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PLAYING THE NUMBERS The inside track on Idaho’s gambling laws FEATURE 11

WHEY-WARD Chobani brings big business and big waste to Eastern Idaho NOISE 21

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE Wicked Wonderland Empire returns to Boise FOOD 26

ALL THE BUZZ Trials and tribulations of beekeeping in Boise

“If you go looking for Bigfoot and you don’t find him, the byproduct is you went camping.”

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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT Spending a few weeks in Greece about 13 years ago, I first encountered the combination of Greek yogurt and honey. I won’t say it changed my life, but it certainly improved it. Little did I know that that seemingly simple meal sums up a lot of problems with the modern agricultural industrial complex.

This week’s edition of Boise Weekly features two stories exploring the intricacies and outcomes of bringing us the food we so often take for granted.

On Page 11, freelance writer Carissa Wolf brings us an investigation from South-Central Idaho, where the mammoth Chobani yogurt plant is reshaping the Twin Falls-area economy but having less desirable effects on a neighboring farming community.

The second investigative story funded by the BW Watchdogs program, which dedicates readers’ financial contributions to in-depth reporting efforts, “Away With the Whey” focuses on the conundrum of acid whey—a byproduct of Greek yogurt manufacturing that is blowing an ill wind through the product’s otherwise rosy reputation among consumers.

On Page 26, BW roving food writer Tara Morgan digs into the challenges faced by beekeepers. In “Bee in his Bonnet,” Morgan profiles local beekeeper Steve Sweet and nationally known apiarian activist John Miller. Both paint a dire picture: From murderous mites to competition with agri-industry giants like corn and soybeans, honey bees everywhere are finding it increasingly difficult to do their job, which is, of course, to make sure about one-third of all U.S. crops are pollinated.

Both pieces, in their way, pull back the curtain on just a few high costs of industrial food production. In the case of Greek yogurt, sales of which have exploded in recent years, meteoric growth has turned a byproduct that, on a smaller scale, is at worst a nuisance into a potential groundwater threat. With bees, the problem is similar: Capitulation to industrial ag has led to an overabundance of certain crops and forced the pollinators into becoming a kind of winged migrant labor force.

When I dip into my bowl of honey-drizzled Greek yogurt, I will still think back to the shores of the Mediterranean, but after reading Wolf’s and Morgan’s dispatches from the food front, those feelings will be a little more complicated. But, as everybody knows, “You are what you eat.”

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OVER BUDGET Boise City Hall is doing some number crunching and it looks like a few departments are having trouble with the bottom line.

Find out which departments are in the red at Citydesk.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

17 WAYS TO G.A.G. With his HCUL and her KUD, it’s BM magic, baby To: bill i cee Subject: new KGAG direction I have been added to the G.A.G. Media Group’s “Keeping Up” Division (KUD) to help refreshen the GAGNews@5&10 brand and pump up our Youth Interface Potential (YIP). Our news programming has fallen far behind in the race to keep up. The latest Idaho Venue Position Evaluation Directory (IDVEPEVDI) gives GAGNews@5&10 a pathetic +3/.3Qª positional share. Even The Senior News has a +4/.2ª share, and from what I have been told, they don’t even have a KUD! It has fallen upon me to develop strategies—or what I call Start!-egies—to bring GAGNews@5&10 up to its full potential as a forceful presence among overall Boise Media (BM). I am convinced the solution to our sagging trendline is to accelerate our A.I.R. (Auxiliary Indexing Ratio). Though you might not be acquainted with the A.I.R. paradigm, you have undoubtedly noticed its imprint. A.I.R. will infix users to a venue’s content by emphasizing a broad array of, what I call, la compendia d’ artifactum. Or as you would call them, lists.

You’ve surely seen them on Buzzfeed.com, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Cosmo. Lists of the summer’s best movies; the summer’s worst movies; 32 Diaper Options For Prince George; 19 Superfoods To Vigorize Your Sex Life; 7 Reasons to Own a Storage Shed— lists are, to what I call, the “Cloud” generation what Walter Cronkite was to my great-greatgranddad’s generation.

List saturation has proven to be a mega-motivator of younger users’ attention away from old-school media venues such as newspaper print and the traditional Q&A reporting. My YIP Start!-egy is to influx intensive metro-buzz indexing energy into GAGNews@5&10. There is no lose-lose on how much a, what I call, “Kick-Ass Producing Team” (KAPT) can convert to list format.

Every broadcast will start with a list, end with a list, with liberal listing material ingrained throughout. I’m just off-topping here, but consider: “12 Ways To Keep Toddlers Out of Irrigation Canals” as a lead-in, while something on a lighter note—e.g,“5 Marshmallow Makes For S’more Madness.” For the weather segment, “Cumulus or Cirrostratus: 11 Key Differences.”

And for sports: “16 Bronco Starters You Should Know By Name.”

My Start!-egy has been approved by my mid-level peeps. All I need to go ahead with this A.R.B. (Awesome Re-Boot) is a good KAPT. bill i cee, I intuit from your moniker mutating choices that you are, what I call, a “Hyper-Creatomatronic Up-Loader” (HCUL). Let’s you and I do a java face-to-face and co-share some input on what it would take to get your HCUL on board.

Alanah Bronahnah, KGAG Return: Alanah Bronahnah Subject: new KGAG direction Dear Alanah, You have me confused with another bill i cee. I understand he is a local performance artist known for piercing his flesh with mobile devices, thereby transforming himself into a poetry-reciting collection of apps. Not for the faint of heart, I hear. I can’t imagine how my email address got mixed with his, but we are easy to tell apart, as he calls himself bill i cee, and I call myself Bill Cope.

However, this is not to say I wouldn’t be delighted to join your KAPT. I have indeed noticed the trend to turn everything into a list and I agree: pointless groupings of trivial fluff do seem to typify what you call the “Cloud” generation, just as Cronkite represented, what I call, the “As Good As It’s Ever Likely Gonna Get” generation.

I have thrown together a few preliminary compendia d’artifactum titles to demonstrate I super-hip to the A.I.R. paradigm. Consider them free thought droppings from my creatomatron, hah-hah: “17 Best Reasons To Skip Adam Sandler Movies”; “17 Ways to Get To Oregon Without Having to Go Through Canyon County”; “17 Amazing Side-Boob Pics of First Ladies, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush”; “17 Ways to Poison a Tapeworm Without Killing Yourself”; “17 Most Adorable Still-Living Kittens You’ve Seen Today”; “17 ex-Mouseketeers Who Have Not Spent Time in Jail.”

When we do a face-to-face, I will have more titles prepared. And never mind that every list starts with the same number. It’s simply a generic figure I pulled out of my creatomatron, and once I’ve been added to your KAPT, I will do real research and fill out the titles with however many items I can steal from the Internet.

I should warn you, Ms. Bronahnah, that bill i cee and I are different in many ways, not the least of which is that he is 23 years old, and I am, uh, somewhat older than that. Yet I still consider myself a Hyper-Creatomatronic Up-Loader—or whatever that would be equivalent to in real talk—and would welcome the opportunity to influx some of that intensive metro-buzz indexing energy. Sounds like a hoot.—Yours Truly, Bill Cope

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JOHN REMBER/OPINION

PACK UP YOUR TROUBLES In your old literal kit bag

Julie and I just spent three days in the Sawtooth Mountains, and while the trip wasn’t a Pilgrim’s Progress, it had moments when we were tempted toward allegory.

We got lost in a swamp when I insisted on getting off the beaten path.

We almost climbed a peak, but it was a peak whose vertical spires were disintegrating into sand before our eyes. We decided that arriving at the summit would require more luck than skill, and getting back down would require pure luck. We stopped a few hundred feet from the top, ate our lunch and walked back down.

We dove headfirst into lakes that had last winter’s snow lining their banks.

The mosquitoes drove us into the tent while it was still light. We woke at 4 a.m. to a sky bright with stars. It was cold. The bugs weren’t moving. We stepped out onto the lakeside tundra, naked and shivering, and stared out into space. At 9,000 feet, the air is clear. The Milky Way presents as a glowing cloud on a scale somewhat larger and colder than the human.

We avoided trails, but still walked up on a group of 10 with their guide, who had just told them they were all alone in the wilderness. Three college kids on a bouldering expedition showed up as we pitched our tent the second evening, wondering if we’d seen the food they’d stashed near our campsite the week before. We hadn’t.

On the last day, we got back on a trail and ran into 73 people. One was a young environmental studies major sitting in the lotus position on a huge foam pad next to the trail. He was reading The World Without Us, an assigned text about what Earth would look like if humans suddenly disappeared.

I’ve already mentioned Pilgrim’s Progress.

I could have mentioned Mount Analogue, A Novel of Symbolically Authentic NonEuclidean Adventures in Mountain Climbing. It’s an unfinished work, because the French Surrealist Rene Daumal died in the middle of writing it. But he did finish this passage: “You cannot always stay on the summits.

You have to come down again. … So what’s the point? Only this: what is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above. While climbing, take note of all the difficulties along your path. During the descent, you will no longer see them, but you will know that they are there if you have observed carefully. There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up.”

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when you’re backpacking.

I was repeating Frost’s “Road Less Traveled” as justification for taking a new route just before we get lost in the swamp.

It’s not for nothing that most people who study literature retreat from the literal world to their study, their dissertation or their tenured professorship. A literary education is too dangerous if you start exploring its literal applications.

It’s much safer to go the other way, from the literal to the literary. Metaphors are seldom lethal on the page. It’s easier to read Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” than to realize someone has stolen your food cache. It’s easier to reach heaven by climbing Mount Analogue than it is by having your last, best handhold break off as you slip toward a 1,000-foot fall. It’s easier to read Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” than it is to dive into water with ice floating in it. It’s easier to imagine the end of civilization than to wander around naked in cold starlight, which is what people did before there was civilization.

Still, it’s a good thing to reduce the metaphorical content of your writing, because metaphors can get old and goofy long before the end of a book or poem.

You wouldn’t think that reducing the amount of metaphor would increase the amount of meaning in your writing, but it does work that way. Sometimes meaning is increased so much that it’s possible to see that the metaphors you’ve eliminated from your writing constitute a habit of mind indistinguishable from compulsive lying.

Julie and I came out of the mountains and were shocked by the amount of people and noise in the world. We had a compensatory margarita in the Redfish bar, went home, cleaned up, went out for a compensatory dinner, went home and slept for 10 hours on a compensatory real mattress. Did not check email. Did not turn on a computer. Did not find out that the stock market was falling.

Did not watch videos of war and revolution. Did not know that American politics had gotten three days more corrupt and the world economy three days more in debt.

What sort of meaning is safe to make on a camping trip?

A decade and a half ago, Julie and I came out of the Sawtooths after a solid week. The first thing I did was turn on the car radio for the news. Julie made fun of me and said, “I’m sure the world hasn’t ended in one week.”

Then the news came on and we found out Jerry Garcia had died.

“The world has ended,” I said.

“No it hasn’t,” said Julie.

“It has for Jerry Garcia,” I said.

This column was adapted from Rember’s MFA in a Box Blog, and was inspired by a backpack trip a couple of years back.

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CITYDESK/NEWS NEWS

RISKY BUSINESS Legal or illegal? Idaho’s big gamble GEORGE PRENTICE ISP Lt. Russell Wheatley on spurt of slots in restaurants, bars: ‘They’re flat-out illegal.’

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“Our job is to protect the community and that’s all we did here. Citizens complained. We’re not going to say, ‘Sure, they’re gambling next door, but we’re not going to enforce that.’ We had to do something.”

Meanwhile, legal staff at the city of Boise attorney’s office is preparing its prosecution.

“But I would definitely say that this is not common,” Assistant City Attorney Kevin Borger told Boise Weekly. “I really don’t remember having a whole lot of these cases.”

Idaho State Code 18-302 prohibits anyone from participating in gambling, or knowingly permitting any gambling to be played.

Those convicted of the misdemeanor face a fine not to exceed $300 or no more than six months behind bars. “[The three Loughs’] first court appearance, something called a pro-se arraignment, is where an Ada County magistrate judge would tell them their rights,” said Borger.

To those who think that gambling is a victimless crime, others tasked with dealing with problem gamblers say illegal betting has a considerable cost to families and employers.

“We estimate that a problem gambler costs society $715 per year. A pathological gambler costs society $1,200 a year,” said Megan Fludd, founder and executive director of the Idaho/Utah Council on Problem Gambling.

“It affects their jobs and it certainly affects the amount of time they spend with their family.”

IUCPG’s parent, the National Council on Problem Gambling, estimates that there are 23,000 Idahoans with a gambling problem; another 11,500 are considered pathological gamblers, meaning that they continue to gamble even after they have developed social or economic problems as a result of their habit.

“It’s a chemical or neurological rush, very similar to drug addiction,” Fludd told Boise Weekly. “But there’s something worse about a pathological gambler. They chase losses.”

Fludd, who has worked for four years on efforts to curb problem gambling, said a drug addict doesn’t necessarily pursue an overdose, but a gambling addict will keep going until they are nearly or completely ruined.

“Most of the time, it’s not about money at all. They don’t care about getting their money back. They 9 just want to win,” she said. “It’s a ADA

They’ve been warned.

Cautioning that he will “be actively pursuing investigation,” Lt. Russell Wheatley, chief of the Idaho State Police Alcohol Beverage Control Bureau, has fired a warning shot across the bow of Gem State restaurants and taverns that have added a little too much variety to their surroundings.

“We have received various complaints of illegal gambling activities within licensed establishments,” wrote Wheatley in a June 14 letter to each licensee.

Wheatley said that just because his department had been understaffed lately doesn’t mean that the law changed.

“The Idaho State Police regards any illegal gambling or uses of illegal video gaming devices or casino activities or activities that simulate of [sic] any form of casino gambling as violations of the laws of the state and are not permitted,” wrote Wheatley.

He told Boise Weekly that, “It became almost urban myth” that licensees hadn’t gotten into trouble for 10 or 12 years, in spite of the fact that there were illegal slot machines at some locations.

“They’re flat-out illegal,” Wheatley told BW. “We have establishments that have decided to have slot machines. We call them 8-liners in our world.”

Wheatley said his crew isn’t going to be pulling anyone’s license—yet.

“But this is a notification that we’re getting serious about this, and at some point, it’s going to come down on them. Right now, we’re looking for voluntary compliance rather than go that route.”

And it’s not just slot machines, or 8-liners, that have become a problem.

“We’re having a heck of a time with card games as well,” he said. “Poker has really taken off since they start putting it on TV. Well, that’s completely fine. But where people get in trouble is when they gamble.

And in a licensed establishment, well alcohol licensees are held to another standard.

That’s Idaho statute.”

Idaho Code 23-928 prohibits any licensee that sells liquor by the drink from gaming, including any premises that are connected to the licensed location by a door or hallway. Operators of bingo or pari-mutuel licensees are exempt.

“For those that decide they don’t want to go that route, we’ll institute procedures, either administratively or criminally,” Wheatley told BW. —George Prentice

It was a full house.

“In addition to the people operating the gambling operations, there were probably nine or 10 in one location and another seven or eight at the other,” said Boise Police Sgt. Mike Harrington. “And there were two operations running, not just one.”

All bets were off when Harrington and his vicenarcotics unit raided two locations July 16—one in the 4400 block of West Emerald Street and the other in the 4700 block of Emerald.

More than a few eyebrows were raised when the Boise Police Department announced that it had busted up the operations, resulting in a slew of citations for alleged gamblers and criminal charges against four adults, three of them members of the same family: 59-year-old Timothy Lough; his 60-year-old wife, Jo Anne Lough, and their 33-year-old son, Travis Lough, all from Meridian.

Along with 32-year-old David Deboer, also of Meridian, all four were each charged with a misdemeanor count of gambling. Deboer has already pleaded not guilty and faces a jury trial, set to begin Thursday, Oct. 3. The three Loughs will first face a judge during their Wednesday, Aug. 14, arraignment at the Ada County Courthouse.

Apart from the rarity of seeing a father, mother and son arrested at the same time, it was equally surprising to see a gambling bust on the BPD police blotter.

Harrington ought to know; he’s been on the force for 30 years, 20 of them with the BANDIT unit—that’s the Boise Area Narcotics Drug Interdiction Team.

“We’ve had very, very few gambling arrests,” said Harrington, who has led BANDIT since 2003. “This is the first time I personally participated in the bust of a gambling operation. Most of the time, we send our community policing team to a gambling complaint and they usually issue a warning,” he said.

When Boise Weekly and other media outlets reported the July 16 bust, some online comments pushed back against the arrests.

“This disgusts me that this is news,” wrote blogger Barden Barnes at boiseweekly.com.

“We sure have become extremely conservative,” wrote a blogger dubbed Biglar.

“Very lame to have a law making this illegal, even worse spending the money to enforce it,” wrote Wilson at idahostatesman.com.

“I read the blogs,” said Harrington. “For those people thinking Boise Police is regu-

larly going after gambling operations, we’re not. We’re addressing the complaints of our citizens. Maybe some people don’t care. But the businesses next door to these particular gambling operations did care.”

And that was what made this bust different, said Harrington: The alleged gambling operations were in a business park. “[It was] complaints from businesses that triggered our investigation,” he said.

Boise Weekly also learned that a monthlong investigation into the alleged gambling operation included detectives who infiltrated the gambling ring undercover.

“It’s going to be pretty hard for the operators to dispute this,” said Harrington. “We had people inside.”

Harrington said it’s typical for his crew to give a verbal warning when they first call on a complaint of gambling.

“When we address a complaint, we tell those people that may have been gambling to shut it down and we won’t take any further action. Well, most of them shut it down,” said Harrington. “But in this case, it was my decision that we were going to give citations to the gamblers and arrest the facilitators.”

When police started reading people their rights, Harrington said some of the alleged gamblers were incredulous.

“People inside those gambling establishments said, ‘You warned us last time. Why didn’t you warn us again?’” said Harrington.

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(Left to right) Jo Anne Lough, 60; Timothy Lough, 59; Travis Lough, 33; and David Deboer, 32, were all charged with gambling during a raid by the Boise Police Department’s BANDIT unit July 16.

progressive action; they want to bet more money more frequently and they experience a restlessness or irritability when they attempt to stop.”

Fludd said there is no poster child to represent the problem gambler.

“We’re talking about pastors and grandmothers,” she said. “Most recently, I’ve heard of an 11-year-old calling our national helpline [1-800-522-4700]. That’s terribly young.”

Fludd said the ever-expanding popularity of Internet-based gambling is a chief culprit.

“It’s the next big thing,” she said. “You’re seeing it on social media sites. Take, for instance, Facebook. It has games on its site that you can buy into and can play for rewards.

It’s there in your home anytime you want it. And this way, the addict becomes very isolated.”

The National Center on Problem Gambling helped create the Idaho/Utah chapter because of what Fludd called increasing risks to residents of the Intermountain West.

“We’re seeing many people in the state of Idaho who just can’t deal with the problem effectively,” she said. “And we’re connected closely with Gamblers Anonymous in Idaho.”

But when Boise Weekly tried to access an Idaho chapter of Gamblers Anonymous, we could only find four ongoing meetings in the entire state, none of them in the Treasure Valley. Three of the weekly GA meetings, in Coeur d’Alene, Pocatello and Twin Falls, are closed —reserved for addicts only—and one, in Idaho Falls, is considered open, meaning friends and family of an addict are welcome to attend.

Fludd was quick to add that her organization takes “a neutral stance” on legalized gambling, understanding, for example, that betting on state lotteries are legal forms of recreation.

“But even lotteries can be compulsive.

We’ve heard people call our national hotline that have spent an entire paycheck or entire Social Security check on a lottery,” said Fludd, who added that the state of Idaho has never spent a dime of public funding for the treatment or prevention of problem gambling. She said she was anxious to reach out to the Idaho Lottery Division to have an ongoing dialogue.

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State lottery.

“But yes, we’re in contact with the National Center for Problem Gambling and we have regular dialogue,” said Jeff Anderson, who since 2007 has served as the dual-director of both the Idaho Lottery and Idaho State Liquor Commission (BW, Citizen, “Jeff Anderson,” March 6, 2013).

Anderson said the lottery division was not the go-to agency to deal with compulsive gambling issues.

“We have ‘play responsibly’ messages on all of our lottery tickets and in our advertising, but statutorily, we’re not charged with overseeing or funding [gambling prevention] programs,” he said.

By all accounts, Idaho State Lottery is a successful business model—perhaps the most successful in Idaho. With no revenues from Idaho’s General Fund, the lottery grew to nearly $198 million in sales for FY 2013. And the lottery returned record annual dividends to the state, totaling $48.2 million, the largest return in Idaho’s history. The dividends were divided among the Idaho Department of Education, the state’s Permanent Building Fund and Bond Levy Equalization Fund.

“Our mission is to maximize that dividend for our beneficiaries,” said Anderson. “If we can responsibly manage the ticket portfolio to make sure we’re meeting consumer needs and interest, then we’re doing our job. But there’s not a lot we can do about jackpots.”

And for those who think the record-setting jackpots in recent Powerball drawings drive lottery sales—on Aug. 7, winners shared a jackpot of $448 million—Anderson said the real winner for the lottery were instant winners, such as scratch tickets.

“Of the $198 million in Fiscal Year 2013, $108 million were scratch games,” said Anderson, who added that the lottery was always looking to introduce new, “fresh” games. “A scratch game is something we can control.

When the last top prize is claimed, another takes its place. We introduce as many as 50 games each year.”

Anderson said the lottery regularly ramps up its “play responsibly” message, especially when the jackpots get considerable.

“When that jackpot gets big, like it did recently, you start to hear more messages on

the radio and television that encourage people to play what they can afford. It’s supposed to be fun.”

But he cautioned that the lottery is a very sober enterprise.

“We take our job very seriously. It’s a terribly complicated business,” said Anderson.

A part of Idaho Lottery’s responsibility includes management of charitable gaming. In fact, a full-time position at the agency is dedicated solely to the oversight of the scores of raffles, bingo operations and casino nights that fill the social calendar throughout the year.

“There are limits to what those operations can allocate to administrative costs and the minimums that must go to charity,” said Anderson. “If you’re continuing to run afoul of the statute, we have to deal with it.”

Boise-based Aardvark Entertainment runs many of the larger casino nights for charities.

“We’ve done several casino nights for the large fundraisers, like the Idaho Foodbank,” said Aardvark employee Ruth Wagner. “Roulette, craps, blackjack, you name it. We just did a big event for St. Luke’s.”

Wagner told Boise Weekly that her company’s employees serve as professional dealers but understand all of Idaho’s limitations— which set charity casino nights apart from the illicit games that the Lough family and Deboer were charged with operating.

“We have to be very careful,” she added.

“No money ever crosses hands. But everybody gets great bragging rights. And that’s better than cash. It’s all about the charity.”

Anderson said charitable gaming events require a license obtained through his division.

And for those that aren’t on the up-and-up, they face possible prosecution.

“We have our own enforcement division,” he said. “There have been instances in the past where people have been doing illegal things.

They’ve been shut down and prosecuted.”

Meanwhile, Boise Police Sgt. Harrington said his BANDIT unit isn’t going to be “looking at everybody’s poker night,” charitable or not.

“That will never happen,” he told BW. “We understand it’s an old law, but it does exist. Perhaps it will be changed in the future.

Who knows? But we’re sworn to uphold the law.”

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HURLEY AND EVELYN LEGG All’s fair GEORGE PRENTICE God only knows where he would put another trophy.

“Yeah, I’ve got one or two,” said Hurley Legg, 89, with a grin.

But when we stepped inside the home of Hurley and Evelyn, his bride of nearly 63 years, practically every square inch of countertops, shelves and mantle space overflowed with trophies.

Hurley has shown numerous animals, particularly draft horses, for decades at the Western Idaho Fair, which runs Aug. 16-25 at the Expo fairgrounds in Garden City.

“I haven’t missed one in 37 years,” he said.

But the real fair veteran is Evelyn, who will turn 81 years old on Aug. 18, when the fair will be going full-tilt. She worked in the fair’s premium office for 35 years and served as the office’s manager for 26 years, overseeing all bookkeeping for each of the fair’s departments before retiring in 2007.

When Boise Weekly asked fair officials to talk with someone about the annual event, past and present, they didn’t hesitate a moment before suggesting Evelyn and Hurley.

BW visited the Leggs’ back porch to sit a spell—in rocking chairs, of course—and talk with this fair-minded couple, while no less than a mule, draft horses, giant steer and their dog, Tuff, looked on.

How did the two of you meet?

Hurley: On horseback. We took a ride out in the country, back when there were no fences.

Evelyn: It was 1946. I was still in Meridian High School, and when I graduated in 1950, we were married that same year.

How many children do you have?

Hurley: Two boys and a girl.

Evelyn: Plus six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Hurley, I hear that you still go to work every day.

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Hurley: I’ve worked for Wheeler Farms for 63 years. Today, I do whatever needs to get done. I’ve been mowing hay lately, now it’s time to start baling.

How long have you been showing your mules and horses?

Evelyn: In 1977, he started exhibiting mules, and then he went to draft horses.

Hurley: One year, I had nine head at the fair.

Did you have favorite draft horses?

Hurley: You have good ’uns

and bad ’uns.

Evelyn: It’s true.

Hurley: I like the hamburgers.

But which were the best?

Hurley: That had to be Belle and Blackie. I used them 15 years.

What else do you like to do?

Evelyn: I like the carnival.

And how about this year?

Hurley: I’ve got Kate and Kim. Evelyn: They’ll be driven in four different classes: Hurley, the kids, the grandkids and this year, our great-grandson, Trevor, is going to give it a try.

To watch?

Evelyn: Goodness, no. To ride.

Hurley. You name it, she’ll ride it.

Evelyn: I love that tilt-a-wheel.

I went on twice last year with my granddaughter.

What was it like for you, Evelyn, working at the fair year in and year out?

Evelyn: When I first started, everything was done by hand with paper. I always thought it was fun, as long as your work was planned out ahead of time. I worked for seven different managers.

You must have known thousands of competitors over the years.

Evelyn: I used to be pretty good, but now, I see them and I can’t remember their names, but I can usually tell you what kind of animal they showed.

Do you like fair food? [Evelyn let out a big laugh.] Why are you laughing?

Hurley: She would walk from here to the fair for a Pronto Pup.

How about you Hurley?

Hurley: No. But don’t you watch?

Hurley: No. Evelyn, the kids must love that you like the rides.

Evelyn: Some of the older kids won’t do it, but my granddaughter goes with me.

Hurley, I must point out that we’ve got a steer looking at us from the other field.

Hurley: He was the son of a grand champion. He probably weighs 1,100 pounds now.

Did you name him?

Hurley: Oh, no. He’s for eatin’ You don’t name the steer. He’ll end up as T-bones. I know; I’ll call him Mr. T.

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Mike and Deb Courtnay say they would have chosen a different location for their new home if they knew nearby land would become an acid whey wash water pond.

Mike and Deb Courtnay can count miles between their neighbors’ homes east of Hollister, where nameless, numbered roads stretch straight and remain off the GPS grid.

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The trucks hauled the Greek yogurt industry’s biggest quandary and a smelly secret: gallons and gallons of acid whey-spiked wash water.

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Along with the economic impact that comes with the roughly 1,000 full- and part-time workers

Chobani now employs in the area came hunis nasty. Really nasty,� Mike Courtnay said. dreds of thousands of gallons of acid whey—a “I was raised on a farm that had 3,000 pigs manufacturing byproduct of Greek yogurt—to and we had whey,� Deb said. “And it is not a bad Hollister-area farmland.

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Until science catches up with Americans’ “Instead of wasting it, let’s use it,â€? Gibby said. demands for Greek yogurt, much of Chobani’s That’s exactly what he did, applying the YJG[ VTCXGNU UQWVJ VQ VJG HCTONCPF VJCV PGKIJwhey-infused contents of his irrigation pond to bors the Courtnays, where it’s dumped into an ir- PGKIJDQTKPI Ć‚GNFU CU C HGTVKNK\GTtC RTCEVKEG JG rigation pond, mixed with water EJCTCEVGTK\GU CU CP GEQ CPF CRRNKGF VQ Ć‚GNFU CU C HTKGPFN[ CNVGTPCVKXG VQ soil amendment. chemical soil amend6JG YJG[ CTTKXGU XKC ments. “I don’t know tanker truck, suspended p(CTOGTU CNN QXGT CRif you’ve smelled in a wash water slurry that ply acid to soil to release whey or not. picks up traces of whey as nutrients,â€? he added.

It is nasty.

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operation up the road. The questions paralleled concerns from neighbors near Chobani’s New York plant. “There’s the potential for mismanagement that could cause some groundwater concerns,�

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phenomenon in the U.S.,� he said.

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Protein, Pain and Profit A chobani.com cartoon paints a picture of how milk becomes a container of Chobani yogurt. “Our local farmers bring us fresh milk,�

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One container of yogurt yields about three containers of whey plus a dose of whey-infused wash water from factory processing. And that 3-1 ratio keeps milk scientists busy. “Whey produced in cheese making has a different composition, pH balance and nutritional make-up. These differences mean our YJG[ JCU VQ DG WUGF KP CP CNVGTPCVKXG OCPPGT than cheese whey,â€? said Chobani spokeswomCP .CWTC *GTDGTV YJQ PQVGF VJCV VJG EQORCP[ KPXGUVU KP GHHQTVU CPF TGUGCTEJ VQ Ć‚PF OQTG uses for acid whey.

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The largest yogurt factory in the world sits on the Southern outskirts of Twin Falls.

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family was seriously injured in a farming accident. Neighbors kept the family dairy running for months in his absence. “We really are genuine people,� Deb said of her neighbors. “Most of the farms that are out JGTG JCXG DGGP HCTOGF HQT IGPGTCVKQPU q Much of Hollister and the surrounding area quietly slept through decades of state growth, where shells of old buildings from a generation ago still stand and neighbors notice little changes like a new porch addition on a house.

Alfalfa, wheat, irrigation and cows still occupy most people’s time. A local ordinance that limits residential building to one unit per 160 acres makes the Hollister area a quiet place, neighbors say.

The quiet ended in March, said Hollister GZECXCVKQP EQPVTCEVQT %CTN ,QPGU The Jones Place sits slightly north and across the road from the irrigation pond that took in shipments of Chobani’s cast-off whey. The

loads ran 24/7 and shook Jones’ trailer. In three were campers who complained and pulled out months, neighbors guess that 1,000 truckloads early,� said Nat-Soo-Pah owner Jim Herman. passed Jones’ home. He couldn’t sleep.

And the farmland festered. “There really wasn’t anything you can do,â€? “I did smell it a couple of times. It was pretty Jones said. rank,â€? Herman said. ,QPGU CPF JKU PGKIJDQTU ECNNGF GXGT[ IQXGTPAt one point, a Nat-Soo-Pah maintenance OGPV CIGPE[ VJG[ EQWNF VJKPM QH VT[KPI VQ Ć‚PF worker thought something had died in the solutions to what Mike Courtnay puts in the RQQNoU XCEWWO TQQO nuisance category. Calls to Chobani represen6JGP TWOQTU DGICP VQ Ćƒ[ VCVKXGU YGPV WPCPUYGTGF %QPXGTUCVKQPU YKVJ 0GKIJDQTU UC[ VJG[ JGCTF VJCV IQXGTPOGPV +FCJQ &'3 QHĆ‚EKCNU YGTG XCIWG agencies were told to look the other way and let “They just played dumb,â€? Jones said.

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alds for teen workers but plenty of factory jobs at the meat packing plant, sugar beet processor CPF PQY VJG %JQDCPK HCEVQT[ KP 6YKP (CNNU The December 2012 opening of the Chobani plant earned a nod on the Congressional TGEQTF CPF CHVGT VQWTKPI VJG 6YKP (CNNU RNCPV +FCJQ (CNNU PCVKXG CPF 4GRWDNKECP 7 5 5GP Mike Crapo, who joined lobbying efforts to get %JQDCPK QP UEJQQN NWPEJ OGPWU ICXG C DTQCF CEEQWPVKPI QH JKU HCXQTKVG %JQDCPK ĆƒCXQTU “I don’t know that there’s one kind that jumps out at me more than the others, but I can tell you that the kind I just had was blueberry and it was delicious,â€? Crapo told reporters.

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But Hollister farmers say they wouldn’t pour orange juice into their groundwater, either. p+H KV TKUGU VJG PKVTCVG NGXGN QH QWT YGNN KV YKNN be too late,� Mike Courtnay said.

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YJG[ HCNNU WPFGT 4KIJV VQ (CTO RTQVGEVKQPU 5QOG PGKIJDQTU VJKPM VJCV LWUVKĆ‚ECVKQP stinks, too. “The waste water that comes out of a factory is totally different than an agricultural product.

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The meeting yielded some concessions, Gibby said. He agreed to stop night shipments, TGTQWVG VTWEMU VQ CXQKF JKIJ VTCHƂE RCUV PGKIJbors’ homes, add odor-reducing amendments to the wash water and line the irrigation pond. p+P O[ QRKPKQP YGoXG IQPG CDQXG CPF beyond what we need to do, and I want to do more,� Gibby said.

On a mid-July day in the Hollister outskirts, the roads stood desolate and the air smelled QH ECVVNG CPF FGITGG DCMGF FKTV CPF UCIG The whey wash water shipments stalled for a moment. The supply just wasn’t coming in, Gibby said. p7RQP TGEGKXKPI KPSWKTKGU HTQO EKVK\GPU KP Hollister, we worked in partnership with our contractor to slow hauling to the Hollister site in order to allow time to fully assess and address the concerns of the community,� Herbert wrote.

1VJGT ECVVNG HGGF CPF HGTVKNK\GT EQPVTCEVU along with supplemental anaerobic digestion, processes much of Chobani’s whey and wash water for now. And for the moment, Hollisterarea neighbors cling to their respite of quiet and fresh air. “Currently, there’s no need to go to Hollister,� Gibby said. “When there’s a need, we’ll go there. There’s just no need now.�

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FRIDAY AUG. 16 chow down Do we really need an excuse to enjoy wine?

FRIDAY AUG. 16 imbibe WINEFEST “Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world,” wrote Ernest Hemingway, and let’s face it, he knew his booze.

Yet wine tasting and appreciation seem to be as divisive as one of those Magic Eye pictures—you either get it or you don’t. But even those who can’t tell a Chateauneuf-du-Pape from a ChambolleMusigny and couldn’t care less whether it’s served in an old boot or a fancy flute should find a variety they like among the more than 100 bottles—both domestic and imported—covering the gamut of wine styles at this year’s Wine Fest fundraiser for the Basque Museum and Cultural Center.

In its 16th year, the event combines the rich culture of the Basque community with a seemingly endless supply of reds and whites. Ensuring that nobody will be drinking on an empty stomach, a selection of restaurants along the Basque Block will lay out traditional pintxos, the Basque equivalent of tapas.

Boise’s own Oinkari Basque Dancers will put on a show for the drinkers, featuring their energetic routines. A silent auction will also run through the evening, and any wines that tickle your palate can be bought by the bottle or case.

Advanced tickets cost $30, with entry on the day-of for $35.

Admission includes a commemorative wine glass, which will no doubt be thoroughly seasoned by the end of the night.

5:30 p.m. $30-$35. Basque Block, 611W. Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

WEDNESDAYSATURDAY AUG. 14-17 giddy up CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO You don’t have to be a cowboy to appreciate watching one go head to head with a bucking bronco, and you need not have grown up around cattle to appreciate the guts it takes to

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climb aboard a full-grown bull.

Of course, it doesn’t hurt, but all you really need to enjoy the Caldwell Night Rodeo is a love for adrenaline-fueled sports, cold beer and a worthy cause.

The CNR kicked off its 79th annual slate of events on Tuesday, Aug. 13, but there are still four nights of bull riding, steer wrestling, cattle roping and rodeo queen crowning until it all wraps up Saturday, Aug. 17.

Wednesday is family night, when up to four children younger than

FOOD TRUCK RALLY The big dilemma with take-out is that there is so much choice.

Maybe tonight’s the night to chow on some Chinese. Or perhaps a pizza. Tacos take your fancy? What about a burger? It’s just too hard to decide. If they all sound good, then Friday, Aug. 16, is the perfect night for a round-the-world tour at the 36th Street Garden Plaza, where Boise’s monthly Food Truck Rally sets up shop.

Seven of Boise’s top food trucks will circle their wagons with a range of cuisine to satisfy even the fussiest eaters. Ever wonder what a Reuben sandwich would taste like in an egg roll? Voluptuous Vittles will be on hand to answer with its eclectic menu. For something more traditional, queue up at the solar-powered Po’ Bois truck for some classic Louisiana-style eats—Idaho meats with a N’awlins touch.

Fans of authentic Asian food can grab a tray of stir-fry from Riceworks, while Italian lovers can check out Free Range Pizza’s mobile wood-fired oven. Bringing it back to the U.S. of A., Saint Lawrence Gridiron’s “gastrotruck” has but one goal: a rotating Southerninspired menu that goes well with bourbon and beer. Finally, Calle 75 Street Tacos will fuse Idaho and Mexico into one glorious shell (corn or flour). How about a brisket taco braised in local craft beer?

And speaking of local craft beer, make sure you have your ID for some suds courtesy of Payette Brewing Company.

5 p.m. 36th Street Garden Plaza, 3858 N. Garden Center Way, Boise.

12 accompanied by an adult can get in for free. Thursday is Power of Pink night, when patrons are encouraged to wear the color for breast cancer awareness, while Friday’s Patriot Night benefits veterans and their families.

To keep up the giving spirit, Canyon County’s Man-Up Crusade against domestic violence will be auctioning a custom-made CNR belt buckle to support Hope’s Door women’s shelter.

The CNR closes with the Saturday night finals.

Those who can’t get enough rodeo action can buy an eventlong pass for $75, while adult admission Wednesday-Thursday costs $15, or $18 for Friday and Saturday performances.

Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m.; Rodeo 8 p.m. $8-$75. 121 N. 22nd Ave., Caldwell, 208-459-2060, caldwellnightrodeo.com.

SATURDAY AUG. 17 caliente PICNIC AT THE POPS Summer nights are perfect for breaking out the picnic baskets, sipping a few glasses of wine and liberally applying insect repellent. That combination also happens to be perfect for the Boise Philharmonic’s annual Picnic at the Pops.

The Philharmonic kicks off the second annual outdoor concert series, Saturday, Aug. 17, at 8 p.m. Conducted by Musical Director Robert Franz, the series opens with Latin Fever. With the assistance of Mexican folk artists Mariachi Tleyotltzin, Ballet Folklorico Lindo Idaho and dancers from Ballet Idaho, Latin Fever is a night of mariachi and Latin WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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deep fried fun WESTERN IDAHO FAIR Load up the family and follow the smell of corndogs and hay to Garden City for the 2013 Western Idaho Fair, running for 10 days Friday, Aug. 16-Sunday, Aug. 25.

The fair is nothing if not good, old-fashion fun with plenty of livestock shows and enough fair food to make your digestive system go on strike. This year’s carnival features two new rides to thrill the bejeezus out of adrenaline junkies young and old. The White Water Log Flume sends riders up steep embankments before careening down at high speeds for a thorough drenching. If swings are your thing, hop on the 100-foot-high Vertigo ride. This contraption dangles riders above the crowds in individual swings then, you know, swings them around.

After you’ve fully shocked your central nervous system, get back into your groove with one of the concerts included with the price of admission. Seven shows are set to fill Les Bois Park, including rock legend Foreigner on Tuesday, Aug. 20, and platinum-selling country artist Clay Walker on Friday, Aug. 23.

All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.

If all of this fun gets your stomach rumbling, fill your belly at the Bob-e-Que battle Friday, Aug. 23, at 1 p.m. Professional grillers square off in a battle to cook the finest animal proteins with signature sauces and flavors.

Tickets cost $8 for adults, $5 for children age 6-11 or free for kids ages 5 and younger, although fairgoers can get special deals during sponsored nights throughout the run of the fair.

Check the website for details.

Noon. FREE-$8. Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com.

music performed by a full orchestra and accompanied by traditional dance.

This year, Picnic at the Pops has relocated to Woodriver Cellars off Highway 16 in Eagle, and since it is a winery, there will be plenty of vino (as well as beer) available for sale. While audiences are encouraged to bring picnics, no outside alcoholic

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Music lovers can purchase a reserved table, chair or lawn seating, or try their luck with general admission lawn seating.

Blankets are welcome, but keep the lawn chairs to the low-backed variety. Food will also be available for purchase at the venue, as

bikes and brew TOUR DE FAT Riding bikes is fun, but throw in costumes and beer and it’s a party. Mark Saturday, Aug. 17, on the calendar, raid the back of the closet for a suitably ridiculous outfit and don’t forget to pump up the tires on your best two-wheeled, pedal-driven contraption for the return of Tour de Fat. Events kick off with the costumed bike parade through downtown. Registration begins at 10 a.m. in the park, followed by the parade at 11 a.m.

Crowds spend the rest of the day at Ann Morrison enjoying beer from event sponsor New Belgium Brewing—including the 8.5-percent Rampant Imperial IPA, a hoppy treat that is sure to make your pedals wobble with joy.

Check out live performances, including Honeymoon Cabaret, juggler and contortionist Scot Nery and husband-andwife yo-yo team Yo-Yo People, as well as music by Slow Ride, Fierce Bad Rabbit and Devotchka. The signature event will take place at 3:30 p.m., when one Boisean hands over his or her car for a year, vowing to only get around via bicycle.

While admission is free, proceeds from a suggested $5 donation for the parade will benefit Boise Bicycle Project, Southwest Idaho Mountain Biking Association and the Treasure Valley Cycling Alliance.

10 a.m. FREE-$5. Ann Morrison Park, 1000 Americana Blvd., Boise, newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat.

will special bottles of wine bearing the orchestra’s own label. Proceeds from the sale of these bottles will go to support the Phil.

Parking is free, and tickets are available online and at the orchestra office in Boise until 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16. Kids ages 12 and younger can get in for $5.

The series will con-

Guitar picks are like pennies: nearly worthless and almost always found in couch cushion crevices and under refrigerators. Not so with Boise-based Fire and Void Studios, which elevates the guitar pick to an art form.

Using materials like ornate Brazilian agate and morrisonite—a rare jasper found in the Owyhee mountains of Idaho and Oregon—Fire and Void owner and craftsman Hauns Smyver creates rounded jazz picks and traditional guitar picks that truly put the rock in rock ’n’ roll.

Painstakingly shaped from stones whose hardness lends each one a unique strumming sound, the intricate color patterns of quartz fireandvoid.com and obsidian $15-$55 created through millions of years of heat and pressure truly put cheap, plastic picks to shame. While your common guitar pick runs about 25 cents nowadays, these cost between $15-$55, prompting you to treat them better than pocket change.

To add the finishing touches to your musician’s getup, peruse Fire and Void’s selection of volcano-forged jewelr y—handcrafted using quartz and obsidian from just under our feet.

Whether it’s body decorations, art pieces or a one-of-akind guitar pick, you’ll feel one with the Earth.

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tinue with two more shows: Space, featuring the music of Star Wars, Star Trek and ET, on Saturday, Aug. 24; and Americana on Friday, Aug. 30, featuring Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.”

8 p.m. $20 lawn, $35 chairs, $275 reserved tables. Woodriver Cellars, 3705 Highway 16, Eagle, boisephilharmonic.org.

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Festivals and Events CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO—Check out calf-roping, bucking broncos and more. See Picks, Page 16. 17. Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m., Rodeo 8 p.m. $15-$75.

Caldwell, caldwellnightrodeo. com.

On Stage KING RICHARD III—Shakespeare’s tale of the bloody rise and fall of the last monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty. 8 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Talks & Lectures GEOTHERMAL BOISE—A discussion of Boise’s geothermal system. Presented by John Gardner and John Tensen.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Micron Business and Economics Building, 2360 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

THURSDAY AUG. 15 Festivals & Events CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO—See Wednesday. Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m., Rodeo 8 p.m. $15-$75. Caldwell, caldwellnightrodeo.com.

SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL—Featuring The Tempest. 6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington, Ketchum, 208-726-8118, nextstagetheater.org.

On Stage KING RICHARD III—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$41.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Literature ADULT SUMMER READING FINALE—The Meridian Library’s Adult Summer Reading program ends with singer-songwriter Dan Costello, Boise poet laureate Diane Raptosh, author Alan Heathcock and humorist Amanda Turner. Hyde Park Books will sell books and CDs by the special guests. Refreshments will be served. Recommended for ages 16 and older. 7 p.m. FREE. Meridian Public Library, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 208-8884451, mld.org.

AUTHOR ALLY CONDIE—Awardwinning author of the bestselling Matched trilogy shares insights into her books and writing process, followed by a signing.

Books available for purchase

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Fleet Street Klezmer Band released its debut album with a party Aug. 8.

FREYLEKH FANS For most of Fleet Street Klezmer Band’s Thursday, Aug. 8 show at the Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel synagogue, the band’s leader sat off to the side of the stage.

Rashe Kostenko—Shlomo and Victoria Kostenko’s oldest child—thinks she’s the leader, anyway.

“She’s 10, but she’s already 14,” said Victoria Kostenko, rolling her eyes.

Rashe was far from the only child in the crowd. An audience composed mainly of parents and children cheered, whistled and clapped to the beat as Fleet Street Klezmer Band celebrated the release of its debut album, Vodka and Pickles.

The fervent reception reflected the strong support that the local band has received from its fanbase in recent months. In May, Fleet Street Klezmer Band launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds for printing CDs. On May 29—22 days into the campaign’s 27-day funding period—the group announced on Facebook that it had already reached its $1,300 goal. The album is now available from Amazon and CDbaby.com.

The release party performance was worthy of such support. The set began with “Hongu and Freylekhs,” a traditional klezmer song which Shlomo Kostenko said he first heard on the 1996 compilation Klezmer Music: A Marriage of Heaven and Earth (the song also appears on Vodka and Pickles). This was fitting: Kostenko credits the tune with igniting his love for klezmer music—a free-wheeling melange of folk music styles performed in, and drawn from, Jewish communities in the United States, Europe and Central Asia.

Local group Hillfolk Noir opened for FSKB; and, while bassist Mike Waite didn’t play this gig, the nimble country-blues guitar, sprightly washboard playing and the spooky musical saw work of Travis and Allison Ward managed just fine on their own.

The concert also featured skillful solo and group performances by Starbelly Dancers, a local belly dance ensemble led by Cecilia Rinn. Rinn—who also runs Starbelly SEEDs, an after-school program that offers lessons in dance and self-sufficiency to teenage girls—performed during Fleet Street Klezmer Band’s set, along with local belly dancer Za’Nyah Zi. Fleet Street’s set featured some impromptu dancing as well. Rashe Kostenko twirled around during a few songs, employing a pink parasol and a light blue shawl. Brianna Lad, the 6-year-old cousin of FSKB accordion player Matthew Vorhies’ wife, Charlotte, mimicked Rinn and Zi’s graceful moves, much to the delight of the crowd.

“I think someone just stole the show,” said Shlomo Kostenko.

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8 DAYS OUT from Rediscovered Books. 2 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208384-4200, boisepubliclibrary.org

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Ketchum, 208-726-8118, nextstagetheater.org.

36th Street Garden Plaza, 3858 N. Garden Center Way, Boise.

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—Get your fill of deep fried goods, carnival rides and live concerts.

See Picks, Page 17. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

HAIL TO THE QUEEN—Learn to prepare clams cooked with coconut milk, fried chicken patties with red curry paste, cucumber salad, Asian long beans in chili sauce and rice with peaches.

6:30 $60. Fuel for the Soul, LLC, 1941 N. 18th St., Boise, 208342-7118, fuelforthesoulboise. com.

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30TH ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION—Gem State Developmental Center celebrates its 30th anniversary with a ribbon cutting, talent show, facility tours and refreshments.

Call for more info. 1 p.m. FREE. Gem State Developmental Center, 818 N.W. 15th St., Meridian, 208-888-5566, gsdcdda.com.

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT—Comedian, actor, writer and director Bobcat Goldthwait unleashes his one-of-a-kind brand of comedy.

See Arts, Page 24. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET— A barber returns to London to exact revenge on the judge who abducted his wife and sentenced him to exile in this musical thriller. 8 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208336-9221, idahoshakespeare. org.

AMERICAN PI HACKSPACE TOUR—Featuring an informal talk and Q&A session with Raspberry Pi Foundation developer Rob Bishop and a hands-on workshop. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Micron Engineering Center, 1000-1098 S. Manitou Ave., Boise, coen.boisestate.edu.

CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO—See Wednesday. Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m., Rodeo 8 p.m. $15-$75. Caldwell, caldwellnightrodeo.com.

Food & Drink FOOD TRUCK RALLY—Check out offerings from Calle 75 Street Tacos, Riceworks, Free Range Pizza and more. See Picks, Page 16. 5 p.m. FREE.

SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL— See Thursday.

6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington streets,

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WINEFEST AT THE BASQUE BLOCK—Presented by the Basque Museum and Cultural Center, featuring more than 100 domestic and imported wines.

See Picks, Page 16. 5:30 p.m. $30-$35. Basque Block, 611 Grove St., Boise, 343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

Kids & Teens LOCK-IN FOR KIDS—Stay locked in at the Nampa Rec Center all night. Kids enjoy movies, swimming, games and a pizza party. A male and female supervisor are with the children all night. Children should bring a sleeping bag, swim suit, towel and clothes to sleep in. For ages 6-12. 7 p.m. $20-$25. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-4685858, namparecreation.org.

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CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO—See Wednesday. Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m., Rodeo 8 p.m. $15-$75. Caldwell, caldwellnightrodeo.com.

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SAWTOOTH SHOW AND SHINE—Check out classic cars and enter a raffle to win a 1996 Ford F100. Raffle tickets are $50, car registration is $10.

10 a.m. FREE. Mountain Village Resort, 3 Eva Falls Ave., Stanley, 208-774-3661, mountainvillage. com.

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SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL—See Thursday.

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Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

KING RICHARD III—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$41.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Concerts BOISE PHILHARMONIC’S PICNIC AT THE POPS: LATIN FEVER—Enjoy mariachi and Latin music with Boise Philharmonic. See Picks, Page 16. 7:30 p.m. $5-$35, $275 table of four. Woodriver Cellars, 3705 N. Hwy. 16, Eagle, 208-286-9463, woodrivercellars. com.

SUNDAY AUG. 18 Festivals & Events SAWTOOTH SHOW AND SHINE—See Saturday. 10 a.m.

FREE. Mountain Village Resort, 3 Eva Falls Ave., Stanley, 208-7743661, mountainvillage.com.

SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL—See Thursday.

6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington streets, Ketchum, 208-726-8118, nexstagetheater.org.

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

On Stage KING RICHARD III—See Wednesday. 7 p.m. $12-$41.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

youth, refugees and kids who couldn’t otherwise afford to go to summer camp. For ages 6-18.

1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-559-0065, boiserockschool.com

tiary cemetery. 7 p.m. FREE-$5.

Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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THE CABIN LATE SUMMER CLASSES-URBAN INK—Explore your town, coffee shops, public art and urban life while learning to write stories and poetry rooted in observation. Call to register. 9 a.m. $135-$165.

The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL CAMP— See Monday. 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-5590065, boiserockschool.com

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THE CABIN LATE SUMMER CLASSES-WORDPLAY—Explore nearby parks, the rose garden, the library and take a field trip to the zoo for inspiration. Call to register. 9 a.m. $135-$165.

The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.

Festivals & Events WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

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BEER AND WINE TASTINGS—A rotating selection of wines and beers. 5 p.m. $10. Tres Bonne Cuisine, 6555 W. Overland Road, Boise, 658-1364, tresbonnescuisine.com.

Festivals & Events WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

On Stage SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET— See Friday. 8 p.m. $12-$41.

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

On Stage KING RICHARD III—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$41.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Workshops & Classes BOISE ROCK SCHOOL CAMP— See Monday. 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.

FREE. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-5590065, boiserockschool.com

Talks & Lectures THE DEAD AND BURIED—Amber Beierle discusses inmates buried at the Old Idaho Peniten-

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

Concerts MUSIC FROM STANLEY—Featuring Interstate with Fiona Luray. 4 p.m. FREE. Redfish Lake Lodge, Hwy. 75 to Redfish Lake Road, Stanley, 208-774-3536, musicfromstanley.com.

MONDAY AUG. 19 Festivals & Events WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

Workshops & Classes BOISE ROCK SCHOOL CAMP— A week of free rocking for at-risk

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WE’RE ALL MAD HERE Wicked Wonderland Empire taking over the underworld BEN SCHULTZ It started with Ginger Christiansen’s birthday party.

About 12 years ago, Christiansen was dancing and tending bar at the Torch 2. She approached the club’s owner, Darrell Barrett, with an idea for a fetish-themed event that would tie in with her big day.

“It happened, and it was a massive hit,” she said. “[Barrett] was really happy, and so he put me in charge of running events for the club.”

Eventually, Christiansen began booking shows at other bars with the help of her then-boyfriend, a fellow goth scene regular known as The Mad Hatter. These efforts led her to form her own production company, Wicked Wonderland.

Now called Wicked Wonderland Empire, Christiansen’s company has organized or sponsored events in Boise; Seattle (her current home base); Bellingham, Wash.; New Orleans; and Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has booked two upcoming local Ginger Christiansen: From Boise goth scene ambassador to empress of Wicked Wonderland. events, Red Room’s Sunday, Aug. 18, release party for Italian industrial-techno band XP8’s album Adrenochrome, and The touring with her Boise-based (now Seattle-based) band Lithium “Within six months of then, we had a birthday party at the Shredder’s Electric Tea Party on Saturday, Aug. 24. The latter Dolls. They met after a show at the Highline Bar and got to Cafe Ole and 35 people showed up,” Lockary said. “All of a will feature Chicago-based EDM artist V1rtual D3scent. know each other during Christiansen’s subsequent visits. sudden, I had friends.”

In addition to promoting live shows, Wicked Wonderland Her savvy handling of concerts persuaded Kiefer that she Lockary now volunteers with hospitality for major Wicked Empire launched a music label this year with assistance from could manage her own music label. “She was smart and she Wonderland Empire events, which average about six or seven a Seattle-based independent recording company Grammercy year, by feeding and sheltering touring performers at her house. didn’t seem like she was too crazy—or inappropriately crazy— Records. Its debut release, The Death of Alice: A Compilation because I think everyone is in the music business, no matter Wes Malvini, booker for Red Room, characterized Chrisof Goth, Industrial and Other Dark Music from Beyond the what aspect you’re involved with,” he said.

Looking Glass, appeared in May. Featuring artists ranging from tiansen and Soward as “extremely professional [and] polite.”

From there, it wasn’t too much of a leap to running a label.

“They put the needs of their community above anything else, local groups The Acrotomoans and Satyr Co. to Russian indus“When you’re doing live promotion,” Kiefer added, “you’re trial band Roppongi Inc. Project, it is available on Amazon and that’s for sure,” he said. “Even before money or anything like already halfway there—if not more than halfway there—to that.” iTunes, as well as at the local clothing store Subspace. being able to start a record label, publishing company, things Malvini cited the deals that come with Wicked Wonderland While Christiansen dubbed her company—which now has Empire’s membership card as examples of the company’s gener- like that.” branches in Boise, Seattle and New Orleans—an “empire,” For her part, Christiansen said that Grammercy’s straightforosity toward the local goth community.

James Soward (better known in the Boise goth scene as DJ ward business practices attracted her.

“Anybody with those cards gets in for free to their events Bones) was less sweeping in his description.

“Even if it’s a $2 check, you pay your checks on time. Don’t “Ginger’s passion is seeing the scenes grow in the goth world or for extreme discounts,” he said. “And obviously, there’s exbe dicks; just because you can take an extra 2 percent by calling penses that need to be paid, so they’re going to make a little bit [or] the goth/industrial world,” he said, “and going from being it something doesn’t mean that you should,” she said. of money back. It’s not charity work. But by no means would I a scene to being a community.”

Kiefer coached Christiansen on the legal aspects of the music say that they’re a greedy group.”

According to Soward—who currently books, promotes and business, such as copyright and intellectual property law. GramMalvini’s only difficulty in working with Christiansen and handles sound for Wicked Wonderland Empire’s Boise events— mercy Records also handles distribution for Wicked Wondercompany involved advance notice of booking. local goths were split before Christiansen began promoting.

“They don’t think ahead a whole lot on stuff,” he explained. land Empire, manufacturing CDs for sale, as well as employing “We all had a common frame of mind, but we didn’t really “So a lot of times, I’d have to pass on an its direct agreements with iTunes, Rhapsody and other online talk to each other,” he said. retailers. In exchange for these services, Grammercy receives a event that I knew would be successful In those days, he added, Christiansen percentage of Wicked Wonderland Empire’s net income from its because I was already booked up. But served as “the ambassador between all WICKED WONDERLAND EMPIRE music label. they only gave me a month notice, and the little cliques, scenes and groups.”

XP8 CD release party. Sunday, Aug. 18, Neither Christiansen nor Kiefer could provide exact sales figusually, I book six to eight weeks out.”

Today, Boise’s goths are a more 9 p.m., $2. Red Room, 1519 Main St. ures for The Death of Alice—various outlets were still sending By her own admission, Christiansen cohesive group. Wicked Wonderland Electric Tea Party with special guest V1rtual them records for first quarter sales, they said—but Christiansen didn’t think ahead much when she Empire even offers a membership card D3scent. Saturday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m., $5 adv., estimated that they had sold “a few hundred [copies] at least.” moved from Boise to Seattle, but somevia its website and Facebook page. Cost$7 door. The Shredder, 430 S. 10th St. Wicked Wonderland Empire’s second release, Lafayette, thing drew her to the Emerald City. ing $30 to purchase and $25 to renew, More info at facebook.com/pages/ La.-based SINthetik Messiah’s EP Revelations of the Nintendo “I went and visited several cities to the cards allow holders to attend many Wicked-Wonderland-Empire.

Generation, appeared in July. Christiansen and Soward declined ... make up my mind and decide where major events for free, including the Electo give precise details but said that new music and concerts I wanted to go. And there were a lot of tric Tea Party and the annual Fetish Ball. would be coming soon. good choices [but] this one called to me right now,” she said.

Cardholders also receive discounts on purchases from select But for all of her ambition, Christiansen—who remains close Christiansen added that she hadn’t planned to start a music local vendors such as Subspace and Oh Look! Shiny Creations. with people in the Boise community—keeps her ultimate goal Trina Lockary, a longtime member of the Boise goth commu- label after moving to Seattle, either. When the people at Grammodest: mercy Records encouraged her to do so, she jumped at the nity, experienced Christiansen’s ambassadorial efforts firsthand “Getting to hang out with freaky people, doing freaky back in 2004. She went downtown one night “dressed all goth- chance. things, having fun, making art and just being together with Vaughn Kiefer, co-owner and president of Grammercy Rey” and was being harassed. Christiansen introduced herself and those sorts of people,” she said. cords, said that he first encountered Christiansen while she was invited Lockary to join her at the Balcony.

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THE MELVINS, AUG. 14, NEUROLUX We live in a time of brevity. We transmit our thoughts in 140 characters. We don’t chuckle or guffaw; we LOL. Everything is fleeting. Sticking with something for a day is laudable. Sticking with something for 30 years exhibits a tenacity and resolve that should be celebrated.

The Melvins’ swampy distorted sound has been oozing across the rock music landscape for the past three decades, playing around 100 shows a year. The seminal post-punk band is celebrating with a 30th-anniversary tour this year, and this is a party you don’t want to miss.

—Amy Atkins With Honky, 8 p.m., , $17 adv., $20 door. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s JOSH RITTER AND THE ROYAL CITY BAND—With The Milk Carton Kids. 7 p.m. $30-$40.

River Run Lodge KEN HARRIS AND CARMEL CROCK—7 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

GAYLE CHAPMAN—6 p.m.

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JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

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PATIO CONCERT SERIES: GREG AND JOHNNY—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

JENNIE WAYNE—8 p.m. $3.

Flying M Coffeegarage

JUICY KARKASS—7 p.m. $5.

The Crux

JOSH RITTER AND THE ROYAL CITY BAND—8:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. Egyptian Theatre

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

RACHEL BEAL—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Cosmic Pizza REBECCA SCOTT—7:45 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub THE RIDGELANDS—With Skitish-Itz. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE—6 p.m. FREE. The Crux SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears

THURSDAY AUG. 15 ADAM CHAVARRIA—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Reef ADVENTURE CLUB—8 p.m. $23-$50. Knitting Factory

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8 p.m.

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LEE COREY OSWALD—With Sed Non Satiata, Carrion Spring and Reverie. 9 p.m. $5. The Crux

ESCAPE 2 WHICH MOUNTAIN? TOUR—With Oso Negro, Zac HB, John Weighn, Finemin and Cogent. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux

LEON RUSSELL—7:30 p.m. $28-$50. Knitting Factory MELVINS—With Honky. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $17 adv., $20 door. Neurolux

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OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

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

L’ANARCHISTE BOISE CELLO COLLECTIVE—8 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective LIONSWEB—With Grandma Kelsey. 7 p.m. FREE. Modern Hotel and Bar THE SILENT COMEDY—With Jonathan Warren & The Billy Goats and James Plane Wreck. 8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door, Neurolux WAYNE COYLE—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

LIMEHOUSE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye MERICA—7 p.m. $5. Shredder UINTAHS—8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux REILLY COYOTE—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub STEPHANIE REARICK AND KEVIN HALL—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue Gallery

WITCHAVEN—8 p.m. $6.

Shredder

SUMMER HOTBOX TOUR—Featuring PASSAFIRE, Stick Figure and Tatanka. 8:30 p.m. $10.

Reef

FRIDAY AUG. 16

VAGABOND OPERA—With Fleet Street Klezmer Band, Storie Grubb, and Sharon and Don Murray. See Listen Here, Page 23. 9 p.m. $10. Visual Arts Collective

ANDY CORTENS—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill BROCK BARTEL—6 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s THE COUNTRY CLUB—6 p.m.

FREE. Sandbar JACK+JILL—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s

SATURDAY AUG. 17 BEN BURDICK TRIO—With Amy Rose. 8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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GUIDE DIRTY FEW—With Zebroids and Gayze. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

ALIVE AFTER FIVE—Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express and The Juke Daddys. 5 p.m.

FREE. Grove Plaza

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

SUNDAY AUG. 18

TUESDAY AUG. 20

J. MARTIN—With Allan Boothe and Holy Weak. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

BAD WEATHER CALIFORNIA— With Sauna, Skating Polly and Deaf Kid. 7 p.m. $7. The Crux

THE BLAQKS—7 p.m. $3.

Neurolux

BLAZE & KELLY—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

BLAZE & KELLY—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

JAGERMEISTER MUSIC TOUR: MOLOTOV—8 p.m. $32-$70.

Knitting Factory

BOISE OLD TIME’S OLD TIME JAM—With The Country Club. 6 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s Pizza

SAM AND JEANNE—5:30 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s

PHILIP BELZESKI—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Cosmic Pizza

OPHELIA—With Emily Tipton Band. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

THE ROBERT CRAY BAND—8 p.m. $30-$35. Egyptian Theatre

RED MUFFS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

SPEEDY GRAY—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Cosmic Pizza

JACK LOYD GISH AND TT MILLER—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s HILLFOLK NOIR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s KADY Z—8:30 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe MARSHALL POOLE—8 p.m. $3.

The Crux PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s REILLY COYOTE—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub RIFF RAFF—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

WICKED WONDERLAND EMPIRE—XP8 CD release party.

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SPIKE & KRISTA AND DOUBLE J—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue Gallery TEMPLE STEP PROJECT—10 p.m. $5. Reef TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE, Berryhill THOMAS PAUL AND FRIENDS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

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TRIPLE THREAT—9 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

WHISKEY SHIVERS—With Wild Child and guests. 7 p.m. $5.

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FREE. Piper Pub LOVE CUTS—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage LOVE AND THEFT—With Jackson Michelson. 8 p.m. $19-$33.

Knitting Factory OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s RAWLEY FRYE ACOUSTIC—8:30 p.m. FREE. Reef SAM AND JEANNE—6:30 p.m.

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

VAGABOND OPERA, AUG. 16, VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE Accordions were once the reserve of embarrassing relatives and Lawrence Welk marathons. Charmed by European street performers, backpacking college kids have helped propel the formerly dorky instrument to the forefront of a new-ish genre mashing Greek/Balkan/Roma/French folk music with vintage Americana, early jazz and 19th century British vaudeville.

The squeezebox is center with Vagabond Opera, a six-piece “Bohemian cabaret” based in Portland, Ore. Sporting period duds like stovepipe hats, the Vagabonds dress like they should be drinking rot-gut from Mason jars, but their sound is smooth, polished, almost show tune-y. The exuberant, theatrical songs are an attractive blend of rollicking ethno-European styles, but with an unmistakable fresh-faced feel.

—Zach Hagadone

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For a guy who’s been dead for a few hundred years, it’s been a big year for King Richard III. First his grave was re-discovered under a Leicester, England, parking lot and now Idaho Shakespeare Festival is bringing the Bard’s version of Richard’s bloodsoaked tale to audiences in a thoughtful and nuanced production of King Richard III. Taking the lead as the ruthlessly ambitious king, Lynn Robert Berg offers a powerful performance, stepping out of his typical character roles to show his versatility.

Taking on one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains is not for the faint of heart, but Berg’s strong physical presence on stage is tempered by the ease with which he slips between ruthlessness and charm.

He’s joined by a strong cast of supporting actors, including Sara M. Bruner as Queen Elizabeth, J. Todd Adams as Richard’s brother George, Tom Ford as an ill-fated Lord Hastings and David Anthony Smith as Richard’s greatest supporter and eventual victim, the Duke of Buckingham.

With less than a week of rehearsal time, Eva Barnes—who stepped in for an injured Laurie Birmingham—is a standout as Queen Margaret, the widow of King Henry IV whose prophetic curse and haunting presence saturate the production.

Set in modern day, the clean glass and steel set has the feel of the cold, corporate world. Rotating signs that dominate the center of the set—bearing the initials of whomever is ruling the kingdom at the time—are not only strong KING RICHARD III runs through Saturday, Aug. stagecraft, 31. Presented by Idaho but a nice Shakespeare Festival, 5657 guidepost for Warm Springs Ave., Boise, audiences.

208-336-9221, Admittedidahoshakespeare.org ly, following the revolving cast of character in the War of the Roses is a bit like following the “Who’s on First” joke. During opening night of the production, audience members were clinging to their programs like cheat sheets in an attempt to figure out who was who. Spoiler: Everyone is either related to someone Richard III has murdered or will be murdered by Richard themselves.

To say that King Richard III is bloody is an understatement—ISF must have gotten a bulk rate on fake blood between this production and Sweeney Todd. Dressed in a blood-stained white gown, Barns is a macabre presence as she totes a bucket of blood each time Richard has someone killed. This simple approach to dealing with the many executions, as well as the culminating battle scene, is not only effective but allows the language of the play to take the forefront.

Even audience members who are unfamiliar with the carefully interwoven tragedy are drawn into the downward spiral instigated by generations of greed and Richard’s own boundless ambition. Credit must go to director Joseph Hanreddy, who has built a platform for strong performances and rich characters to shine.

King Richard III is one of the best Shakespearean productions ISF has staged in recent years and another sign pointing to the long-dead king’s comeback.

—Deanna Darr

BOBCAT ON BIGFOOT The comic-turneddirector is full of surprises AMY ATKINS “Bobcat should try to make time for more stand-up gigs. He’s clearly still got it.”

“HOLY SHIT he’s still got it, brutal stuff!”

Just two opinions, from YouTube commenters, after watching a clip of Bobcat Goldwaith’s stand-up routine at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The sense that “he’s still got it” might indicate that Goldthwait was thought to have lost it.

When he performs at Boise’s Liquid Lounge Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17, however, expect to see a man who not only still has it but has taken “it” a big(foot) step further.

Goldthwait is best known by many for the semi-demented personae he perfected beginning but then it goes pretty straight-up in the early ’80s as a stand-up, regularly horror,” Goldthwait told Boise Weekly. appearing on late-night television and on Willow Creek, which was shot on locaComic Relief, an annual televised chartion, is about a couple who hikes into the ity event benefiting the homeless in Los remote woods near the small hamlet of WilAngeles. He even parlayed the long-haired low Creek, Calif., searching for the site of the wild-man character into Zed—a gang famous Patterson/Gimlin footage—the few leader-turned-cadet—in some of the Police seconds of grainy film showing a giant, hairy Academy movies. Now, the 50-something man-like creature walking through the trees. comic is bald and usually sports a drivComparisons to Blair Witch Project are ing cap and glasses. He is clearly not what inevitable. Found-footage is a well-trod people expect. Goldthwait often opens a stand-up set with, “You don’t look the same genre and Goldthwait’s film contains the standard ingredients: young people, scary either,” using that phrase as the title of his place, mythical creature. Goldthwait said he 2012 comedy special. knows the found-footage format is kind of Even more surprising than his appearplayed out, but his take on it is different. ance, though, is the breadth of Goldth“I only have 67 edits in this movie,” wait’s offstage work, as a director, in the Goldthwait said. “Usually you have 1,200past decade. Goldthwait directed Jimmy 1,400 in a movie, but I wanted it to feel like Kimmel Live for about six years, directed they really were just turning the camera on several episodes of Comedy Central’s and off.”

Important Things with Demetri Martin, Goldthwait also included something he directed some episodes of IFC’s Maron, felt was missing from other and recently helmed Patton movies in the genre.

Oswalt’s upcoming Comedy “I think sometimes in Central stand-up special.

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT found-footage movies, they In the 2000s, Goldthwait Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17, 8 p.m. and 10 don’t concentrate too much directed several offbeat, dark p.m., $20. Liquid Lounge, on the chemistry of the [charcomedies, including Windy 405 S. Eighth St., 208-941acters]. And that was really City Heat, Sleeping Dogs Lie, 2459, liquidboise.com. important to me—that you World’s Greatest Dad and believe these are real people,” God Bless America. His latest, he said.

Willow Creek, is currently That authenticity was important to making film festival rounds and is probably his biggest step in a different direction—not Goldthwait, which might be an odd thing to consider in the context of Bigfoot, but only from his early stand-up, but from the makes perfect sense considering Goldthcanon of his film creations: Willow Creek wait’s longtime love of the legend. is a found-footage film about Bigfoot. And “I took a Bigfoot vacation,” Goldthwait although it is not without humor, Willow said, with no trace of irony. “I actually put Creek, is definitely a horror movie.

1,400 miles on my car just driving around “It’s a scary movie. It’s a departure from to all the famous Bigfoot sites in Califormy other movies. There’s comedy in the

Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait busts expectations.

nia. And when I got to [the community of] Willow Creek, I was kind of thinking of a different movie. But when I got to WIllow Creek, this just seemed to be the movie to make because of the people I met there.

And I found the town very interesting.

“The other thing was, I always wanted to try my hand at a suspense movie. I’m always jealous when I watch a Tarantino movie and you’re at the edge of your seat most of the time and there’s nothing going on. I’m like, ‘How do you do that? How do you make suspenseful stuff?’ That was my goal.”

Reviews of Willow Creek would indicate Goldthwait achieved his goal.

Indiewire.com called it “the monster movie of the summer,” adding that the film is “a unique representation of the tension between those who scoff at the Bigfoot legend and others willing to accept the mythology as gospel.”

Fearnet.com said Goldthwait’s film “is a refreshingly matter-of-fact horror/thriller … a calm, cool, creepy little winner.”

While Goldthwait has no plans to retire from stand-up, it’s anyone’s guess what Willow Creek may mean for his career.

Regardless of what happens, he has a new subject to mine for stand-up material and, in making the film, Goldthwait learned something about himself. “[The vacation] was a gift to the 8-yearold me,” Goldthwait said. “ I’ve always been fascinated by [Bigfoot] and what it represents and how it shows up over and over again in so many different cultures.

And it took me a while to realize it, but I like the outdoors. If you go looking for Bigfoot and you don’t find him, the byproduct is you went camping.”

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HOW WOODY GOT HIS GROOVE BACK Blue Jasmine is tragically superb GEORGE PRENTICE Forget Paris. While he’s at it, Woody Allen can say cheerio to London, arrivederci to Rome and (gasp) tell New York to fuggedaboutit.

The prolific filmmaker has found his 21st century mojo in San Francisco.

Allen has been globetrotting lately, straying Beauty by the bay: Cate Blanchett and Peter Sarsgaard smooch it up with an idyllic San Francisco serving as a far from his halcyon days in New York (by backdrop in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine. my count, he framed 25 feature films against a Manhattan skyline). He used London as of-the-tracks sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), tide of Allen’s screenplays—his movies have a backdrop for a moderately successful trio and diplomat (and Jasmine’s new paramour) won actresses five Oscars—but in his complex of films—Match Point, Scoop, Cassandra’s Dwight (Peter Sarsgaard). Spicing things up are and elegant Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett Dream; he won the Best Screenplay Oscar navigates the title role like a steamship through the neanderthal boyfriends in sister Ginger’s for Midnight in Paris, and just last year, he life—Al (Louis C.K.), Chili (Bobby Cannavale) turbulent waters. Her ventured To Rome and Augie (Andrew Dice Clay). Yes, I just said performance, which With Love. But an secures her an aisle seat that Andrew Dice Clay is in a Woody Allen exhausting amount BLUE JASMINE (PG-13) movie. And you know what? He’s terrific. at the 2014 Academy of those efforts were Directed by Woody Allen Jasmine is a 21st century Blanche Dubois, Awards, is the most overly familiar, with Starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter fully realized Allen Allen (or another actor and while she may not necessarily depend on Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins and Louis C.K. character to-date. as his on-screen id) as the kindness of strangers, she exploits any Opens Friday, Aug. 23 at The Flicks When we first meet a nebbish foil colliding amount of altruism that bumps up against her.

Jasmine, she is winging In a previous film, Allen might present Jasmine with lovely co-stars. her way from New I’m happy to report to us as bubbly or absurd in a full-throated York to San Francisco. She’s all high-wattage that in Blue Jasmine—his latest and best film comedy. Here, she’s a fully realized study in energy, constantly tugging at her pearls while in decades—Allen, who has built a career on pathology. I winced more than once watching boring her first-class cabin mate to tears with poking fun at his and others’ neuroses, presher spiral, and therein lies the courage of this tales of shopping, parties, Pilates and more ents a refined and highly watchable construcamazing film. shopping. Ninety minutes later, we see her tion of personality disorder. It may not sound Be forewarned: Don’t expect a comedy. like your idea of an ideal Saturday night at the pale, sans makeup, unkempt hair and in full Yes, there are laughs aplenty here, but this is a meltdown. In between, we meet Jasmine’s movies; trust me, it is. tragedy of the highest order. And it should not Many actresses have successfully surfed the husband Hal (Alec Baldwin), her other-sidebe missed.

EXTRA/SCREEN LIGHTS, CAMERA, JAZZ When the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes the stage of Boise’s Egyptian Theatre—with a special appearance by the Trey McIntyre Project—Wednesday, Sept.

11, a film crew will be on-hand to capture some of the expected magic. The filming is part of a long-term project, expected to wrap in Summer 2014, Ma Maison.

“Ma Maison is the same name as a 2008 ballet commissioned to TMP and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band,” Kyle Morck, TMP’s digital content manager, told Boise Weekly. “And the Trey McIntyre Company toured with the band with over 40 performances.”

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its impact on the cultural landscape of New Orleans. The new documentary will chronicle its inception and performances before audiences across the nation.

“On Sept. 11, we’ll be shooting some of the performance at the Egyptian, plus we want to get audience interaction with Preservation Hall,” said Morck. In late October, the Boise-based film crew, headed by director Trey McIntyre, will travel to New Orleans to follow the historic jazz ensemble to its home base.

“The film will premiere in January 2015.

We’re looking for a wide distribution and yes, we’ll start looking at the major film festivals,” said Morck. “But we want to get it in front of as many people as we can.”

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BEE IN HIS BONNET Plan to raise a (cocktail) glass at The Mode Lounge, formerly Grape Escape.

FORMER GRAPE ESCAPE TO BECOME THE MODE LOUNGE Ever since Grape Escape shut its doors in late June, there has been consistent chatter about what might fill the highly visible storefront at Eighth and Idaho streets.

Those seeking answers need look no further than Russ Crawforth, owner of nextdoor neighbor Pie Hole. Crawforth recently signed a lease on the space, which is in the same building that once housed the iconic Mode department store.

“It’s going to be an upscale lounge; we’re going to tie in a little bit of the history of the building with the lounge itself,” said Crawforth. “It doesn’t really have a theme but it’s going to be influenced a little bit by some Art Deco.”

Though Crawforth was hesitant to give too much away, he said the concept will be called The Mode Lounge—with the old Mode signage featured prominently on the building—and it will undergo a significant remodel.

“The Grape Escape as you know it, it’s not going to look anything like that anymore,” said Crawforth. “There will not be a kitchen there where there is currently a kitchen. I want to create what I’ve kind of deemed as a ‘micro-kitchen’ that’s going to be behind the bar.”

The micro-kitchen will serve cheese and charcuterie plates along with what Crawforth coyly calls “some really nice appetizers.” The place won’t be open for lunch and it won’t sling food late—Crawforth says the focus will be on cocktails, which will be served until 2 a.m. every night.

“Basically, it’s going to be the latest in craft cocktails—there’s a lot of new trends out there with ice and with herbs and fresh fruits and vegetables.”

Crawforth continued: “It’s not a college bar; it’s not a pub; we will not have draft beer. It is a lounge. There will be some bottled beers and there will be a nice selection of wines, but I don’t want it to be confused with the pub, which is kind of Boise’s trend right now.”

Crawforth hopes to have the space open

by Wednesday, Jan. 1, if not sooner. Check back with Boise Weekly for more details as they develop.

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Commercial beekeeper John Miller discusses the perils facing the industry TARA MORGAN Steve Sweet removed his hat and veil, the sweet smell of smoke and lavender wafting from his backyard beehive in Southeast Boise. In one hand he held a frame filled with drone cells— male honey bee larvae. Using a fine-toothed fork, he dug under the waxy caps covering the cells and pulled out 50 buttery larvae.

“It’s just loaded with mites, see those little brown dots moving around? That’s a high mite count,” he said, squinting at the fork.

The mite, known as the Varroa destructor, is a plague facing the beekeeping industry and a large factor in the much publicized Colony Collapse Disorder. The female mites catch a ride into the hive on the backs of honey bees then make their way into brood cells, where they lay eggs that hatch and feed on the bee larvae. The bees emerge deformed and weakened, and the mites spread.

“Without some sort of management, that amount of mites indicates that this hive next year, or this wintertime, will die,” said Sweet, shaking his head.

In the summer, Sweet’s bees collect pollen a mile upstream from Barber Park, creating stores of honey to last the long winter. Though Sweet usually harvests excess honey twice a season, the mites and a dearth of pollen have drastically reduced his yield. While he took 100 pounds off his backyard hive last year, he’ll likely get about two pounds this year.

“There’s just a touch of honey,” he said.

“They’ve been weakened by the mites.”

Last year, Sweet lost two of his 25 large hives and 13 of 14 nucs, or smaller queen-raising hives. That level of loss can be a setback for hobbyists, but downright disastrous for commercial beekeepers like John Miller.

“If the beekeepers of America stopped treating their hives, there would be no bees in America probably in about two years,” said Miller. “There’s no feral swarms in Boise anymore; they’re dead.”

Miller is the subject of Hannah Nordhaus’ 2011 novel, The Beekeeper’s Lament, and plays a leading role in the new documentary, More Than Honey, which the Treasure Valley Beekeepers Club will screen at a sold-out event at The Flicks Saturday, Aug. 17. Miller will give a post-film talk in honor of National Honey Bee Day—for which Mayor Dave Bieter has declared Boise the “City of Bees.”

Miller, a self-proclaimed “media slut,” has become the de facto mouthpiece for the commercial beekeeping industry, partly because of his 40-plus years in the business but also because he’s not afraid to speak his mind.

Steve Sweet’s bees face dire times, struggling against parasitic mites and a dearth of pollen this year.

“Varroa has been and is the central challenge. She’s just like a tick ... but she’s more like the size of a beagle instead of a tick, relative to a honeybee,” said Miller. “She’s murderous; she’s a bad bug.”

Though Miller’s bees spend their summers in North Dakota, he moves 90 percent of his hives—around 10,000—to the Southeast Idaho town of Blackfoot every winter.

“We put them in a—the $10 word is ‘climate controlled storage,’ the $5 word is ‘potato cellar,’” said Miller. “A potato is a lot like a beehive, they want to be about 40-41 degrees, dark and quiet, low humidity.”

In late January, Miller’s hives make the trek to California’s Central Valley almond orchards, where 80 percent of the world’s almond crop is produced. Miller calls it the “biggest pollination event on the planet.”

In The Beekeeper’s Lament, Nordhaus notes that importing honey bees increases yields from 40 pounds of almonds per acre to 2,400 pounds per acre. “To build an almond, it takes a bee,” she writes.

While pollinating the almond crop might be the biggest annual moneymaker for commercial beekeepers—raking in $150-$170 a hive—it also poses some problems. Not only are the hives more susceptible to mites and other parasites while the bees are mingling, but they’re concentrated in one spot long before other crops are blossoming.

“Once that pollination event concludes, you’ve got 2 million hives looking for work and they scatter across the country, but the blueberries are not in bloom in Maine and the cranberries are not in bloom in Wisconsin and the apples are not in bloom in Washington for another six weeks,” said Miller. “It’s like, where can you go?”

That question speaks to a larger problem: Bees are suffering from a real estate shortage.

“One of every four acres in America is in corn and another 65 million acres is in soy-

beans, and neither one of those crops are any good to bees,” said Miller.

But here’s the irony. Because of the shrinking availability of open land where bees can forage wild pollen, beekeepers have to supplement their hives with other sugars—often from the very crop that encroached on the bees in the first place: high fructose corn syrup.

“In the United States of America in the past three years, beekeepers have fed more calories to their hives than they have harvested from their hives,” said Miller, who opts for sucrose.

Miller continued: “I don’t know what in the hell they’re thinking in Washington, D.C., but conservation programs are suffering and with them, the bees.”

Deadly Ms. Varroa is perhaps a wilier adversary than the government. While beekeepers have found a number of ways to kill the mites, they have grown resistant to the treatments.

So Miller and Sweet are putting faith in scientists at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., who have developed a bee sperm bank with stock gathered from Europe, Asia and Africa. The new genes might boost parasite resistance for American bees, whose genetic pool has grown stagnant during the 90year U.S. ban on importing live honey bees.

“I started beekeeping in ’73 before the mites and all that stuff, and then the mites came and everything just went in the tank,” said Sweet.

“Now we’re kinda learning to deal with it, but if we get rid of the mite, it will just give another birth to beekeeping again.”

Miller agrees, and hopes to continue talking about the threats facing bees—which are responsible for pollinating a third of U.S. crops.

“Globally, Ms. Varroa is swaggering across the planet like a colossus, imperiling this relationship between humans and bees, thus imperiling the relationship between bees and flowers,” said Miller. “People should sit up and pay attention. The honey bee is the canary in the coal mine.”

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE SATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Walter Keith Albrecht Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1311934 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Walter Keith Albrecht, 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 Keith Walter Albrecht. The reason for the change in name is : I have always been called Keith. I want my first name to be that name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) August 29, 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 Jul 10 2013 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF HE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK Pub. July 24, 31, Aug. 7 & 14, 2013.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally, International CAPS LOCK DAY happens only once a year, on June 28. But in alignment with your current astrological omens, you have been granted the right to observe the next seven days as your own personal International CAPS LOCK DAYS. That means you will probably be forgiven and tolerated if you use OVERHEATED ORATORY and leap to THUNDEROUS CONCLUSIONS and engage in MELODRAMATIC GESTURES. You may even be thanked—although it’s important to note that the gratitude you receive may only come later, AFTER THE DUST HAS SETTLED. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): William Turner was a 19th century English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion, he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snowstorm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestuous swirls. What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies.

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BW LEGAL NOTICES LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION CASE NO. CV OC 12 14587, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA, Moon Lake Ranch Owners Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Mitchell Buich and Janet Buich, Defendants.

TO: MITCHELL BUICH AND JANET BUICH You have been sued by Moon Lake Ranch Owners Association, the Plaintiff, in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in and for Ada County, Idaho, Case No. CV OC 12 14587. The nature of the claim against you is for unpaid homeowner association assessments, more particularly described in the Complaint. Any time after twenty (20) days following the last publication of this Summons, the Court may enter a judgment against you without further notice, unless prior to that time you have filed a written response in the proper form, including the Case No., and paid any required filing fee to the Clerk of the Court at: Clerk of the Court Ada County Courthouse 200 W. Front Street, Boise, Idaho 83702-7300, Telephone: (208) 287-6900 and served a copy of your response on the Plaintiff’s attorney at: Jeremy O. Evans of VIAL FOTHERINGHAM LLP, 12828 LaSalle Dr Ste 101 Boise, ID 83702

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge anti-smoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically. When my daughter was 6 years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed anti-feminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe instead I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transitory wishes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures during the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limitations, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

When I came across that quote, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are

currently in play for you. Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the language sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a New Age selfhelp book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling.

You need to devote all your energy to creating the future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms?

Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health. So the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways about which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources? Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use?

This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you are so fortunate to receive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More often than not, your fine mind does a competent job of defining the problems that need solving. It comes up with concise questions that lead you in the right direction to find useful clues. It gathers evidence crisply and it makes smart adjustments as the situation evolves. But after studying the astrological factors currently at work, I’m a little concerned that your usually fine mind might temporarily be prone to suffering from the dreaded malady known as paralysis through over-analysis.

To steer yourself away from that possibility, keep checking in with your body and your feelings to see what alternate truths they may have to tell you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By the standards of people who don’t know you well, the triumph you achieve in the coming days might seem modest. But I think it will actually be pretty dramatic. Here’s my only concern: There’s a slight danger you will get grandiose or even a bit arrogant in the aftermath of your victory. You could also get peeved at those who don’t see it for the major achievement it is. Now that I’ve given you this warning, though, I’m hoping you will avoid that fate. Instead you will celebrate your win with humble grace, feeling gratitude for all the help you got long the way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” So said French writer Andre Breton.

I suspect that many of us feel the same way, which is kind of depressing. But the good news for you, Sagittarius, is that there will be times in the coming months when you will get as close to naming that mysterious thing as you have ever gotten. On more than a few occasions, you may be able to get a clear glimpse of its true nature. Now and then, you might even be fully united with it. One of those moments could come soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Paris Review did a story on novelist William Gass. The interviewer asked him why he wrote his books. That was “a very dumb question,” he sneered.

Nevertheless, he answered it, saying, “I write because I hate. A lot.

Hard.” In other words, his primary motivations for expressing himself creatively were loathing, malice and hostility. I beg you not to use him as your role model, Capricorn.

Not ever. But especially now. It is essential to your long-term health and wealth that you not be driven by hate in the coming weeks. Just the opposite, in fact: The more you are driven by love and generosity, the better chance you will have of launching a lucky streak that will last quite a while.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are,” said author Marianne Williamson. “Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” Your assignment, Aquarius, is to seek out the deepest possible understanding of these truths. To do that, you will have to identify the unripe, shadowy qualities of the people who are most important to you. And then you will have to find it in your smart heart to love them for their unripe, shadowy qualities almost as much as you do for their shiny, beautiful qualities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Aldous Huxley was the renowned 20th century intellectual who wrote the book Brave New World, a dystopian vision of the future.

Later in his life, he came to regret one thing: how “preposterously serious” he had been when he was younger. “There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet,” he ruminated, “trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling. ... Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.”

I would love for you to put this counsel at the top of your priority list for the next 10 months, darling Pisces. Maybe even write it out on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror.

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If you wish legal assistance, you should immediately retain an attorney to advise you in this matter. DATE: JULY 18 2012.

BY: CHRISTOPHER D. RICH, CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ LUTOLEDO, Deputy Clerk Pub. July 24, 31, Aug. 7, & 14, 2013.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4 JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Madison Ann Schuler Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1312421 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Madison Ann Schuler, now residing in the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to

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A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) SEP 05 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: Jul 19 2013 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDRE PRICE Deputy Clerk Pub. August 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2013.

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