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ROAD WARRIORS New laws take the combat out of the bike/car relationship BUSINESS 21

THE CLANG OF METAL MONEY Idaho pols and their gold and silver money notions FOOD 37

RED ROOM It’s “moorder” on your waistline FOOD 40

PARKING POLITICS Edwards’ farmers market closes

“That is completely government socialism and I would attack it.”

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NOTE THE ALMIGHTY BICYCLE A couple of months ago, I was explaining to someone why I chose not to put an offer on a house in the Cole and Ustick area. I liked the house just fine, I explained, but the one thing that really bothered me was that I wasn’t comfortable riding my bike from there to work through the heavily trafficked Northview or Chinden areas. He laughed at me. Basing an important decision like a house purchase on something as silly as my bike was ridiculous to him. Heck, cycling to work, no matter how far the distance, was ridiculous to him. Some people prefer four wheels and power steering. That’s great, but let’s just hope they’re making room on the road for all those people who prefer two wheels and handlebars. This edition of Boise Weekly is a little ditty I like to call the “bike-heavy issue.” We’ve put it together in conjunction with Boise Bike Week, which happens Sunday, May 16-Saturday, May 22. For a list of events, turn to Page 18, where you’ll find a box highlighting rides, parades, parties and seminars. In the main feature, you’ll read about Idaho’s bike laws and how they are changing in order to promote road sharing. And in Rec, things get a little wacky with a look at concept bicycles on Page 35 and an expert mountain bike trail in Play. Into the road races, alley cats and trail treks? Check out the all-bike Rec Listings on Page 36, and read about the art/sport/job of bike messengering in Citizen on Page 11. Beyond bike-related content in this edition, you’ll find volume two of our new Business section. On the serious side, Business Editor Zach Hagadone examines the idea some Idaho lawmakers are floating about instituting a sound money system, and on the not-so-serious side, Hagadone chats up local bands about the business of touring in a slow economy. And if you haven’t been to boiseweekly.com lately, you’ve missed a couple of cool things. We’re getting serious about video, and I’d highly recommend checking out our video interview with Boise author Brady Udall, as well as footage of his recent reading of The Lonely Polygamist at Rediscovered Bookshop. Calendar Guru Josh Gross and Videographer Blair Davison have been hitting the bar scene to race goldfish, compete in tricycle races and interview the two bartenders voted hottest in the city by BW readers. Check it all out on Cobweb at boiseweekly.com. —Rachael Daigle

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THE FARMER AND THE PERMIT News Editor Nathaniel Hoffman tore out his front yard and turned it into an urban farm. Apparently the neighbors didn’t approve and now he ﬁnds himself ensnared in permitting nightmare of his own making.

INDIE HATES SNAKES, DOGS ARE OK News of a new thrift store in Garden City led to several revelations last week. First, that thrift store supports four-legged friends who’ve run into trouble and second, one of those rescued canines was adopted by Indiana Jones himself.

DOCE DE MAYO Cinco de Mayo was canceled last week. Not the bar hopping festivities, as your Seis de Mayo hangover can attest, but the cultural celebration on the Grove. Take two is Wednesday, May 12.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN Finn Riggins puts Manhattan in the rearview, has a nasty ﬁght and snaps a quickie of a caged TV. Matt Hopper checks in with an audio clip from Whiskey Jacques.

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MAIL / MONDA GAGA BILL COPE TED RALL NEWS Getting to know First District Congressional candidate Harley Brown The races for districts 18 and 19 CITIZEN FEATURE Road Sharing 101 BW PICKS 8 DAYS OUT SUDOKU BUSINESS The art of making music and money on the road The weight of a sound money theory Garden City’s stalled makeover Your TV and the new remote control technology NOISE Go Listen Boise has one Grand Ol’ Time MUSIC GUIDE ARTS Inside the Idaho Actors’ Collective SCREEN Iron Man 2 MOVIE TIMES REC Bikes of the future FOOD Something old is new again at Red Room Tavern BEER GUZZLER CLASSIFIEDS NYT CROSSWORD FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

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MAIL UGLY DISCOVERY In Boise’s North End on May 1, mid-morning, you may have seen a peculiar sight: a woman scrubbing at the sidewalk. That morning, I was stopped by grafﬁti carved atop the sidewalk in pink chalk. In block letters the F-bomb, above the Nbomb above a swastika. Oh, Idaho, famous for two things: potatoes and Aryan gangs, right? I cannot ignore this. I live in the North End. Many families spend their time outdoors. My neighbors do. I’ll mention now that they are African-American. I won’t ignore this disgusting act by an offensive clod. To think that a grown man or woman did this appalls me. Maybe on Friday night some individuals were walking down Eastman when one of them said, “This is where that black family lives.” Then

another grabbed the chalk, re-establishing bad-ass status, bent and scribbled the ugly message. Whoever wrote this isn’t a 6-year-old girl riding bikes around with her younger brother. Looking down at pretty pink words, she reads them. Instantly she is damaged. Her brother asks what it says, to protect him, she lies, “Nothing.” This girl will remember this forever. I ask my Boise neighbors to have conversations with your children. Tell them the truth of people killed because of misguided hate of others. Check in with your neighbors, we need to watch out for the adults that may have done this. Harper Lee wrote a single book. Think of all the conversations that To Kill A Mockingbird started. Lee wrote about what she knew. We need to talk about what we now know as well. We

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must be responsible. I am thankful it was only chalk I scrubbed off the sidewalk. This time. —Mary Ann Hansen, Boise

WHAT WOULD JESUS SMOKE? Another reason to stop caging sick citizens who use cannabis (marijuana) that doesn’t get mentioned (BW, News, “Compassionate Conservative Has Medical Marijuana On His Mind,” April 13, 2010) is because it’s biblically correct since Christ God Our Father, The Ecologician, indicates He created all the seed-bearing plants, saying they are all good, on literally the very ﬁrst page (Genesis 1:1112 and 29-30). The only biblical restriction placed on cannabis is that it is to be accepted with thankfulness (see 1 Timothy 4:1-5). And, “But whoever has the world’s goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him?” (See 1 John 3:17.) Jesus Christ risked jail to heal the sick. —Stan White, Dillon, Colo.

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OUR MAN IN NEVADA Vote for Walt, donate to Harry

Friends, Democrats, Idahoans, lend me your ears. I come not to praise Walt Minnick. Nor to bury him, either. All it took for me to reassess my utter disgust with Walt’s rightward groveling was the spectacle of his potential opponents trying to out-conservative one another—a humiliating exhibition that, to my camp, sounds like two town drunks, each boasting, “I am wa-a-a-y stupider than he is!” It has reminded me that utter disgust comes in many and varied degrees. But we are gathered here not to discuss the unseemly pandering of Congressman Minnick or the doofishness of Vaughn “Hey, can I borrow your truck?” Ward. I have summoned you today to offer a soothing balm for that confused, hurt, lost spot in your heart that cries out for guidance, now that we have realized any contributions we might have made to the First Congressional District race two years ago was a waste not only of money but of our fragile hopes, as well. After years of struggle, we finally manage to elect a Democrat, but we end up with just another Republican, anyway. Phooey, and as our friends Daltrey and Townshend put it: “won’t get fooled again!” (How does such a thing happen? As a longtime observer, I am convinced it has something to do with the geography. Just as certain spots on Earth serve as centers of intensified spiritual energy—e.g., Machu Picchu, Ayers Rock, Stonehenge—others may well be centers of intensified intellectual degeneracy. That would explain Idaho’s First District, no? In the Second District, it’s always been simple: “Let the best Mormon win.” But in the First, how can we account for—moving backward in time—Minnick’s sneaky metamorphosis, Bill Sali’s magical disassociation with our dimension, Butch Otter’s six-year nap, Helen Chenoweth’s three-term hot flash, Larry LaRocco’s peccadilloes, Larry Craig’s five terms of closet pomposity and Steve Symms’ personification of abject idiocy? I tell you, there has to be some mind-altering gas escaping from a subterranean seam, or perhaps ancient aliens put something in the western Idaho water table that, when combined with frequent flier miles to Washington, D.C., turns healthy minds to gelatin. But let us save any further discussion of this phenomenon for another time. Back to the point I insist on making.) What with the disappointment that is Walt, I suspect a great many of you are wondering where to send your precious campaign dollars this year. Of course, we do have an attractive Democrat in the race for governor, and I can easily imagine all of one’s contribution allowance going to Keith Allred. How sweet would it be to send Butch and his cantankerous sidekick Mikey G into a retirement of choking doggies and combing in hair gel? And lest we forget, there are several legislative races that could use a few extra bucks, no doubt. WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

But for those of us in the Frothing First, there is an unease—if not a downright loathing—at the thought of sending the incumbent a contribution, just so’s he can Congressionalize contrary to our dreams for another two years. I’m not wrong, am I, Dems? And with the dreadful prospect of what the Republicans offer in either Ward or his primary opponent Raul Labrador, never before has it been more clear that our vote may be one thing, but our money is another. So what to do with that dough that would have gone to a local Congressional race, were there a local Congressional race we could believe in? Cast your pearls south, compadres! We have a next-door neighbor—one in whom we can trust and who has already done far more for America than all of Idaho’s current crop of puny pols put together—in a spot of trouble this election cycle, and I doubt he would object to contributions coming from north of his border. Yes, ship that campaign cash down Nevada way. Send it to Sen. Harry Reid. The soft-spoken scrapper, Harry Reid. The magnificent Harry Reid. UÊ Last week, I couldn’t resist having a little fun with Harry’s apparent opponent, one Sue Lowden, who has gained national attention for her assertion that proper health care can be bartered for. But while the idea of trading chickens for tonsillectomies and hemorrhoid control may be funny, a serious candidate for Congress who would suggest such a thing isn’t. That a person of her questionable caliber could come as far as she has in a race against a man like Reid is alarming. The worst of it is, Harry Reid’s re-election troubles are a result of his Herculean efforts to put through real health-care reform—the sort in which the only significant role chickens might play is in a soup with noodles. I am confident in predicting that within a decade, Harry will be regarded as a hero of the first order who, along with Rep. Nancy Pelosi, fought like an Iwo Jima Marine to bring America out of the ideological muck in which Republicans insist we wallow. And to those naifs who cannot excuse him for resorting to a back-room deal or two to get the reform passed, I say, “Grow up, babies! First you bitch that Congress accomplishes nothing, then you bitch about what it accomplishes.” Oh, and by the way ... the dubious art of politics in a complex democracy like ours is one, big, never-ending back-room deal. Always has been, always will be. That’s how we manage to plod along somehow, in spite of the path being cluttered with toe-stubbers and ankle-clingers the likes of Sue Lowden and Vaughn Ward. So chase away those Minnick blues. Harry helped us, so now let’s help Harry. It’ll be the best money you ever spent in Nevada. (Go to harryreid.com for details.)

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DAYTON, OHIO—On May 3, I gave a talk at Wright State University. I showed my political cartoons, excerpts from graphic novels and something new I’ve been working on: twominute-long animations for the Web. But no one wanted to talk about comics. The ﬁrst audience question was: “How can we save newspapers?” I don’t have answers. But I do have thoughts. Embrace The New Yorker Theory. I hate The New Yorker, but I read the magazine because I live in New York and I’m a media person. When you’re competing for reader dollars against millions of websites and publications, you need to become like The New Yorker: so essential that people will buy your product because they have to. Assume smart readers. Editors think readers are dumb, and they make it clear by what they’re doing: shorter stories, less international coverage, obsessive celebrity gossip, bland opinion pages, boring features. But anyone who seeks out a newspaper in 2010 is curious and intelligent by deﬁnition. They are looking for deep analysis, not news bytes. More analysis. Newspapers and network news are dinosaurs. Whether you read it online or heard it on the radio, by the time you get home, you already know about the coup in Kyrgyzstan and who won the game. What you need is someone to tell what it all means. With one exception, newspapers should stop trying to break news. They can’t compete with websites. They should publish a daily version of what Time or Newsweek could be: lengthy analyses with charts and graphs, and opinions across the political spectrum. The exception? Investigative journalism.

Few websites have the money or time to invest in unmasking the mayor as a corrupt bastard. Stop sucking. Newspaper circulation began falling long before anyone heard of HTML. Compare today’s paper with an issue from the 1940s. The differences are striking: lively prose, nice mix of high (in-depth analysis) and low (tons of comics and columns). Stop giving it away. Giving away content for free online was an obviously stupid idea when newspapers started it a decade ago. Charge more. As Peter Osnos writes in The Atlantic, the English-language paper Americans buy overseas: When advertising dries up, charge more. “The key to revenue is a high cover price,” Osnos says. “In Italy, the daily costs 2.50 [euros] (about $3.40), and prices elsewhere are comparable.” Sound like a lot? Cigarettes are 10 bucks a pack in Manhattan. “A newspaper speciﬁcally shaped for an audience of ‘elite’ readers,” Osnos says, should be able to charge four bucks. “It is 18 pages of quality news and analysis, with extensive business coverage and enough cultural and sports news to be comprehensive rather than overwhelming.” Sit tight. The buzzword de l’annee is “curate.” Americans, especially those who spend long hours at work and with family, will become increasingly disillusioned with the spin and disinformation that passes for news online and on a thousand channels. Soon they will yearn for someone to ﬁgure out what’s important, package it into a digestible format—i.e., to “curate” the news. And they’ll pay. Of course, it might take 10 or 20 years. But what else do newspaper publishers and editors have to do?

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HARLEY D. BROWN FOR CONGRESS A man of bold, bad ideas MICHAEL AMES in the Atlantic Fleet. The SeaBee mascot wears a round sailor’s cap, wields a Tommy gun, a hammer and a wrench. Brown’s unlikely political career began in November 1994, immediately following a mystical experience he had while living in a friend’s basement. His wife had ﬁled for divorce, and a “trumped-up restraining order” kept him from seeing his kids. “I was at a low point in my life,” he said,

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Harley D. Brown doesn’t care if you’re offended. He’s a retired Navy man, and he thinks that anti-personnel mines would be a ﬁne and effective deterrent to Mexicans who cross illegally onto United States soil. He said some mines, which might “castrate you or cause some arterial bleeding,” are “a splendid idea.” On the big issues facing our country, this is a candidate who knows where he stands. Abortion? “I’m down on abortion like God Almighty is down on sin.” Iran? “That guy in Iran, he’s over there threatening the whole Middle East with those nuclear weapons. I believe in wiping them out with a preemptive nuclear strike.” Medicare? “That is completely government socialism,” he said. “And I would attack it.” Brown, 56, is running for Congress, and he talks about attacking lots of things. In the May 25 First Congressional District Republican primary he will face decorated Marine veteran Vaughn Ward and socially conservative state legislator Raul Labrador for a chance to challenge Idaho’s Democratic Rep. Walt Minnick. All the candidates—including Minnick who earned a national Tea Party group endorsement—have catered to Tea Party outsiders, but Brown is as anti as they come. “The only Spanish signs I want to see my tax dollars pay for are the ones in big red letters that say, ‘DO NOT ENTER. AUTHORIZED USE OF DEADLY FORCE,’” he said in his clipped Navy-speak. “I want motion detectors. Electrify the fences. Militarily fortify it.” The logic behind all this rough talk is, essentially, deterrence. “If they see we are getting damned serious about this stuff, they will think twice about risking their lives to [cross the border],” he said. Brown has been running for various public ofﬁces in Idaho for nearly 15 years. “You ever see videos of one of those early ’50s-era test rockets?” he asked. “How they rise just a few feet off the launching pad and then tip over and crash in a spectacular explosion? That’s how I’d describe most of my political career.” Before politics, Brown served as Bravo Company Commander with the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion, or the SeaBees, WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

so he cried out to God for guidance. To Brown’s amazement, God answered. “I didn’t hear a voice,” he said, “but His spirit talked to my spirit and He said, ‘I have a higher plan for you, son.’” Brown thought maybe he would be made the secretary of war. (“I never liked the name secretary of defense.”) It turned out God had even bigger plans: commander-in-chief. “I balked,” Brown said. “What do I know about politics and protocol and the economy? And if you make me president,” he said unto God, “if you give me all that ﬁrepower, I’m gonna use it … I’m gonna have to take over the whole damn world.” With his destiny clariﬁed, Brown had the

presidential seal tattooed on his shoulder the very next day. “Everyone thought I lost my mind, but I didn’t give a damn. I started running for president,” Brown said. Three years later, a Kenyan minister— Rev. Bishop Thomas P. Abungu—signed a notarized statement swearing that Brown would, in 20 years time, be president of the United States. The document remains one of Brown’s only pieces of campaign literature, and he cites Abungu’s prophecy as one of his candidacy’s central pillars. Along the ordained path to the nation’s highest office, he also ran in a few local races. Ten years ago, he finished just 1,825 votes short of becoming an Ada County Highway commissioner. But the time for Brown to tinker with local issues has passed. “I’m a diesel mechanic, I do bulldozers and the big stuff.” National issues, he said, take precedence. Issues like President Barack Obama’s birth certificate, even though Obama provided his birth certificate in June 2008 and the “birthers” have been thoroughly disproven by historical records. “When it’s something this important, it’s good to take a second look, and a third, a fourth and a fifth,” Brown said. Harley D. Brown was born Robert John Brown, “a garden variety name,” in Waterbury, Conn. In 1996, two years after the chat with God, he changed his name “for political purposes.” And while he finds it “an extremely catchy name,” Harley D. Brown is ultimately a means to an end. “After I am elected president of the United States, I will change my name back to Robert John Brown.” Brown said that he is sincere. “The left wingers are calling me all kinds of nasty names,” he said with a shrugging, what-can-you-do kind of acceptance. “A lot of people love me, but a lot of people think I’m a bizarre asshole. “Look, I give people the truth in my heart, with the bark on,” Brown barked. “I’m not gonna do it in a manner consistent with polish or political correctness.” If you think Brown sounds a bit deranged, well, he doesn’t really care. “That’s just my style,” he said. Plus, “Congress needs someone crazy,” as his pamphlets say, “to combat their insanity.”

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PRIVATE PRISON LAWSUIT TO PROCEED A class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of inmates at the privately run Idaho Correctional Center will proceed, a federal judge ruled recently, and a hearing has been set for 3 p.m. on Wednesday, May 26, in federal court in Boise. The American Civil Liberties Union lawsuit builds on another case, filed last year by plaintiff and former ICC inmate Marlin Riggs, who alleged, while representing himself, that “prison gang members at the Idaho Correctional Center had threatened and assaulted him, that prison officials failed to protect him, and that he was denied medical treatment for 15 days after his injury,” according to the judge. Riggs’ case was consolidated with a handful of others brought by fellow inmates alleging “failure to protect.” The bulk of those were dismissed, with a finding that the inmates had not sought redress through the prison administrative process first. That’s when the ACLU picked up Riggs’ case and refiled, seeking classaction status. Corrections Corporation of America, which runs ICC, Idaho’s largest prison, argued that the amended complaint should be thrown out, in part because Riggs is no longer at ICC and cannot represent the “class” of plaintiffs. Also, CCA claimed, expanding Riggs’ specific case into a larger class action was never authorized by the court. CCA (represented locally by Naylor & Hales, PC) wrote: “This Court should not allow the class to piggyback their class claims onto Riggs’ original complaint because Riggs lacks standing to represent the class. Allowing Riggs’ complaint to proceed as a class action will cause further problems because it will arguably expand the scope of relevant discovery on the class’s claims. It will also prejudice the CCA defendants at trial where the jury will only decide liability on Riggs’ claims, but still hear evidence relating to the class allegations.” The Idaho Department of Correction agreed with the company and signed onto CCA’s brief. But Judge B. Lynn Winmill rejected the arguments, writing: “Because neither the CCA nor the IDOC defendants have shown current or imminent prejudice from going forward with the Amended Complaint, the Motion to Strike will be denied. The Motion to Strike to Certify Class will likewise be denied.” We also wrote a few weeks ago about the status of Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier from Hailey who has been held by a Taliban-affiliated group for nearly a year. Bergdahl is not technically a prisoner of

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NEWS/CITYDESK war, though some of his supporters consider him a POW. The Army has officially classified Bergdahl as missing/captured, which is defined as: “A casualty status applicable to a person who is not at his or her duty location and is determined to have been seized as the result of action of an unfriendly military or paramilitary force in a foreign country.” POW status, as defined in both international law and U.S. militar y manuals, requires that a soldier, “while engaged in combat under orders of his or her government, is captured by an enemy’s armed forces.” There are several versions of Bergdahl’s capture, including that he walked off base of his own volition, or the account given in the first video released after his capture, in which he says he fell behind while on patrol. Whatever the nature of his capture, the International Committee of the Red Cross has been working through contacts in Afghanistan to check on Bergdahl. “We’re continuing to try to get access to him,” said Bernard Barrett, a Washington, D.C.-based spokesman with the ICRC who spoke to Boise Weekly. The ICRC is a neutral, international organization that helps ensure that international laws of war are followed. Barrett said the group does not get involved in negotiations over exchanges—one means of securing the release of captive soldiers that has been discussed recently in Bergdahl’s case—though the ICRC may agree to pass messages back and forth for two parties. “When there is a decision to release someone, then if the two sides want us to get involved in the actual physical handoff then that’s something that we do fairly frequently,” he said. The organization meets with half a million prisoners every year to assess their conditions but makes no judgment on their guilt nor advocates for their release. “We’re concerned only with conditions of their detention,” Barrett said. Barrett said the ICRC is in touch with Bergdahl’s family in Hailey and would report to them if they had a chance to visit with Bergdahl or confirm his condition. Bergdahl turned 24 years old in the last month. As for the May 25 primary election, you can still read answers from some candidates at electionland.boiseweekly.com and vote on the best answers, but the questionand-answer period has come to an end. Log on and give a thumbs up or thumbs down to your favorite answers and follow the links to idahovotes.gov to request an absentee ballot, see who is running in your district or review Idaho election law. In Idaho, you do not register your party, but you must pick a ballot for the primaries. All primar y races are either Democrat or Republican, though there will be some third-party candidates in the general election in November. —Nathaniel Hoffman

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OPEN SEASON Empty legislative seats spur primary runs NATHANIEL HOFFMAN Open seats in Boise legislative districts 18 and 19 have inspired three highly competitive primary races, with five Republicans in 18 trying to win back a Democratic seat or two, and two Democrats in 19 trying to define the political character of Boise’s urban center. The retirement of Senate Democratic leader Kate Kelly left a big hole in District 18, which spans south and east Boise from Five Mile Road to Highway 21. Dean Sorensen, a plastic surgeon and former Republican legislator who lost to Kelly in 2008 by 19 percentage points, said he only filed to run because of Kelly’s retirement. “I learned my lesson last time,” Sorensen said. “Nobody had a reason to replace her.” Sorensen faces two other Republicans in the Tuesday, May 25, primary—Mitch Toryanski and Robert Lauritsen—in a district where 14 of the 16 precincts voted for President Barack Obama. Toryanski, a deputy attorney general who has taken a leave of absence to run, said he thought that 18 had swung pretty far into the Democratic camp but that he was encountering many conservatives in the district. “There’s an opportunity,” Toryanski said. “The window opens, the window closes and you have to be ready to step through.” Toryanski was assigned to the Legislature for three years as a deputy attorney general, answering legal questions and helping craft legislation. He said he’s always been interested in policy making. If elected, Toryanski would have to resign from his state job. Lauritsen is critical of Idaho Republican leaders, claiming Tea Party Boise membership and arguing that cuts to state agencies have not gone far enough. “Even though Republicans pretty much still rule everything, there’s a lot of Republicans that aren’t thinking a lot. It’s still old school,” he said. Lauritsen wants to see entire departments eliminated—including the state “building division”—and Health and Welfare benefits severely curtailed. He criticized Sorensen for letting weeds grow around his campaign signs. The victor in the GOP primary will face current District 18 Rep. Branden Durst, a Democrat, who will run for Kelly’s seat in November. Newcomer Janie Ward-Engelking is running for Durst’s House seat, drawing out two Republican candidates. Julie Ellsworth, also a former legislator who was ousted in 2006 and lost to Durst by only two points two years ago, is making another run at the House. Gregory Ferch, a chiropractor, is challenging her in the GOP primary. Ellsworth said District 18 is full of swing voters and that she will talk to anyone. She’s critical of District 18 Democrats not being able to get bills heard and said that she knows how to get new ideas through the body, based

on her decade as a legislator. “That’s the responsibility … to bring those ideas forward so that they see fruition,” she said. Ellsworth has been planning her comeback for a year and a half, but Ferch said he telegraphed his intention to run as well, and Ellsworth filed at the last minute. Ferch said he’s running because he wants lower taxes, less spending and more personal responsibility in health care. There was a third GOP primary in District 18, but Becky Young withdrew from the race, handing it to Trevor Grigg, a recent Boise State grad and Young Republican. In District 19, a large district that covers Boise’s North and East ends and downtown core, two Democrats are mounting a primary battle—one of a handful of Democratic primaries in the state. Four Democrats filed for the race but Jim Philpott and Dallas Gudgell withdrew, though Gudgell’s name will appear on the ballot. That leaves Cherie Buckner-Webb, a wellknown community activist and gospel singer who coaches executives on diversity issues and conflict resolution, and David Cadwell, a commercial developer who played basketball with Buckner-Webb’s son at Boise High. Cadwell said he thinks a primary in District 19—arguably the state’s most liberal district— is healthy, since it’s going to remain a Democratic seat anyway. But Cadwell added that he heard rumblings about the contest. “People weren’t real excited that I was running, that there was a primary,” he said. Buckner-Webb agreed that a primary was healthy for the district. “Hopefully, we are continually raising the bar,” she said. Buckner-Webb worked for the former Boise Cascade and for Hewlett-Packard before starting her own executive coaching business. Cadwell started his career at Albertsons corporate office and launched his commercial real estate firm in 2003. He has developed more than $15 million in commercial real estate in the Treasure Valley since then, including Majestic Marketplace West near the Majestic Cinemas in Meridian. “One of the things I bring to the table … I feel like I have a lot of relationships, doing what I do, with small- and medium-sized business owners,” Cadwell said. Both candidates say they got into the race because of the historic cuts to public education—Buckner-Webb has drawn support from the Idaho Education Association and Cadwell has school-aged children. But Cadwell complained that he has not been asked much about the issues—no one asks about abortion, gay rights or guns—and that voters just want to know if he is a Democrat or a Republican. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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PATRICK SWEENEY Neither goatheads nor road hogs nor potholes ... ANDREW CRISP

What’s the “alley cat” race scene like here? They usually vary between 10 and 20 miles … the format is pretty loose. They’re referred to as “outlaw bike races” because there aren’t a whole lot of rules. It’s essentially checkpoints you need to get to. You specify the order you think is the fastest, and you just have to do certain tasks at each checkpoint. A friend of mine, Chris Scuglia, who I founded Northstar with [he’s in France now], we hosted what we believe was probably the first formal alley cat in town, which was five years ago this month. That was kind of a promotion to get our business noticed because we were just starting to get out there. We didn’t start North Star until August of 2005, so in May, we tried to get out there and generate some interest in the biking community as far as fixed gears and stuff like that … I don’t even think we had a name for that. We started out at Lucky 13 in Hyde Park.

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How’d that turn into starting a bike courier business? I started messengering in San Francisco, I think in ’93. Then I moved back to Minneapolis, where I’m from, in ’97, and I worked for two and a half years there. I had been here for a little while, and I ran into Chris Scuglia. I knew him from San Francisco; we worked on the streets out there. We just started talking about how it just seemed like it was ripe for the opportunity. Nobody was doing it that we were aware of. I think there had been some guys in the past but it wasn’t anything organized. We just jumped in. Fortunately, we had really supportive wives who allowed us to pursue this dream, if you will. Do you still ride for the company? It’s just myself and my business partner [Warren O’Dell]. We don’t have an ofﬁce; we just operate on cell phones. We do everything, top to bottom. It keeps the overhead low. We try to stay in the center of the downtown quarter so you’re available to everyone as fast as you can. We go out by the airport periodically. People have sent us to Nampa before. We ride as far as we need to. So if you were to call in a delivery, I might be sitting downtown at a coffee shop, get the call, hop on the bike and go. Where does the photography come in? I’ve always drawn, done cartoons, sketches and stuff, since I was a little kid. I wanted to be involved in ﬁne arts in some capacity. I just got a digital camera a few years ago and started carrying it around with me when I was riding around. I love taking photographs. I shoot my son a lot—he’s 1-1/2—so I have the camera around constantly. I just got a pinhole camera, just trying to learn it. I just shoot with whatever, you know. Most of the photography

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The tattooed, soft-spoken, Olympia beer drinking cyclist Patrick Sweeney rode bikes on the mean streets of Minneapolis, San Francisco and the Treasure Valley long before the ﬁxedgear craze took off. He rode cross-country from California to upstate New York. He helps organize “alley cat races” for bike enthusiasts in town, rides a bike to, from and for work, and his hobby was born of his travels. After moving from California to Boise six years ago his family now epitomizes the car-free lifestyle. Sweeney only put 200 miles on his car last year, and the almost 40-year-old father is nursing a healthy love of biking in his young son. As the owner and operator of Northstar Courier Inc., a bike messenger service, Sweeney delivers legal ﬁlings, documents and papers— including Boise Weekly—to all areas of Boise. And he always has his camera on him, ready to capture the perfect Boise street scene.

I like online is iPhone stuff that people have shot. That’s the most amazing thing to me is the technology has caught up to it. Anybody can do anything, you know. It’s cool. It’s really opened doors for me. Have you always had an interest in cycling? I’ve always ridden bikes. I rode BMX bikes when I was a little kid and skateboards and stuff growing up. I remember my ﬁrst couple bikes were all little banana seats, probably rainbow-colored or something. It was back in the ’70s you know … Why is biking important? In the business community there’s this emphasis toward being green. We have some cargo trailers that we haul the Weekly papers with. Businesses can haul their stuff around, cut some corners and still be a little more environment friendly. I’m all for alternative means of transportation. I can’t imagine living in Meridian and having to commute to Boise or vice versa every day. Even if I have to go farther, and it’ll take me longer on the bicycle, I’m on my bike, so I’m out in the air, I’m breathing and just lovin’ it. Much better than being stuck in trafﬁc. I think Homer Simpson has this scene where he freaks out, and he says “gas, brake, honk, gas, brake, honk, honk, honk, honk!” That shit just kills me. You see that especially out here with people going back and forth to Eagle every day. People are stressed out.

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hether it was the three cyclists who died on Boise streets last summer or the robust public discussion about cycling that followed, most bikers agree that there is a different atmosphere on the streets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There is a noticeable change in 2010 from 2008â&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s there, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s real, almost every time I get on my bike I see it, and as motorist, I feel it, too,â&#x20AC;? said Kurt Holzer, a cyclist and attorney who worked on state biking legislation earlier this year. Michael Zuzel, an assistant to Boise Mayor Dave Bieter and the City of Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s point person on cycling, sat on a task force last summer to examine bike safety. He said the change on the streets was palpable even before the city came out with 71 pages of recommendations in October 2009. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There was just lots more eye contact. You could see people thinking, looking at one another and anticipating what each was going to do,â&#x20AC;? Zuzel said. But despite a large number of new laws on the books in Boise and plans for more public education of both drivers and cyclists, Boise police are concerned about cyclists again this summer. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I worry because there are more people cycling,â&#x20AC;? said Sgt. Clair Walker, head of the Boise Police Departmentâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bike patrol unit. â&#x20AC;&#x153;With the increased bicycle usage, people are just going to have to be a lot more careful.â&#x20AC;? In the wake of the deaths of Kevin Pavlis, Jim Chu and Thomas Bettger in the course of a month last summer, the city convened a cycling safety task force. It included law enforcement, legal and political representatives from the city, as well as the Ada County Highway District and the Idaho Transportation Department and suggested changes to city code, roadway engineering, public education, enforcement and encouragement of cyclists. The

.", . (#(! 3 &#-. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person, maliciously and with the speciďŹ c intent to intimidate or harass or cause another person to crash, stumble, or fall because that other person is walking along the roadway or operating a bicycle along the roadway, to: threaten, by word or act, to cause physical injury to the pedestrian or bicyclist, or throw or otherwise expel any object at or in the direction of the pedestrian or bicyclist. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Boise City Code

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City Council jumped on several ordinance changes, quickly passing the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst 3-feet-to-pass law, which requires motorists to yield 3 feet to bikes. That law, as well as a prohibition on cyclist harassment and several new regulations for cyclists, went into effect Jan. 12, but are only now beginning to be enforced, as the weather warms up and more and more bikers take to the streets. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The major component of these new laws is education,â&#x20AC;? Walker said. Walker and BPD Deputy Chief Jim Kerns acknowledge that many of the new Boise laws are difďŹ cult to enforce. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The most difďŹ cult thing is being in the right place at the right time to observe it,â&#x20AC;? Kerns said. Walker said rather than telling his unit to write lots of tickets, he tells his bike ofďŹ cers to make lots of contacts along the Greenbelt and in downtown, where the bike patrol unit is concentrated. To illustrate 3 feet to pass, Kerns uses a yard stickâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he carried it to the Idaho Statehouse earlier this year to testify before the Senate Transportation Committee. Police acknowledge that it will be difďŹ cult to prove that someone violated the 3-feetto-pass law, but that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a good tool for education on the roads. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We might write citations and not get convictions in court,â&#x20AC;? Kerns said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will take a while to kind of get the feel of what 3 feet is.â&#x20AC;? Holzer, who advocated for a statewide 3-feet-to-pass law this past winter, agreed that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more about education than enforcement. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Across the country, 3 feet to pass is used much less as an enforcement tool than it is as an educational tool,â&#x20AC;? Holzer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The goal is to say, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;hey look, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what you need to be doing.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? If you touch a cyclist with your car,

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thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a different story, but 3 feet sets a standard that drivers can adjust to. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m out and about, I have actually watched bicyclists being passed reasonably,â&#x20AC;? Kerns said. The new prohibition on cyclist harassment will also be an educational tool for police. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of motorists just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t believe, or know, that bicyclists have the same rights and responsibilities as them driving their car,â&#x20AC;? Walker said. Still, many cyclist-harassment complaints come from outside Boise city limits, Walker said, beyond Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s jurisdiction. The Boise City Council also changed many of its existing bike statutes from misdemeanors to infractions, bringing them into compliance with state law, and reinforced laws that require motorists to yield to turning cyclists. Other new laws on the books in Boise this summer regulate cyclist behavior, including a new ban on reckless cycling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think this reckless biking is going to be a good tool for us in the summer,â&#x20AC;? Kerns said. The law is not aimed at bike commuters but at riders who are actually endangering the public and/or themselves, by weaving or riding unpredictably, Walker said. Of the three biker deaths last year, two involved drivers were convicted of misdemeanor vehicular manslaughter, while the third was found to be not at fault because the cyclist was crossing against a red light into trafďŹ c, Boise Police spokeswoman Lynn Hightower said. While Boise has taken the lead on bike safety, there was a short-lived effort to enact some similar laws at the state level, led by Boise Democratic Sen. Elliot Werk. He proposed a statewide 3-feet-to-pass law that would allow drivers to cross a double yellow line in order to pass a cyclist or

pedestrianâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a ďŹ x that Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3-feet-to-pass law will need to become fully enforceable. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were trying to make the point that people cycle everywhere,â&#x20AC;? said Werk, who worked on the state laws at the same time the city was considering its options. The state laws failed when a lobbyist for the logging industry raised objections from truckersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;objections that were contradicted by a trucker who sits on the Senate Transportation Committee, but that held the day. Werk said he plans to meet with loggers, truckers and other interest groups in the interim and to watch how Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ordinances are received before bringing new versions of the cycling bills next year. He plans to expand a statewide anti-harassment statute to include cyclist harassment of drivers. Other local agencies are involved in improving cycling conditions in the Treasure Valley as well. The Downtown Boise Association and Capital City Development Corp., Boiseâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s redevelopment agency, have worked to install more bike racks downtown in the last year. CCDC is considering a plan to establish two-way bike trafďŹ c along Eighth Street as well. The Ada County Highway District, which controls the roads in Boise, has several bike-related plans in the works, said ACHD spokesperson Robbie Johnson. The highway district is rolling out new signage for bikes, directing riders to the Greenbelt and along bike routes, including Hill Road and Parkcenter Boulevard. The expansion of 10 Mile Road from Franklin Road to Cherry Lane includes bike lanes and will be a rare example of bike lanes crossing a state highway, Johnson said. ACHD is also working with the Idaho Transportation Department to widen Swan Falls Road south of Kuna, a popular destination for road bikers.

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,- ./,(#(! & . ( ,#!". The driver of a vehicle within an intersection intending to turn to the left shall yield the right-of-way to a bicycle approaching from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard. When a motor vehicle and a bicycle are traveling in the same direction on any highway, street, or road, the operator of the motor vehicle overtaking such bicycle traveling on the right side of the roadway shall not turn to the right in front of the bicycle at an intersection, alley, or driveway until such vehicle has overtaken the bicycle and has sufďŹ cient clearance to safely turn without requiring the bicyclist to brake or take evasive action to avoid a collision with the vehicle. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Boise City Code

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,# #(! )( -# 1 &%- ( ,)--1 &%A bicycle may be operated upon a sidewalk and upon and within a crosswalk, except where prohibited by ofďŹ cial trafďŹ c control devices, except when the number of pedestrians using the sidewalk renders bicycle riding on the sidewalk unsafe because of the risk of colliding with one of the pedestrians, in which case the bicycle rider must dismount and walk the bicycle to an area where safe riding may resume. Any bicyclist riding upon a sidewalk, or across a roadway upon and within a crosswalk, shall yield the right-of-way to any pedestrian and shall give an audible warning before overtaking and passing such pedestrian. The audible warning may be given by the voice or by a bell or other lawful device capable of giving an audible signal to the person or persons being overtaken and passed. A bicyclist riding upon a sidewalk, or across a roadway upon and within a crosswalk, shall have all the rights and duties applicable to a pedestrian under the same circumstances. A bicyclist riding on the sidewalk shall not suddenly leave a curb or other place of safety and move into the path of a vehicle that is so close as to constitute an immediate hazard. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Boise City Code

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And as Ada County roads are chip sealed roads this summer, the agency will widen the outer lanes as much as possible to allow for more room for cyclists, Johnson said. At the state level, ITD Bicycle Pedestrian Coordinator Maureen Gresham, who started the job in January, is in the early phases of a statewide cycling education campaign that will support local efforts. The City of Boise plans to revisit bike safety every two years, to make sure it is progressing with the task force recommendations. But full implementation requires cooperation and agreement at the state and county levels so that bike regulations are consistent from Idaho Falls to Boise to Coeur dâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Alene.

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll certainly be willing to share our experience and rationale,â&#x20AC;? Zuzel said. The state already has progressive cycling laws, allowing bikes on sidewalks and establishing the Idaho Stop, in which bicycles treat stop signs as a yield and stop lights as stop signs. But much of the new legislation targets aggression. Holzer said there will always be drivers who bear unreasonable anger toward cyclists but that the level of aggression on Treasure Valley roads has been defused. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The people who were a little frustrated before have stepped back,â&#x20AC;? Holzer said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s more smiles and waves and less one-ďŹ nger salutes.â&#x20AC;?

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THURSDAY MAY 13

Boise Philharmonic’s season ﬁnale should be a Goulding time.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY MAY 14-15

hooch MAY MARTINI MONTH For the past five years, May was synonymous with the swankyman’s sippable shot. Well-heeled wastoids descended on downtown in droves, Martini Mix-Off tickets in hand, to sip the fruits of local bartenders’ boozy labor. And though the martini hasn’t disappeared from local bar menus this year, the Martini Mix-Off, as we know it, has chilled out a bit. Due to a couple of unfortunate family events, Karen Ellis, Martini Mix-Off organizer and executive director of the Capital City Public Market, was unable to put the energy into organizing this year’s event. Luckily, a number of local bars—including Chandlers, Pair, Bardenay, Red Feather Lounge, Angell’s, Piper Pub and Bonefish Grill—stepped forward and decided to offer a few specialty martinis for $5 each every Thursday through the month of May. “Everybody was kind of tuned into drinking martinis in May, so that was our answer this year,” said Ellis. “Next year, we’ll be able to be back in it and plan it, but it just wasn’t happening this year. I just could not find the time or the emotional stamina to get it going.” Though bartenders won’t be bound by stringent guidelines as in years past, their martini creations will still be critiqued by a panel of secret judges. “We’re going to do a little blind judging,” said Ellis. “The bars can do whatever martinis they want for $5, but the judges will just judge a classic and then they’re going to judge a specialty.” Call it May Martini Month or the Martini Mix-Off, but the event’s essential draw has remained intact: high-falutin’ hooch, lapped up at low prices. “We’re just doing a really low-key thing ... it’s kind of time to shake it up anyway, no pun intended,” said Ellis. Through Thursday, May 27, $5, various locations downtown. For more information, contact karen@seeyouatthemarket.com.

WEDNESDAY MAY 12 chat ART & ECONOMICS Could those electric blue wings on the airport parking garage be a driving economic force? Robert H. McNulty

thinks so. Local law ﬁrm Meuleman Mollerup, in partnership with Idaho Smart Growth, is sponsoring a free lecture by McNulty on “The Economics of Amenity and Public Art Strategies.” McNulty is president and CEO of Partners for Livable Communities, a Washington, D.C., nonproﬁt that unites 1,000 diverse organizations

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to promote the “diversity and consensus-building needed in the recovery of the American city.” On Wednesday, May 12, at the Boise Centre, McNulty will lead a discussion on community cultural strategies as a major economic force. 5-6 p.m., FREE, Boise Centre, 208-336-8900, lawidaho.com.

prodigy BOISE PHILHARMONIC SEASON FINALE Miley Cyrus has nothing on Caroline Goulding. The 17-year-old violin prodigy will grace the Boise Philharmonic’s stage for its season ﬁnale Friday, May 14 and Saturday, May 15. But don’t let the baby face fool you: Goulding possesses lightning-quick ﬁngers and the furious bowing action of someone more than twice her age. Goulding began her music career at age 3, and by 13, she had won the coveted top prize at the Aspen Music Festival’s concerto competition. She has appeared with numerous orchestras, including the Cleveland Pops Orchestra and the Sinfonia Gulf Coast, and on television programs like Today and the Martha Stewart Show. The Stradivari Society of Chicago gave Goulding a violin dating back to 1617, which was owned by Beethoven’s former patrons, the Lobkowicz family. Boise Philharmonic music director Robert Franz conducts the Grammy-nominated starlet in an array of classic works. The brooding yet lively Scottish Fantasy by Bruch features harp accompaniment, while Brahms’ Fourth Symphony dominates with a pounding, dramatic climax. Alexander Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor recounts a Slavic leader’s battle against a Polovetsian tribe. Come relive history through this jaw-dropping young phenom. Friday, May 14, 8 p.m., $17-$36, Swayne Auditorium, Northwest Nazarene University campus, 623 Holly Street, Nampa, 208-459-5011, nnu.edu. Saturday, May 15, 8 p.m., $21-$65, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

FRIDAYSATURDAY MAY 14-15 borscht RUSSIAN FOOD FESTIVAL St. Seraphim of Sarov, an 18th century Russian

monk and mystic, was not swayed by pleasures of the ﬂesh. A devout ascetic, he was known for his resolute self-denial—eating only once a day and sometimes not at all—and he once prayed for 1,000 nights in a row perched on a rock with arms stretched toward the sky. Named after the celebrated Russian monk, the St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox

Church in the North End is hella more laid-back than the saint for whom it’s named. On Friday, May 14, and Saturday, May 15, the church will encourage folks to indulge in massive amounts of authentic homemade Russian grub at its annual food festival. The hot menu includes beef stroganoff, piroshki (turnovers ﬁlled with beef, eggs or apricots), blini WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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SATURDAY MAY 15 “I said ﬁngerpick, not strum, you imbecile.”

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SATURDAY MAY 15 fakewood FAUXBOIS’ VERY REAL CD RELEASE PARTY Fauxbois. Say it with us: Fo. Bwah. Pull the two words apart and, technically, it means “fake wood,” but there’s nothing counterfeit about this Boise four-piece indie rock band. As a matter of fact, their debut self-titled release (Spark & Shine Records) is full of raw, honest music. Brian Mayer—whose last project, Mayerforceone Academy of Arts and Sciences, was a solo affair with a rotating cast of musicians—fronts Fauxbois, with Shaun King, Caleb McKim and Kate Seward riding shotgun. Though Mayer had played with the other three before, the alliance between the four really began to solidify a year or two ago. Rather than keep the Mayerforceone name, Mayer, who has been playing music since his early teens, wanted to give the new lineup its own name to reﬂect this more concrete connection. “Those are the best bandmates I’ve ever had, for sure,” Mayer said. “They’re super inspiring. They keep me motivated, and they bring a lot to the band, stuff that isn’t even measurable.” But Fauxbois’ new release will go a long way in measuring how fans feel about the music. It’s simple without being simplistic: rocking folk songs with guitar and chorus-heavy tracks engender a stripped-down Polyphonic Spree vibe. Mayer, who can often be seen attending the shows of his fellow local indie musicians, called on some of his most creative friends to participate in the process—including producer Tristan Andreas—and with their help, created something quite genuine. With Soft Paws, Finn Riggins and The Very Most, 8 p.m., $5, Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., visualartscollective.com.

(pancakes wrapped around meat or cottage cheese), shish kebabs and chebureki (deep-fried dumplings with spiced meat.) Or, if you’re Russian to get somewhere, you can also purchase a variety of items—including cabbage rolls, borscht, mushroom soup, baklava and Mad Ivan’s honey vodka mix— packaged to go. Friday, May 14, 11 a.m.-8

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p.m. and Saturday, May 15, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE, St. Seraphim of Sarov Orthodox Church, 872 N. 29th St., 208-345-1553, stseraphimboise.org.

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For anyone wondering, Idaho’s Largest Garage Sale already has a Scentsy dealer. The Meridian-headquartered Scentsy, the Mary Kay of wickless candles, apparently has enough local “direct sellers” for the massive garage sale to spell this fact out explicitly on their FAQ page. Idaho’s Largest Garage Sale—“not just a little old yard sale”—invites both junkhoarders and declutterers to come out to Expo Idaho in Garden City for a full day of sifting through massive piles of crap. Looking to get rid of your collection of color ful plastic McDonald’s Furby toys? Or hoping to score a vintage suitcase record player? Join 10,000 fellow bargain hunters at Idaho’s Largest Garage Sale on Saturday, May 15, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. for a solid day of haggling. Admission to the sale is $3 per person, with a portion of proceeds going to fund the Idaho Meth Project. The event will be held outdoors in the west parking lot of Expo Idaho and is slated to go on rain or shine. After the sale, sellers will have the option to donate their remaining items to Arc, Goodwill or the Boise Rescue Mission. 7 a.m.-6 p.m., $3, FREE children 3 and younger, Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, west parking lot, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, idahoslargestgaragesale.com.

COOL HAND LUKE AT THE OLD PEN After lobbing the tops off of a line of parking meters in a drunken shitshow, Luke is arrested and sentenced to two years on a Georgia chain gang. But being the capital “B” badass that he is, Luke, played by Paul Newman, refuses to conform. A full-out brawl with the toughest dude in prison? Luke doesn’t back down. Schooling the other inmates in poker? You bet’cha. An impromptu egg-eating contest? Luke’s on it. If you’ve long been inspired by Cool Hand Luke’s rebel ways, imagine watching the 1967 classic ﬁlm projected on the big screen and behind the prison walls

It was around the time I reached for a 99-cent bag of assorted embroidery hoops that the avalanche happened. Before I could react, a pair of never-been-worn sandals, a charmingly ratty hardback copy of Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things, a sack of assorted vintage fabrics, a braided leather purse and four avocado green rose-patterned plates came clattering to the ground. Glancing quickly over each shoulder, I abandoned my pile to snatch a cart— something I would recommend RE-STYLE THRIFT STORE every avid deal-seeker do upon 4983 N. Glenwood entering Re-Style, a new “deGarden City partment thrift store.” Monday through Saturday Opened two months ago by 9 a.m.-9 p.m.; Northwest Animal Companions Sundays 10 a.m.-7 p.m. at Glenwood and Chinden, ReStyle is a 40,000-square-foot thrift Mecca that features an assortment of men’s and women’s clothing, furniture, housewares, books, shoes, toys and craft supplies. Proceeds from the thrift store go to beneﬁt NAC, a nonproﬁt whose mission is “to provide foster care, low-cost spay and neuter and adoptions for homeless, abandoned and abused companion animals in a no-kill sanctuary setting.” So, go ahead. Fill that cart. It’s a score-score situation. —Tara Morgan

of the Old Idaho State Penitentiar y. That’s a popyour-leather-collar-light-up-asmoke-and-hop-on-your-hog level of raditude. On Saturday, May 15, from 7-10 p.m., you can check out Cool Hand Luke at the Old Pen. Free tickets for the show—four per person—can be picked up at the Old Pen, the Idaho State Historical Museum or the Idaho State Historical Preser vation ofﬁce at 210 Main St. For those who need a little moonshine during their prison stint, refreshments will be available for purchase. 7-10 p.m., FREE, Old Idaho Penitentiar y, 2445 Old Penitentiar y Road, 208334-2844, idahohistor y.net.

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Festivals & Events RESCHEDULED CINCO DE MAYO CELEBRATIONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Traditional music, food and dancing to celebrate Mexican independence as well as arts and vendors. Hosted by the Mexican Consulate. 4-8 p.m. FREE. The Grove Plaza, downtown, Boise.

Talks & Lectures COMMUNITY CULTURAL STRATEGIESâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Robert McNulty, president and CEO of Partners for Livable Communities, will lead a discussion entitled, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Economics of Amenity and Public Art Strategies,â&#x20AC;? on how to drive economic growth through community cultural strategies. See Picks, Page 17. 5-6 p.m. FREE. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, www.boisecentre.com. SOCIAL MEDIA CONFERENCEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; A review of social media strategies that have been effective for organizations and a discussion of how social media is changing the dynamics of human communication through presenting ďŹ ndings of recent scholarly studies that examine trends in the industry. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. $5 students. $25 nonproďŹ ts. $50 businesses. Boise State Student Union Hatch Ballroom, Boise.

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BOISE VINTAGE BIKE SWAPâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; 9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Rite Aid, 1515 W. State St., Boise.

MOUNTAIN BIKING INTROâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Intro class and skills ride. 6 p.m. FREE. Camelâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Back Park, 1200 W. Heron St., Boise.

MONDAY MAY 17 KICKOFF CELEBRATIONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; Opening celebration for Boise Bike Week. 7:30 a.m. FREE. Boise City Hall, 150 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise.

BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT VOLUNTEER NIGHTâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Volunteer bicycle mechanics are on hand to answer a variety of bicycle repair questions, help with problem diagnosis and assist in bicycle repair. 6-8 p.m. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, www. boisebicycleproject.org.

BIKE MAINTENANCEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-4296520, www.boisebicycleproject. org.

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ADVENTURE ADAPTED CRUISEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6 p.m. FREE. Municipal Park, 500 S. Walnut St., Boise.

ON AN AVERAGE DAYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Idaho Actorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Collective presents the story of two brothers, alienated for years, who are reunited and remember their shadowed history and the mysterious disappearance of their father in this darkly humorous tale about the nature of redemption. See Arts, Page 32. 7:45 p.m. $12. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, www.elkorah. org.

Food & Drink MAY MARTINI MONTHâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Every Thursday night in May dozens of local, restaurants/ bars will offer your favorite specialty martinis for just $5. See Picks, Page 17. Downtown Boise, Eighth St. to River St., Boise.

TWILIGHT MARDI GRAS RIDEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;7:30 p.m. FREE. Hyde Park Cycle Sports, 1517 1/2 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-336-5229. www.hydeparkcyclesports.com.

GROUP ROAD RIDEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6 p.m. FREE. Eastside Cycles, 3123 S. Bown Way, Boise, 208-3443005, www.rideeastside.com.

WEDNESDAY MAY 19 RECUMBENT RALLYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6 p.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise. WOMENâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ROAD RIDEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6 p.m. FREE. Idaho Velodrome and Cycling Park, Old Horseshoe Bend Road, Eagle, www.idahovelopark. org.

PEDAL POWER PICNIC AT THE PARKâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;6 p.m. FREE. Sierra Club, 503 W. Franklin St., Boise, 208-384-1023, idaho.sierraclub. org.

FRIDAY MAY 21 BICYCLE BLOCK PARTYâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;RafďŹ&#x201A;es, frankenbike competition, valet parking, alley-cat race and music by Boise Rock School, Garden City Limits and Finn Riggins. 4 p.m. FREE. Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-345-9287, www.capitalcitypublicmarket.com. MAY IN MOTIONâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;National Bike to Work Day. 7:30-10:30 a.m. FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208345-9287, www.capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

SATURDAY MAY 22 PEDAL POWER PARADEâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;The culmination of Boise Bike Week. Ride through downtown, then return to the park for pizza, drinks and a rafďŹ&#x201A;e. Costumes welcome. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Capitol Park, 601 W. Jefferson, Boise. FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT BOISEBIKEWEEK.ORG.

STREET SMART CYCLINGâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;7 p.m. FREE. Georgeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cycles, 251 E. Front St. # 100, Boise, 208-343-3782, www.georgescycles.com.

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8 DAYS OUT FRIDAY MAY 14 Festivals & Events SECOND ANNUAL BLUES, BREWS AND BBQS—Barbeque competition, local beer sampling and music from Bart Barbour Blues Band, Blues Addicts, Bitterbrush Blues Band, The Bodo Brothers, Next In Line, Lori B! and Paul Peterson Blues Club. Proceeds beneﬁt Idaho Humane Society. 5:30-9 p.m. $10-$15. Hawks Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-322-5000, www.boisehawks.com.

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BOISE PHILHARMONIC MUSICALLY SPEAKING—Show up early to catch the stories behind the music. Prior to the show, attendees will hear from Jamey Lamar for a lively discussion about the featured composer’s life. Held in the Swayne Auditorium. 7 p.m. FREE to concert ticket holders. Northwest Nazarene University, 623 Holly St., Nampa, 208-467-8011, www.nnu.edu.

AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY BACHELOR AUCTION— Admission includes a VIP pass with access to Electro Lounge, Ice Bar, Owner’s Lounge and back door access to Dirty Little Roddy’s. Proceeds beneﬁt the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s citizen-based advocacy and lobbying efforts, which work to encourage elected ofﬁcials and candidates to make cancer a top priority. 8 p.m. $10. China Blue, 100 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-338-6604.

BOISE PHILHARMONIC SEASON FINALE— Featuring guest violinist, the grammy-nominated child prodigy, Caroline Goulding. Program will include, Alexander Borodin’s Overture to Prince Igor, Max Bruch’s, Scottish Fantasy and Johannes Brahms’s Symphony No. See Picks, Page 16. 4. 8 p.m. $21-$65. Brandt Center at NNU, 707 Fern St., Nampa, 208-467-8790, www. nnu.edu/brandt.

On Stage MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM—British comedy involving three liaison-seeking couples in the same place at the same time. Advance purchase required for dinner/show. 6:15 p.m. $13.50-$37.50. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, www.kedproductions.org.

Food & Drink RUSSIAN FOOD FESTIVAL—Sample a variety of authentic Russian foods. See Picks, Page 17. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church, 872 N. 29th St., Boise, 208-345-1553, www. stseraphimboise.org.

ON AN AVERAGE DAY—See Thursday. 7:45 p.m. $12. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, www.elkorah.org.

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On Stage ON AN AVERAGE DAY—See Thursday. 7:45 p.m. $12. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, www.elkorah.org.

Concerts BOISE PHILHARMONIC BACKSTAGE WITH THE ARTIST— Noon before the concert, attendees can get up close and personal with maestro Franz and the corresponding artist, compose, and/or guest conductor to catch a glimpse into their experiences and personal lives. Noon. FREE, optional $8 pre-order lunch. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116. BOISE PHILHARMONIC MUSICALLY SPEAKING—See Friday. 7 p.m. FREE to concert ticket holders. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

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BOISE PHILHARMONIC SEASON FINALE—See Friday. 8 p.m. $21-$65. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

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RUSSIAN FOOD FESTIVAL—See Friday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church, 872 N. 29th St., Boise, 208-345-1553, www. stseraphimboise.org.

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MOVIE NIGHT—Screening of Cool Hand Luke, as part of Archeology month. Tickets may be picked up at the Old Idaho Penitentiary, the Historical Museum in Julia Davis Park or the State Historic Preservation ofﬁce. See Picks, Page 17. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-368-6080, www.idahohistory.net/oldpen.html.

WEST AFRICAN DRUM CLASS—Instructor Rick Thomson leads the class in djembe, dunun and song for level one. 8 p.m. $10 per class or $30 per month. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208343-7511.

HESBURGH LECTURE ON THE OBAMA HEALTH CARE REFORM PLAN—Talk by Dr. William Evans, professor of economics. Sponsored by the Notre Dame Club of Idaho. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, www.boisepubliclibrary.org.

Odds & Ends BORG MEETING—Boise Robotics Group meetings are held the third Saturday morning of each month in a classroom at the Discovery Center of Idaho. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895. www.boiseroboticsgroup.org.

Literature POETRY SLAM—8 p.m. $5. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th, Boise, 208-343-0886, www.neurolux. com.

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SUNDAY MAY 16 Festivals & Events SUNDAY MARKET— Indoor market where shoppers can ﬁnd locally produced food and goods, including arts and crafts, jewelry, clothing, food and drink, live music and children’s activities. A portion of May’s sales will beneﬁt Treasure Valley Family YMCA’s Strong Kids Campaign. There will also be live music by Greg Bridges. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-3850111, www.thelinenbuilding.com.

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THE SCREENWRITERS GROUP—Learn and practice pitching your screenplay or project at the Idaho Screenwriters Group, meeting the third Tuesday of every month. For more information, e-mail sherry.ae@ hotmail.com. 6:30 p.m. Idaho Pizza Company, 3840 Glenwood, Boise, 208-853-1224.

Literature POETRY READING—Poets can share their own work or favorite poems during a fun night of poetry readings. Sign up at 6:30 p.m. and start waxing poetic at 7 p.m. For more information, email ScottBerge@live.com. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Alia’s Coffeehouse, 908 W. Main St., Boise, 208338-1299.

WEDNESDAY MAY 19 Workshops & Classes BUSINESS BUILDER DAY—The Idaho Business League, hosts displays and seminar topics relevant to all owners, managers and key decision-makers in Idaho industries. Topics include Social Media Marketing, Employee Motivation, Sales Lead Generation, Fraud in Business, Branding and much more. 7:30 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611, www.owyheeplaza.com.

Citizen BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT VOLUNTEER NIGHT—Volunteer bicycle mechanics are on hand to answer bicycle repair questions, help with problem diagnosis and assist in bicycle repair. Volunteers help BBP continue their work of ﬁxing up old bicycles and donating them to children of low income families and local refugees. 6-8 p.m. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, www. boisebicycleproject.org. For more event listings, visit boiseweekly.com and click on “Calendar.”

JIM CHU READ AND RIDE MEMORIAL—BBP will be unveiling the Jim Chu Memorial Library to honor Chu and other fallen cyclists. Book donations will be accepted and added until 12:30. Then there will be a ride to Camel’s Back Park for a BBQ and ice cream at 1 p.m. Noon-2 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, www.boisebicycleproject.org. WESTERN STATES CAT MDA RIDE FOR THE CURE—Policeescorted ride down the freeway to help support the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Fee includes coffee and donuts before the ride, a 2010 MDA Ride Pin, one ride card and lunch provided by Joe’s Crab Shack. 9 a.m. $20. High Desert HarleyDavidson/Buell, 2310 E. Cinema Drive., Meridian, 208-338-5599, www.highdeserthd.com.

MONDAY MAY 17 Workshops & Classes WEST AFRICAN DANCE CLASS—An opportunity to learn the basics of traditional West African dance. Classes held to live traditional drumming. 6:30 p.m. $7. Drum Central, 2709 W.

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TOUR OF BOOTY Recession or no recession, bands hit the road ZACH HAGADONE Portland, the recession has made clubs more risk-averse. “It’s kind of a different relationship with every bar, and you have to guarantee your own crowd in some cases,” Crosby said. “In Idaho, we can get a guarantee in most bars we play. In Denver or Portland, you’ve got to bring that business.”

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The headlights wink on around 3 a.m. and the van roars to life. The gig has been played, the applause has faded, the gear has been packed and all’s quiet, save for the rumble of the engine. Enough money has been made for gas, but probably not a whole lot more. It doesn’t matter though; they’ve got to keep moving, either to crash on a friend’s couch or push on to the next town. The headlights point the way down a lonely strip of asphalt, bound for whatever comes next. Sure, painters have to travel to galleries and authors go on book tours, but among artists, musicians find themselves most dependent on the road for their meal ticket. There’s a romance to it, but when times are tough, that already hard life gets even harder. “We’ve been trying to keep it pretty steady, trying to make a living. But it’s a tight living,” said Jeff Crosby, frontman for four-piece Boise funk-pop amalgam Equaleyes. “Times are changing.” Equaleyes, which has been together in some form for about four years, just finished a spring tour starting in Utah with a big swing through Colorado, back to Boise, then on to Portland, Ore. The band had been on the road since February and tries to fit in a similar-sized tour every season. Crosby said he and bandmates Will Prescott, Daniel “the Hawk” Blumenfeld and new addition Tom Borda have seen the recession take its toll on everyone from bands to venue owners to live music patrons. “It seems people are always going to be starving for music, but we’ve definitely noticed a decrease of merchandise sales and a lot of the bars, we’ve noticed, are just really struggling,” Crosby said. “We work hand-in-hand, and when they struggle, we struggle.” In Boise, Crosby said things are a little easier. Venues know the band and are still willing to give some guarantees. But even in Northwest music Meccas like Seattle and

More disturbing, he added, is the gradual dying out of a lot of the small venues Equaleyes used to hit on their way to larger gigs. “The mom-and-pop deal seems to be kind of disappearing, but if that happens you just have to start over again,” he said. Chris Bock, who fronts three-year-old punk-infused rock trio RevoltRevolt, echoed Crosby, adding that band-venue relationships have taken on a deeper importance during the downturn. “A lot of bands go in and sometimes play a show and they’re like, ‘OK, my job’s done.’ They take their money and run,” he said. “We like to get to know the staff and the people and the bar—see what it’s all about.” RevoltRevolt, which includes Jasin Serna

and Ben Brunn, also recently finished a big spring tour, hitting Idaho, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, Oregon and Washington—more than 6,000 miles in total. The band is gearing up for another run this month into Oregon, with stops in Portland, Salem, Waldport and Ashland, then on to California for Eureka, Oakland, San Diego and Bakersfield before hitting Las Vegas and heading back home to Boise. Like Equaleyes, RevoltRevolt tries to hit the road for a wide-ranging tour once a season. “We’re kind of in the rhythm,” said Bock. “On Nov. 17, our album came out, and we did California, then Washington. The whole idea is to go out, and in a month or two, go out again.” With so much road time over the past couple of years, Bock said RevoltRevolt has been in a position to notice a lot of changes in the already tough economics of touring. They’ve also learned a lot of cost-saving tricks. “I’ve been touring in bands for quite a while, and a new thing that I’ve found out in the last few years is that some places are willing to pay a percentage of the till, and some places are only willing to pay you the door,” he said. “That puts a lot of pressure back on the band, so you’ve got to promote a lot more on your own.” On top of gassing up a ’96 Dodge van and feeding and lodging three guys, marketing and promotion just adds to the cost and decreases already thin margins. Accommodations are one area where the band has really had to get creative. For instance, Bock said, after a show in Pocatello, RevoltRevolt was heading to Salt Lake City and realized they’d have to book some rooms for a few hours of shut-eye before the next gig. “We figured out that if we play a show and have, say, a three-hour 22 drive, it pays for us to call ahead,

BUSINESS/NEWS GOOD TIMES: MICRON CLOSES $1.2 BILLION DEAL, PROFITS ON THE UPSWING IN 2010 Micron Technology, Boise’s tech-sector Goliath, made a major investment earlier this month with the $1.2 billion, all-stock acquisition of Switzerland-based memory chip maker Numonyx Holdings B.V. The deal, which Micron closed on May 7 with 138 million shares of its common stock, gives the company access to Numonyx’s portfolio of memory chip products, as well as its manufacturing facilities and customer base. Numonyx, which prior to the Micron sale was owned as a joint venture between STMicroelectronics, Intel and Francisco Partners, specializes in a memory chip technology called NOR. The chip type has traditionally competed with NAND flash memory—one of Micron’s key products—and is a crucial technology for cell phone cameras. With the purchase of Numonyx, Micron is positioned to become the top manufacturer of NOR-type memory worldwide. “With this acquisition, Micron builds on its position as one of the world’s leading memory companies with increased scale, a broader product portfolio and industry-leading technology,” Micron chairman and CEO Steve Appleton said in a company release. Founded and headquartered in Boise, Micron is the only memory-chipmaker in the world that is based in the United States. It remains one of the largest employers in Idaho, but times have been tough for the company. A years-long oversupply in the chip market drove down prices and resulted in Micron suffering a string of deep quarterly losses. In early 2009, Micron shuttered one of its memory chip fabrication plants in Boise and cut about 2,000 local jobs, worsening the effects of an already painful economic downturn in the Treasure Valley. But the Numonyx acquisition seems to be part of a general turnaround for the company. Though Micron ended fiscal year 2009 with a loss of $100 million on $1.3 billion in sales, its first quarter 2010 numbers were decidedly better: $204 million profit on net sales of $1.74 billion. First quarter earnings were the first positive results for Micron in three years and were followed in the second quarter with $365 million in revenue on net sales of nearly $2 billion. According to Micron, Numonyx will be a healthy addition to the company’s bottom line. As of Dec. 31, 2009, Numonyx reported net assets of $1.3 billion and quarterly revenues of about $550 million. Jim Handy, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based semiconductor industry analyst for the firm Objective Analysis, estimated that Numonyx could add up to $1.5 billion to Micron’s revenue stream. “Objective Analysis projects for the memory market to explode in 2010, and this is likely to amplify the impact of this acquisition,” Handy wrote in a research note on chip industry website fabtech.org. —Zach Hagadone

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RevoltRevolt (left) and Old Death Whisper (right) are tryin’ to make a livin’ and doin’ the best [they] can.

check in at 6 a.m., sleep ’til 2, play the 21 show, then check out the next day at 6 a.m. Then you’ve basically paid $50 for two nights of sleep,” he said. “For a band that plays and is up ’til 3 in the morning, doing it that way really makes it easier to stay in hotels.” The alternative, of course, is spending the night in the van. In that case, Bock said the band will whip out a little cook stove and rely on groceries purchased in advance of the tour. On the last tour, Bock said $150 in groceries bought in Boise lasted all the way to Texas. “Things are definitely different out there,” said Bock, adding that in the past, band members put a sizable amount of their own money into touring. “If we were to go for three days, it’s a little different; then a little more of your own money can come into play. But when you’re going out for three weeks, you really have to balance and look ahead.” Ned Evett, virtuosic pioneer of the fretless guitar and a longtime staple of Boise’s music scene, has been at the touring game for more than a decade. In his time, he’s gone from playing local bars to regional gigs to international shows with living legends like Joe Satriani. One of the biggest trends he’s seen during the course of recent tours is the difficulty in landing “anchor gigs,” or big money shows on which the tour is based. “There’s much more competition for anchor gigs—festivals, colleges. Because of the economic situation, what used to take three or four months to set up, now you have to set up eight months out,” said Evett, who recently returned from a swing through Utah and Colorado, including university shows in Cedar City, Utah, and Fort Collins, Colo. “And as far as entry into the industry, you need to not really care at the end of the week if you come back with 50 bucks,” he added. “You’re playing for the door, what used to be called the ‘neck bone circuit.’ The days of the flat rate are not necessarily gone, but it’s

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harder to come by.” Evett agreed with Bock and Crosby that the proliferation of door deals is pinching bands, especially as bar patrons look to their own cash-strapped wallets and venues shift more of the burden of marketing onto the bands themselves. “People have always been hesitant to pay cover charges going into a bar. They’ll balk at $2 or $3,” he said. The key is doing some research beforehand—something made easier by online tools like MySpace, Facebook and Twitter. “The clubs are definitely, when they can, putting marketing and promotion entirely on the musician … So finding a healthy club, finding the musicians who are really out there doing this well and where they like to play, that’s key,” Evett said. “There’s a lot of bullshit clubs out there; it’s never been a loving, nurturing relationship. It’s always been adversarial. This [economy] just makes it more so.” Matt Hopper has a foot in both worlds. His band, Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles, is a sometimes rockin’, sometimes bluesy, sometimes solo, sometimes trio act gearing up to release its new album in June. Hopper said he’s been banging around Idaho, Arizona and California during the past couple of months, but beyond his life as a touring musician, Hopper is also booking manager at the Bouquet in downtown Boise. He agreed that bands hitting the road these days better prepare themselves for some time on that “neck bone circuit” Evett mentioned. “It’s been a lot of door deals, which puts the pressure back on the musicians,” Hopper said. “I’ve tried to purposely keep cover charges really low at our bar, but I got to a certain point where it’s like, you know what, I’ve got to charge at least $5. Especially if these bands are relying on that.” Therein lies the Catch-22: Venues want live music to boost business, 26 but don’t necessarily want to risk WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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YE OLDE SPECIE Idaho silver-based currency bills might have failed, but the ‘sound money’ movement marches on ZACH HAGADONE

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you bought a sack of ﬂour, you’d be right. The United States hasn’t been on a true gold or silver standard since the beginning of the 20th century, and the sound money movement doesn’t go in for all this new-fangled Federal Reserve business, with its variable interest rates and fractional reserve banking. Hitting the reset button on the world’s most sophisticated economy might seem like an atavistic—and hopelessly wonky— proposition, but Hart said we’d be better off hearkening to a time when Americans could trust the their dollar and the government kept its economic meddling to a minimum.

come to know as Tea Partiers. A key plank in Paul’s platform is the abolition of the Federal Reserve and a return to sound money, and Hart, a 2008 Ron Paul delegate to the National Republican Convention, sees the return of hard currency as inevitable. “As a society, we have a debt capacity, and we can only handle so much in the way of interest payments,” he said. “When we exceed that debt capacity, then the money supply stops unless we print that money out of thin air. That’s where we’re at today. We don’t have much capacity to take on more debt, and it’s caused our economic expansion to stop.” Hart echoes calls to “end the fed”— the title of Paul’s 2009 book—because the Federal Reserve manipulates the money supply to raise or lower interest rates, inflate or deflate the the dollar and otherwise play fast and loose with the citizenry’s treasure. Bringing back precious metals as a valid currency would break the bank’s monopoly, sound monetarists claim. “You can’t manipulate gold, but you can manipulate paper currency,” Hart said. Hart’s bill, which ultimately died in the Senate, was long on language supporting the redevelopment of Idaho’s mining industry, but back in January, Barrett, clad in a fiery red blazer, pitched her legislation directly to the Tea’d off crowd’s fierce constitutionalism. “We talk about Congressional corruption, but talk is cheap. We talk about sovereignty, but talk is cheap. We have over-developed the political mouth, but underdeveloped the political spine,” she said. “Just remember, it took over 200 years of indolence, apathy and unconstitutional government on everybody’s part to serve up the Machiavellian meatloaf that we are choking on today.” Barrett’s bill died in the House, and Hart said his effort failed because some committee members didn’t want to burden the treasurer with the project. Others were concerned that tax breaks for mining companies would have to be extended to others. Still, he plans to bring something similar to the 2011 Legislature. Bar25 rett’s plans are unclear; calls to her BEN WILSON

On a sunny Monday in January, Reps. Phil Hart and Lenore Hardy Barrett stood on the Idaho Capitol steps and introduced a crowd of Tea Partiers to two pieces of legislation that would have remade the state’s economic landscape. The Silver Gem Act, fronted by Hart, an Athol Republican, proposed that Idaho citizens ought to be able to pay their taxes with special medallions or bars struck from silver mined in North Idaho’s Silver Valley—part of Hart’s home district. The Idaho Constitutional Tender Act, introduced by Barrett, a Republican from Challis, went even further. It sought to make silver and gold— both in physical coins and electronic ounces drawn from an online exchange— just as valid as Federal Reserve notes for the purchase of everything from groceries to new cars to property. With similar bills floated in at least seven states, Tea Partiers chanting “end the fed” and the Idaho Republican Party adding “sound money” to its platform in 2008, the gold (or silver) standard may be making a comeback. “This is the time when we’re going to see a lot of inflation, and I think that more and more people are going to become aware of the problems with paper money,” Hart said. “I think there’s a few mainline Republicans who are starting to recognize that we need to do something.” Chief among the benefits of a precious metals-backed currency, according to sound monetarists, would be an end to deficit spending. In other words: you couldn’t make new money without new sources of gold and silver, and you can’t spend money you don’t have. Because of that, Hart and Barrett said, Idahoans would be protected from the vicissitudes of currency devaluation, and the state’s historically lucrative silver industry would enjoy a massive boost. (Fun facts: Barrett’s profession is “mining/investments” and Hart sits on the Revenue and Taxation Committee.) If you think that sounds like a plan to send the economy back to a day when the mercantile had to weigh your ingots before

“If you turn the clock back 100 years or 150 years … things were priced in terms of the quantity of gold, not in terms of the value of paper currency,” Hart said. “Some people may say we’re being old-fashioned, or that today we’re advanced enough that we don’t need to base the currency on anything but the ‘full faith and credit’ of the federal government, but the greatest periods of growth and economic expansion in our history has been with a commodity currency.” So much talk about economic policy from bygone centuries might seem befuddling, but you don’t have to look very far to figure out where this gust of bimetalism is coming from. The 2008 presidential campaign of Ron Paul, libertarian gadfly, Texas Congressman and abashed gold bug, spurred the first modern “tea party” in 2007 and helped pave the way for legions of apolitical grumblers to transform themselves into the army of tricorn-wearing, Gadsden flag wavers we’ve

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Though tough economic times have stalled Garden City’s ambitious renewal plans, the scrappy little burg still has its eye on the prize.

MORE THAN A DRIVE-THROUGH TOWN Garden City holds onto vision even in hard times ANNE-MARIJE ROOK In 2006, Garden City officials came out swinging with an ambitious comprehensive plan that would revitalize and redefine the 4.2 square miles that make up Garden City. The 49-page plan outlined the city’s ideal vision, from improving its reputation to creating a downtown with “grand boulevards.” The plan even won an Idaho Smart Growth award for its bold new vision and consistency with smart growth principles. Three years and an economic downturn later, the “new vision of the future” is not so visible. “It’s true, we’re not seeing a lot in new development,” said Mayor John Evans. “But the gloves are still on.” Evans said Garden City has to “live within [its] means,” admitting that administrators keep one-third of the city budget in reserve in case of hardship. “And we’re doing a fine job.” He added that while the economy may have stalled some projects, they’re seeing good progress in other areas. Anyone who has driven through Garden City in the last two years may have noticed a new business or two—coffee shops, a Walgreens store, some restaurants—but for larger-scale development, one has to spend some time exploring Garden City. “There’s a lot to Garden City that you probably haven’t seen,” Evans said. For one, the city has been putting the “garden” back in Garden City by planting trees, opening a new park between 45th and 46th streets, adding a certified arborist to the city staff and improving the Greenbelt, which connects Eagle, Garden City and Boise. Evans, himself a part-time city employee, also praises the increase in volunteerism and civic pride. “It’s not uncommon to hear people say

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that they’ve changed their address from Boise to Garden City,” he said. Evans also touts a falling crime rate and the city’s reputation for having the strictest law enforcement in the area. His job, Evans said, is to “bridge where we are now and where we want to be when the economy picks up again.” For the city, that means improving the necessities, such as sewer systems and trunk line extensions, and dealing with deferred maintenance issues like ground water infiltration. “Our job is to facilitate new development by ensuring that the underpinning is there, but it’s the private business sector that makes growth happen,” Evans said. Over the years, Garden City has welcomed nonprofits such as the Boys and Girls Club, the Learning Lab, the Garden City Community Clinic and, most recently, the Northwest Animal Companions events center and thrift store, which came to town in March. Located across from Expo Idaho on Glenwood Street, NAC Executive Director Troy Jackson said the animal center chose Garden City to build its combination thrift store, events center and veterinary office because of the prime location on a busy intersection and to help a community that carries such a bad reputation. Jackson said that Idaho has more pets per house, per capita, than any other state in the country. At the same time, Idaho is also the fourth worst state when it comes to animal care. “It has a terrible rep for animal care,” Jackson said. “And the Garden City area doesn’t have a shelter or animal programs.” The NAC works to rescue, spay, neuter and find new homes for animals. Its thrift store, called Re-Style, sells everything from clothing and books, to furniture and collectibles, with

proceeds beneﬁtting foster care, low-cost spay and neuter services and animal adoptions. At 37,000 square feet, the NAC’s Corridor on Glenwood is among the largest events spaces in the Treasure Valley and will host all manner of activities at a fraction of the cost of other event centers. “It’s our way to be involved and give back to the community,” Jackson said. The NAC’s 40,000-square-foot building, a former supermarket, sat empty for 15 years. Jackson said taking over old buildings is good not only for the charity, but it also helps construction workers and small businesses. “That’s a lot of bricks and space just sitting there,” Jackson said. “It’s discouraging to see. Now is a great opportunity to groom and bloom in Garden City.” A couple of miles away, on the east end of town, an artisan community is emerging in what the city has named the Live, Work, Create District—a zoning designation that allows artists to live, create and sell art in the same place. The neighborhood, along Chinden Boulevard, has mainly been known for its adult shop, tattoo parlors, car lots and pawnshops. But Irene Deely, who owns the Woman of Steel Gallery, hopes it will soon be an artists’ destination. Deely and other artists founded Cre8ive Juices—a 501(c)3 nonproﬁt that is actively applying for grants to help develop programs that promote the arts and creative development in Garden City. The group’s main projects include building a “pocket” sculpture park for large-scale outdoor installations and turning the 30,000 square feet of bare land behind the Visual Arts Collective, on Osage Street, into lofts, studios and teaching space. 25 Both projects are still in the gestation WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

LOCAL/BUSINESS period, but Deely said she has full intentions to bring them out of hibernation when the economic tides turn. “The recession has deﬁnitely curtailed the speed at which we have been able to proceed,” Deely said. “Funds that we had hoped to steer toward this development have been derailed. However, other sources are being explored, and the dream has not by any means died.” In the meantime, Deely has been giving back to the community by celebrating its history in the form of an annual Dragon Parade, which was recently recognized with an ofﬁcial state legislative proclamation for being a viable cultural contribution to the city. Achieving one of the largest and most desired visions outlined in the comprehensive plan—the creation of an urban downtown—is still in the discussion stage. Evans said “there’s a lot of talk” regarding the Expo site, which Garden City would like to see transformed 24

into a downtown core, but no concrete plans have been set. If the Expo site is ever redeveloped, Evans would like to see ownership of Lady Bird Park transferred to Garden City and the park moved to another location—possibly closer to the Greenbelt. Though within Garden City limits, the park is owned by Ada County. “It’s my impression that it’s a notion that’s under consideration,” he said. Out of all the action items in the city’s comp plan, Evans said efforts to improve Garden City’s image are gaining the most traction—driven in large part by community involvement and events such as the Dragon Parade and the Boys and Girls Club’s annual Fun Run. “We’re perceived as real,” he said. “Not just a playground. We’re getting things done and have other people ask us ‘how did you do that?’ There’s a level of respect and recognition that Garden City hasn’t had before.”

INNOVATION/BUSINESS home in Challis went unanswered. Regardless of recent legislative defeats, anti-Fed sentiment and calls for sound money aren’t going away anytime soon, say experts like Peter Crabb, an economics and ﬁnance professor at Northwest Nazarene University. The roots of the movement go deep—back to the “Austrian School of Economics,” which Crabb said was pioneered in the early-20th century by Austrian-born economist Ludwig von Mises and his pupil, Friedrich von Hayek. (Ron Paul, a die-hard Austrian disciple, hangs a portrait of Mises in his congressional ofﬁce, and serves as a distinguished counselor at the Ludwig von Mises Institute in eastern Alabama.) In its most basic terms, Austrian economics contends that no government intervention is the best government intervention. Any attempt to collectivize economics will inevitably collectivize society, resulting in tyrannies like the Third Reich or Soviet Russia—both potent symbols for the Austrians as they were formulating their views in the 1920s and 1930s. The Austrian school developed as a challenge to the prevailing economic model of the day, which was based on the work of British economist John Maynard Keynes, who advocated government involvement in the economy to spur growth. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal is often regarded as the greatest American example of Keynesian economics. The Bush and Obama bailouts are also prime examples. “The Austrian School of economics was a direct intellectual response to the acceptance of Keynesian economics,” Crabb said. “It was an academic response, meaning, ‘Here’s where Keynes is wrong’ … It’s more of a backlash against Keynesian economics than it is an 23

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argument as to why this philosophy or this economic model is better. It’s simply: ‘This system is better.’” For a school of economic thought, Austrianism certainly does talk a lot of smack (see: “Machiavellian meatloaf”). But Jim Angresano, an economics professor at the College of Idaho, said it’s mostly bluster. “Partly, I’m sympathetic; they want to roll back the clock,” he said. “I’m also sympathetic to getting some sense of [ﬁscal] discipline. But people don’t want to live by market rules. There’s so much rhetoric about this … Our country wants to keep getting more from the government and pay less—the worst offenders are the corporate end of it.” Crabb said Austrian economics is so enamored of historical and logical proofs because it’s been given short shrift ever since Western democracies like Britain and the United States opted to go the way of Keynes. As Keynesian policies have been tested and studied, hard data is scant to support Austrian theory in practice. Because of that, Austrian proponents ﬁnd themselves having to defend their positions by pointing out Keynesian failings with rhetoric, rather than their own school’s real-world results. “Would it be successful at having a stable economy? Yes. It can be just as successful as the Keynesian model. Would it be successful socially? Probably not,” Crabb said. “You would have the potential for an unlimited degree of income inequality, and that’s socially unacceptable … “It’s still a sound economic theory and an economic model just as the Keynesian model is. It’s simply that it hasn’t been tested,” he added. “It’s more philosophy than a science.”

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BUSINESS/TREND guaranteeing the band. They can charge a cover and give the band a cut—relying on booze sales to make their margins—but finding a door price that people will pay is a tricky proposition. Sharing a portion of the till with the band is an option, but that cuts directly into a venue’s nightly revenue. “There’s so many times when you can be down to a $3 cover and people will walk in and ask if there’s a cover and just walk out,” Hopper said. “We’ve had some nights when we’ve guaranteed bands and didn’t make anything near close to that … We’re not really making money off the bands, we’re just making money off the beer. If the band can’t bring in the people, why are we paying this much?” Hopper said he has faced this dilemma on his own tours. With gas topping $50 a day, he came home with a couple hundred bucks after nearly a week’s worth of shows. Not bad, but not that great, either. “You’re basically breaking even to travel from town to town,” he said. “But it’s like any other job, you’ve got to drive to your job.” That’s another problem in itself. Tight times keep local bands in a close orbit around Idaho, playing shows in Spokane, Wash., Seattle, Portland, Las Vegas, Colorado, Salt Lake City and Missoula, Mont. Evett, who plays a good portion of his anchor gigs on the East Coast, said relying on far-flung dates in the expansive West can keep bands on a slow-moving treadmill. “Playing in markets that are two or three hours apart [like in the East], your fuel costs go down and your averages go up. There’s a lot more college towns,” Evett said. “The West Coast is extraordinarily difficult to tour—the Intermountain West in particular. When you have to drive to Salt Lake from Boise, and from Salt Lake to Vegas—those are really long drives. You burn a lot of fuel.” Finn Riggins, the post-punk/indie/progressive rock trio of Cameron Bouiss, Eric Gilbert and Lisa Simpson, isn’t afraid of leaving the Northwest nest for points east. The band has been a touring machine since 2007, hitting 35 states for 200 shows in 2008 alone. Mid way through 2010, Finn Riggins is finishing off a massive nationwide run that, when finished, will have kept them moving for 80 straight days. Eric Gilbert, the man on the keys and Finn Riggins’ booking manager, agreed wholeheartedly that touring back East is a breeze compared to the long hauls of the Northwest. “That’s one of the reasons we’re on such a long tour right now,” he said. “Once you get across the Mississippi, everything’s so much closer together. But there’s a huge gap to cross getting there.” While shorter drive times help keep costs down, the same recessionary trends are in play East of Ol’ Miss. Gilbert echoed the feeling that venues are mostly offering door deals, and that audiences aren’t as free with their cash as they once were. “You definitely sense people are a little more hesitant to pay a cover, they have less cash for merch … [and] people are definitely 22

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seeking out free shows a lot more,” he said. To make ends meet in a tight market, many more established bands are also hitting the road with smaller acts in tow. But the practice isn’t without its drawbacks—especially for the openers. “I have noticed an increase in package tours,” said Allen Ireland, owner of local music institutions Neurolux and Pengilly’s Saloon. “The booking agents are adding the developing artists as opening acts for the major artists instead of sending them out on their own. This increases the price of the show for us and limits the opportunities for the local bands to share the stage with the majors.” With so much stacked against them, bands—especially those in remote markets like Boise—have to be far more entrepreneurial, Evett said. And that’s a good thing. “Merchandise can be your fuel for getting to that [larger] market; if you don’t do those things then you just go into the hole more slowly,” he said. “Music revenue is interesting. Think of it like the Mississippi Delta: There’s different little channels of your income. Maybe playing live is one of those channels, your publishing channel, your merchandise sales channel … you have to have different channels, or you can’t really make it.” Gilbert agreed with that idea, too, and if Finn Riggins is a touring machine, it’s also a master of merch. “We have a lot of merch and lot of varieties of merch,” he said, ticking off a list that includes screen-printed T-shirts, posters, stickers and handmade tote bags. “Lots of times we won’t be making hardly any money on the door, but we’re more than making up for it with merch. Others times, it’s the other way around. Having both of those options is definitely great.” Scheduled to be back in Boise on May 15, Gilbert said the band is going to take a short breather, play some local and regional shows, work on new material and catch up on finances. The next big nationwide tour will come after the next album—most likely in 2011. Recession or no recession. “I feel like a part of these economic times is that people need and want music, a reason to celebrate, gather and have community,” Gilbert said. “It’s not necessarily the time to be scrambling for the most money.” Rico Hood, lead guitarist and vocalist for Sun Valley-based Old Death Whisper— formerly the Damphools—thinks tough times make for good music. “I’m all for it not being easy ... that is the beauty of the art form,” he said. “And that’s why the songs wrench your heart out.” Equaleyes is equally undaunted by tight times. They’ll be back in Boise for a May 22 album release show at the Knitting Factory, then it’s another Colorado run with a stop in Moab, Utah, then on to Montana for the Love Your Mother Earth Festival and some dates in Seattle and Portland. An East Coast tour has been discussed, but, “times being tight, we’ve got to figure out how to afford it,” Crosby said. “We’re just kind of riding the wave for a while.” WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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COVERING YOUR ASSETS Tracking and control tech smart-grids your life ZACH HAGADONE A couple of guys are sitting down to watch a much anticipated football game. The TV—a glorious 40-inch plasma affair—is being paid for in installments to a rent-to-own company, but the happy host has ignored a few weeks of late-payment notices. Back at the rental company’s headquarters, a beacon pinpointing the offending TV flashes on a computer screen in the payment department. A mouse click activates the tracking and control device secretly installed on the boob tube, and the screen goes dark. Rental payment scofflaw and his footballwatchin’ buddies: 0. The future of remote asset management: 1. Tough times have kept the $6.8 billion rentto-own industry healthy, as credit-crunched consumers seek out alternatives to buying new stuff outright. Industry experts estimate as many as 3 million households a year take advantage of RTOs, which do business at about 8,500 stores nationwide. That means RTO companies have to keep track of a massive amount of merchandise— from TVs and washing machines, to refrigerators and furniture. And while most customers simply return an item if they can’t continue making payments, some inevitably try to hang onto the item despite their failure to pay. That’s when someone has to be dispatched for the unpleasant job of collections. That’s also where the growing field of remote asset management may soon come in. “It all started a couple of years ago, back when I’d actually seen a friend of mine who was working for a company called Rent-ACenter running around trying to get payments from people. He’d be pissed off and mad and upset at the fact that the customers thought he was such a bad guy,” said Todd Kleperis, president of IContain, a company working on a suite of monitoring and control devices for a host of markets, including rent-to-owns. Though headquartered in China, IContain runs its IT operations out of Boise. Another conversation with an employee of Aaron’s—a competing RTO—cemented the idea for IContain’s device. “I asked him, ‘Wouldn’t it be kind of cool if you guys had a device that would either go inside or outside [an item] that would just turn these things off when people don’t pay their bills?’ The guy looked at me and he goes, ‘We’ve got that for our laptops, but we don’t have it for anything else,’” Kleperis said. “What they have is a software-based solution WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

Jared Tippetts is the friendly Boise-based face of IContain, a company that wants to one day give you remote control over every appliance in your house.

that really doesn’t work for hardware because once you turn off or get rid of the software, the thing’s toast.” IContain’s product is a combination hardware-software system. A small device is attached to the item, whether it’s a TV or a fridge or a washing machine, and it starts transmitting a signal via cellular and GPS channels. The signal shows two things: where the item is located, and whether it’s turned on or off. Represented by a blinking red dot, the signal is monitored through a specially designed website and one click in the software interface can enable or disable the item’s function. Testing with an RTO in Florida has shown promising results, according to Kleperis. “Out of nine delinquent customers, eight called the next day after the device shut [their item] off,” he said. “The next guy brought the TV back and said it’s broken.” If this all sounds somewhat familiar, Boise area tech watchers might know Kleperis from the now-defunct ﬁrm Sky Detective, which made wireless GPS-enabled tracking modules for the law enforcement and shipping markets. Sky Detective earned itself some buzz a few years back for its work with the Nepalese government, which wanted to use the company’s technology to track various shipments across the Himalayas. It was also one of a handful of companies proﬁled in an October 2008 New York Times article on Idaho’s growing hightech sector. But after Sky Detective folded on funding issues a year or so ago, Kleperis up and moved to Shenzhen, China, where IContain is based. One day he’d like to bring the company’s HQ to the City of Trees, but joked that “we haven’t gotten the right proposal yet from Butch.” In the meantime, IContain is breaking new ground with its RTO-oriented remote management systems and has its eye on expanding into other markets. “This technology allows a person or

business to control the functionality of their property directly,” said Jared Tippetts, who manages IContain’s back-end operations from Boise. “The fact that this is done over the Internet and through cellular channels allows this to be accomplished from anywhere, achieving a greater level of control and ﬂexibility than any other system in place to date.” Other applications lie in the consumer space—imagine being able to use your iPhone to turn off your home coffee pot—and in the health-care sector. Speciﬁcally, Kleperis said, a version of IContain’s remote management system could be worn or sewn into clothing to keep track of Alzheimer’s patients, rest home residents or people with autism. “That wearable technology then talks to our existing devices inside a person’s home, so now you have a footprint,” he said. Using that footprint, a user could see whether an elderly father or mother has wandered out of the house and left the stove or dishwasher on, for instance. Likewise, the technology could be used to quickly locate lost hikers, bikers or backcountry skiers and, Kleperis said, the system could dramatically cut down on theft. Still, Kleperis recognizes that the idea of remote controlling your—or someone else’s— life can seem a little 1984-ish. But, “in some respects you want it Orwellian,” he said. “If it’s your mom who has a certain level of dementia, or if you’re a runner and you’re out on some mountainside and you get lost, maybe you opt in for that kind of thing.” Besides, Kleperis added, we’re already being tracked by our cell phones, Internet use, security cameras—you name it. What IContain does is give users a measure of control over their lives. “I want to create the smart grid for your home,” he said. “I think, really, we’re down that path already, and we’re hitting the right segment at the right time.”

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Go Listen Boise proves it’s hip to be square TARA MORGAN

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THAT OLD TIME MUSIC

Don’t confuse bluegrass and old time music. Though both styles feature fiddles, banjos and mandolins, the end products are worlds apart. Old time is the front-porch-strumming, working man’s dance music, while bluegrass has more in common with jazz and its furious, virtuosic instrument solos. Online, the rifts between these two styles run hilariously deep. On bluegrasswest. com, they break it down as: “A BG band tells terrible jokes while tuning. An OT band tells terrible jokes without bothering to tune.” Or “BG band members never smile. OT band members will smile if you Pass the moonshine. It’s time for some warm-blooded old time. give them a drink.” To help dispel stereotypes and introduce old time music to Boise audiences, Go through town.” corner. Just basic things that maybe some Listen Boise has linked arms with Boise Ward’s husband, Travis, upright bassist, people learned in fourth grade,” said Shue. Weekly, the Linen Building and the Record guitar player and vocalist for Hokum HiExchange to put together Grand Ol’ Time, a “There is something called ‘rattlesnake twist,’ ‘duck for the oyster’ and ‘dive for the Flyers, also hopes that Grand Ol’ Time will monthly concert series and square dance. clams.’ Just goofy old things, and there’s set help create an old-time revival. Or at least “We had the idea of doing a square attract some young blood. calls for them.” dance, but doing it more than once so that “It’s cool to introduce new people to it,” But if you’re quaking in your cowboy it could sort of catch on a little bit and we said Travis. “The genre is going to remain boots at the thought of attempting the could expose the community to this genre intact forever; there’s always going to be rattlesnake twist with a complete stranger, that doesn’t really have a face here yet,” the people like me ... who have the gene Shue has a word of advice: “relax.” Half of said Ali Ward, Go Listen Boise organizer and percussionist for local act Hillfolk Noir. the fun of traditional square dancing is mak- that makes you love the old time music so much.” ing mistakes. For the inaugural event, locals Jonathan Part of the mission of Go Listen Boise “People are always shy about getting up, Warren and the Billy Goats and Bill Coffey but there’s just no rules and nobody is grad- is to facilitate and support the proliferawill get toes tapping before the Hokum HiFlyers storm the stage for the square dance. ing anybody,” said Shue. “A lot of times it’s tion of local music. In addition to securing local openers for Alive After Five again this as much fun when you make mistakes as Dorothy Shue, a founding member of the year, the organization also recently started when you don’t. We’re not looking for perIdaho Folklore Society, will call the dances. fection at all. I just like to see people having a successful street busking campaign, Boise “For old time square dancing, you just a good time, and usu- Buskers: Making Change in Boise, “to teach everything on ally people are always educate and promote the idea of busking the spot,” said Shue. in the streets of Boise.” From broadensmiling when they’re “You try to make it ing people’s misconceptions about street dancing.” as easy as possible Friday, May 14, 6 p.m., $5 per person, corner performers to introducing younger $20 per family According to so everyone can just audiences to old time music and the art of Ward, square dancget up if they have LINEN BUILDING square dancing, Go Listen Boise is helping ing is no longer the a basic idea of right 1402 W. Grove St. 208-610-3671 to enrich Boise’s local music scene. outdated, dowdy and left.” golistenboise.org “Really, every local music event is kind dance associated with For those who are of a Go Listen Boise event,” said Ward. grade-school gym rusty on their square “It’s about activating the audience members class. With square dancing terms, here’s and the musicians to work together and dancing clubs popa little background. support this culture.” ping up everywhere from Portland, Ore., There are two types of square dancing: traAnd while the Wards are already some ditional and Western. While Western square to San Francisco, the dance is becoming no of the younger players in the local old time longer, well, square. dancing is exacting and often performed to “Apparently, it’s a pretty young hip thing revival circuit, they hope to introduce the recorded music, traditional square dancing music to even younger generations. At the that’s happening right now on the West is done with a live band and is much more inaugural Grand Ol’ Time, the duo plans to Coast,” said Ward. “It seems like Boise laid-back, allowing anyone to participate. dosado with their three young kids in tow. would be a great place for some of these Both styles feature a caller—someone who “The music is pretty infectious, and bands to come and be able to book shows. yells out dance moves over the music—to If there’s a crowd there of people that get it Boise’s such a good fit for it because it’s so explain each move ahead of time. and are turned onto it, then we can broaden family oriented,” said Ali Ward. “It’s very “It takes about five minutes, and you much community building, family oriented, that whole genre. I think there’s a lot of explain to people what a dosado is and old-time fun.” those bands that ... probably drive right how to swing their partner and swing their WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

Big J and Nic: Hey, wait. Aren’t they supposed to be on the other side of the morning drive?

ROCKING THE X BOAT KQXR 100.3 The X is working on becoming a station of the people. Station program director and morning show DJ Jeremy “Nic” Nicolato had a part-time DJ position to ﬁll. He and morning co-host Jeremi “Big J” Smith thought about ways to bring in a new member of the Journal Broadcast family. Smith has always been candid about his own non-traditional career path in radio. He hadn’t gone to school to be a DJ, but really wanted to work in radio, so he hung around the station and bugged the powers that be until they gave him a job. He and his co-host thought they should offer that kind of opportunity to other on-air wannabes. So they announced that they were looking for someone to ﬁll the Sunday noon-6 p.m. on-air time slot. Anyone and ever yone was eligible. They received more than 700 e-mails. Those 700 were narrowed down to 10, based on criteria both tangible and not so. Previous radio experience was certainly taken into consideration, but Nicolato and Smith were searching for something more. “We looked at their applications to see if they sent in something really funny or crazy,” Smith said. “Something that got our attention.” Damon Bradshaw made the cut by admitting that he used to hop freight trains as a kid and was once sued on Judge Judy; Monica Bowman made it because on her application, she suggested “the radio station is a giant testosterone ocean and they need an estrogen cruise ship.” But novelty wasn’t enough. “We also looked for people who had passion,” Nicolato said. Then came the real test: they brought each of the 10 in for an on-air interview. “We really wanted to put them in a pressure-cooker situation,” Nicolato said laughing. “Nobody bombed.” Once ever yone had been grilled, 100.3 listeners were asked to vote on their favorite. “We wanted to expand our listener community and get someone they really wanted to hear,” Nicolato said. Last Friday, Nicolato and Smith announced that the winner of the, ahem, coveted Sunday midday spot is Adam McGuire with 21 percent of the votes. —Amy Atkins To listen to a podcast of McGuire’s on-air interview podcast, visit xrock.com.

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GUIDE JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

WEDNESDAY MAY 12

THURSDAY MAY 13

FRIDAY MAY 14

5GEARS IN REVERSE—6 p.m. FREE. Bardenay-Eagle

BLAZE AND KELLY ON THE ROXX— 9 p.m. FREE. Sin

ACTUAL DEPICTION—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s Basement

ADRIAN AND THE SICKNESS—With Ohadi, Jar and Trigger Itch. 9 p.m. $5. Gusto Bar

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

ANDREW ANDERSON—With Poke and Sloth Falcon. 8 p.m. $3. Neurolux

AUDRA CONNOLLY—With Kendra Hackett of Polyphonic Pomegranate. 8 p.m. FREE. Reef

LAST BAND STANDING—With Black Tooth Grin, Elite, Fault Paradox and Lust Greed’s Envy. 9 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

BLAZE AND KELLY—9 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

PUSSYGUTT—With Alter and Discoma. See Listen Here this page. 8 p.m. $5. VAC

THE BUCK SHOT BAND—9 p.m. $3. Shorty’s

THE RADICALS—9 p.m. FREE. Quarter Barrel

BATTLE OF THE BANDS—8 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

LYNHURST—With 12 Track Radio and Pensive. 8 p.m. $5. The Bouquet

GENTLE ROWSER—9:30 p.m. FREE. Piazza Di Vino

REBECCA SCOTT—10 p.m. FREE. Bittercreek Ale House

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY WEBER—9:30 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet

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

GIZZARD STONE—9 p.m. $3. Terrapin Station

RIZING RESISTANCE—9:30 p.m. $5. Reef

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION—Drums and amps provided. Just show up and make some noise. 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

THREE BAND THROWDOWN—Innocent Man, Alex Richards Band and Slain in Silence. 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

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

GAZA—With Direwolf, Bone Dance, Versailles and Gernika. 6 p.m. $5. Brawl Studios

TROPICAL COWBOYS—With Beltane. 9 p.m. $2. Terrapin Station

GRAND OL’ TIME SQUARE DANCE SERIES—Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats with Bill Coffey and the Hokum Hi-Flyers. 6 p.m. $5/person or $20/family. The Linen Building

TRIBAL SEEDS—9:30 p.m. $5. Reef

LIKE A STORM—With Against All Will. 8 p.m. FREE; Win tickets by listening to 100.3 FM The X. Knitting Factory OCEAN STORY SOCIAL—7 p.m. FREE. The Plank

SPINDLEBOMB—9 p.m. $2. Liquid TT MILLER—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s VALLIVUE HIGH JAZZ GROUPS—8 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage

GIZZARD STONE—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid JEREMIAH JAMES GANG—8:45 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s LUSTER—With Vagabond and Dying Famous. 9 p.m. $2. Terrapin Station THE WINTER SOUNDS—With Parachute Musical and Sleepy Seeds. 8 p.m. $5. VAC Frim Fram Four

Discoma

GUIDE/LISTEN HERE

ALTER, MAY 14, VAC

MARTIN SEXTON, MAY 18, KNITTING FACTORY

When PussyGutt’s Blake Green started side project Alter, he went for something more Romantic and Gothic than PG’s doom and gloom. Horror-movie echoes of long keyboard chords boom under deep guitar twangs that reverberate like a cofﬁn full of old cowboy bones while haunting unintelligible choruses are made-up of layer upon layer of voices, all of which belong to Green. Alter’s music sounds sort of ’70s experimental, but with all the experimenting done long before the record button was ever pushed. Green is meticulous about each note and the long songs are a study in focus—probably for audiences, too. To perform the multi-instrumental music live, Green enlisted his PG partner Brittany McConnell, as well as musicians Elijah Jensen, Steve Gere and Jake Hite, who Green had rehearsing repeatedly so that this live debut of Alter will be hairraisingly perfect. This show is also a kick-off for PG’s new tour.

In grammar school he belted out Stevie Wonder tunes on the playground and kids gathered around to listen. At age 15, he picked up a guitar and taught himself to play Frampton Comes Alive. And now, at age 43, Martin Sexton is still following his dreams of being a performer. Sexton’s blend of soul, blues, R&B, gospel and country shines through in his ninth album, Sugarcoating (2010). “I think in general the machinery of the world doesn’t want people ... questioning too much,” Sexton says. “[I’m] realizing that I don’t believe in red and blue, or left and right anymore.” He explores this in the album’s title track, an unsettling look at post9/11 reality and the sweet veneer of the nightly news while our nation is engaged in wars that are making some of our rulers very wealthy. “This might be the new ’60s, this time we’re in now,” Sexton says. “I think it might be the time to get out and start saying we’ve had enough.”

—Amy Atkins

—Jennifer Hernandez

With Discoma, 8 p.m., $5. VAC, 3638 Osage St., visualartscollective.com.

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Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats

With the Ryan Montbleu Band, 8 p.m., $20-$45. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

GUIDE SATURDAY MAY 15 ACTUAL DEPICTION—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s Basement

MEATBALLS—9 p.m. FREE. The Plank MIX FOR THE CURE—Five DJs. Money to beneﬁt MS research. 9 p.m. $5. Terrapin Station PRAIRIE SKY PILOTS—9 p.m. FREE. Hyde Park Pub

SUNDAY MAY 16 AS I LAY DYING—With Demon Hunter, Blessthefall and War Of Ages. 7 p.m. $19. Knitting Factory

RYAN WISSINGER—7:30 p.m. FREE. Red Feather Lounge SHOOTER JENNINGS—With Ike Reilly. 8 p.m. $16-$35. Knitting Factory

REBECCA SCOTT BAND—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

THE BUCK SHOT BAND—9 p.m. $3. Shorty’s

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

DYING FAMOUS—9 p.m. FREE. Quarter Barrel

SHON SANDERS—9 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

FAUXBOIS CD RELEASE PARTY—With Soft Paws, Finn Riggins and The Very Most. See Picks Page 17. 8 p.m. $5. VAC

SPINDLEBOMB—9 p.m. $2. Liquid

JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

STOP DROP AND PARTY—With 3rd to Last, Savethearcade, Workin’ On Fire and The Chutes. 7 p.m. $9. The Venue.

MONDAY MAY 17

YER MAMA—8:30 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION—Drums and amps provided. Just show up and make some noise. 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

MARTIN SEXTON—See Listen Here Page 30. 8 p.m. $20. Knitting Factory

BOISE MODERN JAZZ ORCHESTRA—20-piece big band jazz with local players. 7:30 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet

RUBY WITH MATT HOPPER AND THE ROMAN CANDLES—9 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet

MONDAYS WITH ROB PAPER—8 p.m. FREE. Reef

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

LOOSE CHANGE—9 p.m. $3. The New Frontier Club

RYAN WISSINGER—10:30 a.m. FREE. Red Feather Lounge SONGWRITER’S CLUB WITH BERNIE REILLY—7 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet

STEVE BOWES—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid Joshua Tree

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BATTLE OF THE BANDS—8 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

BLACK SMITH—With Bukkit. Later, DJ Billy Wonka. 8 p.m. $3. Neurolux

LOOSE CHANGE—9 p.m. $3. The New Frontier Club

WEDNESDAY MAY 19

TUESDAY MAY 18 THE EAGLES—8 p.m. $55$180. Idaho Center. www. ictickets.com

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY WEBER—9:30 p.m. FREE. The Bouquet BOISE BLUES SOCIETY JAM SESSION—See Monday. 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge GO ENGINE NOW—With Surrealized and Le Fleur. 8 p.m. $5. VAC

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

JEREMIAH JAMES GANG—8:45 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s

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

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

KEVIN KIRK, JOHN JONES—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

MATT AND PAT—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

SMOOTH—7 p.m. FREE. Liquid

MOVEMENT MUSIC PRESENTS—With Leezy Soprano, Pleasantville Killers, J Boi and Public Intox. 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid MR. TURKEY AND THE LAZY CIRCUS FRIENDS—8 p.m. $2. Flying M Coffeegarage

DJS—Wed: Bad Irish, Balcony. Thu: Balcony. Fri: Bad Irish, Balcony. Sat: Balcony, Dirty Little Roddy’s, Terrapin Station. Mon: Bad Irish, Balcony. Tue: Balcony. KARAOKE—Wed: 44 Club, Dirty Little Roddy’s, Ha’Penny, Overland, Savvy’s, Sin, Terry’s. Thu: 44 Club, Hannah’s, Overland, The Plank, Quarter Barrel, Savvy’s, Shorty’s, Terry’s. Fri: 44 Club, Nuthouse, Overland, Savvy’s, Sunshine Lounge, Terry’s. Sat: 44 Club, Crickets, Hooligans, Savvy’s, Terry’s. Sun: 44 Club, Bad Irish, Balcony, Liquid, Overland, Ranch Club, Savvy’s, Terry’s. Mon: 44 Club. Tue: 44 Club, Crickets, Lucky Dog, Overland, Savvy’s, Shorty’s, Terry’s. OPEN MICS—Wed: Donnie Mac’s, The Plank. Thu: O’Michael’s. Fri: Rembrandt’s. Sun: Bouquet. Mon: Terrapin Station, Pengilly’s, Library Coffeehouse. Tue: Grainey’s. For the week’s complete schedule of music listings, visit boiseweekly.com.

SPUD MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe

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NEWS/ARTS ARTS/VISUAL

ARTSY CARTOGRAPHY While Google Earth 5.0 can take you deep into the ocean to explore the Mariana Trench and way out to the moon to poke around at Apollo landing sites, there’s one thing it can’t do: show you the location of all the public art in Idaho. Luckily, Idaho Commission on the Arts has shouldered that task. ICA used Google Earth to create an interactive online map pinpointing hundreds of pieces of public art scattered all across Idaho. You can browse by artist name, location, media or word, and each listing features the piece’s location, a detailed description of the work and, oftentimes, a photo. From Robert Berks’ free-standing bronze bust at the Hemingway Memorial in Ketchum to Jerry Beebe’s untitled wood sculpture of raccoons on a tree stump in Coeur d’Alene’s City Park, you can now explore all the little treasures that inspire passersby throughout the Gem State at arts.idaho.gov. Speaking of Idaho Commission on the Arts, the state agency is holding its quarterly meeting on Friday, May 14, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Owyhee Plaza Hotel’s Gallery Room. The discussion will meander from the executive director’s report, to grant and award panel recommendations, to planning for the 2010 Governor’s Awards in the Arts. If you’ve got something to get off your chest, public comments will be taken at 9:45 a.m. and 4 p.m. This is our last chance to remind you: Art Source Gallery is taking submissions for its ninth annual Juried Show. Artists in all mediums except video and crafts are encouraged to enter up to three original pieces completed within the last three years by Saturday, May 15. All three-dimensional works have a 75-pound weight limit. Boise State professor and artist John Taye will be this year’s juror, and awards totaling $1,000 will be handed out for best-of-show and runners-up. For more information, contact Barbara Louise Bowling at 208-3360767 or bbowling@cableone.net. In lend-a-helping-hand land, local non-profit Artisans4Hope, which provides sewing classes and resources for refugees, is in need of the following crafty items: scissors, good quality thread, sewing machine needles, knitting and crocheting needles, wool yarn for felting, batting, stuffing (for pillows), polar fleece, cording, D rings and transparent plastic storage boxes. For more information, e-mail info@artisans4hope.org or call 208-345-6716. —Tara Morgan

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ICA maps out Idaho’s public art.

IDAHO’S NEW GEM OF A THEATER Idaho Artists Collective plans to perform for all of Idaho AMY ATKINS In the garage of a mini Meridian McMansion, Bobby jumps up from his recliner, puts on a tinfoil cap—to prevent his thoughts from being read—and, in his circuitous way, tries to explain to his estranged brother Jack about the trial, the judge, the prosecuGary Winterholler and Cammie Pavesic on the set of their troubling new play On An Average Day. tor and the jury. “They’re idiots and freaks” Bobby says. professional theater there. Plans right now “But what did you do?” Jack asks, irrita- An Average Day. include performances in Sandpoint, McCall, Last year, IAC planned to be involved tion and resignation registering on his face. Lewiston, Bonners Ferry and Kuna’s new with the Idaho Meth Project. The theater Eventually, as Jack and Bobby down 800-seat performing arts center. several bottles of beer and oodles booze, we company would have traveled to Idaho To keep costs down, Winterholler and schools performing educational plays but discover that Bobby tried to kill someone. Pavesic plan to continue performing smallfunding didn’t come through. But the idea We also discover that while Jack seems like cast plays like On An Average Day with a of a touring theater company appealed to the normal one in this situation, he is as mission in mind: to present socially relevant Winterholler and Pavesic, as did the idea mentally unstable as his brother. There will theater. of creating a company that used fewer soon be a vicious, frightening fist fight. Michael Faison, the executive director of resources than a typical theater company, The above scene, though portrayed by Idaho Commission on the Arts, applauds thereby possibly making a little money. real people, is not real life. It is from Act IAC’s entrepreneurial spirit, but suggests “[IAC] is a for-profit theater company,” 1 of the play On An Average Day by John that touring in markets where a company Winterholler said. Kolvenbach. Bobby is played by local actor is not established is tough enough and that Pavesic interjected, laughing, “That’s an Jared Hallock and Jack is played by local taking a production with difficult subject actor Gary Winterholler, who is also one of oxymoron.” matter will make it harder. She wasn’t totally joking. During their the co-founders of Idaho Artists Collective, “I applaud [them] for wanting to be soyears in theater, they paid rent on spaces, the company putting on this production. cially relevant,” Faison said. “But these are paid managers, paid for costumes, paid They perform on May 13-15 at the El Kotough times all over. I wonder how often musicians, paid actors. rah Shrine. IAC will use this production to right now, people want to be brought down “What we learned is that instead of protest out its new model as a touring theater with a dark message, even if it’s one that ducing eight shows in a year in one place, company. has great socially redeeming value to it.” we could do one show in eight places,” Winterholler and his wife Cammie Faison said part of the reason a company Pavesic said. That way, we don’t have to Pavesic—who is the director of On An like Idaho Shakespeare Festival is so sucAverage Day—have been involved in scores pay rent. And we don’t have to pay rent cessful is that Mark Hofflund and Charlie when we’re dark [off season].” of local films and theater productions for And what Winterholler and Pavesic hope Fee know their market and understand decades. Both graduates of the National the importance of balance: audiences are will make IAC stand out from local theater Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, willing to accept and see more challenging groups is that they won’t be solely local. Winterholler and Pavesic have always been work as long as classic, well-known and/ “Our hook is interested in furtheror more uplifting pieces are part of the that we’re the only ing local theater. In contemporary touring repertoire, too. Boise, Winterholler May 13-15, 7 p.m., $12. Winterholler and Pavesic’s faces are company,” WinterFor more information, visit idahoactors.org. was the co-founder familiar in Boise-based theater and film but holler said. of and both were EL KORAH SHRINE don’t yet have that kind of built-in audiSo they are taking involved with the 1118 W. Idaho St. 208-344-4121 the show on the road, ence in those “underserved” areas. Couple family friendly Prairie that with the dark subject matter of On An going to places that Dog Playhouse. Average Day, and they may have a difficult may not often see The couple will road ahead of them. plays, especially provocative ones like On continue their work with children’s theater But what Winterholler and Pavesic also An Average Day. via a non-profit arm of IAC that will offer “We are an Idaho company and we want get with IAC is an opportunity to take children’s education and entertainment. IAC theater into areas of the state that might to serve—I don’t know, call it ‘the underwill also provide training and networking not otherwise see it. They get a sense of served areas,’” Winterholler said. “There for other area actors. But Winterholler and are communities that don’t have any type of freedom and they get to travel, WinterholPavesic really set their sights on producing ler said. theater, not even remotely.” contemporary plays that focus on social “It’s a way to go visit the state and get The idea is to take not just theater into issues—like the mental illness, alcoholism paid,” he added. those “artistically dry areas” but to take and family dysfunction that permeate On WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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NOT HIS STRONGEST SUIT Not even Robert Downey Jr. can put a shine on dull Iron Man 2 GEORGE PRENTICE Given enough oxygen, water and time, any mass of iron will rust and eventually crumble. Given a little more than two hours, Iron Man 2 crumbles under the weight of a huge production budget ... and Scarlett Johansson. That is by no means a comment on Be careful if Ivan Vanko/Whiplash (Mickey Rourke) leans in for a kiss, that toothpick could put your eye out. Johansson’s weight—for goodness sake, you can practically count her ribs when she slips forest of them in two hours. movie season and is built to roust the into a skintight body suit. But somebody Watching Downey as Tony Stark/Iron fanboys from their long winter hibernation. please explain her presence in major studio Man mug for the camera is too reminiscent But the Batman, Spiderman and X-Men releases. Apart from her ability to not blink franchises all showed significant strength in of his lesser work (The Pickup Artist, Air for what seems like eternity, she just looks bored. Johansson plays Tony Stark’s (Robert their sequels. Ironman 2 simply offers more: America). There’s no excuse. We’ve seen how funny he can be (Tropic Thunder) and more eye candy, more CGI, more villains. Downey Jr.) new personal assistant, Natalie how much complexity he can bring to even Sam Rockwell, who plays Justin HamRushman, and it’s not giving too much away an average movie (The Soloist). mer, is usually spot on, but in this goby saying that her character has at least Director Jon Favreau spends a little too ’round, he just works three personas. It’s much time in front of the camera as Tony the edges and never too bad not one of Stark’s gofer Happy Hogan, and not enough truly commits to his them is the least bit IRON MAN 2 (PG-13) time with screenwriter Justin Theroux. The role as an ambitious interesting. Gwyneth Directed by Jon Favreau Iron Man 2 script includes some questionwar profiteer. Don Paltrow returns as Starring Robert Downey Jr., Mickey Rourke, able references to the effectiveness of the Cheadle, who porPepper Potts, Stark’s Gwyneth Paltrow U.S. military. And they pilfer one story line trays James Rhodes, former aide and now Now playing at Edwards 9 and Edwards 22 directly from Superman II: When Downey’s is undoubtedly one CEO of his compaStark revisits some filmed comments from of the finest screen ny, Stark Industries. his late father, Howard Stark (John Slatactors, but he may Paltrow, who hasn’t tery), it’s awfully similar to when Superman not be keeping Iron Man 2 on his resume given a good performance since ... well, (Christopher Reeve) revisits comments from for long. And what is Samuel L. Jackson hmmm ... registers yet another performance his father, Jor-El (Marlon Brando). doing here? About two reels in, Jackson that will probably result in the Motion PicOK, the fights are impressive, as are the ture Academy recalling her Oscar. Johansson appears as covert agent Nick Fury for no car crashes—they pile up more cars than a and Paltrow comprise a critical element to a discernible good reason. And then there’s Toyota recall. But this isn’t a video game. superhero action flick: eye candy. But would Mickey Rourke as villain Ivan Vanko with Favreau and his crew spent a lot of money a faux-Russian accent so overblown, he it kill them to at least register a pulse? They on the special effects for Iron Man 2. Too are in a very tight race to be crowned queen makes Bullwinkle’s Boris and Natasha bad they wasted their best effect: Downey’s sound authentic. And here’s a quick stock of Hollywood adequacy. talent. tip: invest in toothpicks—Rourke chews a Iron Man 2 jumpstarts the summer

SCREEN/LISTINGS Special Screenings BANDS OF 208—Local filmmaker Clarke Howell chronicles the thriving music scene in Boise with this documentary about the bands of the 208 zip code. Treasure Valley acts Vagerfly, Scarf, Gorilla Thunder, Sword of a Bad Speller and more are featured in this three-part film. Wednesday, May 19, 8 p.m. $3. Neurolux, 113 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, www.neurolux.com.

A SNAPSHOT OF THE PAST—New documentary presented by locals Peppershock Media, tells the story of the world famous Hagerman Fossil Beds and the legendary Hagerman Horse, a unique species which dates back to 3.5 million years ago. Wednesday, May 19, 7:30 p.m. $6. Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, www.theﬂicksboise.com.

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opening LETTERS TO JULIET—Dear John’s Amanda Seyfried stars in this romantic comedy about an American’s journey to Verona, the home of Shakespeare’s Juliet Capulet. When Seyfried begins to answer letters written to Romeo’s obsession, she gets entangled in the lifelong search for a long lost love. (PG) Flicks ROBIN HOOD—The Gladiator is back. Yet this time

Russell Crowe stars as the legendary Robin Hood in his third pairing with director Ridley Scott. In 12th century England, Sir Robin Longstride (Crowe) must rescue his village from the nasty Sheriff of Nottingham (Matthew Macfayden) while wooing the widowed Lady Marian (Cate Blanchett). (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF—Bella Swan breaks free of her disturbing vampiric obsession long enough to portray a teenage runaway in

this post-Hurricane-KatrinaLouisiana-based ﬁlm. Kristen Stewart stars alongside a bristled William Hurt whose ex-convict character Brett Hanson attempts to reunite with lost love, May (Maria Bello, A History of Violence). Along the way he encounters fellow outcasts Stewart and the geeky Gordy (Eddie Redmayne, The Other Boleyn Girl). This independent drama is loosely based on a short story by journalism legend Pete Hamil. (PG-13) Flicks

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SCREEN/LISTINGS continuing A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET—Remake of Wes Craven’s classic. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22

WEDNESDAY, MAY 12-TUESDAY, MAY 18

ALICE IN WONDERLAND—(PG) Edwards 22

A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET—

BABIES—Documentary following the ﬁrst year in the life of four different babies being raised in different parts in the world in very different ways. (PG) Flicks

ALICE IN WONDERLAND—

THE BACK-UP PLAN—Jennifer Lopez is back as the single and baby-hungry Zoe, who is artificially inseminated with a friend’s sperm. Dating complications arise when a pregnant Zoe meets Stan (Alex O’Loughlin). (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE BOUNTY HUNTER—(PG-13) Edwards 22 CITY ISLAND—An offbeat comedy about a Bronx family with everything to hide. Corrections officer Vince (Andy Garcia) secretly takes an acting class, but his wife, Joyce (Julianna Margulies) thinks he is having an affair. The introduction of Vince’s ex-con son throws the family into more chaos. (PG-13) Flicks CLASH OF THE TITANS—(R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 DATE NIGHT—(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 DEATH AT A FUNERAL—(R) Edwards 22 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID—(PG) Edwards 22 FURRY VENGEANCE—Animals attack when a real estate developer (Brendan Fraser) attempts to build a housing development in a forest. A construction site turns into a battlefield in this animated comedy from Just Friends director Roger Kumble. (G) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO—A Swedish film revolving around the disappearance of the young Harriet Vanger, whose uncle is convinced she was murdered by someone in his wealthy and eccentric family. (R) Flicks HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON—(PG) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 IRON MAN 2—See Screen, Page 33. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22, Edwards IMAX THE JONESES—David Duchovny and Demi Moore play marketing agents, who promote products by going undercover as the family everyone wants to be in order to show them off. (R) Flicks KICK ASS—McLovin and Nic Cage team up to fight crime, despite not actually having any powers. (R) Edwards 22 THE LAST SONG—(PG) Edwards 22 THE LOSERS—Based on the DC Comics series. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 OCEANS—Pierce Brosnan narrates this Disneynature film. (G) Edwards 22 TERRIBLY HAPPY—A city cop is reassigned to a rural border town for lighter duty, but quickly finds his hands full with local roustabouts who prefer vigilante justice. Compared to films by the Coen Brothers. In Danish with English subtitles. (NR) Flicks

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SCREEN/MOVIE TIMES Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:20 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:15, 12:45, 1:15, 2:35, 3, 3:35, 5:05, 5:35, 6, 7:15, 7:45, 8:15, 9:35, 10, 10:35

BABIES—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:55, 3:45, 6:35, 9

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

THE BACK UP PLAN— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:50 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25 BOUNTY HUNTER—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:15 a.m., 1:50, 4:35, 7:25, 10:10

CITY ISLAND— Flicks: W-Th: 4:55, 7:05, 9:15; F-Su: 12:35, 2:45, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15; M-Tu: 4:55, 7:05, 9:15 THE CLASH OF THE TITANS— Edwards 9: W-Th: 7:10, 10:45 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 7:55, 10:25 THE CLASH OF THE TITANS 3D— DATE NIGHT—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 9:45

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:10, 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:05, 2:15, 4:45, 7, 9:15

DEATH AT A FUNEREAL—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:40, 2:55, 5:15, 7:50, 10:05

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:35 a.m., 1:55, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10

FURRY VENGEANCE— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:15, 4:10 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:50 a.m., 2:05, 4:15, 6:50, 9:05 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO—

Flicks: W-Th: 4:15, 8:55; F-Su: 2:20, 7:20; M-Tu: 7:20

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:15 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:05, 3:50, 6:25, 8:55

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON 3D—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:55 a.m., 2:20, 4:40, 7:20

IRON MAN 2—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1, 1:30, 2, 4, 4:30, 5, 7, 7:30, 8, 10, 10:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 1:30, 2, 2:30, 3:30, 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6:30, 7:30, 8, 8:30, 9:30, 10:30

IRON MAN 2 IMAX—

Edwards 22: F-Tu: 10 a.m., 1, 4, 7, 10

THE JONESES— KICK ASS—

Flicks: W-Th: 5:10, 7:10, 9:10 Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:25 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20

THE LAST SONG—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 11:05 a.m., 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:40

LETTERS TO JULIET— Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10 Edwards 22: F-Tu: 11:40 a.m., 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 THE LOSERS— OCEANS—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:40 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12, 2:25, 5:10, 7:40, 9:55

Edwards 22: W-Th: 10 a.m., 12:35, 2:50, 4:55, 7:10, 9:20

ROBIN HOOD—

Edwards 9: F-Tu: 12:01 a.m., 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Edwards 22: F-Tu: 12:01 a.m., 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40

TERRIBLY HAPPY—

Flicks: W-Th: 7; F-Su: 12:30, 5:10; M-Tu: 5:10

YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF—

Flicks: F-Su: 12:45, 2:50, 5, 7:10, 9:20; M-Tu: 5, 7:10, 9:20

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

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FUTURE-BIKE How the fun will ﬁt between your legs in years to come JOSH GROSS

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In the industrial design lab at Boise State, amid carcasses of gliders strewn about a wind tunnel and the deafening clangs of a machine testing the tensile strength of metal housing supports, ﬁve students spent hundreds of hours during the better part of this school year crafting the future. They were working on their entry for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Human Powered Vehicle Competition, a combination design contest and 65-kilometer race being held at California State University-Northridge. Their entry, a tricycle that leans with turns to keep it from tipping over on corners—it’s known as the Bronco Warhawk—is part of a larger re-envisioning of the bicycle in the wake of the automotive industry’s failure to move past petroleum. So does that mean we’re all going to be pedaling domed four-seaters to work? Potentially. “Everybody has wild ideas. It’s fun to see if they’ll work,” said Joseph Hawkes, a 35-year-old Boise State student and Micron employee. Much of the Boise State team’s design was copied from ideas they’d seen online, but the trike features a unique all-custom front hub that allows a rider of any height to ride comfortably with little adjustment, a plus because everyone on the team— short and tall—has to ride for a section of the endurance race. Though bonus points are awarded for utility, Hawkes said the primary goal is speed. “It’s a challenge. We want 50 mph out of this thing.” “I’m actually kind of scared to take it to 50 mph,” said Bobby Marturello, another member of the team, aged 22. “That’s really fast.” Though some entries employ domes to decrease drag, Hawkes said there wasn’t time for anything that fancy. With only two semesters instead of years to perfect the design, the major hurdle was keeping the trike’s weight down. Though concept vehicles like those constructed for the competition are generally bold, what really matters when considering the future of the bicycle is what’s produced for mass usage. “When people think about the way they use a bike, about how much a bike is supposed to cost, there’s a lot of preconceived notions,” said Steve Baumann, an industrial design director for Wisconsin-based Trek, one of the nation’s premier bicycle manufacturers. “If we threw out something that was WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

enclosed front-mounted cargo-pod that can fit two kids and detach as a stroller, leaving the bike fully rideable. “Historically, we’ve focused on enthusiasts, or for competition,” said Baumann. “Increasingly, the way that everybody else uses a bike has become more and more important.” Baumann isn’t kidding. Google “concept bicycle,” and you’ll find everything from amphibious spheres and four-wheeled recumbents with neon ground effects to monstrosities that look like props from the Mad Max films. Spokeless wheels. Chainless cranks. The ideas are endless, but often the most forward-thinking concepts are never slated for mass production. “The pod is still an out-there concept, like a flying car was when I was a kid,” said Baumann. “The most exciting thing on the horizon I see is electric assist,” in which electric motors work in tandem with a bike’s pedals. Baumann said Trek is now selling just as many e-bikes in the Netherlands as they are standards. But Travis is quick to point out that availability of product isn’t the only barrier to bicycle development; it’s also tied to the available infrastructure. “Boise has good trails, so there’s a lot of interest in mountain bikes, and the Greenbelt is great, so there’s a lot of cruisers,” he said. “But most people, it’s hard to get past the fact that a commute is somewhat death-defying. Bike laws may say three feet to pass, but it could end up being six inches. Boise State Bronco Warhawk on the war path with pilot John Pasley. The trike topped out at 22 mph in testing. There is just no way to enforce it. If you want people to load up the kids and their groceries, we need more than just a few bike lanes. We need to the rising price of oil, he’s seen a shift toward start thinking about segregated roadways.” bicycles that can be used to carry kids or Travis said he only gets about one customer cargo, tasks traditionally relegated to cars. a week interested in a cargo or family bicycle, Major companies like Specialized, Kona and a marked increase from several years ago. Surly are releasing slick-looking bikes with It doesn’t look like Boise State’s trike will heavy-duty baskets or extended rear racks be catching on just yet either. In testing, the that can carry a virtual elephant train of chiltrike topped out at 22 mph and was only able dren or groceries. The Gary Fisher Ranchero, to make 17 mph in the competition because manufactured by Trek, is a tandem with an of the curves and inclines on the course. extended cargo rack and saddlebags. German Hawkes said they could hit 30 mph with manufacturer Yuba has released the $900 the right rider. He’d previously admitted to Mundo, which can carry three passengers or starting training only a few weeks before the 440 pounds of cargo. competition. And that’s nothing compared to some of “Honestly, I haven’t been on a bike in 15 the farther reaching designs catching on in years,” laughed Hawkes. “I drive a threemore bicycle-friendly communities. quarter-ton truck.” The European Trio-Bike has a fully enclosed, or for four people, dealers may or may not even accept it. And even if they did, dealers want turnover in 30 days.” But what turns over in 30 days is changing. Josh Travis, assistant manager of George’s Cycles in downtown Boise, said that with

An artist’s rendering of the wave maker from a bird’s perspective.

WHITEWATER PARK SEEKS BIG TICKET DONORS Work crews are putting in riprap this month to shore up the north side of the Boise River at Quinn’s Pond, along the 400-foot section of the Ray Neef MD River Recreation Park that will eventually house the park’s big wave. The plan is to replace the Thurman-Mill diversion dam—known to boaters as the once-in-a-while 36th Street Wave—with a high tech inflatable bladder that will provide better flow control. Along the new dam will sit two Wave Shapers, which funnel the river flow over the dam into a 400-foot runout to the soon-to-be-built 36th Street pedestrian and bike bridge connecting Boise to Garden City. “There’s two or three optimal settings at a given river flow, and neither one of those settings is as difficult as it could be,” said Rick McLaughlin of the McLaughlin Whitewater Design Group, the firm that designed the park. The Neef River Park will have a Wave Shaper II, which operates during higher flows, and a Wave Shaper III, which will provide nearly year-round whitewater opportunities. Boaters will have dedicated portage paths back to the head of the wave so as not to impact Greenbelt users, said Boise Parks Superintendent Tom Governale. A second phase of the wave park will extend downriver another 1,400 to 1,500 feet, and will likely be engineered with rocks, Governale said, though plans for the second stage are still on the drawing board. While the project has garnered some major donations—including $750,000 from the City of Boise and $1 million from the Neef family—Friends of the Park, a group formed to raise funds for the $6.7-million project, is working on a major donor campaign for the remainder of the funds. The group has secured more than $2 million so far, said Beth Markley of the Friends group, and needs another $1.25 million to complete the first phase. Boise Parks and Rec is overseeing design of the Neef River Park through several contractors. Governale said they can’t work on the river features this summer because of the irrigation season. But several other projects adjacent to the park are under way as well, including the 36th Street bridge, set to break ground this summer. The footbridge—funded with a $550,000 federal grant secured by Garden City—will likely be set in August, Governale said. Plans for the 57-acre Esther Simplot Park, in which the River Park will be based, are also progressing, though delayed by the need for a floodplain study, Governale said. —Nathaniel Hoffman

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13TH ANNUAL BOISE TO IDAHO CITY MTB TOUR—Formerly Cycle Idaho. June 15-19. $75-$105. Fort Boise Park. www.wildrockiesracing.com. BLUE CRUISE—15, 32 or 64 miles. May 22, 8 a.m. $35. Vera C. O’Leary Junior High, Twin Falls. www.bluecruiseidaho.com. CASCADE-WARM LAKE 3 SUMMIT CHALLENGE— July 31. $45-$65. www.sportsbaseonline.com. CYCLE FOR INDEPENDENCE—Pre-register until May 17. May 22. $20-$35. Riverglen Junior High. www. tvcblindidaho.org. DIRTY AND PINK 5—June 5, 2 p.m. $10. Ann Morrison Park. dirtyandpinkalleycat.blogspot. com. FOURTH ANNUAL WEISER RIVER TRAIL RIDE—Register online at www.bluecirclesports. com. June 5. $35. Hornet Creek Road and the Weiser River Trail junction in Council.

Events & Classes BASIC BIKE RACING SKILLS CLINICS—May 16-18, 6:30 p.m. $10. Expo Idaho. www. expoidaho.com. NINTH ANNUAL TOUR DE FAT—Aug. 21, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park. www. newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat. SWIMBA BASIC MAINTENANCE AND TRAILSIDE REPAIR—June 12, July 10, Aug. 14, Sept. 11 and Oct. 9. 4-6 p.m. Foothills Learning Center. www.swimba. org.

Recurring BOMBB SQUAD—Boise OffRoad Mountain Bike Babes. Schedule varies. FREE, www. groups.yahoo.com/group/ BOMBB. CYCLOCROSS TUESDAY NIGHT TRAINING RIDES—Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. FREE, Camel’s Back Park, 1200 W. Heron St., Boise. idahocyclocross.com. DONNIE MAC DUMP LOOP RIDE—Wednesdays, 6:30 p.m. FREE. Donnie Mac’s Trailer Park Cuisine. www.teamexergy.com. LOST RIVER CYCLING NO HOST SUNDAY ROAD RIDE— Sundays. 11 a.m. FREE. Big City Coffee, 1416 Grove St. www. lostrivercycling.org. TREASURE VALLEY CYCLING ALLIANCE—Third Monday of each month at the Flicks. 7:30 p.m. www.biketreasurevalley.org. TUESDAY NIGHT TRAINING RIDES—Tuesdays, 6:20 p.m. FREE. George’s Cycles, 251 E. Front St. www.georgescycles. com. WOMEN’S SHOP RIDES— Thursdays, 6 p.m. FREE. George’s Cycles, 251 E. Front St. www.georgescycles.com. These are just a few of the state’s cycling races and events. Visit boiseweekly.com for more.

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GOTTA RIDE THE LOON LAKE LOOP I always feel an extra shot of adrenaline the morning before mountain biking to Loon Lake near McCall. It’s a super fun, 10.5-mile ride from Chinook Campground that takes you to a gorgeous high mountain lake, where you may see moose, loons or other wildlife. That’s part of what gets me pumped up. But the other part is looking forward to riding numerous challenging obstacles on singletrack tread (think maneuvering around rocks and roots), anticipating fast and smooth downhill sections that put the fun meter into the red zone, and riding the loop with good friends. The Loon Lake Loop is an advanced ride that can be conquered by strong intermediate riders. It is what I’d call an “Idaho classic,” comparable to other Idaho classics such as the Fisher-Williams Loop near Stanley. To get there, go north from McCall on Warren Wagon Road about 30 miles on mostly paved road. You go past the junction to Burgdorf Hot Springs and then watch for a sign for Chinook Campground on your right. Park by the trailhead where a bridge crosses the Secesh River. There is a fair bit of debate about which way to ride the Loon Lake Loop. Some people like to start by riding downhill along the Secesh River because it’s easier to navigate the rocks and roots. But then you have to climb (and hike-a-bike) up a really steep hill to reach Loon Lake. I prefer to do the ride in the opposite direction to avoid the hike-a-bike section. You cross the bridge and ride overland to Willow Basket Trail, and bob up and down to Loon Lake, before zooming downhill to the Secesh River and then riding back to the campground on a slightly uphill cant along the beautiful salmon-bearing stream. The ride usually takes about around three hours, which allows time for a leisurely lunch at Loon Lake, where you also can go swimming or just hang out and enjoy the stupendous postcard view of the lake framed by two mountain peaks on the opposite shore. The lake is quite shallow in the north end, meaning it warms up much quicker than deeper lakes. There also is an old bomber crash site you can visit—it’s a great survival story. Be sure to watch out for other folks on the trail—it’s a popular spot. You may encounter backpackers, day hikers, mushroom pickers, motorcycles or horseback riders. Keep your speed down around blind corners and be sure to yield to other trail users. So when you plan a trip to McCall this summer, gear up for riding the Loon Lake Loop. Expert riders will want to ride the longer version of this ride, starting at Ruby Meadows. —Steve Stuebner After logging 80 of the best mountain bike trails throughout Idaho for the Falcon Guide Mountain Biking Idaho, Boise-based author Steve Stuebner knows the best rides in the state. The Loon Lake Loop is featured in the all-new third edition of Mountain Biking in McCall, which was just released on May 1. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

FOOD/NEWS LEILA R AM ELLA- R ADER

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

RED ROOM TAVERN

LAU RIE PEARMAN

Inside Red Room Tavern, with its underground dance-club-esque Blink and you might’ve missed the old Red Room. Surrounded by cherry colored walls and chrome-and-black furniture is a crazy menu the chaos of Sixth and Main streets, the gasp of a dive bar pulsed with the words “NINJA BBQ” across the front. It includes painstakwith pop punk and the chatter of PBR-faced fixie riders. Known for ingly hand-rubbed, slow-cooked meats at one end, sushi at the other its stronger-than-shit drinks in red plastic tumblers and its pervasive and a melange of items in between, such as chocolate ganache cake, cloud of smoke, the old Red Room was not for the uninitiated. cheddar/Swiss/parm cheese and mac or an artichoke/pesto gruyere In September 2009, the Red Room picked up its petticoats and dip. Just as I was feeling unable to settle on something, I saw a big, swapped spots with its much larger upscale sister, Pair. Though the bold, black box announcing “$1.95 HAPPY HOURS!” velour kitsch and divey vibe remains, the place is an entirely differFrom 3-6 p.m., seven days, if you dine in, don’t substitute and order ent beast. Not only does the new Red Room Tavern feature a full a cocktail, you can scoop up one, two or all of the eight items listed for menu—with a selection that wanders from greasy bar food to sushi to $1.95: Ninja BBQ roll, Dragonslayer sushi roll, Northender roll, mesbarbecue—the joint also features grit-your-teeth-loud live music and quite wings, pulled a not-too-shabby pork slider, temhappy hour. pura bacon strip— On a recent afterwhat?—hummus and work jaunt, I decided pita, and tempura to put that happy pickle chips—what hour to the test—$5 the what? My happyspecialty cocktails hour date ordered a and a selection of margarita ($5), so we small plates for qualified for entrance $1.95. I went with into the “under two the Dragonslayer bills a dish” club. I sushi roll, tempuraordered one of each battered pickle chips except for hummus and a strawberry (I recently overdid it blonde mojito. Not and have a hummus generally a fan of any hangover). drink preceded by Before the marg the words “strawwas half gone, our berry blonde,” I was little round table hesitant to follow my was covered by a server’s suggestion. strange combination But, man, am I glad of cold, spicy sushi I did. The drink was and greasy, fried strong, in a familiar finger foods. We each way, and the house snagged a long strip vodka was surprisand bit into the fried bacon. Chewy slices covered in ingly not sweet and flecked with fresh basil. RED ROOM TAVERN 601 W. Main St. slightly sweet dough—waffle marks and dripping oil The sushi—four pieces of tightly rolled ahi, jalapeno 208-343-7034 giving away the deep-fryer cooking method—were a and cucumber topped with a dollop of mango aioli Open Mon.-Fri., 3 p.m.-late; weird and wonderful mix and tasted like a bacon doand sriracha—was passable but outshined by its own Sat.-Sun., 10 a.m.-late nut. If Red Room marketed them as “bacon beignets” presentation. Arriving on a heavy slab of marble with and sold them by the half-dozen, they’d make a fortune. thick, house-made hunks of pickled ginger, the four bites The tightly rolled Dragonslayer’s jalapeno, scallions cowered amidst their accoutrements. The tempura-fried and sriracha aioli snuck up on us like black-clad fighters, while the pickle chips, though greasy, made for excellent bar grub. Northender roll was an unremarkable mix of avo, cream cheese, carOn a Saturday afternoon, I returned to Red Room Tavern to check rot and cucumber. But the Ninja BBQ roll gave us pause. Tempuramyself into the Betty Ford Recovery Brunch. Staking out a sunny patio dipped, seaweed-wrapped pulled pork, coleslaw and a crispy yam table, a handful of pals and I began our quest to find the bottom of the fry topped with a dot of wasabi had a less confusing flavor than I bottomless mimosas ($6). On the recommendation of our super attenexpected although the sapor of seaweed and honeyed barbecue sauce tive (read: heavy-handed with the mimosa pitcher) server, I decided to would have been stronger without the batter. share an order of the black bean huevos ($8) and the smoked salmon Our sociable, solicitous server told us that the deep-fried dill platter ($9). While the salmon platter was straightforward—toasted plate hit the menu about two months ago and quickly became a very bagel, rolls of fresh lox, a smear of dill cream cheese, tomatoes, capers, popular item. It will be with me, too. Last summer, I ordered a deeponions and lemon wedges—the black bean huevos stole the show. fried pickle at the fair. A giant whole kosher covered in painfully Served on a pile of thick homemade tortilla chips, the black beans hard cornmeal was impossible to bite through; the chunks that fell were topped with a couple of sunny-side-up eggs, fresh tomato, onions to the ground revealed a hot, mushy mess inside. But Red Room’s and sour cream. The dish was awesome, but avocado and goat cheese dilly slices were covered in the same soft tempura coating and were would’ve ratcheted its awesomeness level up even higher. a little crunchy, a little springy and a lot delicious. We were knuckleThough I would’ve never imagined the old, hole-in-the-wall Red deep in barbecue sauce from the heavenly pork slider and mesquite Room serving up a delightful sunshine-drenched brunch, it’s a change wings before we admitted defeat and threw our orange-spotted paper I’m getting used to. As our server topped off our mimosas for the whonapkins down. knows-how-many-th time and a tattooed dude lit up a cigarette at the Red Room’s menu is a study in randomness and pleasant surnext table, I realized things haven’t changed all that much. The vibe is prises. If you like staid and stuffy, don’t go there. still charmingly sleazy, and the drinks are strong and oh-so ample. —Amy Atkins loves a little disorder in her orders. WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

—Tara Morgan has hit rock bottomless mimosa.

One giant jalapeno cheese sausage at Eddie’s Dogs

SHEBOYGAN. SAY THAT THREE TIMES FAST. Last week we promised news of a new downtown restaurant, and in the last seven days the news about this particular restaurant has gotten even better. Capitol Club opened quietly in April in the first floor of the Adelmann building on the corner of Capitol and Idaho in the former Cool Hand Luke’s space (whose sign is still, unfortunately, affixed to the building). Last week, the staff there unwittingly waited on two pretty judgmental eaters, myself and the godfather of food in Boise (who shall go unnamed but here’s your hint: Food News recently mentioned his new weekly Boise State Radio segment). I took note of one important detail about the place: The staff is eager to please. The menu is standard hot lunch fare with burgers and chicken sands, a BLT and chicken strips, a lone salad (chicken and Caesar), pizza and a chili dog. But if nothing on the menu really strikes your fancy, tell ’em what you want and if they have the fixins, they’ll throw it together. No crankiness about substitutions, no “sorry we can’t make you a chili burger even though we have chili and burgers because it’s not on the menu.” And if you’re on a budget, here are two good pieces of news: first, Capitol Club serves a $5 rotating lunch special every day, and second, Capitol Club is the newest addition to the Boise Weekly card. 622 W. Idaho St., 208-336-2582. Southeast Boise also has a new restaurant, but you might want to snag a to-go menu on your first visit so that you can study up and be better prepared for your second visit. Eddie’s Dogs serves a pretty simple menu of dogs, sausages and burgers, but it’s not that simplistic. Eight different kinds of dogs, four kinds of sausage (like the tonguetwisting “bratwurst sheboygan”) and more than three dozen toppings, including curiosities like dried cranberries and pine nuts. You could eat three meals a day at Eddie’s and literally not eat the same thing for the next year. 2325 Apple St., 208-331-DOGS, eddiesdogs.com. In news of closures, Japanese restaurant Osaka on Eighth Street recently met its maker. A few doors up from Osaka’s now shuttered doors, something new this way comes. Food News has unconfirmed reports about what’s going in the former Opa and Mesa Taqueria spots. Check in next week. And finally, this weekend kicks off the outdoor food festival season starting with the Russian Food Festival on Friday and Saturday. See Picks on Pages 16-17 for details on that, as well as May Martini Month, which is replacing the annual Martini Mix-Off this year. —Rachael Daigle

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FOOD/DINING Downtown + Fringe ADDIE’S—The language of breakfast is spoken here. You’ve never seen so many meats followed by “& Eggs” on one menu. Come early to beat the rush for Boise’s best gravy. 510 W. Main St., 208-338-1198. $ SU OM . ALIA’S COFFEEHOUSE—Freshmade bagels daily for breakfast and lunch, the best looking dessert case in town with chocolate chip cookie dough bars, and for those who must, a selection of salads.. 908 W. Main St., 208-338-1299. $ SU . ALI BABA—Middle Eastern cuisine and all the fun and flavor that comes with it. 111 S Broadway Ave., 208-343-4536. SU . $-$$$ ANGELL’S—Upscale dining in a casual and relaxed atmosphere. Featuring such tasty delights as Idaho Trout and Crab, Rosemary and Juniper Lamb Rack and Halibut Oscar. 909 Main St., 208-342-4900. $$-$$$ RES SU OM. ASIAGO’S—Innovative Italian pastas, salads, sandwiches, soups and seasonal specials served amidst rustic Italian countryside decor. 1002 W. Main St., 208-336-5552. $$-$$$ SU OM. BAR GERNIKA—Basque favorites in a dark and cozy little bar. Croquettas, chorizo, salomo, paella and a simple cheese plates that is one of the most popular in town. Don’t forget Beef Tongue Saturday. 202 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-344-2175. $ OM. BARDENAY—The atmospheric, cavernous interior (with visible distillery) and huge patio is the place to eat, drink and be seen downtown. 610 Grove St., 208-426-0538. $-$$ SU OM. THE BASQUE MARKET—The market’s shelves are stocked with Basque food and wine (and often, you’ll find take-and-bake croquettas in the cooler), but there’s also a small cafe space for lunch. A list of sandwiches on the market’s freshmade baguette (we here at BW crave the turkey) all come with a side and if you’re lucky, a cookie. 608 W. Grove St., 208-433-1208. $ OM . BERRYHILL & CO. RESTAURANT AND WINE BAR—Whether you’re looking for a fine dining experience for a date night or you need an elegant space for a private or semi-private party, Berryhill delivers. Chef John Berryhill has carefully pieced together a discerning selection of dishes at his eponymous downtown Boise restaurant. The lunch menu is a fair balance of cosmopolitan comfort food

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(meatloaf sands, crab melts and baked mac and cheese) and walk on the lighter side (grilled veggie pitas and a handful of salads). Dinner pulls out all the stops with local Kobe cuts, a variety of chicken and pasta dishes, as well as rack of lamb and plenty of seafood. Early evening it’s a see-and-be-seen happy hour crowd, and by dinner time, it’s all about a nice bottle of wine and relaxing meal from a menu of local and global ﬂavors.. 121 N. Ninth St., 208-387-3553. . $$$-$$$$ RES SU OM BITTERCREEK ALE HOUSE—Enjoy a frosty microbrew and gourmet hamburger at this distinguished bar and grill with one of the best selections of scotches in the region. 246 N. Eighth St., 208-345-1813. $$ SU OM. BLUE SKY BAGELS—Hot Asiago bagels, soups, morning egg combos and lunchtime sandwiches—the real steal is the veggie sandwich stacked high with all the roughage you want (including avocado). 407 W. Main St., 208-388-4242. $ SU . BOMBAY GRILL—A smoking deal on a smoking delicious lunch buffet and a full menu at dinner. 928 W. Main St., 208-345-7888. $-$$ OM. BRICK OVEN BISTRO—Lovingly called the Beanery by longtime patrons, this Grove hot spot with

everything homemade has some of the best comfort food around. 801 N. Main St., 208-342-3456. SU OM. $ THE BRIDGE CAFE—Stop in for breakfast, lunch or a snack. Continental breakfast and coffee, build-your-own wraps and sandwiches, hot lunch and a rack of snacks for the in-between times. 123 N. Sixth St., . 208-345-5526. $ CARRE CHOCOLATES—This is the place in town for genuine, handcrafted Belgian chocolates that (drumroll, please) melt in your mouth. 733 W. Broad St., 208-342-7697. $. CAZBA—Cazba transports you to the Eastern Mediterranean with cloud-painted walls, elegant décor and food from Greece, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey and Iran (with a few Indian, Japanese and American dishes). Brunch on weekends. 211 N. Eighth St., SU OM. 208-381-0222. $$ CHANDLERS STEAKHOUSE—Chandler’s is for the fine-diner in you. With melt-in-your-mouth filet mignon, porterhouse and Kobe cuts, as well as an appetizer menu that deviates from the red meat and offers oysters, lobster cakes, escargot and mussels. It’s as popular a stop for cocktails as it is for a fine dinner. 981 Grove St., 208-342-4622. $$$$ RES SU OM.

FOOD/RECENTLY REVIEWED THE GREEN CHILE 5616 W. State St., 208-853-0103, thegreenchile.com “The best option is a ‘bowl of green,’ a deep ceramic vat of bubbling green chili, which is a somewhat mysterious concoction of tender pork, onions, chiles, jalapenos and cilantro topped with a web of melted jack and a swoop of sour cream.” —Rachael Daigle

BAGUETTE DELI 5204 W. Franklin Road, 208-336-2989, baguettedeli.net “Shredded lettuce, cilantro, white noodles, paper-thin slices of pork and shrimp wrapped with tight hospital corners in rubbery translucent rice paper accompanied by a cup of thick, sweet mahogany-brown peanut sauce.” —Amy Atkins

EL GALLO GIRO 428 Main St., Kuna, elgallogirokuna.com “The tender chunks of chicken swam in a sauce that slowly revealed layers of flavor: first the sweet as it hit the tip of my tongue, then the earthy, and finally, a smouldering spice that I only became aware of minutes later. That lingering sensation reminded me to respect the mole.” —Deanna Darr

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CAFE OLE—Boise’s original Mexican restaurant has been serving for the last 28 years. 404 S. Eighth St., 208-3443222. $-$$ SU OM. CHOCOLAT BAR—For all you chocolate-obsessed purists out there, the Chocolat Bar makes batches of sinful delicacies daily. 805 W. Bannock St., 208-3387771. $. CHOPSTICKS GOURMET BUFFET—Veering from traditional buffets, where the food is prepped in hiding and served in abundance, Chopsticks Buffet is gourmet. Hence, the name. The restaurant features an open kitchen, which allows diners to browse fresh offerings while watching how the cooks prepare them. Goodbye gut-bomb, hello freshness. 2275 W. Main, 208-345-8965. $-$$ SU. COTTONWOOD GRILLE—The food and ambiance here share a terrific, tasteful symbiotic relationship. Inside, it’s like a big hunting lodge; outside, it’s watching the world go by on the Greenbelt. 913 W. River St., 208-333-9800. $$$-$$$$ RES SU OM. DARLA’S DELI—The menu at Darla’s Deli includes breakfast and lunch ciabatta sandwiches, chef salad with bacon and avocado halves stuffed with tuna salad plus daily specials. Best find on the menu? Half a grilled cheese and tomato sandwich for $2.83. 250 S. Fifth St. OM 208-381-0034. $ . DAWSON’S DOWNTOWN—The interior of Dawson’s is almost as tasty as their hand-picked beans (from everywhere from Sumatra to Ethiopia to Mexico) roasted the old-fashioned way. Owners Dave and Cindy Ledgard know where to find the best fair trade, organic, shade grown and just plain excellent coffees. 219 N. Eighth St., 208-336-5633. $ SU. DELI AT THE GROVE—Head in and enjoy a classic deli-style menu equipped with sandwiches, salads and soup. 101 S. Capitol . Blvd., 208-336-3500. $ DONNIE MAC’S TRAILER PARK CUISINE—Located in the developing Linen District, Donnie Mac’s Trailerpark Cuisine may be downhome, but it’s certainly not from the trailer park. Burgers, chicken sandwiches, o-rings, fries, some very tasty fry sauce, the valley’s only frozen custard, mac-n-cheese and breakfast. Yowza! 1515 W. Grove St., 208-384-9008. $-$$ OM . THE EDGE—Get a cup of joe in between shopping for music at The Record Exchange and knick knacks at The Edge gift shop. 1101 W. Idaho St., 208-3445383. $ SU. ELI’S ITALIAN DELI—For the sandwich lover for whom a sandwich is a work of love. With fresh ingredients, homemade bread and artful touches, Eli’s turns out sandwiches, soups and pastas for the hungry masses. A recent second location in downtown Boise, in addition to the Nampa landmark is earning more fans. 219 N. 10th St., 208-473OM . 7161. $

Edwards is in the market for a new parking lot.

PAVING PARADISE Though you can still buy heirloom tomato starts from Edwards Greenhouse, forget about hauling home an armload of alreadyripe fruits and veggies on Tuesday evenings. After hosting a Tuesday night farmers market for the past three summers with the Capital City Public Market, Edwards must take this season off. When the greenhouse applied for a conditional use permit from the city, it received unfortunate news. In order to continue hosting the market, owners need to revamp their parking lot. “Even though we’re already a business, they wanted to make sure that we had enough parking to handle the farmers market and our current clientele on Tuesday night,” explained Edwards’ HR manager Trina Leishman. Edwards has been in the same Hill Road location for the past 80 years, but its unfinished parking lot only became an issue recently because of noise complaints from neighbors. By hosting live musicians at its Tuesday night markets and holding a number of weddings, Edwards ruffled a few feathers in nearby nests. This year, the greenhouse was required to submit a conditional use permit to the city, a step it didn’t have to take in the past because its permit had been grandfathered in. “In order to get their conditional use permit in, they needed to get their parking lot in, and it just didn’t work out this year with the weather and everything to get it in before the farmers market started,” said Karen Ellis, executive director of the Capital City Public Market. “We can’t expect them to do it now when they’re going into their busy season.” Though the city doesn’t require a fully paved lot, it does have a few specific requirements. “The one piece that was part of the conditional use permit was that they needed to have a rudimentary parking lot, which is not paved, but it would have to have some sort of crushed or recycled asphalt that is laid down ... with stripes and wheel stops,” said Adam Park, spokesman for Mayor Dave Bieter. Edwards hopes to have the lot completed by spring 2011 in order to reinstitute the farmers market. For now, Ellis hopes a number of the market’s dozen or so vendors will transfer to the Thursday night market, a mid-week farmers market downtown. “It’s a little bit unfortunate, but we do have the Thursday night market that we can transfer people over to,” said Ellis. “It’s disappointing because the neighborhood was just getting used to that, but we’ll get the word out and let people know that we’re coming back next year with it. It will give us time to revamp it.” In the meantime, Edwards is considering other ways to draw crowds out mid-week. “What we’re trying to do at Edwards is think of other unique ways to help people come down on Tuesday nights,” said Leishman. “I don’t think it’ll hurt the business; it’s been a marketing tool, but more than anything it’s been more of a community outreach. It’s something that we’ve enjoyed providing to the community. I live a block away, and I’m a little bummed myself.” —Tara Morgan

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DINING/FOOD EMILIO’S—With Chef Chris Hain in charge of preparing cuisine and over 450 wines in this restaurant in the Grove Hotel, you’ll think you’re in some big city, not downtown Boise. 245 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-333-8002. $$$-$$$$ RES SU OM . FALCON TAVERN—This upscale downtown tavern has become “Boise’s neighborhood pub.” Known for their hand-pressed Kobe burger and ample beer selection, Falcon Tavern also has a variety of appetizers, soups, salads and sandwiches. Cozy up in their interior space or kick back on the patio. 705 W. Bannock St., 208-947-3111. OM. $-$$

THE FIXX—Serving the needs of coffee drinkers hunkered down in the western end of downtown, The Fixx brews up locally roasted coffee from Eagle Coffee Roasting, and the eats are all provided courtesy of Le Cafe de Paris. Live music Friday and Saturday nights. 224 10th St., 208-331-4011. $ SU . FLICKS—Movie and a meal from a killer kitchen. Food good enough to bring you in without a ticket includes burgers, chicken and brie on ciabatta, lasagna, gyro wraps, salads and daily soups. 646 Fulton St., SU. 208-342-4222. $ FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—In addition to a fantastic atmosphere (cool tunes, friendly employees, art on the walls and comfy seating), “the M” makes killer coffee drinks. Don’t forget the

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Art-O-Mat. 500 W. Idaho St., 208-345-4320. $ SU. FRONT DOOR NORTHWEST PIZZA AND TAP HOUSE—Offering tasty pizza, sandwiches, soups and salads. Features a stellar line of beers, including 14 rotating beer taps, 20 bottles of Belgian Ale and more to comprise over 60 beers to choose from. Eat -in or take-out. 105 S. Sixth St., 208-287-9201. SU OM. $-$$ GANDOLFO’S DELI—The Georgia based franchise of New York delicatessens provides sandwich fans with New York style hot and cold deli sands, specialty selections and side salads. 401 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-338. 7827. $ GOLDY’S BREAKFAST BISTRO—A desperately popular breakfast destination and with good reason. Generous portions of eggs, hash, cinnamon rolls and more. Good gravy! Can’t make it for breakfast? They’ve got lunch, too. 108 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-345-4100. $-$$ SU OM . GRAPE ESCAPE—Fine wine, delicious lunch and dinner, delectable desserts and light bites make this little bistro a great place to meet with great friends. And, if you can’t get to Grape Escape, they’ll bring their casual elegance to you at any of your functions or events with their fabulous catering. 800 W. Idaho St., 208-368-0200. $-$$ SU. GUIDO’S ORIGINAL NEW YORK STYLE PIZZA—There’s nothing like a slice (or three) of Guido’s New York-style pizza for lunch. Their giant pies are inexpensive and addictive. 235 N. Fifth St., SU OM. 208-345-9011. $

OSKAR BLUES Back in 2002, Oskar Blues Brewery in Lyons, Colo., started packaging Dale’s Pale Ale with a tabletop machine one can at a time. It was the first craft brewery to eschew the bottle in favor of cans, the perfect container for beer. Lighter than glass, highly portable and eminently recyclable, cans also keep the brew fresher. With the introduction of a few new offerings, Oskar Blues has kicked things up a notch. OSKAR BLUES GORDAN ALE Named for the late Gordan Knight, a Colorado craft-brew pioneer, this is billed as a cross between an imperial red and a double IPA. It boasts six different malts and three separate hops that come together to make a delightfully well-balanced blend. Earthy citrus and hops on the nose, nice and dry in the mouth with a smooth bitterness from start to finish. Creamy malt backs the spicy pine and citrus flavors. OSKAR BLUES IMPERIAL IPA This brew pours a golden amber with aromas of fresh grass, soft citrus and light hops. The palate is a complex mix of resiny hops up front that play against spicy pineapple, tangerine, mango, grapefruit, caramel and pine nut. This is a smooth brew that goes down a little too easily, considering its deceptive 10 percent alcohol level. Can you say designated driver? OSKAR BLUES TEN FIDY IMPERIAL STOUT Here is another potent brew, named for the fact that it weighs in at a hefty 10.5 percent alcohol. It’s a dark chestnut with a chocolate-colored head and sweet mocha-laced malt aromas. The flavors are sublime with rich, spicy chocolate and toasted malt backed by fruity undertones and touches of smoke. You don’t really taste the alcohol, but you are bound to feel it.

HA’ PENNY IRISH PUB AND GRILL—An Irish pub with beautiful dark wood seating offering a delicious mixture of American bar fare and classics from the Emerald Isle. 855 Broad St., Ste. 250, 208-343SU OM. 5568. $$ HAPPY FISH SUSHI & MARTINI BAR—It is a happy ﬁsh, indeed, that becomes an entree here. With a wide array of sushi rolls, sashimi and more including several creative vegetarian options and perhaps an even wider array of cocktails, kick back in this chichi restaurant and enjoy. 855 Broad St., SU OM. 208-343-4810. $$$ JAVA—Three words: Bowl of Soul. This coffee/espresso/ chocolate concoction is liquid redemption. In addition to all things coffee, Java also serves scones, mufﬁns and tasty lunch offerings. 223 N. Sixth St., SU . 208-345-0777. $ JENNY’S LUNCH LINE—Vegetarian and healthy options are the mainstay with a single yummy dessert treat for the times when your sweet tooth needs a little loving, too. Get a menu by e-mailing Jenny at orders@ jennyslunchline.com. Call the lunch line at 208-433-0092, the catering line at 338-7851 or fax your order in to 208-433-0093. 106 N. Sixth St., 208-433-0092. OM. $-$$ Find more restaurant listings, as well as reviews, at boiseweekly. com. Under the “Food” tab, click on “Find Restaurants.”

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to a statute in the state of Indiana, you may not use your bare hands to catch a fish from a lake. In Fairbanks, Alaska, you’re breaking the law if you let a moose slurp an alcoholic drink. Arizona doesn’t permit you to let a donkey sleep in your bathtub. And yet I’ve got to say that you Leos could probably get away with all of these acts and more in the coming weeks. The omens suggest that your levels of freedom are extremely high, as is your amount of slack. You’ll have clearance to do many things you wouldn’t normally be able to do. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I didn’t think it was possible, but paranoid visions of doom and gloom have become even more popular in the past few years than ever before. And yet here I am in the midst of the supposed mayhem, babbling my eccentric ideas about how we are living in the most wonderful time in the history of civilization. So let me ask you a crucial question, especially if you’re one of the millions of people who believe that cynicism is a sign of intelligence: Do you really want to be getting your fortune told by a rebel optimist like me? You should know that all my horoscopes are rooted in the hypothesis that expecting the best makes you happier, safer, kinder, wilder, stronger and smarter. What happens in the coming weeks will be dramatic proof of that. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The bad news is that climate change is really under way. That’s why Purbasha Island in the Bay of Bengal has sunk beneath the waves, swallowed up by rising sea levels and shifts in monsoon patterns. The good news is that its disappearance has ended a dispute between India and Bangladesh, both of which claimed it as their own. There’s nothing left to fight over. I foresee a metaphorically comparable scenario coming to your life, Libra: an act of nature that will render a conflict irrelevant. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some experts say methamphetamine is more addictive than any other drug. Here’s one reason why, according to Mothers Against Methamphetamines founder Dr. Mary Holley: “The effect of an IV hit of methamphetamine is the equivalent of 10 orgasms all on top of each other lasting for 30 minutes to an hour, with a feeling of arousal that lasts for another day and a half.” At least that’s what it’s like in the early stages of using the drug. After a while, hell sets in and the body is no longer happy. Luckily, you Scorpios won’t be tempted to fall victim to meth splurges any time soon.

Without relying on anything more than your natural powers, your capacity for experiencing erotic pleasure will be substantial. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your eyes can discriminate between about 500 various shades of gray. Let’s hope your moral compass is as precise in its power to distinguish subtle differences. Why? Because there will be no easy blackvs.-white decisions to make in the near future; no simple, foolproof way to determine the distinctions between good and bad. I recommend that for now, you give up hope of achieving utter certainty, and instead celebrate the refined pleasures of nuanced, complicated truth. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): These days you have an extraordinary capacity to perform magic. And when I use that word “magic,” I mean it in a very specific sense: causing practical changes to occur in accordance with your most noble and beautiful desires. I’m not talking about the kind of “magic” that helps you gratify mediocre wishes or tawdry fantasies. I’m not saying you should go on an acquisitive binge as you gather up booty and bragging points. Rather I’m letting you know that you have the power to create inspiring transformations in the way your life works. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you want to know where all the power lies for you right now? It’s nowhere. Do you want to know what the nature of that power is? It’s nothing. But before you jump to conclusions about the meaning of what I just said, read this passage from Lao Tzu’s Tao Te Ching, translated by Stephen Mitchell: “We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A Pisces woman I know was harried by ants invading her kitchen. She could have run to the drugstore and bought loads of poisonous little ant hotels. Instead, she gave her imagination the go-ahead to brainstorm. Soon she’d come up with a solution. She scooped up a host of ants and threw them in a blender with the other ingredients of her smoothie, then drank it all down. The next day, all the ants had departed, as if scared off by the Great Devourer. I suggest you learn from her example, both in the sense of being open to outlandish possibilities and in the sense of finding alternate ways to deal with adversaries.

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