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FOOD FIGHT Boise bags a couple of new specialty grocery chains

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HEART OF DARKNESS Benefit concert shines light on plight in Congo SCREEN 25

KABOOM! The Girl Who Played With Fire burns up the screen REC 27

BACKCOUNTRY Getting off the trail in Yellowstone

“I received the postcard that had my words on it: Make a change.”

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NOTE MAKING A LIST, CHECKING IT TWICE Before we start, get out your note-taking tools. This is one of those laundry-list, things-you-need-to-know Editor’s Note.

First, for a few months we’ve been talking about this big to-do called Crafty Bastards. It’s our first-ever block party, craft sale, bloody mary contest, live music marathon, scooter giveaway, kids fun station, all-day brouhaha for which we’re shutting down the street and gettin’ crazy for a full 12 hours.

Well, Crafty Bastards is quite the catchy name, and apparently, the original conceivers of the name (our alt weekly colleagues a the City Paper in Washington, D.C.) thought so, too. So much so that they trademarked the name, which meant BW had to go in search of something even better for our event. Henceforth, that big melee we’ll be throwing outside BWHQ on Saturday, Aug. 28, shall be called “The Big LeBoise.” Had we anticipated this little change slightly sooner, we’d have pay homage to the Dude with white Russians rather than bloody marys but vodka is vodka, no?

Second—and speaking of vodka—we have bloody mary winners. For the past month, bloody-mary-loving BW readers have been testing bloody marys at 15 local bars and voting for the joint with the best bloody mary. Voting ended last week, and the finalists in both categories are Piper Pub and Quinn’s.

Bartenders from each bar will be at the Big LeBoise mixing up cocktails for the panel of celebrity judges as well as for the 21-and-older attendees at the Big LeBoise.

Third—still speaking of bloody marys—we’ve launched a Gowalla trip in conjunction with the bloody mary contest.

Starting today, the first BW reader to complete the BW Gowalla Bloody Mary trip will win a $100 gift certificate to Bull’s Head Pub in Meridian. Go to boiseweekly.com and click on the link that says “Be the First to Win.” If you’re not already a Gowalla member, join at gowalla.com.

If Foursquare is more your thing, check this: We want a Swarm badge. On Saturday, Aug. 21, we’ll be at Tour de Fat in Ann Morrison Park. Check in at our booth at high noon, help us earn a Swarm badge and we’ll have a prize for you.

Finally, don’t forget to pick up your $10 raffle ticket for a chance to win a brand-spanking-new Vespa at the Big LeBoise.

You don’t have to be present to win. And lastly, it’s still Best of Boise time. Vote for your favorite politician, news source, blogger, shoe store, bar, band and more at boiseweekly.com.

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ARTIST: E.J. Pettinger TITLE: Stay Cool MEDIUM: Gouache ARTIST STATEMENT: If you can’t stand the heat, then squat on a sprinkler.

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WWW.BOISEWEEKLY.COM What you missed this week in the digital world.

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TALES FROM THE ROAD Finn Riggins checked in from the South, where the band was touring with Built to Spill and Fauxbois. And Hillfolk Noir posted what could be the longest blog entry ever, wrapping up their trip through Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah before heading home sweet home.

THE BIG LEBOISE Remember Crafty Bastards ... that rad-ass Boise Weekly block party coming up on Saturday, Aug. 28?

It’s now called the Big LeBoise. Apparently the original name was so good it belonged to someone else. Long live the Big LeBoise. Get the full story at Cobweb.

GARAGE ART A few weeks back, a gaggle of local artists took to the parking garage at Ninth and Bannock streets with paint in hand to gussy up the gray concrete into something you might actually want to look at. Check out BW’s behind-thescenes video report at video.boiseweekly.com.

BUT WHO WILL IT BE? The city announced that it’s been working with a specialty grocery chain to fine tune a plan for a 25,000-square-foot store for what is currently a parking lot at 15th and 16th streets between Idaho and Bannock streets.

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EDITOR’S NOTE MAIL / MONDO GAGA BILL COPE TED RALL NEWS City biz incubator almost ready to open JUMP: An update on the Simplots’ downtown project CITIZEN BW PICKS FIND 8 DAYS OUT SUDOKU NOISE Congo benefit concert takes over the Egyptian Theatre MUSIC GUIDE ARTS Idaho Wine Country looks at a growing industry SCREEN The Girl Who Played With Fire MOVIE TIMES REC Off the Yellowstone Road FOOD BW reviewers head to Nampa to check out the Wrap Shack BEER GUZZLER CLASSIFIEDS HOME SWEET HOME NYT CROSSWORD FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

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. . . NO, KU STR A IS NOT B S U. HE’S P RE SI DE NT O F THE UNIVER S ITY. HE’S A MA N. HE SA I D S OMETHING S TUPID ...”

—david, boiseweekly.com (BW, Opinion, “Attn: Bob Kustra,” Aug. 11, 2010)

MORE THAN IWN I enjoyed reading Carissa Wolf’s recent article “We’ve Come a Long Way Baby— Or Have We? The state of feminism in Idaho” (BW, Aug. 11, 2010). I would like to point out the omission in the article of AAUW’s involvement with the nowdefunct [Idaho Women’s Network]. Current and past members of AAUW were there when IWN was formed. Kay Snyder of Idaho Falls, AAUW state president 1988-1990, passed the hat at a legislative training for women to raise seed money to form IWN. We have been a continual partner and supporter

of IWN throughout the years, most recently at the 2008 and 2009 Equal Pay Day events. These events consisted of Brown Bag Lunch forums at Boise State followed by the “UnHappy Hour” at the TableRock Brewpub and Grill. AAUW is one of the nation’s oldest women’s organizations.

Its mission states: AAUW advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research. Idaho currently has six active branches throughout the state. Our state public policy chair, Sylvia Chariton, lobbied alongside Taryn Magrini at the state legislature for

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women’s rights, which included Equal Pay Day efforts and state-wide daycare licensing.

—Patricia Alpine, Co-President AAUW Idaho

SCAN ME, SUCKA After reading the note from the editor (BW, Note, “Whatchya Hiding Under That There Skirt,” Aug. 11, 2010), here is my take on full-body scanners. Use the crap out of them. If it keeps me safer while flying, scan my ass! I don’t care.

Don’t we all know what each other looks like under our clothes anyway? Yes, it is very intrusive. I am sure someone will find a way to take advantage of it, but in a day when people are putting their most intimate details on Facebook, etc., why is this different? Sometimes I think people just want something to whine about.

—Launa Schaffer, Boise

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OPINION/BILL COPE

TORY STORY

Mallard Fillmore: one fumb duck For weeks, I’ve wanted to revisit a particular dumbassery that marginal artist Bruce Tinsley contributed to the Fourth of July edition of the daily paper, but other issues kept getting in the way. Finally, here goes.

Let us proceed, though, with the understanding that reacting to anything from the mind of either Tinsley or his cartoon creation, Mallard Fillmore, is like getting into a debate with a sloppy drunk. The man is incapable of understanding any argument other than his own, and he believes that if he repeats his position enough times, or yells it loudly enough, we’ll eventually come around.

Yet what Tinsley submitted for a Fourth of July message presents us with the opportunity to respond not so much to him— what’s the use?—but to the absurd historical distortion (propagated among people who understand so little history that they end up conservatives) that today’s conservatives are the direct heirs of that Founding Father spirit. That spark of Independence.

That whole Minuteman vibe.

No, they are not. Today’s conservatives would have been 1776’s conservatives, too.

Today’s conservatives would have been yesterday’s Tories. Royalist reactionaries.

Benedict Arnold sympathizers. Craven kowtowers to the established form. Resisters to change and defenders of what was.

They would have been old Mad George’s favorite Americans.

UÊ But let us return to Bruce Tinsley and his statement and work our way forward. As you know, Tinsley is the stale imagination behind Mallard Fillmore, a comic strip so humorless it makes Sally Forth seem almost funny. It’s a favorite with the shuffling tea-bag crowd because it provides them with what has to pass for wit in a basically witless environment. Tinsley and his duck are to right-wing comedy what Sarah Palin is to right-wing gravitas or James Dobson is to right-wing spirituality: i.e. the best they’ve got. The Idaho Statesman started carrying the strip some years ago because no matter what out-of-state outfit might own it at any given moment, that publication can’t resist the whining of people who don’t feel their views—no matter how stupid—are being represented in the paper.

On the Fourth of July, Tinsley had his static duck (the duck never moves—that would require a level of technical accomplishment that Mr. Tinsley has yet to achieve) standing before Old Glory, making some senseless connection between King George III and the “political correctness police.” (Tinsley absolutely loathes political correctness. Every time he depicts President Barack Obama, you can almost feel the strain as he resists the craving to cry the “n” word.) The punch line to the comic is,

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“This flag has been annoying effete elitists for more than 200 years.”

Get it? See, in Tinsley’s version of events, even back during Revolutionary days, there were these pompous sissies around who had the snittles because the Founding Fathers would do such a thing as break from England and start up their own country. We must presume Tinsley means these “effete elitists” were the liberals of the era, as the words “effete” and “elitist” are always used to describe liberals and never used to describe pompous sissies like Jonah Goldberg or George Will.

In fact, most Americans first heard the word “effete” used in the late ’60s by that paragon of conservative virtues Vice President Spiro Agnew. Speaking of the opposition to Nixon and the demented war that twisted man waged, Agnew was famous for saying, “A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

After he was thrown from public office for tax fraud, extortion and bribery, we never heard much more from Agnew, and his most enduring legacy was to imprint “nattering,” “nabob” and “effete” on our national consciousness. Mind you, it is no coincidence that “effete” and “effeminate” have such a common ring. Has there ever been a time when bullies, blowhards and buffoons didn’t try to hide their own lameness of brain behind a disguise of superior manliness?

U Ah, but the real joke within Tinsley’s joke is the implication that we—we being the Americans who value thoughtfulness over the empty blithering of cartoon patriots and flag-humping fools—don’t like America and never have.

Wrong again, duck. We like America just fine and always have. It’s conservatives we don’t like. We especially don’t like the way they are choking the vitality out of America because they are perpetually stuck in the muck of their own fear. For all their crowing and clucking about freedom, conservatives don’t revere liberty nearly as much as they revere order. And not just any order, but the old order. The order with them on top and nuts to the rest. The order that comes from kings and gods down, not from people up.

Truth is, conservatives, either then or now, are never on the liberating edge of anything. They, then and now, are followers, not leaders, and have always been at the butt-end of a historical narrative they can’t comprehend. That’s what makes them conservatives.

And to think they today compare themselves to the innovators, the progressives, the radicals who jerked the leash from George’s grasp. Now that’s funny.

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TED RALL/OPINION

WAR ON FREE SPEECH It’s the economics, [REDACTED]

SOMEWHERE IN AFGHANISTAN—Two months ago, long-time White House correspondent Helen Thomas got fired by the Hearst newspaper conglomerate in response to her off-the-cuff slam at Israel. I criticized the firing on free-speech grounds.

“Free speech must be defended no matter what—even that of cranky anti-Semitic columnists (if that’s what Thomas is/was),” I wrote.

“Unless we are truly free to say what we think—without fear of reprisal—free speech is not a right. It is merely a permission.”

I received many letters in response. Most people disagreed with me.

A letter from Joseph Just was typical but better-written than most (which is why I quote it here): “Ms. Thomas has been denied not one of her constitutional rights. She faces no fine, legal censure or criminal charges for saying what she said. Her immunity from the threat of such sanction (rather than immunity from being, shall we say, ‘asked to resign’) is what the First Amendment protects.”

Legally, Just is right. The First Amendment does not protect us from economic reprisals.

I was arguing that employers ought to choose not to fire people for speaking their minds.

Unfortunately, employers seem to be whacking people for what they say outside of work more than ever.

Posters at Democratic Underground, a left-of-center discussion site frequented by that rarest and most appreciated of creatures, ballsout Democrats, has long been a community I’ve been able to count upon. On the Thomas issue, however, they sound like Sean Hannity.

“Private organizations aren’t and shouldn’t be required to put up with speech they don’t

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agree with,” said one poster. “Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from criticism,” argued a third. “It means that you can say what you want without the threat of being thrown in jail.”

Funny, these same libertarians would have freaked out if the artists who created the Danish Mohammed cartoons had all gotten fired by their newspaper.

True, the First Amendment doesn’t protect your right to keep your gig as a community banker even though you wear a swastika Tshirt. But it ought to.

If the First Amendment is to truly protect freedom of speech, it must allow Americans to say and think whatever the hell they want, no matter how outrageous. So the First Amendment should be expanded to prohibit economic reprisals.

A right to free speech, ostensibly protected in order to encourage the vigorous exchange and discussion of ideas that make a society truly free, is meaningless if a person risks getting fired each time he opens his mouth. While it is true that some people will decide that the risk of professional opprobrium and unemployment is worth it, most people won’t.

What would a boss stand to lose if the First Amendment were strengthened?

They would risk embarrassment. But they would also gain a big measure of CYA: When one of their staff did or said something outrageous, they could point to the First Amendment and shrug their shoulders. In the Helen Thomas example, Hearst execs could say: “What can we do? She has the right to say whatever the hell she wants.”

Which of course she should.

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CITYDESK/NEWS ANGER MANAGEMENT THEATER

NEWS

Mark Twain joked, “Everybody complains about the weather, but nobody does anything about it.” Who knew Twain was also a world-class economist? No truer words could be said about small businesses in 2010.

The U.S. Department of Labor reports that an estimated 97 percent of private firms in Idaho are considered small businesses.

It’s not too difficult to connect the dots.

Small business moves the needle on Idaho’s Cece Gassner, Boise’s assistant for economic development, says the city’s Greenhouse is just days away from opening. economy: employment, income and gross domestic product. Follow small business, follow the money. a preference. The final decision will be with and you’ll see small businesses specializing in If someone is running for office this year, everything from bicycle cables to wind energy. the SBDC.” they’re saying that the answer to our ecoThe City of Boise will basically be the And they’re all pretty driven. nomic woes is small business. landlord of the property, which is about half “Two Fridays ago, the alarm went off in Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter: “Small business a block from City Hall. SBDC will pay $1 the middle of the night,” said Rivers. “When is really one of the biggest ingredients in our I got there with the police, I found that one of a year for rent, and then operate the 3,500mix.” (July 29) square-foot building at 520 W. Idaho St. The the tenants had a new employee who wanted Keith Allred, Democratic challenger for businesses will be sub-tenants for $150-$300 to work through the night. I was more proud governor: “We need to unbridle the small a month. than mad.” business community.” (March 1) But it appears as if the Greenhouse’s There are no immediate plans to expand Rep. Walt Minnick (D): “Small businesses windows needed a little more polishing than the WaterCooler. Rivers said he’s more will drive a recovery.” (June 15) originally planned. The center was hoped to interested in finding new capital for small Republican First Congressional district open in early 2010. Then it was June. Gasbusinesses or exploring what he calls the prechallenger Raul Labrador touts himself as a sner said it will definitely be ready to go in WaterCooler stage. successful small businessman.

His ears must have been burning when BW a couple of weeks. The delay? First the city Yet Idaho has had three straight years of talked with Cece Gassner, Boise’s assistant for needed to finalize its agreement with SBDC. declines in the number of new businesses Then, the building had to become a little economic development. filed with the Secretary of State. The most more ... well, green. The HVAC system is “Companies here might actually graduate recent small business index from Zions Bank being upgraded, and single-pane windows are into the WaterCooler,” Gassner said. indicates a damper on Idaho’s small busibeing replaced.

The Greenhouse is a unique partnership ness sector and “less favorable conditions for But ultimately, the Greenhouse and Waterbetween the City of Boise and the Idaho Idaho’s small businesses.”

Small Business Development Center, which is Cooler are all about jobs.

And for all the political bluster—with “If you look at a business that doesn’t go apologies to Mr. Twain—nobody seems to be located at Boise State. The new incubator will welcome its four premiere tenants by the end into an incubator, it has about a 45 percent doing much about it. chance of surviving,” said Gassner. “If you of August, with a grand opening scheduled That is, with a few exceptions. look at a similar business that does spend Case in point: The WaterCooler, brainchild for September and a full complement of 10 time in an incubator, its chance of thriving is tenants by the end of the of Boise developer Mark Rivcloser to 75 or even 80 percent. It’s a remarkyear. ers, is the birthplace of jobs.

“The Greenhouse is prob- able difference.”

If its walls could talk, we’d Twenty-eight companies have And for all the stimulus funds, proposed ably for a company that’s a applied to the Greenhouse. hear about ideas: some good, The first tenants will include an state and federal legislation, and certainly for couple clicks past the idea some not so good. But in organic food delivery service, all the political hay, investment in an incubastage,” said Gassner, “but a each instance, the centerpiece energy consultants and developtor may have the best bang for the buck in couple clicks before they’re was growing a small business ers of a hot-water heater that today’s economy. ready to grow without a lot stores solar and wind energy. in order to employ more “The return is significant,” said Gassner. of hand-holding.” people.

“Many more high-paying jobs can be generAnother major difference “Jobs are ultimately imated for far less public money than, say, a between the WaterCooler and Greenhouse portant to us,” Rivers told BW. “If a couple public works project.” will be thematic. Most of the new businesses of guys come in and say they intend to grow And the genius may be in the simplicity. their company times 10 in the next few years, in the Greenhouse are expected to be green.

Both the WaterCooler and the Greenhouse but remain low in head count, we’re probably Tenants may include renewable energy developers, energy and water conservation services have very basic applications and include easy not interested. But if they’re going to have exit strategies for businesses that fail. and organic or natural products. modest, steady growth and add staff, that “What I can do is help connect the dots,” “But if they’re not green, they won’t necinterests us more.” said Rivers. essarily be turned away,” said Gassner. “It’s Walk through the WaterCooler today,

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GEOR GE PR ENTIC E

For a supposedly low-key destination, Sun Valley isn’t always so relaxed. Take the grumbling, shouting and spewing that surrounded recent cultural events addressing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

It all started when Ketchum’s NexStage community theater staged a reading of the controversial play My Name is Rachel Corrie. The one-woman drama recounts the experiences, as told through an edited assemblage of e-mails and journal entries, of the 23-year-old American activist killed by an Israeli bulldozer in Gaza in 2003.

When the London-based play first arrived in the US at Manhattan’s Minetta Lane Theater in 2006, The New York Times announced, “Few plays have traveled to New York with as much excess baggage as My Name is Rachel Corrie.”

The typically progressive New York Theater Workshop had delayed the play’s arrival, and both sides of the free speech debate were dug in. The Times recounted how “Rachel Corrie became a name best not mentioned at Manhattan dinner par ties if you wanted your guests to hold on to their good manners.”

Four years later and a couple of time zones away, Rachel Corrie once again stoked the fires of emotional politics. This time, in sleepy little Ketchum, it was a handful of casually dressed summer folk who lost their grip on good manners.

It was astonishing that such a play had arrived in Ketchum at all. More astounding was the fact that Rachel’s bereaved parents, Craig and Cindy Corrie, had traveled to Central Idaho to see the play and participate in a question-and-answer session following its per formance. It was during that session that tempers flared. Some people had arrived with protest in mind, and when it was their chance to talk, many delivered terse lectures to the Corries about their late daughter’s flawed beliefs.

“I know you want to think your daughter didn’t die in vain,” one woman began.

At this point, some disclosure is necessar y. Following the per formance, I submitted a letter to the Idaho Mountain Express newspaper that disavowed the behavior of the few at the expense of many who appreciated the play’s staging. Many letters to the editor, of var ying opinion, followed.

The play speaks for itself. Yes, Corrie’s writing was politically charged and she lived a life of politically motivated sacrifice.

But the play is ultimately not a polemic; it’s one individual’s call for peace and compassion in a world gone mad, written by a passionate, if naive, young activist.

In the weeks that followed the scene at the NexStage, the Wood River Jewish Community invited Jean-Jacques Surbeck, a former International Red Cross attorney, to speak as a counterbalance to the Palestinian sympathies embedded in the Rachel Corrie play. Surbeck’s lecture, which filled the pews at St. Thomas Episcopal Church to Christmas mass levels, was nakedly proIsrael and ultimately did little to diffuse the high drama that began after the play.

Surbeck’s question-and-answer session spun out of control when a teenage questioner hijacked the microphone. An agitated audience member rose to take the microphone back and, for an instant or two, it seemed entirely possible that we

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Better late than never, Boise’s Greenhouse ready to open GEORGE PRENTICE

NEWS/CITYDESK NEWS S U S AN DES K O

The new version of JUMP includes a focus on nonprofits and the arts, as well as six acres of green space.

TAKE A GOOD LOOK

JUMPing in to the public pool of opinion GEORGE PRENTICE JUMP’s initial draft. Outside City Hall, the Something officially known as project DRH10-0018 may be Boise’s most buzz-wor- buzz grew but inside, so did a few concerns.

Rather than dramatically alter the dream, the thy development. But in a few short weeks, Simplot family and its designers regrouped. that buzz becomes a bit more formal.

And now almost a year and a half after On Memorial Day weekend 2009, Idaho’s its announcement, on Wednesday, Sept. 15, Simplot family surprised the Treasure Valley JUMP will get its first public hearing before with plans to turn a four-square-block area Boise’s Design Review Committee. An Aug. just west of Boise’s BODO into something 18 hearing heretofore was postponed never seen. because, as of Since then, the press time, the community has Ada County come to know Highway the project simDistrict was ply as JUMP, still awaiting a Jack’s Urban traffic analysis.

Meeting Place.

You can look And of course JUMP is expected to create at the entire proposal “Jack” is the late J.R. 700-800 construction jobs. in a meeting packet Simplot.

Design review committee hearing: at cityofboise.org but The buzz instantly Wednesday, Sept. 15, 6 p.m. you’ll need some seribegan, not waiting for at Boise City Hall ous time to peruse it. the dream to turn into There are nearly 100 some kind of reality. separate files, each with its own documents.

When members of the Simplot family began JUMP has a current-market price tag of initial meetings with Boise City planners in the summer of 2009, the project was lumped $70 million. Since last summer the grounds were redesigned to reflect Idaho’s 10 ecologiinto the category of “mixed-use,” limiting its perceived scope and complexity. The term cal zones. The centerpiece is a seven-story structure incorporating a great deal of glass “parkscape” was also bandied about, but a and modern art, including a tree house-like similarly labeled project in Los Angeles had feature. Inside is a kitchen studio for cooking little to nothing in common with JUMP. lessons, tractor exhibits, dance studios and In July 2009, Boise’s Design Review space for inventors/creators.

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all might see a brawl at the altar. The Rev. Ken Brannon eventually calmed the crowd and received a robust applause after calling for calm and mature discussion.

The behavior at both events was remarkable, not for highlighting any uniquely compelling or previously unknown facts about the Mideast conflict, but rather for what they revealed about Ketchum. They will be remembered for the reactions of easily provoked, emotionally trigger-happy audiences.

A third related event held Aug. 10 put a cap on the recent emotional gusher. The College of Idaho and the Wood River Valley Jewish Community co-sponsored a lecture

by Akiva Tor, the Consul General for the Pacific Nor thwest for the state of Israel.

The event was held in conjunction with the College of Idaho’s fundraising campaign to establish an endowed Chair of Judaic Studies at the Caldwell liberal ar ts school and was unrelated, at least in planning, to the earlier play or lecture at St. Thomas.

Tor is a ranking diplomat, and his credentials were evident during his 50-minute talk on the conflict’s past, present and future. The talk was an immensely informative and condensed take on a dizzyingly complex subject. The audience was notably calm, respectful and gracious, even during the Q&A. If Tor’s lecture was a sign of things to come, Sun Valley’s Mideast dialogue may be less like a cage match, and it might even teach us a few things.

—Michael Ames

CHECKOUT ON AISLE ONE: WHOLE FOODS AND ANOTHER GROCERY CHAIN COMING TO BOISE For years, Boiseans have been hoping for a large speciality grocer y chain to set up shop in Boise. Some want a Trader Joe’s. Some want a Whole Foods.

Now, Boise may finally be getting one of the two plus another yet to be named chain grocer.

The high-end grocery store Whole Foods announced it will move forward with its plans to build a 35,000-square-foot store on Front Street, across from the University of Idaho Water Center. Design plans are expected to be filed with Boise’s Planning and Development team by the end of August.

Not making as much of a media splash is the news that a smaller specialty grocer y store is planned for the western edge of downtown Boise. The name hasn’t been officially unveiled, but BW has learned the store is part of a chain and developers are fine-tuning their plans for a 25,000-squarefoot store for the block between 15th and 16th streets and Idaho and Bannock streets. Plans are expected to be drafted and reviewed in formal hearings with the city sometime in September or October.

—George Prentice

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MAKING A CHANGE

From developer to architect of change in only one year GEORGE PRENTICE

You don’t have a chair behind your desk.

I don’t. That’s an exercise ball back there.

It helps my back and my posture. I’m rarely in my office, but when I’m here, it helps me sit up straight.

Your office is filled with photographs.

You bet. There’s my wife Kathy, 15-year-old daughter, 12-year-old son and 7-year-old son.

And a lot of pictures with your dad and granddad.

My dad’s a great guy. He’s been a mentor, a friend and a business partner. And I’m named after my grandfather. He came from a family with very little means. But he went to college, played professional football for the New York Giants and was a World War II vet. We’re very fortunate that he spent his final years here in Boise with his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Does the United Way of the Treasure Valley have a goal this year?

Last year, through the great support of this community, we were able to distribute $1.6 million to local nonprofits. But we had requests that were much greater than that

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amount. This year, we want to close that gap.

My stretch goal is to fund all of it. We may not be able to do that, but it’s worth trying.

What will the total of the requests be?

The nonprofits won’t formally request until the end of September and into October, but based on our conversations, it’s definitely going to be greater this year. It’s going to be over $3 million.

Might there be a change in who gets funding?

It’s typically been perceived that once you’re a United Way partner, you’re always a United Way partner. Conversely, if you’re not a United Way partner, it’s very difficult to become one. I hope this year will be different. I would really like us to be funding issues rather than nonprofits.

Will that require more collaboration?

Absolutely. It would mean many partners coming together so that the dollars go a lot further.

Give us an idea of how your message might be different this year.

We’ve done a great job of showcasing stories of people whose lives have been impacted

by United Way. I think that’s great, but not everybody can identify with that. This year, we’re really going to focus on prevention.

And we’re going to focus on how much it costs to incarcerate someone versus the cost to educate a 4-year-old. It’s all about getting ahead of the curve.

Talk to us about something called “life on the edge.”

The whole reason I’m here today is because

JER EM Y LANNINGHAM

He’s the father of three. He’s a former board member of the Treasure Valley YMCA, Boise Parks and Rec. Commission, Urban Land Institute, Boise Chamber of Commerce and Boise School District. He’s a former football coach. He’s one of the region’s best known developers, who’s helped create some of Idaho’s most recognized communities including Bown Crossing. And on Thursday, Aug. 26, Derick O’Neill will be flipping pancakes at the 2010 flapjack feed as president and CEO of the United Way of the Treasure Valley.

of life on the edge. A year ago, my wife asked me to take my son to a poverty simulation. She told me that for four hours, participants are put into a simulation where they experience a life in poverty. I said, “I’m not really interested.” She said, “You better be interested.” So I listened to my wife. We walked into a room with 100 other people. They gave me and my son a name tag, and gave me a daughter who was 19 years old (which I don’t have) and they gave us (virtually) $300. I had to check in with a job supervisor to become a laborer. I didn’t have a car, but I had to get myself to work. My daughter desperately wanted to go to college, but because I had to leave to go to work and my son had to get to school and daycare, she could only take a couple of classes. And we “lived” through that process. It turns out my son was much more savvy than I was. He helped navigate many of the obstacles. It was a very powerful moment for me. Then, they gave me a postcard, asked me to write a message on it and mail it to myself. A couple of months later, I received the postcard that had my words on it: Make a change. The very next day I got a phone call from someone asking me to consider being the CEO of the United Way. It sounds like your wife is a motivator.

She is the motivator. We went to high school together, and we’ve been best buddies most of our lives. She’s always been one to say, “Take a risk. I’ll support you. The family will support you. Go make a difference.”

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It’s Prine time you checked out the Eagle River Amphitheater.

SATURDAY AUG. 21 music JOHN PRINE Disco luau Lucha Libre at 10 a.m.? It must be Tour de Fat.

SATURDAY AUG. 21 bikes TOUR DE FAT By now, most Boiseans aren’t the least bit phased when a pack of cape-clad superheroes pedal past on fixed gears or a dude breezes by on a giant, glistening fish bike. If it’s a sunny Saturday morning in August and the two-wheeled eccentrics are out in full-force, it’s got to be Tour de Fat. The folks at New Belgium are bringing their bike-loving roadshow back through town on Saturday, Aug. 21, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. for a full day of cruisers and cold ones. In addition to a bike parade beginning at 10 a.m., there will also be live music, circus-style bike tricks, a car/bike trade, lots of beer tents and more wacky costumes than you can shake a wrench at.

This year, New Belgium has taken a trip up to Mt. Brewski and come up with the 10 Commandments of Tour de Fat that must not be broken: “1.) Put no means of transport before thy bike; 2.) Honor all other bikes: All bikes are good bikes, and all those who ride them are good people; 3.) May every generation come forth; 4.) Thou shall come as a participant not a spectator: It’s a costumed celebration of human-powered transportation; 5.) Thou shalt not bring booze; But enjoy the supplied malted adult refreshments responsibly; 6.) New Belgium shalt not profit: Our goal is to raise money for bicycle and environmental charities; 7.) Remember the purpose, and bring not your pooches; 8.) Keep the day true with thy good juju: The ride is free, but we suggest a $5 donation to the good bike advocates who are putting it on for you; 9.) Thou shall rise early … once we’re full, we will handle overflow like a restaurant or bar: one in, one out; 10.) Thou shalt not steal thy neighbors’ bike.”

Follow these rules, and you’re sure to snag a seat in Tour de Fat heaven.

9 a.m.-6 p.m., FREE, Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, newbelgium.com.

Though hoarse Chicago songwriter John Prine has made quite a name for himself with tracks like “Sam Stone,” “Hello in There” and “Come Back to Us Barbara Lewis Hare Krishna Beauregard,” his inspirational influence reaches even farther. Prine’s tragic lyrics have been sung by the likes of Johnny Cash, George Straight and 10,000 Maniacs. Bob Dylan even praised Prine recently in the Huffington Post, saying “Prine’s stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mindtrips to the nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.”

Just recently, a truckload of indie folk legends lent their talent to the John Prine cover album Broken Hearts and Dirty Windows: Songs Of John Prine. The record includes tracks from Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band, My Morning Jacket, Deer Tick, The Avett Brothers, Old Crow Medicine Show and even Idaho’s own Josh Ritter.

You can catch Prine, who won a Grammy in 2006 for Best Contemporary Folk Album, at the Eagle River Amphitheater on Saturday, Aug. 21.

6 p.m. doors, 7 p.m. show, $39.50-$75, Eagle River Amphitheater, 827 E. Riverside Drive, 208-938-2933, landofrock.com.

then The Lightning Thief will make a good, Greek mythology-heavy alternative.

Dusk, FREE, Gene Harris Bandshell, Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., 208854-4063, boiseschoolsfoundation.com/movies.

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SATURDAY AUG. 21 film MOVIES UNDER THE STARS The Boise Public Schools Education Foundation and Boise Parks and Recreation

puts on Movies Under the Stars, a monthly, free, family-friendly movie screening in Julia Davis Park.

This month, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief will be projected at the Gene Harris Bandshell. The Lightning Thief is the first of a five-part book series centered on Greek mythology. Teenage

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protagonist Percy Jackson finds out that Greek gods still exist and that, in fact, he is the son of sea-god Poseidon.

If Perseus striking his sword through Medusa’s neck, severing her snakeridden head and carrying it back to King Polydectes isn’t the type of imagery you want to send your kid to bed with,

IDAHO-DOWN JAM STATE FESTIVAL With the economy in the tubes, the concert industry is taking a big hit. Pollstar reported last month that concert sales, including festivals, are down as much as 17 percent from the first half of last year. Taking an even bigger hit are the people who

can’t afford to attend these high-priced events.

Thankfully, the good people from Idahoans for Music and the Environment are putting on the second annual Idaho-Down, and the best thing about it is it won’t cost you an arm and a leg to get in. Just $15 a day or $25 for the whole weekend gets you two stages of continuous live music and space to camp under the trees at Brundage Mountain Resort in McCall.

The jam-centric lineup features reggae artist Joseph Israel, Denver funksters Yamn and local jammers Equaleyes, as well as Holden Young Trio, The Shook Twins, Voice of Reason, Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats, Gizzard Stone, AlpenFlow, Corn Mash, The Prairie Sky Pilots and more.

The festival promises to be sustainable and interac-

tive, with an LED light show, art installations, late-night performances, a large natural amphitheater and on-site vendors. There’ll be plenty to do and plenty of live music to feed your weary soul.

Noon-2 a.m., $15 per day, $25 weekend, Brundage Mountain Resort, McCall, idaho-me.com/idaho_down.

FRIDAYSUNDAY AUG. 20-29 navy BOISE NAVY WEEK If the only thing you think of when hearing the term “navy” is sailor suits and the Village People classic “In the Navy,” take it as a surefire sign to take part in one of the countless activities of Boise Navy Week. The WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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Soy Curls, before and after.

SOY CURLS “Does anyone have some Visine?”

Who’s the fairest of them all?

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AN EVENING OF COMEDY WITH DOUG BENSON

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When you hear the name Doug Benson, there’s a good chance that the word “marijuana” comes to mind. You may have become familiar with Benson’s chill demeanor after watching his smoke-u-mentary Super High Me—in which Benson inhaled (medical marijuana, natch) every day for 30 days.

Along with touring regularly across the country, Benson also starred in the off-Broadway show, Marijuanalogues, made it into the Top 10 of 2007’s Last Comic Standing and records a regular podcast, “Doug Loves Movies.” He chats up guests in front of a live audience at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles, and his guests are usually comedians and actors who join Benson in expressing their inner film fools by playing movie trivia games. Benson created the Leonard Maltin Game, in which he reads the cast of an unknown movie from lowest billed to highest to see if anyone can guess the title. It became a thing for those attending to wear name tags, and Benson said he’s seeing it catch on when he plays concert halls, his preferred venue.

“I’ve grown to prefer [one-night shows] just because I’ve been doing clubs for so long. And because when it says ‘Ha Ha Hut’ over a door, people tend to wander in not knowing what they’re there for,” Benson said. “I’ve played the Knitting Factory in Boise before, and it’s super fun. It’s just more concentrated. It’s a group of specific fans, people who want to see me.”

Benson’s new DVD/CD, Hypocritical Oaf, plops (his word) on Tuesday, Aug. 31, but he’ll plant himself at Knitting Factory on Saturday, Aug. 21. Name tags optional.

With Graham Elwood, $15-$21, 9 p.m. doors, 9:30 p.m. show, Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.

program’s purpose is to give people a first-hand look at what naval life is like for the thousands of men and women serving throughout the world. And although the Pacific Ocean lies more than eight hours to the west, Boise was one of 19 cities selected to host a navy week. Other land-locked host cities include St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo., Salt Lake City and Des Moines, Iowa.

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Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter will present a Navy Week Proclamation at the State Capitol on Friday, Aug. 20, opening up Boise Navy Week 2010. Many of the week’s events will be held in conjunction with the Western Idaho Fair where they will host displays and performances by the Navy Band, which will also perform at Boise City Hall and Bronco Stadium. Fulfill your child-

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR For 51 weeks of the year, Expo Idaho is home to car exhibitions, 4-H events, flea markets and cat shows. But for one jam-packed week in the middle of August, more than 200,000 people gather at the grounds on the corner of Chinden Boulevard and Glenwood Street to go wild, gorging on corn dogs and ice cream potatoes, boarding carnival rides where said foods may reappear, throwing ping pong balls onto lily pad bowls and ogling at prize-winning vegetables and llamas.

After getting your share of stomach-churning rides including Footloose, Fireball, Evolution and Starship 3000, enjoy one of the many live shows the fair has to offer. Enter into the Aussie Kingdom to pet live kangaroos, wallabies, koala bears and kookaburras. Tap into childhood nostalgia in the Kid’s Corral for the LEGO Experience Tour where you can rebuild that giant skyscraper your little brother destroyed when you were 9 years old. With daily pig races, you can catch Arnold Schwartzenhogger, Lindsay Loham and Oprah Swinefrey sprint their tails off to the finish line. And if the piglets ignite an urge to check out some more livestock, head to the sheep, small animal, draft horse and mule barns.

The fair continues on its tradition of top-notch entertainment, with five performers in four nights at the grandstand.

Classic rock superstars The Doobie Brothers open up the week’s performances on Tuesday, Uncle Kracker and Luke Bryan perform Wednesday, .38 Special performs Thursday and acclaimed country musician Clint Black performs Friday.

Friday, Aug. 20-Saturday, Aug. 28, 11 a.m.-11 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 29, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; $2-$79, Expo Idaho, idahofair. com, 208-287-5650.

hood dreams of flying a fighter jet by boarding one of the flight simulators at the Western Idaho Fair. On Saturday, Aug. 28, the Navy’s “Leap Frogs” Parachute Team will perform at the Warhawk Air Museum in Nampa. The team, composed of 15 Navy SEAL and SWCC comman-

At Taqueria Los Gorditos, on Southeast Division Street in Portland, Ore., you’ll find an odd item wedged between the menu’s meaty tortas and tamales—soy curls. Not the most appetizing of names, nor something you’d generally associate with Mexican food, the soy curls at Los Gorditos, nonetheless, will make a believer out of the most devout carnivore. The texture—slightly wispy with a toothsome bounce—is the best vegetarian chicken alternative I’ve ever encountered.

Made from “delicately textured select, non-GMO, whole Want the recipe for the soybeans” and nothing else, soy curl no-chicken salad Soy Curls are produced by Butler pictured above? Head to Foods, a family owned business boiseweekly.com and click based out of Grand Ronde, Ore. on the “Extras” tab then The curls come dry and have “Find of the Week.” to be rehydrated before you can cook with them, but unlike texturized vegetable protein (TVP) products, Soy Curls don’t have a funky taste or spongy texture. Ideal in tacos or veggie enchiladas, Soy Curls also make a super rad salad topping.

You can order Soy Curls directly from the Butler Foods website—where six 8-ounce bags go for $19.95 plus $8 shipping—or you can, strangely, find them locally at the Adventist Book Center (7777 W. Fairview Ave.), where they go for $4.99 for an 8-ounce bag.

—Tara Morgan

dos, jumps out of aircraft to create complex parachute formations, proving once again how fearless Navy men and women are.

Friday, Aug. 20, 11 a.m. through Sunday, Aug. 29, 4 p.m. FREE, Various locations, navyweek.org, 610761-8046.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 On Stage AN IDEAL HUSBAND— Oscar Wilde penned comedy of manners in which a woman tries to blackmail a politician. 8 p.m. $12-$39.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

THE LAST OF THE BOYS—A play by Steven Dietz examining the lives of soldiers after they return from Vietnam. Wednesdays are pay-what-you-can nights. 8 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.alleyrep.org.

Food & Drink DRINKING LIBERALLY—A group of left-leaning individuals gather to talk politics, share ideas and inspire change. The event is a project of Living Liberally, an organization that is all about fostering progressive communities. Information at www.drinkingliberally.org. 7 p.m.

Solid, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-6620.

SPLASH BASH—Poolside party with live music, food and drink specials and weekly drawings for prizes. 6-10 p.m. FREE. Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611, www. owyheeplaza.com.

TEXAS HOLD ’EM POKER—8 p.m. Dino’s, 4802 Emerald, Boise.

THURSDAY AUGUST 19 Festivals & Events ELEGANCE ON THIRD THURSDAY—Kick off the jeans and T-shirts and dress to the nines for a glamorous night of dancing and romancing. Music by Beverly and Rex. Ages 21 and over. 7 p.m.-3 a.m. FREE. Owyhee Plaza Hotel, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-3434611, www.owyheeplaza.com.

On Stage THE LAST OF THE BOYS—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www. alleyrep.org OTHELLO—Shakespearean tragedy exploring the politics of love and war. See review, Page 20. 8 p.m. $12-$39. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-4299908, box office 208-336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

Concerts THE CONGO BENEFIT CONCERT—Featuring live music from Annie Bethancourt, The Pawn Shop Kings, Elliot, Grace Laxson and The New Heart Congolese Choir. See Noise, Page 21. 7-9 p.m. $10. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, www.egyptiantheatre.net.

NOISE/CD REVIEW CAVO: BRIGHT NIGHTS DARK DAYS

Workshops & Classes JOB AND ECONOMIC FORECAST WORKSHOPS—Workshops will provide attendees support tools and information to help adapt to the ever-changing job market, and to help people land not just a job, but a career in today’s economy. Keynote address by CNBC news anchor Erin Burnett and CareerBuilder. com’s Rosemary Haefner. 6 p.m.

FREE. University of Phoenix-Idaho campus, 3080 E. Gentry Way, Ste. 150, Meridian, 208-8881505, www.phoenix.edu.

LIGHT AND FAST BACKPACKING—REI expert Ray Johnson will offer tips on how to cut down on the weight of your backpack when camping. 7 p.m. FREE. REI, 8300 W. Emerald, Boise, 208322-1141, www.rei.com.

Talks & Lectures URBAN LUNCH—The Living Building Challenge featuring Sharon Patterson of EcoEdge and Josh Bogle of Green Remodeling.

Event is free, lunch from Jenny’s Lunchline is $10. Noon-1 p.m.

FREE. Boise Water Cooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise.

Odds & Ends CELEBRITY LOOKALIKE CONTEST—Let your jowls hang Churchill-like or do your hair up like Flock of Seagulls to compete for hundreds of dollars worth of gift certificates. 9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s Saloon, 5467 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-322-6699.

POKER—Play for fun and prizes.

7 p.m. FREE. The Buffalo Club, 10206 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-321-1811.

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For some reason, St. Louis, Mo., seems an unlikely place for a successful arena rock band to have been conceived.

But after nearly a decade together, Cavo has prevailed, finally releasing their first major-label album, Bright Nights Dark Days (Reprise Records).

Despite the predominance of heavy rhythms and high-octane instrumentals common to alternative grunge-style rock, the lyrics reveal surprising vulnerability. The net effect captivates—just as passing drivers are transfixed by freshly mangled vehicles at an accident scene, listeners will cling to the tormented lines as intently as they are delivered.

Cavo definitely has a special knack for power ballads, but these are not the slow-dance rock songs of the ’80s.

Instead, they are the feisty younger siblings, more contemporar y and more honest than their earlier counterpar ts.

Simultaneously therapeutic and addictive, the temptation to replay “Crash” over and over again is hard to resist. With the confident vocals of frontman Casey Walker assuring, “I’ll be here the next time that you crash / I’m right here in front of you ... I’ll save you when you crash,” personal anguish is more easily indulged.

Walker, who stands up to the tightly knit rhythms of Brian Smith on bass and Chad LaRoy on drums, offers a lyrical embrace that’s almost palpable. Along with guitarist Chris Hobbs, these musicians produce a gently aggressive sound that both comfor ts and incites.

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Food & Drink BEER AND WINE TASTINGS— Sample a rotating selection of European wines and beers.

See website for more info. 5-8 p.m. $10. Tres Bonne Cuisine, 6555 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-658-1364, www.tresbonnescuisine.com.

Festivals & Events WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—Rides, 4H comps, artery-clogging deliciousness and music by The Doobie Brothers, Uncle Kracker, Luke Bryan, .38 Special and Clint Black. See Picks, Page 14.

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

Literature POETRY READING—Scott Berge invites poets to share their own work or favorite poems during a fun night of poetry readings. Sign up at 6:30 p.m. and start waxing poetic at 7 p.m.

For more information, e-mail ScottBerge@live.com. 6:30 p.m.

FREE. Alia’s Coffeehouse, 908 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3381299.

On Stage THE LAST OF THE BOYS—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.alleyrep.org.

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OTHELLO—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12-$39. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, www. idahoshakespeare.org.

NONPROFIT RESOURCE THURSDAYS—Thinking about starting a nonprofit or already running one? Learn about free and low-cost resources for funding, volunteers and other support. Each month specialists will be available to focus on a specific topic. For more information visit boisepubliclibrary.org or idahononprofits.org. 4-6 p.m.

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

Concerts IDAHO-DOWN JAM STATE FESTIVAL—Featuring Joseph Israel, Yamn, Equaleyes, Holden Young Trio, Voice of Reason, The Shook Twins, Jonathan Warren and the

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BillyGoats, AlpenFlow, Gizzard Stone, Corn Mash and The Prairie Sky Pilots. Plus food, vendors and on-site camping.

See Picks, Page 14. 6 p.m.-2 a.m. $15-$25. Brundage Mountain Resort, 3890 Goose Lake Road, McCall, 1-800-8887544, www.brundage.com.

Workshops & Classes SUN VALLEY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE—Talks, panels, readings and small group discussions about fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry and journalism led by distinguished American writers. Idaho teachers and students are admitted free of charge with proper identification and as space permits. Full schedule at www.svwc.com. $35 single event tickets. $850 full access pass.

Sun Valley Resort, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208-622-4111, www.sunvalley.com.

Citizen DEER FLAT CONSERVATION PLAN OPEN HOUSE—Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge is creating a plan to guide refuge management for the next 15 years. Learn more about the planning process, ask questions and submit comments about whether recreational opportunities will continue. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-467-9278, www. fws.gov/deerflat.

Odds & Ends BOISE NAVY WEEK—A full week of Navy events such as diver demonstrations, Navy band concerts, building projects, fitness challenges and more. See Picks, Page 14. See full schedule at www.navyweek.com/boise2010 FREDDY’S FRIDAYS—Free admission to Discovery Center of Idaho, every Friday through October. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. FREE. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-3439895, www.scidaho.org.

GREASE TRIBUTE SHOW— Lipsynched and live performances of songs from the hit musical.

9 p.m. $5. Sin, 1124 W. Front St., Boise, 208-342-3375, www. sinboise.com.

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Festivals & Events CONTRA DANCE—Monthly dance series featuring a live contra band and local callers.

Couples are welcome, but neither partners nor experience are required. The dances are smoke- and alcohol-free. For more information, e-mail boisecontradance@fastem.com or visit the website. 7:30-11 p.m. $8 adults, $3 youth (10-18 years old), david0.tedcrane.com/id/ bcds. Broadway Dance Center, 893 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208794-6843.

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8 DAYS OUT CORN AND PICKLE FESTIVAL— Spend a day at the farm and see demonstrations on canning fresh produce including pickles and corn. Viewing zoo and crafts for kids. 1-6 p.m. FREE. Vogel Farms Country Market, 9501 Robinson Road, Kuna, 208-466-6928, www.vogelfarmscountrymarket. com.

FUNDRAISING GALA—Mingle with upcoming and past directors, board members and receive a special preview of the season opener of Noises Off! Hors d’oeuvres and wine. 7:30 p.m. $30. Stage Coach Theatre, 5296 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-342-2000, www.stagecoachtheatre.com.

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho. com.

On Stage DOUG BENSON—Standup comedy from the star of Super High Me. See Picks, Page 15. 9:30 p.m. $15.

Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, www.knittingfactory.com.

AN IDEAL HUSBAND— See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$39. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

THE LAST OF THE BOYS—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.alleyrep. org.

Concerts CONCERTS ON BROADWAY— Free outdoor performance by the Meridian Symphony. Lowbacked lawn chairs and blankets recommended. 7 p.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Idaho St., Meridian.

SUN VALLEY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE—See Friday. $35 single event tickets. $850 full access pass.

Sun Valley Resort, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208-622-4111, www.sunvalley.com.

Citizen MEET AND GREET WITH KEITH ALLRED—Meet and asks questions of Keith Allred, Democratic candidate for Governor. Followed by a performance of Thoroughly Modern Millie at 8 p.m. 4:30 p.m. $50. Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middlefork Road, Crouch, 208-462-5523, www.starlightmountaintheatre. com.

Odds & Ends BOISE NAVY WEEK— See Friday. See full schedule at www. navyweek.com/boise2010.

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

COUNTRY WESTERN DANCE— Two-step, country swing, waltz, cha cha, triple-step, West-Coast Swing and more on a large wooden dance floor in a smokefree environment. 7 p.m. $5-$7.

Boise Valley Square and Round Dance Center, 6534 Diamond St., Boise, 208-377-5788, www. idahoswingdance.org.

LA LECHE LEAGUE PICNIC AND FAIR—Informative displays for pregnant women and parents of young children. Splash park, free food, raffle drawing and more than 20 vendors. 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

FREE. Settler’s Park, corner of Meridian and Ustick roads, Meridian.

POLE-A-PALOOZA—Open house and pole dance show from students and teachers, along with booze and raffles to benefit The Chrissy Cataract Fund. Discount for coming in a Las Vegasthemed costume. 8 p.m. $10.

Ophidia Dance and Art Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd, Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, www. myspace.com/danceophidia.

SUNDAY AUGUST 22 Festivals & Events GET REC’D AND RECOVER— Get your yah-yahs out the last day before school starts with food, volleyball, soccer, health checks, a slip and slide, the ROTC rock wall, massage, early registration for activities and more. 1-4 p.m. FREE. Boise State Recreation Field, Boise State campus, Boise.

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho. com.

On Stage AN IDEAL HUSBAND—See Wednesday. 7 p.m. $12-$39.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

Workshops & Classes HOMEBREWING AND WILD WINE MAKING—Morning session will focus on hop and beer basics, where participants will harvest and learn about cultivat-

IDAHO-DOWN JAM STATE FESTIVAL—See Friday. Noon-2 a.m. $15-$25. Brundage Mountain Resort, 3890 Goose Lake Road, McCall, 1-800-888-7544, www.brundage.com.

Workshops & Classes BREAKFAST WITH AN INTERNATIONAL FLAIR—Chef Betti Newburn will show you how to make British scones, pear soup, danish aebleskivers and Danish bacon. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $40. Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

INTRO TO CANNING AND FOOD PRESERVING—Learn the basics of canning, pickling and dehydrating, including what foods you may safely can with a water-bath and when you need pressure canners. Fee covers basic supplies for the class. Register by emailing info@northendnursery. com. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $10. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northendnursery.com.

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8 DAYS OUT ing homegrown hops. Afternoon will focus on fermentation. Ages 21 and older. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-5 p.m. $20-$40. Earthly Delights Organic Farm, 372 S. Eagle Rd., Ste. 353, Eagle.

Sun Valley Resort, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208-622-4111, www.sunvalley.com.

SUSHI WITH CHEF PATRICK AMES—Chef Ames, who manages the kitchen at Happy Fish sushi, teach the class how to make spicy tuna, salmon, daikon radish and avocado rolls, as well as seaweed salad and miso soup. 6:30 p.m. $50. Pottery Gourmet, 811 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-368-0649.

SUN VALLEY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE—See Friday. $35 single event tickets. $850 full access pass. Sun Valley Resort, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208-622-4111, www.sunvalley. com.

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BOISE NAVY WEEK— See Friday. See full schedule at www. navyweek.com/boise2010.

BEER PONG—Play for prizes and bar tabs while drinking $5 pitchers. 9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s Saloon, 5467 Glenwood, Garden City, 208-322-6699.

SALSA SUNDAYS—6 p.m.-2 a.m. Cowgirls, 353 Ave. E, Kuna, 208-922-9522, www.cowgirlsaloon.com.

BOISE NAVY WEEK— See Friday. Full schedule at www.navyweek.com/ boise2010.

MONDAY AUGUST 23

PIONEER TOASTMASTERS— Participants are invited to work on their public speaking with the Pioneer Toastmasters speaking club. Guests and new members are always welcome. Not so sure you want to speak? No problem, show up and sit in. For more information, e-mail personalityonpaper@yahoo.com. 6-7:30 p.m.

FREE, 208-559-4434. Perkins Family Restaurant, 300 Broadway Ave., Boise.

Festivals & Events WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho. com.

TUESDAY AUGUST 24

On Stage STORY STORY NIGHT—Monthly live storytelling event put on

by Alley Repertory Theatre.

August’s theme is Dog Days: Stories of Summer. 7 p.m. $5.

The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, www.thelinenbuilding.com.

Workshops & Classes

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho. com.

On Stage OTHELLO—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12-$39. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, www. idahoshakespeare.org.

Food & Drink TUESDAY NIGHT FARMERS MARKET—The parking lot of the North End Organic Nursery on Hill Road will host up local growers and farmers selling produce. Gardeners and farmers interested in selling at the market should contact Bingo Barnes at bingo@northendnursery.com or by calling 208-389-4769. 5-7 p.m. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-3894769, northendnursery.com.

Workshops & Classes FLORAL ARRANGING CLASS— Award-winning floral designer Stephanie Smith will show you how to make a hand tied wedding bouquet using purchased flowers or ones right out of your garden. 6 p.m. FREE. Edwards Greenhouse, 4106 Sand Creek St., Boise, 208-342-7548, www. edwardsgreenhouse.com.

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PLAYING IN THE PLAZA—Food and craft vendors, along with live music by Spudman. 5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Generations Plaza, corner of Main Street and Idaho Avenue, Meridian, www.meridiancity.org.

BOISE NAVY WEEK— See Friday. Full schedule at www.navyweek.com/ boise2010.

SUN VALLEY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE—See Friday. $35 single event tickets. $850 full access pass.

EYESPY

Real Dialogue from the naked city

IDAHO CAPITAL CITY KENNEL CLUB—The monthly meeting of the Idaho Capital City Kennel Club is open to all who are interested in showing their dog in conformation, agility, obedience or rally events. FREE, 208-3455197, www.icckc.org. Idaho Fish and Game, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise.

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25 Festivals & Events WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, www.expoidaho. com.

On Stage THE LAST OF THE BOYS—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, www.alleyrep.org.

OTHELLO—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12-$39. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, www. idahoshakespeare.org.

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BOISE URBAN GARDEN SCHOOL FARM STAND—Purchase fresh organic produce harvested by BUGS students.

Proceeds benefit BUGS programs. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and 4-6 p.m. FREE. BUGS Garden, 4821 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-424-6665, www. boiseurbangardenschool.org.

Odds & Ends BOISE NAVY WEEK— See Friday. Full schedule at www.navyweek.com/ boise2010.

BOISE UKULELE GROUP—This ukulele groups offers a chance for instruction or just to jam.

Open to all ages and skill levels with no membership fees. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Meadow Lakes Village Senior Center, 650 Arbor Circle, Meridian.

CELEBRITY LOOKALIKE CONTEST—See Wednesday. 6 p.m.

FREE. Shorty’s Saloon, 5467 Glenwood, Garden City, 208-3226699.

POKER—Play for fun and prizes.

7 p.m. The Buffalo Club, 10206 W. Fairview Ave., Boise. 208321-1811.

VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF IDAHO—Buy, sell, trade and listen to vinyl records with other analog musical enthusiasts. Guest speakers and DJs. Info at www.vpsidaho.org. 7-10 p.m. FREE. Modern Hotel and Bar, 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244.

Calls to Artists AUDITIONS FOR MR. MARMALADE—Men and women of all ages needed for show in October. No children needed. August 21-22, 2 p.m. FREE. Eclectic Endeavors, 3005 Main St., Boise, 208-863-4745, mixedbagom.com.

FOUR AND SIX-MONTH RESIDENCIES FOR AIR—Up to seven artists will be chosen for rent-free studio spaces in downtown. Interested artists must submit a letter of interest, resume and up to 10 digital images on a CD of work along with two references with phone and e-mail contacts to the selection panel to Boise City Department of Arts and History, P.O. Box 500, Boise, ID 83701. Eighth Street Marketplace at BODO, 404 S. Eighth St., Mercantile Building, Boise, 208-338-5212, www.8thstreetmarketplace.com.

T-SHIRT DESIGN CONTEST— Record Exchange is celebrating its 33 1/3 anniversary in September and is offering a $100 gift card and other prizes to whomever submits the best design for a commemorative Tshirt. Design elements are up to the artist, but the design must include the copy “The Record Exchange” and “Boise.” Submit design to Record Exchange as a vectorized Illustrator file on a CD, with all fonts outlined with PMS color specifications. Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, www. therecordexchange.com.

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ISF takes a dark, dramatic turn with Shakespeare’s Othello.

IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL’S OTHELLO Jealously, fear, pride, self doubt: raw, primal emotions that can lead to unthinkable outcomes. It doesn’t matter if you’re a prince, a pauper or—in the case of Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s most recent production, Othello—a celebrated military general.

Shakespeare’s tragedy has long been a study of racism, but the ISF production goes beyond that to delve into the dark side of humanity. The result is a play that is at once intriguing to watch and emotionally challenging.

The premise is the timeless tale of the outsider. Othello (David Alan Anderson) is a celebrated Venetian general who is also a Moor. While the powers of Venice are happy to take advantage of his skills, he is not considered their equal.

The most vengeful is Iago (David Anthony Smith), Othello’s longtime ensign who was passed over for promotion Othello runs through Sunday, Aug. 29. in favor of the educated Cassio (Kevin Crouch). With a smile For more information, visit on his face and a knife at the idahoshakespeare.org. ready to stab anyone in the back, Iago vies to take down both men by leading Othello to believe that Cassio has been having an affair with his wife, Desdemona (Sara M. Bruner).

The results are death and destruction—about what you’d expect from a Shakespearian tragedy.

For the first half, Othello sits on the sidelines, while Iago shines. ISF veteran Smith creates a character that is calculating and cold, while still playing many lines for a laugh, which is actually unnerving.

Anderson reaches his stride in the second act, using his powerful presence to convey Othello’s festering self-doubt and growing paranoia.

The actors fully utilize the simple set: a massive steel scaffolding, which allows the use of multiple levels and the occasional acrobatic turn. The effect is stark and alludes to the metaphorical cage in which the players are trapped.

As the play reaches its tragic climax, Iago is asked to look at the bloody repercussions of his actions. In response, Smith flashes a cold, mocking smile and slowly claps. It’s a chilling moment that is sure to linger in the minds of audiences.

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Congo Benefit Concert may connect Boise to global crisis

ANNIE B ETHANC OU R T PHOTOGR APH B Y B EC C A B LIVENS

WHEN MUSIC MATTERS GEORGE PRENTICE

Woodstock didn’t end the Vietnam War. The Concert for Bangladesh didn’t curb the turmoil of East Pakistan refugees. Farm Aid didn’t prevent family farmers from losing their Annie Bethancourt and PawnShop Kings join a host of other musicians and the New Heart Congolese Choir land. But when music is attuned to social conto raise much needed funds for women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo. science, bridges can be built toward tolerance, peace and sometimes social change. in the DRC. That is equivalent to the entire who will be joined by a local Congolese Countless musical acts are vying for our population of Colorado.

Choir. That is worth repeating: A local Conattention and money this summer. Concerts Living in that bubble may mean not being golese choir from the New Heart Christian in clubs, gardens and amphitheaters, have aware of the atrocities being committed in Ministries of Boise will perform. filled the midsummer air. But on Thursday, the DRC. For example, rape is being used as The New Heart Christian Ministries Aug. 19, Boise’s Egyptian Theatre will host church—where “services are uniquely held in a weapon of war. Soldiers rape girls as young what could easily become the most diverse, as 3 and women as old as 75. In some IDP engaging and socially aware musical event of English with translation in Swahili”—is only camps (Internally Displaced People are those 5 years old but 200 strong. Parishioners inthe season. clude refugees from the Democratic Republic who have been forced from their homes but, The Congo Benefit Concert is not simply unlike refugees, have been unable to leave of Congo, as well as a touring road-show.

Burundi, Rwanda, Tan- their country) it is estimated that more than Its roots go back 70 percent of the women have been raped. zania, Nigeria, Kenya, to December 2009, Something else to help drive the conflict Sudan and Ethiopia. when the commuhome: Even cell phones play a role in the The refugees didn’t nity of Bend, Ore., continued conflict in the Congo. bring much with them witnessed what was Children and widows are used as slaves to their new communibilled as a one-timeto work in rebel-controlled mines in DRC. ties, but they brought only event.

The slaves dig for what are known as the their voices. And dur“When we saw it, three T’s: tungsten, tantalum and tin, which ing the concert, they we knew we just had will use those voices to are used in most of the world’s cell phones. to try to recreate the sing of life and loss and Congolese rebel groups earn more than $100 concert for Boise,” million per year from trade in the three T’s. hope in order to help said Lindsay Kevan, Ann Mara is a WRF team member in those still struggling with the Treasure Bend. When she talks of her first-hand exback home.

Valley World Relief perience in the DRC, she speaks with clarity In order to make office. and determination, but her thick Irish accent this concert as benefiWorld Relief is a The Congo Benefit Concert also has a touch of the poet. cial as possible, each religious organiza“The pages that hold the story of humanof the American artists tion that works with With Elliot, Grace Laxson, PawnShop Kings, Annie Bethancourt and was asked to contribute ity have been torn and tattered by the winds churches to help the New Heart Congolese Choir of injustice,” said Mara. “We are here to help to a special CD, The new refugees with Thursday, Aug. 19, 7 p.m., $10. write the resolve of that story.”

Congo Benefit Project. everything from obTicket sales from Thursday’s concert will More importantly, the taining car insurance Tickets are available at: assist the Boise World Relief office. All of the musicians and singers WORLD RELIEF OFFICES to enrolling their 6702 W. Fairview Ave., boise.wr.org proceeds from CD and DVD sales at the event all donated the rights children in school to will go directly to on-the-ground relief work in and proceeds of their finding health care EGYPTIAN THEATRE 700 W. Main St. the DRC. That includes education to orphans music to World Relief. and employment. egyptiantheatre.net and food, seed and planting tools to widows.

“I feel my song was Kevan spends her The conflict in the DRC reminds us that my way of responding days as a vocational our history is rife with injustice: Holocaust, to my own unawaretraining specialist, the Crusades, slavery, genocide, persecution, ness of what’s been going on in the Congo,” working with refugees from every corner of hunger. In 2010, war, rape and starvation are said Laxson. “I just feel that for a long time, the globe. But after seeing the Congo Benefit wiping out a nation. The crisis in the DRC I’ve been living in a bit of a bubble.”

Concert in Bend, she was compelled to add Most would probably agree with her. Con- may be the greatest cause of our time, and concert promoter to her resume. it will soon be in the history books. Those sider this: The current conflict in the DRC is And it’s a pretty impressive debut. The the worst documented crisis since World War books will also document how we chose to concert will include performances from respond to that need. This concert is one II. More than 5.4 million people have died American musicians Elliot, Grace Laxson, small way that we can help. in the last 10 years due to war related causes PawnShop Kings and Annie Bethancourt, WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

Fake wood, real rock.

THE MIDWEST CROSSROADS Local indie rockers Fauxbois, fronted by ex-BWer Brian Mayer, recently wrapped up a tour with Built to Spill and Finn Figgins.

Fauxbois have received a smattering of good press from the tour, including the following nod from cmj.com: “Fauxbois played a fun take on ’90s guitar-heavy indie rock that sounded like … well, Built to Spill … Many songs began as hushed confessionals as guitarists Brian Mayer and Kate Seward shared vocal duties before the drums kicked in and guitar squalls buried their lamentations.”

Another review of the Fauxbois show at NYC’s Irving Plaza on baeblemusic.com included even more glowing praise: “BoS [sic] has inspired countless derivatives, probably including well-matched opener Fauxbois, who played a great set and probably gained a respectable amount of new fans.”

But sadly, the review also contained the following line: “The chilly Midwestern disposition (Fauxbois hail from Idaho) certainly crept out in bits and pieces, adding an emotive quality to an already engaging bit of music.”

Yikes. First off, Midwesterners are not even remotely known for having chilly dispositions. Second, and it pains us to even have to explain this to someone we assume passed high school geography, Idaho is not in the Midwest. It’s just not.

Speaking of Built to Spill, frontman Doug Martsch and bassist Brett Nelson recently came out with the Electronic Anthology Project, a catchy reinterpretation of some BTS classics using ’80s synth and drum machine beats. All of the song titles are anagrams of old hits, including “What If Your Dull” (“I Would Hurt a Fly”) and “Far Path Tall Sign” (“Things Fall Apart”). You can hear three tracks from the album on Myspace or buy the seven-song EP at cdbaby.com on iTunes or at a live BTS show.

Moving from BTS to BTH, ’90s rap act Bone Thugs-n-Harmony just announced that they’ll be swinging through Knitting Factory on Wednesday, Sept. 22.

The Cleveland hip-hop group, which consists of five Smurfily-named rappers— Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Layzie Bone and Bizzy Bone—is most famous for the 1995 hits “Tha Crossroads” and “1st of Tha Month.”

Tickets for Bone Thugs went on sale Aug. 13, with general admission tix running $25 and platinum skybox seats going for $50.

Tickets are available at Record Exchange, ticketfly.com or bo.knittingfactory.com. Just make sure to bring a friend so you won’t be lonely, so you won’t be lone-ly.

—Tara Morgan

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GUIDE WEDNESDAY AUGUST 18 AH HOLLY FAM’LY—With The Ocean Floor and With Child. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage ALIVE AFTER FIVE—With Boulder Acoustic Society and Andy Byron and the Lost River Band. 5 p.m. FREE. The Grove Plaza BEN BURDICK TRIO PLUS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Bouquet BILLY ZERA—7 p.m. FREE. Sully’s BOISE ROCK SCHOOL APPRENTICE SHOWCASE—6 p.m. $5. The Linen Building THE BOURBON DOGS—6 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown BRIANNE GRAY—6 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian CARNIFEX—With Dissimilate the Marred, World These Kings and The Brave. 7:30 p.m. $10. The Venue CARY JUDD—4 p.m. FREE. Redfish Lake Lodge CHRIS GUTIERREZ—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe

JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s KEVIN KIRK, JON HYNEMAN AND PHIL GARONZIK—7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LOOSE CHANGE—7:45 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub LORD OF THE FALCONRY—With Jumping Sharks. 8 p.m. $3. Neurolux PATRICIA FOLKNER AND JOEL KASERMAN—7:30 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock & Barrel SHANNON CURTIS FEATURING JT SPANGLER AND AARON BEAUMONT—8 p.m. FREE. Reef SLIPPERY ELM—7 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown SOUL SERENE—7 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper Lounge TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill THE TICS—9 p.m. FREE. The Buffalo Club TIME AND DISTANCE—With 3rd to Last, Ella Ferrari, Light the Sky and The Paris Funds. 7 p.m. Brawl Studios

DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

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FRIDAY AUGUST 20

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY WEBER—6 p.m. $10. Idaho Botanical Garden

THE BADFISH BAND—9 p.m. $2.

Liquid

CONGO BENEFIT CONCERT—See Noise, Page 21. 7 p.m. $10, Egyptian DANNY BEAL’S DUELING PIANOS—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s Basement ELECTRIC LOVE COBRAS—9 p.m.

FREE. Shorty’s Saloon EXODUS—With Malevolent Creation, Holy Grail and Bonded By Blood. 8 p.m. $16 adv., $18 door. Neurolux FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m. FREE. Solid KEVIN KIRK, STEVE EATON & PHIL GAROZNIK—7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers PISTOL WHIPPED PROPHETS—With NNFU, The Jerkwadz, Pull Out Quick and The Anti-Core. 7 p.m. $4.

The Red Room REBECCA SCOTT—5:30 p.m. FREE. Downtown Nampa Nights ROOFTOPS—With Wasilla, Finn Riggins, In the Pause and Red Hands Black Feet. 7 p.m. $7. Brawl Studios

DESIRAE BRONSON—6 p.m. FREE. Bardenay-Eagle

SOUL SERENE—10 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

DON FELDER—8 p.m. $50-$100.

Sun Valley Pavilion

THE THROWDOWN—Featuring Dying Famous, Fetish 37 and Motto Kitty. 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

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

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY WEBER—8 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper CRAVING DAWN—9 p.m. FREE. Overland Bar FIREWORKS—With The Swellers, Man Overboard and Transit. 7 p.m. $10 adv. $12 door. The Venue IDAHO-DOWN JAM STATE FESTIVAL—See Picks, Page 14. Noon-2 a.m., $15 day, $25 weekend. Brundage Resort, McCall KEVIN KIRK, JOHN JONES, JON HYNEMAN, MIKE SEIFRIT—With Camden Hughes. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LOOSE CHANGE—6:30 p.m. FREE. The Blue Moose Cafe MICHAEL TOMLINSON—7 p.m. $25.

Woodriver Cellars NATHAN J. MOODY—6 p.m. FREE. Solid PILOT ERROR—9 p.m. $5. Dino’s RASPUTINA—With Larkin Grimm.

8 p.m. $15-$35. Knitting Factory Concert House REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill and Brewery RIZING REZISTANCE—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

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MARCH FOURTH, AUG. 21, BOUQUET

After four decades of sharing vocal duties, Doobie Brothers founders Tom Johnston and Pat Simmons are still taking it to the streets.

“We’re on a 40-year tour,” Simmons said laughing. “This is something that we’ve done for a long time.”

But Simmons, Johnston and the rest of the Doobies do have one change coming up: a brand new record, World Gone Crazy (HOR Records), due out on Tuesday, Sept. 28. It was produced by longtime DB producer Ted Templeman and includes Michael McDonald singing backup on “Don’t Say Goodbye.” Simmons said that it has been interesting to watch their fans respond to the new songs.

“When we play ‘Black Water’ or ‘China Grove,’ it evokes some experience for people. When we play something new, they tend to be a little more thoughtful and really listen to it ... we are really tr ying to bring the new songs to life,” Simmons said.

—Amy Atkins

One letter can make a huge difference in a band name. Take altcountr y rocker Ryan Adams and his tousled hair “Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?” predecessor Br yan Adams. Or there’s March Forth, a spiritual quartet comprised of “four men, who were called of God” to “reach unbelievers of all ages,” and March Fourth, a Portland, Ore.-based marching band/vaudeville per formance troupe described as “Duke Ellington meets Sgt. Pepper in an international big-top Fantasia.”

Lucky for non-believers, March Fourth will be driving their giant tour bus full of hula hoops, stilts, costumes, trombones, saxophones and drums to Boise for a crazy circus-style performance at Tour de Fat on Saturday, Aug. 21. And for those who want to rub sweaty shoulders with March Fourth’s musicians, acrobats, flag-twirlers and fire-dancers in more intimate environs, you can head over to the Bouquet that night for an encore performance.

—Tara Morgan

7:30 p.m., FREE. Western Idaho Fair, Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., 208-287-5650, idahofair.com.

9 p.m., $15, Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., 208-345-6605, thebouquet.net.

ANDY BATT

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GUIDE SOUL HONEY—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub SPINDLEBOMB—10 p.m. $3.

Grainey’s Basement SUMMER LUNCH JAMS—Darkwood Consort. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. FREE. The Grove Plaza VERSAILLES—With Our City Skyline, Lambs Become Lions, Far Beyond Victory and Dissimilate the Marred. 6 p.m. $3.

Brawl Studios

SATURDAY AUGUST 21 AUDRA CONNOLLY—6 p.m.

FREE. Tully’s Coffee.

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY WEBER—8 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper Lounge BROCK B—7 p.m. FREE. Donnie Mac’s CANDREAD AND THE RIZING REZISTANCE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub CHELSEA GRIN—With Fire in the Skies, Plague Years, When We Were Kings, Her Death and After. 6 p.m. $10. Brawl Studios ENTHRONED—With Destroyer 666, Purgatory and The Deep.

9 p.m. $15. The Red Room

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HORNETLEG—With The Orca Tea and Fauxbois. 8 p.m. $3.

Flying M Coffeegarage JOHN HANSEN—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s IDAHO-DOWN JAM STATE FESTIVAL—See Picks, Page 14. Noon-2 a.m., $15 day, $25 weekend.

Brundage Resort, McCall JOHN PRINE—See Picks, Page 14. 7 p.m. $39.50-$75. Eagle River Amphitheater LIKE A ROCKET—8 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s THE LYDIA FINALE—7:30 p.m. $10. The Venue MARCH FOURTH—See Listen Here, Page 22.

9 p.m. $15. Bouquet MOUSY BROWN—With Symmetry/Symmetry. 9 p.m. $2. Liquid NUDE OIL—9 p.m. FREE. Plank

SUNDAY AUGUST 22

TUESDAY AUGUST 24

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 25

MUSIC FROM STANLEY—Hokum High Flyers With Travis Ward. 4-7 p.m. FREE. Redfish Lake Lodge

BROCK B—7 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe

ALIVE AFTER FIVE—With Chuck Prophet and The Sleepy Seeds.

5 p.m. FREE. The Grove Plaza

WOE OF TYRANTS—With World These Kings and Nourish the Wolves. 7 p.m. $5. Brawl Studios

MONDAY AUGUST 23 A TASTY JAMM—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Ha’ Penny ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO AND THE SENSITIVE BOYS—8 p.m. $23. Egyptian Theatre

PAT FAULKNER—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek Grill

BEN BURDICK AND BILL LILES—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek Grill

PILOT ERROR—9 p.m. $5.

Dino’s

CHUCK SMITH—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Berryhill

SOUL SERENE—9:30 p.m. $5.

Reef

PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. $2.

Liquid

SPINDLEBOMB—10 p.m. $3.

Grainey’s Basement

ROB PAPER—7 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY CLUB NIGHT—Vinyl Preservation Society DJs Art Hodge, Pedro and Tony B. 8 p.m. $5. The Linen Building

STEVEN TONEY—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

CARTER FREEMAN—6 p.m.

FREE. Solid DOOBIE BROTHERS— See Listen Here, Page 22. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Expo Idaho EVETT AND COSTELLO—8 p.m.

FREE. Lock, Stock & Barrel IQEQ—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye LARRY CONKLIN—11 a.m.

FREE. Moon’s Kitchen Cafe SMOOTH—7 p.m. FREE. Liquid VOLBEAT—With Dommin and A New Revolution. 8 p.m. $15.

Knitting Factory

THE ECCLECTICS—6 p.m.

FREE. Gelato Cafe JOHNNY BERTRAM AND THE GOLDEN BICYCLE—With Blacksmith. 8 p.m. $3. Neurolux LOWER DENS—With Sleepy Seeds. 8 p.m. $5. Flying M Coffeegarage ORGONE—8:30 p.m. $8 adv., $11 door. Bouquet SAVE YOURSELF TOUR—Featuring Sadistik, Kid Called Computer, Kristoff Krane and Cas One. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Reef SIXTH ST. COLLECTIVE—9 p.m.

FREE. Liquid SOUL HONEY—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub UNCLE CRACKER—Following Uncle Cracker will be Luke Bryan. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Expo Idaho

SONG & DANCE DJS—Wed: Bad Irish, Balcony.

Thu: Balcony, Cowgirls. Fri: Bad Irish, Balcony, Catacomb Club, Chilango’s, Boise Cafe, Neurolux, Sin; Sat: Balcony, Boise Cafe, Catcomb Club, Chilango’s, Dirty Little Roddy’s, Neurolux, Sin, Zee’s Smoking Center. Mon: Bad Irish, Balcony. Tue: Balcony.

KARAOKE—Wed: 44 Club, Ha’Penny, Navajo Room, Overland, Savvy’s, Shorty’s, Sin, Terry’s. Thu: 44 Club, Hannah’s, Navajo Room, Overland, The Plank, Quarter Barrel, Savvy’s, Terry’s, Willi B’s. Fri: 44 Club, Navajo Room, Nuthouse, Overland, Sam’s Place, Savvy’s, Sunshine Lounge, Terry’s, Willi B’s. Sat: 44 Club, Cricket’s, Hooligans, Sam’s Place, Savvy’s, Terry’s. Sun: 44 Club, Bad Irish, Balcony, Liquid, Navajo Room, Overland, Ranch Club, Savvy’s, Terry’s. Mon: 44 Club, The Buffalo Club, Overland, Navajo Room, Savvy’s, Terry’s, Willi B’s. Tue: 44 Club, Cricket’s, Liquid, Lucky Dog, Overland, Savvy’s, Shorty’s, Navajo, Terry’s, Willi B’s.

For complete music listings, visit boiseweekly.com.

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PA U L H O S E FR O S , “ I D A H O W I N E C O U N TRY.” C A X TO N 2010

Boise Mural Project: making one parking garage a little less gray.

LONG AND WINE-DING ROAD

Photographer Paul Hosefros and author Alan Minskoff discover Idaho Wine Country

A couple of weeks ago, artists holed up in a dank concrete parking garage and worked around the clock to turn the bottom two floors of the Idaho Building at Ninth and Bannock streets into the Boise Mural Project, one of the largest public art displays in the Northwest. The project was conceptualized by Buddy Van Buren who works for Park Lane Property Management, the company that owns the building.

“I was down there one day and just thought it would be nice to brighten up the place and put in a mural,” said Van Buren.

“Next thing you know, a couple people were interested. And then it just kept growing and growing.”

The theme for the project was “tribute,” and now more than 50 different murals have been painted on the site.

For photos and video footage of artists at work on their murals check out Cobweb at boiseweekly.com.

In more fancy-pants news, the Boise Chamber Music Society and the Boise State Department of Music will kick off the 2010-2011 chamber music series with series opener the Gryphon Trio on Friday, Sept. 17, followed by Grammy-winning Eighth Blackbird on Friday, Oct. 15. Next, the Peabody Trio performs for the fifth time in the Boise Chamber Music series on Friday, Feb. 11. And last but not least, the St. Petersburg Quartet closes out the series next spring on Friday, April 29.

Tickets are $100 for the entire 20102011 series and every performance will be at the Morrison Center Recital Hall at 7:30 p.m. on Friday evenings. For more information, visit boisechambermusicseries.org.

If stories told live on stage are more your style, don’t miss the latest installment of Story Story Night on Monday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m. at the Linen Building. The theme for this month’s event is “Dog Days: Stories of Summer” and will feature storytellers Jan Schlicht, Elaine Ambrose and Clay Morgan.

Alley Repertory Theater (one of the hosts of Story Story Night) opened its new season on Wednesday, Aug. 18, with Steven Dietz’s play, The Last of the Boys at Visual Arts Collective. The play provides a window into the minds of veterans who shirk the idea of relating their terrific accounts of human barbarism experienced during war.

Doors are at 7 p.m. and the show starts at 8 p.m. The cost is $15 with a $10 matinee on Saturday, Aug. 28. For more info, visit alleyrep.org.

—BW staff

Through a seamless blending of words and images, Idaho Wine Country (Caxton Press) provides a brilliant, witty, feast that will open the world’s eyes to the Gem State’s emerging From inside the Woodriver Cellars barrel room, Tina Sali, on whose wedding day we see this scene, is tempowinemaking industry. rarily at the mercy of a gust of wind. Weddings, dinners and various events are held at the Eagle winery.

The book—edited by Judy Steele and designed by Chris Latter—is the work of winemaking cycle. been more perfect.”

Boise writer Alan Minskoff and former New “Oddly enough winter was the most ilOn April 9, 2007, a defining moment ocYork Times photographer Paul Hosefros of curred for the Idaho wine industry. It was on lusive,” he said. “Winter is the calm before Caldwell. They offer up portraits of more the storm. It anticipates the coming growth that day that the state earned its first Amerithan 50 Idaho winemakers and grape growand harvest. But this is not merely a book of can Viticulture Area (AVA) designation. The ers, banishing any doubts about the dedicalandscapes. This is a book about people.”

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau tion of Idaho vintners.

Both Minskoff and Hosefros strived to presBeginning in December 2008, Hosefros and administrates about 200 AVAs throughout ent the reader with intimate glimpses of those Minskoff crisscrossed Idaho for 15 months—in the country. involved in this romantic but sometimes highly “When the Snake River Valley received an aging Saab they christened “Bottle One”— technical agricultural endeavor. its AVA designation,” Minskoff said, “it was searching for something many thought didn’t “I’ve learned more about the apprecialike receiving the Good Housekeeping Seal of exist. Their quest, which took them as far tion of wine in the last 15 months than I ever Approval. The designation puts Idaho wine north as Sandpoint and as far south as Marsthought possible,” Minskoff said. “If you makers on the map.” ing, yielded this extraordinary, historic book. spend that much time tasting grapes ... your Hosefros—who photographed seven U.S. “We wanted to tell the story of people palate can’t help but improve.” presidents, numerous prime ministers and engaged in all aspects of the winemaking pro“Early on we realized we were on to Nelson Mandela cess,” Minskoff said. while working for the something good with this project,” Hosefros “We wanted to show said. “Alan and I quickly learned to accomTimes, —considers them tending and the honor a gauntlet. modate each other’s idiosyncrasies. Writers crafting the wines, in are strange animals, and I’m sure they think “The AVA desigthe fields and bottling nation is a two-edged photographers are even stranger. But we had rooms. We discovered a single purpose: to tell these stories the best sword,” Hosefros that Idaho has a wine way possible.” said. “It’s an official country that is much Minskoff and Hosefros traveled hundreds recognition, but more sophisticated of miles on back roads in search of hidden it also sets the bar than many people vineyards and out-of-the-way tasting rooms. higher. Idaho wine think. We didn’t meet They often got lost. makers are now goa single winemaker “Some of the smaller wineries had no siging to have to stretch who wasn’t attemptto meet new expecta- nage,” Minskoff said. “We’d drive right past a ing to make the best few times before someone would actually come tions. The next five wine he or she posout to the road and wave to us.” years will tell the sibly could.”

Idaho Wine Country is not only an introtale.”

Caxton Press duction to what’s out there and where, nor David Kirkpatpublisher Scott does it serve as simply a map and guide. rick, beer and wine Gipson immediately It’s the story of the search for something columnist for Boise took an interest in the Visit caxtonpress.com for more information. mystical and intoxicating. It’s an oenophile Weekly, believes local project when he was adventure that leaves the reader with the heady wines can compete. approached. aftertaste of discovery.

“Alan and Paul’s book should definitely “The wine industry in Idaho has been “There is a great diversity of grapes and have a positive impact,” Kirkpatrick said. building a great deal of momentum over the wineries to discover,” Minskoff said. “I hope “The writing and photographs are truly past few years,” Gipson explained. “When our book will bring recognition to Idaho you visit wineries and tasting rooms and talk impressive. I haven’t seen another book on winemakers and be part of the solution. We Idaho wine that comes even close.” to winemakers in our communities, you can approached the creation of this book like a The book was written and photographed feel the excitement and can’t help but get the bottle of wine. We took the time to make it during all four seasons so that Hosefros sense that they are on the cusp of something right.” special. The timing of this book couldn’t have and Minskoff could document the complete

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SCREEN

SWEDE SUCCESS

The Girl Who Played With Fire burns up the screen GEORGE PRENTICE The first thing you need to know about The Girl Who Played with Fire is that you won’t be lost if you haven’t seen The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. However, this second installment in the trilogy will definitely make you want to go back and see the first.

When Swedish author Stieg Larsson died in 2004, his posthumous gift to the literary world was the unpublished Millennium trilogy, a series of crime novels that targeted misogyny, journalists without The film contains more character developinvestigative spines and a bottomless well ment than an entire season of CSI. With its of Cold War ugliness. dense plot, it is akin to Helen Mirren’s Prime When the production company Yellow Suspect mini-series. The Girl who Played Bird decided to bring the novels to the big with Fire includes a triple murder, counterscreen, even while many of the books sat spies and a villainous blonde killing maatop best-seller lists, an international phechine. In about two hours, major secrets are nomenon was born. Millions have seen the revealed and an understanding and appreciamovie in 25 nations across the globe.

After watching The Girl who Played with tion for Lisbeth and Mikael increases 10-fold.

In spite of mounting evidence implicating Fire, it is doubly convincing that the lead character, Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) Lisbeth in grisly crimes, Mikael never wavers in his trust of her, and is one of the best his dogged determinaliterary anti-heroines THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (R) tion to discover the of this generation.

Directed by Daniel Alfredson truth is inspiring.

She is a genius Modern day Stockwith computers but Starring Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist holm is the setting for completely ignorant Opens Friday at The Flicks the trilogy, but don’t of human behavior. think for a moment Her tortured soul that this is simply and bruised body a Swedish film. Major credit to director neither slow her down nor dull her senses Daniel Alfredson for presuming that his auas she is once again teamed with Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), a middle-aged dience is smart and savvy enough to connect with universal themes of corruption, loss journalist who writes for fictional Millenand revenge. Cinematographer Peter Moknium magazine.

Does the girl’s dragon tattoo also play with fire?

rosinski frames the Scandinavian twilight with deep orange streetlights and blue velvet clouds. It’s an effective tribute to the best of film noir and easy to imagine what The Girl Who Played with Fire would look like in black and white.

Ultimately, the question that may measure the film’s box office success will be: Is it as good as the first movie? But that’s the wrong question. Rather, it should be: Does it complement the first film? Absolutely.

And maybe more importantly, following a breathtaking finale, it really sets the table for the third and final film, The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.

Hollywood has decided to co-opt Tattoo, with Daniel Craig and Robin Wright already attached to an English-language remake.

Carey Mulligan, Ellen Page and Kristen Stewart were rumored to be up for the title role, but it looks like newcomer Rooney Mara will be playing the part of Lisbeth. Unless there’s a total re-imagining of plot and setting, a remake could be a horrible idea, simply because the originals are so good.

SCREEN/LISTINGS Special Screenings BAD WRITING—Documentary about creative writing by Vernon Lott. Post-screening discussion with the director.

Saturday, Aug. 21, 12:30 p.m. $6.50. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3424222, theflicksboise.com.

THE LEAST OF THESE— Documentary about federal detention of illegal immigrant families. The first in a series of screenings sponsored by the ACLU of Idaho. Followed by a discussion. Sunday, Aug. 22, 7 p.m. $11. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

MOVIES UNDER THE STARS—Outdoor screening of Percy Jackson and the Olympians; The Lightning Thief. Blankets and camp chairs recommended. See Picks, Page 14. Saturday, Aug. 21, 7 p.m. FREE. Gene Harris Bandshell, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., in Julia Davis Park, Boise, www.cityofboise. org/parks.

THE QUEEN OF THE SUN— Documentary about the global bee crisis sponsored by the Treasure Valley Food Coalition. Thursday, Aug. 19, 7 p.m. $10. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3424222, theflicksboise.com.

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Opening THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE—Sequel to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, in which expert hacker and heroine Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) is framed for the murder of two journalists as part of a larger conspiracy. In Swedish with English subtitles. See Review, this page. (R) Flicks LOTTERY TICKET—A young man living in the projects wins $370 million in the lottery, money that his neighbors and friends all have plans for. (PG-13) Edwards 22

PIRAHNA—An underwater tremor releases prehistoric man-eating fish into a lake at a resort. But Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd and Jerry O’Connell ain’t going down without a fight. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 SOLITARY MAN—Michael Douglas stars as a disgraced businessman whose appetites prevent him from rebuilding his personal life.

(R) Flicks

Continuing CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE—The epic struggle for

control of Earth continues when the cats and dogs must join forces in this sequel to the 2001 movie.

(PG) Edwards 22 CHARLIE ST. CLOUD—A young sailor (Zac Efron) survives an accident in which his brother is killed. The tragedy allows him to see the world in a unique way. Based on the Ben Sherwood novel.

(PG-13) Edwards 9 COCO & IGOR—Mads Mikkelsen and Anna Mouglalis star in this romantic biography set in Paris as Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky conduct a torrid affair while Stravinsky’s wife suffers from consumption. (R) Flicks

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SCREEN/LISTINGS DESPICABLE ME—Armed with a score of threatening artillery, the villainous Gru, (Steve Carell) is plotting to steal the moon when three orphaned girls get in his way. (PG) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 DINNER FOR SHMUCKS—Tim’s (Paul Rudd) boss hosts a monthly dinner in which the employee who brings the biggest buffoon gets a career-boost. The scheme backfires when he brings Barry (Steve Carell). (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 EAT, PRAY, LOVE—On the heels of a painful divorce, a woman (Julia Roberts) sets out to explore the world and seek out her true destiny. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 THE EXPENDABLES—A group of mercenaries undertake a near-impossible operation to overthrow a dictator in South America. (R) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 GROWN UPS—(PG-13) Edwards 22 INCEPTION—(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22, Edwards IMAX THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT—Annette Bening and Julianne Moore play a lesbian couple who have successfully raised a teenaged son and daughter. Mark Ruffalo stars as their formerly anonymous sperm donor, who the teens decide to meet. (R) Flicks THE LAST AIRBENDER—Based on the popular Nickelodeon television series, the future of mankind falls in the hands of a young boy named Aang, who learns he is the last Avatar with the power to manipulate all four elements. (PG-13) Edwards 22 MID-AUGUST LUNCH—Living in a crumbling condo with his 93-year-old mother, Gianni di Gregorio agrees to keep an eye on the manager’s elderly mother and auntie over a holiday weekend. In Italian with English subtitles. (R) Flicks THE OTHER GUYS—Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg star as cops.

(PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 SALT—A CIA officer (Angelina Jolie) is accused of being a Russian spy. She eludes capture by superiors as she struggles to uncover the real traitor. (PG-13) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD—When Ramona Flowers skates into Scott Pilgrim’s (Michael Cera) heart, he must fight off an evil army of her exboyfriends. (PG-13) Edwards 22 THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE—Nicolas Cage is a master sorcerer in modern-day Manhattan, who finds a reluctant protege in his fight against the forces of darkness. (PG) Edwards 9, Edwards 22 STEP UP 3D—In this third installment of the Step Up franchise, the raw, passion-fueled culture goes global. (PG-13) Edwards 22 TOY STORY 3—(G) Edwards 9 TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE— (PG-13) Edwards 22 WINTER’S BONE—A girl from the Ozarks is burdened with saving her family from ruin after her absent father puts their home up for his bail bond, then disappears. (R) Flicks

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SCREEN/MOVIE TIMES WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18-TUESDAY, AUGUST 24 CATS AND DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE 3D— Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:10, 2:30, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30 CHARLIE ST. CLOUD—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12, 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50

COCO CHANEL AND IGOR STRAVINSKY—

Flicks: W-Tu: 4:30, 7, 9:20

DESPICABLE ME—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:40, 4:30, 7:45 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:50, 4:05, 6:55, 9:05

DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:25 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:25, 4:05, 6:35, 9:15

EAT PRAY LOVE— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:25, 4:25, 7:30, 10:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:25, 1, 3:30, 4:10, 6:25, 7:10, 9:25, 10:20 THE EXPENDABLES— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12, 12:40, 2:25, 3:05, 4:50, 5:30, 7:15, 7:50, 9:50, 10:15 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE— Flicks: F: 1:45, 4:20, 7, 9:25; Sa: 4:20, 7, 9:25; Su: 1:45, 4:20, 9; M-Tu: 4:20, 7, 9:25 GROWN UPS—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 4:40, 7:10

INCEPTION—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1, 4:05, 7:20, 10:05, 10:35 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 8, 10

INCEPTION IMAX—

Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:20, 3:40, 7, 10:05

THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT— THE LAST AIRBENDER— LOTTERY TICKET— MID-AUGUST LUNCH—

Flicks: W-Th: 5, 7:15, 9:25; F-Su: 12:30, 2:45, 5, 7:15, 9:30; M-Tu: 5, 7:15, 9:30 Edwards 22: W-Th: 2:05, 9:45

Edwards 22: F-Tu: 12, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Flicks: W-Th: 5:05, 7:05, 9:05

THE OTHER GUYS—

Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:05, 1:50, 4, 4:40, 7, 7:40, 9:45, 10:15 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:20, 12:50, 1:20, 2:50, 3:25, 4, 5:15, 6:15, 6:50, 7:45, 8:45, 9:20, 10:10

PIRAHNA— PIRAHNA 3D— SALT—

Edwards 9: F-Tu: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Edwards 22: F-Tu: 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7, 9:15 Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:20, 4:45, 7:05, 9:50 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:15, 2:45, 5, 7:30, 9:55

SCOTT PILGRIM VERSUS THE WORLD— Edwards 9: W-Th: 1:30, 4:10, 7:25, 9:55 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:05, 1:45, 2:40, 4:20, 5:10, 7:05, 7:45, 9:35, 10:15 THE SORCEROR’S APPRENTICE— Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:10 SOLITARY MAN— STEP UP 3D— STEP UP 3— TOY STORY 3—

Flicks: F-Su: 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20; M-Tu: 5:20, 7:20, 9:20 Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:40, 4:25, 7, 9:40 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:35, 2:55, 5:20 Edwards 22: W-Th: 12:55, 3:55, 6:30, 8:55

TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE— Edwards 22: W-Th: 1:35, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 WINTER’S BONE— Flicks: W: 5:10, 7:10, 9:10; Th: 5:10, 9:10; F-Su: 1:10, 3:10, 5:10, 7:10, 9:10; M-Tu: 5:10, 7:10, 9:10

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, Country Club Reel, Nampa Reel, 208-377-2620, www.reeltheatre.com. Overland Park $1 Cinema, 208377-3072, www.opcmovies.com.

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Few tourists see Yellowstone beyond the Grand Loop ANDREW CRISP

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backcountry, and some visitors are short on time, but according to Ranger Brian Sikes, the fly-by Yellowstone experience means missing out on some of the best parts of the park.

Sikes—who like Williams has a background in the military and law enforcement— is adamant about people getting out and experiencing the park.

“There are a lot of trails that go to backcountry sites that are underutilized. This is definitely more of a wild experience. But it’s always easier to drive than it is to walk.

Sometimes families are hitting three parks in one trip. There’s not much you can do here in

Even most children could walk the three miles to Sheepeater Cliff for a spectacular view.

Typically you pass an intrepid fisherman, an outdoorsy couple, or fit foreigners—usually French or German, both nationalities being big fans of hiking. There you lose the minivans and Hawaiian shirts. You are completely cut off from the masses.

The National Park Service has instituted programs to draw people away from the touristy watering holes. For families with children, the park offers a Junior Ranger program. A multi-page booklet challenges children—and their parents—to study geothermal features, take a backcountry trail and attend a rangerled discussion.

When children completes their booklet, they are given a patch, modeled after the NPS’ symbol. At $3, it’s cheap and can be completed in one to two days.

A Young Scientist program has also been started, which focuses on geology and is offered only at Old Faithful.

Most of the roads in Yellowstone follow ancient wildlife tracts, which were then worn by the feet of Native Americans, who then led the first white explorers, who later paved them to bring this landscape to everyone. Following rivers, the shores of Lake Yellowstone and the verdant bluffs, some of them smoldering with thermal activity, the Grand Loop provides the access to volcanic terrain. In fact, the lower loop follows the lip of the super volcano that is Yellowstone.

These sorts of facts are only available from interacting with park rangers. It takes getting out of your car, walking the boardwalks, reading the signs and learning from the visitors’ centers at every location.

Ranger Sikes summed it up best: “If the very unique experience of Old Faithful is what you’re looking for, you can drive up and do that. But if you’re looking for a very remote experience, cut off from civilization, you can do that here. I think everyone who comes here brings something out of their trip—it depends on what you enjoy.”

After all, the park is entirely yours.

BEN WILSON

At the top of Avalanche Peak, a shale-scattered hill overlooking Lake Yellowstone in Yellowstone National Park, it feels like the place where the Earth began. From 9,000plus feet, you can see to the horizon, the lake stretching to the Absarokas, and the valley twisting below you.

“You almost feel like you watched the glaciers carve this place,” one fellow hiker said.

Five of us—all Xanterra housekeeping employees who worked in the park for the summer season—climbed more than 1,000 feet over three miles, through a forest and up a rocky cliff. In the most visited National Park in the world— with more than 3 million visitors per year—we saw fewer than 10 people in five hours. The logbook at the trailhead, with 1998 as the earliest date, had fewer than four pages filled.

“It’s always been said that 95 percent of the people use 5 percent of the park, and that 5 percent of people use 95 percent of the park,” said Milo Williams, a backcountry ranger in Grant Village who issues fishing licenses and passes for camping.

Williams is a wealth of knowledge, with all the best fishing spots memorized, ready to tell a fisherman where to drop a line any time of the year. On a recent trip to isolated Grizzly Lake, per Williams’ suggestion, we saw exactly one family on a simple hike. Williams admitted that it’s usually groups of friends who venture into the backcountry. As for families: “A lot park in parking lots, and a lot do the boardwalks and the trails,” said Williams.

Many of them stick to Yellowstone’s Grand Loop, which allows easy access to the entire park. In fact, many of them will never leave the paved road that makes up the loop. As one ranger put it, “Every year I get asked, ‘How quickly can we get through the park?’”

Some visitors drive their rental car into the park, stop when they get to their hotel and spend the rest of their visit venturing out in the daylight, rubbernecking wildly from their minivans for elk and bison sightings. These are the people who will see the park from behind glass, and there are a lot of them. So many, in fact, that books are available in visitors’ centers titled Photography from Your Car. Granted, it’s hard to haul kids through the

a day. This is the kind of place where you’ve gotta take your time,” Sikes said.

And some people don’t go into the backcountry because they’re afraid, Sikes added.

“The beauty of this place is obviously the backcountry and how much of it there is. A lot of people fear the wildness, too. With more and more people living in highly developed areas, they feel afraid, maybe, of areas that are not developed,” he said.

On a trip to Osprey Falls, a 12-mile hike up and down canyon walls, we met up with a family of four with two young children. The parents weren’t daredevils, they simply wanted their children to better appreciate the park.

“We just love the outdoors, and we want our children to as well,” the mother told us.

We saw one other person on that hike. Like the family, our group learned from the rangers that groups of four or more are safe from bears (they avoid large groups) and as long as you’re well stocked with water and prepared for the elements, the backcountry is safe. So why do so few people get out of their cars?

Old Faithful is mobbed by hundreds of people who come to watch it erupt every 90 minutes. On the other hand, the hike to Osprey Falls is almost completely devoid of people, but offers cooler temperatures on a hot day and incredible photo opportunities.

Andrew Crisp spent two semesters as an intern at BW before taking a summer job at Xanterra, the company that runs Yellowstone’s concessions.

The diamond at the end of the rainbow.

HAWKS IN THE TOP OF THE NINTH Your chances to catch a Boise Hawks game are rapidly dwindling. The team has only seven home games left in the season.

Wednesday, Aug. 18, the Hawks take on the Everett Aquasox in the final game of a five-game series, then the team takes a day off before kicking off 11 days on the road followed by six home games. Tuesday, Aug. 31, the Hawks play the Spokane Indians, ending a six-game series, and on Friday, Sept. 3, the Hawks start a final three-game series against the Yakima Bears.

Want to go, but short on cash? Watch for tips in BW’s first-ever Annual Manual, which hits stands Wednesday, Aug. 25. You’ll find a few cost-saving ways to take in a game— whether it’s the Hawks, Idaho Stampede or Idaho Steelheads. But since we’re talking baseball, here’s what you need to know: WEDNESDAYS, AUG. 18 AND SEPT. 1, are $1 nights. The snack bar has a $1 menu that includes hot dogs, pop corn, ice cream, sandwiches and scones. Fans wearing a Hawkstown bracelet to Memorial Stadium can score a $1 ticket in reserved first baseline seating.

TUESDAY, AUG. 31, you’ll need to be a fan of faux cheese or of reading to get a free ticket. Bring your Kraft Singles wrapper to the stadium, and you’ll get a buy-oneget-one deal on tickets. Or, kids who’ve been diligent readers in Key Bank’s reading program can earn a free ticket.

THURSDAY, SEPT. 2, AND SUNDAY, SEPT. 5, it’s four drinks, four hot dogs and four tickets for $34.

You won’t score cheap seats the final weekend of games, but Friday, Sept. 3, is your last chance to catch post-game fireworks, and Saturday, Sept. 4, is a postgame block party.

—Rachael Daigle Visit boisehawks.com for information.

LICENSE TO PLAY While sitting in traffic trying get out of the Hawks parking lot, you might notice an unfamiliar license plate. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game released its new design of the Idaho Bluebird specialty plate. The initial plate costs $35, and renewal is an additional $25. Proceeds from the wildlife plates support non-game wildlife and plant management programs.

—Philip Alexander For more information visit itd.idaho.gov.

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REC/LISTINGS GARDEN CITY CHAMBER FUN RUN—One-mile and 5K run along the Greenbelt, starting and ending at the Boys and Girls Club. Register at www.bluecirclesports.com. Saturday, Aug. 21. $15. Garden City Boys and Girls Club, 610 E. 42nd St., Garden City, 208-376-4960.

INDIAN CREEK RUN—5K or 10K race along Indian Creek in Caldwell. Register at www. indiancreekrun.com. Saturday, Sept. 18. $20-$25.

The early bird catches the inner calm.

Register 2010 IDAHO STATE TIME TRIAL CHAMPIONSHIP—10K to 40K courses in downtown Mountain Home with medals for top three competitors. Visit sportsbaseonline.com to register. Registration ends Thursday, Aug. 19. Sunday, Aug. 22, $15-$25. Mountain Home.

26TH ANNUAL HARVEST CLASSIC RACE—An 8K run, a two-mile walk/run and a one-mile noncompetitive race for children.

The race attracts more 500

competitive and recreational runners. Early registration deadline is Tuesday, Sept. 14. Register online at www.namparecreation. org. Saturday, Sept. 18. $10$22. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, www.nampaparksandrecreation.org.

THE DIRTY DASH MUD RUN AND PIGLET PLUNGE KID RUN—A dirty 10K race through an obstacle course featuring the “big pig climb,” a “hog wallow” and the “slip n slide.” Register at www.thedirtydash.com. Saturday, Sept. 18. $40-$50.

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JIMMY DRISCOLL 5K FUN RUN AND WALK—Entry fee includes a T-shirt and post-event refreshments. Prizes awarded to top three men and women finishers in the 5K run only. Register at www.spondoro.com. Saturday, Aug. 28, 9 a.m. $20-$30. Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Rd., Boise, 208-3756010, www.bk.org.

KIDS HOCKEY SESSIONS— Kids ages 6-13 are invited to attend free sessions on Sunday, Aug. 29. Skates, sticks, gloves and helmets will be provided.

Idaho Steelheads players will be in attendance. Call 208-3310044 to register. FREE. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-331-0044, www.idahoiceworld.com.

LYLE PEARSON TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIPS—Men’s and women’s open singles and doubles tournament to be held Friday, Sept. 3-Monday, Sept. 6.

Cash prizes for winners. Entry deadline is Tuesday, Aug. 31.

Call 208-622-2135 to register. $40. Sun Valley Resort, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208622-4111, www.sunvalley.com.

fees are $375 per season and include all referee fees. Games are Mondays. For more information, call Dave at 208-284-9112 or Pat at 208-870-5975, or visit www.boisesoccerleague.com.

with a maximum speed of 15 mph every Sunday through Labor Day. Sundays, 9 a.m. FREE, www.lostrivercycling.org. Big City Coffee, 1416 Grove St., Boise, 208-345-3145.

PAYETTE LAKE RUN—Course includes dirt and paved roads and three distances. Saturday, Sept. 4, 8 a.m. Register at www. bluecirclesports.com, or for more information go to www. cityoftreesmarathon.com.

CHESS LESSONS—All ages and abilities welcome. Lessons are followed by open play, cosponsored by Extreme Chess.

Tuesdays, 6 p.m. 208-4722944. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, www. gardencity.lili.org.

STROLLER STRIDES—A stroller fitness class with power walk and body sculpting exercises.

Meets Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 9 a.m. at the playground in Julia Davis Park; Monday-Friday 9 a.m. at the Boise Towne Square Mall and Tuesdays and Thursdays at 9:30 a.m. at Reid W. Merrill Park in Eagle. First class FREE; single class $15; packages available, 1-800-676-0865, www.strollerstrides.com.

RUN WITH THE ANIMALS 5000—A flat, paved fun run to benefit Zoo Boise. Register at www.bluecirclesports.com.

Sunday, Sept. 19. $15.

SECOND ANNUAL FERRELLFEST FUN RIDE—15- to 50-mile ride and potluck to benefit scholarship programs at the College of Southern Idaho. Saturday, Aug. 28. Contact jtigue@csi.edu to register. $25-$50. Kimberly.

TABLE ROCK CHALLENGE—A nine-mile walk or fun run from Fort Boise to Table Rock and back. Register at www.bluecirclesports.com. Saturday, Sept. 11, 9 a.m. $25.

Recurring BOISE SOCCER LEAGUE—The co-ed soccer league is open to all levels. Player fees are $24 per season, plus $25 annual dues to U.S. Club Soccer. Team

DROP-IN ADULT BASKETBALL—The gymnasium is open for drop-in use from 11 a.m.2:30 p.m. Mondays-Fridays. $4 per visit. Fort Boise Community Center, 700 Robbins Road, Boise, 208-384-4486, www. cityofboise.org/parks.

EARLY BIRD MEDITATION—Rise and shine during two meditation periods, a morning chant and Dharma tidbits, with walking in between. Mondays, 7 a.m. $14 per class. Yoga for Wellness Studio, 300 Main St., Ste. 107, Boise, 208-484-1053, www. yogaforwellnesspro.com.

KNOBBY TIRES—Juniors, beginners, experts and enthusiasts welcome for a 60- to 90-minute no-drop ride. Mondays, 5:45 p.m., Camel’s Back Park (just west of tennis courts).

LOST RIVER CYCLING NO HOST SUNDAY ROAD RIDE—A no-drop, multiple group road ride

THURSDAY NIGHT RUN/ WALKS—Join the group for three-, four- or five-mile fun run/ walks year round, every Thursday. All abilities are welcome.

First timers should come a few minutes early to sign up.

Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. FREE, 208344-6604. Shu’s Idaho Running Company, 1758 W. State St., Boise, www.idahorunningcompany.com.

Events & Classes NINTH ANNUAL TOUR DE FAT—See Picks, Page 14. Saturday, Aug. 21, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise.

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

WRAP SHACK

GLENN LANDBERG

Admittedly I was pretty cranky about driving out to Nampa from There is a fine line between a wrap and a burrito. A wrap is a salad downtown Boise in the middle of a busy weekday afternoon for the or sandwich rolled up in a tortilla. A burrito is more like a casserole sole purpose of shoving a wrap into my mouth. Given the name Wrap full of comfort food rolled up in a tortilla.

Shack, I had visions of a slightly grimy parking lot hut with questionDespite its name, Nampa’s Wrap Shack definitely leans more able food safety standards. Wrap Shack is anything but. toward the burrito side of that line when it comes to things it rolls It’s situated in a corner suite in one of those relatively new standard up in a tortilla, but whatever you call it, the result is still rather tasty. stucco strip malls—the ones with the ubiquitous instant check cashing Located in a strip mall just outside of the entrance to the Idaho places and some sort of salon. Full-color, full-window-sized postCenter on the eastern edge of Nampa, the Wrap Shack has the ers advertise the definitive feel of a Southwestern—now mass-market chain with steak!—and joint with its faux So. the Ranch—only Cal./Hawaiian surf $2.99!—between decor, assembly-line neon beer signs. set up and smattering From the outof clean white tables side, Wrap Shack on tile floors. certainly looked But do not be mass-produced and fooled, it’s a local that look extends to place that is apparthe inside as well. ently quite popular, Bright colors make judging by the line of for a lively inside. nearby workers lined The beach theme is up during a recent undeniable: a tiki mid-week lunch hour. umbrella stands near The menu is the front, copious deceptively large— photos of surfers in although only a few action hang on the items are listed on a walls, a pair of hanglarge reader board. ing surfboards are But entrees are more suspended from the like categories. First, ceiling, and a body you pick the variety board has been conof filling you want— verted into a specials with options ranging board. It’s decor that not so subtly translates into light from the Caesar and Asian to tangy Hawaiian—then WRAP SHACK 5830 E. Franklin Rd., and summery food. With its highly professional graphyou pick the meat (beef, chicken or pork). Here’s the big 208-468-8833 ics and low, low price point (everything is regularly one: You have to select whether your meat and filling wrapshack.us priced at $2.99-$5.99), it also smacks of franchise. variety will be placed in a tortilla as a wrap, on top of after Memorial Day: Mon.Do yourself a favor: Tell the counter help it’s your first lettuce as a salad, or over steamed rice in a bowl. And if Sun., 10 a.m.-10 p.m. after Labor Day: Mon.-Sun., time and get the rundown on how to order. A half dozen you go with the wrap, you have to select a flour, salsa or 10 a.m.-9 p.m. menu options are merely starting points. From there, you spinach tortilla. have to narrow it down first to a meat preference—beef, Just when you think you’re done with all the decision chicken, pork or none—and then to presentation: wrap making, you have the option of adding various ingredi(couple of choices here, too), bowl or salad. After that, it gets nitty gritty ents to your creation, making it a combo, adding a drink, checking with your preference of dressing and additional toppings. out the daily special—it’s all a bit overwhelming.

The food is where the pleasant surprise factors in. The Big Island veggie After running the gauntlet, my favorite dining companion and is a meatless option that’s been put together with some thought. Rather I ended up with a chicken Bodacious BBQ wrap on a flour tortilla than being just a standard dish sans meat, it’s a concoction of seasoned ($4.99 regular, $5.99 mega) and a pork Surfin’ Southwestern wrap cous cous, red quinoa and a veggie medley partnered with tomatoes and on a salsa tortilla ($4.99 regular, $5.99 mega). mushrooms. Served over rice with green peppers, olives, pepperoncinis, The chicken on the Bodacious was the shredded variety but still fresh cilantro and black beans smothered in house spicy-sweet Hawaiian tender and juicy. The homemade barbecue sauce was sweet rather dressing, the dish is a fantastically tangy and a healthy departure from the than the advertised tangy, but it played nicely off of the crunchy, usual meat-veggie-sauce routine of most wrap joints. salty bacon pieces and raw onions. What stood out the most was the If a wrap is what you want, however, the combination of creamy kickfact that the creation was simply huge—a regular is almost daunting in’ Southwest sauce, shredded chicken heavy on the liquid smoke, bacon, for an average diner. cheddar and tomatoes will take two hands to eat and a serious dedication The pork in the Southwestern looked pretty much like the to finish. Less successful was the grilled ranch wrap, advertised for only juicy, shredded chicken, but my dining companion confirmed it $2.99 on one of the window posters. Smoky shredded chicken, cheddar, was flavorfully matched with the Southwestern ranch sauce and Southwest sauce and bacon proved too rich a combination without the cold corn salsa. veggies that come on the non-grilled wrap version, though I’d wager that The wraps were a bit messy after the sauces and juice ran to one a slightly inebriated concert goer might happily wander over to the nearby end, but the tortillas held up as valiantly as a bread-like product can.

Idaho Center with the hot snack in hand. I am, however, pretty curious While Wrap Shack isn’t reinventing the wheel (or burrito as it about the grilled pizza wrap. Too bad the Idaho Center is much too far for may be), the offerings are fresh, flavorful and priced right. If it were a quick lunch jaunt from downtown Boise. just closer to the BW office, it would probably become a regular lunch stop for our crew.

—Deanna Darr is a burrito stickler.

—Rachael Daigle thinks “franchise” is the other “f word.”

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No hot buns for you.

FOR EACH ONE THAT FALLS, TWO MORE TAKE ITS PLACE Two new restaurants are on the cusp of opening in downtown Boise.

The Matador, which is moving into one large space created from two much smaller storefronts on Eighth Street (one formerly occupied by Opa and the other by Mesa Taqueria), officially starts its Boise fiesta Friday, Aug. 20. The upscale Tex-Mex destination is known for its elaborate tequila bar with more than 90 brands. The Eighth Street location is the first Matador restaurant outside of Seattle and Portland, and it’s the result of Boise resident and local owner Kacey Montgomery’s partnership with parent company Mocore Corporation.

A few blocks down, also on Eighth Street, Caruso’s Sandwich Company is working toward its own opening. The space located below Piper Pub is currently empty, but according to Mr. Caruso himself—Vince Caruso—the opening is bogged down in permit acquisition and will not happen as soon as he’d like. That doesn’t mean a grand opening is far off, so expect to see the doors flung open middle to late September. Caruso’s is a family-owned sandwich company out of Coeur d’Alene. After traveling about the western United States and studying every sandwich shop or deli they could find, the Carusos opened up their first store in Hayden. The Boise store will be the family’s fifth location.

And in keeping with downtown news, Yen Ching Bakery is also in food news headlines once again. After an opening, a closing and a reopening, it’s closed. Again. Plans are in place for a possible re-reopening later this year. But—big but—don’t count your steamed buns before they’re hatched.

If you do want to count something, start with the countdown to the new Baguette Deli location. A few months back, BW reported on the expansion of the Baguette Deli into downtown, and in roughly two months, those cheap fresh sandwiches will be available on Eighth Street between Bannock and Idaho. Sheesh, is Eighth Street getting a total restaurant makeover or what?

Thinking back to what has left downtown, Giacinto’s Italian restaurant comes to mind. Once comfortably tucked into the Old Boise building at Sixth and Main streets, Giacinto’s is now operating out of a mobile shop on the northwest corner of Fairview Avenue and Maple Grove Road. The newest mobile shop is the third of its kind dishing up pasta and sauce on the go.

—Stephen Foster

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FOOD/DINING North Boise

13th St., 208-367-0020, www.

SU. goodysgoodies.com. $

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

HAWKINS PAC-OUT—Whether Classic burger drive-in in a classic location. Tots, twist cones and daily specials from Hawkins’ Facebook page. 2315 N. Bogus Basin Road, 208-338-9627. $ SU.

36TH STREET BISTRO—Enjoy breakfast, lunch and dinner in the sprawling 36th Street Garden Center. Set in the windowed west wing of the store, the cafe serves espresso and pastries for breakfast, sandwiches and salads for lunch and the dinner menu is ever-changing depending on what’s fresh and in season.

The rotating menu features locally grown and raised foods.

3823 N. Garden Center Way, 208-433-5100, www.36streetgardencenter.com.

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

Each day brings a new selection of delicious foods made with the freshest ingredients. 888 W. Fort St., 208-472-4500, www.

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

808 W. Fort St., 208-472-1463, www.cafevicino.com. $-$$$ RES OM. CASA MEXICO—Shakes With restaurants all over the Treasure Valley, Casa Mexico is family owned, with an extensive menu and an attentive staff. 1605 N. 13th St., 208-333-8330, www. casamexicoidaho.com. $-$$ SU OM. FANCI FREEZE—Shakes, malts, spins, sundaes and the Boston shake (one part sundae, one part shake) are what have made Fanci Freeze a Boise favorite for years. But because we can’t live on ice cream alone, Fanci Freeze also serves a whole mess of burgers, some of the crispiest tots in town and even a grilled cheese for the non-meat-eater.

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

AVERAGE PRICE PER ENTREE: $ —Less than $8 $ $ —$8 to $14 $ $ $ —$14 to $20 $ $ $ $ —Over $20

HIGHLANDS HOLLOW BREWHOUSE—Whether it’s the appetizers (Monty’s Hummus, Hollow Hot Wings), the entrees (Pan Fried Oysters, Mess-OChops) or the burgers and sandwiches (Black Bean Chili Burger, Reuben), stopping in at Highlands Hollow after winter skiing or hiking up Camel’s Back hill in the summer is always a great idea. 2455 Harrison Hollow, 208-343-6820, www. highlandshollow.com. $-$$ SU OM. HYDE PARK PUB—If there’s one little joint that’s always packed no matter the day or the time of the day, it’s Hyde Park Pub. A pub in every sense of the word, HPP has a menu of food you eat with your hands, TVs in every corner, a varied selection of tap brews and that neighborhood restaurant feel, which so many of its neighbors envy. 1501 N. 13th St., 208-336-9260. $ SU. LULU’S FINE PIZZA/SUPERB SUSHI—Big Apple-style gourmet pie for pizza lovers of everywhere kind. Get a wheel or go by the slice. Check out the usual toppings or get adventurous with some tasty things you’re not used to seeing on a pizza menu.

Superb Sushi is set up inside

Lulu’s, too. Order up a roll to go with your pie. 2594 Bogus Basin Road, 208-387-4992, www. ilovelulus.com. $-$$ SU OM. MAZZAH—Visit the Med over lunch or drop on by for dinner. Gyros, hummus, falafel and baklava on the quick. Try the fatoosh salad—you won’t be disappointed. 1772 W. State St., 208-333-2566, www.mazzahboise.com. $-$$ SU OM .

O’MICHAEL’S PUB & GRILL—It’s a North End institution with one waitress who’s been serving there for 40 years. The casual menu is full of traditional and specialty sandwiches (check out the slaw burger that’s no burger at all), fish and chipa, and the best giant fried prawns in town. 2433 N. Bogus Basin Road, SU 208-342-8948. $-$$ .

THE PANTRY—Offering daily specials. Kitschy comfort joint serving up breakfast, brunch and lunch items. Killer weekend brunch deals and specials. Free coffee refills. Their menu tops out at $11.75 for prime rib and eggs and starts out around $3.95 for a basic eggs, hashbrowns and toast meal.

They hook up phones to each table for old-school phone ordering during lunch hours throughout week. 1545 Shoreline Dr., 208-344-5486. $-$$ SU .

PARRILLA GRILL—Serving wraps and salads on another primo Hyde Park patio. This

FOOD/RECENTLY REVIEWED GINO’S ITALIAN RESTAURANT 3015 McMillan Road, Ste. 108, Meridian, 208-887-7710 “Beef carpaccio was pierced with strong lemon and dusted heavily in parmesan. Lilac- and cream-colored rings and tentacles of fried calamari were thinly battered and lightly fried. Sturdy eggplant parmesan was multilayered and sauce-smothered.”

—Rachael Daigle

MANILA BAY 8716 Fairview Ave., 208-375-5547 “Rubbery squid bumped up against steamed mussels still in their shells, but the most memorable flavor came from the milkfish in a neighboring pan.”

—Sarah Barber

SHIGE’S RED CARPET FINE DINING 150 N. Eighth St., 208-331-8202, shigejapanesecuisine.com “A lime saketini provided the strangest taste of the night: it slipped past the tongue like a wash of air, tasteless until a burst of sake and a little lime pulp hit the back of the throat.”

—Amy Atkins

—Wine & beer —Full bar —Delivery —Take-out —Open late RES —Reservations

needed/recommended —Patio SU —Open on Sunday OM —Online menu —Breakfast —Boise Weekly Card

Boise Weekly Dining Guide offers selective listings of editorial recommendations.

Listings rotate based on available space.

Updates from diligent readers and listed restaurateurs are heartily encouraged.

E-mail to food@boiseweekly.com or fax to 208-342-4733.

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DINING/FOOD concrete and metal Hyde Park eatery is a popular place to chill during the halcyon days of summer, but Parrilla’s hot wraps and microbrews are a fine way to stay warm in the cold winter months as well. The primary colored sign and terra cotta walls welcome regulars and passersby equally and the casual atmosphere and good eats keep them all coming back. 1512 N. 13th St., 208-323-4688. $ SU .

SUN RAY CAFE—SunRay holds down the coveted corner patio at the cross of 13th and Eastman streets. The menu is familiar to that location, featuring salads, subs and pizzas named for geographical features in Idaho.

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

State BURGER ’N BREW—An old-school Boise sports bar whose name says it all: burgers and beer. 4295 W. State St., 208-345-7700. $-$$ SU. BUZZ CAFE—Coffee, lunch and breakfast early in the day. Wine tastings and music aplenty at night. 2999 N. Lakeharbor Lane, SU 208-344-4321. $-$$

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BEER GUZZLER/FOOD

CORONA VILLAGE—Gut-busting burritos, incredible chips and Dos Equis on tap make the Village stand out among Boise’s family style Mexican restaurants.

4334 W. State St., 208-3389707. $-$$ .

DUTCH GOOSE—Homemade finger steaks, fresh steamed clams, soup, sandwiches and great hot wings. They also serve up over 17 beers. 3515 W. State St., 208-342-8887. $-$$ SU OM. FLYING PIE PIZZARIA— Boise’s longest-lived and most inventive pizzeria.

They have their own beer (the impeccable Triple Pi Belgian-style ale), and pies to please even the pickiest eaters. 4320 W. State St., 208-384-0000, www. flyingpie.com. $ SU OM. THE GREEN CHILE—Southwestern cuisine in Boise with green and red chilis, chimichangas and chile rellenos. The menu also features burgers and salads right along side sopapaillas. 5616 W. State St., 208-853-0103. $-$$ OM .

FIRST OF THE FALL The calendar says it’s still summer, so it may be a bit premature to be exploring the specialty beer releases for autumn, but consider this: On Aug. 11, it was 59 degrees and pouring rain at 2 p.m. The following day, at the same hour, the mercury pushed past 70. With that in mind, cracking open a few fall brews seems completely appropriate. Here are three you should find worthy.

NEW BELGIUM HOPTOBER GOLDEN ALE With a clear and bright golden pour, the frothy head on this beer fades quickly but leaves a nice lacing. The aromas are beautifully floral with noticeable touches of pine and citrussoaked hops, along with a touch of mint. This brew has ample hop presence up front with a definite smoothness that is just lightly bitter. With rye and oats added to the malt mix, there’s a nice depth of flavor. Sweet citrus and creamy malt blend nicely in this very satisfying fall seasonal brew.

RED HOOK LATE HARVEST AUTUMN ALE Aromas reminiscent of banana bread with a light minerality mark this amber-hued brew. Ripe orange-laced malt flavors rule here, with just enough hops and crisp citrus to keep things in balance, while soft carbonation helps it all go down smooth and easy. The finish of this very flavorful ale is clean and refreshing. This brew is a pleasant surprise from a Washington craft-brew pioneer.

SIERRA NEVADA TUMBLER AUTUMN BROWN ALE This Chico, Calif., brewery decided to nix its usual fall release, the Anniversary Ale, thinking that the lineup was a little hop-heavy. They went with this brown ale instead. Nice choice.

It offers dark and toasty malt and grain aromas that dominate the palate; they’re lightly sweet and nicely balanced by soft hops and citrus. An intriguing hint of smoke adds interest— this beer is seriously good stuff.

THE LIFT BAR AND GRILL—This sweet State Street spot always tempts traffic jammers with its ridiculous drink specials.

Tuesday night is Holy Oly night, with 50-cent Olympia cans from 4 p.m.-close. And if you need something to soak up all that cheap booze, gnaw on a plate of State Street nachos or one of the dive’s many vegetarianfriendly dishes like hummus, fish tacos, or the Portobello and sun-dried tomato sandwich.

4091 W. State St., 208-342SU OM .

3250. $-$$ MADHUBAN—A lunch buffet and a huge menu including all the favorites.

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

6930 W. State St., 208-8538215, www.madhubanindiancuisine.com. $-$$ SU OM. MERRITT’S COUNTRY CAFE—This 24-hour Boise mainstay is the place to land after a long night on the town.

The “home of the scone” serves up grub that turns customers into regulars. 6630 W. State St., 208-853-9982, www.merrittSU OM scafe.com. $-$$ MONTEGO BAY—A little bit of the tropics in a land-locked state. Montego Bay’s claim to fame is its outstanding patio, or layers of patios to be accurate, with levels cascading their way from the restaurant down to lakeside in the Lake Harbor development. There are multiple bars inside and out, and customers can find plenty to fill their stomachs besides island drinks and beer thanks to the full menu. Pub food is the standard.

3000 N. Lakeharbor Lane, 208-853-5070. $-$$ .

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FOOD/DINING PIZZALCHIK—PIZZa sALad and CHIcKen. Get it? Perfect robust salads, plus delicious original pizzas and whole chickens roasted in a 6,000-pound stone-hearth oven. Many toppings made in house. 7330 W. State St., 208-853-7757. $-$$ SU .

WESTSIDE DRIVE-IN—From the mind of “Boise’s Best Chef,” Chef Lou, come some of the most scrumptious foods for dine-in, take-out or frozen to use when cooking is the last thing you want to do. 1939 W. State St., 208-342-2957, www.cheflou.

SU OM. com. $-$$

West Boise BLUE JEANS CAFE—Breakfast (starting at 6 a.m. for you early birds) and lunch with some of the biggest biscuits and gravy in the state. Freshly baked pastries, salads and sandwiches. 9140 W. Emerald St., Ste. .

300, 208-658-5053. $-$$

ROMIO’S PIZZA AND PASTA—A Mediterranean hybrid with pizzas, pastas, calzones, hot subs and sandwiches, gyros, lamb chops and souvlaki. With its emphasis on Italian fare, Romio’s house specialties concentrate on Greek dishes.

8125 W. Fairview Ave., 208-658-1550, www.romiosidaho.com. $-$$ SU.

SOCKEYE GRILL AND BREWERY—Sockeye is the serious beer connoisseur’s brewpub. When the double IPA Hopnoxious is on tap, it’s a hophead’s liquid dream, and the Hell Diver Pale Ale gets rave reviews. The menu is pub fare with a healthy bent and free live music happens every Tuesday and Friday. 3019 Cole Road, SU. 208-658-1533. $-$$

SENOR FRESH—Fast-casual Mexican dining with all the usual suspects—burritos, enchiladas, nachos and fish tacos, to name a few. If you’re really hungry, try the Gordo Burrito. 12375 W. Chinden Blvd. #F, 208-378.

1888. $

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SMOKY MOUNTAIN PIZZA AND PASTA—When you’re in the mood for a good, traditional piz-

FOOD/HOT DISH LEILA RAMELLA-RADER

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

210 N. Milwaukee St., 208-322-0222, www.cafeole.

SU OM. com. $$-$$$

za, this is the place. The pastas, starters, sandwiches and salads are equally delicious, and the list is as long as your arm. 1805 W. State St., 208-387-2727. $-$$ SU OM.

and options for the kids. 4822 Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-3763150. $ .

CHADDER’S—Burgers, fries and milkshakes and the only thing that’s seen a freezer is the ice cream the shakes are made from. 535 N. Milwaukee St., 208-378-7003. www.chadderSU OM. susa.com. $ EGG FACTORY—With a line out the door seven days a week and a novel-length menu filled with breakfast options, you’ll wonder why you’ve never been to this hidden gem before. The emphasis is on the eggs, but pancakes and waffles also make a strong showing. If you don’t care about the calories, get your hashbrowns “loaded.” 8061 W. Fairview Ave., 208-322-0191. $-$$ FRESH OFF THE HOOK—Gourmet seafood in a casual setting. Try the Halibut bruschetta or coconut prawns. It’s the best place in town for fresh, inexpensive seafood. 507 N. Milwaukee Ave., 208-322-9224. www.freshoffthehookseafood. com. $-$$ OM .

FUJIYAMA—Fresh sushi in a serene atmosphere incongruously nestled in a strip mall. For the sushi-phobes out there, they have an extensive selection of teriyaki and tempura dishes, soups and salads. Reserve one of the tatami rooms for the ultimate in private dining. 283 N. Milwaukee St., 208-672-8227.

SU. $$ GOODWOOD BARBECUE—Great barbecue, Texas-style, right in the middle of the Treasure Valley.

With everything from ribs and brisket to chicken, Goodwood Continues to be a valley favorite with a family friendly atmosphere. 7849 W. Spectrum St., Boise, 208-658-7173, www. goodwoodbbq.com. $-$$$$ OM SU. ROBBIE’S DRIVE-IN—An old drive-in location on Fairview and Orchard is now Robbie’s Drive-In serving good and grilled food, award-winning chili and burgers accompanied by fries and homemade fry sauce. The menu also includes salads and shakes

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PIE HOLE’S POTATO AND BACON PIZZA A slice of pizza is sometimes just a slice of pizza. But othertimes, it’s a symbol of something more: post-pubbing hunger, eating on the cheap, even Idaho itself.

Pie Hole downtown (Pie Hole also has locations on Broadway Ave., in Meridian and in Twin Falls) is known as an urban eatery with, low prices and slices the size of your buddy’s tribal back tattoo. For the purist, there’s always a plain ol’ pepperoni pie. For the more adventurous, there’s anything from Thai chicken to sausage and brown PIE HOLE sugar (Pie Hole management 205 N. Eighth St. encourages their employees to 208-344-7783 think outside the box). For that pieholeusa.com person who digs a little of both, there is always a potato and bacon pizza ready for the eatin’.

It’s a simple recipe: thin slices of potato and a generous sprinkling of bacon atop a layer of mozz’ under which lies a tangy white alfredo sauce. The potatoes are baked soft and the bacon lives in that sweet spot between crispy and chewy.

And a giant slice (they’re all giant) will only run you $2.50 with tax.

Pie Hole slices are a little greasy, so snag a paper napkin, give your slice a little dab (be sure to lick off any of the bacon that sticks), fold that New York-style pizza in half and fill your face. Pie Hole bacon and potato pizza: It’s as Idahoan as, well, potatoes. And bacon.

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Community park. No pets. 1200/ mo. Do not disturb residents.

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Visit: www.Roommates.com MALE ROOMMATE NEEDED I do not have a place lined up. I am relatively laid back, and am NOT looking for a party house.

I would strongly prefer to be close to the BSU campus. Other than that I am pretty flexible.

Between school and church responsibilities I will probably not be around too much. Shoot me an e-mail if you’re interested. iamcurrently@cableone.net ON BOISE BENCH I am looking for a someone to share my Boise bench home.

It is 2BD, 1BA on a quarter acre corner lot. There is plenty of room to garden and a dog is permitted.

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ROOMMATE WANTED ASAP 32 female looking for roommate to share house close to the North End of Boise. All util. included with intrnt. No deposit. Pets welcome as I have three dogs. Room is in basement. Please e-mail jpotcher@hotmail.com if interested. $375/mo.

SUNNY ROOM FOR RENT Seeking a considerate roommate to share a fabulous house that is: a 20 min. walk/10 min. bike to BSU along the greenbelt, across the street from Municipal Park, has a community swimming pool, quiet, partially furnished (can remove furniture if desired) room perfect for study, one friendly cat. $400/ mo. plus 1/3 of util., includes high speed intrnt. and (optional) cleaning services. Available August 1st, please call 208-866-9058.

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Darling separated studio on the Bench! Lots of storage and a large, fenced, pet friendly yard!

W/S/T, power, and gas all paid by landlord. Available now! Fast and easy qualification process. $550/ mo. Call today so you don’t miss out on this opportunity! Krista 860-1650. renteip@gmail.com DUPLEX WITH 1 CAR GARAGE 2BD, 1BA, AC, in Southeast Boise. $595/mo. Call Tim 830-2574.

GREAT HOUSE GREAT LOCATION Enjoy the privacy of a single family home. Quiet, kid friendly street, very low traffic. 1.5 blocks from the greenbelt. 5 min. from Downtown, Mall, Interstate, and big local parks (Julia Davis, Albertson, and Morris Hill Dog Park). Available Aug 1st. Call 208- 866-1423 for a showing.

OFFICE SPACE Secure building, 3010 W. State, Boise. Office one 146 sq. ft.; office two 130 sq. ft. $200/mo. each or both for $375/mo. Contact Jan at 345-7777 for more information..

SHOP & RV SPOT $595/mo. in Nampa near NNU. 39’x23’ (approx 880 sq. ft.) cinder block shop with tall roll-up door, newly painted inside and rewired. 40’ RV pad with all hookups including sewer, securely fenced/gated. Call 333-0066.

WEST BOISE HOME $175,000 Beautiful home in Shenandoah West. 3BD, 2BA, 3 car grg., 2098 sq. ft. Brand new paint, vinyl and carpet throughout. Large open kitchen and formal dining. Huge family room has beautiful stone fireplace. Master suite with nice bathroom and walk-in closet.

Covered patios off of master and living room. Just blocks to Jullion park. $175,000. 208-841-6281.

BW COMMERCIAL 340 sq .ft. office space with view of Boise Foothills available for month to month rent. $325/mo., util. paid. $20 deposit. Other tenants include LifeLine Chiropractic Center, Barber Shop and Building Company. Call to view 484-1294 8AM to 6PM, M-F. Email lynnealine@msn.com for details.

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PHONE ATLANTA IDAHO LOT FOR SALE 1.3 acre level lot, well and septic approved. Access to power, road access on 2 sides. Located on main street next to schoolhouse. Beautiful view of mountains, minutes from hot springs and Middle Fork of the Boise River. Perfect for hunting cabin and corral. Hunting out your front door. $45,000. Call 208262-6191 for more information.

BEAUTIFUL 2BD, 2BA. Light, bright and airy MFH in desirable mobile home park near Boise Foothills. Lots of nice windows. Convenient access to public schools, shopping and entertainment. 2 car covered carport. Space $300/mo. Must be approved by park management for residency. Must pay own util.

Call Debora, Idaho Properties at 208-484-0752 for a showing or see the virtual tour at www.tourfactory.com/607726. Available for immediate purchase and occupancy. $29,900.

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DEADLINES* From the street, you’ll 90 S. OLD QUARRY WAY, BOISE see a two-car garage, a $209,900 small lawn and a red brick 4 bed/3 bath wall. A hidden gate in that 2,760 square feet RE/Max Capital City wall opens to a private Kerrigan Kalange, 208-713-7420 courtyard where a paved intermountainmls.com pathway is lined with tidy MLS #98443469 lilacs, rhododendrons and a lacy red Japanese maple.

The path stops at a large deck that flows toward the home’s front door.

Stepping inside, the first thing you’ll notice is the view. Two walls of plate glass windows in the living room overlook a private park where a duck pond is punctuated by the fanned spray of a fountain. Every room on the residence’s north side has the same serene view.

A sliding glass door in the living room opens to a balcony that stretches across the rear of the house and ends outside of the formal dining room. The balcony seems the perfect spot for enjoying casual al fresco dinners.

The two-story home sits on a .12-acre parcel. The private courtyard is maintained by the owner, while the front yard and private park are maintained via annual homeowners’ association dues of $315.

The dwelling’s main level contains the living room, kitchen, formal dining room and master suite, which has a jetted bathtub but no shower. In the walkout basement there are three bedrooms, a family room and two storage rooms.

Pros: Low-maintenance family home overlooking private park and fountain.

Cons: No shower in master bathroom.

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MIND, BODY, SPIRIT BW BEAUTY $10 WAX? That’s right! Waxarella is offering a $10 Brow Wax. Let the ladies perform magic on you today.

Brows to Brazilian. Call 5151463 for an appt.

2009 BEST OF BOISE SALON New to Euphoria Salon in Hyde Park- Stylist Danielle Cheatle-DeWitt: Free partial highlight (up to 15 foils) with a full priced haircut when booked with Danielle 3440500. Specials on back to school haircuts for the kids too!

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MASSAGE BY GINA Full Body Treatment/Relaxation, Pain Relief & Tension Release.

Call 908-3383.

MOBILE MASSAGE BY EMILY Step into Relaxtion! Massage therapy in calls and out calls available! Specializing in deep tissue, Swedish, acupressure, Amma therapy. $35/30 min., $50/60 min., $80/90 min. For appointments please call 208-283-6760 evenings and weekends available.

Prof. therapeutic massage only by trained & experienced masseur. New client special.

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BW CLASSES Learn to breath, relax, and find your personal time of reflection.

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BW ENERGY HEALING Guaranteed Clairvoyant Readings/ Healing $15 for 20 min.! Special introductory offer to new clients!

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BW HEALTH & FITNESS NO GYM MEMBERSHIP! I am a weight loss and fitness coach. I provide a lot of options for personal training. Flexible payment packages. I am someone who cares more about your health then your money. -Bootcamps -Private training -Couples Training -Nutritional guidance and help with meal plans. Call to learn how Simply Fit can help you create an affordable and effective program. simplyfittraining@gmail.com 208-562-7659.

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Hot tub available, heated table, hot oil full-body Swedish massage.

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Embrace the moment with a sensual massage at ULM. 8:30am7pm. 340-8377.

EXCELLENT THERAPEUTIC WORK Karalot Massage Therapy (208) 713-4469 Karabeth Shepherd, CMT Massaging since ‘04, with an excellent EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, and INTUITION. While all the relaxing frills are included, hot towels, aromatherapy, professional office, Karabeth is very strong in her therapeutic massage, injury work, deep tissue, AND can perform a very unique and awesome relaxation massage. IT’S TIME TO TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF. Call today to schedule your appointment!

Full body massage by experienced therapist. Out call or private studio. 863-1577. Thomas.

IN HOME MASSAGE In Home Massage brings the comfort of the spa without the noise, or hassle of finding the location.

We can come to you or you to us. Offering $55/hr. massages for Swedish, deep tissue, and hot stone. Appointments always available Just call Michael at 208407-7290.

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SCENTED CANDLES AND CUBES We offer soy-based Candles, cubes and so much more! We offer Great hostess program. Are you looking for a way to supplement your current income? We are looking for consultants! Call 208-447-6317. www.foreveryhome.net/lynnette **STATION FOR LEASE** Whimsy...A Salon has F/T & P/T space for lease! Stylists F/T lease is $125/wk., P/T $75/wk. Nail techs: F/T $100/wk., P/T $60/ wk. F/T signers will receive their lease at P/T price for the first 3 mo. Please call Sharon at 208890-2397 or 208-344-0080 or email at whimsysalon@yahoo. com for any questions!

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CAREERS BW HELP WANTED. CREATIVE PHOTOSHOP ARTIST Looking for talented, hungry Artist to create mixed media images for prints. 208-788-5191.

CULTURAL EXCHANGE LOCAL REP Face The World is currently seeking talented and self-motivated local Community Representatives. Great PT job which could develop into a FT position for those that are motivated. If you are interested in this opportunity, please reply with your experience, qualifications, and contact information to jobs@ facetheworld.org.

PHYSICAN ASSISTANT NEEDED! FirstLine Medical is looking for a P/T or F/T Physician Assistant.

You will be working with AR Neuenschwander, MD and Briant Burke, MD who specialize in not only Traditional Medicine but Alternative Medicine as well.

The Ideal candidate must have 1 yr. exp. in the Family Practice Setting, have full credentials with the NCCPA, hold a current DEA CS along with a license from the Idaho Board of Medicine. Please fax your resume along with your CV to 206-202-8007. E-mail admin@firstlinemedical.org.

FOR SALE BW STUFF BEAUTIFUL ROSE BACK CHAIR Rose back dining chair with original fabric. It has not been refinished, everything is original. It looks like a Tell City chair, but I am not sure. Needs tightened. $50 Please call 208-941-6766 or email thesetuckers@msn.com.

WASHER & DRYER FOR SALE 6 yr. old Kenmore W/D. Sell as individual or pair. Contact carthom_3251@msn.com or 208375-3390.

9 Piece King Sleigh Bed Set Brand new. Dovetail drawers. List $2950. Sacrifice $799. 888-1464.

Bed, Queen Tempurpedic Style Memory Foam Mattress. Brand new, w/warranty. Must sell $225.

921-6643.

BEDROOM SET 7 pc. Cherry set.

Brand new, still boxed. Retail $2250, Sacrifice $450. 888-1464.

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Couch & Loveseat - Microfiber.

Stain Resistant. Lifetime Warranty. Brand new in boxes. List $1395. Must Sell $450! 888-1464.

KING SIZE PILLOW TOP MATTRESS SET. New - in bag, w/ warranty. MUST SELL $199. Call 921-6643.

Leather Sofa plus Loveseat.

Brand new in crate w/Lifetime warranty. Retail $2450. Sell $699!

888-1464.

QUEEN PILLOWTOP MATTRESS SET. Brand new-still in plastic.

Warranty. MUST SELL $139. Can deliver. 921-6643.

Bee-Xpress Consignment Store.

116 N. Latah St., Boise. 208-5719939. Brand names jeans, t-shirts and more. Find Banana Republic, Express, xoxo, Roxy, American Eagle, Hollister & Designer Replica Handbags.

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-405-7619 EXT 2450 www.easywork-greatpay.com

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ADOPT-A-PET These pets can be adopted at the Idaho Humane Society.

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www.idahohumanesociety.com 4775 W. Dorman St. Boise | 208-342-3508

RIGHT SCHOOL, RIGHT DEGREE, RIGHT NOW!

Healthcare, Graphic Arts, Technology, Business & Accounting. Financial Aid is available for qualified students. Day, Evening and online classes start next month.

Stevens-Henager College, Boise Branch, 800-716-5645. www.stevenshenager.info

BARTER

CRIMSON: 1-year-old male orange tabby cat. Loves to be held and carried. Good with other cats and dogs.

Litterbox-trained. (Kennel 15 - #10762235)

JOE: 8-month-old male mixed-breed puppy. Fun and playful but a little shy at first. Likes to play with soft toys. Highly trainable. (Kennel 423 #11136887)

BELLA: 8-year-old Maine coon mix cat. Very loving and friendly. Spayed and declawed. Indooronly cat. Gorgeous gold eyes. (Kennel 26 - #8080426)

LANI: 1.5-years-old mixed-breed dog (Lab?), 53 lbs. Upbeat and playful. Likes playing with soft toys. Knows a few commands. (Kennel 423 - #11134720)

SADIE: 2-year-old female purebred black Lab. House-trained, good with other dogs and cats. A lover who likes being near. (Kennel 410 - #11160861)

PHOENIX: 2-year-old male brown tabby cat.

Friendly and loving when picked up and petted.

Neutered. Lovely, large green eyes. (Kennel 07 - #10461609)

BW NEED VETERAN NEEDS A RELIABLE CAR I have a car, but it does not run well enough to trust it. I am a Veteran participating in care at the Boise VA Medical Center and making an effort to improve my quality of life. I would be willing to trade my car for one that runs better.

Please call if you can help me out. 342-3297.

TRANSPORTATION

These pets can be adopted at Simply Cats.

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www.simplycats.org 2833 S. Victory View Way | 208-343-7177

1966 VINTAGE VESPA t (PSHFPVTMZ SFTUPSFE vintage 1966 Vespa scooter.

336-6970.

HONDA V45 1983 Runs great, new tires, everything works. Excellent for daily commute. Call Dexter at 208-3770334 evenings, or 208-396-3209 days. $1900.

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NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE Case No.: CV NC 1013009. A Petition to change the name of Michael Ray Crisman born 1018-1984, in Nampa, Id residing at 1836 E. Bergeson St., Boise, has been filed in Ada County District Court, Idaho. The name will change to Michael Ray Storm, because I do not feel a strong connection with the last name “Crisman,” and would like a stronger, more expressive name for myself and my family. The petitioner’s father is living. The petitioner’s mother is living. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on September 14, 2010, at the County Courthouse.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the 18th century, the French Academy laid down rules about the differences between professional and amateur paintings.

It was decreed that true artists must create a “licked surface,” hiding evidence of their brushstrokes. The illusion was more convincing that way; viewers wouldn’t be distracted by the artist’s process. When the Impressionists barged onto the scene in the 1870s, one of their rebellions against convention was to make some of their brushstrokes visible. They wanted their audience to get involved in their subjective interpretation of the scene that was portrayed. In the coming week, Aries, I encourage you to be like the Impressionists.

Forget about trying to present a licked surface. Reveal the inner workings that are whirling and humming behind your eyes.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If your home is like a museum, a staid assemblage of fine memories, I suggest you shake things up a bit. If your daily actions are so thoroughly possessed by the anesthetizing demons of habit that you can’t recall your last creative innovation, shake things up a bit. On the other hand, there’s no need for blame. Don’t berate yourself for your sluggishness. It was an inevitable by product of your efforts to solidify and stabilize your life. Just slip into a more playful mode and enjoy a bout of experimentation.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Maybe you know a person like my friend Joanna. She’s bright but terse, open-minded but not chatty. Like an inscrutable Buddha, she watches everything closely and churns her thoughts carefully. Silence is her ally. Now and then, though, when moved by an inner prompting that has nothing to do with drinking wine, she will suddenly erupt with a torrent of sweet talk and pithy observations and wild explorations. I predict that for you, Gemini, the entire world—even the parts of it that are not usually very forthcoming—will soon resemble Joanna when she’s overflowing.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): This would be an excellent time for you to get aggressively inventive about your education. It wouldn’t be too crazy to launch your own school, with you as the only student. You could design your own course curriculum for the coming years. Decide who your teachers will be. Think about where you can get the stuff you’ll need to expand your mind, enhance your skills and just plain increase your intelligence. You could call your center of higher learning the University of Wily Exuberance or the Academy of Astonishing Grace or the Institute of Getting Down to Business.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): For the people of Finland, the word sisu describes a quality they regard as integral to their national character. It refers to a courageous strength of will that can be sustained for a long time—a staunch ferocity that refuses to be defeated. We all could use more of that good stuff, not only to weather our personal ordeals but also to stay plucky in the face of the world’s lunacy. The coming weeks will be an especially good time for you to build up your reserves of sisu, Leo. How? Start by taking inventory of all the resources and allies and skills you have at your disposal.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Ever upstream from myself,” wrote Belgian poet Edmond Vandercammen, “I advance, implore and pursue myself.” I suggest you adopt that attitude, Virgo. Assume that your best self is sailing along at a rapid clip, somewhere in the distance ahead of you, and it’s your job to catch up. Your highest form of expression is eluding you, but you’re hunting it down. The most beautiful possible embodiment of all your potentials is surging toward the future, and it’s your fun job to close the gap between you and unite with it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In one possible scenario I could foresee for you in the coming week, you’re sweaty and tearful, enmeshed in an extreme state that causes an internal blockage to dissolve. The sweat is purgative, the tears are cathartic, and you’re riding a wave of relief and release that clears out a backlog of emotional congestion.

In a second possible future, I could see you as supernaturally relaxed and exuberant, periodically laughing so hard that you break up an internal blockage.

The calm is purgative, the laughter is cathartic, and you’re riding a wave of relief and release that clears out a backlog of emotional congestion. Which scenario would you prefer?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Last June, comedian Stephen Colbert reported that President Barack Obama’s big TV address to Americans about the Gulf catastrophe was a failure because it went over the heads of too many people. Language experts who analyzed Obama’s speech determined that it was written at a 10th-grade level—too professorial, scolded Colbert. I wonder what he would say about the horoscopes I compose, which are designed for readers who enjoy thinking metaphorically and have a high degree of emotional intelligence. In the coming week, Scorpio, I suggest that you take the approach that Obama and I use rather than the one Colbert (farcically) recommended. Don’t

talk down to your audience or pander to the lowest common denominator. Raise everyone up with your appeals.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): My favorite baseball player Tim Lincecum told San Francisco magazine: “I think you either get in the canoe with your oar and control the boat, or get into it and let the current take you. I’m kind of in between. I want to be able to enjoy the ride but don’t want to be swept away by it. I don’t want to be overwhelmed; I want to see what’s going on.” Whether you are customarily the type of person who controls the boat or the type who enjoys drifting dreamily along, I suggest you take Lincecum’s in-between approach for now. Be half in charge and half surrendered.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The poet Jean Perrin dreamed “of marrying the dawn with the light of the moon,” and I invite you to do the same. The darkness you’ve been immersed in will leave you soon. As it does, please don’t forsake the pale, moon-like radiance that has provided you with a bit of guidance and consolation. Rather, bring along what it has taught you as you head into the far brighter phase you’re entering. In other words, retain some of the wisdom the dim light has compelled you to learn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I know two people in their 80s who have accomplished a sensational long-running creative art project: They’ve been happily married for 65 years. The amount of reinvention they’ve had to dream up in order to keep loving each other is so profound that it confounds the imagination. How could they possibly have continued to stay closely interwoven through all the changes each of them has gone through as they’ve aged? During the fascinating relationship tests that will be coming your way in the weeks ahead, Aquarius, I’d love for you to summon some of their dogged ingenuity and tenacious collaborative skills. In fact, I predict you will be able to do just that.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For the last 20 years, I’ve worn just one brand of shoes—all-black Converse high-top sneakers. I’ve had them on at weddings and while jogging, at my daughter’s high school graduation and while performing at my shows. Am I too set in my ways? Definitely. In any case, Pisces, don’t be like me. The upcoming weeks will be an excellent time to change your ways. Break out and branch out! Try something new about how you present yourself—the equivalent of me switching over to suede moccasins or snakeskin cowboy boots.

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