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LOCAL, INDEPENDENT NEWS, OPINION, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BOISEWEEKLY.COM VOLUME 22, ISSUE 36 FEBRUARY 26 – MARCH 4, 2014

TAK EE E ON E! NEWS 8

GUN FIGHT The public safety argument against guns on campus FEATURE 11

SCRAPING BY AT SCHOOL The low-wage plight of Boise State adjuncts CULTURE 20

NOW READ THIS Inside the Zirinisky Collection SCREEN 25

STAR-STRUCK Looking forward to the Sun Valley Film Festival

“I’m not one to sit down and say, ‘Please, let me work for you for nothing.”

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GUNS, ADJUNCTS AND ART This week we look at a range of issues relating to Idaho’s biggest institution of higher learning.

On Page 8, Boise Weekly News Editor George Prentice goes into detail with Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson on controversial Senate Bill 1254—the so-called “guns on campus” law fronted by Nampa Republican Sen. Curt McKenzie.

The law would strike down universities’ power to regulate gun policies limiting who can carry concealed weapons on their campuses, and McKenzie has brooked no opposition in pushing the bill through the Statehouse. That includes cutting off testimony before public safety officials like Masterson could have their say.

With more than 20,000 students at Boise State, and more than 12,000 at the University of Idaho’s statewide campuses, the potential is for a lot of people carrying guns where they couldn’t before, and that has Chief Masterson and other law enforcers around the state understandably concerned.

On Page 11, frequent BW contributor Jessica Murri digs into another higher education issue making headlines across the country: the increasing reliance of universities on adjunct professors who often face the same plight as low-wage workers in other industries.

It’s no different at Boise State, where adjuncts—who make about $1,000 a month—amount to nearly half the teaching force.

University officials argue that adjunct positions are not intended to be full-time jobs, and lay the issue of low pay on budgets made tight by years of recessionary budget cuts. Adjuncts, meanwhile, maintain that their ever-greater contributions to the nation’s university classrooms should be reflected in their compensation—in the state of Washington, that has meant part-time professors at two private colleges advocating for union representation.

Whether that happens in Idaho is, by union organizers’ own admission, unlikely, but the frustration among Boise State adjuncts runs high—albeit mostly silent.

Finally, on Page 20, contributor Christopher Schnoor takes readers on a tour of the art collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky—one of the finest assemblages of contemporary art in the world and housed right here in Boise. The current show, Now Read This, opened Feb. 20 at Boise State’s Arts and Humanities Institute Gallery, located at the Ron and Linda Yanke Family Research Park, and is not to be missed.

—Zach Hagadone

COVER ARTIST Cover art scanned courtesy of Evermore Prints... supporting artists since 1999.

ARTIST: Lara Petitclerc-Stokes TITLE: “Hatching the Snake” MEDIUM: Oil on paper ARTIST STATEMENT: This piece illustrates a friend’s journey into new worlds; discovering possibilities, hatching ideas (both positive and negative) and learning to navigate semi-dangerous pitfalls.

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

UNBALANCED

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Idaho Republicans are pushing for a tax cut that one child advocacy group says would unevenly benefit the state’s haves and havenots. Find out how unevenly on Citydesk.

The Idaho House has approved a bill that opponents say strips cities— specifically, Boise—of designreview powers when it comes to commercial building. More on Citydesk.

MERCY Boise Weekly had a chat with animal-rights group Mercy for Animals about the so-called “ag-gag” bill, criminalizing animal abuse whistleblowers. Get the scoop on Citydesk.

OPINION

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK IF U DON’T LIKE THE IDEA OF PEOPLE AROUND YOU HAVING CONCEALED FIREARMS OR OTHER WEAPONS THAN YOU ARE VERY OUT OF PLACE IN THIS COMMUNITY.”

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—bmwfan2283 (boiseweekly.com, Citydesk, “Idaho Senate Committee Pushes Through Guns on Campus Bill Without Hearing Testimony from U of I, Law Enforcement,” Feb. 12, 2014)

MAIL MOCKING GOD This week [Feb. 12, 2014] I read every word of your magazine. Especially the blue report [sic: The Blue Review].

Starting with the picture on the cover, I have never seen so much hatred, spitting, hissing, name-calling, finger pointing, bigotry and hypocrisy in this magazine. In fact I am confused about who hates who. What color are you people at the Weekly? Do you not have any Christians at the place? Don’t you live here in Idaho also or do you fly in once a week from a non”hate,” non-white, non-Christian “liberal” place you would probably call paradise... just to bash on Idaho.

I live in Idaho because my parents moved us here from California as children. So I grew up here and happen to love the place. And I am white because I was born that way. I am a man because I was born a boy. So maybe you cannot understand this, but I am a white man from Idaho and I do not hate blacks, Jews, gays, women or “transgender” people. I am also not a “conservative” or a Republican. I (and my sisters) worked very hard for Butch Otter when we were little kids, so we didn’t know any better.

Today I think the man is just another rich pig and like all politicians (including “liberal” Democrats) cares only about money and power.

But the most offensive thing to me in this week’s issue was the Christian bash-

ing. On every page the inference was made and the loose connectivity was there: white, Idaho, men and Christian (that of course would be me).

From there, I could barely keep up with the absurd ties, ridiculous logic, misinterpretations and hateful message trying to connect me to historical events in Idaho, Aryans, Nazis, terrorists, the KKK and even Bigfoot. It was unbelievable. Eve screwed a snake so I must “hate” Jews... ya know... ’cause that’s what Butler (that white Idaho “Christian”) thinks. Or Cain killed [Abel] (because he is Black and became cursed) or some other ridiculous story line that is intended to bring us to the same stupid conclusion about Idaho, white, men, Christians.

I became a Christian by choice. It happened at the Boise Rescue Mission and I was a homeless crackhead. It is my faith not my politics. Unlike political people trying to win an argument, sell newspapers or get elected, I do not cherry pick through the Bible stories and fabricate conclusions. I read it prayerfully and reverently and thank God that I get to do so inside and not outside in the cold living in a cardboard box. You people want to mock my God and my faith? Just so you can usher in a political agenda?

You want a world of humans evolved from the chimpanzee that can fuck anything they want with out rules and consequences? You want to live

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in a secular, politically correct state without reverence to God and his laws? The Bible does not require me to get involved in politics. It requires me to confess the truth and keep the faith. So go ahead and try to call me the “hater” and the “bigot” as you all go down together... as humans!

—Roger Wells Boise

CONSIDER THE CONSEQUENCES I am so disheartened and disappointed that in this 50th anniversary year of the passage of the Wilderness Act that the Boise Weekly is printing John Rember’s damaging words (BW, Opinion, “Against a Boulder-White Clouds Wilderness,” Nov. 13, 2013). In his opposition to the BoulderWhite Clouds National Monument he states, “Wilderness designation doesn’t preserve anything.” Rather than list the seemingly endless benefits that designated wilderness provides, I ask readers to instead consider the consequences had the Wilderness Act never been passed. What would’ve happened to the now protected wild places?

To quote Thoreau, “there are enough champions of civilization.” I ask that the Boise Weekly be the venue for a positive voice for the wilderness. This year, the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act, seems like an especially pertinent year to celebrate what the act has accomplished and to work together to address the human-created challenges that wild places face.

—Katy Nelson Stanley

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OPINION/BILL COPE

ASK BILL ABOUT IT Dick sticks up for Chris Christie To that weeded-up scumwad Bill “Dope” Cope, I guess we all know now why you is such a effeminist piece of dried out dog turd, you drug-ladled freak. I hope you get thrown in one of those prisons where gang members get extra food for lunch if they rape freaks like you every day. You deserve it. You and all your libtard NMSCBM friends like Rachel “Mad Cow” and Chris “Mouth”-yews and Ed “Shits.”

They all deserve to be raped by prison gangs too for what they are doing to that Cris Christy govenor dude. It’s just what all you maggoty pro-”gross”-ives do to good patriat United Statians who run for president. You did it to Mitt Rommey for being a such a nerfball, and you did it to Newt Grinitch for being such a sweatbucket, and you did it to Sarah Palin for being such a regular good old American skank, and now you’re doing it to Chris Christy for being such a crooked bully fat bastard, which isn’t been proved yet except for maybe the fat part.

I never did like Christy much ever since he talked to “Who’s Sane” Obamma like that Muslumist dickator was a regular white guy that time when that Sandy storm did whatever she did. That just turned my milk sour, almost as much as you, you diseased hamster packer. But what really pisses me off so much I can’t even pee straight is how you can make such stink over something a Republican does, even when it weren’t no more a scandal than screwing with some New York sissies on some bridge that who cares about anyway, but you don’t spend a minute on how “Who’s Sane” Obama told that Hillery “Rotted Ham” Clinton to get four American heroes killed in that Bengayzy place. Which is the biggest scandal of all time, but you stinking hippocrats like “Annoy Jane” Fonda and Reverand Al Sharp”tongue” just go on ignoring it like it isn’t nothing.

I done never ratted out anybody before, not even that time when it was me what knows who the perv was who was having them sexual relations with old man Heany’s Holstein heifer, but I’m going to rat you out, you rat scrotum, because you and all your socialismsucking com-”rats” is what’s wrong with this country. I already told a sheriff deputy over here in Homedale how you are bragging around that you are a pothead. He told me he would tell the sheriff about you, and the sheriff would tell all the other sheriffs, so soon as you go out to score another baggy of loco weed, you might as well drive straight to jail, you greasy hippy fart. Have a good time getting raped by prison gangs, “Dope” Cope, not that you’ll mind it, probably.

—Dick from Homedale UUU Dick, m’ main man! Always a pleasure hearing from you. Hardly a week goes by when I don’t think, “I wonder what old Dick is up to today?”

My oh my, you are getting excellently awesome at thinking up nicknames. “Chris ‘Mouth’-yews,” that’s my favorite. I definitely think you should put them all on T-shirts and have a booth at the next GOP convention. Make sure you have plenty of those “‘Rottedham’ Clinton” shirts in stock. Trust me, you’ll need them.

Now, as to your distress over the way the media is treating the Chris Christie affair, especially as it contrasts to the coverage of the Benghazi tragedy, here’s the thing, Dick: You and all of your friends over there in Dreamland seem to have missed one eetsy-beetsy difference between the two stories. Being, one of them actually happened, and the other didn’t.

See, the incident on the bridge really happened. I’m sure you have seen the film footage and heard the reports of how disruptive it was. I am not one to rush to judgment concerning Gov. Christie’s culpability in the matter before all the facts are in. However, it is not looking good for the crooked bully fat bastard, is it? And with some of the other potentially criminal behavior that is being exposed during the investigation, it is increasingly likely that some—if not all—of Christie’s inner circle will see some Big House walls from the inside before the story has played out.

As to Christie himself, I would speculate that the best thing he has going for him at this point is his weight problem. It is my understanding that even prison gangs are picky about whom they elect to rape.

And as to Benghazi?... surely, a cowboy like yourself can understand the difference between real stuff and made-up stuff. It’s like when you’re out there in the rodeo arena, attempting to rope a little doagie, and that doagie existed only in your imagination. Can’t you see how foolish you would look?

Well Dick, that’s what Fox News and Darrell Issa and all the rest of those Benghazi howlers look like to us libtards. They keep trying to throw a lasso over something that isn’t there.

And all the wishin’ and a’hopin’ in the right-wing world isn’t going to make it true.

You didn’t mention your lovely Belinda in your letter. I do hope she is fine and has recovered from whatever ailed her last time you wrote. And just a little reminder: You still have time to get signed up for Obamacare, and don’t worry about Belinda’s pre-existing condition, whatever it is, because thanks to “Who’s Sane’s” program, it doesn’t count.

One more thing, Dick. You misspelled “Hillery.” It’s “Hill-AAAA-ry,” with an “a.” You’ll thank me for bringing that to your attention because I’m pretty sure you’re going to be writing it out many, many, many, many times over the next 10 years or so.

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COMP AS PHILOSOPHY Editing life’s narrative

I spent much of my time as a college professor teaching first-year students how to write.

Such teaching is labor-intensive. A 750-word essay will take 45 minutes to correct and comment on. Most semesters I taught two or three 18-person composition classes. Lots of nights I didn’t get to bed until morning. Lots of mornings, I got up early to correct papers before class.

I’m not complaining. It was good work— right livelihood, if you want to get Buddhist about it. People need to know how to write, not so they can hold down jobs, but so they can think. Joan Didion, in her essay, “Why I Write,” says that she never knows what she thinks about anything until she starts putting it down on paper. She also says that writing is her way of having a self, which is a scary thought: If you can’t write, maybe selfhood, that complex interaction of culture, genes, perspective and experience, might be beyond you.

At the start of a semester, I’d put three words on the board: Author. Authority.

Authentic. Then I’d ask them to give me 1,000 words on whether or not the I in their personal essays was authentic or just a fiction made up by other people.

It doesn’t always go over well when you tell 18-year-olds that who they are has been constructed by parents, religious authorities, marketing CEOs and teachers. Still, most of them could comprehend the idea that after 12 regimented years in classrooms, didactic religious instruction and a lifetime diet of advertising and social networking, they might not be as real as they had assumed they were before they hit college.

It was the first time many of them had looked at themselves from outside themselves.

They tended not to enjoy the experience. They hadn’t come to college to define a self, they’d come to college to get a good education so they could get a good job so they could raise a good family, go on enviable two-week vacations for 40 years and end up demented and dying in a good nursing home. Giving real meaning to any of these things was hard and frightening work and, in general, their 750word essays were confused and contradictory.

My usual grade for these deeply personal but deeply flawed life stories was a C. Maybe a C-minus. It was not a happy classroom when my students got these essays back.

“This hurts,” they would say.

“You need to know,” I would say.

Then: “I’m not grading you, I’m grading your writing. Well, maybe I’m grading you a little bit. Not much, but imagine that someplace, underneath all the cultural and family baggage, there’s this little tiny self. It’s a timid little thing, and actually it’s kind of happy to get a C-minus because it was sure it was going to get an F. What we’re going to do, over the next 10 weeks or so, is get it out in the sunshine, exercise it a little bit, feed it some nutritious ideas and transform it from a little BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

C-minus self all the way to a healthy, normal, B-minus self.”

Somebody would always want to know how they could get an A-plus self.

“No such thing,” I’d say. “Human beings are inherently flawed. If you hear of somebody having an A-plus self, you can be pretty sure that they have a marketing department.”

My students would hand in a 750-word essay on Fridays. I’d sacrifice my weekends, and would hand back my edits and comments on Mondays. Wednesdays we would discuss the upcoming assignment and the meaning of self-in-society.

By the end of the semester, they’d have 8,000 words of returned essays, with my red marks all over them. My final assignment was to re-write all of the essays using what they now knew about being a self.

It was payday. Students discovered the self that had written the first essay wasn’t as good as the self that did the re-write. The new self could fix things and go beyond my comments to actually say something meaningful and true.

“I can’t believe I wrote that first terrible paper,” students would say. “I can’t believe how much I’ve improved.”

“Your little selves all get B-minuses,” I’d say. “But a few of you have become such good writers that I have to send a couple of A’s to the registrar.”

“Does it hurt?” they would say.

“More than you know,” I would say.

I’d like to say that it was my magic teaching skills that caused so many of my students to become good writers, but there’s no magic to it. Write 8,000 words over 11 weeks, get detailed feedback, re-write the same 8,000 words to be clearer, stronger and more profound, and you’ll be a better writer—maybe even a good writer. It doesn’t take that long once you get after it.

The trouble is, of course, that too many people graduate from college thinking they’ve acquired a body of knowledge rather than a foundation for acquiring more complicated and contradictory knowledge. They quit rewriting their selves. After awhile, the window of flexibility that college once opened slams shut and can only be reopened the hard way, by trauma or grief.

Soon after graduation most people come to rigid definitions of who they are and what they’re here for. Unfortunately, the culture tempts them with easy answers to the painful questions they sweated over in comp class.

So they trade their god-given lives for money. They accept shallow dogmatic answers to deep philosophical questions.

They confuse the maps of their lives with the territory, and follow the paved routes. Sure enough, when they get their Lifetime Achievement Awards, they’re everything they always thought they would be, even if doesn’t look right on the page.

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CITYDESK/NEWS NEWS

City of Boise officials are already set to offer Capitol Park as “Plan C” for Alive After Five.

ALIVE AFTER FIVE: PLAN B(ASQUE BLOCK) OR PLAN C(APITOL PARK)?

City of Boise officials think it’s not such a bad problem to have: What to do in order to accommodate more downtown development?

So, while some City Hall departments are gearing up for a Monday, March 3, meeting where the Gardner Company hopes to move forward with its next big vision—an underground transit center and accompanying above-ground convention and meeting space at the Grove Plaza—other city departments want to help accommodate Alive After Five, presuming that the Wednesday night summer concert series will have to clear out of the Grove during the height of construction.

Sponsored by the Downtown Boise Association, Alive After Five has been a primary draw to the downtown core for more than a quarter-century. So, when Gardner announced its plans to dig up a healthy chunk of the Grove to build its subterranean transit center, the obvious next question was: What might happen to Alive After Five?

“With any luck, there will be a lot of disruption,” joked Capital City Development Corporation Director John Brunelle. “Yes, what to do about Alive After Five might be keeping her awake at night.”

“Her” is DBA Executive Director Karen Sander, who said first and foremost Alive After Five will indeed kick off its 28th season on the Grove Plaza Wednesday, June 4, and will probably continue Wednesday evenings on the Grove through July. Beyond that, it’s anybody’s guess.

“Our plan is stay on the Grove as long as possible, maybe with a different configuration. Maybe we’ll put the stage in the middle of the plaza and face west,” Sander told Boise Weekly. “Beyond that, it depends on where [Gardner Co.’s] designs will be.

But we’re at the table with them, looking at a number of options—Plan B or Plan C. It’s a ‘wait and see’ game.”

But city of Boise officials don’t want to wait; they’re already talking about a “Plan B,” as in Boise’s Basque Block, and “Plan C,” as in Capitol Park.

In fact, the Boise Parks and Recreation Department wants to make it as easy as possible for the DBA to move Alive at Five over to Capitol Park, across from the Idaho Statehouse, if the DBA so chooses.

“We see this as an oppor tunity to help suppor t businesses and provide a great temporar y location,” Boise Parks and Recreation Director Doug Holloway told BW. 9 Holloway has already secured approval from the Parks and Recreation

CURT MCKENZIE’S NO-HUDDLE OFFENSE The public safety nexus of the guns on campus bill GEORGE PRENTICE From the Idaho Statehouse to university lecture halls to the foot of a cross at a Boise house of worship, opponents of the so-called “guns on campus” bill, are praying that the measure currently flying through the Idaho Legislature somehow misfires.

Nampa Republican Sen. Curt McKenzie unholstered his Senate Bill 1254 Feb. 12, and hasn’t flinched once in his aim to put more guns on more campuses. Along the way, he hasn’t been shy about bending a few legislative protocols: shutting down testimony in front of the Senate State Affairs Committee— where he holds sway as chairman—without hearing from key stakeholders, and refusing to answer questions when the matter came up for debate before the full Senate. And despite his behavior, McKenzie’s bill has received solid support from the GOP majority.

McKenzie is a six-term member of the Idaho Senate, Boise lawyer, a frequent sky diver and likes to post online photos of himself while competing in bodybuilding competitions. And he’s no stranger to controversy: He cried foul when his then-wife, Renee, was chastised by a federal judge in April 2013 for having “an inappropriate relationship” with a convicted killer (BW, Citydesk, “McKenzie Fires Back at Report on Wife’s Relationship With Convict,” April 11, 2013). The couple has since divorced and Renee McKenzie has said she now intends to wed the inmate. In September 2011, Sen. McKenzie was scrutinized for collecting a $122 per diem reimbursement during the legislative session, even though he lives 26 miles from the Statehouse (BW, Citydesk, “McGee, McKenzie Collecting Per Diem,” Sept. 30, 2011).

Some recent legislation that has surfaced at the Idaho Statehouse has been vaguely disguised from the boilerplate guidelines being pushed by the National Rifle Association.

But McKenzie isn’t that subtle; he even opted to use some outside muscle when introducing his guns on campus bill. In fact, McKenzie didn’t even introduce his own legislation to his State Senate Affairs Committee on Feb. 12. Instead, he had NRA lobbyist Dakota Moore extol the virtues of the bill which, if approved, would allow holders of enhanced concealed carry weapon permits to pack heat at Idaho’s public colleges and universities.

Perhaps McKenzie’s most controversial

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Senate Bill 1254 is sponsored by six-term Idaho Senator, frequent skydiver and bodybuilder Curt McKenzie, Republican representing Nampa’s District No. 13.

move came later that same day, when he cut off public testimony on the controversial bill, silencing a number of citizens—not the least of which were law enforcement officers who presumably would have been near the top of the list of stakeholders in the matter.

Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson— who doesn’t surprise easily—was stunned.

Masterson likened McKenzie’s censorship to a “no-huddle offense,” prompting Masterson, who oversees Idaho’s largest municipal police force and public safety for the state’s largest university, to take his comments somewhere else: church.

“Senate Bill 1254 is not a well-thoughtout bill. It has problems,” said Masterson on Feb. 19, speaking in full uniform from the lectern of St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral just a short walk from the Capitol.

“I’m a citizen and a police chief who is exercising my right to speak out after being denied the right to speak before my elected leaders,” he said.

In a conversation with Boise Weekly a few days later, Masterson said he’s received a steady stream of support for his comments, even from those who wished to remain anonymous.

“I can tell you that I’ve had legislators come up to me and say, ‘Thank you.’

They’re not comfortable taking a position of supporting me publicly, and I won’t say who they are, but I can tell you that they’re not all Democrats,” said Masterson. “And inside my department, I’ve received a number of responses, including one from someone who also happens to be an attorney who said, ‘We don’t always agree, but we agree on this one.’”

Masterson is quick to add that SB 1254 isn’t just about law-abiding citizens and their

right to responsibly carry weapons; he supports portions of McKenzie’s bill that allow current and qualified retired law enforcement officers to carry guns on campuses.

“But that practice already exists at Boise State,” said Masterson.

In particular, Masterson described two troubling scenarios that could become all-too real if McKenzie’s bill were to become law: “No. 1: What’s going to happen when a professor is in front of 275 students in a Boise State lecture hall and sees the barrel of a gun underneath somebody’s sweater? The professor, or even a student in that class, is going to contact us. How do we investigate, and yes, we’ll have to investigate, with the least disruption to that class? Some people say, ‘You’re just going to have to assume that it’s one of the good guys with a gun, and you can walk away.’ Well, the police don’t walk away. We’re going to have to have some kind of contact with that individual with the gun.

How do we do that?”

Masterson’s second scenario is the real nightmare: “No. 2: If guns are taken out during some kind of dispute between two individuals, and a uniformed police officer comes to the scene and confronts those individuals, what’s going to be their reaction in a split second? Police are instructed to yell: ‘Police!

Drop the weapon!’ You better be dropping those weapons in a millisecond.”

Masterson also struggles with inconsistency among Idaho law enforcement agencies, primarily county sheriffs’ departments, when they grant concealed weapon permits.

“I sat in a meeting just the other day with other law enforcement 9 agencies, and I can tell you that a sheriff from another county said that B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

CITYDESK/NEWS NEWS JES S IC A M U R R I

(ALMOST) LEFT AT THE CURB Boise City Taxi puts brakes on Medicaid transportation JESSICA MURRI Some of the Treasure Valley’s most vulnerable citizens—Medicaid recipients due to disabilities, poverty or both—were almost left at the curb Feb. 19. According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, a significant billing issue between American Medical Response and Boise City Taxi, the largest taxicab provider in the Boise area, had forced IDHW to ask other cab companies to transport Medicaid recipients to their health care appointments.

The taxi trouble overheated in the late evening hours of Feb. 18, when Boise City Taxi officials called state officials. Their message was abrupt but plain: Boise City Taxi would not be transporting dozens of people to their health care providers the next morning.

IDHW and AMR—one of the largest medical transport dispatch companies in the nation—had mere hours to scramble, finding rides for Medicaid recipients through other Treasure Valley taxi companies.

“American Medical Response arranges the trips, so they had to find other transportation for all these people,” IDHW spokesman Tom Shanahan told BW. “We usually run 30-50 Medicaid recipients a day through Boise City Taxi.”

Boise City Taxi, which currently has 32 active vehicle licenses in its fleet, entered into a formal agreement with AMR four years ago to transport Medicaid recipients to doctors’ and counselors’ appointments. The contract allows the traveler to pay nothing for transportation while cab drivers submit their fare costs to AMR. The company then reimburses Boise City Taxi at the end of each month.

But BW learned that because of a contract dispute, the bill from January’s trips wasn’t paid on time—and that not only left many Medicaid users in a lurch, but also their drivers. A number of Boise City Taxi drivers told BW that their employer hadn’t reimbursed for their Medicaid trips for more than two weeks.

Boise City Taxi currently has three active vehicle licenses in its fleet, the largest in the Treasure Valley.

One Boise City Taxi driver, who asked to remain anonymous in order to protect her job, told BW that the cab company owed her as much as $2,300 for Medicaid transports. She said because of that, she “crosses her fingers” that her other customers will pay in cash.

“So, we’re keeping our cash to pay our bills and rent and food,” she said, referring to herself and other drivers. “We pay our car lease [$83 per day] and our gas. Before I even climb into my cab, I’m $120 into it, every day. And I’m not getting anything back.”

Boise City Taxi co-owner Scott McCurdy insists that those problems are over. “[The drivers’ pay] is taken care of,” McCurdy said, sounding agitated. “As of Tuesday [Feb. 18], they’ve been paid.”

Another Boise City Taxi driver, David Welch, said he was recently fired for asking where his paycheck was. Welch said his problem stretched for nearly a month.

“All we’ve been functioning under for the past two weeks is what cash we put into our pockets,” said Welch, adding that without his paycheck, he had no money for basic necessities such as electricity.

“I’m not one to sit down and say, ‘Please, let me work for you for nothing,’” he continued. “We aren’t getting paid as drivers. They’re into me for about a thousand bucks right now.

They’re blaming it on American Medical Response. We couldn’t get any information. We didn’t know when we were going to get paid.”

Billing issues between Boise City Taxi

the Ada County Sheriff [Gary Raney] won’t accept a hunter safety certificate as a substitute for firearm proficiency when 8 he considers granting a concealed weapon permit,” said Masterson. “That’s just one of the differences between the county sheriffs. And as a result, this sheriff from another county [other than Ada] said people instead go to him when they want to get a permit.”

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and AMR appear to be nothing new. IDHW spokesman Shanahan said the root of the trouble stemmed from a bookkeeping issue: American Medical Response would prefer if Boise City Taxi submitted invoices through a digital portal, rather than in hard copy. In the month of January alone, Boise City Taxi sent American Medical Response about 90 individual invoices.

An AMR spokesperson in the company’s Denver, Colo., headquarters told BW that the problem was a “billing and paperwork issue,” and that it would be resolved within the week, but according to Shanahan, Boise City Taxi is still suspending trips for Medicaid recipients “until the issue is resolved.”

Boise City Taxi’s refusal to take Medicaidfunded appointments is intended to get AMR’s attention, but Welch—who drove a Boise City cab for three years—said the Medicaid calls amounted to about a third of his business. He told BW that he’s “grown to care” about those individuals he takes to medical appointments on a regular basis.

“I truly do not know of a service-oriented program or job that is more intimidating than being a cab driver,” Welch said. “I am literally carrying someone’s life in my hands. And I get fired because I care, and I want to get paid. ...

I’m lost on this one. I’m lost.”

Meanwhile, Boise City co-owner McCurdy insists that he’s “working diligently to solve the problem.”

Additional reporting by Zach Hagadone.

A number of Masterson’s own officers in the BPD have told the chief that he shouldn’t get involved in politics.

“But I just think that there are some instances where they’re inseparable,” Masterson told BW. “And that’s clearly the case here.

We’re at the public safety nexus. I’ve heard from a handful of people who are supporters of this bill. They insist it’s a Second Amendment right. They’re missing the whole public safety assessment.”

Commission to recommend to the Boise City Council that a special ac8 commodation be granted to DBA so that alcohol can be sold in Capitol Park during Alive After Five.

“It’s all about being a good partner with the DBA and a good neighbor with downtown businesses,” Commission President Stacie Curry told BW, whose eight-member board voted unanimously to recommend the accommodation.

Holloway is also recommending that the city waive any of DBA’s user fees if it chooses to move Alive After Five to Capitol Park. The traditional fee for use of the park during the time would be $234 per week, but Holloway told BW that DBA would not need the park all of the time, which would drive down the cost. He estimated that approximately $936 would be waived by the city for the month of August and part of September. The DBA would still be responsible for any rehabilitation to the park in case of damage during Alive After Five. A similar arrangement in 2015 would be renegotiated.

“But we would like to deal with this sooner than later,” Holloway told the Parks and Recreation Commission Feb. 20. “We see this as a doable deal.”

If indeed Alive After Five finds a temporary home in Capitol Park, the DBA will need more than the city of Boise’s approval.

It’ll also need to turn to the Ada County Highway District, which has authority over city streets.

“This proposal might also require closing off a portion of Jefferson Street in front of the Capitol,” said Holloway on Feb. 20.

“The park is not large enough to handle the stage, vendors and porta-potties.”

Sander told BW that she had been talking to Gardner Co. officials since late 2013, long before Gardner’s big announcement that it planned on bringing dramatic change to Boise’s downtown core (BW, News, “The Right Time, The Right Place,” Feb. 5, 2014).

“We’re waiting to hear when they’ll be breaking ground,” she said.

And that could come sooner than later.

Gardner Co. is preparing to unveil more details of its plans at a Monday, March 3, City Hall meeting of the Boise Planning and Zoning Commission. That’s where Gardner will ask for a conditional use permit to move forward with its plans to build an underground transit center beneath the U.S. Bank Building, which the developer purchased in October 2013.

In fact, Gardner is already calling its downtown footprint, which includes its recently opened Eighth and Main Tower, the “City Center Plaza.”

“We believe that surface parking lots in the Central Business District are an obstacle to development and that they are an incredibly inefficient use of urban space,” wrote Gardner V.P. Geoff Wardle in a Jan. 30 letter to Boise city officials. “As the owner of both Eighth and Main and U.S. Bank Plaza, we embrace transit as benefiting our tenants and their customers.”

If all goes as planned, the underground transit center and new above-ground corporate, retail and meeting space should be completed in 2016—ideally in time for Alive After Five to return to its home on the Grove Plaza.

—George Prentice

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REP. JOHN GANNON “You’ve got to be involved to have a responsive government.”

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John Gannon vividly recalls the day he moved to Boise: “June 6, 1976. It was the day after the Teton Dam burst,” Gannon told Boise Weekly. “I had traveled to almost every state in the union in the summer following my junior year of college, and I fell in love with Idaho.”

Gannon has been practicing law in the Gem State, primarily civil cases, ever since.

“I’ve represented quite a few businesses, but I’ve probably represented several thousand people, easily,” he said.

His representation grew significantly in 2012, when he was elected to the Idaho House from Legislative District 17—Boise’s Central Bench.

“It’s been very, very interesting here for the past few weeks,” said Gannon, sitting down to share a cup of coffee with BW at the Statehouse cafeteria.

And how.

Gannon is a member of the House State Affairs Committee, which has seen some of the most controversial legislation in recent memory, covering guns on campuses, so-called “religious freedom” and Gannon’s own bill, which targets faith healing.

Practically every Idaho legislator insisted at the beginning of the 2014 session that education was going to be the primary issue this year.

What happened?

Some people like to talk the talk, but when it comes to pulling out their wallet, they don’t do it.

It goes without saying that appropriate funding for education will require significant revenue streams. How does Idaho get there?

The obvious answer is to quit passing tax cuts. Last year, I voted against two tax cuts and I got quite a bit of feedback asking how I could have voted no. Let me tell you, if we had

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Have you ever reconciled why you’re a Democrat in Idaho?

My grandmother on my father’s side was a very strong, tough, opinionated Democrat, while my grandfather on my mom’s side was a staunch conservative. I’ve probably listened to both sides my entire life. But I’ve always felt that Democrats are more responsive to the views and concerns of Americans as a whole.

But how can you be successful as a superminority at the Idaho Statehouse?

The minority can be effective if we have our arguments well thought out and organized.

Talk to me a bit about the Rep. Lynn Luker’s “religious freedom” bill, which triggered more than three hours of opposition.

We had more than 500 people show up for our House State Affairs Committee.

Do you have a sense of where his legislation came from?

Look, we all need to live together. And these divisive bills aren’t doing anybody any good.

What we really need to be doing is adding the words [“sexual orientation” and “gender identity”] to the Idaho Human Rights Act. What is the State Affairs Committee chairman’s argument for not holding an Add the Words hearing?

I honestly don’t know. I fundamentally believe that the Legislature should be open to all ideas. I voted the other day to print a bill that wants to nullify the EPA. I told the sponsor, “I’m going to hammer you,” but I still think he deserves a public hearing.

Let’s talk about your bill, HB 458, which wants to lift protections for some parents who use faith healing or prayer as their primary treatment for children who may later die.

All this bill says is that if your child dies or suffers a permanent disability, you could be re-

sponsible. You don’t get an exemption because of your faith.

What would be the penalty?

It would be a felony. You and I already raise our kids under the same law. The only people who haven’t are living under a faithhealing exception.

And it’s my understanding that there have been a number of children who have died in the Marsing area, where their parents were members of the Followers of Christ, and autopsies revealed that the children died of treatable causes.

That would be an example of why the law is necessary.

Nampa Republican Rep. Christy Perry said your bill tramples on religious beliefs.

Your religious beliefs end when some kind of harm begins, especially with a child.

So, what’s the future of your bill? I haven’t seen it yet on a committee hearing agenda.

I keep hearing that my bill is very reasonable but, yes, there is a bit of resistance. I made some changes to give some comfort to other representatives. I’ll let you guess if there’s going to be a hearing anytime soon.

Meanwhile, the guns on campuses bill now comes before that same committee. It’s important to note that the chairman of the same committee in the Senate cut off testimony before hearing from some key stakeholders.

It’s not right for people with expertise, such as law enforcement, not to be able to testify.

That’s very wrong. Secondly, I have a lot of respect for the universities to control their own campuses. This is a bill in search of a problem.

Can you appreciate the plight of citizens who make their way to the Statehouse, testify before a committee in droves, and yet watch a committee move in the opposite direction?

You’re not always going to win. But you’ve got to be involved if you want a responsive government.

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LOW PAY, HIGH EDUCATION How adjuncts carry Boise State University

BY JESSICA MURRI Anne makes a little more than $1,000 a month. If it wasn’t for her husband’s income, her family of four would be nearly $7,000 below the poverty line. Despite working 35 hours a week, she only earns enough to cover babysitting—not daycare—for her two children, both under the age of 5.

When she first got pregnant, she called human resources and explained that she understands her job doesn’t give her health insurance, but asked if it would be possible for her to pay into a benefit policy.

“HR said no, and told me to look into state benefits,” said Anne (whose name has been changed to protect her job).

“A.K.A., welfare.”

Nine months later, the baby came.

“I couldn’t afford to go to the hospital to have my second baby,” she said. “I had to have a midwife. It is not an experience I would have chosen if I had financial stability.”

Anne’s story is echoed by thousands of others in Idaho, made louder amid the debate over whether to increase the state’s minimum wage, but Anne isn’t a pimply teenager behind a fast-food counter. She’s a well-educated adjunct instructor at Boise State University—and no matter what comes of Idaho’s minimum wage debate, her pay isn’t likely to go up anytime soon.

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“When I first signed up, I thought, ‘Oh yeah, in five years, I’ll probably have a full-time position. That’ll be perfect because by then, the kids will be in school,’” she said. “That is not the reality.”

She’s taught classes as an adjunct at Boise State for almost four years. Though she loves the time she spends in the classroom, calling Anne frustrated doesn’t begin to describe her.

And she’s not alone. She said her colleagues work other jobs at restaurants and grocery stores to survive, and while that is far from ideal, almost none are willing to risk their job to speak out. Many adjuncts were contacted for this story, but Anne was one of only a few willing to talk to Boise Weekly on the record, albeit under an assumed name.

She said the job itself is great. It’s the lack of benefits and the reality of the pay that’s not. And things just keep getting worse—many adjuncts saw their hours further cut last semester.

After the Affordable Care Act passed, university officials realized the schedules of many of their adjuncts made them eligible for health care. Using IRS recommendations, the university altered the number of credits adjuncts can teach at the beginning of the fall 2013 semester to avoid having to provide benefits.

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While they used to be able to teach up to four classes (12 credits) in the fall semester and three classes (nine credits) in the spring, for a total of 21 credits per year, the university set that number to a flat 11 credits per semester—three classes and maybe a one-credit workshop or lab if possible, though those are almost always taught by graduate students.

While on paper, the total number of credits adjuncts can teach has been increased by one, the reality is that very few adjuncts are able to pick up those extra credits. For all intents and purposes, adjuncts saw their class loads cut by one per semester.

Boise State pays about $900 per credit, which means adjuncts with a full slate of classes went from about $10,800 per semester to about $8,100 per semester—a 25 percent reduction in pay. And still, no benefits.

Because adjuncts have their contracts renewed every semester, Anne said she worries that if she voices her concerns, she may not get classes the following term. She even kept her pregnancy a secret until after signing her

ment even had a conversation about withholding grades at the end of last semester to see if it would get the university to listen to them.

They decided not to, assuming they’d be fired instead.

“If you don’t want to do it, that’s fine.

There’s 50 other people waiting to fill your job,” Anne said. “You always feel like you’re at risk. That’s why no one will talk. Because we really need these classes.”

Yet she said she struggles not to feel disempowered and disfranchised.

“I would be far better off if I would have gone to school as a plumber,” she said.

LEANED ON Universities’ reliance on contingent faculty has skyrocketed. According to adjunctnation. com, only 21 percent of instructional staff was made up of non-tenure-track positions 45 years ago, but according to a 2012 report from the American Association of University Professors, part-time employees had grown to comprise more than 75 percent of total

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contract. After breaking the news, she said the administration wasn’t happy, but at least she had her classes.

Despite a review held only a few weeks ago where adjuncts came and talked about their experiences, she said nothing came of it.

Anne ticked off a laundry list of frustrations: Adjuncts can’t use the recreation center without paying, adjuncts can’t park on campus without paying, adjuncts get no discount on daycare, adjuncts can’t check out a laptop from the school library.

“I’m a professor, and I have to wait in line to get on a general computer at the library to write my syllabus because the computer [in my office] cannot function and sounds like an airplane taking off,” she said. “It’s just one thing after another.”

But it’s a job. A good job. Anne sticks with it to add professional experience to her resume and she feels a certain amount of prestige being an educator on a college campus. But there also just aren’t many other options.

“It’s discouraging because it’s the nature of the job,” she said. “[The university] doesn’t hide it. Well, I signed up for this and I knew what it was going to be like.”

Anne said there’s still a large amount of unrest among her fellow adjuncts, which gets depressing for her. The adjuncts in her depart-

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instructional staff by 2009.

Martin Schimpf, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Boise State, said the university hires adjuncts as a way to keep higher education accessible and deal with a growing student population. This semester, there are 623 tenured professors, and 540 adjuncts—a proportion similar to other universities around the country.

“As we grow, we’ve brought on more adjuncts,” Schimpf said. “That’s one of the benefits of living in a metropolitan area. We can hire those folks to open up a new section of a class. ... Adjuncts are the most economical way that we can add faculty for our students with the money we are given.”

Adjuncts don’t need any teaching certification or even a Ph.D. to be hired, although having a Ph.D. over a Master’s degree throws a few hundred dollars more into their paychecks.

It’s difficult for adjuncts to budget since their contracts are renewed mere months before the next semester, but if an adjunct with a Master’s teaches three classes both semesters, she’ll make barely more than $16,000 a year before taxes.

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to $70,000 a year at Boise State.

“I mean, we could double tuition and then put tenure track in all of the classes,” Schimpf said, “but that might not be what’s best for the students, because we need to be accessible.”

He said he understands some of the downsides of adjuncts, like that they don’t have the “time commitment” to work with students as much outside of class. He said there’s also high turnover and lots of hiring.

But he said the university offers adjuncts other perks, like access to the facility and limited amounts of sick leave. Adjuncts can also take classes at a discounted rate.

As far as parking goes, “I pay for parking,” Schimpf said. “We all pay for parking.”

Boise State has tried to make it a priority over the past 10 years to hire on more adjuncts full-time, with an in-between position called a lecturer. Lecturers teach up to four classes, but aren’t expected to do any research, like tenured professors. They do receive health insurance and retirement savings, and earn $38,000 a year. Schimpf said the university has

teach a class, these people show up and they just need a job. If they’re good, we keep hiring them back. ... It is supposed to be a temporary position, although some have been doing it for a long time.”

Schimpf said the university lowered the number of credits adjuncts could teach last fall for “fairness.” And, he said that since the Affordable Care Act requires employers to give health insurance to full-time employees, limiting adjuncts to teaching only 11 credits dodged that bullet. Or else, “We could get into [financial] trouble.”

The IRS suggests a “reasonable method” for colleges to tally the work of adjuncts, and determine if their workload makes them eligible for health benefits under the ACA, is to figure that for every hour they spend teaching, they work an additional hour and 15 minutes outside the classroom, whether that’s preparing for classes or grading papers.

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made a “concerted effort” to swell the ranks of lecturers.

While the university has converted 132 adjuncts into lecturers over the years, there are still more than 500 adjuncts—many of whom are vying for those positions.

Schimpf blames adjunct instructors’ low pay on state funding. He said as soon as the university starts to get more support from the state, it’ll be able to convert more adjuncts into lecturers. With no increases in funding, Boise State can convert about six adjuncts a year. When funding rises, Schimpf said he can bump it up to 15.

Since the reduction of state funding during the recession, the university has had to rely more on adjuncts, and Schimpf said he doesn’t expect state support for higher education to return to pre-recession levels any time soon.

What’s more, Boise State’s appropriation amounts to 60 percent per student what the University of Idaho gets.

But Schimpf said adjuncts shouldn’t rely fully on the university to support them.

“The goal is not to hire adjuncts who are doing this for their living. The goal is to get the practical experience in the classroom from someone who is out working in their field,” Schimpf said. “The reality is that as we’ve grown and advertised we need somebody to BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

we’re all just working too hard and that we need to be more lazy. But we care and we love our students.”

Schimpf admitted the IRS’s recommendation might have been a little on the conservative side and he has some sympathy for the plight faced by some adjuncts.

“It’s got to sting a little bit,” he said, though added that he hasn’t heard any complaints from adjuncts. “No one has come to see me about it.”

THE FREEWAY FLIERS Greg Heinzman started what he calls his “indentured servitude” at Boise State in 2008.

To make ends meet, he became what adjuncts call a “freeway flier.” He taught three classes at Boise State and three classes at the College of Western Idaho per semester, plus two or three classes over the summer if he could get them. If not, he worked as a caterer or wheat harvester in Washington. “[Teaching and prep work and grading] was all I was doing,” Heinzman said. “It’s not ideal, especially when you’re trying to buy a house and plan a wedding.”

He figures he worked for about $13 an hour.

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knowing if he’d be teaching two or three or four classes, or one, if everything else fell through. It’s unpredictable.

“It’s easier for the university to hire two adjuncts for the price of one lecturer and have double the classes taught,” Heinzman said. “I mean, it’s not a bad job. We’re not in a tomato field getting sprayed by pesticides.

And there’s some prestigiousness to teaching at a university. But your students don’t know that you’re teaching six classes and barely squeezing by and you couldn’t pay your rent last month.”

Heinzman, his long brown hair pulled back in a gray-streaked ponytail and carrying a leather book bag full of titles the average reader might find a little dry, ordered a water at the restaurant where he met with BW. He thought about a cup of tea but passed, “unless you are buying,” he joked.

Heinzman’s home situation kept him afloat. He never had to skip a meal or not put gas in his car because of his wife’s generous paycheck from St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center.

“But if you have to pay for babysitting and you don’t get paid for those meetings, you pretty much can’t compete. You can’t afford to go to those meetings and afford to do the extra commitments that aren’t counted by the IRS and aren’t part of the job descriptions,” she said. “I could go to a meeting every day of the week if I wanted to and the people who get the lecturer positions go to those meetings. But if you’re working three jobs or have kids, it’s hard to compete.”

Only two lecturer positions opened up in her department last year—and 35 adjuncts wanted them.

“So then you’re baited against each other and that’s ugly,” she said. “Some people have been here for 15 years and still aren’t lecturers.”

Now that Heinzman’s a lecturer, he gets paid almost double to teach the same amount of classes, if not fewer, plus he gets the benefits. Now, he has a feeling of longevity, and of validation.

45 YEARS AGO, ONLY 21% OF INSTRUCTIONAL STAFF WERE PAR T-TIME. NOW, IT’S CLOSER TO 75% NATIONWIDE. “If I would have been on my own, or supporting a wife and a kid, it would have been really, really hard. ... I have no idea what I would have done if I were the ‘breadwinner,’” he said. He looked up the poverty line and found that his wage alone would have put him below it.

Because adjuncts are temporarily contracted employees, there’s no pay increase for experience or longevity. Heinzman remembers one across-the-board raise during a seven-year period: an $18 raise per credit hour.

All that changed last semester when Heinzman interviewed for a lecturer position in the foundational studies department. After the interview, he took a trip to Montana to visit his brother and sister-inlaw. Everyone else left the house to take the kids to the pool and Heinzman stayed home reading Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, when the phone rang.

He saw the “426” number and knew it was from Boise State. He thought, “maybe this is it,” and sure enough, he found out a few weeks before the fall semester started that he had a whole new job.

“I went out in the backyard and went, ‘Yes!’” Heinzman said. “I loved the fact that I got the job, but I was like, ‘Wow, why am I celebrating so much for a $38,000-a-year job?’

Which isn’t bad, but it’s just such a difference between adjunct pay and lecturer pay.”

Fourteen years ago, Heinzman worked for Washington State University, teaching GED workshops in a penitentiary. He said back then he got paid $33 an hour, received benefits if he went over part time, and the state matched 5 percent of his income in a retirement savings account.

“I’m just now making the same amount of money again,” Heinzman said.

In order to edge closer to his lecturer position, Heinzman spent lots of unpaid time serving on committees and befriending department chairs. Anne agreed that service and committee work is necessary to get that full-time job.

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THE ‘UGLY REALITY’ Adjunct instructors don’t have much in the way of union representation. Daniel Wolf, an organizer with Idaho Association of Government Employees, said his group has never even tried unionizing adjuncts.

“A lot of it is fear [on the adjuncts’ part],” Wolf said. “They think because they’re contracted, they think they could be targeted or pushed out for wanting to have a voice for their wages and possible benefits.”

Adjuncts at two private colleges in the Seattle area are already working toward winning union representation, but Wolf said it’s tough to start such a campaign because 70-80 percent of the adjuncts would need to sign on. And not all adjuncts are unhappy.

Some do have jobs in their respective careers and teach a class or two to supplement their income or give back to their field. Others, like Eldon Hattervig, are retired and find the classes stimulating.

Hattervig became an adjunct in 2007 and he’s taught History 101 every semester since.

“As an adjunct, and having had another career, I think I can give a different perspective to students,” he said. “Just because you get a degree in an academic field doesn’t mean you’re going to work in that field.”

He said he doesn’t think his students know the difference between his class and one taught by a tenured professor. He shares an office with eight other adjuncts and earns about $500 a month, but it works for him.

“I know that I could have gone and worked at McDonald’s and made more money than I make here. ... But I really do enjoy the students,” he said.

Heinzman, the recent adjunct-turnedlecturer, agreed.

“Maybe that’s part of the problem,” Heinzman said. “There’s so many people that will do it for cheap because they love it.”

That’s certainly the case for Anne.

“But it’s an ugly reality that BSU is run on the back of adjuncts,” she said. “Although, if you change that, I guess I’m out of a job.”

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THURSDAY FEB. 27 writing the body SUREL’S PLACE: CL YOUNG POETRY READING Living in the body of a 20-year-old wouldn’t seem to have much in common with living in the body of a 60-year-old; but, in many ways, it’s exactly the same. If exploring those similarities sounds intriguing, learn more at a poetry reading by CL Young at Surel’s Place.

Located in Garden City, Surel’s Place offers an artist-in-residence program that provides a unique opportunity for artists to live and work in a creative space designed to inspire.

Young, a local writer and dancer who harbors a confessed obsession with the body, is the latest Surel’s Place artist-in-residence, and through a series of workshops, she and participants of all ages will explore the human experience of living in an ever-changing body.

According to Becky Mitchell, founder and executive director of Surel’s Place, “We are one of just a few residency programs that you don’t have to pay to come to. We pay you—through travel stipends, free rent, etc.”

The idea is to give both emerging and established artists the respect and support they deserve.

“Business professionals who travel don’t have to buy their own plane tickets, pay for their own lodging or buy their own food,” said Mitchell. “And if we’re going to fill our museums and communities with art because we think it’s important, then we should treat the people who create it at a level commensurate with the value they add to our lives.”

Previous artists have included painters, sculptors, writers and poets, arriving from as far away as Chicago, Arkansas and New York. Whether established or emerging, each artist submits a proposal and portfolio, which goes before a review panel prior to acceptance.

As word of the program has spread, competition for the coveted openings has steadily increased. According to Mitchell, space is already filling up for 2015.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Surel’s Place, 212 E. 33rd St., Garden City, 208407-7529, surelsplace.org.

SATURDAY MARCH 1 swank Available FREE at

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Over the years, Boise has gone from a casual city to a businesscasual city. Bed-head hair has been encased in mousse, collared shirts are bought pre-wrinkled and the pub crowd has migrated from the corner bar to hotspots like Bittercreek Brewpub and 10 Barrel.

That said, every once in awhile

BOISE CURLING CLUB WORKSHOP If you watched the games in Sochi, wishing you were there swooshing through the snow or gliding across the ice, your journey to Olympic gold could start now. The Boise Curling Club wants you to experience the high intensity thrill ride that is curling, in which competitors must be so precise and tactical that the sport is called “chess on ice.” Learn to Curl is a 90-minute session designed to teach participants the ins and outs of the Winter Olympics’ most underrated event. You’ll learn from seasoned pros how to sweep, skip, guard and tap, and participate in your first match in less time than it takes to watch a movie on Netflix. All four workshops sold out as Boise Weekly was going to press, but a fifth was added for Saturday, March 7, so don’t hold off signing up for too much longer. The event coordinators ask participants to wear comfortable, warm clothes and sneakers or other rubber-soled shoes. Who knows? You might be headed to Pyeongchang, South Korea, in 2018.

Feb. 28 and March 1 classes are SOLD OUT. March 7, 6:30-8 p.m. $10-$20. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208608-7716, boisecurlingclub.org.

denizens of the City of Trees like to dress to impress. Sometimes, Boise likes to veer in the direction of swank, though chances to don formal attire can be few.

If the grime and soggy sneakers of winter have you yearning for cufflinks or a string of pearls, look no further than A Sense of Art: Boise Art Museum Gala at BAM Saturday, March 1, beginning at 5:30 p.m. Appetizers will become hors d’oeuvres, guys will become gentlemen and women will become ladies. Swing in for food and drink, auctions silent and live, and classy fun for you and your lucky date.

Auction items hail from Bogus Basin Ski Resort, Boise Contemporary Theater, ENSO Artspace, Fork, Alan Heathcock, The Modern Hotel and Bar, Trey McIntyre Project and many, many more.

Seriously, there are, like, a hundred organizations and individuals donating wares and services to benefit BAM exhibitions, programming and events.

If your tie clip and favorite heels are itching for some use,

BAM—as it does for your fine art cravings—can help.

5:30 p.m. $175 members, $200 public, Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

SUNDAY MARCH 2 lights, camera, oscars OSCAR VIEWING PARTY Boise Weekly and the Northgate Reel Theatre are teaming up for a night at the Oscars, and all you have to do is buy some snacks, find a seat and settle in with a few hundred like-minded movie lovers to watch the Academy Awards streaming on the big screen.

You can wrap yourself in a Slanket, bust out that puffy-sleeved prom dress or Reagan-era blue tuxedo, or go glitzy and give Cate Blanchett and Christian Bale a run for their place on the best-dressed lists. There’s no dress code and, B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

FIND WHITMAN ILLUMINATED: SONG OF MYSELF

These boots were made for walking (in the snow).

As the Cajun folks say: Laissez les bons temps rouler.

SATURDAY MARCH 1

TUESDAY MARCH 4

forget postholing

mardi party

STARLIGHT SNOWSHOE BENEFIT

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Winter sports are often expensive, requiring an array of specialized gear and training. The centuries-old sport of snowshoeing, however, is totally different: If you can walk, you can snowshoe. And whether you’re snowshoe savvy or a complete newbie, an excellent opportunity to partake in the action happens during the Starlight Snowshoe Benefit at the Bogus Basin Nordic Ski Lodge.

Snowshoeing has been around for a long time and like most great ideas, was probably the result of careful observation.

Just watch a snowshoe hare darting across a field of white and you’ll instantly understand the advantage. Instead of struggling to make headway, the little fellows use oversized feet to effortlessly glide where humans only posthole. Since bunnies’ feet are so big in proportion to their bodies, weight is distributed over a larger surface area, resulting in a much easier romp through the powder.

Now, imagine being that struggling human watching that smug bunny scurry by and voila—snowshoes.

Sponsored by Greenwood’s Ski Haus, the 10th annual Starlight Snowshoe Benefit is the brainchild of former employee Ray Schuler. Schuler had been involved in a similar event elsewhere but wanted to make the experience more meaningful by incorporating fundraising into the mix. Last year saw more than 400 participants, and this year, event organizers are hoping for an even larger turnout.

All proceeds benefit the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), a global organization funding Type I diabetes research in an effort to eradicate the disease. Local restaurants will provide the edibles, local musicians will provide live entertainment. Snowshoes will be provided and trails will be lit so you’ll be able to see any smug bunnies crossing your path.

4 p.m., $11 children, $16 adults, $53 family. Bogus Basin Nordic Ski Lodge; drive past J.R. Simplot Lodge, continue beyond the Pepsi GoldRush Tubing Hill and past the Pioneer Road turnoff; Boise; 208-342-6808; greenwoodsskihaus.com.

You may not be able to afford a trip to New Orleans for Mardi Gras, but you could probably swing a scoot down to Hannah’s for the annual Ta Ta Tuesday Mardi Gras party. This is, as they like to call it, an ABC bash: Anything But Clothes.

Break out the duct tape, glitter, garbage bags, playing cards and anything else you can think of, and get crafty— those who suit up in the best “not clothes” costumes are eligible for $200 cash prizes.

It wouldn’t be a party at Hannah’s without games, so join in the fun with contests like the Bobbing for Baubles Dive, in which you get the chance to dive into a pool on the dance floor to win sexy prizes from Tasteful Sinsations.

There will be a limited number of feather masks, crowns and hats, as well as beads aplenty, including blinking beads, collector beads and beads with a naughty twist. Of course, plan on all-night drink specials—$1 shots and $4.50 Hannahcanes—and free admission.

King cakes will be handed out every hour and everyone who finds the Christ Child in his or her cake will be crowned queen or king for the hour and receive a $25 bar tab.

The Red Light Variety Show will provide some entertainment in the form of aerial acrobatics high above Hannah’s dance floor and the Rocci Johnson Band and VJ Jazzy Jim will provide the music and keep the party going until your bacchanalian behavior has you looking forward to Lent.

7 p.m., Red Light Variety Show performs at 9 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s, 621 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557, facebook. com/humpinhannahs.

so far, no expressed rules about yelling at the screen if Jonah Hill gets the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

During each commercial break, prizes will be awarded to audience members—like 3-D movie passes, gift cards to local restaurants and

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more. Everyone attending is eligible to win prizes just for being there, but the more you spend on concessions, the more raffle tickets you get.

5 p.m. FREE. Northgate Reel Theatre, 6950 W. State St., Boise, 208-377-2620, reeltheatre.com.

Born in 1819 to Quaker-leaning parents, native New Jerseyan Walt Whitman was a journalist, publisher, teacher, a nurse in the Civil War, a philosopher and poet. Most of all, Whitman was a galaxy-class eccentric.

A plain-spoken lover of young men’s youth and vigor who lived in a sex-repressed time, this was a guy who thought he could stop bullets with his soul.

Hardcover, $28.95, He eulogized Abraham Tin House Books, tinhouse.com Lincoln with a short poem about flowers.

He was king of the hippies: Whitman was a better self-promoter than Jesus, a better poet than Jerr y Garcia and could get to the bottom of a myster y faster than Shaggy from Scooby Doo. An edition of his work that celebrated the man for who he was was long overdue.

Artist Allen Crawford has produced an illustrated copy of Whitman’s sprawling, loafing poem, “Song of Myself,” Whitman Illuminated: Song of Myself, that does just that. The 50-page poem has been inflated to more than 250 pages with hundreds of humorous, outlandish and celebrator y drawings that capture the whimsical essence of “Song.”

The hardcover edition is set for release Tuesday, May 13, just in time for the summer birthday of your favorite Whitman fan.

—Harrison Berr y

Here’s hoping Jennifer Lawrence doesn’t trip on her dress again.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY FEB. 26 Workshops & Classes FRUIT TREES—Learn how and when to prune fruit trees from Matt Perkins, a Boise City arborist and manager of the Laura Moore Cunningham City Arboretum. Register online. 6 p.m.

FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, parks. cityofboise.org.

ORGANIC GARDENING 101— Learn about soils, seed selections, site selection, fertilization, watering, plant rotation, harvesting and more. 6 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northendnursery.com.

THURSDAY FEB. 27

WHITTENBERGER PLANETARIUM—Find out what happened to Pluto, learn about dwarf planets and exoplanets, and get an overview of the current and upcoming constellations and planets visible in the Idaho night sky. Call for reservations. 7 p.m. $2-$4.

Whittenberger Planetarium at The College of Idaho, Boone Science Hall, corner of 20th Avenue and Fillmore, Caldwell, 208-459-5211, collegeofidaho.edu/planetarium.

YOGAFORT PREPARTY—Featuring Glow Yoga and Power Party Sculpt. Participants will receive an entry into a drawing for a Yogafort pass. 5:30 p.m. $35.

Heirloom Dance Studio, 765 Idaho St., Boise, 208-871-6352, heirloomdancestudio.com.

On Stage HIGH FIVE WITH OCD—Off Center Dance Company presents four new works and two short films.

8 p.m. $10-$18. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, offcenterdance.org.

JEFF RICHARDS FROM SNL— See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

OPERA IDAHO: CARMEN— Opera Idaho brings the classic Bizet opera Carmen to the stage for the sixth time. This production returns Opera Idaho to the Morrison Center for the first time since 2008. 7:30 p.m. $15-$69.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, box office: 208-426-1110, operaidaho.org.

Literature LITERATURE FOR LUNCHTRAPLINES: COMING HOME TO SAWTOOTH VALLEY—Join in a discussion about John Rember’s work that explores the notion that you can never go home again.

Noon. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Sports & Fitness

On Stage JEFF RICHARDS FROM SNL— Stand-up comedy with featured act Ryan Noack. 8 p.m. $10.

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

Literature CL YOUNG POETRY READING—Young will read the work from her Surel’s Place residency and offer insight into her creative process.

See Picks, Page 16. 6:30 p.m.

FREE. Surel’s Place, 212 E. 33rd St., Garden City, 208-407-7529, surelsplace.org.

Talks & Lectures NATURE WRITING, LANDSCAPE PAINTING & NATURAL HISTORY—Boise State University professor Samantha Harvey provides insight into the nexus of science, art and literature. 7 p.m.

Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Kids & Teens 3-D PRINTING CLUB FOR TEENS AND TWEENS—Travis and Hailey will demonstrate the basics of 3-D design. You can take your own laptop. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

FRIDAY FEB. 28 Festivals & Events STOCK YOUR CELLAR EVENT— Tasting accompanied by light tapas. Featuring Bodegas Las Orcas/Solar de Randez. 6 p.m. $20 adv., $25 door. Basque Market, 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com.

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NOISE/CD REVIEW PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: KUDOS TO YOU! The Presidents of the United States of America have long been known as one of music’s silliest bands. Over the course of two decades, little has changed, a fact the trio flaunts on Kudos to You! (PUSACorp, Feb. 14, 2014), the band’s first release in six years.

Humor is still the name of the game, as evidenced by the band’s odes to everything from small-scale insect wars (“Flea vs. Mite”) to the fate of a poor spirit (“Crappy Ghost”). And bassist-singer Chris Ballew is not above parodying every country heartbreak song ever written on the witty country rocker “Poor Little Me” or weaving a ridiculous story about being genuinely afraid of little rubber puppets in “Finger Monster.”

The Presidents—or PUSA as the band refers to itself—sticks to schtick like the titular bug in “Slow Slow Fly,” but the cutand-paste lyrical sensibility of the nonsensical rocker “Electric Spider” is both clever and random at the same time, and don’t be surprised if you suddenly feel the urge to take a trip to the Buckeye State after hearing PUSA’s “Ohio.” Sure, there are enlightened moments like “Good Morning Tycoon” in which Ballew takes shots at the 1 percent, but with his faux-sunshiny vocals, the result is funny as well as sad.

If you know PUSA, you know what you’re in for, but that’s OK. The band rocks, it brings the silly like nobody’s business and the music is a blast. For some, it might be the same old song and dance, but when it’s done as well as PUSA does it, is that really a bad thing?

—Brian Palmer B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

8 DAYS OUT IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. SANTA CRUZ WARRIORS—NBA Development League basketball.

7 p.m. $8-$380. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

LEARN TO CURL—Join the Boise Curling Club for an introduction to the sport. Wear loose fitting clothing.

All equipment is provided. See Picks, Page 16. 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $10-$20. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-331-0044, idahoiceworld.com.

Odds & Ends IMPROVOLUTION AT THE SESQUI-SHOP—Explore musical improv every fourth Friday at improvisational performance workshops. No registration required. Contact Mike at mike@ boiselaughs.com for more info.

7 p.m. Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-4335671.

SATURDAY MARCH 1 Festivals & Events 2014 IDAHO CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION—Celebrate the Year of the Horse, sponsored by the Idaho Chinese Organization. 7 p.m. $8. Boise State

Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub. boisestate.edu.

MARDI GRAS PARTY—Chow down on gator and crawfish from New Orleans, gumbo, drinks, beads and more. The party lasts until the food is gone. Noon. FREE. High Desert Harley-Davidson, 2310 E. Cinema Drive, Meridian, 208-338-5599, highdeserthd.com.

BAM’S ANNUAL GALA: A SENSE OF ART—Engage your senses during BAM’s fundraising gala. Creative black tie optional. See Picks, Page 16. 5:30 p.m. $175-$200.

Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

ROCK AND GEM SHOW—Featuring dealers, demonstrators, door prizes and more. 10 a.m. $3, kids 11 and younger FREE with adult. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. $3, kids 11 and under FREE with adult.

O’Connor Field House/Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208-455-3004.

STARLIGHT SNOWSHOE BENEFIT—Enjoy live music, food, drinks and raffle overlooking the breathtaking Idaho scenery. Proceeds fund research for Type 1 diabetes.

Tickets available at Greenwood’s Ski Haus or online at jdrfevents. donordrive.com/event/ starlight2014. See Picks, Page 17. 4 p.m. $11-$16, $53 families. Bogus Basin Nordic Center, Bogus Basin Road, Boise, 208-332-5390.

On Stage HIGH FIVE WITH OCD—See Friday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $10-$18.

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

JEFF RICHARDS FROM SNL— See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

Workshops & Classes FERMENTING AND PICKLING— Learn the benefits of fermented foods, the differences in pickling, and what to grow this season.

3:30 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northendnursery.com.

SEED STARTING AND GARDEN PLANNING—Learn how to start seeds indoors and which plants can be direct-sown in the garden.

2 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northendnursery. com.

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IDAHO STAMPEDE VS. SANTA CRUZ WARRIORS—NBA Development League basketball.

7 p.m. $8-$380. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, centurylinkarenaboise.com.

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ROCK AND GEM SHOW—See Saturday. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3, kids 11 and younger FREE with adult.

O’Connor Field House/Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208-455-3004.

JEFF RICHARDS FROM SNL— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $10.

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

MY FIRST SCIENCE FAIR—A fun day of science experiments and projects for children ages 3-8.

Kids are encouraged to work with their parents on science projects to share at the Fair. Register online or call 208-562-4996. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

OSCAR NIGHT—Watch the awards on the big screen, with prize giveaways during commercials.

See Picks, Page 16. 5 p.m. FREE. Northgate Reel Theatre, 6950 W. State St., Boise, 208-377-2620, reeltheatre.com.

WONDERFUL AND WEIRD ORCHID SPECIES—An introduction to some fascinating species and tips on how you can grow them at home. Part of the Read Me reading project. 1 p.m. $10-$15.

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

Kids & Teens

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

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

DR. SEUSS BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION—Celebrate what would be the 110th birthday of Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel with the Treasure Valley Children’s Theater dressed up as favorite characters performing lively renditions of Seuss classics. 2 p.m. FREE. Meridian Public Library, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 208-8884451, mld.org.

On Stage

LEARN TO CURL—See Friday. 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. $10-$20. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-331-0044, idahoiceworld.com.

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

Festivals & Events

Talks & Lectures

Sports & Fitness THE MEPHAM GROUP

SUNDAY MARCH 2

ART PARTY BOISE PAINTS THE TOWN—Create your very own acrylic painting. Refreshments will be served. Registration required. For ages 12 and older. 6 p.m. $20. Miss Courageous Pop Inspired Gifts, 1148 N. Orchard St., Boise, 208-577-8921, misscourageous.com.

OPERA IDAHO: CARMEN—See Friday. 2:30 p.m. $15-$69. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208-426-1110, operaidaho.org.

MONDAY MARCH 3 Talks & Lectures STEVEN WOLF LECTURE—Steven Wolf of Cornell University will speak on “Payments for Ecosystem Services and U.S. Agri-environmental Policy: Opportunities and Constraints.” Noon.

FREE. Boise State Student Union Lookout Room, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2468, sub. boisestate.edu.

Gilmore Girls). Buy tickets at boisestatetickets.com. 7:30 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110, broadwayinboise.com.

Literature THE CABIN’S HAPPY HOUR BOOK CLUB—Check out Happy Hour at The Cabin, courtesy of Hayden Beverage. Drink wine and talk about The Orchid Thief. Part of the Read Me reading project.

5:30 p.m. FREE. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.

Talks & Lectures BOISE BIZARRE—Learn some odd facts about our home town as Todd Shallat, Boise State University professor and author, presents an eclectic mix of Boiserelated lore. Part of the Read Me reading series. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-5706900, boisepubliclibrary.org.

LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: THE UNEXPECTED UNIVERSE—The beginning of a series on the humanity of science and technology.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 Festivals & Events SERVE IDAHO CONFERENCE— See Tuesday.8 a.m. $90-$175.

Red Lion Downtowner, 1800 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-3447691, serveidaho.gov.

On Stage BROADWAY IN BOISE: HELLO DOLLY!—See Tuesday. 7:30 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, broadwayinboise.com.

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA— When a wealthy Southern woman’s daughter falls in love with a young Italian man during a summer vacation she must reconsider her daughter’s future and her own. Presented by the Boise State Department of Theatre Arts. 7:30 p.m. $9-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre. boisestate.edu.

Workshops & Classes INTRO TO KRAV MAGA—Join Tracie Ide, owner of Idaho Krav Maga, for an introductory class on the easy-to-learn combat system of self-defense. Space is limited. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

TREE BIOLOGY—Gary Moen, an arborist and professor emeritus at Boise State, will teach participants how a tree works from top to bottom. Register online or call 208-608-7700. 6 p.m.

FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, parks. cityofboise.org.

Talks & Lectures MAKEITEERS: TREE CARE— Arborist Jason Doran speaks on the unique needs of our trees here in the Treasure Valley. He will touch on pruning techniques, proper irrigation and more. Part of the Read Me reading project.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

TUESDAY MARCH 4 Festivals & Events SERVE IDAHO CONFERENCE— Learn best practices, strategies and new ways of doing business from the state’s best thinkers and practitioners of service and volunteering. Register online or call 208-332-3578 or 800-5883334. 8 a.m. $90-$175. Red Lion Downtowner, 1800 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-344-7691, serveidaho.gov.

On Stage BROADWAY IN BOISE: HELLO DOLLY!—Winner of 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Hello, Dolly! is one of the most enduring Broadway classics. Starring Emmy Award-winning actress Sally Struthers (All In the Family,

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NEWS/ARTS ARTS/CULTURE

See works by Shannon Richardson, as well as Ray Maseman, at Brumfield’s Gallery in Hyde Park.

ADVENTURES IN ART More than 100 years ago, two European adventurers, Roald Amundsen of Norway and British Royal Navy Capt. Robert Falcon Scott, each led teams that trekked from the edge of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf to the South Pole—and back. The round-trip was 1,800 miles through ice, snow and more ice. Both teams departed from the ice shelf but just one returned.

The thrills and chills of the Amundsen/ Scott expeditions are in Idaho Falls with the Race to the End of the Earth exhibit.

This internationally touring presentation, which runs until Sept. 1 at the Museum of Idaho, re-creates the experience of traveling to the world’s coldest place more than a century ago through interactive and hands-on activities, and compares those conditions to those found at the poles today.

Closer to home is the Smithsonian traveling exhibition, Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America, which arrives at the Idaho State Historical Museum Saturday, March 1, and runs through Saturday, April 12. There, catch a glimpse of the American Century through the lens of sports—the role they’ve played in small towns, the oversized personalities, the heroes and the shaping of a national narrative.

Meanwhile, visual arts enthusiasts have a lot of openings to choose from this week— Ray Maseman and Shannon Richardson at Brumfield’s Gallery, and a bunch of MFA exhibitions at the Visual Arts Center at Boise State University. Saturday, March 8, through Saturday, May 3, Maseman will be Brumfield’s featured printmaker. His print showcase is a riot of animals superimposed in surreal, childish situations: In one, an elephant stands on a tree swing over a house; in another, a giraffe considers a tree swing hanging from a eucalyptus.

During the same period and also at Brumfield’s, check out Shannon Richardson’s painting exhibition, The Reunion of Night and Day, featuring evocative, dreamlike images that imply narrative and a contemplative understanding of the human experience.

At the Visual Arts Center Gallery 2 in the Hemingway Building, a slew of MFA thesis exhibitions will show off some of the best visual artists Boise State has to offer. An opening reception in Gallery 2 at 6 p.m.

Friday, March 7, introduces Boise to Luz Camarena’s visual representations of the relationship between racism and immigration in Racial Epithet Vignettes, as well as Teysha Vinson’s photography that unpacks the visual vernacular of spirituality, light and beauty in Awful/Awful-An Archive of Light Embarrassments. April VanDeGrift’s exhibition, the third MFA presentation, opens Thursday, March 13.

—Harrison Berry

Lead Pencil Studio, “Inversion,” welded black and annealed tie wire, 2002.

THE CAUSE OF ART An invitation to the Zirinsky Collection CHRISTOPHER SCHNOOR nature of the art advanced here is cutting edge.

Driek and Michael Zirinsky have over many The commingling of the formal objectness of years put together what is undoubtedly the written words and their abstract counterparts most important private collection of contemin the studio compels one to appreciate them porary art in Idaho today. They bring to their as visual art with its own nonliterary web of project a deep and wide knowledge of the cultural and conceptual issues. The invitation subject, an incredibly good eye and a sense of to obey the “read this” impulse serves to focus adventure. International in scope, the collecone’s attention on the visual elements that contion reveals not only their individual histories struct the meaning of each work. References and scholarly interests, but an openness to a to the print media, the book-form, manual range of multicultural themes and perspectyping, calligraphy and written language in tives, as well as untraditional mediums. A general, are both stimulating and nostalgic in selection is currently featured in Now Read their way, as if constituting memento mori of a This, a fascinating confluence of Western and vanishing humanism. exotic trends today, and an education in how By also selecting sculptural pieces of fabric entwined contemporary visual art from around and nonfabric materials, curator Bacon has the world has become. micromanaged the thematic thrust of the exhiThe Zirinskys are a private couple, and bition. As the catalogue essay points out, text, unless you have been lucky enough to score texture and textile all come from the common an invitation to their art-filled home, this is a Latin root “textus,” thereby simultaneously unique opportunity to sample their treasure relating and diversifying the many art forms trove in the flesh. With an eye to the future of the collection and the Zirinskys’ own legacy in presented here. While sifting through these late 20th century and early 21st the local arts community, they approached Stephacentury creations, Bacon NOW READ THIS nie Bacon, a Boise State was drawn to unconvenHangs through October, FREE. Arts and University art professor tional pieces comprised Humanities Institute Gallery, Yanke Family Research Park, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., and director of the Idaho of “interwoven strands” 208-426-4109, ahi@boisestate.edu.

Center for the Book, to of text, language, texture, explore their holdings book formats and unusual and put together a public exhibition. Now examples of textile technique, which she realRead This is a remarkable show of 45 twoized would resonate with the viewer on a more and three-dimensional works by 39 contemintimate level, presenting art that has what she porary artists, including recognized American calls a “porous” quality that draws one in. For names and a number who are based or have Bacon, opting for a generalized post-modern roots in foreign countries. theme with familiar imagery would be “too On display at the university’s Arts and blunt an instrument” to do justice to the range Humanities Institute (AHI) Gallery at 220 of sensibilities here.

Parkcenter Blvd., the exhibit is, at its core, The spacious AHI Gallery is bathed in natua marriage of language and art. Not in itself ral light from its ground-level view of the Boise a revolutionary concept these days, but the Greenbelt and riverside environment, a vantage

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point that is put to good use in the show’s presentation. Immediately upon entering the space, you sense you are in for a unique, multicultural experience.

The book has a place of prominence here in an intriguing range of incarnations, not surprising given the title of an exhibit put on by the Idaho Center for the Book. It is the subject of both two-dimensional and sculptural considerations in this show. At the point of its prophesied demise, the conventional narrative concept of the book has morphed, taking on a visual as well as literary significance, expanding its status as a cultural and intellectual icon, and inspiring a new, crossover paradigm in aesthetics. It is this move into another dimension in recent decades that will ensure its survival.

Right off the bat we witness this art form’s potential as a new vehicle for the imagination.

California-based Iranian artist Ala Ebtekar’s bold ink and watercolor visual epic, The Invisible Fold rendered on time-stained sheets of Farsi prayer script bound in the center, depicts armies battling over correct interpretations of sacred texts, a plague that goes back centuries and continues to this day. The binding fold demarks the meeting point of these dueling theologies. Italy-born, London-based Vito Drago’s mixed-media construction/book, The Big Fiction, is an odd, two-panel primitive keyboard set in a well-worn binding like an abacus version of the laptop. Inviting us to get to work, the work presents “the possibilities of a written piece.”

The vitrines in the center of the exhibit hold a number of additional works in this vein. American sculptor Lucy Puls likes to deconstruct and give new geometric form to printed books by gluing together the pages into solid structures in her quest to consider B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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Xu Bing, “An Introduction to Square Word Calligraphy,” 1994.

the durability of ideas. Her Volumen (Thorndike and Barnhart) is an altered dictionary, its printed pages densely bound in a cylindrical shape with encaustic, the print highlighted with red ink. It has an ancient, Dead Sea Scrolls look which will, more successfully, stand the test of time, albeit contrary to her original source materials.

Similarly, Seattle-based Korean artist Bo Choi’s totemic sculpture “Bible Knitting” is a destroyed Bible whose cut-up pages were stitched and knitted together as if a piece of fabric art. Her concerns address the existence and “questioning of social restrictions” governed by structures of religion and custom.

For Choi, the process of dismantling a text such as the Bible, and reconstructing it to mimic another art form, “is an act of receiving religion on our own terms.”

Portland’s Mary Bennett, a printmaker and book arts pioneer with degrees in history and Interdisciplinary Arts as well, is on the same track as Choi. Bennett also cuts up and alters the pages of a book, rebinding the shredded contents and interweaving embroidery thread, as in “The French.” Transforming its traditional origins both emphasizes her source’s former life while challenging the viewer to reconsider the same.

Of equal importance in Now Read This are the wall works of and on paper, canvas and unconventional grounds, many focusing on time and memory. They are abstract, figurative, mixed media and collage, and map-like word landscapes. Perhaps one of the most intriguing and beautiful is Scottish native Georgia Russell’s intricate sculptural pieces made of scalpel-sliced and reassembled traceries of paper on book surfaces or other printed pages.

“Echoes of the Past” incorporates a fragile, poetic architecture made of dissected sheet music turning musical notations into elegant abstractions, informed by Russell’s belief that “music transcends language and is a trigger for the memory.” It sets the tone for the inspired work with paper to follow.

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Navarro’s “Sol va a Ponerse” (Sun Will Be Applied), a drawing on parchment to which sugar is applied to the rendered mechanical-looking design and baked to give the image a blackened, tar-like appearance. Or Lynne Woods Turner’s untitled pencil/color pencil renderings on paper inspired by the decorative elements of Islamic art. Her intricately designed and drawn piece of repeating eight-sided shapes with alternating positive and negative qualities creates a physical push-and-pull on the eye.

On the minimalist end of the exhibit’s spectrum is British printmaker Jane Dixon’s all-white inkless etching on paper. An artist focusing on issues of absence and presence, remembering and forgetting, her piece here echoes a Robert Ryman-esque aesthetic, although instead of contemplating Zen-inflected fields of white brushstrokes, the formalism here is that of silent embossed Braille letters.

The “Braille Suite’s” translations introduce us to a new visual vocabulary, but also a conundrum. As Dixon succinctly states: It is “a language of touch rather than sight, and yet unreadable behind glass.”

In the realm of conceptual aerobatics, three artists stand out. Danish-Icelandic multimedia artist Olafur Eliasson has established himself worldwide as one of the most intelligent and innovative artists in contemporary art, having recently turned New York City Harbor into an installation piece. I find his smaller scale, sublimely cerebral work more fascinating, where his combination of poetics, physics and technology produce sensuous visual effects.

“Pedestrian Vibes Study” is a case in point, a performance work cum 16-panel photogravure captured by body-worn, time-lapse photography as Eliasson races around creating sketches of the figure in motion in what suggests a frantic urban setting. It is an abstract, 21st century version of Eadweard Muybridge’s famous human movement studies from the late 19th century.

Icelandic artist Hildur Bjarnadottir’s conceptual fabric art is based in both the femaledominated Scandinavian craft tradition and

an American MFA education and career. One constantly exchanges places with the other. In “Reconstructed Canvas,” the artist reverses the roles of the canvas ground and artwork. Having unraveled the linen threads of the canvas, Bjarnadottir crotchets this scavenged medium into an abstract work, thereby morphing support into fine art. The marriage of feminism, savvy irony and personal history, gives a fresh dimension to her art.

Finally, German artist Markus Hansen has a background in a number of art forms, including installation, sculpture and photography. His work “Curtain” reflects not only his own aesthetic persuasion but his time as an assistant to the contemporary German art godfather, Joseph Beuys. In creating this ghostly, insubstantial image, Hansen silkscreened varnish onto glass, then subjected the same to breaths of dust which adhered to the surface. It is a quiet yet profoundly German image, reminiscent of both his family’s and his culture’s history. In the artist’s words, his curtain series “had come to represent the veil of the unspoken and the unsaid.”

The work that most clearly benefits from the natural setting of the AHI gallery is by Korean- born, New York artist Jean Shin, whose art thrives from the throwaway fodder of urban society. “20/20” is comprised of a white wall board covering a large window looking out on the Greenbelt. Embedded in the board are found prescription eyeglasses of various styles, colors and lens density through which one can view snippets of the outdoor scene. The daily meteorological conditions and time of day provide a changing demeanor ranging from bright and cheerful to gloomy gray, functioning like an oversized mood ring.

Also, the piece allows us to fill the original owners’ shoes, experiencing their perception of the world.

In sharing their collection, the Zirinskys are fulfilling the sentiments of 19th century British artist William Morris that “the cause of art is the cause of the people.” This is an opportunity for the people to come do their part.

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FREE. Piper Pub & Grill THE GROUCH AND ELIGH—With Pigeon John. See Listen Here, this page. 10 p.m. $10-$12. Reef

The Grouch and Eligh may sound like a couple of furry friends who pal around on Sesame Street. They aren’t. And although the hip-hop pair doesn’t spend its days teaching little kids how to count to 10, The Grouch and Eligh do offer their take on the human condition with the delivery of smart, philosophical, lyrics—sometimes at tommy-gun speed—laid down on everything from pop to funk to rock-guitar to folk to electronica to almost everything in between.

The duo is currently in the midst of an intense tour behind its brand-spanking-new release, The Tortoise and The Crow (The Grouch & Eligh Music, Feb. 18, 2014), which was funded through Kickstarter. It’s a giant 41-track, independently produced triple album comprised of one Grouch record, one Eligh record and one G&E record and was obviously something G&E’s fans wanted to get behind: G&E received pledges almost double the goal amount.

—Amy Atkins Featuring Pigeon John, 10 p.m., $10 adv., $12 door. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

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JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLYGOATS—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s KORBY LENKER—With Adam Wright. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

Train Wreck TRAIN WRECK—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s WHITAKER AND OLIVER—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

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BREAD AND CIRCUS—9 p.m.

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SONS OF HIPPIES—With Pop Overkill and Mother Shipton. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

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RUSSIAN CIRCLES, MARCH 3, NEUROLUX The description “instrumental music” is a broad one and includes Beethoven’s classic symphonies, the ’50s lounge sounds of Martin Denny’s exotica, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s over-the-top Christmas covers and some of Deadmau5’s electronica creations. It may be sans vocals, but great instrumental music does have a voice. From the trio’s first release to its fifth, Memorial (Sargent House, 2013), Chicago-based Russian Circles has created metal-esque music that is so textured and so brilliantly arranged, it sometimes isn’t until the end of a song that a listener realizes not a word was uttered.

In a movie, a soundtrack can set a mood or let a viewer know something is waiting around a corner. Russian Circles’ rich layers can evoke that same kind of anticipation or emotion, but without lyrics, the listener can create his or her own story, thereby becoming part of the experience.

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THE DEVIL AND H.G. WELLS Local band a.k.a. Belle releases second album BEN SCHULTZ ’80s. … What a voice,” Stigers wrote in an Sam and Catherine Merrick met in the email. “I’m a big fan of her co-conspirator and early ’80s at Boise High School. At the time, hubby, Sam Merrick, as well. Sam’s one of the Catherine Crooks was singing in a punk band most inventive and original guitarists around, called The B-Sides (her bandmates included a young Curtis Stigers). Sam hadn’t played guitar and he’s a ton of fun to watch onstage as well.”

Though Sam and Catherine would eventuanywhere other than his bedroom. ally connect both romantically and musically, it “I’m still listening to Hendrix and Yes,” didn’t happen right away.

Sam remembered, “and people like her are Around 1985, Sam and a friend were living walking through the halls and I’m like, ‘What in Los Angeles, and Catherine decided to join the hell? She’s so cool.’”

“Yeah, but that look, to me, was like, ‘She’s them. The relationship was strictly platonic, though Catherine remembered trying to take so weird,’” Catherine said.

Sam on a date to see Neil Young. Sam didn’t In spite of the misinterpretation, a relationrealize it was a date, but he did note that “it ship began that would lead to marriage and was so much more fun living with Catherine. ... music, which has most recently culminated in Our personalities just go together really well.”

The Devil Loves You, the second album by In 1987, a love of bands like The Smiths the Merricks’ band, a.k.a. Belle. (Full discloand The Fall drew Catherine to Manchester, sure: The author of this article wrote the liner England, where she performed as Belle of Les notes for the album—unpaid—and works Bois. Sam stayed in L.A., playing with The with Catherine at The Record Exchange). The Leaving Trains and then with The Nymphs, band—which combines folk-country melodies which signed to Geffen Records in 1989. with raw, Neil Young-esque guitar and swing“If they weren’t trying to make us into Doking, jazzy rhythms—celebrated the release of ken or Guns N’ Roses so much, we Devil during a double CD might’ve been able to do it,” Sam release show Feb. 22 with loA.K.A. BELLE said of The Nymphs. Instead, the cal roots group The Country Treefort Music Fest, Thursband’s debut album wasn’t released Club, which released An day, March 20, midnight. until 1991 and The Nymphs broke Idaho Dozen. The show, Passes: $119-$999. up the next year. Eventually, Sam hosted by Bill Coffey, feaPengilly’s Saloon, returned to Boise and went back tured performances by a.k.a.

513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344, to school.

Belle, The Country Club, treefortmusicfest.com, Meanwhile, Catherine gave Stigers, Hillfolk Noir’s Ali akabelle.fourfour.com birth to a son, Gus, and watched Ward and burlesque troupe drug abuse and violence seep into The Red Light Variety Show.

“Catherine Merrick—she’ll always be Cathe the Manchester scene. She recalled people holding street raves outside her council estate. to me—has been one of my favorite singers “They’d be screaming and fighting [outsince we met back in high school in the early

With a new album and a slot at Treefort, a.k.a. Belle is a.k.a. on a roll.

side]. We’re looking out of Gus’ bedroom window and there’s a knife fight going on,” Catherine said.

Through their various travels and travails, Sam and Catherine kept in touch. And when Catherine moved back to Boise with her son in 2008, Sam realized that their separate paths had been leading to the same destination.

“As soon as I saw her [in February of 2008], I was really surprised. It was this whole rush of, like, ‘My God—you are one of the most important people in my life. Maybe the most important,’” Sam said.

They formed a.k.a. Belle soon after and were married the following year. While the songs on a.k.a. Belle’s 2012 debut album, Disappearing Night, tell the story of Catherine falling in love and coming home, songs on Devil like “H.G. Wells is Alive and Well” draw inspiration from hardships the Merricks

endured beforehand. But they don’t do it alone.

The couple credits bassist Chris Galli and drummer Louis McFarland with making the music swing both on Devil and at a.k.a. Belle’s live performances.

“They have so much to do with it [and] it’s not recognized,” Sam said. “If your foot’s tapping, there’s a reason it is, but no one says, ‘Wow, it’s those two guys in the back.’”

The band plays Treefort Music Fest in March and after that, the Merricks hope to tour Seattle, Portland and England. They’d also like to record another album as soon as possible.

“We can’t guarantee that [the four of us] will be together, and I’d be so bummed out if we couldn’t get another record out,” Sam said.

“Hopefully, it’s five more records, but if this is just a one-record thing, it would be really unfortunate.”

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DELIRADIO PUTS NEW, TOURING BANDS ON THE MENU With so many ways to get music in front of consumers—iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Freegal, Bandcamp, Facebook—it would seem this is an ideal time to be a new band, but it’s also prob-

like to see if you knew about them.” ably more difficult to snag a listener’s attention DeliRadio has partnered with BandsInTown (a than ever before. And without listeners, you concert aggregator) to see who is playing where. certainly aren’t going to land any big gigs.

DeliRadio has launched a platform that allows After that, it would be easy enough to pluck a song from a band’s Facebook page or website venues to “connect with local music lovers and to populate the radio stations. But Mertz, who drive ticket sales ahead of events” by creating is also a band manager (she manages the Soft streaming radio stations comprised of songs by White Sixties), rejects the idea that musicians bands scheduled to play said venue. are or should be grateful for any kind of publicity.

The concept behind Emeryville, Calif.-based “Bands opt in,” Mertz said. “They give us a DeliRadio—which launched two years ago and track or two and we always attach that to their now has 22 people on staff, including three softtour dates and a link for tickets.” ware coders—is pretty simple: Take a concert or It’s free to venues and, most importantly, free festival calendar and turn it into a “radio station.” to musicians. And DeliRadio contacts Sara Mertz, co-founder and vice musicians directly—15,000 bands president of business development, DELIRADIO have now “opted in.” explained that DeliRadio started as deliradio.com “It was daunting at first,” Mertz a record label and grew in answer said. “People thought we were crazy.” to questions that labels face.

The crazy part seems to be offering the “We were trying to solve the problem of service at no cost. If it’s free to venues and free people finding out about music,” Mertz said. to musicians, how do they make money? Through “How do people find out about new music? How sponsors, Mertz said. do we put our artists on shows and get butts in “We’re working on an NPR model. A sponsorseats? Any given night, there are 10 bands you’d

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ship model,” she said. “A sponsor could say they want to get in a market and target a specific demographic, so we would offer a station ID callout, ‘Brought to you by Audible,’ for example.

We will never have advertising. We want to make it as easy as possible for listeners to hear a band and buy a ticket. If ads are in the way, we aren’t doing a service.”

Currently, a search on DeliRadio for bands coming to Boise brings up stations for The Crux, Knitting Factory, Neurolux, Revolution Concert House, Reef, Shredder and Treefort Music Fest.

Knitting Factory is the only venue so far to put a DeliRadio player on its website.

While there are nearly as many ways for a listener to find music as there are bands out there, it’s servicing those up-and-coming bands that is DeliRadio’s focus.

“We don’t want to become more like Spotify,” Mertz said. “We are more interested in touring artists. We don’t want dead guys. We don’t need the legacy acts.”

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SVFF III: SEEING STARS This year’s Sun Valley Film Festival should be best yet GEORGE PRENTICE Sequels often disappoint. But then there’s the Sun Valley Film Festival.

Following 2013’s avalanche of success when Jodie Foster gushed about the burgeoning festival’s achievement (BW, Screen, “SVFF Will Only Become More Successful,” March 20, 2013), festival organizers have raised the bar with this year’s slate of films and special guests—including some of the This year’s Sun Valley Film Festival will include (clockwise from top left) The Face of Love; writer/director Kevin industry’s best filmmakers.

Smith (Clerks); Mitt, documenting Mitt Romney’s failed electoral bid; and world premieres from Nat Geo Wild.

The four-day festival launches Thursday, March 13, with an opening night presentaJim Burke (The Descendants). tion of The Face of Love, starring Ed Harris, mieres from Festival partner National GeoThere will also be a public table-read of Annette Bening and Robin Williams. Boise graphic, which will also announce a winner a work-in-progress script, featuring actors Weekly was in attendance at a special preview of its Wild to Inspire short film competition, of the film during last September’s Toronto which it launched during the 2013 Sun Valley Will McCormack (Syriana), Alison Pill (The Newsroom), Peter Cambor (NCIS) and Joshua International Film Festival Film Festival. The winner and it’s a winner. will study wildlife filmmak- Leonard (Blair Witch Project, True Detective).

SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL BOISE A new addition to the SVFF lineup is The Face of Love is a ing in Africa, courtesy of BOX OFFICE PARTY something called conTent—a panel discussion romantic comedy that tells National Geographic, the Friday, Feb. 28, 4-7 p.m. hosted by Wired magazine Executive Editor the story of a widow who African Wildlife FoundaJason Tanz, that will explore digital entertainfalls for a man who bears The Modern Hotel and Bar, tion and SVFF. 1314 W. Grove Street, Boise, 208ment and will feature a special screening of a striking resemblance to In addition to the scores 424-8244, themodernhotel.com Mitt, the much-buzzed-about Netflix docuher late husband, and it is of screenings, SVFF’s real Featuring previews of 2014 films, mentary chronicling the failed presidential among 26 feature-length showstoppers are the sospecial guests and 20 percent off films—11 dramas and 15 called “coffee talks,” featur- campaign of Mitt Romney. Mitt director Greg SVFF passes.

Whiteley will be on hand for the discussion. documentaries—that will ing inside-the-velvet-rope Away from the screenings, SVFF will also screen throughout the long conversations with Oscarplay host to two major social events: an openweekend. There will also be a special 20th anwinning and -nominated filmmakers, including night party at Whiskey Jacques Thursday, ing screenwriter David Seidler (The King’s niversary screening of the indie-classic Clerks with actor-director-writer Kevin Smith on hand Speech); the writing team of Craig Borten and March 13, featuring Dinosaur Jr. frontman J. Mascis, and a Saturday, March 15, awards Melisa Wallack (Dallas Buyers Club); and for a post-screening Q&A. bash also at Whiskey Jacques, featuring Academy Award-nominated producers Ron The 2014 SVFF will also showcase more Nashville-based Those Darlins.

Yerxa (Little Miss Sunshine, Nebraska) and than 40 short films, including world pre-

EXTRA/SCREEN LEGISLATION AIMS TO LURE MORE MOVIE PRODUCTION TO IDAHO “Show me the money,” shouted Oscar-winning Cuba Gooding Jr. in 1996’s Jerr y McGuire. Hollywood and money have long been indelibly linked, from box office receipts to seven-figure salaries.

And Idaho wants to show the movie industr y some of that money, in its renewed attempt to lure more television and feature film productions to the Gem State.

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“The film industr y makes a ton of sense for Idaho to support,” said Jeff Sayer, director of the Idaho Department of Commerce. “Audi just filmed a big commercial with an automobile jumping over a Magic Valley canyon. We have great relationships with the U.S. Forest Ser vice to permit filming in our great outdoors. But the one piece we think is missing is a tax incentive.”

Sayer is helping to push an extension of House Bill 498 to the year 2040, which would

kick back as much as 20 percent on specific Idaho expenditures if at least $200,000 was spent in Idaho and if the production hires Idahoans as 35 percent of its total crew. The maximum rebate per production would be $500,000.

“When they finish their production, they will have already spent their money,” said Post Falls Rep. Frank Henderson, sponsor of the bill. “There’s no pre-rebate. The money would go to them after the fact.”

Sayer estimated “over $300

million in prospective film projects have looked at Idaho” recently, many of them shopping for business incentives before deciding where to shoot.

The early reviews for HB 498 have been, for the most part, positive. The Idaho House voted 49-15 on Februar y 21 to approve the measure.

Henderson will now have to shepherd the bill before the Idaho Senate where it will first appear before the Commerce and Human Resources Committee.

—George Prentice

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WINESIPPER/DRINK MAKE MINE MALBEC

2011 Clayhouse Vineyard Malbec, $14.99 Too often, malbecs produced in the United States are on the high end of the price spectrum, but this wine from Paso Robles, Calif., proves it doesn’t have to be expensive to be good.

Cherry liqueur aromas are colored by licorice, sage, basil and green tea. It’s a decidedly elegant wine that’s a mix of strawberry, dried cherry and sweet cranberry fruit flavors. The finish is long and silky.

2012 Michel Torino Cuma Malbec, $13.99 This malbec is made from organic grapes grown in northwestern Argentina’s Cafayate Valley. The nose is filled with bright red fruit and plum, along with touches of black pepper and soy sauce. The sweet berry flavors are fresh and lively, matched by racy acidity and just the lightest kiss of oak. This wine is a nicely balanced crowd-pleaser.

2012 Sur de los Andes Malbec Clasico, $10.99 Accounting for about two-thirds of Argentina’s wine production, Mendoza is a high-altitude region nestled in the eastern foothills of the Andes. This malbec offers heady aromas of mocha-laced blackberry, sweet cherry, coffee, mineral and spice. Ripe and round in the mouth, this wine’s creamy berry flavors are backed by earthy licorice and smooth tannins. This is an amazing value.

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Originating in France, where it typically finds its way into Bordeaux blends, malbec never really ascended to star status in its native country. It does stand alone in the wine of Cahors, producing a medium-bodied red with a good tannic structure. But while malbec plantings were on the decline in France, they were taking off in Argentina, which has a sun-drenched climate that’s ideal for growing the grape. Introduced to Argentina in the 1850s, malbec is now the country’s most widely planted red wine grape. Its plush, fruitdriven style has made Argentine malbec a hit, and its popularity has led to plantings in other appropriate regions. Here are the panel’s top three picks:

FEATHERS AND HORNS Raw milk subscription service now sells fromage blanc at Boise Co-op TARA MORGAN Retrieving a slice of warm, homemade toast, Mia Crosthwaite peeled the lid off a chilled container of fromage blanc.

“It’s very much like cream cheese, but you start with whole milk instead of cream,” she explained, as I smeared a generous layer across the toast. “But the process is very Brian Crosthwaite (left) with his wife, Mia (right), and their two jersey cows. similar.”

In the background, Mia’s husband, Brian, “The raw milk helps my digestion be a But they eventually got the hang of twice-aattacked a wheel of homemade parmesan day hand-milkings and even acquired a second lot better; I’ve noticed a big difference,” said with a saw, as three of the couple’s children Scheffel. “And then I make butter off of the Jersey cow, Sunflower. They also purchased a watched intently. In the backyard, another cream just to get more probiotics into the kids’ milking machine to ease the process. of their kids kicked a ball while dozens of diet. We love it.”

“We just decided this was something we chickens pecked at the hard February ground Another customer, Marcy Midnight, echoed enjoyed and we wanted to share it with other and two cows ambled around a pasture. people and supplement our income,” said Mia. her sentiments.

Mia and Brian Crosthwaite have nine kids “Everything about it is different. … I love The Crosthwaites started Feathers & who range in age from 2 to 22. Each week, having the raw and the flavor is rich and it just Horns, a weekly subscription service that the family chugs through about 15 gallons of tastes so fresh. Also, having the probiotics and provides raw milk and eggs to milk. So when the Crosthwaites having the thick cream on top and using that about 24 customers.

Idaho’s moved out to a 1.5-acre plot off FEATHERS & HORNS Small Herd Exemption lets farm- in our coffee,” said Midnight.

Maple Grove and Victory roads 208-860-7967 Though Feathers & Horns has a waiters with up to three cows sell raw five years ago, they decided to feathersnhorns.com ing list for new milk and egg subscribers, the milk for human consumption if purchase Christina, a Jersey cow. they comply with regular testing. Crosthwaites recently started selling their “We decided to opt out of lightly salted fromage blanc in 6-ounce tubs at Rachel Scheffel, a Feathers & Horns the industrial food system, so we thought we’ll the Boise Co-op. subscription customer, stopped by to pick raise our own food. So we got a milk cow,” “When we did a taste testing [at the Co-op], up two gallons of milk with her daughters said Mia. “I’d read books, but we are city people didn’t know what fromage blanc was,” Hailey and Hilary. Eyeing the generous layer people—my husband and I were both raised said Mia. “As soon as they tasted it, of the of cream resting atop the milk, Scheffel here in Boise, in the city. So we were straight explained that she prefers unpasteurized milk people who came by, one out of every two or out of a sitcom when we first got Christina, three bought some.” for its health benefits. learning how to milk.”

FOOD/NEWS CAFE VICINO GETS JAMES BEARD NOD AND CROOKED FENCE HOSTS ANNIVERSARY PARTY The 2014 James Beard Award semifinalists were announced Feb. 19, and Chef Richard Langston of Boise’s Cafe Vicino is the sole representative from Idaho.

“I was blown away; I don’t think I’ve still processed it completely,” said Langston, who serves seasonal Italian fare at his intimate North End restaurant. “It’s just such a huge honor.”

Langston joins 19 other chefs in the Best Chef: Northwest category, including Chris Ainsworth from Saffron Mediterranean Kitchen in Walla Walla, Wash; Naomi Pomeroy of Beast in Portland, Ore.; Ethan Stowell of Staple & Fancy in Seattle, Wash.; and Cathy Whims of Nostrana in Portland, Ore. “It’s pretty rarefied air if you look at some of those other chefs from the Northwest that are on there and the restaurants they work in,” said Langston.

Last year, Gabriel Rucker of Portland, Ore.’s Le Pigeon took home the Best Chef Northwest crown. Chef Gary Kucy at Rupert’s in Hotel McCall and Taite Pearson at Della Mano in Ketchum were Idaho’s nominees.

The 2014 James Beard Awards will be held in New York City Friday, May 2, and Monday, May 5. But Langston says the nomination is already bringing in business.

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“We already had some people come in the restaurant just last night that had already heard,” said Langston. “They were like, ‘We figure we’d better come down here before you get so busy we can’t get in.’”

And in other local recognition news, former Boise Weekly contributor Guy Hand is a finalist for a 2014 International Association of Culinary Professionals Digital Media Award. Hand has been nominated in the Single Food Focused Video category for his short, Making a Meal.

The video—which features colorful, behind-the-scenes footage shot at Boise’s State & Lemp—can be viewed at vimeo.com/82021858.

Moving from awards to celebrations, Crooked Fence Brewing is hosting its Two Year Anniversary party Saturday, March 1, from 6 p.m.-midnight at the Powerhouse Event Center. The shindig will feature CF brews along with eats from Archie’s Place, P. Ditty’s Wrap Wagon and Boise Fry Co. There will also be live music from Reilly Coyote, Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats and The Country. The event is 21 and up and costs $2 at the door.

And in closing news, three prominent Boise establishments announced they’re shutting their doors. Le Café de Paris closed up shop Feb. 23; Café Ole’s BODO location will shutter Friday, Feb. 28; and Brewforia’s Grind Modern Burger in Eagle will shut down Saturday, March 1. Brewforia’s Meridian store and Café Ole’s locations at Boise Towne Square and 3284 E. Pine St. in Meridian will remain open.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Barbara B. AylingLegal Name Case No. CV NC 1401475 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Barbara B. Ayling, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Barbara Black. The reason for the change in name is: divorce, wish to retain my maiden name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) March 25, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: Jan 27, 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Tatiana Leigh Campbell Legal name of child 8-16-97 Case No. CV NC 1401658 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Minor)) A Petition to change the name of Tatiana Leigh Campbell, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Dakota Campbell. The reason for the change in name is personal.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 01, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: JAN 28 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 12, 19, 26 & March 5, 2014 IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Deana Marc’e Wilcox Legal Name of child Case No. CV NC 1402050 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of Deana M Wilcox, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Deana Marc’e Englehorn.

The reason for the change in name is to make name legal.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 10, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: FEB 03 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 12, 19, 26 & March 5, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Brian Timothy Merrick Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1401867 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Brian Timothy Merrick, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Riana Merrick. The reason for the change in name is: because I am transitioning from Male

to Female and have chosen a female name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 01 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: JAN 31 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 19, 26, March 5 & 12, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Jennifer Rose Lidgard Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1402447 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Jennifer Rose Lidgard, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Jennifer Rose Leggett.

The reason for the change in name is: Petitioner prefers to use her family name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 10, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date FEB 06 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB. Feb. 19, 26, March 5, 12, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Amanda Lynn Ludwig Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1402416 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Amanda Lynn Ludwig, now residing in the City of Boise, Sate of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in ADA County, Idaho. The name will change to Lucas Mandel Sethaniel Anorak. The reason for the change in name is: gender identity.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m on (date) Apr 08 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse.

Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date: Feb 10 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK Pub Feb 19, 26, March 5 & 12, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Stacy Ann Metz Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1402709 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Stacy Ann Metz, now residing in the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Patrick Riley Smith. The reason for the change in name is: gender identity.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 15 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date FEB 13 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 26, March 5, 12, 19, 2014.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): The battles you’ve been waging these past 10 months have been worthy of you. They’ve tested your mettle and grown your courage. But I suspect that your relationship with these battles is due for a shift. In the future they may not serve you as well as they have up until now.

At the very least, you will need to alter your strategy and tactics. It’s also possible that now is the time to leave them behind entirely—to graduate from them and search for a new cause that will activate the next phase of your evolution as an enlightened warrior. What do you think?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If I was a love poet,” writes Rudy Francisco, addressing a lover, “I’d write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful even on days when everything around you is ugly.”

I suspect you have that kind of audacity right now, Leo. In fact, I bet the ugliness you encounter will actually incite you to amplify the gorgeous charisma you’re radiating. The sheer volume of lyrical soulfulness that pours out of you will have so much healing power that you may even make the ugly stuff less ugly. I’m betting that you will lift up everything you touch, nudging it in the direction of grace and elegance and charm.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Some people say home is where you come from,” says a character in Katie Kacvinsky’s novel Awaken. “But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.” That’s an idea I invite you to act on in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It will be an excellent time to discover more about where you belong and who you belong with. And the best way to do that is to be aggressive as you search far and wide for clues, even in seemingly unlikely places that maybe you would never guess contain scraps of home.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony,” said Lou Reed. That might be an accurate assessment for most people much of the time, but I don’t think it will be true for you in the coming days. On the contrary: You will have a special capacity to make contact and establish connection. You’ve heard of dog whisperers and ghost whisperers?

You will be like an all-purpose, jack-of-all-trades whisperer—able to commune and communicate with nervous creatures and alien life forms and pretty much everything else. If anyone can get a pony to understand Sanskrit, it will be you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take,” says hockey great Wayne Gretzky. In other words, you shouldn’t be timid about shooting the puck toward the goal. Don’t worry about whether you have enough skill or confidence or luck. Just take the damn shot. You’ll never score if you don’t shoot. Or so the theory goes. But an event in a recent pro hockey game showed there’s an exception to the rule. A New York player named Chris Kreider was guiding the puck with his stick as he skated toward the Minnesota team’s goalie. But when Kreider cocked and swung his stick, he missed the puck entirely. He whiffed. And yet the puck kept sliding slowly along all by itself. It somehow flummoxed the goalie, sneaking past him right into the net. Goal! New rule: You miss only 99.9 percent of the shots you don’t take. I believe you will soon benefit from this loophole, Virgo.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What words bring the most points in the game of Scrabble?

Expert Christopher Swenson says that among the top scorers are “piezoelectrical” and “ubiquitarianism”—assuming favorable placements on the board that bring double letter and triple word scores. The first word can potentially net 1,107 points, and the second 1,053.

There are metaphorical clues here, Capricorn, for how you might achieve maximum success in the next phase of the game of life. You should be well-informed about the rules, including their unusual corollaries and loopholes. Be ready to call on expert help and specialized knowledge.

Assume that your luck will be greatest if you are willing to plan nonstandard gambits and try bold tricks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Does Kim Kardashian tweeze and groom her baby daughter’s eyebrows? They look pretty amazing, after all—a elegant, neat, per fectly shaped. What do you think, Gemini? HA! I was just messing with you. I was checking to see if you’re susceptible to getting distracted by meaningless fluff like celebrity kids’ grooming habits. The cosmic truth of the matter is that you should be laser-focused on the epic possibilities that your destiny is bringing to your attention.

It’s time to reframe your life story. How? Here’s my suggestion: See yourself as being on a mythic quest to discover and fully express your soul’s code.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The 19th century American folk hero known as Wild Bill Hickok was born James Butler Hickok.

At various times in his life he was a scout for the army, a lawman for violent frontier towns, a professional gambler and a per former in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Women found him charismatic, and he once killed an attacking bear with a knife.

He had a brother, Lorenzo, who came to be known as Tame Bill Hickok. In contrast to Wild Bill, Tame Bill was quiet, gentle and cautious. He lived an uneventful life as a wagon master and children loved him. Right now, Cancerian, I’m meditating on how I’d like to see your inner Wild Bill come out to play for a while, even as your inner Tame Bill takes some time off.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you are the type of person who wears gloves when you throw snowballs, Germans would call you Handschuhschneeballwerfer.

They use the same word as slang to mean “coward.” I’m hoping that in the coming days you won’t display any behavior that would justify you being called Handschuhschneeballwerfer.

You need to bring a raw, direct, straightforward attitude to everything you do. You shouldn’t rely on any buffers, surrogates or intermediaries. Metaphorically speaking, make sure that nothing comes between your bare hands and the pure snow.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his song “4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy),” Bruce Springsteen mentions a disappointing development. “That waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me,” he sings.

“She said she won’t set herself on fire for me anymore.” I’m assuming nothing like that has happened to you recently, Scorpio.

Just the opposite: I bet there are attractive creatures out there who would set themselves on fire for you. If for some reason this isn’t true, fix the problem! You have a cosmic mandate to be incomparably irresistible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Sorry to report that you won’t win the lottery this week. It’s also unlikely that you will score an unrecognized Rembrandt painting for a few dollars at a thrift store, or discover that you have inherited a chinchilla farm in Peru, or stumble upon a stash of gold coins half-buried in the woods.

On the other hand, you may get provocative clues about how you could increase your cash flow.

To ensure you will notice those clues when they arrive, drop your expectations about where they might come from.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Avery, a character in Anne Michaels’ novel The Winter Vault, has a unique way of seeing.

When he arrives in a place for the first time, he “makes room for it in his heart.” He “lets himself be altered” by it. At one point in the story he visits an old Nubian city in Egypt and is overwhelmed by its exotic beauty.

Its brightly colored houses are like “shouts of joy,” like “gardens springing up in the sand after a rainfall.” After drinking in the sights, he marvels, “It will take all my life to learn what I have seen today.” Everything I just described is akin to experiences you could have in the coming weeks, Pisces. Can you make room in your heart for the dazzle?

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