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LANDMARK REBIRTH It’s a whole new life for the Owyhee Hotel NOISE 16

ONE MAN BAND Captured By Robots gives the term new meaning ARTS 19

SKIVVIES STORIES The face behind Captain Underpants REC 22

HANG TIME Hang gliders return to Hammer Flat

“There will be a day of reckoning, and then what do we do?”

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NOTE BOMBED OUT It’s a natural inclination to look for some kind of lesson after disruptive events like the wave of bomb threats that swept through southwestern Idaho April 10-12. In this particular case, where it was a teenager in Meridian who allegedly collaborated—in part via online gaming channels—with another teen in Australia to call in the phony bombs, it would be easy to demand restrictions and monitoring of both social networking and online gaming. Had these threats been delivered by mail or carrier pigeon, they would have been made nonetheless, and it would do us no good to enact postal censorship, random frisking or pigeon licensure. According to the FBI’s Bomb Threat Center, criminal bombers choose their targets based on basic motivations: revenge, extortion or intimidation. From there, the profiles continue predictably. Bombers (or threat-makers) are dedicated to a cause; they’re overcompensating for some inadequacy; they are overly intelligent perfectionists, leading them to challenge law enforcement or other institutions; they are obsessed with destroying a particular target; they are nihilistic. Regardless of the profile of the criminal, most bomb threats are exactly that: threats. And, as criminal profilers point out, threat-makers often don’t act, and actors often don’t threaten (it doesn’t appear there was a warning before the fatal bombings at the Boston Marathon April 15). Every threat should be treated as credible, of course, but with so many hoaxes, hard data is tough to find. An April 11 article in the University of Texas’ newspaper, The Daily Texan, hints at how commonplace threats have become, musing on the lackadaisical response of students in the face of a bomb threat on their campus. “Another semester, another bomb threat,” the headline read. Though response to the local hoaxes was anything but lax, the statement “another day/week/month/semester/ year, another (fill in the blank)” could sum up the prevailing mood toward a lot of things: mass shootings, environmental destruction, partisan obstructionism, civil rights violations, or whatever. We seem to accept they’ll just keep happening. And maybe that’s the lesson: When people are as inured to disaster as we have become, they either shrug it off, engage in the kind of hand-wringing this column represents or start participating in it. We can tighten security, monitor communications, ban this or ban that, but unless we want the future held captive by the disaffected, it’s time we found a more constructive way, because the kids (and adults) aren’t alright. —Zach Hagadone

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INSIDE NOTE

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TED RALL

NEWS Rebirth of the Owyhee Hotel means big changes for Boise landmark

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TASTE 208 Did you forget to go to Boise’s premier booze-tasting event, Taste 208? Or is your memory of it just a bit fuzzy? Either way, see a photo slideshow on Cobweb.

CONFUCIUS SAYS CONTROVERSY The Chinese-funded Confucius Institute opened a chapter this week at the University of Idaho, and the inauguration comes with controversy. Get the full story on Citydesk.

BOMB THREATS BOMB A series of 17 bomb threats were called in to local schools and businesses late last week, and police reacted swiftly, arresting a Meridian teen and linking him to another youth in Australia. Read all about it on Citydesk.

CROWDSOURCING POTHOLES Ada County smartphone users have a new electronic tool for reporting potholes, uneven pavement, icy roads and other issues encountered on their daily commute: an app. Get all the details on Citydesk.

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8 DAYS OUT

SUDOKU

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NOISE Boise Weekly gets Captured by Robots

MUSIC GUIDE

ARTS The story behind Captain Underpants

SCREEN Olympus Has Fallen

REC Hang gliders set to return to Hammer Flat

FOOD REVIEW Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine

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HOBO JARGON

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BILL COPE/OPINION

LEGISLATURE ’13

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by voters last November. Even worse were the efforts to throttle citizens’ initiative process that put those Luna’s crapass reforms on the ballot in the first place. Other actions further reflected the same attitude: the proposal to order Idaho law enforcement personnel into resisting any federal enforcement of new gun laws; the pressure to not comply with the Obamacare mandates; the demand that U.S. Forest Service and BLM lands to be handed over to state management. In toto, it seemed obvious they are more than willing to impose their ideological straight jacket on Idaho citizens, but the hell with anyone—be it the city of Boise, the federal government, or a resounding majority of Idaho voters—who would deny them having their way. In a word—brats! But I missed something. On the very morning of my deadline for Part One of “Brats,” I finally looked at other summaries of the session that I had set aside for later. In reading them, I realized I had made an embarrassing mistake. You see, I had assumed that even the most repulsive proposals to come up during the session had passed and would soon be official state policy. I had it figured that if such legislation was being promoted by rubes and hayseeds to a legislative body run entirely by rubes and hayseeds, then surely they all passed. But, not quite. Yes, the legislation to hamstring the citizens’ initiative process succeeded, and yes, they once again repeatedly slapped the faces of those professionals who have any chance at bringing meaningful reform to education—the teachers. Yes, they launched the public lands issue into an orbit that will eventually cost Idahoans millions before it inevitably comes down to a loss in the courts, and yes, as in all sessions past, they ignored the plight and pleas of gay-rights activists. Certainly, in almost every way, they behaved with the same pompous dickishness we have come to expect from Republicans. Yet, with all the disappointments, Idaho came out of it with a health insurance exchange—something that other red states resisted—and the effort to turn Idaho cops into Johnny Rebs failed—for now. Unlike other conservative legislatures, there were enacted no further voting restrictions—yet. There was no further stripping women of their reproductive rights—yet. There was no further talk of delivering Idaho students into the maw of the corporate education machine—yet. In other words, for one year running, they managed to not be the worst legislature in America, and I apologize for taking such a harsh tone in the column I originally intended you to read. I did not see the bright side, hopeful side, of the 2013 Legislature—that with such a collection of goat herders, turkey farmers and stunted ideologues running the state, this may be as good as it gets.

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I have an apology to make. During the week before the state legislators went home, I was preparing a summary of what they had been doing to us since January. It was to be in two parts, as I am much too wordy a writer to summarize anything like an entire legislative session in one measly column. I had tentatively titled it “Brats ’13—What we got for $3-anda-half mil.” “Three-and-a-half mil” is approximately what the legislative session cost Idaho taxpayers, and “Brats” should give you an idea of how I perceived the legislators’ performance. And when I say “the legislators,” I mean the Republican legislators, seeing as how the body is so overwhelmingly one party that virtually everything noteworthy that comes out of it— be it noxiously noteworthy or not so noxiously noteworthy—almost inevitably comes from a conservative mouth, a conservative brain or a conservative caucus. In my summary—which you shall never see as I’ve already dumped it into the sentence recycler—I was not kind to the Republicans, to put it mildly. I led the piece off with the issue of the Capitol parking garage they seem to want in the worst way, and the legislation they slammed through, which exempted them from any authority the city of Boise might have over the construction of that garage. I suggested the title of that piece of legislation be “The When in Rome, Screw Rome! Bill,” and insinuated that the reason for the garage had much to do with “how far they believe they should have to waddle their exalted fannies from their cars to their padded lawmaker chairs.” I mentioned these lawmakers who come to town every winter for their “cock-and-bull display” are a “plague,” and I managed not only to call them “a collection of goat herders, turkey farmers and stunted ideologues,” but I slandered their home districts with references to a notable lack of “sewage disposal systems and paved streets.” Not feeling like I had insulted the “rubes and hayseeds” quite enough, I talked about how, when the session ﬁnally came to a close, they could scoot on home to “slop the llamas and hose out the chicken coops.” I also suggested, pointedly, that if they didn’t like the way Boise was treating them, they should feel free to hold their future legislative sessions “somewhere more commensurate with the caliber of individuals in attendance. A potato barn in Burley, perhaps. Or maybe an abandoned B.P.O.E. hall in Athol.” Keep in mind, all of that was just in the ﬁrst three paragraphs of the article. For the remainder, I went on to illustrate how I felt their behavior in the parking garage stink was typical of the way they had conducted themselves throughout the session. For instance, the way they were resurrecting elements of that bitter pill (the education reforms), which had been so robustly spit out

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OPINION/TED RALL

PRESIDENTIAL TOKENISM A one-woman afﬁrmative-action program

The last few weeks have seen a full-court press by MSNBC and other Democratic media organs to either promote Hillary Clinton as the party’s 2016 standard bearer or run her up the ﬂagpole to see if anybody salutes. Another Clinton? Sounds boring. But proto-pro-Hillary forces assure us that promoting her to First-Ever Female President is an inherently exciting prospect, a history-making thrillapalooza that would smash glass ceilings, change everything in Washington, D.C., and remove waxy buildup. “The enthusiasm and hunger for a Hillary Clinton presidency is unlike anything I’ve ever seen,” enthuses strategist-pundit James Carville, who just slapped together a Hillary PAC to raise cash for 2016. I don’t know about you, but the fact that the Female One owes her political career to having been married to a president doesn’t strike me as a glorious victory for feminism. “[Clinton] is an embodiment of baby-boom second-wave feminists who see her elevation to the pinnacle of world affairs as their own story writ large. Now, they want to see her in the White House so they can die happy,” a Daily Beast Web reporter swooned. We have four-plus years of this guy from Chicago to prove that demographic novelty hardly guarantees ideological progress. And the passing of Margaret “1 million ﬁred miners” Thatcher reminds us that estrogen isn’t enough if you’re a liberal hoping to reform capitalism into something less heartless. Democrats took a long, hard look at Clinton in 2008 and in the words of one of the most tasteless T-shirts I have ever seen, consciously chose “bros before hos.” Voters asked

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to reconsider the former secretary of state are being asked to forget that they rejected her. They’re asked to forget her awful record: botching health care reform in 1993, voting not just for the war in Afghanistan but the Iraq fiasco, and that when it comes to actual accomplishment as a U.S. senator and secretary of state, there isn’t a lot to look at. The Hillary for President bandwagon looks and feels an awful lot like the Obama campaign while it was revving up in 2006. Once again, we’re seeing an attempt to seduce voters with politically correct tokenism. We were supposed to overlook Barack Obama’s inexperience and brazen hypocrisy because he was, you know, black. This time, Democrats are asked to overlook Clinton’s lack of accomplishment. Once again, not being an old, white, Ivy-educated, Protestant male is supposed to masquerade as imminent change, a radically safe affirmative-action program for the benefit of a single individual substituting for actual policies. What’s disturbing about the Rise of Clinton Part 2 is that it’s all personality, no politics. The days when politicians broke promises are long gone. Now there are no promises during campaign season, only platitudes. There are no policies, only avatars. The pre-race for the 2016 Democratic nomination is being promoted not as a clash between visions, but as a friendly rivalry. The race for Leader of the Free World has been reduced to jostling between two suits in the executive suite, girls against boys, angling for a CEO slot scheduled to open up. Which is fine. What I don’t get is: Why are we supposed to pay attention?

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NEWS/CITYDESK LEILA R AM ELLA- R ADER

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EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN Owyhee Plaza rebirth begins GEORGE PRENTICE

Clay Carley’s memory of the Owyhee Plaza hotel is similar to many Boiseans. His own dates back to the 1960s. “Gosh, I remember coming to the old Gamekeeper restaurant with my parents when I was a kid,” said Carley, with a faroff twinkle in his eye. “Do you remember the old high booths? And remember the chefs were all duded up when they served those Clay Carley sits on the edge of the (now-gone) swimming pool in front of the (now-gone) south side hotel rooms, preparing for the new incarnation of the Owyhee. tableside flambes? It was pretty impressive to a young man.” But it would be a long time before he would ghosts, let alone the hotel rooms they haunted. ultimately taking over the property in the ever set foot again in the century-old landIn fact, every business scenario he considered shadow of her death in November 2011. mark. pointed to the hotel portion of the building as Even though his new Boise-based career Carley wasn’t certain what he wanted to do a money pit. concerned historic properties, he said he never for a living when he was growing up, but he A conversation with a Portland-based really thought about the Owyhee Plaza until was pretty sure that he wanted to leave Boise. contractor changed his thinking about the “Mostly, I just wanted to see the world,” he March 2012. structure. “I was standing in my driveway and my said with a grin. “He told me, ‘This is easy. You just take the neighbor Pam Sprute—a real estate agent— Indeed, Carley saw the world and then west wing and make them all apartments,’” asked, ‘Would you be interested in buying some. He worked as an underwater photogsaid Carley, who next turned to someone he the Owyhee Plaza?’” he remembered. “I said, rapher in Santa Barbara, Calif.; an executive called “a local guru” of apartments in Boise. ‘Hell no.’ I told her I don’t need another old for a New York City-based trading company; “And I learned that the vacancy was around a vice president of exports for an international building. But she said, ‘Here’s the price.’ I did 3 percent and the newest apartments were some quick mental calculations and said I had conglomerate, sending him to Africa and the about 20 years old,” said Carley. “If I could to look at it.” Middle East; and founded his own electrobuild apartments at the right price, I was told I In April 2012, Carley walked through hydraulic lift company. could fill them in two months.” the doors of the Owyhee for the first time in Eventually, though, all of those roads led And that sealed the deal. decades. back to Boise. “This is just great,” Boise Mayor Dave “My first impressions were that it was old, “I came back here in 2000 and I told my Bieter told Carley. “We would love to see this.” tired and mom that I Carley briefed Bieter and members of the needed a lot wanted to watch Capital City Development Corporation April 8 of work,” what she did,” on his grand plan to convert the Owyhee from said Carley, Carley recalled. who conceded a hotel into an amalgam of apartments, offices “I didn’t know and banquet facilities. His designs also call for that most what to expect. the reopening of the old Gamekeeper— prepeople would Honestly, the sumably under a new name—and revitalizing have been thought of propthe building’s rooftop terrace as a premiere overwhelmed erty management downtown destination. and walked seemed very dull “I would love to throw back the first cockaway. “But to me,” he said. tail on the rooftop,” said Bieter to a roomful the other side His mother, of laughter. of my brain Joan Carley, Carley said that the old rooftop was a was screamloved all-things significant part of Boise’s history. ing: ‘economhistoric but she “Keep in mind that there was no air condiics!’ At the was anything tioning for much of the last century,” he said. right price, but dull. She “So the rooftop was very desirable for travelers I thought I co-founded the could do a lot. between Portland or Seattle. ... The view from Idaho HisPlans call for a new facade and giant letters spelling O-W-YH-E-E on the corner of the building. the deck is the finest I’ve seen in the city.” I just didn’t toric PreservaBut the most impressive part of Carley’s know what tion Council, plan is his timetable. He said the new rooftop that was.” the Downtown terrace should be open by September Carley was haunted by the Owyhee—not Boise Association and the Old Boise Historic and the apartments complete by year’s unusual for a hotel, opened in 1910, where District. Clay Carley worked alongside his mother to some visitors insisted they saw ghosts roaming end. 8 He’s not wasting any time. Demolithe halls. But Carley was not interested in manage Old Boise at Sixth and Main streets, WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

Any plans to close Eighth Street to vehicles might run into City Hall opposition.

CCDC TO TALK ABOUT ‘POSSIBLE’ EIGHTH STREET CLOSURE It caught more than a few people by surprise when, during the April 8 meeting of the Capital City Development Corporation, there was mention of “the possibility of making Eighth Street, between Bannock and Idaho streets, bicycle- and pedestrian-only during most of the day.” City of Boise and Ada County Highway District officials were hearing about the idea for the first time. “We heard about it when you heard it,” ACHD spokesman Craig Quintana told Boise Weekly. “It was new to us.” Max Clark, CCDC’s parking and facilities director, told BW that the concept, which has been talked about for years—but never formally—was “theoretical at this stage.” “We have [CCDC] board members who are interested in what [the closing] would mean,” said Clark. “Additionally, there are adjacent property owners and businesses that will want to talk about it.” For now, CCDC has scheduled an “informal” lunch meeting between the CCDC board and staff Wednesday, April 24, to talk about the proposal. Adam Park, spokesman for Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, who also happens to be a newly installed CCDC board member, said the city is “more than happy to have that discussion.” “But it’s unlikely that the street will ultimately be closed,” said Park. “Having a pedestrian- and bike-friendly environment is a top priority for the mayor, but we found that closing streets doesn’t accomplish that because it creates increased pressure elsewhere. We’ve operated under a philosophy of maintaining connectivity wherever possible.” Eighth Street, between Bannock and Idaho, is a unique thoroughfare in that it is owned and managed by CCDC, not ACHD, which manages every other stretch of public road in Ada County. “It’s our street,” said the CCDC’s Clark. “We’re the ultimate decision-maker on that street. We do have to coordinate with others, of course—ACHD and the city—but basically, the agency owns the street from Bannock to Main and we’ve got to get our heads around where we’re going to go first.” Long before any closure, CCDC would presumably sit down with representatives from the Downtown Boise Association, the city of Boise and ACHD. “And certainly before there was any significant change like that, we obviously would want the public to weigh in on this,” said Quintana. “This is a new wrinkle.” —George Prentice

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GIVE ME LAND, LOTS OF LAND ‘The devil is in the details’ in the hot topic over public lands GEORGE PRENTICE

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Consider yourself warned: Idaho has officially moved on to its next great debate. Like the two-year blood sport of Statehouse demagoguery surrounding Obamacare, a scorched-earth firestorm over who should manage public lands seems destined to occupy the Statehouse for at least the next two sessions. “The federal government needs to get its financial house in order. There will be a day of reckoning, and then what do we do?” asked Idaho House Speaker Scott Bedke. The seven-term Republican House member and longtime Cassia County cattleman sat perched atop a makeshift stage at Beside Bardenay April 10, taking part in Boise State Public Radio’s so-called “Community Conversation” on the future of Gem State public lands. Bedke kept an eye on his watch throughout the conversation, seeming anxious to return to his Oakley ranch following the recently wrapped 2013 Idaho Legislature. The session included the passage of two lands-related measures: the creation of a study group on public land management, and a nonbinding resolution demanding the federal government turn over public land to the state. “What if they, someday, just tossed the keys in our laps and walked away?” Bedke asked. It was another of a number of

hypotheticals that the speaker offered the audience. “I contend that [Idaho] already has a very successful land management model.” Time and again, Bedke referred to Idaho’s 3.6 million acres of endowment lands, granted to the state in 1890 and managed by the Idaho Department of Lands. A few feet away sat the man who helps manage those lands: Dave Groeschl, state forester and deputy director of forestry and ﬁre at the IDOL. “About 1 million acres of that land is forested, and that generates about $50 million in income,” said Groeschl, referring to the ﬁnancial returns of timber sales and commercial interests that are generated for Idaho public schools. “I think we can all agree that we do a very good job at managing the [endowment lands]. We should do the same thing, if given the chance, with federal lands,” said Bedke. “Now think about this for a moment,” he said, offering another hypothetical: “Imag-

ine 400,000 acres set aside with proceeds dedicated to public education. Think about another 500,000 acres to help us with funding for roads. Another 500,000 acres could go for health and welfare. And we’re talking about 37 million acres of that land in Idaho.” But Jonathan Oppenheimer, senior conservation associate with the Idaho Conservation League, was having none of it. “Look, we all want to have the best public education for our children, but selling off our public land is no way to achieve that,” he said. “These lands are the legacy of all Americans, they’re not just owned by Idaho. This is a radical idea.” Dr. John Freemuth, professor of Boise State’s Master of Public Administration program, put it even more plainly. “The fundamental issue is money,” said Freemuth. “The devil is in the details.” And the devil is just starting to heat things up.

tion of two floors of hotel rooms on the building’s south side has already begun, 7 freeing up even more space for parking. “My mom taught me that if you don’t control the parking to the building, you really only own half a building,” said Carley. “The parking attracted me as much as anything else.” All of the Owyhee’s current business tenants have been relocated to the third floor of the building, where they will stay while the first, second, fourth and fifth floors are renovated. “We’ve kept the Plaza Grill open,” said Carley, who enjoyed a salmon lunch at the restaurant while speaking with Boise Weekly. “And we’re still running the Owyhee banquet business, but we’re going to be expanding that business in a big way. “ Carley’s plans for the banquet facilities,

Plaza Grill, new gourmet restaurant to replace the Gamekeeper and the revitalization of the rooftop terrace have a signiﬁcant hurdle to clear. “The previous owner had only one license to serve all of those functions,” said Carley. “But we just learned that there’s an obscure phrase in Idaho code that says a convention facility open for 75 years or more might be eligible for an additional license. That would certainly include the Owyhee.” Restaurants and liquor licenses aside, the big task at hand is turning the Owyhee into an apartment complex. If he’s successful, by this time next year, Carley will have converted 68 hotels rooms into 36 apartments. “They’ll go for about $900 per month. Each one will be one-bedroom, 700 square feet,” said Carley.

Boise City Councilman David Eberle liked what he saw as Carley shared his plans. “Your vision is on target,” said Eberle. “I think that’s a pretty good idea.” Carley also shared that he’s planning to convert the Owyhee’s spacious 30,000-squarefoot, 10-foot-high basement into a ﬁtness facility, complete with bicycle storage, lockers and showers for downtown Boise bicycle commuters. “We’re going to be a cool, funky property,” he said. Carley said the renovation of one of Boise’s oldest and highest proﬁle properties makes great business sense and he hopes to see a return on his investment within two years. “But my wife still thinks I’m nuts,” he said. “She supports it, but she’s hanging on to her knickers.”

Boise State Public Radio’s community conversation included (left to right) Boise State’s Dr. John Freemuth, IDOL’s Dave Groeschl, ICL’s Jonathan Oppenheimer, House Speaker Scott Bedke and BSPR’s Sadie Babits.

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LISA DUPLESSIE Same space, new face for Capital City Public Market GEORGE PRENTICE

Do you have some perspective on 2013’s CCPM versus nine years ago, when you came on board? I’ll bet we’re twice the size. I started working about 10 hours a week nine years ago. And now, you’re working six days a week. What time are you awake on Saturdays? 5:15 a.m. We’re on the street by 6 a.m. We’re closing the streets at 8:15 a.m., and that gives vendors about an hour to set up. Did you ever see yourself as executive director? Maybe years and years down the road. Let’s talk about the 2012 firing of Karen Ellis [BW, Citizen, “Karen Ellis,” April 10, 2013]. How painful was last year? It was hard. Was it hard personally? Absolutely. It affected board members, staff, vendors, everyone. We’re family. The public first heard about discord at the market last September when Karen Ellis was fired, but things like that just don’t happen suddenly.

I think the progression of watching everything unfold was the worst. It was something I never want to live through again. Was there ever a threat or chance that matters could have ended up in court? I would have hoped not. Have you had any conversation with Karen Ellis since she left? I have not. Karen Ellis is now managing the Boise Farmers Market (which opened April 6 at 11th and Front streets). Do you wish that effort well? I think we’re all here to help small businesses and the downtown community. I think another market can only help with that. Why would a vendor leave Capital City Public Market after a decade or more to go join the new Boise Farmer’s Market? Everyone makes his or her own decision. It’s our understanding that some vendors will have a presence at both markets. If they can ﬁnagle it, I think it’s great.

I must ask you about something disturbing we heard recently: that there were vendors at CCPM selling products that weren’t theirs and they weren’t telling consumers. I have heard that rumor as well.

JER EMY LANNINGHAM

Busy moms usually juggle kids, a job and the weekly marketing. Lisa Duplessie does all of the above, with one big exception: She makes the weekly market happen. Hours before she sat down with Boise Weekly to talk about her new job as executive director of the Capital City Public Market, Duplessie had already made a batch of cupcakes, baked some K-shaped donuts for daughter Kate’s sixth birthday, dropped Kate and big sister Maddie off at their respective schools and dashed to her downtown Boise office, where she was dealing with a seemingly endless list of challenges leading up to CCPM’s Saturday, April 20, opening. But she was undaunted. “I’m so excited,” said Duplessie. “There’s nothing better than opening day.” But this is far from Duplessie’s first opening day. In fact, 8-and-a-half-year-old Maddie was only 2 months old when Duplessie joined the market to “help out.” In the midst of her lastminute planning, Duplessie spoke with BW about her new position as CCPM’s chief executive in the shadow of her former boss’s firing.

But is that accurate? At this point, I don’t know if that’s accurate. We’re working through deficiencies in previous processes. But doesn’t a vendor have to disclose the source of their products? Totally. I can say that, as a market, we now have processes in place. We were stunned to hear that this may have been going on. It is absolutely not OK. We’re identifying deficiencies in the processes that were there before, and we’re putting processes in place to prevent that from happening. Are these new processes for CCPM? The implementation of the process is new. Are you saying that you’re now conducting site visits to confirm local sourcing? Absolutely. None of our people are interested in knowing trade secrets from a vendor, but it’s a fine line. What is CCPM’s vendor formula of farmers versus artisans? We would love to have as much produce as possible. We’re about one-third agriculture, one-third art and one-third food.

I had always assumed that CCPM was a nonprofit, but that wasn’t the case, was it? This is our first year as a 501(c)(6). It has been like that since last July. If it wasn’t a nonprofit, what was CCPM before? I think that was some of the confusion in the past. To be perfectly honest, we were filed as a nonprofit with the state of Idaho and we filed our taxes as a C corporation. Do you now have appropriate nonprofit bylaws? Oh, yes. They’re our bible. What’s the latest on the effort to establish a year-round market? We’ve done a lot of work on that. Unfortunately, it’s hard to grow things in Idaho in December, January and February. I really think the first step is to lengthen growing seasons. That, in turn, would help a year-round market scenario. But that’s considerable science. Is it fair to assume that a year-round market wouldn’t happen anytime soon? It would take some time, but there are some farmers in the valley working on extending those growing seasons, and that’s a lot of commitment. What’s your biggest wish for the market? To have great weather on opening day, Saturday, April 20. But you have no say in the weather. Do you stress out over forecasts? Absolutely. What kind of bad weather could cancel a market? Lightning or high wind. Forty mph and you’re done. Believe me, we watch the radar. Radar is great, but you must know that long-range forecasts are fairly useless. I know, but I still watch them.

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Yes, that guy: Brian Posehn.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY APRIL 19-20 that guy Life is like Ignite Boise—you never know what you’re going to hear.

BRIAN POSEHN

THURSDAY APRIL 18 fire IGNITE BOISE 10 Ignite Boise is back for its 10th go-round, and it’s not slowing down just because it’s reached the double digits. Opinionated Boiseans will be out in force to share their ideas and random musings on topics serious and silly. Submissions were whittled down to 15 finalists, who each have five minutes and 20 Powerpoint slides to make their arguments in front of a sure-to-bepacked audience at the Egyptian Theatre Thursday, April 18. This time around, speakers will cover everything from the practical to the hysterical. Red Sky Public Relations CEO Jess Flynn will share how she believes even the biggest bosses need to crank out at least one physical product each week, while Kayla Griffin will play myth-buster and clear up some of the scientific inaccuracies she continually hears parents teach their children—hint: Penguins don’t eat carrots. Other topics of the evening include how facial hair is being used to do criminal profiling; a native New Yorker’s take on how Boise and NYC match up; getting famous on Twitter; getting your kids away from electronic screens and reconnecting; making better choices on how we spend our time; and one presenter’s very personal experience with cancer, from diagnosis to shaving his head. The previous nine Ignite Boise events have been massive successes—which leads to the good and bad news. The event is free to attend, but tickets are required and advanced tickets have all been spoken for. Here’s the silver lining: Doors open at 6 p.m. for ticket holders, but at 6:30 p.m., general admission opens for any unclaimed seats, and organizers will admit as many people as the theater can hold. 7 p.m. FREE. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, igniteboise.com.

WEDNESDAYSATURDAY APRIL 17-20 the hole VOICES FROM THE BOISE HOLE 2 For decades, the grin of

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Boise’s skyline was missing a tooth thanks to the pit on the corner of Eighth and Main streets, where many a developer tried—and failed—to make their marks on the city. Even though a highrise is now climbing its way out of the pit, the Boise Hole has become a phantom limb of the city’s psyche.

Who’s awkwardly tall, has a crazy red beard and is instantly recognizable if you’ve ever watched sitcoms or just about anything on Comedy Central? Here’s a hint: The person in question has performed everywhere from music festivals to critically acclaimed television shows and feature ﬁlms. And he’s got a big thing for metal (music, that is). And while you might not know him by name, once you see his picture, you’ll say, “Ohh! That guy.” The answer: Brian Posehn. His droll, deadpan delivery and thick-rimmed glasses are borderline iconic in the world of comedy. Character roles like Brian Spukowski on The Sarah Silverman Program and Kevin Liotta from Just Shoot Me! are probably his best-known roles in the television world, and avid roast-watchers will remember him from Comedy Central’s Roast of Bob Saget. Posehn has had pretty much every entertainment-related title tacked on to his name: musician, voice actor, television writer, graphic novel writer, actor and comedian (obviously). Now Boiseans have the chance to check out his stand-up at Liquid Friday, April 19, and Saturday, April 20. For $20, audiences can hear all the metal, inappropriate references and nerd-tastic jokes that their hearts could possibly desire. Tickets are available at the bar until 4 p.m. the day of the performance and on TicketWeb. Posehn performs at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. each night. Leave your babies at home unless your babies are of legal drinking age—Liquid is 21-and-older. Friday, April 19-Saturday, April 20, 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Rifﬁng off the City of Trees’ quirks is the viciously satirical play from Alley Repertory Theater, Voices From the Boise Hole 2. Staged at Visual Arts Collective Wednesday, April 17-Saturday, April 20, the play is rife with inside jokes transforming our city’s ﬂaws into humor that only locals would understand. Seven talented actors play more than 14 roles, all poking fun at Boise’s kooky characters and reminding us to embrace our homestead in all its glory (or lack thereof). Observations about politicians, protesters, workers and goofs have given birth to this clever play, written by fellow Boiseans and award-winning writers Jason Haskins and Evan Sesek.

Dish out what you think the play deserves—all performances are pay-what-you-want. The 21-and-older event features a rafﬂe every night of the performance for a chance to take home some locally sourced prizes. Doors open at 7 p.m. before each performance. Wednesday, April 17-Saturday, April 20, 8 p.m. Pay-what-youwant. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, alleyrep.org.

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A chair can take many forms at A Chair Affair, including the Mat-Chair-Shka Doll by Christine Duft.

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FOOD FINISH SPRAY PAINT What time is it? Who cares.

design CHAIR AFFAIR For most of us, a chair is just a place to park your duff. But not to furniture designers. To their trained eyes, a simple chair can incorporate style and function into creations that aren’t just primo places to sit, but fun, engaging furniture to brighten their environments. For the aesthetic-minded among us, the Interior Designers of Idaho’s 21st annual Chair Affair Gala is equal parts competition and lecture series. The two-day Chair Affair takes place Friday, April 19-Saturday, April 20, at the WaterCooler in Boise. Friday kicks off with lectures by Idaho Modern’s Amy PenceBrown on the history of design and the impact of mid-century themes, while Los Angeles-based designer Jordan Cappella tackles the topic of modern trends. Both speakers join Boise architect and designer Dwaine Carver to talk about themes that may develop in the future. Attendees also get lunch from Saint Lawrence Gridiron with the $20 price of admission. Saturday marks the gala, beginning at 7:30 p.m. A furniture design competition includes contributions from numerous local designers, which in previous years have included funky repurposed tables, lamps and, of course, chairs. With professional and student divisions, the competition aims to raise money for design scholarships in Idaho. Nearby, a silent auction of original lamps, as well as the ReUse: Cup Challenge, promise to keep gala-goers busy. Should weekend plans preclude you from catching the whole event, ReUse entries will be open to the public Saturday from 10 a.m.-noon. Lectures, Friday, April 19, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; Gala, Saturday, April 20, 7:30-11 p.m. $20. The WaterCooler, 1405 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-908-0624, interiordesignersoﬁdaho.org.

TRASHION SHOW One person’s trash is another’s haute couture—or something like that. OK, so it’s not the most common saying, but in honor of Earth Day, Boise’s Bombshell Salon is ﬁnding a way to show that you can go green and still look good. The salon is hosting a fashion show that illustrates what can happen when recyclable materials are put in the hands of the creative and fashion conscious. The trashion show will hit the runway at 8 p.m. at Sammy’s bar in downtown Boise, as designs made

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completely of post-consumer recycled materials compete for ﬁrst- through third-place awards. But the party gets going even earlier with live music at 7 p.m. from Melissa Wilson, of the Boise Cello Project, as well as classic cover band Carmel and the Closers. The music and dancing will continue after the show, with a DJ spinning the tunes. The price of admission includes entry into numerous rafﬂe drawings for prizes, including services at Bombshell Salon, Aveda products, bar tabs from 10th

SATURDAY APRIL 20 holiday CHEECH AND CHONG’S 420 PARTY Beyond the suggestive references to the color green and pockets jangling with Bic lighters and Visine, April 20 is one date when the bong-bound let their freak flags fly. This year, 4/20 falls on a Saturday, and you can bet your britches someone’s throwing a party. Always burning to celebrate obscure holidays with film, music and a dash of camp is The Red Room Tavern. Saturday, April 20, the punk club on the edge of downtown joins Hot Dog Sandwich Headquarters and Evil Wine to host Cheech and Chong’s 420 Party. It’s an event complete with films, live music, a costume party—prizes go to the best dressed, so make like St. Patrick’s Day and go green—and drink specials that run all night long. With several Cheech and Chong adventures to choose from, it’s anybody’s guess which films will be playing. Maybe you’ll follow Cheech and Chong on their misadventures driving a “fiberweed” bus from Tijuana to Los Angeles in Up In Smoke, or witness their failed attempt to siphon gas from their neighbors’ car in Next Movie. The films start at 4:20 p.m.—of course. Following the films are more than five hours of music by URB, Sun Cat Brothers, Tommy Dirtweed, Art Fad, Bad Carb, Hot Dog Sandwich and a DJ. The music gets going at 7:20 p.m. If you’re looking to do something with your 4/20 besides a Halo marathon and shoegazing, the $3 cover fee at The Red Room is a steal for a night’s entertainment and 420-friendliness. 4:20 p.m. $3. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, redroomboise.com.

Street Station and Sammy’s, and gift certiﬁcates from the likes of Jump Time, The Old Spaghetti Factory and the Idaho Steelheads. Who knows, maybe you will even win a tattoo session. The event is a fundraiser for the ClearWater Initiative and Idaho Rivers United— both of which share the goal of keeping our waters nice

King Midas might have had the golden touch, but he probably wasn’t such a wizard in the kitchen. Gold is great for buying dinner, but not so good as dinner. Until now. German novelty food label The Deli Garage recently released Food Finish, edible spray paint that gilded gourmands can use to turn their cupcakes and Cornish game hens into glistening works of metallic the-deli-garage.de gold, silver, red or blue art. “Food Finish will chromeplate and gold-coat anything in the kitchen that comes under its nozzle—from summer strawberries to the Christmas goose,” reads the-deli-garage.de. “And with two new colours, you’ll have your food blushing red and moody blue in a jiffy.” The Deli Garage claims the spray paint is “completely neutral in taste and harmless to eat,” listing the gold ingredients as E943a, E943b, E944, ethanol, ﬂavoring, E555, E171, E172. But like its precious metal cousins, Food Finish can get a little spendy at 24.80 euros, or roughly $32 for a small can. The Deli Garage offers a number of other novelty food products, like Honey Bond food glue, which it calls “a delectable means of sticking bread, croissants and crepes together,” and Oil Change olive oils ﬂavored with lemon, rosemary and chili. Brace yourselves, we’re moving into a new Gilded Age. —Tara Morgan

and clean. Organizers hope to raise $1,000 through the event. Advanced tickets are available online at brownpapertickets.com for $7 or at the door for $10. 7 p.m. $7-$10. Sammy’s, 509 Main St., Boise, 208921-1005, bombshellboise. com.

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WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 On Stage GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS—Alexa, a brilliant artist, tells the story of her tragic past while negotiating a troublesome present in this installment of the Alexandra Plays by Eric Coble. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org. VOICES FROM THE BOISE HOLE 2—In the second edition of Voices from the Boise Hole, presented by Alley Repertory Theater and featuring thespians Justin Ness, Leta Neustaedter, Aaron Kiefer and more perform a new play poking fun at Boise culture. See Picks, Page 10. 8 p.m. By donation. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, alleyrep.org.

THURSDAY APRIL 18 Festivals & Events BOMBSHELL SALON TRASHION SHOW— Check out a fashion show by local artists and designers who create costumes from post-consumer materials. See Picks, Page 10. 7 p.m. $10-$20. Sammy’s, 509 W. Main St., Boise, bombshellboise. com.

On Stage COMEDY AT THE VARSITY: RYAN WINGFIELD—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub, 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-906-0658, varsitypubmeridian.com. GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org. IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—This performance features two premieres from Marla Hansen and Carl Rowe. 7 p.m. $5-$10. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, idahodancetheatre.org. MISUNDERSTANDING—This play by Albert Camus takes place in a small European hotel in a world where a young man, Jan, hopes for a better welcome than he receives. The play is presented in conjunction with the Topography and Toponymy in the Works of Albert Camus colloquium. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu. RAW ARTISTS PRESENT MARVEL—Enjoy a circus-themed cocktail party featuring ﬁlm, music, performance art, fashion, hair and makeup design, jewelry, photography and art with DJ Myko, emcee Dapper Doyle and Snake River photo booth. 7 p.m.midnight. $10 adv., $15 door. Powerhouse Event Center, 621 S. 17th St., Boise, 208-3314005, rawartists.org.

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Ballet Idaho offered its take on Tchaikovsky’s classic, Swan Lake.

WHILE IMPERFECT, BALLET IDAHO’S SWAN LAKE HAS SOUL The ballet Swan Lake can be a tense psychological drama— an exploration of love and the human soul—or a foolish yuck-fest indulging in the taboo of bestiality. What gave flight to Ballet Idaho’s production of Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s beloved piece, performed in conjunction with Boise Philharmonic at the Morrison Center April 12, was how it restored the ballet’s Russian soul. Swan Lake is the tragic account of Prince Siegfried’s romance with Odette, the queen of the swans, and their struggle against the malicious wizard Von Rothbart and the conventions of marriage and familial duty, as personified by Prince Siegfried’s mother. Spoiler alert: The main characters die. Odette (played by Phyllis Rothwell Affrunti) commits suicide after a failed reconciliation with Siegfried (Andrew Taft) by diving from a cruel-looking winding stone staircase on stage left. In an unexpected twist—a deviation from the original plot—Siegfried dives to his death after her. Their tandem deaths are almost an afterthought, given the coincidental death of Rothbart (played with over-dramatic flair by James Brougham) and the whirlwind of ballerinas dressed to evoke waterfowl dancing in the forefront. Rather than stressing the deaths of the ballet’s two main characters, Ballet Idaho Artistic Director Peter Anastos brought a more subdued, and arguably refined, sense of tragedy. Odette and Siegfried are victims in this story, and not avatars for the problem of man-beast love. At the thematic center of this interpretation is the covetousness of both Rothbart and Siegfried’s mother, played by Sarah Morris—as one protects his flock and the other single-mindedly seeks to secure her son’s marriage. The famous Black Swan scene in the third act (Odile, the black swan, is played by Adrienne Kerr) could have, as in conventional readings of Swan Lake, stressed the human weakness of Siegfried and the powerful magic of Rothbart. But instead, it revealed the manipulative methods of Rothbart and the Queen Mother. As Siegfried and Odile flirt in the forefront, the twin nemeses observe their machinations at work from a shady corner off stage right. In an imperfect production weighed down with a huge cast and ankle-bitten with minor slips and stumbles, Taft and Affrunti gave standout performances. Affrunti’s pantomiming was executed with conversational fluency and elan. The Russian dancers drew the ballet out of the realm of the purely mythical and attached it to a geographical location, albeit a huge one. But in the margin between the psychological and fantastical elements of the story is its soul. The great success of Ballet Idaho’s production was its ability to present Swan Lake for what it is: a human drama about the consequences of influence and manipulation. —Harrison Berry WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

8 DAYS OUT RED VELVET CAKE WAR—In this Southern-fried comedy, the three Verdeen cousins picked a terrible time to throw a family reunion. Their antics have delighted local gossips in the small town of Sweetgum. 7:30 p.m. $12.50, $9 students/seniors. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org. TIME STANDS STILL—Two adrenaline junkies take up journalism but when one of them is nearly killed in Iraq, they confront a more conventional lifestyle. 7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. VOICES FROM THE BOISE HOLE 2—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. By donation. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, alleyrep.org.

Literature AUTHOR DAV PILKEY—Meet Dav Pilkey, children’s author-illustrator and creator of the popular Captain Underpants series. See Arts, Page 19. 4 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3844200, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Talks & Lectures DISTINGUISHED LECTURE SERIES: LOUIS MENAND—Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand discusses his adventures as one of the country’s foremost American studies scholars. 7 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu. IGNITE BOISE—Local speakers get ﬁve minutes each to deliver presentations on stage at the Egyptian Theatre. See Picks, Page 10. 7 p.m. FREE. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St. Boise, igniteboise.com. SUSANNAH, MCCARTHYISM AND THE BOYS OF BOISE—Opera Idaho Director Mark Junkert discusses Carlisle Floyd’s opera Susannah as a metaphor for McCarthyism and the Boys of Boise sex scandal, during which Boise gained national attention as an anti-gay frenzy gripped the city. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Boise150 Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-4335671, boise150.org.

Odds & Ends LADIES’ LOUNGE—Toss back some cocktails with the ladies of Boise Weekly and enjoy prize giveaways, drink specials and more. Visit BW’s promo page to get the 4-11. 5 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s Saloon, 12505 Chinden Blvd., Boise, 208-331-5666, willibs.com.

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FRIDAY APRIL 19 Festivals & Events RECORD STORE DAY—Scores of CDs, records and other items on sale, as well as live music and listening parties. See Noise News, Page 16. 9 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.

On Stage BRIAN POSEHN—Stage and screen comedian Brian Posehn performs. See Picks, Page 10. 8:15 p.m. and 10 p.m. $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. COMEDY AT THE VARSITY: RYAN WINGFIELD—7 p.m. $8. Varsity Pub, 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-906-0658, varsitypubmeridian.com. GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org. IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $5-$10. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu. KNITTING FACTORY PRESENTS SPANK! THE FIFTY SHADES PARODY—This Fifty Shades of Grey parody features comedy, music and striptease performances to re-imagine the characters from the bestselling novel series. 8 p.m. $30. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, egyptiantheatre.net. MISUNDERSTANDING—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu. RED VELVET CAKE WAR—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $12.50, $9 students/seniors. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org. VOICES FROM THE BOISE HOLE 2—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. By donation. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, alleyrep.org.

Concerts VCS YOUNG SONGWRITERS EXPOSITION—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533, ﬂyingmcoffee.com.

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Literature INTERNATIONAL CAMUS COLLOQUIUM KEYNOTE ADDRESS— To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize-winning author Albert Camus, Raymond Gay-Crosier, professor emeritus at the University of Florida, presents a keynote address as part of Boise State’s international colloquium. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Yanke Family Research Park, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise.

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CHAIR AFFAIR LECTURE SERIES— Learn about the past, present and future of design with Amy Pence Brown of Idaho Modern, HGTV designer Jordan Cappella, Jordan Cappella and Dwaine Carver. Admission includes lunch. See Picks, Page 11. 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. $15-$20. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise, interiordesignersoﬁdaho.org.

BOOK SIGNING: DONNA COOK—Meet the award-winning author of the fantasy adventure Gift of the Phoenix. 4-8 p.m. FREE. Hastings, 7500 Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-375-3151.

BOISE FARMERS MARKET— Pick up fresh food from farmers, ranchers, food vendors, brewers and more. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Boise Farmers Market, 1080 W. Front St., Boise, 208-345-9287, theboisefarmersmarket.com.

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BOISE SHADOW RUN—Raise funds for the Pat Tillman Foundation with this 4.2-mile walk/run. For more info call Bryan at 208919-8613 or Cherese at 208331-1804. 10 a.m. $10-$40. Veterans Memorial Park, 930 N. Veterans Memorial Parkway, Boise, active.com/register.

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BOISE ELKS POKER RUN— Open to the public. Spaghetti dinner to follow. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $10. Boise Elks Lodge No. 310, 6608 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-377-2763, boiseelks.org.

BOISE WATERSHED WEEKENDS: EARTH DAY CELEBRATION—Celebrate the Earth with eco-friendly games, crafts and activities, including a one-mile birding walk to encounter wildlife and the blue heron rookery. Pat Stoll of the EPA discusses environmental programs and regulations and their importance in our daily lives. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-489-1284, cityofboise. org/bee/watershed.

CHAIR AFFAIR GALA—See Friday. 7:30-11 p.m. FREE-$15. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise, interiordesignersoﬁdaho.org. RECORD STORE DAY—See Friday. 9 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com. SHENANIGANS AND A CAST OF CHARACTERS: HOW BOISE BECAME THE STATE CAPITAL— Join the Boise150 celebration for the story of how Boise became Idaho’s capital, which includes colorful personalities and backroom deals. RSVP at 208-3342120 or gen.emerson@ishs. idaho.gov by Friday, April 19. 6 p.m. FREE. Crystal Ballroom, 802 W. Bannock St., Ste. 202, Boise, 208-336-0533.

SUNDAY APRIL 21 Festivals & Events RECORD STORE DAY—See Friday. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.

On Stage IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $5-$10. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu. MISUNDERSTANDING—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu.

IDAHO GREEN FEST—Learn about recycling, re-purposing, waste reduction, planting, and local food and agriculture relative to the spring season. Featuring live music, food trucks, beverages, recycled art and more. Noon-8 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-3894769, northendnursery.com.

TIME STANDS STILL—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Green IDAHO GREEN FEST—See Saturday. Noon-7 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northendnursery.com.

On Stage BRIAN POSEHN—See Friday. 8:15 and 10 p.m. $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org. IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $5-$10. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, idahodancetheatre.org. MISUNDERSTANDING—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu. RED VELVET CAKE WAR—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $13, $9 students/seniors. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, alleyrep.org. VOICES FROM THE BOISE HOLE 2—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. By donation. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com. Overheard something Eye-spy worthy? E-mail leila@boiseweekly.com

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MARCH AGAINST CHILD ABUSE—Join children’s organizations, churches, college associations and child-advocate groups at the Capitol for this event to raise awareness of child abuse. 4-7 p.m. FREE. Idaho State Capitol, 700 W, Jefferson St., Boise, 208-433-9705.

THE OWYHEES: AMERICAN IDENTITY AND THE WEST— Boise State University’s Dr. John Beiter uses six stories to explain the formation and legacy of the Western identity in America. He traces how this identity affects our lives through the saga of Claude Dallas, the Taylor Creek bombing and the continuing debate over the Owyhee Canyonlands. Call to RSVP. 3 p.m. FREE. Heatherwood Retirement Community, 5277 Kootenai St., Boise, 208-345-2150.

GRAPHIC DEPICTIONS—See Wednesday, April 17. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org. MISUNDERSTANDING—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre.boisestate.edu.

Food & Drink SPRING INTO BOISE DISHCRAWL—Try cuisine at four different downtown Boise eateries. RSVP online. 7 p.m. $45. dishcrawl.com/springboise.

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OUTLAW FIELD AND RECORD STORE DAY Once kings of the local music scene, Boise ska band The PirkQLaters ended with a thunderous fizzle five years ago, its members scattering to other bands like Hotel Chelsea, All Hands Go and, in the case of the band’s trombone player, a music Ph.D. program. But the band recently re-formed and will play Knitting Factory Thursday, May 23. Read an interview with Ryan Sampson about the band’s re-formation on Cobweb. Another date local punks should mark on their calendars is Saturday, June 15, when Boise will host the three psychobilly goats gruff, Nekromantix. The Danish rockers will play at Red Room with locals Demoni. But that’s not the only date to mark down on your calendars. The lineup for the Outlaw Field Summer Concert Series at the Idaho Botanical Garden was recently released. Widespread Panic and Bloodkin will perform Wednesday, July 10; Willie Nelson and Family will play Sunday, Aug. 25; and Ben Folds Five and Guster perform Friday, June 28. The only catch with that last show is that afterward, you’ll have to sit through Barenaked Ladies. On Tuesday, July 9, the series will feature NPR megastar Garrison Keillor and the cast of yahoos from A Prairie Home Companion, including singer Aoife O’Donovan and comedian Fred Newman. Moving from live per formances to recorded ones, The Record Exchange will celebrate the sixth annual Record Store Day Saturday, April 20, with all kinds of shenanigans, including a food truck rally from 4-8 p.m., a Go Listen Boise bake sale, per formances all day long from buskers and more than 400 exclusive, limitededition releases. The gift shop opens at 8 a.m., with free drip coffee and Guru Donuts for folks waiting in line. The Record Exchange will be open from 9 a.m.-10 p.m. on Record Store Day, with 20 percent off used CDs, vinyl, DVDs and cassettes all weekend, Friday, April 19-Sunday, April 21. Some standout RSD releases include a 7-inch box set from Rancid, a Public Enemy picture-disc, a split 7-inch single from Deep Purple and Type O Negative and demo sessions and a 7-inch from Willie Nelson. There will also be a double-live LP from some local band called Built to Spill. To kick things off Friday, April 19, the RX will host a RSD Listening Party, where it will raffle off first-in-line privileges and offer free beer—courtesy of the enablers at Payette Brewing Company—from 6-8 p.m. —Josh Gross

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Willie Nelson returns to IBG Sunday, Aug. 25.

FIVE ROBOTS, ONE HUMAN SLAVE Captured by Robots proves robotic superiority at The Shredder JOSH GROSS Like any musician preparing for a tour, Jay Let Captured by Robots capture your heart at The Shredder. Vance has a lot to do to get ready: printing stickers, making T-shirts, planning setlists. True to form, his bandmates have stuck him with all have her go full roar, it’s earth-shaking,” Vance neck Flying V that is played by a series of the work. said. “When I play with the robots, it feels like bars that press and mute the strings to form “The robots don’t help for shit,” he said. playing with a band of humans. They still have chords and riffs. “So I have to do everything myself.” egos. They’re still dicks.” That basic design endured, though it took Vance isn’t taking a cheap shot at his felFor every tour, Vance picks a theme and low musicians. Captured by Robots, based in Vance another two years of tinkering and gives the robots costumes, banter and songs San Francisco, is actually made up of robots, modifying before he was ready to hit the stage that make the show something like musical with his full, five-robot band. and he and his captors will play The Shredtheater. But Vance says it isn’t scripted; the Over the subsequent decade, Vance hasn’t der, April 20—the first time in 15 years of robots respond to the audience. stopped working on the bots, going through touring that the band will swing through the “People have heckled them, and the robots many versions and upgrades, which include City of Trees. just rip them apart,” he said. “It’s actually a more advanced version of his guitar player, The story of how Vance came to be pretty funny. So feel free to heckle, people. See GTRBOT666; a horror movie-esque severed captured by robots begins like a lot of other head called DRMBOT 0110, which lords over where that gets you.” solo projects: he got fed up with dealing with And it’s not just the banter that Vance says a drum kit; the snakelike trio of air comother people’s shit (and according to former comes from the robots. pressor-powered bugles, called the Headless bandmates, the feeling was mutual). After “There is improvisation between the robots Hornsmen; and two friendly-looking stuffed touring nationally as a bass player in ska and me,” he said. “I hear it every night. gorillas—The Ape Which Hath No Name and bands like Blue Meanies and Skankin’ Pickle, Son of the Ape Which Hath No Name—which Whether I’m hearing it in my head, it’s hapthe notoriously disagreeable Vance decided to pening. It’s definitely a mutual improvisational strike out on his own in the mid-’90s. But after clap cymbals and tambourines together. Then experience. It’s a jazz odyssey.” there is Vance, on guitar and synth. cycling through 20-odd guitar players, Vance This tour is a special one for Vance, as it The robots are powered by pneumatic decided “guitar players were douchebags” and comes after a two-year hiatus and self-evaluavalves that require an air compressor and a he would need to find some other plan for his tion about whether to continue the project. dedicated 20-amp power source, something next musical venture. “For a lot of years, we’ve done a bunch of Vance says has blown breakers in the past, With today’s technology, the answer covers,” he said. “It just got easy for me to do. would be simple: laptops, looping pedals and though it doesn’t happen regularly. And it came down to feeling like I hadn’t been Vance also created a mythology around samplers. creative anymore. I used to write songs and do the band: Immediately after the robots were But, “back then, the tones you would get crazy shit. I fell away from that because it was constructed, they revolted and put a chip were just awful,” said Vance. “I wanted to so easy. That’s what this tour is all about.” in Vance’s brain, enslaving him in order to hear a real drum being hit.” The specific theme for the current tour is prove robotic superiVance’s solution “Trippin’ Balls,” something Vance says is up to ority by making him was to build a band Captured by Robots with Phantahex, Sneezinterpretation. play terrible, embarof robots to play with zbil and Oilslave. Saturday, April 20, 8 p.m., “It’s out of hand. Some people will think rassing music. him—a decision he $10 adv., $15 door. of ‘tripping balls’ as under the influence of If you’re picturing says he came to stoneTHE SHREDDER psychedelics, which is fine,” he said. “Some a Captured by Robots cold sober. 430 S. 10th St. will think of it as being weird, and that’s fine, live show as something Knowing absolutely 208-345-4355 akin to the animatronic too. All I know is that this tour is going to be nothing about welding, facebook.com/shredderboise ridiculous. It’s all based on playing with the animals at Chuck E. metallurgy, computer Cheese miming out pre- mind, the power of perception.” programming, wiring BW would have liked to verify Vance’s recorded tracks, you couldn’t be further off. circuit boards or engineering, he admits it was assertions with the other members of his Vance’s robots aren’t miming the instruments, a stupid idea. band, but the robots also stuck Vance with they’re playing them live and lurching around But a year later, he had a crude prototype doing all the press. Even when you actually the stage like genuine rock ’n’ roll ne’er-dofor GTRBOT, which in Vance’s words was build your band members from scratch, some wells. You can see GTRBOT666’s “fingers” “pretty horrible.” The robot stands nearly things never change. speed across the fretboard and feel air pushed eight feet tall and looks like a metal version “It’s just like having a band full of methof a paper cut-out doll mixed with a model of off the drums. heads,” Vance said. “If I set up DRMBOT in front of you and the nervous system. It’s armed with a doubleWWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

GUIDE WEDNESDAY APRIL 17

THURSDAY APRIL 18

FRIDAY APRIL 19

BARBARA LAING—With Kayleigh Jack. 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

DAN COSTELLO—With Trio 43. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BLAZE & KELLY—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub & Grill

FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

BREWFISH—10 p.m. $5. Reef

BENYARO—With Screen Door Porch and Angie Gillis. 8 p.m. $3. Red Room BILL BARTON—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

FRIM FRAM 4—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

CALLEY BLISS WITH DAN CRAY—7 p.m. $10-$15 donation. Grace Place

THE HAPPY OURS—9:30 p.m. $2. Liquid

CHUCK SMITH WITH JOHN JONES TRIO—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BLACK MOUNTAIN—With Brett Netson and Snakes. 7 p.m. $12. Neurolux

JON DAVIDSON—With Megan Nelson. 8 p.m. $3. Reef

BOURBON DOGS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—5 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

CIUDADES NORTHWEST FLAMENCO TOUR—With Jesus Montoya, Pedro Cortes and Tamalka. 7 p.m. $10-$35. Sapphire Room

MILLIONAIRES—With Ashland High, Beneath the Sun, Lancifer and Cryss Stress. 6:30 p.m. $14 adv., 16 door. Venue

DJ STEVE—8 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club FRANK MARRA—With Steve Eaton and Phil Garonzik. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers NEW TRANSIT—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

OPHELIA—9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Whole Foods SWEET BRIAR—7 p.m. FREE. Curb WAYNE COYLE—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

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

CUSSES—With RevoltRevolt and Lucid Aisle. 8 p.m. $5. Red Room DON WILLIAMS—7:30 p.m. $30-$65. Morrison Center HOKUM HI-FLYERS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s J BEARDS—8 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill MEGAFAUNA—7 p.m. $5. Shredder METHOD MAN AND REDMAN— With Ana Sia. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $28-$65. Revolution THE MOWGLI’S—With A Seasonal Disguise. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

SWINGIN’ WITH ELLIE SHAW— 5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown

NEW TRANSIT—With Deviant Kin and the Blakq Family. 8 p.m. $8. Knitting Factory

WILSON ROBERTS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown

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OPHELIA—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye STELLAR TIDE—9 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle SUGARCANE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s SWEET TARTS—8 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club TOM HOGARD—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s WILSON ROBERTS—7 p.m. FREE. Woodriver Cellars

SATURDAY APRIL 20 80 PROOF—10 p.m. $5. Reef AMANOFACTION—With Young Dreamer. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

METHOD MAN AND REDMAN, APRIL 19, REVOLUTION

A TASTY JAMM—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

Def Jam labelmates Method Man and Redman are perhaps hip-hop’s best buds. Friends since childhood, the two regularly tour in tandem, have recorded two studio albums together and made their debut as a comedy duo in the 2001 stoner ﬂick How High. Meth and Red are also known for smart lyrics and bouncy beats. Hailing from New York, Method Man honed his skills as an early member of Wu-Tang Clan, while Redman left his home in New Jersey to make quick-witted rhymes in collaboration with New York’s EPMD. In January, rap’s bosom buddies dropped a funk-inspired, auto-tuned single, “Lookin’ Fly Too,” rumored to be included on the duo’s yet-to-be-released new album, Blackout 3.

BIG BANDS WITH CARL TOPILOW—11 a.m. and 8 p.m. $118-$394. Morrison Center

—Andrew Crisp With Ana Sia. 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $28-$65. Revolution Concert House, 4983 Glenwood St., Garden City, cttouringid.com. WWW. B OISEWEEKLY.C O M

BIG WOW—9 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Eagle BILL SIMMS JR.—With Paul Tillotson. Event includes dinner served at 6:30 p.m. 8:30 p.m. $75. Shore Lodge-McCall BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub BRITE LINES—With Jackson Lino. 7 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe CAPTURED BY ROBOTS—With Phantahex, Sneezzbole and Oilslave. See Noise, Page 16. 7 p.m. $10. Shredder EMILY TIPTON BAND— 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears

ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

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FRANK MARRA—With Shaun Brazell. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers GARTH OLSEN—7 p.m. FREE. Woodriver Cellars

HAVEN D. SNOW—9 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown HOTEL INDIA—7 p.m. $5. Crux JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s LIL EAZY-E—With Curtis Young, P.L.A.N. B, 1Shot and Bloodshot. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Happy Land Event Center

MARNIE STERN, APRIL 23, NEUROLUX Only two women made it onto Rolling Stone’s list of the Top 100 Greatest Guitarists: Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell. But one of that list’s judges was Brooklyn’s Marnie Stern, whose fretboard blitzkriegs regularly top other lists of best female guitarists. Stern’s style features speedy runs of root notes and ﬁngertapped chords with blasts of bass and drums beneath. It can be cluttered and noisy, without the clear and cutting melodies that have historically deﬁned “shredding.” But it’s impossible to hear the complex, Dan Deacon-esque textures and rhythms Stern creates without the urge to bust out an air guitar and scream “woo.” —Josh Gross With SISU and The Funs. 7 p.m., $10. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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LYDIA FROM INDIAN LAKES— With Sweet Talker. 6:30 p.m. $12 adv., $15 door. Venue OPHELIA—1 p.m. FREE. Record Exchange POSSUM LIVIN—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s RODNEY ATKINS—7:30 p.m. $25-$35. Taco Bell Arena SUGARCANE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s THEODORE LOVELY—7 p.m. $10. Sapphire Room TRIPLE SHOT—9 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge WATSKY AND DUMBFOUNDEAD—8:30 p.m. $11-$20. Knitting Factory

SUNDAY APRIL 21

TUESDAY APRIL 23

WEDNESDAY APRIL 24

BALTO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

BOISE OLD TIME’S OLD TIME JAM—With The Hokum Hi-Flyers and Reilly Coyote. 6 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

BARBARA LAING—With Kayleigh Jack. 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

BOBBY JOE EBOLA AND THE CHILDREN MACNUGGITS—With Business Venture and Black Bolt. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

CHRIS TOMLIN—With Kari Jobe. 7 p.m. $29-$40. Taco Bell Arena

GABE HESS—6:30 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

DANGER BEARD—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

FRANK MARRA—With Ben Burdick and Dan Costello. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

THE SIDEMEN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers TERRY JONES—10:15 a.m. FREE. Berryhill

JAMESON AND THE SORDID SEEDS—With Pause For The Cause. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek-Vista

MONDAY APRIL 22

JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

1332 RECORDS PUNK MONDAY—Featuring The Shell Corporation with The Rocketz and Uncommonmenfrommars. 9 p.m. $3. Liquid

RADIO BOISE TUESDAYZ: MARNIE STERN—With SISU and The Funs. See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $8-$10. Neurolux

OPHELIA—9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

CAIT OLDS—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage DOUG CAMERON—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown EMILY TIPTON BAND—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s FRANK MARRA—With Steve Eaton and Phil Garonzik. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub LIKE A ROCKET—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s MIKE STRAIN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow RYAN WISSINGER—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears STEADY RUSH—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

COBALT CRANES—With Marshall Poole, First Borns and Lucid Aisle. 7 p.m. $5. Shredder WOLVSERPENT—With SubRosa and Eight Bells. 8 p.m. $5 adv., $7 door. Red Room

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TIGHTYWRITIES Captain Underpants author Dav Pilkey speaks at Boise Public Library ANDREW CRISP

The hushed voices in Boise’s libraries have gotten a little louder this spring. Whispers about a visit from children’s author Dav Pilkey have many young readers struggling to contain their excitement. “We haven’t done as much marketing as we normally do because as soon as it “Not everybody is successful in school,” said author Dav Pilkey. “That’s not necessarily a bad thing. got out there, it was, ‘Did you know Dav You’re not going to be a failure in life if you don’t do well in school.” Pilkey is coming, did you know Dav Pilkey is coming?’” said Sarah Kelley-Chase, liBut Pilkey said parents often understand brarian at the Boise Public Library Cole and the two main characters in his books: Harold deeper moral themes after reading the books. Hutchins and George Beard. The mischieUstick branch. “I do kind of understand where some of vous fourth-graders attend Jerome Horwitz Word of the author’s visit isn’t just a those parents might be coming from. This is Elementary School, and consistently cause schoolyard rumor. Pilkey’s publisher, Schoanother thing I hear from parents: ‘When I trouble for their teachers. lastic Inc., chose Kelley-Chase out of 3,000 first saw it, I thought, Oh, I don’t know,’” The pair also make use of an unattended librarians who entered a sweepstakes to win said Pilkey. “But then they read it, and it’s a visit from the acclaimed author of the Cap- copy machine to publish comics about Capnot just a bunch of toilet jokes, they’re tain Underpants, a superhero clad in only a tain Underpants series. actually very clever. ‘No wonder my kid cape and a pair of tighty-whities, who fights Though she isn’t sure how many visitors likes them.’” evil villains with the help of the two boys. to expect at Boise Public Library’s Main Parents like Kelley-Chase noticed that “The comics that George and Harold do Branch, Thursday, April 18, Kelley-Chase kids are especially keen to read the Captain in the books inspire kids to do their own said she hasn’t stopped fielding questions Underpants series when school-assigned titles comics. Every week we get a packet from from library visitors. haven’t inspired them. Scholastic, and you open them up and you “It spread like wildfire,” she said. “We encourage parents: Let your kids read see all these comics that students have sent Kelley-Chase spends her days interactmagazines, if that’s what they’re into. Or in,” Pilkey said. ing with kids from nearby Morley Nelson graphic novels. Though there aren’t as many While Captain Underpants is a big draw Elementary School. She said for many young words, per se, there’s all this underlying text, for readers, Harold and George are the real readers, including her 11- and 13-year-old and subtext,” said Kelly-Chase. “They’re focus of the stories, according to Pilkey. children, the Captain Underpants series is an learning the story and they’re learning how “I didn’t want the book to be a story early introduction to longer books. to read, as well. They’re looking across the about a superhero, I really wanted it to be “Especially in summer, when kids are page, and they’re looking for their clues. It’s about a kid or two kids who just didn’t fit in looking for stuff to zip through,” she said. a great way to get involved.” with school,” he said. The first book in the series, The AdvenPilkey said parents often tell him that their George and Harold’s principal, Benjamin tures of Captain Underpants, was published Krupp, often chastises the boys for their com- kids weren’t enthusiastic about reading until in 1997 and has since spawned numerous Captain Underpants came along. ics, and is based on school principals Pilkey titles with silly, alliterative names like Cap“They couldn’t wait to get into it, and had growing up. tain Underpants and the Revolting Revenge then they couldn’t put it down,” said Pilkey. An underlying message, he said, is that of the Radioactive Robo-Boxers, published “A lot of parents are emotional about that, kids like George and Harold don’t have to January 2013. and thought their kids would never be readget straight A’s to be good kids. Pilkey told Boise Weekly his career as ers. Books don’t have to be torture. It doesn’t “Not everybody is a children’s author have to be an assignment, it can be fun.” successful in school,” began with his classPilkey also plans to make his visit to the said Pilkey. “That’s room doodles in grade Thursday, April 18, 4 p.m., FREE. Boise Public Library fun. On his tours, he not necessarily a bad school, much to the MAIN BOISE LIBRARY, requests to sit down and individually meet thing. You’re not chagrin of his teachers. HAYES AUDITORIUM with children and sign their books, rather going to be a failure “Elementary school 715 S. Capitol Blvd. than just give a talk. in life if you don’t and high school were 208-384-4076 “I do like to talk to every kid. I like to see do well in school. It really hard for me. boisepubliclibrary.org. what other books they like, what they’re into. doesn’t quite work I had a really tough That really makes book-signing worthwhile that way.” time,” Pilkey said. While children may for me, that personal connection,” he said. “I had some learning Even after spending years writing about problems and some reading problems—I was flock to Pilkey’s silly stories about robots and wacky characters, Pilkey continues to be talking toilets, some parents have expressed never officially diagnosed with ADHD, but I inspired by his readers. concern with the subject matter—wedgies, had all the symptoms. It wasn’t a good time “I’m very honored to have this job. It feels contempt of authority and villains with for me.” names like “Tippy Tinkletrousers” and “Pro- like, in some silly way, my books are making Pilkey would often spend class time a difference,” he said. fessor Poopypants.” doodling and making up stories, much like

Picnic at the Pops goes Latin Aug. 17.

PICNIC AT THE POPS RETURNS AT NEW LOCATION The Boise Philharmonic debuted its new outdoor concert series, Picnic at the Pops, late last summer. The events provided audiences a chance to trade stuffy formal wear for flip-flops and shorts. Over picnics and wine, concert-goers basked in both the Phil’s tunes and the warmth of summer evenings. At the second annual Picnic at the Pops, the music and location are different, but the informal vibe remains the same. On Saturday, Aug. 17, Latin Fever will feature mariachi music; on Saturday, Aug. 24, Space will include scores from Star Wars, Star Trek and the children’s classic E.T.; and on Saturday, Aug. 30, Americana will offer Aaron Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.” This year’s series will relocate to Woodriver Cellars at 3705 N. Highway 16 in Eagle. Patrons can bring their own meals and sealed, nonalcoholic beverages. Additional food and drink items will be available for sale. Gates open at 6 p.m. and the concerts fire up at 7:30 p.m. Tickets go on sale Saturday, June 1. Boise Contemporary Theater is also preparing for its upcoming season. The theater announced that it will kick off its 20132014 lineup with John Logan’s Tony Awardwinning Red, about artist Mark Rothko. Rothko was known for his large abstract canvases with bright rectangles on colorful backgrounds. In Red, the character Rothko works his way through the “Seagram Murals,” commissioned by the Four Seasons Restaurant in New York, while his fictional assistant, Ken, questions his art and the decision to take on the commission. The play will be directed by BCT Artistic Director Matthew Cameron Clark and star Arthur Glen Hughes as Rothko. “My mom is a painter and through her, I’ve had an awareness and an affection for Rothko and other abstract painters” said Clark. But like many abstract painters, Rothko had his fair share of detractors. “[Rothko’s] work ends up being a really interesting dividing line for people,” said Clark. “It leads to some really strong reactions.” The second play in BCT’s upcoming 2013-14 season has yet to be confirmed, but the theater has booked Brian Quirk’s Warren, or Those People, a play about aging, autism and sharks, for January/February 2014, and the second original world premiere production by Matthew Cameron Clark and Dwayne Blackaller, The Uncanny Valley, for April 2014. —Andrew Crisp and Jessica Johnson

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JINGO PORN Olympus Has Fallen is shallow, highly manipulative filmmaking GEORGE PRENTICE Hollywood’s latest trend is a blind-man’s bluff of trying to attract a mass audience by wreaking havoc on United States landmarks, laying blame on villains who look all too familiar and draping its heroes in American flags. This shameful, big budget braggadocio is, in my estimation, a new form of jingoistic pornography. The movies already have Torture Porn (R-rated sadism that takes particular glee in hurting women) and Geezer Porn (action films that star the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and Bruce Willis). To that pantheon of desolation, I propose the addition In the Jingo Porn genre, the situation room hug-fest comes after the hero kills his way to victory. of Jingo Porn: a highly manipulative, shallow filmmaking style that defaces public monunever wastes an opportunity to show fictional ments while pointing to an easily discernible women in uniform. Step four: have the wellNorth Koreans desecrate the American flag enemy and stoking a national bloodlust. armed hero kill his way to victory. Step five: Watching the repugnant, recently released cut to a situation room showing a bunch of old while laying waste to our nation’s capital. The film’s only response is to plunge knives into Olympus Has Fallen—and anticipating the men clownishly hugging one another. the skulls of these thugs (which is done oh so June opening of White House Down—my fear Destroying the White House on film isn’t efficiently by Elvis-lipped hero Gerard Butler). is that heroism may have lost its way in 21st anything new—Mars Attacks and IndepenIf your concept of diplomacy begins and ends dence Day did it with century moviemaking. with violence, this may be your feel-good equal silliness. But The formula is movie of the year. there’s a wide crevasse sophomoric. Step OLYMPUS HAS FALLEN (R) America on the brink of ruin has been the between an alien invaone: introduce us to Directed by Antoine Fuqua grist of the moviemaking mill for decades (Failsion and the outright a loner-hero who has Starring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Safe, Dr. Strangelove), but those films were abuse of our nation’s been sacked (by his emMorgan Freeman successful because of intellect and agile satire. current jitters over ployer, his government, Playing now at Edwards 9, 22 Unfortunately, in a zealous desire to lure foreign and domestic his family or all of the 14-year-old gamers into the cineplex, some terrorism. above). Step two: idenfilmmakers have confused geopolitics with In fact, Olympus tify a villain (preferably child’s play. To them, I respectfully submit that Has Fallen is the worst kind of exploitation, a foreigner, non-Caucasian or someone with a the defense of our nation’s ideals is best left to as director Antoine Fuqua marginalizes North warped sense of liberty). Step three: have the grown-ups. Korea’s real-life despotism. Fuqua’s film villain murder a massive number of men and

SCREEN/LISTINGS Special Screenings THE BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI—British prisoners of war are forced to build a bridge for their Japanese captors in this World War II drama starring Alec Guinness. Thursday, April 18, 6 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org. EVIL WINE’S CHEECH AND CHONG 4/20 PARTY—Evil Wine and Hot Dog Sandwich Headquarters screen Cheech and Chong ﬁlms from 4:20-7 p.m on the big screen. Live music and DJ to follow. Best costumes win prizes. Drink specials all night. Saturday, April 20, 4:20 p.m. $3. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208331-0956, redroomboise.com. ICIZERE: HOPE—Filmmaker Patrick Mureithi introduces this documentary chronicling the Rwandan genocide and

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a family seeking reconciliation after the violence in its community. RSVP at 208-426-1596. Wednesday, April 24, 6-8 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-4636, sub.boisestate. edu. LATINO COMMUNITY IN TREASURE VALLEY, IDAHO—This 50-minute documentary describes the lives of area Latinos as part of a collaboration between the Boise State University departments of Bilingual Education and Communication. Monday, April 22, 5:45 p.m. FREE. Washington Group Plaza, 720 Park Blvd., Boise. SABRINA—Audrey Hepburn plays a woman who has crushed on a playboy since her youth, but falls in love with his older brother. Thursday, April 18, 2 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-5624996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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Pinochet in 1988. (R) Opens Friday, April 19. The Flicks.

CHEECH & CHONG’S ANIMATED MOVIE—The stoner comedy duo is back with an animated feature that includes stand-up and music routines with the help of a heavy-toking body crab named Buster. (NR) Opens Thursday, April 18. Edwards 9, 22.

OBLIVION—Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman star in this sci-ﬁ thriller about a drone repairman concluding an operation to extract natural resources from Earth after decades of war with an alien race. When he rescues a beautiful girl from a downed spacecraft, Harper must confront the lie he has been told about the fate of his home planet. (PG-13) Opens Friday, April 19. Edwards 9, 22.

NO—Gael Garcia Bernal plays Rene Saavedra, an advertising executive who masterminded a successful campaign against Chilean dictator Augusto

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FLYING HIGH Hang gliders set to return to Hammer Flat ANDREW CRISP Peregrine falcon cam offers the view from above.

TENNIS ANYONE? Boise’s date with the Davis Cup has come and gone, but the tennis afterglow is still shining warmly. Boise Weekly already reported that a new set of kid-sized tennis courts are due to be built alongside the full-sized courts in Ann Morrison Park—which are scheduled for a remodel at the same time (BW, Citydesk, Davis Cup Legacy: New Kid Courts For Boise’s Ann Morrison Park, April 5, 2013.) The United States Tennis Association is kicking in $25,000 for the project, which will be matched by the city of Boise. Now tennis fans can look forward to a new tennis club breaking ground in Eagle in the next few months. The appropriately named Eagle Tennis Club will be built at the corner of Highway 44 and Edgewood Drive on a 15.3-acre lot. The facility will feature six outdoor and six indoor courts—including two clay courts—as well as a stadium court, and owners envision it as a natural fit for bigger events. “Our vision is to provide the finest tennis club in the Boise area, while also providing other amenities that will promote longevity and health.” stated ETC owner and founder Kara Hoge in a press release. The club will include spa facilities, physical therapy, a chiropractor, salon, yoga and fitness classes; two sand volleyball courts; stores; and restaurants. ETC officials plan to start selling a variety of membership packages—individual, family, corporate— this fall. Plans call for the club to open sometime in spring 2014. Check out plans at eagletennisclub.com. If you’re not part of the “get a pedicure after my tennis lesson” crowd, but more a member of the “I’m still stuck in front of my computer dreaming of being outside” crowd, spring’s annual online escapism is up and running in the form of the Peregrine Falcon Nest Webcam in downtown Boise. For the fifth year, The Peregrine Fund, Idaho Department of Fish and Game and Fiberpipe have a live webcam focused on a nest box on the fifth floor of One Capital Center at 10th and Main streets. So far, the female has laid four eggs and is busy incubating them. The public can log on to watch the birds hatch, learn to fly and probably eat more than a few of the pigeons, doves and starlings they catch downtown. Check it out by visiting peregrinefund. org/webcam-peregrine. —Lauren Bergeson, Deanna Darr, George Prentice

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Local hang glider and paraglider pilots have long made the trek up Crow Hill near Lucky Peak Reservoir. Pilots rode strong winds from the Boise River basin to soar above an undeveloped 700-acre plateau known as Hammer Flat. When the weather was right, gliders rode the winds above the parcel for the past three decades—that is, until they were grounded after the area was purchased first by the city of Boise, then the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. But a new agreement will soon see hang gliders in the sky over Hammer Flat again—at least for half the year, anyway, starting May 1. Fans of Crow Hill have been in a holding pattern for three years as the city and IDFG officials negotiated a deed to Hammer Flat. Uncertainty about the fate of gliding at Crow Hill—located at the western edge of Hammer Flat—sparked a debate over the balance of recreation and wildlife in the Boise Foothills, since Hammer Flat is crucial range for elk, antelope, deer and other wildlife in the winter. Pilots were abruptly barred from the area in 2010. Access gates leading to Hammer Flat were padlocked soon after Boise spent $4.1 million in Foothills Serial Levy funds to purchase the property. City officials cited the need for a baseline study of Hammer Flat, urging recreationists to be patient. “I think when it was in the transitional phase, I think it was kind of in purgatory, so to speak,” said John Kangas, spokesman for the Idaho Hang Gliding Association. While in limbo, members of the Idaho Fish and Game Commission moved to purchase the property and return $4.23 million in Bonneville Power Administration mitigation money to the city’s foothills fund. IDFG Director Virgil Moore was anxious to sign a deal before Christmas 2011, and incorporate the parcel into IDFG’s Boise River Wildlife Management Area. “The primary reason for our ownership of that area at all is to provide for winter mule deer range” said Jerry Deal, IDFG regional wildlife habitat manager. However, recreationists voiced concern about an IDFG rule against aircraft flight on wildlife management lands, and questioned the speedy timeline to turn over the land. Fish and Game biologist Ed Bottum allegedly told pilots they’d “never have access to the land again,” which chafed pilots. “There had been some statement made by some folks, and perhaps that just really didn’t keep in the big picture, we might say,” said Kangas. But pilots’ wings remained clipped. “Fish and Game didn’t own the property until last fall. Even though we were managing on behalf of the city, it wasn’t really appro-

priate for a deviation from agreed-upon management terms,” said Deal. Before unanimously voting to approve the sale of Hammer Flat in December 2011, Boise City Council members voiced their support for Crow Hill’s sporting legacy. Moore, at IDFG, backpedaled on the department’s matter-of-fact restriction against aircraft. “We are willing to consider other outdoor recreational

activities, including hang gliding,” Moore wrote in a statement following the vote. “Once the matter got a closer look, and the powers that be looked at our activity and our ﬂexibility, they had a change of heart,” said Kangas. It took another year before the details of those “recreational activities” were hammered out. It wasn’t until February that pilots announced plans to spread their wings above Hammer Flat once more, following a series of talks between IDFG land managers and pilots Marshall Sinclair and Patrick Harper. “We worked out some terms for a special use permit, and it just took a bit of time to develop the ﬁne details in that. We found a solution that’s consistent with the management goals of the area,” said Deal. The news had Kangas brimming with

excitement. “We’re just tickled pink that beautiful gliders will grace the Boise skyline again,” Kangas told Boise Weekly. “[Starting Wednesday,] May 1, when the wintering deer are not relying on that for winter range, until Nov. 15, when we think we’re likely to see a number of them showing up, said Deal. “Outside of that impact zone, results show we can live with that.” IDFG officials determined pilots using Crow Hill in the warmer months would not significantly impact wildlife. According to Kangas, the warmer weather suits pilots just fine. “It probably matches our best flying season,” said Kangas. “Historically, we’ve flown year-round, but we understand it’s a wildlife management area, and one of the things we’ve always laid claim to is our flexibility.” According to Deal, IDFG does its best to accommodate recreation, hunting and other uses, but ultimately, its mission focuses on wildlife management. “Typically, we try to accommodate, to the degree possible, all of them,” he said. “We don’t own recreation lands, that’s the business of Parks and Rec and the city and counties. Our recreation is wildlife-based, as we say.” Deal said Harper and Sinclair took him to the top of Crow Hill to further make their point. “One thing I took out of that was this is not just another place you can hang glide, or paraglide. It is special, they convinced me of that,” said Deal. After evaluating the site’s impact on Hammer Flat as a whole, he said IDFG found a plan it “could live with.” “The activity is contingent on nice weather conditions,” said Kangas. “If the wind is out of the west, not too strong, 15 mph on May 1, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’d see a few gliders up above the Crow Hill again.” WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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RICE Pan-Asian fare with an elegant air TARA MORGAN Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine isn’t one of those neon-lit Asian dives with sticky tables and glistening pictures of food on the walls. Sa-Wad-Dee Thai owners Toffee Dullaphan and Fon Tavijaroen decked out Eagle’s former River Rock Ale House with shiny gold walls, tasteful murals and colorful hanging lanterns that scatter fireflies of light around the room. And the food matches the vibe—the elegantly plated pan-Asian fare fuses flavors from Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, China and Vietnam. While some might cringe at the words “panAsian” or “fusion”—envisioning the careless bastardization of global cuisines to satisfy the American palate’s penchant for novelty—Rice’s menu isn’t a melting pot mess. Items largely Rice’s veggies weren’t canned and the presentastick to their national origins: Indian chicken tion was artful without being pretentious. tandoori shares menu space with Japanese The Korea Bulgogi Beef ($17.99) was equalchicken tonkatsu and General’s chicken. More ly lovely to look at, but faltered adventurous dishes include in the flavor department. A whole fried tilapia in tangy chili thinly sliced pile of sugary beef sauce, tofu kimchi fried rice or RICE CONTEMPORARY was served atop bell peppers duck curry with lychee, tomato, ASIAN CUISINE and onions on a cast iron fajita pineapple and basil. 228 E. Plaza Drive, Eagle plate that, sans sizzle, seemed The vegetarian Buddha 208-939-2595 riceeagle.com more showy than serviceable. A noodle ($12.99) had a persisside bowl contained a mound tent heat, with crisp bamboo of rice, a pile of cilantro, shredshoots, slivers of green onion ded carrots and a couple spears of romaine, and chopped peanuts, floating in a red curry coconut broth. Cubes of tofu, spears of snappy while a condiment tray boasted kimchi, searing asparagus and a quail egg bobbed in the bowl, hot chilis and a sweet Korean chili paste. Our server said that some diners opt to entangled in a slithering pile of rice noodles. assemble the dish in lettuce wrap form, while Unlike some of its strip mall Asian cousins,

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others dump the various components into a bowl and give it a stir. My date chose the latter, which left him longing for a tangy squeeze of lime and a glug of soy as the generic, too-sweet beef sauce saturated the meal. The dish needed too many tweaks to justify its steep price tag. As our server dropped off the check, she mentioned something interesting: Rice hired three chefs from Thailand to run the kitchen, and another is on the way from Japan to roll out the restaurant’s sushi program soon. So while the spot might lack the seedy, authentic vibe of a strip mall Asian dive, its kitchen has the potential to turn out legit Asian fare. Here’s hoping they don’t dial down the heat (or ratchet up the sweet) too much to please local palates.

FOOD/NEWS “People were pouring out their grease from the food after the event on the grass,” said Hodge. “[The city] sent us 30-40 pictures of the park About 100 people congregated at the Cathedral of the Rockies for the being damaged. And then we tried to send these pictures over to the inaugural Soul Food Extravaganza in 1993. By 2012, the festival drew food vendors and the merchandise vendors who were responsible, and of 18,000-25,000 people to Julia Davis Park for plates heaped high with course, they didn’t want to pay the deposit.” stick-to-your-ribs Southern cooking. But according to Adam Park, spokesman for Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, But it doesn’t look like the festival will continue to expand. The Soul the damage only amounted to $592, around 10 percent of the total Food Extravaganza has been canceled this year. charged by the city for the event: $5,527. “I would actually like to see the Soul Food continue, but I’ve been sponMoney woes aside, Hodge says the soring it—I’ve been the major sponsor for decision to cancel the festival hasn’t gone the last six to seven years—and it’s never over well with longtime vendors. He hopes really generated any income to continue,” someone will be inspired to take the reins said Michael Hodge, founder of The Source so the festival can continue. and the nonprofit R.A.C.E. Foundation. “I was kind of hoping that the commuHodge says it costs $40,000 to put nity would pull together, if this was an imon the event, which is comprised of funds portant event to them, and come together raised from sponsorships, individual vendor and donate money or figure out another way fees and money that he donates personally. to raise money,” said Hodge. “We’ve never charged any type of Park echoed Hodge’s sentiments. admission to get into the Soul Food, even “I thought it was a tremendous benefit our food vendors, as we grow it, they make to the community. We hope there’s a way a pretty good portion of money ... But the that it can come back perhaps in a different Soul Food in general is not really reaping form or a different model so that it can those benefits,” he said. make money,” said Park. Hodge also said there was “extensive Julia Davis Park will lack some serious soul this summer. —Tara Morgan damage” done to Julia Davis Park in 2012.

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The name will change to Sonia Kay Johnson. The reason for the name change is: I wish to remove married name Wright & resume my maiden name Johnson. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 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: APR 01 2013 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT BY: DEIRDRE PRICE Deputy Clerk Pub. April 17, 24, May 1 & 8, 2013. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Hannah Mae Cutbirth Philip Christopher Cutbirth Legal names of children Case No. CVNC 1305235 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minors) A Petition to change the name of (1) Philip C Cutbirth, and the name of (2) Hannah Mae Cutbirth, all minors, now residing in the City of MEridian, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court of Ada County, Idaho. The names will change to (1) Philip Christopher Cutler (2) Hannah Mae Cutler. The reason for the change in names is: to prevent further tauntaing and jokes about the spelling of their last name from their peers. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) June 4, 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: APR 01 2013 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR Deputy Clerk Pub. April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Scott Lawrence Meadors Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1305917 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Scott Lawrence Meadors, 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 Sara Lauren Fawkes. The reason for the change in name is: gender reassignment. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 14, 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: April 4, 2013 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR Deputy Clerk Pub. April 17, 24, May 1, 8, 2013.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The writer Oliver Burkeman has some advice that would be helpful for you Aries folks to hear right now: “When you assume your current preferences won’t alter, you’ll make bad decisions: embarking on a career or marriage, say, not with a view to its durability, but solely based on how it makes you feel now.” I am most definitely not predicting that you are about to make the kind of bad decision Burkeman refers to. I’m sure my warning here in this horoscope will derail any temptation you might have to make short-sighted moves. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’m happy to report that help from the invisible world is available to you right now. Of course, you won’t be able to use it, let alone tune in to it, if you don’t believe there is any such thing as help from the invisible world. So if you are the type of person who is very sure that reality consists of nothing more than what your senses reveal, I suggest that you temporarily suspend that belief. And if you are someone who has had direct experiences with blessings that come from the unseen realm, be aware that the imminent delivery is quite different from those you have known in the past. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In her book A Monster’s Notes, Laurie Sheck describes the nuances of the term “ghost” in the German language. A mediocre wine may be called unghostly, she says. A witty, lively person is “rich in ghostliness,” whereas a dull, blank type “has no ghost in him.” In this spirit, Gemini, I suspect you will have some pretty fine ghostliness working for you in the coming weeks. And there’s a good chance that part of your extra-special mojo will arise from your creative engagement with energies that resemble the more traditional definition of “ghost.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): A one-minute commercial for The Cosmopolitan luxury resort in Las Vegas shows an elegant woman at a sumptuous feast. She’s eagerly holding her dinner plate up to her face so she can lick it clean. The scene shifts to a welldressed man who’s down on all fours serving as a chair for a chic woman. She applies her make-up while gazing into the shiny mirrorlike surface of a high-heeled shoe. New scene: An 80-year-old woman pats the butt of a handsome young stud with whom she’s slowdancing. At the end of the ad, a catchphrase appears: “Just the right amount of wrong.” I say, let that be your mantra in the coming week, Cancerian. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Albert Einstein published his General Theory of Relativity in 1916. It had radical implications for

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the field of theoretical physics, but remained an unproven concept until 1919. Then a British physicist verified its accuracy with evidence gathered during a solar eclipse. The Times newspaper in London announced the event with the headline “Revolution in Science: New Theory of the Universe, Newtonian Theories Overthrown.” Not wanting to be left behind, The New York Times assigned one of its own journalists. Unfortunately, the person they sent was a sports reporter whose specialty was golf. His article was less than illuminating. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned, Leo: When big developments are under way, show up at full strength, with all your powers engaged. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Never to get lost is not to live,” writes Rebecca Solnit in her book A Field Guide to Getting Lost. In fact, she says that not knowing how to get lost is unhealthy. These are useful ideas to consider right now, Virgo. It will probably do you good to get at least semi-lost. As you wander around without a map or compass, I bet you will stumble upon important teachings. At the same time, I hope you will put some thought into how you’re going to get lost. Don’t just leave it to chance. Make sure there’s a method in your madness. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the English language, “low man on the totem pole” is an idiom that refers to a person who has the worst job or the least status. He or she is considered to be at the low end of the hierarchy. But it’s an incorrect metaphor. The creators of the original totem poles were Native American tribes of the Pacific Northwest, and for them, the figure at the bottom of the pole was the most important one. I foresee the possibility of a similar situation arising in your sphere, Libra. Be alert for a misapprehension that needs to be righted. It may be the case that what’s last should actually be first. Something that has been beneath or behind “more important” matters should perhaps get higher priority. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his book Karmic Traces, Eliot Weinberger describes the life story of naked mole rats. They never leave their underground tunnels. Normally, you Scorpios have nothing in common with them. But in the coming days, I’m hoping there will be one resemblance. According to Weinberger, the naked mole rats “change direction by somersaulting.” Metaphorically speaking, I think this would be an excellent strategy for you. There’s no need to mope as you alter your course. No need to be lackadaisical and fitful and full of doubts. Just spring into action with a cheery bounce, and move on with a renewed sense of purpose.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The famous philosopher John Searle unleashed a witty dig about the famous philosopher Jacques Derrida, saying he is “the sort of philosopher who gives bullshit a bad name.” One of your fun assignments in the coming week, Sagittarius, is to do the opposite of what Derrida’s work does. In other words, give bullshit a good name. How? Well, you could engage in creative verbal expressions that boost morale and propagate delight and lubricate worthwhile connections, make up noble fictions that are more accurate and useful that the literal truth, or spread uplifting gossip that heals and invigorates. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The ideal piano player is the one who wants to be the piano,” says a character in Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser. He continues: “I say to myself every day when I wake up, I want to be the Steinway, I want to be the Steinway itself.” Your assignment, Capricorn, is to apply this attitude to your own personal situation. In other words, merge with the tool you want to master. Immerse yourself in the skill you’re working to perfect—disappear into it. In your imagination, become completely united with the thing or person or experience you desire. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination,” said writer Louis Kronenberger. I’m worried you may have fallen under the sway of this kind of myopia, Aquarius. A steady stream of useful tips and clues has been appearing, but you’re missing some of them. Your long-range goals aren’t sufficiently clear, so you don’t always recognize the significance of new revelations. Here’s the cure: In your imagination, create a vivid picture of your next big destination. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A group of bicyclists in Southern California challenged a blogger to a race. They said they could cover the 38.4 miles from North Hollywood to Long Beach faster on their bikes than the blogger could get there by plane. As it turned out, they were right. Their trip took an hour and 34 minutes. As for the blogger, he had to drive to the airport, wait for the plane to depart, fly to a different airport, then catch a cab to the designated destination. He arrived about an hour after the cyclists. Can you guess which of those two modes of travel is the preferred metaphor for you this week, Pisces? The earthy, simple, stripped-down approach will get you where you need to go better than the big, elaborate, expensive method.

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