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LOCAL, INDEPENDENT NEWS, OPINION, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BOISEWEEKLY.COM VOLUME 22, ISSUE 32 JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2014

TAK EE E ON E! CITIZEN 9

LEG. LIFE Lynn Luker talks lawmaking FEATURE 10

WINTER IS WINNING Boise Weekly covers the McCall Winter Carnival NOISE 20

COLLECTING DATA Japan’s Ultra Bidé comes to Boise

SCREEN 25

WE LIKE SHORT SHORTS The Oscar-nominated short films of 2014

“You obviously forgot your ATM card, but the chain wasn’t necessary.”

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INVERSION DIVERSIONS Two weeks. As of this writing, that’s about how long Boise has been blanketed in the dull gray of one of its famous wintertime inversions. We’re starting to feel the effects: sunstarved, edgy, given to thousand-yard stares.

Something had to give. I was lucky; I spent Jan. 23-26 in San Francisco, attending an Association of Alternative Newsmedia conference on all things digital. There, it was a miraculous 70 degrees and cloudless. Back home, most of the Boise Weekly staff hit the road for McCall and its Winter Carnival.

Outside the Treasure Valley and high in the Payette National Forest, the skies cleared and the sun shared a dose of its mood-altering Vitamin D. Grateful BWers happily went from ice sculptures, to parade, to snowbike races and polar plunge, snapping pictures and interviewing equally happy carnival-goers.

Starting on Page 10, you’ll find a photo essay of the trip, and on boiseweekly.com, scroll through a slideshow of images from the weekend and read some short profiles on a few other carnival events. The pictures themselves are great, but for Boiseans who haven’t been able to escape the cloud layer yet, those little spots of blue sky we managed to capture are probably the prettiest sights they’ve seen in awhile.

And speaking of community events, we’re coming up on Boise Weekly’s annual celebration of short fiction. Mark your calendars for First Thursday, Feb. 6, when BW and Rediscovered Bookshop will host a party in honor of this year’s winners of the Fiction 101 contest, which published in our Jan. 1 edition.

The event takes place at Rediscovered, 180 N. Eighth St., downtown, at 7:30 p.m. Winners will read their stories and take part in a question-and-answer session in which they’ll talk about the process they underwent to craft their winning entries, where they got their (sometimes) twisted ideas and whatever other writerly tidbits the audience wants them to share.

The shindig is open to the public and beverages will be available. Fine fiction and something to toast it with—all we need now is a little sunshine to feel civilized again.

—Zach Hagadone

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Boise Weekly publishes original local artwork on its cover each week. One stipulation of publication is that the piece must be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in November. A portion of the proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all artists are eligible to apply. Cover artists will also receive 30 percent of the final auction bid on their piece.

To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. All mediums are accepted. Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover.

Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded.

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

HUNT ENDED A pro hunter hired by Idaho Fish and Game to stalk wolves in the Frank Church Wilderness has ended his controversial mission. Find out how many wolves were killed on Citydesk.

BOAT ASHORE The folk music world—really, the world in general—bid a fond farewell to iconic singer-songwriter, activist and all-around cultural icon Pete Seeger on Jan. 27.

Read more on Cobweb.

MOVING HOUSE The century-old Knudsen House was moved Jan. 27 from its historic location to a new address down the street. BW was there taking pictures and shooting video.

Check it out on Citydesk.

OPINION

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OPINION/BILL COPE

THOU NOW Wow is me!

“Listen, this importance we attach to particular numbers... this fetish we hold for certain figures—100, donuts by the dozen, the millennium, sweet sixteen, a million bucks—it’s all capricious and superficial. Think of our animal friends. Does a wolf throw a party when he brings down his 100th mule deer? Does an aardvark worry whether he should get his ants in the handy six-pack, or the time-saving 24unit case? Does it matter to the fish of the sea that a nautical mile has 6,067 feet in it, or to a bird on the wing that a regular mile is 5,280 feet... as the crow flies?”

Guess who wrote that. You can do it. And trust me, it’s definitely by a writer you know.

I’ll give you a few seconds.

OK, OK, I’ll tell you. It was me! I wrote that. More than 16 years ago. It was in a column I did about our very humanish fascination—some would say “obsession”—with numbers. At the time—October 1997—I was experiencing some personal fascination (some would say “obsession”) with a couple of very particular numbers as it was my 50th birthday, for which I was treating myself with an article all about how I was turning 50.

I should mention I headlined that piece “50,” a perfectly natural title given the subject matter. However, I could as easily called it “100,” as that very column was the 100th piece (counting columns and feature articles and everything else) that I had published in Boise Weekly. Exactly 100 on exactly 50, down to the day. Doesn’t that just seem weird for two big milepost numbers to coincide like that? Even spooky?

All right, it doesn’t seem all that weird to me now, either. But at the time, it did. It probably just seems silly to you that I ever got weirded out by a coincidence like that, but you have to remember, I was only 50 at the time.

UUU Then, 400 articles later, I used the exact same passage as an intro to my 500th article.

Five hundred! “Wow!” I exclaimed to myself, and passed that sentiment on to my readers in a column entitled “500.”

Had I ever imagined when I started this that I would, or could, ever whack out 500 of these things? No, I had not. In fact, as I said back in my 100th column, I thought that after 10 or 20 of these, I’d be done. Sucked dry like a juice box in a day care. That I would have said every last damn thing there would be to say about everything.

Of course, I am willing to admit the possibility that after 10 or 20 columns, I actually had said every last damn thing there was to say about everything. But that didn’t stop me, no sir. After 10 columns, I just kept on writing. And after 20 columns, too, all the way up to a 100 columns. And then to 500 columns.

Incidentally, the one I called “500” came out in the very last BW of 2004. I didn’t think BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

much of that coincidence at the time, but three years later, when my 666th column (titled: “666”) was the very last thing to appear in 2007, I started to get that weirded-out vibe again. But as it turned out, it meant absolutely nothing. No Armageddon, no four horsemen of the Apocalypse, no seven-headed beasts rising out of the sea... nothing. But you probably already know that.

UUU Now, as you might have guessed, on this day, I have reached another milestone. This is it—1,000 columns! One! Thousand! Things (counting columns and feature articles and everything else)! Wow! And it only took me 19 years to do it. (My first BW piece ever was published on Jan. 19, 1995, so actually, it took me 19 years and 10 days to do it. I have tried like crazy to find some weird coincidence linking these numbers, but have come up with nothing.)

So what am I going to do to celebrate such an auspicious event?

Well, I thought about running a monthlong retrospective of my greatest hits. A “Cope’s Classics” sort of thing, with all of my columnbased friends and a few imaginary surprise guests stopping by to introduce their favorite opinions from the many I have penned over the years. Did you see what they did for Carol Burnett at Lincoln Center?... that sort of thing, only with a smaller orchestra.

But in the end, I’ve decided to keep it a more intimate affair. Just me and my selfsatisfaction enjoying a quiet evening at home writing a column—this one—with as little fuss and effort as possible. In fact, by using the same passage I’ve used in two other columns as an intro, I can knock 100 words or so off my work load. (Plus, I get paid three times for the same stuff. Good thing there’re no laws against plagiarizing yourself, huh?)

I’d like to end by thanking a few of the people who’ve made the past 1,000 columns possible: Rush Limbaugh, Red, Sarah Palin, Dirk Kempthorne, Glenn Beck, Annie, Helen Chenoweth, Bob Berzerquierre, the Clintons, the Church of Latter-day Saints, Osama bin Laden, Butch Otter, global warming, global warming deniers, Saddam Hussein, Newt Gingrich, gun nuts, the Idaho Legislature, the U.S. Congress, hillbillies, Tom Luna, poor people, rich people, gays, Christians, Muslims, racists, African-Americans, mince meat pies and, of course, George W. Bush.

I also want to thank everyone ever at Boise Weekly—from Andy Heddon-Nicely and Larry Regan straight through to Sally Freeman—for indulging me these 19 years (and 10 days), and a special thanks to those, whatever number they come to, who kindly read what I write.

And to those who read what I write unkindly... bite me.

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I skipped my college graduation ceremony in May of 1972 to come back to Idaho, go to work as a wilderness ranger and to attend more college. My first week of work consisted of law enforcement classes. They were taught by an ex-FBI agent and officers from the Region 4 headquarters in Ogden, Utah.

My fellow rangers and I learned that criminal elements were taking over national forests.

Illegal cabins were being built in forest glades.

Trees were being stolen. Salmon were being gaffed on their spawning grounds. Wilderness meadows were being used for naked dancing.

Marijuana was being grown along woodland creeks. Green trees were being hatcheted to make bough beds.

The bad guys weren’t timber companies paying corrupt congressmen to trade worthless stump-farms for uncut forest. They weren’t Indians conducting tribal public relations. They weren’t the young sons of logging families chainsawing old-growth cedars so they could buy a new Camaro.

Instead, our enemies—and we were at war, our instructors emphasized—were hippies.

Hippies were growing drugs, getting naked, stealing teepee poles, poaching fish, building communes on public land and, worst of all, thumbing their noses at authority.

I was issued a ticket book and sent out to protect the forest. Late that summer, I spent a week at Walker Lake in the White Clouds, cleaning it up.

Cleaning it up wasn’t a law enforcement figure of speech.

Walker Lake was a mess. For decades, hippies had been chopping down saplings, building giant rock fireplaces, nailing together rafts and log furniture, and making acres of bough beds. Hippies on horseback had brought in acres of Visqueen, and had chain-sawed camping spaces for themselves and their steeds. Torn hippy tents floated in shallow waters near the outlet. Broken hippy fishing poles and crumpled aluminum rod cases littered the shoreline. Hippy toilet paper decorated the low bushes all around the lake, and hippy disposable diapers smoldered fitfully in abandoned hippy fire rings.

I tore apart fireplaces and piled their rocks in hollows. I picked up hundreds of bottles and aluminum beer cans and pop-tops, pulled rafts and tennis shoes from the water, and dismantled camp tables. I gathered up bushels of stinking garbage. I picked up the tents and fishing poles and toilet paper. I folded Visqueen into great wads I could barely lift.

I piled everything on a slope next to the main camping area, and by the end of the week, the pile was 10 feet high. It weighed tons. There was no way I was going to be able to pack it out, so I set it on fire.

Visqueen and nylon contain huge amounts of energy. Within five minutes the heat and the stench of my bonfire were backing me toward the lake. Flames roared 40 feet into

the air. A great cloud of toxic greenish-black smoke rose into the still White Clouds air.

Glass cracked and popped, waterlogged rafts turned to ash and a molten aluminum river poured out from the base of the fire and ran down the hillside.

The next morning there was nothing left where the fire had been, except for 20 pounds of still-warm nails, the crazed shards of bottles, strands of fiberglass and a long ingot of aluminum. I dug a hole in the hillside and buried it all deep enough to discourage metal prospectors. I began the long walk out to the Livingston Mill and my Forest Service pickup.

On the way I ran into 20 12-year-old hippies and two adult ones, all sweating in Boy Scout uniforms.

“It’s time you hippies learned some rules,” I said. “Don’t build any rafts or tables or chairs. Pick up your candy wrappers and pop-tops and tin cans. Don’t hatchet the trees.

Don’t shit on the lakeshore. If you break something, don’t leave it out here.”

“We’re not hippies,” said one of the scout leaders.

“Tell that to the FBI,” I snarled, and I arrested them all on the spot.

I made that last part up.

But you can forgive yourself for believing me, even for a second, because our country is an even more authoritarian place than it was in 1972. Service agencies, such as the Forest Service or BLM, have become police forces. Serving the public has become people management, which seldom serves people at all and often enough criminalizes them.

These days, people really are getting arrested for violating arbitrary forest rules. Not all of them are Boy Scouts.

I know authoritarian personalities need jobs like everyone else. But it’s better to have people behaving themselves because they want to rather than because they have to.

It’s cheaper and more effective to have forest garbage men than forest police. You still need to get young people out into the wild and let them make a few mistakes if you expect them to treat the world with respect as adults.

Walker Lake is a pleasant place these days.

Signs of humans are mostly gone, except for dusty campsites. Too many people still camp there, but they do pick up their own and others’ trash and pack it out. I like to think it all began with a long week of cleaning capped off by a giant, poisonous bonfire. Trash begets more trash—in wilderness and everyplace else. It helps when you get out there and get rid of it.

Lots of people insist that the White Clouds are a pristine place, but few of them understand that pristinity is a terribly human artifact in this world, one constructed from the bottom up and not from the top down.

It’s a useful thing to remember when we start drawing up the lines and rules that exclude one group or another from public land.

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NEWS

TOSSED WALDORF Hailey charter school snags as Boise sister school gains momentum

It cost $80,000 to move the Knudsen House two blocks down W. Franklin Street on Jan. 27.

HARRISON BERRY Everything was breaking the right way for Syringa Mountain School. The State Board of Education, Charter School Commission and officials at the city of Hailey had given a thumbs-up to the Waldorf-inspired charter school, and Syringa administrators had submitted their plan to the Hailey Planning and Zoning Commission. With an opening date set in September 2014, Syringa would bring jobs to Hailey and educational choice to Blaine County. That was before some area homeowners caught wind of it.

At a Jan. 13 meeting of the Hailey Planning and Zoning Commission, about 100 residents of the Sherwood Forest and China Gardens subdivisions—would-be neighbors of the school—attended to voice opposition to Syringa, worrying that the school would decrease property values, increase traffic and introduce farm animals—a component of Waldorf education—to the neighborhood.

“Our interest is to surround the kids with as much nature as possible,” said Dr. Mary Gervase, Syringa administrator.

City officials had concerns of their own.

The P&Z commission noted that increased traffic could damage the thoroughfare used by students and subdivision residents. Police officials said the school layout and landscaping would be a hinderance in the event of a school intruder.

“When you plan a school, you want to provide as few places where people can hide, shoot or rape children [as possible]. You have to think about the challenges schools are faced with,” said Hailey Community Development Director Micah Austin.

The meeting ended with the commission denying Syringa’s application to build at its proposed location and scheduled a meeting Monday, Feb. 10, at which it will consider changing Hailey’s school zoning ordinance from permitted uses to conditional uses.

The shift would allow the commission to evaluate proposed school permits based on a wider set of criteria, including increases in traffic volume, the number of children attending the school (Syringa officials would like to enroll up to 300 students, ages 6-14) and other factors.

“It just gives the city an added level of review process to ensure the impacts [of the school] are thoroughly studied before something is approved,” Austin said.

In a statement released by email following the Jan. 13 P&Z meeting, Gervase indicated that the school still plans to open its doors in BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

TWO BIG CHANGES FOR TWO HISTORIC BOISE HOMES

Would-be neighbors pushed back against the Syringa Mountain School’s plans for a new campus, saying the facility would decrease property values, increase traffic and introduce farm animals.

time for the 2014-15 school year—just not at the originally planned location.

“We are refocused on locating our temporary site and taking a deep breath and regrouping as we consider our future permanent site,” she wrote.

Meanwhile, Austin said Syringa will be a good addition to Hailey, providing jobs, cultural development and school choice to the area, and that the city is working closely with the charter school on its conditional use permit application.

“We really want these guys. This is a wonderful economic development opportunity for our city. In our valley, every job counts,” he said.

Prior to the P&Z hearing, the sailing was uncannily smooth for supporters of Syringa, which will be the first Waldorf method-inspired public charter school not only in Idaho, but any of its surrounding states. The school has raised $500,000 from the Pilaro family and another $250,000 through the Albertson Family Foundation, and it cruised through its Aug. 15, 2013, hearing with the Department of Ed’s Charter Commission, which voted unanimously to approve Syringa’s charter, in large part because of its promise to bring school choice to Blaine County.

Syringa is part of a trend toward charter school expansion in Idaho. Currently, 47 charter schools across Idaho serve 18,000 students (out of a statewide total K-12 population of about 285,000 students). In 2014, that number could rise to 19,000. So far, 100 children ages 6-11 have enrolled in Syringa, many of whom are coming from The Mountain School, a private Waldorf school in nearby Bellevue that will shut its doors in 2014. Another private Waldorf school, Sandpoint Waldorf School, serves students in North Idaho.

Syringa’s teaching method runs counter to many priorities of the State Department of

Education, including early childhood mathematics and reading skills, as well as immersion in classroom technology—a pet project of Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna. But an important part of Syringa’s appeal to state education officials is its offer of curriculum diversity and a laboratory for teaching methods.

“We’ve been able to learn a lot from some of the choices [charter schools] have brought forward. Any time a school has come up with an innovative idea, if it’s worked, it’s something we’re more than willing to share with other schools,” said Department of Education Communications Director Melissa McGrath.

Syringa’s progress from idea to reality was rapid despite the Waldorf teaching method’s emphasis on experiential learning over abstract learning and other pedagogies that contradict common practices at other public schools. But for education officials, it’s all about giving parents options.

“I think there’s a lot of interest in our community about this choice and I think that we’re integrating the arts, sustainability curriculum, garden skills, Spanish, music—that’s being approached in an integrated way,” Gervase said.

Elements of the Waldorf teaching method have long given educators and scholars pause. The first Waldorf school opened in Stuttgart, Germany, in 1919, and from the beginning, its philosophy has centered on holistic teaching, emphasizing ethics and creativity in balance with instruction in mathematics, sciences and reading. Its qualitative, rather than quantitative, assessment methods have fostered a sometimes tense relationship with mainstream education, with some critics claiming Waldorf pedagogy traded in pseudoscience and detrimentally delayed instruction of central concepts like abstract mathematics, reading 8 and technology.

The New Year is barely a month old and two historic Boise properties have dramatically changed: One has become victim to a wrecking ball, while another was shoved away by the Idaho Legislature’s desire for a parking ramp.

On a rather perfect August afternoon in 2013, Boise Weekly sat on the stoop of the century-old Knudsen House at 603 W. Franklin St., with trees lining the neighborhood street providing plenty of shade. But it was the shadow of the Idaho Statehouse, only a block-and-a-half away, that was providing little relief to John Bertram. That’s when the president of Preservation Idaho first used the word “bully.”

“I took a little flak for calling the state a ‘bully,’” Bertram told BW recently, “but we were given an ultimatum and we didn’t have any choice.”

BW readers will remember the dilemma caused by the 2013 Idaho Legislature’s decision to fast-track an $8 million, 600-space parking garage for its colleagues. The project included the state’s purchase of two properties, 603 W. Franklin—the Knudsen House— and another next door at 605 W. Franklin.

And the state wanted the homes gone sooner than later.

“It was an undoable deadline that was meant to fail from the beginning,” said Bertram.

And just to prove it meant business, the state’s wrecking ball destroyed 605 W. Franklin Aug. 29, 2013 (BW, Citydesk, “Knock, Knock. Who’s There? Crash,” Sept 4, 2013), and made it clear that they wanted 603. W. Franklin—the former home of Morris Knudsen, co-founder of Morrison Knudsen— cleared out by Dec. 31, 2013.

In spite of the pressure, Burr Boynton had a plan to save the Knudsen House by moving it to the 800 block of West Franklin. But there was a major wrinkle: The home sitting on the 800 block was also a historic structure.

“Yes, we went through another battle because, philosophically, you don’t want to tear down one historical building to put in another,” said Bertram.

Boise’s Historic Preservation Commission initially balked at the idea of tearing down the home in the 800 block, but the Boise City Council overrode that decision.

“I credit the Boise City Council for making that 5-1 decision to allow the move,” said Bertram. “I really see some plusses now.

We get to maintain the Knudsen house two blocks away, also in the city’s Hays Street Historic District.”

And indeed that’s what happened 8 Jan. 27, as Boiseans watched the

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BANK TO BANDITS: The Knudsen House rolls down W. Franklin. rare operation of moving a home from one address to another.

7 “Fifteen giant wheels on dollies below the house,” Boynton told BW, explaining the elaborate move. “I had a lot of confidence in Western States Movers; they worked on this project for three months and they’ve moved a lot of other houses. I was excited and only slightly nervous.”

But there is much work to be done at the Knudsen house’s new location.

“We have to pour the foundation, but we couldn’t pour it until the house was over the site. That’s when we’ll lower the house down,” said Boynton. “Then we have three or four months to update the building’s electrical and heating.”

The cost of moving? $80,000.

“The state offered to help with the costs,” said Boynton. “They offered $15,000.”

But Boynton is looking to the future, with hopes to bring the building back to life by the end of 2014.

“We have to finish off the inside of the house, building an ADA-compliant bathroom on the first level, landscaping, sidewalks and bringing the parking up to code,” he said. “I have a tentative agreement with a business— more of a nonprofit—that has expressed interest in moving in.”

Meanwhile, Bertram said he was still “having some real heartburn” over the loss of three homes in Boise’s Central Addition neighborhood. Two of the homes—416 and 420 S. Fourth St.—were extensively damaged when fire tore through the historic structures Nov. 8, 2013.

“But we really never knew that they were also going to tear down 414 S. Fourth Street as well,” said Bertram. “It was a total surprise when I walked by there just last week and saw that the third house was coming down.”

Boise’s Central Addition neighborhood was platted in 1890 and was once one of the city’s most prestigious areas—home to Idaho Supreme Court Justice George Stewart and Idaho Secretary of State Charles Bassett, who lived at 416 S. Fourth St. “I counted up the homes this morning. I think there were 13 historic houses in the Central Addition just two months ago, and now there are 10,” said Bertram.

He added that Boise citizens aren’t as quick in coming to the rescue of a historic landmark when it has fallen into disrepair.

“When we say, ‘Let’s save these old buildings,’ people aren’t too sympathetic,” he said.

“But when we get a chance to fix them up, people say, ‘It’s the best thing and we’re so glad to have these homes.’”

—George Prentice

‘You obviously forgot your ATM card, but the chain wasn’t necessary’ GEORGE PRENTICE What started out as a violent ATM robbery in McCall, including a shootout with Idaho law enforcement, has ended with two suspects behind bars and a McCall bank offering a bit of levity.

“You see, we try to help as many people as possible with their many financial needs,” Idaho First Bank officials wrote in a published statement addressed to the alleged robbers. “If you had just stopped by to visit one of our friendly loan officers, we probably would have worked something out.”

The “public notice” from Idaho First Bank appeared in the Winter Carnival edition of the McCall Star-News Jan. 23, with tongue planted firmly in cheek: “You obviously forgot your ATM card, but the chain wasn’t necessary.”

The bank was referring to a Jan. 10 incident where two men used a chain attached to a pickup to tear the door off an Idaho First Bank ATM and steal about $26,000. When law enforcement responded within minutes, one of the suspects allegedly turned a Ruger assault rifle on officers before fleeing.

The pair was arrested two days later in Orem, Utah, in connection with another ATM robbery, in Douglas, Wyo., on Dec. 8, 2013. Soon after their capture, authorities said 34-year-old Nathan Davenport and 39-year-old Matthew Annable were thought to be responsible for at least 20 ATM thefts across the United States during the past 16 months. In each case, the ATM thefts took

Idaho First Bank took out this advertisement in the Jan. 23 edition of McCall Star-News.

less than seven minutes, according to the FBI. That is, until they came to McCall.

“We were greatly flattered at your choice of banks,” wrote Idaho First. “However, we must strongly discourage any further anonymous borrowing. It was not the money, the principle of the whole thing. We need to talk

As a public—albeit alternative—school, Syringa will introduce computer learning to students at age 9 so they can partici7 pate in statewide standardized testing, and other contentious aspects of the Waldorf method, like spiritual development, have been downplayed.

“We are still going to follow the Waldorf methodology,” Gervase said. “Kids use technology at home; we’re just not choosing to use it as part of our curriculum at an early age.”

Interest in the alternative teaching method has reached Boise, where Julie Hairston is drawing inspiration and momentum from Syringa’s success for a sister charter school in the Treasure Valley: Dry Creek Farm and School.

“We can share festivals and community information, opportunities.

There’s so much opportunity; the sister school charter movement is the wave of the future,” Hairston said.

Application and fundraising processes for Dry Creek have already begun, and supporters are aiming for an opening date of fall 2015.

“Our next step is actually submitting our petition to the state of Idaho. We do have a goal; I believe we’ll have it submitted by April or May,” Hairston said.

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about your idea about full-service banking.

We are McCall’s friendly hometown bank, from the free cookies, licorice and coffee, to our sincere community involvement, to the genuine interest of our staff in our customers’ needs. But even we have to draw the line somewhere.”

Though fundraising for the school is just beginning, interest in a Boise Waldorf school is high. Hairston said she receives several emails and phone calls every day from people interested in making Dry Creek a reality, meetings in support of the school are held regularly and a Thursday, Jan. 30 film screening at Red Feather Lounge of The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner, a documentary about the Waldorf method’s founder, has long been sold out.

Hairston became a devotee of the Waldorf method when she and her husband moved to California for work and sought schools for their children. After a fruitless search, they “stumbled” over a Waldorf school tucked in the woods.

“My husband and I had never heard of Waldorf before,” sad Hairston. “We both had tears in our eyes when we left the school grounds.”

In Hailey—P&Z hiccups aside—Syringa still plans to convene classes in September, when it will begin teaching students as part of what Gervase sees as a larger movement.

“This is a national phenomenon,” she said. “I’m constantly hearing about new schools.”

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CITIZEN University of California at Berkeley. That was a very interesting, invigorating education for a somewhat conservative young man.

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Did you grow up in a conservative household?

Actually, we didn’t talk too much about politics. But when I walked onto campus, I registered to vote as a Republican.

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LYNN LUKER ‘I always tried to do things in the right order’

After graduating with a law degree from the U of I, where did you start out?

I clerked at the Idaho Supreme Court for Justice [Robert] Bakes for two years. Beyond that, I was in partnership with my good friend and mentor Jerry Goicoechea for about 17 years and I’ve been on my own since about 2000. I’ve shied away from big firms. I think I’m more independent.

GEORGE PRENTICE Four-term Boise Republican House Rep. Lynn Luker turned 60 this past August.

“I guess what that means is that life on earth takes on a different perspective,” he told Boise Weekly.

Indeed, Luker has had several perspectives in his 60 years: As a young boy, he watched America’s first astronauts launch into space from Cape Canaveral, Fla.; as a self-proclaimed conservative college student, he attended the liberal-leaning University of California at Berkeley and the University of Idaho law school; and for the better part of a decade, he has been an Idaho legislator.

The Eagle Scout, attorney, husband of 38 years, father of eight and grandfather of 16 sat down with BW to talk about his formative years, his concern with the health insurance exchange and his proposal to limit Idaho legislators to only one elected office.

Are you a native Idahoan?

I was born in Idaho Falls. My father worked for the Atomic Energy Commission— the precursor to the Idaho National Lab. We eventually moved to Florida, where my father worked for NASA. Those must have been the early years of the Mercury program.

That’s right. Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter and John Glenn. I was about 7 years old and the space program was as

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big as life. Eventually, NASA transferred my father out to Lompoc, Calif., where he was security administrator for the Western Missile Test Range. That’s where they would launch all of the satellites back then.

What was the big dream for you at the time?

I guess in the back of my mind, I thought about going to law school. I had a two-year mission in Southern Germany for the LDS church and when I returned, I went to the

A number of your colleagues have discovered over the years that it’s economically challenging to maintain their employment while serving in the Legislature.

I guess that’s part of my story. I always tried to do things in the right order. I had a significant part of my career behind me—I had paid off my bills, so financially, it wasn’t a stretch as it would be for a younger person.

Your legislative district [No. 15] moved a bit west during the last redistricting process.

What’s the best way to characterize your constituents?

It’s quite a mix. I think we picked up more suburban professionals. It’s definitely middleclass and fairly conservative.

Let’s talk about some key issues currently being debated. What’s your sense of how Idaho Core Standards are working?

There are a number of areas where I have concerns: No. 1, the testing; No. 2, the data collection; the third piece is curriculum; and No. 4 is the question of whether the tail is wagging the dog. I know the bus has left the barn on Idaho Core already, but we need to ask if we’re choosing our own curriculum or if we’re being dictated to by nationally approved testing.

Gov. Otter’s task force on education is pushing hard for 21 recommendations, and at the top of that list is restoration of funding to pre-recession levels.

I’m certainly supportive of that.

But that’s a chunk of money.

I know the governor said we can’t do it all it once, but adequate funding has to be our first priority.

You voted against the creation of an Idaho-based health insurance exchange in 2013.

It was a pretty close vote and you’ll remember it was a long debate but, yes, it did pass.

Do you expect an effort to overturn that vote?

Frankly, I don’t see the votes this year to undo the exchange. But I think we have a huge issue with security. One of the things that we put into last year’s bill was that the exchange had to certify that it was secure before they began taking applications. But it turns out those certifications came from the federal government and they weren’t worth the paper they were printed on.

You’re currently proposing that legislators shouldn’t be sitting on other elected panels.

Let’s say someone is sitting on a city council, a school board or a fire district.

Well, the Legislature is responsible for overall policies and you have to ask yourself whose interests would those dual-office holders represent. There’s going to have some conflict at that point.

How long do you want to continue serving in the Legislature?

It’s enjoyable and stimulating. But I do get concerned when we have bills and there are only lobbyists there to speak. So we really have to be on our toes to ask the right questions.

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“You just watch,” Tom Grote told Boise Weekly. “You just watch, and McCall will see record numbers of visitors in the next couple of days. The weather’s spectacular here and the weather’s terrible down in the Treasure Valley. Who wouldn’t want to be here?

You just watch.”

And watch we did, as McCall—which shrinks to an approximate population of 1,800 full-time residents in the winter months, swelled to thousands as if it were the Fourth of July. But revelers know all too well that it’s late Januar y and it’s time to celebrate all things winter.

Maybe Grote was right: Maybe it was the sunsplashed weather, maybe it was the expert snow sculptures—some of the best in recent memory; or maybe it was the joyous chaos that disguises itself as a Mardi Gras parade. Longtime McCall residents and annual visitors agreed it was probably all of the above: They had never seen such a crush of happy but sniffling faces to get a glimpse of the 2014 McCall Winter Carnival.

Grote should know; he’s seen more than three decades of winter carnivals since taking the reins of the McCall Star-News in 1983. Equal parts newspaper editor and carnival fan club president, Grote held down the fort at his McCall office, eagerly handing out guides and maps of the carnival. Outside his window, just a few feet away, stood a giant ice hockey player—and we truly mean “ICE” hockey player, since the humongous defenseman was frozen solid—one of 25 ice and snow sculptures that dot McCall’s landscape this week. Spectators will find a giant cupcake here, a Volkswagen bug there, a giant bear fishing for ice-carved salmon in a frozen stream, and more than a half dozen sea creatures (Nemo and SpongeBob were particular hits this year).

But 2014’s real show-stopper is a Grand Prize Winner: “Pharaoh’s Tomb,” sponsored by the McCall Chamber of Commerce and built alongside the Hunt Lodge on McCall’s Third Street. The giant sphinx is a wonder to behold, and as visitors walked inside the sphinx, exclamations of “Wow!” and “I can’t believe this!” could be heard echoing from its interior. Inside the sphinx are story-high ice walls of hieroglyphics, two life-size frozen mummies and, at the center of the “tomb,” a beautiful snow-sculptured sarcophagus, glowing with light.

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The Pharaoh’s Tomb is so dazzling, that it’s hard to believe that the sculpture didn’t claim the second and third place prize trophies as well. And it’s so massive that it’s a pretty fair bet that some of the ice will still be melting come Easter.

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GRAND PRIZE WINNER: “PHAROAH’S TOMB,” BUILT ALONGSIDE HUNT LODGE, 210 N. THIRD STREET, MCCALL.

BEST CHILD APPEAL PRIZE: “WHALE, SEA CREATURES AND SPONGEBOB,” BUILT NEAR RIDLEY’S FAMILY MARKET, 411 DEINHARD LANE, MCCALL.

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SECOND PLACE PRIZE: “WONDERS DOWN UNDER,” BUILT ALONGSIDE KRAHN’S HOME FURNISHINGS, 211 E. LAKE STREET, MCCALL.

THIRD PLACE PRIZE: “THE GREAT WALL,” BUILT ALONGSIDE TOLL STATION, 409 RAILROAD AVENUE, MCCALL.

HONORABLE MENTION: “ARCTIC WONDERS,” BUILT IN ALPINE VILLAGE, 616 N. THIRD STREET, MCCALL. 12 | JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 4, 2014 | BOISEweekly

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FIRST TIMERS AWARD: “8TH WONDER OF THE WORLD OF CAKES,” BUILT ALONGSIDE STACEY CAKES, 136 E. LAKE STREET, MCCALL.

MOST PHOTOGENIC PRIZE: “GUARDIAN ANGELS AMONG US,” BUILT ALONGSIDE THE MILL & BESIDE THE MILL, 323 N. THIRD STREET, MCCALL.

“THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMAN,” BUILT ALONGSIDE MOUNTAIN LAKES REALTY, MAY HARDWARE AND MCCALL BREWING, N. THIRD STREET, MCCALL. BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

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A WHITMAN SAMPLER OF SILLINESS

know the drill: yelp and you’ll get candy.

First-timers to the McCall Winter Carnival have a bad habit of asking: “What time does the parade start?” But veteran carnival-ites know the only appropriate answer is, “It will get here when it gets here.” After all, what’s the rush? You’ve already spent the better part of two hours on Idaho 55; by some stroke of major luck, you’ve secured one of the few parking spaces in downtown McCall; you’re bundled up like Randy (“I can’t put my arms down”) from A Christmas Story; and now you’re freezing your toes off waiting for a parade. There’s really only one rational piece of advice: chill.

The Mardi Gras parade is actually more of a rolling Whitman Sampler of silliness. There are Miss and Mrs. Idaho and a bevy of rodeo queens perched on pickups; the local middle school’s football team unsuccessfully tries to highfive people who would rather keep their hands in their pockets; some senior Samba dancers bounce to “Hot, Hot, Hot”; someone from the local wildlife sanctuary marches through town with a full evergreen tree strapped to his back; the high-school marching band does not, in fact, march—instead its members sit on a rolling flatbed truck; and a Treasure Valley rock-hauling company pulls a load of... well… giant rocks. It’s as kitschy as it is charming and, no doubt, thousands will brave the cold again next year for the same chaos. But please, don’t ask when it starts. In fact, it’s usually over too soon.

The Winter Carnival Mardi Gras Parade does indeed arrive each year on the opening Saturday—it’s usually noonish—and tons of Mardi Gras beads are tossed in your face and tons of sugar are handed to hundreds of children who

THE MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL MARDI GRAS PARADE STARTS PROMPTLY AT NOON...ISH.

MOUNTAIN SAMBA TOOK FIRST PRIZE IN THE “BEST DRILL TEAM COMPETITION.”

THE MCCALL ROTARY CLUB EXCHANGE SENDS SOME OF VALLEY COUNTY’S BRIGHTEST KIDS ACROSS THE GLOBE AS EXCHANGE STUDENTS.

NEMO RAN THROUGH MUCH OF THE PARADE, TRYING TO AVOID THE JAWS OF THIS “KILLER WHALE,” WHICH DOUBLES AS A GOLF CART COME SUMMERTIME.

ROCK AND ROLL: A MERIDIAN-BASED ROCK HAULING COMPANY PROUDLY DISPLAYED ITS... UM, ROCKS... ON ITS MARDI GRAS FLOAT.

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IT’S ALL ABOUT THE BEADS AND THE CANDY AT THE MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL MARDI GRAS PARADE.

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Pleasantly pulped.

SATURDAY FEB. 1 You’re never too young to rock.

papier chase SCIENCE SATURDAYS: PAPER MAKING

THURSDAY JAN. 30 carry on my wayward son BOISE ROCK SCHOOL SESSIONS For folks younger than 21, seeing live music around town can be difficult. With most venues catering to the drinking-age demographic, The Crux is one of the few places that welcomes music lovers of all ages, which is why it makes perfect sense Boise Rock School decided to make it the venue of choice for spring gigs. All performers are students from Boise Rock School, and though images of Jack Black windmilling power chords for pre-teens comes to mind, these rockers aren’t led by an over-the-hump man-child trying to relive his glory days; students from the school form bands and write their own original music, along with learning cover songs.

Each show lasts three hours, with the first hour set aside for open mic, where any student can take the stage. The final two hours are reserved for group performance.

Boise Rock School believes that getting kids together to make original music in a group setting is the best method of teaching—and maybe their youthful energy and enthusiasm will inspire the adults to dust off the old drum set and make some music, too.

Founded in 2008, Boise Rock School accepts students as young as 3 years old and offers a variety of classes, including after-school courses and summer camps, in which they learn how to play instruments, write songs and record and produce music.

6-9 p.m. FREE.The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, facebook.com/ thecruxcoffeeshop.

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If your dancing looks less like raising the roof and more like a medical emergency, take heart: Your moment to shine is just around the corner at the third annual Boise’s Best Bad Dancer competition. Continuing with tradition, Liquid Lounge will host the city’s most uncoordinated movers and shakers. Past competitions produced clas-

No matter how you cut it, paper is a miracle. In the second century C.E., a Chinese eunuch invented the modern pulping process, reducing the Imperial Court’s reliance on silk for official documents—and increasing supplies of textiles available for trade. Today, despite innovations like email and text messaging, no communique has the same feel as one written on paper.

The distinct pleasure of reading and writing on paper may be a little hard to grasp, especially for a kid who came of age with an iPad in hand. That’s why the Discovery Center, as part of its Science Saturdays program, is hosting Paper Making. From 9 a.m.-noon for kids grades 1-3, and from 1-4 p.m. for grades 4-6, children learn about the industry of paper making. They’ll get up-close and personal with different kinds of paper, where they come from and how they’re made. Then they’ll make paper of their own using recycled materials.

The Cabin Executive Director Britt Udesen, who took up papermaking and printing at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts, The Sun Valley Center for the Arts, and Textile Center of Minnesota, teaches the class.

9 a.m.-noon and 1 p.m-4 p.m. $25 for DCI or Cabin members, $30 nonmembers. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 W. Myrtle Street, 208343-9895, dcidaho.org.

sic moves such as the worm, sprinkler, shuffle and too many ill-advised rump shakes to mention. This year, contestants will need to dig deep and aim high— or low, as the case may be—in order to wow the discerning crowd and judges. After all, this is 2014, when the tried and true foot-kick/thumb-thrust combo just won’t be enough to win.

Last year’s winner, known only by the stage name Polish Prancer, walked off with a cool $100 in cash, plus tickets to various events. Even more, he earned the quiet assurance that he was most certainly Boise’s best of the worst.

With more than $700 in cash and prizes at stake in this year’s competition, a public display of questionable talents might well be worth it. Although a

panel of judges will decide who is crowned Boise’s next Best Bad Dancer, the coveted crowd favorite award remains open to anyone with the courage to claim it. Sign-ups for the limited number of competitor slots will begin at 6:30 p.m.

8 p.m. $7 general, FREE for contestants. Entry space is limited. Dancer sign-up at 6:30 p.m. Liquid Laughs, 405 S. Eighth St., 208-941-2495, bestbaddancer.com.

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YONANAS! Slide, slide, slippity slide.

MONDAY-WEDNESDAY FEB. 3-5 jaw dropping BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL Every year, Boise gets a grip of films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival. In a lot of ways, the festival peddles the familiar to denizens of the Mountain West: jagged, snowy mountains; extreme sports and daring feats; exceptional personalities.

For a one-day ($14-$18) or three-day pass ($48), you can get your fill of some of the best adventure and extreme sports footage the world has to offer.

On Monday, Feb. 3, seek whitewater Nirvana with Cascada, followed by Keeper of the Mountains, chronicling Elizabeth Hawkey’s adventures in the Himalayas; and Heaven’s Gate, in which Jeb Corliss drops from a helicopter and soars in a wingsuit through a sacred cave under Tianmen Mountain, China.

The evening closes with excerpts from Stand, the story of the people of the Great Bear Rainforest, and ski film Into the Mind.

On Tuesday, Feb. 4, follow four riders’ cycle-bound tomfoolery in NotBad; watch as ultra-runner Ryan Sandes tries to break a speed record in The Beauty of the Irrational; see scientists go toad hunting in Return to the Tepuis; check out two Norwegian adventurers spending a winter in a cabin made of beach rubble in North of the Sun; and see a view from above in climbing movies Spice Girl, High Tension and 35.

The festival closes Wednesday, Feb. 5, with mountain bike action in Flow: The Elements of Freeride, ice harvesting in The Last Ice Merchant, Olympic equality in Ready to Fly, fire-blazed ski runs in The Burn, gnarly mountain biking in Sea of Rock, Antarctic climbing in The Last Great Climb and linking California’s tallest peaks by bike in Sufferfest.

7 p.m. $14-$48. Egyptian Theatre, 700 Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, banffcentre.ca.

Distracted artists may find the sublime workspace they’ve been looking for at The Arcade Building, a space dedicated to creative pursuits. Described as “a sanctuary for creative souls,” the Arcade Building offers artists of all flavors a place where they can “shut out the world and make relishing in their reveries a priority.”

The brainchild of local

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fashion photographer Erika Astrid and visual artist Mindi Burt, the Arcade Building supplies artists with budgetconscious workspaces, as well as a platform to collaborate, promote, showcase and sell their own work.

Along with flexible studio space thoughtfully geared to accommodate almost any size project or timeline, the Arcade has an in-house yoga

Parse the peacemakers at Boise State University.

TUESDAY FEB. 4-23 three wise men GANDHI, KING AND IKEDA What do an Indian nationalist, an American civil rights leader and a Buddhist philosopher have in common? While this may sound like the set-up to a joke, it’s actually a question Boise State University invites you to answer.

Gandhi, King, Ikeda: A Legacy of Building Peace is an exhibition of photographs exploring and reflecting the connections and common themes in the lives of three of the greatest peacemakers in history.

The series, which begins Tuesday, Feb. 4 with a lecture from Dr. Lawrence Carter on Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. and Daisaku Ikeda, has been presented in dozens of cities across the country during the past few years, and covers the three leaders’ early careers and significant moments which highlight their importance in shaping the 20th century.

Carter, dean of the M.L. King Jr. International Chapel at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., will present the Gandhi, King, Ikeda Award at a ceremony in the Boise State Student Union Building’s Jordan Ballroom from 3:30-5 p.m., Monday, Feb. 3, followed by a gallery reception from 5 p.m.-7 p.m.

The show runs through Sunday, Feb. 23.

3:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State University Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, 208-426-1242, finearts. boisestate.edu/events.

studio, with low-cost drop-in classes suitable for all levels of experience. For a firsthand look, there’s a grand opening celebration on Saturday, Feb. 1. It’s open to all ages, and will feature Guru Donuts and Grace Organics coffee, give-

Our favorite Christmas 2013 present— and latest obsession—is Yonanas.

If the concept weren’t so simple and the end result so delicious, we’d be skeptical, but we recently had a Yonanas taste-test in the Boise Weekly newsroom and we’re hooked.

Retailing for around $49.99 yonanas.com (trust us, it’s worth it), the Yonanas maker is the brainchild of the Dole fruit empire, which makes sense since the primary ingredient of most Yonanas recipes is a banana.

The three-step process to a delicious frozen treat couldn’t be easier: When your bananas start to get those leopard spots that let you know they’re overripe, peel them and stick them in the freezer until they’re good and frozen. Combine with your other favorite fruits (strawberries, raspberries, melon, whatever), thaw for about 15 minutes, insert the frozen fruits into the Yonanas chute and presto… out come some pretty amazing frozen desserts. You can even add some frozen chocolate chips or cookie crumbles.

The thing that’s most amazing is how creamy the Yonanas desserts are, yet you haven’t added any dairy, let alone sugar or artificial ingredients.

Yonanas has also come out with a sleek looking “elite” model that retails for $129.99, but no worries—the basic model is just swell. Everything except the motor is dishwasher safe and making Yonanas is easy enough, and healthy enough, for children to make their own treats.

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aways, discounts in the clothing shop and live music from Virgil and Taylor Hawkins.

6 p.m. FREE. The Arcade Building, 1615 W. State St., 208-477-1615, thearcadebuilding.net.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY JAN. 29 Festivals & Events MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL—Enjoy this celebration of all things winter, including Carnival favorites like fireworks, the Mardi Gras Parade, the Children’s Torchlight Parade, live music,and snow sculptures. See Page 10.

Through Feb. 2. mccallchamber.org.

SUICIDE HOTLINE INFO/SCREENING SESSIONS—The Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline is looking for caring individuals with good communication skills to join the volunteer crisis phone responder team. Contact Nina Leary to RSVP and receive your application before attending the session at Nleary@ mtnstatesgroup.org or 208-258-6992.

6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Mountain States Group, 1607 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-258-6992, mtnstatesgroup.org.

On Stage

REAL TALK COMEDY WORKSHOP— Refine your comedy routine and stay for the free comedy show. 6 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

WARREN: THOSE PEOPLE—This comedy is set in the Warren, Mich., living room of Rose MacBeth Ericson, who forges an unlikely friendship with a man named Dano. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Talks & Lectures

RAISE THE MINIMUM WAGE WITH ANNE NESSE—The author of the voter initiative to raise the minimum wage in Idaho will discuss the feasibility, practicality and importance of providing a sustainable living wage for Idaho workers. In the SUB’s Bergquist Lounge.

Get more info at website. 6:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, Bergquist Lounge, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-INFO, raiseidaho.org.

IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. SANTA CRUZ WARRIORS—7 p.m. $8-$380. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

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BOISE’S MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL— See Wednesday. Visit mccallchamber.org for more info.

On Stage ACCOMPLICE—This fast-paced British comedy thriller will keep you guessing until the end. Adults only. Dinner and show only on Friday and Saturday; order tickets at least one day in advance on website. All other tickets available at door or online.

Continues through Feb. 22, 6:15 p.m. $18-$39.

Knock ’Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL SESSIONS—Enjoy performances by Boise Rock School students and chances to rock out with an open mic. See Picks, Page 16. 6-9 p.m. FREE. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, facebook. com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

WARREN: THOSE PEOPLE—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Kids & Teens 3-D PRINTING CLUB FOR TEENS AND TWEENS— Travis and Hailey will be on hand to demonstrate the basics of 3-D design. Opportunities to print original designs available on Thursdays. 4:30-6 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

FRIDAY JAN. 31 Festivals & Events BOISE HIGH BENEFIT CONCERT—The Boise High School Chamber Orchestra presents its 15th annual benefit concert, featuring State Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb and Dr. Del Parkinson. Advance tickets available at website or 208-854-4318. 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. Boise High School, 1010 Washington St., Boise, 208-854-4270, boisehighstrings.com.

BOISE’S BEST BAD DANCER III—Bad dancers get 60 seconds to wow the crowd and a panel of judges. The top three and audience favorite win cash and prizes totaling more than $700 and a coveted BBBD Jive Turkey trophy. Dancer sign-ups 6:30–8 p.m. (no entry fee required). For 21 and older. Buy tickets online at bestbaddancer.com. See Picks, Page 16. 8 p.m. $7. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL—See Wednesday. Visit mccallchamber.org for more info. Through Feb. 2.

On Stage ACCOMPLICE—See Thursday. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: NOSTALGIA—Pay tribute to the sultry side of the past with burlesque, aerial arts, comedy and live music from Frim Fram 4. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, redlightvarietyshow.com.

WARREN: THOSE PEOPLE—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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8 DAYS OUT Sports & Fitness IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. L.A. D-FENDERS—7 p.m. $8-$380.

CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

ZUMBA—Start the night with an Ophidia Studio dance performance followed by Zumba class.

6:30 p.m. $10. China Blue, 100 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-3459515, chinabluenightclub.com.

Religious/Spiritual ACA 12 STEP SUPPORT GROUP—Adult Children of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families provides a place to share stories. This is an open group. 6 p.m. FREE. Collister Methodist Church, 4400 E. Taft, Boise, adultchildren.org.

REFUGE RECOVERY—The Fire Lotus Recovery Group will investigate Buddhist principles applied to recovery from addiction of all kinds. The group will meet every Friday evening in the Gallery Room. For more info call or visit website. 5:30 p.m. FREE/ donation. Owyhee Plaza, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-649-4624, heartofdharma.org.

Odds & Ends GURU DONUTS POP-UP SHOP— Enjoy a selection of fresh-made donuts, maple-bacon bars, fritters and more. Call ahead to pre-order by the dozen or just show up at the shop. 7:30-11 a.m. $2-$3.

Guru Donuts, The Garro Building, 816 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208571-7792, gurudonuts.com.

revalleyfoodcoalition.org.

Odds & Ends

Arts

Literature

On Stage

LAST CALL TRIVIA—8 p.m.

FREE. Solid, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-6620, solidboise. com.

GANDHI, IKEDA AND KING—Reflect on the legacies of three civil rights heroes with this photographic exhibition. See Picks, Page 17. 3:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, 208-426-1242, finearts. boisestate.edu/events.

SLAM OF STEEL FEATURING CECILY SCHULER—Poetry workshop, followed by slam at 7 p.m. Sponsored by Big Tree Arts and Boise City Department of Arts & History. 6 p.m. $5, $1 students with ID. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213, facebook.com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

SATURDAY FEB. 1

ACCOMPLICE—See Thursday. $18-$39. Knock ’Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

Festivals & Events

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: NOSTALGIA—See Friday. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, redlightvarietyshow.com.

ARCADE BUILDING GRAND OPENING—Celebrate the opening of Boise’s newest arts collective with apps by Guru Donuts and Grace Organics coffee, as well as giveaways, discounts and live music by Virgil and Taylor Hawkins. See Picks, Page 16. 6 p.m. FREE. The Arcade Building, 1615 W. State St., 208-4771615, thearcadebuilding.net.

MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL—See Wednesday. Visit mccallchamber.org for more info.

TOMATO INDEPENDENCE PROJECT KICKOFF—Celebrate the successful 2013 Tomato Independence Project campaign and learn about 2014 events. This year, the Treasure Valley Food Coalition will focus on tomato preservation. Saucy Saturday will feature sauces prepared by the chefs of Bittercreek, Boise Co-Op, Cafe Vicino and The Modern, using preserved local tomatoes from the 2013 harvest. RSVP at treasurevalleyfoodcoalition@ gmail.com. 2 p.m. FREE. Edwards Greenhouse, 4106 Sand Creek St., Boise, 208-342-7548, treasu-

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WARREN: THOSE PEOPLE— See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15.

Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Sports & Fitness IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. L.A. D-FENDERS—7 p.m. $8-$380.

CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

Kids & Teens CANYON COUNTY KIDS EXPO— Enjoy a day of all kinds of fun activities and events, including slides, fun houses, face painting, petting zoo, dance classes, crazy clowns, mystical magicians and extreme karate demonstrations.

10 a.m.-6 p.m. $2 for kids 16 and younger, $4 adults. Ford Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa, 208-468-1000, idahocenter.com.

SCIENCE SATURDAYS: PAPER MAKING—Kids ages 7-12 learn about paper and make some of their own through a series of demonstrations and activities.

See Picks, Page 16. 9 a.m.-noon. $25-$30. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, dcidaho.org.

Odds & Ends BOOMER SHACK—The newest addition to the Limelight nightclub is geared toward those who love to dance, but feel too young for the senior center and too mature for the downtown nightclub scenes. Regulars will enjoy a fun atmosphere with dance lessons from Martha Bradford at 9:15 p.m. and live music by the Triple R Band until 2 a.m. Between sets, ballroom dance with music by a DJ. 9 p.m. $8. Limelight, 3575 E. Copper Point Way, Meridian, 208-898-9425.

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Festivals & Events MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL—See Wednesday. Visit mccallchamber.org for more info.

MONDAY FEB. 3 Screen BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL—Check out some choice selections from the famous Canadian film fest. Runs through Wednesday, Feb. 5. See Picks, Page 17. 7 p.m. $14-$48. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, banffcentre.ca.

Workshops & Classes NAMPA ART GUILD MONDAY NIGHT DEMOS—Unleash your inner artist with the art guild. First Monday of every month, 7:30 p.m. $5. Nampa Valley Grange, Fifth Avenue and Second Street South, Nampa.

Religious/Spiritual

WEDNESDAY FEB. 5 On Stage RECYCLED MINDS IMPROV COMEDY SHOW—Improv comedy every other Wednesday through Feb. 19. Call 208-6583000 for tickets. 7 p.m. $12. AEN Playhouse, 8001 Franklin Road, Boise, 208-658-3000, aenplayhouse.com.

WARREN: THOSE PEOPLE— See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15 Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Workshops & Classes

TUESDAY FEB. 4 Workshops & Classes HP LIFE: PROJECT MANAGEMENT—This class introduces the start-up entrepreneur to project management for planning, executing and controlling a large-scale project. Speakers: Certified HP LIFE Trainers Kim ShermanLabrum and Jane DeChambeau.

For more info, email klabrum@ boisestate.edu. 6:30-9:30 p.m. $20.50. Boise State Micron Business and Economics Building, 2360 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

LIVING WELL IN IDAHO—Living with diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease, COPD, arthritis, depression, or any other chronic health condition? Learn how to manage your conditions in this six-part workshop. Scholarships available. For more info visit website. 2-4:30 p.m. $50. Humphreys Diabetes Center, 1226 River St., Boise, 208-331-1155, fiaboise.org.

ART WITHOUT BOUNDARIES— People with motor or cognitive challenges are invited to a free Art Without Boundaries session, which is a whole-brain therapy that uses music, movement, storytelling and painting to improve and restore verbal skills, mobility and comprehension. To schedule a session, contact Mary at art4all.mary@ gmail.com. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

FREE. Good Samaritan Society Boise Village, 3115 Sycamore Drive, Boise, 208-859-6231, goodsam.com.

CRYSTAL/GEMSTONE INFO/ HEALING SERIES—A weekly series with classes on crystal and gemstone basics, care and programming of crystals and gemstones, traditional and contemporary uses, healing uses, and grids, gazing and rituals. Taught

by Rev. Linda Barlow. 7 p.m. $15.

Boise Holistic and Metaphysical Coop, 1615 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-429-6393, boiseholisticcoop. com.

Odds & Ends BIOTZETIK BASQUE CHOIR— You don’t have to speak Basque and there are no tryouts. The choir meets at Bishop Kelly High School. Please call or email averquiaga@hotmail.com for more info. 6 p.m. FREE, 208-853-0678.

Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Road, Boise, bk.org.

Odds & Ends SCRABBLE GAME NIGHT—6 p.m. FREE. Barnes & Noble, 1315 N. Milwaukee, Boise, 208-3754454, barnesandnoble.com.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

ILLUSTRATION BY ZACH HAGADONE

Literature PARTNERS IN CRIME WRITING GROUP—Each meeting includes a presentation by an author, teacher, crime specialist, agent, editor or others who can offer something of interest to writers of mystery and crime stories. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Sports & Fitness IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. TEXAS LEGENDS—7 p.m. $8-$380.

CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

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NEWS/ARTS PATR IC K S W EENEY

ARTS/CULTURE M ATTHEW W OR DELL

ENCOUNTERING CHERYL SHURTLEFF Get your Modern Art submissions ready.

ART ON STAGE, ART IN THE HOTEL Daisy’s Madhouse and the Idaho Foodbank are once again presenting their annual play festival at Boise Little Theater. Will Act 4 Food is a wild ride of seven one-act plays that take audiences across the spectrum, touching down on everything from tragedy to comedy, suspense and the absurd. And there’s a twist: The playwrights, directors and actors putting on these plays have only 24 hours to create 10-minute performances. Writers are given their assignments at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, and 12 hours later, rehearsals begin a curtain call at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 1. Tickets are $15 and available at willact4food.org.

Proceeds benefit The Idaho Foodbank.

After watching Will Act 4 Food race against the clock, you can sit back and enjoy a more classic take on theater when the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 7 comes to the Boise State University campus Monday, Feb.17-Friday, Feb. 21. The festival will feature some of the best in college theater productions from around the Northwest, including the Boise State Theater Department performance of Anton Chekhov’s Three Sisters; a preview of a new play

by Idaho’s own Samuel D. Hunter; and a keynote speech by playwright, essayist and spoken-word performer Idris Goodwin (How We Got On, Blackademics). Regional awards for Outstanding Production of a Play, Outstanding Choreography and Outstanding Direction will be presented, with the winners invited to the KCACTF national festival in Washington, D.C., in April. For more information, visit kcactf.org.

If after seeing all of that theater art inspires you to hole up in a room and create, here’s your chance—you just have to leave the door open to thousands of visitors. The Modern Hotel has put out a call to artists for the seventh annual Modern Art, set for First Thursday, May 1. Artists working in any medium—painting, sculpture, performance, video, sound, etc.—are invited to apply, and submission forms will be available beginning Monday, Feb. 3, online at themodernhotel.com/modern-art and at front desk of the Modern, 1314 W. Grove St. —Ashley Miller

Work of local artist and academic celebrated at Boise State HARRISON BERRY From the tortoise and the hare to Fantastic Mr. Fox, stories have used animals as proxies for human behavior. In those stories animals fear, wonder, love and, importantly for Boise artist Cheryl Shurtleff, talk. In her exhibition, titled Encounters, which opens at the Visual Arts Center Gallery 2, Hemingway Center at Artist and longtime (retired) Boise State University instructor Cheryl Shurtleff’s work Boise State University Thursday, Jan. 30, Shurwill be on display at the Visual Arts Center. tleff compellingly explores animal consciousmale professors. Shurtleff’s methods somethey’re often out of proportion to each other ness through graphite and charcoal drawings. in terms of size. It’s a detail few viewers catch. times diverged from her colleagues’—she The artworks that compose Encounters didn’t use a nude model during drawing “A lot of people aren’t bothered by that, span much of Shurtleff’s 35-plus years as an class—and brought to the department new that the scale is inappropriate,” she said. artist and art educator—she retired from the perspectives on teaching and art theory.

Despite the clear inspiration and technical Boise State Art Department in 2013—and “I thought students should be exploring. offers an in-depth exploration of animals, how prowess of these small works, Shurtleff prefers There was a romantic notion of what an artist to draw on a larger scale, but after she was they think and how they experience emotion. was,” she said. diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis in 1995, Foxes, rabbits, birds and other animals float Over the years, the number of women her drawings became smaller, particularly through black-as-coal voids, their expressions teaching in the department increased, as did since the mid-2000s. “Spring War,” a 73-inch acknowledging each other and anyone who the diversity of the work produced by profesmight be watching. Like Shurtleff, they’re ves- by 50-inch charcoal drawing made in 2003, features long, smooth strokes and fluid transi- sors and graduates. Driek Zirinsky, a Boise sels of intense energy. art collector whose collection includes several tions between shades.

“I like things that are odd and full of tenof Shurtleff’s pieces and who sought tenure at “Really, the charcoal sion,” she said. about the same time as Shurtleff, recalls their was flying. I go around and Her series of 5-inch by ENCOUNTERS early years as a time of change in American around until I get it as black 4-inch graphite pieces place academia, in which women were beginning to as I can,” she said. animals of disproportionate Opens Thursday, Jan. 30, runs through Thursday, Feb. 27 achieve parity with their male peers.

Four years later, she prosize in a state of drift through “This was a seismic shift in American sociduced the 68-inch by 50-inch charcoal vacua, demonstratOpening reception Friday, Feb. ety,” Zirinsky said. charcoal drawing “Taxidering that tension in sharp 7, 6-8 p.m.

As a collector, Zirinsky groups Shurtleff’s miphobia,” which she drew relief: Huge rabbits glance Boise State Visual Arts Center, in extreme pain as an arthritic art with contemporary artists like Robert at sparrows; a rat observes a Gallery 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110 Longo, Chuck Close and Xu Bing for their bone in her shoulder rubbed shooting star. In these drawpolished styles and cultivated artistic visions. against the muscles and ings, though they are juxtaThe gallery is open MondayThursday 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday “It’s the strength of it, the skill, the origitendons in her arm. The damposed in stasis, her animals’ 10 a.m.-3 p.m. nality—it’s superb, mature work. I’m told I age caused to her arm and inner worlds are invoked Boise State University, 1910 collect obsessive artists,” Zirinsky said. shoulder during that period through body language and University Drive, boisestate.edu Shurtleff’s perfectionism, as much as her prevents Shurtleff from raisfacial expressions. aesthetics and themes, has imprinted itself on ing her right arm above her “I’m interested in the comshoulder—sometimes she has hundreds of young art students. Some of them positions of the two animals are professional artists today, including Boise to prop it up to shake people’s hands. in the blackness,” she said.

State Gallery Director Kirsten Furlong, who “Some of the strokes are less fluid, more Shurtleff has been drawn to themes of anidescribed Shurtleff as a mentor. chunky. The lines just kind of hurt,” Shurmal dialogue and consciousness since she was While Furlong and Shurtleff frequently protleff said. a child, and the small graphite drawings are Future works, she said, will likely be larger duce art that deals with natural themes, it was an expression of ideas that struck her as she than her graphite animal drawings but smaller “Magic Power,” a 61-inch by 87-inch graphite flipped through stories by Uncle Remus and drawing of letters and graphics which Furlong Aesop, and looked at pictures by 19th century than “Taxidermiphobia” or “Spring War,” and she’s looking forward to dedicating herself saw as part of a 1998 Boise Art Museum illustrators like Charles Bennett, A.B. Frost, exhibition of Shurtleff’s work, that awakened to her art after retiring from academic work.

J.J. Grandville and Wilhelm von Kaulbach. her to Shurtleff’s style. For Furlong, as it is for “I had enough money in my retirement Close examination of the drawings reveals Zirinsky, it was Shurtleff’s ability to focus on Shurtleff’s process, which she begins by draw- fund and I wanted to be an artist full time. something small while producing a large work ing her subjects on two sheets of tracing paper. It scared me but so far I haven’t had any of art that inspired. regrets,” she said.

Then she arranges them in relation to each “I was really taken by that work. You Shurtleff joined the faculty of Boise State’s other on a sheet of paper and fills in the space almost have to get really close and see things Art Department in 1978. At the time, the between with thousands of pencil strokes. on that smaller scale,” Furlong said. department consisted of a tight-knit group of Shurtleff positions her subjects exactly, but

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NOISE/NEWS C AR LY JO M AIU R O

CULTURE/NOISE DONALD R EYNOLDS

Would you believe these guys got banned from Motel 6 in Twin Falls? Yeah... you should.

Japanese punk pioneer Hide Fujiwara (far left) is bringing Ultra Bidé to Boise.

SONIC CRASH Ultra Bidé brings the noise from Japan BEN SCHULTZ zine (the Japanese equivalent of Playboy).

About a year ago, Kyoto, Japan-based He was already playing in bands, but after musician Hide Fujiwara went to New York hearing groups like pioneering synthesizer City. He met up with his friend and former duo Suicide, he moved away from prog-rock manager Ron Burman, whom he hadn’t seen toward a choppier, more abrasive sound—in in 10 years. Fujiwara’s English wasn’t great, his words, “Not many technique but cool, Burman recalled, but he gave ample proof simple style.” that he still knew how to use the F-bomb.

Prior to punk, Fujiwara said, he listened to “Every other word was that,” Burman “classic technician music only. Impossible to said, chuckling. “You just crack up because play that. … [It was] all controlled by the mahe has such a limited vocabulary, but he’s jor record companies. So when I heard about very expressive with his limited vocabuthis kind of stuff, [I thought] ‘Yeah, maybe I lary.” The same could be said of Fujiwara’s can make a record, too.’” musicianship.

Fujiwara found like-minded people over “When I started keyboard-playing, I was time. The original 1978 lineup of Ultra Bidé in high school,” Fujiwara said. “I’m not included Jojo Hiroshige, who founded the good technically for playing keyboard as seminal Japanese noise band Hijokaidan in Rick Wakeman [of Yes] or Keith Emerson 1979 and the independent label Alchemy [of Emerson, Lake and Palmer].” But then he Records in 1984 (it released the LP The discovered Roxy Music and Brian Eno, who Original Ultra Bidé that same year). After “never talked about [playing] keyboard, just growing tired of rock’s increasing trendiness using it for making noise. I loved that.” in Japan—as he put it, “just cool people have Fujiwara has approached music in that the rock and roll”—Fujiwara moved to New same unconventional spirit for more than 30 York in 1985, hoping to delve years. This past October, his deeper into the music that noise-punk band Ultra Bidé had inspired him. He tinkered released DNA vs DNA-C—its ULTRA BIDÉ with a few different Ultra Bidé first album since 1998’s Super With Gorcias, Monday, Feb. lineups and worked odd jobs Milk—on Alternative Tentacles 3, 9 p.m. $5.

Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth to get by. Eventually, he found Records. The band is touring St., Boise, 208-287-5379, crucial supporters like artthe U.S. and Canada behind liquidboise.com punk band Alice Donut, which the album and will play Liquid passed Ultra Bidé’s music on Monday, Feb. 3, with local along to Alternative Tentacles horror-punk band Gorcias. head Jello Biafra; and composer J.G. ThirlBorn in 1961, Fujiwara was drawn to well, aka Foetus, whose credits range from offbeat music at a young age. He rememperforming with Lydia Lunch and Nick Cave bered listening to Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, to writing commissions for Kronos Quartet composers Terry Riley and John Cage, and and scoring the Cartoon Network show The krautrock bands Neu! and Kraftwerk. His Venture Bros. tastes put him at odds with the prevailing Burman—who managed both Alice Donut tenor of 1970s Japanese society, which he deand Ultra Bidé—fondly recalled being on tour scribed as “very strict about those subcultures with Foetus and Fujiwara in 1995. that [involved] drugs” or the “beatnik-style“We were a caravan of misfits traveling thinking mind.” across North America,” he said. Shows in So when news about punk started tricksmaller towns got an especially strong reling over to Japan, it immediately caught sponse because “the scenes were so small that Fujiwara’s interest. He learned of the new, it was a treat to have [a band]—especially an controversial rock genre in high school, when international band—show up.” he read an article in Heibon Punch MagaBOI S EW EEKLY.COM

In spite of the good times, Fujiwara was ready to go back to Japan by 2001. He had turned 40, the cost of living in New York had gotten too high and he wanted to take care of his parents before they passed away. Moving back to Kyoto could benefit his music, too.

His parents’ house “became a recording studio,” he explained. “And I don’t need to pay [rent]. Hey, why not?”

This reasoning reflects a certain carefree stance that Fujiwara takes with his music. Being a musician isn’t a profession or a calling, he stressed frequently, but “a hobby.”

“Sometimes, I cannot care about musicians [who] want to be, like, a charisma type,” he said. Instead, he prefers to think of himself as “like a train collector [who] makes models, or those kind that take photos of something.”

Fujiwara’s “collection” includes not just recordings and gear but live performances.

“I love gigs because I love watching the opening band. … I’m a big local band collector,” Fujiwara said.

His appreciation of the new and fresh extends to current Ultra Bidé members Yasuke Kato and Maki Tamura.

“I cannot play my music by myself,” Fujiwara said. “I only have two hands, two [feet].

I need somebody to help me to keep my music interesting.”

The 15-year gap between albums stemmed from needing time to find the right mixture of “personalities, thinking mind or behavior.”

With that mixture in place, Fujiwara looks forward to collecting more experiences. He said that he’s eager to make up for 10 U.S. dates that had to be canceled due to some difficulties obtaining visas. He also mentioned that Ultra Bidé is working on booking a European tour with Canadian hardcore band SNFU. After that, he’d like to figure out a cheaper way of touring America.

One way or another, Fujiwara intends to keep making noise.

“I’m 52 years old,” he said. “I can play maybe 10 years more or maybe, if lucky, 20 years more. It would be fun to [keep] collecting data.”

DYING FAMOUS TO PLAY KNITTING FACTORY, RELEASE DEBUT ALBUM His band may be called Dying Famous, but lead singer Zane McGinley didn’t plan on dying famous when he started out.

“We were just a garage band having a good time,” he said. “We really weren’t serious at all.”

That changed when filmmaker Michael D. Gough—who won an Emmy in 2013 for the Idaho Center Auto Mall commercial “Shoot for the Moon”—offered to manage the hard rock band. He moved into McGinley’s house, encouraged the musicians to rehearse regularly and eventually had the idea to film the group’s early days.

“He’s like, ‘I’ll film your tour. I’ll film you finding a drummer, forming your band.

I think there’s a stor y here.’ I was like, ‘I think you’re crazy,’” McGinley remembered, laughing.

But Gough was right. The documentary Dying Famous premiered at the Egyptian Theatre in October 2011. Although Gough and the band have since split, Dying Famous has played numerous shows in Idaho and along the West Coast. The band signed with Tate Music Group last August, recorded its debut album 40 Minutes Late last October and will play the Knitting Factory on Saturday, Feb. 1—the band’s 102nd show,

by McGinley’s count—with local hard rock groups Fly2Void and Breakdown Boulevard.

Looking back at the documentar y, which records his band’s rocky first seven months, McGinley feels a certain respectful distance.

“I’m glad that we captured it when we did,” he said. “You don’t really see the formation of a band a whole lot, so it had a unique perspective. You know, we went through some crazy things that I’m glad that we’re done with. But it’s been crazy all along.”

As proof, Mcginley cited Dying Famous’ 2011 stint as the house band at Woody’s Bar and Grill in Twin Falls.

“Man, we got away with murder down there,” McGinley said. “Oh, it was great.

People peeing in hallways. We got banned from Motel 6 down there.”

Dying Famous doesn’t plan to lose focus, though. The group hopes to hold an album release show on April 8 and precede it with three in-store signings at Hastings locations in Boise and Nampa. After that, McGinley said, the band will tour again and “hit as many places as we can, places we haven’t been before, like San Francisco.”

—Ben Schultz

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY JAN. 29 DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement THE EXPENDABLES—With Stick Figure and Seedless. 7 p.m. $15. Knitting Factory JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

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RED CITY RADIO—With Elway, Direct Hit and Third Base. 8 p.m. $10. Shredder GARTH OLSON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

THURSDAY JAN. 30

NICOLE PETTINGER—6 p.m.

FREE. Rice OPHELIA—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

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

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The Crux

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

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BOISE ROCK SCHOOL STUDENT SHOWCASE—5:45 p.m.

FREE. The Crux BREAD AND CIRCUS—7 p.m.

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See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

REBECCA SCOTT BAND—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

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TAMBALKA—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Bar 365

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

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PURPLE CARROT PROJECT— Featuring Dan Costello, Nicole Blaze and Rebecca Scott. 7 p.m. $15. Sapphire Room REX MILLER AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

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On its surface, Warm Blanket (Paw Tracks, Aug. 2013), the latest full-length from Mississippi-born singer-songwriterproducer Dent May, is a cuddly listen. Jangly guitar, horns and May’s crazy-high falsetto give the album a nostalgic vibe, though there’s a contemporary, fierce side to things, too. In “Let Them Talk,” May sings, “We act as lovers do / And they talk when I’m with you. / I tell you what, I tell you what / I thought about it a million times / And I just don’t give a fuck.”

And pull the covers all the way back, and there lies a young man bummed about love, like in “Born too Late,” when May sings, “When I’m sleeping late at night / I can’t help dreaming that you could be mine / But you’re not by my side.”

It’s tough to believe the sweet-faced, multitalented musician is having a hard time finding a soulmate... maybe he’s too busy making music.

EARTHLINGS ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS: THE LAUNCH—With Illumneye, Macic Mic, Home Town Criminal, Yung Verb, Andy O., The Real Axiom Tha Wyze and The Armada ID. 8 p.m. $3.

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Desert Noises DESERT NOISES—With Virgil, Danny & Jonny Blaqk. 7 p.m. $7.

Neurolux DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement DOUG CAMERON—8:30 p.m.

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It’s always interesting to hear a young person exclaim his or her joy at finding a “new” band, especially if you’re someone who has been listening to said band since you were a young ’un yourself. Often, a classic act finds a contemporary audience when a new band covers its tunes, which is how some may have come to know Portland, Ore.-based duo Pure Bathing Culture. The bright synths and faraway vocals on PBC’s 2013 release Moon Tides (Memphis Industries/Partisan, 2013), are reason enough to lend the band your ear (plus, Stereogum named Moon Tides one of its Top 50 albums of 2013). But if you still need a push, visit purbathingculture.bandcamp.com and listen to PBC’s cover of Fleetwood Mac classic “Dreams.”

Everything old is new again.

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OSCAR’S SHORTLIST Some of the year’s best films are the shorts GEORGE PRENTICE Oscar season hasn’t officially arrived until the Academy Award-nominated short films are splashed on the big screen. The season is now in full swing: The Oscar Nominated Short Films compilation has arrived in Boise—Friday, Feb. 1-Thursday, Feb. 6, at The Flicks— and the class of 2014 is a dazzling bounty.

The animated nominees represent some of the best big screen artistry in years, starting with Get a Horse, the Walt Disney Animation Studio’s homage to some of its very first efforts, starring Mickey Mouse (Steamboat Willie-era). In this new spectacle, the blackand-white Mickey is paired with some fullcolor, 3-D filmmaking. In fact, director Lauren MacMullan even uses Mickey’s original voice (Walt Disney himself) in this modern classic.

A sublime mix of brilliant animated and live action short subjects includes Mr. Hublot (top), Room on the Broom Get a Horse is already being paired with Dis(bottom left) and The Voorman Problem (bottom right). ney’s blockbuster Frozen (nominated for Best Animated Feature), making it this year’s only Oscar-nominated double feature. psychiatrist’s reaction when, later that evening, The other animated short subjects are all short subjects is Finnish export Pitaako Mun he sees Belgium is indeed missing from the artistically splendid, including Possessions, Kaikki Hoitaa (Do I Have to Take Care of world atlas. an 18th century story of a Japanese man who, Everything), this season’s funniest six minutes The rest of the live action shorts are serious at the movies. It’s a completely relatable story: while hiding from a violent storm, learns that dramas, all of them well told. But the best of Mother and father oversleep and now are he’s sharing his shelter with some goblin spirthe lot—and I suspect the Oscar winner—is its; Room on the Broom, which is based on the late for a wedding. Trying to get their 6- and 4-year-old daughters ready Denmark’s Helium, the gentle story of young popular children’s picture little Alfred, who loves balloons and zeppelins for the big ceremony is book and features the 2014 OSCAR SHORTS but who is dying, living out his final days in a something to behold—no voices of Gillian Anderson spoilers here, lest I ruin this hospital. That’s where he meets a janitor who and Rob Brydon; Feral, a Runs Friday, Jan. 31-Thursday, Feb. 6 tries to cheer Alfred up by telling him that maelstrom of mirth. beautifully drawn blackThe Flicks The Voorman Problem, someday he’ll go to a magical place called “heand-white fable of a wild 646 Fulton St. lium,” where children play all day and live on starring Martin Freeboy who is found in the theflicksboise.com floating islands surrounded by giant balloon man (The Hobbit trilogy, woods by a solitary hunter ships. The dream sequences are breathtaking Sherlock), is an expertly and his subsequent integraand it’s a fair bet that you’ll be wiping away constructed dark comedy, telling the story of tion into civilization; and Mr. Hublot (my tears before it’s over.

Dr. Williams, a psychiatrist (Freeman) called favorite film in the animated group), the story But no worries, there’s another film after in to diagnose Mr. Voorman, a prisoner (Tom of how a mechanical man’s perfectly precise that… and another and another. Make time to Hollander) who believes he is God. Voorman world is turned upside down by the arrival of tells Williams he will prove his ultimate power see these films that are short in length but long an oversized, unruly dog. in splendor. by making Belgium disappear—imagine the The highlight of this year’s live action

EXTRA/SCREEN FOOD FOR THOUGHT: THE CHALLENGE OF RUDOLF STEINER Rudolf Steiner is probably one of the most controversial people whose name you don’t know. A philosopher, scientist, agriculturalist, architect and education theorist, Steiner’s ideas have been both praised and lambasted, and his contributions to various areas of study—particuBOI S EW EEKLY.COM

larly agriculture and education— arouse passions to this day.

Born in Austria in 1861, Steiner applied his early spiritual experiences to everything he did. He worked on the Kurschner edition of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s works, organized the Nietzsche archive in Naumburg, Germany, and supported Emile Zola during the Dreyfus Affair. He wasn’t afraid to get his hands

dirty, though: When contacted by a group of farmers concerned about the future of their profession, Steiner developed the doctrine of biodynamic agriculture, which stresses sustainability and recognizing farms as organisms that should be self-sustaining.

Biodynamics is the hook for Treasure Valley Food Coalition’s screening of The Challenge of Rudolf Steiner, a biographical

documentary that outlines the man’s positions on issues like agriculture and education, hosted at Red Feather Lounge, Thursday, Jan. 30, at 6 p.m. Tickets for the Jan. 30 screening are sold out, but a second is slated for Thursday, Feb. 27. Visit treasurevalleyfoodcoalition.org for more details.

For more on Steiner, see News, Page 7.

—Harrison Berry

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BEERGUZZLER/DRINK NEW BEER FOR THE NEW YEAR We’re starting 2014 off right with three brand new craft brews—one seasonal and two year-round additions. The seasonal is a 22-ounce bomber from Eugene, Ore.’s Ninkasi Brewing Company. The year-rounders (in the 12-ounce format) include an entry level IPA from Boston’s Samuel Adams and a subtle take on a sour from Fort Collins, Colo.’s New Belgium Brewing Company.

NINKASI DAWN OF THE RED IRA, $4.99-$5.49 IRA stands for India Red Ale, one of the emerging craft beer categories. This brew pours a ruby-tinged, deep amber and sports a brief, two-finger head. It has lots of tropical fruit on the nose (mango, papaya, citrus), along with floral hops, smooth malt and biscuit. It’s big but beautifully balanced, with a citrus-laced bitterness from start to finish that blends nicely with fruity malt flavors. Highly recommended.

SAMUEL ADAMS REBEL IPA, WEST COASTSTYLE, $1.39-$1.79 This brew pours a soft amber with a thin, but persistent head.

Light, resiny hops with a floral note lead off, backed by sweet bread and malt. But on the palate, the West Coast-style got a little lost on its way to Boston. The hop bitterness is there, but it’s dialed down, and the characteristic Sam Adams malt profile comes on a little strong—especially on the finish. It’s not exactly West Coast, but makes a good intro IPA for the uninitiated.

FOOD/REVIEW Restaurants get one chance to hit BW with their best shot.

K-FUSION KOREAN BBQ AND GRILL Boise’s new Korean restaurant lacks Seoul TARA MORGAN In Boise, most Asian eateries pander to the local palate with an interchangeable array of fried bits and Chinese American comfort food staples. Thai restaurants serve egg drop soup, Japanese joints sling kung pao chicken K-Fusion has all the Korean staples (and a few distinctly un-Korean offerings) you’d expect in Boise. and Vietnamese spots offer moo shu pork. So when a new restaurant opens promising more with a glug of soy sauce and a squeeze of mild, and a squiggly pile of japchae—spaghetti-thick unique, authentic fare—like K-Fusion Korean smoky/sweet pepper sauce, the bowl continued glass noodles tossed with spinach, egg, flecks BBQ and Grill—the buzz starts to swell. of black mushroom, a couple hard-to-find bits to crackle, cooking the egg and crisping the On a recent Saturday afternoon, the tiny of pork and so much onion that it was hard rice around the edges.The bibimbap was on space was jammed. The inversion haze filtered to taste much else. The side salad followed par with—but not superior to—any other rice through K-Fusion’s large front windows, castthat trend, with hunks of iceberg and mixed bowl in town, though the price and portion ing muted light across the restaurant’s slategreens doused in a chunky dressing that, for all gray walls and packed, parallel rows of seating. size make it a rather spendy lunch option.

I could tell, was made by tossing a raw onion If you’re looking for a more reasonably Steaming bowls of soft tofu soup and sizzling in a blender. The brownish pickled veggies priced mid-day meal, K-Fusion platters of spicy pork flowed were also mostly onion, with a few slivers of offers lunch specials Mondayfrom the kitchen and jostled for K-FUSION KOREAN jalapeno and celery thrown in.

Friday, from 11:30 a.m.-2:30 space on the small tables among BBQ AND GRILL Ruminating over how unremarkable or p.m. The beef bulgogi lunch mini plates of mild kimchi and 1716 S. Broadway, Boise 208-336-5959 overtly onion-y everything had been, my eyes box ($8.99) came with a heap homemade pickles. The vibe felt k-fusion.com lingered on the specials board, which adverof soy-marinated beef strips awesomely un-Boise. tised a cheese potato gratin. Is it possible, I sprinkled with green onions, The bibimbap ($11) came wondered, to open an Asian restaurant in while the spicy pork lunch box ($8.99) feaout sputtering in a hot stone bowl with a raw egg cracked over a tiny pile of beef bulgogi and tured a mound of fatty-but-tender pork coated Boise that doesn’t pander? A tearfully spicy, flavorful place that doesn’t offer egg rolls, in loads of chili. veggies—zucchini, mushrooms, carrots, cabchicken tenders or cheesy potatoes? I’m not Both trays boasted a couple small slices of bage, bean sprouts—all heaped on a mound mayo-drizzled pajeon (a Korean-style pancake) sure, but I’m still holding out hope. of rice. As I tossed the ingredients together

FOOD/NEWS steak tartare, smoked salmon mousse, oysters on the half shell and yellowtail crudo.

The windows were steamed up in the former Grape Escape Jan. 23, as The Mode officially opens to the public Thursday, Jan. 30, at 4 p.m. For visitors packed a soft opening celebration for The Mode Lounge. Inside the more info, visit themodelounge.com. completely revamped space—which boasts metal ceiling tiles, an elaboAnd in closing news, Salt: A Modern Public House, formerly Salt Tears rate chandelier and lots of low-lit booths and seating nooks—bartenders Coffeehouse and Noshery, shut its doors abruptly Jan. 7. The business vigorously shook cocktails behind the prominent bar. had been taken over by Chef Benjamin Thorpe, former owner of The CorThe menu, which was still being tweaked, included a number of nerstone Bistro in Middleton, only a few months prior. elaborate cocktails made with house tinctures, A sign posted on the door read: “The restausyrups and bitters. The “classics” column rant SALT will be temporarily closed for business. featured drinks like the G-N-T with Aviation gin, We regret and apologize for this inconvenience as quinine syrup, mineral water and lemongrass SALT is closed due to repairs and maintenance. mist, while the “contemporary” cocktails We are very thankful to our loyal customers and list boasted potions like the Smoke & Oak ask that you look for our re-opening coming soon.” with Four Roses bourbon, Vida joven mezcal, Kristi Bowins, a representative from Colliers lemon, lime, tobacco smoke extract and Sweet International, confirmed that the business is for Heat salt. There was even a $25 cocktail—the sale.

Miel Et Incendie—made with Excellia reposado “It closed down; the business is for sale. All tequila, Domaine de L’Alliance sauternes, the FF and E’s [furniture, fixtures and equipment] Germain-Robin Alambic brandy, Averna, orange, are here, the whole nine yards. ... If anybody’s insaffron bitters and Smoked Spice mist. terested, they can just give me a call and I’ll point While the wine list was relatively ample— them in the right direction,” said Bowins, who can with a healthy by-the-glass selection—the be reached at 208-493-5108. beer offerings were limited, with only a handful of cans and bottles. The food menu, also Eighth Street’s new spot to get your cocktail on.

—Tara Morgan small, stuck to the raw theme with items like

THE MODE OPENS AND SALT CLOSES NEW BELGIUM SNAPSHOT WHEAT BEER, $1.39-$1.79 A hazy lemonade in color, the Snapshot is topped by a frothy, egg-white head that collapses quickly.

Fresh, lightly tart hop aromas blend nicely with cracked wheat and just a touch of wet wool, which is strange but not off-putting. This is a very refreshing brew, something like a domestic hefe meets a Belgian sour. Sweet and sour citrus, soft grass and herb-laced hops come together in this easy-drinking charmer.

—David Kirkpatrick

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): On my 15th birthday, I finally figured out that eating dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory problems. From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow’s milk. My health improved.

I kept up this regimen for years.

But a month ago, I decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense. Just for the fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a tub of organic vanilla yogurt.

To my shock, there was no hell to pay. I was free of snot. In the past few weeks, I have feasted regularly on all the creamy goodies I’ve been missing. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally momentous shift is possible for you. Some taboo you have honored for a long time, some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be broken.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin. Meanwhile, psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results.

He found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are inferior to wild guesses.

So does this mean you should never trust any experts? No. But it’s important to approach them with extra skepticism right now.

The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own intuition.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’m a big fan of logic and reason, and I urge you to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very good thing.

The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be.

Having said that, I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination. Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate. Pay attention to your dreams, indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies and see yourself as a mythic hero in life’s divine drama. Moral of the story: Both the rational and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (P.S. But the fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Sorry, Cancerian, you won’t be able to transform lead into gold anytime soon. You won’t suddenly acquire the wizardly power to heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and misogynists. Nor will you be able to cast an effective love spell on a sexy someone who has always resisted your charms.

That’s the bad news. The good news is this: If you focus on performing less spectacular magic, you could accomplish minor

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miracles. For example, you might diminish an adversary’s ability to disturb you. You could welcome into your life a source of love you have ignored or underestimated.

And you may be able to discover a secret you hid from yourself a long time ago.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for offering tips on how to spice up one’s sex life. Here’s an example: “Take a few of your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations, like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and mix up yummy treats all over your lover’s body.” That sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way.

In any case, I recommend that you don’t follow advice like that, especially in the coming days. It’s true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren’t advisable right now.

For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing and deft.

Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and graceful risks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You are not as broken as you may think you are. Your wounds aren’t as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will prove it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: Life will attempt to prove it to you—and not just in some mild, half-hearted way, either. The evidence it offers will be robust and unimpeachable. But here’s my question, Virgo: Will you be so attached to your pain that you refuse to even see, let alone explore, the dramatic proof you are offered? I hope not!

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Kenneth Rexroth wrote a poem called “A Sword in a Cloud of Light.” I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don’t want to get too intellectual, but I will say this: The cloud of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Every autumn, the bird species known as the Clark’s Nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30,000 pine nuts in 5,000 places over a 15-squaremile area. The amazing thing is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn’t as prodigious as that, but it’s far better than you realize. And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days. Your upcoming decisions will be highly effective if you

draw on the wisdom gained from past events—especially those events that foreshadowed the transition you will soon be going through.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Can you imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total honesty?

What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week. For best results, don’t try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 percent.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s a favorable time to gather up resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect lots of inside information. I won’t call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it’s fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use—because right now is also a favorable time to prepare for future adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help and inside information.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th century England. They could soar as high as 4 feet above a woman’s head.

Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermied birds and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here’s a second-best option: Make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic license to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): One of your anti-role models in the coming weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem’s tune “Love the Way You Lie.” Study the following lyrics, mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine—on psychological, spiritual and interpersonal levels—you embody the exact opposite of the attitude they express: “You’re just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that’s alright because I like the way it hurts / You’re just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that’s alright, because I love the way you lie.” To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that would tempt you to feel and act like that.

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