Last Wednesday, in the basement at Red Feather Lounge in downtown Boise, one of the most well-known anti-Semitic neoNazis alive today held a book signing. News editor Nathaniel Hoffman and I crashed the party and were escorted out, but before I

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left, I videotaped everyone in the room. The dozen people who paid money to hear David Irving speak looked just like the kind of people you’d expect to see sitting at the table next to you on the restaurant’s patio. Or the kind of people sitting next to you in church. Hoffman had the only shaved head in the room. No swastika bearing T-shirts.

Young, old and in between, they were Holocaust deniers and white supremacists who looked just like every other white person in Boise.

Then last Saturday night, at a North End bar where Rebecca Scott was performing, a middle-aged male customer snidely asked me if he was in a gay bar, referring to the crowd of mostly lesbians.

He was eventually kicked out of the bar for making derogatory comments about the women and telling the bartender that he didn’t approve of all the singing about “gay shit.”

Both incidents happened in some of Idaho’s most liberal enclaves and both shocked me immensely. They shouldn’t have. No matter how far we think we’ve come, we still have a long, long way to go.

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UĂŠ/Â…iĂŠVÂœÂ˜ĂƒÂœÂ?ˆ`>ĂŒÂˆÂœÂ˜ĂŠÂœvĂŠ `>ĂŠ ÂœĂ•Â˜ĂŒĂžÂ˝ĂƒĂŠ*Ă•LÂ?ˆVĂŠ Information Department, which reduces the VÂœĂ•Â˜ĂŒĂžÂ˝ĂƒĂŠLĂ•`}iĂŒĂŠLÞÊ>ÂŤÂŤĂ€ÂœĂ?ˆ“>ĂŒiÂ?ÞÊfÂŁxä]äää° That list, of course, comes from Ada County spokeswoman Laura Wylde, who is still sending out press releases for the county. Her former boss, Rich Wright, was reassigned as the head of VÂœĂ•Â˜ĂŒĂžĂŠ `Â“ÂˆÂ˜ÂˆĂƒĂŒĂ€>ĂŒÂˆĂ›iĂŠ-iĂ€Ă›ÂˆViĂƒĂŠ>ĂŠviĂœĂŠĂœiiÂŽĂƒĂŠ>}ÂœĂŠ >˜`ĂŠÂ…ÂˆĂƒĂŠ`iÂŤ>Ă€ĂŒÂ“iÂ˜ĂŒĂŠĂœÂˆÂ?Â?ĂŠĂŒ>ÂŽiĂŠÂœĂ›iÀʍÕLÂ?ˆVĂŠÂˆÂ˜vÂœĂ€Â“>tion duties in next year’s budget.

ULLMAN RUN SPURRED BY CONSERVATIVE BLOGGER Sharon Ullman, who told the Idaho StatesmanĂŠÂ?>ĂƒĂŒĂŠĂœiiÂŽĂŠĂŒÂ…>ĂŒĂŠĂƒÂ…iĂŠÂŤÂ?>Â˜ĂƒĂŠĂŒÂœĂŠĂ€Ă•Â˜ĂŠvÂœĂ€ĂŠ}ÂœĂ›iĂ€Â˜ÂœĂ€ĂŠ against Butch Otter in 2010, was inspired to run LÞÊVÂœÂ˜ĂƒiÀÛ>ĂŒÂˆĂ›iĂŠLÂ?Âœ}}iÀÊ `>“Ê Ă€>Â…>“°Ê1Â?Â?“>Â˜ĂŠ ĂŒÂœÂ?`ĂŠVÂˆĂŒĂž`iĂƒÂŽĂŠĂŒÂ…>ĂŒĂŠ Ă€>Â…>Â“ĂŠĂƒĂ•}}iĂƒĂŒi`ĂŠÂ…iÀÊ>ĂƒĂŠ>ĂŠ Ă›Âˆ>LÂ?iĂŠÂœÂŤÂŤÂœÂ˜iÂ˜ĂŒĂŠĂŒÂœĂŠ"ĂŒĂŒiÀÊL>VÂŽĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠ >ÞÊ­ i>`Â?ˆ˜i\ĂŠ The Woman Who Could Topper Otter).

Ullman, an Ada County Commissioner, said that on a daily or weekly basis, she runs up against laws that can only be changed at the ĂƒĂŒ>ĂŒiĂŠÂ?iĂ›iÂ?]ĂŠÂ?ˆŽiĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂŠĂœ>ĂžĂŠĂŒÂ…>ĂŒĂŠÂŤĂ€ÂœÂŤiĂ€ĂŒĂžĂŠĂ›>Â?Ă•iĂŠ>Ăƒsessments are reported. Âş/Â…iĂ€iÂ˝ĂƒĂŠ>ĂŠViĂ€ĂŒ>ÂˆÂ˜ĂŠÂ?iĂ›iÂ?ĂŠÂœvĂŠvĂ€Ă•ĂƒĂŒĂ€>ĂŒÂˆÂœÂ˜ĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠĂŒÂ…>ĂŒĂŠ regard,â€? Ullman said.

She’d like to be in better position to do something about it. Ullman, a Republican in recent years, has supported Otter in many areas, but `ÂˆĂ›iĂ€}i`ĂŠvĂ€ÂœÂ“ĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂŠ}ÂœĂ›iĂ€Â˜ÂœĂ€ĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠÂ…ÂˆĂƒĂŠVĂ€Ă•Ăƒ>`iĂŠvÂœĂ€ĂŠÂ˜iĂœĂŠ road funding. Âş ĂŠ`ÂœÂ˜Â˝ĂŒĂŠĂ•Â˜`iĂ€ĂƒĂŒ>˜`ĂŠĂœÂ…ĂžĂŠoĂŠĂœÂ…iÂ˜ĂŠĂœiĂŠÂ…>Ă›iĂŠ almost one in 10 Idahoans unemployed ... it doesn’t make sense to me to push for tax increases,â€? she said.

DESERTER ROBIN LONG RELEASED FROM BRIG Robin Long, a Boise man who ed the U.S. Army for Canada in protest of the war in Iraq, has been released from a military prison in California. œ˜}ĂŠĂœ>ĂƒĂŠÂ…iÂ?`ĂŠvÂœĂ€ĂŠÂŁĂ“ĂŠÂ“ÂœÂ˜ĂŒÂ…ĂƒĂŠÂœvĂŠ>ĂŠÂŁxÂ‡Â“ÂœÂ˜ĂŒÂ…ĂŠ ĂƒiÂ˜ĂŒi˜Vi]ĂŠwÂ˜ÂˆĂƒÂ…ÂˆÂ˜}ĂŠÂ…ÂˆĂƒĂŠĂƒiÂ˜ĂŒi˜ViĂŠ>ĂŒĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂŠ ÂˆĂ€>“>ÀÊ >Ă€ÂˆÂ˜iĂŠ ÂœĂ€ÂŤĂƒĂŠ ÂˆĂ€ĂŠ-ĂŒ>ĂŒÂˆÂœÂ˜ĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠ->Â˜ĂŠ ˆi}ÂœÂ°ĂŠ œ˜}ĂŠĂœ>ĂƒĂŠ sentenced last August, after Canadian ofďŹ cials deported him back to the United States. Long has a young family in Canada and started a small LĂ•ĂƒÂˆÂ˜iĂƒĂƒĂŠVÂœÂ˜Ă›iĂ€ĂŒÂˆÂ˜}ĂŠÂ?>ĂœÂ˜ĂƒĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŒÂœĂŠ}>Ă€`iÂ˜ĂƒĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂ€i° Long plans to study massage therapy in the San Francisco Bay Area and will apply for permission to return to Canada. Long’s attorney, James Branum, told citydesk that Long’s wife has multiple sclerosis and is able to get treatment in

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war in Iraq U.S. CASUALTIES: As of Tuesday, July 21, Óää™]ĂŠ{]ĂŽĂŽĂ“ĂŠ1°-Â°ĂŠĂƒiĂ€Ă›ÂˆViʓi“LiĂ€ĂƒĂŠÂ­ÂˆÂ˜VÂ?Ă•`ˆ˜}ĂŠĂŽÂŁĂŠ `>Â…Âœ>Â˜ĂƒÂŽĂŠÂ…>Ă›iĂŠ`ˆi`ĂŠĂƒÂˆÂ˜ViĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂŠĂœ>Ă€ĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠ Ă€>¾ÊLi}>Â˜ĂŠ ÂˆÂ˜ĂŠ >Ă€V…ÊÓääÎ\ĂŠĂŽ]{Ăˆ{ĂŠÂˆÂ˜ĂŠVœ“L>ĂŒĂŠ>˜`ĂŠnĂˆnĂŠvĂ€ÂœÂ“ĂŠ non-combat-related incidents and accidents. ˜Â?Ă•Ă€i`ĂŠĂƒiĂ€Ă›ÂˆViʓi“LiĂ€ĂƒĂŠĂŒÂœĂŒ>Â?ĂŠĂŽÂŁ]{Σ°Ê Â˜ĂŠĂŒÂ…iĂŠÂ?>ĂƒĂŒĂŠ week, six U.S. soldiers died.

Since President Barack Obama was inauguĂ€>ĂŒi`ĂŠÂœÂ˜ĂŠ >Â˜Â°ĂŠĂ“Ă¤]ĂŠÂŁĂ¤ĂŽĂŠĂƒÂœÂ?`ˆiĂ€ĂƒĂŠÂ…>Ă›iĂŠ`ˆi`°Ê Source: U.S. Dept. of Defense IRAQI CIVILIAN DEATHS: Estimated between ™Ó]{n™Ê>˜`Ê£ää]™Ç£°Ê Source: iraqbodycount.net COST OF IRAQ WAR: fĂˆĂˆĂˆ]ĂˆĂˆx]nĂŽx]Ă¤ĂˆĂŽ Source: costofwar.com

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channels 2 and 6, pulled UHF frequencies in the DTV switch, and their new signals don’t carry as well.

The engineers examined my setup and generally approved, though they said something in code about my rabbit ears. Morrill went out to the van and emerged with the Terk, an indoor e would not have noticed the June 12 DTV Day at antenna that is more Starship Enterprise than rabbit ears. Still my house but for one little problem: On the day that no go. Then, Tucker installed a small ampliďŹ er between the Terk the nation switched to digital over-the-air television and the Access HD and rescanned the channels. It worked! We signals, we lost Reading Rainbow and Sesame Street. had all of the old channels plus it picked up Channel 39, an We couldn’t get Channel 4, Idaho Public Television, or most independent broadcast station I’d never heard of. of the other channels that had come in before when the networks But then Morrill stood up from the couch, as if to get a beer, were broadcasting and the screen went in both analog and fuzzy. So we went outdigital. It’s not that we side to the big guns. were caught off guard.

The guys had Like millions of Ameribrought along a 10cans, we traded in our foot roof antenna, government coupon $59.99 from Lowe’s, for a digital converter and a long pole to box last year, hooked it mount it on. We fed the up correctly and tested coaxial cable through it. Before June 12, we my window and reswere getting crystalcanned. It looked like clear digital television plenty of signal power through our Access HD and no indoor antenna converter box. After for body mass or curJune 12: just KTVB tains to block. Morrill Channel 7 and somerecommended that I get times KTRV Fox 12. a roof antenna.

Then I bumped into “The pitch of your Jeff Tucker, production roof is not what I manager at IdahoPTV. would call lethal for `>Â…Âœ*/6ĂŠ i˜iĂ€>Â?ĂŠ >˜>}iÀÊ*iĂŒiÀÊ ÂœĂ€Ă€ÂˆÂ?Â?ĂŠ>˜`ĂŠ*Ă€Âœ`Ă•VĂŒÂˆÂœÂ˜ĂŠ >˜>}iÀÊ ivvĂŠ/Ă•VÂŽiĂ€ĂŠĂœÂˆĂŒÂ…ĂŠĂ€iÂ“ÂœĂŒi° Tucker said he’d come normal humanoid out and look at my activity,â€? he said. system, and even bring IdahoPTV General Manager and DTV In the last month or so, some 23 percent of over-the-air televiwonk Peter Morrill along. sion viewers switched to cable or satellite, paying the monthly So after work one day, Morrill pulled up to my house in a fee and getting more channels, according to one Nielsen survey. minivan full of antennas and cables and boxes of audio-visual Nanci Doucet, marketing manager for Cable One in Nampa, equipment and started experimenting. First, he showed me a said she noted a couple of hundred calls in the last month. The signal prediction Google Earth map of my house, which is in the guy at Radio Shack, where I bought my roof antenna ($79.99, North End near Hill Road. I was in the red zone—for decent plus $24.99 for a chimney mount and $11.17 for a mast), said reception—but just a block east of a greenish dead zone closer to he was selling tons of them and they seemed to work everywhere the hills. except in a pocket around Collister Drive. “I’ve discovered that virtually all of my good friends live up As they packed up to go, Morrill pulled out his phone and against the Foothills,â€? said Morrill, who has apparently Google ďŹ red up the week’s Idaho Reports in a matter of seconds, pulling Earthed all his pals. “I seem to have no friends who live out in it off the station’s Web site. While the station is broadcasting the red.â€? from a big tower up on a mountain, there is a cell tower every IdahoPTV broadcasts from Deer Point at Bogus Basin. The mile or so. It made me wonder if it was worth $150 and a night signal carries past Ontario, Ore., to the west, north to Cascade, climbing around on the roof to get my TV reception back when I east to Mountain Home and south into the Owyhees. But in could be beaming Sesame Street into my kid’s smart phone. the analog days, the signal was in the VHF band, which travels “I think people with wireless devices have gotten spoiled,â€? better in the mountains, ďŹ lling in valleys. IdahoPTV, along with Morrill said.

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TOO EARLY TO TELL Horse racers on fence about new track ops

horsemen,â€? said Naugoe, who has several horses competing in California. “If it does go and they get good dates and work with the horse people, a lot of jobs will open back up. Any little bit will help. As of this spring, a lot of us were thinking horse racing was gone,â€? fter a long search to ďŹ nd a new track operator, Ada County said Naugoe. commissioners selected Idaho Entertainment, LLC to run Across the United States, racing tracks have fallen under hard Les Bois Park, now rechristened Idaho Downs. Though the times and many have closed. The contract between Ada County company had not ďŹ led for its racing license at press time, both live and Idaho Entertainment is set until 2013, promising at least some and simulcast racing are planned. But with big name horses curfuture for horse racing in the Treasure Valley. rently scattered across the West, the 2009 racing season is still up Tawnja Elison, president of the Idaho Thoroughbred Associain the air for local horse racers. tion who is currently spending the summer racing in Pleasanton, “I think it’s too early to tell,â€? said Lindsey Comstock, a “gallop Calif., remains optimistic. girlâ€? who trains and exercises horses. “The county was insane to “I think it’s too early to tell. I think if they looked at possibly wait around. They let a lot of money go down the tubes.â€? having a program in the fall, it could work. There are prime dates For Commissioner Fred Tilman the delay was worth it. Idaho in September for something to take place. We’re hoping some Entertainment runs racing in Wyoming and Montana as well. racers will return. I think there is an opportunity for something to “We did our homework and feel very comfortable that Eric happen,â€? said Elison.

Spector and his staff at Idaho Entertainment are the right team of While talks are under way, some confusion exists between professionals to breathe new life into horse racing in the Treasure the new operators and the horsemen as to how the track will be Valley,� Tilman stated in a press release. managed.

Michele Naugoe, a horse owner who had to ďŹ nd new occupa“That’s the only way to make it workâ€”ďŹ nd a consensus. An tions for many of her racehorses with the closure of the track, isn’t operator can’t be successful without the horsemen and, vice versa, certain what to expect from the new management either. the horsemen can’t be successful without the operator. It needs to “It’s kind of wait and see what they bring to the plate for the be a win-win situation for everyone,â€? said Elison.

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ANDER SUNDELL grain. It becomes cheaper and you have a lot more control over your final beer, too. You can get some esoteric barley from Bavaria or something.

What esoteric grains are your favorite now?

It’s hard because I like to brew organic most of the time and the gambit of grains aren’t necessarily available in organic. There are some traditional floor-malted British barleys where there’s only one place they make them and they don’t come organic.

The last batch I brewed was with this malt from Scotland that’s kind of fancy stuff. It’s not available organic but it still goes. I tend to trust things from Europe, even if they’re commercially grown—that’s one thing I learned working at the co-op.

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On occasional weekend nights, home beer brewer Ander Sundell likes to gather a few friends, pour a few beers, and watch people totter through sobriety tests on the highway running below his Bench-area home. When you make your own booze, it’s easy to poke fun at others who have to go out and get it. But besides the constant whir of traffic, Sundell’s yard is a charming rural oasis—a true testament to his hobby. Soaring organic hop vines swing from lines in his front yard while, nearby, an empty plot has been dug up to grow barley. In the back, his two “lesbian” hens peck at an organic tomato garden he plans on turning into salsa in the fall. A former Boise Co-op employee, Sundell just recently organized the secondannual Treasure Valley Organic Homebrew Challenge. For a guy this passionate about beer, the payoff for organizing an annual competition is a night spent talking with other Boise-area beer nerds.

aware of trying to steer clear of that stuff.

What, to you, signifies a great beer?

I think there’s a lot that really goes into that. One of the biggest things is, basically, you have to work the balance between the hops and the malt. That sounds really What was your role in getting the organic generic, because they’re the two ingredients home brewers event started? everyone knows, but what it comes down Basically, I just thought it would be a to is one’s sweet and one’s bitter. Certain How did you get started brewing beer? good idea and the co-op didn’t say “no,” beer types are sweeter, certain beer types are My brother-in-law bought a home brew- so we just kind of went with it ... This year, more bitter, but there is, within that, kind of ing kit and never used it. It sat in his baseI’ve tried to make it a little more autonoa sweet spot that you can hit ... When you ment forever. One day he basically told me mous. The co-op is definitely still involved, taste a home brew, a nice homebrew, that’s to take it home, and I took it home, tried to but I’ve just tried to make it something that what the best people are able to do is hit brew a couple batches of beer and it didn’t is its own entity. that balance. It’s an overused term, “a very work out that well ... It sat in our basement well balanced beer,” but it is kind of the for a long time and I had a roommate who Has the beer community embraced the crux of the whole thing. asked what it was and I said, “Oh, it’s a event? home brew kit.” And he was like, “So, we It’s hard because some of these home Are there any styles that you favor over haven’t been brewing beer this whole time?” brewers are the guys that are far out of town others?

That was probably two years ago, and since that are making their own beer—and a lot I took this beer judging class and then I’ve just been going crazy with it. of them are making some pretty damn good within that, you really learn to appreciate beer—but some of those guys, it’s hard to everything for what it is. There are some After you picked it up again, what did convince that organic is the way to go. They crazy beers out there that maybe I wasn’t you have to learn? hear the word organic and say, “I don’t wear interested in before. There are some weird, It just takes a little bit of reading. You Birkenstocks and I don’t want nothing to do really sour beers, acidic acid beers, coming have to be OK with making bad beer bewith this.” This year, I think a lot of those out of Belgium and some weird rice beers cause it happens from time to time. Before I people are like, “This is something to really out of Japan. They all seem a little weird had made some that I wasn’t that happy with get into, or at least sniff around a little bit.” when they’re on the shelf, but when you and you get discouraged. Really, I just did actually get down and recognize them for some reading and got back into it and stuck Why is it particularly important for you what they are, you learn to really appreciwith it. Then you start making good beer. to use organic? ate everything for what it’s supposed to be I’ve got a geo-science degree. I just ... It goes so deep, it’s insane. The history What’s the process like? recently defended my master’s thesis in involved with each little style ... Off the top There’s a few different ways you can do geology ... You really see it first hand; you of my head, I’d say there’s 29 general broad it. When you start, as a beginner, you can go to talks every week dealing with it. If categories of beer, within that, there’s eight use extracts, where a lot of the brewing is you drive out by Idaho Falls and see these or nine per category. Each one’s got its own actually done for you. You just boil that massive fields of barley, you know what’s crazy story of how it came to be ... Where and then you basically spice it with the hops going on: they’re just covering them in there’s one little holdout in Germany that ... You’re buying powder that you can mix chemicals ... a lot of people are really dis- broke all the brewing rules and now they with water that takes care of the first step associated with the basic building blocks still make this one particular beer. It just for you. It really involves extra equipment of food. When you’re a brewer, you have a becomes a life hobby. and time to not use it; it makes a brew day handful of grain, it’s such a primary stage last six to seven hours vs. three with the of food. When you see it at that early of Do you feel like that’s the case for you? extract ... But then it gets out of control a stage, you realize: This is the part that Yeah, it’s something that would be pretty quickly ... eventually you just start using the has the chemicals on it. It makes you more hard to walk away from.

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WORLD’S WORST TOURISTS

So you want to hike into the wilderness, but you’re addicted to cheeseburgers? Well, a Swiss company has created the world’s first canned cheeseburger just for you. Simply throw the can in a pot of water over your campfire, wait a few minutes and you’re ready to cure your munchies. But beware, brave folks have actually tasted this monstrosity and the verdict is not good. One brave taste-tester writes that the burger tastes “something like a really terrible veggie burger: Sort of beefesque, in a way that would only fool someone who never actually eats beef. The fairly rank, unsweetened ketchup overwhelms the burger, while the cheese and bun do not lend anything to the experience one way or the other, apart from helpfully keeping the ‘meat’ further away from the taste buds.” (gizmodo.com)

Irritating French vacationers have knocked the Chinese off their perch as the world’s worst tourists in this year’s survey of 4,500 hotel owners worldwide carried out by Expedia. The French snatched the victory thanks to their rudeness, arrogance, unwillingness to speak local languages and inability to leave tips. American tourists had a shot at the title after being voted the messiest, loudest and worst dressed tourists, but made up for it by being the world’s most generous tippers. (Reuters)

WHO SAYS BABIES ARE USELESS? Psychologists in the United Kingdom have discovered that keeping a picture of a cute baby in your wallet will increase your chances of having the wallet returned if you ever lose it. After planting 240 wallets in the streets of Edinburgh last year, they found that nearly half of the wallets were mailed back to the owner. Among those that were returned, 88 percent of the wallets that contained a picture of a baby were returned compared to 53 percent for wallets with a picture of a puppy, 48 percent for a photo of a family, 28 percent for a picture of an elderly couple, and only 15 percent for wallets with no photo whatsoever.

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HOW TO PISS YOUR PANTS Vertigo junkies have a new attraction to visit: the Sears Tower in Chicago has built a glass-floored observation deck on the 110th floor—1,353 feet up in the air. The attraction, called The Ledge, claims to be the scariest view in the world with its transparent walls and ceilings and a glass floor only a half-inch thick. (Ananova)

THE BORING PREDICTABILITY OF HATE AND VIOLENCE

Two statistical researchers from the University of New Mexico claim that random acts of violence—including terrorist attacks and wars—actually follow very predictable mathematical trends that point to another 9/11-sized terrorist attack in about three years. Aaron Clauset and Maxwell Young wrote a paper about the phenomenon in which they claimed that seemingly random and emotional outbursts of human violence follow mathematical laws that are as “dull and predictable as the laws of gravity.” Using HOW TO RUIN YOUR VACATION an aspect of statistical analysis called “power A study from the San Diego School of Medi- laws,” the researchers then analyzed terrorist cine warns men that having unprotected sex attacks worldwide since 1968 and concluded with hookers in Tijuana will greatly increase that the next most deadly terrorist attack will your chances of contracting a sexually transoccur in 2012. (world-science.net) mitted disease. You might want to get that fact tattooed on your dick because it’ll be hard I-READ-IT-ON-THE-INTERNETto remember after your sixth shot of tequila.

SO-IT-MUST-BE-TRUE FACT (labspaces.net) OF THE WEEK Sixty-four percent of women who eat PAPER OR JAIL? artichokes for dinner have an orgasm that Uganda’s government has introduced legis- night during sex, and 6 percent of women who lation that will outlaw all plastic bags beginning eat an entire artichoke report having multiple in 2010 with a penalty of three years in jail orgasms. and a $1,500 fine for anyone caught using one. The government also established a 120 Get way more bizarro news at percent tax on imported plastic material curcurioustimes.com. rently entering the country. (earthtimes.org)

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R O P R CO SBC, one of the biggest banks on the planet, has taken to calling itself “the world’s local bank.” Winn-Dixie, a 500-outlet supermarket chain, recently launched a new ad campaign under the tagline, “Local flavor since 1956.” The International Council of Shopping Centers, a global consortium of mall owners and developers, is pouring millions of dollars into television ads urging people to “Shop Local” — at their nearest mall. Even Wal-Mart is getting in on the act, hanging bright green banners over its produce aisles that simply say, “Local.”

Hoping to capitalize on growing public enthusiasm for all things local, some of the world’s biggest corporations are brashly laying claim to the word “local.”

This new variation on corporate greenwashing—localwashing—is, like the buy-local movement itself, most advanced in the context of food. Hellmann’s, the mayonnaise brand owned by the processed-food giant Unilever, is test-driving a new “Eat Real, Eat Local,” initiative in Canada. The ad campaign seems aimed partly at enhancing the brand by simply associating Hellmann’s with local food.

But it also makes the claim that Hellmann’s is local because most of its ingredients come from North America.

It’s not the only industrial food company muscling in on local. Frito-Lay’s new television commercials use farmers as pitchmen to position the company’s potato chips as local food, while Foster Farms, one of the largest producers of poultry products in the country, is labeling packages of chicken and turkey “locally grown.”

Corporate local-washing is now spreading well beyond food. Barnes & Noble, the world’s top seller of books, has launched a video blog site under the banner, “All bookselling is local.” The site, which features “local book news” and recommendations from employees of stores in such evocative-sounding locales as Surprise, Ariz., and Wauwatosa, Wis., seems designed to disguise what Barnes & Noble is—a highly centralized corporation where decisions about what books to stock and feature are made by a handful of buyers—and to present the chain instead as a collection of independent-minded booksellers.

Across the country, scores of shopping malls, chambers of commerce, and economic development agencies are also appropriating the phrase “buy local” to urge consumers to patronize nearby malls and big-box stores. In March, leaders of a new Buy Local campaign in Fresno, Calif., assembled in front of the Fashion Fair Mall for a kick-off press conference. Flanked by storefronts bearing brand names like Anthropologie and The Cheesecake Factory, officials from the Economic Development Corporation of Fresno County explained that choosing to “buy local” helps the region’s economy.

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and its media partners, including Comcast and the McClatchy-owned Fresno Bee, followed the press conference with more than $250,000 worth of radio, TV and print ads that spelled it out: “Just so you know, buying local means any store in your community: mom-and-pop stores, national chains, big-box stores—you name it.”

THE REAL BUY LOCAL MOVEMENT In one way, all of this corporate local-washing is good news for local economy advocates: It represents the best empirical evidence yet that the grassroots movement for locally produced goods and independently owned businesses now sweeping the country is having a measurable impact on the choices people make.

“Think of the millions of dollars these big companies spend on research and focus groups. They wouldn’t be doing this on a hunch,” observed Dan Cullen of the American Booksellers Association, a trade group that represents some 1,700 independent bookstores and last year launched IndieBound, an initiative that helps locally owned businesses communicate their independence and community roots.

Signs that consumer preferences are trending local abound. Locally grown food has soared in popularity.

The United States is now home to 4,385 active farmers markets, one out of every three of which was started since 2000. Food co-ops and neighborhood greengrocers are on the rise. Driving is down, while data from several metropolitan regions show that houses located within walking distance of small neighborhood stores have held value better than those isolated in the suburbs where the nearest gallon of milk is a five-mile drive to Target.

A growing number of independent businesses are trumpeting their local ownership and community roots, and reporting a surge in customer traffic as a result.

In April, even as Virgin Megastores prepared to shutter its last U.S. record store, independent music stores across the country were mobbed for the second annual Record Store Day— a celebration of local music retailers that features in-store concerts and exclusive releases and was started in part by Boise’s own Record Exchange. The event drew hundreds of thousands of music fans into stores, was one of the top search terms on Google, and triggered a 16-point upswing in album sales, according to Neilson SoundScan.

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Boise Weekly switched to an all-local Best of Boise in 2008, but even as voting for the 2009 survey started on July 15, we noticed that it seems some people are confused about what constitutes a “local” business.

It’s a problem the organizers of Boise’s own buy-local organization, Think Boise First, run into all the time.

“People have a hard time [determining what’s local],” said Beth Geagan, executive director for Sustainable Community Connections and program manager for Think Boise First. “That’s part of our challenge and our purpose.”

Geagan said she agrees that the term “local” has been taken over by corporate interests, much the way “green” has become the latest marketing tool.

“Anything you come up with, sooner or later, in the not too distant future, it’s going to be co-opted to mean something else,” she said.

So, how do you tell what is a truly local business? Think Boise First offers the following criteria: UÊ ÃÊÌ iÊLÕÃ iÃÃÊ«À Û>Ìi ÞÊ Ü i`¶ UÊ ÃÊ ÌÊÀi} ÃÌiÀi`Ê Ê `> ÊÜ Ì Ê ÊV À« À>ÌiÊ or national headquarters out of state?

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Now that you’ve determined what’s local, why should you bother?

For Geagan, it’s all about the return to the community. She points out that more of the money spent at local businesses stays in the area, and those business owners are more likely to give back to the community. Additionally, it keeps the town from becoming another homogeneous blob while creating more jobs.

Geagan said the purpose of Think Boise First isn’t to be anti-corporate, but just to get people to make conscious decisions about where they spend their money.

“It’s not just a consumer thing,” she said. “The real circulation of the dollar happens business to business.”

This is something she points out when someone mentions that not all local businesses sell only locally made products.

“Even if a local business is buying products [from out of state], it’s still more likely that business owner will buy local products whenever it’s possible.”

Geagan said the fact that some corporate businesses are selling a limited amount of local products in their stores isn’t a bad thing, and in fact it helps build demand for those items. But she added that money being spent on local goods is still largely going to support the corporation.

“If Wal-Mart is selling a local product, that product is probably being sold in a local business already,” she said.

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long dominated public policy. Local business alliances—like Stay Local in New Orleans, the Metro Independent Business Alliance in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Arizona Local First in Phoenix and Think Boise First—have now formed in more than 130 cities and collectively count some 30,000 businesses as members.

Through grassroots “buy local” and “local first” campaigns, these alliances are calling on people to choose independent businesses and local products more often and making the case that doing so is critical to rebuilding middle-class prosperity, averting environmental collapse and ensuring that our daily lives are not smothered by corporate uniformity.

Surveys and anecdotal reports from business owners suggest that these initiatives are in fact changing spending patterns. A survey of 1,100 independent retailers conducted in January by the Institute for Local SelfReliance (where I work) found that, amid the worst economic downturn since the Depression, buy-local sentiment is giving local businesses an edge over their chain competitors.

While the Commerce Department reported that overall retail sales plunged almost 10 percent over the holidays, the survey found that independent retailers in cities with buy-local campaigns saw sales drop an average of just 3 percent from the previous year. Many respondents attributed this relative good fortune to the fact that more people are deliberately seeking out locally owned businesses.

offerings are usually limited to a few of the main commodity crops of that particular state—peaches in Georgia or potatoes in Maine—and sit amid a sea of industrial food and other goods shipped from the far side of the planet. Yet, this modest gesture has won Wal-Mart glowing coverage in numerous daily newspapers, few of which have asked the salient question: does Wal-Mart, which now captures more than $1 of every $5 Americans spend on groceries, create more and better opportunities for local farmers than the grocers it replaces?

Wal-Mart, like other chains, has learned that, with consumers increasingly motivated to support companies they perceive to be acting responsibly, tossing around the word “local” is a far less expensive way to convey civic virtue than the alternatives. “Local is one of the lower-hanging fruits in terms of sustainability,” explains Barry. “It’s easier for companies to do than to improve how their employees are treated or adopt a specific sustainability practice around their carbon footprint, for example.”

Rather than making direct claims using the word “local,” some companies are pushing marketing messages that work by association. One example that caught Dan Cullen’s eye was a CVS television commercial that begins in a Main Street bookshop, following the owner around as she tends to her customers. The bookshop then transforms into a CVS. The bookshop owner is now the customer. The feel is still very much Main Street. “Suddenly the kind of unique, None of this has slipped the notice of cor- enjoyable, grassroots bookstore experience porate executives and the consumer research morphs into a CVS experience,” said Cullen. firms that advise them. Several of these firms “There’s a Potemkin facade that a lot of have begun to track the localization trend. In chains are trying to put up because consumits annual consumer survey, the New Yorkers now want something other than a cookiebased branding firm BBMG found that the cutter experience.” number of people reporting that it was “very important” to them whether a product was grown or produced locally jumped from 26 Still another corporate strategy is to reto 32 percent in the last year alone. “It’s not define the term “local” to mean, not locally just a small cadre of consumers anymore,” owned or locally produced, but just nearby. said founding partner Mitch Baranowski.

“Food is one of the biggest gateways, but “With the term ‘local’ being so nebulous, it we’re seeing this idea of ‘local’ spread across seems ripe for manipulation,” notes Mintel, another consumer research firm that counsels other categories and sectors,” said Michelle companies on how to “craft marketing Barry, senior vice president of consumer messages that appeal to locally conscious research firm the Hartman Group. A report consumers” and how to avoid “charges of published by Hartman last year noted, ‘local-washing.’” The key, Mintel says, is for “There is a belief that you can only be local companies to decide what they mean by local if you are a small and authentic brand. This and to disclose that clearly so as not to be isn’t necessarily true; big brands can use the accused of trying to misappropriate the term. notion of local to their advantage as well.”

Corporate-oriented buy-local campaigns Barry explains: “Big companies have to be that define “local” as the nearest Lowe’s or much more creative in how they articulate local ... It’s a different way of thinking about Gap store are now being rolled out in cities nationwide. Some represent desperate bids local that is not quite as literal.”

One way corporations can be “local” too by shopping malls to survive the recession and fend off online competition. Others are is to stock a token amount of locally grown the work of chambers of commerce trying produce, as Wal-Mart has done in some to remain relevant. Still others are the halfof its supercenters. The chain’s local food

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baked plans of municipal officials casting about for some way to stop the steep drop in sales tax revenue.

Many of these AstroTurf campaigns are modeled directly on grassroots initiatives.

“They copy our language and tactics,” said Michelle Long, executive director of Sustainable Connections, a 7-year-old coalition of 600 independent businesses in northwest Washington that runs a very visible, and according to market research, very successful “local first” program. “I get calls from chambers and other groups who say, We want to do what you are doing. It took me a while to realize that what they had in mind was not what we do. Once I realized, I started asking them, what do you mean by ‘local’?”

Examples abound. In northern California, the Arcata Chamber of Commerce is producing “Shop Local” ads that look similar to the Humboldt County Independent Business Alliance’s “Go Local” ads, except they feature both independents and chains. Spokane’s Buy Local program, started by the local chamber, is open to any business in town, including bigbox stores. Log-on to the Buy Local Web site created by the chamber in Chapel Hill, N.C., and you’ll find Wal-Mart among the listings.

When billboards proclaiming “Buy Local Orlando” first appeared in Orlando, Fla., Julie Norris, a cafe owner who last year co-founded Ourlando, an initiative to support indie businesses, was excited to see the concept getting such visibility. But she soon realized that the city-funded program, which provides businesses who join with a “Buy Local” decal, seminars at the Disney Entrepreneur Center, and a listing on the Web site, was open to any business in Orlando. “We sat down with the city and said, what you guys are doing is a real disservice to the local business movement,” she said.

When Norris complained publicly, city officials accused Ourlando of being “exclusive” by not allowing chains.

The city did agree to remove from its press materials and Web site a reference to a study that found that, for every $100 spent locally, $45 stays in the community. The problem was that the study, conducted by the firm Civic Economics, found that to be true only if the money was spent at a locally owned business. Shop at a chain store, the analysis found, and only $13 of that $100 spent stays in the community.

The Economic Development Corporation of Fresno County also appropriated the $45-stays-local statistic when it kicked off its Buy Local campaign at the Fashion Fair Mall. The figure was repeated on a TV news story without any clarification that it did not apply to the types of chains visible in the background. Like the Orlando initiative, the Fresno campaign aims to boost sales tax revenue by deterring online and outof-town shopping. It goes out of its way in every radio and TV spot to make sure people know that “local” means national chains and big-box stores. “Buy Local” stickers and posters are now visible on malls and chains throughout the Central Valley. “For someone to say you are not local if you are a big box, I say baloney. They invested here,” explained Steve Geil, CEO of the EDC. “I would prefer that the county’s resources were not being spent promoting Wal-Mart and Home Depot,” said Scott Miller, owner of Gazebo Gardens, a plant nursery founded in 1922. “We have a great history of being involved in community events and donating to local causes. Our plants are grown locally.

We believe that our kind of business is more valuable to a community than any big chain.”

When the city of Santa Fe, N.M., decided to launch a campaign to encourage people to shop locally, the Santa Fe Alliance, a coalition of more than 500 locally owned businesses that has been running a buy-local initiative for several years, signed on. At the kick-off in March, the alliance’s director, Vicki Pozzebon, emphasized the economic impact of shopping at a locally owned business vs. a chain. “After that, the city asked WWW.BOISEWEEKLY.COM

me not to push the $45 vs. $13, but just say ‘local,’” said Pozzebon. The city’s message, according to Kate Noble, a city staffer who runs the program, is that shopping at WalMart is fine, as long as it’s not Walmart. com. Pozzebon said, “It has only diluted our message and confused people.”

These sales-tax-driven campaigns may well be doing more harm to local economies than good, according to Jeff Milchen, co-founder of the American Independent Business Alliance, a national organization that helps communities start and grow local business alliances (and on whose board I serve). “If you encourage people to shop at a big-box store that takes sales away from an independent business, you’re just funneling more dollars out of town because, unlike chains, local businesses buy lots of goods and services, like accounting and printing, from other local businesses.”

The irony of trying to solve declining city revenue by trying to get people to shop at the local mall is that the mall itself may be the problem. While many California cities are facing budget cuts and even bankruptcy, Berkeley has managed to post a small increase in revenue. Part of the reason, according to city officials, is that Berkeley has more or less said no to shopping malls and big chain stores and is instead a city of locally owned businesses that primarily serve local residents. That creates a much more stable revenue base. Berkeley hasn’t benefited from the temporary boom that a new regional mall might create, but neither has it gone bust.

WILL BIG LOCAL TRIUMPH? Can corporations succeed in co-opting “local”—or at least so muddling the term that it no longer has meaning? The Hartman Group’s Barry thinks that’s possible.

“For many consumers, these things are not being called into question much. They say, Hey, it’s my local Wal-Mart or my local Frito-Lay truck. It depends where you are on the continuum and how you define local, which is a term that is really up for grabs.”

Milchen is less concerned about what he calls faux-local campaigns in cities where there is a strong local business organization.

“It’s more of an educational opportunity than a problem, so long as they respond to it,” he said. But in places where local enterprises are not organized, he fears these corporate campaigns may succeed in permanently defining “local” for their own benefit.

Michelle Long shares that concern: “That’s my fear. People are going to do diluted versions and hold the space so that real campaigns don’t get started.”

Local-washing has prompted local business advocates to reconsider their language.

Many are now using the word “independent” more than “local.” Controlling language is critical, said Ronnie Cummins, director of the Organic Consumers Association, who is pushing for tighter regulation of the word organic, as well as rules governing terms like natural, sustainable and local.

“We’ve been fighting so long without the help of federal regulators that some people have forgotten that tool.”

But perhaps local-washing will ultimately make corporations even more suspect and further the case for shifting our economy more in the direction of small-scale, local and independent.

“I think the fact that the chains are trying to play the local card, in a way, makes it easier for us,” said the ABA’s Cullen. “I think people are going to recognize that these aren’t authentic and that’s going to make the real thing all the more powerful.”

Stacy Mitchell is a senior researcher with the New Rules Project and author of Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America’s Independent Businesses. Send your examples of localwashing to her at smitchell@ilsr.org.

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FACTS ABOUT NEW LIBRARY BRANCH 1. 12,600 square feet of public space 2. Open six days a week, totaling 50 hours 3. 40,000-50,000 books, DVDs, CDs, audiobooks, movies, music 4. 50 public computers with 46 Internet-access stations 5. Comfortable chairs for relaxing, as well as table seating 6. Self-service checkout 7. Copy center —Source: Library at Cole and Ustick, boisepubliclibrary.org

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Belly dance (push, step, touch, pop, pop, pop) is a mindset, a fashion statement and a blend of ceremony, ritual and self-expression.

Belly dancers adorn themselves in flowing costumes of harem pants, skirts, scarves, jingly belts and tops with tassels, and move with precise steps and intricate hand movements. Women of all shapes, sizes and backgrounds find acceptance, fulfillment and empowerment by practicing the ancient art. The bellydancing documentary, Belly, Sensual.Scarred.Sacred, a locally made feature film by Cecilia and Chad Rinn of Full Tilt Boogie, includes interviews with dancers from all over America who share their insights on family, sisterhood and spirituality. During the DVD release party, the film will be shown at 8 p.m., followed by a show full of shimmying and shaking by local and regional talent, including Samira Il Naia, Cairo Fusion, Mazana, Cecilia, Itheyla, Eclectica and Azula of Shimmy Shakti at 10 p.m. Learn to move like they do during a mini-bellydance lesson, and adorn yourself in flowing costumes available from StarBelly Creations.

7:30 p.m., $10, Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297.

Tucked between the ornate pillars marked with hieroglyphics, local bands XEX, Half the World, Cap Gun Suicide and Dying Famous hit the stage for the inaugural Rock Like an Egyptian concert with entertainment by dancers from 6:41 Productions. Emcee Josh from 100.3 FM The X plays stage host with bar services provided by Lush.

8 p.m., $10, Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., egyptiantheatre.net.

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FOURTH ANNUAL SAWTOOTH MUSIC FESTIVAL Bring sunscreen, shade and an open mind and head to the hills with everything you need to have a rocking day of music that lasts into the night. The eclectic group of performing musicians ranges from area favorites to a group of musicians who work over classical instruments to a man who surrounds himself with a variable musical jungle gym—including a couple of didgeridoos. The 2009 lineup for the Sawtooth Music Festival includes Elephant Revival, Jenny Owen Youngs, Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, Low-fi, Hillfolk Noir, Portland Cello Project, Matti Sand, Trevor Green and Free Peoples. Further illuminating the entertainment is the fire art of the Fire Kittens and DeLights. Vendors are on site selling food, beer and wine, and everyone learns a little something while participating in experimental educational opportunities from organizations including Idaho Rivers United, Discovery Center of Idaho and the Snake River Alliance. The festival has a magnanimous habit of donating to a good cause; the 2009 beneficiary is the Stanley Community Library. After all that dancing and grooving, you might be too tired to drive back to town so pay $10 per vehicle to camp.

Noon, $25 adv., $30 day of show, $20 seniors (60 and older), children 12 and younger FREE, Pioneer Park, Stanley, sawtoothmusicfestival.com.

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6 p.m., $5, Rhodes Skatepark, 15th and Grove streets, under the Connector, Boise.

WORMS LOVE COFFEE GROUNDS Don’t just chuck those yard clippings, coffee grounds and inedible vegetable scraps. Consider creating a compost pile to reduce household waste and improve garden soil. During Composting 101 classes led by environmental education coordinator Jennie Rylee you’ll learn to harness the power of squirmy soil dwellers. Tending a compost pile is a year-round project with bountiful results. No preregistration is required. Another workshop is on Monday, July 27, at 7 p.m., at the University of Idaho Ada County Extension Office, 5880 Glenwood St., Boise, 208-377-2107.

10 a.m., FREE, Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise, 208-514-3755, cityofboise.org.

Monday evenings in July, Alley Repertory Theater plays host to a series of script readings that bring local playwrights, actors and directors together in front of a live audience. The storytelling format encourages audience feedback and post-reading discussions. Bring a picnic and purchase libations from the bar at VAC for the last of the plays being read. Cocktails at the Fisher’s by Kelly Brioch is a play based on real events in Vardis Fisher’s life. The famous Idaho author died in 1968, but the play gives a glimpse into what it might have been like to be in the company of Fisher and his colorful literary guests who were all reallife characters in their own right.

7:30 p.m., $7, 208-338-4278, alleyrep.org. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297.

27 MONDAY AND 29 WEDNESDAY CRAMMED FULL OF GRAMMY WINNERS This week and next talented musicians perform for the Outlaw Summer Field Concert. The Indigo Girls with special guest David Ryan Harris perform Monday, July 27, at 7 p.m. General admission is $25 and preferred general admission is $35.

Lyle Lovett and his Large Band play Wednesday, July 29, at 7 p.m. for $25 general admission ($50 gets you preferred admission). Picnics are welcome, but consider packing it in a bag rather than a cooler for quicker security searching. Items allowed include sealed, non-alcoholic beverages and blankets or low-back chairs so other fans can see around you. Parking is limited; carpooling is encouraged. Those who arrive on bike receive a free bike check and are further rewarded with a complimentary pass to an Idaho Botanical Garden special event.

7 p.m., Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotancialgarden.org.

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ADA COUNTY DEMOCRATSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Ada County Democrats are preparing for the 2010 election with an event titled $20.10 for 2010. Join the group for drinks and appetizers and get to know fellow Democrats including Representative Phylis King and City Council Candidate TJ Thomson. 6-8 p.m., $20.10 donation suggested, 208-331-2128, www. adademocrats.org. Papa Joeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, 1301 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise.

ABSENCE OF A CELLOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A brilliant (but broke) scientist will go to hilarious lengths in order to land a much-needed job with a large corporation. What seems to be starting out as a shopworn targetâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;individuality vs. conformityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;turns out to be an ingeniously conceived comical discussion of honesty and truth. 7:30 p.m., $12, Stage Coach Theatre, 5296 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-342-2000, www.stagecoachtheatre.com.

ODDS & ENDS FRIENDS OVER DINNERâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This mix-and-mingle event is for singles ages 40 and older.

The Lift is offering one free drink to all FOD participants.

Visit FODâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Web site to reserve a spot. For more information, e-mail Alyson@ friendsoverdinner.com. 6:15 p.m. $12, www.friendsoverdinner.com. The Lift Bar and Grill, 4091 W. State St., Boise, 208-342-3250.

VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF IDAHOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The theme for Julyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s meeting is Long Song Night.

Members are invited to drop the needle on their favorite song that goes on and on and on. 7-10 p.m., FREE, www. vpsidaho.org. Modern Hotel and Bar, 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244.

THURSDAY FARMERS MARKETâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;4-8 p.m., Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-345-9287, www. capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

ANNIE JR.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Boise Parks and Recreation and Boise Little Theater present the 10th annual production of Annie Jr. featuring an all-children cast of actors ages 10-18.

7:30 p.m., $8 general, $5 children 12 and younger, Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, www. boiselittletheater.org.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; The Shakespearean farce full of mistaken identities and crazy characters is one of the Bardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best-known comedies.

The plot follows the uprising at the port of Syracuse after twin brothers and their twin servants are reunited after 30 years apart. 8 p.m., $21-$29, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box ofďŹ ce 208-336-9221, www. idahoshakespeare.org.

BEAMBOT BUILDINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Reuseum is hosting a workshop for ages 12 and older and children ages 8-11 accompanied by an adult. Bring an old electronic device (cell phone, VCR or audio cassette player) to dissect and reincarnate. 1-4 p.m., FREE, Meridian Public Library, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 208-888-4451, www. reuseum.com.

SCRAPBOOKING 101â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Danette Colin guides novice scrapbookers through the process.

Bring a few photos and other supplies will be provided. 78:30 p.m., FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, www.boisepubliclibrary. org.

ODDS & ENDS REIKIâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Reiki is a Japanese relaxation technique that promotes self-healing. Call to schedule a spot at clinics held between 11 a.m.-2 p.m. and 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 23 and Saturday, July 25. $5 for members, $15 for nonmembers.

YMCA, 1050 W. State St., Boise, 208-344-5501, www. ymcaboise.org.

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FESTIVALS & EVENTS HG NIGHTOLOGYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;All ages are invited to an evening of fashion, art and DJs hosted by designer Hermes Govantes and the Underground Showroom.

Designer/artist/stylist Tod Alan provides the avant-garde fashion styling, and the show features Hermes Govantesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; clothing line, HG. DJs include Mighty DeltaOne, Jeff From Above, Jack Thomas and Justin Carr. A full bar is available; ID required. 8 p.m., $10 general; $20 VIP, 208-343-7333, hgnightology. com. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise.

ON STAGE ABSENCE OF A CELLOâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;See Thursday. 7:30 p.m., $15, Stage Coach Theatre, 5296 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-342-2000, www.stagecoachtheatre.com.

ANNIE JR.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;See Thursday. 7:30 p.m., Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, www.boiselittletheater. org.

THE COMEDY OF ERRORSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; See Thursday. 8 p.m., $28-$38, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofďŹ ce 208336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

WILLY WONKA JR.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Actors, age 6-18 are performing a play based on the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Ronald Dahl. Willy Wonka tests the ethics of a group of children who receive the coveted golden ticket to tour Wonkaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s candy factory. 7 p.m., $4, Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, www.nampaciviccenter.com.

KIDS & TEENS FRIDAY NIGHT POOL PARTIESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Youth ages 12-17 swim, listen to music, win prizes and hang out with friends. 9-10:30 p.m., $2 per person. Fairmont Pool, 7929 Northview, Boise, 208-375-3011.

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saturday FESTIVALS & EVENTS CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., www.capitalcitypublicmarket.com. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-345-9287.

EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET—8:30 a.m.-1 p.m., Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle.

GETTIN’ RANDY AT RHODES II—Prestige Skateboards hosts another rousing line of skate competition. See Picks on Page 16. 6 p.m., $5. Rhodes Skatepark, 15th and Grove, under the connector, Boise.

GODDESS FEST—The annual event is a celebration of diversity, Mother Earth and positive awareness with workshops, meditations and exercises in creativity. Musical acts include Rebecca Scott, Blaze and Kelly, Mel Wade and Audra Connolly. Sing a song, craft a goddess doll and watch belly dancing performances.

Saturday, July 25, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday, July 26, 11 a.m.-5 p.m., FREE admission, www. goddessfest.net. Gene Harris Bandshell, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., in Julia Davis Park, Boise.

LEND A HAND—Massage therapists at Massage and Skin Care Solutions are offering 15-minute free chair and table massage services in exchange for donations to benefit the Boise Rescue Mission. 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Massage and Skin Care Solutions, 94 S. Cole Road, Boise, 208-3782811, www.massageandskincaresolutions.com.

MERIDIAN FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m., www.meridianfarmersmarket.com. Ustick Marketplace II, 3630 N. Eagle Road, Meridian.

ON STAGE ABSENCE OF A CELLO—See Friday.

8:15 p.m., $15, Stage Coach Theatre, 5296 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-342-2000, www.stagecoachtheatre.com.

ANNIE JR.—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m., Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, www.boiselittletheater.org.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD— See Wednesday. 8 p.m., $28-$38, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-4299908, box office 208-336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

SCREEN BELLY THE MOVIE—Attend the premiere of Full Tilt Boogie’s DVD release party for the belly dancing documentary, Belly, Sensual.Scarred.Sacred. See Picks on Page 16. 8 p.m., $10.

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

ART ICONS OF THE WEST—Attend the artist’s reception for “Icons of the West,” an original, artistic exhibit

by North End resident Jackie Katz Ashford, on display through July.

5:30-8:30 p.m., FREE. ArtiZen Gallery, 300 N. Third St., McCall, 208-634-5885.

Supplies and tools are available and donations are always accepted.

Running in conjunction with the crafting is an open mic available to anyone who would like to perform and entertain the crafters while they work. 5 p.m., FREE. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www. visualartscollective.com.

GREEN COMPOSTING 101—Building on the City of Boise’s new Curb It Boise program, free classes on how to compost are being led by environmental education coordinator Jennie Rylee.

No preregistration is required. See Picks on Page 16. 10 a.m., FREE. Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise, 208-514-3755, www.cityofboise.org.

CITIZEN SINGLE PAYER HEALTH CARE RALLY—A variety of speakers weigh in on the subject of single payer health care.

The panel includes Idaho State Rep. Susan Chew; Boise State Sociology Department chair Martin Orr; Louis Schlickman, member of Idaho Health Care for All; and Michael Vallez, clinical assistant professor. A representative from Allies Linked for the Prevention of HIV and AIDS will also speak. Noon-1 p.m., FREE. Boise City Hall, 150 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise.

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FESTIVALS & EVENTS JAMIE LISH BREAST CANCER BENEFIT—Fifteen local artists, a handful of local bands and one guest band are joining forces to raise money for the Jamie Lish Breast Cancer Awareness benefit. The bands include Matt Hopper and The Roman Candles, RevoltRevolt, Actual Depiction, and Trina and The Big Belt Buckle Band. Bid in a silent art auction and help raise money by purchasing raffle tickets for prizes, including breakfast and a private plane ride for two in the backwoods of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, a skateboard signed by the bass player of Pearl Jam and a single speed road bike built out of recycled parts. For more information, call 208-353-8289. 4-10 p.m., $2. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th, Boise, 208-343-0886, www.neurolux.com.

ON STAGE ANNIE JR.—See Thursday. 2 p.m., Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, www. boiselittletheater.org.

ART CHURCH OF KRAFT—Crafters ages 21 and older come together to spend an afternoon working on projects and learning from one another. The event is hosted by Garden City Kraft Mafia and Visual Arts Collective.

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CONCERTS SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY—6:30 p.m., FREE, 208-622-5607, www. svsummersymphony.org. Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley Resort, Boise.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES BREAK DANCE CAMP— Children ages 7-12 spend a week (July 27-Aug. 1) learning to break dance at the camp co-taught by Jon Swarthout of TrICA and Kevin Chapton from Boise B-Boys. Call 208-484-0142 to reserve a spot. 10 a.m.-noon and Sat., Aug. 1. $110.

GREEN COMPOSTING 101—See Saturday. 7 p.m., FREE. University of Idaho Ada County Extension Office, 5880 Glenwood St., Boise, 208-377-2107.

$25 for three-class session. Broadway Dance Center, 893 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-794-6843.

INTRO TO THETA HEALING—Theta Healing is an effective and profound healing method that removes limiting beliefs revealing your true self, and it can take effect in just one session. Call to RSVP at 208-8592087 and witness a demonstration.

6:30-8:30 p.m., FREE. The Herb Pantry, 851 S. Curtis Road, Boise, 208-433-1882, www.theherbpantry. com.

LITERATURE POETRY READING—Poetry host Scott Berge invites poets to share their own work or favorite poems.

Sign up at 6:30 p.m. and start waxing poetic at 7 p.m. For more information, e-mail ScottBerge@live. com. 6:30 p.m., FREE. Alia’s Coffeehouse, 908 W. Main St., Boise, 208-338-1299.

TALKS & LECTURES FENCES IN THE WEST— Author and radio personality Diane Josephy Peavey gives a talk on the people, history and landscape of the American West, including the current uses and implications for those living off the land in the “New West.” This program was developed as a part of the Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit “Between Fences.” The program is free for Idaho Botanical Garden and Osher Lifelong Learning Institute members. 7 p.m., $4 nonmembers; $3 seniors. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, www.idahobotanicalgarden.org.

GREEN EVENINGS AT EDWARDS— The greenhouse stays open late so people can pick up local produce, have some food and wine and enjoy art and live music by a different act every week. Tonight is The Autumn 8. 5 p.m., Edwards Greenhouse, 4106 Sand Creek St., Boise, 208-342-7548, www. edwardsgreenhouse.com.

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tuesday MCFADDEN MARKET CO-OP FARMERS MARKET—5-8 p.m., www.mcfaddenmarketcoop.com. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Idaho St., Meridian.

WORKSHOPS & CLASSES ARGENTINE TANGO FUNDAMENTALS CLASSES—The class is designed for both beginners and experienced dancers and no partner is necessary. For more information or to register, e-mail Marge Dobie at dobie1@hotmail.com or call 208-761-3954. Visit the Boise Tango Society Web site at www.boisetango.com for more information.

7:30-8:30 p.m., $10 per class or

wednesday SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY—Bring the family for a picnic on the lawn outside the Pavilion. 6:30 p.m., FREE, 208-622-5607, www. svsummersymphony.org. Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley Resort, Boise.

GREEN BUGS FARM STAND—Pick up some produce grown by the children of Boise Urban Garden School. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 4-6 p.m., BUGS Garden, 4821 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-424-6665, www.boiseurbangardenschool.org.

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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ETERNALLY SONIC YOUTH The band grows older, the music never

Ripped was released in 2006.) “It’s been a longer period of time than we usually have between records. Maybe people missed us while we were gone.”

One thing that both critics and fans are saying of The Eternal is “it’s definitely a Sonic Youth album.”

“I have no idea why people are saying that. As far as we’re concerned, they’re all Sonic Youth albums,” Ranaldo said. “I think maybe it means maybe people are finding this one more rocking than the last couple.” even million plus. On any given day, that is the number of It’s also the first album released on their new label Matador Reresults returned in a Google search for Sonic Youth. cords (Cat Power, Yo La Tengo), which they moved to after leaving Together since 1981, the band has been admired, emulat- Geffen (Eminem, U2). ed, studied and chronicled. They played an integral part in the early The change was prompted by the mutations of the record industry during the last few years. While a band is putting an album together, record label personnel can disappear like Rock of Love hopefuls. By the time the band emerges from the studio, the community of people who stood behind them and supported their vision may be long gone. An independent label isn’t immune to change, that spirit of solidarity, the reason for the label’s birth in the first place, often remains intact. And though they have SYR, their own label, Ranaldo said they wanted to have someone looking out for them.

“We talked about [recording on SYR].

We could easily have put it out on that label, and we do put out a lot of material on SYR, mostly more of our weirder or more experimental stuff,” Ranaldo said. “But for a record of songs we labored over for a period of time writing and recording, we felt in the end that we wanted to have a company behind it ... basically taking care of the business aspects of it so we don’t have to. It’s good to have a team behind you that’s watching out for you.”

Much like it did in Sonic Youth’s earliest days, art and music continue to feed into and off of one another. The band has created an art exhibit, indicative of their ethos, their Sonic Youth and great wine: they both get better with age. understanding of their place in the larger artistic community, titled “Sonic Youth, etc.: Sensational Fix.” It’s an exhibit that has been ’80s, East Coast “no wave” movement, in which the trajectories of making its way across Europe for the last few years and will hopeart, music and performance collided. By changing their guitar tunfully soon be in to the United States. ing with sticks and screwdrivers, they changed not only how music “It’s a show that starts from some of our own artworks and goes was played, but how it was heard. Their music and mystique have on to include many people we’ve collaborated with,” Ranaldo said. prompted novelists, biographers, journalists, bloggers, reviewers, “People who’ve done our album covers or videos. [The exhibit] has artists and cartoonists to fill pages and canvases with work inspired video, film, painting, sculpture, poetry. It’s a massive show [with] by the band. The band members themselves, too, have wide-reaching like a hundred different artists.” influences and varied means of expression—all of it part of a larger It includes a big, beautiful book that is half history of the band artistic community. and half art catalogue. It’s another case in which Sonic Youth Among a myriad of other endeavors, bassist/vocalist Kim Gor- acknowledges the community that they have influenced and be infludon is a visual artist, curator and co-founder of the Mirror/Dash enced by during the last three decades. clothing line with her husband and fellow bandmate, guitarist/ There are young, unknown artists, art being made by younger vocalist Thurston Moore. Moore runs record label Ecstatic Peace!; musicians, and some famous artists in the show like Jenny Holzer, drummer Steve Shelley runs Sonic Youth’s record label, SYR; gui- Raymond Pettibon, Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall. tarist/vocalist Lee Ranaldo is a writer, artist and curator as well.

So many Sonic Youth reviews, interviews, images and stories And while they create and curate, they continue to write, record swirl through the endless vortex, the breadth and number of which and perform their music. represent something much more than just the band’s popularity.

The Eternal, which came out in June, is Sonic Youth’s 16th studio They are indicative of a band, who for nearly 30 years, has helped album and one that shows not only that Sonic Youth still has it, but shape the sound of American music. that fans still want it.

Thursday, July 23, with Awesome Color, 8 p.m., $22 advance, “People seem to be digging it. We’re excited by that because we really like it. We think it’s a really strong record for us. We haven’t $23.50 door. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com. had a record out in this long a period,” said Ranaldo. (Rather

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NOISENEWS BENEFIT FOR JAMIE You people are so generous. When someone is in trouble, his or her friends rally, ask the community for help and they get it. Jamie Lish, who’s fighting breast cancer, has friends who are holding big benefit on Sunday, July 26, from 4-10 p.m. at Neurolux to see what they—and you—can do.

A mere $2 gets you in to see Boise bands RevoltRevolt, Actual Depiction, Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles, Trina and the Big

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Belt Buckle Band and Utah-based Desert Noises, as well as the work of several artists up for auction. And then there’s the skateboard.

Someone knows someone who knows the members of Pearl Jam. The grunge-meisters were kind enough to pen their John Hancocks across the deck specifically for this event.

The other best part of the benefit? Everybody is asked to wear pink.

Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886.

THE SLANTS SLIP INTO BOISE On Thursday, July 23, at 6 p.m., Portland, Ore.-based techno Chinatown dance rockers The Slants play a free in-store at Record Exchange. Their debut, Slanted Eyes, Slanted Hearts, is a stellar spin through ’80s synthesized pop. On Friday, July 24, they head to VAC for a show with Vagerfly and Jump. Cost is $5.

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

—Amy Atkins

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MUSICGUIDE wednesday 22 ALIVE AFTER FIVE—58 p.m., Matt Hopper, Head For the Hills, FREE, The Grove Plaza AUDRA CONNOLLY—6 p.m., FREE, Smoky Mountain Pizza, 1805 W. State St.

SON VOLT

SON VOLT, JULY 24, WOODRIVER CELLARS St. Louis-based Son Volt’s new release, American Central Dust, is a study in Americana. Tracks like “Dust of Daylight” find their roots in country music with piano, violin and acoustic and steel guitar. “Sultana,” the story of an 1865 ship explosion in which nearly 2,000 people were killed, comes from a more folk music sensibility. Sprinkled in are more rock-tinged, up-tempo tunes like “Jukebox of Steel,” all of which are colored by Farrar’s rich, wistful voice.

Son Volt’s Jay Farrar—often credited with pioneering the alt-country movement with his ’90s project Uncle Tupelo—grew up listening to folk music, so penning a song like “Sultana” about a 100-plus-year-old riverboat disaster isn’t such an odd means of expression. And living in St. Louis, which is so steeped in river history, has some influence as well.

“Your surrounding environment does inform what you ultimately wind up trying to create,” Farrar said. “There’s quite a few places in St. Louis where, if you look over the river bluffs when the river is low, [you can see] what appears to be old shipwrecks on the sandbars. That was the point of origination for that song, imagining what those shipwrecks could be or what they’re all about. That’s how I came across the story of the Sultana.”

—Amy Atkins With Cowboy Junkies, Friday, July 24, 7:30 p.m., $29 adv., $32 door. Woodriver Cellars, 3705 Highway 16, 208286-9463. Tickets at Record Exchange, Boise Co-op or brownpapertickets.com. No coolers or high-back chairs.

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$10 door, Neurolux MEL WADE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Bardenay-Eagle MOONDANCE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Sa-WadDee Thai Restaurant, 1890 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian

ELIZABETH BLIN—6:308:30 p.m., FREE, Dream NATHAN JAY MOODY, AMY WEBER—7 p.m., Cafe FREE, Bungalow EMILY CAYSON, 80S NATHAN JAY MOODY PARTY—9 p.m., FREE, AND THE QUARTERTerrapin TONS—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid ERIC GRAE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill PATRICIA FOLKNER—6-8 p.m., FREE, Smoky JEFF CROSBY—8 p.m., Mountain Pizza, 415 E. FREE, Reef Parkcenter Blvd.

JEREMIAH JAMES RICHARD SOLIZ—7:30 GANG—8:45 p.m., p.m., FREE, Papa Joe’s FREE, Pengilly’s THE SHOWDOWN, HANDS, AMARNA REIGN, VERSAILLES, GHOSTS OF THE JIMMY BIVENS AND HIS NEBULA—7:30 p.m., BAND O’ STRANG$10, The Venue ERS—7:30 p.m., FREE, SPINDLEBOMB—9:45 Piper Pub p.m., FREE, Tom KEVIN KIRK—7 p.m.; Grainey’s with Jon Hyneman, Phil SPUD MOORE—6-9 p.m., Garonzik, 7:30 p.m., FREE, Gelato Cafe FREE, Chandlers JIM FISHWILD—6-9 p.m., FREE, Highlands Hollow

TOO MUCH DISTORTION SKATE NIGHT—8 p.m., In the Red, Bastards of Young, Anchor Down, LORD T AND ELOISE, Aces and Eights, $5, THE DEDICATED SERVGusto Bar ERS, X KID—8 p.m., KOSHA DILLZ, BLACK SKEPTIK, AKREAM—8 p.m., $5, VAC

Please send your live music listings to music@boiseweekly.com or fax to 342-4733. Include venue, band names, start times and cover charge. Photos are great, too. For dancing, symphony, opera or orchestral music, please see our 8 DAYS OUT listings.

THE DEADLINE FOR LISTINGS IS THE THURSDAY THE WEEK PRIOR TO PUBLICATION. LISTINGS ARE RUN ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS.

thursday 23 BLAZE AND KELLY—6-8 p.m., FREE, Focaccia’s BLUE SUNSHINE SOUL—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid FREE PEOPLES—10 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s THE FRIM FRAM 4—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE—6:30-9:30 p.m. Ben Burdick Trio with Amy Weber, $10 nonmembers; $8 IBG members; $6 children (6-12), Idaho Botanical Garden HIGH DESERT BAND—6:30 p.m., FREE, Whitewater Pizza JAPANDROIDS, REVOLTREVOLT—8 p.m., $3, Neurolux JOHNNY SHOES—6:30-9 p.m., FREE, Tablerock JONATHAN WARREN, SOUL HONEY—7-10 p.m., FREE, Lush

friday 24 AUDRA CONNOLLY—8 p.m., FREE, Sockeye BEN BURDICK, BILL LILES—7-10 p.m., FREE, Gino’s BLAZE AND KELLY—9 p.m., FREE, Piper Pub BLITZEN TRAPPER, LOCH LOMOND, PORTLAND CELLO PROJECT—8 p.m., $8 adv.; $10 door, Neurolux COWBOY JUNKIES, SON VOLT—7:30 p.m., $29 adv.; $32 door, Woodriver Cellars DAVID ANDREWS BAND, TRAVIS MCDANIEL BAND, BILL COFFEY—8 p.m., $12, Knitting Factory DOUGLAS CAMERON—7 p.m., FREE, Bungalow ERIC GRAE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill THE FAV—9 p.m., Terrapin Station GORGEOUS HUSSIES, SPINDLEBOMB—9:45 p.m., $3, Tom Grainey’s JOHN CAZAN—5-9 p.m., FREE, Lock, Stock & Barrel JOHN JONES, JON HYNEMAN, MIKE SEIFRIT—8:15 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

JUSTIN GAUSE—6 p.m., FREE, Tully’s Coffee

KEVIN KIRK—7-8 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

KEVIN KIRK—7-8 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

MATT HOPPER AND THE ROMAN CANDLES—9 p.m., $1, Liquid

REX MILLER DUO—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

MOONDANCE—6-9 p.m., FREE, Kodiak Grill

RICHARD SOLIZ AND FRIENDS—8 p.m., FREE, Rodeway Inn

REBECCA SCOTT, DEBBIE SAGER, ROB HILL— 8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

THE SLANTS—7 p.m., FREE, The Record Exchange SONIC YOUTH, AWESOME COLOR—8 p.m., $22 adv.; $23.50 door, Knitting Factory SPINDLEBOMB—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish ST. LUKES TRAUMA—9 p.m., FREE, Terrapin Station STEVE EATON—8:15 p.m., FREE, Chandlers THURSDAY NIGHTS LIVE—5-8 p.m., Dan Costello, Leta, FREE, Waterfront at Lake Harbor

POCONO BILL—6 p.m., FREE, Sun Ray Cafe

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m., $5 after 10 p.m, Humpin’ Hannah’s ROCK LIKE AN EGYPTIAN—8 p.m., XEX, Half the World, Cap Gun Suicide and Dying Famous, $10, Egyptian Theatre THE SLANTS, VAGERFLY, JUMP—8 p.m., $5, Visual Arts Collective STEVE EATON—8 p.m., The Gamekeeper Lounge TARRIII—9:30 p.m., $5, Reef THEODORE—8 p.m., $3, Flying M Coffeegarage WAYNE WHITE—7:30 p.m., FREE, Music of the Vine YER MAMMA—9 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish

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MUSICGUIDE saturday 25 APPLE HORSE, THE INVASION, SLOTH FALCON, ZEN ZERO—7 p.m., FREE, Knitting Factory

NECKBRACE, A LUCID NIGHTMARE, A LIQUID EMBRACE—7:30 p.m., $10, The Venue

AUDIO MOONSHINE—7 HENERY TURNER JR. AND FLAVOR—9:30 p.m., FREE, End Zone p.m., $5, Reef BEN BURDICK, BILL JERRY JOSEPH AND LILES—7-10 p.m., THE JACK MORFREE, Gino’s MONS—9 p.m., $12 BLAZE AND KELLY—9 adv.; $15 door, The p.m., $5, Emerald Grizzly Rose Club JIMMY BIVENS THE BLUES BROTHAND HIS BAND O’ ERS—9 p.m., FREE, STRANGERS—8 p.m., Bad Irish FREE, O’Michael’s BODO BROTHERS—6-9 JOSHUA TREE—9 p.m., p.m., FREE, Kodiak Grill The Bouquet CRAVING DAWN, THE JUSTIN NIELSON ARCTIC TURTLES—9 BAND—7 p.m., FREE, p.m., $3, Terrapin Chandlers Station LORI B AND THE BLUE ENDWELL, SALT THE DIAMONDS—9 p.m., WOUND, CATALEPSY,

$1, Liquid MATT HOPPER AND THE ROMAN CANDLES, SPINDLEBOMB—9:45 p.m., $3, Tom Grainey’s OCEAN STORY SOCIAL—9 p.m., FREE, The Plank POCONO BILL—8 p.m., FREE, Groove Coffee

1332 RECORDS’ PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m., Wake Up Dead CD Release Party $2, Liquid

BEN BURDICK, BILL LILES—7 p.m., FREE, Liquid

ABE VIGODA, TALBOT TAGORA—8 p.m., $5, Neurolux

BLAZE AND KELLY—7 p.m., FREE, O’Michael’s

ALIVE AFTER FIVE—5-8 p.m., Gizzard Stone, Dale Watson, FREE, The Grove Plaza

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY—3-7 p.m., FREE, Terrapin JERRY JOSEPH AND THE JACK MORMONS—9 p.m., $15, The Mint, 116 S. Main St., Hailey JOURNEY, HEART—8 p.m., $47, $57, $67, Taco Bell Arena, Boise State campus KEN HARRIS—6-9 p.m., Kodiak Grill

MUSIC FROM STANLEY—4-8 p.m., Gizzard Stone, James Coberly Smith, FREE, Redfish Lake Lodge

SHON SANDERS—9 p.m., FREE, Piper Pub STEVE EATON—8 p.m., FREE, Gamekeeper

DONNIE MAC’S—1515 W. Grove St., 338-7813

BARDENAY-EAGLE—155 E. Riverside Dr., Eagle, 938-5093

DREAM CAFE—3110 S. Bown Way, 338-6632

BERRYHILL AND COMPANY—MSa: 6:30 p.m., 121 N. 9th St., 387-3553

EGYPTIAN THEATRE—700 W. Main St., 345-0454 EMERALD CLUB—415 S. 9th St., 342-5446 END ZONE—1010 Broadway Ave., 382-0613

BUFFALO CLUB—10206 Fairview Ave., 321-1811

FLYING M COFFEEGARAGE—1314 2nd St. S., Nampa, 467-5533

BUNGALOW—1520 N. 13th St., 331-9855

FOCACCIA’S—404 E. Parkcenter Blvd., 322-2838

CHANDLERS STEAKHOUSE—MSa: Kevin Kirk, 7 p.m.; acts at 8 p.m., 981 Grove St., 383-4300

GAMEKEEPER—1109 Main St., 343-4611 GELATO CAFE— 2053 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian GINO’S RESTAURANT—3015

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BEN BURDICK, BILL LILES—Noon-3 p.m., FREE, Grape Escape

SAWTOOTH MUSIC FESTIVAL—noon, see Pick Page for lineup, $25 adv., $30 day of show, children 12 and younger FREE, Pioneer Park, Stanley

BAD IRISH—199 N. 8th St., 338-8939

CORKSCREWS—729 N. Main St., Meridian, 888-4049

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MCLEARY BAND—1-4:30 p.m., $15 per person, Ste. Chapelle Winery

CRUSTY’S—214 Lenora St., McCall, 208-634-5005

BOUQUET—1010 W. Main St. 345-6605

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POKE—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

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BITTERCREEK ALE HOUSE—246 N. 8th St., 345-1813

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THE SIDEMEN—6 p.m., FREE, Chandlers THE SOUL HONEY—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish THEORY OF A DEADMAN, CAVO—8 p.m., $20 adv., $22 door, Knitting Factory

McMillan Road, 887-7710 GRAINEY’S BASEMENT—107 S. 6th St., 345-2505 GRAPE ESCAPE—800 W. Idaho St., 368-0200 THE GRIZZLY ROSE—1124 W. Front St., 342-3375 GROOVE COFFEE—1800 N. Locust Grove, Meridian, 890-6128 GUSTO BAR—509 W. Main St. HA’PENNY—855 Broad St., 343-5568 HIGHLANDS HOLLOW BREWHOUSE—2455 Harrison Hollow, 343-6820 HIJINX COMEDY CLUB—800 W. Idaho St., 947-7100 HUMPIN’ HANNAH’S—W-Sa: Rocci Johnson Band, 621 Main St., 345-7557 HYDE PARK PUB—1501 N. 13th St., 336-9260

IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN—2355 N. Penitentiary Rd., 343-8649 KNITTING FACTORY—416 S. 9th St., 367-1212 KODIAK GRILL—12342 E. Hwy. 21, 338-8859 LIBRARY COFFEEHOUSE—141 E. Carlton Ave., Meridian, 288-1898 THE LINEN BUILDING—1402 W. Grove St., 385-0111 LIQUID—405 S. 8th St. LOCK, STOCK & BARREL—1100 W. Jefferson, 336-4266 LULU’S FINE PIZZA—2594 Bogus Basin Road, 387-4992 LUSH—760 Main St., 342-5874 MAIN STREET BISTRO—609 Main St., 345-9515 MODERN HOTEL—1314 W. Grove St., 424-8244

CLUTCH, BARONESS, LIONIZE—8 p.m., $18 adv., $22 door, Knitting Factory INDIGO GIRLS, DAVID RYAN HARRIS—7 p.m., general admission $25; preferred general admission $35, Idaho Botanical Garden

DROP DEAD, GORGEOUS, HE IS LEGEND, BEFORE THEIR EYES, WATCHOUT! THERE’S GHOSTS, EYES SET TO KILL—7:30 p.m., $12, The Venue GIZZARD STONE—10 p.m., FREE, Liquid JIMMY BIVENS AND HIS BAND O’ STRANGERS—8 p.m., FREE, Sockeye KEVIN KIRK—7 p.m.; FREE, Chandlers

SHAWN SCHLOGEL, JUSTIN NIELSON—6:30 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

OTTMAR LIEBERT, LUNA NEGRA—8 p.m., $26, Knitting Factory

THOMAS PAUL—8 p.m., FREE, Red Feather Lounge

THE REVEREND PAYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND, POKE— 8 p.m., $8 adv., $10 door, Neurolux

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BLAZE AND KELLY—7 p.m., FREE, Smoky Mountain Pizza 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd.

THE ECLECTICS—6-9 p.m., FREE, Gelato Cafe JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—7 p.m., FREE, Lush LA KNOTS—9 p.m., FREE, Terrapin LOW-FI—7 p.m., FREE, Hannah’s LYLE LOVETT—7 p.m., $35, $50, Idaho Botanical Garden STEPHANIE SCHNEIDERMAN—8 p.m., $2, Reef STEVE FULTON, TIM WILLIS—7 p.m., FREE, Bungalow

MONKEY BIZNASS—724 First St. S., Nampa

PIPER PUB—150 N. 8th St., 343-2444

MOON’S KITCHEN CAFE—712 W. Idaho St., 385-0472

THE PLANK—650 S. Vista Ave., 336-1790

MR. LUCKY’S—4902 W. Chinden Blvd., 327-0925

THE RECORD EXCHANGE (RX)—1105 W. Idaho St., 344-8010

MUSIC OF THE VINE—2805 Blaine St., Caldwell, 454-1228 NEUROLUX—F-Sa: DJs, $3, 11 p.m., 111 N. 11th, 343-0886 NEW FRONTIER—116 E. Broadway, Meridian, 888-9034

TOM GRAINEY’S—109 S. 6th St., 345-2505

REDFISH LAKE LODGE—Hwy. 75, Stanley, 208-774-3536 REEF—105 S. 6th St., 287-9200 RODEWAY INN—1115 N. Curtis Rd., 376-2700

O’MICHAELS—2433 Bogus Basin Rd., 342-8948

SHORTY’S SALOON—5467 Glenwood, 672-9090

PAIR—601 Main St., 343-7034

SOCKEYE—3019 Cole Rd., 658-1533

PENGILLY’S—513 W. Main St., 345-6344

TERRAPIN STATION—1519 W. Main St., 342-1776

RED FEATHER LOUNGE—10 p.m., 246 N. 8th St., 429-6340

OLD CHICAGO—730 W. Idaho St., 363-0037

PAPA JOE’S—31301 S. Capitol Blvd., 344-7272

St., 343-2887 TABLEROCK BREWPUB—705 Fulton St., 342-0944

STE. CHAPPELLE WINERY— 19348 Lowell Road, Caldwell, 453-7843

TULLY’S COFFEE—794 W. Broad St., 343-2953 THE VENUE—521 Broad St., 919-0011 VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE (VAC)—3638 Osage St., Garden City, 424-8297 WATERFRONT AT LAKE HARBOR—3050 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Boise WHITEWATER PIZZA—1510 N. Eagle Rd., Meridian, 888-6611 WOODRIVER CELLARS—3705 N. Hwy. 16, Eagle, 286-9463

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BY JEREMIAH ROBERT WIERENGA

our societal view of the gay community.

While some of those interviewed, such as former Log Cabin Republican field director Dan Gurley, express discomfort at the involuntary revelation of one’s secret life, blogger Michael Rogers and several others tions leveled during the film’s 89-minute celebrate this invasion, actively asking for running time have already had significant incriminating information against hypomedia attention—belying the film’s aim of critical policy makers. outing duplicitous public figures—other The explosive and controversial nature of Outrage has left many media outlets divided on how it should be discussed.

Some news groups, such as CNN and NPR, have censored their reviews of the film, omitting many of the names brought forward, while many in the gay community are conflicted on the topic of outing as well. Although at its core, Outrage is concerned with gay rights, in many ways, the film pits two other very important rights against one another: the right to a reasonable expectation of privacy and the right of free speech. And it doesn’t particularly resolve this OUTRAGE (NR) issue. While marketing itself as a documenDirected by Kirby Dick tary, Kirby offers neither enough facts— ironically protecting the identities of some Not yet rated interviewees with backlighting and showing Opens Friday at The Flicks only portions of voting records—to support the concept nor fully discusses the ethics of exposure. Outrage has the appearance speculative names arise that haven’t been as of a documentary, but in reality, it would dissected. In particular, Fox News anchor better be categorized as an activist work.

Shepherd Smith’s sexuality is questioned, What the film does well is express both although without much evidence other than the shame and seeming necessity of living hearsay (while CNN’s notoriously private a hidden life and the freedom that comes Anderson Cooper goes unmentioned). from being open about who you are. We The outing of public figures has been cannot progress as a species or a society used as a political and social tool for if we live a lie. We grow as a political and discreditation and vengeance for centuries social system through the exchange of ideas but, as in the early 20th century Eulenand diversity. At the same time, privacy is burg affair court-martials, it has been used a valid necessity that should not be denied. to affect lawmaking and change politiWhile director Dick seems to have decided cal climate with the assumption that the that one right supersedes the other, not evexposure of prominent figures will lead to ery audience will concur that truth should a change in voting patterns and normalize and will always (win) out.

A CAUCUS OF CLOSETS Outrage exposes hidden lives of lying lawmakers

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veryone loves a good outing,” wrote Kevin Naff, editor of the Washington Blade. These words, facetiously spoken midway through documentarian Kirby Dick’s new film Outrage, encapsulate a societal predilection toward prying into the private affairs of public personalities, be they movie stars, musicians or politicians. Our tabloid culture loves to know who’s doing who and where. But is this exposure—often made at the expense of one’s privacy—a social imperative? In the case of closeted homosexual politicians who vote against gay issues, Dick would say yes.

Outrage focuses largely on three politicians whose sexuality has recently been under public scrutiny: former New Jersey governor James McGreevy, current Florida governor Charlie Crist and Idaho’s own infamous toe-tapper Larry Craig. Using interviews with influential journalists such as The Atlantic’s Andrew Sullivan and radio host Michelangelo Signorile as well as gay politicians from both sides of the aisle such as Rep. Barney Frank, Rep. Tammy Baldwin and former Tempe, Ariz., mayor Neil Giuliano, the film seeks to expose the hypocrisy of policy-makers whose voting records seem in conflict with the lifestyle they secretly live. But the problem lies not just with those who actually cast the votes that ban gay marriage, AIDS funding and employment non-discrimination. Much of Washington, the film asserts, is part of a “brilliantly orchestrated conspiracy” that protects closeted lawmakers, political staffers and news personnel from scrutiny and exposure. While most of the allega-

SCREENLISTINGS special screening DUST AND ILLUSIONS—The documentary by Olivier Bonin chronicles 30 years of the counterculture, community at the annual the Burning Man festival in the Black Rock desert of Nevada. Thursday, July 23, $8 adv., $11 door, The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com, dustandillusions.com.

opening G-FORCE—Disney’s 3D movie is an adventure comedy about a secret government program of guinea pigs equipped with the most advanced spy gizmos in existence. Squad leader Darwin (Sam Rockwell) heads up the team of varmints including Blaster (Tracy Morgan) the weapons professional, Juarez (Penelope Cruz) the martial arts extremist and Speckles (Nicolas Cage) the computer specialist. As the gang goes forward, they come across other animals that throw a wrench in their covert operation. (PG) Northgate, Edwards 9

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THE HURT LOCKER—Director Katherine Bigelow’s intense Iraqi War drama offers a glimpse into the danger that a special unit of soldiers faces on a daily basis. The unit’s job is to disarm homemade bombs hidden under the streets in Baghdad in 2004. Staff Sgt. William James (Jeremy Renner) seems to take his life-threatening duty lightly and the rest of his team is forced to trust James’ skilled instincts. (R) Flicks ORPHAN—A seemingly sweet little girl is adopted by Kate (Vera Farmiga) and John (Peter Sarsgaard). The family welcomes the artistically talented girl into the family, but then their life takes a sinister turn. As unexplained violent events unfold, Kate begins to see the evil nature of the girl and realizes the little girl is not what she seems. (R) Edwards 9 OUTRAGE—See Screen, this page.

Local journalist Dan Popkey leads a panel discussion after the 7 p.m. screening on Friday, July 24. (NR) Flicks THE UGLY TRUTH—Abby Richter (Katherine Heigl) is single TV producer who is on the prowl for a

man. When her employer teams her up with macho and opinionated TV personality Mike Chadway (Gerard Butler), Richter is immediately turned off. Chadway remains persistent and insists that once Richter understands the way men think, she will finally be able to find a boyfriend.

Richter gives in and Chadway takes her on a journey through the minds of men and manages to teach him a few things about women in return.

(R) Northgate, Edwards 9

continuing AWAY WE GO—Expectant couple Verona (Maya Rudolph, Saturday Night Live) and Bur t (John Krasinski, The Office) set out on a trip across the countr y in search of a place to raise their child. The movie, directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty), is from an original screenplay by Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, and the soundtrack features music by singer-songwriter Alexi Murdoch. (R) Flicks BRUNO—Sacha Baron Cohen is Bruno, a homosexual Austrian

fashion guru and TV personality.

With his zebra stripes, shor t shor ts and stylish hats, Bruno leaves no feathers unruffled on his quest to shock all the unsuspecting people he inter views during his quest for infamy. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 21 CHERI—Set in La Belle Epoque (1906) Paris, Lea (Michelle Pfeiffer) is a courtesan who wants to retire after batting around the rich and famous for years. Lea is approached by a sharp-tongued former courtesan and arch rival, Charlotte Peloux (Kathy Bates) who convinces her to take on one more challenge.

Charlotte’s 19-year-old son Cherie (Rupert Friend) is an unexcitable young man until Lea teaches him a thing or two about the fairer sex. (R) Flicks Ends Thursday THE HANGOVER—Three friends head to Las Vegas before one of them takes the final plunge into matrimony. Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms) and Alan (Zach Galifianakis) are charged with showing Doug (Justin Bartha) a good time in Sin City. After a wild night at Caesar’s Palace, the groomsmen

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SCREENLISTINGS have massive hangovers, a tiger in the bathroom, a baby in the closet, but the groom is nowhere to be found. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 21 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE—Director David Yates leads the Hogwarts gang for the sixth installment of the Harry Potter franchise.

It’s another year of mystery and magic, as Harry returns, persisting in battle against his arch nemesis, Lord Voldemort.

(PG) Northgate, Edwards 9, Edwards 21

I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER— Denis (Paul Rust) is the valedictorian of his senior class who professes his love for Beth Cooper (Hayden Panettiere, Heroes) during his speech. (PG-13) Edwards 21

base called Sarang for the last three years on a mission to mine an energy source for Earth. Bell’s only form of communication is with a computer called GERTY (voiced by Kevin Spacey). (R) Flicks

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS—Ray Romano (Manny), John Leguizamo (Sid), Queen Latifah (Ellie) and Denis Leary (Diego) lend their voices to the sequel to Ice Age. (PG) Northgate, Edwards 21

MY SISTER’S KEEPER—The Fitzgerald family, Sara (Cameron Diaz), Brian (Jason Patric) and their two kids, Kate (Sofia Vassilieva) and Jesse live a happy life until Kate is diagnosed with leukemia.

The parents decide to have another baby Anna (Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine)

MOON—Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is an astronaut who has been on a desolate moon

BOISE WEEKLY MOVIE TIMES Cut this out and put it on your fridge!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 22 TO TUESDAY, JULY 28 AWAY WE GO—

BRUNO—

Flicks: W-Th: 5:20, 7:20, 9:20; F-Su: 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20; M-Tu: 5:20, 7:20, 9:20 Edwards 9: W-Th: 12:55, 4:25, 7:20, 10:25; F-Tu: 12:50, 10 Edwards 21: W-Th: 12:10, 12:50, 2:30, 3:30, 4:50, 5:50, 7:10, 8:05, 9:30, 10:15

CHERI—

Flicks: W-Th only: 7:10

DUST AND ILLUSIONS—

Flicks: Th only: 7

G-FORCE—

Northgate: F-Tu: 12:10, 2:20, 4:45, 7, 9:10 Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:05, 4, 7:40, 9:55

THE HANGOVER—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:05, 4:20, 7:45, 10:05; F-Tu: 4:15, 7:35 Edwards 21: W-Th: 12:25, 2:45, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE—

Northgate: W-Th: 12:30, 3:45, 7, 10:05; F-Tu: 12:30, 3:45, 730 Edwards 9: W-Th: 12:50, 1:20, 3:45, 4:10, 4:40, 7, 7:30, 7:55, 10:15, 10:45; F-Tu: 12:40, 1:15, 3:55, 4:30, 7:10, 7:45, 10:25 Edwards 21: W-Th: 12, 12:20, 12:40, 1, 1:20, 2, 3:20, 3:40, 4, 4:20, 4:40, 5:20, 6:40, 7, 7:20, 7:40, 8, 8:40, 9:55, 10:15, 10:35

THE HURT LOCKER—

Flicks: F-Su: 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30; M-Tu: 4:30, 7:05, 9:30

I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER—

Edwards 21: W-Th: 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:10

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS—

Northgate: W-Tu: 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:15 Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:10, 4, 7:15, 10 Edwards 21: W-Th: 11:30 a.m., 12:55, 2:05, 3:25, 4:30, 5:40, 6:55, 9:10

ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS 3D—

Edwards 21: W-Th: 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50

MONSTERS VS. ALIENS— MOON—

Flicks: W-Th: 5:30, 7:30, 9:30; F-Su: 1:30, 3:30, 7:30, 9:25; M-Tu: 7:30, 9:25

MY SISTER’S KEEPER—

LISTEN LOCALLY. THINK GLOBALLY.

Northgate: M-Tu only: 10:30

Edwards 9: W-Th only: 12:30 Edwards 21: W-Th: 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIAN—

ORPHAN— OUTRAGE—

Edwards 21: W-Th: 12:35, 3, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:05, 10:15

Flicks: F-Su: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9:15; M-Tu: 5, 7, 9:15

THE PROPOSAL—

Northgate: W-Th: 12, 2:20, 4:45, 7:20, 9:40; F-Tu: 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 Edwards 9: W-Th: 12:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30; F-Tu: 1, 4:35, 7:30, 10:05 Edwards 21: W-Th: 1:25, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40

PUBLIC ENEMIES—

Northgate: W-Th: 12:30, 4, 7, 9:50; F-Tu: 12:30, 4, 7, 9:45 Edwards 9: W-Th: 1, 4:15, 7:35, 10:35; F-Tu: 12:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:20 Edwards 21: W-Th: 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:25

STAR TREK— THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123—

Edwards 21: W-Th: 1:05, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 Edwards 21: W-Th: 7:55, 10:20

TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN— Northgate: W-Tu: 12:40, 3:45, 7:30 Edwards 9: W-Th: 12:35, 3:55, 7:10, 10:20; F-Tu: 12:55, 4:05, 7:20, 10:30 Edwards 21: W-Th: 12:05, 12:45, 3:15, 4:35, 6:45, 7:50, 10, 11 Edwards IMAX: W-Th: 12:40, 3:50, 7, 10:10 TYSON— THE UGLY TRUTH—

UP—

WHATEVER WORKS—

Flicks: W: 5, 7, 9; Th only: 5, 9 Northgate: W-Tu: 12:30, Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10 Northgate: W-Th: 12:20, 2:40, 4:55, 7:10, 9:20 Edwards 21: W-Th: 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9 Flicks: W-Th: 5:10, 9:10; F-Tu: 5:30

Movie times listed were correct as of press time. To verify: Edwards 21 Boise, 208-377-1700, www.regmovies.com; Edwards 9 Boise, 208-338-3821, www.regmovies.com; The Egyptian Theater, 208345-0454, www.egyptiantheatre.net; The Flicks, 208-342-4222, www.theflicksboise.com; Northgate Cinema, 208-377-2620, www.reeltheatre.com. For second-run movies: Overland Park $1 Cinema, 208-377-3072; Towne Square Reel, 208-377-2620; Country Club Reel, 208-377-2620; Nampa Reel, 208-377-2620, www.reeltheatre.com.

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SCREENLISTINGS to ensure Kate has a per fect match for bone marrow and an eventual kidney transplant.

But when Anna reaches her teen years, she ďŹ ghts for the right to make decisions about her own body. (PG-13) Edwards 9 Ends Thursday, Edwards 21 NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM: BATTLE OF THE SMITHSONIANâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Ben Stiller reprises his role as Larry Daley, the night watchman who moves from the Museum of Natural History to the Smithsonian Institute to rescue Jedediah and Octavius who were shipped there on accident. (PG) Edwards 21 THE PROPOSALâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Margaret Tate (Sandra Bullock) is a heavy handed book editor who persuades her male assistant Andrew Paxton (Ryan Reynolds) to take her hand in marriage so she wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get depor ted to Canada. T(PG13) Nor thgate, Edwards 9, Edwards 21 PUBLIC ENEMIESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The Depression-era gangster ďŹ lm directed by Michael Mann pits bank robbers against government agents during a time when the general public had major disdain for the banking system. Johnny Depp plays the slippery outlaw John Dillinger,

whose charm and good looks always keep him a couple of steps ahead of the law. J. Edgar Hooverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new agency, the beginning of the FBI, and its top agent, Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale) make it their mission to put the criminal and his band of robbers behind bars for good. (R) Northgate, Edwards 9, Edwards 21 STAR TREKâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;J.J. Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost and Alias) boldly takes this TV classic in a whole new direction, yet preser ves the universal message of acceptance for all species. (PG-13) Edwards 21 THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123â&#x20AC;&#x201D;The remake of the 1974 ďŹ lm stars Denzel Washington as Walter Garber, a subway train dispatcher caught up in the highjacking of a subway car full of people.

Ryder (John Travolta) and his accomplices (Luis Guzman, Victor Gojcaj) demand that Walter deliver $10 million or people will get hur t. (R) Edwards 21 TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLENâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Action, loads of metal smashing and grand explosions are par t of the second installment of the battle between a resurrected

Megatron and his crew of villainous Decepticons against the peaceful Autobots. The cast of the ďŹ rst movie, Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson and John Tur turro star. (PG-13) Nor thgate, Edwards 9, Edwards 21, Edwards IMAX TYSONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The documentar y by James Toback follows the trials and tribulations of former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson. (R) Flicks Ends Thursday UPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner) decides to attach a bunch of hot-air balloons to his home and sets sail for South America. The 78-year-old and his stow away companion, an 8-year-old Wilderness Explorer named Russell, go on the adventure of their lives. (PG) Northgate, Edwards 21 WHATEVER WORKSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Boris (Larry David, Seinfeld) is a cantankerous New Yorker who takes in a young Southern girl (Evan Rachel Wood) and lets her live in his Greenwich Village apartment until her mother (Patricia Clarkson) comes barreling onto the scene to rescue her daughter.

The movie is written and directed by Woody Allen. (PG-13) Flicks

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BY TRAVIS ESTVOLD

CRUNCHES AND CONDESCENSION: P90X IS A PAIN IN THE ASS Exercise for the sake of exercise is torture. Oh, I love the accompanying endorphin release, but unless Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m playing a sport, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d rather be stuck in a mid-summer Flying-Y trafďŹ c jam without air conditioning than set foot in a gym.

My wedding is at the end of August and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been telling people Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be in shape for the event and, perhaps more importantly, the trip to Hawaii afterward. But every start date I set for a workout regimen has been preempted by work, family functions or sleep ... until one Monday a few weeks back.

Waking up at an ungodly 5:30 a.m. in order to have time to ďŹ nish the routine and shower (and probably cry) before work, I began that Monday by kicking off the P90X exercise program. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen the DVD series advertised on late-night infomercials, but hadnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t given it a second thought until a coworker lent me the 12-disc set, saving me â&#x20AC;&#x153;three monthly payments of $39.95â&#x20AC;? and the embarrassment of buying anything off TV. The concept is simple. Use ďŹ tness expert Tony Hortonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s muscle confusion and mixed exercise system for 90 days and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be as ripped as he is. Of course, the ďŹ ne print doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mention how sore youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be for three straight months, but crippling pain is implied, right?

By about 5:45 a.m., one thing became obvious: exercising with Tony is like being on the wrong side of the Spanish Inquisitionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but with more condescension. His body is either so ďŹ nely toned or his brain so poorly developed (or both) that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unaware heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s saying discouraging things like, â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can do a pushup here or not. I like to.â&#x20AC;?

Gee, thanks, guy. Do it and die or skip it and cry; a real win-win situation.

And yet Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s inadvertent put-downs and obvious interest in his female backups (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nice; Dreya stripped down,â&#x20AC;? he utters as she removes her shirt. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vanessa, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve got the skin of a ďŹ ve-year-oldâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;so lucky!â&#x20AC;?) are less conspicuous than the awful nicknames (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pam the Blam,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Downhill Dommyâ&#x20AC;?) and mini-biographies (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Johnny trainer stretchy dancer boy.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an] aerialist, ďŹ&#x201A;ies through the air with the greatest of ease.â&#x20AC;?) he bestows upon both genders of his understudies.

It could be worse. I honestly prefer Tony to the hyper enthusiasm of Sweatinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; to the Oldiesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Richard Simmons and Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rival â&#x20AC;&#x153;as seen on TVâ&#x20AC;? ďŹ tness peddler Barry Jay of Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bootcamp. I dare anyone to watch Barryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 30-minute advertisement and tell me he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t look like a muscled cross between Chris Martin, the lead singer of Coldplay, and Chris Burke, who played Corky in the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;90s drama Life Goes On. Then tell me he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound like the second Chris hopped up on caffeine pills.

If I stick it out, by the time this column runs, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be two-and-a-half weeks deep into P90X. If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m still alive, walking upright and havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t thrown an eight-pound weight through Tonyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s likeness on my TV, I hope to be able to do at least one more sit-up than I could when I started. If I fail, keep an eye on Craigslist for the guy seeking a monthâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stay in a torture chamber. The pain level would be commensurate with my workout videos, but at least Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d be shielded from superciliousness.

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BY DEANNA DARR

LET IT RIDE Neptune Industries continues its

Neptune saw an opportunity and began to transition his landscape business, which by then included welding, into a terrain park juggernaut, eventually working with resorts around the world to build and design parks for the season, as well as for competitions.

Neptune joined Bend, Ore.-based partner Pat Malendoski and created a board-oriented consortium of companies, including: Planet Snow Design, which builds terrain parks and pipes; Planet Snow eated beneath the sloping roof of his small office in an upTools, which designs terrain-park-specific tools and gear; and Planet per corner of a large workshop, a portable air conditioner Skate Parks. humming in the background, Ryan Neptune is hardly the There’s also Planet Earthwork, which does the pre-season stereotype of a successful international businessman in his casual groundwork for terrain parks and the relatively new Planet Resort T-shirt and Carhartts.

Consulting and Management. After years of working at resorts as But a glance at the massive dry-erase calendar lining one wall, varied as Alts Resort in Japan and Mt. Hood Meadows, as well as already filling with jobs that will have Neptune and his team globebuilding courses for the Grand Prix snowboard competition series trotting throughout the winter, offers a clue to what lies beneath and even the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics superpipe, Neptune and Neptune Industries’ laid-back exterior. Since it was founded in 1997, company are in a rare position. Their job has given them insider access to some of the world’s leading resorts, and that knowledge of operations allows them to offer advice on how resorts can run more efficiently and cut costs.

Neptune said on average, he’s able to help his clients cut costs by up to one-third.

“A lot of mountains sit in their own little world and never leave,” he said. “You have to see how other businesses work in real life.”

Surprisingly—especially considering Neptune learned to snowboard at Bogus Basin Mountain Resort—the company has done little work with the resort beyond donating a few pieces of equipment.

But when it comes to Neptune Industry’s other sport, skateboarding, the company is behind nearly all area parks, including Rhodes park, Fort Boise, Kuna, Idaho City, Grangeville, Tremont and McCall.

One of the first Neptune worked on was Rhodes skatepark, which he did at the request of Paul Whitworth, co-owner of Prestige Skateboards in Boise. Whitworth and Neptune have been friends since childhood, and along with many other dedicated skaters, helped build an infrastructure for the sport in Boise.

Ryan Neptune and Neptune Industries take terrain parks from concept to snow.

“People really needed someplace to skate that was legal,” Whitworth said of Rhodes. the Boise-based company has become one of the world leaders in Neptune has helped the parks as they’ve grown, often donating snowboard terrain park and skatepark design and construction. time and equipment, which Whitworth said is invaluable because of On an early summer afternoon, Neptune, 34, quickly runs down the cost of creating and maintaining skateparks. the list of where company representatives are reporting in from, “He’s quite an ambitious dude,” Whitworth said with a laugh. including the High Cascades Snowboard Camp on Oregon’s Mt. Neptune has built skateparks across the country and has learned Hood and on the other side of the world in New Zealand. that no two parks are alike. Besides the physical location of the park, In the driveway, a set of new terrain park features awaits a trip to geographical preferences play a big role in the ultimate design. the East Coast. Preliminary ground work for the terrain park at the “A park in Idaho is completely different than a park in New site of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics has already been completed, York,” Neptune said. While Idaho skaters tend to prefer street-style and Neptune was recently in Michigan for another project. courses, back East, it’s all about rails. But determining what works “[We’ll be] quadruple booked through the winter,” Neptune said, for each community takes time actually talking to local skaters. adding his crew can sometimes be found manning four or five World Whitworth said the sport has the strongest foundation ever, as Cup events in three countries each weekend. witnessed by the number of small-town skateparks across the counConsidering Neptune never really meant any of this to happen try. “There’s a lot of money being invested,” he said. makes his success all the more noteworthy.

Neptune is hoping to see an increase in skatepark projects within “The only plan I’ve ever had is to really never work for anyone,” the next 18 months as federal stimulus money trickles into comNeptune said. “I’ve never had a job,” he added with a laugh. munities around the country. Neptune is even learning how to help Yet, despite his claim of never having had a real job, Neptune has cities apply for funding for community improvement projects. continued to carve out new niches for himself in an effort to keep Still, terrain parks remain Neptune’s focus. In the last 11 years, ahead in the race he helped start.

Neptune Industries has created parks at 77 venues for the Grand Neptune’s tale of circumstantial luck started in childhood, when Prix series, which is required to qualify for the U.S. Olympic team. he started skateboarding at 5 or 6 years old. Skateboarding led to Overall, Neptune said the company has worked at more than 400 snowboarding a few years later, and snowboarding led to a career. resorts. And while reputation goes a long way, staying ahead of both Neptune turned pro, and in 1999, was the first U.S. National Board- the industry and the riders is a constant challenge. ercross champion.

“We’ve been able to help steer the industry,” he said. “[We’re To help support his snowboard habit, Neptune started a always] aware we have to find a new, competitive edge.” landscaping business, eventually splitting his time between his two The key to that is thinking five years ahead, Neptune said. “You pursuits. But while he was on the mountain, he noticed many of the have to see what the action sports industry is going to do, or lose terrain parks at various events weren’t up to par from an athlete’s out. It’s a constant design challenge.” perspective. Back then, parks were built by the maintenance crews Neptune’s team members are some of the few in the industry who who could drive a groomer, but couldn’t ride the park themselves. can ride everything they create, allowing them to make sure a park is Neptune was soon being asked for advice, then riding in a snow- perfect before any other rider ever hits the snow. cat, helping fine tune the very course he would later compete on.

He admits pressure comes with the job. “You have to always He laughs as he recalls the times he would stash his board in the push,” he said. “It’s never OK to keep replicating.” woods, work all night on the snowcat, jump out in the morning, Still, some of that stress must be released whenever he gets the reclaim his board and head to the starting line without any sleep. chance to ride one of his new creations.

“But I loved doing it,” he said with a noncommittal shrug.

“I can’t complain,” he said with a smirk.

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RECLISTINGS events & classes BACKPACKER GET OUT MORE TOUR 2009—Sheri and Randy Propster, the all-star Get Out More road team, host an interactive presentation on the best tips from the editors of Backpacker and share stories about real-life outdoor experiences. The 2009 Get Out More Tour includes information on the latest in outdoor gear and apparel, new outdoor skills and a refresher on old ones. As an added incentive, participants can win outdoor prizes.

Wednesday, July 29, 7-8 p.m., FREE. REI, 8300 W. Emerald, Boise, 208-322-1141, www. rei.com.

DROP IN HIP-HOP CLASSES— Anyone age 16 and older can drop in at the Trey McIntyre studio for an open level class hip-hop dance class. No experience is necessary, just a willingness to have fun and get a great workout. The First Thursday of the month is free.

These classes are ongoing and taught by Janelle Wilson.

Thursdays, 7-8 p.m., $10 per class, $80 package of 10 classes, 208-724-6537. Trey McIntyre Project studio and office, 775 Fulton St., Boise, www.treymcintyre.com.

LONG DRIVERS BATTLE— Golfers take six shots during the Long Drivers Battle to qualify for the regional finals of the 2009 RE/MAX World Long Drive Championship. The ultimate goal is to earn a spot at the RE/MAX world finals, scheduled for Oct. 25-30,

2009, in Mesquite, Nevada.

Golfers may enter multiple times and, if age eligible, in multiple divisions. Participants can register on-site the day of the event or preregister by contacting the site director, Glenn Ricker, at 208-634-5072 or e-mail glennricker@jugmountainranch.com. Wednesday, July 29, noon-3 p.m., $40 per try. Jug Mountain Ranch, Hwy. 55 to Lake Fork, Lake Fork, 208-634-5072, www.jugmountainranch.com.

SPEEDTRI-BOISE—The race begins at Clocktower Pond and features a 750-yard swim, 11-mile bike and 5K run. The course map is at: onemillionrevolutions.org. Registration is limited to 300 people.

Saturday, July 25, 6:30 a.m., $70. Clock Tower Pond, in Ann Morrison Park, Boise.

SUMMIT FEST—Families, mountain bikers and hikers can wind their way up the Bogus Basin Road to Summit Fest. Hang out on the lawn in front of the JR Simplot Lodge during a barbecue feast. Bogus burgers, cheeseburgers, garden burgers and hot dogs are available for purchase. Hikers and mountain bikers can put on a helmet, pay for a lift ticket to get a ride up the mountain on the Deer Point Chair to hit the trails.

Reps from bike clubs, shops and organizations are on hand with info and rentals. Saturday, July 25, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., $15 lift ticket. Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, Bogus Basin Road, Boise, 208-3325100, www.bogusbasin.org.

TENNIS 101—The tennis program emphasizes fun, family and fitness and teaches the basics to players of all ages. The program runs on Saturdays from 9-10:30 a.m. at Fort Boise Park, Meridian High School and Columbia High School in Nampa; and 9-10:30 a.m. and 10:30-noon at Hidden Springs Charter School.

Register on the Web site, or call 208-322-5150, Ext. 205.

Saturdays, 9 a.m., $10 per individual or $20 per family (maximum of four players per family); four Saturday clinics in a month: $35 per individual, $45 per family (maximum of four players per family). idtennis.com. Fort Boise Park, 600 W. Garrison St., Boise.

TRACK-N-FIELD OF DREAMS CAMP—The two-day camp for boys and girls, grades 6-12 is led by Hall of Fame track and field coach and Boise State legend Ed Jacoby. During the hands-on camp, guest speakers will offer tips on nutrition, scholarships, conditioning, physical therapy and sports psychology. Camp instructors include current and former Olympians, world-class medalists and record holders. The youth receive training in jumps, pole vault, throws, sprints/ hurdles and mid-long distance.

July 21-22, 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m., 208-376-2610, www.tracknfieldofdreams.com. Mountain View High School, 2000 Millenium Way, Meridian.

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BALLS OF CHAMPIONS

SEGWAYS ARE EASY AND FUN TO RIDE, SO COME CHECK IT OUT ALREADY!

In grade school, it was the ultimate way of separating the herd.

Either you played with the big boys or you were the target.

For some, even in adulthood, the reverberating tang of a big red bouncy ball still causes an involuntary flinch.

But such are the battle wounds of dodgeball. How many of us headed home at the end of the day with at least one big pink mark somewhere on our bodies, our heads still ringing from a particularly hard smack to the noggin?

In the past, dodgeball was one of those things we had to give up as the price for adulthood. It no longer seemed acceptable to line up a bunch of people and have them huck cantaloupe-sized rubber balls at each other with inordinate force.

But, thankfully, our society has progressed to the point where we no longer have to be ashamed of our desire to play with bouncy balls. In fact, there are leagues for it. According to the National Amateur Dodgeball Association (yes, this exists outside of a certain Ben Stiller/ Vince Vaughn movie), adult dodgeball is a growing national sport.

“The National Amateur Dodgeball Association was created as a recreational pursuit for nontraditional sport enthusiasts,” the Web site (dodgeballusa.com) reads. “It is an alternative sport requiring minimal equipment, set up and playing experience. Teamwork and strategy are more valuable factors in dodgeball than athletic skill and individual competitiveness.

Anyone can play! Experience is countered by enthusiasm. Dodgeball promotes maximum social enjoyment.”

The association hosts indoor and outdoor national championships, and offers the Bexley Cup to any team who manages to win both championships in a single year. The cup is, of course, named after the Bexley Reckers, the first team to take the prestigious honor in 2002.

The Web site lays out a long list of official rules, from the size and markings of an official dodgeball field and the initial rush to violations and the composition of the team. It also offers a handy line of official NADA merchandise, including T-shirts, logo-covered balls in a rainbow of colors, the NADA training video, ball bag and banners.

Treasure Valley players aren’t on their own to discover the wonders of adult dodgeball.

The Meridian Parks and Recreation Department is in the process of organizing its 2009 adult dodgeball league. Competition begins Monday, Aug. 31, and teams will play eight matches throughout the season. All teams will also participate in a double-elimination tournament at the end of the season to decide the ultimate victors.

Teams come in four varieties, open or co-ed, and competitive or recreational. That’s right, there’s an adult dodgeball beer league. Unfortunately, the big red bouncy rubber balls have been replaced by rubber-coated foam balls, which both the Meridian Parks Department and the NADA claim are safer. But do they still make that satisfying whop when they hit?

The registration deadline for the Meridian league is Friday, Aug. 7, and costs $275 per team. Registration forms and rosters are available online at meridiancity.org. For more information, call 208-888-3579.

In the meantime, get out the balls and start practicing. Or, if you’re really serious, may we suggest dodging wrenches chucked at you because remember, if you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. Or, at least that’s what they said in the movie.

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

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’ve still never tried mochi ice cream. It’s been a long-standing goal am cuckoo for the color pink. Whether it appears naturally of mine to indulge in this odd-sounding Japanese treat—pulverin flora or fauna, or is the result of a synthetic man-made ized sticky rice filled with flavored ice cream like green tea or red product, I’m drawn to pink like a flamingo to shrimp. bean—one that has turned into a barometer of sorts for a good sushi I’m also crazy about sushi and, as I discovered by omission, joint. If I still crave mochi ice cream after gorging myself on piles of seaweed. From the carnation-colored graphics on the online raw fish, something has to be wrong. For an assortment of reasons, I menu, which features the restaurant’s inexpensive specials to never made it to dessert at Sakura Sushi on Eagle and Chinden. the coral-shaded seats in the dining room, Sakura Sushi in Reason No. 1: the Crocodile Roll ($12.95). Other than a distaste Eagle might have been made-to-order. for feather-capped adolescent boys in green tights, Captain Hook My dinner date, a self-described witch and fellow sushi devand I have never had too much in common. But when I drew my otee, is a good friend who often indulges me when I drag her sword (chopsticks) to to see a band she’s never battle this menacing heard of, attend an amabeast, I, too, realized I teur poetry reading or had bitten off more than split a plate of food that I could chew. With a she would never choose pink belly of spicy tuna, for herself. Food like age flaky crab and glistening tofu. She’s well acquaintavocado and a hardened ed with my quest for an outer shell of fried eel age tofu appetizer worth drizzled in sweet sauce returning for and though and topped with scallion it’s not necessarily her shavings, the crocodile favorite dish, she doesn’t roll was a worthy adeven think about hexversary. The roll’s initial ing me when I order it. sweet crunch concealed Sakura’s age ($4.50) was a startling snap of spice passable—a thin, crispy lurking inside. And that golden coat wrapped was just the beginning. around large rectangular Reason No. 2: logs of tofu—but was Lunchtime sushi and missing the addition of a sashimi specials. Starting superbly savory dipping at $7.50 and cresting at sauce or a sprinkling of SAKURA SUSHI $13.95, Sakura’s sushi fish flakes that would have 3210 E. Chinden Blvd., Ste. 138, and sashimi lunch specials are a ridiculously ended my ongoing age search.

Eagle good deal. After a fair amount of deliberation, I knew before we arrived at Sakura that I 208-938-1599 boisesakurasushi.com and some unamused toe-tapping by our server, would order the Lucky Pink roll ($14.95). It Open Mon.-Sat., 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; my lunch date and I pointed to Sushi D ($9.50) took a wee bit of encouragement to get the Mon.-Thurs., 4:30 p.m.-10 p.m.; and Sashimi B ($12.50). What we got was the witch on board, but knowing my propensity Fri., 4:30 p.m.-11 p.m.; Sat., 2:30 equivalent of a day’s catch on a fishing troller. for pink, she acquiesced. She usually orders a p.m.-11 p.m.; Sun., noon-9 p.m.

Three fleshy slabs each of fresh tuna, salmon, restaurant’s version of a Mama San roll and I white fish, yellow tail and saba; four similar-sized always get a spicy tuna roll so the Lucky Pink hunks of assorted fish beached on tiny rice islands; and a rainbow was a shift out of our usual sushi zone in a couple of ways. roll filled with crab and decked out with fresh tuna, salmon and We also split the Sakura dinner plate entree ($18.95), avocado. Lest I forget, the lunch specials also came with miso soup which included a California roll, five pieces of sushi and and our meal’s only disappointment—a soggy iceberg salad. Floatshrimp, and vegetable tempura. The sushi pieces were staning in a pool of mealy bright orange citrus dressing, the salad was dard fare and included a semi-tough, pink-on-the-edges butless than appealing, with a hunk of squishy tomato and a couple terflied shrimp, a tender morsel of yellowtail, a fleshy slice of cucumber rounds thrown on top. Still, that’s not all. rosy tuna, a fishy bit of, well, salmon-colored skin-on salmon, Reason No. 3: Shumai dumplings ($4.50). Sakura’s shrimp dump- and one little surprise: a tube of krab strapped to its rice mislings are pretty much the opposite of their fried, half-moon peers. To sile with a strip of seaweed. I begged for the krab piece and start, they’re steamed and round. More like doughy, half-dollar-sized again, the witch used her power for good and gave in. I, in gnocchi, the dumplings were surprisingly simple and refreshing after turn, let her take her choice of tempura but her sacrifice was a couple dunks in their accompanying light soy bath. Though they greater than mine. The tempura shrimp, of which we each made an excellent amuse bouche, I have since had dreams of popping got one, fit in with my evening fish frenzy but the battered them in my mouth like bon bons in some alternate, charmed life pep- vegetables were like bread and salad at a steak buffet. We pered with pool boys and cocktail umbrellas. were there for sushi; I didn’t want to muck it up with a slice Keeping all of this in mind, it’s easy to imagine how a couple of potato or carrot. of ravenous sushi hounds—seated at a simple wood table with the Though the dinner entree didn’t make us want to thank plink of traditional Japanese music echoing through a salmon pink the stars, I was entranced with the vision of the Lucky Pink dining room—might get a little carried away with dessert plans roll. Its 12 sweet little slices cut in the shape of teardrops and before knowing what they were getting into. Sakura, as I now plated like hearts looked like a dish Hello Kitty would kill for. know, does not skimp on the good stuff. The portions are bountiful Its spicy tuna, snow crab, avocado and tempura shrimp are all without treading into garish, fist-sized-roll territory. favorites of ours, but pink though it may be, soy paper might Even with bellies stuffed with sushi, there was a final reason my be a dealbreaker. As hair-band Cinderella reminded thousands lunch date and I missed out on the mochi ice cream: it was time to of stonewashed-jean wearing heshers in the ’80s, “you don’t go. Sakura closes for lunch at 2:30 p.m. Sharp. At 2:25 p.m., the know what you’ve got ’til it’s gone.” I hadn’t realized how joint started shutting down the lights. Within minutes, the last of integral a part seaweed’s taste and texture played in my longthe lingering, well-heeled Eagle lunch crowd had hurriedly scarfed time love affair with sushi or how the lack of it might affect down the rest of their meals and shuffled out the door. After settling the witch’s amenable nature. The spicy softness of the tuna our reasonable tab, we exited Sakura and were hit by a wave of and the crunch of the tempura shrimp did their best to take heat and the boring smell of stripmallville. We squealed out of the the texture reins, but the flavorless soy paper—though a visual parking lot and headed back toward Boise, knowing full well the treat—didn’t have seaweed’s tug or tang, something the witch, to-go box brimming with leftovers would be empty before it ever as good as she is, will surely remind me of the next time we go made it into the refrigerator. out for sushi.

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DININGGUIDE Steak & Seafood ANGELLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Sâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Upscale dining in a casual and relaxed atmosphere thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s nearly subterranean.

Angellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s is one of Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mainstays in the restaurant business with menu items running the gamut of sea and land choices from Idaho Trout and Crab, Rosemary and Juniper Lamb Rack and Halibut Oscar. 909 Main St., 208-342-4900. $$-$$$ RES P SU. BARBACOAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Theatrical tableside guacamole service is the thing to do in this carnivoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant. In the style of Argentine parrillas, meat is grilled over an open ďŹ&#x201A;ame and served on ironwood platters. Known for its tranquil lakeside location and not one, but two excellent happy hours.

276 Bobwhite Ct., 208-3385000. $$-$$$ P SU OM. FRESH OFF THE HOOKâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Gourmet seafood in a casual setting. Try the Halibut bruschetta or coconut prawns. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the best place in town for fresh, inexpensive seafood. 507 N. Milwaukee Ave., 208-322-9224. $-$$ OM. LOCK, STOCK & BARRELâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A Boise staple featuring some of the most well-reputed steaks and prime in town. Known for its salad bar and thick-cut steaks. 1100 W. Jefferson, 208-336-4266. $$-$$$ SU OM .

STAGECOACH INNâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This Boise institution has been in the same space, with the same decor and the same menu for 45 years. If it ainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t broke, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ x it. And make sure you try the prawns. 3132 Chinden Blvd., 208-342-4161. $$-$$$ OM. TAVERN AT BOWN CROSSINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Choose between the ďŹ rst level streetside balcony where all the passersby can watch you enjoy a bottle of wine and a steak, or lounge on the second level patio with a roll of sushi and a martini. 3111 S. Bown St., 208-345-2277. $$ P SU OM.

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BAD BOY BURGERSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This Bench burger joint offers all the requisite fare of a classic walk-up/drive-thru, plus some tasty surprises: it will take two of you to get through one of their burritos. 815 S. Vista Ave., 208-331-1580. $ P.

SHANGRI-LA TEA ROOMâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; With their own lines of herbal and organic teas and herbal medicines, Shangri-La Tea Room offers a basic menu of vegan and vegetarian offerings.

Some items include ďŹ ve types of soup, pita sandwich and falafel sandwiches, curry and southwestern wraps, and one of the best organic salads in the valley according to customers. Teriyaki tofu, tea cakes, and cookies round out a variety of delightful items. On any given day, choose between 80-100 small batch, limited quantity teas produced on small tea farms. The owners pride themselves on knowing where their teas come from.

1800 W. Overland Road, 208424-0273. $$.

FANCI FREEZEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;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 canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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., 208-3448661. $ P SU OM. ROCKIES DINERâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;This is an old school diner where customers are greeted with perky waitresses on roller skates, classic rock emanating from the jukebox and guitars puncturing the ceiling-. Even if you werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t born before the â&#x20AC;&#x2122;50s, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have ďŹ&#x201A;ashbacks. A DJ booth to boot. 3900 Overland Road, 208-336-2878. $ SU .

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. $-$$ P SU OM .

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Hence, the name. The restaurant features an open kitchen, which allows diners to browse fresh offerings while watching how the cooks prepare them. Goodbye gut-bomb, hello freshness.

2275 W. Main, 208-3458965.$ SU.

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FOODNEWS

BY RACHAEL DAIGLE

THE ALL-NEW STATE COURT CAFE My girlfriends used to drag me to State Court Cafe for regular hangover breakfasts. I never put up too much of a ďŹ ght because it was so stinkinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cheap and the servers were always so good at keeping the coffee topped off. Until last week, I thought the only thing Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d missed about the joint was its gritty building, which was torn down a few years ago to make room for some shiny new dollar store and a payday loan place. And then I spotted the new Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s State Court Cafe on Fairview Avenue and some combination of nostalgia and a hankering for biscuits and gravy almost had me blowing off a meeting to sling in for lunch. Responsibility prevailed, but come Saturday morning, you know where youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ďŹ nd me. The doors opened June 15, but the grand opening was just Monday, July 20. Although I havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been back in as of this writing, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m told the menu is similar to the old restaurant but only the real favorites made the cut. If you check it out, let me know.

Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s State Court Cafe, 6767 W. Fairview Ave., 208-376-6767.

DOWNTOWN DINING ON THE UPSWING And if the resurrection of a long-closed, longtime restaurant is any indication that things are looking up for area restaurateurs, then what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m about to say should be a glowing endorsement of better dining times to come.

Vietnamese restaurant Pho Nouveau opened on Idaho Street. Lunch and dinner are available at fairly reasonable prices with noodle bowls, rice plates, one of my favorite Vietnamese dishesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;beef saladâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and, of course, pho. I have yet to ďŹ nd the Vietnamese restaurant in Boise that doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t dumb it down for those of us who know the real deal, but Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m hearing good things about Pho Nouveau. And since theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re on the BW Card, I may just treat myself to dinner this week.

Around the corner on Eighth Street, Osaka Japanese Sushi and Restaurant is poised to open in the former TaCaBi space, keeping alive the too-many-sushi joints on Eighth Street tradition on which Boise diners apparently insist. Also on Eighth Street, the two spaces formerly occupied by Ginoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ristorante and Ginoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grill are getting slow makeovers. One, as we reported a few weeks ago, will be Shigeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Japanese Steak House, but the other piques my interest. On the north side of that second-ďŹ&#x201A;oor, which is blistering hot on a July afternoon, Taj Mahal Fine Indian Cuisine is moving in. When I pressed my mug up against the window, the place was in shambles, blueprints splayed out on one table, a rolling buffet in back.

And as if six new downtown restaurants werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t enough (donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t forget about Willi Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and Chronic Tacos), Eliâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Italian Deli from Nampa will be opening up shop in Cafe Bellisima this Wednesday, July 22. Maybe the economy is getting better. Or maybe weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve just decided we want to eat our way through the doldrums. Either way, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m happy.

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DININGGUIDE ORIENTAL EXPRESS—In the heart of downtown, Oriental Express offers fresh, hot, delicious Chinese food seven days a week at very affordable prices. Open late, you can stop by after a night on the town for take-out or dine in and enjoy the really friendly service. 110 N. 11th St., 208-345-8868. $-$$ .

PANDA GARDEN—Small but comfortable, Panda Garden has a huge selection of menu items. Generous portions from Chinese to sushi, and it’s all good stuff. The staff, too, is friendly and attentive. 2801 Overland Road, 208-433-1188. $-$$ P SU OM. TWIN DRAGON—No fuss, no frills—just delicious Americanstyle Chinese food at prices that won’t cripple your wallet.

This place is definitely no bells, no whistles. 200 Fairview Ave., 208-344-2141. $-$$ SU. YEN CHING—Yummy Chinese food at a decent price, with all the usual favorites one looks for in a menu, and then some. This is one of Boise’s favorite Chinese restaurants and a great one to bend an elbow in. 305 N. Ninth St., 208-384-0384. $-$$ SU OM.

Indian BOMBAY GRILL—The only Indian food you’ll find downtown. With an extensive menu of Indian favorites, Bombay Grill has become one of Boise’s best ethnic stops. Dinner only. 928 W. Main St., 208-345-7888. $-$$ OM.

MADHUBAN—A daily lunch buffet and a huge menu including all the favorites.

You’re gonna love the curry. A great place for vegetarians.

6930 W. State St., 208-8538215. $-$$ SU OM.

Italian ASIAGO’S—Innovative Italian pastas, salads, sandwiches, soups and seasonal specials served amidst rustic Italian countryside decor. 1002 W. Main St., 208-336-5552. $$-$$$ P SU OM. GINO’S ITALIAN RISTORANTE—If you’re going to name a restaurant after yourself, you want the food to be good. Gino, as owner and chef, has made sure it’s superb.

This little bistro offers fine Italian dining and wonderful, friendly, bend-over-backwards service.

3015 McMillan Road, Ste. 108, Meridian, 208-887-7710. $$ P. LOUIE’S—American Italian food, big on variety and little on price.

Louie’s is a locally-owned restaurant that puts as much care into their service as their infamous pizza. Boasting traditional cannellonis, tortellinis and eggplant parmigana, Louie’s also has a selection of salads and pizzas for all your dining and catering needs. 2500 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, 208-884-5200. $$ P SU OM. THE STUFFED OLIVE—Eagle has decided to tattle on its “best kept secret” and share this bistro’s fresh sandwiches, pastas, roasted meats and fresh baked desserts with the rest of us. 404 S. Eagle Road, Eagle, 208-938-5185. $$ P.

Japanese FUJIYAMA—Fresh sushi in a serene atmosphere incongruously nestled in a strip mall. For the sushi-phobes out there, they have an extensive selection of teriyaki and tempura dishes, soups and salads. Reserve one of the tatami rooms for the ultimate in private dining. 283 N. Milwaukee St., 208-6728227. $$ SU. HAPPY FISH SUSHI & MARTINI BAR—It is a happy fish, indeed, that becomes an entree here.

With a wide array of sushi rolls, sashimi and more—including several creative vegetarian options—and perhaps an even wider array of cocktails, kick back in this chichi restaurant and enjoy. 855 Broad St., 208-343-4810. $$$ P SU OM. RAW—The owners of conjoined and very popular Willowcreek Bar and Grill opened up RAW to sate the sushi cravings up on the bench.

Striving for sushi art in a comfortably atmosphere—and promising rolls that make your money worth it—RAW is a welcome addition to the Japanese food restaurant family in Boise.

2273 Vista Ave., 208-343-0270. $-$$ P OM. These restaurants are only a few of Boise’s eateries. For a comprehensive list of restaurants in Boise and the surrounding areas, visit boiseweekly.com and click on “Food” and then on “Find Restaurants.”

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WINESIPPER

BY DAVID KIRKPATRICK

GRUNER VELTLINER Austria’s most widely planted grape variety produces one of my favorite summer wines, which is great on its own but remarkably versatile when it comes to food pairings. It is also a grape that produces a diverse variety of styles. When the yields are high, the result is an eminently drinkable and completely refreshing bargain. Keeping those yields down results in a wine with more intensity and worthy of aging for at least a year or two. This week, we had a tie for third place. The winners include Gruners in both styles. Here are the panel’s favorites: 2008 BERGER GRUNER VELTLINER, $11.99 Smooth citrus aromas dominate but there are nice touches of mineral, clover, spice and berry. That citrus comes through on the light and refreshing palate along with layers of soft spice, sweet apple and fresh garden greens. It comes in a full liter bottle, which gives you a third more and makes this a great buy.

2007 LOIS GRUNER VELTLINER, 14.99 The honeydew melon and quince aromas are bright and bold and mingle nicely with touches of spice, lemon zest and sweet pea. Round, ripe fruit distinguishes the palate that is both intense and zesty with flavors that include lime, blood orange, melon and spice. The finish is crisp and lively in this exceptionally appealing wine.

2006 NIGL KREMSER FREIHEIT GRUNER VELTLINER, $15.49 Easily the most complex of the quartet, showing what a bit of bottle age can do for the right Gruner. The deep floral aromas are filled with ripe melon, plum, clover blossoms, herb and orange zest. A rich and creamy mouthful of ripe fruit (peach and lime) shows remarkable persistence and is nicely balanced by good acidity throughout. This is a great value for a wine of this quality.

2007 DER POLLERHOF GRUNER VELTLINER, $14.49 Beautifully aromatic offering a nice mix of ripe apple, creamy tangerine, sweet lemon and lime.

A richly textured Gruner with supple flavors reminiscent of silky pie crust wrapped around a spicy core of apple, melon and citrus. Lightly sweet fruit and fresh herbs mark the long finish.

Like the Berger, this comes in a liter, which brings the price down below $11 per regularly sized bottle.

This week’s panel: David Kirkpatrick, Boise Co-op Wine Shop; Cindy Limber, Bardenay; Karen McMillin, Young’s Market; Michael Molinengo, Idaho Wine Merchant; Kevin Settles, Bardenay.

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1848 BUENA VISTA, his week’s home is located in MERIDIAN a senior community just half $149,500 a mile from the bustling heart 3 BED/2 BATH of downtown Meridian. The single1,344 SQUARE FEET story townhouse’s simple floor plan BUILT IN 1996 and neutral color palette reflect the .1 ACRE no-frills character of the tidy neighborPOHLEY RICHEY, hood surrounding it.

208-724-2815 The attached unit that shares the HOMELAND REALTY dwelling’s only common wall is also ZILLOW.COM for sale. This presents a unique opMLS #98383518 portunity for two friendly families who want to live next door to each other, or for members of the same family who want to reside close enough to raid each other’s freezers for a Fudgesicle.

Out front, a leafy oak tree partially shades the driveway, and a trim row of roses and shrubbery lines the front walkway.

Inside, the floor plan is laid out so the main living spaces are on one side of the house and the private quarters are arranged on the other. The common wall between the two townhomes runs along the kitchen and living room, helping to keep the bedroom side of the house peaceful.

As you step into the foyer, a bright kitchen opens to the right. White appliances, golden oak cabinets, light beige vinyl flooring and beige laminate countertops form a neutral backdrop in the sunlight-filled room. A bay window in the informal dining nook adjoining the kitchen provides views of the front yard.

Above the kitchen sink, a wide arched opening looks into the living room and out to the landscaped back yard. The living room features a vaulted ceiling and a simple fireplace with a lightly embellished mantle.

The back yard is a shallow, narrow affair with a covered patio, a verdant strip of lawn and beds planted with slender Norway spruce, rose of Sharon and lilacs. The property contains enough plants to require an occasional putter through the yard with clippers in hand to keep the landscape looking its best. A gate between the adjoining townhomes’ patios makes it easy for the nextdoor neighbor to tiptoe in and sneak a bratwurst from your grill as you step inside to grab the Grey Poupon.

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The small La Playa subdivision features a willow-shaded common area with sun-drenched horseshoe pits. An American flag flies proudly in front of the clubhouse, where the community holds a monthly birthday party for residents.

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Cowboy is an adorable 6-year-old medium-sized male Australian cattle dog (mixed with golden retriever and/ or beagle?) who is a great guy with a low-key personality. He has a thick, wavy coat that will need regular brushing.

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(Kennel 400 - #8016825) This adorable 6-month-old female black and white kitten is named Cassie and her owner became sick and could not keep her. She is a sweet and loving cat who is playful. Cassie uses her litterbox appropriately and is said to be good with other cats. She was originally found as a stray in the Star area. (Kennel 32 - #8080454)

Billie is a 4-year-old female mixed-breed dog (some border collie) who weighs 44 lbs. and has a beautiful blonde coat. She is good with other dogs and cats, and we are told that she is good with children.

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This sweet 2-year-old female cat has black and orange tabby markings on a white background. She was found as a stray near the Nez Perce and Roosevelt area in Boise without identiďŹ cation. She is very personable and loving and is litterbox-trained. (Kennel 59 - #8028885)

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BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Storm chasers are people who love traveling around the continent in pursuit of wild weather. Nothing feeds their lust for life more than getting up close and personal with a tornado or supercell thunderstorm. Many of them are meteorologists who are curious about the way storms work; they’re not motivated solely by bravado. I mention this because, according to my astrological analysis, the coming weeks will be prime time for Aries storm chasers to load up on thrills. The immediate future should also bring excellent opportunities for other Rams who are yearning for breezy adventures that will captivate their imaginations and slake their sense of wonder.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Let’s say that you lost a treasured object a while back. What do you think the odds are that you’ll find it this week?

Or let’s say that a bewildering companion walked out of your life many moons ago. How much do you want to bet that your paths will cross again soon? According to my reading of the omens, events like these could be common between now and Aug. 15. That’s because the past is cycling back to you for another look. Revival and resurrection are in the air. What has been old may become new again. Are you ready to experience something resembling time travel?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The seductive torments of insatiable desires are leaving you in peace, at least for now. That means you’re free to concentrate on the easier gratification of more satiable desires. I hope you’re open to that, Gemini; I hope you haven’t fallen for the illusion that hard-to-get pleasures are deeper and finer.

Please believe me when I tell you that you’re ready to exult and bask in the simple joys.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The coming week may be one big ethical test for you. Maybe today, the cashier at the cafe will accidentally give you $10 too much in change. Tomorrow, you could be baited with a chance to gain personal advantage by betraying a friend. The next day, you may have to decide between doing the right thing and doing the kind thing. It has been a long time since your integrity has been pushed and probed and pricked like this. As you wend your way through the gray areas, Cancerian, remember that sometimes being moral is not about saying no, but saying yes. In fact, one of the most high-minded acts you could make is to open your heart to a righteous temptation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Did life feel meaningless last week? Was your destiny a random sequence of events shepherding you to a series of different nowheres? Even worse, were you convinced that human beings are toxic scum? If so, Leo, get ready for your mood to shift drastically. The whims of fate are mutating. Soon, a source of curses may be a fount of blessings. Enticing leads will rise up out of the midst of boredom.

Human beings will fascinate and teach you, and ever y day will bring new signs to draw you deeper into delicious mysteries.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You’re hereby relieved of your responsibility to keep ever yone’s illusions afloat. (You might want to sink your own illusions as well.) Consider yourself armed with Ernest Hemingway’s “built-in, shock-resistant bulls*** detector.” Beginning immediately, be an elegant but in-your-face reality check. Don’t just tell the truth. Tell the lush, pulsating, up-tothe-minute truth. And be aware that even the dr y facts may be evolving pretty fast. What seems like incontrovertible evidence today may be puny propaganda tomorrow.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I usually applaud your inclination to remain above the fray and churn out astute obser vations. I normally honor your instinct to distance yourself from petty partisan squabbles. But this week is different. For the foreseeable future, I’d like it ver y much if you dive into the pit with the other diehards and fight with hardnosed audacity for what you believe is

the beautiful truth. At least temporarily, Libra, forget about your graceful talent for tactful compromise. I think it’s time for you to be a warrior who’s ferociously devoted to a just cause.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In behalf of all the other signs, I’d like to express our gratitude for the jumpstarts you Scorpios give us. The jolts aren’t always bliss-inducing, true, but in retrospect we often say, “Thanks, I really needed that.” We also appreciate the debates you embroil us in. They force us to take stands on issues we’ve been wishy-washy about. Our gratitude also goes out to you for those times you help us lose our excessive self-importance. It’s hard to cling to our pretensions with you around, and it’s easier to get to the root of the truth.

Keep up the good work. Continue to be your warm, prickly self even in the face of protests from faint hearts. Know that at least some of your fans out here respect the way you push us and trick us and inspire us to go places we don’t even realize we’ll benefit from going.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): During his time in hiding, the Biblical prophet Elijah was kept alive by ravens who brought him food. John the Baptist sur vived on nothing but honey and locusts when he was roaming the wilderness.

And I’m sure that some unexpected source of comfort and sustenance will likewise turn up during your wanderings, Sagittarius. It may not be what you’re used to. You might even have to cultivate a taste for nourishment that seems foreign. But stick with it. You could learn to love it, and in the process become less dependent on stuff you thought you couldn’t do without.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Burn the Book of Love you’ve been using these past few years, Capricorn, even if you just do it metaphorically.

Don’t think of the incineration as censorship.

Think of it as liberating yourself from the tyranny of fables that have programmed you to accept less love than you deserve and give less love than you have to give. Imagine that you’re ready for a riper approach to the knotty riddles of the heart. And when you’re done with the burning, go in search of a brand new Book of Love. Better yet, write that holy text yourself. A good title might be “Love Doesn’t Conquer All, But 60 Percent Isn’t Bad.” A bad title would be “Love Doesn’t Suck.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You should closely monitor your environment for beguiling appearances of the number seven. I have reason to believe that seven may be involved in your current inconveniences and dilemmas. I theorize that seven has been tr ying to call attention to itself in an odd or irritating manner so as to get you to tune in to certain benefits that could be associated with the number seven—benefits you’ve been overlooking. I would even go so far as to speculate that seven may be both the cause of and the cure for your itch. Be especially alert for sevens that are in the vicinity of the color green or the letter “G.” Perk up your intuition anytime seven appears in advertisements, boxes of food, tattoos or T-shirts.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t concern yourself with praying to the gods of luck and chance.

I’ll take care of that for you. Your job is to solicit the favor of the gods of diligence and discipline.

Why? Because I think you’ve got a lot of good work ahead of you—work that will take ingenious attention to detail—and you’re going to need the extra boost those gods can provide. Of course, their help won’t be enough. You will also have to draw on extra reser ves of your willpower in order to express new heights of determination and persistence. Together, you and those no-nonsense deities will be an unbeatable team. The better you organize yourself, the more they will help you get organized. The stronger you push to make your efforts crisp and efficient, the easier they’ll make it for you to do just that.

Homework: In what part of your life are you doing less than your best? Why? freewillastrology.com.

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