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A 2C EDUCATION Nampa School District’s budget woes, plus teacher ed in Canyon County NOISE 20

WHAT GOES AROUND The Sandpiper Circuit stages a reunion REC 25

ALONE ON THE SLOPES Backcountry skiing, solo FOOD 26

EURO FARE Royal Bakery and Café brings the Ukraine to Nampa

“Poke me.”

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2C OR NOT 2C… WE TAKE THE FORMER It was June 1999. I was sitting in a booth at the Sunrise Cafe in Caldwell, sharing lunch with my dad, who had driven me the eight hours from Sandpoint to the then-Albertson College of Idaho. We were silently chewing our food and looking out the window at cars passing by on Cleveland Boulevard.

I had never been to Caldwell before. Never seen Farm City or the late-Ralph Smeed’s updating billboard of libertarian chest-beating. Never smelled the indescribable funk of sugar beet processing and how it clings to your sinuses in the winter.

My stuff had been unloaded in a dorm room in Hayman Hall, with its cinder block walls and ’60s-era furnishings. It was hot. Far, far hotter than North Idaho, and no bodies of water to be found—except Indian Creek, which back then probably could have been ignited by an errant cigarette butt.

“Are you sure about this?” my dad asked, looking over his glasses at me. To be honest, with a view of the sun-blasted sidewalks and chain-link fences outside, I wasn’t.

In retrospect, it probably would have been reasonable to visit the campus before ransoming myself with student loans for four years in the sometimes-stinky sage of Canyon County. But if I had, and decided that I wasn’t “sure about this,” I wouldn’t have met my wife. Wouldn’t have made the connections that led to my opening a newspaper in Sandpoint.

Wouldn’t have this job. I certainly wouldn’t have received the stellar education I did. When it comes to my adult life and nearly all the most important events in it, all roads traveled started in C-Town.

On a personal level, I have a soft spot in my heart for Canyon County, which often gets looked down on as a desperately conservative, gritty, low-income growth on the hard-charging “livability” regime of the Great State of Ada. In this week’s paper, we take a closer look at 2C, with a feature package exploring an area where Canyon County both excels and faces some of its biggest challenges: education.

Starting on Page 9, find an examination of the Nampa School District’s budget woes—and what it’s doing to dig out from under them—as well as a profile on the institutions of higher learning, including my alma mater, where some of the state’s best teachers receive their training. Plus, on Page 26, Boise Weekly food writer Tara Morgan dines in a unique restaurant that’s bringing a taste of the Ukraine to Canyon County. We also review a few 2C wines, to boot.

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BOISEWEEKLY.COM What you missed this week in the digital world.

TALL TALES A North Idaho woman may have overstated her battlefield heroics in an article that appeared in Panhandle newspapers on Veteran’s Day. Find out what she said on Citydesk.

MAN ON THE MOON The brother of late-comedian Andy Kaufman dropped a bombshell on the Internet, claiming that the funnyman is still alive. Read more on Cobweb.

CLOSURE The parents of 19-year-old Airman Kelsey Anderson, who died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2011, settled their suit with the Air Force.

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OPINION

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BILL COPE/OPINION

THAT DAY A last look back?

When such a thing happens, you don’t just remember where you were, what you were doing. You remember the sun came through the windows to your left and the classroom was warm. You remember being hungry—it was almost lunch hour—and then after the PA speaker cracked out that numbing announcement, you remember being suddenly not hungry. You remember your teacher—red-haired, red-faced Mr. Grosdidier—turning so white he looked blue, slumping over and grasping his desk like he’d been slammed in the gut.

You remember how the kids around you reacted, how you looked to them for how maybe you should react because you weren’t sure. This was new. There had been no drills, ever, on what to do for something like this.

Nothing like this had ever happened before.

Not to you. Not to the other kids. Not to Mr. Grosdidier.

You remember the confusion, You remember being sent home for reasons you didn’t quite grasp, and how quiet it was on the bus because nobody, not even the driver, could grasp any more of it than you. You remember things your mother said, hushed, when you got home. The tremble she couldn’t keep out of her voice. Your father frozen in time before the television, transfixed by the gray flood of images and the babel of sorrow flowing back and forth like aftershocks across the nation. The nation—which, until that day, you hadn’t given much thought to.

You remember how over the following hours it began to sink in, that a fundamental something—a bedrock of the American soul—had shifted. And over the following days, all tethered to that day like the aftermath of a great catastrophe, you remember thinking how all those grown-ups you watched in Dallas, in Washington, at home— the very people you’d been trusting to run the world smoothly—were as confused, as lost as you.

You remember America coming to a stop.

A muted, cold November stop. You remember wondering if it would ever get moving again, after such a thing. Then you remember that in some way you didn’t understand then and don’t understand even now, 50 years on, how that little, little boy saluting that sad, sad caisson meant that maybe it was over. That maybe the great catastrophe had run its course.

Over the following months, melting into the following years, rather than fading away like nightmares should, you remember a lingering heaviness on the land, a melancholy that to this day is never entirely absent when you think of your nation. Even now, you have never stopped wondering how one man could have left such an unretractable mark on your country.

Eventually, you came to wonder if the man who left the more unretractable mark, the man who so deeply haunts this motherBOI S EW EEKLY.COM

land of yours still, is the Jack man, or the Lee man.

U I don’t think of it so much as a conspiracy, but as a mystery that’s never been resolved into a satisfactory denouement. I can’t pretend to know if there was a plot of vast dimensions, or the demented actions of a few disgruntled madmen. All I know is, I simply cannot accept that Oswald did it by himself.

But deciding (as did a 1978 investigation by the House Select Committee on Assassinations) that there was more than one person behind Jack’s murder does not require I assume the involvement of some malevolent and powerful presence. The military-industrial complex, the CIA, the Soviets, the Mafia, Castro, the anti-Castro fanatics... all of these have been suggested, and motives have been theorized for each of them.

Yet it is the details of what happened within a few seconds that day in Dealey Plaza that have left me (and millions like me) hungry for answers we can accept without stretching our credulity beyond its limits. Yes, we might accept that the shots came only from the book depository... if it weren’t for dozens of onlookers convinced they heard shots from the grassy knoll, including at least 21 Dallas cops who swarmed to that spot, certain they would find an assassin there.

Yes, we might accept that it’s not unusual for viscera—brain matter—to extrude from the entry wound rather than the exit wound... if it weren’t for what the Zapruder film showed us—a violent jerk backwards, indicting the blow came from the front.

Yes, we might accept that Oswald was undoubtedly the killer... if it weren’t for a cop seeing him 90 seconds after the shots were fired, six floors below where the fingerprintfree rifle was found, calmly drinking a Coke.

Yes, we might accept the conclusion of the Warren Commission, that one bullet could puncture two men a total of four times—ripping flesh and smashing bones—and remain virtually unscathed... if it weren’t for our own intuitions telling us, This is bullshit!

And that’s the thing, even 50 years later: So many of the paths urging us to accept Oswald’s solitary guilt are so convoluted, so torturous, so contrived, that it’s easier to go with our own sense of what makes sense than it is to swallow the official version. Yet even today, we are dismissed as deluded, conspiracy nuts, incapable of absorbing the truth that one stunted troll could so utterly destroy not only a shining giant, but his vision.

With more time, it will all fade, I suppose.

Not only will the memories dim, but also the mystery. Those children sent home on that sunny day are passing on, one by one.

And when the last one of us is gone, so too will be the hunger for answers—the greatest of which will always be, “What might have been…”

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OPINION/JOHN REMBER

ALL THE YOUNG DUDES

’Tis a Wise Child Who Knows His Own Father It’s not entirely my morbid imagination. David Vitter, Mike Lee, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Rick Santorum all appear to have the same father. It’s the look in their eyes, which is why Michele Bachmann and Paul Ryan—whose eyes indicate they were sired by Marty Feldman—aren’t on the same list.

The first five have that saner-but-shiftyeyed look of people who can’t be candid with cameras, reporters, colleagues or anybody else.

They’re charming and glib in social situations, superficially intelligent, deeply self-centered, given to oversimplification of the issues and, judging from their politics, lacking ethics, empathy, conscience and real emotion. That’s the clinical definition of a sociopath, and it doesn’t bode well for our Republic that all these folks have imagined themselves occupying the Oval Office at one time or another.

It makes you think that Richard Nixon financed his first congressional campaign by becoming a professional sperm donor.

Anyway, when I look at the coming crop of presidential aspirants, what comes to mind is Yeats’ line about the best of us lacking conviction and the worst of us being filled with passionate intensity.

These are people who see themselves as taking moral stands, but they despise the idea that we should take care of the most vulnerable people in our communities. Instead, they suggest we should get rid of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security and food stamps, institutions that have allowed this country’s old, damaged, poor and sick to make it through our post-2008 winters. They also want to replace public schools with a voucher system that would ensure separate-and-unequal education, religious and cultural incest, and de facto racial segregation.

These guys have the morality of Charles Darwin, who suggested the future belongs to the fleet, the smart, the horny and the ruthless.

It’s anything but the morality of Christ, who said, “As ye have done unto the least of these, ye have done unto me.”

If Christ were suddenly to appear leading an army of angels, the ambitious young champions of the Republican Party would find themselves in deep Dantean doo-doo.

In the meantime, these folks face us with a nature-versus-nurture question. Does political office result in sociopathy, or do sociopaths, in early 21st century America, find themselves uniquely fit for political office?

As is the usual case with nature-or-nurture questions, the answer is both, but that answer leads to yet more questions: How can a nation deal with the sociopaths in its midst? Does it give them billions to make fighter jets that will be obsolete out of the box, or does it spend those billions keeping children alive, clothed and educated? Does it reward them for shipping whole industries overseas and creating a quadrillion dollars’ worth of unredeemable derivatives, or does it regulate its borders and its

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financial industry so as to prevent shell-game economics, massive unemployment and the eventual collapse of public institutions? Does it continue to elect them to high office and make them the heads of corporations, or does it put them in jail and throw away the key?

To put it in moral terms, do we reward Pride, Envy, Anger, Laziness, Greed, Gluttony and Lust, or Faith, Hope, Charity, Prudence, Temperance, Fortitude and Justice?

You can look at Republican-run states for answers to these questions, but states run

by Democrats aren’t much different. What surprises me is that when the two political parties decided to play Good Cop/Bad Cop and put the squeeze on the American people, the Republicans wanted in the worst way to be the Bad Cop. It’s one thing to devote your life to the manifest pathologies of evil, but it’s another to revel in them. A lot of pious Republican statements about fiscal responsibility, self-reliance and freedom come from the DSM-V rather than from the Bible.

The idea that sociopathy might be a genetic trait, able to be passed on to children, is enough to make you look hard at the moral capacities of your own parents, and to wonder if your Darwinian worldview is hereditary.

Lots of people would give you a pass if you confessed that your dad was Dick Nixon.

They would understand that you couldn’t help yourself when you—helped yourself. And lied.

And compiled lists of enemies. And sent your country’s young people off to futile wars.

Of course, you’d still be you, even if your genes were in control. A self-preserving society, in order to limit the damage caused by your presence in it, might put restraints on your ability to do all the things you want to.

Laws result from the recognition that while a world of totally free sociopaths might result in survival of the fittest, it also results in the death or enslavement of the not-so-fit, and the complete obliteration of moral truth.

It’s civilization-by-Mafia. As the Godfather movies showed us, that’s an arrangement that’s hard on everyone. Survival of the fittest becomes rule by the strongest, and being the strongest is always a temporary condition.

It leads to a thought experiment: Imagine that you’ve been fathered by a leading American male politician (not John F. Kennedy—that would be too easy, for a variety of reasons). Look carefully at your own history, checking for moments when you were generous to less fortunate people and other moments when you cut them off at the knees.

Find a politician whose behavior makes him a credible genetic match. Contemplate the burden of your inheritance.

If enough Americans are willing to imagine this scenario, the Republican Party will wither and die. Trouble is, all the ex-Republicans will promptly become Democrats, doing whatever it takes to get back in office.

It’s in their genes.

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NEWS/CITYDESK QU AIL HOLLOW GOLF C LU B

NEWS GEOR GE PR ENTIC E

LEAP OF FATE, PART TWO

Quail Hollow Golf Club may soon be city-owned.

‘We’re jumping that sucker’

BOISE MAY SWING AT GOLF CLUB

GEORGE PRENTICE “Big” Ed Beckley was in a pretty good mood.

Who knows? It might have had something to do with the amount of chocolate he was inhaling from a pumpkin-shaped plastic bucket that he had commandeered from the waiting room in his lawyer’s office.

“Poke me,” he insisted to Boise Weekly, to which we responded with an appropriate, “Huh?” BW had just asked him about his health and how he might drop anywhere from 50 to 60 pounds from his nearly 300-pound frame.

“Put your finger right there and poke me,” he said again, this time pointing to the right side of his chest, “and then poke me again here,” he added pointing to the left side. “I’m bench-pressin’ 270, maybe 280 pounds.”

Instead of a simple answer to BW’s question, it was more of “Big” Ed’s style to challenge us to try to push him away. Rest assured, he didn’t budge.

Poking “Big” Ed was entertaining enough; but spending an hour with the 63-year-old daredevil was flat out surreal. There isn’t much about Ed Begley that isn’t oversized: not the least of which is his dream to jump over the Snake River Canyon on the September 2014 anniversary of Evel Knievel’s 1974 ill-fated jump (Knievel’s faulty parachute deployed too early, sending him to the canyon floor). Equally big was an October wire transfer of $943,000 from Beckley to the state of Idaho to secure the right to clear air space over the canyon land on the north side of the ridge, which happens to belong to the state.

Beckley has yet another administrative hurdle to jump: convincing the city of Twin Falls that he’s the only serious contender to make such a leap (Twin Falls owns the south side of the canyon).

“You know something? In December 2012, Twin Falls officials told us, ‘Deal with the state first, and we’ll go along with it,’” Beckley said.

That was then. Now, Twin Falls officials are requiring Beckley to make a formal presentation of his plans at a special Thursday, Nov. 21, meeting, where he’ll have 15 minutes to convince the city to grant him rights to the south side of the canyon.

“But we’re experiencing some frustration right now, based on the fact that the city of Twin Falls has opened up this meeting to multiple applicants, not just ‘Big’ Ed,” said Jon Simmons, Beckley’s attorney and partner at Boise’s Kelly, Talboy & Simmons. “It adds to a circus-, almost carnival-like feel to this whole BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

“Big” Ed Beckley (left) with his Boise attorney Jon Simmons, (right) will go before the city of Twin Falls to argue for Beckley’s right to jump the Snake River Canyon on a specially designed rocket bike.

process. It’s incredibly frustrating.”

Simply put, in spite of securing Idaho’s OK to fly over the Snake River Canyon, the city of Twin Falls sees Beckley as only one of seven daredevils who will each be given 15 minutes at the Nov. 21 meeting. No decision on granting the use of canyon’s south side is expected at the meeting.

“Every week that goes by without a decision from Twin Falls is another week that my engineering team isn’t testing a bike,” Beckley told BW. Testing is the least of it. Beckley’s team hasn’t even started building the bike.

“My engineers and designers are all waiting; but not patiently,” said Beckley. “Let’s say that the city of Twin Falls said ‘OK’ tomorrow.

It would still be another 60 to 90 days before my builders turned their first bolt.”

Simmons said local officials harbor some bad memories from the ’74 Knievel jump.

“Some of those stories were second- or third-hand, but we’ve heard that there were some financial issues,” said Beckley’s attorney.

“Look, we’re committed to partnering with the community. We certainly don’t want issues like the ones we heard about in the 1970s.”

Beckley, always ready to go big, took it a step further.

“I want to be elected mayor of Twin Falls when I’m done, not burned at the stake. I want those people to be happy,” said Beckley.

“Big” Ed said all of his events—he has jumped “a ton,” Beckley said when we asked how many times he had leapt over cars, buses or trucks—have been unqualified successes.

When BW met with Beckley in early November, he had just come from a monster truck show he had put together in Billings, Mont., and was on his way to Cheyenne, Wyo., where he was putting on another spectacle.

“Get a load of this: We’ll have mud bog racing, a demolition derby and professional wrestling, including women and midgets, all

going on at once,” he said. “I call it the ‘Red Neck Nationals.’ It’s wreckin’, racin’ and wrasslin’.”

But a 2014 Snake River Canyon jump would be the defining moment of a career that began in 1973, after Beckley saw Knievel jump at the Kansas State Fair. Beckley said the media attention swirling around his Snake jump is considerable, and he’s nearing a deal for exclusive broadcast rights.

“Right now, we don’t know what our TV money is,” he said (BW confirmed in October that a minimum bidding price would be near $10 million). “I can tell you that we’re negotiating with a number of networks and ABC/ESPN, CBS and the Discovery Channel have all asked for the right to counter-offer any top offer.”

Just in case Beckley’s negotiations with Twin Falls get bogged down or face insurmountable delays, he said there is a “Plan B.” “Look, we’ve got the big pea in the pod.

We’ve got the right to jump over the canyon and we have the north side of the canyon from the state of Idaho,” said Beckley, adding that he may reverse his original plan and jump from state land on the north side and find somewhere on the south side to land, other than the parcel owned by the city of Twin Falls.

“If we were just one applicant making a presentation to the city of Twin Falls, we wouldn’t be facing this level of uncertainty.

And, in all honesty, we wouldn’t even be talking about switching sides,” said Simmons.

But Beckley and Simmons are more than ready for their Nov. 21 presentation. They’ve already submitted a huge packet of information about Big Ed’s plans. Perhaps the most important section begins on Page 8, which is entitled “Probability of Success: Very High.”

“Look here, I’m going to tell you right now: My hands are going to be on a set of handlebars on Sept. 7, 2014,” said Beckley.”We’re jumping that sucker.”

As Boise Weekly was going to press on Nov. 19, the Boise City Council was gearing up to consider the acquisition of an 18-hole golf course that had been donated to the city by a local businessman. Vote totals were not available by press time, but officials seemed enthused about the prospect.

The 140-acre Quail Hollow Golf Course, located at 4520 N. 36th St. in Boise, was gifted to the city by Dave Hendrickson, along with all necessary equipment and an 8,000-square-foot clubhouse, with the stipulation that the land either remains a golf course or be converted to open space.

“It is truly the best of what we see in Boise,” Boise Mayor Dave Bieter said at a press conference Nov. 18, where he unveiled the donation.

If accepted, the course would be Boise’s second municipal golf facility after Warm Springs Golf Course. According to Parks and Recreation Director Doug Holloway, the operation of Quail Hollow will follow that of Warm Springs, paying for its operations through user fees and rentals, which, he added, will likely stay at current levels.

“No general funds will be used to operate the course,” Holloway said.

Until self-sufficiency is attained, however, the course will get a boost from Parks and Rec surplus funds to cover payroll and incidental expenses.

Bieter was optimistic the Council would accept Hendrickson’s gift.

“I think the Council will approve this donation,” he said at the Nov. 18 press event.

Councilman T.J. Thomson told BW that he planned to vote in favor of the gift.

“It’s another jewel we’ll protect,” he said.

The acquisition comes on the heels of two narrowly defeated bond initiatives heavily promoted by Bieter, including $10 million for the city’s open space fund to purchase land in the Boise Foothills and other areas.

The gift to the city comes as a consolation to the mayor, who invested considerable political capital in the failed bonds.

“We need to remember that there will be days like this when the pieces fall in [place],” Bieter said.

Thomson, however, said that the two parcels, both tucked in the Boise Foothills, serve separate city interests.

“I do see it as quite different,” he said.

Councilwoman Lauren McLean agreed.

“These are two very separate issues [from the bond],” she told BW, adding that she, like Thomson, intended to vote in favor of the acquisition.

Check boiseweekly.com for updates to this story.

—Harrison Berry

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CITIZEN

AMY DOWD Maintaining a healthy outlook GEORGE PRENTICE

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How ready was the Your Health Idaho team to throw the switch on Oct. 1?

We actually opened the doors to our call center a week early. We had hoped that federal technology would have worked better than it has.

But can you appreciate that an Idaho user doesn’t really differentiate what the state does on its website from the federal website?

Our hope was that it would have been a streamlined process. The challenge is that the federal platform hasn’t been working.

For the record, how much does Idaho lean on the federal system?

For the first year, Idaho is completely reliant on the federal technology for the application and enrollment process. We have our own website that provides a lot of resources and tools, but ultimately, our website is a portal link into the federal system.

And how much flak have you taken because of that?

We’re the face of the exchange in Idaho; that’s a fair assumption. What we’ve done is create tools and resources to help people with as much of the process as possible so that once the federal site is working, Idahoans are more ready to make a selection and enroll.

Did you always expect to depend on the federal website in year one?

When you look at the timeframe of when the exchange-enabling legislation was passed by the [2013] Idaho Legislature, there really wasn’t sufficient time to form a board, hire a team and do a full-fledged technology procurement.

But the burden still remains on Idahoans to continually check back until the federal site is running 24/7.

Yes; right now the enrollment process end-to-end is hit or miss. But we know that Idahoans are enrolling. [YourHealthIdaho.org tracked 70,000 unique visitors since Oct. 1; 4,753 applications were completed in the first

JER EM Y LANNINGHAM

The first (and last) thing you notice about Amy Dowd is her smile. Tasked with one of the hardest jobs in Idaho, the executive director of Your Health Idaho—the Gem State’s health care exchange—Dowd, more often than not, is usually smiling.

“Anyone involved in a change of this magnitude is doing very important work,” she said.

“When the Affordable Care Act came out, I always thought that the exchanges could change the landscape. It’s very energizing to be a part of a change of this nature.”

Dowd and her Your Health Idaho team’s long days and nights have been made that much longer by the federal-based exchange, the plagued website shackled to Idaho’s Web portal for at least another year.

“Our goal, right now, is to open the doors of our own marketplace to Idahoans starting in January 2015, and we expect that it will happen by the end of next year,” said Dowd. “It’s an aggressive timeline.”

Boise Weekly had a rare opportunity to sit down with Dowd to have a wide-ranging dialogue about her team, focus and what it’s like to be the most prominent face of the Affordable Care Act in Idaho.

month of operation and 338 Idahoans selected a plan from an Idaho carrier].

What do these numbers tell you?

That people are very interested in the marketplace. When you consider that there are just over 200,000 uninsured Idahoans, there’s a very big appetite to learn more.

If the federal exchange is not running fulltilt by Christmas, are you prepared for your job to get more difficult?

This is a marathon, not a sprint. Unfortunately, we’re heavily reliant on the federal system. Yes, we believe that the federal platform will improve over time, but our focus is to get the Idaho technology up and running. And that’s a big enough task.

Are you able to brush away the politics from all of this?

Politics play an important role in what we’re doing so, no, we certainly can’t ignore it.

But we have to stay focused on what the Idaho legislation is guiding us to do.

I’m presuming that there’s a fair amount of thanklessness in your job.

The stories I hear from our front line—our call center—really hit home. We’re hearing from people who had previously been denied coverage, or they thought they could never afford insurance in the first place. We have a lot of change ahead.

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NAMPA CRAWLS OUT OF ITS BUDGET HOLE

STUDENTS HONE THEIR MATH SKILLS, WHILE DISTRICT OFFICIALS APOLOGIZE FOR THEIR LACK THEREOF GEORGE PRENTICE It’s something called a “Mad Minute.”

Mrs. Koeppen’s fourth-grade class, at Nampa’s Park Ridge Elementary School, hushed to complete silence as 26 fourth-graders leaned forward, pencils at the ready.

“Five, four, three, two one; on your mark; get set; go!”

And with that, the class flipped over its papers, and in choreographed silence, pencils feverishly filled in the blanks of a page-full of equations—30, to be precise.

“Each sheet has 30 multiplication problems; we’ll soon be moving up to a sheet of 60,” said Misty Koeppen, a 16-year veteran of the Nampa School District.

Not every answer was perfect and more than a few were smudged with eraser marks. Nonetheless, the exercise would readily impress a parent, educator or Idaho lawmaker. One could only have hoped for the same math skills at Nampa’s school district office in 2012, when a $2 million miscalculation triggered a series of accounting errors that left Idaho’s third-largest school district (second only to Meridian and Boise) drowning in more than $5 million-worth of red ink.

Pete Koehler, the most recent person the district has recruited to help salvage the crisis (in May he became Nampa’s third school superintendent in seven months), learned of the problem just a few days before the public got wind of the scandal (Boise Weekly, Citydesk, “Nampa Can’t Do the Math,” Aug. 15, 2012). At the time, Koehler was principal of Nampa High School, with an eye toward retirement.

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TEACHER BASKET

DESPITE MONEY WOES, 2C A HUB FOR TEACHER ED HARRISON BERRY In Canyon County teachers face large class sizes, low pay and scarce resources.

But it’s also where three institutions of higher learning—the College of Idaho, Northwest Nazarene University and College of Western Idaho—train future educators. For an area that faces an education crisis, it’s also Southwestern Idaho’s teacher basket, and a place where new teachers are eager to ply their trade despite difficulties.

“Some of the classrooms have 35 students in them. That makes it difficult to teach, but by the time [students] get through that fifth year, they’ve made a commitment to teach. So aside from being a little demoralized, I don’t think it dissuades them from seeking teaching positions,” said Patti Copple, placement director for the C of I’s education department.

The “fifth year” to which she refers is a program of extended education for qualified C of I graduates that includes classroom teaching experience, expanded learning opportunities through the college and, in the end, teacher certification.

The trials and tribulations of new teachers are open secrets, and training young educators means instructing in the latest pedagogies as well as the ins and outs of running a classroom. At the three Canyon County teaching academies, the tension is in forging teachers with realistic expectations of their future work environments while also giving them the best possible tools with which to ply their trade.

Melissa Dorris is one C of I graduate working on her fifth year, as well as a master of arts in teaching, also at C of I. Her paid student teaching experience is taking place in a fifth-grade class of 25 students at Middleton Heights Elementary, in Middleton, at the end of which she’ll receive her teacher certification.

There are a few difficulties—25 students is a large class—but the local parentteacher association occasionally provides supplies and helps parents take an active 11 role in the classroom; and Dorris has a mentor on the faculty who troubleshoots

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from an accounting error. They double-counted the money.’ That was a pretty difficult meeting, but we came out of there with a list of decisions that had to be made: cut supplies, cut some transportation, limit the number of substitutes. I thought, quite frankly, that the principals had helped to put a pretty good dent into that $2 million deficit,’” Koehler told Boise Weekly. “The next thing I know, maybe two weeks later, I get called into another meeting where they said, ‘The original $2 million mistake was even deeper.’

At that point, I thought, ‘When is this going to end?’”

But the nightmare was just beginning.

“It just seemed, week after week, it was like getting punched in the face because there was another crisis,” he said.

Ultimately, the Nampa School District limped out of its 2012 Fiscal Year by overspending more than $4.2 million. Through a series of draconian cuts, FY 2012 ended with a $3.1 million deficit.

“But then came the next call from Superintendent Larsen. This time, I knew what he was going to do,” said Koehler.

Indeed, Larsen resigned, followed soon thereafter by his deputy superintendent. The Nampa School Board turned next to Thomas Michaelson to take the helm. But by May of this year, Michaelson also quit, when he said some of his proposed spending cuts received lackluster support from the school board.

“The past year has not been pleasant,” said Koehler. “I still shake my head.”

Koehler then got a call from the Nampa School Board, but he insisted that if he were to become the district’s next interim superintendent, it would be a limited assignment.

“I told them, they didn’t tell me. I said I would need to leave by the end of June 2014, after they hire a new full-time superintendent, which I expect to happen in February 2014,” he said.

Koehler, a 21-year veteran of the U.S. Army—retiring as a lieutenant colonel— doesn’t panic. A small pin on his lapel indi-

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cates that he’s a decorated paratrooper—he, quite literally, jumps into trouble.

“Yes, I tend to be fairly steady,” he said with a deep, direct, but calming voice.

“When some people scream and holler that the world is coming to an end, I’m saying, ‘Now, let’s settle down.’”

One of Koehler’s first orders of business was managing through the current 14-day furlough of most of Nampa’s educators and certified staff. Delicate negotiations with the teachers union stretched through much of this past spring and summer.

“The district’s relationship with the Nampa Education Association for the previous two years was, to be polite, not positive,” said Koehler. “Are there still differences? A few. But I’m not hostile to the NEA and I don’t believe they’re hostile to the district leadership.”

In an effort to balance the district’s current fiscal year, a number of dramatic fixes have occurred—not the least of which was restructuring an existing bond (approved in 2007), which saved the district $4.3 million.

“It gives me momentary comfort. Do I still lay awake every night, wondering about something? Oh, yeah,” said Koehler.”We deeply damaged our credibility with the community. We’re in the process of trying to repair that.”

What really pains him is that the 2012 fiscal crisis resulted in the loss of some of the district’s veteran educators.

“We have 160 new teachers this year. It will take time for us to recover from that,” he said. “There’s a price to pay.”

Meanwhile over at Park Ridge Elementary School—four miles from the district’s administration offices—Misty Koeppen’s voice softened when BW asked about her colleagues who left the district due to the crisis.

“I knew almost every teacher that left,” she said. “Some left the profession entirely.”

Koeppen knows a thing or two about negotiating with the district’s 12 administration. She was the president of the Nampa teachers’ union

PETE KOEHLER, superintendent, Nampa School District

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for her and is a source of institutional memory.

9 Teaching isn’t easy, but Dorris said the opportunity and pleasure of teaching has been worth it.

“I don’t see any reason why I’d ever want to leave. I think right now it’s a great fit for me,” she said.

Dorris’ employment in Middleton is provisional until she secures a teaching certificate, but she’s on the district’s payroll and is confident she will keep her job there when she receives her certification.

The real challenge for Dorris is age-old: how to inspire her students and give them basic tools for success. Along with reading, writing and arithmetic, she said she’s eager to impart organization skills to her students.

“A lot of what I notice is, when I ask [the students] to pull out assignments, there’s a lot of searching through desks to find them.

Students need those organizational skills,” she said.

The College of Western Idaho is a relative newcomer to Canyon County and has been educating future teachers since 2009. It works as a feeder institution, steering education students into partner schools like Boise State University, the University of Idaho and Idaho State University, which complete students’ educations and put them on track to obtaining teacher certification.

CWI offers its associate’s degree-seeking education students 14 classes—for a total of 42 transferrable credits—as well as up to 55 hours of field experience, in which degree seekers observe classrooms in action.

Nominally this is to give them insights into classroom mechanics and organization, but it also gives them a better sense of the dayto-day rigors of being a schoolteacher.

“Mainly it’s to give students that experience in the early stages to really get a feel to see if that’s their career of choice,” said David Shellberg, CWI executive vice president of Instruction and Student Services.

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ementary, secondary and physical education.

Education is a top-10 area of study there, with 327 degree-seeking students, of which 126 are currently observing classrooms in Canyon County school districts.

The academy is at the forefront of addressing challenges facing institutions that train teachers, teachers themselves and the schools at which they work: tracking teachers across educational institutions using the Student Longitudinal Data System, or SLDS. CWI’s plan to implement SLDS is part of a larger initiative to gather and analyze teachers’ career trajectories from when they sign up for an education major to the schools where they’ll eventually instruct.

For CWI and similar institutions across the country, this data is crucial in preparing student educators to oversee classrooms of their own, and it hopes to have a tracking system in place in the next six months to a year.

“CWI is so new, we’re just now getting it together where we can start tracking this data. Soon we should be in a solid position to be tracking all that data,” Shellberg said.

While CWI’s program of preparing education students for pursuing education majors and certification elsewhere, the process of turning a student into a teacher is, from an experiential standpoint, similar to C of I’s. Students at both colleges are placed under the watchful eye of instructors, and there’s a strong emphasis on classroom observation and instruction. The object is to place, by increments, the education student increasingly into the role of a teacher.

C of I’s program includes instruction in a variety of subjects over four years of undergraduate study, including a smattering of courses in the sciences, social studies and humanities, as well as more conceptual topics like curriculum development, literacy and handling cultural diversity in the classroom.

“They’re going into the experience with their eyes open, I think,” said Copple.

For qualified students like Dorris, a fifth year is available that 12 combines student teaching with

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for six years, before returning to the classroom in 2010.

“Back then, we had a wonderful relationship with the district,” she recalled. “But that really hasn’t been the case for the last two years. We weren’t even talking civilly to one another in the past year.

It was very difficult to watch.”

When asked about the 2012 revelation of the district’s accounting errors, Koeppen told BW that she had been flat-out angry.

“I worked with those people. I had a strong trust in them, and I always thought things were on the up-and-up,” she said. “So many of the teachers told me that they felt they hadn’t been trusted enough to be told the truth.”

And the cuts have been severe, Koeppen said, adding that she continues to work on her lesson plans on her furlough days, even though she’s not paid.

“Plus, we have zero money for supplies,”

she said. “There’s really nothing worse than a student who comes into class and their parents can’t afford their supplies. I and all of the other teachers are paying for those supplies with our own money.”

Nearby sat a stack of boxes filled with Tootsie Pops and little bags of bite-sized candies.

“We’re going to try to sell these during the lunch hour, for 25 cents,” said Koeppen.

“You see, we don’t have any money for field trips or guest lecturers, so we’re really hoping to raise some funds so that our fourthgraders can learn a bit more about Idaho history.”

Twenty-five cents may not seem like much, but it adds up, as Koeppen’s fourthgrade math whiz-kids know all too well. But multiplying all of those quarters until they total $4.3 million might be a lesson worth learning for everyone in the district, not just the students.

continuing education, at the end 11 of which is the Idaho teacher certification process. By the time a C of I graduate finishes that fifth year, he or she is fully qualified to teach.

There, a total of about 80 students are pursuing undergraduate coursework in education, with 15-20, divided between elementary and secondary education, undergoing their fifth year of instruction and student teaching.

Student teaching is a major component of C of I’s program, and all fifth-year students undergo a full year of student teaching through a partnership with the Middleton School District. It’s part of the reason why, according to Copple, so many graduates pursue—as high as 90 percent, Copple said—work in the Treasure Valley, particularly in Canyon County.

“Our students have lots of experience dealing with the demographics of Canyon County,” she said.

The program of study there is intensive, and students seeking to participate in the fifth year of classroom experience have already passed through a rigorous selection process, having obtained a high grade point average, created a portfolio of professionalgrade work and obtained a dispositions rubric, a measure of a teacher’s psychological preparedness for a classroom.

“Once they get there, they’ve been pretty well screened,” Copple said.

Copple’s position at C of I allows her to assist graduates in finding employment, helping with collecting letters of recommendation and using human resources websites to find open teaching positions. So far, C of I graduates have been very successful in finding jobs, and Copple said demand for teachers is high.

“Most of our students who finished the program and applied got teaching positions,” she said. “And I could have placed a lot more if we had more.”

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Oil’s not well. (Sorry.)

WEDNESDAY NOV. 20 down with oil BIDDER 70 In 2008, University of Utah student Tim DeChristoper did something unheard of. He registered as a bidder in a Utah BLM oil and gas lease auction. DeChristopher bid on thousands of acres to prevent the drilling planned for the land. And he won.

But DeChristopher was an activist trying to prevent the land being leased out to “industry giants”—he did not have the money and did not intend to pay for the land. DeChristopher’s nonpayment caused the results of the auction to be canceled and, before another auction could be held, a new administration came into office. The new Interior secretary, Ken Salazar, invalidated the auction, stating that Utah’s Bureau of Land Management had cut corners and broken its own rules in order to auction state land to energy companies. But DeChristopher was not off the hook. He was indicted on two federal charges.

The story of DeChristopher’s civil disobedience, arrest, trial and prison sentence are the subject of a new documentary, Bidder 70, which screens Wednesday, Nov. 20, at 7 p.m., in the Simplot Ballroom at Boise State University. The screening is free and open to the public.

7 p.m. FREE. Boise State University Student Union Building, Simplot Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, peacefuluprising.org.

THURSDAY NOV. 21 cup of science DISCOVERY CENTER ADULT NIGHT As that first cup pours slowly from the pot, you

stare impatiently, waiting for your fix. You’re hooked. The Discovery Center of Idaho is brewing up a new Adult Night that will help explain why your body has you convinced that you won’t make it through the day without a hit of caffeine.

At Adult Night: The Science of Caffeine, you’ll find

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out why it feels like you need the energizing substance, and you’ll discover the effects of caffeine on the body, the hows and whys of dependency and more.

Make it a night out with friends. Grab a group of your favorite human beans and head to DCI, where you can chill out with a glass of beer

Anton Chekhov was born in Taganrog, Russia, in 1860. A doctor by profession, he made a name for himself as a writer of short stories and plays that eschewed the moral and heroic in favor of engaging and relatable characters who are both agents of their own wills and the playthings of circumstance. Writing on the cusp of the revolution that would usher the Bolsheviks into power, his works reflected the crumbling of Russia’s pre-revolutionary society and its sad denizens turning away from history, submerged in their own troubles.

Boise State University Department of Theatre Arts will stage Chekov’s play Three Sisters, which places Russia’s decaying gentry at the center of the action. In it, three sisters—the domineering Olga, disenchanted Masha and naive Irina—must reconcile themselves with their changing family dynamic, mislaid plans and the frequently mediocre men in their lives.

Rather than placing these characters in the midst of a revolt, famine or economic decline, their stories are told over the course of several years. Chekhov set his trio on a slope, rather than a cliff, and they slide, rather than fall, away from Moscow, good marriages and leisure.

While containing no violence and only occasional strong language, Three Sisters, with its story of disappointment and decay, is not for the faint of heart.

Nov. 20-23, 7:30 p.m., Nov. 24, 2 p.m. FREE for Boise State students, staff and faculty; $15 adult; $12 alumni, seniors, students and military. Boise State University Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, theatrearts.boisestate.edu.

or wine from local vendors, nibble on some tasty treats and enjoy live music from Hokum Hi-Flyers. Then get ready to rev it up with roasting demonstrations, experiments and presentations from experts in the field as they discuss where caffeine comes from, chemical reactions of caffeine, where caffeine occurs naturally and some of the health risks and benefits of the beloved substance—as well as a little caffeine myth-busting.

You’ll java great time.

6 p.m. $10. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895. scidaho.org.

“Any last advice?” “Stay alive.”

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laugh ’til it hurts BRIAN REGAN Regarded in the comedy world as a comic’s comic, Brian Regan blends his observational, sarcastic and often self-deprecating style of humor with a highly animated stage presence.

He attracts a wide range of audiences from middle-schoolers to middle-aged adults with his clean, profanity-free jokes and highly comical physical humor. Regan’s nonstop theater tour has taken him to more than 80 cities a year since 2005. He’s ripe with witty material about everyday events, like going to the eye doctor or rationalizing eating entire sleeves of Fig Newtons.

Imagine the humor of Jerry Seinfeld with the over-the-top mannerisms of Dane Cook; somewhere between is Regan. A veteran of the Comedy Central Presents series of star-studded stand-up shows, Regan has released ďŹ ve DVDs and CDs and and recently made his 20th appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman. Regan’s latest CD, All By Myself, captures the family friendly essence of his past performances with a nuanced simplicity that covers child rearing and uncomfortable doctor visits.

8 p.m. $45. Morrison Center, 2201 W. Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

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behind The Hunger Games, the series of young-adult novels about children who must ďŹ ght to the death in the titular spectator sport as penance for a rebellion that took place about 75 years before the action in the novels. In author Suzanne Collins’ series, The Capitol forces one representative from each of North America’s regions to participate in deadly competition for the pleasure of the decadent upper classes, who live lives insulated from the poverty and hunger of the confederacy’s outlying regions.

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In late 2011, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman—hosts of the television show MythBusters—were performing an experiment at the Alameda County Sheriff’s OfďŹ ce bomb range involving a cannon and some water tanks. When they ďŹ red the cannon, the cannon ball—a hunk of metal somewhere between softball- and grapefruit-sized—missed the water tanks and careened through a nearby residential neighborhood. There were no injuries, but several homes, a sidewalk and an unsuspecting minivan sustained battle damage.

Then, Savage and Hyneman took their show on the road.

They’ll shoot into Boise Tuesday, Nov. 26, to perform at The Morrison Center as part of their MythBusters: Behind the Myths Tour. There, they’ll execute on-stage experiments, bring audience members onstage for science and engineering demos, show videos of some of the exploits seen on their Emmy-nominated Discovery Channel TV series and tell some behind-the-scenes stories about their adventures.

MythBusters fans will have a chance to ask these outrageous engineering experts the questions that have rankled them about their favorite episodes. Why would the explosion of a million match-head bomb take as long as a 30,000 match-head bomb? What’s with Jamie Hyneman’s silly beret? In the show’s 10-year run, it has become famous for its disclaimers advising viewers not to attempt their experiments at home and for its ambitious attempts at verifying household myths. This week, Boise has a chance to warm its hands by the MythBusters ďŹ re—just be careful you don’t get burned.

7:30 p.m. $45-$125. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

Games has been on YA bestseller lists and, as of Saturday, Nov. 23, the series has spawned two feature ďŹ lms. To celebrate, the Library at Collister is hosting a Catching Fire Release Party, at which readers can enter prize drawings, complete district passports—so named after the 13 districts of The Hunger Games’ post-apoc-

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Magnetic pickups are a crucial part of that quest. Consisting of an alnico (aluminum, nickel and cobalt) or ceramic magnet wrapped in thousands of copper wire turns, pickups literally “pick up� the sound resonating through a guitar. Without pickups, there is no sound, and variations in pickups mean vastly different sounds.

For the past several decades, a rising demand for electric guitars has meant increased mass production and the cutting of corners. Pickups are often one of those corners. “There seems to be less focus on sound and product quality and more focus on making things work for the bottom line,� said Brian Porter, founder of Boise-based Porter Pickups.

Porter, his wife and an associate painstakingly create and ship between 40-45 sets of pickups a month to individuals and dealers across the United States and as far away as Japan, the Netherlands and United Arab Emirates. Porter’s high-end pickups are made of 42 and 43 American wire gauge copper coated in plain enamel, formvar and poly to help guitarists get the sound they’re looking for.

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The party runs from 1-3 p.m. and is free to attend.

1-3 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY NOV. 20 Festivals & Events WORLDS CONNECT: EXPERIENCE INDIA—Enjoy music, authentic cuisine, art and clothing artifacts and more. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

On Stage BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THREE SISTERS—Anton Chekhov’s masterpiece gives an emotionally revealing look into a family’s changing fortunes in a world of great and unalterable transition. For more info or to buy tickets, visit boisestatetickets.com. See Picks, Page 14.

7:30 p.m. $15. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

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BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THREE SISTERS—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $15. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

OWLS OF IDAHO NATURE CAMP—Learn about the various owls of Idaho, go on a hike, participate in crafts and more.

For children ages 3 and up. See website for registration. 10:30 a.m. $19-$28. Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise, 208-514-3755, parks. cityofboise.org.

Literature IDAHO AUTHOR AND BOOK AWARDS—Don’t miss this opportunity to celebrate local talent and support the Idaho writing community. Featuring live music, appetizers and open bar. 5:30 p.m. $15. Beside Bardenay, 612 Grove St., Boise, 208-426-0538, idahobookextravaganza.com.

Talks & Lectures BECOMING A FIBER ARTIST-THE JOURNEY—Boise Basin Quilters present Colorado fiber artist Carol Ann Waugh. 6:30 p.m. $5 nonmembers. Boise Church of Christ, 2000 N. Eldorado St., Boise, 208-375-3300.

FRIDAY NOV. 22 On Stage BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THREE SISTERS—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $15. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

REAL TALK COMEDY WORKSHOP—6 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St. Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Art 12TH ANNUAL BOISE WEEKLY COVER AUCTION—Join Boise Weekly and members of the local art community for an auction of art from covers of Boise’s alternative weekly newspaper. 6 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-4248297, boiseweekly.com.

Odds & Ends DISCOUNT COSMETIC BOUTIQUE GRAND OPENING— Check out the grand opening of the new cosmetics store and get one free nail polish with purchase. 9 a.m. FREE. Discount Cosmetic Boutique, Broadway Albersons Center, 1217 Broadway Ave., Ste 102, Boise, 208-9080467.

MEDIA PROFESSIONALS LUNCH—Members of the media in Idaho are invited to have lunch and mingle, as well as discuss issues related to the media in our community. 11 a.m. Smoky Mountain Pizza and Pasta, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208429-0011, idahomediapro.com.

BOISE S-ANON MEETING— Troubled by someone’s sexual behavior? S-Anon Boise can help. Email sanonboise@gmail. com for more information/questions. 6:15 p.m. FREE. 1111 S. Orchard St. #112A, Boise.

THURSDAY NOV. 21 Festivals & Events DISCOVERY CENTER ADULT NIGHT: SCIENCE OF CAFFEINE—Learn the science behind caffeine while enjoying food, beverages and live music

by Hillfolk Noir. See Picks, Page 14. 6 p.m. $8-$10. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, dcidaho. org.

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NOISE/CD REVIEW TDMT: I’M A STRANGER HERE There is a certain devil-may-care attitude about The Devil Makes Three that is hard to ignore. Whether it is the way the band blasts through lively bluegrass numbers like its instruments are about to explode, or the way lyrics casually glorify a lifestyle that gives little thought to the future, the trio tends to fly by the seat of its pants. On TDMT’s latest album, I’m a Stranger Here (October 2013, New West), this trend continues.

The results are an album that’s a tad stale by the end, but which is certainly likable.

The countrytinged bluegrass opener “Stranger” is a stomper of a track and a perfect intro to the rest of this record.

But the album is not all fun and games. “Forty Days” marries a downtrodden ragtime sensibility with philosophical lyrics, and on the fiddleled country number “Dead Body Moving,” it’s hard to miss the message about people plodding on despite already being—for all intents and purposes—dead.

Toss in the weary, banjo-plucking blues of “A Moment’s Rest,” and you see that the album has some depth to it, even if such moments are not meant to form the crux of the effort.

I’m a Stranger Here, on the whole, is pretty solid. The band lets the good times roll for the majority of the record, and while the groovy, lively tone—filled almost to the brim with ragtime numbers, and bluegrass/country hybrids—does get a little too familiar by the end, the band fills the record with enough sarcasm and unexpected introspection to pick up the slack.

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8 DAYS OUT BRIAN REGAN—The stand-up comedian’s tour comes to Boise.

See Picks, Page 15. 8 p.m. $45.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

THE COMEDY COLLECTION— Comedians take the stage.

Hosted by Kyle Letner. Featuring Jason Ward and Dylan Cole and Cadwick Heft. 8 p.m. FREE. Artistblue Gallery, Karcher Mall, 1509 Caldwell Blvd., Nampa, 208-467-3643, artistbluegallery. com.

Odds & Ends THE WINTER BALL—Boise competitive Latin ballroom dancers Tabish Romario and Becca Towler perform before competing in Las Vegas in December. Plus ballroom, salsa, tango and ballet performances from other local talent, then social dancing until 1 a.m. 8 p.m. $5. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208381-0483, parklaneco.com/ roseroom.

SATURDAY NOV. 23

Concerts HORACIO FRANCO—Celebrate the 103rd anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with a performance by internationally renowned Mexican flutist Horacio Franco. Presented by the Consulate of Mexico in Boise.

7 p.m. FREE. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

Workshops & Classes CHANGING YOUR PERCEPTION: GRATITUDE—How is your perception of your life? Is it positive? Would you like to change it? Take pen and paper and a topic that you’d like to change your perception about. 7 p.m. $5-$15. Psychic Sheila’s Suga Shack, 1821 State St., Boise, 208-429-1434.

Festivals & Events ANNUAL INGATHERING BAZAAR—Check out handmade crafts and a raffle for a beautiful handmade quilt. Homemade soup, rolls, pies and coffee will be available at lunch time. 9 a.m. FREE. First Baptist Church New Plymouth, 204 E. Elm, New Plymouth, 208-278-3233, firstbaptistchurchnp.org.

CATCHING FIRE MOVIE RELEASE PARTY—Film fans enjoy raffles with their district passport, practice indoor archery, make buttons to represent their district and more.

May the odds be ever in your favor. See Picks, Page 15. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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HOLIDAY BOUTIQUE—Check out handmade items and gift ideas from small local businesses and artists. 10 a.m. FREE. Owyhee Plaza, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611, theowyhee.com.

KUNA COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS EVENT—Enjoy this old-fashioned holiday event, featuring horse-drawn sleigh rides, pony rides, games for the children, cookie decorating and prizes. Hot chocolate and popcorn will be available. This event is a fundraiser for the Celebrating Life in Recovery program. 5:30 p.m. $10 per family.

Kuna’s Old 4th Street Gym, 571 W. Fourth St., Kuna.

On Stage BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THREE SISTERS—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $15. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

Concerts STARS OF STEINWAY: HANS BOEPPLE—Join Boepple as he plays selected works of Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff. 7 p.m. FREE. Dunkley Music, 410 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3425549.

Kids & Teens KIDS CLUB: FESTIVE FELT STOCKING—Kids create a handmade stocking for Christmas.

10 a.m. $2. Michaels, 8633 Franklin Road, Boise, 208-3769961, michaels.com.

| SUDOKU SUNDAY NOV. 24 Festivals & Events ART IN THE BAR 9—Featuring performances by Anderson Mitchell, Veronica Marie and Velocity Pole Art, and Marten Evergreen. All ages are welcome and a full bar is available with ID. 11 a.m. FREE. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

On Stage BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THREE SISTERS—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. $15. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

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Workshops & Classes

CUPCAKE DECORATING—Learn how to make fondant figures.

Use them on your cupcakes that you’ll take home, or save them to use on other desserts you’ll have at your Thanksgiving Day feast. Each class is limited to eight people and it’s first-come, first-served. 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. $40. Amaru Confections, 5475 Kendall St., Boise, 208-9912253, amaruconfections.com.

BEING THE TRUTH OF WHO YOU ARE—This class will assist you in opening your awareness, allowing you to fully know who you are and be happy. Taught by Sarah Christianson and Seeded Visions. 7 p.m. $5. Boise Holistic and Metaphysical Coop, 1615 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-4296393, boiseholisticcoop.com.

Talks & Lectures

MONDAY NOV. 25 Kids & Teens THANKSGIVING MINI DAY CAMP—Campers have fun with turkey-type games, food, field trips and friends. For ages 3-5 and K-8th graders. Call for price details or to sign up. Continues through Nov. 29. 7 a.m. Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Century Way, Boise, 208-376-3641, wingscenter.com.

LINCOLN AND IDAHO—Explore the unique relationship between the 16th president and the Idaho Territory in this special lecture by David Leroy, chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. 3 p.m.

FREE. Heatherwood Retirement Community, 5277 Kootenai St., Boise, 208-345-2150.

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Animals & Pets PET PHOTO NIGHT WITH SANTA—Take your furry friends to visit Santa and get their photos taken, then enter your pet’s photo for a chance to win the most memorable Santa photo contest and get a $500 mall gift card. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Towne Square, 925 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-375-1200, boisetownesquare.com.

MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER CHRISTMAS—7:30 p.m. $47$78. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE—See Tuesday. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Kids & Teens

TUESDAY NOV. 26 Festivals & Events TOYS FOR TOTS PAJAMA PARTY WITH SANTA—Break out your favorite pajamas and join a PJ party with Santa. There will be bedtime stories, treats, crafts and gifts. Take a new unwrapped toy to donate to Toys for Tots, and with a $3 donation for Toys for Tots, you can receive a customized email letter from Santa on Christmas Eve. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Towne Square, 925 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-3751200, boisetownesquare.com.

MR PATRICK’S WORKSHOP— Young designers, inventors and engineers can bring their creations to life with Legos. Some will be provided if you do not bring your own. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Rd., Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

PRESCHOOL DAYS—Children ages 4 and younger can create sans studio fees. 11 a.m.

Ceramica, 1002 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-342-3822.

THANKSGIVING MINI DAY CAMP—See Monday. 7 a.m.

Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Century Way, Boise, 208-3763641, wingscenter.com.

Odds & Ends LAST CALL TRIVIA—8 p.m.

FREE. The Lift Bar and Grill, 4091 W. State St., Boise, 208342-3250, theliftboise.com.

LATIN NIGHTS—Instructors Tabish L. Romario and Becca Towler will teach salsa, bachata and Brazilian zouk lessons, followed by social dancing at 9 p.m. 7:30 $5. The Press, 212 N. Ninth St., Ste. B, Boise, 208336-9577, www.facebook.com/ thepressboise?sk=info.

LIQUID LAUGHS OPEN MIC COMEDY—Enjoy some of of the best stand up comedians Boise has to offer. 8 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

PIONEER TOASTMASTERS— Work on public speaking and leadership skills. For more info call 208-921-2480. 6 p.m. FREE. Elmer’s, 1385 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-343-5714.

KIDS EXPERIENCE—A science and art program for children ages 6 and older held in the secret garden. 3 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

On Stage MYTHBUSTERS: BEHIND THE MYTHS TOUR—Join Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman as they experiment in search of truth and participate with audience members. See Picks, Page 15. 7:30 p.m. $45-$125.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu.

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE— Frank Capra’s masterpiece comes to life with a modern perspective. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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FULL CIRCUIT Jeff Crosby has an EP—and a beer.

JEFF CROSBY’S SAGE AND SONS At age 26, both Jeff Crosby’s hair and his songs are shorter. Coupled with a move with his band, The Refugees, to L.A. in 2010, the latter seems to have shortened his path to success as well. Crunchy psychedelic jams had given way to bluesy, roots-rock Americana well-suited to his melodic, raspy vocals and knack for storytelling. For Sons of Anarchy fans, Crosby’s voice helped tell SAMCRO’s story, too: Two songs off Jeff Crosby and The Refugees’ 2013 EP, Silent Conversations (Cosmo Sex School, which is rocker Jerry Joseph’s record label), were featured in the current season of the popular TV show. Crosby said Curtis Stiger, who sings the SOA theme song, made the connection.

“I did Curtis’ [Xtreme] Holiday Xtravaganza last year,” Crosby said. “After the show, he said, ‘So, you’re living in L.A. now. When you get back, buy Bob Thiele [SOA music supervisor] a cup of coffee. Trust me.’”

Whether in L.A. or on the road, Idaho is always home. While he was staying at a farm in Mendocino, Calif., for a couple of weeks, Crosby got the idea for something that would connect him to his home state in a whole new way: a Jeff Crosby and The Refugees-inspired beer.

“My wife and I have always been fans of Jeff,” said Matt Ganz, co-owner and co-brewer of Salmon River Brewery in McCall. “We remember watching him play at Crusty’s [Pizza, in McCall] after school.”

So when Crosby called Ganz with the idea of a new brew, Ganz was quick to agree. Crosby sent Ganz some California white sage from the farm, which Ganz infused into a new beer. The result is Jeff Crosby and The Refugees Refugee Pale Ale, a light-orange brew with a subtle flavor.

Crosby and The Refugees are headed back to Idaho this week for a handful of shows in McCall, Boise and the Wood River Valley, dubbed the Thank You Tour—there will be a keg of Refugee Pale Ale at each show.

“It’s Thanksgiving and we want to thank everyone [in Idaho] for all of their love and support over the years,” Crosby said.

Ganz has reason to celebrate, too: Salmon River Brewery is moving into cool new digs in the old train station, just down the street from its current location in McCall. SRB will reopen before Christmas, and plans to break ground on a new brewery in spring 2014. Friday, Nov. 22, SRB says goodbye to the old location with an acoustic set from Crosby and hello to the first keg of Refugee Pale Ale. Saturday, Nov. 23, Crosby and The Refugees will play a sold-out show at McCall’s Alpine Playhouse, then Reef Friday, Nov. 29, followed by the WRV. —Amy Atkins

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ISA hosts Sandpiper reunion BEN SCHULTZ In 1975, Steve Eaton was at loose ends. He’d moved back to his hometown of Pocatello from Nashville, Tenn. His band, Fat Chance, had broken up. He’d spent a year playing guitar for garage-rock band Paul Revere and the Raiders, but left because, as he put it, “I loved the group, but they just never would go to sleep.” The Carpenters were preparing to record his song “All You Get from Love is a Love Song,” but he didn’t know that at the time (the single would drop in 1977).

Then he got a call from a young musician the tenure of Paul “Pug” Ostling, who would named Billy Braun, who’d been playing at a go on to open Grape Escape and the Noodles Pocatello restaurant called the Sandpiper. restaurants in Boise and Nampa, and who “He called me up and he asked me if I played a prominent role in the creation of the could come down and play,” Eaton said.

Boise City Department of Arts and History’s “And I said, ‘Sure.’ Because I’d just got marFettuccine Forum, the Gene Harris Block ried in ’72 to this girl and we were trying to raise a family. And I’d been living in L.A. and Party and Alive After Five.

In the early ’70s, Ostling was living in CalI did this thing with the Raiders and all that stuff, but I was still trying to keep working.” ifornia, pondering a move to Australia, when That phone call helped Eaton weave music a friend invited him up to Boise to check out back into his life. He recalled that he and the the Sandpiper.

“He said, ‘Before you make an expensive other Sandpiper musicians—who performed on a circuit of the restaurant chain’s locations mistake like Australia, why don’t you make an inexpensive mistake?’” Ostling said. in Pocatello, Boise, Idaho Falls and elseFlying up for the weekend, Ostling arrived where—played three or four nights a week in Boise on Sandpiper’s opening day. He and made at least $150 each night. started as a performer, became manager and “It was like a living wage,” he said. eventually bought into the restaurant.

“There’s hundreds of us that raised our “I didn’t have restaurant experience, but families and paid car payments because of I’d been around it,” he said. “I knew what [those gigs].” it was supposed to be. And in those days, The benefits weren’t just financial. enthusiasm and knowing what it should be “It was like a lifestyle,” Eaton said. was enough.”

“People would go up there and [there’d be] The Sandpiper restaurants somebody playing, and people quickly attracted high-caliber just could not believe that IDAHO SONGWRITERS performers. something that was that cool ASSOCIATION SANDPIPER “It was like Idaho’s version could be in the town. I mean, CIRCUIT REUNION of the Troubadour or some[the Sandpiper] practically ran Friday, Nov. 22, and Saturday, Nov. 23. General thing,” Eaton said. “It got every other restaurant out of admission $12, preferred to the point [where] it didn’t business.” seating $15. Tickets for matter who was playing; they Eaton and his friends will Friday night are sold out, always had a crowd because give Boise a taste of the old as are tickets for preferred seating on Saturday. everybody thought, ‘If somedays on Friday, Nov. 22, and Riverside Hotel Sapphire body was playing here, they Saturday, Nov. 23. The Idaho Room, 2900 W. Chinden must be good.’”

Songwriters Association—a Blvd., 208-343-1871. More After he’d become manager nonprofit founded by Eaton in information at tickets at idahosongwriters.com. of the Boise Sandpiper, Ostling 2010—will hold the two-night got word of a kid who played Sandpiper Circuit Reunion at all kinds of old pop standards. the Riverside Hotel’s Sapphire “I knew [Braun] wasn’t 19, so I’m going, Room. Performers include Eaton, Rebecca ‘I’m not even going to ask,’” Ostling said Scott, Gayle Chapman, Jeff Tauge, Jon with a laugh. “You had to be 18 to play in a Faulkner, John Hansen, Pinto Bennett and bar. But goddamn, he’s a talent. And what a more. handful.”

Opened by Bob Angell and Peter O’Neill The success of the Sandpiper restaurants in 1971, the Sandpiper chain was founded in Boise and expanded to five restaurants in Ida- also attracted copycats and emulators. Eaton ho and Oregon. The growth occurred during remembered how people “would come in and

The people who powered the Sandpiper Circuit.

sit in front of the bar, writing notes down like, ‘Oh, they have this kind of a wine selection and this is how they look.’” He added that Boise’s Sandpiper became “a launching pad for every other venue around here.”

Pengilly’s and Tom Grainey’s, for example, started hiring musicians who played the Circuit.

“What Pengilly’s did was they doubled the money,” Ostling recalled. “Which is great for the musicians, but… when you have Bob Angell and Pete O’Neill looking over your shoulder at the numbers, it has to work.”

In Eaton’s view, the ISA—which encourages its audiences to maintain a respectful silence during performances—inherited something of the Sandpiper Circuit’s spirit as well.

“We’re not paying our musicians [to perform at the monthly Songwriters Forums] because we can’t,” he said, “but they’re all so willing to come down because they just love a venue like what we used to have here—to come, plug their guitar in and sing.”

According to Rich O’Hara, ISA’s head of artists and repertoire, plans are already in place for future reunions. The idea with this first set of shows is to “make this as joyful an event as possible so that people who are reluctant [to attend] for one reason or another [will hear], ‘Hey, we had a hell of a time in Boise. Don’t miss the next one.’”

The ISA has big plans for the future.

O’Hara said that the organization recently applied for 501(c)(3) status in the hopes of winning grant funds later on. The ISA also met with the Idaho Historical Society to discuss starting an archive of original Idaho songs.

In the meantime, Eaton looks forward to honoring the Sandpiper Circuit.

“People just don’t really know the impact [or that] the Sandpiper was not just a great restaurant,” he said. “It was more than that.

There’s so many musicians that are even here now as a result of this huge launching pad.”

“But also, it was a kickass good time,” Ostling added.

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THURSDAY NOV. 21

The Audacity BRET MOSLEY—9 p.m. TBA. Visual Arts Collective CASSIE LEWIS—With Pat Hull.

8 p.m. $5. The Crux DOUGLAS CAMERON—5 p.m.

FREE. Bar 365 FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

After more than 13 years and nearly as many EPs and LPs, there is still demand for Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s brand of song—and not only in this country: the Missouri-based pop-rock band was named a U.S. State Department cultural ambassador and has visited, as the band calls it, “mother Russia.” SSLYBY is back in the states and touring behind new album Fly By Wire (September 2013, Polyvinyl Records), a 26-track collection of B-sides and rarities, and the band’s first release since Tape Club (2011, Polyvinyl Records).

Paste Magazine calls “Loretta” a “golden track,” while “Bright Leaves” is “sensitive and heartbreaking.”

—Amy Atkins With Army Navy and JRS, 7:30 p.m., $8 adv., $10 door.

Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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SOULPATCH—9 p.m. FREE. Ice Bouquet SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

FRIDAY NOV. 22

Grand Falconer

BILL COURTIAL AND CURT GONION—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

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

CARTER FREEMAN—6 p.m.

FREE. Artistblue Gallery

BRETT DENNEN—With Grizfolk.

7:30 p.m. $20. Egyptian THE CASUALTIES—With MDC, Negative Approach and Pull Out Quick. $18. Shredder

TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA—7:30 p.m. $31-$61. Taco Bell Arena

SANDPIPER CIRCUIT REUNION TOUR—With Pug Ostling, Steve Eaton and more. See Noise, Page 20. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15.

Sapphire Room

BILL CALLAHAN—With Judson Claiborne and With Child. 8 p.m. $12. Neurolux

THE AUDACITY—With Hunters.

7 p.m. $5. The Crux

SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN, NOV. 21, NEUROLUX

SOMEONE STILL LOVES YOU BORIS YELTSIN—With Army Navy and JRS. 7:30 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

CHICKEN DINNER ROAD—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Frim Fram Four

DEE HISEL—7 p.m. FREE. Orphan Annie’s

SPAN BENEFIT CONCERT—With Grand Falconer, A Sea of Glass and Spencer Rule. 8 p.m. FREE. The Crux STELLAR TIDE—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLYGOATS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JT AND SMOOTH AVENUE BAND—6 p.m. FREE. Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine

THE LIKE ITS—9 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek Grill

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

OPHELIA—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

SATURDAY NOV. 23

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

POLAR BEAR CLUB—With Citizen, Diamond Youth and Sainthood Reps. 6 p.m. $12.

Shredder

RELIENT K—With Motion City Soundtrack and Driver Friendly. 7 p.m. $19-$40. Knitting Factory

ACORN PROJECT—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s

ROSA DOS VENTOS—10 p.m. $5. Reef

DOUG CAMERON—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

STAR ANNA—With Fort Harrison and Ryan Gratton. 7 p.m. $5.

Neurolux

LJM JAZZ—6:30 p.m. FREE. Angell’s Renato

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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE GUIDE ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill HILLFOLK NOIR—With Sean Hatton and Todd Sloan. 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s In This Moment

SUNDAY NOV. 24

TUESDAY NOV. 26

COMA REGALIA—8 p.m. $5.

The Crux

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

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s MEAT PUPPETS—With Revolt Revolt. 7:30 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux RIVERSIDE JAZZ JAM—6 p.m.

FREE. Sandbar

EMILY TIPTON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s LJM JAZZ—6:30 p.m. FREE. Angell’s Renato Dedicated Servers

IN THIS MOMENT—With Motionless in White, Kyng and All Hail The Yeti. $25-$40. 6 p.m. Knitting Factory JOHN MARTINEZ AND ESSENTIAL ROOTS—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue MINDSHOES—With Taduz Lemke and Sister Wounds. 9 p.m. FREE. Frontier Club PIRANHAS BC—7 p.m. With The Useless and Social Antidote. $3. Neurolux SANDPIPER CIRCUIT REUNION TOUR—With Pinto Bennett, Jack Gish and more. See Noise, Page 20. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Sapphire Room

WEDNESDAY NOV. 27 ALL THAT REMAINS—With Soil.

7:30 p.m. $20-$35. Knitting Factory BLACK JOE LEWIS—With Radkeyv and Think No Think.

See Listen Here, this page. 7:30 p.m. $12. Neurolux BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Reef DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

MONDAY NOV. 25

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLYGOATS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

DAN COSTELLO—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 MASKED INTRUDER—With Stepbrothers. 8 p.m. $8. Shredder SWEARIN’—With Merkin. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux YARDSSS—With Southerly and Revolt Revolt. 7 p.m. FREE. The Crux

RADIO BOISE PRESENTS MARSHALL POOLE AND DEDICATED SERVERS—Joint album release party. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill XANDRA BONAR—5:30 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s

MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER— The No. 1 Christmas artist in music history comes to Boise.

7:30 p.m. $47-$76. Morrison Center OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears

BLACK JOE LEWIS, NOV. 27, NEUROLUX Sight unseen, it would be easy to mistake Black Joe Lewis for one of James Brown’s contemporaries—not only because Brown is obviously an influence but because Lewis sounds like he’s been slinging his style of blues, funk and rock for years.

He hasn’t. Relative newbies to the industry, Lewis and his band (formerly The Honeybears) have a youthful energy that comes from being young, certainly, but also from being able to seamlessly meld classic and contemporary sounds. The band’s latest release, Electric Slave (Vagrant Records, Aug. 2013), foreshadows a faraway future in which people are still listening to Black Joe Lewis and still talking about his ability to sound familiar and fresh.

—Amy Atkins

SOL SEED—10 p.m. $5. Reef

V E N U E S

ZAC BROWN BAND—6 p.m., With Trombone Shorty. $50-$70.

Taco Bell Arena

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POWER TO HEAL Matthew McConaughey’s best performance to date GEORGE PRENTICE Obamacare has nothing on the Dallas Buyers Club. In defiance of a 1980s health care system that was kicking many of the nation’s most vulnerable citizens to the curb, the Dallas Buyers Club tangled with no less than the Food and Drug Administration, Drug Enforcement Agency, FBI and IRS. And decades before the Affordable Care Act, Ron Woodroof—the reddest red-necked son of a bitch you may ever encounter—was providing affordable care through a Dallas-based marketplace, offering Matthew McConaughey turns in the performance of his career as HIV-infected Ron Woodroof, who ran unapproved HIV/AIDS meds. roughshod over federal authorities in the 1980s to provide low-cost HIV/AIDS medicine to fellow sufferers.

In a startling transformation (ultimately shedding 50 pounds for the role), Matthew “I have to say that Matthew is doing some- tried to block the import of drugs from specific McConaughey delivers his best performance to countries, Woodroof would travel elsewhere to thing spectacular here,” said Jared Leto, who date as Woodroof, a shit-kicking homophobe is pretty spectacular himself in his portrayal of smuggle in new alternatives. By 1991, the Chiwho survived seven years beyond an HIV cago Tribune reported that there were more transsexual Rayon, Woodroof’s unlikely ally. diagnosis that gave him 30 days to live. than a dozen similar “clubs” operating out of In one pivotal hospital scene of Dallas Buy- “Matthew is doing some amazing work lately small offices or storefronts, serving thousands ers Club, we see McConaughey’s Woodroof at and I wanted to be a part of that.” of individuals across the U.S. Jennifer Garner, who plays immunologist 135 pounds—which drew gasps from a world And therein lies the audacity of Dallas Dr. Eve Saks, said filming was “guerilla-style.” premiere audience at September’s Toronto Buyers Club, one of the year’s best films—that “We were making this penny-pecked, itsyInternational Film Festival. alongside a nation’s responsibility to feed its bitsy movie,” she said. “But the story had a “Dropping that weight was what was hungry and shelter its homeless is an equal big heart and that’s why this movie just feels needed. It was the truth of the role,” Mccalling to offer care to each other. so big.”

Conaughey told Boise Woodroof eventually died in 1992, but not Woodroof and Weekly in Toronto, before meeting screenwriter Craig Borten, who Rayon skirted U.S. adding that the producDALLAS BUYERS CLUB (R) said he kept the screenplay of Dallas Buyers government sanctions tion struggled with its Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee Club in his back pocket for nearly 20 years. by establishing a soown diet of limited Starring Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto, “What interested me was having this man called “buyers club,” funding and a lean Jennifer Garner who goes from being extremely bigoted … where HIV-positive shooting schedule. “We Opening at The Flicks, Friday, Nov. 22 evolving to learn what real friendship is. And people paid monthly shot 27 days in a row; those who accept him and support him are dues to access unapand when they said, HIV and AIDS patients, nearly all of whom are proved drugs; and as ‘It’s a wrap,’ I looked gay,” said Borten. “That was a story I needed the club continued to grow in the late ’80s, it up and finally caught my breath.” to help tell.” was subjected to frequent raids by the FDA, McConaughey, back to his usual chiseled And Woodroof’s story is great medicine.

DEA and IRS. But Woodroof countered with frame for the Toronto premiere, flashed his Here’s your prescription: Take two tickets and restraining orders while defiantly refilling the familiar grin as the audience greeted him and call us in the morning. club’s stockpile of meds. And when the FDA his castmates with a wave of ovations.

SCREEN/LISTINGS Special Screenings BIDDER 70 DOCUMENTARY—In 2008, Tim DeChristopher interrupted a Utah BLM land auction in an attempt to save thousands of acres from being developed for oil drilling. When it was revealed he did not have the money, he faced criminal charges despite the auction’s invalidation.

See Picks, Page 15. Wednesday, Nov. 20, 7 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Simplot Grand Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

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BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: ELF— Will Ferrell stars as an elf who leaves the North Pole in search of his father. Buy tickets online at boiseclassicmovies.com. Monday, Nov. 25, 7 p.m. $9 online, $11 door.

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

Opening DELIVERY MAN—David Wozniak discovers his donations to a fertility clinic over 20 years has made him the father of 533 children. Starring

Vince Vaughan. (PG-13) Opens Friday, Nov. 22. Edwards 9, 22.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE—Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark return home and travel through the districts on the Victor’s Tour and

discover an uprising bubbling beneath the surface while The Capitol is still in firm control. (PG-13) Opens Friday, Nov. 22. Edwards 9, 22.

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BOISE CYCLOCROSS CLINICS—Those new to cyclocross can learn the basics, and those needing to refine techniques can enjoy a refresher course during these weekly clinics. Open practice begins at 5:30 p.m., followed by a specific skill session which will explore a different concept each week.

Multi-lap training will begin at 6:45 p.m., in an attempt to integrate new knowledge in a race-like setting. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. FREE. Quarry View Park, 2150 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise.

BACKCOUNTRY PLANNING Skiing from year to year BEN WICKHAM The best place in the world to ski is in the backcountry, in the middle of nowhere, where you haven’t ridden a chairlift, are out by yourself with no ski patrol to help, and there are no signs pointing where to go.

Last winter, I had it dialed in. I knew exactly what time to leave the parking lot. I knew how long it would take to skin up to the ridgeline. I could hit it perfectly to give myself the last 10 minutes of sunlight while sitting on that ridge.

Although they say you’re not supposed to, I often ski by myself. One evening last winter, I was up on the ridgeline alone. It was the first clear night after a storm, and right as the sun nudged the horizon line, I skied. It was perfect snow. I felt like I was floating or flying—I’m not sure which— there’s nothing like it when it’s that good.

I effortlessly glided through an open tree glade on smooth snow that, in the evening light, glowed like an Orange Creamsicle.

Everything around me—the snow, the sky and a few puffy clouds—reflected the sunset, casting fiery light all around.

Back in town, I joined some co-workers for a drink, including Ordean, an ornery old ski patroller and longtime local. I bragged about my ski run as I slid onto the barstool. A few times before, when telling Ordean I was going alone, I’d get a look of concern from him, his voice sounding disapproving as he said, “Be careful.”

With a shot of whiskey in front of him, Ordean wasn’t taking it easy on me.

“Were you by yourself?” he asked.

I could tell Ordean wouldn’t be placated, so I decided to push it.

“No,” I said. “My dog was with me.”

“Did you dig a snow pit?”

I told him I did, and that there was a little wind loading, but I skied it anyway.

“Never trust a pit,” Ordean growled at me.

At that point, I knew we weren’t going to see eye to eye, and I understood where Ordean was coming from. When you’re alone, everything is more consequential. That’s why that night, I skied a low angle slope and stopped a couple of times to assess the terrain.

I’ll admit that none of this totally compensates for what a partner can add when traveling in the backcountry. And don’t get me wrong, I love skiing with people. The best days I’ve ever had were with my best friends. But when there’s only an hour of daylight left, or it snowed overnight and everyone else is at work, you’ve got to go skiing and you have to go alone.

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TURKEY SHOOT—Win a turkey for your Thanksgiving dinner. Teams consist of one adult and one child, who will each take 10 free-throw shots, and the team with the highest combined total in each age division takes home the turkey. Go 30 minutes early to practice. Advance registration is recommended but you may register on the day of the shoot. Saturday, Nov. 23, 10 a.m. $5-$7.

Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation.org.

Recurring ADULT CLIMBING LESSONS—The staff at the YMCA can help any level of climber learn safe ways to master the sport of climbing. The class is designed to allow families to learn a new hobby together. Participants must be age 14 or older.

New classes begin the first Tuesday of the month and run four consecutive Tuesdays. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. full-facility member $36; program member $72. YMCA, 1050 W. State St., Boise, 208-3445501, ymcaboise.org.

BOISE BIKE RIDE—Boise Bike Ride is a community bicycle ride for everyone of all ages. Wednesdays, 7 p.m. Hyde Park Books, 1507 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-429-8220, hydeparkbookstore.com.

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winter.

I contacted the National Weather Service office in Boise to get a forecast for the upcoming winter. As of right now, we are in a neutral situation between El Nino and La Nina, which means normal temperatures and normal precipitation (in general, an El Nino forecast means it’s warmer and drier in Idaho, whereas La Nina means colder and wetter).

The NWS folks stressed that in their years of forecasting, they have seen it go either way—either really dry or really wet . I was also shown a diagram from the Climate Prediction Center that predicts the drought situation willl persist for Boise and Bogus Basin through January 2014. The same diagram indicates that the Central Idaho mountains may be removed from the drought designation by then. While this is all complicated stuff, the NWS stressed the one true variable: A lot will depend on how the weather pattern sets up over the winter.

The other thing on my mind is this summer’s fires and how this might affect skiing.

Ketchum had a huge scare, while there were countless smoky days in Boise and McCall. Marty Rood of Payette Powder

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Guides said that when it comes to skiing, he’s “a fan of forest fires.” In the early ’90s, a fire opened up a lot of terrain on Lick Creek Summit, where PPG operates a rental yurt.

Here in Idaho, many of our forests grow densely. I remember skiing east of Ketchum in the Pioneer Mountains last February, and we could barely link more than four turns because of how close the trees were.

Fires sweep through a hillside, open things up, and make it more skiable when the snow flies. So in that sense, if you can find skiing in a freshly burned area, you’re psyched.

All this being said, I’m anticipating that it will snow at some point, and that I will find a perfect spot to ski. Maybe it will be in dense subalpine firs or on a freshly burned lodgepole pine slope. I’m sure I’ll find myself there as the sun fades, where it’s just far enough out that I feel like I’ve left everything behind.

I’ll end up on a high point, among the white barks where I can see endless ridgelines and the sky will be endlessly deepening blue while the sun sets. I’ll feel the rip of my skins from the bottom of my skis.

Then as my skis begin their glide over snow that’s untouched, maybe just fluffed by the breeze, I’ll think of Ordean.

Maybe one time I’ll invite Ordean and he’ll go out with me, and this time, he’ll understand it all. At which point, it will be my turn to buy him a shot of whiskey.

BOISE DART LEAGUE—Dart players of any caliber are welcome to sign up for the Boise Dart League. Players do not need to be on a team to participate. Sign up at 6 p.m. and start playing at 7 p.m. 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—Foosball players gather each Tuesday to play games, share information about the game and teach/learn new techniques. New players always welcome. Find more info on Facebook under the name Boise Foosball. Tuesdays, 7 p.m. FREE, For more information, call 208-8604990, boisefoosball.com. Dutch Goose, 3515 W. State St., Boise.

BOISE SOCCER LEAGUE—The co-ed soccer league is open to all levels. Player fees are $24 per season, plus $25 annual dues to U.S. Club Soccer. The team fees are $375 per season and include all referee fees. Games are played Mondays on Boise Parks and Recreation playing field with certified referees. For more information, call Dave at 208-284-9112 or Pat at 208-870-5975, or visit boisesoccerleague.com.

BOISE WOMEN’S RUGBY—The Boise Women’s Rugby Team is looking for more players to practice twice a week, no matter your size or shape. Visit sites.google.com/site/boisewomensrugby for more info. Mondays, Fridays, 6:30 p.m. Hillside Junior High School, 3536 Hill Road, Boise, 208854-5120.

CROSSTOBERFEST—Contact Billy Olson 208788-9184 for registration and event information.

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CYCLOCROSS TUESDAY NIGHT TRAINING RIDES—Ride with a group of cyclists for crosstraining workouts. Tuesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Camel’s Back Park, 1200 W. Heron St., Boise, idahocyclocross.com.

DROP-IN ADULT BASKETBALL—The gymnasium is open for drop-in use from 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.

Mondays-Fridays. $4 per visit. Fort Boise Community Center, 700 Robbins Road, Boise, 208-3844486, cityofboise.org/parks.

EARLY BIRD MEDITATION—Rise and shine during two meditation periods, a morning chant and Dharma tidbits, with walking in between.

Tuesdays, 7 a.m. FREE. Yoga for Wellness Studio, 1175 Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-484-1053, yogaforwellnesspro.com.

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WINESIPPER/DRINK SNAKE RIVER WINE REPUTATION RISING

2012 CINDER DRY VIOGNIER, $17.99 Winemaker Melanie Krause crafts this captivating wine using hand-picked grapes from Canyon County’s Sawtooth Vineyard.

The aromas are light, but elegant, marked by dusty peach, basil, clover and honeysuckle. Ripe peach and apricot flavors fill the mouth, finishing with a lush, lingering creaminess.

2010 SNAKE RIVER WINERY GSM, $17.99 Scott DeSeelhorst and his wife, Susan, bought their Arena Valley vineyard back in 1998, which makes them relative old-timers. The deep, dark fruit aromas of blackberry, raspberry and plum in this Rhone-style blend of grenache, syrah and mourvedre are backed by accents of game and lightly toasted oak. The flavors are silky smooth, filled with bright berry and tangy cherry.

Smooth tannins come through on the finish.

2010 VALE WINE COMPANY RESERVE RIESLING, $13.99 John Danielson crafts his wines in Caldwell at the University of Idaho Food Technology Center.

A drier-style take on the grape, this wine offers classic riesling aromas of honeyed stone fruit, citrus and gooseberry, with just a whiff of the variety’s characteristic diesel. Tangy peach, lemon and lime fill the mouth, balanced by just a hint of sweet spice.

This wine finishes crisp and clean.

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ROYAL BAKERY AND CAFE Unique Ukrainian treats in an unexpected location TARA MORGAN Huddled between a Macy’s and a vitamin shop in Nampa’s sprawling Gateway Center off I-84 on Garrity Boulevard, the Royal Bakery and Cafe is easy to overlook. The cafe boasts a few tidy tables, a sprinkling of mass-produced art and a chalkboard sign advertising an assortment of omelets, crepes and sandwiches.

Behind the counter, an espresso machine rattles The Royal Bakery and Cafe is a hidden trove of tasty European, Russian and Ukrainian fare. under a shelf overburdened with sugary syrups.

But move past these generic first impresquite as colorful, the flavors were equally red beans. Antonov later explained that the sions and you’ll find something—more acsimple and savory. Dense, well-seasoned beets had been blended into the broth, noting curately someone—rather unique. Galina Anmounds of chicken and onions were concealed that the recipe is “Ukrainian and Jewish.” tonov, a native of Ukraine, opened the Royal in a thin, handmade dough. Glazed in butter The beets were much easier Bakery and Cafe nearly four and vinegar, then dusted with black pepper and to spot on the plate of golupsi, years ago. Though the cafe’s dunked in the accompanying sour cream sauce, or cabbage rolls ($9.49). A menu makes a number of conROYAL BAKERY AND CAFE 1338 N. Galleria Drive, the pelmeni made a great shared plate. side of creamy egg salad was cessions to the American palNampa Perhaps the best item to share at Royal Bakcrowned with vibrant slivers ate—like the California chicken 208-468-0044 of beet and carrot, and a sprin- ery and Cafe is the sugar-flecked peach cookie sandwich with Thousand Island ($1.99). Two walnut shortbread cookies are kling of fresh parsley. Though dressing ($8.49)—it also offers sealed together with a creamy caramel core it’s hard to dress up wet a handful of European, Russian and look just like a peach. A simple pull-twist cabbage, Royal Cafe’s rolls were pleasing to and Ukrainian specialties. yields two lovely, lightly sweet confections. look at and to eat, packed with a moist blend The borscht ($3.99), with its flavorful Antonov explained that she’s contemplating of ground beef, chicken, carrots and rice, and broth and light vinegar bite, won’t stain your closing up shop in January to focus on catering bathed in a tomato-y sweet and sour sauce. lips with its ruby hue. In fact, I couldn’t find a While an order of pelmeni ($8.99)—doughy and improving her English. Looks like I’ve got single beet lurking under a sea of red cabbage, a few more trips to 2C in my future. white dumplings the size of a truffle—weren’t potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and, interestingly,

FOOD/NEWS 201 N. Orchard St. and built the shop from the ground up.

Three giant, remote control airplanes hang from the small cafe’s We’ve heard rumors about it for months, but now it’s official: The ceiling—all hand-crafted by Stutzman’s father-in-law—and the espresso B29 Streatery food truck is on the market. An offshoot of Dustan counter serves a selection of signature roasts from Idaho Roasting Bristol’s popular Nampa eatery Brick 29 Bistro, the Streatery was a Company. Snacks include quiche and coffeecake from Dhondalicious, pioneer in Boise’s food truck renaissance. On Craigslist, B29 is seeking and croissants and pinwheels from Rolling in Dough. The cafe boasts $95,000 for the “baddest truck around,” a 2003 Freightliner MT-45.

WiFi and a meeting nook. For more info, call 208-995-2913.

The listing reads: “Consulting with purchase of truck. Possible purMoving from planes to bicycles, Crooked Fence chase of brand. Locations to park truck included as well.”

Brewing is hosting a Winter Brews Cruise Bristol’s new gourmet grab-and-go Sunday, Nov. 24. The “rain, snow or shine” concept, On the Fly, will open on the ride starts at 10 a.m. at the Crooked second story of the Eighth and Fence Barrelhouse, at 5181 Glenwood St. Main Tower. in Garden City, and continues to Burger In other opening news, the and Brew, The Lift, Dutch Goose, R WinCo complex between Front Bar, Bier Thirty: Bottle and Bistro, and Myrtle streets is getting Lucky 13 and Ben’s Crow Inn. a new tenant. A banner in the Raffle prizes include wearable CF window of a former flower shop swag, a $25 CF Gift Certificate, proclaims that Java Culture two free growler fill cards and two Coffee Co. is coming soon. More pint glasses. The ride is free, but info: javaculturecoffeeco.com. brews cruisers must be 21 or In more coffeeshop opening older to participate. For more info, news, Aero Caffe is now open visit facebook.com/crookedfenceat Orchard and Bethel streets. barrelhouse.

Owner Weldon Stutzman leveled —Tara Morgan The “baddest truck around,” B29 Streatery’s food truck is on the market. the formerly vacant building at

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79 George Burns 83 Genus of small rodents 86 Items sometimes sniffed at a supermarket 87 Highlights 88 Mille ___ (part of Québec with a rhyming name) 90 Fill 91 Other side 92 Volleyball venue 96 Hair extensions?

98 Something you want to come down from quickly 102 Dry: Prefix 103 Home of Banff National Park 104 Animal house 105 2004 Chevy debut 107 “___ can’t” 108 Beefeaters, e.g.

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112 Record of the Year Grammy nominee for “Lose Yourself” 113 Primary pigment for printers 114 Rays’ div.

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DOWN 1 Downhill run 2 Massenet opera based on Greek myth 3 Bears’ home in Texas 4 2005 Drama Pulitzer finalist Will 5 Costner role 6 Like the origin of the food in many fusion restaurants 7 Pulled apart 8 Compass dir.

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33 Keyes and King 34 Mosey along 36 “Beowulf” quaff 38 Jesse and Leo of TV sitcoms 41 Poky sorts 42 Order to go?

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49 S. ___ Merkerson, fourtime N.A.A.C.P. Image Award-winning actress 50 Oscar-winning Forest Whitaker role 51 Judo gyms 56 Ancient Mexican 57 Base 58 Company that owns Gerber 60 Layered coifs 62 Groups of strings, maybe 63 Sword fight sounds 65 Letter-shaped bridge support 66 Mr. Right 67 Dominant 68 Church group 74 Black Hills native 75 Sweetie 76 Lace’s end 77 Vittles 80 Possible answer to “Is that you?”

81 Apple product 82 Extreme point 83 Sights not to be believed 84 Poem that ends, “This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir”

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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.

The name will change to Kaden Travon Tucker. The reason for the change in name is: I have undergone the necessary medical procedures to change gender from

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A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) Dec 03 2013 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date SET 30 2013 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Oct. 30, Nov. 6, 13 & 20, 2013.

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. The name will change to Ashlyn Brwk Conrad. The reason for the change in name is personal.

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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: Amy Marie Oliveira Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1318960 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Amy Marie Oliveira, 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: Kassandra Ann Corrigan Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1316816 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Kassandra Ann Corrigan, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Temperence Rosalind Ann Earl. The reason for the change in name is: The name I should have, as I feel it fits me.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The poet Charles Baudelaire prayed for help, but not to God—rather he prayed to the writer Edgar Allan Poe. Novelist Malcolm Lowry sometimes pleaded with God to give him insight, but he also prayed to the writer Franz Kafka. I really like this approach to seeking guidance, and recommend it to you in the coming days. Which hero, dead or alive, could you call on to uplift you? What amazing character might bring you the inspiration you need? Be brazen and imaginative. The spirits could be of more help than you can imagine. Magic is afoot.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Confederate Gen. Richard S. Ewell (1817-1872) sometimes experienced episodes in which he truly thought he was a bird.

Princess Alexandria of Bavaria (1826-1875) believed that when she was young, she had eaten a glass piano. Then there was the Prussian military officer Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher (17421819), who imagined he was pregnant with an elephant. Sad and funny and crazy, right? And yet it’s my understanding that all of us have fixed delusions. They are less bizarre than those I cited, but they can still be debilitating. What are yours, Taurus? Do you secretly believe that a certain turning point in your past scarred you forever?

Are you incorrectly wracked with anger or guilt because of some event that may not have actually happened the way you remember it? Here’s the good news: Now is an excellent time to shed your fixed delusions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Philosopher Eckhart Tolle suggests that “there may be one person who reflects your love back to you more clearly and more intensely than others.” For some of us, this numinous reflection comes from a special animal. Whatever is the case for you, Gemini, I urge you to devote extra time to your relationship with this creature in the next 14 days. Meditate on how you could provide more nurturing and inspiration. Brainstorm about the possibility of deepening your connection. What practical actions could you take to boost your loved one’s fortunes?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The Cancerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad was regarded as one of the great operatic singers of the 20th century. Critic Desmond Shawe-Taylor said that “No one within living memory surpassed her in sheer beauty and consistency of line and tone.” She specialized in the operas of German composer Richard Wagner, whose masterwork, The Ring of the Nibelung, takes 15 hours to perform. Flagstad was asked to name the single most important thing she needed in order to perform Wagner’s music with the excel-

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lence it demanded. Her answer: comfortable shoes. Regard that as good advice for your own life and work, Cancerian—both literally and metaphorically. It’s time to get really well-grounded.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever been in a social situation where you really didn’t care what anyone thought of you and therefore felt absolutely free to act on your inner promptings? When was the last time you lost all your inhibitions and self-consciousness while making love? Can you truly say that sometime recently you have been totally responsive to your festive impulses? If you have experienced any blockages in expressing this type of energy, now is a perfect moment to fix that. You have a date with robust, innocent self-expression.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Norwegian public television is experimenting with a phenomenon called Slow TV. In one reality show, the main character built a fire with logs and kept it burning for 12 hours. In another program, patient viewers watched for five days as a cruise ship made its way along the Norwegian coast. A third show featured a woman knitting a sweater from start to finish.

I wish you would get hooked on slow-motion activities like those, Virgo. Maybe it would help you lower your thoughts-per-minute rate and influence you to take longer, deeper breaths and remember that relaxation is an art you can cultivate. And then you would be in righteous alignment with the cosmic rhythms.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You’re smarter than you think you are, and soon you will be even smarter. Previously inaccessible wisdom is seeping up from the depths of your subconscious mind, making its way to your conscious awareness. Your eyes are noticing more than they usually do. Your memory is working at peak levels. And your enhanced ability to entertain paradoxical ideas is giving you special insight into the nature of reality.

What will you do with this influx of higher intelligence? I suggest you focus its full force on one of your knottiest problems.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The Paris Review interviewed Mexican poet Octavio Paz. “Just how much revising do you do?” the interviewer asked. “I revise incessantly,” Paz replied. “Some critics say too much, and they may be right. But if there’s a danger in revising, there is much more danger in not revising. I believe in inspiration, but I also believe that we’ve got to help inspiration, restrain it, and even contradict it.” I bring this up, Scorpio, because I believe you are ripe for a phase of intense revision. Inspiration has visited you a lot lately, but now it will subside for a while so you can wrangle all

your raw material into graceful, resilient, enduring shapes.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Costa Rica will be closing its zoos in 2014. What will happen to the 400 or so animals that are housed there? They will have to be rehabilitated at animal rescue centers and then released into the wild. I suspect there will be a metaphorically similar process going on for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Parts of your instinctual nature will, in a sense, be freed from captivity. You will need to find ways to retrain your animal intelligence how to function outside of the tame conditions it got used to.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Will fate kick your sweet ass sometime soon? Quite possibly.

You may be compelled to face up to the consequences of your unloving actions or unconscious decisions. I’m pleased to tell you, however, that you might be able to dramatically minimize or even neutralize the butt-thumping.

How? Go over the events of the last 11 months, and identify times when you weren’t your very best self or didn’t live up to your highest ideals. Then perform rituals of atonement. Express your desire to correct wrong turns. Give gifts that will heal damaged dynamics.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Bill Withers became a big star in the 1970s with hits like “Ain’t No Sunshine” and “Lean on Me.” But he hasn’t recorded a new album since 1985, nor has he toured.

What happened? In Still Bill, the documentary film about his life, Withers says, “I watch other people show off and I say, man, I used to want to show off. If I could just get, you know, moved to. I need a little injection in my showin’ off gland.” I wish you could get an injection like that, too, Aquarius. I’d like to see you show off more. Not in a contrived, over-the-top, Lady Gaga-esque way. Rather, the purpose would be to get more aggressive in showing people who you are and what you can do. I want your talents and assets to be better known.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I have a feeling that your value will be rising in the coming weeks. An attractive person you thought was out of your league may express curiosity about you. You could get an offer to do an interesting job or task that you had previously considered unavailable. I bet your reputation will be growing, mostly for the better. Who knows? If you put a half-eaten piece of your toast for sale on eBay, it might sell for as much as if it were Justin Timberlake’s toast. Here’s the upshot: You should have confidence in your power to attract bigger rewards and more appreciation.

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