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AIDING HAITI Boiseans react, pitch in after the quake

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HEAVY METAL The very dirty secret of an Oregon concrete plant

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FIRST THURSDAY 17 Annual Valentines for AIDS

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BA DA BING! Eli’s Italian Deli

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NOTE THE ONLINE REALITY I spent four days last week at back-to-back conferences in the Bay Area listening to various media types hypothesize and generalize and theorize about the future of the newspaper business, the Web’s indelible mark on the medium and the ways in which the financially catastrophic collision of the print and digital worlds has specifically affected our dayto-day duties in the alt weekly world. In a nutshell: No one has an answer. Still. Print isn’t showing any long-term signs of recovery and monetizing the Web is mostly still a mystery. In the age of on-demand news, which is literally updated globally by the second, weekly newspapers like Boise Weekly struggle to reconcile our comfort with long-form, in-depth, printed narrative with the break-neck speed of the digital news world. To what extent and by what means alt weeklies accomplish that feat has been the ubiquitous topic of discussion for months among myself and my peers at other alt weeklies in the country. At last week’s conferences, I realized just how far ahead of the curve BW is. We’re blogging, we’re deeply entrenched in the social networking world, we video blog, we have a videographer, we’ve just launched a TV show, we update our readers via e-mail, text and mobile platforms … Some of the editors and writers I chatted up at the conference were incredulous that we are able to accomplish so much without diluting our mission as a weekly newspaper. In my opinion, we don’t have a choice. We still believe wholeheartedly in our original mission: that nothing contributes to the well-being of a community more than a good local newspaper. But these days a good local newspaper does more for its readers than sit on a shelf for a week. I wrote this Note in a Berkeley coffeeshop, and as I began writing, I looked around and counted 11 laptops, two newspapers and one novel. By the time I’d reached this final paragraph, one of those newspaper readers had vacated his table and been replaced by two college students and their laptops. A sign of times to come? Like I said, no one has the answers yet, but if the last 10 years of media are any indication of the next 10, the world looks like a mighty digital place. —Rachael Daigle

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INSIDE EDITOR’S NOTE

MAIL / MONDO GAGA

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NEWS The other Idahoans in Haiti UNDA THE ROTUNDA

ATTACK OF THE KILLER POTATOES Thought your spud was just a passive tuber waiting for a fryer? Think again. Botanists have determined that potatoes have evolved sticky hairs to trap and kill insects. “Feed me, Seymour.” More at Cobweb.

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IMMIGRATION LEGISLATION RETURNS Last week, the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee agreed to hearings on a far-reaching bill sponsored by Sen. Mike Jorgenson that cracks down on employment, licensing and public services to undocumented immigrants in Idaho. Get an update at citydesk.

FUTBOL, THE SOCCER WAY FBM Fidel Nshombo continues BW’s soccer coverage with a post at The Grip about Egypt’s triumph over Ghana in the 85th minute of the African Cup of Nations game.

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MAIL COPE’S COMMENTS OFF COLOR Wow, Bill Cope. Your stunning apologist piece for Harry Reid misses the mark completely (BW, Opinion, “Off Color,” Jan. 20, 2010). Or rather, misses the remark. There is no amount of awkward reasoning that will justify Reid’s comments, particularly your flawed argument that “ultimately, the observation proved to be right.” Stating that a candidate was elected to office because of qualities they don’t have is a logical fallacy that ignores a lifetime of achievements, education and preparation for office that qualified them for the job. By the same reasoning, it could be argued that Harry Reid was elected because he has “no negro dialect.” This is the essence of the offense at Harry

Reid’s comments. Is he a racist? I don’t believe so. But he speaks with the eloquence and understanding of a 1960s-era soda jerk. Which leads me to the rest of your column: Do you honestly believe that the majority of white people get their impressions of black people from TV, like drooling goons soaking up episodes of What’s Happenin’? Where in the hell do you get off justifying your comparison to Amos and Andy by assuming that “so few” white people would recognize the names of black leaders? This type of condescension does no service to your argument that liberal readers of your column can see a ﬁne line drawn between Reid’s comments and those of Trent Lott. Both are clearly living in the past, and both have failed to

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grasp a vernacular of racial enlightenment. There may well be a conspiracy within the RNC to appear in kind with all races of Americans. There is no doubt amongst liberals about the prevailing attitudes toward equality held by the leaders of that party. But you digress in stooping to Harry Reid’s level of reasoning with your argument that Michael Steele was elected solely because he is black. It is astounding that even now, in 2010, individuals with a public voice lack the intelligence and the humanity to extend credibility beyond skin color and racial stereotypes to success and education. In his remarks, Harry Reid fails to give due credit to President Obama’s accomplishments. You, Mr. Cope, do the same to Michael Steele. Narrowminded views and assignation of achievement to some sort of racial trump card are the fodder of closet racists everywhere, Mr. Cope. —Mark Spencer, Hailey

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OPINION/BILL COPE

THE KILL JOY Otter’s inferior past is Idaho’s inferior future What kind of people never watch PBS? You’re thinking: “Cope’s about to go off another deep end here and wallow in a foul sump of over-generalization.” Not true! Yes, I am about to wallow in a sump of generalization, but it is not overgeneralization (or even mildly exaggerated generalization) as it is clear to anyone with the eyes to see and the brains to interpret that a great many people are satisfied—dare I say enthused—about being lumped together like poorly mashed potatoes with others who share their passions. (Bronco Nation ... need I say more?) Further, there is evidence aplenty that Americans are as divided in matters of culture and taste and intellectual curiosity as they are in their politics. Therefore, when I start with a question like, “What kind of people never watch PBS?” I am confident the limb I will soon shinny out on will hold the weight of my argument. So then ... on to what kind of people never watch PBS: People who have never missed a lap of the Daytona 500. Honestly, would it come as a surprise to learn that anyone entertained by watching noisy, garishly painted cars run around in circles has never seen a Jane Austen or Dickens tale as told on Masterpiece? Or the pro wrestling crowd: would you, skeptical reader, expect to find a bleacher of Steve Austin fans at an episode of Great Performances? Global warming deniers and disavowers of evolution, I do not see them tuning in to Nova, Nature or anything with Alan Alda in it, do you? Far too much demonstrable science for their delicate minds. And home schoolers ... what use would home schoolers have with Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow when there’s a Bible in the house? Heavy drinkers, meth addicts, wild-eyed Libertarians and biker gangs—I bet good money they don’t watch Globe Trekker or Gwen Ifill’s show. And I double that if any of them could tell Bill Moyers apart from the last guy they slugged in a bar. Rodeo people. I question whether anyone who enjoys seeing a doggie roped or a bull rode has any use for anything as complicated as Jane Tennison solving a murder on Mystery or a Frontline expose of the credit card racket. Students who do poorly in school, selfsatisfied ideologues who already believe they have all the answers, an alarming portion of the Idaho Legislature, and monster truck enthusiasts ... can we expect them to sit through a Ken Burns’ epic documentary? I mean, really. That would take a measurable attention span, yes? Oh, and our governor. According to Lori Otter, Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter never watches PBS, either. “There you go again, Cope. You with your snooty, scornful elitism!” No, that’s not true either. Not entirely. I mean, I didn’t set out to be an elitist. In the

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beginning, I didn’t once think my proclivities were more polished than ... oh, let’s say ... Otter’s. And to this day, I’m still a scrubby Idaho farm boy at heart, albeit with an abiding respect and love for what great talents and great minds have bequeathed our humble species. The way I see it, I stayed the same, while huge slabs of the American demographic sunk like wet dung around me. Nope, I’m no elitist. And I can only be considered one when seen in perspective with the—(new word!)—inferiorists who toil so diligently to drag America down to their depths. Write that down—“inferiorists”—and feel free to use it. Other than the more widely recognized terms—hillbilly, yahoo, knuckledragger, tea-bagger—what better to call those who so willfully avoid the elevated accomplishments that for many of us define the finest in human endeavor. I consider the Public Broadcasting System one of those elevated accomplishments. Here we have an effort, made by a generous and responsive side of government, to bring to the citizenry the finest in a multitude of human endeavors—art, science, education, civil discourse, travel—summed up: our common heritage. PBS is government at its best, and I am more than happy to have my taxes used for such a blessing. Sadly, our doggie-choking governor’s approach to leadership amounts to, “If it brings joy to people, government has no business doing it.” We are in hard times, truly—compliments of the economic policies of another inferiorist who relished dressing up like a cowboy—and we might understand Otter’s need to pare funding across the spectrum, including that minuscule portion of the state budget that helps support Idaho Public Television. Yet Butch is not content to make IdahoPTV suffer temporarily along with every other facet of the state’s business only until the economy gets healthy. He’s not paring them back; he’s rubbing them out. “You lie, Cope! Otter only wants IdahoPTV to carry its own weight. If you snotty snobs want it, you snotty snobs should pay for it. Why should my tax dollars go to anything that makes you happy?” Same reason my tax dollars go to things that make you happy, Bubba. Why should I be paying for that bridge you take to work every morning? Or that school your kid goes to? Or that buffoon you send to the Legislature every winter? Because that’s what civilized people do for one another, that’s why. And it’s not my fault if you don’t have whatever it takes to appreciate something beyond your own meager world. Frankly, that’s the most disgusting aspect to this matter of Otter and IdahoPTV. He never watches, so he’s blissfully ignorant about what he’ll be stealing from Idahoans. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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THE MEMORY HOLE Haiti news coverage turns sublimely ridiculous LOS ANGELES—George Orwell’s main character in 1984 worked for a government ministry that controlled the future by changing the past. Its most effective tool: the Memory Hole. Pieces of history went in—poof!—never to be heard from again. Afterward, it was as if those particular events had never happened. American news producers and editors have long been masters of the Memory Hole, purposefully omitting the most relevant information in stories that would otherwise make the current regime look bad. “President Hugo Chavez,” reported The Washington Post in 2005, “has recently accused President [George W.] Bush of plotting to assassinate him.” Going on to slam Chavez’s supposed “bluster and anti-American showmanship,” the Post left something out: Chavez’s accusation was true. Still, no one could have anticipated the soaring brazenness U.S. media would deploy while “covering” the invasion of Haiti. Vanished from news accounts of Operation Haitian Freedom—poof!—was the United States’ century-long raping and pillaging of the country, including several CIA-backed coups that installed vicious dictators and a brutal occupation by U.S. Marines lasting decades. Hundreds of candidates deserved this week’s Haiti Memory Hole Prize, but the winner is Portland, Ore.’s daily newspaper, The Oregonian, which published an editorial titled “A muscular paternalism for Haiti” with an incredible thesis: “If the nations of the world had devoted to Haiti only a fraction of the diplomatic and military energy they have spent over the past ﬁve decades on nearby Cuba, the country would be far more advanced and able to aid in its own recovery today.”

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In other words, Haiti’s problem isn’t that the United States expropriated 40 percent of its GDP from 1915 to 1947. Or that the United States installed the father-and-son Duvalier dictators, who looted the Haitian treasury of more than $1 billion. Or that the CIA twice deposed Haiti’s popular, and only democratically elected president because he had the gall to push through an increase in the minimum wage for Haitians who work in sweatshops owned by U.S. companies. “Perhaps the scope of the current disaster will at last shock these countries, including the United States, to conduct a muscular intervention into Haitian affairs,” said The Oregonian. “At last”? What do they call a 20-yearlong military occupation? Half a dozen military coups? At least The New York Times acknowledged “Haiti’s long history of foreign intervention, including an American occupation” in its coverage. It’s true that President Bill Clinton brought Jean-Bertrand Aristide back to power, but his predecessor had ordered a CIA coup that removed him. Aristide wasn’t “forced out of ofﬁce” by some mysterious random power. The Times’ editors knew that. After all, their own newspaper ran a page-one story on March 1, 2004, titled “Aristide Flees After a Shove From the U.S.” So when Aristide “accused the United States of orchestrating his ouster,” he was “accusing” the United States of doing what The New York Times reported that it did. What I want to know is: Why do editors and producers leave out the basic facts? It’s not like they get a call from Big Brother ordering them to spin or delete historical facts from their coverage. They do it voluntarily.

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NEWS

TO HAITI WITH LOVE Idahoans reﬂect on the quake and the aftermath ANNE-MARIJE ROOK While a group of 10 American missionaries —led by members of a Meridian church— stole international headlines this week when they were accused of child trafﬁcking in Haiti, Idahoans with deep ties to the devastated island have been working long hours to do whatever they can to help Haiti and its people. Nearly three weeks since a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, killing some 150,000

doing and then they start to list who died, who is injured or who is missing. While the damage was less, people are frantic for family members on the mainland, especially children going to high school in Port-au-Prince.” Casey said that the members of Courageous Women are doing what they can to help their community and the 10,000 children who were sent to them from the city. ANNA HU SARSKA/THE IRC

A bill officially dubbed the Idaho Health Freedom Act promises a court challenge to any federal effort to mandate health coverage by barring state officials from enforcing health insurance coverage mandates. Rep. Jim Clark’s bill, with urging from both Tea Party and state GOP players, would empower the Idaho Attorney General’s Office to fight national health-coverage mandates on a state’s rights basis. “Citizens should have the right to pay directly for health-care services with their own money,” Clark told the House State Affairs Committee during the hearing. The bill, HB 391, could cost up to $100,000 for an extra attorney, which Clark indicated was a small price to pay: “I think our rights are even worth more than $100,000 per year … so it could cost us that,” Clark said. While the bill applies to personal and business insurance coverage mandates, Clark indicated it would make a single-payer system unconstitutional as well. “Single-payer systems like in Canada make it illegal for citizens to go outside of the government health-care plan and contract for their own medical services. House Bill 391 will make this fundamental provision of single-payer health care unconstitutional,” he testified. Besides the fact that Canadians can choose to buy private health care, single-payer advocates also oppose personal mandates. “Single payer is not a mandate, basically it’s Medicare for everybody,” said Lou Schlickman, a Meridian physician and singlepayer advocate. “We’re not into the mandate plan at all ... because when the government says, ‘here take this government handout and use it to buy private health insurance,’ that’s one step closer to Fascism.” Would the Health Freedom Act apply to a single-payer system? The answer is that it does not matter because the bill and the response from Democrats is a political statement, not a policy statement. Idaho GOP Executive Director Jonathan Parker testified that the State Central Committee unanimously supported the concept earlier in the month, including opposition to mandatory immunizations. The bill was co-sponsored by two fellow Republicans: First Congressional District candidate Rep. Raul Labrador and Rep. Lynn Luker. The five Democrats on the committee voted against the bill, even though mandates for coverage can be seen as an Obama administration handout to insurance companies and Virginia Democrats recently approved a similar measure. The bill passed the committee, but is being amended to address the concerns of an astute blogger. Tara Rowe, at The Political Game, wrote on Jan. 14, that while the Legislature was whining about mandates from the Feds, they had themselves mandated compulsory health coverage for Idaho college students just a few years ago. Rowe concludes: “Is your message to Idahoans ‘do as I say, not as I do?’ Because while you posit yourselves as defenders of ‘good government,’ a phrase most of us are sick of, the facts make you all look like fools in glass houses.” —Nathaniel Hoffman

A bucket, a few pots, a mattress and a large teddy bear are all this family managed to rescue from their damaged house.

to 200,000 people, international aid workers and peacekeepers are struggling to get food, water and other supplies to those in need. The Haitian government, still recovering from the shock, knows that international attention will soon fade. “In disasters like these, people are good at responding in a big way immediately, but the focus stops long before a person has the sense that they’re able to move on,” said Nancy Casey, a Haiti activist from Moscow. Casey has visited Haiti numerous times and works with a grassroots organization called Courageous Women on the Haitian island of LaGonave. “The situation is amazing, in a mind boggling kind of way,” Casey said. “The loss is immense. Whole family tree branches just disappeared.” Casey has been in e-mail contact with her friends on LaGonave and said that outside of the capital, Port-au-Prince, casualties are fewer, as life is lived mostly outdoors. “The e-mails I get are touching,” Casey said. “They start out well, asking how I am

“Right now, there are so many Haitians working so hard to prevent food riots, to deal with the fact that there is no cash, and deal with the injuries and sanitation problems. There are so many more Haitians being good to one another than there is aid from foreigners,” she said. In March, Casey will return to Haiti where she plans to stay indeﬁnitely. “My heart is there—both pieces of it. And when the people you care about are suffering, you just want to be there,” she said. Meanwhile, Christina Crow-Cruz from the International Rescue Committee in Boise returned from Haiti last week. Crow-Cruz had been working for two NGOs in Haiti from September 2005 until last May. She was there for political unrest in 2004, for hurricanes in 2008 and for food riots last April. When the earthquake struck, The Haitian Project asked her to come back for her leadership and support. Located a few miles outside of Port-auPrince, The Haitian Project is an NGO that supports and operates Louverture Cleary

School, a tuition-free Catholic boarding school for middle and high school students who are academically gifted but economically challenged. The school and its students were unharmed by the earthquake. “The earthquake hit mostly downtown in a concentrated area and, generally, I was surprised how good things looked just a few miles outside of the city,” Crow-Cruz said. “Walking around the town, it looked like any other day.” Still, in Haiti, “any other day” doesn’t look good. Haiti is a country where, according to the International Monetary Fund, more than half the population survives on 44 cents a day, most people are illiterate and there’s a huge gap between the wealthy and the poor. “The rebuilding process is going to be a huge process,” Crow-Cruz said. “But there were so many needs in Haiti before the earthquake. Things like food, sanitation and access to water has always been an issue,” she said. “Tragedies have been part of the Haitian culture for so long and the Haitian people are very strong and resilient,” she added. Seventeen civil engineers with the Idaho Air National Guard are also awaiting deployment to the island to help with infrastructure needs. And several Idaho families are welcoming Haitian adoptees to their new homes, a process not without controversy. Abby and Scott Hoefer were in the last phase of the adoption process to bring their son Alex home when the earthquake struck. A judge in Haiti who was supposed to sign off on their adoption papers had been killed and most adoptions were halted. “We had six to12 more months to go,” Abby Hoefer said. “When the earthquake hit, we didn’t know if we’d ever get him.” Then, on Jan. 20, they got the call to fly to Miami as soon as possible. Alex, along with 80 other children from the God’s Littlest Angels orphanage, were granted humanitarian visas. “The orphanage had swayed back and forth but held up,” Hoefer said. “We are sorry that is what it took to get him home.” Along with other local families, they turned to Rep. Walt Minnick’s office for help. Minnick spokesman Dean Ferguson said they are working to expedite the process for five more Idaho families. But that may be complicated by the actions of a group of 10 missionaries led by members of the Meridian-based Central Valley Baptist Church. The group took the Haitian orphans issue into their own hands when they tried to take 33 children out of Haiti last week. Haitian officials detained the church members and found that many of the children were not, in fact, orphans. At press time, it had not been decided whether the missionaries would go before a judge in Haiti or the United States. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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THE STATE’S BURNING NEEDS Medicinal marijuana and hemp make a showing unda’ ANDREW CRISP A cubicle in the natural-light-ﬁlled bowels of the Statehouse is adorned with containers of Tempt brand “milk” products and empty cartons of Tempt’s “frozen dessert.” Sipping from a paper cup, the creamy chocolate beverage tastes an awful lot like milk. But while licking our lips, Unda’ the Rotunda learned that the Canadian beverage contains no dairy at all—it is made from hemp seeds. “We’re the only industrialized nation that doesn’t allow the growth of this stuff. I read that it had something to do with DuPont lobbying after World War II for the banning of hemp growth. We’re currently shipping tens of millions of dollars to Canada [for hemp products],” said Boise Rep. Brian Cronin, a Democrat and one of a growing number of bi-partisan Idaho legislators, including Republican Rep. Eric Anderson of Priest Lake, supporting the end of prohibition on hemp production in the United States. Rep. Tom Trail of Moscow plans to introduce two cannabis-related bills in the coming weeks. The hemp resolution urges the federal government—along the lines of HR 1866, which Texas Republican Rep. Ron Paul introduced to Congress a year ago—to allow the cultivation of industrial hemp, banned since 1970. The other bill would legalize marijuana for medical use, similar to measures in effect in Oregon, Washington, Nevada and Montana. “I’ve gotten more e-mails on this than any other piece of legislation. A lot of them are people who suffer from severe trauma and injury, and so forth, or medical conditions,” Trail said. “I’ve talked to many doctors who back it up, who say marijuana’s the only thing that can relieve pain.” Recreational use of marijuana has long been

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prohibited in the United States, but the American Medical Association has now endorsed loosening restrictions on cannabis to allow for more medical research. The states that have allowed medical use have narrow guidelines that stipulate which conditions warrant a marijuana ID card. Ailments include cancer, anorexia, AIDS, chronic pain, spasticity, glaucoma, arthritis, migraine or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief, according to the California Medical Marijuana Program. Trail’s major concern in drafting the bill was ensuring that the program is revenueneutral, meaning that it requires no extra general funds from the state. According to the Oregon Medical Marijuana Project, the funds from marijuana licensing are the sole source of funding for the department. “The growers and suppliers have to receive a permit—which they pay for—and this all goes into a fund that helps pay for the expenses of the program of health and welfare. And also, each individual patient has to obtain, and pay a fee for a license,” Trail said. This model could work for Idaho, he added. But California’s budget has also beneﬁtted from taxes applied to sales. As of Dec. 31, 2009, 55 of 58 counties in California were issuing medical marijuana identiﬁcation cards, said Ronald Owens, a spokesman for California’s medical marijuana program. Dispensaries are licensed to sell to cardholders. They are essentially co-ops, with a registered group of members. Members can purchase an ounce, subject to sales tax collected by the state. According to the Los Angeles Times, there are an estimated 2,100 dispensaries across the state of California. Each of these cooperatives is licensed with the state just like any other business. And

taxed like any other business. “We only work the retail side. It’s our job to collect sales and use tax, a normal sales tax, charged like any other type of property. Our estimates are around $200 million are made in California from marijuana sales,” said Anita Gore, a spokesperson for the California State Board of Equalization. That $200 million, according to Gore, is an estimate of the annual revenue received from taxing marijuana sales alone. To put that in perspective, $200 million is about 10 times the amount Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter estimates can be saved by his project of weaning small state agencies off the general fund. The uneasy relationship between greenfriendly states and the continued War on Drugs in Washington, D.C., continues even now. Unda’ the Rotunda spoke with one man who, at one time operated a legal grow operation in California after Proposition 215 passed. “The biggest complaint from medical marijuana producers is that they’re afraid to pay their taxes. They end up continually laundering money …” he said. “They’re hesitant to put their business on their tax forms because it’s still illegal federally. There’s a very lucrative industry for dirty accountants who’ll help them write off their profits …” While the hemp bill appears to be gaining ground—the hemp plant does not have any psychoactive properties—Unda’ could not find a single Idaho legislator who would join Trail on his medicinal quest. In California, easing the laws on marijuana has made it a less criminal enterprise and birthed an entirely new, highly profitable growth industry that supports the state government as well as other local businesses. That’s the free market at work.

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that its actual emissions were even higher—about 2,500 pounds per year. That ﬁrmly established the Durkee facility as the nation’s dirtiest cement plant in terms of mercury, responsible for 10 percent of the mercury emitted by the 101 Portland cement plants across the country (24 are located in Western states). Perhaps more startling, this amount was 800 pounds greater than the amount of mercury reported by the nation’s top mercury-emitting coal plant in the same year. Mercury released from the Durkee plant during the last 30 years has been deposited both regionally and globally. Yet the attendant ecological and health effects are just now beginning to be understood. The story of Ash Grove’s vast and underreported emissions offers insight into an industry that has operated for years with little federal oversight and no accounting for several of its most toxic byproducts. It also illustrates the critical and prolonged failure of the EPA to apply the Clean Air Act to one of the nation’s largest and dirtiest industrial sectors. The Durkee facility, Oregon’s only cement plant, is operated by the largest U.S.-owned cement company, Ash Grove Cement. In 2008, the company reported $1.2 billion in sales. That same year, it also reached an agreement with the state of Oregon to cut its mercury emissions by installing a carbon injection system. I visited Durkee in November, hoping to see the new $20 million mercury control system, reportedly in the initial phases of construction. But my request for a tour was denied. Jacqueline Clark, Ash Grove’s head of public relations, e-mailed me that the Durkee plant was facing imminent layoffs and could not accommodate a tour. Indeed, a few months earlier, Ash Grove announced plans to halt production at its nine U.S. plants, including Durkee. (In early December, the company temporarily ceased production and laid off more than half of the plant’s 115 workers.) Company ofﬁcials said they might close the facility altogether if proposed federal regulations on mercury are enacted next year.

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he whole matter of the missing mercury might have slipped by unnoticed. But Patty Jacobs, a permit writer for the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, decided to check the math. In 2005, after a federal mercury-reduction rule was passed (since vacated by the U.S. Court of Appeals), Jacobs and the nation’s other regulators began paying attention to coal-fired power plants, a major source of the mercury building up in the nation’s waterways. The Boardman, Ore., plant, a coal-fired facility 160 miles east of Portland, reported that it had put 281 pounds of toxic metal into the air that year. That ostensibly made the plant the largest mercury source in Jacobs’ territory, which covered much of central and eastern Oregon. Even small amounts of mercury can cause harm. Once the metal is deposited in a lake or river, bacteria convert it to an organic form called methylmercury. From there, it works its way upward through aquatic microorganisms and insects, intensifying in the tissue of fish and, eventually, in the animals and people that consume them. Exposure to high levels of mercury causes reproductive declines and developmental problems in wildlife. Human babies exposed in utero suffer an increased risk of neurological disorders, including attention deficit and impaired coordination. In adults, mercury consumption has been linked to memory loss, muscle tremors and impaired vision. To learn more about other mercury sources in her territory, Jacobs dug into the Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory, a public repository of emissions data. She learned that in 2005, the Ash Grove cement plant, located in the town of Durkee in eastern Oregon, reported emitting 631 pounds of mercury— more than twice the amount reported by the Boardman power plant. To Jacobs, a self-described “numbers geek,” that was a red flag. Checking the T.R.I. figures against Durkee’s 2005 air-quality permit, she estimated that the plant’s total mercury emissions should have been closer to 1,400 pounds. Jacobs contacted the company to double-check her findings. Ash Grove performed its own tests and found

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Although Ash Grove refused to allow a visit, Justin Hayes, program director of the Boise-based Idaho Conservation League, suggested that a look at the facility’s exterior might be instructive. So we made the hour-anda-half drive from Boise on a warm afternoon. The plant itself is situated on the west side of Interstate 84, tucked into a steep-sided valley along a bend in the Burnt River. Hayes has been key in the regional ﬁght against mercury pollution. He has negotiated mercury reductions with large industrial players such as Monsanto, and his scientiﬁc sleuthing helped to reveal massive emissions from northern Nevada gold mines. Hayes is particularly concerned about the Durkee plant because metropolitan Boise, with its rapidly growing suburbs, sits less than

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100 miles downwind. An avid fisherman, Hayes also bemoans the fact that many of the area’s world-class fisheries have become mercury repositories. On the way to Durkee, we passed the husk of the old cement plant at Lime, Ore., which operated from 1922 to 1980. Hayes commented that it would make a good set for a post-apocalyptic, Mad Max-type action film. He’s right, but the site is unlikely to be used for anything anytime soon. According to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, its soil is heavily contaminated with PCBs, arsenic, residual petroleum and hydrocarbons—the toxic byproducts of six decades of cement manufacturing. A little past Lime, we pulled into a dirt parking lot outside the Durkee plant’s main

gate. Above us, a high-pitched metallic whine emanated from a conveyer chute: crushed limestone being transported from quarry to kiln. A layer of light gray cement dust—4 or 5 inches deep—coated a concrete highway divider. Hayes scooped up a handful and let it pour out of his fist. “The dust control could be better here,” he said. “Don’t you think?” Mixed with gravel, sand and water, cement becomes concrete, a material as ubiquitous and seemingly benign as you will find in the built landscape. It is fundamental to growth— strengthening structures, hardening highways and sidewalks, underlying our cities like synthetic bedrock. In 2008, American plants supplied a staggering 189 billion pounds of raw cement and clinker, a cement precursor. Although that figure represents a 30 percent

decline from 2006, when construction was still surging, enough cement was made in the United States last year to spackle an area roughly the size of Delaware in pavement onequarter inch thick. Portland cement, the light gray powder found in everything from concrete to stucco, accounts for more than 95 percent of the cement produced in the United States. The recipe has changed little in 150 years. It still requires mountains of calcium carbonate or limestone, which, in eastern Oregon, tends to be loaded with mercury derived from the region’s volcanic history. Volkswagen-sized chunks of the rock are blasted loose, hauled in goliath front-end loaders and fed into a series of crushers. Then the limestone fragments are powdered and mixed with metal oxides that help determine the cement’s compressive strength and hardening time. This mixture is then sent to massive kilns—some as long as football fields—which reach temperatures of at least 2,500 degrees F. During heating, the limestone is chemically transformed into “clinker,” pebble-like pellets that are mixed with a little gypsum and ground into the fine flour we know as cement. The process releases large quantities of carbon dioxide and—in the case of Durkee— vast amounts of mercury vapor. Mercury is also released from the coal burned as fuel in the kiln, but the amount is minuscule compared to what’s baked out of the limestone. The mercury leaves the stack in one of three forms—as an elemental gas, a divalent gas or as a sort of varnish coating dust particles. Elemental mercury rises high into the atmosphere, merging with an ethereal “global pool” of mercury. It can remain aloft for a year or more before falling out of the atmosphere. The divalent and dust-bound mercury is heavier and tends to precipitate nearby. Canadian studies suggest that recently deposited divalent mercury is more “reactive” than elemental mercury and therefore more readily transformed to methylmercury. This heavier, more reactive mercury shows up in high concentrations in the Burnt River, which roils blue and chalky past the plant. Twenty-five miles downstream, it merges with the Snake River at Brownlee Reservoir, on the Oregon-Idaho border. Mercury advisories are listed for all species of sport fish caught there. But the undisputed hotspot along Brownlee’s 58-mile length is the Burnt River inlet, where the river slows and the mercury carried from the Durkee plant settles out. Tissue samples collected from smallmouth bass and catfish here contained twice as much mercury as the next most contaminated Brownlee sample, exceeding the Food and Drug Administration’s mercury “action level” of one part per million by 40 percent. The Powder River Watershed, 20 miles to the north, has also received heavy doses of Durkee mercury. The EPA estimates that of the 231 pounds of mercury deposited annually in the watershed, a full 150 pounds comes from Durkee. Most of the rest comes from the global pool, generated largely by Asian factories. Since the passage of the Clean Air Act in 1970, the nation’s cement plants have functioned in a regulatory blind spot. In 1990, the Clean Air Act was amended to require emitters—including cement kilns—to meet standards for a host of nearly 200 pollutants, including mercury. Rules were issued for coal-fired power plants, hazardous waste WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

incinerators and other emitters, but the EPA failed to set rules for cement kilns by the 1997 deadline. In 1999, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia found the EPA in violation of the Clean Air Act and gave the agency two years to issue new rules for cement kilns. It was a deadline the EPA failed—and would repeatedly fail—to meet. “Over the last 12 years, we sued EPA over and over, and we won over and over,” says James Pew, an attorney with Earthjustice, the environmental law firm that headed the campaign for regulation. “There’s a long string of court decisions saying, ‘EPA, you’re doing this wrong ...’ They weren’t terribly interested in what the courts said or what the law said.” Then, last April, the EPA reversed course, announcing its determination to make cement plants comply with the Clean Air Act. (Many attribute that decision to a pro-regulation shift at the agency after the 2008 presidential election.) The proposed new rules—expected to be finalized this year—are part of the EPA’s National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants, or NESHAP, program and cover an array of pollutants including sulfur dioxide, particulates, hydrocarbons, hydrochloric acid and mercury. Separate EPA reports estimate that curbing emissions from cement plants nationwide, including an 81 percent cut in mercury, will prevent between 620 and 1,600 deaths a year and reduce national health costs by between $4.4 billion and $11 billion. But it’s difficult to assess the ecological and health effects of past emissions from the nation’s cement plants. Until 2000, the EPA did not even require the plants to report their hazardous emissions to its Toxics Release Inventory database. Because of the lack of reliable data, estimates of the amount of mercury vary wildly. In 2006, for example, the EPA doubled an estimate from earlier that year—from 12,000 to nearly 23,000 pounds annually—after it found evidence of widespread underreporting. As of 2007, according to the agency, 8,500 waterways in 43 states were listed as “impaired” with mercury. Even if the laws could be tightened tomorrow—and mercury emissions could be “turned off” like water from a tap—the problems would persist for decades, says Don Essig, a water quality specialist with the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. Like carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, mercury remains in aquatic ecosystems for a long time. And mercury is not the only dangerous pollutant coming from the nation’s cement plants. Worldwide, cement production contributes significantly to climate change, with cement plants accounting for roughly 5 percent of manmade carbon dioxide emissions. Coal and petroleum coke are the most common fuel sources, but a number of plants are permitted to burn “alternative” fuels, including slaughterhouse waste, old tires and railroad ties. (Cement kilns permitted to burn “hazardous wastes,” including ink solvents and petroleum residues, have been regulated under NESHAP since 1999.) Industry representatives say that these materials would otherwise clog landfills, and the high heat within the kilns prevents the formation of potentially harmful constituents. But critics argue that plants that burn such fuels release particulates, dioxins, furans and heavy metals, and should be regulated as waste incinerators. (None of those pollutants would be controlled under the new NESHAP WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

rules.) In addition, fly ash from coal-fired power plants and slag from iron blast furnaces are often mixed into the cement as strengtheners and can significantly increase the metal content of emissions. The Durkee plant’s new mercury-control system is supposed to be completed in July 2010, according to the company. A scaleddown prototype of the filtration system— which uses powdered carbon to trap mercury in the exhaust stream—cut mercury by 70 to 95 percent in test runs. The mercury reduction agreement reached between the company and state in 2008 requires an 85 percent cut in emissions. However, that will be overridden if the EPA rules go into effect next year, says Douglas Welch, an engineer with the Oregon State Department of Environmental Quality. The new federal rules would require the Durkee plant to cut mercury by about 98 percent by 2013, a goal Welch doubts is attainable. “At a certain point, you inject more and more carbon and you get diminishing returns on mercury,” Welch says. He is also unsure whether the reductions achieved in the scaled-down tests can be duplicated when applied to the entire system. “In the worst case,” says Welch, “it’s conceivable that they’d have to close up shop for good.” Not surprisingly, cement industry representatives fiercely oppose the new standards. Andy O’Hare of the Portland Cement Association, a Skokie, Ill.-based industry group, has even questioned their legality, saying that new emissions standards must be “demonstrable and achievable.” The ability of any one facility to simultaneously reduce mercury, sulfur dioxide, particulate matter, hydrocarbons and hydrochloric acid to the levels specified under the new standards, he says, has not been demonstrated. The potential loss of Durkee foreshadows an ominous trend, O’Hare warns: the mass outsourcing of U.S. cement production. Compounding the economic loss would be an increase in overall global emissions because cement would be made in countries with lax environmental standards, such as Venezuela, Indonesia and China. “We’re working closely with EPA to ensure that whatever rules are passed next year allow us to keep these highpaying jobs in the U.S.,” says O’Hare. Ash Grove is pushing for a regulatory “subcategory” at Durkee—a special designation that would allow the plant to emit more mercury than stipulated under the new rules. “We have strong community support to create a subcategory for our Durkee plant based on the high level of naturally occurring mercury in the limestone,” Ash Grove spokeswoman Jacqueline Clark wrote in an e-mail. “We have also garnered the support of area community elected officials, state elected officials and federal elected officials.” Hayes, however, prefers to frame the issue of mercury pollution in moral terms—as an affront to his young children as well as to future generations of anglers. “No matter what anyone says, I’m not against industry,” says Hayes. “But if Ash Grove can’t make their cement without putting poison into the air and into the water and into the fish, then they should absolutely go out of business.” This story first appeared in High Country News.

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Winter is a whole lot cooler at the McCall Winter Carnival.

WEDNESDAYSUNDAY FEB. 3-7 carnival 45TH ANNUAL MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL It’s time once again for the Annual McCall Winter Carnival. This year the carnival turns 45—and isn’t 45 is the new 21? In fact, to show folks that this oldie-butgoodie hasn’t slowed down one bit, it’s rolling out the Recession Reliever Romp. This concert event will be held at the Golf Course Clubhouse on Friday, Feb. 5, at 6 p.m. to raise funds for the annual Summer Music Festival at Roseberry and the McCall Nordic Ski Team. In addition to live music from Gizzard Stone, Nahko and Medicine for the People, The Yurt Brothers and Carter Freeman, there will be food, a full bar, a silent auction and plenty of door prizes. While the traditional draw to the Winter Carnival has always been the ice sculptures, there are countless other reasons to make the trek into the mountains. For a whole 10 days, the town will ﬁll with—deep breath—sleigh rides, snowmobiling, elk viewing, a backyard barbeque at Ruper t’s, a slew of standup comics, a casino night, Bingo, a dog pull, wine and ar t jubilees, and a fun run. There’s even a Mardi Gras parade, ice skating,

dance Matt Hopper is a lover not a Haiter.

SATURDAY FEB. 6 fundraiser BOISE HEARTS HAITI Two weeks ago, Jesse Larsen sprung out of bed with a great idea: He would gather musicians and artists in the community to help raise money for charities working in Haiti. “I just woke up one day and was like, ‘You know, I’ve got a lot of free time, maybe I should do something for the community.’” Larsen and pal Lauren Tweedy threw up a Facebook page and got the ball rolling. David Hale donated the Linen Building for the evening and local artists like Erin Ruiz, Ben Wilson, Allison Halligan, Jonathan Benton, Erin Cunningham, Sue Latta, James Calentino, Jeff Baker, Grant Olsen, Tim Andreae and Jenny Burdin agreed to donate work for a silent auction. Also, they got Steve Fulton, Matt Hopper, RevoltRevolt and Bank to play 45-minute to one-hour sets (in that order). “We’re going to set the music up so that it ﬂows organically throughout the evening … from a more mature crowd in the evening during the art auction, toward the younger crowd, more geared toward a concert and a bar at night.” Larsen is asking for a $5 minimum donation at the door, with all proceeds from the event going to Food For the Poor and Doctors Without Borders. “I really want people to realize that when they come together as a community to affect change on a global issue, like something that happened in Haiti, the smaller local issues can beneﬁt as well,” said Larsen. “You can make connections and grow your business and get your name out there, as far as being a philanthropic business owner in Boise.” 6 p.m., $5 donation, The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St. For more information, visit thelinenbuilding.com/BoiseHearts Haiti.htm.

snow tubing and skiing at Ponderosa State Park, Brundage and Tamarack. Not to mention some hair y scar y contests, including sexiest leg, hairiest leg and best beard. And don’t forget the ﬁreworks show.

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Basically, if you can’t ﬁnd something fun to do at the McCall Winter Carnival, it’s your own damn fault. Through Sunday, Feb. 7, various times, FREE, McCall, mccallwintercarnival.com.

CINDERELLA AT BALLET IDAHO While most of us are familiar with Disney’s Cinderella—the story of a pumpkin, a prince with a foot fetish, a plump fairy godmother and a girl so pure, she’s given a morning bath by bluebirds—the fairytale has been around much longer than Walt and his characters. Scholars have traced the tale back to the Greco-Egyptian story of Rhodopis, a rosy-cheeked servant girl forced to do chores while everyone else attends a throw-down hosted by Pharaoh Amasis. After a bird steals Rhodopis’ rose-hued sandal and drops it at the Pharaoh’s feet, he makes each lady in town try on the sandal before ﬁnding sweet Rhodo and making her his new bride. Regardless of which version is your favorite, be sure to check out Ballet Idaho’s oneday-only, two-per formance run of Cinderella at the Morrison Center. The show features the evil antics of Cinderella’s step-monsters as well as lavish scener y by Mike Helms from the Nevada Ballet Theatre, costumes by New York designer A. Christina Giannini and choreography by Ballet Idaho artistic director Peter Anastos. We sure hope they bust out the glass pointe shoes. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m., $20-$50, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

FRIDAY FEB. 5 literacy LEARNING LAB FUNDRAISER Former teacher and real-estate developer John Corcoran spent the first 48 years of his life cheating, lying and stealing to cover up one dir ty secret: He couldn’t read. When Corcoran finally decided to come clean, he gave a hear tfelt speech to the San Diego Council on Literacy: “I’m a university graduate,” he began, “with a bachelor’s degree in education and business administration and over 90 additional graduate units. I attended school for 35 years, half of them as a professional educator. In acquiring these experiences, I could not read a textbook or write the answer to an essay question. This is the first

public acknowledgment that I have ever made, that I have been a functional illiterate for almost 50 years.” Now, Corcoran is a published author, a member of the National Literacy Board and founder of the John Corcoran Foundation who travels the country giving lectures on his journey. On Friday, Feb. 5, Corcoran heads to Boise to speak at the Learning Lab’s annual Lunch for Literacy fundraiser. In addition to Corcoran’s speech, attendees will also hear from a local student who has overcome illiteracy with the help of Learning Lab, a Boise nonproﬁt that aims to enhance the literacy skills of under-educated families and adults. In addition to lunch, there will be a silent auction featuring ﬁrstedition signed books and themed gift baskets. 11 a.m. auction, noon lunch, $50, Boise Centre on the Grove, 208-344-1335, learninglabinc.org.

FRIDAYSATURDAY FEB. 5-6 woodwinds THE NEW YORK WOODWIND QUINTET The New York Woodwind Quintet, one of the oldest active chamber ensembles in the United States, will perform at the Morrison Center on Friday, Feb. 5, and at the Boise State Special Events Center at on Saturday, Feb. 6. In their more than 60 seasons, these woodwindwielding musicians have commissioned and premiered countless pieces. Since 1989, the NYWQ has also maintained a residency at the Julliard School, where they teach students and offer coaching sessions. The quintet’s current members are Carol Wincenc, ﬂute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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Puppets say the darndest things.

ROBOTS: EVOLUTION OF A CULTURAL ICON When San Jose Museum of Art senior curator JoAnne Northrup saw her ﬁrst robot, she was a bit underwhelmed. Northrup was at a party hosted by friends in Silicon Valley who had invented a robot that handles silicon disks. “I was so excited imagining what it would look like and it looked like a metal box,” Northrup explains in a video introduction to the exhibition “Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon.” “I was kind of disappointed. That lead me to start thinking about why we have an image in our minds of what a robot looks like and how different that is from actual robots that are found in everyday life.” After ruminating on this experience, Northrup decided to curate an exhibit that explores robot iconography in ﬁne art over the past 50 years. That show, which features depictions of robots in sculpture, video and paintings, was organized by the San Jose Museum of Art and will open at Boise Art Museum on Saturday, Feb. 6, and run through May 16. Saturday, Feb. 6-Saturday, May 16, museum hours, $5 adults, $3 seniors, $1 kids grades 1-12, Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

Charles Neidich, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; and William Purvis, horn. On Friday afternoon from 3:30-5 p.m., the NYWQ will offer a mini-residency master class on their instruments at the Morrison Center. Also, don’t forget to stop by the chamber music master class featuring three Boise State student wind quintets on Saturday, Feb. 6, from 10-11:30 a.m. in the Recital Hall. Admission is free to the public. Friday, Feb. 5, 7:30 p.m., $25, Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Caesar Chavez, 208-426-1216, mc.boisestate.edu. Saturday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m., Boise State SEC, 1800 University Drive, 208-426-5800 or visit conferenceservices.boisestate.edu.

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SUNDAY FEB. 7 choir NATHANIEL DETT CHORALE The classically trained, 21-member Nathaniel Dett Chorale has per formed for some pretty important peeps. In addition to singing their hearts out at the Canadian embassy on the day of President Barrack Obama’s inauguration, the chorale has also per formed at events honoring Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Muhammad Ali. Named after the internationally renowned

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY FEB. 8-10 stage AVENUE Q Few puppet shows feature the following advisory: “Not appropriate for children due to language and adult content such as full puppet nudity.” Full puppet nudity. Sexy. But Avenue Q, the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, isn’t all puppet porn. The stor y follows a recent college grad named Princeton who moves to New York City and shacks up in a sleazy neighborhood on Avenue Q. Princeton soon befriends his neighbors—an out-of-work comedian named Brian and his unemployed therapist ﬁancee Christmas Eve, the Internet addict Trekkie Monster, and Gar y Coleman, an ex-child star turned building superintendant. Though Princeton faces a few stumbles while tr ying to make it on his own in the big city—accompanied by musical numbers like “Ever yone’s a Little Bit Racist”—with the help of his pals, he eventually learns that growing up ain’t half bad. On Monday, Feb. 8, through Wednesday, Feb. 10, Avenue Q will take over the Morrison Center as a part of the Broadway in Boise season. So, if you thought you’d outgrown your puppet phase, you’d best think again. Wokka, wokka, wokka. Monday, Feb. 8-Wednesday, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., $28-$48, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1110, idahotickets.com.

African-Canadian composer R. Nathaniel Dett (18821943), this Toronto-based classical, spiritual, gospel, jazz and blues group is on a mission to become “the premier per former of Afrocentric composers, past, present and future.” On Thursday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m., the Nathaniel Dett Chorale will pile into St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral

On the night of Jan. 30, as tufts of wet snow gathered on nearby parked cars, a stream of bundled carousers poured into Opa. Once inside, they passed the narrow bar, dodged the dance floor and headed up an obscure set of stairs at the OPIUM back of the adjacent closed211 N. Eighth St. for-the-night restaurant, Cazba. 208-381-0222 In the dark space, they joined Open Fri.-Sat., 10 p.m.other black-clad 20-somethings 2 a.m. cazba.com lit by the golden glimmer of the bar while an assortment of shadows sucked on fragrant hookahs in the background. For opening weekend in a fairly obscure location, Opium—Opa’s new high-end VIP hookah lounge—wasn’t doing too shabby. Perched like a king in the back corner of the bar, co-owner Max Mohammadi shook hands with a steady stream of acquaintances coming to congratulate him on the new space. Intended as a more relaxed escape from the chaos of Opa, Opium hopes to provide refuge for the danceweary masses with $20 hookahs and fancy martinis. In addition to the modern flatscreen TVs—“Six, including one in the bathroom,” Mohammadi boasted—the space features an array of fluffy seating, billowing gauzey tapestries and hanging crystal glassware. While it’s no opium den, just as Boise’s other new hidden nightclub Catacomb is no macabre ossuary, Opium’s dark corners do provide a nice escape from the downtown chaos. Or at the very least, a super cush place to empty your bladder while catching up on 30 Rock. —Tara Morgan

in Boise for a special show in honor of Black History Month. Tickets for the performance can be purchased at the door or by calling the St. Michael’s Cathedral ofﬁce. Superbowl-shmuperbowl. 7 p.m., $5 students and children, $10 seniors, $15 adults, St. Michael’s Cathedral, 518 N. Eighth St., 208-342-5601, stmichaelscathedral.org.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY FEB. 3 Festivals & Events LIQUID FORUM—A discussion showcasing a local nonproﬁt with a silent auction and music by Rebecca Scott. 5-7:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-287-5379.

Workshops & Classes WHAT’S NEW FOR 2010—Kathy Ellensohn leads participants through a sneak peek at this year’s perennials. 6:30 p.m. $10 Idaho Botanical Garden member, $15 nonmember. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649.

THURSDAY FEB. 4 Festivals & Events CELEBRATING THE CENTRE— Celebrate Boise Centre’s birthday, of sorts. The state’s largest convention facility boasts two decades of existence with free cake and ice cream. Yum. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Boise Centre on the Grove, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, www. boisecentre.com.

Concerts Peter Anastos, Artistic Director

BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA—Led by Dr. Daniel Stern featuring Georg Philipp Telemann’s “Concerto for Two Horns” with soloists Dan Meier and Mark Givens. 7:30 p.m. $14$18 adult, $10-$14 students, FREE students and children with a paid adult. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208459-3405 or 208-454-1376, www.caldwellﬁnearts.org.

Talks & Lectures ELLEN SCOTT—A presentation by New-York based designer, artist and executive director of www.smartspaces.org—a really cool movement bringing art to otherwise vacant spaces—Ellen Scott. In the Simplot Ballroom. 6 p.m. Boise State SUB, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426INFO, union.boisestate.edu. SAFETY AND SECURITY IN THE INFORMATION AGE—Security technology expert and bestselling author Bruce Schneier presents Beyond Security Theater: Fighting Terrorism the Smart Way. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

Kids & Teens TEENS ROCK THE LIBRARY— Gear up to rock with the boys from the Boise Rock School. No guitar? Don’t fret. Guitars, drums and basses will be provided. 4 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, www. boisepubliclibrary.org.

FRIDAY FEB. 5 Festivals & Events BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE TREY MCINTYRE PROJECT—Meet the artists and dancers involved in the project to see where exactly they get all those fancy moves from. 6:30 p.m. $30 adv., $40 door. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

LUNCH FOR LITERACY—See Picks, Page 14.

Food & Drink POTATO FEED FUNDRAISER— Go eat spuds at this year’s Columbia High School Boosters Potato Feed as they raise money for their scholarship fund. 5:308:30 p.m. $5 general, discounted pricing for students, seniors and Nampa School District staff. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208498-0571.

Art 40 YEARS WORKING IN CLAY: A RETROSPECTIVE—Artist and Boise State art professor Ron Taylor celebrates 35 years of instruction with an exhibit showcasing his photographs and ceramic pieces. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Gallery 1 Liberal Arts Building, Boise State University, Boise, artdept.boisestate.edu. FINE ART NUDES—Artisan Gallery is unveiling the second annual show Fine Art Nudes, a collection of oil paintings, mixedmedia and encaustic pieces tastefully bearing it all. Themed hors d’oeuvres will be served. 5:30-8:30 p.m. Artisan Gallery, 124 E. State St., Eagle, 208939-5889. FIRST FRIDAY ART—Featuring new works by Fonny Davidson, Gregg Russel, Fred Choate and Venture Coy. The gallery will also host this month’s First Friday Art in Eagle drawing to win four tickets to Trey McIntyre Project performance. 4:30-8:30 p.m. Galerie Belle Ame, 179 S. Eagle Road, Eagle, 208-938-1342, www.galeriebelleame.com.

Workshops & Classes THE CHARACTER OF LEADERSHIP—Author, teacher and adviser Phil Eastman offers a two-hour interactive workshop. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, www.boisepubliclibrary.com.

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BAY WINDOW ART PROJECT RECEPTION—Graduating Boise State art student Matt Bodett shares two of his large-scale commissioned pieces. Located between the Simplot and Jordan ballrooms. 4:30-6:30 p.m. FREE, ﬁnearts.boisestate.edu. Boise State SUB, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-INFO. OPEN HOUSE ART SHOW— Featuring new works by local artists. 5-9 p.m. Ophidia Dance and Art Studio, 200 E. 37th St., No. 7, Garden City, 208-4092403, www.myspace.com/danceophidia.

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FIRST FRIDAY ART IN EAGLE— Take a stroll through downtown Eagle and visit local merchants and galleries along the way. 4-9 p.m. Downtown Eagle, 310 E. State St., Eagle.

VALENTINE’S SQUARE DANCE—The Idaho Folklore Society invites the whole family to get down to live music with a celebratory dance in light of love. Instruction is provided prior to the dance. 7:30 p.m. $6 general, $4 members, $5 students and seniors, $2 children under 12, $14 family. Idaho Outdoor Assn. Grange Hall, corner of Brazil and Wright streets, Boise.

LIMINAL, ARTIST RECEPTION—Combining threedimensional prints, portraits and videography, Ellen Scott draws attention to old-time interaction that is often discarded by the acceleration of technology. Held in the Visual Arts Center Gallery 2. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Boise State Liberal Arts Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, boisestate. edu.

as the most signiﬁcant holiday in the Vietnamese tradition, Lunar New Year, commonly referred to as TET, embraces the beginning of spring. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $10 general, $7 students with ID, $5 if you’re wearing Vietnamese clothes. Boise State SUB, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426INFO, union.boisestate.edu.

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LOVE ROCKS!—Teaming up with Flying M, VAC hosts a variety art showcase of all things Valentine to beneﬁt Safety Net for AIDS Program of Boise. 6 p.m. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.visualartscollective.com.

Festivals & Events BOISE HEARTS HAITI—See Picks, Page 14. CLOSET BALL KING AND QUEEN—How well can you transform? First-time drag queens and drag kings, hear that call? Head over to VAC for your chance to take home the title of Closet Ball King and Queen. For more information, e-mail gemcourtjd@ gmail.com. 8:30 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.visualartscollective.com.

Talks & Lectures METRO CONVERSATIONS— Various Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and Downtown Boise Association businesses host this morning event designed to offer the public a chance to meet one another while discussing things happening within our community. 8-9 a.m. FREE, www.boisechamber.org. Moon’s Kitchen Cafe, 712 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208385-0472.

LUNAR NEW YEAR CELEBRATION—With traditional dragon dance, songs and a buffet of Vietnamese foods. Held

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Kids & Teens CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION—An hour-long program incorporating stories and crafts to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Kids can create dragon masks and lucky bracelets in addition to stories explaining the event. 2-3 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208562-4996.

SUNDAY FEB. 7 Concerts JUST STRINGS—Featuring the Boise Baroque Orchestra with music by Locatelli, Vivaldi and Bach. 2 p.m. $18 general, $14 seniors and students, FREE children 17 and younger with a paying adult, www.boisebaroque. com. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208343-7511. NATHANIEL DETT CHORALE—See Picks, Page 15.

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Talks & Lectures BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES—The 1889 Murder at Duncan Creek (Owyhee County) presented by James Ware. Noon1 p.m. FREE for Friends of the Historical Museum; nonmember fees are $3 youth (6-12), $4 seniors; $5 adults; children 6 and younger FREE. Idaho State Historical Museum, 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3342120, www.idahohistory.net/ museum.html.

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8 DAYS OUT MULTIPLE-DAY EVENTS Festivals & Events DAILY EROTICA—The creators of Daily Erotica, a 366-page collection of poems and daily afﬁrmations of love, will be on hand to discuss their entries and read bits from the book. Sat. Feb. 6, 6 p.m. Seasons Bistro,

208-939-6680. Mon. Feb. 8, 6-9 p.m. Boneﬁsh Grill, 208-5854747. Pricing for both events: $20, $30 couple. Includes autographed copy of the book. Tues. Feb. 9, 5-8 p.m. FREE. Hastings, 208-345-9428. MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL—See Picks, Page 14. JOHN NILSEN—Folk, jazz and classical musician John Nilsen joined by percussionist Jason

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Moore. Fri. Feb. 5, 7 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Hillview United Methodist Church, 208-375-0392. Sat., Feb. 6, 4 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Whitney United Methodist Church, 208-343-2892 and 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 208343-7511. NEW YORK WOODWIND QUINTET PERFORMANCES AND CLASSES—See Picks, Page 14.

On Stage AT HOME AT THE ZOO—Get to know Peter, Anne and Jerry, as they meander in and out of secrets and truths. WednesdaysSaturdays, 8 p.m. and Saturdays, 2 p.m. Continues through Feb. 20. $12-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-442-3232, www.bctheater.org.

THE ADVENTURES OF SHEER-LUCK HOMES—Watch as Sheer-Luck Homes gets lucky, or not, in solving cases with his powers of happenstance. Fridays, Saturdays, 7:15 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 14, 2 p.m. $7-$13. Prairie Dog Playhouse, 3820 Cassia St., Boise, 208-3367383, www.pdplayhouse.com. THE MURDER ROOM—A witty comedy about a money-hungry wife and her numerous attempts to kill off her wealthy husband in order to claim it all. Fridays

and Saturdays, Jan. 22-Feb. 20. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. Show at 8 p.m. $39 dinner and show, $20 show only. Dinner must be purchased at least one day in advance. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 333 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-385-0021, www. kedproductions.org. AVENUE Q—See Picks, Page 15.

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(left to right) Erin Cunningham’s A Weighty Heart Crosses Paths With Another, Richae A. Swanbeck’s Untitled, Randall Brown’s Variations Sur le Sacre’-Coeur and Jessica Pallante’s Looking for Love In All the Wrong Places.

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ALL’S FAIR IN LOVE AND ART Flying M preps for 17th annual Valentines for AIDS TARA MORGAN Myers. “It all kind of came together. Let’s do When it comes to love, people can be cruel. this to talk about love and family and commuWhen it comes to bidding on love-themed art, nity and let people have these discussions.” people can be downright ruthless. After 17 Though the public HIV/AIDS outcry has years spearheading the Valentines for AIDS waned in recent years, the need for support silent auction at Flying M Coffeehouse, coowner Lisa Myers has had plenty of experience hasn’t lessened. While federal grants cover medical costs for patients with HIV/AIDS, with these cutthroat collectors. Every year, as the funds don’t cover other necessities like the final minutes tick by on the last evening of rent, medication co-pays or utilities. In 2009, the exhibition—which features work crafted due largely to money raised by Valentines for by nearly 300 local artists—art-thirsty bidders AIDS, SNAP was able to provide 83 clients bare their fangs and get down to business. with $6,000 in food vouchers and 81 clients “People block the book, or write very slowly,” said Myers, laughing. “You get caught with almost $15,000 in emergency funds. “Basically, [Valentines for AIDS funds] 95 up in it, just like you’re on eBay.” With artwork squeezed into every available percent of SNAP’s budget each year,” said Jamie Perry, Wellness Center program manager. nook and dangling from every square inch of “So, without it, SNAP wouldn’t really be able wall space, one might assume there would be to help as many people as it does.” plenty of art to go around. But, according to This year, to raise even more money for Myers, there’s at least one item each year that SNAP and to accommodate the community’s invariably whips folks into a frenzy. “There’s always just this one piece that says ever-increasing interest in the event, Valentines for AIDS will expand to the Visual Arts Collecsomething to a couple particular people and tive. A group of more then they get in this than 50 participating little bidding war,” said Thursday, Feb. 4-Sunday, Feb. 14, bidding artists has been selected Myers. “That’s always ends at 4 p.m. on Feb. 14 to submit additional fun to watch because FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE pieces, which will you never know what 500 W. Idaho St., 208-345-4320 hang at VAC through that piece is going to be flyingmcoffee.com the end of Februevery year.” Friday, Feb. 5, 6 p.m. art reception, 8 p.m. ary. Bookending this Last year, it was show, $5; Saturday, Feb. 27, 8 p.m., $5 supplemental exhibia painting of Record VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE tion will be two nights Exchange by Tricia 3638 Osage St., 208-424-8297 of local music—one on visualartscollective.com Pinkert-Branner that Friday, Feb. 5, and one went for $600—a on Saturday, Feb. 27. small sum compared “The artists are donating part of their to the $23,000 that was ultimately donated to commission to SNAP and we’re donating the Safety Net for AIDS Program (SNAP), a part of our commission as well,” said VAC local fundraising account housed at the Famco-owner Anneliessa Balk Stimpert. “And ily Medicine Residency of Idaho’s Wellness then the door money also goes to SNAP.” Center. Myers first came up with the idea for With the help of local mosaic artist and muValentines for AIDS in 1993, before AIDS PSAs started filling the airwaves and before the sician Christine Thomas, a 15-year veteran of Valentines for AIDS, Myers and Balk Stimpert, musical Rent first rang out on Broadway. put together “Love Rocks.” The show kicks “Two of my high school classmates one off Friday, Feb. 5, with an artist reception from year died from AIDS and it was still at a point 6-8 p.m., then live music from Mike Rogers, in ’92-’93 when nobody talked about it,” said WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

Steve Fulton Music, Bill Coffey and Sherpa. In a twist, each of the acts performing at on Saturday, Feb. 27—Juntura, Le Fleur, Ian Waters, A Seasonal Disguise, With Child, Vagerfly and Mere Cat—have been asked to prepare three special love-themed songs or covers. “We all felt that we would have better results with like-minded kinds of bands on different nights,” noted Thomas. Back at Flying M, artists trickle into the gift shop, handing Myers their wrapped donations, which she squeezes into whatever minuscule storage space she can find. Pieces like Sandy Marostica’s Body Language— a polyester plate lithograph that features ladies in antique dress spelling out the word “Love”—rest in Bubble Wrap atop work by artists like Jerri Lisk and Mike Landa. There’s even a portrait of St. Valentine done by Jim McColly made entirely of gummi bears. “Because there are no ground rules or requirements, I think that artists really let their imagination go,” said Marostica, who has participated for six years. “You don’t have to worry about a juror or pleasing anyone, so I think you’re seeing work that is close to the artist’s heart that they do for this exhibit.” What has kept painter Amy Lunstrum donating work for the last eight years is the chance to see pieces by her lesser-known peers. “There are the big names of Boise that we see and hear a lot, and they’re wonderful, of course. But what I really like about this event is there are people involved that maybe don’t produce regularly or aren’t in the galleries regularly who are really amazing artists,” said Lunstrum. But whether it’s one of these unknown artists or a familiar Boise staple that has art-lovers battling it out in a no-holds-barred bidding war, one thing’s certain: Just like love, if you want it, you’ve got to fight for it. “If you want something, you should be there,” said Thomas. “People do get very possessive if there’s something that they really want.”

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Boise, 208-343-2671, www.basquemuseum.com.

THE BASQUE MARKET—Treat yourself to one of the market’s Valentine’s Day-themed tapas and score a free Spanish wine tasting. 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, www.thebasquemarket.com.

CHRONIC TACOS—Check out the month-long special: buy a breakfast burrito and score a free coffee. Also featuring new enchiladas served up fresh with rice, beans, chips, salsa and a drink. 106 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-3711.

BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—An opportunity 1 to learn about one of Boise’s unique ethnic groups through art and music. Tours of the historic Cyrus Jacobs/ Uberuaga House will be offered. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St.,

THE COTTON CLUB—Opening its doors to the public for one day only, The Cotton Club invites you to peek into the world of the cotton fabric business. Featuring the 2010 Boise Basin Quilters Rafﬂe Quilt and

a trunk show with handmade crystal scissor fobs and accessories by Swarovski. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 106 N. Sixth St. (in the basement of the Old Pioneer Building), Boise, 208-3455567, www.cottonclub.com. DRAGONFLY—With wine tastings from Moon River Winery. 5-9 p.m. 414 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3389234, www.gama-go.com. FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—See 3 story on Page 19. 500 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-345-4320.

FRONT DOOR NORTHWEST PIZZA AND TAP HOUSE—Pairing Gouden Carolus beers, some of Belgium’s ﬁnest, with cheese from Boise Co-op and chocolates from the Chocolate Bar. 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208287-9201, www.thefrontdoorboise. com. OLD BOISE—Idaho Indie Works 4 Etsy Street Team showcases more than 20 local artists and crafters selling unique and handmade products. Check out bits of their collections online at www.idahoindieworks.blogspot. com. Sixth and Main streets, Boise.

PENGILLY’S SALOON—With a hip-shaking live performance by jazz quartet the Frim Fram 4. 8:45 p.m. 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3456344. REEF—Visit the American Red Cross’ representative to contribute toward the relief fund for Haiti, then head upstairs for live music by Rebecca Scott. $5 suggested donation. 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, www.reefboise.com.

south 8TH STREET ARTIST IN RESIDENCE 5 PROGRAM—Featured artists at 404 S. Eighth St. include Ted Apel, with interactive sound sculptures incorporating sonic materials and computer technology; Jess Sanden, using diverse mediums to explore figurative subject matter; and Kate Masterson, with large scale paintings. Artists at 1020 Main St. include Lisa Bufano, multi-media performance artist; and Sue Latta, sculpted forms. Artists at 517 S. Eighth St. include Erik Sande, abstract paintings; and Kristy Albrecht, with paintings that explore lifestyles of the modern woman. 404 S. Eighth St, Mercantile Building, Boise, 208-338-5212, www.8thstreetmarketplace.com. 8TH STREET BISTRO—With $2 tacos in a variety of flavors: south of the border, classic, fish and bistro. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-287-3660. ATOMIC TREASURES—Collecting the spirit of 6 reuse with a variety of vintage and found objects. Also featuring watercolor artist Brian Floyd. Drop by to have a drink and catch Floyd at work. 409 S. Eighth St. (lower level of Foster Bldg. in BODO), Boise, 208-344-0811, atomictreasures. com. BALLET IDAHO—A behind-the-scenes preview of Ballet Idaho’s Cinderella. 5-6 p.m. 501 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-0556, www.balletidaho.org. BOISE ART GLASS—Boise Art Glass has 7 officially opened up its new space: the Hot Shop. Stop by to grab a snack and see the Hot Shop in action. 530 W. Myrtle, Boise, 208-3451825, www.boiseartglass.com. BOISE ART MUSEUM—Featuring BAM’s new 8 exhibition The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States. Established in the early ’60s, the collection is home to more than 4,000 prints, 2,500 of which have been donated to the National Gallery of Art for distribution throughout the country. Boise is fortunate to display a number of these pieces, including works by Roy Lichtenstein, Will Barnet and Pat Steir. An Art Talk will be held at 5:30 p.m. in which three local art collectors will share stories of their passion. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. 670 Julia Davis Drive., Boise, 208-345-8330, www.boiseartmuseum.org. ELLA’S ROOM—Join author Tammi Baliszewski for a discussion of her new book Manifesting Love from the Inside Out at 6:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A and book signing. Ella’s Room will also feature a storewide sale with 20-50 percent off most items, just in time for Valentine’s Day. 413 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-331-3552. HAIRLINES—Drop in for a “new do by Lu.” 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-383-9009. HELLY HANSEN—Simply try on a pair of shoes and immediately get 10 percent off any item. 860 W. Broad, Boise, 208-342-2888. IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM— 9 Featuring Alan Stanford’s exhibit A Watercolor Journey Through Idaho. Stanford’s exhibit will be coupled with a presentation by Arthur Hart tracing the history of railroads. 5-9 p.m. Presentation from Arthur Hart from 6-7 p.m. FREE. 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, www. idahohistory.net. OZZY’S METAL DESIGN—Cruise by to 10 browse the collection of recycled metal pieces, including lamps, candleholders and more. Get 15 percent off your purchase on First Thursday. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise. PIECE UNIQUE & SHOEZ—Wrapping up the winter season with an additional 50 percent off all fall and winter styles. 405 S. Eighth St. No. 155, Boise, 208-387-0250. QUE PASA—Featuring an array of arts 11 and crafts from Mexico, including steel sculptures, blown glass, mirrors, stoneware,

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spring collection. Open late until 9 p.m. 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-336-5655.

from KRVB 94.9 The River. 803 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-4333931.

R. GREY GALLERY JEW12 ELRY AND ART GLASS— Housing a unique collection of

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DAWSON’S 16 DOWNTOWN—Paintings by Alex Vega. 219 N. Eighth St.,

SNAKE RIVER WINERY—Drop by for some complimentary tastings of fondue and their awardwinning wines. 786 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-345-9463. THE STYLISH STORK—Hosting a sale with 50 percent off warm winter wear for mama and baby to make room for the upcoming

THE BOX IN THE 15 BASEMENT—Stop by to check out a newly styled piece of wearable art by Nobody’s Hero Tattoo. 280 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-703-5149. CHEERS—Cheer up your Valentine with something special from Cheers’ card selection. 828 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-342-1805. CITY PEANUT SHOP—See 1st Thursday News on Page 22. With live music and tons of giveaways

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LA CANTINA SOCIALE—Two-forone house wines. 707 Bannock St., 208-377-0224, lacantinasociale.com.

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as a display of vintage cameras. 280 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208344-2191.

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SALON 162—Photographer Yvette Sedlewiez’s new exhibit “What You See is What You Get,” combining her longtime photo skills with acrylics and watercolors. The Salon staff will be in store offering free consultations. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-386-9908.

AMERICAN CLOTHING GALLERY—All Americanartist prints, gyclees and lithos will be discounted, along with 50-80 percent discounts on the majority of older fall and winter clothing. 100 N. Eighth St., Ste. 121A, Boise, 208-433-0872.

home decor items, including art glass and jewelry. 415 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9337, www. rgreygallery.com.

hand-crafted jewelry and carved saints and virgins. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9018.

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LISK GALLERY—Enjoy 18 treats provided by the City Peanut Shop and tastings from Sawtooth Winery while browsing new paintings by Carl Rowe, large photographs by Mark Lisk and colorful creations on aluminum by Jerri Lisk. 850 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3773, www. liskgallery.com. MAI THAI—Score a free appetizer when you buy two entrees. 750 Idaho St., Boise, 208-3448424, www.maithaigroup.com. MOON’S KITCHEN CAFE—Hosting a Women’s and Children’s Alliance soup fundraiser featuring warm and, hopefully, delicious creations from nine local chefs. 4-8 p.m. $5 all-you-can-eat soup and a ticket to vote. 712 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-385-0472, www.moonskitchen.com. OLD CHICAGO—Kids eat free and karaoke is on from 10 p.m. until close. 730 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-363-0037, www. oldchicago.com. PIE HOLE—Featuring 19 Boise’s industrial artist, Angi Grow and rhythmic melodies from Sleepy Seeds. 205 N. Eighth St., 208-344-7783, www. pieholeusa.com. POTTERY GOURMET—Cruise by for Valentine-y sweets and treats. While you’re there, ask for some information on upcoming cooking classes. 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649. TANZANITE SALON AND SPA— Pouring a little bit of love in honor of the upcoming holiday; stop in for a drink and grab a gift for your sweetie. 220 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-344-1700. THOMAS HAMMER— 20 Featuring photography by Patrick Sweeney. 298 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-433-8004, www. hammercoffee.com.

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poet Sam Mattise present their newly published collection of photos and poetry entitled “Dancing Shadows, Mustangs and Dreams.” 906 W. Main St., Boise, 208-344-8088.

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Michael Giltzow. Created with a personal playing style in mind, Giltzow puts anywhere from 100 to 200 hours into the making of each guitar. Stop in to meet the artist and enjoy live music by Sam Mattise, wine from Indian Creek Winery, beer from Brewtopia and snacks. Check out Giltzow’s bio and featured guitars at www.giltzowguitars.com. 1015 W. Main St., 208-331-3374, www.artsourcegallery.com. BASEMENT GALLERY— 23 Telling tales of longing, the bemused and often curious participants, artists Ben Wilson, April VanDegrift, John Warfel and Erin Ruiz present a noisy display of collected pieces with their joint exhibition “Noise in the Basement.” 5-9 p.m. 928 W. Main St., Boise, 208-333-0309. BEN & JERRY’S SCOOP SHOP—Celebrating its “Rookie of the Year” win, Ben and Jerry’s is serving up $1 single-scoop cups and cones. Noon-8 p.m. 103 N. 10th St., Boise, 208342-1992. BERRYHILL & CO. RESTAURANT—Happy hour from 4-6 p.m., featuring free appetizers. Wine tasting from this month’s winery, Bitner Vineyards, and live music by Ken Harris and Rico Weisman. 121 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-387-3553. BROWN’S GALLERY— 24 Featuring four-legged ﬂuidity in motion with equestrianthemed oil paintings by Brenda Kaye in her exhibit “The Horse Dance.” Also showcasing jewelry maker Andrea Jones with wine tasting by Sawtooth Winery and live music by Teri Eberlein. 1022 Main St., Boise, 208-342-6661.

GALLERY 601—See 1st Thursday News, this page. With New Mexico artist Braldt Bralds and his exhibit “Stone Life,” featuring a series of stone-themed paintings inspired by his physical collection, and Oregon-based artist Doug Hunt with original oil pastels encompassing the wonders of wine country. Wine provided by Woodriver Cellars. 211 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-336-5899, www. gallery601.com.

THE GALLERY AT THE 26 LINEN BUILDING—Artist couple Dick and Judy Deam present “Joyride,” a collection of large oil paintings, giclee prints on canvas and watercolor pieces inspired by 35 years of cruising around in their vintage automobiles. 5-9 p.m. 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, www. thelinenbuilding.com. THE GAMEKEEPER LOUNGE— Smooth sounds from the Ben Burdick Trio with Amy Weber. FREE. 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611. LOCK, STOCK & BARREL—Music from Leta Neustaedter and Dan Costello. 6:30-9 p.m. 1100 W. Jefferson, 208-336-4266, www.lsbboise.com. MODERN HOTEL AND BAR— See 1st Thursday News, this page. 5 p.m. 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244. THE RECORD EXCHANGE—Any 12 oz. espresso for $2, $2 off any used CD or DVD $5.99 and up, as well as any gift item more than $5.99. Local artists’ new releases for in-store play. 1105 W. Idaho St., 208-344-8010, www.therecordexchange.com.

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The new City Peanut Shop is totally nuts.

NUTTY CAT MADNESS Have you been looking for an excuse to drape yourself in Don-like duds? Or to augment your jugs and get down like Joan? Well the Modern Hotel and Bar has a treat for all the Bettys, Peggys, Rogers and Petes who’ve taken up chain smoking, alcoholism and hair gel after watching too many episodes of AMC’s hit drama Mad Men. First Thursday, Feb. 4, is the second installment of Mad Men and Martinis at the Modern, where ’60s costumed attendees throw back mid-century cocktails and appetizers while hitting on other people’s spouses. If feigning adultery and sexism aren’t your favorite ways to pass a Thursday night (party pooper), you might want to sit this one out. That’ll leave more gimlets and aspics for the rest of us. The party starts at 5 p.m. and goes ’til late at the Modern Bar. Nearby, but with a ver y different type of cool, Gallery 601 will be hosting New Mexico artist Braldt Bralds, a fantastically named man known for his still-life-with-cats paintings. We’re talking realistic portraits of aloof felines wearing Hawaiian shirts and Ray Bans. In a marked departure from his signature work, Bralds will display his new “Stone Life” series, which features depictions of heart-shaped stones dangling from various strings and wires. Galler y 601 has dubbed the series as “his version of Romancing the Stone.” If puss portraits and Romancing the Stone allusions aren’t enough of a cat-alyst to get you into the space, Galler y 601 will also feature the pastel work of Oregon artist Doug Hunt and wine from Woodriver Cellars. Think First Thursday couldn’t possibly get any nuttier? Au contraire. The City Peanut Shop at 803 W. Bannock St. will draw hungry art-walkers out of their shells with free samples of roasted peanuts, cashews, almonds and—get this—vegetarian-bacon-ﬂavored nuts. KRVB 94.9 The River will be on hand with free giveaways, as will Brewforia, Boise’s newest craft brew market. Beer and nuts. Why hasn’t a snack manufacturer thought of this combo yet? —Tara Morgan WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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HAPPY TO SING FOR HER SUPPER Shenandoah Davis leaves opera for indie AMY ATKINS

“I think it’s a harder conversation to have with friends and family than to just come out.” After an article published about Seattlebased singer/songwriter Shenandoah Davis stated that she was a lesbian, Davis had to explain to her loved ones that she has dated girls and she likes them. A lot. But not solely. The confusion likely came about because Davis’ 2008 solo debut full-length We; Camera is distributed on San Francisco’s Queer Control Records. QCR, a nonprofit organization, is known for supporting new LGBT Bring Davis some daisies on Thursday, Feb. 4, at The Bouquet. artists—though not exclusively—offering them everything from yearlong residencies “I feel all right about the length of time it’s vibraphone with the group. The shift from to distribution support to help get their pursuing a classical music career came as kind been since the last album,” Davis said. “Recareers off the ground. cording that album was one of the first things of a surprise, even for Davis. About a year ago, after We; Camera had I ever did. The first thing I did was call my “I [visited] Portland [Ore.] before my sebeen out for a few months, Davis e-mailed nior year in college, and I already knew that I friend who had recorded some friends and QCR to see if they would be interested in said I don’t know what I’m doing but I have didn’t ever really want to have a career as an distributing it for her. She promptly forgot these things and they might be songs and opera singer,” Davis said. about it. She understood that opera is an extremely they might sound good or maybe they won’t. “But then they e-mailed me back and we Please help me figure out if they’re good or if competitive field regardless of the level at had a great conversation. We didn’t know they’re bad and I should just forget about it.” exactly how it was going to work out, but we which a performer enters, and she just didn’t Up to that point, all she’d done musically feel passionate enough about it to prosper. knew we wanted to work together,” Davis was sing opera, and she’d never written her “I’m a really hard said. “At that point, own piano music before. All of her studyworker,” Davis said. they only had four ing had been classical. She certainly hadn’t “I’ve sucked up a lot other bands on their Thursday, Feb. 4, with Kaylee Cole, 8 p.m., $3 of things I didn’t enjoy performed alone and certainly not in bars roster, all Riot Grrrl just for the purpose of or clubs. hardcore and they THE BOUQUET “The record release show for that album succeeding at them or 1010 W. Main St. didn’t have any other myspace.com/thebouquet completing them. I re- was only the third or fourth show I ever did one-person acts.” by myself,” Davis said. ally didn’t want being QCR didn’t know It didn’t take long before she embraced the an opera performer where Davis would less competitive and less lucrative world of to become one of those things that I would fit in, but didn’t let that stand in the way DIY indie music. Hauling a keyboard around get tired of but would keep doing because I and began distributing We; Camera. It’s a the world, she played a few months in Europe hadn’t succeeded at it yet.” relationship that has worked well for Davis, last summer and in Japan during Christmas. Though she may have renounced a career who is looking forward to QCR becoming And while piano is definitely Davis’ instruthat would have seen her standing in a recital more involved when she starts recording her hall singing in German or Italian, that operatic ment of choice, even that is subject to change. follow-up album this spring. “I’m much better at the piano than anytraining is nonetheless still there. And it’s clear Davis’ seemingly, but not at all random thing else. I picked up the accordion since to anyone with half an ear that she’s had it. connection with QCR is as dichotomous as moving to Seattle. I play guitar but that is only When she reaches a high register, instead of her musical career. For someone who was hoin my house by myself. I picked up the banjo meschooled by her mother in the Adirondacks going all whispery or conversely, yelling, she a couple of months ago but that is also a of upstate New York, her quiet, layered indie- floats into it comfortably. The powerful vocal alone-in-my-bedroom instrument. I’m hoping projection of an opera singer is there, but folk music doesn’t seem such a stretch, nor to spend more time improving upon that one. it’s reigned in and softened as Davis wraps does her affinity for her adopted hometown I’d like to have an instrument I can travel with of Seattle. But that kind of music is somewhat it around lyrics like those in the title track that is not the piano. When I was touring in of an odd choice for a woman who graduated from We; Camera: “We spent the night on Japan and Europe, I had this 5-foot-tall cloth the railroad tracks / exchanging names / we from college in Colorado with a bachelor’s had it all / we were the same” followed by old- carrying case that was already 15 pounds, degree in opera performance. As a classiwith my keyboard, clothes and CDs in it that I fashioned player-piano plinking. cally trained musician, it’s not strange that It’s been two years since she tickled her way had to lug around everywhere. I was thinking, she would join the ranks of Seattle’s popular ‘Why can’t I play violin or flute or a mediumthrough her debut, and though she’s working orchestral pop group, Grand Hallway. What sized drum?’” on a follow-up, she’s not in a huge hurry. is different is that Davis plays accordion and WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

Amuma Says, “We heart NY.”

THE BIG APPLE AND THE BIG BATTLE Local Boise Basque troupe Amuma Says No is packing up the accordion and heading to New York City. These six hand-clapping, foot-stomping rockers will board a plane this weekend with other members from the local Basque community to check out the Basque Museum and Cultural Center’s new exhibit at Ellis Island, “Hidden in Plain Sight: the Basques.” Amuma Says No—who will be pushing their regular First Thursday gig at Leku Ona to Thursday, Feb. 11—will also be joined in the Big Apple by the Boise Oinkari Dancers and the Biotzetik Basque Choir. Speaking of the East Coast, Alec Ounsworth of the Brooklyn/Philly-based band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has confirmed a show at Neurolux on Monday, Feb. 18. Ounsworth recently released the solo album Mo Beauty, which grew out of an extended trip he took to New Orleans. Also on the upcoming Neurolux calendar are art rockers Xiu Xiu, Tune Yards and Scout Niblett on March 25; the soothing sounds of Baltimore-based dream-poppers Beach House on April 9; the psychedelic beats of Philly indie rockers Dr. Dog on April 22; and the brooding orchestral pop of Austin, Texas, band Shearwater. For a list of other upcoming Neurolux shows, check out the calendar at neurolux.com. In local band news, The Venue’s annual battle of the bands competition, Hot Local Knights, has whittled down the competition to 10 bands: In the Pause, Clusterfunk, Versailles, The Vast Domain, Red Hands Black Feet, Stop Drop and Party!, A Liquid Embrace, Threshold, 23 and Homeless and Blind Justice. These semi-finalists—two each from the previous alternative rock, hardcore, alternative punk, metalcore and indie/acoustic battles—will go head-to-head for the top three prizes: $1,000 in cash, a $500 recording package from Speck Studios and a $450 merchandise package from Defined Productions. Tickets for the final showdown on Wednesday, Feb. 13, are $10, with doors at 5 p.m. and the show starting at 5:30 p.m. For more information, visit boisevenue.com. —Tara Morgan

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE

BOWLING FOR SOUP, FEB. 9, THE VENUE Texas-based Bowling For Soup has scored hit singles in its 15-year history, most notably “1985,” “High School Never Ends” and “Girls All the Bad Guys Want,” which received an out-of-left-ﬁeld Grammy nomination in 2003. Not bad for a band that pop punks its way through latent teenage angst. “Yeah, I sing about real life,” says vocalist Jaret Reddick. “I obviously exaggerate things to make it more interesting. But I sing about movies and TV and just things I grew up on. Things that affect us every day.” Things like high school. “High school deﬁnitely, to me, sets the tone for the rest of your life,” he says. “High school never ends. I’ve been saying that statement for 20 years.” In other words, the quarterback stays the quarterback, the prom queen stays the prom queen, and the president of the chess club starts Microsoft. —Jeremy Henderson Tuesday, Feb. 9, with Just Surrender, Stop Drop and Party, 3rd To Last; 6 p.m., $12 adv., $14 door. Venue, 521 Broad St., boisevenue.com.

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WEDNESDAY FEB. 3

FRIDAY FEB. 5

SATURDAY FEB. 6

STRINGS AND CHEMICALS, THE QUICKIES— 9 p.m. FREE. The Plank

CHAD COOKE—7 p.m. FREE. Pitchers and Pints

CAMDEN HUGHES—6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

THIRD TAKE—9 p.m. FREE. Darby’s at the Market

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock & Barrel

ECLECTIC APPROACH— 10 p.m. $5. Reef

A TASTY JAMM—With Robin Scott from 104 WOW FM. 8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

REBECCA SCOTT BAND— 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

THE JACKS—10 p.m. FREE. Bittercreek

TREVOR HALL, TOMORROWS BAD SEEDS—Ages 18 and older. 9 p.m. $5 adv., $7 door. Reef

JIM LEWIS—7:30 p.m. FREE. Music of the Vine

THURSDAY FEB. 4 JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—10 p.m. Terrapin Station REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. $5 suggested cover charge. All proceeds go to help rebuild Haiti. Reef SHENANDOAH DAVIS, KAYLEE COLE—See Noise, Page 23. 8 p.m. $3. The Bouquet THREE BAND THROWDOWN— Abrupt Edge, The Forgotten and The Blue Aces. 9 p.m. FREE to listen, $1 to vote. Liquid

ALMOST DANGEROUS—7:30 p.m. FREE. Music of the Vine BEN BURDICK— 8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

JIMMY BIVENS— 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

BOISE HEARTS HAITI— See Picks, Page 14. 6 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building

KEN HARRIS—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

CHAD COOKE— 8 p.m. FREE. Corkscrews

LEE MITCHELL, BEN BURDICK—8:30 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny

CHRIS STILES— 9 p.m. $1. Liquid

LOVE ROCKS BENEFIT— Bill Coffey, Steve Fulton Music, Mike Rogers and Sherpa play to beneﬁt SNAP. 8 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective MORTAL ENEMY, OCD, FRANTIK, SUB*VERT— 8 p.m. $6. Knitting Factory THE NEW TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. The Gamekeeper SHON SANDERS— 8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub VOICE OF REASON— 9 p.m. $1. Liquid

CORNMASH, A SEASONAL DISGUISE, NEO TUNDRA COWBOY—8 p.m. $5. The Bouquet CRAVING DAWN— 7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s DAN COSTELLO— 11 a.m. FREE. Red Feather HOT DICE AND BLACK ICE TOUR—Abacabb, Molotov Solution, Dr. Acula, Upon A Burning Body, Obscure Beauty. 7:30 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. The Venue THE NEW TRIO— 8 p.m. FREE. The Gamekeeper THE SELFISH LOVERS—9 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

TERRY JONES— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

YONI, JON WAYNE & THE PAIN—See Listen Here, Page 25. 10 p.m. $5. Reef

SUNDAY FEB. 7 CHRISTOPHER HAWLEY ROLLERS—8:30 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet

MONDAY FEB. 8 ALICE IN CHAINS—8:30 p.m., SOLD OUT, Knitting Factory BILLY BRAUN— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LOCKE ‘N’ LOAD CD RELEASE—With Wilt Chamberlin’s Baby. 10 p.m. FREE. Liquid P.O.S., GRIEVES, DESSA— 8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux

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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE GUIDE TUESDAY FEB. 9 BEARFOOT, BILL COFFEY— 8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. The Linen Building BEN BURDICK—7:30 p.m. FREE. Reef BOWLING FOR SOUP—See Listen Here, Page 24. 6 p.m. $12 adv., $14 door. The Venue DIAMONDS UNDER FIRE— 8 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet GUTTERMOUTH, CHASER— 9 p.m. $10. Gusto

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock & Barrel

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

REVOLTREVOLT, HERMIT THRUSHES—8 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage

JAM NIGHT—Wednesdays, 8 p.m. FREE. Montego Bay

SINIZEN, DUBIOUS— 9 p.m. $2. Reef STREET LIGHT SUZIE, RADILLAC—9 p.m. Gusto WEATHERBOX, THE UNIVERSAL, VAGERFLY— 8 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective

WEEKLY GIGS

LYRICS BORN, ELEVEN— 8 p.m. $14. Neurolux

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

REBECCA SCOTT AND DEBBIE SAGER— 7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION—Mondays, 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

WEDNESDAY FEB. 10 BERNIE REILLY— 6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe LOVE/HAITI RELATIONSHIP BENEFIT—The Very Most, With Child and guests. 8 p.m. $5. Neurolux

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THE BUCKSHOT BAND— Saturdays, 9 p.m. FREE for anyone in a cowboy hat. Shorty’s BUD GUDMUNDSON, MATT HARTZ—Thursdays, 6:30 p.m. FREE. Corkscrews COUNTRY AND TOP 40— Saturdays, 9 p.m. $5. Cowgirls DAVID MARR—Fridays, 7 p.m. FREE. The Cole/Marr Gallery FRIM FRAM 4—Thursdays, 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

JAZZ NIGHTS—MondaysSaturdays, 6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill; Thursdays, 7 p.m. FREE. Rembrandt’s; Featuring Kevin Kirk Tuesdays-Saturdays and The Sidemen on Sundays. 7 p.m., FREE, Chandlers

LIVE SETS—Fridays, 10 p.m. FREE. Bittercreek; Wednesdays, 7 p.m. FREE. Pitchers and Pints NOCTURNUM WITH DJ BONES—Sundays, 9 p.m. FREE. Terrapin Station PUNK MONDAY—Mondays, 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid REBECCA SCOTT—Wednesdays, 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

JEANNIE MARIE—Fridays, 7 p.m. FREE. Orphan Annie’s

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

JEREMIAH JAMES GANG— Wednesdays, 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND— Wednesdays and Fridays, 9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

JEREMIAH JAMES AND NED EVETT—Tuesdays, 8 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

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

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

SMOOTH—Tuesdays, 7 p.m. FREE. Liquid

JIM LEWIS—Sundays, 11 a.m. FREE. Focaccia’s

SONIC MINSTREL—Tuesday, 8:30 p.m. 8th Street Bistro

JOHN CAZAN—Fridays, 5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

SOUL SERENE—Tuesdays, 7:30 p.m. FREE. Ha’Penny

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

SPINDLE BOMB—Wednesdays, 10 p.m. FREE. Fridays, Saturdays, 9:45 p.m. $3. Tom Grainey’s

LARRY CONKLIN—Tuesdays, 11 a.m. FREE. Moon’s Kitchen LIVE LOUNGE—Fridays and Saturdays, 8 p.m. FREE. The Gamekeeper

THOMAS PAUL—Sundays, 10 a.m. and Mondays, 7 p.m. FREE. Red Feather

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YONI AND JON WAYNE & THE PAIN, FEB. 6, REEF When Matisyahu hit the airwaves in the early 2000s, fans of hip-hop weren’t sure how to take a reggae-making, rapping, happening Hassid. In the end, they took him and any young rappers he took under his wing very well indeed. Case in point, Minneapolis’ rapid-ﬁre Jewish rapper, Yoni. Yoni gained attention with his featured performance on Matisyahu’s 2005 album Live at Stubbs on “Beatbox,” a track that showcases the rapper’s understanding of his voice—and tongue and teeth and lung capacity—as an instrument. Yoni has shared the stage with a number of rappers who share his rapport with music with a message, including Pigeon John, Atmosphere and Sage Francis and more. While he’d surely share the stage with Matisyahu any time, he’s doing a ﬁne job of spreading his own message—but listen closely: he’s so fast sometimes, if you so much as cough, you’ll miss something. —Amy Atkins Saturday, Feb. 6, 10 p.m., $5. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., reefboise.com.

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SIGNS OF A COMEBACK Mel Gibson Lights Up Edge of Darkness SEAN MCBRIDE Hard to believe, but it’s been nearly eight years since we last saw Mel Gibson starring in a movie. You might have missed it, but his face has aged considerably during this absence. Now, Gibson’s physical change is only mentioned because it works to his advantage in his latest movie, a gritty crime drama ambiguously titled Edge of Darkness. The movie may be a somewhat mediocre thriller, but Gibson is quite effective in the lead role, in no small part because of the fact that his face This Braveheart is back from the Thunderdome and he knows the Signs of What Women Want. now looks worn enough to belong to those rough-and-tumble characters that he’s played here. Let’s face it, condensing six hours into that exist only as a bridge between special throughout his career. two means that a lot of good stuff will be effect sequences. Gibson plays Thomas Craven, a Boston chopped rudely from the film. Ray Winstone is also a welcome addidetective whose daughter is gunned down The bottom line is that Edge of Darktion, playing a shadowy confidant who helps on his doorstep. Distraught and filled with ness is a better-than-average crime drama Craven during his investigation and paints guilt because he assumes that he was the thanks to a top-notch supporting cast, a rich the proceedings with so much intrigue that assassin’s intended target, Craven sets out to screenplay and solid direction from Martin you can’t help but be catch her killer. He’s Campbell, the man who reinvigorated Bond drawn in to the story. not prepared when his in Casino Royale. Most importantly, Mel Winstone steals most investigation leads to EDGE OF DARKNESS (R) Gibson is front and center, and while he may of his scenes from troubling discoveries Directed by Martin Campbell have been missing in action these past eight Gibson, who is wise about his daughter’s Starring Mel Gibson, Ray Winstone, Danny enough to sit back and years, it’s nice to have him back now and life. Without giving Huston, Bojana Novakovic, Shawn Roberts let his co-star do much even nicer to see that he isn’t rusty. Gibson anything away here, and Denis O’Hare has always been one of Hollywood’s most apof the heavy lifting. it turns out that his Now playing at Edwards 9 and 22 Ultimately, Edge of pealing performers, and it’s his charisma (amdaughter may not have Darkness does become plified by his now-weathered face) that makes been daddy’s little Edge of Darkness a winning thriller. a somewhat standard angel after all. police procedural; a dimly lit investigaEdge of Darkness is based on a British tion with a lot of talking, punctuated by mini-series, and as was the case with last Movie reviews by Sean “The Movie Guy” brief bursts of violence. With regard to the year’s State of Play, the rich source material McBride are published bi-weekly in The Port screenplay and the original mini-series, they really makes the film. Condensing a six-hour Arthur News and weekly on KFDM-TV and are certainly superior, and it can be argued TV show into a two-hour movie means that KBOI Channel 2’s ETV. Sean welcomes comthat those unfamiliar with the original matethe film is overstuffed with detail. It’s a welments via e-mail at smcbride@kbcitv.com. rial might have a bit of trouble keeping up come change in this age of emaciated stories

SCREEN/LISTINGS special screenings A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION ENCORE WITH GARRISON KEILLOR—Maybe you’ve heard him sharing sharp tales of Lake Wobegon; now here’s your chance to watch him in action. View Garrison Keillor and the gang during a live broadcast of their weekly show, recorded live from the Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. Tue., Feb. 9, 6 p.m. $9.50 adult, $7 seniors, $6.75 children. Edwards Spectrum 22, 7701 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-377-1700, www. uatc.com.

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BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL— For 14 years, the annual Banff Mountain Film Festival has toured across the world, showcasing some of the globe’s best outdoor films. With our proximity to and affinity for the great outdoors and majestic mountains, Boiseans highly anticipate this big screen event each year. With 17 films ranging in length from three to 63 minutes, see deep powder in Japan, deep water in the Atlantic, steep mountain ranges in Mongolia and extreme adventurers in Nova Scotia. Visit www. egyptiantheatre.net for a full list of films. Sunday, Feb. 7-Monday, Feb. 9., 7 p.m.

Advanced tickets are $15 adults, $12 students and seniors. $20 general day of the show. $40 for a three-day pass. www. banffmountainfestivals.ca. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454. THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CARMEN ENCORE— Catch four hours of drama, sex, violence and unruly behaviors when George Bizet’s opera Carmen airs on the big screen from a live performance captured at the MET. Wed., Feb. 3, 6:30 p.m. $6.75 -$9.50. Edwards Spectrum 22, 7701 W. Overland Road, 208-377-1700, www.uatc.com.

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: SIMON BOCCANEGRA—Giuseppe Verdi’s tale of political resistance. Recorded live at the MET. Sat., Feb. 6, 1 p.m. $6.75 -$9.50. Edwards 22, 7701 W. Overland Road, 208-3771700, www.uatc.com.

young journalist Jean Craddock (Maggie Gyllenhaal), he resolves to turn his life around. Scott Cooper directs a star-studded cast featuring Colin Farrell and Robert Duval in this ﬁlm adaptation of Thomas Cobb’s 1987 novel. In the same vein as The Wrestler, Crazy Heart champions the human spirit. (R) Flicks

opening CRAZY HEART—“I’m Bad Blake; my tombstone will have my real name on it. Until then I’m just gonna stay bad.” Jeff Bridges stars as Blake, a 57-year old alcoholic fading star of country music. When the sensitive yet cragged Blake meets

DEAR JOHN—Nicholas Sparks brings yet another tearjerker to the big screen. Army man John (Channing Tatum, Public Enemies) meets Savannah (Amanda Seyfried, Big Love) during an annual leave. Their fairytale romance becomes torn apart by war when John is de-

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SCREEN/LISTINGS ployed overseas. Over the years, the two exchange letters but the distance creates an emotional rift between them. Acclaimed Swedish director of The Cider House Rules, Lasse Hallstrom once again breathes celluloid life into the printed word. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 DISTRICT 13: ULTIMATUM— Commonly misinterpreted as a sequel to 2009’s alien romp District 9, director Patrick Alessandrin takes viewers into the heart of a crime and drug ridden sector of Paris. The sequel to 2004’s Banlieue 13 finds streetwise Leito (David Belle) and undercover cop Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) joining forces once again to restore order to District 13. Belle and Raffaelli employ parkour (the French art of moving) to scale buildings and walls in their combat against ganglords. English dubbed. (R) FROM PARIS WITH LOVE—John Travolta attempts to make audiences forget clunkers Wild Hogs and Battlefield Earth with his turn as slick, bearded FBI agent Charlie Wax in this action film directed by Pierre Morel (Taken). When U.S. Ambassador employee James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) is hired as Wax’s assistant, he takes on more than his pencil mustache can handle. Explosions, wise cracks and good ole fashioned violence pepper Wax and Reese’s endeavor to stop a terrorist from attacking the City of Love. (R) Edwards 9

continuing A SINGLE MAN—The 1960s-era story follows a single day in the life of gay British professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) after his long-time companion dies. (R) Flicks

SCREEN/MOVIE TIMES WEDNESDAY, FEB. 3- TUESDAY, FEB. 9 A SINGLE MAN—

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, THE SQUEAKQUEL— Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:35, 1:45, 4:20, 6:45, 9 AVATAR—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 3:35, 7, 10:30; F-Tu: 1:50, 7, 10:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:40, 5:10, 8:45

AVATAR, DIGITAL 3D—

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS—New Orleans police sergeant Terence McDonagh (Nicolas Cage) injured his back while saving a life during Hurricane Katrina. Pain medication leads McDonagh down a path of addiction until he ﬁnds himself wrapped up with a notorious drug dealer. (R) Flicks Ends Thursday THE BLIND SIDE—(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE BOOK OF ELI—(R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:10, 1:10, 3:45, 4:40, 7:20, 8:15

AVATAR, IMAX 3D—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:50, 3:15, 7, 10:20

BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS— Flicks: W-Th only: 4:30, 7, 9:30 THE BLIND SIDE—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 4, 7:05; F-Tu: 1, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:55, 4, 6:50, 9:40

THE BOOK OF ELI—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50; F-Tu: 1:40, 4:45, 7:40, 10:20 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:30, 2:10, 4:10, 4:55, 7:05, 7:40, 9:50, 10:25

CRAZY HEART—

Flicks: F-Su: 12:20, 2:40, 5, 7:20, 9:35; M-Tu: 5, 7:20, 9:35

DEAR JOHN—

Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:10, 4:25, 7:30, 10 Edwards 22: F-Tu: 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05

EDGE OF DARKNESS—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:10; F-Tu: 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:25, 1, 2:05, 3:55, 4:05, 7, 7:50, 9:55

EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES— Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30 FROM PARIS WITH LOVE—

IT’S COMPLICATED—

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DOCTOR PARNASSUS—The story of Dr. Parnassus and his magical traveling show, in which visitors are treated to more than entertainment. (PG-13) Flicks IT’S COMPLICATED—Jane (Meryl Streep) and Jake (Alec

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Flicks: W-Th: 5, 9:35; F-Su: 9:25; M-Tu: 9:25

Flicks: F-Su: 2, 4:30, 7; M-Tu: 4:30, 7 Edwards 9: W-Th only: 1, 9:55 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:50, 3:30, 6:35, 9:15

LEAP YEAR—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:25, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:15

LEGION—

Edwards 9: W-Th only: 1:45, 4:40, 7:50, 10:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:40, 12:30, 2, 3, 4:35, 5:35, 7:10, 8:10, 9:35, 10:30

LOOKING FOR PALLADIN— THE LOVELY BONES— NEW MOON— PRECIOUS—

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

Edwards 9: W-Th only: 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 10:20 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:45, 3:40, 7:15, 10:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:40, 3:35, 6:30, 9:25

Flicks: W-Th: 7:25; F-Su: 5:05, 9:05; M-Tu: 5:05, 9:05

TO SAVE A LIFE—

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:05, 4:05, 7:20, 10:40; F-Tu: 1:05, 4:05, 7:20, 10:40 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:05, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05

THE SPY NEXT DOOR—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:30

THE TOOTH FAIRY— Edwards 9: W-Th only: 1:10, 4:20, 7:40, 10 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:50, 1:35, 2:25, 5:05, 7:35, 10 UP IN THE AIR—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:40, 4:45, 7:45, 10:15; F-Tu: 1:25, 4:35, 7:50, 10:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:45, 2:15

EDGE OF DARKNESS—See review, Page 26. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES—Harrison Ford stars as eccentric Dr. Robert Stonehill, a man tasked with searching for a cure for a rare genetic disorder affecting John (Brendan Fraser) and Aileen Crowley’s (Keri Russell) children. (PG) Edwards 22

Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:20, 4:30, 7:25, 10:10

THE IMAGINARIUM OF DR. PARNASSUS—

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: THE SQUEAKQUEL—(PG) Edwards 22 AVATAR—(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22, Edwards Digital 3-D, Edwards IMAX

Flicks: W-Th: 5:20, 7:20, 9:15; F-Su: 1, 3, 7:05; M-Tu: 7:05

WHEN IN ROME—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:25, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20; F-Tu: 1:45, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:35, 2:50, 5:15, 7:30, 9:50

THE YOUNG VICTORIA— Flicks: W-Th: 4:55, 7:10, 9:20; F-Su: 12:30, 2:45, 4:50, 7:10, 9:20; M-Tu: 4:50, 7:10, 9:15

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Edwards 22 Boise, 208-377-1700, www.regmovies.com; Edwards 9 Boise, 208-338-3821, www.regmovies.com; The Egyptian Theater, 208-345-0454, www.egyptiantheatre.net; The Flicks, 208-342-4222, www.theﬂicksboise.com; FOR SECOND-RUN MOVIES: Northgate Cinema, Towne Square Reel, Country Club Reel, Nampa Reel, 208-377-2620, www.reeltheatre.com. Overland Park $1 Cinema, 208-377-3072, www.opcmovies.com. Movie times listed were correct as of press time.

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Baldwin) were married, had three kids and divorced after Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s extramarital affair with a 20-something named Agness (Lake Bell). But when Jakeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new marriage to the younger woman hits the skids, an innocent meal with Jane turns into an affair with her ex. (R) Flicks, Edwards 9 Ends Thursday, Edwards 22 LEAP YEARâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;When Annaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s (Amy Adams) long-term boyfriend Jeremy (Adam Scott) announces heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heading to Ireland instead of proposing, she decides to take matters into her own hands. (PG) Edwards 22 LEGIONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;See Vidiot, this page. (R) Edwards 9 Ends Thursday, Edwards 22 LOOKING FOR PALLADINâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Despite his lavish wealth, ex-A list actor Jack Palladin (Ben Gazzara) works for pennies on the dollar as a short order cook in a small village in Guatemala. A Hollywood agent (David Moscow) ventures to Palladinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s village to offer him a $1 million paycheck for a small ďŹ lm role. (NR) Flicks

Angels and dead girls: The Vidiotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s idea of a good time.

DOUBLE FEATURE NIGHT: VERSION 2010 Ah, the double feature. I remember one evening back in 1989, pulling into a drive-in theater as a kid, snacking on a Kentucky Fried Chicken box meal while watching Turner & Hooch and Three Fugitives from the back of my familyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1964 Plymouth Belvedere station wagon. Few things thrilled a young Vidiot like knowing he would be allowed to not only spend three-plus hours in front of the equivalent of a giant TV, but that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d also be eating junk food while doing it. Fast-forward to Jan. 21, 2010, circa 6:30 p.m. A text message is sent to Mrs. Vidiotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-worker inquiring about the 12:01 a.m. opening night screening of Legion. No response. So a call is placed to a Vidiot pal instead, inviting him to the 7:25 p.m. showing of The Lovely Bones. He accepts. Minutes later, a response text arrives: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in for Legion!â&#x20AC;? Suddenly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s double-feature night all over again. Oddly enough, the two titles we opted to see were both lifted from my recent co-authored article on 2010 ďŹ lms of note. But would my pre-excitement toward them be justiďŹ ed? In The Lovely Bones, director Peter Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special effects and Stanley Tucciâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creepitude (as the ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s killer) were both wondrous, but I felt devoid of emotional connections to any of the characters, and left swearing it was far less poignant than my favorite interpretation of Heaven and the inbetween What Dreams May Come. (Just to be sure, I re-viewed the DVD this week and my sentiments were conďŹ rmed.) After a short stop at home, we were off again to Edwards 21 on Overland Road to see Legion: in short, God turning his back on Homo sapiens, sending angels to annihilate the race as one rogue angel, played by Paul Bettany (A Knightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tale), descends to assist humanity. Better than The Lovely Bones? Yes. But not because it was action-packed; because it committed to its genre and because Bettany is amazing in virtually all his ďŹ lms. And, because if youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to see one or the other in theaters, the safe bet is always picking the action movie over the drama, even if this one had a few thriller-type moments and a lot of CG. The â&#x20AC;&#x2122;80s are long gone. No more Plymouth, no hokey comedies, no fried chicken. In 2010, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four movie stubs, two Coke Zeros, a box of SweeTartsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and a tab of more than $50. Morphed as it has, the double-feature night lives on. And somewhere in time, a 9-year-old Vidiot is grinning. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Travis Estvold WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

THE LOVELY BONESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;See Vidiot, this page. (PG-13) Edwards 9 Ends Thursday PRECIOUSâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Newcomer Gabby Sidibe stars as Precious Jones, an overweight, illiterate teen who suffers physical and emotional abuse at the hands of her mother. (R) Flicks TO SAVE A LIFEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;A popular teen comes face-to-face with the challenges of high-school life after the death of a childhood friend. (PG-13) Edwards 22

BOISE CITY DEPT OF ARTS &HISTORY opportunities public art

SHERLOCK HOLMESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE SPY NEXT DOORâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;What do you get when you throw Jackie Chan, Billy Ray Cyrus and George Lopez into a cheesy, kung-fu-spybecomes-an-undercover babysitter comedy? The Spy Next Door. (PG) Edwards 22

Judy Collins, fabricating art for Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ustick Library!

THE TOOTH FAIRYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Derek Thompson (Dwayne â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Rockâ&#x20AC;? Johnson) is a ruthless, molarmutilating minor league hockey player. But after smashing a kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dreams, he gets summoned to do one weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard labor as a real-life tooth fairy. (PG) Edwards 9 Ends Thursday, Edwards 22

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: NEW MOONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;(PG-13) Edwards 22

Upcoming Opportunities: # Application Deadline February 10 # ! " Application Deadline February 12 # Application Deadline February 19 Application Deadline March 12th

UP IN THE AIRâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;As a corporate downsizer, Ryan Bingham (George Clooney) travels extensively, but right as he is about to reach 10 million frequent ďŹ&#x201A;yer miles, his company grounds him. So used to living on the road on his own, Bingham ďŹ nds it hard to make the connections that really matter: human ones. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards22 WHEN IN ROMEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Successful, love-starved New York art curator Beth (Kristen Bell) ventures to Rome for her sisterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wedding. In a desperate attempt to rejuvenate her love life, she takes coins from the fountain of love. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE YOUNG VICTORIAâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;In one of historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest love stories, this ďŹ lm tells the story of Queen Victoria during the infancy of her reign of England. (PG) Flicks *Movie times for Edwards 22 were not available as of press time. Please contact the theater for up-to-date information.

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NEWS/REC ON YOUR MARK, GET SET, REGISTER Only the fastest and most determined make it in the Race to Robie Creek each spring. But we’re not talking about the finish line, we’re talking about registration. It’s a pretty safe bet that if your finger hesitates above the left button on your mouse as you make your way through the online registration, you’ve probably missed your chance to be among the 2,232 runners allowed in the annual race. This year, race registration will begin at high noon on Monday, Feb. 15. With just a fast Internet connection and the $40 entry fee, you, too, can tackle the climb and descent into Robie Creek in search of some serious bragging rights. If you’re stuck with dial-up at home, you might want to consider heading over to Shu’s Idaho Running Company, which will have banks of computers set up to allow would-be racers to try to get registered in time. Here’s a tip for getting in faster: Have an account set up with active.com, the company handling the registration. Just remember your user name and password, and you’ll be a little ahead of the game. Those who don’t make the first cutoff will have a second chance to get into the race. Beginning on Tuesday, Feb. 16, and running through 5 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 19, second chancers can enter an online drawing for a shot at being one of the additional 200 runners selected for the race. Second chancers just need to fill out an online form and pay an additional $6, which goes toward the race. For more details, check out robiecreek.com. And good luck.

NORDIC ESCAPE Feeling the nagging presence of cabin fever? Here’s a great excuse to get out of town for the weekend. The Sun Valley Nordic Festival runs through Sunday, Feb. 7, offering a full schedule of races, clinics and assorted activities and events. On Thursday, Feb. 4, check out the downtown Ketchum Nordic Night, beginning at 5 p.m. and including some family friendly races, music by Sol’Jibe and a bonfire. That same night, beginning a 6 p.m., the Best of Banff will highlight some of the best films from the annual mountain film festival. On Friday, Feb. 5, the Idaho Conservation League will host a half-day Nordic tour through the foothills of the Boulder Mountains. The festival’s premier event, the Boulder Mountain Tour, will begin at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Feb. 6. In its 35th year, the race starts near Galena Lodge and leads 32 kilometers back toward town along groomed trails. More than 800 racers will hit the course, with everyone from first-timers to professional racers. For the first time, the race will include a Half Boulder, for those who aren’t quite up to 32 kilometers of skate skiing. Of course, with the right attitude, spectating can be a sport, too. For a full schedule and more info, check out svnordicfestival.com. —Deanna Darr

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FOREVER FOOD Putting emergency food to the test DEANNA DARR It’s cold, the sun is setting and you’re all alone. As the prospect of an unexpected night out looms, a grumble begins in the pit of your stomach. You dig deep in your bag and pull out ... a granola bar? A bag of trail-weary GORP? Leftover ketchup packets? A hot plate of vegetarian pasta fagioli? The latter option may seem far-fetched, but the world of emergency food has gone gourmet in recent years. Long gone are the days of military C-rations in which the only palatable items were the fruit cocktail and a three-pack of cigarettes. Apparently, companies that make freezedried or air-tight, long-lasting food realized that people weren’t just looking for shelf-life but for a little bit of taste, too. “In the old days, it was pretty gross. Awful, but it had a lot of calories,” said Chris Haunold, general manager at Idaho Mountain Touring. “Now, people are interested in ﬂavor, taste. They want natural products without a lot of preservatives.” Haunold has been camping and backpacking since the ’70s and is no stranger to emergency food. “We would buy that stuff and use it because it was light and lasted forever, but I would be hard-pressed to say it tasted good,” he said.

THE TASTE TEST With all the options out there, we decided to hold our own highly unscientiﬁc BW taste test. We sat down to a feast of freeze-dried beef stew from Mountain House ($6.39), a vegetarian pasta fagioli Heater Meal ($8.97) and an MRE consisting of chicken and noodles with vegetables in sauce and fried rice on the side ($7.97). None of them looked particularly appetizing, but we were surprised by the ﬂavor of each.

“Now, it seems like gourmet.” Haunold rattled off a list of some of the all-natural freeze-dried options available, including spicy pad Thai and curries. Of course, traditional favorites like chili mac are still available, but they taste better now. “They actually taste like real food,” he said. Emergency food comes in several different forms: the freeze-dried version requiring hot water to cook and vacuum-packed options that are ready to eat and often come with some sort of heating element. Freeze-dried meals are the most common on the market. IMT carries offerings from companies like the longstanding Mountain House, Backpackers Pantry and Alpine Air, while The Benchmark carries Mountain House, Alpine Air and Natural High. Boise Army/Navy offers Mountain House. [Disclosure: The writer’s parents own Boise Army/Navy.] Freeze-dried options have the advantage of being both light and small, but since they usually require hot water, they may not be the best option for anyone not carrying a stove. They usually come in a two-serving size, which costs between $6 and $9, although there are four-serving options, as well as singleservings, which Haunold said are becoming increasingly popular. Freeze-dried food typically

lasts between three and five years. While Seth Goicoechea from The Benchmark isn’t as big of a fan of emergency food, he admits that it has gotten better. His advice: try it out before you take it out. Customers at Benchmark favor the turkey tetrazzini and veggie lasagna, while customer favorites at IMT include organic turkey pesto and any of the pasta or rice dishes. Other meal options available in Boise include Heater Meals, which feature a vacuumpacked entree that fits inside a special bag outfitted with a heating element. Just pour the included package of water on the heating element, roll up the ends of the bag and stuff it back in the box, and 10 to 12 minutes later, you have a hot meal. Refrigeration is not necessary, and the meals have a five-year shelf life. Of course, there’s always the old military MRE, or meal ready to eat. Today’s MREs include a main entree, as well as a self-heating bag similar to the Heater Meal. The biggest draw for many to the MRE is the extras that come with it: crackers, jam, instant coffee, breakfast bars. Both Heater Meals and MREs are available at Boise Army/Navy. Goicoechea has one recommendation when it comes to emergency food: “Always carry antacid tablets.”

MRE, it scored for the educational reading material printed on each entree box. Our favorite was the directions for heating, which included a diagram of how to lean the meal against a “rock or something.” Flavorwise, the MRE was passable, although we were pleasantly surprised by the size and quality of the chunks of all-white-meat chicken. While the fried rice was a bit too gingery for us, we appreciated the included spoon, salt and pepper, and book of matches.

the potatoes were a little crunchy and the overall texture wasn’t a favorite. Since this one comes a la carte, either carry some seasonings or be ready to eat it as-is.

HEATER MEAL

FREEZE DRIED The overall taste winner was the freeze-dried beef stew. Eating directly out of the resealable bag, we found that as long as we didn’t look directly into the bag, what came out was quite tasty, although

The Heater Meal took the award for best texture. The pasta was surprisingly ﬂavorful, although it did have that canned-tomato tang. While we weren’t fans of the Styrofoam tray it comes with, we were impressed by the heating element. Just seconds after dumping the water in, steam was pufﬁng out the plastic heating bag and the entree came out hot. The heating element stayed hot long after the food was gone, allowing for the meal to stay warm. We also appreciated the fact that the package included a fork, napkin, salt, pepper and saltfree seasoning blend.

MRE The MRE gets the award for most entertaining. While the meal is warming on its heating element, diners can munch on the crackers and jelly or the fruit-infused breakfast square and mix up the 97 percent caffeine-free instant coffee with a healthy dose of the included sugar. While we missed the miniature Tabasco bottle and chocolate bar that were once staples of the

DESSERT In true emergency-food style, we decided to ﬁnish our meal with a freeze-dried ice cream sandwich, aka astronaut ice cream ($2.29). With joy in our reminiscing hearts, we sucked on the chalky, nowater-required dessert, which was strangely addictive. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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

ELI’S ITALIAN DELI THE WAY TO ANY HEART IS THROUGH THE STOMACH

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Here’s a not-so-romantic way to spend a Valentine’s Day meal with your sweetie: lunch with state legislators. The National Association of Social Workers is hosting lunch at the Capitol on Sunday, Feb. 14, at 11:30 a.m. in an effort to educate both legislators and the public about what exactly social workers do. Romantic? No, but informative? Yes. If your special someone swoons at the idea of dining under the rotunda, you’ll have to reserve space before Friday, Feb. 5. Lunch is $50 for two, and if you’re ﬂying solo this V-Day, a single ticket is $30. E-mail lunchatthecapitol@gmail.com with questions and reservations. If you’re not into lunch or legislators on Valentine’s Day, Food News will be rounding up a list of places to take your sweetie. Keep on eye on Cobweb at boiseweekly.com this week for a discerning list of who’s open and who still has reservations available. If you know where you want to go and don’t need help from BW, we’d recommend getting on the horn right now and getting your name on a list to ensure you get a table. Ask for the dark cozy one in the corner. Thinking about ditching the restaurant scene for a home-cooked candlelight meal on V-day? This week is your last chance to brush up on your lacking kitchen skills before you’ll have to put them to the holiday test on Feb. 14. This Saturday, Feb. 6, 11 a.m-1 p.m., French pastry chef Hugues Maitre teaches a class at Pottery Gourmet on whipping up a chocolate Valentine for dessert. If you’re looking for a little ... ahem, sugar ... after serving sweets to your sweet but you think a little more kitchen help will seal the deal, check out chef Randy King’s class on aphrodisiacs at Pottery Gourmet on Tuesday, Feb. 9, at 6:30 p.m. But since chocolate and oysters do not a full meal make, you may also want to sign up for a tutorial on how to cook an actual entree. Get an almost last-minute lesson on how to cook a Chauteaubriand Dinner for Two with chef Dean Fuller at Pottery Gourmet on Thursday, Feb. 11, at 6:30 p.m. Potter y Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., 208-368-0649. Classes range from $40$50. For more information or to register, call Potter y Gourmet or visit potter ygourmet.com. —Rachael Daigle

My new addiction has a catchy little name: Ba-Da-Bing ($7.75). Ba-Da-Bing! For Tony Soprano, those words signified naked dancing They never warn you about thin-sliced turkey, ham, pastrami and girls, clandestine meetings and solace. For me, they mean a mouthful of provolone on homemade bread when they give you the lecture about flavor, and I get to keep most of my dollar bills. the dangers of drugs in school, but seriously, this sandwich deserves its When Eli’s Italian Deli opened in the back of Boise Cafe on the own public service announcement. Check that, there needs to be a full corner of 10th and Bannock streets, I didn’t venture in right away. It campaign, warning everyone that trying this sandwich just once can doesn’t look like a typical deli and I wasn’t sure of the protocol. The lead to profound and undeniable cravings and the urge to run out to counter is way at the back of the restaurant, the menu on the wall is Eli’s Italian Deli in downtown Boise and grab one at all times of the day. hard to see from the front door and the small tables and booths are And, just know now, that your plan to eat only half of the sub-style seldom occupied. sandwich will fail. Once you’ve bitten into the layers of warm meat Having heard of the glory of an Eli’s sandwich, I ignored my relucand cheese, topped with lettuce, onion, tomato and house dressing (a tance and stepped in. I uneasily tiptoed to the small counter at the back sweet Italian with of the space where just enough vinegar) the welcoming smile engulfed in fresh of owner James bread that is both Elizondo relaxed me. light and airy inside Then the menu came while still providing into focus and I had a substantial crust, to face another food you’re a goner. Or hang-up: I don’t like rather, your sandwich to order items with is. You may have the silly names. A place best intentions to here in town used to save some for later, have a burger called you may even get it the Big Man. wrapped up and into Me: “I’ll have a the refrigerator, but Big Man.” that nagging need for Server: “Ha, ha, a fix will overwhelm ha! Gotcha!” you, calling like a No thanks. Siren from the depths The hot Ba-Daof the ice box. Bing! Sandwich While the sand($7.75) at Eli’s was wiches can induce destined to fall into dependency, the the category of “food physical surroundings I really want but aren’t so persuasive. won’t order to avoid This little place being the butt of a ELI’S ITALIAN DELI 219 N. 10th St. is hardly more than a counter hidden in the back of joke” until I read the ingredients: turkey, ham, pastrami 208-473-7161 Boise Cafe, a street-corner space that morphs itself into and provolone. The vision of melted provolone dripping elisitalian.com whatever the occasion calls for—be it Latin dancing and down multi layers of multi meat was enough for me to Open Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-7 drinks or a quick lunch. But those who dare to explore get over myself. The bread was so mouthwatering— p.m.; Sat. 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.; closed Sun. beyond the assortment of small bistro tables that look long, thin 12-inch homemade sub rolls that are like like they’ve just been slid into place—because they might biting into a crunchy cloud—asking for the belly-filling have been—will find a reason to keep coming back. Ba-Da-Bing! became easy. After a few weeks of ordering Occasionally, other sandwiches, both hot and cold, have called to me it, I braved a major mispronunciation hazard and ordered the Mufalata from the wall-mounted menu above the counter, shouting things like ($7.75), another hot sandwich. Genoa salami, ham, mortadella, provoGenoa salami, mortadella, artichoke hearts, pepper sopressata, capalone and the special olive tapenade would have been enough to upstage colla and Albacore tuna at me. But in the end, I give in to my addiction. the Ba-Da-Bing permanently, but the Mufalata—I’m guessing due to the As part of my own 12-step program, I recently forced myself to tapenade—proved too spicy for my palate. order the lasagna lunch special ($5.75), which came with two large Wanting to switch it up one drizzly afternoon, I spotted the sign for pieces of toasted garlic bread. While the layers of pasta, Italian sausage the lasagna special ($5.95) with garlic bread. I have been pronouncing and cheese doused in a sweet and freshly made marinara sauce with “lasagna” correctly for more than 30 years, but as a kid, I struggled big chunks of tomato were tasty enough—even if they could have done with it after seeing the word on the side of a cardboard noodle box. with a little more filling between the layers of pasta—it did nothing to Weirdly, I flashed back to that briefly, and to avoid a regression, asked help cure me of my addiction. for “the special,” adding a house salad ($3) with gorgonzola dressing. Once, when I just needed a little Eli’s fix, I got a cup of homemade Thick, soft, piquant chunks of gorgonzola in one bite bounced off the minestrone ($3.50) from the giant, steaming pot that takes up residence sweet marinara and soft pasta, mozzarella and ricotta of the next. Back next to a rotating variety of daily soup on one end of the salad bar. The and forth, back and forth scooping dressing and sauce off the sides substantial chunks of zucchini, carrot and tomato and ample beans of the to-go containers with the too-few slices of buttery garlic bread, clobber the thin concoctions most restaurants call minestrone, but it made from the same airy Italian sandwich bread. didn’t do much to rid my mind of the Ba-Da-Bing. Because Eli’s is open until 7 p.m. on weeknights, it’s a sweet spot to Luckily, the friendly crew at Eli’s is happy to help me feed my need. pick up a little somethin’ somethin’ on the way home. When I walk in But then, aren’t all pushers? the door and my spouse shouts, “What’s for dinner?” I’m happy to holler back, “Ba-Da-Bing!” —Deanna Darr is still trying to come up with the next 11 steps of her recovery plan. —Amy Atkins is no longer afraid to order the Justin Quesadilla. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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State Street BURGER ’N BREW—A Boise favorite whose name says it all: burgers and beer. 4295 W. State St., 208-345-7700. $-$$ SU. BUZZ CAFE—Coffee, lunch and breakfast early in the day. Wine tastings and music aplenty at night. 2999 N. Lakeharbor Lane, SU 208-344-4321. $-$$ . CORONA VILLAGE—Gut-busting burritos, incredible chips and Dos Equis on tap make the Village stand out among Boise’s family style Mexican restaurants. 4334 W. State St., 208-338. 9707. $-$$ DUTCH GOOSE—Homemade ﬁnger steaks, fresh steamed clams, soup, sandwiches and great hot wings. They also serve up over 17 beers. 3515 W. State St., 208-342-8887. $-$$ SU . FLYING PIE PIZZERIA— Boise’s longest-lived and most inventive pizzeria. They have their own beer (the Triple Pi Belgian-style ale), and pies to please even the pickiest eaters. 4320 W. State St., , SU. 208-384-0000. $

MERLOT It’s ironic, but one of the best things to happen to merlot was the movie Sideways. That film extolled the virtues of pinot noir while dismissing merlot, and a backlash against the grape resulted. Truth is, because of its previous popularity, there was a lot of less-than-great merlot out there. Now, most of that is gone, while better wines have survived and merlot is making a comeback. One thing is certain, the grape thrives in Washington. Two wines from that state topped our tasting. 2006 COLUMBIA CREST GRAND ESTATES, $10.99 This Washington winery offers bargain-priced wines that garner great press, and the merlot helps to show why. Lots of toasty oak comes through on the nose, rich but not overwhelming. It’s matched by bright cherry, dark berry, mocha and spice notes. Big fruit flavors with an enticing silkiness fill the mouth with bold berry, red currant and plum. It’s a definite best buy. 2005 NAPA CELLARS MERLOT, $17.99 Subdued, but complex aromas are highlighted by soft cherry, herb and black tea, backed by pleasant hints of vanilla and fresh dill. This elegantly structured wine is filled with ripe and lively cherry and berry fruit wrapped around a core of soft tannin. The flavors show good persistence on the finish with just the right hit of acidity adding balance. This is a classic Napa Valley merlot at a great price. 2007 SEVEN HILLS MERLOT, $22 This merlot is light but lovely on the nose with soft plum and cherry fruit laced with earthy touches of coffee, mocha, mineral and herb. Much more expressive on the palate, it offers bold bursts of velvety cherry, berry and plum. Supple layers of toasty oak, licorice and dark chocolate add depth, and the creamy finish lingers nicely with sweet berry playing against tart cherry. A definite winner from this Walla Walla, Wash. winery. —David Kirkpatrick

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THE GREEN CHILE—Southwestern cuisine in Boise with green and red chilis, chimichangas and chile rellenos. The menu also features burgers and salads. 5616 W. State St., 208-853. 0103. $-$$ THE LIFT BAR AND GRILL— Boasting daily homemade soups, Angus burgers, sandwiches, vegetarian options and a variety of beers and wines to choose from. Bring your dog by to relax on the back patio. 4091 W. State SU. St., 208-342-3250. MADHUBAN—A daily lunch buffet and a huge menu including all the favorites. You’re gonna love the curry. A great place for vegetarians. 6930 W. State St., 208-853-8215. $-$$ SU OM. MERRITT’S COUNTRY CAFE—This 24-hour Boise mainstay is the place to land after a long night on the town. The “home of the scone” serves up grub that turns customers into regulars. 6630 W. State St., . 208-853-9982. $ PIZZALCHIK—PIZZa sALad and CHIcKen. Get it? Perfect robust salads, plus delicious original pizzas and whole chickens roasted in a 6,000-pound stone-hearth oven. 7330 W. State St., SU . 208-853-7757. $-$$ WESTSIDE DRIVE-IN—From the mind of “Boise’s Best Chef,” Chef Lou, come some of the most scrumptious foods for dine-in, take-out or frozen to use when cooking is the last thing you want to do. 1939 W. State St., 208-342-2957. $-$$ SU .

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.” So said the ancient Greek historian Polybius, and now I’m conveying the message to you. I hope it will serve as a spur in the wake of your recent triumph. Will you be content with merely basking in the glow, frittering away the provocative potentials? Or will you get down to business and use your new advantages to upgrade your destiny to what we might refer to as Aries 2.0? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Whatever shines should be observed,” said 19th-century astronomer William Herschel, discoverer of the planet Uranus. He was referring to his specialty, heavenly bodies, but I’d like to expand the meaning for your use. According to my analysis, it has become very important for you to notice, observe and think about anything that shines. Doing so will tune you in to exactly what you need to know in order to make the best decisions in the coming weeks. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time,” wrote French author Andre Gide. I’m guessing that 2009 was a time when you embarked on such a search, Gemini—a half-blind, groping exploration that asked you to leave the past behind without knowing where the future lay. By now, though, I suspect you have sighted the shore of your new frontier. If you haven’t yet, it’ll happen soon. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I wonder if you can you handle this much healing intensity, Cancerian. The possibilities for transforming difficult parts of your life are substantial. I’ll name a few ways this could play out: 1. A confusing riddle may be partially solved through a semi-divine intervention. 2. A sore spot could be soothed thanks to the power of your curiosity. 3. An ignorance that has caused you pain may be illuminated, allowing you to suffer less. 4. If you can summon the capacity to generously tolerate uncertainty, you may find and rehabilitate an orphaned part of your life. I’m not saying for sure that any of this stuff will happen, but the odds are favorable that at least one will. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What will it be, Leo? A time of rampaging ids and slamming doors and lost opportunities? Or will this be the week you finally slip into the magic sanctuary and track down the secret formula? Will this be the breakthrough moment when you outmaneuver the dragon with that non-violent weapon

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you’ve been saving for when it was absolutely necessary? It really is up to you. Either scenario could unfold. You have to decide which one you prefer. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I don’t mean to alarm you, but I think you may be in a light hypnotic trance right now. It’s possible that the thrumming hum of your routine has shut down some of your normal alertness, lowering your awareness of certain situations that you really need to tune in to. Let’s do something about this! When I count to three, you will hereby snap out of your daze and become fully awake. One ... two ... three. Now look around you and get yourself more closely in touch with your immediate environment. Make an effort to vividly see and hear and smell everything that’s going on. This will have the effect of mobilizing your subconscious mind. Then, for a period of at least five days, you’ll have a kind of X-ray vision. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You would stir up some good fortune for yourself if you brought meals to shut-ins or gave a little presentation at an old folks’ home or donated your old laptop to a low-income family. Oddly enough, it’s also an excellent time for you to scratch and claw for a bigger market share, or to get the upper hand on a competitor, or to bring your creative ideas to people in a position to help you. That’s the odd thing about this week. Capitalist-style self-promotion and actualized compassion will not only coexist—they’ll have a symbiotic relationship. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Last week was the anniversary of my very first weekly horoscope column, which appeared years ago in the Good Times, a newspaper in Santa Cruz, Calif. My initial effort was crude and a bit reckless compared to what I eventually learned to create. And yet it was imbued with a primal fervor and heartfelt adventurousness that had a certain charm, and many people seemed to find it useful. Today I bow down to that early effort, honoring it for the seed it sprouted and thanking it for the blessings it led to. I encourage you to do something similar to what I just described, Scorpio: Pay homage to the origins that made it possible for you to be who you have become. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the Choctaw language, there are two kinds of past tenses. In one, you speak about an event or experience that you personally know to be a fact. In the other, you deliver information that you have acquired second-hand and therefore can’t definitely vouch for. In my perfect world, you Sagittarians would find a way to incorporate this perspective into

all your communications during the coming week. In other words, you would consistently distinguish between the unimpeachable truth and the alleged truth. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this would give you great power to influence the rhythms of life to flow in your favor. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The great composer does not set to work because he is inspired,” wrote music critic Ernest Newman, “but becomes inspired because he is working. Beethoven, Wagner, Bach and Mozart settled down day after day to the job in hand. They didn’t waste time waiting for inspiration.” I think what Newman said applies to those working in any field where creativity is needed— which is really just about every field. Given your current astrological omens, Capricorn, it’s especially apropos for you now. This is an excellent time to increase your mastery of the kind of discipline that spurs inventive thought and surprising breakthroughs. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I got an e-mail from an Aquarian reader complaining that the astrologers she consulted in early 2009, including me, were wrong about the year ahead. All of us said it would be a time of expansion and opening, a phase of rapid growth and fresh energy. But according to this reader, 2009 turned out to be very different. Every Aquarius she knew had a tough ride. Here’s my response: Expansion and opening did indeed occur, but their initial effects weren’t what you expected. They shattered the old containers of your life in order to make it possible for you to create new, bigger containers that would be more suitable for the person you’re becoming. And this year, 2010, is when you will work to create those new containers. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I wish you could aim tachyon particles through an inverted positronic array while simultaneously modulating synaptical relays through an anti-matter torque-buffer. This would bend the space-time continuum back to a point before your recent detour began. Then, armed with knowledge of the future, you’d be able to navigate your way more elegantly through the crazy mash of illusions and misunderstandings. But since the high-tech solution I described may not be possible, I suggest that instead you clear your head of theories about why people are doing what they’re doing. Slow yourself down so completely that you can see the majestic flicker of eternity hidden in every moment. Be a flame of love, not a swamp of self-justification. And send humble notes and witty gifts to anyone whose links with you got tweaked.

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