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WINNING THE EDUCATION LOTTERY Idaho’s charter schools are going through growth spasms CITIZEN 9

LIQUOR LORD Meet the man in charge of the Idaho Liquor Divison FIRST THURSDAY 16

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ALL HAIL THE EMPEROR Film offers new look at MacArthur

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NOTE THE STATE OF DENIAL The latest example of The New York Times’ sociological fascination with Idaho came a week or two ago, with reporter Kirk Johnson’s piece “Gay Couples Face a Mixed Geography of Marriage,” dateline: Moscow, Idaho.

Like much of the Times’ reporting on Idaho, it explores the lives of rational, broad-minded people and shows how difficult their rationality and broad-mindedness make it for them to live here. In this particular case, gay couples live in Moscow, where the state Constitution specifically bars them from entering any form of “domestic legal union,” but they could spend the rest of their days in wedded bliss two miles to the west, in Washington, where voters legalized same-sex marriage last year.

When asked why they don’t just move, one couple in the story gave an imminently rational and broad-minded answer: essentially, that they shouldn’t have to move and they can do more good for the cause of marriage equality by staying put. Plus, Idaho would just invalidate their Washington marriage the moment they crossed the border.

The absurdity of their plight ends up making Idaho look like it’s on the wrong side of the Berlin Wall—or, less hyperbolically, the kind of place that people consider leaving because they’re yearning to breathe free.

And same-sex marriage is just one example. Washingtonians voted for marriage equality and their civilization didn’t collapse. They also legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and so far, the borderlands of the Panhandle have not erupted in cartel warfare. Ironically, Washington is having more trouble with the privatization of liquor sales (see this week’s Citizen on Page 9 for more on that), which is actually a measure that some Idaho officials have suggested might be worth considering.

Idahoans are fond of thumping their chests with pride in their libertarian tradition, but it’s a lot easier to convince people they’re especially free when they don’t have a counter example just across the border. Idaho is on the wrong side of history when it comes to more than a few social issues, which is becoming increasingly clear with regards to marriage equality, in particular.

In the meantime, let’s just cross our fingers that we’ve held onto enough rationality and broad-mindedness to accept that fact.

—Zach Hagadone

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HIDE YOUR KNIVES Idaho legislators have moved forward on a bill to ease concealed weapons restrictions, meaning the public may soon be able to carry pocket knives and pepper spray—you know, without technically being criminals. Get the full story on Citydesk.

SESQUICENN-SOMETHING The Idaho Territory turned 150 March 4, and the state is throwing one heckuva party. See what’s been going down on Citydesk.

DEAR LEADER An author has set out to ghostwrite the autobiography of deceased North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il using only the Shining Star of Paektu Mountain’s own propaganda pamphlets claiming his superhuman abilities.

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BILL COPE/OPINION

STAND OUR GROUND Part One: Just how nutty are gun nuts?

Thoughtful Idahoans cannot help but ask what those guys who strut their guns around the Capitol are trying to prove. Do they really have a line of reasoning to go with their little performance? Surely, the epicenter of our state governance can’t be such a perilous place that they expect to be attacked as they sit looking down on the lawmakers from the gallery, shooter-uppers at the ready. Or might they be trying to show—with that hillbilly panache of theirs—that the best kind of public official is one who thinks he might be shot at any moment?

Seriously, what’s their point? Beyond doing it just because they can, that is. Not only can they—as Republican lawmakers dare not try to prohibit such buffoonery at the risk of their own hillbilly cred—but the Statehouse during legislative season is the ideal venue for such a spectacle, isn’t it? One can hardly walk through the rotunda without tripping over a television camera or a reporter looking for someone to interview, so might this be their true mission—to expose their big, stiff guns to anyone who’ll look?

And listen, if that’s the whole, simple truth of it, are they really so different from the sort of individual who can’t be around a group of Boy Scouts or a bus station without showing off his genitals? Or the fellow who chooses a city park or a public library to do his masturbating? And wouldn’t this, uh … what shall we call it? … irrepressible compulsion … explain why they get so angry, so disturbed, so unbalanced at even the suggestion of anyone telling them to stop it?

And if that is the truth—and I feel confident it is—isn’t the epithet “gun nut” a bit too kind, too generous, even too cute a description for what they really are?

Ah, but that’s how we’ve come to know them—“gun nuts”—so we might as well stick with it. Were we to suddenly start calling them “gun pervs,” maybe “gun sickos,” it could confuse the undecideds. And isn’t that what this struggle is about—to bring enough Americans to the thoughtful side of the argument to turn this travesty around?

U Still, the question lingers: Just how nutty are gun nuts, anyway? Let us count the ways.

You probably know about those IQ-deprived unfortunates who are convinced that nefarious forces are plotting to take all their guns away, and who furthermore believe that if they can stock up on military-style weaponry, they could actually prevent such a hypothetical confiscation from happening, even though the hypothetical confiscators would inevitably have them out-manned, out-gunned and out-brained by about 40 zillion-to-one. Pretty damn nutty, wouldn’t you say?

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bedevil the survivors, the grieving families, of the Newton, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., mass shootings, accusing them of participating in a government hoax—which (if we follow their rickety logic) has presumably been hatched to exaggerate the undesirability of mass shootings. That’s not only nutty, it’s frightening to think people so vicious are living among us, yes?

But this item in particular caught my attention as an illustration of just how phenomenally nutty gun nuts have become: In 2012, careless target shooters started more than 20 wildfires in Utah. One fire alone covered almost nine square miles, caused thousands of homeowners to be evacuated and cost the state of Utah more than $2 million to fight.

Yet this winter, when a bill was introduced in the Utah Legislature that would allow state land managers to temporarily suspend or restrict target shooting in areas so dry there is an obvious danger of fires, the nuts raised such a stink the bill was taken out of consideration. That’s how nutty gun nuts are. Not to mention stupid.

But then, of course, that’s also how cowardly Utah’s Republican-dominated Legislature is, for killing the bill rather than upset the stupid nuts. The story illustrates perfectly how the lesser fraction, the lowest percentile—or as I like to call them, “the brattiest, trashiest, lyingest, most ignorant/selfish/ soulless/seeping sewage segment of the total American community”—force all the rest of us to live with their lunacy.

Thankfully, their reign of intimidation and dumbassness may be coming to an end.

It is no longer just a lonely few who are speaking out against them. It is now a significant majority who have come to believe there must be some limits imposed on how much firepower should be allowed into the hands of people whose compelling interest in life seems to be how much firepower they can lay their hands on.

Yet even with a significant majority wanting such limits—demanding such limits, I should say—it will still take a Herculean effort to reverse the sickness the gun overlords and their lobbies have inflicted on our society.

Sadly, virtually every dispute in American politics can be reduced to the lowest common denominators of private wealth versus public resolve, and this issue is no different.

More than 30,000 people are dying each year because the gun cartel has the money and power to keep it from being any other way. Only a greater public resolve can defeat them, and that resolve must be tenacious, unrelenting and multi-faceted. Next week, I will continue adding my steady drip to the tide which has turned against the gun-worshipping dunces and the industry that feeds off of them.

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DOES YOUR BRAIN HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY? Cannibals, thoughtcrime and a rising police state

“I was going to be tied up by my feet and my throat slit and they would have fun watching the blood gush out of me because I was young,” the wife of 28-year-old NYPD “cannibal cop” Gilberto Valle testified at his trial.

After she installed keyboard-tracking software on his laptop, Kathleen Mangan-Valle went on, she found that her husband planned to stuff one of her friends in a suitcase and murder her. Two other women were “going to be raped in front of each other to heighten their fears,” while another would be roasted alive over an open fire.

Planned? Or fantasized?

There’s no evidence that Valle, on trial for conspiracy to kidnap, torture, kill and eat women, ever acted on his voreaphilia, a cannibalism fetish. If convicted, however, he faces up to 20 years in prison.

George Orwell called it “thoughtcrime”: punishing people for their thoughts rather than their actions. The case of the cannibal cop—or, more accurately, the wannabe cannibal cop—is a perfect illustration of why a society can be tempted to try to monitor what goes on in people’s brains, and to sanction citizens whose opinions and fantasies fail to conform to “normalcy.”

Suppose the federal jury lets Valle off the hook. The idea of this guy roaming the streets of Manhattan picturing the women he sees roasting on a spit—one of the staged and Photoshopped images he perused online—is, well, the word creepy hardly does it justice.

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things about the Internet is that it allows pervs and other weirdoes to find one another.

“If you were someone mildly interested in cannibalism 30 years ago, it was really hard to find someone in real space to find common cause with,” Joseph V. DeMarco, ex-chief of the cybercrime unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Manhattan, told The New York Times.

“Whereas online, it’s much easier to find those people, and I think when you have these communities forming, validating each other, encouraging each other, it’s not far-fetched to think that some people in that community who otherwise might not be pushed beyond certain lines might be.”

That’s what happened in Germany in 2001, when a man who responded to an online post seeking a victim willing to be killed, slaughtered and eaten got his wish. No one disputes that the 43-year-old died voluntarily; the cannibal videotaped his chatty prey.

As bizarre and, yes, disgusting and terrifying as the so-called cannibal cop’s online chats were, I am disturbed by convicting people for actions that they not only never committed, but might never have committed. Should we go to prison for our fantasy lives?

Take another look at the quote above

by Joseph DeMarco. It’s so full of conjecture and speculation: “not far-fetched,” “might,” “might.” Well, anyone might do anything, right?

Thoughtcrime prosecutions often revolve around sex. A 50-year-old 10 man in South Florida faces more than

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UNDA’ THE ROTUNDA NEWS LAU R IE PEAR M AN

EYES ON THE PRIZE Charter school lotteries are lessons in hope and disappointment

Barbara Morgan: “That’s an interesting rumor.”

BARBARA MORGAN FOR IDAHO SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT?

GEORGE PRENTICE The process was very old-school. Michelle Taylor, state school choice coordinator, hugged a just-scrubbed 5-gallon bucket (it used to hold soy sauce) and stood before a 20-foot-long stretch of tables framed by a group of parents, children and teachers at Boise’s Sage International Middle School on Feb. 28.

“OK, let’s get started. Is everybody ready?” asked Taylor, her optimism filling Sage’s second-floor lunch/recreation room.

As a late-winter afternoon became evening, Taylor pulled hundreds of brightly colored index cards from the bucket, reading aloud the names of children printed on each card before handing them to an assistant, who neatly arranged the cards on the tables. By sundown, the educational fates of approximately 650 children were on full display.

Not unlike the 2010 documentary, Waiting For Superman—chronicling the perceived failures of the nation’s public education system while following a handful of students’ quest to be accepted into a charter school—the Sage drawing was only the latest of dozens of charter lotteries throughout Idaho that have resulted in great fortune to a minimal number of public school children, but left thousands more on the doorstep.

“The estimated waiting list across the state, the last time I checked, was over 7,000 names,” Taylor told Boise Weekly. “I can tell you that at a lottery we held last week, we had a parent who was in tears because their child got in and we had another parent in tears because their child ended up No. 100 on a waiting list.”

Waiting for the sixth-grade lottery to begin sat a young girl named Chloe, too nervous to take off her jacket, her green sneakers constantly tapping the floor. For the better part of two hours, she, her mother and younger brother would sit for a while, stand up, pace around, leave the room for a few minutes, come back and sit—their nerves becoming more transparent as the minutes ticked away.

“Of approximately 650 applicants, we have 87 spaces among all the grades tonight; and of those 87, 46 of those spaces will be taken by siblings of existing students,” said Lisa Lechner, Sage business manager. “For instance, in the second grade, we only have two spots available. In the fourth grade, we don’t have any spots available but we’ll still draw those names to create a waiting list.”

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Michelle Taylor, School Choice Coordinator with the Idaho Department of Education: “The estimated waiting list across the state, the last time I checked, was over 7,000 names.”

and a Dakota.

“Good job, team,” shouted Don Keller from the back of the room, nearly an hour into the lottery. “We’ll have you out of here by midnight.”

The joke from Keller, Sage’s chief administrator, was met with nervous laughter.

“I’ve been in education for 26 years,” Keller told BW. “I’ve worked in tough inner-city schools. I’ve worked in rural schools. But as the years went by, I kept hearing the word ‘charter’ more. Good press, bad press, lots of press. But as I did my research, I learned that charters were doing some pretty cool stuff, so I really wanted to learn their secrets.”

When asked what Sage’s secrets are, Keller thought for a moment and broke out in a wide grin.

“It’s definitely a good curriculum,” he said.

“And an outstanding leader.”

Sage opened its doors in 2010, first offering kindergarten through seventh-grade classes to 217 children.

“We currently have 485 kids in kindergarten through ninth,” said Keller. “Next year, we’re adding another 89 students as we add 10th grade, and we’ll add 11th and 12th grades in the two years after that.”

When asked where he would put all of the proposed students and educators, Keller grinned again.

“We’re working on that. But you know what? It’s a good problem to have,” he said.

“We’re very successful.”

Keller traces Sage’s roots to his own personal attempt to get his kids into another public charter school.

“Yeah, I had my daughter in the lottery for Anser Charter for two years,” said Keller. “I remember she was No. 60 on their waiting list.”

Heather Dennis said she was equally nervous when she first put her oldest of three children in the Anser lottery years before she

became the school’s organization director.

“I can honestly say that, next to meeting my husband, getting my children into Anser through that lottery was the second most important moment of my life,” she said, her eyes welling up.

Anser, which first opened in a vacant downtown Boise office building in 1999, has grown to 365 kindergarten through eighth-grade students at its Garden City location.

“But we have no further plans to expand,” said Dennis. “We feel the Boise School District has pretty good high schools, plus the financial model of running a charter high school is incredibly difficult and we don’t want to torpedo what we’ve got by reaching too far.”

Dennis said this year’s lottery at Anser, much like Sage’s, offered nearly impossible odds.

“We had approximately 600 applicants and we had 29 open spots,” she said. “When I call to give somebody the good news that they got in, there is usually a lot of happy yelling.”

Anser is known as a so-called “expeditionary” school, one of 165 similar institutions across the nation.

“We have all the same standards as traditional public schools, but we offer hands-on, project-based learning with a lot of opportunities in adventure.”

As an example, on the day that BW visited, a group of Anser students were hauling their ski gear into the building, preparing for a journey up to Bogus Basin later in the day.

“Plus, our third- and fourth-graders are studying the Boise River, and I think they’ve been down to the river 12 to 15 times already this year, taking water quality samples and studying habitats,” said Dennis.

Ultimately, when students leave Anser to attend Boise’s traditional high schools, Dennis said they excel because “our kids are great detail thinkers and writ8 ers.”

The parlor game of guessing who might run for political office usually begins the morning after the previous election.

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has already indicated that he likes his job just fine, and anyone interested in taking down the rodeo king better bring his or her best spurs to the 2013 GOP primary and general election.

That didn’t stop Idaho’s 1st Congressional District Rep. Raul Labrador from telling a Meridian town hall in January that he was mulling his own run for governor. But apparently, the second-term congressman may have had a change of heart, canceling two planned high-profile Republican appearances in eastern Idaho’s 2nd Congressional District, where he is less known.

None of this is stopping Democrats from weighing in on whom they would like to see as governor.

Outgoing Idaho Democratic Party Chairman Larry Grant said he felt a bit more “freedom” in his prognostications since he wasn’t holding the top office for Idaho Dems anymore, recently tossing the keys to incoming Chairman Larry Kenck (BW, News, “Same Name, Different Face,” Feb. 27, 2013).

“I think [Boise Mayor] Dave Bieter would be the perfect candidate,” said Grant.

But the big jaw-dropper came when Grant floated another name to run as a candidate for Idaho superintendent of public instruction.

“But you can’t print this until you talk to her,” said Grant, building the anticipation.

“Barbara Morgan would be an amazing state school superintendent. She hasn’t said ‘no.’ We haven’t put any pressure on her, but we would love to recruit her.”

Indeed, BW contacted Morgan—former McCall-area elementary school teacher, astronaut and current Boise State professor—about Grant’s comments. She greeted the remarks with extended laughter.

“That’s funny,” said Morgan. “I really can’t tell you anything, but that’s an interesting rumor.”

Morgan laughed through much of the conversation, repeating, “I really have nothing to say.”

“For many years, ever since I first got here, people have asked about that,” she said. “But I’ve been asked about many other things, too.”

Morgan added that it was important that as a Boise State Distinguished Educator in Residence, she often works with different government agencies.

“So I would like to stay nice and nonpartisan,” she said.

—George Prentice

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IN GOD THEY TRUST Idaho Bill Has More Than a Prayer In its Favor GEORGE PRENTICE “This seeks an allowance for religious orga- recognized by Boise State because our officers Boise Democratic Sen. Elliot Werk called Senwere required to believe,” said Boise State nizations to be exempt from rules that are set ate Bill 1078 “a solution in search of a probstudent Justin Ranger. for other student organizations,” she said. lem.” The measure–which swings open the Jesse Barnum, a 2009 Boise State graduBut a string of former and current Boise doors of Idaho public universities to religious ate, said he ran into resistance from university groups that require leaders to swear allegiance State students stood before the committee, officials when he tried to create a faith-based each of them a member of faith-based organito tenets of faith—passed through the Senate series of forums on campus. zations that they said had been restricted by State Affairs Committee March 4, but not “We believed Jesus was important,” said the university. before a robust debate surrounding freedoms Barnum. “And he was conspicuously lacking “It became apparent we would not be of speech and religion. in discussions on campus.”

Nampa Republican Sen. Curt McKenzie, Canyon County resident Bruce Skaug, who the committee’s chair, sponsored the measure. worked with Sen. McKenzie to craft the bill, “This issue came to my attention when I said that if lawmakers weren’t willing to was contacted by Kim Colby from the move SB 1078 forward, he would take the Christian Legal Society, saying that matter to court.

Boise State was poised to adopt a policy “We’re preparing a lawsuit if this bill excluding any religious student group doesn’t go through,” said Skaug, who that required its leaders to adhere to its practices as an attorney with Goicoereligious beliefs,” he said. chea Law Office in Nampa.

But Werk pushed back, asking if the But Skaug walked away a happy man same measure would allow a jihadist when Idaho Falls Republican Sen. Bart religious group to be accepted.

Davis led the committee’s GOP major“What if a religious group was ity to pass the measure. calling for a holy war against non“With all due respect to Sen. believers or promoted genocide Werk, this is not a solution in against other religious groups?” search of a problem,” said Davis. asked Werk.

“This is a problem ... and this is McKenzie said that while SB a solution intended to protect the 1078 would protect Muslims’ freedom of religion.” access to campus, “When speech But Werk disagreed. goes as far as harming others, “Religious organizations that would go beyond First add flavor and diversity to our Amendment protections.” campuses,” he said. “But the Monica Hopkins, a regular idea that we have a bill that proponent of First Amendment says religious organizations can rights in her role as executive direquire an article of faith for rector of ACLU of Idaho, argued Senate Bill 1078 was passed by the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee the leaders to sign seems a bit that the bill could lead to other March 4 with a “do pass” recommendation. discriminatory.” constitutional violations.

“I think the biggest difference is their desire to learn,” she said. “They know 7 that it’s OK to do well in school and not have to face the stigma of being nerdy or successful.”

While Idaho public charters receive primary funding through student enrollment—in a “money follows the child” formula used for all public schools—charters have traditionally received no state funding for brick and mortar. But that could change soon if House Bill 206 becomes law. HB 206 would earmark designated percentages of state facility levy funds for charters, which currently are funneled solely to traditional public schools (BW, Citydesk, “House Committee Gives Passing Grade,” Feb. 26, 2013).

But Robin Nettinga, executive director of the Idaho Education Association, representing Idaho’s unionized teachers, balked at the funding detour, reminding charter sympathizers that they knew the risks when they opened their doors.

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“IEA supports the concept of charter schools,” she said. “But they know what they’re getting into when they go down that road. We understand and empathize with public charters’ stretching of precious funds.

But every schoolhouse in the state could make that same comment.”

Ultimately, the committee opted to forward the funding restructure to the full House with a “do pass” recommendation.

Dennis insisted that the biggest funding myth surrounding public charter schools is that they come at an additional cost to parents.

“I give enrollment tours throughout the year and I usually get asked, ‘What is the tuition?’ I love to say, ‘It’s nothing,’” she said. “I even had a legislator ask me that once.”

Keller said Sage’s academic standards also set his school apart from traditional public schools.

“We’re the only International Baccalaureate School in Idaho,” said Keller, explaining that the curriculum encourages students to become

“compassionate and lifelong learners.”

“Our graduates pass all of the Idaho basic courses, but then they have to pass six more international exams to get an IB diploma,” he said. “IB students have a 30 to 40 percent higher success rate in college.”

Meanwhile, Chloe, the young girl hoping to get a shot at one of those IB diplomas at Sage, grew increasingly nervous as the Feb. 28 lottery finally progressed to its sixth-grade drawing. As Michelle Taylor continued reading name after name, it was clear that Chloe was doing some quick math in her head. Sage’s sixth grade only had 13 openings and four were to be taken by siblings. And there were 46 other applicants. Chloe’s name was No. 38.

Taylor tried to shout out some encouragement as Chloe and her disappointed family got up to leave.

“Definitely stay on the waiting list. You never know; you might get a call during the year that there could be an opening,” said Taylor. “It could be worse next year.”

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CITIZEN

JEFF ANDERSON Lotteries, liquor and Five Wives GEORGE PRENTICE

While being the director of two significant divisions has more than its share of challenges, are there any advantages to being the manager of both?

Contrary to popular belief, they really are two full-time jobs. But I try to keep balance in my life. I came into state service from the business world. I’m not a career bureaucrat. The concepts are really not that foreign to me. You build good teams, clearly communicate your expectations, hold people accountable and do the work.

The lottery was in really good shape when I came on board. We have about 44 employees.

But you have a significantly greater number of workers in the Liquor Division.

Three hundred and fifty—most of them part-time in the retail locations. We’re authorized for 205 full-time-equivalent employees.

How do you manage your days between the two locations?

Mondays and Wednesdays I’m at Liquor.

Tuesdays and Thursdays I’m at Lottery, and Fridays are floaters.

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I’m presuming that the March 2012 Mega Millions jackpot was very good for last year’s overall lottery sales numbers.

In the lottery business, we have a saying: drivers drive golf balls; bus drivers drive buses; jackpots drive lottery sales. Idaho had $175 million in sales last year, and we distributed a $41.5 million dividend.

Is that the best you’ve ever done?

The best year ever. We’ve had record years ever since I’ve been at Lottery.

And liquor sales?

We had a pretty good year there, too. In the Liquor Division, we were dealt a bit of a wild card with the experience of Washington state’s dismantling of their liquor control system. We did about $154 million in sales last year. We’re forecasting approximately $166 million in sales for this year.

I’ve heard you say that Washington’s privatization drove up sales rather dramatically at one particular store near the border.

Our store in Post Falls is about six miles

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Jeff Anderson knows a thing or two about dual responsibilities. When he was general manager of Boise’s KBOI-TV 2, he was also managing the CBS affiliate in Idaho Falls.

“I’m kind of use to having the ‘two office’ thing,” Anderson, 55, told Boise Weekly.

Born in Illinois and raised in northern California, Anderson first stepped foot in a college radio station at Cal State-Chico, launching a broadcast career that ultimately brought him to Idaho in 1996 to oversee KBOI-TV. But in 2006, when ownership wanted to make some changes, Anderson said he was reluctant to leave the Gem State.

“I chose not to go to Cleveland, Tampa or Raleigh, N.C.,” he said. “I just couldn’t see being two plane trips away from my children.”

So the husband, father and grandfather of two decided to seek a position in state government, landing a job as director of the Idaho Lottery in 2007. Little did he know that three years later, in 2010, he would again find himself with dual responsibilities, after Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter appointed him director of the Idaho State Liquor Division.

from the Washington border. A typical store statewide might see anywhere between $1.5 million and $3 million in sales. Post Falls was doing $6.5 million. Take for example a bottle of Patron [tequila]. We sell it for about $48.

Out the door, it’s probably $51 or $53. In Washington, before Initiative 1183, Patron was about $56. Now it’s $70 or $75.

The Post Falls store went nuts. In October we opened another store, nearby, in State Line.

The combined stores are pacing 60 to 70 percent ahead of the Post Falls store, just by itself.

Is the Washington experience your strongest argument not to privatize in Idaho?

It’s a good example of the consequences of taking a system of liquor distribution, blowing it up and injecting another profit tier for wholesalers and retailers while expecting the same amount of revenue to the state.

This is a reasonable debate to have. And the questions to ask are: Can we change this without doing harm? And how do you define “no harm?” Can we change this and make it better? And how do you define “better?” If more consumption of liquor is OK, then it’s probably fine. But responsible people would look at this and say beverage alcohol is not like other products. There is a reason it’s regulated in every state in the nation and, in fact, across the world.

Is there a significant push to privatize in Idaho?

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CITIZEN The Northwest Grocery Association has a very strong interest in getting product into their stores. I get that. But based on the system we have, it’s not a complicated math problem if the state wants to remain whole. Consider that the Liquor Division distributed approximately $63 million to Idaho cities and counties last year.

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How many products do you have on your shelves?

We have about 2,400 skews [product lines] in our price book. Keep in mind that there are over 20,000 liquor skews in the United States.

Why is that national number so huge?

Overall alcohol consumption hasn’t really changed appreciably in the last decade or two.

But spirits have grown from about 25 percent to about 35 percent of the share. Fifteen years ago, you never would have thought of a cupcake- or whipped cream-flavored vodka.

More women are entering the space and there has been an introduction of more low-calorie, lower-proof and flavored items.

Let’s talk about the Five Wives incident.

[In May 2012, Anderson balked at Five Wives Vodka, calling its label featuring women hiking up their skirts offensive. When the Utahbased distiller, Ogden’s Own, took its dispute to national media outlets a verbal firestorm erupted, resulting in the Idaho Liquor Division backing down and allowing the vodka to be sold in state-run stores.] Was the label really the main issue?

That was part of it.

But that same label is the current label.

Did you need to get past that issue or did it become less of a dispute?

In this instance, I got in trouble by being too honest about the reasons we didn’t want something. The product is fine. If you want to spend $20 for Five Wives Vodka, fine. In fact, we just ordered another pallet [approximately 720 bottles].

Is it selling well?

When all the publicity was out there last summer, it sold well. It trailed off and it has settled into a reasonable level of sales.

Was your change of heart based on how hard they pushed back?

There was no point in getting into a protracted fight with Georgetown lawyers over whether or not we’re going to give a slot on a shelf for $20 vodka. OK. Uncle. You got me.

I’m done.

What’s the lesson learned from all of that?

They’re very passionate about what they do and believe very deeply in their product. I get it. My surprise was that I never expected a supplier to use those methods to get publicity for their product. But, good for them. It’s on the shelf.

When you’re ready to relax on a Friday evening, what is your preferred drink?

I’m more of a beer guy.

What kind?

Pretty much whatever is on sale.

RALL 3,000 years in prison for possession of child pornography. Even if you buy the demand-side argument that no one would make kiddie porn if no one bought it, aren’t we forgetting something? Looking at child pornography isn’t the same as producing and disseminating it.

As America continues to degenerate into unapologetic authoritarianism, prosecutions for thoughtcrimes are increasingly common.

In 2008, a Pennsylvania woman, Karen Fletcher, was sentenced under a plea bargain for writing fictional erotic stories about sex with children.

In 2001, an Ohio man was sentenced to 10 years in prison for “textual child porn,” writing stories in his journal depicting kids being raped and tortured. Again, no actual kids were hurt.

Dwight Whorley of Richmond, Va., is serving 20 years in federal prison for looking at Japanese anime images of cartoon children being raped. Upholding the decision, Judge Paul Niemeyer of the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals noted that “it is not a required ele6

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ment of any offense under this section [of the law] that the minor depicted actually exists.”

Has it ever occurred to anyone that cartoon porn might be beneficial to society, a way for people whose fetishes are illegal to get themselves off without hurting anyone?

The main reason that so many of these cases are prosecuted in federal court is that most state and local jurisdictions set a higher bar for conspiracy convictions, requiring that at least one member of the conspiracy be proven to have taken at least one decisive action toward carrying it out.

The young Somali-American charged with plotting to blow up a Christmas tree lighting ceremony in downtown Portland, Ore., in 2010, for example, was handed a fake detonator by an undercover agent and told it would set off a bomb. He pushed it. I agree with the jurors. He meant to do it.

The cannibal cop, kiddie porn and other thoughtcrime cases, on the other hand, involve sending people to prison for things that they thought, not that they did. I don’t see how any society that does that can call itself free.

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Masters of modern architecture build it like Ernest J. Lombard.

Boise’s Frim Fram 4 know how to release an album—with martinis and dancing.

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architect MODERN MASTERS Idaho’s Romanesque Statehouse isn’t the only iconic building in Boise.

For an intimate look at the city’s other mainstays, check out Idaho Modern’s second installment of Modern Masters, Friday, March 8 at the Idaho Transportation Department. The event is a celebration of the career and contributions of Ernest J. Lombard, the founder of LombardConrad Architects.

As a subset of Preservation Idaho, Idaho Modern revels in mid-century architecture and modernist design across the Gem State. At the inaugural Modern Masters, a sold-out crowd honored Charles Hummel, and organizers expect a similar turnout this year.

Sleek exteriors and symmetry, the hallmarks of modernist architecture, are highlighted in Lombard’s use of angular, glass-covered walls to create the Wells Fargo Center. Lombard also worked on the Morrison Center at Boise State University and, after retirement, was named one of the few Idaho fellows of the American Institute of Architects.

According to Idaho Modern Chair Amy Pence-Brown, Lombard will join architectural historian Dan Everhart in a question-and-answer session, including a look at his past work.

“I think the most interesting thing about it is you’re learning about our Boise landscape, buildings that are still there and contribute to an important part of our life, like the Morrison Center,” she said. “It’s fun because they share these really behind-the-scenes stories and show great photos.”

7 p.m. $20 for Preservation Idaho members, $25 for non-members. Coffee and snacks included. Idaho Transportation Department, 3311 W. State St., Boise, 208-424-5111, RSVP at preservationidaho.org.

THURSDAY MARCH 7 shakespearience SCHOOL OF THEATER BENEFIT Remember those long nights reading Hamlet for English class and thinking anything would be better than reading Hamlet? Thank-

fully, most of us got over that first impression and found the joy of Shakespeare while spending long, luxurious evenings on the grass at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, lingering over picnic dinners, bottles of vino and live entertainment.

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Theater is holding a benefit Thursday, March 7, at the Linen Building to help fund its programs that bring Shakespeare into public schools.

The event features short Shakespearean performances, a live auction, appetizers and a no-host bar. Partygoers can bid on the chance to win a private performance from the school, a center box at the ISF apprentice

with style FRIM FRAM 4: DANCING AND MARTINIS The Roaring ’20s ended with a crash—of the stock market, that is. From bread lines and the Dust Bowl to high-rolling stock traders taking one last leap, the end of the Jazz Age was like falling off a cliff. For those old enough to remember speakeasies, flappers, moonshiners and G-Men, it must have felt like being hit by a cultural Mack truck.

Since 2001, Frim Fram 4 has brought the jazz—and the fun—back. The local white dinner jacket-clad swing band has held court every Thursday night at Pengilly’s Saloon for ages, and Saturday, March 9, it will drop its latest 12-track album, I’m a Shy Guy, at the Linen Building with the Dancing and Martinis album release party.

The album draws inspiration from the silky-smooth compositions of the Nat King Cole Trio (whose 1945 hit, “The Frim Fram Sauce,” gave Frim Fram 4 its name), but it also pays homage to the likes of Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington and “The Three L’s”—Louis Armstrong, Louis Jordan and Louis Prima.

The Dancing and Martinis release will also honor the spirit of the era with one heck of a party, featuring a full bar (for those of legal imbibing age, of course) and a performance by the band sure to get partygoers up and moving. Tickets cost $10 and can be purchased either in advance or at the door, although the number of door tickets will be limited. The band starts playing at 8 p.m. and goes until 10 p.m., and all the while, guests can sip away at martinis and dance the night away.

7 p.m. $10. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, frimfram4.com.

showcase, or to have his or her name used in some way in that showcase performance.

For 36 seasons, ISF has presented the great playwright’s works on stage, but it has also put its resources to work raising interest in Shakespeare in schools across the Intermountain West. Through its two school

tours—Shakespearience and Idaho Theater for Youth—the festival reaches 50,000 students, including many in small, underserved communities.

These programs reach 73 percent of school districts in Idaho, as well as parts of Oregon and Nevada.

Proceeds from the fundraiser go toward helping ISF keep

theater arts programming integrated in school curricula.

If you’re looking to drink to live entertainment for a good cause—and who isn’t?—this is one benefit it would be a tragedy to miss.

6-9 p.m. $12 advance-$15 door. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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Show off your best soup-catcher.

SATURDAY MARCH 9 hirsute BOISE BEARDSMEN FIRST ANNUAL BEARD AND MUSTACHE COMPETITION The Boise Beardsmen are taking recreational facial hair to a whole new level, giving our fair city’s shaggiest, burliest and best-trimmed dudes (and dudettes—the Beardsmen don’t discriminate) a shot at mustachioed and bearded glory in the First Annual Beard and Mustache Competition.

The friendly—albeit hairy—showdown will fill The Red Room Saturday, March 9, starting at 7 p.m., with categories including best full beard, best-groomed beard, partial beards, mustaches, freestyle beards and whiskerina for the ladies.

Midnight spinning from DJ Mall Walker.

This event isn’t just about soaking up music, slurping down drinks and showing off impressive displays of hirsute prowess, but it can be.

For the socially conscious, the competition also raises suicide awareness, and all proceeds are donated to the Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline. Like the many beards that will be on display, this event isn’t about loot or monetary gain; it’s about glory and affirming life.

The competition draws participants from across the region, so don’t expect an entirely B-town crowd. Expect instead ’Squatches from across the West flaunting their best facial hair for a good cause. Sign-ups start at 7 p.m. and the competition begins at 8:30 p.m.

7 p.m. $10 entry fee, $2 suggested donation for spectators. The Red Room, 1519 Main St., Boise, 208331-0956, boisebeardsmen. com.

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Idaho potato farmers hit the big screen at the Wild and Scenic Film Festival.

SATURDAY MARCH 9 natural footage CONSERVATION CLOSE TO HOME: 13 WILD AND SCENIC FILMS Earth Day is every day, even if we only officially recognize it once a year. The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley will host its seventh annual showing of the Wild and Scenic Film Festival to get the public thinking about making Earth Day a habit.

The festival at the Egyptian Theatre will screen 13 films shot across the Western Hemisphere, from the United States to the Arctic Sea to Canada. Selections are just a small piece of the festival’s stash of more than 150 environmental and adventure films, which vary in length from three to 25 minutes.

Included in the showing is Idaho’s own When the Pot Boiled Over, shot in 1959 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service Intermountain Region to highlight foothill fires and floods. Also from Idaho is one of four films in a series featuring the Pacific Northwest—Potato Farmers: Facing Climate Change—in which a farmer’s water rights for 25,000 acres of irrigated farmland are bought by the state due to competition for water.

The festival also presents a short, whimsical film shot in the not-quite-west of Montreal, in which a man “lives” on his bike—doing everything from sleeping to dating—all while pedaling away with no hands.

Tickets cost $12 in advance, and $15 on the day of the show. Student tickets cost $5 and kids ages 14 and younger get in for free.

7 p.m. $5-$15. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.

FRIDAYSATURDAY MARCH 8-9 abstract postmodernism OFF CENTER DANCE PROJECT’S IN YOUR FACE Dance is fusion. From the joining of body and mind to the union of kinetics and expression to Sean Kingston getting his fire burning on the dance floor, dance is what you call two becoming one to the sound of music.

In Off Center Dance Project’s latest series, In Your Face, unholy unions and orchestrated discord are the

names of the game. According to the Off Center website, In Your Face will deliver choreographed dances ranging in style and theme from “abstract postmodernism to Alice in Wonderland meets steampunk.”

In Your Face features fresh works from guest choreographer Julie Petry, as well as company newcomer Lydia Sakolsky-Basquill. In all, performances from six choreographers will be presented.

One of them, Katie Ponozzo, returns to choreograph the Wonderland rendition “Looking Glass,” which draws inspiration from the steampunk genre and Lewis Carroll’s Alice works set to music by Florence and the Machine.

The event doesn’t just span dance themes and ex-

MANTRY The Internet has a brilliant ability to cater to niche markets.

Take, for example, dudes with a taste for small batch artisanal food products who are too lazy to scour the Web for said products. Enter The Mantry Company, which promises to help burly bon vivants “discover the best of America’s farmers’ markets without ever leaving your couch.”

Based in New York City, Mantry assembles monthly themed packmantry.com ages of between six and eight craft, artisan and small batch food products, then delivers them directly to your door in a wooden crate handmade in Brooklyn.

Past boxes have included the Bourbon Breakfast— “Everything you need to have the boys over for Sunday morning brunch”—with bourbon barrel-aged maple syrup, bourbon barrel-aged Worcestershire sauce, skillet bacon spread, bourbon blueberry jam and stone-ground pancake mix.

Another box, Into the Wild, featured items like birch syrup caramel, Douglas fir tip tea, bison strip jerky and alder-smoked Alaskan sea salt, “because wandering alone into the wilderness should be left to the grizzly man.”

To drive home Mantry’s American-apparel-for-bearded-foodies feel, its models include an aviator-sporting hipstress in red flannel forking down a pile of pancakes, and a snow-sprinkled babe pouting in a fur vest while cradling an axe.

All this hipness only costs you manly men $75 a basket.

—Tara Morgan

pressions: It embraces social media to encourage participation from the audience. The series’ titular dance, created by Artistic Director Kelli Brown, co-opts the audience into designing the dance during the show using postings on Facebook.

In Your Face goes down Friday, March 8, and Saturday, March 9, at Boise Contemporary Theater. Tickets cost $10-$17 in advance and $12-$20 at the door. If contemporary dance excites you, In Your Face can open doors and Web browsers, and help you peer through the looking glass into the art’s promise.

Friday, March 8, 8 p.m.; Saturday, March 9, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; $10-$20, Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, site.offcenterdance.org.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY MARCH 6 Festivals & Events LIQUID FORUM: UNITED VISION FOR IDAHO—Join Boise State University Director of Public Policy David Adler for a presentation on the 2013 Legislative session and music by The Oliphants. 5:30-7:30 p.m.

FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, uvidaho.org.

Pilobolus Dance Theater moved the Morrison Center audience.

FROM FREAKY WEIRD TO FLUID MOVEMENT Nick Jr.’s Yo Gabba Gabba might be a kids’ TV show, but it packs its program with plenty of cameos to keep things interesting for grown-ups. Boise Weekly’s Josh Gross hit up Yo Gabba Gabba’s colorful live show at the Morrison Center Feb. 26 to hobnob with some of his musical heroes.

“Mike Park, frontman for Skankin’ Pickle and founder of Asian Man Records, played saxophone and sang about jumping. Rap legend Biz Markie escaped the video screen to teach kids who couldn’t possibly understand his relevance to hip-hop how to beatbox. Bubbles and confetti cannons fired into the air,” observed Gross. “Were Salvador Dali alive, he would have said, ‘Damn, yo, now that was some freaky-weird shit.’”

Speaking of freaky-weird shit, Gross swung by the Knitting Factory Feb. 27 to check out Reverend Horton Heat, but his attention was kidnapped by potty-punk openers Guttermouth.

“Frontman Mark Adkins was in truly rare form, something he attributed to starting drinking at approximately 9 a.m.,” wrote Gross. “Many of the words Adkins uttered were mush-mouthed and mangled, if they were words at all. He spent half of a song wandering around in a circle before realizing his microphone wasn’t even plugged in. … By the end of the show, Adkins had torn the shirts off the backs of his entire band and distracted them from their instruments with a variety of titty twisters.”

Things were notably more low-key at Neurolux Feb. 28, during a set by Athens, Ga., instrumental band Maserati.

“Maserati’s isn’t dance music. It’s not even driving-reallyfast music. It’s the music that plays in your head when you’re running long-distance down an empty road. Long musical statements—muscular, repetitive, strummed guitar lines and vigorous drums—were hung on a skeleton of bass notes and looped guitar,” wrote BW’s Harrison Berry.

Moving from music to movement, BW freelancer Jeremiah Robert Wierenga made his way to the Morrison Center March 2 for a performance by Pilobolus Dance Theater.

“A distinctly black box vibe permeated the theater—an attempt to break down the distance between the performance and the viewers,” noted Wierenga. “It was a surprising moment of openness that continued throughout the evening.”

Though Wierenga said Pilobolus has leaned more on commercial appeal in recent years, he added that Boise’s standing ovation demonstrated “a great appreciation for the company’s accessibility and dedication.”

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Literature SPRING AUTHOR SERIES: SCOTT MARCHANT—Scott Marchant discusses his books and the writing process. Noon-1 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

THURSDAY MARCH 7

LIQUID LAUGHS: RUSTY DOOLEY—Featuring Emily Richman. Two-for-one tickets. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Food & Drink WINE FOR FOODIES: BIG ROBUST WINES—Taste and discuss the production of several distinct full-bodied wines from classic varietals like chardonnay and cabernet sauvignon. 6-8 p.m. $65. Wine Wise Labs, 1041/2 E. 44th St., Garden City, 208-297-9463, winewiseidaho. com.

Art INTER/CHANGE OPENING—19 Idaho artists including Eli Craven, Megan Sterling and Ryan Mandell collaborated on 19 works of art in a variety of media for this exhibition at the Gallery at the Linen Building. The exhibit runs through Sunday, April 28.

5-9 p.m. FREE. The Gallery at The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

Kids & Teens

ARABIAN NIGHTS AT THE CAZBA—Enjoy music, drumming and food. Entertainment by local belly dancers. 7-9 p.m. Cazba Restaurant and Opa Lounge, 211 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208381-0222.

TEEN ART STUDIO—Explore art projects and techniques. 4 p.m.

FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org.

THE L-WORD LIVE—Drop in for a girls’ night out with games, door prizes, L-Word trivia and music from Rebecca Scott with Deb Sager, Meghan Kelly Watters and Rob Hill, along with Blaze & Kelly and Barbara Laing. 9:30 p.m.

FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557.

TREEFORT MUSIC FEST TEASER—Student Union Fine Arts and team Treefort put on a teaser concert. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Centennial Amphitheater, behind the library on the Greenbelt, Boise.

On Stage COMEDY AT THE VARSITY: TOM CLARK—7 p.m. $8. Varsity Pub, 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-906-0658, varsitypubmeridian.com.

IDAHO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL SCHOOL OF THEATER BENEFIT— Watch brief Idaho Shakespeare Festival performances while sipping cocktails and participating in an auction to benefit ISF’s School of Theater program. See Picks, Page 12. 6-9 p.m. $12-$15. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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LIQUID LAUGHS: RUSTY DOOLEY—See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Festivals & Events BALLET IDAHO’S TEA FOR TUTUS—Join Ballet Idaho Academy instructors for exclusive dance workshops. Wear your fanciest and finest for the dress parade with Ballet Idaho’s ballerinas.

Participate in a silent auction.

Funds support Ballet Idaho Academy outreach and scholarship programs. 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. $40. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116.

OFF CENTER DANCE PRESENTS IN YOUR FACE—Join Off Center Dance for an evening of all-new work by established and emerging artists, featuring choreography from Julie Petry, Lydia SakolskyBasquill, Katie Ponozzo and more.

See Picks, Page 13. 8 p.m. $10-$17. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

BOISE BEARDSMEN BEARD AND MUSTACHE COMPETITION—Join the Boise Beardsmen for a night of music, drinks and competitive bearding as part of a fundraiser for the Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline. See Picks, Page 13. 8:30 p.m. $3 donation. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-0956, redroomboise. com.

Literature CHRIS CRUTCHER: KING OF THE MILD FRONTIER—A Cascade native shares stories from his Idaho childhood as told in his memoir, King of the Mild Frontier. 7 p.m.

FREE. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

IDAHO DANCE THEATRE BLACK TIE GALA—Join the Idaho Dance Theatre for a black tie dinner, performances, a live auction and social dancing. 6 p.m. $100. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000.

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FRESCO AWARDS—Fresco Arts Academy honors Idahoans who have made contributions to the arts. The fundraiser includes a silent auction, student performances and the premiere of Take It With You, the awardwinning documentary written, directed and produced by Bryce Lemon. 6-9 p.m. $30. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, frescoarts.org.

COMEDY AT THE VARSITY: TOM CLARK—7 p.m. $8. Varsity Pub, 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-906-0658, varsitypubmeridian.com.

PATTY’S BEER RUN—Celebrate an early St. Patrick’s Day with a short run and beer drinking. RSVP leone@idahorunningcompany. com to reserve your beer. 6 p.m.

FREE. Shu’s Idaho Running Company, 1758 W. State St., Boise, 208-344-6604, idahorunningcompany.com.

On Stage 2013 MELODRAMA DOUBLE FEATURE—See Friday. 8 p.m. $12.50, $90 for eight-person table, dinner $12.50. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah. org.

Odds & Ends AN EVENING WITH AMERICA’S TOP MOUNTAINEERS AND GUIDES—Meet mountaineers Ed Viesturs, Peter Whittaker and Melissa Arnot at the Community School as they discuss their experiences on the world’s highest peaks. Meet-and-greet begins at 5:30 p.m. 7 p.m. $15-$25.

Community School, 1 Community School Drive, Sun Valley, 208622-3955, zenergyts.com.

LADIES’ LOUNGE—Toss back some cocktails with the ladies of Boise Weekly and enjoy prize giveaways, drink specials and oh so much more. Visit BW’s promo page to get the 4-1-1. 5 p.m.

FREE. Willi B’s Saloon, 12505 Chinden Blvd., Boise, 208-3315666, willibs.com.

COMEDY AT THE VARSITY: TOM CLARK—7 p.m. $8. Varsity Pub, 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-906-0658, varsitypubmeridian.com.

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FRIDAY MARCH 8 On Stage 2013 MELODRAMA DOUBLE FEATURE—Enjoy the El Korah Shrine’s 50th annual melodrama double feature, “Alias Smedley Pewtree, or The Villain of Glitter Gulch,” and “A Penny Saved, or The Widow Woodstock, Fully Loaded.” Buffet dinner available before the show at 6 p.m. 8 p.m. $12.50, $90 for eightperson table, dinner $12.50. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

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LIQUID LAUGHS: RUSTY DOOLEY—See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

SARAH COLONNA—Laugh with Sarah Colonna, who writes for and regularly appears on Chelsea Handler’s hit talk show Chelsea Lately. 7 p.m. FREE-$5.

Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

Screen THE WILD AND SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL—The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley presents 13 films about Idaho’s open spaces including Public Lands: Too Special to Drill, Ernest and more.

See Picks, Page 13. 7 p.m. $5$15. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3857927, lttv.org.

Concerts FRIM FRAM FOUR CD RELEASE PARTY—Join the Boise swing bang for its first ever CD release party.

Attendees get discounts on the new release, I’m a Shy Guy. No-host bar. See Picks, Page 12.

7 p.m. $10. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding. com.

KANDINSKY TRIO WITH LES BOIS CHAMBER PLAYERS—The trio and Boise State University ensemble-in-residence play a variety of chamber music, featuring arrangements for piano, violin and cello. 7:30 p.m. $6-$22. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208459-3405 or 208-454-1376, caldwellfinearts.org.

Food & Drink WINE 101: FRANCE—All classes include tasting of eight to 10 wines and snacks. Beginners are welcome and questions are encouraged. 2-4 p.m. $20. Boise Co-op Wine Shop, 915 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-472-4519, boisecoopwineshop.com.

Workshops & Classes HDSLR VIDEO WORKSHOP—A half-day workshop on how to make videos using your DSLR camera with Micron’s Jason Jacopian and Eric Barth. 9 a.m.1:30 p.m. $45. Micron Technology Building, Room 17C, main campus, 8000 S. Federal Way, Boise, idahomediapro.com.

Talks & Lectures PRESERVATION IDAHO’S MODERN MASTERS: ERNEST LOMBARD—Evaluate the iconic works of an Idaho architect who helped bring modernist architecture to downtown Boise.

See Picks, Page 12. 7 p.m. $20-$25. Idaho Transportation Department, 3311 W. State St., Boise, 208-424-5111, preservationidaho.org.

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Christopher Bengochea plays the murderous theater clown Pagliaccio.

THE “PULCINELLA SUITE” AND PAGLIACCI UNITE ON THE EGYPTIAN THEATRE STAGE The great achievement of Opera Idaho and Ballet Idaho’s productions of Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella Suite” and Ruggero Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, which debuted March 1 at the Egyptian Theatre, was getting the two operas—each wildly different in tone and theme—to occupy the same world.

According to the program, conductor Timm Rolek united the two because the “Pulcinella Suite” and the “Prologue” from Pagliacci are in the same key.

However tenuous the relationship, the union was successful. The production radiated the enthusiasm and easy humor of Pulcinella and successfully pivoted to the milk-curdling brood-fest that is Pagliacci.

Andrew Taft played Pulcinella, a ne’er-do-well who fakes his own death and is (briefly) chastened by the woman he loves and his identically dressed friends. The success of this per formance hinged on the simplicity of the stor y and the limited development of the characters. It has no plot twists or overarching message, only a gentle unfolding of events and stock characters engaging each other in bawdy antics, always ready with a wink and a nod to the audience.

Pulcinella drew to a close when the supply of shenanigans ran dr y, rather than when the stor y itself drew to a close, paving the way for the meat and potatoes of the evening: Pagliacci, the stor y of Canio (Christopher Bengochea), the real-world persona of the famous theater clown Pagliaccio; and Nedda (Emily Newton), his unfaithful wife. When she spurns the advances of the not-sufficiently-wicked Tonio (Daniel Scofield), opting instead to remain with her lover, Silvio (Jason Detwiler), her infidelity is leaked to her husband, who kills her while both are wearing full clown get-ups amid a live per formance.

The opera is densely psychological, and Bengochea played Canio with the kind of unraveling psychosis you’d expect from a man slowly convincing himself that he should stab his wife to death and then kill her lover when he rushes to her aid. When Canio first introduced the character of Pagliaccio before an on-stage audience of Italian peasants, he cast a wild-eyed gaze into the real audience that elicited gasps.

Where the production had almost superhuman focus and composure in the face of challenging subject material, the audience did not. Errant clapping, occasional exclamations from the peanut galler y and, right where the opera’s famous final line (“La Commedia e finita!” or, “The comedy is finished!”) should have been, someone in the back caused a racket, drawing attention away from the stage.

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8 DAYS OUT WHO WERE ORRIC COLE AND H.P. USTICK?—Learn about two Boise pioneers from local historian Arthur Hart as part of the Boise 150 celebration. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

SUNDAY MARCH 10 On Stage LIQUID LAUGHS: RUSTY DOOLEY—See Thursday. Two-for-one tickets. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Sports & Fitness SNAKE RIVER RUGBY VS. TSUNAMIS—Watch Boise’s own Snake River Rugby Club take on the Portland Tsunamis. 2 p.m. FREE. Willow Lane Sports Complex, 4623 W. Willow Lane, Boise, cityofboise.org.

Concerts BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA—Boise Philharmonic’s principal clarinetist, Erin Voellinger, joins BBO to perform Mozart’s “Clarinet Concerto.” 2 p.m. $17-$22. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

SPEED TO FEED—5K and 10K walk/run to benefit the Idaho Foodbank. Registration required.

10 a.m. $20-$25, Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-4264636, bluecirclesports.com.

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RE-ART: THEATER ACTING— See Saturday. 1-2 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3844200; 3-4 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996; trica.org.

RE-ART: THEATER ACTING— Nick Garcia and Hollis Welsh instruct students ages 5-12.

1-2 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995; 3-4 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-5706900; trica.org.

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Animals & Pets SNIP ST. PATTY’S BLACK DOG WALK—All colors of dogs are welcome to join the walk along the Boise River to bring awareness to the plight of black dogs and cats in shelters, a phenomenon known as the Black Dog Syndrome.

Noon. FREE. The Ram, 709 E. Park Blvd., Boise, 208-345-2929, blackpearldogs.com.

MONDAY MARCH 11 On Stage 5X5 READING SERIES PRESENTS CHERRYWOOD, A MODERN COMPARABLE—This play by Kirk Lynn is about a surreal and eerily familiar neighborhood.

Suggested for mature audiences. 7 p.m. $10-$12. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Calls to Artists BOISE WEEKLY COVER ART SUBMISSIONS—Each week’s cover of Boise Weekly is a piece of work from a local artist. BW pays $150 for published covers.

One stipulation of publication is that the piece be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in November. Proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all artists are eligible to apply. To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. All mediums are accepted. Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded. For more information, contact Art Director Leila Rader at leila@boiseweekly.com or 208-344-2055. Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, 208-3442055, boiseweekly.com.

Kids & Teens INTERMOUTAIN GIS CONFERENCE FAMILY NIGHT—Learn about geography, mapping and location analysis through mapping activities, geography games and trivia, mobile apps and poster presentations. 6-8 p.m.

FREE. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, riversideboise.com.

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Festivals & Events OWYHEE RIVER JOURNALS VIDEO AND BOOK SIGNING— Author Bonnie Olin presents photos and video of her and photographer Mike Quigley’s 2006 inflatable kayak trip on Deep Creek and the East Fork Owyhee River, followed by a Q&A and book signing and raffle. 7 p.m.

FREE. Idaho Outdoor Association Hall, 3401 Brazil St., Boise, owyheemedia.com.

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8 DAYS OUT Talks & Lectures DAN PHILIPPON: THE NATURE OF SLOW FOOD—This professor from the University of Minnesota discusses slow food as part of Boise State University’s Arts and Humanities Institute’s lecture series on the idea of nature. RSVP online. 6-7 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Simplot Grand Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, scholarworks.boisestate.edu/ideaofnature.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 13 On Stage A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM—Enjoy a production of William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy about star-crossed lovers, mischievous fairies and love spells gone wrong. 7 p.m. $5-$6.

Nampa High School, 203 Lake Lowell Ave., Nampa, 208-4652760, sd131.k12.id.us.

Literature READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS: FIROOZEH DUMAS— Firoozeh Dumas reads from and discusses her works. 7:30 p.m. $10-$30. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.

SPRING AUTHOR SERIES: BRADY UDALL—Brady Udall discusses the process of writing fiction and answers questions.

Noon-1 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.com.

Talks & Lectures KIMBERLE CRENSHAW—Columbia law professor Kimberle Crenshaw delivers an address on the subject of race and gender in work, life and politics. 6:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-5800, boisestate.edu.

TIM O’BRIEN—The author of Going After Cacciato, The Things They Carried, and In the Lake of the Woods speaks. 6:30 p.m. $10-$35. Church of the Big Wood, 100 Saddle Road, Ketchum, 208726-5123, brehmcenter.org.

Check out the entire week’s worth of Doonesbury online at boiseweekly.com—select “Extras” then “Cartoons.”

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COLLABORATIVE PROCESS Inter/Change invites artists to finish each other’s work TARA MORGAN artists have embraced the chaos.

The artistic process is often confined “I found that most people were to the shadows, yawning to life in open to whatever was going to hapthe solitude of an artist’s studio or pen. … Some of the work has been in frantic 4 a.m. sketchbook scribcut up, totally disassembled. I believe blings. But two recent Linen Building one was shredded. So there’s a lot of shows—Unfinished, which opened change that happens, but when I talk in January, and Inter/Change, which to some of the artists and I’m like, debuts First Thursday, March 7—have ‘Guess what happened to your work? parted the curtains on that process, It got shredded,’ they’re almost excitseeking to show the progression of ed because they’re like, ‘Wow, I never a piece of artwork, as opposed to its would’ve done that,’” said Bodett. glossy, gallery-ready end.

“There’s this idea all the sudden that For Unfinished, curators Eli Cratheir work has this life of its own.” ven, Maria Chavez and Amy O’Brien On the piece Moore finished—an combed the studios of 19 area artists ashen campfire by William Lewis for uncompleted or abandoned works, layered with faux wood paneling by provoking a dialogue about what Brenda Fisher—he added a cartoonish defines finished and unfinished art. doodle of Mickey Mouse’s skull and a Now, for Inter/Change, curator Matt couple of hairy testicles.

Bodett has united a partially overlap“There’s an extreme difference ping group of 19 artists to complete between Bill Lewis and the way that one another’s artwork. he represents imagery; he would “It seems like the sequential step never put a ball-sack in his, but Bryan of not finishing a work is finishing Anthony Moore totally would,” said somebody else’s work. … I think a Bodett. “So it’s this funny dichotomy little more abstractly, the concept even between the vocabulary each person’s of a work that you’ve not finished using.” compared to a work that you give up Moore said his intention wasn’t to be finished, to me that was kind of to drastically alter or destroy the a poetic statement between the two initial artwork but, rather, to have a shows,” said Bodett. dialogue with it.

For Inter/Change, each artist “Image 2” was worked on by Matt Bodett, Goran Fazil and Dan Scott.

“The ball-sacks hanging off the submitted an original piece of artwork mouse character’s phallus-shaped that was assigned at random to a snout were a reference to a sort of second artist and then passed on to a aggressive, conquering, ‘using up’ feeling that How do I really clean it up?’” said Bodett. third to finish it.

I get from what the corporate elite have done In order for this process to be fruitful, the “Every piece was worked on by three artto our world,” said Moore. “I was inspired by ists, but it was all sort of random; whoever got artists had to trust one another. the burnt-out, desolate fire-pit and the enclosed “You’re giving up a lot and there’s inherit next was kind of left to chance,” said Bodett, ently a sort of trust that goes along with that,” ‘boarded in’ feeling I inferred from the boardwho drew the artists’ names from a hat. said Bodett. “There’s times where I feel like, as ing over of that image.”

Unlike other group shows or collaborative Though it’s easy to pinpoint some artists’ artists, we don’t do that—my work’s my work. artistic endeavors, the parameters for Inter/ signature flourishes in the show’s finished I like the idea of giving up in something in Change were expansive. pieces, Bodett said the process also pushed order to get something bigger.’”

“We didn’t necessarily know who the three people in new directions.

Artist Bryan Anthony Moore submitted a artists that were working on each piece were “What I was hoping for, and what I think I detailed trompe l’oeil painting, which found its going to be, and the process or theme for the way to Garth Claassen got, was that they took what came from before piece was totally open, and they didn’t just make it their own, but they and Brenda Fisher. so you were totally responded to the work,” said Bodett. “They “It was a bit risky free to do whatever Inter/Change opening reception, First Thursday, March 7, 5-9 p.m., FREE. The exhibit runs found something within the work—they still submitting a laboryou wanted with the through Sunday, April 28. did their own thing to it—but they allowed it intensive piece that work and respond in GALLERY AT THE LINEN BUILDING to communicate with what already existed.” others could paint whatever way to what 1402 W. Grove St. Bodett, the curators of Unfinished, and over if they so desired, the artist had done,” 208-385-0111 Linen Building owner David Hale all hope that but I trusted Garth said contributor thelinenbuilding.com Claassen and the third there will be a third exhibit in this series. But Kirsten Furlong. that show is still a work-in-progress. collaborator would Yet, within those “We’ve tossed around ideas, but it’s not improve upon it,” said Moore. “Trusting the expansive parameters, some noticeable patentirely concrete,” said Bodett.” We’re trying other artists and/or not being precious about terns developed. to find what some sort of natural third stage one’s work is implicit in true collaboration.”

“All of the artists are really conscious of And even though drastic changes have been of this would be. And there’s really obvious their place in the three. … The first one seemed made to some pieces in the show—John Sadler things like, ‘What if you destroy work?’ that like they were more refined, more of an openfeel too kitschy. … We’re trying to find sometook Goran Fazil’s canvas off its stretcher ing statement. … The second person was like, thing along that poetic line: a meaningful and bars, wound the canvas around the bars and ‘I can do anything to it.’ And the third person thoughtful approach.” has really been aware of, ‘How do I finish this? wrapped the whole thing in duct tape—most WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

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1ST THURSDAY/LISTINGS East Side BANDANNA RUNNING AND WALKING—Author Sandy Epeldi discusses his favorite trails and writing about the outdoor lifestyle. 7-8 p.m. FREE. 504 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3869017.

BASQUE MARKET—Indulge in paella and a glass of wine. Spanish beers and white wine sangria also available. Paella is ready by 6:30 p.m. 4 p.m. FREE. 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com.

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BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—Free gallery tours of the new permanent exhibit, An Enduring Culture, The Basques Past and Present. Guided tours of the Jacobs/ Uberuaga House every half hour from 6:30-8:30 p.m. 6:30 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

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BOISE ART GLASS—Make your own cup during 30-minute session while enjoying beer from Sockeye Brewing. 5-11 p.m. $40. 530 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 208-345-1825, boiseartglass.com.

THE BRICKYARD—Check out Brickyard’s Home Grown Thursday with an American Revolution cocktail for $4 or Payette Outlaw IPA or Rodeo Rye Pale Ale for $3. 601 Main St., Boise, 208287-2121, brickyardboise.com.

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BRICOLAGE—Miss Lillie Mae Cane plays banjo and presents her art show, Wayfaring Stranger.5-10 p.m. FREE. 418 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-3718, bricoshoppe.com.

CELLAR 616—Taste and learn about locally crafted wine. 3-7 p.m. FREE. 619 Grove St., Boise, 208-906-9590.

DRAGONFLY—Stop in for a clearance sale and wine. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 414 W. Main St., Boise, 208-338-9234.

FLATBREAD COMMUNITY OVENDOWNTOWN—Kids younger than 12 eat free with a purchase. Happy hour goes until 6 p.m. and every bottle of wine is on sale starting at $20. 615 W. Main St., Boise, 208-287-4757, flatbreadpizza.com.

FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—Join 4 Flying M for an exhibition titled Secret Lives, featuring local artists. 5-10 p.m. FREE. 500 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-345-4320, flyingmcoffee.com.

FRONT DOOR NORTHWEST PIZZA AND TAP HOUSE—Enjoy a three-course meal paired with Mad River Brewing Company beers. 6 p.m. $16.

105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9201, thefrontdoorboise.com.

GOLDY’S CORNER—Happy hour from 5-9 p.m. with 50 percent off beer and wine. Art by 5 10 local artists. 5-9 p.m. 625 W. Main St., Boise, 208-433-3934, goldysbreakfastbistro.com.

GUIDO’S ORIGINAL NEW YORK STYLE PIZZADOWNTOWN—Open late. 5-10 p.m. FREE. 235 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-345-9011, guidosdowntown.com.

HIGH NOTE CAFE—Enjoy live music, $3.50 6 beers and local art displayed on the walls. 4 p.m. 225 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-429-1911.

INDIE MADE—Open late with wine tastings from Sawtooth Winery. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 108 N. Sixth St., Boise, shopindiemade.com.

MELTING POT—Enjoy art with two glasses of wine and cheese fondue. 5-9 p.m. $22. 200 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-343-8800, meltingpot.com.

OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY—Dine amid antiques collected from around the world. 5-9 p.m. 610 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-336-2900, osf.com.

PENGILLY’S SALOON—Frim Fram 4 plays at 8 p.m. Donations accepted. 8 p.m. FREE. 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344.

SILLY BIRCH—Local artists display their 7 work. Try any or all of the draft beers for $10.

4-7 p.m. FREE. 507 Main St., Boise, 208-3452505.

WISEGUY PIZZA PIE-BOISE—Rainier pitchers $6, $1 off draft beers and $3 glasses of wine.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 106 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-3367777, wiseguypizzapie.com.

South Side ATOMIC TREASURES—Enjoy retro and found objects, as well as art gifts. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-344-0811.

BOISE ART MUSEUM—Open until 9 p.m.

8 Studio Art Exploration is from 5-8 p.m. Art Talk is about the recent book Ecopoetics, and begins at 5:30 p.m. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

THE COLE MARR GALLERY/COFFEE 9 HOUSE—Robert Vestal presents the new exhibit, Images from South Africa. 6-9 p.m. 404 S. Eighth St., Ste. B 100, Boise, 208-336-7630, cmphotoworkshops.com.

CREATIVE ACCESS ARTS CENTER—View 10 the Story Quilts, read stories and meet some of the artisans from Artisans4Hope. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 500 S. Eighth St., Boise.

EIGHTH STREET MARKETPLACE AT 11 BODO—Featuring work by Artist in Residence Mary Lantz. 5-9 p.m. 404 S. Eighth St., Mercantile Building, Boise, 208-338-5212, 8thstreetmarketplace.com.

HAIRLINES—Talk to Lui the Hair Whisperer. 5-9 p.m. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-383-9009.

HELLY HANSEN—20 percent to 50 percent off all items in the store. 5-9 p.m. 860 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-342-2888.

THE FLICKS—Screening of Race Across America, which captures a 3,000-mile bike race across the United States. 7-9 p.m. $15. 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM— 12 Don’t miss the grand opening of the new exhibit, Essential Idaho: 150 Things that Make the Gem State Unique. 5-9 p.m. Donation. 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, history. idaho.gov.

LISK GALLERY—View Mark Lisk’s black 13 and white images and artist Melissa Osgood’s work. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 401 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-3773, liskgallery.com.

LIQUID—Drink up during happy hour from 2-7 p.m. Live comedy starts at 8 p.m. Two-for-one tickets. 8 p.m. $10. 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

THE MONOGRAM SHOPPE—Stop in to check out gift ideas. 5-9 p.m. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, themonogramshoppe.com.

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LISTINGS/1ST THURSDAY NFINIT ART GALLERY— 14 Try shepherd’s pie with fresh lamb, Red Irish Ale by The

SALON 162—Works on 17 display by Pickle, and commissioned bamboo long-

Ram and check out the wildlife art by Les Herman. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 131, Boise, 208-371-0586.

boards by Sibbz Custom Rides.

5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-386-9908.

NORTHRUP BUILDING— Featuring work from Abby Christensen and Tyler Bush. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Eighth and Broad streets, second floor, Boise.

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QUE PASA—Check out a selection of Mexican artwork including wall fountains, silver, metal wall art and blown glass. 5-9 p.m. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9018.

RENEWAL UNDERGROUND— Featuring work by T. Ens. 4-9 p.m. FREE. 517 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-338-5444.

R. GREY GALLERY 16 JEWELRY AND ART GLASS—Check out new designs from Robert Grey Kaylor’s RealSteel jewelry line. 5-9 p.m. 415 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3859337, rgreygallery.com.

SNAKE RIVER WINERY—20 percent discount on case price.

5-9 p.m. 786 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-345-9463.

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SOLID—Enjoy live music from Ryan Wissinger, happy hour food from 4-6 p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight, wine and liquor tasting from local vendors and art by Sylvia Cohen. Free appetizers at 6 p.m. and Last Call Trivia at 8 p.m. 4 p.m.-midnight.

405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208345-6620.

VAN DYCK FRAME 19 DESIGN—Check out abstract color photography on canvas by local artist Nathan J. Dang. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 733 Broad St., Boise, 208-336-3454.

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AMERICAN CLOTHING GALLERY—All winter merchandise is 75 percent off. Enter to win a handbag with each purchase.

5-9 p.m. FREE, 100 N. Eighth St., Ste. 121A, Boise, 208-433-0872, americanclothinggallery.com.

ARTISAN OPTICS—Check out the Anne et Valentin Trunk Show. 1-8 p.m. 190 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208338-0500, artisanoptics.com.

BARBARA BARBARA AND CO.—Open late. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 807 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208342-2002.

BLEUBIRD—Music by 21 Boise Rock School and art by Hannah Taylor. 5 percent of sales benefit Think Boise First. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 224 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-345-1055, bleubirdboise.com.

CHOCOLAT BAR—Payette Brewing pairs beer with chocolates.

Gear up for Easter with chocolate bunnies and egg-shaped boxes.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 805 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-338-7771, thechocolatbar.com.

MIXED GREENS—Celebrate the store’s grand opening and enter a raffle for a gift basket. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 237 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-344-1605.

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10. Creative Access Ar ts Center 11. Eighth Street Marketplace

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5-9 p.m. FREE. 1020 Main St., Boise.

ART SOURCE GAL30 LERY—Drop in for the Idaho Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Show for readings and awards. Music by Wayne White, wine by Indian Creek Winery and snacks. 6-9 p.m. 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-3374, artsourcegallery.com.

Boise, a local poster showcase with live music from Thomas Paul. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-433-5671.

THE CRUX—Opening 32 exhibition by artists Bruce Maurey, Tony Caprai, Kelly Morgan and others. Music by Boise Philharmonic musicians.

6-9 p.m. FREE. 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213.

FOOT DYNAMICS—Check out the Altra zero-drop trail shoes and browse shoe deals. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 1021 W. Main St., Boise, 208-386-3338.

GALLERY 601—View 33 art by Sam Park, Kerry Hallam and Thomas McKnight.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 211 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-336-5899, gallery601.com.

MIXING BOWL—Check out the Chop2Pot cutting boards and salad spinners. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 216 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-3456025, themixingbowlboise.com.

GAMEKEEPER LOUNGE—Featuring music from Naomi Psalm and Blue Cinema. 6-9 p.m. FREE. 1109 W. Main St., Boise, 208343-4611, owyheeplaza.com.

THE PRESS—View pho24 tographs by Brent Jensen and enjoy New Belgium beers

THE LINEN BUILD34 ING—Benefit for Idaho Shakespeare Festival School of

paired with City Peanut Shop nuts.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 212 N. Ninth St., Ste. B, Boise, 208-336-9577.

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THE ALASKA CENTER— View Seascapes and 29 Greenscapes by Chi E Shenam.

BOISE 150 (SESQUI31 SHOP)—Presenting Vibes: A Celebration of Music in

GOLITE—Stop by for a winter clearance sale and the new spring lines.

6-9 p.m. FREE. 906 W. Main St., Boise, 208-258-2091, golite.com.

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images, which are for sale at a discount of 20 percent. 5-8:30 p.m. 745 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-866-4627, wardhooper.com.

BEN & JERRY’S SCOOP SHOP—Enjoy $1 scoops in cups or cones and half price on all waffle cones. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 103 N. 10th St., Boise, 208342-1992, benjerry.com.

ECIGS BY S. WICKS— Artist James Hacking shows his sketches and stopmotion animation. Snacks and Sockeye Brewery beers. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 208 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-331-3244, ecigsbyswicks. com.

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CITY PEANUT SHOP—Peanuts paired with New Belgium Brewing beers bring you the classic beer and peanuts combination. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 803 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-433-3931.

and more, with music by Ryan Wissinger and more. No-host bar. 5-10 p.m. FREE. 802 W. Bannock St., Ste. 202, Boise, 208-336-0533.

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THOMAS HAMMER— Featuring mixed media paintings by Michelle Cenarrusa.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 298 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-433-8004, hammercoffee.com.

OLD CHICAGO-DOWNTOWN— Karaoke starts at 9 p.m. Two kids eat free with purchase of an adult meal. 5 p.m.-midnight. FREE. 730 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-3630037, oldchicago.com.

THE REDHEADED FINN— 25 View work by local artists Susan Powell and Nancy Hunter, with $4 off all pitchers of beer or bottles of wine. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 705 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208947-3111, redheadedfinnpub. com.

THE STUDIO: AN ELITE 26 SALON AND SPA—View artwork by Heidi Haislmaier and deals on products and services.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 702 W. Idaho St., Boise.

Theater with performances, an auction, appetizers and more.

See Picks, Page 12. 6 p.m. $12$15. 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding. com.

NEUROLUX—Music by Cotton Jones and Parson Redheads. 7 p.m. $8-$10. 111 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-0886, neurolux. com.

RADIO BOISE—Tour the studio and watch DJs spin live radio shows. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1020 W. Main St., Alaska Building, Ste. 200, Boise, 208-424-8166, radioboise.org.

THE RECORD EXCHANGE— Meet Radio Boise DJs and drink free Payette Brewing Company beer. 20 percent of sales benefit Radio Boise. 5-9 p.m. 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.

Gypsy Gallery artist Marianne Konvalinka will show work at the Hoff Building.

ARTISANS AND GYPSIES With early spring beginning to revive Boise from frosty listlessness, transformation is something of a theme this First Thursday.

Change is a thread that runs through the Voices in Transition exhibit, on display at the Creative Access Art Center.

Stories of transition come to life through textiles created by a group of Artisans4Hope refugee artists, in collaboration with the Idaho Commission on the Arts’ Folk and Traditional Arts Program. A selection of story quilts and broadsides help the new Americans relate stories about their new and former homes. The exhibit runs from 5-8:30 p.m. at 500 S. Eighth St., and remains on display through Saturday, April 20. For more information, visit artisans4hope.org.

On the subject of home, sesquicentennial celebrations kicked off to observe an Idaho state milestone. President Abraham Lincoln signed into law an act creating the Idaho Territory 150 years ago, an anniversary commemorated with the Idaho State Historical Museum’s new exhibit Essential Idaho: 150 Things that Make the Gem State Unique. Peruse artifacts and explore hands-on learning stations created for children and adults from 5-9 p.m. at 610 Julia Davis Drive.

The Sesqui-Shop is also considering Boise’s 150-year musical history. Head over to the Boise 150 headquarters at 1008 Main St. to experience the cultural effect music has had on our community with Vibes: A Celebration of Music in Boise, from 6-9 p.m. The showcase of local music ephemera includes a collection of zines, iconic fliers advertising rock clubs like the Crazy Horse, bills from the local punk shows and ticket stubs from famous performances.

You can catch Vibes through Thursday, March 28.

And in other First Thursday music news, Radio Boise’s Kevin Moran will moderate a Fettuccine Forum discussion titled And The Beat Goes On: Music as a Boise Legacy at the Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., First Thursday, March 7 at 5:30 p.m. The talk explores the past, present and future of the Boise music scene with panelists Ali Ward, Eric Gilbert, Tim Johnstone, Steve Fulton and Todd Dunnigan.

Speaking of Boise legacies, the 10-year-old Gypsy Gallery will pop up once again—this time at the palatial Crystal Ballroom in Boise’s Hoff Building at Eighth and Bannock streets, starting at 5 p.m. You can check out work from 20 artists, including Pam McKnight, Amber Day and Marianne Konvalinka, which will be on display while musicians Ryan Wissinger, Blaze N Kelly, and Gayle Chapman provide ambience.

—Andrew Crisp

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FROM ATYPICAL TO BIZARRO

Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside unleash an Untamed Beast CHRIS PARKER Sallie Ford sounds like the love child of jump blues and rockabilly, drawing equally from the legacies of Billie Holiday and Wanda Jackson.

But she interprets those influences through her own quirky lens, resulting in a hot mess that’s heartfelt and in-your-face with honesty just brash enough to be disarming.

“I’ll always say the wrong thing,” she objects in her sultry croon on the pop-music bashing “I Swear,” off her 2011 debut, Dirty her proved a cure for her shyness. She quickly Radio. “I can’t help but be a mess / I’ll never gained the confidence her music now exudes. be like the rest / I couldn’t even if I tried.”

Though she initially struggled with PortIn Ford’s voice, you hear echoes of the keen- land’s cliquishness, Ford eventually found her ing jazz-roots of Jolie Holland, Eilen Jewell own group of friends, whom she heralds in and the Be Good Tanyas, as well as the raw, “This Crew”: “I came on a whim / that’s just rebellious rumble of The Raveonettes and The what I do / and for the first time in my life / I Kills. The latter impulse comes out stronger think I really fit in with this crew.” on Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside’s latest, Ford, who herself rocks a pair of horn-rims, Untamed Beast, which showcases the spunky admits Portland has gotten a little thick with swagger of P.J. Harvey and off-beat charm of the glasses and bearded set, but she loves it.

Regina Spektor. One reference too many? Not “It’s a little hipster-y sometimes but evfor genre-bending Ford. erybody is so nice. Some of that stuff on that “I appreciate all those artists you named,” Portlandia show is overdramatized, but it’s a Ford said from her Portland, Ore. home. lot like that,” she said.

“There are more bands these days that like Many of Ford’s songs are about finding a to mix things up. Keep it interesting. There’s place to belong and be yourself. She connects really only so much you can really do anythose concerns to contemporaries like Cat more. You’re going to be copying something Power, Sharon Van Etten and even Girls’ Lena anyway. You may as Dunham; it’s about well mix it up and taking the power to have a few different define oneself rather Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside with Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, things in there. At than allowing others or Friday, March 8, 8 p.m., $15. least have the originalsociety to do it for you.

NEUROLUX ity in it that way.”

“I love [Girls]; I just 111 N. 11th St. Ford grew up in watched it last night,” 208-343-0886 Asheville, N.C., in a she said. “For sure, I neurolux.com. musical family. She think there’s a similar took up classical violin idea of just showing until her teens. what actual people in their 20s are doing these “By the time I was a teenager [playing days and how women really are with all their violin] was way too uppity and all about different body types.” perfection. I needed to get out of it—running A great example of this sentiment can be found on Ford’s new album, Untamed Beast, in the opposite direction,” she said. “I went to in the song “Bad Boys,” a strutting combo of music camp for violin, where I met all these bulletproof attitude and sass. Stepping over a different people, dyed my hair bright red, reverb-laden R&B guitar line, Ford declares: started watching R-rated movies and listening “I can fuck / I can drink / and I don’t care to punk music.” what you think / You could say I’m just a Ford played in a couple of bands around girl / but I’ve had a lady or two / bet she’d Asheville, but didn’t start making her own preferred me to you / I like bad boys, but I’m music until she moved to Portland in 2007. like a bad boy, too.”

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“I wanted to write a song about how I like bad boys but I guess it’s kind of like a girlpower gender-bender,” said Ford. “Some of the things in the songs I am. I think modern girls aren’t necessarily limp anymore. We drink and want all the same things boys want. I don’t really go out of my way to be that crazy, but I had a time period when I was writing that record where I just felt open to doing whatever.

I wanted to party and do crazy stuff.”

In other ways, Ford is more an old-fashioned girl, amplifying the music’s mix of old and new. On the tender, loping “Roll Around,” she complains she doesn’t need a ring or a promise: “Just gimme something real / just gimme something honest.”

And that nostalgia for a simpler time comes out on other tracks like “Write Me a Letter,” off the Not an Animal EP, where she sings: “Just like they took away the Polaroid picture / They’re gonna take away everything that means something / Today I think I saw ten thousand cellphones / But not one decent conversation.”

“It’s weird that people can’t have real honest conversations with each other anymore,” Ford said. “You’ll be hanging out with people and they’ll be looking at their telephone and socializing with people on the Internet.”

Ford feels the same about dating. “In Portland, it’s mostly hanging out,” she said.

“There’s not a whole lot of straightforward, ‘It’s OK to say we’re on a date right now. It doesn’t mean we’re going to get married.’ I feel like young people are so chilled out they’re scared to claim ‘dating.’ They are just too scared to admit that’s what they’re doing.”

Like her music, Ford feels laid back and candid. She speaks her mind with plucky, affectless charm. She’s the comely neighbor, brazen gal-pal and sympathetic shoulder all rolled into one Untamed Beast.

Wondrous Bughouse, the sophomore album from Trevor Powers—better known as Youth Lagoon—hit record stores on March 5, leaving sensitive, young tadpoles across the nation in a tizzy. The band debuted its new, bigger-sounding lineup at a secret show at Neurolux Feb. 25. If you missed it, make sure not to miss the band’s set at Treefort Sunday, March 24, because Youth Lagoon will be hitting the road hard to push the new disc and Boise may not see them again for a long while.

Another new album with a Boise pedigree comes from slightly less prominent, though equally youthful, punk act Skittish Itz. The album, Had a Food Baby!, is out now on 1332 Records.

And back to the Treefort beat, organizers recently announced topics for the panel discussions that will accompany the four-day music festival. Speakers will delve into the intersection of music and politics, music video production and perform a band “case study,” where one local band will have its marketing strategy torn to shreds by a series of industry folks. Get the full list at treefortmusicfest.com.

Also going down during Treefort will be a series of free lessons from touring acts at Boise Rock School. BRS’ Ryan Peck told Boise Weekly that the lineup hasn’t been nailed down yet, but that plans are in motion and will be announced soon.

In other news of things-not-exactly-scheduled yet, Red Room booker Wes Malvini told BW that he’s planning another free summer concert series to follow up last year’s Atypical Tuesdays. The series, Bizarro Thursdays, will feature acts that should probably never be on a bill together and a special series of “versus” sets. Stay tuned.

And finally, there are so many great shows this week, it’s hard to fit them all into this column.

Rising EDM star Minnesota will play the Reef Wednesday, March 6. That dance-tacular show starts at 10 p.m. and costs $7 with Protohype and Dcarls opening.

Instrumental post-rock princes Caspian will be at Red Room the next night, Thursday, March 7. The Massachusetts band moves seamlessly between riffs that soothe and melt faces, which is good for your pores so don’t miss out. The show gets going at 9 p.m. and costs $8 in advance or $10 at the door. Native and Ditch Tiger will open.

—Josh Gross

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY MARCH 6 ANTIQUE SCREAM—With Sun Cat Brothers and Machine. 8 p.m. $3. Red Room DAN COSTELLO—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Flatbread-Downtown

SWINGIN’ UTTERS, MARCH 8, THE VENUE Though punks have loathed hippies since the birth of the subculture, they both mostly adhered to hippie guru Timothy Leary’s edict not to trust anyone older than 30. But that was then. Now, any punk musicians younger than 30 is suspect. Do they even know the Ramones? Or do they think punk began in Southern California in the mid-’90s?

This week, Boise is getting a visit from San Francisco punk royalty Swingin’ Utters, which formed to combat the Lycra and neon mascara of the ’80s with gritty melodies, raw guitars and the righteous, fist-pumping rage of the working class.

In an interesting twist, this week’s Swingin’ Utters show is all-ages, so take your kids and get them the punk-rock education they deserve.

—Josh Gross With Wild Roses, Pull Out Quick and Social Antidote. Friday, March 8, 6:30 p.m., $13-$15. The Venue, 521 W. Broad St.

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STILL THE SKY’S LIMIT—7 p.m.

FREE. Crux

THURSDAY MARCH 7

DJ STEVE—8 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club

AVATAR—With Eye Empire, Midline and Black Tooth Grin. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Knitting Factory

EMILY TIPTON BAND—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m.

FREE. Reef

HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD—With Dance Gavin Dance and All Hail the Yeti. 8 p.m. $25-$50. Knitting Factory

BRET WELTY AND THE GROWLERS—8 p.m. $5. Powerhouse

JOHNNY SHOES—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow MINNESOTA—With Protohype and DCarls. 9:30 p.m. $7. Reef NED EVERETT—7 p.m. FREE. Crusty’s OPHELIA—With Johnny Shoes.

9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s PATRICIA FOLKNER— 7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel RICO AND REX—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Flatbread-Bown SCOTT KELLY AND THE ROAD HOME—9 p.m. $8. Visual Arts Collective SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears

PHANTOM BALANCE—With Illumneye, Dirty Dice and Holistic Meditation. 9 p.m. $5. Shredder REBECCA SCOTT—9 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s RICO AND REX—5 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

FRIDAY MARCH 8

ROGUE GALLERY—With Last King Outlaw and Young Planetary.

9 p.m. $5. Shredder SWINGIN’ UTTERS—With Wild Roses, Pull Out Quick and Social Antidote. See Listen Here, this page. 6:30 p.m. $13-$15. Venue THAO AND THE GET DOWN STAY DOWN—With Sally Ford and The Sound Outside. 8 p.m. $15. Neurolux

FRIM FRAM 4—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—5 p.m. FREE. Berryhill MEGAN NELSON—6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears NAOMI PSALM AND THE BLUE CINEMA—6 p.m. FREE. Gamekeeper NATIVE—8 p.m. $8-$10. Crux

THE EXPENDABLES LIFE’S A BEACH TOUR—Featuring Tomorrows Bad Seeds. 8 p.m. $13-$20. Knitting Factory

INVISIBLE SWORDSMEN—7 p.m. FREE. Woodriver Cellars

COTTON JONES—With Parson Redheads. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux

JOHN JONES TRIO—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

DOUG CAMERON—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

HECKTOR PECKTOR—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

CASPIAN—With Ditch Tiger and Native. 9 p.m. $8-$10. Red Room

J BEARDS—6 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

DANIEL BACHMAN—6 p.m.

FREE. Record Exchange

Ari Shine ARI SHINE—With Adrienne Pierce and Chris Jennings. 8 p.m. $3. Red Room BEN BURDICK TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye THE BLACKBERRY BUSHES STRINGBAND—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s CHERRY ROYALE—9:30 p.m. $5. Reef

TIESTO—With Quintino and Tommy Trash. 7 p.m. $45-$100.

Revolution Concert House

SATURDAY MARCH 9 BEATFREQ II—Featuring DJ Dan, Erik Lobe, Dayne 5150 and Jeremiah. 9 p.m. $10-$25. Knitting Factory

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TORN ACLS—With Teton Avenue and The Naked Apes. 7:30 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

TRUST—With Eraas, Annex Madly and Blurred Vision. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

FRIM FRAM 4 DANCING AND MARTINIS ALBUM RELEASE PARTY—See Picks, Page 12. 7 p.m. $10. Linen Building

SUNDAY MARCH 10

TUESDAY MARCH 12

FURIOUS JONES—With Piranhas, Alturas and Ghost Mic. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

ALTURAS—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER-SESSION GIG—4 p.m. $5 donation. Linen Building

ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

GAYTHEIST—With Wolfgang, Unhallowed and Mongoloids. 9 p.m. $5. Shredder JAMES LEWIS—9 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears JUNIUS—With Silver Snakes, The Deadlight Effect and Sir Kay. 7:30 p.m. $10. Venue KINGS OF SPRING TOUR—8 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club KORBY LENKER—With AKA Belle. 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s OPHELIA—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub PINTO BENNETT—With Tracy Morrison. 5 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s ROB AND ROBIN SCOTT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s SPUDMAN—7 p.m. FREE. Woodriver Cellars STEADY RUSH—9:30 p.m. $5.

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KORY QUINN—7 p.m. FREE. Crusty’s NOCTURNUM—9 p.m. $2. Red Room REBECCA SCOTT TRIO—7 p.m.

FREE. Crescent

MONDAY MARCH 11 1332 RECORDS PRESENTS: PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. $3.

Liquid CLASSIC ROCK SOCIAL CLUB—5:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s JACK AND THE BEAR—With Parson Redheads and Angie Gillis. 8 p.m. $4. Red Room MURS—With Prof, Fashawn and Black Cloud Music. See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $10-$12.

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CRUSADE—8 p.m. $3 donation.

Red Room DOUG CAMERON—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Flatbread-Bown

KORY QUINN—With The Comrades and Left Coast Country. 8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye OLD TIME JAM SESSION WITH THE HOKUM HIGH FLYERS— With Ophelia. 6 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s RADIO BOISE TUESDAY PRESENTS SANDUSKY FURS— With Cutting Cages. 7 p.m. $3.

Neurolux

WEDNESDAY MARCH 13

MURS, MARCH 11, NEUROLUX G. Love and Special Sauce G. LOVE AND SPECIAL SAUCE—With John Fullbright.

8:30 p.m. $20-$40. Knitting Factory NEW TRANSIT—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s SHON SANDERS—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears

BOURBON DOGS—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Flatbread-Downtown

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

Murs has been making smart underground hip-hop for years—first with California indie rap troupe Living Legends and more recently as a solo artist.

Murs’ early material skewed toward slow-rolling funk and soul beats, peppered with brass and thumping bass lines, but 2011’s Love and Rockets Vol. 1 mixed in new genres, borrowing droning guitars and heaps of digital reverb. Consistent through both styles is a strong voice unafraid to tackle social and political issues.

Savvy rhymes, fresh beats and a cool, composed flow make Murs a standout among his contemporaries, who include El-P and J Dilla. Murs returns to Boise Friday, March 11, at the tail end of the multi-city Road to Paid Dues Tour.

—Andrew Crisp With Prof, Fashawn and Black Cloud Music, 7 p.m., $10 adv. $12 doors. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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LISTINGS/SCREEN Special Screenings

KIWANIS SILENT MOVIE BENEFIT—Enjoy two silent films by Nell Shipman: Something New, and A Bear, a Boy and a Dog. Shipman lived and worked in northern Idaho in the early ’20s.

Proceeds benefit the Kiwanis effort to eliminate neo-natal tetanus in underdeveloped countries.

Wednesday, March 6, 6 p.m. $5-$12. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

LIGHT UP NIPPON: ARISA—View a film about the recovery from the 2011 Japan earthquake and tsunami. Organized by Idaho Japanese Association, and supported by the BSU Japan Club and Consular Office of Japan in Portland, Ore. Monday, March 11, 6:30 p.m. Boise State Student Union Simplot Grand Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

TVTV PRESENTS 5 BROKEN CAMERAS—Part of its ongoing documentary series, Treasure Valley Television presents this documentary that gives an intimate view into a group’s nonviolent resistance to Israeli encroachment on a West Bank village. Sunday, March 10, 7 p.m. $15. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

WILD AND SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL—The seventh annual Wild and Scenic Film Festival combines beautiful cinematography and first-rate storytelling to inform and inspire. Proceeds benefit the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley. Saturday, March 9, 7 p.m. $15, FREE 14 and younger. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, egyptiantheatre.net.

Opening 56 UP—Beginning in 1964, director Michael Apted interviewed the same group every seven years. Now that they subjects are reaching their 60s, they reflect on their lives—who they were and who they have become—while clips from their lives and previous interviews are interspersed with their testimonies. (NR) Opens Friday, March 8. The Flicks.

DEAD MAN DOWN—Colin Farrell and Noomi Rapace play two strangers whose quests for revenge draw them together, spurring a trail of mayhem and destruction. (R) Opens Friday, March 8. Edwards 9, 22.

OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL—Sam Raimi directs this prequel to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. James Franco plays Oscar Diggs, a morally ambiguous circus magician transported to Oz, where he must form alliances and brace himself for conflict with three witches, played by Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams. (PG) Opens Friday, March 8. Edwards 9, 22.

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BICYCLE DREAMS—The award-winning featurelength documentary about the Race Across America premieres. The screening is presented by the Treasure Valley Cycling Alliance. Purchase advance tickets online at imathlete.com/events/ bicycledreams. Thursday, March 7, 7 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

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EMPEROR IS A CROWNING ACHIEVEMENT Tommy Lee Jones fills the screen with MacArthur swagger GEORGE PRENTICE Gen. Douglas MacArthur, according to many historians, was fatally flawed by delusions of grandeur. Architect of the U.S. Army’s Pacific Theater operations during World War II and supreme commander of American occupation forces in post-war Japan, MacArthur was ultimately humiliated in 1951, when he was relieved of command by President Harry for his role on the TV show Lost—who cashes Truman for overreaching his authority, pulling in his small-screen cred for a big-screen breakthe plug on MacArthur’s own aspirations for out performance. political office.

Fellers was tasked by MacArthur in 1945 But unlike the man with a fool’s errand, MacArthur, Emperor, to determine whether a new movie that Japanese Emperor EMPEROR (PG-13) deconstructs the myth Hirohito should be Directed by Peter Webber of MacArthur, achieves executed for war its greatness by using a crimes or saved to help Starring Tommy Lee Jones and Matthew Fox sweeping historic canpush back a feared Opens Friday, March 8, at The Flicks vas as backdrop to an Chinese invasion. But intimate tale of doubt, Fellers has skin—and not unlike David Lean’s heart—in the game: a A Passage to India or Warren Beatty’s Reds. heartbreaking pursuit of his first love, a JapaExpertly filmed and edited, Emperor is the nese girl who attended his American university. first great film of 2013.

“Nothing here, as you Americans say, is Director Peter Webber (Girl With a Pearl black and white,” a former Japanese general, Earring) wisely shifts MacArthur—played and now prisoner-of-war, warns Fellers.

Indeed, Fellers peels away endless blankets with near-perfect pomposity by Tommy Lee Jones—to a supporting role, and instead pans of gray in his quest through a nation crushed by atomic weapons. his lens toward the story of Brig. Gen. Bonner Emperor ignites best during Fox’s scenes Fellers, played by Matthew Fox—most known

The Emperor shall return... for an Oscar nomination.

with Jones. The Oscar-winner fills the screen with MacArthur’s swagger but Fellers repeatedly reins him back in, cautioning that Western-style justice and punishment of Hirohito—a god-as-man figurehead among the Japanese—could lead to social unrest at best and mass suicides at worst.

“This self-proclaimed son of heaven has been placed on a protected list,” says Fellers.

“That is, until we know what to do with him.”

While Emperor’s 98 minutes are taut, the screenplay is exact and never rushed.

But I must admit to some befuddlement with the film’s studio—Roadside Attractions—and its handling of the film, an American/New Zealand production. When I first saw the movie at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2012, I was certain that it would be a candidate in the recently wrapped award season. Yet, here it is being silently slid into an early March release date.

Don’t let that fool you. Emperor is a crowning achievement.

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GRAMERCY PARK PIZZA AND GRILL Gastropub grub with a few twists JOSH GROSS

If there’s anything Boise needs less, it’s another place to get pizza and burgers. However, Gramercy Park Pizza and Grill is in Meridian, so we’ll let it slide.

The restaurant took over the former R&R Public House space and has given these ubiquitous standards some welcome twists to help transform them into standout dishes.

Gramercy Park’s cauliflower veggie wings are un-floret-able.

The GPPG pizza ($8.95 personal, $17.95 large), which features a thin, tender crust layBut perhaps the best thing I had at One intriguing dish is the Crabber Tots ered with salami, chorizo, wild mushrooms, olGramercy Park was an order of veggie wings ives, red onions, green peppers and leeks, could ($9.95), in which house-made tots are infused ($7.95) made with batter-fried florets of with blue crab, cheddar, bacon and smoked easily have been a gutbomb. Instead, it used cauliflower—a dish that should win the hearts corn. Though the end result is the mozzarella as accoutrement of local vegetarians. The thick batter gave the a bit like fish and chips in the rather than cement, cutting the GRAMERCY PARK PIZZA cauliflower a wing-ish consistency and the butsame bite, the stronger flavor heaviness and making it almost AND GRILL tery red sauce was prepared masterfully with a and stringier texture stands a light lunch.

1626 Wells Ave., Ste. 115, bold hit of heat but no sting. apart from the standard tot.

The house salad ($4.95) was Meridian And it doesn’t hurt that you can enjoy most Another creative dish on fairly basic—tomatoes, egg, 208-854-7979 of these apps for half price Monday-Saturday the app menu is a trio of pork bacon and grated cheddar over gramercypizzagrill.com from 3 to 6 p.m. in a pleasant atmosphere with belly sliders ($10.95). Filets of spring mix—but the housebright windows and a high, domed ceiling. battered pork belly are each made vanilla basil vinaigrette While Gramercy Park doesn’t redefine the dressed differently: one with kimchi and chili was a breath of fresh air that somehow made gastropub, it is a step up from other burger aioli, another with onion straws and jalepeno, the spring mix taste even more like spring. and pizza joints in the area. And seriously, orand the third with cumin and cilantro slaw.

Some other good examples of wellThe only drawback to the sliders are the bland der those veggie wings. They’re delicious. tweaked pub standards can be found on the buns the pork comes piled on. appetizer menu.

NEWS/FOOD Mohica, who also plans to open the venue for cocktail parties, rehearsal dinners and other events. And when the weather gets warmer, the Sa-Wad-Dee Thai co-owners Toffee Dullaphan and Fon Tavijaroen have Kanak Attack food truck will be parked out front. The bakers at Guru a new Asian venture: Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine in Eagle.

Donuts will use part of his kitchen to create their donuts, as well.

The menu will feature entrees and appetizers from India, Japan, “We decided we’re going to open it up for smaller caterers and food Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and China. Dishes include fried green beans trucks that can’t afford to get their own place,” said Mohica. with sweet chili and sriracha sauce, Korean bulgogi, Japanese tonkatsu Moving from kalua pork to Texas-style barbecue, Bodacious Pig Barand tofu kimchi fried rice. becue plans to open mid-March in the former Smoky Mountain Pizzeria “We offer authentic flavor and authentic recipes with the fun and Grill location at 34 E. State St. in Eagle. twist of contemporary presentation,” said Owners Tricia and Joel Anderson are Tavijaroen. in the process of painting the building, Rice is located at 228 E. Plaza Street, restoring the wood ceiling and replacing Suites Q and R, in the former River Rock the old take-out window.

Ale House space in Eagle. It’s open for Joel uses a dry rub and then slowlunch and dinner Sunday-Thursday, 11 smokes his meat Texas-style in a barbea.m.-9 p.m., and Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.cue pit. midnight.

“It’s cooked each day, and when we For more info, visit riceeagle.com. run out, we’re out,” said Tricia.

Moving across the Pacific to Hawaii, The Andersons polished their barbecue former Ono Hawaiian Cafe chef-owner chops traveling in the South, and owned a Michael Mohica decided to move Kanak restaurant in California for six years.

Attack Katering to a new dedicated space Bodacious Pig will be open Mondaysin the Woman of Steel building at 3640 W. Saturdays, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. For more info, Chinden Blvd., Garden City. call 208-514-0068.

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MIKKELLER/GRASSROOTS WHEAT IS THE NEW HOPS IPA The Danish-based ghost brewery Mikkeller (it has no facilities of its own) created this unique IPA at its favorite stop, De Proefbrouwerij in Belgium. It’s a hazy golden pour with spicy brett and floral hop aromas punctuated by pepper and grain. That pepper colors the palate, as well, along with lively tropical fruit, citrus-y hops, roasted grain, soft malt and a touch of lemon zest on the finish. This is a seriously delicious, world-class effort.

NEW BELGIUM HEAVENLY FEIJOA TRIPEL This Lips of Faith entry is a collaboration between the Coloradobased brewery New Belgium and Canada’s Dieu du Ciel. Brewed with hibiscus and feijoa (aka pineapple guava), this beer has a bright amber pour with a thick head that leaves a lovely lacing. The nose is an intriguing mix of sour mash, black pepper, guacamole and spice. In the mouth, the hibiscus definitely shines through, along with ripe lemon and more spice. Be glad this beer comes in a 22-ounce bomber—you’ll want more.

TROIS DAMES L’AMOUREUSE Brewed with grapes, this hazy, grapefruitcolored sour ale from Switzerland throws a very thin head. The aromas are soft and light with a creamy fruit component and a hint of spice. Beautifully balanced on the palate, it has a sweet tart element—something like a well-aged balsamic vinegar—that plays against the ripe apple, cherry and grape flavors. The finish is smooth and refreshing with a lively hit of citrus peel.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: TIFFANY LYNN MCKINNEY CASE NO. CV NC 1303023 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (ADULT) A PETITION TO CHANGE THE NAME OF TIFFANY LYNN MCKINNEY, NOW RESIDING IN THE CITY OF BOISE, STATE OF IDAHO, HAS BEEN FILED IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN ADA COUNTY, IDAHO. THE NAME WILL CHANGE TO TIFFANY LYNN DAVIS. THE REASON FOR THE CHANGE IN NAME IS: TO SHARE THE SAME LAST NAME AS MY DOMESTIC PARTNER. A HEARING ON THE PETITION IS SCHEDULED FOR 1:30 O’CLOCK P.M. ON APRIL 23, 2013 AT THE ADA COUNTY COURTHOUSE. OBJECTIONS MAY BE FILED BY ANY PERSON WHO CAN SHOW THE COURT A GOOD REASON AGAINST THE NAME CHANGE. DATE: FEB 25 2013

CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT BY: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB. MARCH 6, 13, 20, 27, 2013.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Maybe you’re not literally in exile. You haven’t been forced to abandon your home and you haven’t been driven from your power spot against your will. But you may nevertheless be feeling banished or displaced. It could be due to one of the conditions that storyteller Michael Meade names: “We may experience exile as a lack of recognition, a period of transition, an identity crisis, a place of stuckness, or else having a gift and no place to give it.” Do any of those describe your current predicament, Aries? The good news, Meade says, is that exile can shock you awake to the truth about where you belong. It can rouse your irrepressible motivation to get back to your rightful place.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you have a recurring nightmare that has plagued you? If so, I suspect it will recur again soon. Only this time, Taurus, you will beat it.

You will trick, escape or defeat the monster that’s chasing you.

Or else you will outrun the molten lava or disperse the tornado or fly up off the ground until the Earth stops shaking. Congratulations on this epic shift, Taurus. Forever after you will have more power over the scary thing that has had so much power over you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The following request for advice appeared on Reddit.com: “My identical twin is stuck in an alternate dimension and she can only communicate with me by appearing as my own reflection in mirrors and windows. How can I tell her I don’t like what she’s done to her hair?” This question is a variant of a type of dilemma that many of you Geminis are experiencing right now, so I’ll respond to it here. I’m happy to say that you will soon get an unprecedented chance to commune directly with your alter egos. Your evil twin will be more available than usual to engage in meaningful dialogue. So will your doppelganger, shadow, mirror self and stuntperson.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Usually I advise Cancerians to draw up precise borders and maintain clear boundaries. As a Crab myself, I know how important it is for our well-being that we neither leak our life force all over everything nor allow others to leak their life force all over us. We thrive on making definitive choices and strong commitments. We get into trouble when we’re wishy-washy about what we want. OK. Having said all that fatherly stuff, I now want to grant you a partial and temporary license to get a little wild and fuzzy. Don’t overdo it, of course, but explore the smart fun you can have by breaking some of your own rules and transgressing some of the usual limits.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the course of formulating his theory of evolution, Charles Darwin read many books. He developed a rather ruthless approach to getting what he needed out of them.

If there was a particular part of a book that he didn’t find useful, he simply tore it out, cast it aside and kept the rest. I recommend this as a general strategy for you in the coming week, Leo. In every situation you’re in, figure out what’s most valuable to you and home in on that. For now, forget the irrelevant and extraneous stuff.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here’s a passage from Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations: “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” Judging from the astrological omens, Virgo, I suspect your life may be like that in the coming days. The emotional tone could be sharply mixed, with high contrasts between vivid sensations.

The nature of your opportunities may seem warm and bright one moment, cool and dark the next.

If you regard this as interesting rather than difficult, it won’t be a problem, but rather an adventure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I worked as a hair stylist in Chicago’s Gold Coast for 20 years with some of the most gorgeous women and men in the world,” writes sculptor Rich Thomson.

“Once I asked a photographer who shot for the big magazines how he picked out the very best models from among all these great-looking people. His response: ‘Flaws. Our flaws are what make us interesting, special and exotic. They define us.’” My challenge to you, Libra, is to meditate on how your supposed imperfections and oddities are essential to your unique beauty. It’s a perfect moment to celebrate—and make good use of—your idiosyncrasies.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The genius of Leonardo da Vinci was in part fueled by his buoyant curiosity. In his work as an artist, musician, inventor, engineer and writer, he drew inspiration from pretty much everything. He’s your role model for the coming week, Scorpio. Just assume that you will find useful cues and clues wherever you go. Act as if the world is full of teachers who have revelations and guidance specifically meant for you. Here’s some advice from da Vinci himself: “It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which, if you consider them well, you may find really marvelous ideas.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ready for a reality check?

It’s time to assess how well you know the fundamental facts about where you are located. Do you know which direction north is? Where does the water you drink come from? What phase of the moon is it today? Can you name any constellations that are currently in the night sky? What species of trees do you see every day? Use these questions as a starting point as you deepen your connection with your specific neighborhood on planet Earth.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): There’s a writer I know whose work is brilliant. Her ideas are fascinating. She’s a champion of political issues I hold dear. She’s well-read and smarter than me.

Yet her speech is careless and sloppy. She rambles and interrupts herself. She says “uh,” “you know” and “I mean” so frequently that I find it hard to listen, even when she’s saying things I admire. I considered telling her about this, but decided against it. She’s an acquaintance, not a friend. Instead, I resolved to clean up my own speech—to make sure I don’t do anything close to what she does. This is a strategy I suggest for you, Capricorn: Identify interesting people who are not fully living up to their potential and change yourself in the exact ways you wish they would change.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The German word “verschlimmbesserung” refers to an attempted improvement that actually makes things worse. Be on guard against this, Aquarius. I fear that as you tinker, you may try too hard. I’m worried you’ll be led astray by neurotic perfectionism. To make sure that your enhancements and enrichments will indeed be successful, keep these guidelines in mind: No. 1: Think about how to make things work better, not how to make things look better. No. 2: Be humble and relaxed. Don’t worry about saving face and don’t overwork yourself. No. 3: Forget about short-term fixes; serve longrange goals.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen,” said musician and businessman Derek Sivers. Numerous studies demonstrate that when you talk about your great new idea before you actually do it, your brain chemistry does an unexpected thing. It gives you the feeling that you have already accomplished the great new idea—thereby sapping your willpower to make the effort necessary to accomplish it. The moral of the story: Don’t brag about what you’re going to do someday.

Don’t entertain people at parties with your fabulous plans. Shut up and get to work. This is especially important advice for you right now.

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