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TAK EE E ON E! FEATURE 11

BONDAGE Boise voters consider two bonds designed to set the city’s course CULTURE 22

DEATH TALK Death Cafe opens the conversation about death SCREEN 23

PITT STOP BW chats with Brad Pitt about new film, 12 Years a Slave FOOD 26

ROLL CALL Checking in on the latest round of micro-breweries

“I was requested to go shoot him.”

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Fiction 101, Bad Cartoon, Cover Auction There are typically a couple of things that I intend to mention with these Editor’s Notes, but wordy SOB that I am, more often than not, the business portion of the column gets cut in favor of whatever rambling I get caught up with.

This week I’ll cut to the chase.

First, the deadline for submissions to Boise Weekly’s annual Fiction 101 contest is fast approaching. Entries are due at BWHQ no later than 5 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 6; all entries (typed, please) must be accompanied by a $10 entry fee per story and—of course—contain exactly 101 words, not counting the title. Sorry, no poetry. Winners get cash and we’ll publish a pile of the best submissions in the Jan. 1, 2014, edition of BW. Speaking of our favorite reader contests, the deadline for Bad Cartoon is also looming. Now in its 12th year celebrating the most awful art and weird writing you can muster, Bad Cartoon entries need to be at our office no later than 5 p.m., Friday, Nov. 8.

As with Fiction 101, send us your best (or in this case, worst) along with $10 per entry. If you want your work back, send it with a self-addressed, stamped envelope along with whatever other random information you think we need to decipher your work.

Top prize takes home all the entry fee cash, and we’ll publish all the badness on Wednesday, Nov. 27. The winner gets to live on in our subsequent Bad Cartoon ad campaigns.

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Food, booze, bidding on art—all good things, but even better, proceeds go directly to grants benefiting local art. This year, that includes Boise Weekly itself.

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GO STEELHEADS Got a yen for hockey but can’t make it to the game? CableOne announced it will be broadcasting all Steelheads’ games live for fans at home. Get the details at Cobweb.

ABOUT THAT SPIRE It may have taken decades to fill the Boise Hole, but the controversy isn’t over.

Some say the Zions Bank spire looks like a Mormon church.

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NUCLEAR VISIT Stop us if you’ve heard this one: Bill Gates walks into a nuclear facility… No joke, the tech billionaire visited the Idaho National Laboratory last week.

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MAIL

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D O N ’ T PASS IMMI GRATI ON R E FORM , LABRAD O R, I T’S JU ST ONE MORE WAY T O PR O VE YO U HAVE NO I NTEREST I N GOV E R NI NG. T HE T-BUG G E RS REMAIN STUCK ON S T U P I D. T HEY’ VE LEARNED NOTHING F ROM 2012 A ND T HEY’ VE LEARNED NOTHING F ROM T HE I R L AT E ST D EBA CLE. THEY’RE I NC A PA B L E OF S E L F R EF LECTIO N , THEY CAN ONLY P L A CE BL A M E .”

—Marque (boiseweekly.com, Unda’ The Rotunda, “Immigration Reform Advocates Tell Labrador: ‘We Are Not Your Pawns,’” Oct. 24, 2013)

CANDY CONUNDRUM Our story about a group of parents campaigning for trick-or-treaters to stay in their own neighborhoods, rather than flocking to Harrison Boulevard (BW, News, “Commuting for Candy,” Oct. 23, 2013) stirred a range of responses online. Here’s a sample: Warm Springs is just as bad. Although I live in the area, I don’t send my kids out there... too crowded and dangerous with the steady stream of distracted drivers. My kids score twice as much candy in half the time staying on side streets and avoiding that zoo! I think people make the assumption that because Harrison and Warm Springs are affluent streets, the treats will be good. However, when you have to buy candy for 2,000 kids, the quality probably goes down.

—East Ender I live off 15th [Street] and all the Harrison trickor-treaters drive me nuts!

If I don’t rush home by 4, forget finding a parking spot anywhere near my house.

Last year I sat out on my front porch and watched hundreds of kids on the street. Most walk by, ignoring all the decorations and

racing toward Harrison.

Very disappointing.

—MIA I lived off 13th and Bella [streets], just two blocks from Harrison Boulevard, and we didn’t get any trick-or-treaters last year. It was kind of disappointing.

When I was a kid, Harrison was definitely the place to go. A lot of the houses had larger candy bars, a lot of jack-o-lanterns to look at and many more decorations than your traditional neighborhood.

—idahome Live near Harrison Boulevard as well. I don’t mind the lack of “trickor-treaters” as I don’t care to dedicate an evening to answering the door to mostly unenthusiastic and impolite children who ask, “How many can we take?”

When did the expectation change to “how many?”

When I was a kid you got “one” treat per house. We didn’t think to ask for more than that.

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VILLAGE VITTLES The mammoth Village at Meridian just celebrated its grand opening, but not everyone is too excited about it—especially the

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food offerings (BW, Food, “Dining Options Abound in Village at Meridian,” Oct. 23, 2013): A monument to the Californication of Idaho. It fits in perfectly in Meridian.

—Just Another John Smith I lost track of how many times “fusion” was used to describe the restaurants.

Especially around here, fusion has come to mean: “We don’t have the creative foresight to master a particular cuisine and go with it and will instead offer middling combinations of regional cuisines and be a jack-of-alltrades but master of none.”

This isn’t about creativity. This is about dumbing down the food to cater to the masses. Not to mention possibly steering people away from places that strive more for authenticity.

Exactly what we don’t need more of here.

You know why I’m a fan of places like Tango’s and some of the pho places around here? Because they know what they’re good at and stick with it. You take their food at face value or you don’t. There’s no pandering by offering a miso-sake glaze to put on your noodles or cabernetchipotle cream for your empanada. The “everything but the kitchen sink” theory has more of a wow factor, but simplicity and expertise in one cuisine will stand the test of time and never become passe like these restaurants ultimately will.

—Red October

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OPINION/BILL COPE

DEAR PRESIDENT OBAMA, I want to apologize... ...for something that appeared on the pages of this publication a couple of weeks ago. In a regular feature in which Boise Weekly profiles individuals of varied interest, New York University law professor and itinerant speechifier Richard Epstein told the interviewer that you have “no intellectual ability.”

You, Mr. President. According to this man, you are “no intellect.” Professor Epstein professes to have an equal disdain for both political parties, though in the interview, the only politicians he admits to admiring are Calvin Coolidge (the president who paved the way for the Great Depression), Ronald Reagan (the president who set the free market hounds loose on America’s middle class), and Reps. Eric Cantor and Paul Ryan (both congressmen who constantly promote the bludgeoning to death of democracy by blunt oligarchy).

The particular hobby horse on which Epstein mounts his indignation is, of course, that bad ol’ big government. Which is what he came to Boise for, to lecture whomever would listen on the urgency of “Putting the Limits Back in Limited Government”—presumably so it won’t have the means or muscle to prevent another Great Depression whenever the reigning oligarchy decides once again to chew up what’s left of the Middle Class.

As with everyone I know of with such a Libertarian bent, this Epstein fellow struts his great insight about as though we nonLibertarians ain’t never before heard such talk. Like, over and over and over. Like, this time, it isn’t the same tiresome, discredited, ideological dribble they’ve been spouting for decades.

We’ve all seen this phenomenon with these libertarian lords of laissez-faire, haven’t we, Mr. President? They just know that if one doesn’t side with them—does not, when hearing their message, slap his own forehead and cry out “Why didn’t I think of that!?”—then that person must not be smart enough to understand the Gospel according to Adam Smith they preach. Not intellectual enough.

Get that, Mr. President? In Professor Epstein’s eyes, Coolidge was intellectual enough.

Reagan was intellectual enough. But you, Barack Obama, are not intellectual enough.

Well if I may, Mr. President, allow me to examine for my readers here in Boise what a dummy you must be. In the days before I sat down to write this letter, during the government shutdown crisis, you out-maneuvered the Republican leadership like a border collie among sleeping sheep. They lost, you won.

They are weaker now, you are stronger now, and all without a drop of Epstein-approved intellect in that head of yours.

Before that, during the Syrian poison gas crisis, you out-maneuvered the dictator Bashar al-Assad, the dick Vladimir Putin, the radical elements fighting Assad and our in-country radical elements who have been

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fighting for six years to make you look like a crappy commander-in-chief. You opened the door to clearing chemical weapons out of Syria, opened another door to ending that civil war entirely, opened yet another diplomatic door to the Iranian regime and slammed a door in your critics’ faces, leaving them to wonder what was left to bitch about.

How did you do all that without none of that there intellectual stuff?

Before that, you out-maneuvered the opposition to a policy that will insure millions of uninsured Americans, in spite of a blitzkrieg of resistance and boatloads of corporate money, all designed to sink your greatest achievement. Must of been nothing but luck, eh?... seeing as how you couldn’t possibly have managed such a victory without an intellect.

Before that, whatever you did turned the tide in Libya’s civil war, until Muammar alGaddafi was road kill and another dictatorship had turned to a democracy. And you did it without a single American casualty.

Oh, I almost forgot to mention that despite all those unrelenting Republican efforts to keep the economy comatose until they could boot you out and replace you with someone I presume Epstein would call an intellect— Mitt Romney—you brought the Dow up, the unemployment down, ended the war in Iraq, crippled al-Qaida, gracefully withstood more demeaning abuse and insult than a nerd in a middle-school gym class and won re-election quite handily.

If one didn’t know better, he might start to think there was not only an intellect at work behind that endearing grin of yours, but a very formidable one. So formidable, perhaps, that a little Libertarian troll like Epstein can’t fathom it.

And that’s what I think, Mr. President— that behind your cool and calm, lead-frombehind, no-drama Obama exterior, is an intelligence so intense and so expansive that these monotone dronebots set on permanent ideological autopilot are incapable of grasping either how deep your intellect runs or how thoroughly you are disgracing them.

So whatever you’re doing, Mr. President, keep it up. Every day, with every hysterical drama and contrived crisis that the Tea Party trailer trash in Congress churns out, more Americans are coming to understand just how thin the Republican gruel really is. And I have a growing feeling that come election day a year from now, when Americans compare your steady leadership to the alternative, there’s going to be a major House cleaning.

As to Epstein, I can certainly agree with him on one—if only one—thing. When reminded that he’d been described (by Legal Affairs magazine) as one of the “top legal thinkers of our times, he responded, “I find it hard to take that very seriously.”

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ALTERED EGO

What’s up to you isn’t always you On Halloween Night of 1980, I was in Ketchum, bartending at Slavey’s, on the corner of Highway 75 and Sun Valley Road.

I had dressed for the occasion. I was wearing black running shoes, black socks, black tights, a thigh-length tight black turtleneck and thin black leather gloves. My face was painted mime-white, except for quite a lot of eyeshadow, which I had applied in Amy Winehouse style, even though Amy Winehouse wouldn’t be born for three years yet.

On my head was a narrow black lampshade that I had converted into a hat by stapling—into its small end—the plastic harness from my old Forest Service hard hat. Once my hat was on, I threw five or six glow-sticks into it, and walked around lighting up the ceiling wherever I went. My final accessory was a wide rhinestone belt, worn low on my hips.

I was moving fast, serving drinks with an athletic grace that my fellow bartenders, hampered by Sumo Wrestler and Smokey the Bear costumes, couldn’t match.

Then three guys I had gone to high school with showed up. They were in street clothes, having come to Ketchum to watch the spectacle, not participate in it, and when I called out their names they looked at me like I’d blown their cover. It took awhile, but they finally recognized me.

They had been football players in high school, and so had gone around in costume themselves, usually during football games.

I had been the class nerd. Football had not been an option for me for many reasons, most of them related to self-preservation.

I did make the letterman’s club in my senior year, in track. I broke school records in the two-mile run, mainly because I could imagine the whole football team right behind me, about to stuff my head in a toilet.

They ordered three bottles of Coors, shaking their heads. One of them asked who I thought I was supposed to be.

“Me,” I said. “It’s Halloween. The real me can finally come out. All those buttondown shirts and corduroys I wore in high school? My civilian disguise. Inside, I was The Human Flashlight, The Teen-Aged Superhero Who Shines Light Where No Light Has Shone Before.”

“You were?”

“Halloween is all about who you are on the inside. You guys should have worn your football uniforms.”

That hit home. There’s nothing that creates a sense of tragedy in 30-year-old ex-high-school football players like a few beers, Halloween and the idea that for one fleeting night, the identity you cherish, the one you wish you could have had forever, could still be yours. I could see they were already thinking about next year. When they came in, in pads and helmet and jerseys, I’d be careful not to be in a button-down shirt BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

and corduroys.

They left when word got out there was a woman across the street in Whiskey Jacques’, in a Halloween costume that was nothing but body paint and glitter.

I went back to bartending but started feeling guilty about misleading my old classmates. I had really gotten the idea for my costume from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, a 1927 silent movie about a future industrial dystopia.

The Halloween before, I had gone as a Star Wars Sand Person, complete with a floor-length hoodie and glowing red eyes.

The year before that, I had gone as Charlie Manson, wearing Levis, cowboy boots, a jean jacket, a long curly black wig, a beard and a lipstick-red swastika on my forehead.

That had not gone well—I discovered that there are people out there who respond erotically to Charlie Manson, even when dressed as Alice in Wonderland.

Sometime during those years I had decided that alter egos can be arbitrary and not as serious as one’s real identity. Come Halloween, you can be anybody, and the next day go back to being your real self.

What can I say? I was only 30. I suppose the best way to explain how wrong I was is to ask that you look around and count up the people in your life who carelessly put on a costume, maybe only for a night or two, and then found they couldn’t take it off.

It’s a variation on your mom’s don’t-makethat-face-it-will-stick rule—but it is a rule.

Adopt the wrong persona, and people will decide it’s you, and no matter how much you explain that it’s all a mistake, nobody will believe you. Even you won’t believe you.

That’s when you’ll understand that your identity doesn’t exist inside of you, it exists in the space between you and other people.

The next Halloween, I was wearing Carhartts, a tool belt and, once again, my hard hat. After a day of pouring concrete, I didn’t go to the Ketchum bars that night. Instead, I fell asleep in front of the TV. Bartending had turned sour after one of my co-workers had gotten $60,000 in debt to his coke dealers. He had killed himself with a shotgun when they began to threaten his family. From the outside, all I had been able to see was that he was periodically and inexplicably popular with the cocktail waitresses.

A year later I was applying to the University of Montana’s grad school, having decided that if I spent another year in Ketchum, I’d be there for life, and I didn’t want that, at least not until I got to be 75 or so. I’d seen what could happen to bartenders, and the old guys on the cement crew ate ibuprofen like they were Tic-Tacs.

I had to get out of there, and out of all those costumes, before I became what I was pretending to be.

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DUANE GARRETT AND SHAUN WESTON The man behind the lens and the man who rediscovered his work GEORGE PRENTICE

It’s my understanding that this exhibit happened quite accidentally.

Weston: In looking at some of the historical pictures of The Bishops’ House, I said, “Wow. Who did these photographs?” And someone said, “That’s a Duane Garrett photograph.” And it clicked. I grew up in Boise, so I certainly knew the name. I asked, “Is Mr. Garrett still around? I would love to meet him and see if he has more shots of The Bishops’ House.” And that led us to our visit to his home out in Gardena. [Garrett moved from his hometown of Boise to Gardena 30 years ago].

Where did you find these photographs?

Garrett: In an old darkroom. It’s more like storage now.

Weston: We were invited to his home and we found a box that was tucked into that old darkroom. It’s a treasure. They were printed at the time the negative was made. That gives them even greater relevance and value. These images are some of the last remaining photo-

graphs that Mr. Garrett has.

JER EMY LANNINGHAM

Duane Garrett’s wit is as quick and precise as the shutter of a camera. Blink and you’ll miss it.

While previewing a collection of some of his spectacular photographs, soon to be exhibited and sold as part of a fundraiser at The Bishops’ House, a 19th century landmark that now sits on Old Penitentiary Road, Boise Weekly matter-of-factly asked the 88-year-old Garrett, “When did you take some of these photographs?”

“Oh, about 2:30,” he said.

Garrett looked up and never smiled. But the twinkle in his eye was laughing long and hard.

The twinkle never left for the better part of an hour as BW sat down with the master to talk about his life behind the lens.

Joining in the conversation was Shaun Weston, managing architect for Boise-based Trout Architects and, as board president of Friends of The Bishops’ House, curator of the exhibit.

Garrett: A Hasselblad 120mm. It takes a square picture, and it comes with many lenses. Each job dictated which camera I would use. Take for example, many of the photographs you’re looking at here [Garrett pointed to the images that will be on display, and for sale, at The Bishops’ House]. Many of these were taken by a large format camera.

Weston: And that’s why we chose these photographs. They’re so crisp and clear. It’s because the negatives were so large.

Since you’ll be selling these to the public, how do you even price them?

Weston: That’s a good question. Some of the most recognizable photographs—The Alexander Building, The Eastman Building, Don’t you think there’s a particular magic Beth Israel Synagogue, the Egyptian Theto a black-and-white image? atre—these are one-of-a-kind Garrett: Now, there you images. go getting wordy. I don’t go Garrett: No one really ever SLIDESHOW: Preview some for the word bit. A lot more saw these photos. The negaof Duane Garrett’s photography at BoiseWeekly.com people are more eloquent tives were put into an envelope about this. Basically to me, it and shipped back to Washwas a job. ington, D.C. Almost all of them were part of a job for the Who were some of your clients?

Historic American Building Survey.

Garrett: Every company that worked around here: Simplot, Morrison-Knudsen, How many cameras do you own?

Garrett: I don’t know; maybe eight or 10. I Ore-Ida, every law firm, the state of Idaho, the U.S. government. They all needed picprobably had another 10 over the years. tures. Sooner or later, I was the one to shoot And what was your camera of choice in all them. those years?

Did you take many portraits?

Garrett: A lot of business people. And pretty much everybody who was anybody who came through town; all of the presidents and presidential candidates.

Who was the most famous person you photographed?

Garrett: Probably FDR. He was touring the Pacific and he came through Kodiak, Alaska. I was requested to go shoot him… with a camera, of course [Garrett made sure to make eye contact to know that we heard the joke].

Do you remember the first time you picked up a camera?

Garrett: Oh… maybe. There was a neighbor who encouraged me. In 1939, I had a Brownie Hawkeye and I took pictures at the world’s fair in San Francisco.

Did you have a sense that you wanted to take photographs for a living?

Garrett: Not right away. I just liked school so much. I went into the Navy and received seven different diplomas; I have a drawer full of certificates. It was in the service that I was exposed to more photography. [Garrett’s made sure with another twinkle of the eye that we got the pun]. I went to school on the G.I. Bill, to learn more about photography, in Chicago and Connecticut.

And where did you work when you returned home to Boise?

Garrett: I worked as a salesman at a camera store in Vista Village and I worked for a while at Idaho Camera in downtown Boise. I worked for the Idaho Statesman for four years and the highway department for a couple more years.

When did you break out and begin working solo?

Garrett: Do you remember Bill Bach? He used to run Bach Photographs and he was a good friend of mine. Bill bought a studio in the Eastman Building. I worked there for several years, but I figured 10 out that it was really Bill’s corporation

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WE WE RE I NVITED TO HIS HOME AND WE FOU ND A BOX THAT WAS TUC K ED INTO THAT OLD DA RK R OOM. IT’S A TR EAS UR E.” —Shaun Weston

and I wasn’t going to make too much money. I left and went out on my own. That was 1966.

I’m assuming that you preferred being a free agent.

Garrett: For 30 years. In 1996, I retired and sold off a lot of my cameras.

But you must have a favorite.

Garrett: There was a tiny little photograph of the old Coston Cabin [which now sits next to the Idaho Historical Museum in Julia Davis Park]. It was covered with snow, and St. Luke’s used it on their Christmas cards one year.

You just walked away from photography?

Garrett: Things were going to digital and I wasn’t interested in going down that road at all.

That’s really something.

Garrett: I continued donating a few photographs to them to use over the years. They were just personal photographs I took on my own. After awhile, they would come around and tell me what they wanted to be different.

So, I thought that was getting a little complicated, and I chose to forget it.

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You have no interest in digital photography?

Garrett: None.

This exhibit at The Bishops’ House must Why? be a very big deal for the nonprofit.

Garrett: You can do things electronically, Weston: The house doesn’t have a budget but it’s not the same feeling as creating someper se. It’s the property of the state of Idaho thing on a piece of paper. but Friends of The Bishops’ Weston: Black-and-white House is responsible for its photography was basically a maintenance and upkeep, and moment in time; a moment DUANE GARRETT PHOTO that’s a heavy lift. that you either get or don’t EXHIBIT get. Digital photography?

Friday, Nov. 1, through Sunday, Nov. 10 (weekends, Boise came very close to Well, you can shoot all day 5-8 p.m.). Grand Opening losing The Bishops’ House. until you get what you want Reception: Saturday, Nov. Weston: In 1974. St. Luke’s and then you manipulate it.

2, 5-8 p.m., $12 singles, Hospital, which owned the $20 couples. Also open First Thursday, Nov. 7, 4-7 p.m. building at the time, anDo you ever like to spend The Bishops’ House 2420 nounced plans to demolish much time with other phoOld Penitentiary Road. it. A bunch of citizens got tographers to talk about your together and said, “We’re work and preferences? not going to let you tear this Garrett: I was once a down.” That really spurred the preservation delegate to the Professional Photographers of America. I attended in Chicago once and I moment in Boise. In November 1976, it was thought they were the most standoffish, cold moved to where it sits now. people that I had ever met. I thumbed my And how do you keep the lights on? nose and never went back.

Weston: We rent out the house, primarHow about contemporary photographers? ily for wedding receptions, just to keep the Garrett: No, not really. Photographers to- house open and operating. This exhibition is really a new opportunity for us to open day are usually doing something very different. We don’t even speak the same language. the house in a different way. We’re holding a special reception on Saturday, Nov. 2, when we’ll have food, music and people can meet Did you ever look at your work as being Mr. Garrett. The exhibit runs two weekends, important? through Sunday, Nov. 10.

Garrett: No, it was either good or bad.

That’s it.

Some of these photos are truly historic.

Garrett: I have to tell you that I would I know you keep saying that this was job, have tried harder if I knew all this was going but can you appreciate that it’s also an art? to happen.

Garrett: That’s you being wordy again.

I’ll say this: I’m pleased that people like my Are you going to be OK at that big work. But I never had in mind, as I was taking a picture, that this was something I had a shindig?

Garrett: As long as I don’t have to do kinship with. anything.

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proximately 17,000 people.

His name isn’t even on the ballot. But anyone who doesn’t think the Prognosticators might instead want to look at March 2012, when a legacy of Boise Mayor Dave Bieter won’t be tested Tuesday, Nov. 5, grassroots campaign secured passage of a five-year, $70-million levy for the when his constituents decide whether to support what he calls “livabilBoise Independent School District. The levy required a two-thirds majority ity” and public safety initiatives, they’re simply not paying attention. In for passage and a well-organized group of volunteers successfully lured fact, it was Bieter who threw down the gauntlet this past June, triggernearly 30 percent of registered voters—approximately 28,000 people—to ing one of the biggest and most sophisticated municipal elections in the the polls. The tax increase sailed through with 71 percent of the vote. city’s history.

Simply put, organizers of this year’s pro-bond campaign would be well Speaking before a packed house at the Boise Centre June 12, Bieter used his 2013 State of the City address to test his political capital by taking aim advised to manage a majority of the minority. Voter turnout is key and if a minimal number of voters participate in the election, the pro-bond camat a Republican-controlled Idaho Statehouse, launching his boldest public paign could use that to its advantage. As Boise Weekly was going to press, comments to date: officials at the Ada County Board of Elections said only about 80 people “We’re on our own. We have to build our own economy,” he said, per day were taking advantage of early voting. prompting nearly 1,000 attendees to look up from their $45-a-plate BW conducted its own unscientific polling on the bond initiatives, talkbreakfasts. ing to scores of registered voters on three occasions—two weekdays and Bieter then talked about creating a new revenue stream to purchase more of the Boise Foothills to keep creeping development at bay, as well as one weekend—in Boise’s downtown core: 75 percent of Boise registered voters that BW spoke to said they were fund fire and police department improvements and to upgrade a number not aware of the bond initiatives, adding that they probably would not be of city parks for what he called “an underserved West Boise.” voting.

“The long-term viability of the city is at risk,” said Bieter.

However, 100 percent of those who were aware of the bonds said they Within 90 days, the Boise City Council decided to pare away some of would definitely vote. the items from hizzoner’s wish list, such as upgrades for the Boise Police Of those who indicated that they would be voting, 63 percent said they Department, and ultimately settled on two separate bond proposals to would vote “yes” for both bond initiatives, 27 percent said they were still put before voters: Bond No. 1, totaling approximately $17.2 million, undecided and 10 percent said they were against both measures. None said would set aside $6.8 million for construction of a new fire training facility they would vote “yes” for one bond initiative and “no” for another. and another $10.1 million to upgrade or replace four aging fire stations; Some were apathetic—a 20-something woman told us, “I don’t vote. I Bond No. 2, approximately $15.7 million, would earmark $10 million for hate politics.” Others were over-the-top energetic—a 60-something womFoothills protection, in addition to preservation of some open space along an said, “It’s pathetic how many people don’t vote. It’s our civic duty.” the Boise River and other natural areas, and $5.5 million to fund three “All we have to do is get that two-thirds. We have a lot of work to do,” new city parks while adding new amenities to three existing parks. Adding said Hollis Brookover. in issuance costs, the bonds would total $32.9 million. Taking 20 years to She should know. Brookover said she has barely sat still since she was pay them off would inflate the total to more than $50 million. recruited in September to serve as co-chair for the pro-bond campaign, But you won’t see any reference to $50 million—or even $32.9 mildubbed “Yes! Yes! for Boise.” lion—on any of the glossy “vote yes” mailers that have been “Hollis is a force not to be ignored,” said Brice Sloan, filling Boiseans’ mailboxes for the past month. What you Brookover’s campaign co-chair. “I was thrilled that they will see is the following phrase: “All for the cost of just $1 a VOTE asked me to help.” month to the average Boise homeowner.”

Tuesday, Nov. 5, visit The two co-chairs, who had never met before the City officials estimate that based on the average assessadaweb.net/elections to campaign, aren’t politicians by a long shot. Brookover is a ment of a Boise home—$184,000—a household should find out where to vote. third-generation Boisean, co-founder of the advocacy group expect to pay an extra $12 a year in property taxes if both Idaho Voices for Children and, along with her husband, bonds pass. A business with $1 million in taxable property owns Garden City-based Mariposa Labs, a personal care value could expect to pay an extra $132 per year if the manufacturing facility. Sloan is a former firefighter for the U.S. Forest bonds pass.

Service and current owner of Boise-based Sloan Security Group, installing But passage is an uphill battle; two-thirds of the voting public needs to high-tech security for customers such as ExxonMobil and the U.S. Departsay yes for either measure to become reality. ment of Defense.

“I have never really been involved in anything like this. I’m usually busy READING THE TEA LEAVES keeping my head down, making my business a success,” he said. “But I Anyone looking to forecast just how Boise voters might lean Tuesday, Nov. 5, might want to drill into the results of two previous municipal elec- passionately believe in this campaign. These are real issues that will have real impact on people’s lives.” tions: in November 2011 and March 2012.

The Yes! Yes! campaign has had great success in fundraising and boasts In November 2011, Bieter sailed to a rare third-term landslide victory, a who’s-who donor list with deep pockets. Donors include ESI Construcdefeating challenger David Hall by a nearly 3-to-1 margin, solidifying his tion ($15,000); Gardner Property Holdings ($15,000); Barber Valley popularity with an enviable 74 percent of the vote. But only 16 percent of Development ($10,000); Blue Cross of Idaho ($1,000); Primary Health registered voters in Boise bothered to show up at the polls in 2011—ap-

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($2,500); Western Aircraft ($5,000); MWI Veterinary Supply ($5,000); Syringa Networks ($2,500); Thornton, Oliver, Keller ($1,000); and D.L. Evans Bank ($1,000).

Equally impressive are in-kind donations from the Conservation Voters for Idaho, Idaho Conservation League, The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley and The Nature Conservancy, which have provided office space and volunteers.

“And the conversations between our volunteers and voters have been simple and direct.

Once you say it’s 12 bucks a year, people get it,” said Brookover. “Most people understand what they’re going to get for that 12 bucks.

Most people want parks for everybody. And they certainly want the right fire engine to get to where it needs to go.”

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but this one is the worst of all.”

“There isn’t a Plan B,” he said. “The city only has so much money, maybe $5 million, in the capital fund for all of Boise each year. I truly think everybody understands this need.”

But the big ticket item for Doan would be a new fire training facility, with a price tag of $6.8 million.

“Our current training facility is almost useless,” said Doan, referring to the 40-yearold tower on Shoreline Drive. “We really can’t burn inside it; we can’t even use the front door of the building and we can’t use fire suppression foam because of its proximity to the Boise River.”

Doan paused for a moment.

“Honestly, if this bond doesn’t pass, I don’t think I would see a new training facility in my career,” he said.

“But I feel fairly confident that it’s going to pass.”

If anyone in Boise has reason to be nervous about the Tuesday, Nov. 5, vote, it’s Boise LIVABILITY Fire Chief Dennis Doan. But he Since 2001—when 59 perdoesn’t show it. cent of Boise voters approved BOND NO. 1 “As the fire chief, I’m here the landmark $10 million Authorization of $17.2 to answer any direct questions Foothills Serial Levy—10,763 million in bonds to about the department. But it’s acres of open space has been construct and equip a new fire training facility, and to their [the campaign’s] job to get preserved through acquisitions, upgrade or replace four the votes,” said Doan. “That’s donations, easements or land aging fire stations. why there’s a campaign. It’s swaps. The market value, to really their job to win this elecdate is approximately $37.4 tion.” million.

Doan knows the Boise Fire “But the serial levy fund is Department inside and out. down to about $1.8 million,” A veteran of 22 years on the Boise Parks and Recreation force, he has worked every shift Director Doug Holloway told a at every fire station in the city. gathering of the Idaho EnvironToday, he oversees a total of mental Forum. He outlined the BOND NO. 2 17 stations and 300 employproposal of Bond No. 2, which Authorization of $15.7 million in bonds to ees—280 of them firefighters. would replenish the fund with purchase and/or develop Doan painted a sobering pican extra $10 million. “And I three new parks, add ture of four of the city’s fire stacan tell you that the city is talkamenities to three existtions—Nos. 4, 5, 8 and 9—that ing to a number of landowners ing parks and preserve open space in the Boise require voter approval for $16.9 everyday about new acquisiFoothills and other natural million in upgrades. In fact, his tions. We have three active areas that make up the dire description of the facilities discussions as we speak. Plus, watershed of the would give most citizens pause. we’re also looking at purchases Boise River.

“Station No. 4 [built in of land outside of the Foothills, 1972] on Ustick Road needs to near the Boise River and in rebuild to accommodate the reSouthwest Boise.” location of a ladder truck [BFD Holloway also detailed the has three ladder trucks to cover other piece of Bond No. 2: a the entire city]. We’ve deter$5.5 million investment to fund mined that No. 4 is the perfect three new city parks and spruce place to put that truck.” up three existing parks in West COST “Station No. 5 [built in Boise and the Bench, which he If approved, the package 1951] on South 16th Street has said, “do not currently meet our would cost the average no emergency generator, needs standards.” homeowner approximately new heating and air conditionIn particular, the city wants $12 per year for 20 years.

The average home value ing, is seismically unsafe and to develop Franklin Park in Boise is $184,000. has a poor electrical system. at Franklin Boulevard and And that station gets more calls Orchard Street (including a than any other station in the community garden, picnic state.” shelter, playground and fitness “Station No. 8 [built in trail), Pine Grove Park on West 1956] on Overland Road has all of the same Shoup Avenue (including a dog park, basketproblems as No. 5. And this one is misplaced. ball court, picnic shelters and playground), We need to relocate the station to improve our and Sterling Park on Mitchell Street (includresponse coverage for the Central Bench and ing a dog park, mini skate park, tennis court, Boise State.” basketball court and picnic shelter).

“Station No. 9 [built in 1975] on Sycamore The plan also includes improvements to has one dorm, one shower, one bathroom. It’s Borah Park on South Aurora Drive (a new really bad. It’s not ADA compliant and we dog park, basketball court and open play have a major gender equity issue. A female fields), Liberty Park on North Liberty Street worker told me it was pretty disgusting. We (a new baseball field, basketball court and have the same problem at some other stations, picnic shelter), and Milwaukee Park on North

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YES! YES! CO-CHAIRS, HOLLIS BROOKOVER (LEFT) AND BRICE SLOAN (RIGHT).

Milwaukee Street (a new basketball court, playground and picnic shelter).

“We just have to do a better job in providing equal park access to our kids,” said Brookover.

Sloan said the Yes! Yes! Campaign had good reason for securing a two-thirds majority.

“I just think there’s very little opposition to this effort,” he said.

But the opposition is formidable nonetheless.

NO! NO! “Yes, that was me,” said David Hall. “I ran against Dave Bieter in 2011.”

Hall, who lost in Bieter’s landslide reelection two years ago, told Boise Weekly that he doesn’t dispute the city’s need for public safety or parks. But he quickly added that the city should have done a better job in handling its previous revenue streams, and that’s reason enough to say “no” and “no” to both bonds.

“I spoke to this exact issue when I ran against Dave Bieter. The money has been there before, but it was never allocated properly,” said Hall. “Our city leaders aren’t spending the money we’re giving them on the type of projects that are required.”

Hall said when city officials claim they need $16.9 million for public safety, he has no problem with the number.

“But to me, that $16.9 million represents a lot of neglect,” he said. “When they ask me for $16.9 million over and above what has already been budgeted, then that tells me that they haven’t been spending that money properly, and they have been spending it instead on feelgood projects.”

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Idaho Freedom Foundation President Wayne Hoffman agrees, zeroing in on publicly funded art initiatives.

“I haven’t reviewed every aspect of the city of Boise’s budget, but there are certain indicators that make a person wonder,” said Hoffman. “For example, the city has a tremendous number of arts-related projects in which the city takes money out of people’s pockets and then tells them that they have to fund a particular artistic endeavor, whether they like it or not.”

Hoffman said city leaders haven’t passed what he calls a simple test: “Whenever the government proposes to raise taxes, they have to look people in the eye and say, ‘We’ve done everything humanly possible to eliminate waste and make sure that you hang on to as much of your money as you possibly can.’ There simply hasn’t been a thorough, thoughtful discussion on this. Every time I look, I see a city that still spends on wasteful endeavors, and has not fought hard enough to figure out ways of rooting out unnecessary spending.”

Hoffman said he didn’t like to get into “the minutiae of elections,” but added “I think there is genuine opposition to this.”

And Hall was even more adamant.

“It’s a pipe dream for them to get a twothirds majority with the economy the way it is,” he said. “They say it’s only $12 a year; well, if somebody doesn’t have an extra $12 in their budget, it might as well be $1,000.

Boiseans can’t afford it, and they’re tired of city management not spending our money appropriately.”

DOOR TO DOOR Brookover and Sloan smiled when they were asked about what they call token opposition to the bonds.

“You can listen to those few, or you could listen to the people of Boise,” said Sloan. “I’ve been talking to a lot of small business owners, and they know better than anyone that when things aren’t very easy, that’s exactly when you make the right investments. And this is the right time.”

Sloan and Brookover both agreed that oldschool retail politics was probably their best bet to secure a two-thirds majority.

“It’s door to door in as many neighborhoods as possible, from now until Election Day,” said Brookover. “And we have a lot more volunteers manning the phone banks. We’re trying to touch people in any way we can.”

And that includes a unique campaign video; but voters haven’t seen the 30-second spot on television. Instead, it’s being pumped out through YouTube, with the social platform specifically targeting Boise-area users. Boise Weekly has learned that the slick video was crafted by Boise-based Wide Eye Productions.

“Yes, it was designed for YouTube,” campaign spokeswoman Shelby Scott told BW. “If we raise more campaign funds in the remaining days of the campaign, maybe you’ll see it on television but for now, it’s for the Web.” And television isn’t cheap.

“Oh, yes, media gets really expensive,” said Brookover. “But make no mistake, this is a professionally run campaign.”

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Ballet Idaho throws it all into the air with its fall performance.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY NOV. 1-2 Why go to college? You get another of these great hats.

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 30 pick one BOISE NATIONAL COLLEGE FAIR With more than 8,000 prospective students checking out more than 100 colleges, ranging from performing and visual arts schools to state universities and military academies, the Boise College Fair is a must-attend for anyone interested in getting an advanced degree.

This event is a chance to get all the info you need on the latest trends in universities, along with employment and career opportunities. It’s also a great way to navigate the often-confusing waters of higher education, making the increasingly sizeable investment in a degree easier to deal with.

Those who attend can speak with university representatives to help create a college experience with invaluable insight from some of the most prominent universities in the nation. The event, unlike the degree, is free and open to the public.

9 a.m. and 6 p.m., FREE. Idaho Expo Center. 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-2875650, nacacnet.org.

THURSDAYSUNDAY OCT. 31NOV. 3 bring on the pow 63RD ANNUAL SKI SWAP In the Treasure Valley, the approach of winter doesn’t just bring a chill to the air

and the urge to snuggle beneath a blanket, it brings wistful dreams of glistening white snow and piles of powder just begging for first tracks.

The still-brown Foothills do little to fulfill those dreams, but at least there’s the annual Bogus Basin Ski Education Foundation Ski Swap to help get us through the shoulder season.

The fundraiser for the organization that supports youth skiing draws thou-

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sands to Expo Idaho for the chance to pick up new and used gear on the cheap, while those whose garages are already packed can sell their old gear to make room for the new.

This year, the Swap opens on Thursday, Oct. 31, when sellers can drop off gear from 3-9 p.m. The sale opens to the public Friday, Nov. 1, from 5-10 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, from 10 a.m-8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 3, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

With Qualia, Akimbo, Footage and Serenade on the bill for Ballet Idaho’s fall show, dancers will be put through their paces by a diverse group of American choreographers: Peter Anastos, Ballet Idaho’s artistic director (Footage); Charles Anderson, founder/artistic director of Company C Contemporary Ballet (Akimbo); Ballet Idaho dancer Daniel Ojeda (Qualia); and the indisputable father of contemporary American ballet, George Balanchine (Serenade).

Ojeda’s Qualia looks at memory and experience against the strains of Schubert, while Footage employs the big-band sounds of The Jack Hylton Orchestra in Anastos’ homage to the fun film dancing of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. Serenade, with music by Tchaikovsky, was the first work Balanchine created after he moved to the United States and is a seminal work, not only of his but for American ballet as a whole. And Akimbo is an athletic, 21 minutes in five movements (featuring music by Kronos Quartet), which Anderson came to Boise to set on six Ballet Idaho dancers—including principals Phyllis Rothwell-Affrunti and Andrew Taft.

8 p.m., $38-$58. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

Those who want first dibs on the best gear will pay $5 to get in on Friday, while the cost drops to $3 on Saturday. Admission is free on Sunday with the donation of a can of food to the Boise Rescue Mission or $3 sans can.

Shoppers can stock up on both Alpine and Nordic ski gear, snowboard gear and even clothing and accessories. Sellers keep 75 percent of the profits from the sale, with the remainder going to BBSEF. For the uninitiated, here’s a tip: Go early and be ready to wait in line. Just keep thinking of those first tracks.

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p.m., Friday, Nov. 1, 5-10 p.m., Saturday, Nov. 2, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 3, 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

FREE-$5, Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, bbsef.org/swap.

SATURDAY NOV. 2 pick and choose ZEITGEIST HALF MARATHON AND WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES Variety is the spice of life, but this spice also comes

with difficult decisions. You want to hit up the Zeitgeist Half Marathon filled with sweet awards and prizes, a post-race party and support a movement advocating social change. But there’s also the Walk A Mile In My Shoes event the same day, which benefits the Boise/ Ada County Homeless Coalition and also offers grub after the walk.

Therein lies the rub, how can you possibly choose?

Barring the ability to replicate yourself (which would make you some kind of X Man), you could attempt to register and compete in both—but you better be able to walk a quick mile.

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FRIDAY-SUNDAY NOV. 1–10 put a fork in it DINEOUT DOWNTOWN BOISE Most of us need an excuse to have a night on the town, but for 10 days in November, eating out is par for the course in downtown Boise.

DineOut Downtown Boise returns with special offers on prix fixe menus at 14 downtown restaurants throughout the event.

Each restaurant sets its own menu offerings, but they fall into three categories: a two-course lunch for $10, a two-course dinner for $15 or a three-course dinner for $30 (per person, of course.) It’s up to the restaurant which option or options they offer, but diners can score with whatever they choose.

There are no special passes, tickets or coupons required— just walk in and order, though reservations are recommended.

Participating restaurants this year include Angell’s Bar and Grill-Renato, Bardenay, Bonefish Grill, Cafe Ole, Chandlers Steakhouse, Flatbread Neapolitan Pizzeria, Fresh Off The Hook Seafood, Gone Rogue Pub, Le Cafe de Paris, Lucky Fins Seafood Grill, Mai Thai, Proto’s Pizza, Red Feather Lounge, Shige Japanese Cuisine, Solid, The Brickyard, The Matador, The Melting Pot and The Piper Pub. Visit downtownboise.org for all the details, including which restaurants are offering which packages.

Friday, Nov. 1-Sunday, Nov. 10. $10-$30 per person. Various downtown Boise restaurants. downtownboise.org.

So here are the details: Walk A Mile In My Shoes starts at 8 a.m. on a onemile course in Julia Davis Park and follows the Boise River Greenbelt. All participants get complimentary nylon drawstring backpacks and hot coffee with a variety of breakfast foods. You’ll also be helping a coalition

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whose focus is on the public education and advocacy for individuals and families experiencing homelessness.

The Zeitgeist half marathon, kicking off at 10 a.m., offers a 13.1-mile run with 1,180 feet of elevation gain around northwest Boise. The top three male and female finishers get Zorrel long

Life is rich with unexpectedly fruitful combinations: coffee and whiskey, skeet shooting and surfing (seriously, look it up. Thank you, Val Kilmer), dried pineapple and Gorgonzola cheese. Steampunk is one of the more novel combinations to come out of the new millennium. The Steam Age was also the Age of Empire, oppressive sexual mores and stovepipe hats; punk, by contrast, is an explosion of loud, dissonant music, tattered leathers and rage at the status quo.

By extension, Steampact is a meta-unexpectedly fruitful combination. The event combines the steampunk aesthetic—industrial age, do-it-yourself retrofitted gear—and a good cause. Saturday, Nov. 2, at Visual Arts Collective, local tech company Balihoo has organized a steampunk ball starting at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25, and proceeds benefit Family Advocates, a local nonprofit that rescues children from abusive homes.

The party includes the usual amenities, like drink specials and a live auction; but it’s the live entertainment that makes the cover a bargain for attendees and a coup for a charitable organization, with a burlesque performance by Red Light Variety Show, Stardust Lounge and Minerva Jayne hitting the stage, as well as Psychic Sheila, a Gypsy wagon, food trucks and a photo booth.

Diehard steampunkers, folks who want more than one use out of a Halloween costume and those of us who love a chance to dress up will find Steampact to be just what it sounds like: a blast from an alternative past.

7 p.m. $25. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, steampact.org.

sleeve, moisture wicking T-shirts, and help support a grassroots movement that hopes to transition us from a monetary-based economy to a resource-based one.

Registration is required for both events, but participants can register in advance or the day of the race. So whether you participate in one and donate to the other, or you lace up your sneakers and compete

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Like oenophiles, coffee aficionados can be quite particular about their drink of choice. The relatively recent up-swing in “pour-over coffee” has allowed coffee drinkers to experience the pomp and circumstance usually reserved for an uncorking in a subterranean wine cellar—but it’s a slow process, which might be OK for a lazy Sunday morning but not on a manic Monday.

The Aerobie AeroPress, which has been around for nearly a decade, is a smart alternative to the time-consuming pour-over and can brew java in the time it takes to find your car keys.

The compact coffee maker is similar to a French press in that it uses an “immersion brewing method” and coffee $30 aerobie.com/products/ is pushed through a filter, aeropress.htm but the AeroPress is smaller and uses air to create a rich, hearty cuppa.

Invented by Alan Adler (the man who gave us Aerobie brand toys), the AeroPress is smaller than a traditional French press, comes with specially designed accessories and its plastic-and-rubber construction makes it both durable and portable—it even comes with its own travel pouch.

And with a price tag of around $30, you can totally afford to become a coffee snob.

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in both, there’s no wrong choice when it comes to helping your community.

Walk A Mile In My Shoes: 8 a.m. $10. Julia Davis Park, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-246-8830, homelesscoalitionboise.com.

Zeitgeist Half Marathon: 10 a.m., $75-$85. Optimist Football Park, 9889 W. Hill Road. Boise, 208-853-1221, zhalfmarathon.com.

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WEDNESDAY OCT. 30 Festivals & Events TRUNK OR TREAT SO PEOPLE CAN EAT—Families and children of all ages are invited to enjoy indoor trick-or-treating. Participants are asked to take a can of food or a gently used winter coat for admission. Benefits the Salvation Army. 6 p.m.

Stevens-Henager College-Nampa Satellite, 16819 N. Marketplace Blvd., Nampa, 208-383-4540, stevenshenager.edu.

On Stage HOMEGROWN THEATRE: A (2ND ANNUAL!) HORRIFIC PUPPET AFFAIR—The puppets are returning to commit acts of resurrection, sacrifice, control, disease, revenge, psychosis and ritual in five short plays, two dance pieces and one short film, all original, all local, all scary.

Intended for mature audiences.

Tickets available at brownpapertickets.com/event/484631. 8 p.m. $5. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208331-0956, redroomboise.com.

LIQUID LAUGHS SPOOK SPECTACULAR—Join Boise’s best comedians as they all perform in costume/character, followed by Kostumed Karaoke, $100 for best costume and drink specials for 21 and older. 8 p.m. $5. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

PUNK PANTHER—Prairie Dog Playhouse presents the story of Inspector Notaclueso and his journey with Karate Who as they face off against masters of crime Dryfus and Miss Demeanor.

This family show will punk your Halloween. 7:15 p.m. $8-$13.

Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-8616818, stagecoachtheatre.com.

RED—Painter Mark Rothko and his assistant impact life, art and authenticity while completing the famous Seagram murals. 8 p.m. $15-$30. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Literature BOOK DISCUSSION SERIES: LOST AND FOUND IN TRANSLATION WITH KIM FRANK KIRK— Join the writer and teacher as she explores the works of David Henry Hwang, Eileen Chang and Mo Yan. 5:30 p.m. $50-$100.

Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org.

Odds & Ends BOISE NATIONAL COLLEGE FAIR—Featuring more than 100 colleges and universities. See Picks, Page 14. 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. FREE. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, nacanet.org.

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Art and athleticism meet rock ’n’ roll with TMP’s epic Mercury Half-Life.

REVIEW: TMP GOES FULL BORE WITH MERCURY HALF-LIFE In addition to his success as a writer, Mark Twain was also a master ful—if eccentric—public speaker. He would stand on stage saying nothing, sometimes for up to 15 minutes. The audience, growing uncomfortable, would begin to murmur and giggle, and when Twain sensed the tension in the room had reached a certain pitch, he would break it by saying something witty.

Trey McIntyre seemed to follow a similar story-telling structure Oct. 26 for the Trey McIntyre Project Fall Show at the Morrison Center, in which the spare, methodical Pass, Away, preceded Mercury Half-Life, an epic Bacchanalian homage to the legendary showmanship of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury. The dream-like Pass, Away was the evening’s long pause; Mercury Half-Life was the ecstasy of release.

The evening began as polite conversation dimmed with the lights. Strauss’ Caecilie, Op. 27 tiptoed over the audience as Benjamin Behrends, Chanel DaSilva, Brett Perry, Rachel Sherak, Travis Walker and Ashley Werhun took the stage in male-female pairs, illustrating through ballet themes of conflict, solitude and reconciliation.

Pass, Away is a meditative, quiet piece of choreography: Coupled dancers successively took the stage, acting out gendered relationships marked by unreciprocated desire, yearning and triumph. Of particular note was a forceful performance by DaSilva, whose muscular frame and triumphant movements bubbled on the dance’s surface.

Those accustomed to McIntyre’s playfulness with props, costumes and vivid themes may have found Pass, Away abstract, technical, dreamy—during the intermission, one audience member confessed to “nodding off a few times”—but others may have felt a tension-building pause foreshadowing an abrupt change in the evening’s tone. Nobody went home disappointed.

Where Pass, Away invited the audience to glimpse into the human interior, Mercury Half-Life exploded outward. The sometimes pianissimo, sometimes full-throated vaudevillian voice of Freddie Mercury cracked open the evening’s second act as Brett Perry tap-danced to “Bring Back That Leroy Brown.” Performing in white undergarments and white militaryesque jackets lined in blood red, the entire company danced solos, duets, trios and ensemble pieces to selections from “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Killer Queen” and what felt like the rest of Queen’s discography.

Mercury Half-Life was nearly an hour of visceral, larger-than-life choreography that, at times, seemed as acrobatic as Cirque du Soleil, while columns of LEDs at the back of the stage recalled electric fantasies and images of concert-goers waving Zippos and Bics above their heads. Mercury Half-Life is the sweet spot where art and athleticism meet rock ’n’ roll.

—Harrison Berry

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8 DAYS OUT THURSDAY OCT. 31

FRIDAY NOV. 1

Festivals & Events

Festivals & Events

THE EXOTIC EROTICA BALL— Costume contest for more than $1,000 in cash and prizes.

Games include Exotic Erotic, Monster Mash and Hiding the Bone in the Skeleton. The Rocci Johnson Band plays 9 p.m. to close. 8 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557.

BREEDER’S CUP—This two-day event will be broadcast live in the Turf Club at Les Bois Park. Featuring food and drink specials, giveaways, simulcast wagering and a drawing to benefit the Idaho Foodbank. Check the Les Bois Park Facebook page for post times. 9 a.m. FREE. Les Bois Park Turf Club, 5610 Glennwood St., Garden City, 208321-0222, lesboispark.com.

On Stage HOMEGROWN THEATRE: A (2ND ANNUAL!) HORRIFIC PUPPET AFFAIR—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $5. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-0956, redroomboise. com.

PUNK PANTHER—See Wednesday. 7:15 p.m. $8-$13. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

RED—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15-$30. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

On Stage BALLET IDAHO: AKIMBO/FOOTAGE/ SERENADE—Ballet Idaho performs Akimbo: music

by Ornette Coleman, Ben Johnson, John Hassel and Kevin Volans and choreography by Charles Anderson; Footage: music by The Jack Hylton Orchestra and choreography by Peter Anastos; and Serenade: music

by Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky and choreography by George Balanchine. See Picks, Page 14.

8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, balletidaho.org.

HOKUM HOEDOWN SQUARE DANCE AND OLD-TIMEY MUSIC SERIES—Enjoy music from the Hokum Hi-Flyers while you learn square-dance moves, followed by an old-time hootenanny featuring a cast of callers. Pie Hole pizza will be served and a full bar is available with ID. 7 p.m. $7.

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

HOMEGROWN THEATRE: A (2ND ANNUAL!) HORRIFIC PUPPET AFFAIR—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $5. The Red Room Tavern, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-0956, redroomboise. com.

Food and Drink

RED—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15-$30. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

DINE OUT BOISE—Featuring a price-fixed menu from local restaurants.

Continues through Nov. 10. See Picks, Page 15. $10 2-course lunch, a $15 2-course dinner or a $30 3-course dinner. Various locations, Boise, for info see downtownboise.org.

THE MEPHAM GROUP

| SUDOKU

PUNK PANTHER—See Wednesday. 7:15 p.m. $8-$13. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Concerts ALL KEYED UP—Join musicians from the Boise Philharmonic, Boise State and Boise Baroque orchestras for an evening of piano, organ and glockenspiel music. 7:30 p.m. Suggested $10 donation. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

BOISE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES: ZEMLINSKY QUARTET—From the Czech Republic, the Zemlinsky String Quartet will perform works by Austrian composer Alexander Zemlinsky, along with Haydn and Beethoven’s monumental Op. 130, with the original Grosse Fuge. 7:30 p.m. $25. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208426-1609.

Odds & Ends ART AND SCIENCE OF NATUROPATHIC MEDICINE—Open house to meet doctors and ask questions about naturopathic medicine. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Natural Health, 4219 Emerald St., Boise, 208-338-0405, boisenaturalhealth.com.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating.

Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

DEATH CAFE—Celebrate Dia de los Muertos by attending Boise’s introduction to the Death Cafe.

Enjoy refreshments as you share your thoughts about death and dying. See Culture, Page 22.

For more info contact FCAI@fortboise.org. 6:30 p.m. Donations accepted. Muse Building, 1317 W. Jefferson, Boise, 208-3423316, deathcafe.com.

SALSA AT THE DRINK—Beginner salsa lesson from 9-10 p.m. and then social dancing with music by DJ Filmon from 10 p.m.-2 a.m. For 21 and older. 9 p.m. $5. The Drink Bar and Waterfront Grill, 3000 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Boise, 208-861-9094.

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Oct. 9 - Nov. 2, 2013 Art Obsession Rothko

By John Logan Directed by Matthew Cameron Clark

8 DAYS OUT SATURDAY NOV. 2 Festivals & Events BREEDER’S CUP—See Friday.

9 a.m. FREE. Les Bois Park Turf Club, 5610 Glennwood St., Garden City, 208-321-0222, lesboispark.com.

“We tell stories here.”

Reggie Gowland Actor

tickets: $15 - $30 student tickets: $15 phone: 331-9224 x205 online: BCTheater.org 854 Fulton St. Downtown Boise

CHUCK YOUR PUMPKIN—Satisfy your urge to splat a pumpkin against a wall. Featuring food trucks, pumpkin pie and music.

Noon. $5. Sawtooth Botanical Garden, 11 Gimlet Road, Ketchum, 208-726-9358, sbgarden. org.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS—This family event features music, art activities, food tasting, altars and artwork created by more than 100 artists and school kids. The highlight of the evening will be a procession starting at 6 p.m. at the Sesqui-Shop and following Eighth Street down to the museum. Put on your favorite skeleton makeup and join the march to the museum. 5 p.m.

FREE. Idaho State Historical Museum, 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, history. idaho.gov.

DIA DE LOS MUERTOS PROCESSION—Put on your favorite calavera (skeleton) makeup and join this grand march to the State Historical Museum. The procession will be led by a crew of printmakers who created giant holiday banners down Eighth Street to the museum. This family event features music, art activities, food tasting, altars and artwork created by over 100 artists and school kids. 6 p.m.

FREE. Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-4335671.

STEAMPUNK CHARITY EVENT—Featuring drinks, specials, live music and more, brought to you by tech company Balihoo. See Picks, Page 15. 7 p.m. $25.

Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, steampact.org.

Art DUANE GARRETT RECEPTION—Meet the artist, whose vintage silver gelatin prints will be on display, and enjoy hors d’oeuvres. See Citizen, Page 8. 5 p.m. $12, $30 couple.

Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, thebishopshouse.com/events.

SUNDAY NOV. 3 Festivals & Events SIXTH ANNUAL BOISE RECORD SHOW AND SWAP—Featuring DJs, dancing visual projections and a costume contest. Presented by the Vinyl Preservation Society of Idaho. 8 p.m. $5-$10.

The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, vpsidaho.org.

On Stage PUNK PANTHER—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. $8-$13. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

MONDAY NOV. 4 Literature MARK TWAIN VISITS THE BOISE RIVER—Sit back on your imaginary raft as Mark Twain (aka John Heimer) regales you with stories from his early life.

Find out how the history of the Boise River connects with the lifetime of this legendary author.

7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, boisepubliclibrary.org.

TUESDAY NOV. 5 Literature PARTNERS IN CRIME WRITING GROUP—Each meeting of this writing group includes a presentation by an author, teacher, crime specialist, agent, editor or others who can offer something of interest to writers of mystery and crime stories. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3764229, rdbooks.org.

Concerts STARS OF STEINWAY— See Saturday. 4 p.m. FREE. Dunkley Music, 410 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-342-5549, starsofsteinway.com.

Workshops & Classes TEA MEDITATION—Relaxing breathing exercises and guided meditation. 7 p.m. $5. Pudge’s Place, 2726 W. Smith Ave., Boise, 208-550-8327.

WEDNESDAY NOV. 6 Odds & Ends POETRY SLAM OF STEEL—Allages poetr y slam workshop as par t of the Idaho Loud Writer’s Program. Slam at 7 p.m. 6 p.m. $5, $1 with student ID. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-426-0383, boisepoetr y. com.

EYESPY On Stage

Real Dialogue from the naked city

BALLET IDAHO: AKIMBO/FOOTAGE/SERENADE—See Friday. 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208426-1609, balletidaho.org.

PUNK PANTHER—See Wednesday. 7:15 p.m. $8-$13. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

RED—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15-$30. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Concerts STARS OF STEINWAY—Enjoy performances of Beethoven, Chopin and Ravel on the 9-foot Steinway with big screen video and free post-concert reception.

7 p.m. FREE. Dunkley Music, 410 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208342-5549, starsofsteinway.com.

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GOOD TIMES

THE CHARIOT NO LONGER AWAITS The wheels have fallen off The Chariot: The metalcore band announced it is calling it quits. The band wraps up its decade-long ride with The Chariot Farewell Tour—which includes a stop in Boise at The Shredder

Ivan & Alyosha Share All the Times We Had

Thursday, Oct. 31—saying final goodbyes

BRIAN PALMER

frontman Josh Scogin (former frontman for

Saturday, Nov. 16, in its hometown of Atlanta, Ga. Loudwire.com reports Chariot Norma Jean) as saying, “Having enjoyed

Pete Wilson, bassist and a backup vocalist for Seattle pop-rockers Ivan & Alyosha, speaks candidly when asked about the subjects that come up in his band’s songs.

“We always tell people that in our lives there’s a certain amount of faith, doubt, love, hatred, family and relationships, and we write about all of those things, whether it’s right or wrong,” Wilson said. “We write about pretty much everything that’s on our minds. Nothing is out of bounds for us.”

After independently releasing a trio of EPs—2009’s The Verse, The Chorus; 2011’s Fathers Be Kind; and 2012’s The Cabin Sessions—Ivan & Alyosha released their debut Ryan Carbary, Tim Kim, Tim Wilson and Pete Wilson (l-r) joke about which one of them full-length, All the Times We Had (Dualtone is Ivan and which one is Alyosha.

Music Group), in February of this year. It confirms Wilson’s assertion about nothing bethe rocking closer, “Who Are You,” employs inspirational. ing off limits: The ethereal folk track “Don’t danceable War-era U2 atmospherics. But one “We recognize that that’s a habit of ours, Wanna Die Anymore” tackles man’s mortalof the biggest surprises is the title track. It’s a but I don’t know if it’s really intentional,” ity, while the swelling rock number “Fathers somber, piano-led shuffler that features spineBe Kind” is an aptly titled missive on the im- Wilson said. “As a band, what we really get portance of being a good dad. And the jangly, turned on to is pop music. We love how there tingling humming and lead singer Tim Wilson mid-tempo pop track “Easy to Love”—which are so many different kinds of pop music, but (Pete’s brother) crooning soulfully about the end of a relationship—it also features an unfirst appeared on The Verse, The Chorus and the main thing [we love] is that it just makes expected duet with Aimee Mann (former ‘Til people feel good. I think, whether people was picked as an NPR Song of the Day at Tuesday vocalist). admit it or not, it does feel good to listen to SXSW in 2010—is one of a handful of songs “I think we were all pretty surprised,” pop music, so if we’re writing about some that fall into the relationship category. deeper issue and can make it a little bit easier Wilson said, laughing. “It was exactly what But it is the single “Running for Cover” that song—and the record—needed. It was or more accessible to listen to, then we like that most fully demonstrates the band’s refreshing having a female voice. We’d asked doing that.” willingness to address whatever subject it some of our friends who are way less busy Response to All the Times has been pleases. Stylistically reminiscent of labelgenerally positive, with American Songwriter and way less famous to sing on the song, mates The Lumineers, the song examines the calling it “well written,” and Blurt Magazine but nothing was really sticking. Aimee was a Biblical fall of man and questions if it relates total shot in the dark. I mean, we’ve always characterizing the album as “an emphatic to people today. One of the album’s most gotten along with her really well on the road, profound, philosophical moments, “Running combination of allure and affirmation that and she’s always been more friendly and all but assures instant appreciation.” The for Cover” was inspired by questions that accommodating than she has needed to be to crowds at Ivan & Alyosha shows have been were musically presented by one of Wilson’s us, so we were stoked.” increasing in number and, as Wilson points favorite artists.

Stoked aptly describes how Ivan & Alyoout, the fans played a part in shaping the “I was listening to a lot of Curse Your sha feel as the band gets ready to kick off a sound of All the Times even if they didn’t Branches from David Bazan at the time,” lengthy tour, starting with a Saturday, Nov. 2, know it at the time.

Wilson said, “and he has show at Reef. Wilson conveys an overwhelm“When we put out the some pretty amazing songs ing sense of gratitude because he knows how first few EPs, a lot of people on that record that were kind IVAN & ALYOSHA fortunate he and his bandmates are to be responded by saying our live of pointing the finger to God with The Falls, Saturday, living the life they h ave wanted since they show was more energetic and saying, ‘With the fall of Nov. 2, 8 p.m., $5 advance, were young. [than they expected], so we man, did You push us when $7 door. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., 208-287-9200, reef“It’s always been a dream of ours to be wanted to embody that in the we fell?’ Not exactly blamboise.com. able to do this for a living since we first recording process,” Wilson ing God, but just raising that said. “That response definitely began writing really horrible songs in junior question. I thought he did that affected how we recorded [All high,” Wilson said, laughing. “To know so eloquently that I wanted to that people are still out there buying records write something saying I believe he pushed us the Times]. We tried to do it live as much as and going to shows and spending their possible.” when we fell. So it’s not so much a response An electric current runs through the album hard-earned cash to support bands is mindto that song as it is another train of thought boggling. Music is pretty important to us and that may be, in part, due to recording live. to consider.” we forget that a lot of times because it is a The driving pop-rock strains of opener “Be “Running for Cover” is remarkably upjob now. Sometimes it’s hard to be passionate beat considering its context, and it’s that kind Your Man” kick-starts the record; “Running of juxtaposition that defines Ivan & Alyosha, for Cover” features enough catchy strumming about your J-O-B, but it’s amazing.” and soaring vocals to cause goosebumps; and but it isn’t done to make the band’s songs BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

10 wonderful years of playing shows, it just feels like the right time to cross that finish line. The Chariot was never put on this earth to ‘overstay our welcome.’ I believe we did exactly what we came to do, and now it is time to move onward. Thank you.”

Check out “All’s Well That End’s Well” on The Chariot’s YouTube channel. thechariot. com When Oct. 31 falls on a weeknight, the costumed often do their cavorting the weekend before, choosing to spend Halloween night at home in the warm glow of a horror movie marathon (see Screen Extra, Page 23) and handing out candy to trickor-treaters. But if you prefer to celebrate by hitting the town, and if you’re a little bent, love to dance, and like dressing up as a Disney character, then Reef’s Twisted Disney costume party for adults is right up your crooked alley. You could go as Alice in Zombieland, Mummy Mouse, Woody from Toy Gory, Pongo from 101 Ghoulmatians or Scariel from The Little Mermaid. The Disneydressed get in free and cover is $5 for everyone else. There is a contest and prizes for Best Disney and Best Not-Disney costumes and you can boooo-o-o-o-o-ogie from 10 p.m.-1 a.m. to disco devils $oul Purpo$e. reefboise.com —Amy Atkins

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THURSDAY OCT. 31

MACHINE GUN KELLY—Full band performance. Featuring a costume party. 8 p.m. $20-$70.

Revolution

ARMED AND HAMMERED—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

BAAUER—With DJ Mustard and S-Type. 7:30 p.m. $15-$40. Knitting Factory

METAL HALLOWEEN—With Unthinkable Thoughts, Les Rhinoceros and more. 9 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club

CHUCK SMITH DUO—With Nicole Christensen. 8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

CHARIOT—With Glass Cloud, Birds in Row, To the Wind, Rebuker, Blackcloud and For the Sake Of. 6 p.m. $12. The Shredder

NED EVETT—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

CHUCK SMITH AND FRIENDS— With Nicole Christensen. 8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement THE GRISWOLDS—With Fires in France and Limbosa. 7 p.m. $5.

Neurolux

QUASI, NOV. 3, NEUROLUX

HORRORCORE HIP-HOP HALLOWEEN—9 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub JOEL KASSERMAN—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

Sun Blood Stories

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

AH OL IVE

SATURDAY NOV. 2 DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement

GYPSY SAINTS—With Pinebox Posse. 9 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club

GO LISTEN BOISE MUSIC SPREE—With a.k.a. Belle, Calico and Woodwind. $5. 8 p.m.

The Crux

HOKUM HI-FLYERS—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s HOPELESS JACK & THE HANDSOME DEVIL—With Magpies and Hallowed Oak. 8:30 p.m. $5. The Crux

KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill HALLOWEEN BASH—With Wooden Indian Burial Ground, Max Pain and the Groovies and Sun Blood Stories. 7:30 p.m. $5. Neurolux

IVAN AND ALYOSHA—With The Fall. See Noise, Page 19. 8 p.m. $5 adv., $7 at the door. Reef

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LOUNGE ON FIRE—With Emery Trio. 9 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club

MAGPIES—With Colorado psych-folk rockers Hallowed Oak and Clarke and the Himselfs. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

MOJO ROUNDERS—8 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye Grill

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WHITAKER AND OLIVER—8 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

RAHEL BEAL—6:30 p.m. FREE. Cosmic Pizza

With Modern Kin, 7 p.m., $15. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

THE ROLLING STONES PROJECT

RILEY COYOTE—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

FRIDAY NOV. 1

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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

THE NAUGHTIES—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s

PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JAY SAENZ

“Super group” wouldn’t normally be used to describe a duo, but it fits the pedigree of Quasi’s Steve Coomes and Janet Weiss. In the 20 years they’ve been making music together, Coomes and Weiss have—together or individually—performed or recorded with Bright Eyes, Built to Spill, Heatmiser (which included Elliot Smith) Sleater-Kinney, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks, The Go-Betweens and more. Touring behind recently released double album Mole City (Oct. 1, Kill Rock Stars), Coomes and Weiss continue to make music that slides effortlessly across the rock continuum, at once engaging and haunting. NPR described Quasi’s music as “[teetering] between optimism and despair, fantastical journeys and harsh realism; this is a pop band for people who like their pop throttled.” (Bonus: opening for Quasi is Modern Kin, which includes former Boise musician Kris Doty.)

—Amy Atkins

MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club

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Neurolux

Psycho Adorable

THE NAUGHTIES—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s

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

Q DOT—7 p.m. TBA. Red Room ROLLING STONES PROJECT— With Tim Ries, Bernard Fowler, ilan Bar Levi and special guests the Boise State Jazz Ensemble.

8 p.m. $20-$30. Egyptian Theatre

SUNDAY NOV. 3

Aaron Lewis AARON LEWIS—8 p.m. $26$60. Knitting Factory DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s Basement FALL CHORAL CONCERT—7:30 p.m. $3-$5. Morrison Center Main Hall JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

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NEKROFILTH—8 p.m. $5. The Shredder OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Parlours

EMILY TIPTON BAND—10 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s PSYCHO ADORABLE—The duo wraps up their tour with a hometown show. With Hollow Wood and Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

GAELIC STORM—$20-$35.

8:30 p.m. Knitting Factory JOHNNY SHOES AND THE RHYTHM RANGERS—8 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye Grill

QUASI—With Blues Control and Modern Kin. See Listen Here, Page 20. 7:30 p.m. $15.

Neurolux

OF FORTUNE AND FAME—With The Traditional. 8 p.m. $5. The Shredder

RIVERSIDE JAZZ JAM—6 p.m.

FREE. Sandbar

OF MONTREAL—With La Luz. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $15. El Korah Shrine

MONDAY NOV. 4 THE BREAKING YARD—7 p.m.

FREE. The Crux LATRYX—With Lyrics Born and Lateef. 8:30 p.m. $15. Neurolux PETE STEIN—With Jimmy Sinn.

9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s ROTTING OUT—With Compromised, Headxlock, Six Feet and American Victim. 6 p.m. $10.

The Shredder

WEDNESDAY NOV. 6

PARLOURS—Iowa indie-pop outfit plays Boise with locals Solomons Hollow and The Blaqks. 9 p.m. $5. The Crux REBECCA SCOTT BAND—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

BADFISH: A TRIBUTE TO SUBLIME—8 p.m. TBA. Mardi Gras

SHOW US YOUR CANS: FREE X SERIES FOOD DRIVE FEATURING SOIL—With Bobaflex, We As Human and Royal Bliss. Win tickets by listening to 100.3 The X. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Knitting Factory

DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

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

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

DUCK CLUB PRESENTS: OF MONTREAL, NOV. 5, EL KORAH SHRINE Of Montreal is returning to Boise and slated to play the coolest venue time forgot: El Korah Shrine. Though Treefort Music Fest was not the first time local Shriners invited the public into their awesome clubhouse, it was the first time much of the public had ever gone inside. It was like being in a warm, welcoming home with its hardwood floors, wood-paneled walls, spacious-yet-cozy bar/restaurant and a women’s bathroom decorated as ornately as the parlor in an antebellum mansion.

It’s an environment that will enhance and elevate the already other-worldly experience of an Of Montreal performance.

—Amy Atkins With La Luz, 8 p.m., $15. El Korah Shrine,1118 W. Idaho St., 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

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

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EXTRA/CULTURE CULTURE/DYING

SELFIE-WEEN Gone are the days when a Halloween costume consisted of plastic fangs and (or) a slutty variation on a random occupation. Maybe we’re all too addicted to Netflix streaming or simply getting lazier, but today’s costumes are all about pop culture.

According to the Savers Halloween Shopping Survey, almost 50 percent of holiday revelers report being primarily inspired by movies and TV shows for their costume ideas. What are they being inspired to dress up as? The camo-wearing, big beard-sporting, shotgun-toting good ol’ boys of A&E reality show Duck Dynasty and the zombies of AMC’s Walking Dead.

Conducted by Kelton Research with 1,000 respondents from around the country, the Bellevue, Wash.-based thrift store chain’s 2013 survey backed up similar trends from last year—Walking Dead has ruled for three years now—but also reflected some changes. According to the survey, “respondents aren’t afraid to pop some tags, noting they’ll spend just as much money—if not more—on their costume this year.”

That data was contradicted by numbers from the National Retail Federation, which reported that nine in 10 people will cut back on Halloween spending this year—from an average $80 per person to $75. With 158 million people expected to celebrate, according to NRF’s Halloween Spending Survey, that means total nationwide Halloween spending will reach about $6.9 billion—down substantially from $8 billion spent in 2012.

Despite the precipitous decline in expected returns this year, Halloween spending has grown explosively, rising 55 percent since 2005, NRF reported. Much of that growth has been attributed to spending among adults: Fully 65 percent of those in their late 20s to early 30s told NRF they would be dressing up this year. Seven in 10 survey respondents 18-24 years old said the same. Overall, that represents $1.2 billion shelled out on adult costumes—beating out the estimated $1 billion that will be spent on childrens’ costumes.

But what’s driving adults to increasingly celebrate a holiday traditionally reserved for kids? Social media. According to the Savers survey, almost 70 percent of those donning costumes say Facebook and Pinterest heavily influence their get-up decisions. What’s more, 40 percent reported putting in extra effort on their costume because they knew their picture would end up online—and not just a few photos. An average of 10 pictures are posted per person in costume. And posted on their own social media channels.

By themselves.

—Zach Hagadone

PATR IC K S W EENEY

Kelton Research says Walking Dead-themed masks and costumes still rule.

DEATH BECOMES THEM Boise’s joins in global Death Cafe phenomenon GEORGE PRENTICE From Shakespeare to Billy Graham, we have traditionally left talking about death and dying to poets and preachers. As Mark Twain wrote, ”A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” The Bible’s Book of John quotes Jesus as saying, “He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.”

But a recent global phenomenon is encouraging adults to publicly share their fears and wishes regarding death in a salon-type setting; Sherri Rudai (left) and Susan Randall (right) outside Boise’s Muse Building, where they will facilitate and it’s coming to Boise Friday, Nov. 1.

Boise’s first-ever Death Cafe, Friday, Nov. 1.

It’s called a Death Cafe and when a flier promoting the first-of-its-kind event for Idaho writes, “I have the impression that the as“We bathed her, dressed her in beautiful arrived in the Boise Weekly newsroom, we attire and kept dry ice on her torso until it was sembled company … thanks to death, is born didn’t know if it was a joke or a Dia de Los into authenticity.” time to put her into a casket,” Randall said.

Muertos-themed event. Our curiosity led us Englishman Jon Underwood borrowed the “A lot of people don’t know that after rigor to a Boise coffee house, where we met Susan mortis sets in, the body actually relaxes. Plus, if idea a few years later, and the first AmeriRandall and Sherri Rudai, both of whom said can Death Cafe was held in Ohio in 2012. you massage the body, you can keep the arms they are ready to facilitate Boise’s Death Cafe.

It is estimated that more than 300 Death and legs flexible.”

What followed was a laughter- and tear-filled Cafes have been hosted in the U.S., Canada, Sherri Rudai was also an end-of-life careconversation about death that never strayed Britain, Australia, Italy, Portugal, Brazil and into talk of religion or the hereafter and which giver—not professionally, but personally. She Singapore. cared for her grandmother, who chose to end was filled with surprises.

“We’ve been given guidelines on how to her life after a long battle with cancer.

Randall, associate director for Boise State’s facilitate the cafe. For example, they’re specific “She called in all of the family and said, University Television Productions, has a about the length: two hours. And it’s extremely ‘This is the last time we’re going to have a fascinating hobby—death and dying are her important to have refreshments,” said Rudai. coherent conversation.’ She let them know passion.

“We’re very fortunate that the owner of The that I was fulfilling her wishes,” said Rudai.

“I’m a certified death midwife,” she said.

Muse building is a friend of ours, so that’s “She quit taking food and water and died two Her personal journey, which she said where we’ll hold the first one.” weeks later.” included some sorrow but a great amount of Randall said she was anxious to debunk Rudai needed a moment as her eyes filled peace, has had several milestones. several myths about death and dying. with tears.

“In 1996, a good friend of mine was killed “For example, it’s a common myth that a “I’m sorry. When you love somebody so in a car accident,” Randall said. “I went to her body has to be embalmed. That’s not true. It much, you naturally think that you don’t funeral and she had been embalmed, laid out only has to be embalmed if the body is being and dressed in some weird-looking clothes. All want them to leave. But it was her choice,” transported by a commercial carrier across of her friends said it was nothing like what she Rudai said. “And ultimately, I wanted what state lines,” she said. “Plus, it’s a myth that would have normally worn. So, I started think- she wanted.” embalming is done for public health reasons.

Randall and Rudai met ing about what we could have It’s actually the opposite. Do you know what a years after the passing of done differently.” trocar is? It’s a device that punctures the body’s Rudai’s grandmother through Randall, then a student at DEATH CAFE organs and sucks them out, as embalming their work on film producBoise State, wrote a research Friday, Nov. 1, 6:30 p.m.fluid fills the body. Another myth is that some tions at Boise State. Not until paper on the topic.

8:30 p.m,The Muse Building, 1317 W. Jefferson St., 208people believe that if a body isn’t embalmed, they got to know each other “I kept thinking about other 342-3316, musebuilding. it would start to smell right away. That’s also personally did they learn that funerals in my life that were…,” com. Find more information not true.” their feelings about death was she paused for a beat. “I really about Death Cafes at Ultimately, Randall and Rudai want to their strongest bond. want to make sure I use the deathcafe.com. demystify what they say is Western culture’s “And now here we are, all right word. You know what? reluctance to have an open narrative about set to put on Boise’s first Death They were barbaric.”

Cafe,” said Rudai. “It really has death.

Randall took a series of “It’s important that death doesn’t look classes from 2004-2006 to become a “certified cachet; it’s become so popular.” like this horrible foreboding scene at the end Death Cafes is a recent phenomenon. death midwife.” When asked what that means, of life,” said Rudai. “The Death Cafe isn’t a Randall explained she had assisted in a number Swiss sociologist Bernard Crettaz is credited bereavement or grief-support group. Instead, with holding a series of living room meetings of family-centric funerals, including a mother this is going to be a chance for us to talk about in 2004 that he called Cafes Mortels. In his of two of Randall’s friends. Randall explained death and dying with others who aren’t in that book, Cafes Mortels: Sortir la Mort du Silence that no coroner was needed because it was white-heat of bereavement.” (“bringing death out of silence”), Crettaz what she called “an expected death.”

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SCREEN/LISTINGS THE BIG SCREEN/SCREEN

Special Screenings

DON’T LOOK AWAY 12 Years a Slave is much more than the best picture of the year GEORGE PRENTICE This is the one.

This is the film that will top, or be near the top of, lists of the year’s best movies. Its journey will certainly include a trip to next year’s Oscars (I count at least four sure-bet statuettes, including Best Picture). But 12 Years a Slave, a definitive work about America’s greatest shame, is much more than the just the best movie of the year.

I’ve always been of the belief that most great films live in the heart. But a select few Michael Fassbender (left), Lupita Nyong’o (center) and Chiwetel Ejiofor (right) co-star in 12 Years a Slave. also settle into a corner of our soul. That’s where, for instance, you might find On the Brad Pitt, who co-stars in 12 Years a Slave and, viscerally intimate. His freedom becomes our Waterfront or To Kill a Mockingbird. And 12 Years a Slave should fit perfectly well alongside freedom; and his loss is, in many ways, the loss more importantly, is one of the film’s producthat our nation never recovered from. You may ers. “This is a rare film that only comes around films of consequence and substance. wince at the exposition of Northup’s suffering, once or so every decade.”

To be clear, I’m not just urging you to see Pitt is part of a beautifully balanced cast this movie; it’s a requirement. I’ve seen the film but your soul will tell you not to look away. that includes Michael Fassbender (the perfor“The truth is the truth,” director Steve twice now, and on both occasions was among mance of his career), Benedict Cumberbatch, McQueen told Boise Weekly, when we asked audience members who were openly sobbing.

Paul Giamatti and Alfre Woodard. But it is him about adapting Northup’s 1853 autobiA word of caution: You must be prepared Chiwetel Ejiofor, as Northup, that you will not ography. Following the film’s premiere at the to watch this film, not necessarily due to its Toronto International Film Festival, McQueen soon forget. brutality, but due to how essentially personal Repeat after me: CHEW-i-tell EDGE-isaid that he wasn’t necessarily interested in its story is. oh-for. When more than a few reporters in telling a horrific story.

After seeing scores Toronto butchered the pronunciation of his “But certainly some of other films dealing 12 YEARS A SLAVE (R) name, he laughed it off. things, some people with slavery over the “I’ve heard worse,” he said. aren’t going to be able decades, I struggled Directed by Steve McQueen But you’ll want to know how to pronounce to sit through. What to understand why Starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, his name when you fill out next year’s Oscar I’m interested in is this particular movie Brad Pitt and Benedict Cumberbatch pool. He’s a shoo-in for Best Actor. When not to exploit, but to left me so devastated.

Opens Friday, Nov. 8, at The Flicks project it in a light that asked about a trip to the Academy Awards, Somewhere in the Ejiofor shrugged off the possibility. is understandable.” middle of my second “Making this film has been an extraordiIt’s also important, viewing of 12 Years a and a bit telling, to point out that McQueen, a nary journey,” he said. “So anything else is Slave, it hit me like a thunderbolt: It’s because gravy.” this is the story of a free man. And while white Brit, has crafted such an important film about He’s right. Long after the praises are sung audiences can’t be expected to fully understand America. and awards are doled out, 12 Years a Slave “Our director [McQueen] asked the questhe black experience, the story of Solomon will remain one of the best films of this or any tion: ‘Why are there not more American movNorthup, a husband, father and accomplished other year. ies about slavery?’ It’s a good question,” said violinist forced into slavery, somehow feels

BACKCOUNTRY FILM FESTIVAL—Embrace the “up” at the Ninth Annual Winter Wildlands Alliance Backcountry Film Festival. The 10 unique films come from renowned filmmakers who search backcountry corners across the globe, and from grassroots filmmakers who take a video camera out on their weekend excursions. For more info, visit backcountryfilmfestival.org. Fri., Nov. 1, 7 p.m. $10. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

WARREN MILLER’S TICKET TO RIDE—The newest chapter in the film series. Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m., and Saturday, Nov. 2, 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. $18. Sun Valley Opera House, Sun Valley Village, Sun Valley, 208-622-2244, sunvalley.com.

Opening

CUTIE AND THE BOXER—Zachary Heinzerling directs this documentary about married painters who aim to inspire and entertain with their work.

(R) Opens Friday, Nov. 1. The Flicks.

ENDER’S GAME—Ender Wiggin is trained by the International Military to prepare Earth against an oncoming attack from the Formics, a hostile alien race. Starring Ben Kingsley, Harrison Ford, Asa Butterfield and Hailee Steinfeld. (PG-13) Opens Friday, Nov. 1. Edwards 9, 22.

FREE BIRDS—Two rival turkeys must put their differences aside and travel back in time in order to erase turkeys from Thanksgiving menus forever.

Starring Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson and Amy Poehler. (PG) Opens Friday, Nov. 1. Edwards 9, 22.

INEQUALITY FOR ALL—Economic policy expert Robert Reich examines the lopsidedness of America’s economy. (PG) Opens Friday, Nov. 1.

The Flicks.

LAST VEGAS—Four childhood friends reunite in Las Vegas in an attempt to relive their glory days. Starring Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline. (PG-13) Opens Friday, Nov. 1. Edwards 9, 22.

NEWS/SCREEN REDRUM AT REDBOX Even though Netflix now has more subscribers than HBO (more on that in the coming weeks), Redbox has managed to hold its own. With old-school DVD rental fees of about $3 per night and highly visible red kiosks in front of convenience stores and fast-food chains, Redbox is the go-to for recently released DVDs—if don’t want to wait for the mailman to deliver your next Netflix batch—and also offers streaming with Redbox Instant by Verizon. A subscription for DVD rentals and streaming runs about $8 per month, but Redbox sweetens the BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

streaming deal for subscribers who’d rather stay in and get freaked out than be out with the freaks, by offering a different horror flick each night for only $1 per rental. On Wednesday, Oct. 30, see Saw, and on Thursday, Oct. 31, settle in for an unsettling marathon of Paranormal Activity 1 and 2. Non-subscribers can also partake in the terror treat by signing up for a free one-month Redbox Instant trial. redboxinstant.com —Amy Atkins

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NEWS/REC REC M IC HAEL TOB IN

The call of the wild.

HUNT THIS For many Idahoans, fall means hunting (and fishing, of course), but as with everything, a few bad apples can spoil the whole bunch.

In the hunting world, some of the greatest culprits of bunch-spoiling are poachers and those who kill an animal and leave it to waste, and this season has already seen a slew of uncouth hunters breaking the basic rules.

Four cow elk were found shot and wasted during the opening weekend of the season earlier this month. According to a press release from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game, one elk was found near Upper Fords Creek Road, one was found along the Fiddler Road area near Weippe, a third was also near Weippe along Miles Creek, and the fourth was near Canyon Creek Road near Orofino.

The poachers took portions of two of the animals, but the majority of the meat was left to rot. The other two elk were left to waste whole. Not only were the animals wasted, but there was no open season for antlerless elk.

At about the same time, a pronghorn and a four-by-five bull elk were also discovered on the other side of the state in the Magic Valley.

According to Fish and Game, the pronghorn was found near Malta and the bull elk was found in Devils Creek Canyon off the John Boyd Draw Road. Both animals had been shot and left to waste.

Anyone with information on any of these illegal kills is asked to contact Citizens Against Poaching at 800-632-5999 to leave a tip. Those with information on the doe elk kills can also contact Orofino area conservation officer John McLain at 208-827-1488.

Bull elk and pronghorn tips can also be given to the Fish and Game regional office at 208-324-4359.

Staying on the hunting theme, Fish and Game also reports that more hunters were out during opening weekend of deer season than in 2012, with hunters in the Southwest Region reporting successful trips at check stations. Early reports estimate that 7,000 hunters were out on opening weekend across the state, with 1,116 animals taken. In 2012, 5,600 hunters took 1,031 animals.

While both deer and duck hunters were doing well, IDFG officials also noted that upland bird hunters weren’t seeing the same success, finding fewer chukars, gray partridge and quail this year.

—Deanna Darr

Jenny Tobin: P.E. teacher by day, Spartan racer by insanity.

THIS IS SPARTAN Racing that is SARAH BARBER “Spar tan: adjective – sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal, or austere; brave, undaunted.”

Though perhaps an accurate reference to the Spartan warriors of ancient Greece, the dictionary definition fails to convey one thing: tough, tough and more tough. Just ask Boise’s Jenny Tobin, who competed in the world championships of Spartan racing in Killington, Vt., on Sept. 21.

At 5-feet 6-inches of muscle and sinew, she claims to like the challenge, adding , “It’s good for overall fitness: strength, cardio, balance and the all-important mental toughness.”

Spartan racing is part of the new breed of competitive obstacle-racing popular with those who seem committed achieving performances more akin to Greek gods than mere mortals.

“Obstacle course racing is the fastest growing participant sport in history,” said Steve Youngerman, who brought obstacle racing to Boise with the Mayhem Obstacle Challenge on Oct. 5.

Running is a key element, but challenging obstacles interspersed throughout the three- to 13-mile courses require athletes to demonstrate strength, agility and mental fortitude.

Mandatory obstacles include a spear-throw and a rope-climb, but crawling under barbed wire and hopping from one elevated post to another is not uncommon.

Tobin, formerly a successful triathlete, Xterra champion and adventure racer, was cajoled into participating in her first Spartan event in the fall of 2011, which just happened to be the world championships. A race director and friend wooed her with the possibility of a first-place prize of $10,000. For that kind of coin, a little sweat and a few flesh wounds seemed worth it.

Although Tobin hadn’t trained much beyond miles of trail running and endless

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sets of burpees, she took an early lead and felt confident in a situation that would leave most seasoned athletes rocking back and forth in the fetal position. With hands muddied and grip strength annihilated after navigating undulating monkey bars, she faced the final obstacle: a rope traverse across a small lagoon.

“For some reason, I thought to myself: ‘piece of cake!’” Tobin recounted with a rueful smile.

Instead, she hung by her knees and elbows, flailing as the clock ticked and her nearest competitor joined her on the same obstacle. In the end, Tobin dug deep and found something that helped her cross the finish line in first place.

But what was it that she found? Unlike standard 10K fun runs or even cross-country mountain bike races, Spartan racing doesn’t just favor those gifted with physical talent.

According to the Spartan Race Organization, “We’re here to rip you from your comfort zone.”

In other words, a diesel engine is worthless if it’s not paired with a mind and spirit that embrace adversity. Tobin has it all.

Self-described as “feisty” and “persistent,” Tobin’s first season of Spartan racing saw her clinch the series title. She was invited to join the Spartan Pro Elite Team, which partners with Reebok in sponsorship and support of the race series.

Tobin’s rapid ascent in the sport is no surprise to her friends, who occasionally join her for trail runs, most of which involve sprinting uphill, often before the sun is up. A P.E. teacher at Highlands Elementary School and mother of two, Tobin crams in training when she can, which means that her students don’t mess around with dodge ball.

Her classes are often tailored to incorporate

anaerobic endurance and upper body strength; they even do a mini-Spartan race as part of class. Tobin also doesn’t go to the lengths of some of her fellow racers in the elite wave.

“There are women whose husbands have turned their backyards into obstacle courses,” she said. “They’ve made 8-foot walls to climb, spears to throw and tire tractors to flip. …

I don’t have all that stuff—I keep it pretty simple.”

Despite finishing among the top three in all nine Spartan races Tobin has entered, her story isn’t without hardship. After one year of nothing but dominance in the sport, a simple cartwheel during a P.E. class brought the oft victor to her knees.

Sidelined from running due to an insidious hamstring and sciatic nerve injury, Tobin refused to spend her summer couchsurfing.

She cross-trained by mountain biking and swimming, and complemented her aerobic conditioning with hundreds of crunches and pushups daily. Months passed, along with many Spartan races in which Tobin could not participate.

Flash forward to the present, and Tobin is recovering from another World Championship Spartan Race, this time forced to settle for a lower step on the podium. Her approach had to be realistic.

“I was only able to start running again at the end of July,” Tobin said.

Still, she snagged fourth place in a sport that rewards competitors who have mastered their emotions, relish a challenge and thrive on opportunities to overcome adversity. In doing so, Tobin has proved again that she’s every bit the conqueror that a Spartan warrior was.

Tobin will be back next year with her indomitable spirit and full physical health; and like a Spartan warrior, she’s hungry for another victory.

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LISTINGS/REC PLAY/REC

Events & Workshops 63RD ANNUAL SKI AND SNOWBOARD SWAP—Check out used gear and get ready for winter.

See Picks, Page 14. Friday, Nov. 1, through Sunday, Nov. 3, at 5 p.m. FREE. bbsef.org/swap.

Register WALK A MILE IN MY SHOES—This one-mile walk benefits the Boise/ Ada County Homeless Coalition.

See Picks, Page 15. Starts Saturday, Nov. 2, at Julia Davis Park at 8 a.m. walkamile. nolatepayments.com.

The majestic skyline of Jackpot, Nev.

JACKPOT IS FOR LOVERS I’m a terrible gambler. My first—and so far only—trip to Las Vegas ended with me stranded (all but one pair of pants gone), cashless, friendless and hung over at the Bellagio, stuck in a penthouse with a crazed 22-year-old timber baron’s son.

The only upside was some very sound student loan consolidation advice I received from a lovely 40-ish stripper named Shar at the Crazy Horse Too. That place has since closed, sadly. Judging by how much money I’ve saved following Shar’s advice—she worked by day as a lending agent—the Crazy Horse Too was the sanest place in that city.

So it was an especially out-of-character decision for my wife and me to head for Jackpot, Nev., on our seventh anniversary. We were not disappointed, but if your first impression of Jackpot is that it shouldn’t exist, you’d be right. There’s no reason for a settlement at that particular sun-blasted bend of the road. No native trees, no body of water, no farms. The only thing it has going for it is the morality (and proximity) of Idaho.

Credit Peter “Cactus Pete” Piersanti, who operated some slot machines at the Island Park Lodge in the ’40s. When Idaho outlawed gambling in 1954, he pulled up stakes and moved south to found Cactus Pete’s Motor Lodge, a gas station that four years later had grown into a hotel.

Today, the house that Pete built boasts 296 rooms and 26,000 square feet of casino floor space. And Pete’s is pretty much the only game in town. Parent company Ameristar owns the Horseshu Casino Hotel across the street, as well as the General Store. Beyond that, there are a few smaller motel/casinos, a Chevron station, liquor store and a collection of trailer homes huddled in the shadow of the Cactus Pete’s Tower.

Which is where my wife and I found ourselves, surveying Pete’s posthumous empire from the windows of our top-floor Jacuzzi JACKPOT, NEV. suite (reasonably priced at less 120 miles east on I-84, take than $200 a night). exit 173 to Twin Falls/U.S. A trip around the casino floor 93; turn right on U.S. 93/ brings you face-to-face with the Pole Line Rd.; exit right on more interesting grandparents U.S. 93 South to Wells, Nev.; continue 43 miles to of the greater Twin Falls area.

Jackpot.

Miss the days when you could smoke almost everywhere?

You’re in the right place.

Craving an all-you-can eat seafood buffet 700 miles from the ocean? I hit the Canyon Cove Buffet on a Friday night.

Did we win any money? Hell no. Cactus Pete’s boasts mainly slots. There are table games, but if you’re like my wife and me, you’re a miserable failure at them. Better idea: pump singles into the video poker machines embedded in the bar(s) and sip on some “free” drinks. That’s a bet that never loses; and, when it comes to a quick weekend getaway with just the right amount of sin, Jackpot doesn’t either.

—Zach Hagadone BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

ZEITGEIST HALF MARATHON—The race starts and ends at the Boise Optimist Football park.

See Picks, Page 15. 8 a.m.

Saturday, Nov. 2. zhalfmarathon. com.

Recurring BOISE CYCLOCROSS CLINICS—Learn the basics or refine your technique at these weekly clinics. Open practice begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by a specific skill session exploring a different concept each week.

Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. FREE. Quarry View Park, 2150 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise.

BOISE DART LEAGUE—Call 208-353-5830 or email bigmo425@msn.com for more information. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. $5 entry fee. VFW Post 63, 8931 W. Ardene St. (Behind Primary Health on Overland/Maple Grove), Boise, 208-424-8387, vfwpost63.org.

BOISE FOOSBALL—Sign-up begins at 7:30 p.m., matches start about 8 p.m. All-day tournaments the first Saturday of each month. Singles start at 2 p.m., followed by bring your partner and draw-your-partner at 3:30 p.m. Tuesdays. For more information, call 208-860-4990, boisefoosball.com. Dutch Goose, 3515 W. State St., Boise.

BOISE RUN WALK—Open to all ages/skill levels. Six-, 10- and 12-week training programs for 5K, 10K, half and full marathons. Includes seminars and clinics, group coaching, routes on the Greenbelt and Foothills, access to massage therapists and physical therapists. Ongoing, 8-11 a.m. 208-639-1434, boiserunwalk.com. Fort Boise Community Center, 700 Robbins Road, Boise.

LEARN TO SKATE—Rental skates are included. Open to all ages. Register on website. Saturdays. Continues through Dec. 21. $78. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208331-0044, idahoiceworld.com.

MOUNTAIN WEST OUTDOOR CLUB—Member-led activities throughout the year include hiking, camping, canoeing and kayaking. Upcoming trips include weekly Wednesday hikes of local Foothills and mid-week paddles.

Memberships costs $15 per year. For information, call Mike Fritz at 208-323-1383, email mountainwest@yahoogroups. com or visit groups.yahoo.com/ group/MountainWest.

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BEERGUZZLER/DRINK WINTER IS COMING

CASCADE LAKES SLIPPERY SLOPE, $1.39$1.79 In the glass, this brew is a burnt amber with a thin head that fades quickly, leaving a light lacing. On the nose, you get sweet malt, fresh-mowed grass and just a touch of piney hops. In the mouth, it’s smooth and nicely balanced with herb-laced hops backed by toasted malt and brown sugar.

This beer is very lightly carbonated, which makes for an easy-drinking quaff perfect for cool weather consumption.

NEW BELGIUM ACCUMULATION WHITE INDIA PALE ALE, $1.39-$1.79 This beer pours a hazy straw color with a whipped egg white head that shows good persistence.

It leads off with a combo of resiny hops, ginger and lemon drop along with floral, somewhat earthy aromas. The palate opens with a big hit of citrusy hops followed by sweet grapefruit, pineapple, lemon and spice. This is not your typical winter brew, but it’s just the thing for late fall.

10 BARREL PRAY FOR SNOW, $1.49-$1.89 Bright mahogany in color, this brew is topped by a porous mocha head that collapses after a few seconds. The aromas are light but lovely with fresh baked bread, toffee and notes of sour citrus and smoky malt. A mix of bittersweet flavors, this beer’s hops win out over the toasted, almost charred malt, while a bit of fig adds interest on the finish. This is a biggerbodied brew that should work well when the snow begins to fall.

—David Kirkpatrick

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When I was young, Christmas merchandising didn’t start until the day after Thanksgiving. That was a few decades ago, and with each passing year, the holiday kickoff keeps coming earlier and earlier. This year, I saw Christmas merchandise across the aisle from Halloween candy. Before you know it, it’ll share space with the Easter bunny. It’s no surprise then that the first winter seasonals hit the shelves in early September, so I’ve shown some restraint waiting this long. Here are the first three, with many more to follow.

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BLACKBIRD BREWING CO. This medium-scale start-up nano brewery will feature a taproom serving flagship beers along with rotating seasonals. facebook.com/ blackbirdbrewingco LOCATION: “I think that we’re probably going to be in Garden City with everyone else,” said owner Shane Gibbs.

PROJECTED OPENING: “We’re hoping to be upand-running about mid-year [summer 2014] if everything goes 100 percent rainbows and unicorns and pots-o-gold,” said Gibbs.

SIZE: Approximately 1,200 square feet CAPACITY: “We raised $20,000 [on Kickstarter]. … It’s just a little 2.5-barrel brewing system, but we’re thinking about buying some three-barrel kettles for it,” said Gibbs.

BEERS: Hoppiness the Destroyer IPA, CocoNilla Cream Ale, Carnes Kilt Lifter Irish Double Red

BOGUS BREWING A community-owned microbrewery that offers CSB memberships—like a CSA with beer— and an incubation program for aspiring brewers.

521 W. Broad St., Boise, bogusbrewing.com PROJECTED OPENING: Spring 2014 SIZE: Almost 4,000 square feet CAPACITY: “We’ve got a 15-barrel brewhouse with an over-sized mash tun so that we’ll be able to make some of those bigger beers,” Bogus explained on its website.

BEERS: Hip Check IPA, Down-Down Extra Pale Ale, Hard Guy Saison

CLOUD 9 BREWERY “We’re an organic brewery so we’ll focus on organic, local and sustainable and in-season ingredients,” said co-owner Maggie Lake. 1750 W. State St., Boise, cloud9brewery.com PROJECTED OPENING: “If everything goes smoothly—so far it hasn’t, but maybe it all will—it would be like 13 weeks, but probably somewhere between 10-20 weeks,” said Lake. “It could be January.”

SIZE: The 1,413-square-foot North End space will feature a small restaurant serving upscale gastropub grub with indoor seating for approximately 25, along with patio seating.

CAPACITY: Four-barrel system BEERS: Northwest Red, Salted Caramel Stout, Bourbon Oak Stock Ale, Chocolat Bar Porter

COUNTY LINE BREWING This brewer y will boast a taproom with a commitment to college sports. “My wife [Laura] is from Eugene but we’re both Boise

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State graduates,” said co-owner Zack Kiehl. facebook.com/countylinebrewing LOCATION: Somehwere near Eagle.

PROJECTED OPENING: “Originally, it was supposed to be February 2014, but I’m thinking it’ll probably be closer to the beginning part of summer,” said Kiehl.

SIZE: “We’re looking for right around a 1,200to 1,400-square-foot space, but because I’ve yet to sign a lease, my competitive side doesn’t want to let the cat out of the bag as far as where that’s going to be,” said Kiehl.

CAPACITY: Seven-barrel system BEERS: Bridging the Gap Blonde Ale, Mexican Mocha Porter, Barnwood Brown Ale, City Slicker Lemon Basil Blonde

EDGE BREWING CO. “One of the things that we want to do is basically create a venue for all of these other brewers to basically come in and brew small batch—20 gallons at a time—and be able to put their beer on tap, independent of what we’re doing as a production brewery,” said president and co-owner Marcus Bezuhly. Edge hired former TableRock head brewer Kerry Caldwell to run the brewery and will feature a family friendly restaurant. 525 N. Steelhead Way, Boise, edgebrew.com PROJECTED OPENING: Bezuhly said the first Edge beers will roll out in December, with a plan to go valley-wide by January 2014. “Our grand opening is scheduled for March 14, 2014, [St. Patrick’s Day],” he said.

SIZE: 17,000 square feet total, with a 7,000-square-foot brewery and 20 taps BEERS: “We didn’t come into this going, ‘These are the beers we’re gonna brew.’ We’re ... putting the infrastructure together and really letting the beer take care of itself,” he said.

CAPACITY: “It’s a 15-barrel boil kettle, but everything else is oversized. We have a 20-barrel mash tun and a 25-barrel hot liquor tank so that we can do double batches and bigger beers,” said Bezuhly.

HAFF BREWING COMPANY “The big thing for us is we want to do a lot of fun, cool, different beer. We want to be green and conscious, so all of our grain is going to go to farmers. Over time, we would like to get solar power so we’re actually feeding into the grid when we’re not brewing,” said owner Brian Haff. facebook.com/pages/haffbrewing/485942831490548 LOCATION: Downtown Meridian PROJECTED OPENING: Spring 2014. “We hope to be in front of investors by the beginning of next month ... then it’s a three- to fourmonth process after that getting equipment and getting licensed,” said Haff.

SIZE: Approximately 1,000 square feet in downtown Meridian. “Whether our brewhouse is attached to it or if we have to brew in the industrial zone in Meridian and just transport the beer to the bar,” said Haff.

CAPACITY: Electric five-barrel system BEERS: Staff Sgt. Haff IPA, McCallywood Porter, Kumquat Saison, Mint Chocolate Stout

WOODLAND EMPIRE ALE CRAFT This brewery will use 95 percent Idahogrown ingredients, including wheat, spelt and hops, and is also seeking organic certification.

Its tasting room will have a warm, vintage vibe with old couches, lots of plants and mural work by artist Beau Van Greener. 1114 W. Front St., Boise, facebook.com/woodlandempire.ale.craft PROJECTED OPENING: “We still have Nov. 18 scheduled as our final inspection so we should be brewing right around that time,” said Woodland Empire’s Rob Landerman, adding that beer should be to the public by the first or second week of December.

SIZE: Approximately 7,000 square feet of brewery space and 2,000 square feet of tasting room and office space.

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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: Katie Nicole Tucker Legal Name Case No. CVNC1317095 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Katie Nicole Tucker, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

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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: Andrew Bruce Conrad Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1317749 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Andrew Bruce Conrad, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY EVENTS ARIES (March 21-April 19): Once when I was hiking through Maui’s rain forest, I spied a majestic purple honohono flower sprouting from a rotting log. As I bent down close, I inhaled the merged aromas of moldering wood and sweet floral fragrance. Let’s make this scene your metaphor of the week, Aries. Here’s why: A part of your life that is in the throes of decay can serve as host for a magnificent bloom. What has been lost to you may become the source of fertility. Halloween costume suggestion: a garbage man or cleaning maid wearing a crown of roses.

emotional ferment. Conspiracy theories are ripening and rotting at the same time. Hidden agendas are seeping into conversations and gossip is swirling like ghostly dust devils. Yet in the midst of this mayhem, an eerie calm possesses you. As everyone else struggles, you’re poised and full of grace. To what do we owe this stability? I suspect it has to do with the fact that life is showing you how to feel at home in the world no matter what’s happening around you. Keep making yourself receptive to these teachings.

Halloween costume suggestion: King or Queen of Relaxation.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What don’t you like? Get clear about that. What don’t you want to do?

Make definitive decisions. What kind of person do you not want to become and what life do you never want to live? Resolve those questions with as much certainty as possible. Write it all down, preferably in the form of a contract with yourself. Sign the contract.

This document will be your sacred promise, a declaration of the boundaries you won’t cross and the activities you won’t waste your time on and the desires that aren’t worthy of you. It will feed your freedom to know exactly what you like and what you want to accomplish and who you want to become. Halloween costume suggestion: the opposite of who you really are.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Unification should be a key theme for you in the coming weeks. Anything you do that promotes splicing and blending and harmonizing will get extra help, sometimes from mysterious forces working behind the scenes.

The more you work to find common ground between opposing sides, the stronger you’ll feel and the better you’ll look. If you can manage to mend schisms and heal wounds, unexpected luck will flow into your life. To encourage these developments, consider these Halloween disguises: a roll of tape, a stick of Krazy Glue, a wound that’s healing, a bridge.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are you up for an experiment? Not just on Halloween, but for a week afterwards, be scarier than your fears. If an anxious thought pops into your mind, bare your teeth and growl, “Get out of here or I will rip you to shreds!” If a demon visits you in a nightly dream, chase after it with a torch and sword, screaming “Begone, foul spirit, or I will burn your mangy ass!” Don’t tolerate bullying in any form, whether it comes from a critical little voice in your head or from supposedly nice people who are trying to guilt-trip you. “I am a brave conqueror who cannot be intimidated!” is what you could say, or “I am a monster of love and goodness who will defeat all threats to my integrity!”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you ready to be amazed? Now would be an excellent time to shed your soul’s infantile illusions, play wildly with the greatest mystery you know, accept gifts that enhance your freedom and refuse gifts that don’t, consort and converse with sexy magical spirits from the future and make love with the lights on and cry when you come. Halloween costume suggestion: the archetypal lover.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Some people in your vicinity are smoldering and fuming. The air is heavy with

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What do you think you’d be like if you were among the 1 percent of the wealthiest people on Earth?

Would you demand that your government raise your taxes so you could contribute more to our collective well-being? Would you live simply and cheaply so you’d have more money to donate to charities and other worthy causes? This Halloween season, I suggest you play around with fantasies like that—maybe even masquerade as an incredibly rich philanthropist who doles out cash and gifts everywhere you go. At the very least, imagine what it would be like if you had everything you needed and felt so grateful you shared your abundance freely.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What if you had the power to enchant and even bewitch people with your charisma? Would you wield your allure without mercy? Would you feel wicked delight in their attraction to you, even if you didn’t plan to give them what they want? I suspect these questions aren’t entirely rhetorical right now. You may have more mojo at your disposal than you realize. Speaking for your conscience, I will ask you not to desecrate your privilege. If you must manipulate people, do it for their benefit as well as yours.

Use your raw magic responsibly.

Halloween costume suggestion: a mesmerizing guru, an irresistible diva, a stage magician.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I had a dream that you were in the film O Brother, Where Art Thou? You were like the character played by George Clooney after he escaped from a prison chain gang. Can you picture it? You were wearing a striped jailbird suit and a ball and chain were still cuffed to your ankle. But you were sort of free, too. You were on the lam, making your way from adventure to adventure as you eluded those who would throw you back in the slammer. You were not yet in the clear, but you seemed to be en route to total emancipation. I think this dream is an apt metaphorical depiction of your actual life right now. Could you somehow use it in designing your Halloween costume?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I invite you to try the following exercise. Imagine the most powerful role you could realistically attain in the future. This is a position, niche or job that will authorize you to wield your influence. It will give you the clout to shape the environments you share with other people. It will allow you to freely express your important ideas and have them be treated seriously.

Let your imagination run a little wild as you visualize the possibilities. Incorporate your visions into your Halloween costume.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the course of earning a living, I have worked four different jobs as a janitor and six as a dishwasher.

On the brighter side, I have performed as a songwriter and lead singer for six rock bands and currently write a syndicated astrology column. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Aquarians are primed to cultivate a relationship with your work life that is more like my latter choices than the former. The next eight months will be a favorable time to ensure that you’ll be doing your own personal equivalent of rock singer or astrology columnist well into the future. Halloween costume suggestion: your dream job.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Louis Stevenson loved the work of poet Walt Whitman, recommending it with the same enthusiasm as he did Shakespeare’s. Stevenson also regarded Whitman as an unruly force of nature, and in one famous passage, called him “a large shaggy dog, just unchained, scouring the beaches of the world and baying at the moon.” Your assignment is to do your best imitation of a primal creature like Whitman. In fact, consider being him for Halloween. Maybe you could memorize passages from Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and recite them at random moments.

Here’s one: “I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, / I sound my barbaric YAWP over the roofs of the world.”

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