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STREETCAR DESIRES The larger transportation issue NOISE 23

VAUN WITH THE WIND Bill Vaun’s quest for number one SCREEN 28

FALL INTO FILM We preview some upcoming choice releases FOOD 31

COHO AND COLD ONES Something fishy is brewing at Sockeye Grill.

“Beck is to Mormonism what Father Charles Coughlin was to Catholicism in the 1930s ...”

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NOTE ALL IN ALL, I’D SAY WE CAME OUT OF LAST WEEK MORE OR LESS UNSCATHED. Truth be told, I was expecting the redesign to spur a glut of letters to the editor—not because I thought the new look was bad but because change is often difficult. Aside from a few attaboys on Twitter and one very unenthusiastic voicemail, the chatter was relatively quiet. On that subject anyway.

Turns out the issue prior was a larger subject of discussion.

While we thought we’d done a bang-up job explaining this year’s split Best of Boise, turns out a few out there were still confused. When an employee at one distribution point asked why we hadn’t brought new papers the week of Sept. 30, we started to put two and two together. Turns out that although Sept. 23’s edition sported a red cover with the giant words “Editors’ Picks” and Sept. 30’s edition was a blue cover with “Readers’ Picks,” the two were not dissimilar enough for people to realize they were two separate issues.

If you missed the Sept. 30 issue featuring the results of the readers’ poll for Best of Boise, you missed the best and biggest issue of the year. Now skip on over to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. and pick up a copy. Or contact office manager Shea Sutton at shea@boiseweekly.com or 208-344-2055 and ask him to snail mail you a copy. If you’re lucky, he’ll even throw some swag into the envelope.

Also last week, Scott Weaver’s piece on the Open Carry crew has generated a heated debate at boiseweekly.com.

Open Carry supporters and the no-gun crowd have squared off in the virtual world, taking aim at whether something is appropriate just because it’s legal. We’ve printed a few comments in Mail this week, but the full discussion is worth a trip to boiseweekly.com.

Now onto this week’s issue.

I suspect a number of BW readers will get a good laugh out of the headline on this week’s main feature. Then they’ll read Glenn Beck’s name in the subtitle and cringe. It’s a story we’ve reprinted from fellow alt weekly Boston Phoenix.

Writer Adam Reilly zooms in on Beck’s 1999 conversion to Mormonism and asks if “without his unsettling brand of Mormonism, would Glenn Beck still be Glenn Beck?” And more importantly, should the church and/or the Republican Party aim to rein him in?

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INSIDE EDITOR’S NOTE MAIL BILL COPE TED RALL NEWS No pizza for Idaho gunslingers State jacks part-time worker’s health insurance Nurses and the flu shot

THE SHOWDOWN OVER PIZZA, A BURGER AND GLOCKS A firefight has been raging among readers of “No Pizza for Open Carry Gun Families.” In support of Open Carry, one reader had this to say: “And just remember, there are approximately 140,000 concealed weapons permits issued in [Idaho]. If you are at Idaho Pizza, Shari’s, Fuddruckers, Walmart, Albertsons or wherever, you can expect about one out of every 25 people to be carrying a weapon under their coat, vest or shirt. Oddly, none of them shot anyone today. Or yesterday.

Or the day before that.” And against: “Open carry advocates are just trying to intimidate others by displaying a weapon.”

2,300 TUTSI REFUGEES IN BURUNDI TO BE REPATRIATED TO CONGO From The Grip contributor FBM Fidel Nshombo this week: “I almost got killed in my own country for being tall and skinny; they thought I was a Tutsi.” Nshombo talks about the dangers of the Tutsi moving back to Congo. (10-12)

STREETCAR SHOWDOWN City Council candidate David Litster, who’s opposed to the mayor’s proposed streetcar, announced his intention to launch a petition drive to force a popular vote on the issue. Litster’s opponent, TJ Thomson, said that much work still needs to be done before it’s decision time. (10-9)

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CITIZEN TRUE CRIME / MONDO GAGA FEATURE Glenn Beck’s Brand of Mormonism

BW PICKS FIND 8 DAYS OUT SUDOKU NOISE Local hits No. 1 (in Illinois)

MUSIC GUIDE ARTS Stewart goes national and Knopp goes solo

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SCREEN Fall movie preview

VIDIOT MOVIE TIMES FOOD Puttin’ Sockeye in your diet

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MAIL QUOTE OF THE WEEK

T H ERE I S NO D I F F E R E NC E BE TWE E N A L AW- AB I D I N G A R M E D C I T I Z E N A ND A COP. I N FACT, I T R US T T HE C I TI ZE N TO HAV E BETT ER J U D G M E N T M Y S E L F. COP S A RE TOO FULL O F T H E M S E LV E S A ND T RI GGE R HA P P Y. ”

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—Mindcrime, BW online

SICK AND BROKE AND NOWHERE TO GO I started out my morning calling the doctor to see if I could get in. I’m on day five of my cough and cold and wanted to get some medicine. I spoke to the receptionist who told me it would be $160 for my visit because I have no insurance. I asked her what I should do since I can’t afford that right now. She explained that I should go to the emergency room and they will not bill me immediately. As most know, a visit to the ER costs roughly $500. With bills piling up, I have opted to try to sit it out a few more days.

What really makes me upset is that I know what I need. It’s the same thing that happens to me twice a year. An upper respiratory infection. I need a dose of prednisone and some antibiotics.

Angry, I began to look into what our state reps are saying about health care. I entered [Sen.] Mike Crapo’s Web site and found when it came to universal health care he states, “I am opposed to such a system as it would certainly lower the quality of care that Americans enjoy.” What quality am I “enjoying” when I can’t even afford to walk in the door? This got me looking further into it. Nearly one third, or 421,000, of Idahoans under the age of 65 are without health insurance. He goes on to explain how Canadians have to wait

months for some treatments. Any treatment that needs to be done right away to save a life in Canada is done right away. I’ve talked to Canadians and they love their health-care system.

Seems to me that Mr. Crapo has never had to make the choice between going to the doctor or buying groceries.

I’d love to do both.

—Bob Fries, Boise

ART SHOULD SUCK Here is a quote for Jerry [Outlaw] about his critique of cover art (“Cover Art for the Eye,” Mail, BW, Sept. 16, 2009): “The key to good art is not being ‘good’ but sucking boldly and honestly.”

—Jeffrey Johnston, Boise

BATTLE: OPEN CARRY I do not fear a car accident, but I wear my seat belt. I do not fear a bicycle accident, but I wear a helmet. I do not fear that myself or my family will be victimized, but I own a gun.

These men are not fearful paranoids (“Have gun? No Pizza?” News, BW, Oct. 7, 2009). These men are trying to renew awareness of your lawful right to carry a gun openly in public. Do their guns frighten you?

Why? Who is the paranoid now? The very few people who would want to harm you would not openly carry their weapon. I commend these men for their efforts and encourage others to openly carry their guns. This

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is something that I have thought of doing for a while.

I’m inspired, time to find a nice comfortable holster for my Glock .40 —Gabe, BW online Has anyone pointed out to the two gunslingers that, judging from their photo, they are more likely to die from diabetes, heart failure or hypertension than from something they can defend themselves against with a gun? That greasy restaurant grub is more likely to hasten their demise than anything bullets will save them from.

Do those two even have health insurance? If not, they should worry more about that than showing off their hardware.

—Roberto Ceniceros, Boise What is Idaho law like with regards to giving notice to patrons? Some states require signs, while others simply require notice given (which verbal counts). These guys were polite, regardless, and should have shown the fearful that their restaurants weren’t going to be shot up.

“Old West”—straw man for the ignorant. The “Old West” they think of only existed in Hollywood movies.

—Vidarr, BW online

B.O.B. MEA CULPA We bought the wrong vowel when we referred to the Crescent’s Judge Jody as Judge Judy in Sept. 30’s write-up for Best Sports Bar. The proprietress is the former. And to clarify, Boise’s best tat shop, Inkvision, takes walk-ins. We were kidding when we said it would be faster to go to Europe to get a tat than to get on the waiting list. So what are you waiting for? Walk in, already.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

PYGMALION RED-UX And how Ken Burns saved Cope’s soul “So ... Cope ..., you ... been ... sound-eeng ... ver-ee ... dee-pressed ... in ... your ... colll ... ummms ... these ... dayzzz.”

“I was depressed, Red, definitely. Disgusted, dispirited, dissatisfied, disgruntled, demoralized and depressed. And I’m not the only one. That’s what happens to liberals when it becomes ultimately clear just how scummy and low Republicans will go when they don’t get their way. But I do feel better now, buddy. Ken Burns saved my soul.”

(Note: As you see, I took Red back as my Socratic conservative sidekick, but on some pretty stringent conditions. As his enunciation had become a detriment for more and more of my readers, I told him he absolutely had to make his side of our conversations more presentable if he wished to return to the fold. I suggested he start by speaking slower and with great deliberation, which helps re-educate the tongue and lips to the formation of proper syllables. That technique also facilitates a more orderly progression of thoughts and enables a speaker to find real, established words to express himself, rather than making them up out of thin air because the mouth is so feverishly trying to make a point that the brain can’t keep up.

(I also suggested he find himself a voice coach, the sort of professional that can train Irish actors to sound like characters in a Tennessee Williams’ play, or real Southern actors to sound like Colin Farrell. So Red asked around, found a coach affiliated with one of the local theater groups and has been taking lessons. I am proud of him, he’s doing so well. He practices two hours a day in front of a mirror, and I am finding that while his speech becomes more comprehensible, his long-held loopy opinions are moderating. I dare not suggest he is turning into a liberal. But it is definitely noticeable that, as his brain and mouth are increasingly working on the same wavelength, he is becoming more reasonable. On a scale ranging from Glenn Beck up to Paul Krugman, I’d put his current state of development somewhere just below Joe Scarborough.)

“Who?” “Ken Burns. Red, you need to get your face out of Fox now and then and watch some PBS. You didn’t see the big series on the national parks, I suppose.”

“Nnno.”

“You shoulda. It was stunning, I tell you.

And I don’t just mean because it was full of pretty pictures. In film after film, Ken Burns has documented how interwoven everything about America is with everything else.

Hardly matters what he’s dealing with … baseball, race, powerful interests, politics, jazz, the Civil War … when Burns tells the story, he shows how it’s just one vibrant epic operatic evolving tapestry where you can see all the threads and how they tie

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together and where they might eventually lead. And this last one on the national park system … brother, it really showed me something. I probably knew it at one time, but we tend to forget the basic stuff when things look terrible, know what I mean?”

“Nnno.”

“Well, buddy, Burns has reminded me that America has always been defined as much by its rapacious assholes as its heroes. Get where I’m coming from? We’ve always had way more than our fair share of the grabbers and the spoilers, the grasping and the stupid, the ignorant goobers and the manipulating demagogues, the liars, the clowns, the craven shills and the mind-boggling fools. Like, for every John Muir or Teddy Roosevelt or Aldo Leopold, there were a thousand selfish cattle barons and mining magnates, railroad hogs and development hucksters, all trying to stop good, healthy things from happening because their only concern was for their own fortune. Just like today with the health-care issue, right? But in spite of all the money and influence and bluster and fear-mongering and threats and hysteria, slowly but surely we keep getting good, healthy things, don’t we?

National parks and integration and Social Security and affirmative action for minorities and re-introduced wolves and women’s suffrage and Medicare and wildlife refuges and civil rights and PBS and libraries and more safety in the workplace and more tolerance for gays and more and more education all the time. That’s really encouraging, don’t you think? … that despite all of the obstacles the swinish horde can pile up, one passionate guy like Muir can move the world. I’d call it the difference between the redemptive power of love and the corruptive power of greed, wouldn’t you?

“That’zzz … not … ” “Yes m’ man, Burns reminded me that things will only look terrible if it’s only the terrible people you’re looking at. And that’s what I’ve been doing, Red. Letting the most terrible, thoughtless, vile people get me down. But that’s what they want, isn’t it?

To discourage their opposition. To demoralize them and drive them out of the fight?

Yet in the end, they die unremembered, and what good people like Muir accomplish lives on and on and on. It’s the great liberal wheel of history, Red. It can be slowed, but it can’t be stopped.”

“All ... I ... have ... t’ ... say ... izzz ...”

“Oops! Save it, Red. No more room.

New word limit, you know. And slow down there, pal. You’re starting to drop your vowels again.”

(Note: Coming right along, isn’t he? Another few months and I’ll have Red talking like Anthony Hopkins, you watch. How far he moves up on the Beck-to-Krugman scale remains to be seen.)

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TED RALL/OPINION

BARACK HUSSEIN HOOVER It’s 1933 again. But FDR lost.

NEW YORK—When the economic collapse began, many Americans took comfort in the historical parallels with the Great Depression. As it had in 1929, the current crisis began under the clueless reign of a Republican.

But all was not lost. The Democrats were coming! Barack “Yes We Can” Obama, our new FDR, would clean up Bush’s mess.

In the fall of 2008, Bush looted the stripped-bare U.S. Treasury one final time.

Billions of dollars in “bailouts,” for banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers were doled out. Millions of homeowners who faced foreclosure got no help.

The way to stimulate a consumer-based economy is to put money directly into consumers’ pockets. Instead, Bush deployed the standard GOP trickle-down approach.

Boosting the banks restores liquidity, allowing individuals and businesses to resume borrowing. But the banks weren’t stupid.

They no longer wanted to lend to people who couldn’t repay them. They held on to the cash. Credit markets seized up.

During the 1932 campaign, Franklin Delano Roosevelt promised that help was on the way. In radio addresses and in speeches across the country, FDR argued against Hoover’s trickle-down approach. He spoke on behalf of the “forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.”

Attacking the 2008-09 Great Recession wasn’t rocket science. The causes of the economic collapse were strikingly similar: a real estate bubble feeding a stock market bubble, excessive borrowing and lending. So were the results: By the time Obama became

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president, the real unemployment rate— calculated the way it was in 1933—was 20 percent, the same as when FDR took office.

Keynesian-influenced economists pushed the incoming Obama administration to repeat FDR’s successful approach. Putting job creation first, FDR’s New Deal programs directly put millions of people to work on government projects employing 8 million Americans during its existence. There’s plenty of work to do now: The country needs a national high-speed rail system to compete with Europe and Asia, not to mention new mass transit systems and school buildings.

Nine months into his presidency, it is clear that Obama is more Hoover than FDR. There has been virtually no investment in public infrastructure. There will be no public jobs programs. According to The New York Times, “Obama’s economic advisers are sifting options for a new package of tax cuts and other job creation measures to be unveiled in next year’s State of the Union address.” No one in Congress has proposed a jobs-creation bill. Instead, they want to extend unemployment benefits to 79 weeks.

More than one out of five Americans is jobless. There are six jobseekers for every job. Inflation is out of control. Yet he thinks we can wait until January 2010? Does he really believe that tax cuts create jobs?

When Bush flew home to Texas, we thought we were getting an FDR to replace a Hoover. Instead, we got another Hoover.

Ted Rall is the author of the graphic memoir The Year of Loving Dangerously.

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CITYDESK/NEWS STREETCAR IT BECAUSE, WELL, YES YOU CAN

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NEWS

SEALING UP STIMULUS Energy efficiency projects hit homes, schools MATHIAS MORACHE The rain poured down last week as Brad Neuroth and his weatherization crew retrofitted a single-wide in a Nampa trailer park.

Together, the five-man team installed storm windows, new insulation and a new furnace, rendering the unit vastly more energy efficient. The crew even depressurized the house to check for leaks.

for Idaho. This will support energy efficiency upgrades in public schools, some solar panels for schools and even the burgeoning LED manufacturing industry with a grant to Micron Technology, Inc., said Idaho Office of Energy Resources administrator Paul Kjellander. Additionally, $9.5 million was approved for competitive grants for energy efficiency upgrades to MATHIAS MORACHE

Political opponents to Boise Mayor Dave Bieter scored a one-two punch last week, forcing the City Council to stall a $90,000 public relations contract that would have helped craft the city’s streetcar spin and initiating a petition drive by a city council candidate to force a popular vote on the $60 million plan.

Sucking the hind teat of Boise blogger Dave Frazier, the Idaho Statesman editorialized against the PR contract with Statesman editorialist Kevin Richert arguing that Bieter has bungled the project.

But here is something that has been lost in the streetcar counter-spin, which is now sailing under Frazier’s banner headline Trolly Folly: The city is pursuing a downtown streetcar because that’s the one transit project it can pursue.

Opposition candidates for City Council, also taking Frazier’s lead, are advocating for a bus-first approach, which comes off as disingenuous when coupled with their anti-tax stances.

But Boise is only one partner in the regional bus system, the largest player for sure, but only one player on the cashstrapped agency’s board. The city, along with Valley Regional Transit, has advocated for many years for local option taxes to pay for a better bus system or light rail into Canyon County, to no avail. VRT and Valley Ride are supported by voluntar y contributions from Treasure Valley cities and cannot raise their own tax base, so the city has limited means for unilaterally boosting the regional bus system.

Similarly, some have argued that what is really needed is a high-speed train into Canyon County, again, something the city supports. But Boise can’t build its own light rail to Caldwell without support from all the mayors—and state legislators— along the route.

So when Bieter sat down two years ago to craft his State of the City speech, he announced that he’d be tackling the one major transit project that his administration could pull off, a downtown streetcar, with plans for three additional spurs sometime in the future. The first line Bieter hopes to pay for with a large federal grant and a Local Improvement taxing district, which many of the downtown property owners along the streetcar route—the ones who will pay for it—have supported all along. It is short, but still useful to those who work or park on the outer edges of the downtown core (St. Luke’s, the Linen District). The spurs, which will eventually connect downtown to Boise State, out to 30th Street, and down to Parkcenter, will be even more useful.

Now citydesk just came up with that spin all on our own and it won’t cost you, the public, a dime, because BW is always free.

But here’s our advice to the City Council: Get some professional help on this so you don’t bungle the one chance Boise has to make some public transportation headway in Idaho.

If you don’t, you may have to deal with more citizen initiatives from the likes of Ryan Davidson next.

Ask City Council candidates anything at electionland.boiseweekly.com!

Stimulus-funded workers make this Canyon County home more energy efficient.

“It’s building science,” explains Neuroth, describing the process the team uses. It takes Neuroth and his crew just a day to do a house and move on.

“Making these houses as energy efficient as possible is where it’s at. The homeowner gets more bang for their buck,” said Michael Figuerdo, a weatherization technician busy installing windows. Canyon County Organization on Aging, a private nonprofit group contracted through the Department of Health and Welfare, operates in seven Idaho counties and is using federal stimulus funding to make low-income housing as energy efficient as possible, with plans to retrofit up to 800 homes with the money. The idea is to create work for the crews while simultaneously helping Idahoans save money through energy efficiency. While the agency’s weatherization program has been around since the 1970s, CCOA and five other agencies statewide will receive $30 million during the next two years under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for weatherization.

Recently, the Obama administration approved a $28 million state energy program

smaller cities and counties, methane treatment, and energy efficiency upgrades to government buildings. Now is also a good time to buy a new washer/dryer; $1.4 million in Energy Star rebates will soon be available. Energy updates in schools have already begun as well.

“If we could go into schools and just replace some old fluorescent lighting, that alone could save 30 percent in total energy consumption,” said Kjellander. Renovations for schools take the form of scrutinizing the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system for leaks, ensuring peak efficiency.

“Some school districts are faster than others to sign up. I believe there are 115 school districts in the state and right now there are only three that haven’t signed on yet. When we look at the cost of that initial tuneup, the $15,000 investment will yield $13,000 annual savings. Schools can brag about it in newsletters to parents. People need some good news in down times. We see contractors back to work in some of these projects,” said Kjellander.

The first of these projects, $18,000 for the Homedale School District, will pay back in energy savings in just over a year, Kjellander said.

“I think we were just lucky,” said Homedale Superintendent Tim Rosandick.

“We had indicated early on we were curious about the stimulus bill and how it would impact energy efficiency in schools. We were the pilot school district for the statewide tuneups of all the K-12 schools in the state so we were the first to develop the model of what they are going to do.”

Aside from energy efficiency, stimulus dollars for K-12 education in Idaho are being used in two ways, according to Luci Willits, chief of staff at the Idaho Department of Education. $166.2 million of State Fiscal Stabilization Funds were allotted for the purpose of keeping jobs for teachers and employees of public schools. The money is just beginning to arrive. However, this money did come with a stipulation. The Idaho Department of Education had to agree to comply with a number of federal standards for Idaho schools, such as agreeing to keep state education funding at certain amounts, complying with credential requirements for teachers and agreeing to standardized assessments.

“The [U.S.] secretary of education was given $4 billion to use how they see fit,” said Willits. Much of this money has ended up in competitive grant programs for which states can apply. For Idaho, the bulk of this money will be an estimated $45 million in the form of Title 1-A grants, a type of grant designed to improve academic achievement for disadvantaged students. This money can be used in flexible ways, such as training staff, acquiring new technology and creating after-school programs. Other grant money will also be available, $3 million in Title II-D grants for educational technology, $191,000 McKinneyVento Homeless Assistance for homeless students, $55 million for the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act to strengthen education for the disabled and even $470,000 for school lunch equipment.

Stimulus money for higher education is arriving predominantly in the form of PELL grants, a type of financial aid for low-income students. Awarded to students, not states, these PELL grants aren’t just intended for universitybound students—students attending institutions from hair design academies to theological seminaries are also eligible for the money.

“The stimulus increased the PELL grant money available for every eligible student that attends any school,” said Kevin Jensen, director of financial aid at the College of Western Idaho. Stimulus funds added $17.1 billion dollars towards PELL grants, raising the maximum amount from $4,731 to $5,350.

“It’s almost like a little kicker the way the PELL grant works. Now is a great time to go to school. The downside is the stimulus funding won’t continue on forever unless Congress does something,” said Jensen.

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NEWS/CITYDESK Davidson, the guy who almost put the (Thai) stick back into the Wood River Valley, scored a minor victory against the man in a Blaine County courtroom in recent weeks. That is, if the Marijuana Policy Project, the nation’s top pressure group for the legalization of weed, can be considered “the man.”

Davidson won a grant from MPP back in 2004 to run pro-marijuana initiatives in Hailey, Ketchum and Sun Valley. He relocated to Blaine County and hired on some buddies.

But when all three cities rejected Davidson’s initial petition drive, MPP cut him loose, saying he did not live up to his promises.

Davidson persevered on his own, however, suing all three cities and eventually winning three pro-pot ballot measures in Hailey. The city of Hailey now has a pot advisory committee and is exploring the possibilities for medical marijuana use.

Last year, Davidson sued MPP, trying to recoup $44,000, the unpaid portion of his grant. A Blaine County jury found him deserving, but awarded him a mere $11,000, which Davidson doubts he’ll ever see.

Davidson has moved back to Garden City, where he is involved in local GOP politics as a Ron Pauler and works in pest control with his father, but says he is basically unemployed at the moment since all the bugs are now frozen.

Meanwhile, the fight for marijuana in Idaho may soon move to the State Legislature. Rep. Tom Trail, a Moscow Republican and agricultural expert, has renewed his pledge to introduce a medical marijuana bill in January along the lines of the laws in Washington, Nevada, Montana, Oregon and Hawaii.

In the same vein, it is becoming increasingly clear what the Idaho Congressional delegation has been smoking in terms of health care reform. The Idaho Statesman revealed last week that Idaho’s three Republican reps pay a mere $356.59 a month for federal health coverage for themselves and their spouses. They get a low-deductible plan provided by Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Democrat Walt Minnick pays quite a bit more to cover his wife and two young kids—$1,120.47.

But aside from their reasonable and comprehensive health coverage, which Minnick spokesman John Foster attributed to the large federal pool in which they swim, Idaho lawmakers have also been swimming in cash from the very parties profiting from our broken healthcare system.

Sen. Mike Crapo leads the pack with $908,241 in total health sector campaign contributions in the last two decades. Rep. Mike Simpson has taken $390,329 from health interests since 1989, which include health insurers, pharmaceutical companies, health professionals, nursing homes and hospitals. Minnick has netted $144,164 from these interests in his short year in office and Sen. Jim Risch has $94,200 in health gravy to his name.

This data all comes from the opensecrets. org Web site, a project of the Center for Responsive Politics.

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TO MEDICAID WITH YOU State to jack part-timer insurance premiums 250% NATHANIEL HOFFMAN When Kim Pierce, a 20-year part-time employee at Boise State, gets her November 13 paycheck, she expects it to be in the amount of $76. That’s $76 of take-home pay for 40 hours of work for the State of Idaho.

The reason for the imminent demise of her paycheck is a unilateral move by the Department of Administration to charge some parttime employees more for health insurance.

In Pierce’s case, since she works 20 hours a week, gets summers off, and is not a professor, judge or state legislator, her employee contributions to the state insurance plan will jump 250 percent, from $109 per month to $381.50 per month.

At least that’s what she’s been told, but the state just rolled out the new guidelines on Oct. 5, less than a month before they go into effect, so even if Pierce wanted to attempt to get on her husband’s health plan at his office—and there is no guarantee that she’d be able to join outside an open enrollment period—she has very little time to sort it out.

Department of Administration director Mike Gwartney explained the move in a recent guest opinion in the Idaho Statesman, stating that it was not fair for part-time workers to get the same benefits for the same cost as full-time workers.

In August, during his State of the University address, Boise State President Bob Kustra addressed the rising cost of insurance for part-timers, then thought to be a 40 percent increase, calling it a Faustian bargain, a deal with the devil.

“I wish just once somebody would say,

‘How’s the lab technician going to handle the 40 percent increase? How’s the custodian going to handle the 40 percent increase? Will he drop his coverage, will he simply fail to pay?’” Kustra said. “Believe me, those are the important questions we ought to be asking around this place, not how the football team’s going to be doing. I don’t know how else to put it.”

The state Legislature has not agreed with Gwartney’s insurance scheme and fully funded part-time state workers’ health coverage during the last session.

“The concept might be an appropriate one but I don’t like the way that the Governor’s Office has managed this,” said Sen. Kate Kelly, Democratic leader in the Senate.

The administration announced the changes a week after the Legislature adjourned and is implementing them before it returns, eliminating opportunities for public comment.

But as BW hits the streets today, the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee is meeting at Boise State and reviewing Gwartney’s plan.

The 233 part-time workers at Boise State affected by the new insurance tiers plan to let lawmakers know they are not happy.

“That money is not going to make a huge difference to the BSU budget but it’s going to make a huge difference to BSU employees and their families,” said Alex Neiworth of the Idaho Association of Government Employees, which represents some of the parttimers. “We’re going to ask them to stop it, to put everything on hold, stop the plan and have this thing debated in the open.”

FLU POKE Al’s to require seasonal flu shot for hospital workers NATHANIEL HOFFMAN Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center employees who refuse to get a seasonal flu shot starting this week are required to wear a mask through next April.

“We are asking them to make a conscious decision,” said hospital spokeswoman Jennifer Krajnik. “They do have the option of declining, and if they do, we’re asking them to wear a surgical mask between now and the end of the flu season.”

St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center is also asking employees to get seasonal flu shots and asking them to sign a declination if they choose not to. But St. Luke’s will not require employees to wear masks around the hospital.

“We get a pretty good response,” St. Luke’s spokesman Ken Dey said. “About

two-thirds of employees get one.”

Both hospitals will also be doling out swine flu, or H1N1, shots, but because of limited supplies, they are not requiring the vaccination and are giving it first to those who work with patients.

Both major hospitals have seen huge increases in the number of people presenting themselves at the emergency room with flu-like symptoms. At Saint Al’s, the number of potential flu patients has risen from about one a day to about 20, Krajnik said.

And at St. Luke’s, the numbers have skyrocketed. Last weekend, more than 600 people went to the emergency room complaining of flu; only 13 were admitted.

“Most of them should be staying home and taking care of themselves,” Dey said.

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BETSY Z. RUSSELL Blogging before blogging was cool RACHAEL DAIGLE

How long have you been a journalist?

Oh my gosh. I actually got hooked on journalism by a junior high journalism teacher. In ninth grade, I was the editor of the junior high paper, and I started working for my local newspaper while I was still in high school and I graduated from high school in 1979 ...

And you went on to study journalism?

Actually, the city editor at the local paper told me, “don’t major in journalism. Learn about something else so that you’ll have something to write about.” So I majored in political science and then I worked as a reporter for two years. Then I went back to graduate school and got a masters in journalism.

Did you invent blogging for journalists?

That was really forward thinking for ’04.

Actually, I have a colleague who went ahead of me. Rich Roesler, who until this year was our Olympia reporter, started his blog first. It was called Eye on Olympia, one year before mine, and then they asked me to do the same thing and mine ended up really taking off more so than it did in Washington. I think just because of the relationship

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that people in Idaho have with their legislature, that people feel like they can make an impact on their legislature, they’re more interested in the intricacies and the ins and outs of what’s going on down there than maybe they are in a bigger state.

As we start to move from blogging into microblogging and Twittering, do you have any reservations about moving in that direction?

I don’t have a problem with it. I’ve been doing Twitter and I don’t know that I’ve been taking full advantage of it. I pretty much use it as a way to just notify people that I have a new item on my blog and it’s a really quick and easy and cool way to do that. I haven’t done much with Facebook. I tend to just read it and find out what all my friends are doing.

What about the changes in print itself, with newsrooms shrinking and fewer reporters? Obviously, you’ve dealt with that at the Spokesman Review.

It’s just really awful. Our staff has shrunk so much and everybody is just scrambling.

I’ve been through lots of ups and downs in the newspaper business over the years, but this is way worse than anything we’ve ever seen, and I just never anticipated when I made this my life’s work that it would come to this at the same time. There have been interesting and positive changes in recent years and the stuff we’re doing online I think is part of that. There are new ways that we’re reporting, things are very immediate and can be really fun, but we’re also still doing what we’ve always done, which is the in-depth reporting and the big stories that come out in the Sunday paper, and it gets harder and harder to build in the time to work on those.

JER EM Y LANNINGHAM

For news junkies, particularly those with an interest in state politics, there is only one Betsy Russell—the Spokesman Review Boise Bureau chief who is the voice of the blog Eye on Boise. The president of the Idaho Press Club, cofounder and current president of Idahoans for Openness in Government, Russell started blogging in 2004, long before many journalists had started working in the virtual world. Russell talked to BW about blogging, the industry and her advice for aspiring journalists.

Is there one particular story you want to write before your career is over?

Yeah, well, not a particular story, but I would like to top a series I did in 1998 because I think that’s the best thing I’ve done. It was a computer-assisted investigative project on why Idaho had so many inmates in its prisons. I think about how much time I put into that series and how much space it took up in the paper, and it’s hard to imagine either of those being available today but I’d like to be able to do stuff like that again at some point.

How do you like being on the other end of an interview?

It’s OK. I don’t mind it. I’ve done it a lot in recent years, particularly when I was covering the Joseph Duncan trial in federal court, I found myself ... well, my newspaper had started a radio station around that time so I was constantly doing interviews where I was being interviewed by radio people.

Any advice to young journalists?

I think that upcoming journalists need to have a really broad range of skills, and you can’t just go into it to be a newspaper reporter anymore, that’s clear. That’s not a promising field right now, but if you can be a journalist on many different platforms and find lots of ways to tell stories, there’s still a huge hunger out there for stories. We know that. Everybody likes to hear a story.

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NEWS/TRUE CRIME ATTEMPTED WII CAPER LANDS THREE BEHIND BARS “To truly understand how Wii revolutionizes gaming, you have to try it yourself. Quite simply, Wii is for everyone ...”

So say the folks at Nintendo, the creators of the gaming system that has swept the world.

Three Boiseans took that marketing pitch a little too literally during a visit to a major retail outlet near Cole Road and I-84 on Oct. 8.

That’s when store employees called the Boise Police Department’s Organized Retail Crime Unit to report what appeared to be a burglar y in progress.

Witnesses told officers the suspects—a 26-year-old Boise man, a 27-year-old Boise man and a 50-year-old Boise woman—were observed trying to conceal several of the $200 game consoles in an empty baby stroller.

But, according to witnesses, the trio got nervous. They aborted the heist, emptying the stroller before leaving the store one by one.

By then, it was too late. Cops followed the two male suspects as they left the area on foot. Their moll, at the wheel of their getaway car, picked them up about a half-mile away.

And the cops swooped in for the arrests, though nothing had actually left the store. The charges: attempted burglary, a felony.

IGNORED ADVICE LEADS TO FELONY DUI ARREST A guardian angel was watching over a 60-year-old Boise woman on a recent Friday.

We say that because, as the woman stumbled to her car in a parking lot on the 10000 block of West Ustick on Oct. 2, she was spotted by Boise Police officers.

Here’s where the guardian angel’s intervention becomes apparent. Our woman was spot-

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ted by cops with hearts. Instead of arresting her on the spot for public intoxication, the kind officers let her go with a warning not to drive her car in that condition.

But the woman was evidently too drunk to notice her guardian angel at work. Instead of calling a cab, she blew off the cops’ advice, and tried to drive out of the parking lot. Which the BPD officers couldn’t allow.

After being arrested and transported to the county jail, the woman blew a .23—almost three times the legal limit of .08. And a quick records search turned up a prior DUI conviction, elevating the current charge to a felony.

BANDITS BUST EAST BOISE MARIJUANA OPERATION The Boise Police Special Operations Unit pierced the suburban quiet of Columbia Village on Thursday, Oct. 8, as officers stormed into a house on the 5600 block of Jonquil Street. Their mission: bust a suspected pottrafficking ring.

The big guns were called in on the bust— usually handled by the city’s BANDIT Task Force—because detectives had info that the suspects had weapons in the house.

Turns out, they also had nearly a pound of pot, more than 25 marijuana plants and about $3,500 in cash, according to police reports.

Evidence of their foray into the drug market netted the two suspects—a 21-year-old male and a 24-year-old male—felony possession with intent to deliver charges. The duo’s younger member also got slapped with a manufacturing—er, growing—marijuana charge, also a felony. What’s more, under draconian state drug laws, the pair may also qualify for mandatory minimum terms of one year in the lockup, plus a $5,000 fine.

—Jay Vail

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ifteen years ago, Glenn Beck was a small-market DJ with a drinking problem, no friends and bleak professional prospects. Today, he’s a Fox News superstar averaging 2.4 million viewers (in a mediocre time slot, no less), an inexorably successful author (his new book, Arguing with Idiots, is the fourth Beck opus to top The New York Times bestseller list), and the leader of a popular movement that condemns government in general and President Barack Obama in particular. What’s more, he’s gotten under the skin of politicians from both parties. Just recently, the White House took vigorous issue with Beck’s criticisms of senior Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina ripped Beck’s cynicism and teary tendencies in an interview with The Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg.

Notwithstanding Beck’s reckless asininity—e.g., his infamous claim that Obama has a “deep-seated hatred for white people”—that’s an impressive career arc. And the media, naturally, have been striving to grasp the Beck phenomenon: witness Time magazine’s credulous Sept.

28 cover story, a sharp column by The New York Times’ Frank Rich, an earlier Times profile, and sundry other treatments ranging from the academic (Columbia Journalism Review) to the middlebrow (CBS’s Katie Couric).

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Beck’s would-be interpreters occasionally note that he’s a Mormon. He joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) as an adult, in 1999, with his wife and children. But in contrast with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whose Mormonism was discussed in great detail during his failed 2008 presidential bid, the ramifications of Beck’s faith have gone largely unexplored. That’s unfortunate—because a case can be made that Beck is to Mormonism what Father Charles Coughlin was to Catholicism in the 1930s, when the “radio priest” peddled nasty, faith-based opposition to another ambitious Democratic president.

Given the ease with which this discussion could degenerate into Mormon-bashing, this reticence may be understandable. To fully get Beck, though, it’s necessary to understand just how many of his beliefs have specifically Mormon roots, or are conveyed in uniquely Mormon ways—from his embrace of former Mormon leader Ezra Taft Benson’s insatiable anti-communism to his Mormonbred suspicion that the government is the agent of Satan.

For some of Beck’s co-religionists, these links are obvious.

Back in March, for example, writing at the Mormonhistory blog the Juvenile Instructor, Christopher Jones—a doctoral student in history at William & Mary—noted

that Beck seemed to be plumbing the disturbing depths of Mormon millenarianism, and marveled at the press’s seeming disinterest.

Once the link between Beck’s faith and politics gets made, intriguing questions emerge. Without his unsettling brand of Mormonism, would Glenn Beck still be Glenn Beck?

Should members of the LDS Church be cheering or lamenting Beck’s protracted moment in the spotlight? Could Beck’s forays into stealth Mormon sermonizing make his conservative evangelical fans rethink their loyalty? And if Beck’s religiosity finally becomes a story, what might that mean for the lingering presidential hopes of 2012 Republican contender Mitt Romney? To be fair, the media haven’t totally ignored the significance of Beck’s Mormonism. In September, Salon published several stories by Alexander Zaitchik, author of a forthcoming Beck biography, on Beck’s improbable march to conservative superstardom.

One—“Meet the Man Who Changed Glenn Beck’s Life”— focused on Beck’s deep ties to Cleon Skousen, an eccentric, prolific Mormon thinker who died in 2006. These days,

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Skousen is best known as the author of The Five Thousand Year Leap, a book that dubs the U.S. Constitution a “miracle” and casts the Founders as deeply Christian men. Beck has lavishly praised The Five Thousand Year Leap on air, and even wrote the foreword for a new edition of the book; as a result, this formerly obscure text is now a bestseller in its own right.

But Skousen wasn’t just a cheerleader for Christianity. He was also a zealous purveyor of conspiracy theories, obsessed with communism in his earlier years and later warning of a vast mega-conspiracy in which communists and capitalists joined forces to seek total world domination.

Oddly, Skousen’s mega-conspiracy clarion call—a 1970 volume titled The Naked Capitalist—was actually a book-length pseudo-review of Tragedy and Hope, a sprawling tome by the Mormon historian Carroll Quigley (who taught future president Bill Clinton at Georgetown). Stranger still, Quigley insisted that Skousen had fundamentally misinterpreted his work. “Skousen is apparently a political agitator. I am an historian,” Quigley complained in Dialogue, a Mormon intellectual journal, in 1971. “I never anywhere said that financial capitalism or any of its subsidiaries sought to ‘support communism.’ ” Nonetheless, The Naked Capitalist gained a wide readership at Brigham Young University, where Skousen was a professor of religion—and where he apparently taught one Willard Mitt Romney. (One internecine Mormon squabble, one former president, and one serious presidential contender ... what are the odds?)

Of course, just because Beck’s politics are Skousenian doesn’t necessarily mean they’re deeply Mormon. No intellectual tradition can be reduced to one individual—and in 1979, the LDS Church formally distanced itself from the Freemen Institute, which Skousen founded in 1971 to promulgate his half-baked ideas. (At the time, the LDS Church was led

by Spencer Kimball, known for receiving the revelation that finally opened the Mormon priesthood to black men. For his part, Skousen accused critics of this notorious racial ban of using communist tactics.)

But Skousen is hardly Beck’s only major Mormon influence. His understanding of present-day realities also reflects the paranoid anti-communism of Ezra Taft Benson, who served as secretary of agriculture in the Eisenhower administration and later, from 1985 to 1994, as president of the LDS Church. (According to Mormon doctrine, each church president, at the time of his service, functions as a living prophet.)

Beck made his troubling fondness for Benson explicit just before the 2008 presidential election, while riffing on the comments of a clueless Obama supporter who was caught on tape saying that Obama’s election would mean no more gas or mortgage payments.

On his Oct. 31, 2008, radio show, Beck cited these absurd remarks as evidence that a dire prediction made by Benson in 1966, during a speech at BYU, could soon come to pass.

Introducing Benson only as Eisenhower’s secretary of agriculture, and omitting any mention of his subsequent role leading the LDS Church, Beck noted that his listeners were likely the same age as Benson’s grandchildren. Then came Benson’s voice,

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describing an ominous conversation he once had with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev: “As we talked face to face, [Khrushchev] indicated that my grandchildren would live under communism. After assuring him that I expected to do all in my power to assure that his and all other grandchildren will live under freedom, he arrogantly declared in substance, ‘You Americans are so gullible!

No, you won’t accept communism outright.

But we’ll keep feeding you small doses of socialism, until you finally wake up and find that you already have communism. We won’t have to fight you. We’ll so weaken your economy until you fall like overripe fruit into our hands!’”

CHURCH AND STATE Benson and Skousen were products of the Cold War’s heyday, in which Americans of all religious stripes were spooked by real and imagined manifestations of the Red Menace. But they also emerged from the distinct culture of Mormonism—which was shaped in its earliest days by violent conflict with the U.S. government, and which still brings its own unique understanding to bear on key political concepts and institutions.

Take the U.S. Constitution. As Michelle Goldberg explained in Kingdom Coming (Norton), Christian nationalists of every denomination believe that the Constitution is a fundamentally Christian document— and that the separation of church and state, as currently understood, represents a radical departure from the Founders’ ideals.

But Mormonism goes a step further.

According to the Mormon scriptures, the Constitution isn’t merely a document written by deeply Christian men. It is, instead, the indirect handiwork of God himself.

(See, for example, Doctrine and Covenants 101:80, in which God explains: “[F]or this purpose”—i.e., the preservation of moral agency—“have I established the Constitution of this land, by the hands of wise men whom I raised up unto this very purpose.”)

In addition, there’s a widely known concept in Mormonism—not contained in the Mormon scriptures, but attributed to Mormonism’s founder, Joseph Smith, and still influential among some believers—that effectively places believers on perpetual Red Alert for the Constitution’s possible demise.

According to this tenet, commonly known as the “White Horse Prophecy,” there will come a time when the Constitution is in great jeopardy—when it will “hang by a thread,” in Smith’s purported words—at which point the Mormon people will come to its rescue.

Apparently, Beck believes that this terrifying crisis is now at hand (or he just thinks LDS apocalypticism makes great radio). On Election Day in 2008, Beck interviewed Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, who’s also Mormon, on his radio program: BECK: Senator, do you believe—I mean, when I heard Barack Obama talk about the Constitution and I thought, we are at the point or we are very near the point where our Constitution is hanging by a thread.

HATCH: You got that right ...

BECK: We are so close to losing our Constitution. We are so close to losing what we have, and people aren’t thinking. The next generation, our children will look to us and say, “You sold my freedom for what?”

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HATCH: Well, let me tell you something.

I believe the Constitution is hanging by a thread.

More recently, Beck used his radio show to propound the Mormon conception of Satan—though many in his audience may not have noticed. On May 5, waxing indignant about government-sponsored social services—as opposed to freely chosen acts of charity—Beck asked, “Did Jesus say when a man asks for your shirt, you give the government your coat also, and have the government give that coat to the man?

No! The government is a middleman ... The government is the Devil.”

That’s a bizarre statement—but it jibes with a passage in the Pearl of Great Price, one of the LDS Church’s canonical scriptures, in which God explains that Satan was cast down after he “rebelled against me, and sought to destroy the agency of man ...”

God’s conflict with the Devil, in other words, originated with the latter’s attempts to deprive humans of free moral agency.

Hence, Beck’s overheated assessment of a hypothetical, government-sponsored clothing giveaway. As Jones, the aforementioned Mormon historian and blogger, immediately noted, Beck’s strange claim was actually a “variation on a standard Sunday School theme.”

ROMNEY’S APOCALYPSE? So is Beck’s retro Mormonism responsible for his particular brand of politics?

Not everyone thinks so. “Anybody that’s going back to the John Birch era is going to discover Ezra Taft Benson,” Jan Shipps, an emeritus professor at Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and eminent non-Mormon scholar of Mormonism, said. “To say he’s going in that direction because he became a Mormon is pushing it a little far.”

The prolific historian D. Michael Quinn, who grew up in the LDS Church, makes a similar point. Quinn—who was trained at Yale, and has taught there and at BYU— was excommunicated by the LDS Church in 1993 after pursuing several incendiary topics in Mormon history. He suspects that Beck’s conservatism led him to embrace the LDS Church, rather than the other way around. “The combination of Skousen and Benson would have been very attractive to him,” says Quinn. “I think he’s now sharing with America what originally attracted him to Mormonism.”

Even if Shipps and Quinn are right, though, that doesn’t mean that Beck’s faith is insignificant. After all, thanks to Beck’s chosen LDS influences, he’s currently interpreting the first years of the 21st century via a melodramatic, anxiety-soaked worldview that was established 50 years ago—and which, in turn, was itself grounded in Mormon scripture and the LDS Church’s 19th-century travails. Given this intellectual lineage, is it any wonder that Beck and his fans tend to regard fundamentally political problems—health-care reform, say—as apocalyptic battles between good and evil?

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independent, liberal-leaning journal Sunstone; he also writes for the Mormon blog Times and Seasons. In a best-case scenario, Swensen says, Beck’s ascendance could foster discussion of the notion—repeatedly endorsed by the LDS Church hierarchy— that Mormonism doesn’t require allegiance to any political party, even though most Mormons tend to vote Republican.

That said, Swensen worries that Beck could help throw the LDS Church into a sort of ideological time warp. “Mormons tend to be one or two generations behind the broader culture, which is frustrating—a church that espouses prophetic inspiration should be the headlights on issues affecting the oppressed and the downtrodden, not the taillights,” he argues. “On civil rights, we were about 30 years too late. We’re fighting gay marriage right now, but I think you’re going to see the broader culture adopt it— and about 30 years later, we’ll find some way to make it work.”

That’s his hope, anyway. But, Swensen adds, “With Beck tapping into and exploiting mid-20th-century fears of anti-communism and anti-fascism, we might see a resurgence in that culture within Mormonism—and another generation of LDS leaders like Ezra Taft Benson.”

Mitt Romney’s politics are radically different than Swensen’s—but as the former governor girds for another run at the White House, he should probably be concerned, too.

During the 2008 campaign, Romney wooed Christian conservatives by arguing that the doctrinal particulars of his faith weren’t important. What mattered instead, Romney claimed, was that he had faith— that he wasn’t a godless secularist. “While differences in theology exist between the churches in America,” Romney said in his December 2007 speech on faith, “we share a common creed of moral convictions. And where the affairs of our nation are concerned, it’s usually a sound rule to focus on the latter.”

But as Beck’s example shows, shared moral conviction can mask radically different ideas about important subjects. If the press starts examining Beck’s Mormon influences in detail, they just might follow suit with Romney.

Back in 2007, after Romney cited Skousen during a radio interview, the National Review’s Mark Hemingway—himself a former Mormon—struck a deeply skeptical note in a piece titled “Romney’s Radical Roots.” Skousen’s anti-communism, Hemingway wrote, was “so irrational in its paranoia that it would have made Whittaker Chambers blush ... For better and for worse, Romney’s familiarity with Cleon Skousen does convincingly demonstrate that Mitt Romney is not far removed and indeed well-acquainted with a radical and firebrand conservatism—even if it is of the variety he might want to keep chained to a radiator in the attic.”

That’s precisely the sort of talk that Romney’s speech on faith was supposed to quash. Instead, thanks to the converted zealotry of Glenn Beck, the conversation might just be getting started.

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Pass off or pick up pumpkins at this North End pumpkin party.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY OCT. 16-18

Tom Hook’s by the book jazz look.

WEDNESDAYSUNDAY OCT. 14-18 noise SUN VALLEY JAZZ FEST Sun Valley is all about bein’ smooth this October.

The Sun Valley Jazz Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversar y in style, busting out a whole lot of soul. The festival promises grooves from artists including Titans Hot Seven, Blue Renditions, The Midiri Brothers, Bill Allred’s Classic Jazz Band, Louis Ford and his New Orleans Jazz Flairs, Claudette Stone, Tom Rigney and Flambeau, plus a few surprise guests.

For the rhythmically inept, hit the free dance lessons to ensure you get your swing on the right way.

During those rare moments when you’re not snapping your fingers to the music, be sure to check out the door prizes, raffles and silent and live auctions. Tilt your fedora and help Sun Valley usher in its 20th year of jazz, Daddy-o.

Wednesday-Saturday, Oct. 14-18, 9:30 a.m.-11 p.m., Sunday, Oct 19, 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m. $40-$50 day pass, $115 all events badge, Sun Valley, 1-877-478-5277, directors@sunvalleyjazz.com.

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recreation GOOD GOURD Benjamins, assless-chaps and Happy Trails.

THURSDAY OCT. 15 poetry CABIN GOES COWBOY Slap on that oversized belt buckle, throw on that cowboy hat and lasso up some companions for The Cabin’s 2009 celebration of words. For this year’s fundraiser, Ex Libris Happy Trails, The Cabin will set up camp at the new Boise State Stueckle Sky Center. Perched high above the famous blue turf, the evening promises all sorts of Western-themed revelry—from a campfire dinner with a table-top candle campfire centerpiece to a beautiful Western sunset. Cowboy poet Sam Mattise will be on hand to share his hearty blend of Western music and cowboy poetry, as well as perform the auctioneering duties for the live auction. Though tickets are hold-up-a-bank steep at $100 a pop, The Cabin is still shooting for a down-to-earth feel, with the real campfire and even s’mores. To fully round out the complete Western theme, The Cabin is encouraging all diners to go dressed in cowpoke attire—chaps optional.

6 p.m., $100, $800 for a table, Stueckle Sky Center, 1910 University Dr., 208-331-8000, info@thecabinidaho.org.

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back in the Boise spotlight with a one-night comedy engagement, “Kidding Around,” at the Linen Building. At 13 years old, Hattabaugh is already a comedy veteran.

Performing since he was but a wee lad, he has shown his skills in venues from Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. However, Hattabaugh is better known here in

If you’re up to your gourd in pumpkin pies, toasted seeds and jagged-toothed Jack-o-lanterns, this weekend offers an opportunity for pumpkin reprieve. Bring down your superfluous squash, spare straw bales and extraneous corn stalks to the old Hillside Nursery on Hill Road.

Organized by organic lawncare company Sustainable Growth Boise, the Pumpkin Sale and Harvest Party will benefit the Abundance Project—a local nonprofit organization that collects excess garden produce and donates it to refugee families and other people in need.

“Most of the pumpkins that we’re getting are donated from people in the community who have more than they need, which is sort of the purpose of the Abundance Project,” said Lindsey Lockwood, landscape adviser for Sustainable Growth Boise. “We’re using those donated pumpkins to sell, and then those proceeds from that sale will go to the organization, the Abundance Project.”

You can get your gargantuan gourds Friday, Oct. 16, through Sunday, Oct. 18, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. On Sunday afternoon from 3-7 p.m., they’re ratcheting it up a notch with a harvest party, featuring hot cider, local foods from Jenny’s Lunch Line and Morning Owl Farms, and live music by tireless songsmith Thomas Paul.

11 a.m.-7 p.m. Harvest Party Sunday, Oct. 18, 3-7 p.m. FREE, old Hillside Nursery, 2350 Hill Road. For more information or to donate pumpkins, contact Sustainable Growth Boise at 208-389-4769.

Boise for his trouble with the law. The Idaho State Police banned Hattabaugh from the nightclub circuit in 2007 due to his age. Talk about a buzz-kill. Undeterred, Hattabaugh kept performing, and October marks his return to the nightclub scene. He will be joined by Boise hip-hop act Eleven, as well as bands from the Boise Rock School.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the Boise Nationals Soccer Club and the Boise Rock School. So grab the family, bring your friends and raise your brews to this pintsize performer.

5:30 p.m., 21 and up $8, 12-20 $5, 11 and younger $3, Linen Building, 1402 W Grove St., 208-385-0111, info@thelinenbuilding.com

SATURDAY OCT. 17 recreation BBP 2YA After two years of fixing flats, promoting bicycle usage and donating twowheeled transportation to the community, Boise Bicycle Project is ready to celebrate.

What started out as a tiny operation working out of a 15-square-foot storage room has blossomed into one of Boise’s premier bike meccas. To thank all the volunteers who made such a feat possible, BBP, voted Boise’s Best nonprofit in 2009, will hold its two-year anniver-

sary party at Bittercreek Ale House this weekend.

Over the course of the last two action-packed years, more than 520 bicycles have been donated to people in need, while countless others have been given new life.

More than 850 volunteers have been trained in bike maintenance and upkeep, and that number is continually growing. BBP believes Boise has the potential to become the bicycle capital of the country, and by increasing overall bike awareness and accessibility, they’re one step closer to that goal.

6-9 p.m., FREE, Bittercreek Ale House, 246 N. Eighth St., 208-4296520, boisebicycleproject@ gmail.com.

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TMP dancers don their finest hiking gear as they blaze a path down “The Sun Road.”

SATURDAY OCT. 17 stage TMP SECOND SEASON PREMIERE The days prior to a sophomore release for any artist whose debut was a smash must be fraught with anticipation and apprehension. Expectations are that the follow-up will not only build upon, but improve upon the first. Both critics and fans of Trey McIntyre Project have been exhaling as the quality of the company’s second-season premieres have exceeded those expectations.

but a compass or map—is normally done with the sun in the sky, this event will take place under the cloak of darkness. Participants will use flashlights or headlamps to light the way, playing a game of vampire-infused tag.

The course will be open to both beginner and intermediate orienteerers, so bring a team, bring a friend, but leave the stakes at home.

Changing into a bat at anytime is strictly prohibited.

7-9 p.m., FREE, Simplot Sport Complex East, 2437 E. Lake Forest Drive. For more information, contact Leone at 208-344-6604, ctoc-boise.org.

SATURDAY OCT. 17 recreation VAMPIRE-O Attention all bloodsuckers and outdoor enthusiasts— finally there’s an event you can both enjoy. The City of Trees Orienteering Club will present its first-ever Vampire-O, a nighttime orienteering adventure with a supernatural twist. Though orienteering—a sport in which competitors race through checkpoints in an unknown area with nothing

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The New York Times quipped, “The great Boise experiment appears to be a smashing success”; the San Francisco Bay Guardian wrote, “McIntyre has done well as a freelancer of fast-paced, musical, and accessible ballet choreography”; and in regard to a performance of “The Sun Road,” Dance LA penned, “a moment of alchemy reveals the tremendous possibilities of this experiment.”

Dancer Jason Hartley—who is also the company’s newly appointed assistant to the artistic director (think ballet master)—said the move from season one to season two was subtle.

“I think we have a better idea of what to expect. We have a lot more confidence now that we have that experience under our belt,” Hartley said.

TMP’s second season promises a return to favorite programs from farther back in McIntyre’s repertoire along with some brand new choreography.

“I enjoy revisiting works of Trey’s I’ve done in the past,” Hartley said. “‘Golden Slumber,’ the minute-and-a-half solo I do in the [Beatles] ‘Day in the Life’ is like a best friend of mine,” Hartley said. “I’ll pull that out of my pocket and dance that whenever I can.”

TMP returns to the Morrison Center with the Boise premieres of “The Sun Road” and “Shape” and the return of McIntyre’s 1997 “Like a Samba,” with music by Astrud Gilberto.

8 p.m., $10-$50, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

SUNDAY OCT. 18 culture CHABAD, Y’KNOW IT The Chabad Lubavitch of Idaho, a growing or thodox Jewish community in Boise, are hosting their inaugural auction with Sephardic (eastern) Jewish food, live music and Jewish comedy from Wayne Cotter. The Chabad are raising money for their Jewish Center of Idaho, which provides Jewish social, cultural, humanitarian, spiritual

Scottevest/SeV parkas, windbreakers, T-shirts, hats, hoodies and fleece jackets were created with the traveling tech geek in mind. But can someone please explain why the Tropical Jacket/Vest model is in the middle of a sand dune and what the hell the guy is wearing on his feet? SeV apparel is for the man or woman who wants to say, “Hello, world. I have so many high-tech gadgets, some disposable income and I like to cultivate the safari guide look.”

That is in no way suggesting these aren’t some of the niftiest items on the market, at least judging by the Web site, and even weekend warriors will find them functional (if not fashionable).

Each piece of Scottevest outerwear is created with pockets that have such specific purposes, you’ll feel a little guilty putting your iPod in the Water Hydration It might not look like much from System pouch. Pens, the outside, but inside this jacket memory cards, earbuds, has 52 pockets. Yup 52. eyeglasses, keys and, scottevest.com of course, electronics each have their own spot. The clothing items, made in a variety of fabrics, have anywhere from three to 52 pockets, all placed so that the weight of your gadgets is evenly dispersed.

And although not all of the items are equipped with them yet, the fifth generation of SeV wear will have pockets with Clear Touch Fabric, which will allow you to use your iPhone without removing it from your sleeve.

SeV apparel isn’t cheap, and a jacket can run upward of $250. But can you really put a price on this kind of cool?

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For double chai (that’s a throaty “ch,” or 36 bucks, for the gentiles) you can sample Mediterranean dips and desser ts and bid on golf packages, kosher cookbooks, iPods, Dead Sea beauty products and an autographed Broncos football, among of other items.

6-9:30 p.m., $36, Powerhouse Event Center, 621 S. 17th St., 208-8539200. Auction discounts for advance registration at jewishidaho.com/auction.

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EX LIBRIS “HAPPY TRAILS”— See Picks on Page 16. 6 p.m., $100, or $800 for a table.

Stueckle Sky Center, Boise State football stadium, Boise.

Festivals & Events BENEFIT FOR KIRK “WHALER” HEATON—On July 14, Kirk “Whaler” Heaton was cycling when he was hit by an uninsured driver. The Magnetics, Beautician, Hillfolk Noir and MC Will Bingo will perform a benefit show for Heaton. Raffle items include a LifeFlight membership, three nights in a vacation home on the Oregon coast and more.

You don’t have to be present to win, and you can buy raffle tickets early. Call Sue 208-9396050. 7-10 p.m. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th, 208-343-0886, www. neurolux.com.

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THE SOUND OF MUSIC—7 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 333 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-385-0021, www.kedproductions.org.

FALCON DEMONSTRATIONS— Watch a live falcon demonstration. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

Concerts

CAMP DARFUR—An interactive awareness and educational event that brings attention to the ongoing genocide in Darfur, Sudan. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Boise State Quad.

SUN VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL—See Wednesday. $40-$50 day; $115 all events. Sun Valley Pavilion, www.sunvalley.com.

VPS ALL AGES—The Vinyl Preservation Society is expanding to include the under-21 crowd. For more information, visit facebook. com/vpsidaho or myspace.com/ vpsidaho. 5-7 p.m. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, www. therecordexchange.com.

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CASA VINICOLA ZONIN WINEMAKER DINNER— See Page 31. 6 p.m. $65 per person. Bella Aquila, 775 S. Rivershore, Eagle, 208-938-1900, www.bellaaquilacatering.com.

ANNUAL FALL BOOK SALE— Sponsored by the Friends of the Library. 9 a.m.-7 p.m., FREE, 208-472-2938. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., www. gardencity.lili.org.

THE PAVILION—The Pavilion, written by Craig Wright and directed by Matthew Cameron Clark, is about a couple of sweethearts who meet again during their 20 year high school reunion.

Interacting with various characters in their past, the two realize how going away and returning home again, nothing is the same. 8 p.m., $12-$21.

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

Concerts SUN VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL—See Picks on Page 16. For a complete list of music and ticket pricing, visit www.sunvalleyjazz. com. Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley.

Kids & Teens FROGTOWN—The acclaimed children’s musical leaps into Boise to educate kids on the importance of diversity, through the medium of music. 9:30, 11:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. $5 students, $7 adults, 208-426-1034, www. frogtowncentral.com. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise.

THURSDAY OCT. 15 Festivals & Events CAMP DARFUR—See Wednesday. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. BSU Quad.

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THE PAVILION—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$21. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater.org.

WINE DINNER—Featuring a seasonal dining menu with beer and wine pairings. 6:30 p.m. $75 per person, 208-331-0199, www. lifeskitchen.org. Life’s Kitchen, 1025 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise.

PAINT YOUR OWN ART TILE OR TRIVET—Ina Stricker teaches how to transfer a design, work with art glazes and make a fired porcelain art tile. . 7-9 p.m. $25.

Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-407-3359, www. puffymondaes.com.

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COOKING CLASS WITH CHEF RANDY KING—See Food News on Page 31. 6:30-8:30 p.m. $50.

Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

REVIEW/LIT SANTANA BIOGRAPHY FOR STUDENTS (OF SANTANA) Greenwood Biographies recently published local writer and occasional BW contributor Norman Weinstein’s look at the life and career of Carlos Santana.

The biography catalog of Greenwood Publishing is an interesting one, as evidenced

by Weinstein’s contribution.

Each one is written with the student in mind, specifically those in high school, and cover important people in U.S. politics, sports, history, arts, science and pop culture: Condoleeza Rice, Tiger Woods, Mother Teresa, Jack Kerouac, Langston Hughes, Oprah Winfrey, the Dalai Lama, Nelson Mandela, JeanMichel Basquiat and more.

You can order any of the They also explore the lives of Greenwood Biographies from the not-so-important, like Miley greenwood.com.

Cyrus and Angelina Jolie.

But there’s no denying guitarist Carlos Santana’s importance in the world of popular music, as he popularized a form of Latin/jazz music not many mainstream music listeners were familiar with.

Though the Santana biography may be targeted at students, it’s not exclusive to them. Weinstein’s offering is a good primer for anyone interested in the guitarist’s life. As the back of the book reads, “it offers a comprehensive look at Santana’s transitions through a variety of musical styles beyond rock, including blues, salsa, jazz and world music.”

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CAMP DARFUR—See Wednesday. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Boise State Quad, Greenbelt, campus, Boise.

KITTY WILKINS, IDAHO’S HORSE QUEEN—Philip Homan, catalog librarian and associate professor at Idaho State University, will speak about his research on Kittie Wilkins, widely-known as “Idaho’s Horse Queen.� 7 p.m. FREE. Idaho State Historical Society Public Archives and Research Library, 2205 N. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-3356.

On Stage KIDDING AROUND LIVE AT THE LINEN—See Picks on Page 16. 5:30 p.m. $3-$8, The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111.

THE MOUSETRAP—Agatha Christie’s long running mystery about a group of strangers in a boarding house who become stranded in a

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AUCTION OF ARIAS—Featuring guest artists who star in the Opera Idaho production of Faust singing arias auctioned to highest bidder with dinner. 6 p.m.

Opera Idaho, 513 S. Eighth St., 208-345-3531, operaidaho.org.

IDAHO HUMANITIES COUNCIL PROGRAM—Marc Johnson presents “Lincoln as War Leader� on Lincoln’s approach to working with his military commanders and secretary of war, with particular attention to key events. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, www. boisepubliclibrary.com.

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AFGHANISTAN: THE FACE OF ISLAM—See Picks on Page 16.

7 p.m. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208562-4996.

snow storm. When someone from the group is killed, the only thing that is clear is that no one is who he/she appears to be. 8 p.m. $9$11 general. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, www.boiselittletheater.org.

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SOCIAL JUSTICE: AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE—Muslim law professor and Fulbright Scholar Fikret Karcic presents a series of talks at Boise State. 6:30-8 p.m.

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FALCON DEMONSTRATIONS— See Thursday. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7.

World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

LOOM WEAVING WORKSHOP— Joan Holloway teaches a two-day crash coarse in weaving on four harness looms. Friday, 5-9 p.m./ Saturday 9-11 a.m. and 1-5 p.m. $65. Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-407-3359, www.puffymondaes.com.

Art JAMES HARRIS ARTWORK ESTATE SALE—More than 200 items for sale. An eclectic mix of work including glass, paintings, Disney animation cells and prints. 5-7 p.m., stewartgallery. com. Stewart Gallery, 1110 W. Jefferson, Boise, 208-433-0593.

Literature ANNUAL FALL BOOK SALE— See Thursday. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE, 208-4722938. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, www. gardencity.lili.org.

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NICOLE CLEAVER BOOK SIGNING—Nicole Cleaver, author of Death Wish, will sign copies of her new book. You’ll have a chance to win a copy.

6-8 p.m. Hastings, 680 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-345-9428.

POETRY READING WITH BRENDA COULTAS—The author The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations and A Handmade Museum. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room, Boise State, Boise, 208-426-1000.

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8 DAYS OUT SATURDAY OCT. 17 Festivals & Events ANNIVERSARY AND WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE CELEBRATION—Rediscovered Bookshop celebrates its two-year anniversary with 20 percent off children’s books in the morning and a party for the opening of Where the While Things Are. At 10 a.m., Boise State Professor Stan Steiner, author of “P is for Potato,” will host a make-your-ownwild-thing sock puppet table, as well as doing a special reading of Where the Wild Things Are. From noon to 6 p.m. the Roving Rumpus Sale gives customers 20 percent off of whatever section the monsters are roving in. And local musician Jack Brown performs.

10 a.m.-8 p.m. The Rediscovered Bookshop, 7079 Overland Road, Boise, 208-376-4229, www. rediscoveredbookshop.com.

BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT ANNIVERSARY PARTY—See Picks on Page 16. Info at www. boisebicycleproject.org. 6-9 p.m.

Bittercreek Ale House, 246 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-1813, www.bittercreekalehouse.com.

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.

CONTRA DANCE—Featuring live music by the 2 by 2’s from La Grande, Ore., with calling by Denise and Gary. New dancer orientation at 7:30 p.m., dance from 8-11 p.m. Couples, singles and children 10 years and older are welcome. Partners are not necessary. Smoke- and alcoholfree. For info, e-mail boisecontradance@fastem.com or visit the Web site. 7:30 p.m. $3-$8.

Broadway Dance Center, 893 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-7946843.

ceramics, woodworking, baked goods, jewelry and more. 9 a.m.5 p.m. FREE admission, 511 W. Main St., Middleton.

NATIONAL COMING OUT CELEBRATION— Come out of the closet and get wild dressed in your favorite wild thing costume.

Dance and party at Lucky Dog and Firefly Lounge from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. and take it late into the night at Hijinx Comedy Club from midnight to 4 a.m. with DJs and dancing. 9 p.m. $5 donation.

Details at boisepride.org.

TREASURE VALLEY FLEA MARKET—9 a.m.-6 p.m.$2 general, $1 seniors, 208-939-6426, www.spectraproductions.com.

Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City.

On Stage THE MOUSETRAP—See Friday.

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

THE PAVILION—See Thursday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $12-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater.org.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC—6:30 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ’Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 333 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-385-0021, www. kedproductions.org.

TALES FROM THE DORKSIDE—See Friday.

For reservations, call 208-336-7383, go to www. ticketweb.com or e-mail iveseenelvis@yahoo.com. 7:15 p.m. $7-$13. Prairie Dog Playhouse, 3820 Cassia St., Boise, www.pdplayhouse.com.

TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT—See Picks on Page 16. 8 p.m. $25-$50 adult, $15-$40 senior and youth, www.treymcintyre. com. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609.

Auditions PRAIRIE DOG AUDITIONS— Prairie Dog Playhouse is auditioning performers for The X-Mas Files. Parts include two children under age 12, five men and four women. Be prepared to improvise and have fun. For info visit www.pdplayhouse.com.

1:30 p.m. Prairie Dog Playhouse, 3820 Cassia St., Boise, 208336-7383.

Concerts FACULTY ARTIST SERIES CONCERT—Lynn Berg on baritone and Del Parkinson on piano perform. For more information call 208-426-3980. 7:30 p.m. $5 general, $3 seniors, free to students of all ages and Boise State faculty and staff. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Campus Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1000.

SUN VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL—See Wednesday. $40-$50 day; $115 all events. Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley, www.sunvalley.com.

TCC CLASSICAL MUSIC CONCERT—Grammy Award-winning pianist Randy Coryell and a soprano, flautist, string quartet and musicians on violin, cello, doucaine and organ. 7 p.m. $5 donation. First Congregational United Church of Christ, 2201 Woodlawn Ave., 208-344-5731, www.boisefirstucc.org.

EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET—8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Continues through Oct. 31. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle.

GALING GALING—Boise State’s annual celebration of Filipino culture.“Motown Showcase” will be performed by favorite administrators, staff and faculty and dinner follows at 7 p.m. in the Student Union’s Jordan Ballroom. More information at boisestate.edu. 6 p.m. $10 general, $3 students with ID and free for those 5 years and under.

Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Dr. IDAHO HEALTH, BEAUTY AND FITNESS FAIR—The two-day health fair is targeted toward individuals, families and seniors with educational information, vaccinations, testing, screenings and samples.10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sun., Oct. 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

FREE admission. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho.com.

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MIDDLETON’S FALL CRAFT BAZAAR—Middleton’s Fall Craft Bazaar in the Middleton High and Middle school cafeterias has more than 30 handmade crafts, food and in-home party vendors.

Items include quilts, candles,

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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VAMPIRE-O—See Picks on Page 16. 7-9 p.m. $5, free for members. Simplot Sports Complex, 5978 S. Quamash Way, Boise.

BED AND BREAKFAST COOKING CLASS—See Food News on Page 31. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $50.

Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

Green TREE TOUR—Tree expert Tim Szofran leads a stroll around the IBG grounds. 1 p.m. members FREE, non-members regular Admission. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, www. idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Workshops & Classes FALCON DEMONSTRATIONS— See Thursday. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7.

World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

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TEEN GAMERS NIGHT—Teens 12-17 can play Xbox, Wii and PC gaming with open play and tournament play blasted onto 12foot screens. 7-10 p.m. $2. Fort Boise Community Center, 700 Robbins Road, 208-384-4486, www.cityofboise.org.

JAMES HARRIS ARTWORK ESTATE SALE—See Friday. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. stewartgallery.com.

Stewart Gallery, 1110 W. Jefferson, Boise, 208-433-0593.

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ANNUAL FALL BOOK SALE— See Friday. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE, 208-472-2938. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, www.gardencity.lili.org.

Festivals & Events IDAHO HEALTH, BEAUTY AND FITNESS FAIR—See Saturday.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE admission.

Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho.com.

Talks & Lectures OWL EDUCATION SESSION— Walk the outdoor paths to look for roosting screech owls, and enjoy the fall beauty. Auditorium presentation followed by walk up craft activity. 2 p.m. FREE. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-368-6060.

JEWISH CENTER AUCTION—See Picks on Page 16. 6-9:30 p.m. $36. Powerhouse Event Center, 621 S. 17th St., 208-433-0197, www.powerhouseevent.com.

SUNDAY MARKET—10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE admission. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, www. thelinenbuilding.com.

Sports & Fitness FRIGHT NIGHT FIGHTS—Five amateur title belts, and two pro fights, including “Ice Cold” Kyasey Uscola vs. Koffi “Lion King” Adzitso. 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. $15-$58.50, 4423232, ictickets.com. Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa.

TREASURE VALLEY FLEA MARKET—9 a.m.-6 p.m. $2 general, $1 seniors, 208-939-6426, www.spectraproductions.com.

Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City.

On Stage TALES FROM THE DORKSIDE—See Friday.

2 p.m. $7-$13. Prairie Dog Playhouse, 3820 Cassia St., Boise, 208-336-7383, www. pdplayhouse.com.

Concerts COMMANDERS JAZZ ENSEMBLE—The newly revived ensemble coming from the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West performs with special guest trumpeter Rob Walker, the new director of Jazz Studies at the College of Idaho. 7:30 p.m.

FREE. Jewett Auditorium, College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-459-3405, www.caldwellfinearts.org.

best coffeehouse! best giftshop!

SUN VALLEY JAZZ FESTIVAL—See Wednesday. $40-$50 day; $115 all events. Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley, www.sunvalley.com.

Workshops & Classes FALCON DEMONSTRATIONS— See Thursday. 3:15 p.m. $5-$7.

World Center for Birds of Prey, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208-362-8687, www. peregrinefund.org.

MONDAY OCT. 19 Concerts COMMANDERS JAZZ ENSEMBLE—The newly revived ensemble coming from the U.S. Air Force Band of the Golden West performs with special guest saxophonist Dr. Kurtis Adams, interim director of Jazz Studies at Boise State. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Dr., www.sub.boisestate.edu.

Food & Drink

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

THAI COOKING CLASS—See Food News on Page 31. 6:308:30 p.m. $50. Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

Literature POETRY SLAM DELUX— “Vampire Slam” featuring Paulie Lipman. 8 p.m. $5. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208345-6344.

TUESDAY OCT. 20 Festivals & Events MCFADDEN MARKET CO-OP FARMERS MARKET—5-8 p.m. www.mcfaddenmarketcoop.com.

Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Idaho St., Meridian.

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Talks & Lectures

KNIT TO FIT—Erica Kafka teaches how to knit a vertical stripe vest to fit anyone. 10 a.m.-noon. $35/$45. Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-4073359, www.puffymondaes.com.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK IN WINTER—Mark Menlove presents a slide show and discussion on the history of winter use in Yellowstone National Park and stewardship efforts. 7 p.m. FREE. REI, 8300 W. Emerald, Boise, 208-3221141, www.rei.com.

Talks & Lectures AAUW MEETING—Dr. Sandra Schaekel, BSU associate professor of history, speaks about Eleanor Roosevelt to commemorate the 125th anniversary of Roosevelt’s birth. 6:30 p.m. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., www.boisepubliclibrary.org.

THE GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT: FROM KYOTO TO COPENHAGEN—The 26th annual Frank Church Conference. Speakers include the president of the Wilderness Society, former congressmen, and the director of the United Nations Center in Washington, D.C. 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Student Union Jordan Ballroom, Boise State, 208-426-1000, boisestate.edu.

Ongoing HAUNTED HISTORY TOUR— Take a 75-min. trolley tour of haunted locations in Boise. No one under 13. Fridays/Saturdays, 8 p.m. $16-$18. Boise Trolley Tours, 602 Julia Davis Dr., Boise, 208-433-0849, www. boisetrolleytours.com.

HAUNTED WOODS—Put every year by the Eagle Volunteer Fire Fighters Association. Dusk until

11 p.m. $10 adults, $6 kids 5-12, www.eaglefire.org. Merrill Park, 637 E. Shore Dr., Eagle.

PENNY MAIZE—A 12-acre corn maize cut in the image of an Abraham Lincoln penny. Hours are Mon.-Thu. 4-9 p.m., Fri. 4-11 p.m., Sat. 10 a.m.-11 p.m. and closed Sunday. $7-$15. The Farmstead, 8685 S. Meridian Road, Meridian, 208-922-LOST, www.farmsteadfestival.com.

SCARECROW STROLL—Scarecrows designed and created by local businesses, artists and organizations. Garden visitors can vote for their favorite scarecrow. Daily through Oct. 31.

Garden admission during normal hours. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, www. idahobotanicalgarden.org.

REVIEW/SHOW AMY GREER

THE GROWING DEMAND FOR BUYING LOCAL—Learn why the demand is growing for local goods, how to capture this market for your business, and what organizations are doing to encourage this trend. Speakers include Tara Russell and Devi Kharel from the Momentum Group; Beth Geagan from Think Boise First; and Dave Crick from Bittercreek Ale House/Red Feather Lounge. Lunch provided

by Bittercreek. For information or to register, e-mail meta@ mtnstatesgroup.org or call 208-336-5533 ext. 230. 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. $20. US Bank Building, 101 S. Capitol, 208345-8519, unicoprop.com.

WEDNESDAY OCT. 21 On Stage THE PAVILION—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$21. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater.org.

Workshops & Classes JAPANESE GARDENS IN THE WEST—Arthur Hart, the Idaho State Historical Society director explores the beauty of Japanese gardens throughout the West, ranging from Canada all the way to California. Pre-registration required. 6:30 p.m. Member $10, non-member $15. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, www.idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Art ESPECIALLY FOR SENIORS— Senior guests receive free admission all day plus a docent-led talk regarding the current exhibit. Today is “A Survey of Gee’s Bend Quilts.”

2 p.m. FREE. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Dr., 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org.

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It’s Din Din time for Le Fleur.

FINN RIGGINS/LE FLEUR, VAC Last Friday night, local bands Finn Riggins and Le Fleur shared a CD release party to celebrate new albums Vs. Wilderness and Din Din respectively. The bill included locals A Seasonal Disguise and Vagerfly and Portland bands Jared Mees and the Grown Children and Boy Eats Drum Machine.

Performances alternated with A Seasonal Disguise on the big stage, Vagerfly set up in a small area on the floor; Jared Mees big stage; Boy Eats Drum Machine small area; Le Fleur stage; Finn Riggins floor. I arrived too late to catch A Seasonal Disguise, but the two-woman drum-and-keys Vagerfly (sounds like badgerfly), performed shirtless, their bouncy parts painted with big, googly eyeballs. Jared Mees married whimsy and energetic indie rock. And the one-man Boy Eats Drum Machine mixed electronic beats, melodies, saxophone and vocals.

A blizzard of soft, fuzzy, multi-colored balls rained down when Finn Riggins hit the first few chords of “Wake (Keep This Town Alive).” Jason Sievers, who directed the video for the single, said they were the same ones he used in the video and added, laughing, “I don’t care if I never see them again.”

Like virgins at a Rocky Horror Picture Show covered in rice, our pockets, collars and curls were still full of balls when vocalists Lisa Simpson (Finn Riggins) and Ivy Meissner (Le Fleur) joined together in a haunting call-and-response, as guitars and drums crescendoed to a frenzy until FR’s Eric Gilbert jumped up on stage, fake stabbed Le Fleur’s Mike Runsvold and then ran out the back door, leaving one piercing note on sustain and Runsvold on the floor in a mock, bloody death.

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PERSEVERANCE PAYS OFF Bill Vaun finally hits No. 1 (in Illinois) SCOTT WEAVER

JOSH UA ROP ER

in Carter’s last year in the White House. radio station just west of Chicago, Ill. There is a certain amount of dissonance in The record, with its white sleeve, pumpkin WestSideWill is an Internet radio station this DK’s Donut shop, listening to Bill Vaun orange label and earnest 1979 sans serif out of Napersville that plays only unsigned talk about pop music as Modest Mouse’s font, resists any allusion to the resurgence artists. Since last October, WestSideWill has weird, lovely, 2004 crossover album Good of new bands releasing vinyl. But music is, News For People Who Love Bad News plays featured one of Vaun’s songs every week on always has been, the battleground of youth. its broadcast. Every Thursday, they play new in the background.

Is it crazy to think that the songs Vaun has songs that have been submitted via the InterThe dissonance suggests something that written and the songs he will inevitably write net. And every Thursday, Vaun is there. might be called the Modest Mouse Question: will find an audience large enough to supIn fact, he’s there so often that he’s earned a hard-to-describe feeling that leads one to port him as a full-time songwriter? himself a WestSideWill nickname—“Mr. Naswonder if Vaun, self-proclaimed “Boise’s Best Even the Nooge, who heaped praise on ty,” the origins of which are a bit convoluted Unknown Persevering Musician” and aspiring Vaun, has his doubts. and insider-y in the frat-house sense, but it big-ticket songwriter, recognizes these songs “Bill makes music that isn’t going to fit into suffices to say that the name springs from the from an album that basically conquered the everyone’s tastes,” he said. “But he does make hour the show airs (late), the level of humor airwaves five summers back, and whether music that some people enjoy. He probably usually associated with that hour (potty) and this question is fair just because the guy is the frequency of Vaun’s won’t ‘blow up’ and have 10,000 fans overold by rock-and-roll night, but thanks to his efforts, he will grow appearances (damnstandards, but, still, he his fanbase slowly but surely.” near ubiquitous). The doesn’t mention the Listen to Bill Vaun at myspace.com/billvaun.

Nothing, of course, has been “overnight” important thing about album, which is fairly for Vaun. Thirty-two years of playing. A this nickname is that blasting in this dinky lifetime of writing. The record with it’s a symbol of just place. It’s the question the bright label peeking out of how much of a figure Vaun has become on that asks if the name Modest Mouse means its sleeve sits before him like anything to this guy who, for the last 32 years, the Thursday shows. a broken sundial.

The show’s DJ, the Nooge (a guy has been trying to break into the music busi“I’m not giving up,” who sounds exactly how you’d imagness, and who, at 48 years old, thinks he is he says. “I’m the entire ine someone who calls himself “the on the verge—and you kind of really want to band, right here. Unless I Nooge” would sound), quickly recogbelieve him—of doing just that. die, the band doesn’t go nized Vaun’s commitment to his craft.

But about this Boise’s Best Unknown Perseaway. And if somebody “It’s refreshing to see someone who vering Musician. Find anyone who can snatch tries to take my name, cares so much about what they do,” said this title from Vaun. He’s been writing music I’ll just sue ’em.” the Nooge, via e-mail. “It has gotten to a and playing in front of crowds since 1977, point where the show doesn’t feel complete when Isaac Brock was a diapered pain in the without Bill.” ass, back when the 17-year-old Vaun helped After 35 songs, Vaun form Boise’s first punk band. finally cracked West“We must have been [first],” he says over SideWill’s top 10 list. coffee, early on an August evening. “We got On Oct. 2, his song this [band] going around 1976. It was thrash, “MoneyMoneyhard, grinding, lots of distortion, very noisy MoneyMoney” but kind of consistent.” hit No.1 on the Since then, Vaun has played in different syndicated show. bands, as a solo act, has played in China, Though the toured the Dakotas—(“ ... we were playquality of Vaun’s ing Ramadas, Holiday Inns, a real lounge songs vary— sort of thing, but we were pretty successful and he’ll say as ...”)—and is now a regular in Sun Valley’s much—they are coffee shops and bars. all marked with a He plays guitar and sings. He writes songs sense of maturity. by humming melodies into a recorder while he As the Modest drives. He’s got a storage shed in Boise filled Mouse album with nothing but songs he’s written. Three builds to the decades worth. These are reasons enough not closing climax, a to give up. When your work takes on such question arises: actual, literal gravity, how do you abandon Mr. Vaun, does that part of you in a pile somewhere? maturity sell in “I’m not giving up on my dream. It doesn’t today’s music matter if I’m 50 or 60 or 70—well, it does; business?

I don’t want to die. But I want something to The question happen pretty soon. And I think it will. We’re seems to strike right on the precipice.” him unawares.

It’s hard to tell, of course, just where this A record sits in break will come from since Vaun himself front on him on the plays the actual details like pocket Jacks. table, an actual vinyl But if the break does come, it will likely be Boise’s Best Unknown Musician? Maybe not for much longer. record that he cut back thanks to the exposure Vaun receives from a WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

There Is No Enemy. There is only Zuul.

THERE IS NO ENEMY REQUIRES YOU TO DO YOUR PART The long-awaited There Is No Enemy (Warner Bros. Reprise), Built To Spill’s seventh studio album, was released on Oct. 6. Fidgeting like addicts for the last three years, fans of the Boise-based band have been jonesing for a new Built To Spill release since 2006’s You In Reverse.

Comments and reviews across the Web suggest that if you’re one of the devoted, There Is No Enemy is like Christmas in October. However, if you don’t have the chorus from “Goin’ Against Your Mind” tattooed across your forearm, this album isn’t likely to turn you into a Built To Spill fan.

Maybe that’s true.

But maybe fan isn’t the right word.

Built To Spill has always been ahead of its time and the music has always been intentional. Even so, There Is No Enemy is so damn grownup. So much so, that the album was slapped with a Parental Advisory warning, though the handful of fu**s sprinkled throughout are anything but gratuitous.

Martsch’s voice, though still rife with his signature slides up to falsetto notes, also contains rich tones throughout. The instrumentation—including horns—rocks but with a sense of restraint, a less-is-more quality.

In “Things Fall Apart,” arguably one of the loveliest, most melancholy tracks on the album, dark lyrics—“Stay out of my nightmares / stay out of my dreams. / You’re not even welcome in my memories”—seem to prevail, and yet, like a good rock song will, there’s room for interpretation. It’s as though Martsch began a canvas and then left pots of paint and clean brushes beside it for anyone who picks up the music to add his or her own color: the midnight blue of a broken heart, the pink blush of a blooming love, the gunmetal gray of regret. Whether songs like “Things Fall Apart” are heard as a lover’s lament, an apology, a warning or something altogether different, listeners will come into and leave the album feeling not like fans, but more like participants.

—Amy Atkins Hear “Things Fall Apart” and more tunes from There Is No Enemy at myspace.com/ builttospill.

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GUIDE WEDNESDAY OCT. 14

THURSDAY OCT. 15

FRIDAY OCT. 16

ACOUSTIC SHOWCASE— hosted by Brock Ross and Kelly Lynae. 9 p.m., FREE, Terrapin

CRAVING DAWN, SONIC RELIANCE, A.R.T.—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid

ANDRE NICKATINA—8 p.m., $26.50, Knitting Factory

BLAZE AND KELLY—7 p.m., FREE, Piper Pub & Grill

DANGER DEATH RAY—9 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s

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

DIGITAL LEATHER—5:30 p.m., FREE, The Record Exchange; 8 p.m., $5, Neurolux

ERIC GRAE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

LOCKSLEY, OCT. 19, THE VENUE With music in movies (Cloverfield), television shows (Cupid), commercials (AT&T, Payless Shoes) and video games (RockBand), you may have heard the Brooklyn-by-way-of-Wisconsin band Locksley even if you’ve never heard of them. Singer Jesse Laz—who looks a bit like an Oasis sib—said licensing has been good for the band, but no one seems to know what to do with Locksley’s DIY ’60s pop/rock sound.

“We’d love to find a label,” Laz said, “but no one knows how to market us.”

A residency at famed club CBGBs helped shape the band’s sound, as did supporting The Kinks’ Ray Davies as his backing musicians. Laz says they’re still in a square-peg/round-hole position, and with the January 2010 release of their new album, their place on the spectrum may be no better defined, but you’ll probably see them more. Go to the movies or turn on the television and you may hear “that band.”

—Amy Atkins With Mae, Deas Vail, My Paper Camera, 6:30 p.m., $13 adv., $15 door. The Venue, 521 Broad St., boisevenue.com.

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JIM FISHWILD—6 p.m., FREE, Highlands Hollow JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m., FREE, Lock, Stock & Barrel MOONDANCE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Sa-Wad-Dee NATHAN J MOODY & THE QUARTERTONS—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid PATRICIA FOLKNER & JOEL KASERMAN—5:30 p.m., FREE, Flatbread-Bown POLYPHONIC POMEGRANATE—9 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s SHARE THE ROAD BENEFIT FOR KIRK HEATON—Fundraiser for Heaton, who was struck by a motorist while on his bike. 8 p.m., $5 donation, Neurolux THE SOUL HONEY—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish SOUL SERENE—9 p.m., FREE, Old Chicago-Downtown

FRIM FRAM 4—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s INGRID MICHAELSON—8:30 p.m., $17.50, Knitting Factory KEVIN KIRK—7 p.m., with Sally Tibbs, FREE, Chandlers MOONDANCE—5:30 p.m., FREE, DaVinci’s PIERCED ARROWS—8 p.m., with The Universal, $5, Neurolux POCONO BILL—6 p.m., FREE, Donnie Mac’s SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m., FREE, Sweetwater’s Tropic Zone STEVE EATON—8:15 p.m., FREE, Chandlers STRIKE ANYWHERE, CRIME IN STEREO, RUINER, POLAR BEAR CLUB—6:30 p.m., $12, The Venue TERRI EBERLEIN DUO—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

AT LAST AN ATLAS—From Dublin, Ireland. 8 p.m., $3, Flying M Coffeegarage BEN BURDICK TRIO W/AMY WEBER—9 p.m., $1, Liquid CAMDEN HUGHES DUO—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill CHAD SUMMERVILL—Live solo acoustic recording. 10 p.m, FREE, Bittercreek DAVID MARR—7 p.m., FREE, Cole/Marr GAYLE CHAPMAN—7 p.m., FREE, Buzz Cafe A GUN THAT SHOOTS KNIVES, NOLLIFUR, RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW, VALU-PAK—8 p.m., $5, Visual Arts Collective INTERVISION—9 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s JIMMY BIVENS—8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m., FREE, Lock, Stock & Barrel JOHN JONES, JON HYNEMAN, MIKE SEIFRIT—8:15 p.m., FREE, Chandlers KEVIN KIRK—7 p.m., with Sally Tibbs, FREE, Chandlers Steakhouse

LOOSE CHANGE—9 p.m., FREE, Mulligans-Meridian MARIA MULDAUR’S GARDEN OF JOY JUG BAND, TERRY ROBB—8 p.m., $20 adv., $23 door, The Bouquet, mariamuldaur.com.

MIKE QUINN—6-8:30 p.m., FREE, Woodriver Cellars POLYPHONIC POMEGRANATE—8 p.m., FREE, Sockeye PSEUDO SLANG—From Fat Beats Records out of New York with B-Ka$hz, Rel, Loc and 5th Empire’s Mighty Delta One Spinning. 8 p.m., $5, The Grizzly Rose REBECCA SCOTT—8:30 p.m., FREE, Piper Pub REX AND BEVERLY—8-11 p.m., FREE, The Gamekeeper ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—It’s the 31st Hannahversary at Humpin’ Hannah’s! Doors open at 6:30 p.m., with The Fabulous Chancellors and The Rocci Johnson Band goes on at 9 p.m., No cover, drink specials all night.

SIR REALIST—midnight, FREE, Liquid SPINDLE BOMB—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s Basement TIM SWANSON—7:30 p.m., FREE, Music of the Vine VELORUTION, ALPENFLOW—9 p.m., $4, Terrapin

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SUNDAY OCT. 18

TUESDAY OCT. 20

WEDNESDAY OCT. 21

BRASSKELLAR—7 p.m., FREE, Tablerock Brewpub

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

FUEGOGO!—9:30 p.m., FREE, Terrapin

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

CHAD COOKE—11 a.m., FREE, Moon’s

GREG PERKINS, RICK CONNOLLY—6-9 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

GARY FARMER AND THE TROUBLEMAKERS—8 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

FABULOUS FLOYD STANTON—6 p.m., FREE, Cafe OleDowntown

GIRL IN A COMA—8 p.m. with Black Gold, $8 adv., $10 door,

JEREMIAH JAMES GANG— 9:30 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s

GIZZARD STONE—8 p.m., FREE, Liquid

JIM FISHWILD—6 p.m., FREE, Highlands Hollow

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

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

JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m., FREE, Lock, Stock & Barrel

FRAMING HANLEY, VEER UNION, TRANSMIT NOW, JANUS—8 p.m., $10, Neurolux

KEN HARRIS—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

DEARLING PHYSIQUE, SPEED BOAT—8 p.m., $5, VaC ERIC GRAE—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill HELLO LONELINESS, HILLFOLK NOIR—9 p.m., $4, Terrapin

HIT THE LIGHTS, THERE FOR TOMORROW, FIREWORKS, SPARKS THE RESCUE, THIS TIME NEXT YEAR—6 p.m., $12, The Venue

The Republic

REX AND BEVERLY—8 p.m., FREE, The Gamekeeper

JIM LEWIS—11 a.m., FREE, Focaccia’s

RICHARD SOLIZ—7:30 p.m., FREE, Music of the Vine

JOHNNY SHOES—10 a.m., FREE, The Linen Building

ROBIN SCOTT—7 p.m., FREE, Orphan Annie’s

LANDON MAUGHAN—11 a.m., FREE, Moon’s

JIMMY BIVENS BAND—8 p.m., FREE, O’Michael’s

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m., Hannah’s House Party with DJ Naomi Sioux, $5 after 10 p.m., Hannah’s

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

KEVIN KIRK—7 p.m., with Sally Tibbs, FREE, Chandlers

THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m., $5, The Buffalo Club

MIXED THEORY TOUR DJ SHOW—9 p.m. with DJ Revolve, DJ Flow and DJ Noah Hyde, $3, Neurolux

SHON SANDERS—8:30 p.m., FREE, Piper

IAN MCFERON BAND—A blend of folk, rock, alternative-country and blues from Seattle. 8:45 p.m., FREE, Pengilly’s INTERVISION— 9 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s

POCONO BILL—8 p.m., FREE, Groove Coffee THE REPUBLIC, WINTERGREEN—From Seattle and L.A. 8 p.m., $2, Flying M Coffeegarage

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SOUL SERENE—9 p.m., $1, Liquid SPINDLE BOMB—9 p.m., FREE, Grainey’s Basement YOUTH PIANIST SHOWCASE— noon-3 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

POCONO BILL—6 p.m., FREE, Sun Ray Cafe I AN ARN O LD / EBTM . CO M

NUDE OIL—9 p.m., FREE, The Plank

SIR REALIST—midnight, FREE, Liquid

OPEN MIC—4 p.m., FREE, Terrapin

Framing Henley

MONDAY OCT. 19

JUSTIN NIELSEN BAND—6:30 p.m., FREE, Chandlers KEN HARRIS—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill MAE, LOCKSLEY, DEAS VAIL, MY PAPER CAMERA—6:30 p.m., $13 adv., $15 door, The Venue. See Listen Here Page 24.

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

LARRY CONKLIN—11 a.m., FREE, Moon’s LEE PENNSKY—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish MICHAEL RAY COX—8 p.m., FREE, O’Michael’s OPEN MIC WITH DAN COSTELLO—9 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s VELORUTION—8 p.m., FREE, Sockeye

OPEN MIC NIGHT—7-9 p.m., FREE, Library Coffeehouse

KEVIN KIRK—7 p.m., FREE, Chandlers NATHAN J MOODY & THE QUARTERTONS—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m., FREE, Hannah’s SOLE AND THE SKYRIDER BAND, ASTRONAUTALIS AND FURIOUS STYLZ—8 p.m., $10, Neurolux THE SOUL HONEY—8 p.m., FREE, Bad Irish SOUL SERENE—9 p.m., FREE, Tom Grainey’s TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m., FREE, Berryhill

PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m., FREE, Liquid

Hit the Lights

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

V E N U E S Don’t know a venue? Visit www.boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map.

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NEWS/ARTS ARTS/VISUAL STEWART GALLERY

NANO WRIMO (IT’S NOT AN ORKAN GREETING) For those of you who believe you have the next Great American Novel inside, or have a hate-spot for hokey acronyms, this event might make you want to bang your head repeatedly on your IKEA computer desk: November is NaNoWriMo or National Novel Writing Month.

The challenge: Write a 175-page or 50,000-word novel that you begin on Nov. 1 and end at midnight on Nov. 30. The goal: quantity not quality. Participants are encouraged to simply write. And write. And write.

The NaNoWriMo people have a thorough Web site to guide you through the process.

It’s easy to sign up, create a profile, keep track of your word count and even get sponsors, making it a kind of Write-A-Thon. And the list of FAQs shows they’ve predicted any questions you may have, even if they pop in your head at 4 a.m. on a Sunday morning when you’re 37,654 words in and realize you forgot to ask if you can scramble your novel before sending it in to avoid some hack(er) getting ahold of your work.

Once you sign up, it’s also easy to get in touch with other nut jobs, er, WriMo-ers for support, both electronically and in person.

Writers can come together to talk about obstacles and successes, all the while gaining a sense of camaraderie. Treasure Valley transcribers will gather at A Novel Adventure on Tuesdays from 10 a.m.-noon and at Rediscovered Bookshop on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m. for the adults and Sundays from 1-2:30 p.m. for the kids. For more information on local gatherings, you can e-mail Megan Justice, the Boise liaison at megan.a.justice@gmail.com.

Again, NaNoWriMo isn’t about writing a piece of prose that critics will compare to Hemingway. The point is, again, to simply write. And to win. Believe it or not, no one actually reads any of the entries. Word counts are verified by computer. Like in a grade-school sack race, everyone who finishes is a winner. In 2008, more than 119,000 writers participated and more than 21,000 won.

It may sound like an insurmountable task, but it’s not. You may begin the contest with an outline or plot ideas, but writing in advance is not only against the rules, it circumvents the point of the challenge. The ultimate goal is not to write well, but to let go of any preconceived notions of what a novel should be, any convictions you have that the next Harry Potter series is at the tips of your fingers, and just write.

Have we made that point clear yet?

—Amy Atkins

From left to right: Kerry Moosman, Charles Gill, Karen Woods and Stephanie Wilde.

AN ART FAIR TO REMEMBER Stewart Gallery goes national TARA MORGAN Though 10 grand won’t put a down payment on a Damien Hirst skull, the sum still goes a long way in the contemporary art world.

You can buy 500 adult entry tickets to New York’s Museum of Modern Art, for example.

Or you can snag two, potentially nude, Ryan McGinley photographs. If you’re really lucky, you can occupy one gallery booth at the FADA Los Angeles Art Show.

Boise’s Stewart Gallery is lucky, having been accepted into a number of art shows this year, including FADA, Art Chicago and New York City’s Works on Paper.

“We’ve been accepted in shows and we really have to digest and see ... which ones we can afford to do and what will benefit the gallery and our artists the most,” said

Miami, a satellite show of Art Basel Miami, a couple of years ago, Woods is particularly amped for the opportunities that might arise at the much-larger Los Angeles Art Show.

“It’s exciting for me as an artist to have my work out there. Even though I paint pictures about Boise, I think that they translate into other urban settings and hope that they resonate with the people there,” said Woods.

Regardless of which fairs Stewart Gallery ultimately decides to attend, Wilde and Woods are confident that each show will draw some much-needed attention to the burgeoning contemporary art scene in Boise.

“For people to see that there’s so much good work [in Boise] … it raises the status of the city and what’s here,” said Woods.

Stewart Gallery co-owner Stephanie Wilde.

Though a $10,000 minimum booth fee might seem outrageous to the uninitiated, art fairs of this caliber can launch the careers of previously unknown galleries and artists.

“The contacts that are made are so essential to the gallery that, though the investment seems astronomical … we can’t afford not to do it,” said Wilde. “Our artists need to be in museums, they need to have collectors, they need to have people see their work. That would never happen if we only stayed here.”

Urbanscape oil artist Karen Woods is one of a handful of local artists—including Kerry Moosman and Charles Gill—who Wilde plans to take to Los Angeles. Though Stewart Gallery took Woods’ work to Red Dot

COVER BOY Kelly Knopp’s first solo show TARA MORGAN Coldest Beer issues. Most of Knopp’s pieces— If you’re unfamiliar with painter, illustrator like Heart Strings, in which a man’s heart busts and graphic designer Kelly Knopp, there are through his fanned-out accordion or Monday’s a few things you should know. First off, he’s Little Piggy, in which a cartoon pig stares off a dude. Second, though his subject matter blankly as a fork dangles from his neck—are skews toward the dark side—tattooed drag tooth fairies and cigarette-smoking, pot-bellied marked by unquestionable literalism “The subject matter is always kind of fun, if hula-hoopers—Knopp is a clean-cut, wideyou will—like the lady riding a shark—and his eyed, 20-something. Lastly, despite the fact style is simple,” explains Flying M co-curator that Knopp’s work has graced numerous BW John Warfel. covers over the last few years But Knopp’s fun earnestness (including this week’s issue), he Exhibit runs through is also tempered by an exacting just recently opened his firstthe end of October. precision and sinister underpinever art show at Flying M. ning, both of which seat Knopp “It’s never been like, ‘I need FLYING M 500 W. Idaho St., at the dinner table beside local to get ready for a show,’” said 208-345-4320, pop-surrealists like Ben Wilson, Knopp. “In my free time, I’ll flyingmcoffee.com Erin Ruiz and Bill Carman. grab a paintbrush and pencil “I always like to provoke and just draw. It’s my way of feelings in people, even if coping with things.” they’re uncomfortable,” said Knopp.

Knopp’s brightly colored illustrations of One of Knopp’s more provocative recent brew-swilling, beat-up cartoon cats and knobby-kneed bike racers have graced BW’s last few projects is an adult activity book called The

Faulty Embrace. The book’s hand-bound pages are filled with things like a porn-littered Mormon temptation maze, a draw your own mullet salon and a message decoder—which uses bullets, pills and brass knuckles to spell out “You Are Adopted.” But these off-coloring books aren’t paying the bills for Knopp just yet—he still does graphic design work for local businesses like the Board Room.

“I’d rather be doing the fine art, like painting stuff, but the graphic design helps me pay my rent,” said Knopp.

But Knopp might not be doing graphic design much longer. In addition to his current show at Flying M, he’s also been asked to hang new work at Basement Gallery during November and December.

For fans of Knopp’s work, or local collectors looking to snag an inexpensive painting, now is the time to buy. Prices at Knopp’s Flying M show range from a super-reasonable $8 for prints to $200 for the largest painting.

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FALL MOVIE PREVIEW Fall films find happy medium

BY JEREMIAH ROBERT WIERENGA

Movie distribution companies are emotionally manipulative jerks. Sure, it’s fine and dandy to have light-hearted comedies and action-packed thrill-rides all summer, but what about wintertime? As the days grow shorter and colder, the films released seem to get subsequently darker and more heartwrenching, just when we most need some sunshiny levity. Give us balance! Fortunately, the fall film season seems to achieve Goldilocks’ ratio of just right, ranging from the war comedy The Men Who Stare at Goats, featuring Ewan McGregor, George Clooney and Kevin Spacey, which opens Friday, Nov. 6; to the Fellini-inspired musical Nine with Daniel Day-Lewis, Marion Cotillard and Nicole Kidman; to the bleak post-apocalyptic The Road, starring Viggo Mortenson and Charlize Theron. The last two both go into wide release on Wednesday, Nov. 25. Here are four others that will leave us neither stupefied by their inanity nor sobbing alone in a dark corner.

the film tells the story of an angry, emotionally neglected child who imaginatively creates a fantasy island where he rules as king of the beasts. With notable voice talents

by James Gandolfini (The Sopranos) and Catherine O’Hara (Waiting for Guffman) and co-scripted by Dave Eggers (Away We Go) and director Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich), the film looks to flesh out the visionary fable into a PG-rated—but no less compelling—tale of adventure.

AMELIA: FRIDAY, OCT. 23 Seventy-two years after her disappearance over the Pacific Ocean, Amelia Earhart remains a vivid figure in American history and a source of multiple urban legends. She has, in time, been rumored to have been a Roosevelt-commissioned spy, an infamous Tokyo Rose or alive and well, living in New Jersey under an assumed name. Although most of these claims have proved groundless, her accomplishments and lifetime fame are legendary enough to warrant this new biopic, which stars Hilary Swank (Million Dollar Baby) in the title role, and co-stars Richard Gere (Chicago) and Ewan McGregor (this is his fourth film this year). Mira Nair (Monsoon Wedding) directs this story of the iconic woman who helped break the glass ceiling in the maledominated world of aviation.

A SERIOUS MAN: FRIDAY, OCT. 30 WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE: FRIDAY, OCT. 16 Expanding the beloved children’s classic

by Maurice Sendak into a full feature has taken nearly two decades, but after multiple studio halts, a massive casting search for the role of young Max (played by Max Records) and the author’s July Comic-Con confession of approval, it’s finally here. Like the 10-sentence book on which it’s based,

stealing from him and his deadbeat brother is living on his couch. In order to grow into a devout and balanced man, he seeks the advice of three different rabbis. The film is loosely based on the Coen brothers’ remembrances of their middle-class Jewish upbringing, and looks to be one of their most mature, personal films to date.

Joel and Ethan Coen are somewhat untouchable. Even their rare bad films (Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers) can only be called missteps in relation to their best work (Fargo, Miller’s Crossing). And even then, those are better than most everything else in their particular genres. With A Serious Man, the Coens return to the darkly comic territory for which they’re best known. Larry Gopnick (Michael Stuhlbarg) is at a spiritual crossroads. His wife (Sari Wagner Lennick) might be leaving him, his two children are

COCO BEFORE CHANEL: FRIDAY, NOV. 6 After the cinematic mess that was Ron Howard’s The Da Vinci Code (2006), Gallic gamine Audrey Tautou (Amelie) made a dignified retreat back to her native France, where she won the role of famed clothing designer Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel before a script was even finished. Chronicling the fashion icon’s early years in a monastic orphanage through her cabaret aspirations to the creation of her gender-bending early designs, the film gives a glimpse of the humble beginnings of a woman famous for inventing her own history. American Alessandro Nivola (Junebug) also appears as the wealthy Englishman Arthur Capel, who financed Chanel’s first Parisian storefront. Using vintage outfits from the design house’s own archives and a musical score from Oscar-nominated composer Alexandre Desplat (The Queen), Coco Before Chanel is sure to be an autumnal balm to any bundled-up fashionista’s soul.

SCREEN/LISTINGS special screenings A FRIEND INDEED: THE BILL SACKTER STORY— Filmmaker Lane Wyrick, has taken hundreds of photos and hours of video footage of Bill Morrow, a man with a developmental disability.

Combined with interviews, the footage tells the heartbreaking story of a humble man who never stops lobbying for opportunities for those living with disabilities.

The $10 tickets benefit The Arc, Inc, an organization

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for the disabled. Flicks.

Wednesday, Oct. 21, 7 p.m.

Tickets available at Flicks or by calling The Arc at 208343-5583.

BREAD AND ROSES—Part of the Latin American Film Series “The Immigration Chain.” Bread and Roses is the story of a young Mexican woman who crosses the border into Los Angeles to join her sister, who works as a janitor in the city’s largest corporate offices. For more information, call 208426-2595. 1 p.m. FREE.

Boise State Student Union, Farnsworth Room.

State Student Union, Hatch Ballroom.

COMMUNITY CINEMA: COPYRIGHT CRIMINALS— Copyright Criminals is this month’s featured film sponsored by Community Cinema. The film is free and is followed by discussion, led by Boise State music professor Dr. Jim Jirak.

Copywright Criminals looks at whether it is possible to own a sound in this digital age. For more information, call 208-426-4317.

5:30-7 p.m. FREE. Boise

SCREENINGS OF X FILES EPISODE: EL MUNDO GIRA AND LA LLORONA— Part of the Latin American Film Series at Boise State. Mulder and Scully investigate the death of a young Mexican woman in a migrant workers camp in the San Joaquin Valley.

La Llorona is a short film that explores the folklore of Mexican culture through the use of the Weeping Woman.

For more information call

208-426-2595. 1 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union, Hatch Ballroom.

WIZARD OF OZ—This 1925 black-and-white, silent film is the first major movie adaptation of the original book. Watch, as for the first time on the big screen, Dorothy learns “there’s no place like home.” Saturday, Oct. 17, 7 p.m., $5 donation accepted after the show. Falcon Tavern, 705 W. Bannock St. 208-9473111.

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or he’ll go on a killing rampage.

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LAW ABIDING CITIZEN—When Clyde Shelton (Gerard Butler) and his family become victims of a brutal home invasion. Ten years later, Shelton murders one of the invaders. He calls Nick Rice (Jamie Foxx) in to visit him in prison, where he delivers an ultimatum: fix the justice system

MY ONE AND ONLY—Rene Zellweger and Kevin Bacon star in this story of a 1950’s southern family. Ann Devereaux, a Southern belle, embarks upon a road trip across the country with her two sons, to escape their womanizing father and search for a new provider. (PG-13) Flicks

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THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE—Anna Wintour, the famed editor of Vogue, was involved with all 700 pages of the September 2007 issue, along with creative director Grace Coddington. Documentarian R.J. Cutler and cinematographer Robert Richman teamed up to chronicle the inside world of high fashion. (PG-13) Flicks WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE—Spike Jonze brings the beloved classic to life in an adventure tale for all ages. Max, “making mischief” in a wolf costume, travels to a mysterious land of forests and fanged creatures. Maurice Sendak’s beloved Where the Wild Things Are has been a children’s classic since the ’60s, now it comes to the big screen for a new generation.

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continuing 9—After being destroyed by our own robotic inventions, the fate of humanity falls upon an inventor’s group of rag dolls. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 ALL ABOUT STEVE—When eccentric crossword puzzle creator Mary Horowitz (Sandra Bullock) is set up on a blind date with CNN cameraman Steve (Bradley Cooper), she falls hard in love at first sight, and he does not.

(PG-13) Edwards 22 Art imitating life or life imitating tabloid magazines?

NORA WORTH EXPLORING? NOT REALLY. If you’re a Netflix subscriber, you’ve seen ads printed inside the red envelopes from time to time. Not long ago, one such ad featured a new series of films based on Nora Roberts novels. I’ve never read any of her titles, but given the tower of her paperbacks spilling out of the nightstand on the other side of my bed, I had a feeling somebody in my household might enjoy them. But in all honesty, I just wanted to know if these titles offered anything redeeming to men.

First up: Northern Lights, in which a big city cop (Eddie Cibrian, TV’s CSI: Miami) takes a gig as a small-town Alaskan sheriff after the death of his partner. He takes a liking to the town’s pilot, played by singer LeAnn Rimes, but before he can settle in, he must discover who’s offing several of the townspeople. She’s cute, but Rimes’ acting isn’t as good as her singing, and the tabloid headlines of her stealing Cibrian from his wife in real life made me laugh at several lines.

Second: Midnight Bayou, in which a lawyer (Jerry O’Connell, TV’s Crossing Jordan) buys a haunted New Orleans mansion.

With the help of a local waitress (Lauren Stamile, TV’s Grey’s Anatomy), he tries to solve the mystery of the house’s former occupants before the domicile’s sordid history repeats itself.

O’Connell, kind of a boob, was totally out of place, but Faye Dunaway as the spookily intuitive grandmother was right on.

Third: Tribute, in which a grown-up child actress (Brittany Murphy, The Dead Girl) moves into her grandmother’s old house and strikes up a romance with a neighbor, who is a graphic novelist (Jason Lewis, TV’s Sex and the City). But somebody who disliked her grandmother long ago is hell-bent on scaring the girl away. Forgive me for sounding like Us Weekly, but Murphy looked like hell and acted worse, and I found it incredibly unbelievable that anyone would fall for her.

My conclusion: Despite reassurance I’ve been given that the books are far better than their film counterparts, there’s a reason these movies are made for TV and don’t hit the big screen: because they’re awkward, the characters are stereotypes and I’ve seen more convincing romance on daytime television.

I still have one more title coming that could completely change my mind, but from where I currently stand, Nora means no.

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BRIGHT STAR—In 17th century London, a secret love affair has formed between English poet, John Keats (Ben Whishaw), and his neighbor, the outspoken fashion student, Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish). (PG), Flicks CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY— Michael Moore presents the disastrous impact that corporate dominance and out-of-control profit motives have on the lives of Americans and citizens of the world. (R) Flicks, Edwards 22 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS—The story follows the adventures of inventor Flint Lockwood who created an apparatus that makes water into food. (PG) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 IMAX COLD SOULS—Starring as himself, Paul Giamatti is paralyzed by anxiety over an upcoming acting role when he stumbles across an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people’s souls. He thinks the process may be his key to happiness. (PG-13), Flicks COUPLES RETREAT—Add one adulterous couple, one cradlerocker, one couple on the verge of divorce and one happy couple and you get a hilarious look at real world problems. (PG-13), Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE HANGOVER—Three friends head to Las Vegas before one of them takes the final plunge.

After a wild night, the groomsmen have massive hangovers, a tiger in the bathroom and a baby in the closet, but the groom is nowhere to be found. (R) Edwards 22 HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE—Director David Yates leads the Hogwarts gang through another school year of mystery and magic. (PG) Edwards 22

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SCREEN/LISTINGS I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL—Based on the true life, shocking, wild stories of Tucker Max, the popular writer who found fame on the internet. (R), Edwards 22 THE INFORMANT—Matt Damon beefed up physically for his role as Mark Whitacre in this story based on the highest ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history. (R) Edwards 9 INGLORIOUS BASTERDS— Quentin Tarantino directs Brad Pitt as Aldo Raine, the leader of a squad of Jewish soldiers who march through Nazi occupied Europe, engaging in retribution attacks on German soldiers. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE INVENTION OF LYING— Mark Bellison (Ricky Gervais) is a bumbling, unhappy man in a world where everyone speaks the truth at all time. One day, Mark invents a remarkable thing: the ability to lie. (PG-13), Edwards 9, Edwards 22 JULIE & JULIA—Julie (Amy Adams) finds solace and inspiration cooking her way through 524 recipes in Julia Child’s Mastering the Art of French Cooking. (PG13) Edwards 22 LORNA’S SILENCE—By an arranged, sham marriage between Lorna and Claudy, the junky, Lorna can gain citizenship and have her dream job. Driven by money and the coveted EU passport, will Lorna be able to remain silent as deadly plots unfolding around her? (R), Flicks LOVE HAPPENS—Dr. Burke Ryan (Aaron Eckhart) is a therapist who tries to convince self-proclaimed man-evader Eloise Chandler (Jennifer Aniston) to let love happen. (PG-13) Edwards 22, Edwards 9

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

CAPITALISM, A LOVE STORY— Flicks: W-Th: 4:20, 7, 9:35; F-Su: 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:35; M-Tu: 4:20, 7, 9:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:40, 4:25, 7:25, 9:50; F-Tu: 1:20, 4:45, 7:45, 9:55 CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 3D— Edwards 22: W-Th: 12, 2:10, 4:35, 6:55, 9:20; F-Tu: 12, 2:10, 4:35, 6:50, 9:20 COLD SOULS—

Flicks: W-Th only: 5:10, 9:10

COUPLES RETREAT— FAME—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15; F-Tu: 1:05, 4:20, 7:05, 10:05 Edwards 9: W-Th only: 7, 9:45 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30

THE HANGOVER—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:35

HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF BLOOD PRINCE IMAX— Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:40, 3:50 I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL— Edwards 22: W-Th: 2:15, 4:50, 7:35, 10:05 THE INFORMANT!— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:10, 4, 7:05, 9:55; F-Tu: 1:45, 7 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 10 INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS— Edwards 9: W-Tu: 3:55, 7:10, 10:25 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:30, 3:45, 6:55, 10:10 THE INVENTION OF LYING— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1, 4:05, 7:45, 10:35; F-Tu: 1:10, 4:05, 7:50, 10:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 2:05, 4:55, 7:25, 10:05 JENNIFER’S BODY— Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:15, 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:20

MY ONE AND ONLY—

ZOMBIELAND—When brainhungry zombies overrun the world, what do you do? If you’re Tallahassee: (Woody Harrelson) you kick ass. (R), Edwards 9, Edwards 22

Edwards 22: W-Th: 2:25, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40

BRIGHT STAR—

STAR TREK—JJ Abrams (Mission: Impossible III, Lost and Alias) boldly takes this TV classic in a whole new direction. (PG-13) Egyptian, Edwards 22 IMAX

WHIP IT—The new film, directed

by Drew Barrymore, stars Ellen Page as small town Texan, Bliss—a youth fed up with her mother’s overbearing dream of making her into a beauty pageant star. When she discovers the tenacious roller-derby team The Girl Scouts, Page ditches her crown for her old pair of Barbie roller skates. (PG-13), Edwards 22

Edwards 9: W-Th only: 1:45, 4:45 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:20, 2:30, 4:50, 7:05, 9:10

ALL ABOUT STEVE—

JULIE & JULIA—

TOY STORY: 3D DOUBLE FEATURE—Disney and Pixar make a comeback to the big screen, this time, in 3D action.

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PANDORUM—Two astronauts awaken from their hyper-sleep chambers, unable to remember anything about where they are, or why they’re there. Lt. Payton (Dennis Quaid) and Cpl. Bower (Ben Foster) uncover a shocking reality—the two are not alone.

(R), Edwards 22.

SURROGATES—Bruce Willis stars as an FBI agent investigating the murder of a college student. In this version of reality, humans interact through perfectly designed robots that are idealized versions of them.

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Edwards 22: W-Th: 2, 5, 7:40, 10:25

LAW ABIDING CITIZEN—

Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10 Edwards 22: F-Tu: 11, 1:55, 4:40, 7:25, 10:15

LORNA’S SILENCE—

Flicks: W-Th only: 7:10

LOVE HAPPENS—

PANDORUM—

Edwards 9: W-Th only: 1:05, 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Flicks: F-Su: 1:15, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:15 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:10, 2:35, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15

THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE—

Flicks: F-Su: 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20; M-Tu: 5:20, 7:20, 9:20

STAR TREK IMAX—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 7, 9:45

STEPFATHER— SURROGATES—

Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:30, 4:15, 7:40, 10:30 Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:25, 4:40, 7:50, 10:05; F-Tu: 4:40, 9:50 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:25, 2:50, 5:05, 7:30, 9:50

TOY STORY 3D DOUBLE FEATURE— THE WAY WE GET BY—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 3, 7 Flicks: W-Th only: 4:45, 6:45, 8:45

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE— Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1, 4, 7:20, 9:45 Edwards 22: F-Tu: 11:45, 2:10, 4:35, 7, 9:25 WHIP IT—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45

ZOMBIELAND—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 10:10; W-Th: 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:15 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:05, 1, 2:30, 3:20, 4:40, 5:40, 7, 8, 9:25, 10:20

T H E AT E R S

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

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

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

SOCKEYE GRILL AND BREWERY

LAU RIE PEARMAN

It might’ve had something to do with the potent Powerhouse Porters.

I’ve driven by the Sockeye Grill and Brewery dozens of times, usually Or it could’ve been the orange October sun skulking into the horizon in a bad mood, fleeing the Milwaukee/mall area, desperately trying to through Sockeye Grill and Brewery’s floor-to-ceiling windows. But find a way to drop off the Boise Bench. Recently, I’ve slowed down something besotted or slightly sinister triggered one of my family’s faapproaching Sockeye to stop into the new branch Library! at Cole and vorite dinner-time conversations—how to carry out the perfect murder.

Ustick or to duck into the neighborhood Albertsons down the street.

Our server, un-phased by our body-disposal talk, cleared the Sitting in the pub’s bright sunroom on a chilly fall afternoon for remnants of our meal from the table—plates dotted with puddles of lunch, it dawned on me that this corner is becoming a destination in its chipotle barbeque sauce and ketchup. Before leaving, she weighed in, own right, and Sockeye, already known in other ’hoods for its Dagger smiling: “Anyone who says they haven’t thought about it is lying.”

Falls IPA, has become an established West Boise neighborhood hangThe night had begun wholesomely. After watching my sister’s socout. A dark interior table of retired men lounged over coffee talking cer game, we headed about their guns and to Sockeye for a taxes, several groups celebratory dinner. in the sunroom apThe adults ordered peared engaged in three pints of the business lunches, and brewery’s special, the regulars addressed Powerhouse Porter the waitress by name ($2.50), and a glass and riffed on the of Kendall Jackson daily paper. chardonnay ($7). The I ordered a porter’s malty, chocoseven-beer sampler latey richness was an ($6) and studied the asset when combined menu. Sampling from with the fried Coho light to dark, I was salmon’s ($8.75) struck by two things. lightly crispy and notFirst, each of the too-leavened batter. seven beers shared a Though it was odd to common Sockeye flasee a flash of fleshy vor. It was a slightly pink after chompsoapy and not quite ing into a fried fish bitter enough taste, nugget, the salmon but unique and was the ideal vehicle highly drinkable for the caper-spotted nonetheless. Second, lemon tartar sauce.

I realized as I ran If we were to return, the gamut from the “The fries are so delicious, you don’t need salt.” we later agreed, we’d seasonal and blonde stop there. Sockeye ales to the Hell Diver does a few things Pale Ale and the SOCKEYE GRILL AND BREWERY excellently—namely Powerhouse Porter, 3019 N. Cole Road frying and beer brewing—but other things only so-so. that I really do prefer darker, thicker beers, as much as I 208-658-1533 My stepdad’s fried finger steaks ($11.25) were in the support our regional hoppy IPA love affair.

M-Su: 11 a.m.-late excellent category—letting out an audible crunch from But beer and geography weren’t the only lessons of sockeyebrew.com across the table. The accompanying barbeque dipping this meal. Sockeye also taught me that a wrap is not sauce was a tad sweet with a permeating chipotle smokialways a lame, politically correct excuse for a sandwich. ness. My stepsister’s Coho cakes ($8.25), a fried combo of salmon, The lemon-peppered (wild Alaskan) Coho wrap ($9.75), a salad bay shrimp and tiny flecks of red and green bell pepper, drizzled with a of salmon, bacon, red onion, feta and basil vinaigrette stuffed into a tangy lime-dijon sauce, also owned real estate in awesomeville. Those lightly toasted flour shell, redefines not only the “wrap” concept, but of us beguiled by the burger menu fared a bit worse. also the “salad” and “fish” concepts. Every bite was drenched with Though I ordered the seared yellow-fin tuna burger ($9.50) redfishy, basily, bacony and, yes, wrappy flavor. belly rare, it arrived well-done white, peeking out from a run-of-theI also tasted a Coho burger ($9.75)—Sockeye does have a heavy mill, sesame-speckled bun. A smear of sun-dried tomato aioli and fish influence, which I apparently bought hook, line and sinker. The healthy sprinkling of feta cheese added a nice zip of flavor, but they burger was a thick salmon fillet, ostensibly healthier and pinker than weren’t able to compensate for the fish’s dryness. My mom’s chipotle its ground-beef counterpart would have been. The kicker, however, burger with bacon and bleu cheese ($9) was also underwhelming and was the thick-cut sweet potato fries and the chipotle mayo (thank you dry, though she did ask for it well-done. The best burger in the bunch for not calling it aioli), both of which I added to the coho instead of was my boyfriend’s flame-broiled Coho salmon burger ($9.75), a juicy the tarter sauce. The beautiful red hot and sweet mayo was a great hunk of fish bathed in creamy tartar sauce that, while plenty tasty, enhancement to both the fries and the burger. pleaded for a crispier, less-generic bread vessel.

Homemade garlic vegetable soup also graced the table, full of fall After we had massacred dinner and wrapped up our idle manveggies and giant cloves of garlic that melted away on my tongue. slaughter chatter, only my stepsister had the stomach to tackle I tried hard to order dessert but couldn’t handle another bite. It felt dessert—a slice of Snicker’s ice cream pie ($5.25), to go. If one of us good to admit to myself, and now, to my buddies, that I’m not always inexplicably goes missing, I’d recommend the police follow a trail of going to drink the pitchers of IPA they order. I might get a porter if I peanuts, caramel and chocolate to catch the perp. feel like it. And perhaps even a Powerhouse Porter float for dessert.

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—Nathaniel Hoffman was a social drinker but now stouts it alone.

FINE TUNE YOUR KITCHEN SKILLS Cooking classes have been few and far between since the losses of Kandor and Easy Cookin’, both of which were once the meccas of casual culinary education.

Just recently, however, we’ve seen a new upswing in classes in downtown Boise. Pottery Gourmet is not only bringing in chefs but has also partnered up with Boise Co-op to present its North End neighbor’s culinary education series as well.

If you’re just hearing about the classes at the purveyor of Polish stonewear, you missed this week’s class with Cristina Ceccatelli, whose eponymous Sun Valley restaurant has a serious reputation. Coming up Thursday, Oct. 15, Randy King tackles a Mediterranean-inspired meal with spinach, shrimp and artichoke tortellini, scallops and feta with orzo, mussels and couscous, Moroccan spiced salmon and a Tuscan polenta apricot rum cake. On Saturday morning, Oct. 17, Betti and Craig Newburn, owners of the Idaho Heritage Inn Bed and Breakfast, teach British scones, pear soup, Danish aebleskivers (pancake puffs) and Danish bacon. It’s all about Thai food with Tiziana Lancedelli on Monday, Oct. 19, with a menu straight out of Lancedelli’s time studying Thai cuisine in Phuket. And on Thursday, Oct. 29, Reef’s Drew Leger goes island style with pomegranate-teriyaki salmon and coconut curry with jasmine rice.

Boise Co-op’s classes happen Wednesday nights at Pottery Gourmet and focus on local and sustainable dishes that are easy on the pocketbook. And apparently they are waaaay more popular than anyone was expecting. So far, October’s classes are completely sold out with the exception of Wednesday, Oct. 28, when parents and kids can have some fun making Halloween treats with real hunger-inducing names like “Delectable Dirt” and “Creepy Coffin Sandwiches.” November’s class schedule will be posted at boisecoop.com soon, and if you want in on the action, we’d advise you check the site often to ensure you get a space next time around.

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THIS WEEK’S WINE AND DINE Eagle riverside restaurant Bella Aquila pairs up six wines from Italian winemaker Casa Vinicola Zonin with six courses of Italian food. Start with jumbo sea scallops and a glass of Prosecco Special Cuvee, end with strawberry fig shortbread and a glass of Baccorosa Dolce Spumante, and what you’ll have in between includes radicchio salad, beef cheek agnolotti and duck confit.

Thursday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m., $65 per person. Reservations required. Bella Aquila, 775 S. Rivershore Lane, 208-938-1900, bellaaquilarestaurant.com.

—Rachael Daigle

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FOOD/DINING Downtown + Fringe ADDIE’S—The language of breakfast is spoken here. You’ve never seen so many meats followed by “& Eggs” on one menu. Come early to beat the rush for Boise’s best gravy. 510 W. Main St., 208-338-1198. $ OM .

ASIAGO’S—Innovative Italian pastas, salads, sandwiches, soups and seasonal specials served amidst rustic Italian countryside decor. 1002 W. Main St., 208-336-5552. $$-$$$ SU. BAR GERNIKA—Basque favorites in a dark, cozy bar.

Croquettas, chorizo, salomo, paella and a simple cheese plates that is one of the most popular in town. Don’t forget Beef Tongue Saturday. 202 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-344-2175. $ .

BARDENAY—The atmospheric, cavernous interior (with visible distillery) and huge patio is the place to eat, drink and be seen downtown. 610 Grove St., 208-426-0538. $-$$ SU, OM. THE BASQUE MARKET—The market’s shelves are stocked with Basque food and wine (and often, you’ll find take-and-bake croquettas in the cooler), but there’s also a small cafe space for lunch. 608 W. Grove St., OM. 208-433-1208. $ BERRYHILL & CO. RESTAURANT AND WINE BAR—In its downtown location, Berryhill is open for lunch and dinner. The lunch menu offers finer casual food like a fig and feta grilled cheese sandwich, a buffalo burger and a crab melt on focaccia. 121 N. Ninth St., 208-387-3553. $$$-$$$$ RES SU, OM .

BITTERCREEK ALE HOUSE—Enjoy a frosty microbrew and gourmet hamburger at this distinguished bar and grill with one of the best selections of scotches in the region. 246 N. Eighth St., 208-345-1813. $$ SU, OM. BRICK OVEN BISTRO—Lovingly called the Beanery by longtime patrons, this Grove hot spot with everything homemade has some of the best comfort food around.

801 N. Main St., 208-342-3456.

SU, OM. $ CAFE OLE—Boise’s original Mexican restaurant has been serving for the last 28 years.

404 S. Eighth St., 208-344SU, OM. 3222. $-$$ CHANDLERS STEAKHOUSE—Chandler’s is for the fine-diner in you. With melt-in-your-mouth filet mignon, porterhouse and Kobe cuts, as well as an appetizer menu that deviates from red meat and offers oysters, lobster cakes and

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mussels. It’s as popular a stop for cocktails as it is for a fine dinner. 981 Grove St., 208-342-4622. $$$$ RES, SU, OM. COTTONWOOD GRILLE—The food and ambiance here share a terrific, tasteful symbiotic relationship. Inside, it’s like a big hunting lodge; outside, it’s watching the world go by on the Greenbelt. 913 W. River St., 208-333-9800. $$$-$$$$ RES, SU, OM. DAWSON’S DOWNTOWN—The interior of Dawson’s is almost as tasty as their hand-picked beans (from everywhere from Sumatra to Ethiopia to Mexico) roasted the old-fashioned way.

Owners Dave and Cindy Ledgard know where to find the best fair trade, organic, shade grown and just plain excellent coffees. 219 N. Eighth St., 208-336-5633. $ SU. DONNIE MAC’S TRAILER PARK CUISINE—Located in the developing Linen District, Donnie Mac’s Trailerpark Cuisine may be downhome, but it’s certainly not from the trailer park. Burgers, chicken sandwiches, o-rings, fries, some very tasty fry sauce, the valley’s only frozen custard, mac-n-cheese and breakfast.

Yowza! 1515 W. Grove St., 208-384-9008. $-$$ .

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EMILIO’S—With Chef Chris Hain in charge of preparing cuisine and over 450 wines in this restaurant in the Grove Hotel, you’ll think you’re in some big city, not downtown Boise. 245 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-333-8002. . $$$-$$$$ RES, SU, OM FALCON TAVERN—This upscale downtown tavern has become “Boise’s neighborhood pub.”

Known for their hand-pressed Kobe burger and ample beer selection, Falcon Tavern also has a variety of appetizers, soups, salads and sandwiches. Cozy up in their interior space or kick back on the patio. 705 W. Bannock St., 208-947-3111.

OM. $-$$ FLICKS—Movie and a meal from a killer kitchen. Food good enough to bring you in without a ticket includes burgers, chicken and brie on ciabatta, lasagna, gyro wraps, salads and daily soups. 646 Fulton St., SU. 208-342-4222. $ FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—In addition to a fantastic atmosphere (cool tunes, friendly employees,

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

—Deanna Darr

ASIAGO’S RESTAURANT AND WINEBAR 1002 W. Main St., 208-336-5552, asiagos.com “The jazz music was just right. The light and fresh air coming in off of the patio mixed with the garlic and olive oil emanating from the back. We savored the kid-free, downtown meal feeling, if only briefly, like landed Italian gentry. Then we remembered to ask for the bill, along with a cappuccino and an espresso—worthy substitutes to the nightcap we both deserved.”

—Nathaniel Hoffman

THAI NALYN 2203 University Dr., 208-344-5905, thainalyn.webs.com “My date ladled us each out a pungent bowl of the tom kha kai, and we sat, puzzled, as hunks of tomato splashed out along with the mushrooms, lemongrass, galangal, Thai basil and oily red broth. As tom kha kai fans used to a creamy white coconut broth and no tomatoes, we wondered if there might’ve been a soup switch-up in the kitchen. But as we slurped up successive spoonfuls, the very mild coconut taste began to claw through the other competing flavors.”

—Tara Morgan

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DINING art on the walls and comfy seating), “the M” makes killer coffee drinks. 500 W. Idaho St., 208-345-4320. $ SU GOLDY’S BREAKFAST BISTRO—A desperately popular breakfast destination and with good reason. Generous portions of eggs, hash, cinnamon rolls and more. Good gravy! 108 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-345-4100. $ SU .

GRAPE ESCAPE—Fine wine, delicious lunch and dinner, delectable desserts and light bites make this little bistro a great place to meet with great friends.

And, if you can’t get to Grape Escape, they’ll bring their casual elegance to you at any of your functions or events with their fabulous catering. 800 W. Idaho St., 208-368-0200. $-$$ 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. $$$ SU, OM. JAVA—Three words: Bowl of Soul. This coffee/espresso/ chocolate concoction is liquid redemption. 223 N. Sixth St., .

208-345-0777. $ SU LE CAFE DE PARIS—The display case offers a glimpse of the height of French pastry baking. The food is among Boise’s culinary elite—lush, buttery cooking. 204 N. Capitol Blvd., 208-336-0889. $$-$$$ OM.

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LEKU ONA—Step into a little piece of traditional Basque home, family and heaven when you visit Leku Ona. Relax in the friendly atmosphere with lunch or dinner, either inside or out on the patio on warm days. 117 S. Sixth St., 208-345-6665. $$$-$$$$ RES OM. LOCK, STOCK & BARREL—A Boise staple featuring some of the most well-reputed steaks and prime in town. 1100 W. Jefferson, 208-336-4266. $$-$$$$ SU, OM .

MAI THAI—Daily lunch specials, an always superior list of noodle dishes and wicked cocktails.

This place is great day or night, hungry or just in the mood to nibble. 750 Idaho St., 208-344-8424. $$ SU. OSAKA JAPANESE SUSHI AND BAR—Though the inside hums with a low-lit romantic vibe, Osaka’s Eighth Street-facing patio offers a more vivacious atmosphere for people-watching.

And don’t forget about Osaka’s stellar happy hour: $2 select microbrews and $3 for a spicy tuna roll, spicy salmon roll or California roll. 800 W. Idaho St., .

208-338-8982. $$-$$$$ PIAZZA DI VINO—Piazza di Vino offers an extensive collection of wines from around the world and art from around town. But that’s not all: soups, chocolates, cheeses, salads, fondue and pizza (try the Italian hard salami and provolone) will bring you back again. 212 N. Ninth St., 208-336-9577. $-$$ .

TEMPRANILLO What Cabernet is to California wine, Tempranillo is to Spain.

It is Spain’s most widely planted grape variety and forms the backbone of wine from its best known region—Rioja. Styles vary from unoaked, fruit-driven charmers, to oak-aged, deep and complex age-worthy wines. Recently, Tempranillo has taken root in other countries, and our tasting proved the grape has a future in the States. Here are the panel’s top picks: 2005 LAN EDICION LIMITADA, $45 The Edicion is one of the top wines from one of Rioja’s finest and most modern bodegas. The aromas are amazing, rich and floral with unctuous cherry, anise, light cedar, spice, dark chocolate and plum. Equally amazing and complex in the mouth, with flavors echoing the aromas. Elegantly structured, impeccably balanced and exceptionally persistent, this is a benchmark wine worth the asking price.

2007 PEIRANO ESTATE TEMPRANILLO, $11.99 This big, rich red definitely expresses the warm climate terroir of its Lodi, Calif., vineyards. Heady aromas of cherry cola and chocolate pour from the glass. Very ripe berry and creamy cherry dominate in this bold but balanced red. Smooth tannins mark the mocha-laced finish. An exceptional bargain.

2005 SEVEN HILLS TEMPRANILLO, $26.99 This wine’s light but lively aromas are marked by soft blueberry, nutmeg and custard. The flavors are crisp and bright centering on a core of tart cherry and sweet oak that’s backed by touches of anise and mocha with a food-friendly hit of acidity. Again, this wine is marked by its terroir. The cooler climate of Washington’s Columbia Valley results in a leaner, more elegant style.

This week’s panel: David Kirkpatrick, Boise Co-op Wine Shop; Cindy Limber, Bardenay; Karen McMillin, Young’s Market; Dave Faulk, Porterhouse Meats; Kevin Settles, Bardenay.

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PIEHOLE—Pizza plain and simple. Nineteen-inch pies by the slice or by the pie and calzones everyday. Try their infamous potato and bacon, or go cheap with the special of the day for two bucks. 205 N. Eighth St., 208-344-7783. $-$$ SU. RED FEATHER LOUNGE—Red Feather Lounge is all about wine and good food. You can get great macaroni and cheese for lunch, and for dinner, the menu turns deliciously swanky. If you can snag a seat in the cellar, count yourself especially lucky. 246 N. Eighth St., 208-429-6340.

SU, OM. $$-$$$ SHIGE—Watching sushi master Shige create his masterpieces is almost as awesome as chopsticking a portion, dunking it in a wasabi/ soy mix and popping it in your mouth. Umami! 100 N. Eighth St., Ste. 215, 208-338-8423. . $-$$ YEN CHING—Yummy Chinese food at a decent price, with all the usual favorites one looks for in a menu, and then some. This is one of Boise’s favorite Chinese restaurants. 305 N. Ninth St., 208-384-0384. $-$$ SU, OM. WILLIB’S SANDWICH SALOON—Hide out in the maze of wooden booths, plunk down at a table or saddle up at the full bar. WilliB’s specializes in bunkhouse cooking which means dishes that can be made just as easily in a kitchen or a Dutch oven. Lunch specials are homemade daily. 225 N. Fifth St., 208-331-5666, www.willibs.

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BENJI & MELISSA: Melissa and I need to go to the same home. I’m a sweet old boy, and Melissa is deeply kind. We don’t ask for much and give everything we have in return.

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Amended Another Notice of Hearing on Name Change. Case No: CVNC09-12540. A Petition to change the name of Cheri L. Gates born on 9/28/67 in Salt Lake City, Utah, residing at 10134 W. Mesquite, Boise, has been filed in ADA County District Court, Idaho.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): You say you not only want to be loved, but that you also want to love? Then learn the fantasies and symbols and beliefs that hold people’s lives together. Be interested in feeling the crushing weight and deep comfort of their web of memories. Every now and then, dive in and swim along in their stream of consciousness.

And yes, be willing to accompany them when they’re writhing in their personal hells as well as when they’re exploring the suburbs of paradise. All these tasks will be exceptionally worthy of your time in the coming weeks.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Right now, you’re like a sulking cherry tree that hasn’t bloomed for years but then inexplicably erupts with pink flowers in midautumn. You’re like a child prodigy who lost her mojo for a while and then suddenly recovers it when her old mentor comes back into her life after a long absence. You’re like a dormant volcano that without any warning spurts out a round of seemingly prophetic smoke signals on the eve of a great victory for the whole world.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Dear Rob: Thanks for being a continued source of careful thinking!

With the help of you and the rather ruthless teachers who are my friends and loved ones, I’m learning the lessons that are most important for me to learn—like how rigorous I have to be in figuring out my intentions, how impeccable I have to be with formulating my desires, and how precise I have to be in expressing myself. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to being an aimless street punk in Berkeley. But in the end, I prefer this tough path I’ve chosen.

—Hard-Working Gemini. Dear Hard-Working: This is an excellent phase in the Gemini life cycle to concentrate on what you named: rigorously figuring out your intentions, impeccably formulating your desires, and expressing yourself precisely.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The British playwright Colley Cibber, who was born 55 years after Shakespeare died, thought that the Bard’s historical drama Richard III needed improvement.

He made extensive revisions, transposing scenes and inserting new material. For 150 years, Cibber’s version was widely performed, effectively replacing Shakespeare’s rendition. I suggest you borrow Cibber’s strategy for your own in the coming weeks. Take something you like and personalize it; make it into your own. Be sure to acknowledge the original, of course. But have fun blending your influence with the prototype as you create a useful and amusing hybrid.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The corny but sometimes useful adages of folk wisdom are still being created afresh in the 21st century. Their breeding ground is no longer the tavern or marketplace, as in centuries past, but rather the Internet. I’ve plucked one of these funky gems out of the ethers for you to contemplate: “Noah’s Ark was built by amateurs, while the Titanic was built by professionals.” How exactly does this apply to you? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re in a phase when a good imagination will count for more than strict logic; when innocent enthusiasm will take you further than know-it-all expertise; and when all the work you do should have a playful spirit fueled by a beginner’s mind.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): To extract enough gold to make a wedding ring, a mining company must process a ton of ore. In a similar way, many writers generate a swamp of unusable sentences on their way to distilling the precise message they really want to deliver. Please keep these examples in mind as you evaluate your own recent progress, Virgo. It may seem like you’re moving at a crawl and producing little of worth. But according to my analysis of the omens, you’re on your way to producing the equivalent of a gold ring.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Were you ever a tiger in one of your past lives? If so, this would be an excellent time to tap into that power. If you have never lived the life of a tiger, would you be willing to imagine that you did? During the coming week’s challenges, you will really benefit from being able to call on the specific kind of intelligence a tiger possesses, as well as its speed, perceptivity, sense of smell, charisma, and beauty. Your homework is to spend 10 minutes envisioning yourself as a tiger.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your circumstances aren’t as dire as you feared, Scorpio. The freaky monster in the closet is bored with spooking you and will soon be departing the premises.

Meanwhile, one of your other tormentors is about to experience some personal sadness that will soften his or her heart toward you. There’s more: The paralysis that has been infecting your funny bone will miraculously cure itself, and the scheduled revelation of the rest of your dirty secrets will be summarily canceled. I hope you’re not feeling so sorry for yourself that you fail to notice this sudden turn in your luck. It may take an act of will for you to wake up to the new dispensations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance,” said

playwright Francoise Sagan. Keep that in mind during the coming week, Sagittarius. Whether or not you actually play or listen to jazz, do whatever’s necessary to cultivate intensified feelings of nonchalance. It’s extremely urgent for you to be blithe and casual. You desperately need to practice nonattachment as you develop your ability to not care so much about things you can’t control. You’ve got to be ferociously disciplined as you transcend the worries and irritations that won’t really matter much in the big scheme of things.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “There are two rules for ultimate success in life,” wrote L. M. Boyd. “First, never tell everything you know.” While that may be the conventional wisdom about how to build up one’s personal power, I prefer to live by a different principle. Personally, I find that as I divulge everything I know, I keep knowing more and more that wasn’t available to me before.

The act of sharing connects me to fresh sources. Open-hearted communication doesn’t weaken me, but just the reverse: It feeds my vitality. This is the approach I recommend to you in the coming days, Capricorn. Tell everything.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Writing in The New Yorker, Adam Gopnik named two characters from literature that well-educated people tend to identify with.

“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch,” he said, while “women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think that they are disinherited monarchs.” That’s a funny thought in light of your current omens, Aquarius, which suggest that you’re a reasonable creature who clearly sees how much you’re like a disinherited monarch. The omens go on to say that there’s a good chance you will have excellent intuition about what to do in order to partially restore yourself to power.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dear Rob: Help! I have a sinking feeling that the man I love and want to be with for the rest of my life is almost but not quite courageous enough to be truly and deeply intimate with me.

What should I do? —Downcast Piscean. Dear Downcast: Ask yourself if there’s anything you can change about yourself that will help him feel braver. For instance, is there any way, however small, in which you’re manipulative, untrustworthy, dishonest, or unkind? If so, fixing that in yourself could allow your lover to feel a lot closer. By the way, it’s an excellent time, astrologically speaking, for all Pisceans to alter their inner states in order to alter the world around them.

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