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TAK EE E ON E! FEATURE 11

LOOKING BACK Reﬂecting on the 10th anniversary of 9/11

NOISE 23

BIG BANG Explosions in the Sky take it to a new level

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HIKE IT Head north for killer fall hikes

FOOD 30

DISH ON FOOD From new pizza joints and food co-ops to closed-up shops

“They paralyzed us with paranoia, then offered to push our wheelchair.”

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NOTE CAPTURING THE MOMENT, AGAIN I imagine that a decade ago, the writers and editors of this paper found themselves in a similar position: staring down a vast white space hoping that eventually words emerge that delicately and powerfully capture the profundity of what has passed. Ten years ago, columnists Bill Cope and Ted Rall and then-editor Bingo Barnes faced the challenge of writing about Sept. 11, 2001, immediately in the wake of that day’s events. Now a decade later, Cope and Rall have both taken the opportunity to once again put into words what has passed, though this time what has passed is a decadelong manhunt, two wars and—at least in Rall’s view—very little lesson learning. The latter is a sentiment shared by the writer of this week’s main feature by Tom Hayden. Yes, 9/11 has become one of those touchstone events—everyone knows where they were when they saw the planes hit the towers. We haven’t forgotten those memories, just as we haven’t forgotten our promise not to forget in the larger sense. But not forgetting isn’t the same as learning from. Have we learned anything as Americans? I don’t have that answer, but as the pieces in this week’s issue suggest, the healing we’ve done finally allows us to ask—and perhaps answer—that very question. On a lighter note, starting this week, Screen will focus on the Toronto International Film Festival. News Editor and film reviewer George Prentice heads north again this year for a preview of the coming year in cinema. Last year at TIFF, Prentice caught previews of just about every decent film that has played during the last year. In addition to the Screen section in BW over the next few weeks, you can also follow the news with daily updates from Prentice on Cobweb at boiseweekly.com. —Rachael Daigle

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ARTIST: Jerms TITLE: The Bear & The Walrus MEDIUM: Mixed media ARTIST STATEMENT: We can Bear with Walrus most days. Sometimes he can be pretty bad though.

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Locavores gathered on Sept. 2 for the Boise State Food Security Symposium, where speakers tackled the challenges of growing food in the West and explained how changing a restaurant’s french fries can have far-reaching effects. Check it out at Citydesk.

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Boise’s Thomas Lea is often seen downtown snapping street fashion photos. We’ve noticed, CNN has noticed and recently, The New York Times noticed, too.

HARRY SHEARER EXCLUSIVE Harry Shearer, aka the bass player for Spinal Tap, will be in Boise with his new documentary, The Big Uneasy, at The Flicks on Monday, Sept. 12. Catch a BW online exclusive interview at boiseweekly.com.

ROAD MUSINGS Chew on this: Idaho’s rural roads were rated the second worst in the nation, while its drivers were rated the second best in the country. More at Citydesk.

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FEATURE 9/11 Blinders

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NOISE Explosions in the Sky at the Egyptian

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REC Exploring Central Idaho’s Magruder Road Corridor 28 FOOD It’s lentil mania on the Palouse

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unions to the betterment of America’s workers. The numerous beneficial influences of organized labor cannot be ignored. Most of the benefits workers now enjoy are directly attributable to unions. To cite but a few: the 40-hour work week, paid holidays and vacations, sick leave, grievance procedures, collective bargaining and generally superior wages. Unfortunately succeeding generations have come to take those benefits for grant-

ed. Those beneﬁts came about because of unions and soon became the norm for union workers and many non-union workers as well. All American workers owe a debt of gratitude to organized labor for its achievements. —Paul G. Jaehnert, Vadnais Heights, Minn.

BANKERS GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL Who’s going to sue the U.S. government for aiding and abetting the mortgage and securities fraud? Banker bailout was aiding and abetting criminal activities from within banks. I only want to see bankers go to jail not get ﬁned. —Mike Sherwood, facebook.com/boiseweekly

—Anonymous (boiseweekly.com, Cobweb, “Broncos Beat Bulldogs; Blue and Orange Pride Lives On,” Sept. 4, 2011)

AH ... BOISE Living in Boise is kind of frustrating, but I can’t help but laugh. It’s like we have the hip version of serious gang issues— something along the lines of serious cult issues. I feel like I am constantly living in some horrendously drawn out rant about how ridiculously pretentious people are getting nowadays. We have some sort of unspoken turf war always going on between Dawson Taylor and Thomas Hammer downtown. I feel like I’m penetrating the iron curtain every time I cross Eighth Street on my way to nowhere. The antisocial and psychologically unstable high school students seem to be climbing the social ladder via the high-highway or the way-underground of social extremes. I would hate it so much if it weren’t so hilarious. It seems like such a self-cannibalizing concept to try and love irony so much that you live a heartbreakingly predictable life. I’m just glad that it is seen as a somewhat edgy/stylish thing to stray from the social norm, because it makes me feel like I ﬁt right in with all my small-town quirks. Boise is truly a weird and beautiful place. I think as much as people want to have their differences here, we can all get along very well because we can all relate to each other in some way or another. —Amanda Leigh, Boise

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THE NEVER-ENDING 9/11 Remembering those who led us into ruin “So let us understand what we are becoming part of, exactly which circle of hell we are entering, and while we pray these next days and months, let us not forget to pray for a way out.” (BW, Opinion, “That Once Again Our Tears Run Sweet,” Sept. 17, 2001) The above was written over a September weekend in 2001, but it was conceived three days earlier at 7:03 a.m. MDT. My wife woke me. “You need to see this. Something’s happening,” she said as she switched on the little TV on the dresser. Per usual, I threw my legs over the side and used the torque to sit up on the edge of the bed, just as 2 feet from my face, the black screen blossomed into a bright New York morning. Before I had time to put on my specs or shake the grog from my senses, Flight 175 flew in from the right and penetrated the south tower like a dagger into a throat. My first coherent thought of that day was that I had just witnessed people die. There was no way then of knowing how many, but I knew it was a lot. The next day, a man told me that the abomination we had watched unfold would be yesterday’s stale news within a week, that Americans would soon shuffle on like they always do, from one temporary hot flash to the next. Another man told me it was all an East Coast thing, a New York thing, and that it had nothing to do with us, sequestered here in Idaho. I was astounded those two men could actually have responded to a horror of this magnitude with such surreal foolishness, but I didn’t bother to argue with either of them. I could only walk away and shake my head in private. It took years—two wars, tens and tens of thousands more dead, and the absolute corruption of America’s most noble ideals—before I could put what those two men said in some sort of perspective. Referring to just one of the many eruptions of irrationality and delirium that followed in the wake of 9/11, a friend said he could explain to his own satisfaction what was happening to Americans only if he understood it all as a massive and lingering nervous collapse over the great trauma our nation had suffered. That on that dreadful day, we had been wounded deeper and scarred more permanently than we could ever have imagined at the time. How else, my friend thought, could so many Americans continue to believe the lies that were being told them? How else could they continue to support the havoc our mighty power was wreaking on people who had nothing to do with the original offense, or defend leaders who with every inept decision and every inept action made the situation worse? How else could Americans continue to tolerate the thuggery, the criminality of those leaders as they defiled our values, our laws and our morality?

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It could only be a collective disorder, as my friend saw it—a communicable hysteria, a case of PTSD on a pandemic scale, a glitch in our shared reality that, to this day, disrupts our politics, our relations with the world and with each other as Americans. I came eventually to see it as my friend did: The event had done so much more damage to us than the loss of a few buildings and 3,000 American neighbors. I came to understand that Osama bin Laden had infected us with the very disease that had driven him to do what he did. It wasn’t a dagger into the throat of America I woke up to that morning. It was a germ. And had I been smarter, more sensitive, I would have understood better what those two men were really telling me—that they were adapting the vision of hell we all witnessed that black Thursday into something they could more easily accept. It wasn’t surreal foolishness they displayed. It was their immune systems kicking in. U Ten years on, it has become clear that some of the country’s most powerful and unscrupulous people understood—dare I say, welcomed—this collective national shock if not from the very beginning, then close to it. It would be convenient to blame Bin Laden as the evil presence behind the slaughter of 100,000 Iraqis and thousands of our own military as they carried our vengeance to the wrong country. It would be glib to say alQaida is behind the bullying and intolerance of our own Taliban tendencies. It would be simple to claim that Sharia law or a mosque situated too near to Ground Zero is behind the erosion of our civil rights and the utter disregard for our own established law. But those things are not Bin Laden’s fault, not al-Qaida’s, not Islam’s, nor the fault of any of the strangers we continue to battle. Those things, which accumulatively have done as much damage to America as Bin Laden could only dream of doing, were done by Americans who recognized the fragility and fear in our post-9/11 psyches and took advantage. Like black marketeers scalping essentials to a disaster-ravaged village, they rushed in and set up shop. They kicked us when we were down, picked our treasury clean, then convinced us—some of us, at any rate—that they were the only ones who could make things right again. They paralyzed us with paranoia, then offered to push our wheelchair. We mustn’t for a minute believe they aren’t still doing it. The echoes of 9/11 reverberate throughout our politics, economics and fevered religious frenzies. It is a pathogen for which there is no cure. And like the germ, there remain those would offer us fake remedies and false salvation—for a price, of course. We can come through the infection, I’m certain of that, if only we can survive the treatment. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

TED RALL/OPINION

WE LEARNED NOTHING Americans still stupid and vulnerable They say everything changed on 9/11. No one can dispute that. But we didn’t learn anything. Like other events that forced Americans to reassess national priorities, the attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., were a traumatic, teachable moment. The collective attention of the nation was ﬁnally focused on problems that had gone neglected for many years. 9/11 was a chance to get smart—but we blew it. The attacks gave the United States a rare opportunity to reset its reputation. Even countries known for anti-Americanism offered their support. “We are all Americans,” ran the headline of the French newspaper Le Monde. The century of U.S. foreign policy that led to 9/11 should and could have been put on hold and reassessed in the wake of 9/11. It wasn’t time to act. It was time to think, to lick our wounds and play the victim. It was time, for once, to take the high road. The Bush administration ought to have treated 9/11 as a police investigation, demanding that Pakistan extradite Osama bin Laden and others wanted in connection with the attacks for prosecution by an international court. By 2003 the world hated us more than ever. A BBC poll showed that people in Jordan and Indonesia—moderate Muslim countries where al-Qaida had killed locals with bombs—considered the United States a bigger security threat than the terrorist group. In fairness to Condi Rice, Don Rumsfeld and George W. Bush’s other leading war criminals, everyone else went along with them. The media refused to question them. Democratic politicians, including Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, cast votes in favor of Bush’s wars. Democrats and leftist activists ought to have pushed for Bush’s impeachment.

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Ten years later, a “Democratic” president is fighting Bush’s wars, as well as new ones against Libya, Somalia and Yemen. Now he’s saber-rattling against Syria. American officials correctly inferred from 9/11 that security, particularly at airports but also in ports where container ships arrive daily from around the world, had been lax. Rather than act proactively to close gaps, however, bureaucrats for the new Department of Homeland Security created a gauntlet of police-state harassment so onerous that it has threatened the financial health of the aviation industry. “Aviation security is a joke, and it’s only a matter of time before terrorists destroy another airplane full of innocent passengers,” wrote Barbara Hollingsworth of The Washington Examiner after the 2009 “underwear bomber” scare. Ten years later there is still no real security when you board a train or bus. Perhaps the sheer quantity of goods arriving at American ports makes it impossible to screen them all, but we’ve basically given up on port security. On 9/11 hundreds of firefighters and policemen died because they couldn’t communicate on antiquated, segregated bandwidth. “Only one month away from the 10th anniversary of 9/11,” admits FCC chairman Julius Genachowski, “our first responders still don’t have an interoperable mobile broadband network for public safety.” Because the masters of the Democratic and Republican parties love the low wage/weak labor created by illegal immigration, American land borders are intentionally left unguarded. A lot changed on 9/11 but not everything. We’re still governed by corrupt idiots. What does that say about us?

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UÊfÈ£{]äääÊv ÀÊ iÜÊ iV > V> Ê systems, including a new cooler on the roof UÊfÎÓ ]äääÊv ÀÊÀi« >Vi i ÌÊ of sidewalks and paving UÊfÎÓ£]äääÊv ÀÊ iÜÊi iVÌÀ V> Ê and communication systems UÊfÎä{]äääÊv ÀÊÀi« >Vi i ÌÊ of roof membranes UÊfÇ£]äääÊv ÀÊÀi«> ÀÊÜ À Ê to masonry walls While the recommended repairs to the library’s roof are pricey, they’re considered “remedial.” The study said the roof “will need replacement” within the next 15 years. But the analysis offers no solution to a growing problem—parking. Given current utilization, the study says, “The library has a parking need for in excess of 200 cars for patrons and an additional need for 30 cars for staff parking.” But the existing space for 125 cars can’t be expanded without a signiﬁcant investment for either land acquisition for adjacent parking or construction of a new parking structure. “The current parking shortage will have to continue until the building is replaced and additional parking can be constructed as part of a new facility,” the study reported. —George Prentice

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THE NEWEST CRIME FIGHTING WEAPON: INFORMATION Boise police launch new methods to preempt crime GEORGE PRENTICE The difference between policy and reality is sometimes the difference between life and death. The Boise Police Department, when responding to any one of the 150,000 calls it receives in a year, adheres to strict procedures. But more frequently, law enforcement is dealing with volatile situations that require skill sets not found in any manual. Approximately 18 months ago, Boise’s 911 dispatchers received a frantic call from a man whose son had recently returned from a combat mission in Afghanistan. The soldier had been diagnosed with post traumatic stress disorder. “The son had a shotgun and he was threatening to blow his brains out,” said Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson. “You didn’t read about this one in the papers.” Boise police officers crafted a tactical plan when they arrived on the scene—get the father and other members of the family out of the house as soon as possible. “And then they walked away,” said Masterson. “They had enough information to lead them to the conclusion that they felt that if the son was intent on committing suicide, he would probably do it front of a cop. So the officers walked away. [The son] slept it off. They went back the next day and got him down to the VA hospital.” Masterson said his department performs thousands of assessments routinely. “whether or not it’s a matter of mental illness.” “We’ve walked away from a number of situations like that. You just never hear about them,” said Masterson. But two very public incidents, one that ended tragically and another that didn’t, served as critical lessons for Masterson and his department. On Dec. 18, 2004, 16-year-old Matthew Jones, struggling with mental illness, charged at Boise police with a bayoneted rifle. Within seconds, he was shot dead by a police officer. In an equally volatile moment nearly five years later, Boise police faced off with George Nickel Jr., an Iraq war veteran who has PTSD and traumatic brain injury. Nickel was armed with

a handgun, AR-15 riﬂe and 90 rounds of ammunition. Twelve rounds of gunﬁre erupted. Everyone involved agreed that it’s a miracle

data can be hard to come by in the heat of a moment, especially when a mentally disturbed person is angry and has access to a weapon. “We recently did an analysis of the calls we’ve been going on,” said Masterson. “And more than half involved a firearm.” In the coming weeks, Boise Police will begin using their newest crime fighting tool: two pieces of paper that make up something called an accommodation registry. When officers respond to a domestic disturbance or a crime involving drugs or alcohol, they may consider filling out an accommodation registry, especially if the suspect is struggling with addiction or mental illness. Officers will assess what the best/worst methods might be in trying to calm someone down. The information will be stored in a database, so that if there is a future police call involving the suspect, the data will be available to officers on the scene. Masterson said he has already agreed to begin sharing information with the Ada County Sheriff’s Office and soon the data could be available for law enforcement across the Treasure Valley. S The registry is just one change. IL W N A more informal addition to law E B enforcement has privately begun meeting over the past several months—a coalition of more than 30 agencies, departments and advocacy groups to support struggling individuals, with particular emphasis on veterans and their families. The group includes local, state and federal law enforcement, judges, Veterans Administration, the state Department of Veterans Affairs, and a unique nonprofit with an even more unique name: Twisted Sisters. “Twisted Sisters is a subgroup of the Idaho Veterans Network,” said Marnie Bernard, cofounder of the organization. “We’re a group of wives, girlfriends and mothers of soldiers from all over the state. The Idaho Veterans Network works as advocates for veterans who are in trouble with the law.” When she’s not working as a Treasure Valley realtor, Bernard 9 spends many of her waking hours N

Until the time comes to build a new main library branch for Boise—in 2010, the estimated cost ballooned to $118 million— millions of dollars will have to continue to be pumped into the existing Capitol Boulevard repository simply to keep it safe and operational. On Sept. 7, a team of engineers and architects from CH2M HILL were set to unveil a 28-page review, documenting the branch’s current conditions and recommending $3.3 million in sooner-than-later capital improvements. The building is much older than the library itself. Home of the former Salt Lake Hardware Company, the 78,000-squarefoot building was constructed in 1947. The City of Boise acquired the site in 1971 and opened the library two years later. But the original design of the library targeted a Boise population of 75,000. In 2010, Boise’s population topped 205,000. A 2001 study concluded that the City of Boise would need an 185,000-square-foot facility by 2020 to meet the needs of the community. “Because of the growth in use, there is a chronic shortage of patron service delivery space for the Popular Library, Young Adult Service and Adult Service areas of the facility,” reads the new analysis, which recommends that some non-patron services “be eliminated or removed to an offsite location.” In fact, among the recommendations from CH2M HILL is a $1.07 million relocation of acquisition and technical services, homebound services and courier services. Subsequently the study recommends a remodel and expansion of the library’s ground ﬂoor, allowing more space for Young Adult and Patron services. Other recommendations include:

ANALYSIS: $3.3 MILLION NEEDED FOR LIBRARY IMPROVEMENTS

Nickel survived the event (BW, Feature, “Coming Home,” Aug. 31, 2011). “There is so much stress in this department when a life is taken. Not only does it impact the lives of the victims’ families, but it certainly alters the life of an ofﬁcer,” said Masterson. “We deal with some rotten people who have no values and don’t think twice about taking someone’s life. But most of the people we deal with are good people who have made a bad decision.” But while Boise police utilize both lethal (ﬁrearms) and non-lethal (tasers) weapons, their most effective tool, said Masterson, is information about the suspect. But personal

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NEWS with veterans and their loved ones. When an Idaho Marine committed suicide, she was the ﬁrst person that the soldier’s family called. “I asked if there was anyone he could have talked to,” said Bernard. “And they told me only another Marine. That’s when I knew we had to build a mentoring system and begin working with Boise Police. Today police ofﬁcers in Boise hand out brochures with my phone number, the VA and the vet center. If they run into a vet who’s in danger of getting arrested, they can give them a brochure and we instantly assign a mentor.” Lately Bernard has been spending a fair amount of time at the Ada County Jail, visit8

ing 25-year-old Josh Devlin, another combat veteran with PTSD and TBI. Devlin was locked up in March, charged with aggravated assault, attempted strangulation and resisting arrest. His next court date is scheduled for Sept. 23. “We’re not sure how it’s all going to turn out,” said Bernard. “But for now, someone visits him once a week and his mental health is much better.” Bernard said if things ever improve for Devlin, he would like to attend Boise State, much like his mentor, who happens to be George Nickel. “You can stay in jail forever unless there’s somebody on the outside helping you,” she said.

LEADERS OF THE PACS Candidates increasingly connected to supposedly independent PACs BRADEN GOYETTE, PROPUBLICA It looks like most of the 2012 presidential hopefuls have one thing in common: They have close ties to the people who run some so-called super PACs. Those are the newfangled political action committees that are allowed to raise unlimited money and can run ads supporting or attacking candidates but are also supposed to operate independent of candidates. As The New York Times detailed on Aug. 28, those lines are increasingly being blurred. The groups are typically founded by the candidates’ former aides, financed by the candidates’ top donors and implicitly blessed by the candidates themselves. And they are quickly beginning to rival the candidates’ own money operations in size and scope, setting off a fund-raising arms race that is changing the way presidential campaigns are financed and executed. Democrats and Republicans have both been aggressively using super PACs. There are a number of super PACs that support President Barack Obama, which have raised $7.61 million in the first half of this year, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Now concerns are growing about how independent super PACs really are from the candidates they support. The New York Times notes that Obama, John Huntsmann and Michele Bachmann all have super PACs run by the candidates’ former aides or associates. In June, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid sent out an email soliciting contributions to a Democratic super PAC, with a disclaimer at the end to protect Reid from accusations of collaboration: “Sen. Reid is only asking for a donation of up to $5,000 from individuals and federal PACs. He is not asking for funds from corporations, WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

labor unions or other federally prohibited sources.” More recently, Mitt Romney has raised eyebrows for working closely with a super PAC. Romney spoke at a fundraiser for the Restore Our Future PAC earlier this year, leaving the room before the leaders of the group started to discuss their plans with potential donors. The super PAC was founded by three of his former aides. The ROF PAC also came under scrutiny when it received a $1 million donation from a company that dissolved shortly after donating and listed no owner or address in its corporate records. After campaign-ﬁnance watchdog groups started calling for an Federal Elections Commission inquiry, former Bain Capital executive Edward Conard identiﬁed himself as the donor. Romney cofounded Bain Capital in 1984 and served as its CEO until 1999. “I think the whole controversy with regards to his contribution certainly sort of disappears when he came forward and said he was the contributor,” said Romney. Some of the super PACs supporting Texas Gov. Rick Perry are founded by people in his inner circle, including former Perry Chief of Staff Mike Toomey, who co-owns a private island with Perry’s campaign manager. Perry has also faced other questions about getting too cozy with his big donors. On Aug. 29, the Houston Chronicle reported on allegations that one of Perry’s big donors, Bob Perry (no relation), may have indirectly funneled $500,000 to the governor during his 2006 re-election campaign, using the Republican Governor’s Association as an intermediary. If that’s the case, it could be a violation of Texas campaign disclosure laws.

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MARIE MCGLYNN-PEACH Media manager on what’s new in local TV GEORGE PRENTICE

Is local news as important as it’s ever been to identify or brand a television station? Absolutely. And revenue. You own every spot inside that news program. Assuming you have the anchor team that you want, where do you begin to tweak your product? When I ﬁrst got here, we were a little lean on marketing. You have to constantly tell people what’s coming up. You want to keep your viewers from one program to the next to the next. I noticed that you have three large televisions in your ofﬁce. One, of course, is set to channel 6. I’m assuming that the others are tuned to channels 2 and 7. They’re our major competitors. But what are you looking for? I was watching last Thursday night at 6.

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We had seven news stories in our first 10 minutes compared to KTVB, which had two. We’re doing a very good job with our brand of “10 minutes of non-stop news.” When you began talking to the folks at Journal about taking this job was a deal to change KNIN from CW to Fox already in the works? I didn’t know about the deal when they interviewed me. But they clearly knew that I was coming from a Fox affiliate. So when you finally took the job, did they tell you then? No. About two months into the job, they said, “Oh, by the way, there is a possibility of a change.” And I thought, “Oh my God,” because I know what being a Fox affiliate can bring. What did you have to do technically to change networks? We purchased a couple of Fox satellites and some more technical equipment. We decided to take it a step further. Our company made a substantial investment in tearing out our old news set and putting in a brand new studio, which is gorgeous. Can I ask how much of an investment that was? You can ask, but I can’t tell you. With due respect to the CW, getting Fox was a bit of a coup. If you look at a list of Top 10 programs in a calendar year, half of them are Fox. NFL football, American Idol, Glee, House, The Simpsons, and the X Factor, the new Simon Cowell show this fall.

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Marie McGlynn-Peach watches a lot of television. It’s her job. As vice president and general manager of Journal Broadcast Group’s Boise and Twin Falls operations, she is responsible for KIVI Channel 6, KNIN Channel 9, KSAW Channel 51 in Twin Falls and three digital television stations. She also needs to listen to Journal’s four FM radio stations—K-HITS 107.1, The River 94.9, Variety Rock 105.1 and The X 100.3. But most of her afﬁliates will probably understand why she’s paying a bit more attention to KNIN lately—the station transitioned on Sept. 1 from the CW Network to Fox. McGlynn-Peach knows a thing or two about Fox. Before coming to Boise in January, she was vice president and director of sales for a trio of Fox stations in Florida, preceded by a career that included stops in Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and St. Louis.

You launched a new local 9 p.m. news program on KNIN. We hired 13 new people. But you’re sharing resources with KIVI. Everything except for the anchors. We’re not sending two reporters to the same ﬁre. One reporter will report for both stations. What’s the risk of diluting your 10 p.m. newscast on KIVI by showing much of your reporting at 9 p.m. on KNIN? Do you think people who watch at 9 would watch at 10? Statistically, they don’t. The only time that might happen would be if there was a big breaking news story. When you launch a new network afﬁliation, do you think potential viewers will sample you for 30-60 days? I don’t think they’ll give us that much time. We have to come out of the chute doing it right. There’s a lot laying on the line. We need to give people the stories they want to hear in a way that is true to the Fox brand. What does that mean? It’s different to everybody. In every market I’ve been in, I have found that Fox can be polarizing. Either you really love it, or you really hate it. I think here in Idaho people really like it. Fox has that unique edge. So we want to do things a little differently than what we’re doing on KIVI.

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After more than 50 years of activism, politics and writing, Tom Hayden is a leading voice for ending the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan and reforming politics through a more participatory democracy.

9/11 BLINDERS TEN YEARS AND TWO WARS LATER, THE 9/11 ATTACKS STILL ECHO IN DAILY LIFE TOM HAYDEN

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fter witnessing the first jetliner crash into the Twin Towers on that Sept. 11 morning, the wife and 7-year-old daughter of a friend of mine fled to their nearby Manhattan loft and ran to the roof to look around. From there, they saw the second plane explode in a rolling ball of flaming fuel across the rooftops. It felt like the heat of a fiery furnace. Not long after, the girl was struck with blindness. She rarely left her room. Her parents worked with therapists for months, trying various techniques, including touch and visualization, before the young girl finally recovered her sight. “The interesting new development,” my friend reports, “is that she no longer remembers very much, which she told me when I asked her if she would be willing to speak with you.” That’s what happened to America itself 10 years ago this Sunday on 9/11, though it might be charged that many of us were blinded by privilege and hubris long before. But 9/11 produced a spasm of blind rage arising from a pre-existing blindness as to the way much of the world sees us. That in turn led to the in-

vasions of Afghanistan, Iraq, Afghanistan again, Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia—in all, a dozen “shadow wars,” according to The New York Times. In Bob Woodward’s crucial book, Obama’s Wars, there were already secret and lethal counterterrorism operations active in more than 60 countries as of 2009. From Pentagon think tanks came a new military doctrine of the “Long War,” a counterinsurgency vision arising from the failed Phoenix program of the Vietnam era, projecting U.S. open combat and secret wars over a span of 50 to 80 years, or 20 future presidential terms. The taxpayer costs of this Long War, also shadowy, would be in the many trillions of dollars and paid for not from current budgets but by generations born after the 2000 election of George W. Bush. The deﬁcit spending on the Long War would invisibly force the budgetary crisis now squeezing our states, cities and most Americans. Besides the future being mortgaged in this way, civil liberties were thought to require a shrinking proper to a state of permanent and secretive war, and so the Patriot Act was promulgated. All this happened after 9/11 through democratic default and denial. Who knows what future might have followed if Al Gore, with a half-million popular-vote margin over Bush, had prevailed in the U.S. Supreme Court instead of losing by the vote of a single justice? In any event, only a single member of Congress, Barbara Lee of California, voted against

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Bush’s initial Sept. 14 request for emergency powers (war authorization) to deal with the attacks, and only a single senator, Russ Feingold, voted against the Patriot Act. Were we not blinded by what happened on 9/11? Are we still? Let’s look at the numbers we almost never see.

FOG OF WAR As to American casualties, the figure now is beyond twice those who died in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., on 9/11. The casualties are rarely totaled, but they are broken down into three categories by the Pentagon and Congressional Research Service. There is Operation Enduring Freedom, which includes Afghanistan but, in keeping with the Long War definition, also covers Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Second, there is Operation Iraqi Freedom and its successor, Operation New Dawn, the name adopted after September 2010 for the 47,000 U.S. advisers, trainers and counterterrorism units still in Iraq. The scope of these latter operations includes Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. These territories include not only Muslim majorities but also, according to former Centcom Commander Tommy Franks, 68 percent of the world’s proven oil reserves and the passageway for 43 percent of petroleum exports, another American geo-interest that was heavily denied in official explanations. (See Michael Klare’s Blood and Oil and Antonia Juhasz’s The Bush Agenda for more on this.) A combined 6,197 Americans were killed in these wars as of Aug. 16 in the name of avenging 9/11, a day when 2,996 Americans died. The total American wounded is 45,338 and rising at a rapid rate. The total number rushed by Medivac out of these violent zones was 56,432. That’s a total of 107,996 Americans. And the active-duty military-suicide rate for the decade is at a record high of 2,276, not counting veterans or those who have tried unsuccessfully to take their own lives. In fact, the suicide rate for last year was greater than the American death toll in either Iraq or Afghanistan. The Pentagon has long played a numbers game with these body counts. Accurate information has always been painfully difficult

to obtain, and there was a time when the Pentagon refused to count as Iraq war casualties any soldier who died from his or her wounds outside of Iraq’s airspace. Similar controversies have surrounded examples such as soldiers killed in non-combat accidents. The fog around Iraqi and Afghan civilian casualties will be seen in the future as one of the great scandals of the era. Briefly, the United States and its allies in Baghdad and Kabul have relied on eyewitness, media or hospital numbers instead of the more common cluster-sampling interview techniques used in conflict zones like the first Gulf War, Kosovo or the Congo. The United Nations has a conflict of interest as a party to the military conflict and acknowledged in a July 2009 U.N. human-rights report footnote that “there is a significant possibility that the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan is underreporting civilian casualties.” In August, even the mainstream media derided a claim by the White House counterterrorism adviser that there hasn’t been a single “collateral,” or innocent, death during an entire year of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, a period in which 600 people were killed, all of them alleged militants. As a specific explanation for the blindness, the Los Angeles Times reported on April 9 that “Special Forces account for a disproportionate share of civilian casualties caused by Western troops, military officials and humanrights groups say, though there are no precise figures because many of their missions are deemed secret.”

STICKER SHOCK OF WAR Among the most bizarre symptoms of the blindness is the tendency of most deﬁcit hawks to become big spenders on Iraq and Afghanistan, at least until lately. The direct costs of the war, which is to say those unfunded costs in each year’s budget, now come to $1.23 trillion, or $444.6 billion for Afghanistan and $791.4 billion for Iraq, according to the National Priorities Project. But that’s another sleight-of-hand, when one considers the so-called indirect costs like long-term veterans’ care. Leading economists Joseph Stiglitz and Linda Bilmes recently testiﬁed to Congress that their previous estimate of $4 trillion to $6 trillion in ultimate costs was

BOISE REMEMBERS 9/11 The 9/11 attacks have become one of those anchoring moments for Americans. All of us who are old enough to have witnessed the attacks can instantly recall where we were and what we were doing at the moment the planes hit the Twin Towers. With that in mind, BW collected some of the memories of Boiseans through on-the-street interviews and via email and our online comments section.

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STREET INTERVIEWS Tona Casella was getting ready for work when she noticed the images on the television reflected in the mirror. “I thought, ‘that movie looks awful,’” she said. “But it didn’t go away, and I realized it wasn’t a commercial.” Delia Delapp was teaching her junior high ar t class when the student resource officer knocked on her classroom door and said that if any students where having a hard time to send them to the office. She didn’t know what he

was talking about. After that, students began talking about the planes, and after a few class periods, she realized what was really going on. That’s when she turned on the TV. “We watched it as a class for the rest of the day,” Delapp said. “It was such a shock. You were just living your life and thought, ‘that can’t be real.’” Molly Mooney was a 17-year-old high school student in Pocatello. She was sitting in class when someone turned on the TV. “I swore it was the beginning of World War III,” she said. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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Well I was Active Duty Air Force at the time. I was stationed at Maxwell AFB for a one-year school assignment at Air Command and Staff College, and my family had stayed put 11 miles from the Pentagon in our home in Springfield, Va. I was in my apartment watching the first tower burn and very concerned that it was not an accident. Then I saw on TV the second plane hit the other tower. I knew instantly, as I suspect most people did, that it was our worst nightmare since Pearl Harbor. I called my family repeatedly to no avail as all lines were clogged. Eventually I got through to determine they were safe. My wife watched the Pentagon smoke from the ninth floor of her workplace and had restless nights as the fighter jets circled our neighborhood for days on end. The average citizen cannot imagine just how prepared we were as a nation to respond to contingent emergencies in any part of the globe. I was fortunate enough to see and learn just how good we are in defense. We are safer now than we were, though it obviously comes at a price. When we question our leaders, always think of this first: No one is holding you back from leaving—very few do and there must be a reason for it. It’s called freedom. Cherish it and then go and do great things for yourself your family and your country. —Gregory Durand, Lt. Col. Retired U.S. Air Force The morning of Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, was spent in my studio. I’m a sculptor ... The piece I was working on at the time had started out as a funny spunky mule, but the shock and fear of those hours and many days that followed transformed the piece—literally rocked her back on her heels and changed the expression in her face. I named the piece “Tuesday,” and no, I’ll never forget. —Lynn Fraley

AT BOISEWEEKLY.COM It was the second week of my ﬁrst year of college at Indiana University’s Indianapolis campus ... The alarm kicked on the radio, which was pure chaos at that point, so we went to the common room and huddled around the TV with everyone and watched everything unfold. At that point, we weren’t sure whether to go to class, hang around and console those with people in N.Y., or what. The skies were quiet, the town was somber, it was almost an eerie feeling even though nothing major was happening in our city. There was no Facebook, and I didn’t have a cellphone yet, so with no options available, I emailed the friends I had in New York, hoping to hear back that everyone was OK ... which turns out everyone was ﬁne. We were some of the lucky ones. —Phishie

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conservative. Nancy Youssef, of McClatchy Newspapers in Washington, D.C., wrote recently that “it’s almost impossible to pin down just what the United States spends on war.” The president himself expressed “sticker shock,” according to Woodward’s book, when presented cost projections during his internal review of 2009. The Long War casts a shadow not only over our economy and future budgets but our unborn children’s future as well. This is no accident but the result of deliberate lies, obfuscations and scandalous accounting techniques. We are victims of an information warfare strategy waged deliberately by the Pentagon. As Gen. Stanley McChrystal said much too candidly in February 2010: “This is not a physical war of how many people you kill or how much ground you capture, how many bridges you blow up. This is all in the minds of the participants.” David Kilcullen, once the top counterinsurgency adviser to Gen. David Petraeus, defines “international information operations as part of counterinsurgency.” Quoted in Counterinsurgency in 2010, Kilcullen said this military officer’s goal is to achieve a “unity of perception management measures targeting the increasingly influential spectators’ gallery of the international community.” This new “war of perceptions,” relying on naked media manipulation such as the treatment of media commentators as “message amplifiers” but also high-technology information warfare, only highlights the vast importance of the ongoing WikiLeaks whistle-blowing campaign against the global secrecy establishment. Consider just what we have learned about Iraq and Afghanistan because of WikiLeaks: tens of thousands of civilian casualties in Iraq never before disclosed; instructions to U.S. troops not to investigate torture when conducted by U.S. allies; the existence of Task Force 373, carrying out night raids in Afghanistan; the CIA’s secret army of 3,000 mercenaries; private parties by DynCorp featuring trafficked boys as entertainment; and an Afghan vice president carrying $52 million in a suitcase. The efforts of the White House to prosecute Julian Assange and persecute Pfc. Bradley Manning in military prison should be of deep concern to anyone believing in the public’s right to know. The news that this is not a physical war but mainly one of perceptions will not be received well among American military families or Afghan children, which is why a responsible citizen must rebel first and foremost against the official story. That simple act of resistance necessarily leads to study as part of critical practice, which is as essential to the recovery of a democratic self and democratic society. Read, for example, this early martial line of Rudyard Kipling, the English poet of the white man’s burden: “When you’re left wounded on Afghanistan’s plains and the women come out to cut up what remains/ just roll to your rifle and blow out your brains/ And go to your God like a soldier.” Years later, after Kipling’s beloved son was killed in World War I and his remains never recovered, the poet wrote: “If any question why we died / Tell them because our fathers lied.”

A HOPE FOR PEACE An important part of the story of the peace movement, and the hope for peace itself, is the process by which hawks come to see their own mistakes. A brilliant history/ autobiography in this regard is Dan Ellsberg’s Secrets, about his evolution from defense hawk to historic whistleblower during the Vietnam War. Ellsberg writes movingly about how he was influenced on his journey by contact with young men on their way to prison for draft resistance. The military occupation of our minds will continue until many more Americans become familiar with the strategies and doctrines in play during the Long War. Not enough Americans in the peace movement are literate about counterinsurgency, counterterrorism and the debates about “the clash of civilizations”— i.e., the West vs. the Muslim world. The writings of Andrew Bacevich, a Vietnam veteran and retired Army lieutenant colonel whose own son was killed in Iraq in 2007, is one place to begin. Bacevich, a professor at Boston University, has written The New American Militarism and edited The Long War, both worth absorbing. For the military point of view, there is the 2007 Army-Marine Counterinsurgency Field Manual developed by Petraeus, with its stunning resurrection of the Phoenix model from Vietnam, in which thousands of Vietnamese were tortured or killed before media outcry and Senate hearings shut it down. Kilcullen, Petraeus’ main doctrinal adviser, even calls for a “global Phoenix program” to combat al-Qaida-style groupings. These are Ivy League calls to war, Kilcullen even endorsing “armed social science” in a New Yorker article in 2007. For a criticism of counterinsurgency and defense of the “martial spirit,” Bing West’s recent The Wrong War is a must-read. West, a combat Marine and former Pentagon official, worries that counterinsurgency is turning the army into a Peace Corps when it needs grit and bullets. “America is the last Western nation standing that fights for what it believes,” he roars. Not enough is being written about how to end the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, but experts with much to say are the University of Michigan’s Scott Atran (Talking to the Enemy) and former UK envoy Sherard Cowper Coles (Cables from Kabul). Also there is my own 2007 book, Ending the War in Iraq, which sketches a strategy of grassroots pressure against the pillars of the policy (the pillars necessary for the war are public opinion, trillions of dollars, thousands of available troops and global alliances; as those fall, the war must be resolved by diplomacy). The more we know about the Long War doctrine, the more we understand the need for a long peace movement. The pillars of the peace movement, in my experience and reading, are the networks of local progressives in hundreds of communities across the United States. Most of them are citizen volunteers, always immersed in the crises of the moment, nowadays the economic recession and unemployment. Look at them from the bottom up, and not the top down, and you will see: UÊÌ iÊ«i « iÊÜ Ê >ÀV i`Ê ÊÌ iÊ Õ `Ài`ÃÊ of thousands during the Iraq War UÊÌ ÃiÊÜ ÊLiV> iÊÌ iÊi Ì ÕÃ >ÃÌ VÊV sumer base for Michael Moore’s documentaries and the Dixie Chicks’ anti-Bush lyrics WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

UÊÌ iÊwÀÃÌÊÌ ÊÃÕ«« ÀÌÊ Ü>À`Ê i> Ê when he opposed the Iraq war, and the stalwarts who formed the anti-war base for Obama UÊÌ iÊ iÊ i} ÃÊ vÊ Ûi" ÊÜ Ê raised millions of dollars and turned out thousands of focused bloggers UÊÌ iÊÛ ÌiÀÃÊÜ Ê`Õ «i`Ê>Ê,i«ÕL V> Ê Congress in 2006 on the Iraq issue, when the party experts said it was impossible UÊÌ iÊ ÃÊÜ Êi iVÌi`Ê"L> >Ê president by an historic flood of voluntary enthusiasm and get-out-the-vote drives UÊÌ iÊ > À Ì iÃÊÜ ÊÃÌ Ê «« ÃiÊÌ iÊ Afghanistan and Iraq wars and want military spending reversed This peace bloc deserves more. It won’t happen overnight, but gradually, we are wearing down the pillars of the war. It’s painfully slow, because the president is threatened by Pentagon officials, private military contractors and an entire Republican Party (except the Ron Paul contingent), all of whom benefit from the politics and economics of the Long War. But consider the progress, however slow. In February of this year, Rep. Barbara Lee passed a unanimous resolution at the Democratic National Committee calling for a rapid withdrawal from Afghanistan and transfer of funds to job creation. The White House approved of the resolution. Then 205 House members, including a majority of Democrats, voted for a resolution that almost passed calling for the same rapid withdrawal. Even the AFL-CIO executive board, despite a long history of militarism, adopted a policy opposing Afghanistan. The president himself is quoted in Obama’s Wars as opposing his military advisers, demanding an exit strategy and musing that he “can’t lose the whole Democratic Party.” At every step of the way, it must be emphasized, public opinion in congressional districts has been a key factor in changing establishment behavior. In the end, the president decided to withdraw 33,000 American troops from Afghanistan by next summer and continue “steady” withdrawals of the rest (68,000) from combat roles by 2014. At this writing, it is unclear how many remaining troops Obama will withdraw from Iraq or when and whether the drone attacks on Pakistan will be forced to an end. The Arab Spring has demolished key pillars of the Long War alliance, particularly in Egypt, to which the CIA only recently was able to render its detainees for torture. Obama’s withdrawal decision upset the military but also most peace advocates he presumably wanted to win back. The differences revealed a serious gap in the inside-outside strategy applied by many progressives. After a week of hard debate over the president’s plan, for example, Sen. John Kerry invited Tim Carpenter, leader of the heavily grass-roots Progressive Democrats of America, into his office for a chat. Kerry had slowly reversed his pro-war position on Afghanistan and said he thought Carpenter would be pleased with the then-secret Obama decision on troop withdrawals. From Kerry’s insider view, the number 33,000 was a very heavy lift, supported mainly by Vice President Joe Biden but not the national WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

security mandarins. (Secretary of Defense Gates had called Biden “ridiculous,” and Gen. McChrystal’s later ridicule of Biden helped lose the general his job.) From Carpenter’s point of view, 33,000 would seem a disappointing too little, too late. While it was deﬁnite progress toward a phased withdrawal, bridging the differences between the Democratic liberal establishment and the idealistic progressive networks will remain an ordeal through the 2012 elections. As for al-Qaida, there is always the threat of another attack, like those attempted by militants aiming at Detroit during Christmas 2009 or Times Square in May 2010. In the event of another such terrorist assault originating from Pakistan, all bets are off: According to Woodward, the United States has a “retribution” plan to bomb 150 separate sites in that

country alone, and there are no apparent plans for the Day After. Assuming that nightmare doesn’t happen, today’s al-Qaida is not the al-Qaida of a decade ago. Osama bin Laden is dead, its organization is damaged, and its strategy of conspiratorial terrorism has been displaced signiﬁcantly by the people-power democratic uprisings across the Arab world. It is clear that shadow wars lie ahead but not expanding ground wars involving greater numbers of American troops. The emerging argument will be over the question of whether special operations and drone attacks are effective, moral and consistent with the standards of a constitutional democracy. And it is clear that the economic crisis ﬁnally is enabling more politicians to question war spending. Meanwhile the 2012 national elections

present an historic opportunity to awaken from the blindness inflicted by 9/11. Diminishing the U.S. combat role by escalating the drone wars and Special Operations could repeat the failure of Richard Nixon in Vietnam. Continued spending on the Long War could repeat the disaster of Lyndon Johnson. A gradual winding down may not reap the benefits or political reward Obama needs in time. With peace voters making a critical difference in numerous electoral battlegrounds, however, Obama might speed up the “ebbing,” plausibly announce a peace dividend in the trillions of dollars, and transfer those funds to energy conservation and America’s state and local crises. His answer to the deficit crisis will have to include a sharp reduction in war funding, and his answer to the Tea Party Republicans will have to be a Peace Party.

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WEDNESDAYSATURDAY SEPT. 7-10 Branch out and take in some tunes by locals Joshua Tree at the Idaho Salmon and Steelhead Days barbecue.

theater RE/FRACTION Though a man named Dexter is the lead character in Boise Contemporary Theater’s new play Re/fraction, he’s not the same murderous lead from the eponymous hit Showtime series of the same name. Written by and starring Dwayne Blackaller, Re/fraction tells the tale of a man who is about to confront a major change in his life. The action starts when Dexter’s thumb goes numb and he chooses to confide in Chelsea, his dental hygienist, played by Elise Langer. Re/fraction is the world premiere of a play “exploring symmetry, the complexities of identity and the dividing line that runs through every human heart.” Dwayne Blackaller is also the director of BCT’s Theater Lab—a program that invites students ages 12-18 to audition for BCT’s ensemble company. Under Blackaller’s tutelage, students gain valuable experience in writing, acting and contemporary performance art. Re/fraction is the first of two add-on productions to BCT’s usual four-production season. Blackaller’s creation is a workshop production and has a very limited four-day run, so make sure you’re among the first to enjoy this cutting-edge play. Wednesday, Sept. 7-Friday, Sept. 9, 8 p.m.; Saturday, Sept. 10, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; $10. Boise Contemporary Theatre, 854 Fulton St., 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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THURSDAY SEPT. 8 fish SALMON AND STEELHEAD DAYS BARBECUE For many native Idahoans, fishing is synonymous with childhood. But as a kid, you might not have understood the point of holding a pole in the water for hours until you got the thrill from that first little pull and reeled in a flapping fish. You can try to recreate the elation of catching your first fish at the Salmon and Steelhead Days Barbecue at Idaho Fish and Game on

FRIDAY SEPT. 9 fundraiser WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE CENTENNIAL On Friday Sept. 9, don your mildly swanky cocktail casual attire and join the Women’s and Children’s Alliance for its

Thursday, Sept. 8. The barbecue will feature plenty of grub thanks to Fred Meyer, which donated all the goods for a delectable salmon dinner. The ice cream for dessert will be provided by Goody’s Soda Fountain and Candy Store. The event will also feature a salmon maze and live music by Joshua Tree. All proceeds from the barbecue will beneﬁt Salmon and

Centennial Celebration. The par ty promises to be a unique remembrance of the WCA’s 100 years providing suppor t for women in the community. In 1910, the WCA—then the Young Women’s Christian Association—was founded as a safe place for women to live on their own. Over the years, the organization has evolved into a refuge and advocacy arm for victims of domestic abuse.

Steelhead Days educational programs. Idaho Salmon and Steelhead Days is a three-day event “designed to increase awareness and appreciation for salmon and steelhead among the Treasure Valley’s ﬁfth grade students.” 5:30-8 p.m., $10 adults, $5 kids. Idaho Fish and Game Headquarters, 600 S. Walnut St., 208-344-370, ﬁshandgame.idaho.gov.

In 2010, the WCA provided more than 9,800 safe bed nights to 88 women and 130 children. The festivities at the centennial will include a cocktail hour accompanied by mellow jazz from the Ar ts West Jazz Combo, a four-course dinner and a silent auction with items ranging from college football tickets to ar t and jewelr y. Following dinner, more entertainment kicks in, featuring Idaho native Emily Braden backed

up by the Blue Door Trio. Finally a live auction will get going, which includes a trip to Chicago complete with a Notre Dame game, a VIP Vandal football weekend and a private, locally sourced Valentine’s beer dinner for eight featuring food by Teresa Yragui. All proceeds will beneﬁt the WCA’s Endowment Fund. 6 p.m., $150. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., 208-3433688, wcaboise.org. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY SEPT. 9-11 art ART IN THE PARK Now in its 57th year, Boise Art Museum’s Art in the Park has cemented its place in the community as the premier event for artists and artisans to showcase their skills. This year will feature more than 230 artists, with 53 new artists in attendance. A wide array of styles and mediums will be for sale, including jewelry, photography, woodcrafts, glass and metalwork. Alongside the mesmerizing works of art, 44 different food vendors will be serving up grub so attendees can rest their feet and gnaw on snacks from Crepe Tyme, Boise Fry Company and Kanack Attack Catering. On Saturday and Sunday, there will also be a Children’s Art Tent, where a variety of arts and crafts projects will be available for aspiring Picassos. Throughout the event, live local music from artists like The Random Canyon Growlers and James Orr will emanate from the Gene Harris Bandshell. Adding to the creative ambience on Saturday evening, the Jazz Collective will perform from 4:30-5:30 p.m. and Boise Philharmonic will play from 6-8 p.m. in BAM’s Sculpture Garden. There will also be opportunities to win a variety of prizes when you turn in your ofﬁcial Art in the Park purchase receipts. Event organizers will also give away Idaho Lottery prize tickets for a chance to win Art in the Park dollars. Friday, Sept. 9-Saturday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, Sept. 11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Julia Davis Park, 208-345-83330, boiseartmuseum.org. derson. Their only motivation was that Shepherd was gay. The shocking crime made national headlines, not only for the scope of its brutality, but because Shepard’s funeral was protested by the Westboro Baptist Church, a radical Christian group. The 2000 play The Laramie Project, by Moises Kaufman, used hundreds of interviews, news reports and journal entries of Laramie residents to construct a pastiche of the community’s reaction to the murder. Ten years later, the members of the Tectonic Theater

FRIDAYSATURDAY SEPT. 9-10 theater THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER On Oct. 6, 1998, Matthew Shepard, a young college student in Laramie, Wyo., was tied to a fence post, beaten into a coma and left to die by Aaron McKinney and Russell Hen-

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SALSA FESTIVAL Lots of folks have a go-to, blow-your-socks-off salsa recipe. Whether you prefer to keep things traditional—dicing up beefy red toms, green onions, jalapenos, cilantro and garlic—or get zesty with mango and tomatillos, FarWest Landscape and Garden Center’s Salsa Festival is sure to add a trick or two to your salsarsenal. On Saturday, Sept. 10, at 10 a.m., the festival will kick off with a free salsa-making and canning class. Those who want to test their salsa skills against other enthusiasts, can enter the homemade salsa contest with awards for judge’s favorite, hottest and fan favorite in both the youngerthan-16 and 16-and-older categories. Additionally, green-thumbs can enter the fruits of their labor in the tomato contest, which offers awards for biggest and ugliest. Entries must be submitted by 11 a.m., and judging will begin at 1 p.m. sharp. The Salsa Festival will continue until 4 p.m. with kids activities, a pinata, local food and craft vendors, and homemade tamales. 10 a.m.-4 p.m., FREE. FarWest Landscape and Garden Center, 5728 W. State St., 208-853-4000, farwestgardencenter.net.

GOODGUIDE TRANSPARENCY TOOLBAR Corporations go to great lengths to convince us that their products are plucked straight off the vine by smiling farmers, packaged ever so tenderly and whisked off to supermarket shelves. Whether it’s a Lays ad with a woman in a chef’s coat sniffing a bunch of fresh basil while sprinkling salt on potoolbar.goodguide.com tato chips or Chipotle’s latest, oddly moving, animated short featuring Willie Nelson singing Coldplay’s “The Scientist” as a farmer transforms his agribusiness back into a family farm, advertisers know how to sell us the sunlit splendor of the artisanal dream. Luckily, GoodGuide—the respected ethical pocket consumer guide—will help you cut through the bullshit while shopping online. GoodGuide recently released the Transparency Toolbar, which gives products on amazon.com a numerical ethical rating and snap rating of “pass,” “fails” or “alert.” Once you install the toolbar, you can create filters based on criteria like nutrition, controversial ingredients, animal welfare, energy efficiency and human rights. We looked up Burt’s Bees Garden Tomato Toner to see if the plump, leafy tomato on the packaging was any indicator of the quality of the stuff inside. The Good Toolbar gave the product a 7.8 out of 10, but listed it as being an “alert” item because it contains controversial ingredients. The toolbar also gives quick stats of other similar items. Looks like the John Master Organics Bearberry Toning Mist is the slightly better choice. —Tara Morgan

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY SEPT. 7 Festivals & Events ALIVE AFTER FIVE—Unwind mid-week with friends, live music and a cold beverage during this family friendly concert series. See Picks, Page 16. 5 p.m. FREE. The Grove, downtown, downtownboise.org. SALMON AND STEELHEAD DAYS— Three-day celebration designed to increase awareness and appreciation of the fish. Activities include a barbecue on Thursday, Sept. 8, live music, gyotaku fish painting and the popular Kids in the Creek event. See Picks, Page 16. FREE admission, dinner: $10 for adults, $3-$5 for children. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-334-2225, fishandgame.idaho.gov.

On Stage 39 STEPS—The four-person cast portrays more than 150 characters in this two-time Tony and Drama Desk award-winning comedic whodunit, adapted by Patrick Barlow. This is the last play of the season for ISF. See review, Page 22. 7:30 p.m. $12$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofﬁce 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org. COMEDY FOR A CAUSE—Comedy show and beneﬁt for the Idaho Humane Society, hosted by Danny Amspacher. 8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. RE/FRACTION—A workshop production of a new play written and performed by new BCT staffer Dwayne Blackaller. See Picks, Page 16. 8 p.m. $10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Talks & Lectures CITY CLUB MEMBER FORUM— The superintendents of schools from Boise (Don Coberly) and Meridian (Linda Clark) will speak on the Challenge of Tough Financial Times for Idaho’s Largest School Districts. 11:45 a.m.-1:15 p.m. FREE. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000.

Farmers Markets CALDWELL FARMERS MARKET—5-8 p.m. Located on the corner of 12th and Dearborn streets next to the library, Caldwell.

Kids & Teens KID’S EXPERIENCE—A science and art program for children ages 6 and older held in The Secret Garden. 4 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, gardencity.lili.org.

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MR. PATRICK’S WORKSHOP— Young designers, inventors and engineers can bring their creations to life with Legos. Bring a shoebox full of your own if you’ve got them. Legos will be provided for you if you don’t. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

THURSDAY SEPT. 8 Festivals & Events SALMON AND STEELHEAD DAYS—See Wednesday. FREE to attend, $10 for adults, $3-$5 for children for dinner. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-334-2225, ﬁshandgame. idaho.gov.

On Stage 39 STEPS—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofﬁce 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org. THE FOREIGNER—This awardwinning comedy written by Larry Shue tells the tale of visitors to a rural Georgia ﬁshing lodge and what happens when people plot behind one another’s backs. 7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 5012 Emerald St., Boise, 208342-2000, stagecoachtheatre. com. RE/FRACTION—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

NOISE/CD REVIEW BEASTIE BOYS: HOT SAUCE COMMITTEE PART TWO To promote Hot Sauce Committee Part Two (Capitol Records), Adam Yauch, aka MCA, of the Beastie Boys wrote and directed a 30-minute short film, titled Fight For Your Right Revisited. The film chronicles exactly what happened the day following the band’s pieflinging party in the 1986 video for “Fight for Your Right.” It features plenty of drug use, time travel, general hellraising and dozens of celebrity appearances. Elijah Wood plays the young Adrock. On HSCPT, the opening track, “Make Some Noise,” is another instantly memorable ode to partying: “We got a party on the left, a party on the right. / We gotta party for the motherfuckin’ right to fight.” But already, there’s a different sound at work here. It’s a technologically tweaked version of the Beastie Boys’ earlier style and it replaces much of the classic distorted guitar riffing with a modern sheen of electronic rhythms. It’s a sound we heard an earlier form of in the 1998 hit album Hello Nasty. The Beasties have a smooth, speedy lyrical flow in place of the shouted thrash anthems and iconic antics of their youth. In the “Revisited” video, the Licensed to Ill-era Beastie Boys face off against their middle-aged counterparts and undergo a comical comparison of rap cred. It’s fitting for this record, in which the men flex their longstanding hip-hop reputations and point out phoniness in the rap scene today. The best of these instances, “Too Many Rappers,” features fellow rap veteran Nas, who gives it straight: “I’m no killer but compared to you / I’m more realer / You ain’t a shot caller, mobster, or a drug dealer ... / You ain’t got the cut throat in ya, beginner.” It’s a fitting stance for the Beastie Boys, party pranksters who never pretended to be real gangsters, but instead invented roles for themselves in wild narratives where they were pirate thieves or anti-heroes. —Eric Austin WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

8 DAYS OUT RUMORS—Neil Simon’s comedic farce about a deputy mayor who shoots himself and the confusion and miscommunication that envelops the evening. 7:30 p.m. $12.50 general, $9 seniors. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org.

Workshops & Classes INTRO TO POTTERY—Learn to make simple pots with instructor Dave Crawford. Class meets four consecutive Thursday nights in September. 7-9 p.m. $58. Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-407-3359, puffymondaes.com.

Literature FANTASTIC WORLDS BOOK CLUB—Join others who enjoy reading fantasy novels for a discussion. Check the store monthly for details. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208376-4229, rdbooks.org. HUMAN RIGHTS BOOK CLUB— Each meeting is moderated by an expert in a related ﬁeld. The book for September is Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford. 7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Black History Museum, 508 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-4330017, ibhm.org.

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Kids & Teens MOTHERS OF PRESCHOOLERS—Connect with other moms through education, discussion and crafts while your children play. Visit eaglemops.com for more info. 9:15-11:30 a.m. FREE. Eagle Nazarene Church, 1001 W. State St., Eagle, 208939-0661. PRESCHOOL STORYTIME—Stories and fun for preschoolers. 10-11 a.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, gardencity.lili.org.

Odds & Ends FASHION’S NIGHT OUT—Grab your girlfriends and head to the mall for an evening of fashion shows, style tips, giveaways and more. Retailers including J. Crew, Macy’s, The Body Shop and more are participating in this global celebration of fashion. Bring your own gently worn professional attire to donate to Dress For Success. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Boise Towne Square Mall, 925 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-375-1200, boisetownesquare.com. LAST CALL TRIVIA—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com; 9 p.m. FREE. Applebee’s-Meridian, 1460 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-8550343. THE MERIDIAN SINGERS—A group for enthusiastic women who like to sing a cappella in the barbershop style. An ability to read music is not necessary. 7:30-9 p.m. The Music Den, 245 E. Blue Heron Lane, Meridian, 208-724-6311.

PURLS AND PAGES BOOK GROUP—Spend the night knitting, crocheting or embroidering and chatting about your favorite book. 7 p.m. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

FRIDAY SEPT. 9 Festivals & Events ART IN THE PARK—Julia Davis Park comes alive with creativity and is home to a wide variety of arts, crafts, food and music over the course of the weekend. Find all sorts of handmade crafts and creations. See Picks, Page 17. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, boiseartmuseum.org. SALMON AND STEELHEAD DAYS— See Wednesday. See Picks, Page 16. FREE to attend, $10 for adults, $3-$5 for children for dinner. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., 208-334-2225, ﬁshandgame. idaho.gov. WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION—Celebrate 100 years of the WCA with a cocktail hour followed by dinner, live and silent auctions and a performance by jazz musician and Boise native Emily Braden. Visit wcaboise.org for more info and to purchase tickets. 6 p.m. $150. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, boisecentre.com.

On Stage 39 STEPS—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofﬁce 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org. THE FOREIGNER—See Thursday. 8:15 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 5012 Emerald St., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. IMPROVOLUTION—The improv comedy troupe performs its fastpaced, interactive show, incorporating everything from stand-up to skits and games. Watch as they battle it out to claim the battleprov trophy. 7:30 p.m. $7. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com. THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER—Daisy’s Madhouse presents the sequel to the play about the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard. It explores how the town of Laramie has changed over the last decade. See Picks, Page 17. 8 p.m. $8-$10. Idaho Outdoor Association Grange Hall, corner of Brazil and Wright streets, Boise.

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LATE NIGHT CATECHISM—A comedic play that takes the audience back to their youth as the irrepressible Sister teaches the audience a thing or two. 8 p.m. $22. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.

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8 DAYS OUT RE/FRACTION—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org. RUMORS—Neil Simon’s comedic farce about a deputy mayor who shoots himself and the confusion that follows. 8 p.m. $12.50 general, $9 seniors. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

Concerts DEL PARKINSON, PIANO—Part of the Boise State Faculty Artist Series. Parkinson will perform My Favorite Liszt, including Mephisto Waltz, Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 and more. Call 208426-1596 for more info. 7:30 p.m. $5 general, $3 seniors, FREE Boise State students and staff. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State, 208-426-1609.

Workshops & Classes KNITTING CLASS: BEADED BAG—Learn to add beaded bling to your knitted bags during this three-session class in September. Bring U.S. size 2 circular or double point needles. Must already know how to knit, purl, increase and decrease. Call 208407-3359 to pre-register. 7-9 p.m. $48. Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-4073359, puffymondaes.com. WALK-IN GLASS STUDIO HOURS—Create your own fusedglass artwork with the help of a studio artist. No experience necessary and all ages are welcome. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. $15$35. Fusions Glass Studio, 347 S. Edgewood Lane, Ste. 120, Eagle, 208-938-1055, fusionsidaho.com.

FOOTHILLS FAMILY FESTIVAL— A special tribute to the first responders during 9/11, a candlelight vigil for victims, a fireworks display, singing dancing, games, a pie-eating contest, exhibits and more. Proceeds benefit Courage to Be You. Call 208-853-0011 or visit foothills. org. 4-9 p.m. FREE. Foothills Christian Church, Boise, 9655 W. State St., 208-853-0011. MAN SHOW—Take a hot air balloon ride; enter a paintball, elk bugle or arm wrestling competition; participate in go-cart racing and take in some live music during this two-day event. 9 a.m.7 p.m. $5 adults, FREE kids 12 and younger. Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208287-5650, expoidaho.com.

On Stage 39 STEPS—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofﬁce 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Food & Drink 2011 HARVEST GRILL DINNER—Enjoy dinner prepared by chefs from Metro Gourmet, Locavore and Red Feather Lounge, along with live music and a silent auction. Proceeds beneﬁt BUGS. Visit boiseurbangardenschool.org or call 208-891-4769 for info. 6 p.m. $60. Boise Urban Garden School, 4821 W. Franklin Road. ANNIVERSARY PARTY—Helina Marie’s celebrates seven years in business with a burlesque costume contest, wine tastings, food, music and dancing. Call 208-286-7960 to reserve a table. 7 p.m. $10. Helina Marie’s Wine and Gift Shop, 11053 Highway 44, Star, 208-2867960, helinamaries.com. SALSA FESTIVAL— Bring the kids and sample homemade salsa and tamales as you browse fresh produce, arts and crafts. Enter your salsa and/or tomatoes in the competition. Visit farwestgardencenter.net to download an entry form. See Picks, Page 17. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. FarWest, 5728 W. State St., Boise, 208-853-4000.

THE FOREIGNER—See Thursday. 8:15 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 5012 Emerald St., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

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THE LARAMIE PROJECT: TEN YEARS LATER—See Friday. See Picks, Page 17. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $8-$10. Idaho Outdoor Association Grange Hall, corner of Brazil and Wright streets, Boise.

WALK-IN GLASS STUDIO HOURS—See Friday. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $15-$35. Fusions Glass Studio, 347 S. Edgewood Lane, Ste. 120, Eagle, 208-938-1055, fusions-idaho.com.

LATE NIGHT CATECHISM—See Friday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $22. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

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RE/FRACTION—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

REDISCOVERED BOOKS FIFTH BIRTHDAY—Stop into the store today for a scavenger hunt, enter a drawing to win a gift card, book talks and more. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Citizen SAVING LIVES IS SEXY—Pole dancing lessons, a little bit of pampering and rafﬂe prizes make for a fun girls’ night out. Proceeds beneﬁt the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Email savinglivesissexy@gmail.com for more info and to reserve a spot. 7-10 p.m. $10. Ophidia Dance and Art Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste A, Garden City, 208409-2403, ophidiastudio.com.

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Odds & Ends TREASURE VALLEY TRAIN EXPO—Check out model trains from local clubs, visit vendor booths and enter to win door prizes. Noon-8 p.m. $5, FREE for kids 12 and younger. O’Connor Field House/Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208-455-3004.

SATURDAY SEPT. 10 Festivals & Events ART IN THE PARK—See Friday. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise boiseartmuseum.org.

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DAVE BROWN MEMORIAL POKER RUN—Hop on your hog and join this 10th annual poker run followed by live music, barbecue, a silent auction, rafﬂe and bike rodeo. Proceeds beneﬁt the Boys and Girls Club of Nampa. If you don’t have a motorcycle, come for the after-party. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. $25 with bike, $10 without. Boys and Girls Club of Nampa, 316 Stampede Drive, Nampa, 208-461-7203, bgclubnampa.org.

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, 208-345-9287, capitalcitypublicmarket.com. EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle. KUNA FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-noon. FREE. Bernard Fisher Memorial Park, Swan Falls Road and Avalon Street, Kuna.

OPEN HOUSE—Join Opera Idaho, Ballet Idaho and Boise Philharmonic for a day of free lessons, an instrument petting zoo, live music and a chance to win season tickets to all three organizations. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116.

MERIDIAN FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Located in the Crossroads shopping center at Eagle and Fairview roads, Meridian, meridianfarmersmarket.com. MIDDLETON FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Located in Roadside Park at the corner of Highway 44 and South Middleton Road, Middleton, middletonfarmersmarket.webs.com.

TREASURE VALLEY TRAIN EXPO—See Friday. Noon-8 p.m. $5, FREE for kids 12 and younger. O’Connor Field House/ Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208-4553004.

NAMPA FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Located on Front Street and 14th Avenue South in Lloyd’s Square, Nampa, nampafarmersmarket.com.

Animals & Pets BOGO CAT—Adopt a pet and get another one free all day. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Idaho Humane Society, 4775 W. Dorman St., Boise, 208-342-3508, idahohumanesociety.com.

Odds & Ends BOOMER SHACK—9 p.m. $8. Limelight, 3575 E. Copper Point Way, Meridian, 208-898-9425.

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On Stage 39 STEPS—See Wednesday. 7 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofﬁce 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org. LATE NIGHT CATECHISM—See Friday. 2 p.m. $22. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

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RUMORS—See Friday. 2 p.m. $12.50 general, $9 seniors. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

Food & Drink FIESTA CELEBRATION OF THE HARVEST—Enjoy live music, wine tastings and food from B29 Streatery during the last of the concert in the summer series. Noon-5 p.m. $10, $8 wine club members, FREE kids 14 and younger. Ste. Chapelle Winery, 19348 Lowell Road, Caldwell, 208-453-7843, stechapelle.com.

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Farmers Markets EAST END MARKET—10 a.m.-2 p.m. Bown Crossing, Bown St.

Odds & Ends LAST CALL TRIVIA—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID SUNDAYS—Free pool tournament and karaoke. Sundays, 8 p.m. Quarter Barrel, 4902 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-3223430. TREASURE VALLEY TRAIN EXPO—See Friday. Noon-8 p.m. $5, FREE for kids 12 and younger. Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208455-3004.

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Animals & Pets BOGO CAT—See Saturday. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Idaho Humane Society, 4775 W. Dorman St., 208-342-3508, idahohumanesociety.com.

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DOG DAZE OF SUMMER BLACK DOG WALK—Bring your own dog to walk. Visit snipidaho.org for info. Noon-6 p.m. FREE. The Ram, 709 E. Park Blvd., Boise 208-345-2929, theram.com.

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Talks & Lectures WAYNE PENNINGTON—Expert lecture about the Haiti and Japan earthquakes. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

Odds & Ends TRIVIA NIGHT—8 p.m. FREE. Pitchers and Pints, 1108 W. Front St., Boise, 208-906-1355.

TUESDAY SEPT. 13 Odds & Ends STAND-UP COMEDY NIGHT— Test out your routine on patrons during open mic night, hosted by Danny Amspacher. 8:30 p.m. FREE. Quarter Barrel, 4902 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208322-3430.

Workshops & Classes ART DOLLS—Learn how to make whimsical dolls including wire armature, soft sculpture and color theory during this four-week class on Tuesday evenings in September. Call to pre-register. 7-9 p.m. $58. Puffy Mondaes, 200 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208407-3359, puffymondaes.com.

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 14 Festivals & Events ALIVE AFTER FIVE—5 p.m. FREE. The Grove, downtown, Boise, downtownboise.org.

On Stage 39 STEPS—See Friday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$40. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box ofﬁce 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org. VOICES FROM THE BOISE HOLE—Provocative comedy that documents life as experienced by 16 unique Boiseans. Today’s performance is a pay-what-youwant preview night. 8 p.m. VAC, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

Talks & Lectures CONSTITUTION DAY LECTURE—Featuring constitutional legal expert, author and scholar Michael Greve. His talk is titled The State of Our Federalism. RSVP to cblanch@boisestate.edu or 208-426-3776 7 p.m. FREE. Student Union Jordan Ballroom, Boise State, Boise, 208-4261000, boisestate.edu.

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Joe Conley Golden and Richard Klautsch may be standing downstage, but their spot-on comedic delivery upstages any seriousness The 39 Steps may have hoped for.

THE 39 STEPS TO HILARITY AT ISF Take one Alfred Hitchcock thriller inspired by a classic 1930s espionage mystery, turn it on its head and fill it with equal parts smart and silly humor, and you get The 39 Steps, Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s closing show of the 2011 season. The result is a fun, light and humorous production that fully embraces slapstick comedy. With a cast of ISF veterans— including David Anthony Smith, Joe Conley Golden, Richard Klautsch and Kathryn Cherasaro—the minimalist staging and production is the perfect nightcap to another theater season, leaving audiences with warm and fuzzy memories that will linger as they look back. The 39 Steps is the tale of an idle Englishman who is pulled into an international espionage adventure after a chance run-in with a mysterious woman who is murdered in his flat. He is pegged for the crime and heads off across the countryside to try and uncover the truth. That’s where the comparison to the well-loved Hitchcock thriller ends. The four actors portray more than 100 over-the-top characters to create a tale that is far The 39 Steps runs through more farce than mystery. The Sunday, Sept. 25. chemistry and talent of the cast Visit idahoshakespeare.org are essential to the production, for more information and tickets. and the actors’ easy rapport with the audience creates a communal atmosphere that gives the distinct feel that they’re sharing an exciting story around a campfire. With quick, witty dialogue that is in line with the exaggerated nature of film noir, the actors have their hands full, but it’s all the more fun for the audience. Anyone who saw ISF’s 2010 season closer, The Woman in Black, will likely feel a sense of deja vu when they see The 39 Steps’ minimalist set, which uses structural metal elements to outline the world of the play. While the simplest props form a door frame, a set of wooden boxes, ladders and window molding are catalysts for the audience’s imagination, letting each person fill in the blanks with guidance from the cast. It’s a wonderful example of how a strong script and good actors can be enough to weave a well-told tale. But if there were an award given for the best use of box fans and a fog machine, this production would be the handsdown winner. A full wall of fans forms the back of the set and not only helps move the comically copious amounts of fog around, but is easily transformed into a plethora of objects thanks to some creative and effective lighting design. The 39 Steps is a laugh-out-loud production and it seems clear that this play is as much fun for the cast and crew as it is for the audience. —Deanna Darr WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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A BIG BANG Instrumental rockers Explosions in the Sky make epic music BRIAN PALMER In mid-August the Egyptian Theatre marquee advertised a concert coming in September. There was nothing unusual about that—the venue often uses the marquee to promote shows. What made this particular announcement a big deal was the name of the band and the date of the concert formed an unfortunate coincidence: Explosions in the Sky, Sept. 11. Photos of the marquee flew across the Internet, and it became the top story at media outlets as far away as New York. Like many sensationalized stories, this one soon lost steam. While the saying goes Explosions in the Sky may soar in musicianship but apparently fall flat when they try canine comedy. that no publicity is bad publicity, Texasbased Explosions in the Sky didn’t really in speaking to others without actually speaking and relieving.” need it. Since being founded in 1999, the ing, it can turn into something even more Take Care, which Spin Magazine notes is band has spent a decade making a name for meaningful and emotionally significant. filled with “gorgeously towering moments itself with its music. “I think maybe I talk about the brain too [that] seem boundless,” is a rollercoaster ride The music of post-rock stalwarts Exploof skyscraping post-rock thrills and subdued much, but it’s just the most amazing thing,” sions in the Sky is definitely not meant for moments that border on total sedation. With he says. “Just so many things go through the casual listener. The songs rarely fit into your head in four years, or even a year, or three guitarists, EITS marries distorted rock the mandatory radio-ready length of four even a day, or even a minute. And we just try riffs with echoing ones, alternating between minutes or less and don’t contain attentionto translate that to music in the most direct sounding like they are headed for heaven or getting repetitive hooks or memorable choway we know how. And as for emotion, we dropping through the air, depending on the ruses. And they don’t use any vocals. just rely on the natural ability of music. CerWhile some of the band’s songs have been ebb and flow of a particular track, all while tain tones, certain chords, the use of dynamthe drums pound like thunder throughout. known to easily clear the 10-minute mark, ics, the use of space, all of it, for whatever The album is a mishmash of sounds and it would be a mistake to dismiss Explosions beautiful reason, can elicit emotions.” themes that come together in unexpected in the Sky as a jam band. To do so would The band’s pursuit of musical excellence, mean missing out on some intricately crafted ways because it is loaded with so many according to Smith, is never ending and twists and turns that you can never be sure soundscapes that are miles deep. The band’s they are often influenced by some of life’s what is coming next. Given what the album most recent effort, 2011’s Take Care, Take Care, Take Care (Temporary Residence Ltd.) is meant to represent, however, this is fitting. weightier experiences. “Music has always been my favorite “I’d say it’s a document of the last four is no different in these respects, but as guitarart,” he says. “I find it the most immediate, years of our lives,” Smith says. “It’s about ist Mark Smith explains, the journey toward farewells and abandonment, and being a dad visceral and directly relatable to how I feel completing this album was a bit different about the world. Most of that is on some and having someone sick in your life, and than their previous recording experiences. level where I can’t really explain why it does “It wasn’t so much that we couldn’t write getting married and about being friends for that, some primordial series of chemical years and years. And many other things.” music, period, it was just that we couldn’t reactions in the brain. But I don’t question it, The inspiration that life provides for the complete a song to save our lives,” he says I just love it.” music found on this when talking about Despite how seriously they take their craft, album also extends to the trouble EITS had EITS are not without their lighter moments, the song titles, or at recording this album. Sunday, Sept. 11, door at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m., $20 adv., $23 door. Tickets are availespecially when searching for song titles. least one of them. “We were writing able at Record Exchange, Boise Co-Op and “We’re always on the lookout for song or “I think for this stuff—random melothe Egyptian Theatre box office. album titles. Sometimes it kind of interferes record, the hardest dies, weird demos, EGYPTIAN THEATRE [title] to come up with with my reading, though, to be honest,” even completed sec700 W. Main St. he jokes. “I’ll be reading a book and find was ‘Be Comfortable, tions of songs—but 208-387-1273 myself continually stopping in the middle of Creature,’” Smith we just couldn’t form egyptiantheatre.net a sentence and wondering if a certain phrase says. “I remember them into a fully satiswould make a good song title.” after we wrote it, we fying song, and it was Despite all the bloated beginnings, the listened to it for weeks, and then Chris [Haspretty demoralizing.” While the early false starts were deflating, key, the drummer] said something about how breaks and the uncertainties surrounding the material and where it was ultimately headed, it reminded him of the feeling you get when a two-month break from writing turned out they completed the album and heaved a colyou have to decide whether to put your dog to be just what the band needed. lective sigh of relief. Then they did someto sleep if they have health problems. And “Once we completed the first song after thing a little embarrassing. then that title came.” that little break, the floodgates opened and “I believe we celebrated with a dinner Music has such a profound power in and we were able to get in a groove and finish at Red Lobster. I wish I was joking,” Smith the rest of the album,” Smith says. “Once we of itself, in Smith’s view, but when paired says with a bit of a laugh. with the minds of people who are interested finished the last song, it was hugely gratifyWWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

ICP is cuckoo for classical.

JUGGALOAD OF THIS Juggalos, rejoice. Everyone else, bemoan. Insane Clown Posse, the world’s foremost duo of evangelical Christian killerclowns from planet Detroit, is in the news twice this week. First for the truly unexpected lineup on the new ICP single, “Leck Mich Im Arsch.” The track features Jack White, formerly of The White Stripes, helping Violent J and Shaggy 2 Dope reboot Mozart. The track will be released by White’s Third Man Records on iTunes on Tuesday, Sept. 13. It should go without saying that it will be the best song ever. The other reason is that ICP is coming back to Boise to perform on Monday, Oct. 3, at Knitting Factory, which means downtown will be overrun with hooligans in face paint for the evening. We’ll let you decide which piece of ICP news is more unsettling. Moving from the insane to the illegal, the Gibson Guitar Corporation was raided by federal marshals for suspicion of trafficking in wood that was obtained illegally. Gibson Guitar CEO Henry Juszkiewicz told NPR that federal marshals “came in, evacuated our factory, shut down production, sent our employees home and confiscated wood.” It was not the first time the company has been raided by the feds. A shipment of ebony from Madagascar bound for Gibson was seized in November 2009. Both raids were in response to the Lacey Act, a law to protect endangered species. A fiery press release from Gibson called the raid “bullying” and said that the Lacey Act isn’t about conservation but about observing the laws of the country where the wood is procured. “This law reads that you are guilty if you did not observe a law even though you had no knowledge of that law in a foreign country,” it read. “Our business has been injured to millions of dollars,” Juszkiewicz told NPR. “And we don’t even have a court we can go to and say, ‘Look, here’s our position.’” As Gibson has yet to be formally charged, the U.S. Justice Department will not comment on the case. And moving from wood to iron, Iron Maiden lead singer Bruce Dickinson may sing to run to the hills but when tragedy actually strikes, he flies to an island. Dickinson extended the offer of a free ride home on Iron Maiden’s 757 to Icelandic citizens stranded in America after Hurricane Irene. In addition to his duties as wailer-in-chief, he also pilots planes for Astraeus Airlines. No word yet on what the in-flight music will be. But if you’re the gambling sort, it’s a fair bet it won’t be Justin Bieber. —Josh Gross

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY SEPT. 7 ALIVE AFTER FIVE: HOOTS AND HELLMOUTH—With Sandusky Furs. 5 p.m. FREE. The Grove AMY WEBER AND NATHAN MOODY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM, SEPT. 12, EGYPTIAN Certain artists are able to bridge that culture gap from classic to current and stay relevant for their entire career. It’s not because their audience refuses to accept the signs of aging but because those artists, such as Lindsey Buckingham, were incredible to begin with and have only gotten better with age. Buckingham is still a master axe man. Watching his fingers dance across the strings in songs like 1987’s “Big Love” in 2011 is seeing a flesh-and-blood example of how nature and nurture work together. He has been playing the song for years so he certainly has the muscle memory for it, but the effortlessness with which he delivers riffs seems to come from a place born not just of practice. Buckingham will always be a part of Fleetwood Mac’s story, but he has also firmly established his own line in the ledgers as he continues to perform, tour and record. His sixth solo album, Seeds We Sow (Buckingham Records), dropped on Sept. 6. —Amy Atkins 8 p.m., $49. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

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KENNY LOGGINS—7 p.m. $29.50-$69.50. Eagle River Pavilion SWINGIN’ WITH ELLIE IN DOWNTOWN—6 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown

THE BOURBON DOGS—6 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown

THURSDAY SEPT. 8

BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Reef

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

BRIAN “HEAD” WELCH (FORMER KORN GUITARIST)—With Project 86, Spoken, The Wedding and I Am Empire. 6 p.m. $15. The Venue

GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: TALK MATH TO ME—6:30 p.m. $7 members, $10 general. IBG

BUTTHOLE SURFERS—With 400 Blows. 8 p.m. $30 adv., $33 door. Egyptian

JAM NIGHT WITH KEVIN SHRUMM—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe

DAN COSTELLO—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid; and 7:30 p.m. Piper Pub & Grill

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

DAVID MARR—6 p.m. FREE. Cole Marr

MIRIAMS WELL—With Adam Stip and Johnny Butler. 9 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

GIZZARD STONE—9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s. HANDSOME FURS— With Suuns and Talkdemonic. 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux JIMMY BIVENS—6 p.m. FREE. Curb Bar JOHN JONES TRIO—7 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper

HIGH DESERT BAND—6:30 p.m. FREE. Whitewater Pizza

QUEENSRYCHE—8 p.m. $25$60. Knitting Factory REILLY COYOTE—7 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s RIZING TIDE—9:30 p.m. FREE. Reef ROBERT JAMES—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

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

RANDOM COUNTY GROWLERS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SPEAKER MINDS—With Oso Negro, Customary and DJ Rukus. 9 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s.

REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

THOMAS PAUL—7 p.m. FREE. The Modern

REVEREND HORTON HEAT— With Nashville Pussy. 8 p.m. $5-$35. Knitting Factory

WAYNE COYLE—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

RYAN WISSINGER—9 p.m. FREE. Solid THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m. $5. Buffalo Club

FRIDAY SEPT. 9 BLAZE AND KELLY—6 p.m. FREE. Woodriver Cellars BRING ME THE ROCK: A ROTTEN RECORDS SHOWCASE— Featuring Ripchain, Here ’Til We’re Dead, End of All Flesh and more. 6 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door for three-day pass. Red Room

SICK OF SARAH—With Hunter Valentine and Vanity Theft. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux SOUL HONEY—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub SUMMER SEND-OFF WITH SIX SENSITIVE SONGWRITERS— Featuring Holy Weak, A Humble Tumble, Ramblin’ King and the Deaf Jesters, N.W. Walker, Sleepy Seahorse. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

DAN COSTELLO—8 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper EQUIPTO OF BORED STIFF— With Opio of Souls of Mischief and Free Style Fellowship. 9 p.m. $5. Liquid

SATURDAY SEPT. 10

GAYLE CHAPMAN—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

6 DOWN—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock & Barrel JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—9 p.m. $3. Grainey’s

ACTUAL DEPICTION—With Outpost. 9 p.m. FREE. Liquid ALPHA REV—8 p.m. $12-$30. Knitting Factory BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

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GUIDE BRING ME THE ROCK—Featuring Psalter, The Brian Bateman Blend, Boss Hawg and the Short Bus and more. 4 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door for three-day pass. The Shredder

SUNDAY SEPT. 11

MONDAY SEPT. 12

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 14

6 DOWN—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid A DOUG BROWN COLLECTIVE—1 p.m. FREE. Solid

BROCK BARTEL—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

DAN COSTELLO—8 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper

ALIVE AFTER FIVE: JOHNNY A.—With Tim Andreae. 5 p.m. FREE. The Grove

DIRTY MOOGS—With SweetTarts. 10 p.m. FREE. Red Room

BEN BURDICK, BILL LILES— Noon. FREE. Grape Escape

I CAPTURE CASTLE—With Here Comes the Chaos, These New Empires and March of Martyrs. 7 p.m. $8. The Venue

BRING ME THE ROCK—Featuring Kunk Boise, All Hands Go, J.A.R. and more. 6 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door for three-day pass. Red Room

IMAGINE: REMEMBERING THE FAB FOUR—7 p.m. $25-$45. Morrison Center JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Vista JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—9 p.m. $3. Grainey’s. KAYCEE KENNEDY—6 p.m. FREE. Woodriver Cellars POKE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY—See Noise, Page 23. 8 p.m. $20 adv., $23 door. Egyptian HAMBONES ON THE BEACH—4 p.m. FREE. Sun Ray Cafe JIM LEWIS—11 a.m. FREE. Focaccia’s NOCTURNUM—10 p.m. FREE. Liquid TRUE WIDOW—With Old Death Whisper. 9 p.m. $5. Bouquet

LARRY BUTTEL—7 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM—See Listen Here, Page 24. 8 p.m. $49. Egyptian PUNK MONDAY—8 p.m. $3. Liquid

TUESDAY SEPT. 13 THE B-52S—See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $29.50-$69.50. Eagle River Pavilion JEFF MOLL AND GUESTS—8:30 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny

AMY WEBER AND NATHAN MOODY—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Reef BUSH—With Me Talk Pretty. 8 p.m. $25-$65. Knitting Factory DAN COSTELLO—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid GIZZARD STONE—9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s JUMPING SHARKS—With Art Fad and Elba. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux THE NAUGHTIES—7 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper SHADES—With Ramblin’ E Moore. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

RIFF RAFF—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle

RYAN WISSINGER—9 p.m. FREE. Solid

JOHN CRAIGIE—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

SPASTIK AND EVOL G— 10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

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

RUSS PFEIFER—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

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STARDUST LOUNGE—11 p.m. $3. Neurolux VIVA VOCE—6 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange; 8 p.m. $10. Neurolux

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THE B-52S, SEPT. 13, EAGLE RIVER PAVILION The Eagle River Pavilion has been the place to get your nostalgia on this summer with a concert series that has featured Styx, Yes and Whitesnake. Next up: The B-52s. For anyone who ever sang “Loveshack” along with the radio, the retro foursome has always felt a little like a trip down memory lane, even on ﬁrst listen. The B-52s have always found the musical sweet spot between New Wave, pop-infused rock and a ’60s musical sensibility. They became the forefathers/mothers of the cutting-edge music that continues to come out of their hometown of Athens, Ga. In the more than three decades since the band’s founding, The B-52s have consistently brought high energy and an inimitable fun factor to their live performances. Local Rock Lobsters better take their vitamins and get some rest: The B-52s are about to land. —Amy Atkins With House of Hoi Polloi. $29.50-$69.50, 8 p.m., Eagle River Pavilion, 827 E. Riverside Drive, Eagle, landofrock.com.

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LISTINGS/SCREEN Special Screenings

SCREEN/THE BIG SCREEN

AGENCY FOR NEW AMERICANS FILM SCREENINGS—They Call Me Muslim will precede Enemies of Happiness. The films are a combined 85 minutes and will be followed by a discussion. Wednesday, Sept. 14, 7-9 p.m. $12. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise. com. THE BIG UNEASY WITH HARRY SHEARER—This documentary about the failure of the Army Corps of Engineers after Hurricane Katrina was written and directed by humorist and actor Harry Shearer. A Q&A with Shearer follows this one-time screening. Read more about BW’s exclusive online interview with Shearer at bosieweekly.com. Details on Page 4. Monday, Sept. 12, 7:30-9:45 p.m. $12. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

BRIDESMAIDS—There’s nothing Annie (Kristen Wiig) won’t do to make sure her friend Lillian (Maya Rudolph) has the perfect wedding. Thursday, Sept. 8, 7 p.m., FREE for students, $1 for non-students, Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, sub.boisestate.edu. MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM—The Pacific Northwest Ballet performs Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with music by Mendelssohn and choreographed by Balanchine. Sunday, Sept. 11, 2:30-5 p.m. $9. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com. REPENT—This horror flick was helmed by local filmmaker Zack Telford. Saturday, Sept. 10, 8 p.m. $10. Northern Lights Cinema Grill, 1509 Caldwell Blvd., Ste. 1111, Nampa, 208-475-2999, northernlightscinemagrill.com. THE SPITWATER TRILOGY—Local talent produced this comedy/action/trilogy about three individuals who overcome the forces of evil in small town America. Saturday, Sept. 10, 3-5 p.m. $10. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

Opening

DUE NORTH Boise Weekly heads to the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival GEORGE PRENTICE My Canadian Christmas is only a few days away. No, not that holiday in December when we suffer eggnog-soaked relatives. I’m talking about Thursday, Sept. 8, which is opening day of the Toronto International Film Festival. Much like the same thrill I once experienced as a child at the sight of mysterious, glamorously wrapped presents, during the next 10 days, I’ll walk into Toronto theaters with Life imitating art: Michelle Yeoh, star of The Lady, was deported from Burma youthful anticipation. I may get a hint or two and blacklisted by the Burmese government while working on the film. about the source material or director, but for the most part, I never know what I’m going to THE LADY—I’m most excited about this film, Here are a few of the films on my to-do list get. Forrest Gump was right. Sometimes life is which is based on a true story. It stars Mithis year: like a box of chocolates. chelle Yeoh as Burmese activist and political The glory of TIFF is its celebration of film prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi. 360—From director Fernando Meirelles (City of without false excess. Gone is the ridiculously God). over-the-top privilege of Cannes or the headMARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE—This portrait scratching pretension of Sundance. In Toronto, BUTTER—Call me crazy, but any movie about the of a young woman who extricates herself from a cult stars Elizabeth Olsen (sister of Maryit’s all about the audience. Step into any queue cutthroat world of professional butter carving Kate and Ashley). waiting for a film and you instantly feel at has my full attention. home. The conversations are faPAGE 8—David Hare (The Hours, The Reader) diCORIOLANUS—Ralph Fiennes miliar because you’re surroundrects Bill Nighy in a contemporary spy drama. directs and stars in the Shakeed by folks who simply love to For more information on the speare classic. RAMPART—The highly unpredictable Woody HarToronto International Film go the movies. Correction. They relson plays a rogue Los Angeles cop. A DANGEROUS METHOD—DirecFestival, visit tiff.net. love to go to good movies. tor David Cronenberg considers The biggest stars flock to During the 2010 festival, I gave BW readers Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. Toronto. You may recognize an early heads-up on a few movies that enTHE DESCENDANTS—The always-entertaining some of the names planning to attend this joyed a fair amount of success, including Black writer/director Alexander Payne (About year’s event: George Clooney, Ryan Gosling, Swan, The King’s Speech and 127 Hours. Stay Schmidt, Sideways) has George Clooney in Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and linked to boiseweekly.com and blog posts his camera lens. a few dozen others. You would be amazed tagged TIFF and, once again, I’ll give you some how many fans are blase about the red carpet, HYSTERIA—A Victorian-era romantic comedy advance notice on which films might see some about the invention of ... you won’t believe patiently staying in line to grab a good seat for Oscar gold in 2012. this ... the vibrator. themselves.

SCREEN/THE TUBE intrepid muckrakers. Our antihero is Freddie Lyon (Ben Whishaw), a rebellious reporter alThe one thing I hate about The Hour, BBC America’s new ab-fab ways inches away from being fired or promoted. His best friend is smart, drama, is that it’s only 60 bloody minutes long. Damn you, clock. The gorgeous producer Bel Rowley (Romola Hour is my new obsession. Leave it to the Garai) whose biggest flaw is having affairs Brits to set the bar high as we approach a with unavailable men. new season for prime-time television. Freddie calls Bell “Moneypenny,” The Hour, a weekly mini-series (a keeping in mind that the world only knew mere six installments), is set against James Bond in the 1950s through the the smoke, whiskey and starched collars scandalous Ian Fleming novels. Adding of 1956 London. As post-war Britain bitters to the cocktail is Hector Madden redefines itself, a more ominous force has (Dominic West), host of The Hour. He’s invaded queen-and-country television. as handsome as he is cocky and should The conceit of The Hour is the bir th never be underestimated. of independent broadcast journalism One caveat if you watch The Hour—and on the state-sponsored BBC, providing believe me, it’s appointment television: crackling tension between the Beeb and You must see if from the beginning. You’ll Parliament. The Hour is not only the relish every minute. title of the miniseries but the name of —George Prentice the fictional newsmagazine launched by The Hour airs Wednesdays at 8 p.m. on BBCAmerica.

CLOCKWATCHING WITH THE HOUR BUCKY LARSON: BORN TO BE A STAR—Bucky Larson (Nick Swardson) is on the fast track to nowhere until he discovers that his parents are former porn stars and decides to move to Hollywood to follow in their footsteps. Directed by Adam Sandler. (R) Edwards 22 CONTAGION—Steven Soderbergh directs Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Laurence Fishburne and Kate Winslet as they ﬁght a disease that threatens humanity. (PG-13) Edwards 22 and IMAX THE FIRST BEAUTIFUL THING—Life comes full circle as Bruno (Valerio Mastandrea) returns home to visit his ailing mother. In Italian with English subtitles. (NR) The Flicks WARRIOR—Two brothers battle their hearts, emotions and each other as they go head to head for the largest prize in MMA history. Starring Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte, directed by Gavin O’Connor. (PG13) Edwards 22

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Everyone’s favorite horror movie host makes her first appearance as a title character in the feature film Elvira: Mistress of the Dark. Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) quits her television job in Los Angeles because of fallout with the new station owner, and she heads to uptight New England to claim an inheritance. Upon arriving, she finds her great aunt has left her a punked-out poodle, a tatty book of potions and spells and an old haunted house. Comedy ensues as the stuffy residents of Falwell get an eyeful of Elvira’s assets, her villainous great uncle (W. Morgan Sheppard) tries to steal the powerful book of spells, and a romance blossoms between the macabre mistress and a local cinema owner.

Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler) and her co-workers work hard to revive Pawnee, Indiana’s harvest festival and prove their department’s worth. Rob Lowe comes back for another season in his role as Chris, the uptight administrator who becomes Pawnee’s acting city manager. Ofﬁce romances and jealousies abound, and even Leslie has a scandalous secret ofﬁce romance. This Season 3 DVD is out just in time to catch up for the premiere of Season 4 and watch the zany employees of Pawnee’s Parks and Rec department still “being very, very important.” —Kat Thornton

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EXTRA/SCREEN CAN THEY HEAR YOU NOW? SKYPE’S WORLD GETS BIGGER Apparently, the world isn’t enough for Skype—at least the World Wide Web. Now the Luxembourg-based uber com (boasting 30 million online users at peak times) has our landlines in its crosshairs. Skype has just launched a cordless General Electric phone that offers the option to make calls over the home phone line or Skype. The GE 31591 ($70 with 400 minutes of calls to international landlines or mobiles) requires a broadband connection and power outlet (landline is optional). The phone holds 100 Skype contacts, plus 200 regular phone numbers. Additionally Skype has introduced a home/ofﬁce mini-router ($40 with 60 minutes of Skype credit, $60 for one year of United States/Canada calling and 200 international minutes). The Freetalk Connect Me Home Phone Adapter requires a broadband connection, electrical outlet, a PC for the initial setup, phone and an optional landline. You Visit skype.com for more can make calls even when your computer is off. information. —George Prentice WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

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ROCKIN’ THE REC CENTER Now that classes at Boise State are up and running, it’s time to start exploring college life, and that doesn’t just mean pub crawls. The Student Recreation Center is stepping up its game with a long list of offerings, most of which are available to the general public so those of us who collected our degrees long ago can still be part of the campus scene. The university recently opened a new Cycling Learning Center in the Lincoln Parking Garage next to the rec center. While the CLC has been around for years, a new focus on promoting alternate forms of transportation—done in partnership with Transportation and Parking Services—means the new center not only can help you fix your beater bike, but when the wheels finally fall off that bike, you can buy a new one or rent a loaner for the day at the CLC. University Health and Recreation spokesperson Heather Carlson said plans call for maintenance sessions, as well as group rides. The rec center is also hosting a full schedule of instructional fitness programs and this year’s class lineup includes yoga therapy, boot camp, Pilates, ballroom dancing and even a hula hooping class that promises to twist your core into shape. Of course, if shaking your hips to better health isn’t your thing, you can always take advantage of a class that was apparently based on a Navy SEALs training program. The TXR Boot Camp involves using straps suspended from the ceiling or wall to use your own body weight for resistance training. While we wonder if that could mean pulling a shoulder out of socket, it looks both hardcore and intriguing. For those with an eye toward winter, the rec center is also hosting a ski fitness class one day a week for eight weeks. If the idea of heading back to campus has you all nostalgic for the days of your youth, you can always join the new Masters Swim Team. It’s swim team for grown-ups, complete with coaching and reserved time in the pool. Classes start Monday, Sept. 5, run through Dec. 3, and cost $75 for members or $125 for nonmembers. If you want to learn how to protect yourself, register for one of the two free self-defense classes scheduled in October. And finally, for extra credit, did you know that the rec center offers massage services? Well, it does, and it’s open to all seven days a week. Call the service desk at 208-426-1131. Times and costs for individual classes var y, so visit rec.boisestate.edu for more info. —Deanna Darr

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It’s back to bike-sics at Boise State.

MAKING TIME IN MAGRUDER A trip through some of the West’s most panoramic wilderness ANDREW MENTZER Carved perfectly between the Main Salmon and Middle Fork of the Clearwater rivers is the Magruder Road Corridor—named for Lloyd Magruder, whose 1863 pack train fell to mutiny when Magruder’s hired hands robbed and murdered him along the trail. The corridor sits between the Selway-BitterBefore we took in the breathtaking views, Geronimo insisted on reading the trail signs. root National Forest to the north and the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness to the south, running from Elk City to The biodiversity of Magruder is certainly “There’s a lot of motorcycles on the trail Darby, Mont. Because of its off-the-beatenthis time of year ... even more than in years best observed from Burnt Knob. The side path location, it is one of the only major road up is particularly rough and rocky, so past,” Sims said. access roads in what is commonly referred She reminded us about the lack of servic- tread cautiously and pack for pinch flats if to as Central Idaho’s sea of mountains. es along the route and noted the substantial you go. As we descended into where the SelA couple of weeks ago, I set off on way River meets the Magruder, we began to burn area from recent fires between Idaho Geronimo, my trusty Kawasaki KLR 650 realize that our trip was coming to an end and Montana. These intermittent scorched motorcycle, for my first trip through the all too soon. Just shy of four hours from tree lines proved to be intensely beautiMagruder Corridor. This historic part of when we started, we were in Darby, Mont., ful but served as a powerful Idaho’s epic mountainscape bireminder of how much damage refueling. My brother and I concluded that sects some of the most remote the Magruder by car should take about can result from forest fires. country in North America, For more information eight hours—as indicated on the trailhead A 15-minute haul to the and during the 700 total miles on the Magruder, visit sign near Elk City—but the ride can be Magruder trailhead near the I traveled—from Boise and fs.usda.gov. Check out Andrew Mendone in about a half-day on a motorcycle if Red River Ranger Station just back—I came to see why this tzer’s 2012 Around the you’re on a nimble bike and pack light. outside of Elk City, and we area is held in such high regard World motorcycle project Thankful for no major mechanical were on our way. by recreationists. at transworldtour.com. We stopped at several look- malfunctions, we headed south on scenic My first stop was in McHighway 93 to Challis. The Magruder outs to admire the tranquility Call, where my brother joined had given us a fantastic day of exploring, and remoteness of region, and me on his motorcycle. We fishing, riding—not to mention lungs full pushed north to Grangeville before descend- we really got a sense of what it must have of dust—and just south of Darby, we were been like making the trek on foot back in ing the Harpster Grade to scenic Highway looking forward to wrapping up by meetthe 1800s. The road—while well kept in 14 and on to Elk City, where the more ing friends at the Braun Brothers Reunion most places—turns very rough and unthan 100-mile dirt trek that constitutes the Festival in Challis. forgiving in certain sections. Crossing the Magruder Corridor begins. Unfortunately that’s when my bike trail’s central saddles on a clear day is espePart of the original Southern Nez Perce decided to call it quits. My motor was cially rewarding since you can see for hunTrail, the Magruder is often regarded as blown. We towed Geronimo back to a dreds of miles in all directions. We scouted the Holy Grail of adventure recreation in several well-kept public campgrounds along small, friendly roadside bar, where I was Idaho, and it’s easy to understand why. able to negotiate a ride for me and the way with the intent of making a Picturesque start-to-finish views, excellent my broken two-wheeled friend as far hiking, camping and fishing, and a complete return visit this fall to spend a little south as North Fork Road near the more time exploring and fishing. absence of modern comforts make this an Main Salmon. The guys who gave The highlight of the ride was appealing route for those looking to get me a ride were the owner/operators undoubtedly Burnt Knob—a away from it all for a few days. of Booker’s Retreat and Mother weather-beaten lookout station at A stop for fuel in Elk City led to a chat Chukar’s on the Main Salmon—a with some locals and a slight shift in expec- 8,196 feet in elevation. This 1.5-mile VIDEO: See hunting and fishing lodge and restauout-and-back detour offers those tations for Magruder. I had imagined that Mentzer’s rant. They refused all of my attempts bold enough to attempt it arguably the ride could be done in five or six hours, helmet cam to pay for gas or their time, and the best 360-degree panorama in but after asking around a bit, we realized footage. then they arranged for me to store Central Idaho. Giving new meaning that most people plan for anywhere from my bike until I could bring a truck a to the phrase “head in the clouds,” one long day to three or more days. this alpine perch showcases everything from few days later. I jumped on the back of my As I was asking around, I met Cheryl brother’s Suzuki DR650SE—imagine Dumb the aftermath of recent fires to crystal-clear Sims at the Elk Creek Station Cafe. She & Dumber—and we rolled into Challis just mountain lakes to the rocky spires of the pointed out that we ought to be careful after dark. adjacent Montana wilderness. about trying to make time on Magruder. WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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CASCADE LAKE RUN—Register online at bluecirclesprots.com through the day of the race for this 5K or 10K run that begins at Van Wyck Park and ends at the Cascade Medical Center, where there will be a free health fair. Proceeds beneﬁt Cascade School Athletics. Saturday, Sept. 24, 10 a.m. $10-$25.

ACTIVATE TREASURE VALLEY KICK-OFF—The kick-off event for a new initiative to get people up and moving will include a community relay with different legs for various modes of transportation—including bikes, wheelchairs, scooters, strollers, rollerblades and more—starting in different spots around the city. Visit ymcatvidaho.org for more info. Wednesday, Sept. 7, 9:30 a.m. FREE. Municipal Park, 500 S. Walnut St., Boise.

CF CYCLE FOR LIFE—Register with a team or as an individual through the day of the event at cff.org for this ride to raise money for cystic ﬁbrosis. Participants are required to raise a minimum of $165 and can choose from the 65- or 35-mile options. Saturday, Sept. 10, 8 a.m. $15-$35. HARVEST CLASSIC FUN RUN— Kids in kindergarten through eighth grade can register through race day for the one-mile fun run that begins at 9 a.m. at the Nampa Rec Center, or the entire family can register for the ﬁve- or two-mile run or walk. Visit nampaparksandrecreation. org for more info and to register. Saturday, Sept. 8, check-in at 7 a.m., races begin at 9 a.m. $10$20. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858. LIGHT THE NIGHT WALK—Join a team or go solo for this fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. The walk begins at the fountain in Ann Morrison Park and walkers are encouraged to raise $100. Visit lightthenight. org for more info and to register through race day. Thursday, Oct. 6, 5-8 p.m. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise. MOUNTAIN WEST OUTDOOR CLUB—Member-led recreational activities throughout the year, including hiking, camping, canoeing and kayaking. Check the group website to keep current on all recently posted and spontaneous activities occurring. Memberships cost $15 per year. For information, call Mike Fritz at 208-323-1383 or email mountainwest@yahoogroups.com. RIDE2FLY—Join the Mission Aviation Fellowship for this ride through the mountains of Idaho to the Garden Valley airstrip to raise funds for people around the world that the fellowship serves. Register online at maf. org through the day of the event.

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The Idaho Senior Games prove you’re only as old as you feel. Riders meet at 112 N. Pilatus Lane in Nampa. Saturday, Sept. 10, 9 a.m. $25 per rider, $10 per passenger. RIM2RIM RACE—Visit habitatmagicvalley.org to register through race day for this 7.5-mile run out and back along the Snake River Canyon in Twin Falls. Proceeds benefit the Magic Valley Habitat for Humanity. Saturday, Sept. 17, 9 a.m. $20-$40. RUN FIDO RUN DOGGIE DASH—Register online through race day for this 5K run with your pooch at runfidorun.org at Eagle Island State Park. Proceeds benefit local animal welfare organizations. Saturday, Sept. 10, 10 a.m. $30-$35. RUN FOR THE HEALTH OF IT— Visit bluecirclesports.org through race day to register for this 5K run/walk on the Idaho StateMeridian campus. Saturday, Sept. 17, 9:30 a.m. $28. ST. LUKE’S WOMEN’S FITNESS CELEBRATION 5K—Run, walk or stroll one of the largest 5K runs in the nation with thousands of women during the St. Luke’s Women’s Fitness Celebration. Register online at active.com through Friday, Sept. 23, or at the Celebration Women’s Show the Thursday and Friday before the race on Saturday, Sept. 24. After the race, which runs from the Capitol to Ann Morrison Park, stay and celebrate at the finish line party with an award ceremo-

ny, rafﬂes, healthy food and drink and live music. Saturday, Sept. 24, 8 a.m., $9-$34 registration fee. Idaho Capitol, 700 W. Jefferson, Boise, celebrateall.org. SUEB MEMORIAL STROLL— Honor the victim of domestic violence and help raise awareness in the community during this walk on the Greenbelt to beneﬁt the Women’s and Children’s Alliance SueB Endowment Fund. Register online at wcaboise.org through event day of the event. Saturday, Oct. 8, 10 a.m. $20$30 or gift donation. TABLE ROCK CHALLENGE— Register online at bluecirclesports.com through race day for this nine-mile run from Fort Boise up Table Rock and back. Saturday, Sept. 10, 9 a.m. $25. Fort Boise Park, 600 W. Garrison St., Boise. URBAN ADVENTURE—This easy-to-moderate three-mile hike along the Snake River to Halverson Lake is suitable for families with older children. Call 208-3441459 to register and for details on meeting location. Saturday. Sept. 10, 11 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Celebration Park, 5000 Victory Lane, Melba, 208-495-2745. WILD ROCKIES VELOPARK 10K—Register at spondoro.com through race day for this 10K fun run through the sagebrush at the park. Saturday, Sept. 17, 5 p.m. $25. Idaho Velodrome and Cycling Park, Old Horseshoe Bend Road, Eagle, idahovelopark.org.

BIG NASTY HILL CLIMB—The largest motorcycle event in Idaho is held over the course of three days just north of New Plymouth at Pence Ranch, otherwise known as White Cliffs. Camping is available on site for the weekend. Visit ictickets.com to purchase tickets. Sept. 16-18, 9 a.m.-6 p.m. $5-$25. FALL PADDLE CLASSIC RACE SERIES—Idaho River Sports presents this ﬁve-race series on Thursday evenings in September. Classes include obstacle, long and short distance, canoe, SUP and kayak races. Prizes will be awarded each evening and then for the most accumulated points at the end of the series. Email dave@readywebgo.com for more info. Thursdays, 6 p.m., $45 for ﬁve races. Idaho River Sports, 3100 W. Pleasanton Ave., Boise, 208-336-4844, idahoriversports. com. IDAHO SENIOR GAMES—A social and recreational opportunity for adults age 50 and older. Seniors can participate in 16 different sports, more than 50 events and 11 age groups. Medals are awarded for all events. Sunday, Sept. 18. Visit idahoseniorgames.org to register and for more info.

Request for Assistance BIKE COUNTERS NEEDED—The Ada Bike Alliance needs volunteers to count bicycle trafﬁc in order to collect data that will help make streets safer for cyclists. For more info and to volunteer, visit adabikealliance.wordpress. com or call Rick Overton at 208994-1394. Sept. 13-15, 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m. FREE.

FALLING FOR STANLEY The mountains near Stanley see no shortage of hikers during the summer. Meadows are awash with wildflowers, temperatures are perfect and the jagged peaks in the Sawtooth Mountains punctuate the blue skyline. But outdoor enthusiasts should think of a trip to Stanley in September and early October, when Indian summer lingers, holding off the frigid weather that is just around the corner. One hike to consider after mid-September is the Fishhook Creek Trail near Redfish Lodge. This 5.8-mile out-and-back hike wanders under a canopied forest of conifers to the Fishhook Creek Meadow. On arrival to the meadow, a canvas of pointy granite peaks—including the 10,229-foot Heyburn Mountain and the 10,470-foot Horstmann Peak—command attention. As a bonus, the ridge to the north of the trail contains an abundance of aspen trees, making this hike a fall-color pilgrimage. The thin, white-barked trees decorate the hillsides with a patchwork of gold, yellow, orange and red. It is nearly impossible to predict exactly when the leaves will turn but it’s a safe bet they’ll be heading that way by late September, early October. The fleeting color display normally lasts about 10 days, so you need to time it right. This hike is rated “easy” as the total elevation gain is Scott Marchant is the author only 300 feet for the entire of the Hiker’s Guide to hike. Those looking for a little Cascade and McCall. more physical challenge can Visit hikingidaho.com. turn right at a signed junction, seven-tenths of a mile from the trailhead. This cut-off gains 500 feet through a canopy of aspen in six-tenths of a mile to another junction. A left turn here rises on a ridge with superlative views overlooking Fishhook Meadows and deep into the Sawtooth Mountains. To find the trailhead, drive south from Stanley for 4.2 miles on Highway 75 and turn right on paved Redfish Lake Road. Drive 1.7 miles and turn right again into a large dirt parking area. A small footpath leads northwest 300 feet and crosses the road that leads to Redfish Lodge. Here you will find the Fishhook Creek Trailhead. —Scott Marchant

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A BELOVED LEGUME Who’s your Sugar Daddy?

COSMIC TERIYAKI TAX EVADERS On Aug. 30, Christine Reid (Red Room, Locavore) opened a new eclectic pizza joint called Cosmic Pizza at 1221 W. Boise Ave. in the space that once housed Chef Roland’s Cajun Cuisine. The formerly Mardi Gras-themed interior got a retro facelift with a smattering of vintage chairs and an old-school videogame console in the corner. The menu follows suit with a Jetsons-esque space theme, offering creations like the Stardust ($13.25, 10 in.; $17.50, 14 in.; $21.75, 18 in.)—with Italian sausage, sun dried tomatoes, red onion, feta, salami, sunﬂower seeds and red sauce—or the Galactic Fair ($12, $16, $19.80) with mini corn dogs, chili, red onions and cheddar cheese. Patrons can also build their own pies from a selection of meats, veggies, sauces and cheeses (including vegan cheese). Though some of The Star Fleet specialty pies can get a bit spendy, the lunch special is a sweet deal with a classic slice and a side salad for $5, served Monday through Friday before 4 p.m. The spot also serves up a selection of microbrews and wine. For more info, call 208-258-3871. In other opening news, the ever-expanding Shige recently opened a satellite fast-food teriyaki concept in Meridian called Shige Teriyaki. The restaurant’s menu is fairly similar to Yokozuna Teriyaki, which also recently opened a Meridian location. Both spots offer tonkatsu, gyoza, yakisoba, bubble tea and even share a sushi roll named the Sugar Daddy. For more info on Shige Teriyaki, visit shigejapanesecuisine.com. Continuing on the Asian grub beat, Baan Thai, the resto that took over the Mai Thai-Eagle space, has closed. Signs posted on the door indicate that the Ada County Tax Collector is seeking reimbursement for unpaid property taxes. In happier news, Fairview Ave. just got a new non-chain biznaz. The Dhondalicious Artisan Food Co-op is located at 8716 Fairview Ave., between Milwaukee Street and Maple Grove Road and features three vendors from the Meridian Farmer’s Market: Ruth Joanne’s wholesome foods bakery, Dhondalicious butter toffees and Luis’s Place tamale and smoothie restaurant. “We decided if we were going to take our businesses up to the next level … then in today’s economy, the best way we would be able to do that is to join forces and form a co-op,” explained George Davidson, baker and manager of Ruth Joanne’s. The co-op will host a grand opening on Saturday, Sept. 10. For more info, call 208376-8181 or 208-550-8330. —Tara Morgan

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Folks flock to festival to laud lentils GUY HAND The Palouse—that beautifully fertile, cameraready landscape of rolling hills, deep loess soils, ample rain and cool summer nights spreading across state lines shared between North Idaho and Eastern Washington—is nearly perfect lentil habitat. Until five years ago, it was the nation’s lentil-growing capital. Montana and North Dakota now share that title, but the Palouse region around Moscow and Pullman, Wash., still pumps out more than 100 million pounds of lentils a year. Nearly 26,000 people were greeted by a giant bean in a chef’s hat. And nobody ran screaming. Agricultural output, however, can’t explain why the lowly lentil recently drew an estimated and garbanzo beans also help break disease 7,500 servings of free lentil chili. 26,000 people to the National Lentil Festival and pest cycles when planted in a rotation with The second day of the Lentil Festival in Pullman, a mere lentil’s toss from the Idaho wheat, the Palouse’s No. 1 cash crop. Lentils border. The lentil-studded lentil pancakes made included a lentil cook-off, a lentil parade, educational lentil presentations, and a “Little help stem erosion, too, he said, a constant issue with lentil flour do, as do the green-felt lentil Lentil Royalty Coronation.” But lentils them- in this steeply sloped terrain. costumes, the booths full of lentil T-shirts and Despite the health and environmental selves sprouted on the Palouse a long time assorted lentil knickknacks, the kids carrying benefits, Scholz said lentils are still a hard sell before the now 23-year-old National Lentil lentil placards, the otherwise stable-looking among U.S. eaters. Festival was born. young woman who spontaneously burst out “In North America, the average consump“Lentils were brought to Palouse in 1916 a hallelujah-like “I love lentils,” the sweetly tion of lentils is like a cup per person per year,” by a farmer named J.J. Wagner,” said Drue strange lentil desserts, and the long lines of he said. “So it’s very small.” Wagner (no relation) at the booth he was lentil devotees queued up in front of a massive Although lentils are an ancient food, having manning at the lentil festival. “He was a pot of lentil chili like worshippers awaiting turned up in Egyptian pyramids and Tibetan Seventh-day Adventist farmer, and he was trylentil-laced Communion. “We’re giving away probably 375 gallons of ing to promote a healthy food that he strongly caves, they just aren’t a big part of the American diet. Therefore 50 percent to 80 percent of believed in. He himself lentil chili,” festival orgaAmerica’s lentil production is shipped overseas was a vegetarian, and he nizer Vicki Leeper shouted to more lentil-enamored countries like Spain, found this great food that over the lentil-inspired din. he thought would promote Italy, Greece, Peru and Columbia. To improve “And it’s the biggest party domestic demand, the Pea and Lentil Council good health.” on the Palouse.” works on research projects designed to create Lentils turned out to From the far end of lentil products more appealing to American promote good health for a closed-off downtown tastes. That includes, according to Scholz, an the Palouse as well. Pullman street, I could extruded lentil slurry that he hoped would A legume like beans clearly see a young man resemble a lentil-based Cheetos-like snack. and peas, lentils are nitroon a raised platform stir“Lentos, maybe,” Scholz added with a grin. gen fixers, meaning they ring that huge pot with “But when they started that process, what pull nitrogen from the air, a canoe paddle, Pullman came out of the extruder looked a lot like, uh and through a symbiotic Mayor Glenn Johnson ... well, it wasn’t very edible anyway.” relationship with certain dispensed lentil chili from Scholz hasn’t giving up on processed strains of bacteria, deposit what looked like a fire lentil treats, but he’s also encouraged to see that nitrogen in the soil hose spigot. As I apAmericans embracing the cuisines of countries and thus increase soil ferproached for an interview, tility, lowering the need for that already embrace lentils, like India and the the mayor warned me he whole Mediterranean. He believes Americans additional fertilizers. couldn’t control the lentil will eventually learn to love the little legume, Todd Scholz, director blowback as lumpy red too—but until that day, he said, “we’re trying of research and inforliquid blasted into the More information is very hard to encourage people to eat lentils.” mation for the U.S. Dry beer pitcher he was using available at pea-lentil.com. Back at the National Lentil Festival, it Pea and Lentil Council, as a dispenser. “Don’t get wasn’t taking that much encouragement. explained this as he sat in too close,” he said. Mayor Johnson, who now looked like the loser his office, which literally According to a hyperin a lentil-based paint ball tournament, was straddles the Idaho/Washington border on the accurate front page news story published still dutifully manning his lentil-spewing spigot. western edge of Moscow. The fact that he can in the Lewiston Tribune the next day, that “You see these lines?” he asked, pointing a roll his office chair across state lines is testachili contained 435.65 pounds of lentils, ment to the council’s concern that one state not chili-flecked finger at the half-dozen, block262 gallons of water, 87 pounds of onions, long lines of people patiently waiting for their be given preferential treatment over the other. 44 pounds each of celery and carrots, 43.5 But Scholz was talking lentil biology, not lentil free bowl of lentil chili. “They just keep comgallons of tomato puree and 21.75 gallons ing and coming.” politics and wanted to stress that lentils, peas of salsa, all of it contributing to a flavorful WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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TARA MORGAN Though the USDA notes that “children are At the Idaho Foodbank’s main building off usually protected from substantial reductions Federal Way, cardboard boxes stretch up to in food intake even in households with very the cool warehouse ceiling like canned-food low food security,” that hasn’t prevented an canyons. Jackie Yarbrough, the foodbank’s alarming number of Idaho children from going manager of agency relations and nutrition without food. services, directs a group of volunteers in In mid-August, Feeding America released a matching CitiGroup and Kohl’s T-shirts like study called Map the Meal Gap: Child Food a seasoned tour guide. Insecurity, which documents levels of food “Hi guys! Welcome. Pick a station. One insecurity in all 50 states based on data from person for each food in the line,” she says. the 2009 Current Population Survey. Volunteers settle in front of giant pallets of Shockingly the study shows that 23.4 canned beef ravioli, cereal bars and fruit juice. percent, or one in four children younger than “We need a chocolate milk person,” some18 in Idaho, are food insecure. That means one calls out from the chaos. Yarbrough and Co. are assembling satchels 95,150 children statewide—20,150 children in Ada County alone—are at risk for hunger. Accontaining a weekend’s worth of calories for cording to the foodbank, this is a 43-percent the Idaho Foodbank’s Backpack Program. “This will get one child through a weekend increase since the last study of Idaho childhood food insecurity. with six meals and two snacks. It’s all nutriSeven years ago, the foodbank instituted tionally checked out,” said Idaho Foodbank its direct-service Backpack Program to protect media director David Proctor. “That way, this vulnerable population. when they come back on Monday morning, “This program is primarily targeted toward they’re ready to actually go to school.” elementary-aged children … Little ones are The packaged meals are then distributed less likely to talk about being hungry at to low-income schools in districts across the home. They have less access,” state. Every Friday afternoon, explained Yarbrough. “A 2,000 children tuck the edible To access the Map the junior-high or a high-school packages into their backpacks, Meal Gap: Child Food kid, they’re going to go eat guaranteeing that they’ll eat Insecurity study, visit at their buddy’s house … but something during the weekidahofoodbank.org. little kids, they don’t have the end’s long recess. mobility. They’re not going to “We’re trying to serve a be straying as far away from home.” punch of nutrition for the kids because these Though canned beef ravioli and chocolate are children that we know during the school milk might not seem like the most nutritionweek and on weekends have lack of access to ally balanced foods to provide growing kids, the food,” said Yarbrough. Yarbrough explains that the foodbank’s According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service, food nutritionist has to work under a number of restrictions. insecurity is deﬁned as “limited or uncertain “The product has to be shelf stable, availability of nutritionally adequate and it can’t be refrigerated, and it has to safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable be easy for the child to open and con32 sume,” said Yarbrough. “That starts ways”—aka without scavenging or stealing. WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

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FOOD/EXTRA CON’T getting your food pool down to a fairly small level.” And, as foodbank president and CEO Karen Vauk explains, the meals have to be kidfriendly. “It needs to be the kind of foods kids like … It doesn’t do any good to send food home with them if they’re not going to eat it,” said Vauk. “It also has to meet the weight restriction because the total weight of the backpack can’t exceed a certain weight or it’s too much for the little ones to carry.” The Idaho Foodbank purchases all of the items used in the Backpack Program in order to ensure nutritional quality and regular availability. Because hunger is such a nebulous condition, there’s no rigid income guideline dictating which children can participate in the program—kids are selected on a case-bycase basis. “What happens in schools is that those children are identiﬁed by the school counselor, the school social worker, the teacher or the lunch lady as being a child that probably needs extra food,” said Vauk. Though the Backpack Program currently serves 2,000 children, the Idaho Foodbank estimates that more than 7,000 children would beneﬁt from the service. “That’s probably a conservative number,” said Vauk. “We do hear from schools every school year … They’re asking if they can have VIDEO: On location at more, but the Idaho unfortuFoodbank. nately, when we hit our limit, we have to tell them that we’re not able to do it because our funding is depleted.” 31

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ALBARINO In Spain albarino was one of the first white wine varieties produced and labeled using the grape’s name. In the Rias Baixas region of Galacia, it is by far the most widely planted variety, accounting for some 90 percent of all vineyard acreage. Distinctively aromatic and known for its consistent quality, it has achieved an unassailable popularity, with a price to match. So while it’s not the most inexpensive Spanish white, it is certainly one of the best, and it is made in a style that works well as we segue into cooler fall weather. Here are the panel’s favorites: 2010 DEUSI NAI ALBARINO, $14.99 This lovely take on the grape puts the emphasis on balance. The aromas are a nice mix of sweet stone and tropical fruit, along with racy citrus and interesting touches of herb and mineral. On the palate, you get ripe apricot and pink lady apples playing against crisp lemon and grapefruit. The subtle but lingering finish is colored by orange and lime zest. 2009 DO FERREIRO ALBARINO, $22 Rias Baixas is a coastal region, and this wine definitely shows the influence of a terroir near the sea. Citrus fruit is at the core of the aromas, but it is surrounded by notes of clover, mineral and a pleasant brininess like a fresh sea breeze. Bright citrus dominates the lively palate, offering rich lime and grapefruit flavors. The finish is crisp, lively and oh-so refreshing—bring on the oysters. 2009 SANTIAGO RUIZ, $20 A blend of albarino, loureiro and treixadura, this wine consistently finishes near the top in its category at tastings. On the nose, it’s filled with enticing honeydew melon, green apple and apricot with a light touch of mineral. In the mouth, it offers bright citrus, peach and apricot fruit flavors that persist nicely on the lean but lively finish. It’s a definite benchmark. —David Kirkpatrick WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Don’t be angry with the rain,” counseled author Vladimir Nabokov. “It simply does not know how to fall upward.” In the coming week, I advise you to apply that principle to a host of phenomena, Aries. Don’t get all knotted up about any force of nature that insists on being itself and don’t waste your time trying to figure out how to disobey the law of gravity. It’s fine if you find it amusing to go against the flow but don’t expect the flow to follow you in your rebellion. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Where will you be in the latter half of 2016? What will you be doing? Now would be an excellent time to fantasize and meditate about questions like those. You’re likely to have a good bit of intuitive foresight in the coming days—some ability to discern the embryonic patterns swirling in the mists. But even more importantly, you will have extra power to dream up potent visions for your best possible future and plant them as seeds in the fertile bed of your subconscious mind. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I believe you’re close to getting permanent immunity from hell, Gemini. You will receive the equivalent of a “get out of jail free” card that guarantees you exemption from the worst of the nightmare realms. Please note, I’m not saying you will be forever free of all suffering, but if you simply keep doing the smart things you’ve been doing lately, you will tap into a reservoir of stabilizing poise so strong that “the devil” will have no further claim on your soul. CANCER (June 21-July 22): In “The Blood,” an episode of the TV show Seinfeld, George tries to go for “the trifecta”: eating a pastrami sandwich and watching TV while having sex. His girlfriend isn’t pleased about it, though, so the triple-intense pleasure doesn’t materialize in the way George had hoped. But something akin to this scenario could very well work for you in the coming week, Cancerian. You will have a knack for stirring up more fun and pleasure that usual through the inventive use of multitasking. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In Wiccan circles, a “familiar” is a supernatural entity or magic animal that serves as a spirit ally. Some witches regard their cats as their familiars. In Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy of fantasy books, the daemon (very different from a demon) plays a similar role: a shapeshifting creature that embodies a person’s soul. This would be an excellent time for you to develop a closer relationship with a familiar or daemon or any other uncanny helper, Leo.

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You have more hidden power at your disposal than you realize, and it’s a propitious time to call on it. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): On Wheel of Fortune players vie to guess a mystery phrase that is revealed letter by letter. On one episode not too long ago, a highly intuitive contestant solved the puzzle even though just one letter had been unveiled. The winning answer was, “I’ve got a good feeling about this.” From what I can tell, Virgo, you’ve got a similar aptitude these days—an ability to foresee how things are ultimately going to develop simply by extrapolating from a few clues. I encourage you to make liberal use of your temporary superpower. (P.S.: I’ve got a good feeling about this.) LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You have about 100 billion neurons in your brain. That also happens to be the approximate number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. Coincidence? I think not. As the mystic dictum reminds us, “As above, so below.” The macrocosm and microcosm are mirrors of each other. Everything that happens on a collective level has an intimately personal impact. The better you know yourself, the more likely you are to understand how the world works—and vice versa. I urge you to be alert for concrete evidence of this principle, Libra. Your week will be successful if you make it your background meditation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “By the year 2021, the complete gratification of sexual desires will be as easy and stress-free as drinking a glass of water.” That was one of 25 prophecies delivered to me by a polite, wellspoken madman I met on a July morning in a cafe in Earls Court, London, back in 1990. Sixteen of his other predictions have come true so far (like “America will have a black president by 2010,” “You will become a famous astrologer,” “60-year-old women will be able to give birth”), so I’m thinking that the one about easy sexual gratification could turn out to be accurate as well. Until then, Scorpio, you may sometimes have to deal with periodic struggles in getting your needs met. Having said that, though, I’m happy to announce that the coming weeks are shaping up as one of your closest approximations to the supposed 2021 levels of erotic bliss. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The beauty contests in Saudi Arabia don’t judge women on the basis of their physical appearance. A recent winner, Aya Ali al-Mulla, was crowned “Queen of Beautiful Morals” without ever revealing the face and form shrouded beneath her black

head-to-toe garment. Instead her excellence emerged during a series of psychological and social tests that evaluated her strength of character and service to family and society. I’d like to borrow this idea and apply it to you. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you could and should be a paragon of moral beauty in the coming week—a shining example and inspiration to all the other signs of the zodiac. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Filip Marinovich calls his poetry book And If You Don’t Go Crazy I’ll Meet You Here Tomorrow. I’m borrowing that title for this horoscope. If you don’t go crazy in the coming days, Capricorn, I’ll meet you here again next week. To be clear: There is an excellent chance you will be able to keep our appointment. The astrological omens suggest you’ll call on reserves of wisdom that haven’t been accessible before and that alone could prevent you from a brush with lunacy. You’re also primed to be nimble in your dealings with paradoxes, which, again, should keep you from descending into fairy-tale-style madness. But even if you do take a partial detour into the land of kooky, I think it will have an oddly healing effect on you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s no better way to inform you of your task right now than to cite Hexagram 18 of the I Ching, the ancient Chinese book of divination. The title of the oracle is “Work on What Has Been Spoiled.” Here’s an interpretation by the I Ching’s translator Richard Wilhelm, with a little help from me: “What has been spoiled through human mistakes can be made good again through human work. It is not immutable fate that has caused the state of corruption but rather the abuse of human freedom. Toil that is done to correct the situation bodes well, because it is in harmony with cosmic potentials. Success depends on diligent deliberation followed by vigorous action.” PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Breaking the rules could be a boon for your closest relationships if it’s done out of deep caring and not out of anger or boredom. Can you commit to that high standard, Pisces? I hope so, because it’s prime time to shake up and reinvigorate stale concepts about togetherness. You will never know how much more interesting your intimate alliances can be unless you put that vivacious imagination of yours to work. Would you be willing to buy tickets for a joint excursion to the frontier? Go hunting for surprises that recalibrate the dynamic between you and yours? Take a collaborative risk you’d never want to face alone.

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