Boise Weekly Vol. 22 Issue 25

LOCAL, INDEPENDENT NEWS, OPINION, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BOISEWEEKLY.COM VOLUME 22, ISSUE 25 DECEMBER 11–17, 2013

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TAK EE E ON E! FEATURE 11

RULE OF THREE Take a tour of BAM’s Triennial exhibit

NEWS 8

REROUTE Mega-loads start rolling through Southern Idaho

NOISE 22

THINK GLOBAL Afrosonics weave a worldwide web with music

SCREEN 25

NEBRASKA Flawed, frayed and ultimately decent folk

“We are not asking for favors. We are asking for justice.”

NEWS 9

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THIS NEWSPAPER EDITOR WROTE AN EDITORIAL, AND NOW YOU’RE READING IT Every once in a while, we have groups of kids come through the office for a tour. We enjoy hosting them, but there’s always a moment before they arrive when I wonder, “What am I going to show them? The number of stain rings in my coffee cup?”

True, newsrooms aren’t the cacophonous beehives they were 15 or so years ago, when I was a “copyboy” at a North Idaho daily. Noisy police scanners were our Twitter, we still used phone books and press releases were faxed, not emailed. If something needed covering, more often than not, we had to actually drive somewhere and cover it. If we needed to know some basic biographical information about a source, we had to call them, rather than search Facebook. The Web has conquered all.

It was jokingly suggested I tell visiting kids to remember their tours well, because by the time they’re old enough to care, there won’t be any newspapers (or newsrooms) anymore. That’s going a little far down the fatalism hole—an excess to which our tribe is very prone—but it’s obvious that the “news” of the 21st century is vastly different than it was even at the end of the 20th.

The Atlantic magazine put a finer point on the state of journalism in the Digital Age with a fascinating piece on the rise of Upworthy-style headlines—you know, those emotive, adjectiveheavy links that seem to have sprung up across the mediaverse: “Watch a Man Who Saved 669 Children From Death Camps Get a Tearful Surprise on TV”; “Why Does Sarah Silverman Say Vaginas Really Really Scare People?”

It’s called “clickbait” and it works. According to The Atlantic, Upworthy announced that it had pulled 87 million unique visitors—in November. Far more than The New York Times enjoys.

But, while clickbait is good at, well, baiting people into clicking, it’s not very good at being informative, or even meaningful most of the time. “These Stephen King Connections Will Blow Your Mind.” Really? I have my doubts. Will I click to find out?

Sure. And with that, I have helped further enrich some Silicon Valley tech giant and—for a brief moment—been gratified to know that Stephen King sets pretty much all of his stories in Castle Rock, Maine. Mind. Blown.

What this bodes for the media consumption of the kids who tour BWHQ is up for debate. What’s clear is that master clickbaiters Facebook, Twitter, Buzzfeed and Upworthy are poised— in name if not in deed—to dominate the media landscape for at least the first half of this century. If I’m wrong, look for my mea culpa in an e-memoir, to be published in 240-character increments sometime in 2050: These Awful Predictions Will Make Your Head Explode.

—Zach Hagadone

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

MISPLACED The Idaho Education Association fired a shot across the state Legislature’s bow, claiming it has “misplaced” priorities for education. Read more on Citydesk.

IKID LIT A new 20-page publication written by local elementary-school kids and illustrated by high-schoolers has been unveiled. Check it out on Cobweb.

GOING UP A local tech company is partnering with construction firm Gardner Company on a new downtown Boise building. Get the details on Citydesk.

OPINION

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MAIL SKIS, NOT SLOTS Were it not for Ada County commissioners’ obstructionism, Gateway Park would have opened Nov. 23 and thousands of kids and families would [have been] tubing, skiing and snowboarding over the weeklong Thanksgiving break from school. Weather conditions have been perfect for snowmaking so the snow park would have had jumps, rails, a mini-halfpipe and tubing hill ready for family fun.

County Commissioners Dave Case, Rick Yzaguirre and Jim Tibbs continue to block the park, saying they don’t want a business that charges money on county land. But hey, good luck with the 200 gambling machines they approved for the Ada County Fairgrounds (before any opportunity for public comment and against the wishes of the Garden City mayor and City Council).

Maybe the ski kids should have spent their allowance on campaign contributions.

All three commissioners accepted money from progambling entities in their last campaigns.

—Sam Sandmire Boise

THE CORE’S A BORE? The Boise City Council is considering proposals to alter downtown between 2014-2019, spurring some back and forth online about just how downtown can be “improved” (boiseweekly. com, Citydesk, “Boise City Council Asked to Affirm ‘Ambitious and Unprecedented’ Plan for Downtown Core,” Dec. 1, 2013).

Now here’s some cuttingedge, titillating ideas. “‘Walkability’ guru Jeff Speck suggested that downtown Boise include more pedestrian-friendly thoroughfares.”

Walkability has a nice ring to it, but here’s the catch: There needs to be a reason that someone would want to bother to walk in the “Downtown Bore.”

Right now there’s very little to draw anyone there, much less get them to walk around.

“Institute a ‘universal’ 25-mph speed limit in the downtown core, and re-synchronize all one-way signals to that speed.”

If anything, this will only serve to make the current “Downtown Core” more of a ghost town than it is now, by forcing drivers to cruise slowly through the “Bore.”

“Create a city program to officially assign underutilized structured parking spaces, both public and private, to the development of new housing downtown.”

Multi-use and increased urban density have had some scattered success around the country. Again, where this has had the most success is in cities already having some life in their “Core.”

This “ambitious and unprecedented attempt to coordinate various projects,” sounds a lot like just rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

The “planners” should direct their attention on how to create some life in the “Bore” and hold off from wasting more tax revenue on various configuration strategies.

—watcher If the City Council can agree to this, and downtown Boise can actually accomplish those goals I really think it would lay the foundation for downtown to flourish.

I love the ambition of it, and I love that they’re putting their foot down and saying, “Hey, we can do something great here, let’s get together and do it.” We really have something special in downtown, but there are silly and unnecessary problems holding us back. This is just from my experience: On a lot of roads the cars feel unnecessarily fast making some roads more “hostile” to walk on than others. The one-ways only encourage more speeding and more jaywalking because people think, “Hey

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I only have to look one direction to cross.”

Watcher: For what it’s worth, from my experience with visitors from all over the country, their opinions of downtown are almost universally contrary to yours. This is because downtown has an arena, museums, libraries, performing arts venues, a floatable river, a great nightlife scene, Julia Davis Park, Ann Morrison Park and a major university among many other things within a very close distance.

—Anthony Harding

WAGE WARRIORS Demonstrators gathered out front of a Boise McDonald’s on Dec. 5 to advocate for an increased minimum wage (boiseweekly.com, Citydesk, “Fighting For a Higher Minimum Wage in Idaho,” Dec. 5, 2013). Here’s what some online commenters had to say about that: Low minimum wages are necessary! They are good for young people (primarily teens) to begin to work, and are useful in enticing people to gain additional skills/education in order to move on to better paying jobs. If these people were worth more money, they would be earning more money. But their jobs require little skill and there are plenty of people that can do it.

I’m not a fan of the current state of income inequality, but this is not the way to fix it. This is a social problem that cannot be fixed by legislating higher incomes.

—NMarriott History has shown that no minimum wage increase has ever raised unemployment.

Despite increases in inflation, the minimum wage has not increased since 2010.

Companies are making record profits while employee wages stagnate. We’re not just talking about fast food workers, this also includes bank employees and employees working for companies making billions per year. Our government pays over $7 billion in benefits to minimum wage workers who cannot afford to put food on the table and provide health care for their children. Let the customers of those companies pay the full cost of the employees of the businesses they patronize.

—CeCe

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OPINION/BILL COPE

HYPOCRITIC OAFS Who’s Idaho’s current Secretary of Sanctimony?

I expect some degree of hypocrisy from people. All people. I don’t demand that the ardent pro-lifer must also be against the death penalty and killing spiders, or that the ardent environmentalist must wear grass shoes and walk wherever he goes. The world today is far too complicated for a mere mortal to live in it with manners 100-percent consistent, and hypocrisy comes as naturally to modern humans as STDs and obesity.

To not act hypocritically in certain situations could actually be immoral. No decent parent, for instance, could possibly allow his children to dive head-first into risky behavior he himself had long grown out of.

Yes, in time, the little darling may try a joint or two, and there may be nothing Mom and Pop can do to stop it from happening when that time comes. But this doesn’t mean Mom and Pop offer a doobie to their seventh-grader with the excuse, Heck, I did it when I was a kid, and he’ll probably do it sooner or later anyway.

As I expect that people will say one thing and do another, all I ask is that they in some way acknowledge their duplicity—to give some indication they are self-aware enough and honest enough to recognize their own hypocrisy. But even given the fact that we all wink our way through the daily give-andtake with our fellow hypocrites, there has to be an upper limit, right? Some line beyond which we must not step. Some overdose which we must refuse to snort.

This saturation level is different for everyone, that much is clear. But occasionally, the hypocrisy reaches such an extreme that everyone can agree how over the top it is.

Such is the case of Greg Collett, the Caldwell wannabe who, as is typical of Canyon County politicos, has built his reputation on the insistence that any helping hand from our own government, no matter how outwardly benevolent, is crawling with the inherently evil, soul-eating germs of socialism.

What sets Mr. Collett apart from the general run-of-the-mill 2C clown is that, after two unsuccessful runs at the state Legislature in which he rang the alarm that even his primary opponents were hiding big-government hearts under small-government skins, it was disclosed he had signed his children up for Medicaid. And Collett has plenty of children. Ten, at last count. This revelation was received with as much scorn by his brethren on the right as it was by liberals.

But listen; to Collett’s credit, he has acknowledged his hypocrisy. In one of the dimmer-witted defenses I have ever come across, this Caldwell dimwit argues that he is also against federal forests and national parks, but as the good father he is, he can’t allow that to stop him from taking his kids camping, can he?

I wouldn’t be at all surprised should Mr. Collett try another run at the Legislature.

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And who knows, Idahoans—Canyon County Idahoans in particular—have put dimmer wits in office. And were he to eventually win, he will then belong to that august body of government haters who run term after term to be part of the government—with all the perks, prestige and pensions that involves.

Which brings me to the real focus of this column, and it’s not Greg Collett. Remember, not only did Collett own up to his astonishing hypocrisy—and I thought he did it with as much honesty as his dim little wits could muster—but in insuring his kids under Medicaid, he did the responsible thing—the moral thing—no matter what moronic slop was spilling from his mouth as he was doing it.

No, the real subject of this column is the ex-speaker of Idaho’s House and jerk extraordinaire, Lawerence Denney. As you know, Denney’s reign in our Legislature has been remarkable not for anything he accomplished, but for the unabashed favoritism, self-promotion and bullying that seem to be the only political talents this man possesses.

He will be remembered for sticking up for the corrupt and slapping down the ethical. After 20 years of crowing about his anti-government credentials, as speaker he demonstrated that his real operating philosophy is that some government officials—notably, Lawerence Denney—can do any goddam thing they feel like goddam doing, even if it means encouraging criminals (Phil Hart) and squelching attempts to make state government more accountable. Eventually, the Denney stench began to gag even his fellow Republicans.

Last year, the majority House caucus booted him out of his speakership.

But as Idaho politics has proved again and again, you can’t keep a bad man down.

Denney has announced he intends to run for secretary of state, the only high state office that hasn’t been thoroughly diseased by the kind of hyper-ideology that defines so much of Idaho’s politics. (And a bow to Pete Cenerussa and Ben Ysursa for a combined 46 years of dignity and reasonableness, qualities that are conspicuously absent in other state offices.)

And what do we suppose would compel such a fevered anti-statist to grasp at another state job? Is it a renewed commitment to spit on the helping hand of government from within? To ensure that some “RINO” will not get the position and loll out the rest of his career under the Capitol dome?

Or might it be—as some are suggesting— to jack his $16,438 legislative stipend up to the healthy $93,000-plus a secretary of state gets, and to inflate his post-career pension from $6,000 a year to more than $43,000— all of which would put Denney in the top tier of government teat suckers?

C’mon, Lawerence. Try to be honest, just this once. If Greg Collett can do it, so can you.

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JOHN REMBER/OPINION

CLEANING OUT THE FILES Memories are not made of this

Years ago, Julie and I sold the larger of the two houses we owned and moved into the smaller. We went from 3,000 square feet of space to less than a thousand. We had a potlatch of sorts, giving away bulky items and anything we hadn’t used for several years.

Even so, we ended up with way too many material possessions.

We’ve adopted rules that have slowly made things better: If you buy something, you have to get rid of two similar somethings.

Recycle obsolete electronics ASAP. Anything not used for a year is subject to unsentimental storage-benefit analysis.

Don’t buy anything you don’t need. Ever.

A corollary to this rule is not to confuse what you want with what you need, as per Bob Dylan’s remarks on debutantes.

We haven’t obeyed these rules as well as we should have, but economist friends have pointed out that if every consumer were to do what we’ve been doing, civilization would collapse in six months. We’ve replied that by middle age, you don’t own stuff, stuff owns you, and we don’t want to be owned.

Emerson said it better: “Things are in the saddle, and ride mankind.”

Lately I’ve been looking at old computer files—fiction, essays, killed articles, limericks, incomplete novels—and have realized that cyber-stuff can possess you as completely as the more tangible crap compacting in your bedroom closet.

Last month, before sending an old Power Mac off to the recyclers, I removed its hard drive, smashed it with a hammer, and tossed it onto my landscaping slash pile. It will be torched some snowy morning in January. I’ll try not to breathe the fumes.

Trust me when I say that what I’m doing isn’t anything like burning the Library at Alexandria. I’m getting rid of knowledge, but it’s mostly the knowledge that it took me near forever to learn to write. After decades of teaching writing, I know false starts and pitfalls when I see them, and when I go through my files, there are lots of both.

There are moments of excruciating naivete, moments of cloying self-indulgence, moments when my author’s persona spills wetly onto the page, pleased with itself only because it is itself, which in retrospect isn’t anything to be pleased about.

Most of the good work I did in my early career got published. What didn’t get published didn’t get published for a reason. I’ve been deleting right and left, sometimes saving a paragraph because it contains an idea possibly of value to someone else. A characteristic separating my published material from the stuff I’ve been deleting is that I had an audience in mind for the former. I had myself in mind for the latter.

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writing is conceived as a gift. It’s not always received as a gift—think Little Drummer Boy Ensemble Album—but even reluctant recipients will say it’s the thought that counts.

A story: When I was growing up in Sawtooth Valley, my parents were good friends with an older couple, Bob and Cotzi Young, who owned the Triple H ranch west of Stanley.

Cotzi was the former Catherine Huntington, of the railroad Huntingtons, who had bought the Triple H about the time another railroad family was buying up Island Park and Jackson Hole and Sun Valley.

Cotzi had visited the Triple H as a highsociety debutante and a Radcliffe student.

There, she fell in love with Bob Young, a poor Idaho boy and one of the ranch’s hired hands. When her family discovered the romance, they packed her off to Boston and married her to a Harvard man—a suitable fit for her station in life. The marriage was a big, expensive, formal affair, designed to be irreversible.

Cotzi didn’t take to forced marriage. She filed for divorce within a year. Once free, she returned to Idaho and eloped with her cowboy. I don’t know the details of her subsequent negotiations with her family, but they included the Triple H and a lifetime annuity and, from the looks of it, total estrangement.

For the next 40 years, Bob and Cotzi lived year-round at the Triple H. They never had children. They leased their pastures to local cattlemen and rode and hiked the Sawtooths, only selling the place when Cotzi’s heart failure forced them to a lower altitude. Before that, while I was still in grade school, I had begun working for them, helping Bob around the ranch cabins, fixing fences, mowing lawns and irrigating. One day, while we were digging a post-hole, Bob told me that Cotzi had been a poet. She had written a 200-page epic poem her senior year at Radcliffe.

“I came in one day and found her in front of the fireplace,” he said. “She was reading each page and then burning it. Tears on her face. She told me to go away, so I did. It broke my heart to watch her.” He paused. “There have been things I can’t help her with.”

It was an odd and adult thing to tell to a 13-year-old boy, but I did get a picture of a woman who had sacrificed a life and a family to be with the man she loved. Maybe she hadn’t known that sacrifice never reveals itself fully until after you make it.

Years later, I decided it was Cotzi’s heart, not Bob’s, that was breaking that day in front of the fireplace. These days, I count myself lucky, as I delete words I wrote when I didn’t have a clue about sacrifice, that I never had to choose between the person I loved and the person I dreamed of being.

Adapted from the MFA in a Box blog, mfainabox.com.

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NOW, THERE’S ONLY ONE CATCH

—George Prentice

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Southern Idaho gets its own eyeful of mega-loads JESSICA MURRI In order to reach the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, Omega Morgan will ship mega-loads of refinery equipment across more than 470 miles of Idaho roadways.

After a lawsuit blocked rocket-sized mega-loads from traveling through Mountain Home, then head north on Highway permit staff.

North-Central Idaho’s Wild and Scenic River Rush said ITD’s permits are good for five 20. The load will continue along Highways 30 corridor on U.S. Highway 12 (BW, News, days, but if for some reason the load is unable and 28 until it meets up with Highway 93 in “The Audacity of Mega-Loads,” Aug. 7, to travel, the permit can be extended over and Salmon, and crosses over the Montana border 2013), and after a difficult passage on Highover again until the shipment gets to Montana. at Lost Trail Pass. way 95 through Lewiston and Moscow (BW, But things got off to a bumpy start: The first The route through Idaho is 476 miles, while Citydesk, “Protesters Greet Latest Megasouthbound shipment was delayed two days. the original U.S. 12 route was less than half Load,” Nov. 9, 2013), Oregon-based Omega This load, like the others, is only permitted to that distance.

Morgan has a new plan to get the oversized travel from 10 p.m.-5 a.m. in Idaho (8 p.m.-6 “It’s standard for us not to be on a straight equipment to Alberta, Canada’s tar sands oil a.m. in Oregon), pulling over every 15-20 line,” said Zander. “We have to make sure the project. But the new route nearly triples the number of miles through Idaho—it goes south, road can bear the load, make sure all the turns minutes for traffic. But on Dec. 1, when it tried to leave the Port of Umatilla, protests held and bridges are safe. This is something we do and then east, in order to go north. every day, but it will burn up a lot more fuel to it back. Two protesters chained themselves Three new pieces of water purification to the load and it took hours to break they take this longer route.” equipment arrived at the Port of Umatilla in As BW was going to press, Omega Morgan away. The load left at 7:53 p.m. on Dec. 2, but Oregon via barge earlier this year and, accorddidn’t move on the night of Dec. 3 because of still hadn’t seen its permit from the Idaho ing to Omega Morgan spokeswoman Holly weather conditions.

Transportation Department. ITD spokesman Zander, each piece is 330,000 pounds and The loads will not travel almost 100 feet long. It takes if the road is ice- or snowthree trucks, one to pull and covered or if the visibility is two to push the load. After less than 500 feet. Zander the equipment is loaded on the said operators at the tar sands trucks, each convoy becomes oil project were “understand900,000 pounds, 380 feet long ing,” and their deadline is (longer than a football field), not tight. She said a bestalmost 20 feet high and two case scenario would see a lanes wide. mega-load reaching Alberta But with loads that enorwithin 20 days—five days in mous, many of the region’s Oregon, five or six days in bridges can’t support the Idaho, and the rest in Monweight and most interstate tana and Canada. She said all overpasses aren’t tall enough. three loads should be at the So Omega Morgan sat down In order to reach the tar sands in Alberta, Canada, Omega Morgan will ship tar sands project by the end with the Idaho Department of mega-loads of refinery equipment across more than 470 miles of Idaho roadways. of January.

Transportation and they came Helen Yost is not excited up with a new route altogether.

Adam Rush told BW that some bridge analysis about this. The community organizer of Wild From Umatilla, the giant rigs are rolling Idaho Rising Tide, the Moscow-based colwas still in the works, adding that the permit south, past Pendleton,Ore., on I-84, down lective fighting climate change, didn’t like the should be ready by the time the load hits the Highway 395 and west on Highway 26 until U.S. 12 route; she didn’t like the I-90 and I-95 state line. they reach Vale, Ore. They continue west on route, and she doesn’t like this one, either.

Staff members with ITD’s bridge division Highway 20, then head south on Oregon “It’s not just about our wild lands, and permitting office sat down with Omega Highway 201 past Nyssa. it’s about not letting our region throw Morgan to plan this route. There was no Once the load hits the Idaho border near formal opportunity for public input, but Rush out the red carpet for these oil compaHomedale, the plan is to skirt south on Idaho 9 nies,” Yost said. “We have the technolsaid he takes comments from the public and Highway 78, past Bruneau Dunes State Park. ogy and the intelligence to do it right, shares their concerns with the bridge and It’ll meet up with I-84 and backtrack to KE LSEY H AWE S

First there was one CATCH, then two, now one again.

Following more than a year of confusion (BW, News, “One Name. Identical Mission,” Oct. 3, 2012), the city of Boise has decided to shut down its taxpayerfunded CATCH program, clearing the way for CATCH, Inc., an independent nonprofit with the same intentions, to continue its innovative program of providing long-term housing to homeless families.

Both programs had the same mission and even the same name: CATCH is an acronym for Charitable Assistance for Community’s Homeless. But after Greg Morris, who founded the city of Boise’s program, left City Hall in November 2011, he immediately began working on creating CATCH, Inc. Headquartered on Boise’s Americana Boulevard, it has since expanded to include offices in Meridian, Nampa and, in November, a Twin Falls operation.

“All programs combined, we served approximately 75 families this year,” Morris told Boise Weekly. “In 2014, we’re projecting to serve 100 more families.”

Meanwhile, the city of Boise has stopped taking applicants for its own version of CATCH. “Yes, the city’s CATCH program is winding down,” Jim Birdsall, the city of Boise’s Housing and Community Development manager, told BW. “I think we have two families left in the program and they should be graduating very soon.”

Birdsall, who acknowledged that city officials were aware of the confusion between the two CATCH programs, said the city will take its CATCH budget—nearly $150,000—and divert the funds to a new grant program in which monies will be doled out to community organizations that deal with homelessness.

“The mayor and Council felt this would be a more effective way to use those resources,” said Birdsall. “We’re anticipating individual grants in the $30,000-$50,000 range.”

Ironically, CATCH, Inc., might be eligible to compete for one of those grants, but Morris said his organization would wait to see what the city’s criteria would be to secure the funds.

“Homelessness requires involvement from all of us: our faith communities, our business communities and our government.

They all need to be involved,” said Morris.

Meanwhile, Boise’s government will be altering its own involvement, with more grants and less program management.

JIM POW ER S

Boise Weekly visited CATCH, Inc.’s new Boise headquarters in October 2012.

OVER THE RIVER AND THROUGH THE WOODS

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NEWS HAR R IS ON B ER RY

MAXIMIZE THE MINIMUM Advocating for a higher minimum wage in Idaho and beyond HARRISON BERRY It was cold when the demonstration began, and getting colder. Father Jesus Camacho of St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Boise rubbed his hands together and removed his golf cap, holding a cross-adorned document folder close to his clergy shirt. Taking up a loudspeaker, he read his benediction.

“We are not asking for favors. We are asking for justice,” he said.

Behind Camacho was the McDonald’s located at 1375 Broadway Ave., in Boise, and inside were the minimum wage workers on whose behalf he was speaking.

The noontime demonstration, organized Dec. 5 by Raise Idaho and United Vision for Idaho, was in support of a ballot initiative that would raise the minimum wage in increments from $7.25 to $9.80—61 cents higher than Washington’s nation-leading $9.19 per hour wage—by the end of 2017, after which it would be pegged to the consumer price index.

That same day, similar organizations were staging protests around the country advocating higher pay for America’s lowest-paid workers.

According to UVI Executive Director Adrienne Evans, Idaho’s high proportion of low-pay workers makes it an ideal testing ground for a pay increase: If workers have more disposable income, they will spend more money, giving the economy a boost.

“Think of it as the opposite of trickledown [economics]—it’s actually trickle-up,” Evans said.

Raising wages may also affect the num-

Groups including United Vision for Idaho and Raise Idaho want the Gem State’s minimum wage boosted to $9.80 by the end of 2017—a measure they are pushing to include on the 2014 ballot.

ber of Idahoans enrolled in public assistance programs. According to a study released by the University of California, Berkeley, workers in the $200-billion fast food industry cost American taxpayers about $7 billion annually through use of those programs.

Meanwhile, the portrait of who works fast food jobs is becoming more complicated, particularly in light of Idaho’s recovering economy. In August, Boise Weekly reported that most recipients of SNAP benefits—socalled “food stamps”—in Idaho are the working poor; and according to the Berkeley study, the vast majority of American frontline fast food workers are older than 20 years old. A full 68 percent are the primary wage earners in their households.

Getting higher pay for fast food and other low-wage workers in Idaho means putting that issue on the November 2014 ballot. UVI and Raise Idaho will have to collect a minimum of 53,751 signatures, or 6 percent of Idaho voters as a whole—a much lower hurdle than the requirement imposed by a new law passed in

but these oil companies have us by the balls.”

Yost got involved in stopping the mega-loads after living in 8 Alaska and seeing the devastation from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989.

“It was the first time I ever grieved in my life,” Yost said.

“After seeing something like that happen in the hands of ExxonMobil, then hearing they were heading for Central Idaho and Alberta, I was like, ‘No, you’ve already screwed up one place I love. You’re not going to do that to another.’”

Yost encourages Boise residents to protest when the time comes. She hopes to drum up support in the Wood River Valley as well. But she admits it’s difficult to get people to turn out in the middle of the night, in the middle of the week, in the middle of winter. She said she thinks part of the reason Omega Morgan picked this route is because it goes through rural, conservative areas where people probably won’t care.

The city manager of Vale, Ore., Lynn Findley, said most Vale citizens don’t seem to care.

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the 2013 Idaho Legislature mandating ballot initiatives collect signatures from 6 percent of registered voters in 18 of Idaho’s 35 legislative districts. Rather than going district-to-district, advocates for a minimum wage increase can concentrate on collecting signatures in the state’s population centers. “[The initiative law] makes it really cost prohibitive to get measures on the ballot,” Evans said. “What happens is, Idaho voters get to decide.”

The Raise Idaho and UVI demonstration was concurrent with others around the country that called for a $15 per hour minimum wage.

Officials in the restaurant industry have balked at the $15 per hour demand, saying doing so would raise fast-food prices, reduce employment and increase the rate of industry automation, but unions and advocates say that paying higher wages will result in greater workplace productivity and reduce job turnover.

“Economically, it’s great for big business.

It’s also incredibly good for smaller businesses,” Evans said.

through at four o’clock in the morning. They’ll close off the streets with flaggers, but they’ve contracted our ambulance to be in front of the progression.” That way, if there’s a medical emergency in the town, it ensures EMS will be able to reach it without delays.

Findley was concerned at first because he said Omega Morgan hadn’t communicated much with him, but after voicing his concerns, he said they started calling him almost every other day. But as far as his citizens are concerned, “Quite frankly, no one seems to give a darn,” Findley said.

Trying to guess the exact timetable of a mega-load rolling across the region’s thoroughfares, while winter throws snow and ice in its path, is a fool’s errand. Add the possibility that protesters may waylay future shipments, and Omega Morgan knows it has a lot more than just a few hundred miles to traverse. But the transport company insists that it isn’t interested in politics.

“Omega Morgan is just in the business of moving things from Point A to Point B,” Zander told BW. “As long as we get the permits and the roads are safe, we’ll keep moving forward.”

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JEFFERSON SMITH On buses, tweeting dogs and being the black sheep of Mormon royalty GEORGE PRENTICE

I’m presuming that you grew up in a politically engaged environment.

I’m named after Thomas Jefferson. My brother is named Lincoln. Dad was a lawyer and chaired the local Democratic Party.

I would be remiss if I didn’t ask about your bloodlines to LDS patriarch Joseph Smith.

I’m the great-great-great-grandnephew of Joseph Smith.

Wow, that’s a conversation starter.

But I have nothing else to say about it. It was my dad’s side of the family. I guess we’re Mormon royalty, but I grew up Presbyterian.

Whether I’m the black sheep or the white sheep of the family is a matter of perspective.

I understand that even your dog is a political animal.

His name is George Bailey and he has his own Twitter feed: @georgebaileydog. For a while, he was tweeting political chatter with Michele Bachmann.

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On a scale of one to 10, how do you think President Barack Obama is doing?

Seven. But in the context of the current U.S. Congress, I don’t know if anything better than a seven is possible. We might have to go back to FDR to see a Congress that was more hostile to the needs of the American people.

That’s one of the reasons that we have to appreciate independently owned media like Boise Weekly. And, if I may pander for a moment, Boise Weekly has to tell it straight. For instance, if there are those who burn down the earth, discriminate [against] people based on sexuality and keep people away from the ballot box, you’ve got to report that that type of behavior is no way to run a country.

Is it possible that our government’s dysfunction is so embedded that we really don’t know where to begin in order to effect true change?

The story of this nation has always been to overcome that sense of helplessness. Remember, we were run by a king before, yet we sowed the seeds of greatness. And in the 1950s

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Jefferson Smith is a pistol. Over a pre-dawn rapid-fire conversation with Boise Weekly, the Portland-based political activist had both barrels blazing.

After graduating from law school, Smith took a job at a New York City law firm, but when they asked him to defend Big Tobacco, he quit and returned to Oregon to enter the political arena.

The 40-year-old Smith, still considered a rising star in the Democratic Party, is a veteran of political victory and defeat: He ran a successful 2008 campaign for the Oregon House of Representatives but lost a 2012 race for mayor of Portland.

Smith is also the founder of the so-called “Bus Project,” a volunteer-driven political action movement designed to engage more young people in progressive politics. The project’s buses transport volunteers into neighborhoods where they urge citizens under 30 years of age to register, vote and get educated on the issues of the day.

During a recent visit to Boise, Smith talked to BW about recruiting more young people to get “on the bus,” the future of the Democratic Party and his Mormon lineage.

through the 1970s, our country built the greatest and strongest middle class on Earth.

But how does our nation return to that?

We know that if we can make health care a little more rational, that’s a pretty good place to start. We know that if we can give more people access to the ballot box, that’s better.

We know that if college is more affordable and that early education is important, then that’s better still. There are a lot of places to start.

I’m presuming that the Bus Project has grown far beyond Oregon.

There are operations in Colorado, Washington, Montana, Illinois and Texas. But the coolest thing for me is in Liberia. I just came back from West Africa, where they’re just beginning their own Bus Project. Believe me, getting a bus to Liberia is not an easy thing.

Why aren’t you running for office, say a seat in Congress in 2014?

Because I got my tail kicked in my last election, when I ran for Portland mayor.

But the biggest political game changers of our times have all lost elections.

I really don’t know. If you’re in Congress, maybe you can shake things up on morning TV talk shows. But it seems pretty clear to me, at least for now, that making change doesn’t always mean you should be running for office.

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Amy Westover, “Code,” kiln-formed glass, 2011

Shif ting Gears CHRISTOPHER SCHNOOR It is Idaho Triennial time again, the Boise Art Museum’s once-every-three-years event that invites artists from around Idaho to submit their work for review and, hopefully, selection by a prominent curator or other expert with art credentials, usually from outside the state.

For several Triennials in a row, the number of applicants selected was pretty low for a statewide event, leading to doubts expressed by many as to whether the survey represents a true picture of Idaho’s contemporary art scene. And the event has generated other controversies, such as BAM’s decision in 2010 to give the Triennial a governing theme, “Sustain + Expand,” which turned off many artists. It was a bit of a tempest in a teapot, but it had the unfortunate effect of limiting that year’s applicants to only 152.

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This year, 65 works by 40 artists are being exhibited. One change in the Triennial, which opened Nov. 16 and will run until April 27, 2014, is the fact that the Juror’s First Prize no longer includes a solo exhibition at the museum within the next year. All prize winners receive monetary awards, and a Juror’s Special Award category has been added.

Which brings us to the jurors who make this call. In both 2010 and this year, we have been fortunate to have jurors who make their careers in the Northwest and are well versed in the art being made in our region: Beth Sellars of Seattle’s Suyama Space last time, and this year, Bonnie Laing-Malcolmson, the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer curator of Northwest Art at the Portland Art Museum, who has followed the Idaho Triennials over the years and made studio visits to

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Although the 2010 event contained many familiar names, Sellars also included some new participants whose art revealed a palpable sense of foreboding and personal angst. It is clear that under LaingMalcolmson, this trend continues with an even greater number of new names making strong, fresh art. The juror made the observation that she found much of the work to be “engaging, edgy and smart,” and noted that she was struck by a new seriousness with which many here are approaching their art—as well as artists’ recycling of found materials in their work. Her opinion is borne out throughout this year’s exhibit.

In short, in this Triennial particularly, but its predecessor as well, we are witnessing a shift to greater sophistication in Idaho art.

Viewers will recognize a brisk diversity in the art of this Triennial immediately upon entering the first gallery. Even though the landscape painting you will encounter has a glowing, sun-filled presence and a certain technical prowess, it provides little else to hold our attention. Ironically, the exception is Merit Award-winner Boise artist William Lewis’ dark “Smith’s Ferry

Fire Ring,” whose crude, stone circle with expiring embers and charred remains is more a still-life, an artifact of man’s communion with nature, rather than the landscape norm. Lewis’ painting technique is impressive—you can practically taste the smoke.

Also sparking up this gallery is Meridian artist Stacie Chappell’s pair of splashy paintings, whose high-energy, formal and spatial experiments are meant as metaphors for streams of consciousness.

Her blend of acrylics, enamel, ink, markers and dyes makes for interesting surface effects, even if her Summer of Love palette is not to everyone’s taste.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is fellow Meridian artist Patt Turner’s poetic, evocative graphite drawings. Comprised of miniature dust storms of delicate marks, they are quiet, meditative considerations of the recent Arab Spring, equating, as she puts it, “Thousands of lines to be seen as one movement.”

Sculpture and installation pieces throughout the exhibit demonstrate imagination and ingenuity, beginning in the first gallery. Boisean Amy Westover’s wall arrangement of gleaming, kiln-fired black glass

hieroglyphics, “Code,” has a symbolic and material beauty to it, and a mystery that leaves us pleading for a translation. 2010 Merit Awardwinner Pamela De Tuncq, of Hailey, is back with another installation commenting on contemporary culture. Whereas last time her theme was religious practices, this year she has cast six all-white life-size teens complete in sunglasses and hoodies preoccupied with real cellphones.

The choreographed mindset of being physically together but not interacting is underscored by the lone figure off in the corner.

Speaking of choreography, Eli Craven and Maria Chavez’s collaborative video installation “Canoeing: Rescue” is an odd work inspired by a canoeing safety manual. As the Boise artists’ statement suggests, the implications are more universal than specific, with the underwater video depicting an apparent mating ritual, and spermlike forms heading herd-like toward the V-shaped composed photo of a woman on the wall, all adding up to themes of fate and life cycles.

In the center of the gallery is the winner of Juror’s First Place Prize, Boise artist Caroline Earley’s sculptural installation, “Domestic Dis-

Pablo Dodez; “Dagger”; wood, paper, clay, fabric, paint; 2013 (far left) Marilyn Lysohir; “Flower Girl”; clay, metal, enamled tile; 2013 (immediate left)

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Erin Cunningham, “Oracle,” oil on panel, 2011

turbance.” Earley is a ceramicist who likes to create nonfunctional works with a touch of humor or the absurd. Here, her soft-appearing, exaggerated, somewhat alien forms gracing an undulating dinner table have a Claes Oldenburg demeanor to them. The piece is inspired by an earthquake she experienced in New Zealand, where she lived for 16 years, as well as her struggle to readjust to living here again, i.e., a Pop Art take on the personal.

Drawing us into the second gallery is Boisean Goran Fazil’s Second Place Prizewinning monumental piece, “Hegelian Constructs.” A native of Bosnia and Herzegovina, it is not surprising that his art deals with war and the concepts that underlie it.

Fazil’s aesthetic is here a critique of Hegel’s philosophy of history, which sees the evolution of Western civilization as an inevitable, positive dialectical progression. The artist’s crumbling, ancient-looking battlements (a metaphor for society itself) topped by three canvases depicting the ruins’ perennial updating using modern technology is not only visually arresting but a powerful indictment of the “unstable [philosophical] foundations” that endanger us all. The feel is reminiscent of Garth Claassen’s dark drawings and paintings warning of foreign adventures.

A palliative to the high drama of Fazil are two adjacent small-scale, delicate works by McCall artist Mare Blocker and Boisean Lisa Pisano, of Boise. Blocker’s “Archive Threshold” is a book-format piece created out of scraps of “nontraditional” photos, wood, embroidery on paper and signature binding.

Handsomely designed, it is a multi-sensual experience, with gloves provided to allow the viewer to not only explore each page but feel the surfaces as well. The pleasure is enhanced by the artist’s obvious reverence for her materials. Next door, Pisano’s favorite medium of tiny natural leaves is used to create a triptych on panel, in this case “pressed” into the service of two-color minimal abstractions with intricate surface patterns, creating a paean to nature’s role in nonobjective aesthetics.

Matt Bodett, of Boise, uses his art to delve into the subject of mental illness, a topic of great personal interest to him as he suffers from Schizoaffective disorder. In 2010, his large, unstretched canvases of distressed patients won him the Juror’s Second Place Award. This year, his entry is a horizontal work covered in black house paint (his favorite medium) with a crude white chalk design aimed directly at a drawing of a young woman at one end. The title, “Anatomy of a Murder,” is practically the only clue to the fate of the figure (aside from the artist’s statement), except for the barely discernible handwritten phrase along the bottom asking, “What is this that frees me so in storms?” It is a creepy yet heartfelt plea to comprehend the act, and it holds you in its grip.

On a much lighter note is John McMahon’s “How to French Kiss,” his large oil on plywood providing 42 detailed illustrations instructing us on the do’s and don’ts of this time-honored activity. McMahon is a Boise artist who works in several mediums, often demonstrating a penetrating wit and material dexterity. One can never be sure what he will come up with next. Here, his clinical anatomical renderings of a couple’s respective tongues and mouths going at it has the effect of eliciting a “yuck” on our part rather than providing erotic entertainment. In McMahon’s hands, the delicate art of foreplay takes on a Dada-esque play on arousal.

There are several artists representing quality photography in the exhibit, but perhaps the most intriguing and beautiful ones are those by Ketchum artist Wendel Wirth.

Her archival pigment prints of minimalist winter landscapes tinged with an Eastern aesthetic won her a Merit Award for “Gannett Winter 73.” The virtual white-out in this piece is grounded by a row of miniscule black fence posts in the far distance, which alone distinguish the foreground from the background. In this and the equally captivating “Fairfield Winter 8,” with its whiff of windblown snow on the distant gray skyline, testify to her ability to capture “rare, atmospheric occurrences” and turn them into subtle abstractions.

Back in the realm of installation and sculpture, Karl LeClair’s wall and floor piece, “Ideation,” is his reflection on the origins of ideas, information flow within us and the role of consciousness. The relief block printand-ink imagery pieced together in a large collage of small sheets of paper is a relief map of synapses and neurons in all of us. LeClair, of Boise, sees the work as a metaphorical act of connecting printmaking and thinking, rendered in the physical space of art. He is successful to an extent, but I enjoyed it more as an intriguing variant of organic abstraction.

The wall sculptures of Pocatello artist Pablo Dodez have a physicality and spirituality resembling Native American aesthetics.

Dodez sees art as a ritual at the heart of his existential quest to understand his place in the universe. His well-crafted constructions, made of wood, clay, paper, fabric, leather and paint, have a raw, earthy beauty to them, embodying a search for the sacred not unlike that of more primitive cultures.

Since her MFA show at Boise State University in 2011, talented Boise painter Erin Cunningham has become increasingly noticed and respected. Her figurative subjects especially, with their emphasis on the interplay of image and memory, and her dramatic lighting effects conjure up nostalgia, dream-states and a bit of melancholia. Her 2011 painting “Oracle” includes a partially depicted, heavily rouged woman entering our view from the lower left quarter, thereby relegated to status

Goran Fazil; “Hegelian Constructs”; acrylic, cardboard and ceramic adhesive; 2013

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of second place to the curtained center stage with the result that her desire to present “the setting behind her. The piece brings together interplay between observation, memory and familiar Cunningham elements—anonymity, imagination” does not always click.

Finally, the recipient of the Juror’s Speisolation, awkward cropping, theater—yet lacks the nuanced lighting that can impart her cial Award is Marilyn Lysohir of Moscow.

Lysohir is a leading ceramic sculptor who signature atmosphere of distilled ambiguity.

Twin Falls installation and mixed-media creates figurative, life-size, often surreal artist Milica Popovic´ is a native of the for- works, sometimes in conjunction with other mer Yugoslavia who participated in the 2007 materials. Personal and collective memories Triennial and makes art that quietly refer- often inform her work, as do serendipitous ences the memories and customs of her war- events in life. There is also something of the torn homeland. She sensitively and movingly social historian in her output. Women figure incorporates materials, images and textures prominently in her art, as is the case here that re-create the feel of that personal place with “Flower Girl,” one of two works of and time, including fabric, lace, old photo- the same design. The top half of a ceramic graphs, plant material, gold leaf, even pieces female figure sits on a leafed skirt-shaped of old wall to metaphorically take us back metal cage within which ceramic flowers are strewn on its enamel-tiled floor. In the there with her.

After years of being known primarily for center of the “skirt” is a figure opening its small- to medium-scale works usually of bird shroud to reveal the scars of leprosy. This motifs and studies, Boisean Kirsten Furlong moving, beautiful sculpture relates to an inhas been expanding her nature-based aes- cident in India where Lysohir was stopped in a taxi when a lovely thetic horizons of late girl tried to sell her in terms of subject flowers from one side matter, mediums and BAM TRIENNIAL while on the other side scale, primarily due to Runs through April 27, 2014. Tuesday-Saturthe hands of a leper a series of artist residay, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; First Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m.; Sunday, noon-5 p.m. BAM members and reached in begging for dencies she has experikids under 6: FREE; $6 general; $4 seniors money. Typically, she enced in wilderness lo64 and older; $3 full-time students w/ID and sees this work as “recations. One result has children grades 1-12; donation on First Thurslating to those clues of been a reconsideration day. Boise Art Museum, 607 Julia Davis Dr., Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org joy or pain or creativof “the concept of ity and the celebration landscape representaof life.” tion” and the emblemAs Laing-Malcolmson relates in her juatic significance of animals, as demonstrated by her impressive 6-foot by 7-foot canvas ror’s statement, it can be difficult to judge “Alaska Gold: Snowshoe Hare.” A multime- the strength of submitted works from digital dia work dominated by an iconic metal leaf images. It is always better to see the work in hare, it is her dexterous, imaginative use of the flesh. Speaking with her at the opening, thread, felt, colored pencil, graphite and gesso she was satisfied that her choices made for to create a landscape-based set of designs that a compelling show. It does demonstrate that work together to replicate a natural terrain Idaho art in general has moved to a new level. and subtle three-dimensionality that makes To a great extent, this is due to the strengthening of college and university art programs the work so fascinating.

Lynne Haagensen, of Troy, returned from here, and the fact that Idaho is attracting a three-month residency outside Barcelona, young artists from other states as well. The Spain, to create her multi-imaged wall-span- result is a shift in emphasis, more diversity in ning piece “Rhythms in Catalonia.” Her col- mediums and approaches, and an increasing lage of black-on-white photocopied mono- willingness to take risks while probing into prints of drawings from that experience the weightier intellectual, spiritual and politiallows her to arrange the images into a series cal issues of our time.

Idaho, artistically, is no longer so easily of connected panels in a manner intended to benefit the entire piece. However, the for- labeled, nor dismissed, as it has been in the mat and intricacies of the total composition past. This is a good sign that, hopefully, will presents a lot for the viewer to sort through, be reconfirmed in 2016.

Milica Popovic´, “Two Windows,” mixed media, 2013

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With the Madrigals, punishment for singing off key is severe.

That chill down your spine at the Old Pen? It’s not just the weather...

FRIDAY-SATURDAY DEC. 13-14 support the singers

FRIDAY DEC. 13

41ST BOISE HIGH MADRIGAL DINNER

freaky friday FRIDAY THE 13TH AT THE OLD PENITENTIARY When most people think of Friday the 13th, they conjure Camp Cr ystal Lake and a vengeful Jason Voorhees picking off oversexed camp counselors. That sense of dread carries over to other Friday the 13ths across the calendar—burdening some poor souls with paraskavedekatriaphobia (fear of Friday the 13th).

This Friday, Dec. 13, those in the mood to celebrate by doing something a little spooky can get a look-see at the Old Pen during its Friday the 13th Night Tour, which strikes a balance between superstition and fun.

Starting at 5:30 p.m., patrons bundled against the chilly weather can catch a screening of the Ghost Adventures episode featuring Boise’s Old Pen; the seasonal exhibit, Pardon Me, It’s Christmas— stories about holiday pardons and escapes from the slammer—and special screenings of the Myths and Misunderstandings video. Hot chocolate will be provided to keep folks warm and snug while they wander through the abandoned prison.

Guided tours begin at 5:45 p.m. and run ever y half hour until 7:15 p.m., but each tour is capped at 30 people, so it pays to show up early. Final admission is at 8 p.m.

This Friday doesn’t have to be scar y, so if you want to spend your evening watching Friends reruns, that’s your business. For ever yone else, there are guided tours of Boise’s ver y own haunted penitentiar y.

5:30 p.m. $3-$5. Old Idaho Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov/old-idaho-penitentiary

FRIDAY DEC. 13 happy to be angry CHRISTOPHER TITUS If the TV show Titus premiered today, hardly an eyelid would bat. In the past few years, television viewers have come

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to love the anti-hero: a science teacher turned meth dealer; a serial killer with a code; an alcoholic ad exec. But when comedian Christopher Titus’ eponymous series premiered in 2000, the dark comedy was considered groundbreaking. Titus was loosely based on the titular character’s real life, making his remembrances of abuse and

An event unlike most school per formances, the Boise High Madrigal Dinner has taken place since Lyndon B. Johnson was president, but it draws inspiration from a far more distant past: the Renaissance.

This event gives Boise High School students, teachers, parents and the public an opportunity to support vocal music ensembles and help keep the arts alive in schools. Both evenings provide Renaissance-inspired costuming, appropriate for the madrigal origins, with live singing and excellent chow. Partake in a silent auction, knowing that this money goes to help Madrigals on the road.

While the holiday mantra of giving still echoes in our heads, but before money is dropped on an Xbox or a Big Hugs Elmo, think about spending that cash on something that matters. This dinner isn’t only about raising money; it’s also expressing a respect and understanding for the art of music, seen clearly as the Madrigals create incredible depth and emotion with their voices. Proceeds from this event benefit the Boise High Choir Department.

6 p.m. $15-$20. Boise High School, 1010 W. Washington St., Boise, 208-854-4291, boise.school.boiseschools.org

neglect, and his no-holds-barred interactions with his friends and family—particularly his crass, womanizing father (played by Stacy Keach)—all the more cringe-inducing.

When Titus ignored network honchos’ request to include a story arc based on a fictional situation, his show was canceled.

And to this day, Titus continues to do things his way, including on his new tour, “The Angry Pursuit of Happiness,” which hits Boise Friday, Dec. 13. Titus will deliver the same brand of unflinching, brutally honest stand-up as he does in his grip of comedy albums and specials, as well as on his popular podcast—the tagline of which is “never unbiased and always unbalanced”—featuring Rachel Bradley, a.k.a. Bombshell

Rae, a fellow comic, the tour opener and Titus’ wife.

With Rachel Bradley, 8 p.m., $25-40. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com

SATURDAY-SUNDAY DEC. 14-15 broadway in boise THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL The Addams Family is synonymous these days with film and TV, but ever yone’s favorite beastly brood was actually birthed in the art of cartoonist Charles Addams, whose work B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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We’d gladly trade that ’96 Pinnacle Bob Hamelin card.

SATURDAY DEC. 14 i’ll show you mine if you show me yours HOLIDAY SPORTS CARD SHOW If your childhood resembled that of the children from Sandlot, there’s a chance you collected sports cards and wore out your shoes playing home run derby to the imagined roar of thousands of cheering fans. If those dreams of fame and glory did not come to life, at least you can try to cash in on the sports cards.

Jerry’s Rookie Shop is hosting a holiday card show just in time for the holiday season. Bring along your own collection and see if you can earn some extra money or browse 30 tables of current and vintage sports cards and memorabilia to find a gift for the sports aficionado in your family. The card show will take place at the Boise Hotel and Conference center Saturday, Dec. 14, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m and admission is free.

9 a.m. FREE. Boise Hotel and Conference Center, 3300 S. Vista Ave., 208-343-4900

appeared in The New Yorker (where the iconic family first appeared), Collier’s and others from the 1930s until his death in 1988.

Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester and their loyal (likely undead) manser vant, Lurch, have also made their mark on the Great White Way, with a Broadway musical from composer Andrew Lippa based on an original stor y by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice.

No, this is not the Addams Family of the hit ’90s theater release or the classic ’60s TV show: Wednesday is grown up and in love with—gasp—a nice, “normal” young man.

Disaster of disasters, she’s bringing him and his family to dinner.

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to his daughter’s request that he keep the romance secret from his beloved wife? What foul surprises await Wednesday’s beau and his respectable pater and mater at the rambling Addams mansion? What will the ghosts of the ancestors think?

With a 2010 Broadway debut, The Addams Family has since been on an extend tour, taking the production through North America, South America, Australia and Asia. Catch this highkicking, rollicking re-imagining of the Addamses when it swings through Boise at the Morrison Center.

Saturday, 8 p.m. Sunday, 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. $37.50-$57.50. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu

Folksy singer Tyrone Wells is cause enough to catch Concert For Cause.

WEDNESDAY DEC. 18 a reason for the season CONCERT FOR CAUSE

From the authors of Coloring for Grown-Ups comes Coloring for GrownUps: Holiday Fun Book.

This irreverent book is filled with activities that more authentically reflect how many adults feel about the holidays. coloringforgrownups.com At the beginning of the year, distract yourself from miserable memories of the night before and wend your pencil through the “New Year’s Day Walk-of-Shame Maze.” In Februar y, eschew twee cards with “I Wuv U” and “Be Mine” emblazoned on them, and send that someone special a hand-colored Valentines for Grown-Ups card with sayings like “I Tolerate You,” “We’re getting fat,” and “We might have the same STD, so you might as well stay with me for a while.” In March, break out your watercolors and get ready for a night of debaucher y by painting the St. Patrick’s Day “Puke-By-Numbers” page.

For Father’s Day, tr y to forget what a disappointment you are by doing the word search for your “Dad’s Approval” or “Draw the Son Your Father Hoped You’d Be.” At Halloween, stay home and color your inner demons like the “Fear of Becoming Your Parent” demon, the “High-School Baggage” demon and the “Procrastinating on Tax Shit” demon. Finally, for that most joyous holiday of all, “Dress the Toy-Making Underage Sweatshop Workers Like Festive Christmas Elves,” or “Design your Own Ironically Hideous Holiday Sweater.”

—Amy Atkins

The mission statement of the Women and Children’s Alliance is “safety, healing and freedom from domestic abuse and sexual assault.” So when the butterfly from the statue that stands in front of the WCA was stolen this year (for the third time), it was seen as an affront to an organization that ser ves as a sanctuar y for women and children in crisis. The outrage sparked by the theft showed how important the 103-year-old organization is to this community. Its value is why, once again, proceeds from 94.9 The River’s annual Concert for Cause will benefit the WCA. Organizers of this event always bring in acclaimed musicians to per form, but this year—the 11th annual Concert for Cause—is even more special. At 6-feet-4-inches tall, bald singer-songwriter Tyrone Wells looks more like a club bouncer than a folksy musician. But from the first note he sings, it’s clear he chose the right profession. What makes Wells’ upcoming show such a boon is twofold: He’ll be per forming as a three-piece acoustic, promising an intimate evening of music; and in time for the holidays—and this per formance—Wells recently released The Christmas Album, which is stuffed full of holiday favorites, as well as some original tunes.

As always, this is an evening full of music, live and silent auctions, good cheer and charity. It’s a concert for a really great cause.

6:30 p.m. $20. Tickets available at Record Exchange and ticketweb.com. Knitting Factor y, 416 S. Ninth St., riverinteractive.com

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Festivals & Events CHRISTMAS AT SUNNYSLOPE—Enjoy a 1-acre Christmas light display, animated figures, whimsical blowups, a crackling bonfire, caroling, special appearances by Clyde the Camel and free photos with Santa. 5 p.m. FREE. The Orchard House Restaurant, 14949 Sunnyslope Road, Caldwell, 208-459-8200, facebook.com/TheOrchardHouse.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—Get in the holiday spirit with this 50-minute ride aboard the decorated vintage Ms. Molly the trolley, accompanied by classic holiday music. Limited seating. Continues through Dec. 24. 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. $4-$16.

Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, corner of Cole and Ustick, Boise, americanheritagetrolleytours.com.

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW— Tour the Idaho Botanical Garden light display. Continues through through Jan. 5, 2014. 6 p.m.

FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Literature HOO, HOO... LIVES IN HULLS GULCH—Local students have contributed artwork and poems to Hoo, Hoo... Lives in Hulls Gulch, and the book will be unveiled and available for purchase. Featuring poetry readings by campers from The Cabin’s Wild Writing program. 5:30 p.m.

FREE. Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise, 208-514-3755, boiseenvironmentaleducation.org.

THURSDAY DEC. 12 On Stage DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—Enjoy this family friendly Christmas comedy that is more fun than a joyride in a one-horse open sleigh as a colorful parade of eccentric guests arrive at the Snowflake Inn and deck the halls with holiday hilarity. Purchase tickets online at eventbrite. com/org/2762190930. 7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY—Enjoy the story of idealistic George Bailey as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve, brought to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast.

7:30 p.m. $14-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort 20 St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

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Mason Jennings hasn’t always been so touchy-feely, but you’d think so, judging from Always Been.

ALWAYS BEEN, MASON JENNINGS All right, let’s have a show of hands: How many of you like your albums filled with so much lovey-doveyness that your teeth are likely to rot before you get to the end? If your hand is still raised, then you might be game for Mason Jennings’ Always Been; if not, then you might want to skip the rest of this review.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with love songs or waxing philosophical about the effects of twitterpation; but, with Minneapolis-based Jennings’ latest release—his 11th album since 1998—we’re essentially talking about an entire album of that sort of thing, and it will likely prove to be too much for most people to handle—even if heartfelt, touchy-feely crooning is their bag.

There are moments of Always Been (Stats and Brackets, 2013) that are quite nice. The hopeful feel of the dreamy (and aptly titled) orchestral folk track “Dreaming” is hard not to like, even if it feels reminiscent of, well, a ton of other artists and songs; you just can’t help but root for someone with that sort of belief. On the folk-pop track “So Good,” we get reminded of why a good woman is hard to find—and it’s usually because a guy isn’t paying enough attention. The most creative exploration of this theme is “Witness,” which is a country-style riff on revival tunes, except in this case, Jennings is singing about finding love instead of Jesus, but you get the idea.

Having said all this, the lyrics do get tired pretty quickly.

The acoustic folk-pop track “Patti & Robert” tells us for the millionth time how much love can free a person from pain and suffering. Folk numbers like “Instrument” give us the old spiel of how someone isn’t good enough for someone else, and on the closer, “Just Try,” we’re treated to another one of those reminders that you are foolish to pass up a chance for love when it comes your way because you never know when or if it will again.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

The problem with Jennings’ album isn’t so much the content, it’s that there isn’t a ton of variety. Yep, love is great, it can cure a number of ailments, it makes you want to be a better person, but some of this well-meaning material starts to sound a bit like a greeting card by the end, losing more than a little of its meaning along the way.

In the end, Always Been is a simultaneously saccharine and heavy-handed experience, fit only for the most sentimental of moods (and listeners).

—Brian Palmer

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8 DAYS OUT WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS—Get into the holiday spirit with an evening full of music, readings and fun. 7 p.m. $15-$20. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions. org.

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Literature DIANE RAPTOSH READING—Diane Raptosh, Boise poet laureate and Idaho writer-in-residence, will read from her new book of poetry, American Amnesiac. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Surel’s Place, 212 E. 33rd St., Garden City, 208-4077529, surelsplace.org.

FRIDAY DEC. 13 Festivals & Events 41ST ANNUAL MADRIGAL DINNER— Join Boise High School’s choirs for an evening of dinner and musical entertainment. See Picks, Page 16. 6 p.m. $15-$20.

Boise High School, 1010 Washington St., Boise, 208-854-4270.

HELICOPTER CHRISTMAS LIGHTS TOURS—See the Christmas lights of Boise like never before. Silverhawk Aviation’s tours will take you over downtown Boise, then soar over the Idaho Botanical Garden and Foothills. Call for reservations.

Continues through Jan. 5. 6 p.m. $125 for two, $150 for three.

Western Aircraft at Boise Airport, 4300 S. Kennedy St., Boise, 208-453-8577, westair.com.

PARDON ME, IT’S CHRISTMAS—Join the Old Idaho Penitentiary for a tour, a screening of the Ghost Adventures episode filmed at the prison and learn about Christmas pardons and escapes.

See Picks, Page 16. 5:30 p.m. $3-$5. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-368-6080, history.idaho. gov/oldpen.html.

CHRISTOPHER TITUS: THE ANGRY PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS—Comedian Christopher Titus performs his newest one-man show. See Picks, Page 16. 8 p.m. $25.

Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208342-2000, stagecoachtheatre. com.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $14-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

LONI LOVE—Loni Love brings her stand-up comedy routine to Boise. 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. $22. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

WINTER SHOWCASE PERFORMANCE—Featuring pole, aerial, fire hoop dances and more.

Participate in a raffle and enjoy the open wine bar. 8 p.m. $10$15. Ophidia Studio, 2615 W. Kootenai St., Boise, 208-4092403, ophidiastudio.com.

Workshops & Classes STAND-UP FOR MENTAL HEALTH WITH DAVID GRANIRER—Attendees learn how to turn their problems into stand-up comedy. 7 p.m. $10. The Pursuit Bogus Basin, 2588 Bogus Basin Road, Boise, 208-859-9114, thepursuit.org.

Kids & Teens TEEN ART STUDIO—Teens can explore various art techniques and start their own projects.

4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

SATURDAY DEC. 14 Festivals & Events 41ST ANNUAL MADRIGAL DINNER—See Friday. 6 p.m. $15-$20. Boise High School, 1010 Washington St., Boise, 208-854-4270.

HOLIDAY SPORTS CARD SHOW—Find great Christmas gifts and new treasures for your collection. Thirty tables will display cards and memorabilia, along with a great selection of vintage items. See Picks, Page 17. 9 a.m. FREE. Boise Hotel and Conference Center, 3300 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-3434900.

On Stage THE ADDAMS FAMILY— Wednesday Addams falls in love with a young man from a respectable family and must keep it secret from her mother. See Picks, Page 16. 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate. edu/bib/html.

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208342-2000, stagecoachtheatre. com.

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STORIES OF GENEROSITY AND KINDNESS—Take a break from your holiday shopping to listen to personal stories of generosity and kindness from your neighbors. Selected community members will share personal stories. Cookies, cider and coffee provided. 7 p.m. FREE. Hyde Park Books, 1507 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-429-8220, hydeparkbooks.net.

On Stage ALVIN WILLIAMS COMEDY HOUR—Laugh it up with Larry and Pink on their birthday, featuring national comic Alvin Williams.

Food and drink specials. Limited seating. Call for reservations. 8 p.m. $10. The Drink Waterfront Bar and Grill, 3000 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Boise, 208-853-5070, thedrinkboise.com.

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8 DAYS OUT IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $14-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

LONI LOVE—See Friday. 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m. $22. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

WINTER SHOWCASE PERFORMANCE—See Friday. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Ophidia Studio, 2615 W. Kootenai St., Boise, 208-4092403, ophidiastudio.com.

Art BEST IN THE NEW YEAR—Join Stewart Gallery for mimosas, coffee and holiday cheer. 11 a.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-4330593, stewartgallery.com.

Literature AUTHOR JILL KRAFT THOMPSON BOOK SIGNING—Join author Jill Kraft Thompson for a book signing and celebration.

Wine and light refreshments served. 4 p.m. FREE. Razzle Dazzle McCall, 503 Pine St., McCall, 208-634-1997, findingjill. com.

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ROCK OUT WITH YER CROCK OUT—Check out this holiday bazaar offering a variety of gift ideas from local creators and vintage goodness from Retro Attics.

All ages and crock pot dishes welcome. Music by JRS and Clarke and the Himselfs from 5-7 p.m. 3 p.m. FREE. Retro Attics, 605 N. 27th St., Boise, facebook.com/RetroAttics.

ROLLING IN DOUGH GRAND OPENING BRUNCH—Indulge yourself with pastries, champagne and jazz by the Paul Tillotson Trio. Noon. FREE. Rolling in Dough, 928 W. Main St., Boise, 208-720-4096.

SUNDAY DEC. 15 Festivals & Events CHRISTMAS AT SUNNYSLOPE—See Wednesday. 5 p.m. FREE. The Orchard House Restaurant, 14949 Sunnyslope Road, Caldwell, 208-459-8200, theorchardhouse.us.

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Animals & Pets PET PHOTO NIGHT WITH SANTA—Take your pets to see Santa and get their photos taken, then enter your photo for a chance to win a $500 mall gift card. 6 p.m.

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On Stage THE ADDAMS FAMILY—See Saturday. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, mc.boisestate.edu/bib/ html.

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TUESDAY DEC. 17 On Stage THE HE & SHE SHOW—Check out Doug and Teresa Wyckoff’s live stand-up comedy date night.

8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

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THE PIANO GUYS: HOME FOR CHRISTMAS—The Piano Guys perform selections from their new album, A Family Christmas.

7:30 p.m. $25-$125. Taco Bell Arena, 1910 University Drive, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1900, www.tacobellarena.com.

Talks & Lectures UNDERSTANDING WESTERN MIGRATION—Join speaker John Bieter as he captures the history of immigration and migration in America, from Native Americans to new American citizens. 3 p.m.

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

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CHRISTMAS AT SUNNYSLOPE—See Wednesday, Dec. 11. 5 p.m. FREE. The Orchard House Restaurant, 14949 Sunnyslope Road, Caldwell, 208-459-8200, facebook.com/ TheOrchardHouse.

Sports & Fitness CHRISTMAS LIGHT RUN—Run with Shu’s and win giveaway prizes. 6 p.m. FREE. Shu’s Idaho Running Company, 1758 W. State St., Boise, 208-344-6604, idahorunningcompany.com.

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GLOBAL GROOVE Rosalie Sorrels is retiring from live performance, but it’s not the last we’ll hear of her.

ROSALIE SORRELS PLAYS TWO (PROBABLY) FINAL SHOWS Shelley Ross and her four siblings had some unique babysitters growing up. When their mother, folk singer Rosalie Sorrels, moved from Idaho to New York in the 1960s, the children went along. They stayed at the home of Lena Spencer, owner of the famous folk music venue Caffe Lena, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. “Dave Van Ronk was there a lot,” Ross remembered. “And Arlo Guthrie. And Bob Dylan. Joan Baez was a regular.”

The children followed Sorrels as she traveled across the country. “Usually, she left us with somebody that had a stable household.

I wouldn’t say that they were stable people,” Ross said with a laugh.

Many years have passed, but Ross still admires her mother.

“I’d think, ‘I know a little bit about her; she’s my mom,’” she said. “But then she’d tell me a story about something she’d read or somewhere she’d been, and it’s like, ‘I didn’t even know that.’”

Sorrels, who turned 80 this year, will soon share some of her songs and stories with Idahoans two more times. The folk singer will play the Magic Valley Arts Council gallery in Twin Falls on Thursday, Dec. 12, and the Sapphire Room at Boise’s Riverside Hotel on Saturday, Dec. 14. Sorrels will perform both shows—which are billed as “An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho”—with author Gino Sky; local musician John Pisano, aka Johnny Shoes; and Duncan Phillips, the son of folk singer Utah Phillips.

According to Ross, the Magic Valley Arts Council approached Sorrels a month ago about playing a show. After Sorrels had agreed, Gino Sky called her about repeating a show that they’d put on in 1999, also titled “An Imaginary Christmas in Idaho.” The Idaho Songwriters Association then worked to schedule the Sapphire Room concert.

Pisano—who accompanied Sorrels when she traveled around the state compiling songs, stories and recipes for her 1991 book Way Out in Idaho—relishes the chance to play with her again. Sorrels gives such powerful performances, he said, “because she creates this atmosphere and this context so when you hear a song, you’re not just hearing the song; you’re getting the whole background, the backstory.”

Other Sorrels-related projects are in the works. Ross said that Rocci Johnson—longtime house band leader at Humpin’ Hannah’s—wants to make an album of original Sorrels songs performed by Idaho musicians.

But don’t expect any more concerts.

“I really hate to say this,” Ross said, “but I don’t know that she’ll perform again.”

—Ben Schultz

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Dayo Ayodele mixes genres, cultures BEN SCHULTZ When Dayo Ayodele was a child living in Nigeria, he saw a commercial on TV. “It’s a Coca-Cola commercial—the one that talks about teaching the world how to sing perfect harmony,” he said. “It’s an old, classic Coke song, and they played that a lot in Nigeria.”

The commercial suggested a world far beyond anything he’d experienced. What he Niegeria-born Dayo Ayodele weaves a worldwide web of connections through his band, Afrosonics, and liked most about it was the image of people of Global Lounge organization, which helps immigrants acclimate to life in the Treasure Valley. different races and cultures holding hands.

“That ad really stuck in my head,” Ayodele sionist Cathima Kodet, a young Gabonese them and changed his career to banking—“it said, suggesting “that it’s a big world and we refugee whom Ayodele has been mentoring; was the first job available here,” he said. all have to live in peace and unity.”

With his daughter’s future in mind, Ayodele bassist Matt Fabbi; drummer Ricky Martinez; After he had moved to Boise, Ayodele guitarist Brad Nelson; and keyboardist Todd founded Global Lounge in 2006. He thought drew on that idea to start Global Lounge, a Dunnigan, who played in local new wave band of the various ethnic groups living around nonprofit that seeks both to foster cultural Methods of Dance in the ’80s and founded awareness and to help refugees and immigrants them in Boise and asked himself, “What’s acclimate to life in the Treasure Valley. Ayodele anybody doing to bring these people together? Audio Lab Recording Studios with House of Hoi Polloi’s Steve Fulton in 1992.

And there was really nothing.” also brings that spirit to his band Afrosonics, Playing in Afrosonics creates a kind of At first, Ayodele concentrated on his band which combines African music with funk and United Roots, an Afrobeat/reggae outfit which culture clash. jazz. The band headlines Radio Boise Tuesday “I came with [an] African background; I formed that same year. The group built a at Neurolux on Dec. 17. Opening duties will don’t read music,” Ayodele admitted, adding be shared by local groups Rosa dos Ventos and respectable local following—it landed a gig that “it’s kind of really funny to communicate as house band at Reef “because we always Henchmen for Hire.

Afrosonics’ fusion of musical genres reflects packed the house,” he said—but when it broke with people with a Western background [who are] classically trained, but it’s really cool.” up in 2009, Ayodele started devoting more the influence of Nigerian musician Fela Kuti, “There’s not a lot of groups like this,” energy to his work with Global Lounge. who pioneered Afrobeat, a fusion of African Fabbi said. “It’s kind of one of those things During the past few years, Global Lounge and American music. Ayodele’s mother grew where you come in, sit over there jamming, up with Kuti—as a girl, she lived in a Christian has hosted workshops at places such as the and it’s like, ‘That was different.’ It’s the hardTreasure Valley YMCA on a variety of topics, boarding house run by Kuti’s family.

Ayodele never had a personal connection to including breakdancing, Capoeira, Japanese art est you’ve ever played in your life, but it’s also some of the coolest [music]. It sticks [in] your and Bosnian folk dancing. The organization Kuti—the musician’s politics were too radical has also put on larger events such as the World head the longest, in my experience.” for his parents—but he recalled that “there The band’s interactions reflect the dialogue Village at this year’s Hyde Park Street Fair. [were] a few times that Fela came around the that Global Lounge seeks to build.

Through events like these, Ayodele said, house and said hello to my mom and stuff.”

“Somebody will play something, somebody Global Lounge seeks to serve both as a “culBut Ayodele did grow up listening to Kuti’s tural hub for the Treasure Valley” and “an am- will listen and they’ll respond in their way,” music. He also considered Kuti “the main bassador to the new arrivals or the immigrants. Kovaleski said. “Even if it’s an Indian-sounding news source” during a time when Nigeria sufguitar from Brad; he’s trained in India … so his fered from strict censorship, military coups and ... [An event] is just to kind of show that it is a welcoming community: ‘We appreciate what music has a different flavor [than his bandhigh-level governmental corruption (though mates’]. But I think it’s just kind of that call you bring. We love that you’re here.’”

Ayodele said he didn’t learn the full extent of and response in music and style.”

According to Executive Director Donna the country’s troubles until after he’d left).

Ayodele has high ambitions for the future.

Kovaleski, Global Lounge uses the interconAlthough Ayodele’s parents forbade him He wants to set up a gallery for ethnic art, nectedness of the Treasure Valley’s various from playing music (they wanted him to study a studio for recording immigrant musicians groups to its advantage. medicine), he learned African and a center exclusively for Global Lounge “There’s so many webs that drumming from his grandprograms (the next event will be a free salsa are woven in the community,” mother and at the Anglican AFROSONICS dancing night at the Treasure Valley YMCA she said. “You want to be talkChurch services he attended as With Rosa Dos Ventos and ing to the Irish dancers, but one on Friday, Jan. 31, at 7 p.m.). Global Lounge a boy. Ayodele came to AmeriHenchmen for Hire, Tuesday, Dec. 17, 7 p.m., $5. Neurolux, will soon start working on fundraising for next of them actually has a connecca to study film, taking classes 111 N. 11th St., Boise, 208year’s World Village. tion to some Indian musicians, at Columbia College Holly343-0886, neurolux.com But Ayodele won’t forgo his own art; he who have connections to classiwood and USC. After graduatcal Indian dancers … and it just also hopes to record an Afrosonics album ing, he worked as an editor soon. Making music, he said, gives you “more goes on and on.” and a production assistant. He of a voice. … It’s about the expression of Ayodele relied on those same webs to form also exported American albums to England emotions. And when you have people on the the Afrosonics’ current lineup. Members of for Liverpool-based independent label 3 Beat same page with you, they’re able to underthe band include percussionist Muntaga Bah, Records. But when his ex-wife and daughter stand you.” a former member of United Roots; percusmoved to Idaho in 2004, Ayodele followed B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

GUIDE EDMUND WAYNE—With Northern Giants and Grandma Kelsey.

8 p.m. $5. The Crux

WEDNESDAY DEC. 11

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS ACOUSTIC TOUR—With Best of Friends, Josh Withenshaw and Dylan Jakobsen. 9 p.m. $10.

The Crux CHRIS GUTIERREZ—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow CHUCK SMITH DUO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers COUNTRY CLUB DUO—5 p.m.

FREE. Bar 365 DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s PAMELA DEMARCHE—6 p.m.

FREE. Frank Marra KORY QUINN—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s METALACHI—8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE SHOWDOWN FINALE— Featuring Sam Hill, Ty Clayton and Tylor Bushman. 7 p.m.

FREE. The Crux SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt (formerly Salt Tears)

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THURSDAY DEC. 12

PAUL TILLOTSON TRIO—8:30 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel ROUGHED UP SUSPECTS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s THE WHITE BUFFALO—7 p.m. $10. Neurolux WILLISON ROOS AND CHARLIE BURRY—7:30 p.m. FREE. Reef

FRIDAY DEC. 13 ANDY BYRON AND THE LOST RIVER BAND—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s BFD—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye BLAZE AND KELLY—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Flatbread

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

BUCKSKIN BIBLE REVUE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DOUGLAS CAMERON—5 p.m.

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A ROAD WELLTRAVELED Nebraska is Alexander Payne’s homecoming GEORGE PRENTICE Nebraska, director Alexander Payne’s ode to mortality, proves that it is indeed the journey, not the destination that matters.

“Hey partner, Where you heading?” a policemen asks older-than-dirt Woody Grant, played to the hilt by the long-absent and fondly rediscovered Bruce Dern. Woody doesn’t answer the policeman. He just points to the highway.

Soon enough, we learn that Woody is pointBruce Dern (left) and Will Forte (right) are part of a very colorful klan in Nebraska’s glorious black and white. ing toward Nebraska, where he intends to cash in on an all-too-familiar mailer/scam that promises the recipient $1 million if he commits He can’t drive anymore. So he leans on David, white is cloudy—even ghostly—drawing its audience closer to Woody’s near-dementia. played lovingly in a measured delivery by Will to some magazine subscriptions. We all know, Dern and Forte are fabulous—they’re probForte. You won’t confuse Forte’s performance of course, that the flier’s fine-print says otherhere with the kinetic energy he exuded through ably both Oscar-bound. But the entire cast wise, but Woody isn’t a fine print kind of guy. is also pretty swell, not the least of which is eight seasons of Saturday Night Live. Payne’s This cotton candy-haired old coot grunts June Squibb as Kate, Woody’s sharp-tongued more than talks, and won’t be taking home Fa- inspired casting landed Forte the role over wife. She steals every scene that she waddles other notable actors, ther of the Year honors into. And then there’s Bob Odenkirk as including Bryan Crananytime soon. Yet, he’s Ross, David’s bitter brother. There’s plenty of ston, Paul Rudd and an everyman, and burNEBRASKA (R) small-town satire with the rest of the cast, but Casey Affleck. ied deep inside are too Directed by Alexander Payne Payne clearly knows these locales and these “I just believe Will many memories, many Starring Bruce Dern, Will Forte, June Squibb, as a guy I would know local knuckleheads all too well, so things are of them painful.

Bob Odenkirk never too far from reality. In fact, with such a around Omaha,” said “Does he have Opens at The Flicks, Friday, Dec. 13 gorgeous script by Seattle-native Bob Nelson, Payne, who still calls Alzheimer’s?” asks a all of the characters come across as flawed and Nebraska home. “He woman. frayed but ultimately decent folk. has just a very, very “No, he just believes Payne knows road movies—his Sideways in what people tell him,” whispers his son, David. believable quality.”

Payne’s other inspired move was to film Ne- 2004 was a modern classic. And in Nebraska, “Oh, that’s too bad,” the woman responds.

Payne reminds us that he is that rarest of Woody insists that he’s the rightful claimant braska in black and white, and it succeeds on breeds in Hollywood: a sincere, humanist filmso many levels. It’s not the sharp-edged black of $1 million, and he needs to make his way and white that we’ve seen in Much Ado About maker. His latest journey back to his Nebraska from Billings, Mont., to Lincoln, Neb., to Nothing or Frances Ha. Instead, this black and homeland is one of the year’s best. claim his prize. But Woody has a big problem:

EXTRA/SCREEN HOLIDAY TV FOR THE TRADITIONAL AND THE TWISTED Nothing says the holidays quite like telling your relatives to shut the hell up because you’re trying to watch your favorite Christmas TV special.

This year’s video stocking is stuffed with Christmas specials from Kelly Clarkson (Wednesday, Dec. 11, NBC), Michael Buble (Wednesday, Dec. 18, NBC), and Hugh Jackman and Sheryl Crow, performing on the 2013 edition of Christmas in Washington (Friday, Dec 20, TNT).

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All of our cartoon favorites will return this year, including Charlie Brown (Thursday, Dec. 19, ABC) and the Grinch (Tuesday, Dec. 24, ABC), along with some new friends in Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (Monday, Dec. 16, FOX) and Merry Madagascar (Wednesday, Dec. 25, CW).

NBC trots out It’s a Wonderful Life on Saturday, Dec. 14, and TBS revs up its 24-hour marathon of A Christmas Story on Tuesday, Dec. 24.

Then, there are a few offerings that will make even your weird uncle sit down quietly in

front of the TV. Animal Planet has primetime treats Tanked: The Holiday Special (Friday, Dec. 20), when you’ll see the hosts build two Christmas-themed tanks; and Treehouse Masters (Monday, Dec. 23), when a real-life Santa and Mrs. Claus create a tree-mendous

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But the true winner this year is Animal Planet’s Monsters Inside Me: My Christmas From Hell (Wednesday, Dec. 18), when three holiday celebrations are marred by three stealthy infections.

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PIKE CREEK, 750 ML., $31.95 Produced at the Hiram Walker distillery in Windsor, Ontario, which makes brands like Canadian Club and Lot No. 40, this easydrinking blended whisky is aged in American oak barrels in a non-climatecontrolled warehouse and finished in vintage port barrels. While the nose is dominated by strong vanilla/cookie dough aromas, the port flavors are more pronounced on the palate, with rich, raisiny notes that dissipate quickly.

LEGACY, 750 ML., $23.95 Encased in a Pendleton-esque rounded glass container, this blended Canadian whisky is imported and bottled in the United States by Sazerac Company, which also owns brands like Ezra Brooks and Buffalo Trace.

Sweet and caramely on the nose, Legacy has hints of oak and whispers of pepper on the palate with a persistent, lingering heat. This whisky would make a suitable mixer.

COLLINGWOOD, 750 ML., $28.95 If you can get past Collingwood’s packaging—it’s shaped like a giant bottle of men’s cologne—and marketing copy like, “some call Collingwood the smoothest whisky ever made,” you’ll find a nottoo-offensive blended Canadian whisky. Distilled at Brown-Forman’s Canadian Mist Distillery in Collingwood, Ontario, and aged in white oak barrels, Collingwood adds toasted maplewood to further mellow the whisky after it’s been matured and blended, making for an almost rum-like whisky with sugary, floral notes on the nose and more sweetness and hints of baked squash on the palate.

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While some folks still use the terms “rye whisky” and “Canadian whisky” interchangeably, most modern Canadian whiskies only contain a small percentage of rye. But, with the U.S. market experiencing a rye-vival of late (think: Manhattans and Sazeracs), there are a few boutique blended Canadian whiskies hitting the market, too.

SLOW AND STEADY Sampling two locally roasted, pour-over coffees TARA MORGAN For those accustomed to slugging bottomless cups of eye-widening sludge from a drip coffee pot, the craft coffee movement might seem a little tedious. Baristas now grind, brew and pour a single cup of coffee at a time. Gooseneck kettles, Chemex vessels, burr grinders and unbleached paper filters have replaced cream and sugar as coffee’s most essential companions.

But the trend toward quality over quantity isn’t just hype. As District Coffee House General Manager Kate Seward explained, the pour-over method is gaining traction— even in Boise—for producing a superior cup of coffee.

Left to right: Steve Tenuto, Alex Maddalena and Grant Shealy, of Neckar, craft a killer cuppa.

“If you go to other cities and go to really good roasters or craft coffee shops, they don’t even make drip coffee,” said Seward. “They “Pour-over is the way to go because it’s ef- bloom the coffee. do pour-over or slow-brew processes because “Blooming is a really important step. ficient and we can grind to order, so every cup it really gives you a chance to develop the What that means is you saturate all the is fresh,” explained Shealy. “We’ve tampered natural flavors of the bean and really reach grounds evenly with just the minimal with the coarseness of the grind a little bit. that depth of flavor so that the cup that amount of water and then you let it set for Coffee is incredibly sensitive—it’s way more you’re drinking is really full.” about 30-45 seconds,” Seward said. “What sensitive than I am. … The grind is finer than Baristas at The District’s new location on that allows it to do is de-gas, because when a French press and a little courser than an 10th and Bannock streets are trained in the you roast coffee, it traps in carbon dioxide in espresso grind.” pour-over method—which inthe beans, so when you bloom it, it’s releasNeckar’s Flapjack Roast is volves pouring almost-boiling ing all those gasses and getting the grounds made from Guatemalan beans water over a paper cone filled THE DISTRICT COFFEE ready to brew the perfect cup.” imported from The Coffee with freshly ground beans HOUSE From there, Seward poured a steady Shrub in Oakland, Calf. The and letting the coffee slowly 219 N. 10th St. stream of hot water into the center of the beans are roasted in small drip down. The District uses 208-343-1089 districtcoffeehouse.com cone and worked her way out in slow circles batches for 14 minutes on a a Chemex vessel, made of roaster purchased from Diedrich until all of the grounds had been drenched nonporous borosilicate glass evenly. In a minute or so, the aromatic Manufacturing in Sandpoint. adorned with a wood collar 12-ounce brew was ready to enjoy.

“A lot of really big commercial roasters and tie. And while this method might seem “So instead of getting your 30-ounce will buy super low-grade coffees and they’ll simple, every step has an exacting ritual. roast them super dark to try to mask the ori- coffee and drinking it all day long, it’s more Starting with the beans, which are roasted about treasuring the quality gin flavors. It usually doesn’t locally to The District’s specifications by of what you can get out of the matter too much because Saranac Coffee. bean,” said Seward. they put so much milk and “It’s our own roasting company. A couple NECKAR COFFEE For Neckar, the pour-over buddies started it as a hobby and it developed sugar in it anyways that most Boise Farmers Market method is another way to add into a really great thing,” said Seward. “They people can’t tell,” said Shealy.

Saturdays, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. a hand-crafted element to their just work together, two of them, out of one of “But with the beans that we 516 S. Eighth St. neckarcoffee.com artisanally roasted coffee. their garages. They purchase the beans from a get, you really want to do “Another big reason why justice to how much work has supplier and they get them from the differwe do it is we’re trying to put been put into harvesting and ent regions, which gets you different flavor as much craft into the preparation of the processing and roasting … so we like to take profiles. ... For pour-overs, we do a lot of it not quite as dark so the origin flavors come coffee, as well. … I personally don’t like the single origins.” idea that my coffee’s been sitting in a tank out a little more.”

Another local company, Neckar Coffee, for up to two hours, or however long it’s The District also prefers lighter roasts. On is also roasting its own single-origin beans been in there,” said Tenuto. and utilizing the pour-over method. Huddled a recent weekday evening, Seward weighed But not everyone has time to wait for outside of the Boise Farmers Market’s indoor out 45 grams of medium-roasted El Salvador their coffee to brew. So The District still beans, then ground them on a medium-tobuilding, Steve Tenuto and Grant Shealy serves drip coffee, as well. coarse setting in a burr grinder. Tipping over poured steaming water from a thin goose“The only issue we run into is if somea gooseneck kettle, she saturated the Chemex neck kettle over a line of porcelain cones, bonded paper filter, removing any papery resi- body is on the run and can’t wait three each heaped with coffee that was freshly minutes for a cup of coffee—which makes due and warming the glass vessel at the same pulsed in a burr grinder, which grinds the sense if you’re on your way to work. So we time. She then discarded the water, scooped beans uniformly instead of chopping them offer both,” said Seward. the ground beans into the filter and began to into uneven bits.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president of the United States four times—more often than any other president. We can conclude that he was one of the most popular American leaders ever.

And yet he never won a majority of the votes cast by the citizens of his home county in New York. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life. You may be more successful working on the big picture than you are in your immediate situation. It could be easier for you to maneuver when you’re not dealing with familiar, up-close matters. What’s outside your circle might be more attracted to your influence than what’s nearer to home.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In 2009, actress Sandra Bullock starred in three films, two of which earned her major recognition. For her performance in All About Steve, she was given a Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Actress. Her work in The Blind Side, on the other hand, won her an Oscar for Best Actress. I’m thinking that you may experience a similar paradox in the coming days, Taurus. Some of your efforts might be denigrated, while others are praised. It may even be the case that you’re criticized and applauded for the same damn thing. How to respond? Learn from Bullock’s example. She gave gracious acceptance speeches at the award ceremonies for both the Golden Raspberry and the Oscar.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Mythically speaking, this would be a propitious time for you to make an offering to the sea goddess. In dreams or meditations or fantasies, I suggest you dive down into the depths, find the supreme feminine power in her natural habitat and give her a special gift.

Show her how smart you are in the way you express love, or tell her exactly how you will honor her wisdom in the future. If she is receptive, you may even ask her for a favor. Maybe she’ll be willing to assist you in accessing the deep feelings that haven’t been fully available to you. Or perhaps she will teach you how to make conscious the secrets you have been keeping from yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Almost 2,000 years ago, a Roman doctor named Scribonius Largus developed recipes for three different kinds of toothpaste. One contained the ashes of burned-up deer antler, aromatic resin from an evergreen shrub known as mastic and a rare mineral called sal ammoniac. His second toothpaste was a mix of barley flour, vinegar, honey and rock salt. Then there was the third: sun-dried radish blended with finely ground glass. Let’s get a bit rowdy here and propose that these three toothpastes have metaphorical resemblances to the life choices in front of you right now. I’m going to suggest you go with the second option. At the very least, avoid the third.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Are you feeling a bit pinched, parched and prickly? Given the limitations you’ve had to wrestle with lately, I wouldn’t be surprised if you were.

Even though you have passed some of the sneaky tests and solved some of the itchy riddles you’ve been compelled to deal with, they have no doubt contributed to the pinched, parched prickliness. Now what can be done to help you recover your verve? I’m thinking that all you will have to do is respond smartly to the succulent temptations that life

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Have you ever situated yourself between two big bonfires on a beach and basked in the primal power? Was there a special moment in your past when you found yourself sitting between two charismatic people you loved and admired, soaking up the life-giving radiance they exuded? Did you ever read a book that filled you with exaltation as you listened to music that thrilled your soul? These are the kinds of experiences I hope you seek out in the coming week. I’d love to see you get nourished stereophonically by rich sources of excitement.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Don’t linger in a doorway, Libra. Don’t camp out in a threshold or get stuck in the middle of anything. I understand your caution, considering the fact that life is presenting you with such paradoxical clues.

But if you remain ambivalent too much longer, you may obstruct the influx of more definitive information. The best way to generate the clarity and attract the help you need will be to make a decisive move—either in or out, either forward or backward, either up or down.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear,” said TV talk show host Dick Cavett. I will love it if you make yourself one of those rare types in the coming week, Scorpio. Can you bring yourself to be receptive to truths that might be disruptive?

Are you willing to send out an invitation to the world, asking to be shown revelations that contradict your fixed theories and foregone conclusions? If you do this hard work, I promise that you will be granted a brainstorm and a breakthrough. You might also be given a new reason to brag.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): There are pregnant truths I could reveal to you right now that I’ve decided not to disclose. I don’t

think you’re prepared to hear them yet. If I told you what they are, you wouldn’t be receptive or able to register their full meaning; you might even misinterpret them.

It is possible, however, that you could evolve rather quickly in the next two weeks. So let’s see if I can nudge you in the direction of getting the experiences necessary to become ready. Meditate on what parts of you are immature or underdeveloped—aspects that may one day be skilled and gracious, but are not yet. I bet that once you identify what needs ripening, you will expedite the ripening. And then you will become ready to welcome the pregnant truths.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Finifugal” is a rarely used English adjective that I need to invoke in order to provide you with the proper horoscope. It refers to someone who avoids or dislikes endings—like a child who doesn’t want a bedtime story to conclude, or an adult who’s in denial about how it’s finally time to wrap up long-unfinished business. You can’t afford to be finifugal in the coming days, Capricorn. This is the tail end of your cycle. It won’t be healthy for you to shun climaxes and denouements. Neither will it be wise to merely tolerate them. Somehow, you’ve got to find a way to love and embrace them.

(P.S. That’s the best strategy for ensuring the slow-motion eruption of vibrant beginnings after your birthday.)

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): According to 20th century British author John Cowper Powys, “A bookshop is a dynamite-shed, a drugstore of poisons, a bar of intoxicants, a den of opiates, an island of sirens.” He didn’t mean that literally, of course. He was referring to the fact that the words contained in books can inflame and enthrall the imagination. I think you will be wise to seek out that level of arousal in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Your thoughts need to be aired out and rearranged. Your feelings are crying out for strenuous exercise, including some pure, primal catharses.

Do whatever it takes to make sure that happens.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I am not fearless,” says Mexican journalist and women’s rights advocate Lydia Cacho, “but I’m not overtaken by fear. Fear is quite an interesting animal. It’s like a pet. If you mistreat it, it will bite, but if you understand it and accept it in your house, it might protect you.” This is an excellent time to work on transforming your fright reflexes, Pisces. You have just the right kind of power over them: strong and crafty and dynamic, but not grandiose or cocky or delusional. You’re ready to make your fears serve you, not drain you.

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