Boise Weekly Vol. 22 Issue 37

LOCAL, INDEPENDENT NEWS, OPINION, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BOISEWEEKLY.COM VOLUME 22, ISSUE 37 MARCH 5–11, 2014

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BILL BONES Mapping the DNA of three controversial Idaho measures FIRST THURSDAY 23

DRINK (AND EAT) UP Arts, food and booze at this month’s First Thursday CULTURE 28

HEAVY METAL BW checks out the new show at Enso Artspace FOOD 32

GRAPES IN THE GARDEN Garden City’s growing wine district

“Aussie, Aussie, Aussie, Oy, Oy, Oy!”

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TRADING PLACES Since I took this job more than a year ago, I’ve found it’s nearly impossible to dig into the kind of writing and reporting that brought me here. As a reader, I love longform, investigative pieces and as a writer, I think I love them even more.

This week, Associate Editor Amy Atkins gracefully agreed to take the reins so I could scrape up the necessary data and context to put together the feature package that starts on Page 10.

Boise Weekly, led by News Editor George Prentice, has been doing a hell of a job covering this year’s dramatic session of the Idaho Legislature—in particular, staff writer Harrison Berry has been a dogged correspondent of the Add the Words protests—but we have yet to pull some of the most controversial bills into one place and put them under the microscope. A good amount of that coverage—on Add the Words, as well as guns-on-campus and the so-called “religious freedom” bills—has been online at boiseweekly.com, and if you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth a look on Citydesk.

I won’t go into much more detail here—you’ll have more than 5,000 words from me on the subject to wade through in the main feature. Suffice to say, the origins, backers and implications of a few hot-button pieces of legislation stretch from Idaho to, in some cases, Russia.

Over to you, Amy… Thanks, Zach.

I met Zach Hagadone when he came into the Boise Weekly newsroom as business editor in 2010. When he moved back to his hometown of Sandpoint, he was missed but was still an integral part of BW, working as a freelancer and writing the long-form, investigative pieces he so dearly loves. In 2011, I also left BW but, clearly, the pull was too strong for both of us to stay away long.

Giving Zach the space to write this week’s feature—a piece that uncovers some startling truths about bill mills— gave me a chance to write more, edit more and work more closely with our incredible writers. From Harrison Berry’s article on a new metal exhibit at Enso Artspace, to Jessica Murri’s close-up of Boise State’s crazy corral, to Ben Schultz’s look behind Lydia’s Illuminate, to Zach’s dissection of new legislation, I, too, was reminded why I love this job.

—Zach Hagadone and Amy Atkins

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

PAPERS, PLEASE Boise is considering new permitting rules for special events on public property that ACLU of Idaho says will restrict free speech.

Read more and check back for updates on Citydesk.

OSCAR TALLY From the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival to the March 3 awards ceremony, our predictions for the 2014 Oscars were spot on. See how yours matched ours on Cobweb.

SCHOOL RULES Coeur d’Alene added the words to its antidiscrimination ordinance nine months ago. Now a group of parents is asking the CD’A School District to do the same.

More on Citydesk.

OPINION

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MAIL THE GOSPEL OF LUKER 27 When Jesus departed from there, two blind men followed Him, crying out and saying, “Son of David, have mercy on us!”

And Jesus said to the men, “I could heal you, but according to my deeply held religious beliefs, my services are only for the righteous and cannot be provided to sinners like ‘you-types’ if you know what I mean.”

Luker 9:26 —Jeff Higginbotham Boise

UNCULTURED When Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya voiced his opposition to the so-called “ag-gag” bill signed into law Feb. 28 by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, sponsor Twin Falls Republican Sen. Jim Patrick didn’t take it very well. Following the bill’s signing, Patrick posted on his Facebook page: “Looks like we should boycott Greek yogurt.” Though he later said the comment was “inappropriate” and “tongue in cheek,” the damage was done. Here’s what commenters had to say on boiseweekly.com.

Someone needs to tell Sen. Patrick that no sane person shares his demented values. Anyone who condones punishing whistle-blowers of animal abuse instead of the animal abusers is just sick! I think Sen. Patrick will be very surprised when he finds out how many Americans do not share his values when they begin boycotting Idaho goods, especially potatoes.

—CeCe I think Chobani should only buy milk from dairies that agree to surprise inspections, including hidden videotaping, to document treatment of animals. We can then see who needs whom more. Chobani is on

the right side of this issue in terms of morality, public policy and public opinion.

—Martin Johncox I hope the people of Idaho will make their voice heard at election time. You can Boycott all things Idaho, but how funny no one is saying boycott the dairy industry. It is rampant with death and abuse. I stopped supporting that industry with my consumer dollars after learning the truth, I don’t consume that garbage. I do give kudos to Chobani for speaking up and find it no surprise that the “Good Ole Boys” shot off their ignorant mouths.

They would sell their children to make a buck. This is all greed-based as always. Otter is a vile person... glad more people see it now.

—Tracey Dunn Williamson Start asking your local markets if their products come from “Abuse Free” farms. If they don’t know, tell them you won’t buy their produce until they can certify that these animals are raised humanely. You want to see this law changed?

Hit them in the pocketbook.

Bribes got this bill passed so hit them in their pocketbook, the market has more power than politicians. Use your purchasing power to change the status quo.

I’m boycotting all ag products from Idaho, meat, cheese, milk and eggs, all of it. Even going to start looking for Wisconsin potatoes as well. I’ll never buy “Idaho” again. (Corporate America already bought all the politicians so they can support Idaho products all by their lonesome. Idaho, the Deep South of the Northwest.)

—Benj Hall Idahoans, you’re not seeing the picture clearly.

Chobani is in business with state government and the city of Twin Falls. They were

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notified in advance of Otter’s signing the AG-GAG bill.

Chobani received multimillions in public funds and state tax cuts to build, not to mention the Idaho Department of Labor paid them $3.3 million to train employees. The city of Twin Falls spent $6.6 million to upgrade its wastewater treatment facility for Chobani. It also waived approximately $8 million in sewer, building and impact fees.

In addition, Chobani received $54 million in federal grants, state and local incentives. They claimed all of the investment for every 10 jobs at Chobani would create 66 outside jobs, absolutely not facts to substantiate this propaganda.

So if you actually want to believe the Chobani didn’t want the AG-GAG bill then were have they been during the process... they were absent during the floor discussion and legislative vote... they waited until seven hours before the governor signed the bill to issue a public relations statement to appear as if they were against it...

Chobani is full of it... all they care about is profit— that’s fine, nobody is against that, but being a hypocrite and not doing something about what you allegedly stand for is an issue... that deserves explanation.

—Wild West Chobani made the same mistake many outsiders make about the Idaho Legislature. They honestly didn’t believe the state government was dumb enough to pass such a bill, let alone print it. It happens to most newcomers. Idaho has gone completely off the rails. I can see why the kids are leaving in droves after graduation.

There is nothing here for them. ...

Do you know how much money Twin Falls residents made, not only in wages for current jobs, but in construction of that plant? I don’t like Chobani and I don’t care for the environmental impacts of their product, but they have done more for Twin Falls than anyone else has in years. Heck, that backwater Peyton-Place of a town almost matters again.

—Les Nessman

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OPINION/BILL COPE

A THIRD WAVE? Another mystery of evolution solved The first column I wrote on the subject of evolution may well have been the first column I wrote, period. You see, I didn’t just walk into the old offices of Boise Weekly 19 years ago and announce I was their new columnist. No, before approaching them, I banged out 15 columns, each approximately twice as long as those I write now, and submitted them in a batch. I needed to prove to them I could do it, and having never written a column in my life up to that point, I also felt some need to prove it to myself, as well.

I have no recollection of which subject I banged out first, only that the evolution column was the 12th one published. I called it “And On The Eighth Day... “ (BW, July, 27, 1995) and in it, I proposed the idea that there were two strains of humanity: those who have evolved from less intricate species, and those who were created as is.

Obviously, they were created... just as they are now, from mud and ribs. What they are now, they have always been and will always be. A certain level of pity is called for. Unlike those of us who would rather be related to an ape than Jimmy Swaggart, the Createes will never feel a kinship with the rest of nature—that fecund swamp from which we Evolvers climbed— any more than a bronze bust of Elvis can love the foundry where it was forged. They can take no comfort in knowing that evolution can carry our children into a hopeful future just as it has floated us out of a savage past—that in spite of momentary evidence to the contrary, over the long run we are getting better.

I’ve written many more columns on evolution—roughly speaking, one for every time the controversy popped up. And it’s one of those controversies that pops up a lot, isn’t it? It’s rare for a year to go by without some dumbass—usually Southern and usually running for something—declaring his conviction that Charles Darwin and the Theory of Evolution were spawned in the Pits of Hell, or that the teaching of the subject to our vulnerable youth has resulted directly in such horrors as the Columbine shooting and the election of Barack Obama, or that unwed girls are getting pregnant by the busload because thinking they evolved stripped them of any sense of morality. Or some such hillbilly nonsense.

And up it pops again. Recently, one of my favorite human beings, Bill Nye The Science Guy, defended evolution in a highprofile debate with Ken Ham, an Aussie transplant who seems to support himself by hawking the Creationist line to rubes.

This debate coincided with the release of a poll showing that 46 percent of Americans don’t believe in evolution, and an HBO documentary, Questioning Darwin, which explores the crisis of faith the great naturalist endured, intermingled with interviews

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with Christian fundamentalists, all of whom insist they are special in a way no monkey can share.

I have seen post-debate interviews in which The Science Guy explained that in spite of being exasperated and dumbfounded by the level of ignorance he finds when he encounters Creationists such as Ham, he can’t help but admire the passion they have for their position. I can’t tell whether Nye is sincere or not in that admiration; he always has one of those perpetually bemused expressions on his face which could be interpreted either as honest wonderment or subtle disgust.

But if he means it, that he respects the Creationists for their passion, then I have to respectfully disagree. Passion has, as often as not, led humanity into as much tragedy as triumph. I have no doubt Hitler was passionate about his positions. Charlie Manson, too. And every Klansman, ever.

Beyond that, I question whether much of that passion Nye found commendable is even real. In fact, in the 19 years since proposing the “We evolved/They were created” thesis in that old column, I have come to suspect there may be a third strain of human beings. And if I am right, we may be witnessing, without realizing it, a creature so calculating and sociopathic that it matters nothing to this beast whether humanity rises or falls, learns or stays ignorant—or even survives—not as long as it can make a buck from the turmoil that it, itself, nurtures.

Yes, I am talking about the prospect of a breed whose members are plenty smart enough to understand that evolution is indeed the guiding biological principle in the natural world, but care so little about the truth that they would make a great show of denying that same truth for the sake of exploiting the bedimmed, the uneducated, the stupid, all for personal power and pelf.

Yes, I’m talking about a parasitical adaptation which deposits its eggs in the weakest of minds, then sits back and waits for the donations, the attention, the votes to come pouring in when the eggs hatch and those voracious little lies start feeding on the gullibility of the frightened flock.

Yes, I’m talking about a vampire of sorts, which wraps itself in a cloak of piety and faux science, knowing good and well it is preaching a false faith, then sucks these most vulnerable of souls empty of thought, of knowledge, of logic and, of course, of money.

Scary? Oh my yes... that monsters so cold and cunning could be hiding in plain sight. Hiding in our political offices. Hiding in our pulpits. And doesn’t it follow that such predators could not possibly believe in the God they so passionately preach? For if they did, how could they not be fearing for their immortal souls?

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MEN II BOYZ

Picturing male adulthood Unkind observations about my gender are made this time every year, when the heterosexual-male-dominated Legislature meets in Boise to improve the lives, behavior and finances of lesser Idahoans. Here’s my own unkind observation: I spent seven years teaching middle school, and none of the dramas I see in state government differ much from the body-building poses, locker-room towel snaps and latentand-not-so-latent misogyny of 12-year-olds.

Thought experiment: Imagine a group of seventh-grade boys sitting in their tree house and pretending that they’re saving the country from a Commie invasion, or that the tree house is really a starship protecting Earth from aliens, or that they’re going to take over all the public lands in Idaho.

Now, something not so easy: Imagine them voting to Add the Words to their tree house charter. Imagine them planning a campaign to raise the minimum wage for restaurant workers. Imagine them voting tax dollars to help out old or sick or homeless people.

When you’re an insecure adolescent male, you’re not about to share your allowance.

And when you’re deep into the enormous job of defining your own sexuality, it’s easier to turn your tree house into a starship than to allow a gay person up the ladder. Of course— if it’s any comfort for gay people—girls aren’t allowed in, either.

Architects of the recent remodel of the state Capitol building missed a bet when they didn’t put the whole structure on 40-foot pilings.

Admittance would depend on a rope ladder reaching up to a trapdoor, with a state trooper at the top, waiting for the secret password. It would prevent unruly and misguided demonstrators from disrupting the people’s business.

That’s one part of a bigger picture. Here’s another, an innocent question about a not-soinnocent trend: How can so many men decades past their 21st birthday never grown up?

It’s not a problem confined to our Legislature, as any 30-year-old woman will tell you.

I’ve noticed lots of well-educated, articulate, attractive women—late 20s to early 30s—who are single, recently divorced or who are resigned to living with guys who are manifestly Not The One. These are women who cannot find an equal partner. They find lots of aged boys, but it’s way easier, safer and less hassle to share an apartment with girlfriends who will have their back than it is to visit the Y-chromosome pool and find, in its depths, a mature, benign, non-self-obsessed man.

It occurs to me that a good reason for legalizing gay marriage is so that 30-something women can marry grown-ups.

A third part of the picture: There aren’t all that many fathers out there. By fathers, I mean responsible adults who work more or less constantly for their families, who nurture and support their children, who stay in their marriages in good times and bad and who, by their actions, show how to do the right thing BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

even when it’s the furthest thing in the world from what they really want to do. That’s what positive male adulthood looks like to a boy. If you’re going to expect a boy to become a man, it’s essential to model manhood for him.

As a middle-school teacher, I saw again and again the damage that divorce does to children. There is no getting around it: if you really want to screw up your kids, fracture your marriage or refuse to get married in the first place. The damage is life-long, massive and repeats itself through the generations.

Custody practices usually award children to their mothers. It’s up to them to provide adult models for their children, and they do an astonishingly good job, by and large. But their sons see adulthood as the property of Mom. The person who has escaped the drudgery and obligations of adulthood, child-support checks notwithstanding, is Dad. That’s probably why girls find it easier to become adult than boys.

Finally, a frame for the picture: It’s a challenge for anyone, regardless of gender, to become adult. It involves pain and change and facing mortality. It means letting grief into your life, letting go of false pride and superficial dreams, rejecting cherished beliefs, accepting limits, owning up to mistakes, paying off debts and admitting responsibility for the things you say and do. It means becoming part of a community. It means being able to see things from other people’s points of view.

Few young men in our culture are up to such challenges. I can’t blame them. To come of age in an era of high unemployment and low wages is infantilizing. So is graduating from college with a crippling burden of debt.

So is having your wetware programmed according to future employers’ needs, especially if those employers have moved on to other concerns by the time you enter the labor force.

But not all problems with adulthood are economic. We live in a world where rites of passage have become anemic. So-called primitive cultures, recognizing how destructive young male energy can be, made a big deal out of letting their young men into the privileges of adulthood, civilizing them with ceremonies and ordeals and vision quests. These rituals defined adult behavior for people who didn’t come to it naturally.

Our own culture has defined adult males by default. Male adult privilege has become the unharnessed laxity of adolescence, male adult values have become an adolescent fascination with wealth and power, male adult existence has devolved to a nihilistic fantasy of being impossibly alone and apart from community.

It’s not hard to see that what passes for public policy in Idaho derives from an adolescent group-think rather than considered, conscience-directed wisdom.

Not that a lot of 30-year-old women are looking to marry state legislators anyway. I hope all concerned can consider that a good thing.

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CITYDESK/NEWS NEWS M ATT FU R B ER

FEBRUARY’S GIFT KBOI-TV PULLS NEWS PROMOS ADVOCATING FOR LESS GOVERNMENT, DERIDING ‘OUTSIDERS’ INFLUENCE ON HEALTH CARE Maybe you saw the spots during CBS primetime programming; or perhaps during last weekend’s NCAA basketball coverage.

The controversial, albeit brief, pair of news promos openly advocated for small government while deriding outsiders for “imposing their will” to fix Idaho health care.

You won’t see them again.

One news promo interspersed photos of KBOI-TV’s news team with lovely, almost folksy images familiar to Boiseans: hot air balloons drifting over Ann Morrison Park, flowers blooming at the Boise Depot and kids smiling at a lemonade stand. But then, along came images of a faceless politician (he’s only shown from the neck down), a Statehouse committee hearing room and an ACHD “road closed” sign.

“KBOI-2 believes that the best government is small government...” said the spot’s authoritarian announcer. “Keeping government off the backs of Idaho: KBOI-2.”

A second news promo had even stronger political overtones.

“Lots of people think they know how to fix health care…” said the same announcer.

“So, when outsiders try to impose their will, when they try to tell us how to live, you can count on KBOI-2 to protect what’s right.”

“Our intention was to create a bold new marketing message,” Don Pratt, KBOI-TV Vice President and General Manager, told Boise Weekly.

But Pratt, who cautioned that he “didn’t have much to say” about the matter, conceded that it was not his station’s intention “to create a spot that creates an impression of bias. But to the extent that we’ve done that, we’re obviously going to be held accountable for that.”

Ultimately, the controversial spots, which ran less than a week on KBOI-TV, misfired.

“We’re re-writing the spots,” said Pratt.

Even the top television programming chief at KBOI-TV’s parent company, Sinclair Broadcast Group, was taken somewhat aback.

“This comes as a surprise to me,” said M. William Butler, V.P. of Programming and Promotion. “Yeah, that does sound unusual.”

Pratt said KBOI-TV has a strong “viewer advocacy news philosophy.”

“We want to clarify our viewer advocacy position of keeping government open, honest and accountable,” he said. “That was our intention and that’s what we’re going to do.”

Pratt said that the station hadn’t received a lot of viewer feedback but what they did receive was “not what we had hoped for, and that’s why we have to reassess our message and address it.”

—George Prentice

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Measuring Idaho’s improving water prospects MATT FURBER Ron Abramowich plunged an aluminum tube into the snowpack.

“It’s deeper than I thought,” he said.

Abramowich, water supply specialist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, was in search of some good news, knowing that much of Idaho is nervously anticipating another long, hot, dry summer, diminishing the Gem State’s precious water supply. Abramowich had just led a group of the region’s top water experts on Feb. 28 up to Mores Creek Summit, 54 miles from Boise but 6,100 feet above sea level. They were most interested in the snowpack gauge for the Boise Basin’s SNOTEL (that’s “snow telemetry”) station.

The group—which included Idaho Department of Water Resources Bureau Chief Rick Raymondi, Pioneer Irrigation District Superintendent Mark Zirschky and Boise Weekly— discovered that February’s robust snowfall was the equivalent of 10 inches of water.

Snow water equivalent (SWE) is “the depth of water in the snowpack, if the snowpack were melted, expressed in inches,” according to the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

But it wasn’t just any yard stick in Abramowich’s grip; this aluminum device, marked like a ruler, included a portable scale hooked to a ski pole. It’s a manual, 20th century technique for calculating SWE from snowpack core samples, in order to verify automated data that is transmitted hourly to a master NRCS station in Boise. SNOTEL sampling is taken regularly at given points to provide a comparison of the snow and water content numbers to stream flow figures in order to craft an accurate water availability forecast.

“We can still accumulate some more snow,” Abramowich said, calling the current snowpack “marginally adequate,” as he climbed through the top of three doors on a 23-foot-tall shelter house to confirm the electronic SWE readings being sent to Boise’s master NRCS station.

Abramowich cautioned that higher temperatures in late winter or spring can sometimes rush water out of Idaho’s high peaks before those who count on the mountain runoffs for river recreation and irrigation can make use of it. It’s a dynamic, he explained, that can lead to sudden flooding if the snow melts too fast.

“We have five to seven days of wet weather coming [this coming week],” said Abramowich. “So, let’s hope for some cool, wet weather going into spring.”

February’s bump in snowfall boosted the

Ron Abramowich, NRCS water suply specialist and Jennifer Cuhaciyan, IDRW technical hydrologist, take snow course samples on Feb. 28, calculating snow-water equivalent at Mores Creek Summit.

Boise Basin from 58 percent of average on Feb. 1 to 83 percent on March 1. The change was welcome news for the valley’s farmers, who must decide in the next couple of weeks how they may want to approach this year’s farming season.

“We’re really focusing on the reservoirs right now,” said Zirschky. “So, we rely heavily on these numbers.”

Rex Barrie, watermaster for Boise River Water District No. 63, joined the Mores Creek site visit. He said the SNOTEL data also helps with public education and outreach about Idaho’s most precious resource.

“There are 2,600 square miles in the Boise Basin, and I’m the [water district’s] only employee. I administer all of the water rights,” Barrie told BW. “My irrigators rely heavily on the natural flow. Ideally, what we want to see is a natural flow holding up until the Fourth of July.”

But once that natural flow makes its way to the Treasure Valley’s thousands of water rights holders, Barrie and Zirschky then have to help irrigators manage their summer water needs with whatever might have accumulated in the Boise River reservoir system.

“If we’re running short, it’s important for us to understand how these numbers are taken and how [those irrigators] are involved,” said Zirschky. “It’s extremely difficult for farmers if they don’t have a chance to plan for a short season. It impacts them greatly.”

In addition to a precipitation gauge and temperature sensor, the SNOTEL site includes something called “snow pillows”—large pockets of stainless steel or synthetic rubber, about 4-feet-square, filled with an antifreeze solution. As snow accumulates, the sensors record the pressure on the solution.

Abramowich next described an elaborate electromagnetic journey that the SWE data travels, via radio signals to the Boise master NRCS station, even bouncing off of trailing bits of meteorites as they burn through a band of space 50-75 miles above the Earth.

“I’m pretty impressed with the accuracy and the redundancy,” said Raymondi.

Meanwhile, IDWR technical hydrologist Jennifer Cuhaciyan and Zirschky took turns taking snow course samples and calculating SWE. Snow surveys in the West began when Dr. James Church of the University of Nevada established the first snow courses in the Sierras between 1905 and 1912. Abramovich said the manual effort to hike up Idaho’s summits remains relevant for confirming automated data that is collected from the sensing instruments at some 78 stations across the state—part of a network of 850 stations throughout the Western United States.

“I didn’t realize how involved it all is,” Raymondi told BW, adding that IDWR maintains streamflow records that are also used to create forecasts for Idaho’s “water year.”

“I’m surprised that the [recent precipitation] we got at Mores Creek came in as snow.

It was even coming in as rain over at Bogus,” he said.

February’s snowfall pushed the Mores Creek SWE up from a total of 14 inches on Feb. 1 to 24 inches on March 1. That 10-inch increase was double the average accumulation for the month of February.

“Although the water outlook for the Owyhees is expected to remain poor, the mountains in the Upper Snake River area are currently 135 percent of average,” said Abramowich.” For now, those who look at water data for a living are feeling much more optimistic than at the beginning of February.”

As impressive as the most recent snow figures were, Cuhaciyan told BW that Abramowich’s description of how the electronic SWE data—dancing through space, on its way to the master NRCS station—was the real “aha” moment for her.

“I’m still blown away thinking about bouncing that SNOTEL data off of meteorites,” she said, before heading down the mountain back to Boise.

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REP. DARRELL BOLZ (R-CALDWELL) “OK?” GEORGE PRENTICE Practically everything is “OK” with seven-term Idaho State Rep. Darrell Bolz. He has a habit of punctuating his sentences with an “OK?” to make certain listeners get his drift: “Friday, March 21 is still our target date to wrap things up here, OK? But honestly, I don’t know how good we are at hitting targets, OK?” Whether it’s March 21 or some day soon after, it will be more than sine die; it will be auld lang syne for the Caldwell Republican, who will step away from the Idaho Capitol. In these final days of his Statehouse tenure, Boise Weekly sat down with Bolz to talk about his agricultural roots, his remarkable run of political success and how the Republican Party has shifted while he stayed grounded to his conservative roots.

In between your studies at the University of Idaho, you served in the U.S. Navy. Having grown up in landlocked Idaho, were you anxious to see the open sea?

Absolutely, but I was the only line officer at a Naval Air Atation in Alameda, Calif.

I kept calling my duty officer for a transfer, saying I needed to get out to sea. They eventually sent me to a tin can of a boat in dry-dock in Long Beach, Calif. We finally did make one cruise to Vietnam in 1967.

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But tensions were dialing up pretty quickly in Vietnam right about then.

That ship was the USS Maddox. It was one of the first U.S. ships to be fired upon, setting off the whole Vietnam conflict.

Tell me about the turning point that led to your decision to enter politics.

If you had asked me in the 1990s if I would ever go into politics, I would have laughed at you, OK? In my years serving as an agricultural agent for the Cooperative Extension

Service, I worked with a number of commodity organizations. And we would go back to Washington, D.C., to talk with the USDA, the EPA and our congressional delegations. One year, there were about 40-45 EPA people in the room and they were making decisions on what growers could or could not do. Yet, only two of them had ever seen alfalfa grow. That really hit me, OK?

And you kept running.

When the fourth term ended, I talked with my wife and we decided to keep going. Then the fifth, sixth and seventh terms came up, and my wife told me she had some concerns regarding some of the people on the far right, so we thought I should run again. This time, my wife said it was my decision and I’ve decided to leave, OK?

Did that event inspire you to run for state office?

To be honest, there were a number of people who asked, “What do you want do that for? You have a good name. Why do you want to ruin your reputation” But over the years, I feel pretty good about what I’ve done.

Through all of your races, you ran with very small campaign war chests.

The first time I thought, “If I win, fine. If I don’t, that’s OK, too.” Through 14 campaigns and seven general elections, I’ve only had a total of four opponents.

All these years later, you’re now considered a moderate here at the Legislature.

House Speaker [Scott] Bedke came to the Legislature about the same time—me in 2001 and him in 2002. He said, “You know, Darrell, when you and I came here, we were the most conservative class that ever came to this Legislature. And now, we’re considered moderates.”

Do you find truth in that?

I do. You take a look at the politics today and the Republican Party has swung to the right. I still consider myself a conservative in a lot of respects but not as far to the right as some people are, OK? But where do you think most Idahoans are on the political spectrum?

They’re fairly conservative, but I sense that they’re not as far to the right as some people would like to think they are.

Have you talked to anyone who wants your seat in the House?

A few people over the years have told me that they wouldn’t run against me but if I ever got out, they said they would consider it. When I first ran for this office, honestly, I thought only three or four terms in the House would be it.

What is your biggest concern during the current legislative session?

I’m concerned about our state’s revenues for the coming year in terms of the drought.

Is it fair to say that most Idahoans aren’t connecting our water shortage to just how fragile our economy may be?

It’s significant. We’re within a week or two of our farmers having to decide what they’re going to plant this year. Some of the rain we’ve seen lately is nice, but is it enough to change those farmers’ plans? Will they grow highervalue crops of onions, potatoes and sugar beets that require more water? Or will they end up growing grains or beans that use a lot less water? That will make a tremendous difference to our state’s economy.

How worried are you?

I’m pretty concerned. Agriculture has driven this state’s economy, particularly in the last two or three years at the height of the recession.

What are you going to miss the most about the Legislature?

The people you meet and the things you learn. But I’ve always been one to get involved, OK? I’m not going to fall off the edge of the table, OK?

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FEEDING THE BEAST How bill mills and national partisan groups have fueled the 2014 Idaho Legislature ZACH HAGADONE

Mr. Smith went to Washington in 1939. There, an idealistic, small-town do-gooder faced off against a mendacious Senate working on behalf of shady power-brokers to push industry-written legislation that would enrich its favored 10 | MARCH 5–11, 2014 | BOISEweekly

special interests.

Because Mr. Smith Goes to Washington was a movie (starring a then-relatively unknown Jimmy Stewart), Mr. Smith won. At the end of a heroic, 24-hour filibuster, Smith

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challenged the U.S. Senate to turn away from special10 interest lawmaking: “There’s no place out there for graft, or greed, or lies, or compromise with human liberties,” he said.

Seventy-five years later we have House of Cards and Kevin Spacey’s Frank Underwood, a back-room dealing, Capitol Hill anti-hero who says things like, “It’s so refreshing to work with someone who’ll throw a saddle on a gift horse rather than look it in the mouth.”

There is a pleasant fiction—mostly propagated by lawmakers themselves—that our representative democracy is made up of Mr. Smiths, all working in earnest, on their own intellectual and moral steam, for the best interests of their constituents.

But Americans know their politics skew toward the Underwood style: Influence is traded for campaign contributions and legislation is routinely written with industry, ideology or both in mind.

The 2014 Idaho Legislature has been an object lesson in how bills dealing with seemingly fringe issues can swiftly come to dominate the session. While state politics pundits had expected debates about education funding, Medicaid expansion, public lands, even the minimum wage would crowd the Statehouse stage, so-called “religious freedom” bills, guns-on-campus and the “aggag” law have stolen the spotlight.

Instead of focusing on the kitchen-table concerns of Idahoans, the Legislature has spent nearly half its session on right-wing public policy experiments that share more than a passing resemblance to similar bills in a slew of states, spanning more than a decade, and written by, for, or with a tangled web of ultraconservative special interest groups.

Here Boise Weekly takes a stab at mapping their DNA.

AG-GAG In October 2012, news broke that milk cows had been brutally mistreated by employees at Bettencourt Dairies, in Hansen, Idaho (BW, Citydesk, “Graphic Video Shows Culture of Cruelty,” Oct. 10, 2012).

The abuse was documented by activists with Mercy For Animals—an L.A.-based animal-rights group— working undercover for months as employees at the dairy. A graphic video showed workers beating and neglecting the cows, whose milk went up the supply chain to fastfood giants, including Burger King, Wendy’s and In-N-Out. Outrage over the investigation led the companies to suspend their indirect relationships with Bettencourt Dairies and resulted in the termination of five employees, who faced misdemeanor charges of animal cruelty, carrying fines up to $5,000 and six months of jail time.

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Mercy For Animals has conducted more than two dozen such investigations around the country, and according to MFA Director of Investigations Matt Rice, who led the Bettencourt investigation, “every single time our documenters get hired, they find things that shock most Americans.”

“It makes it very plain that there’s a huge problem in the factory farming industry,” he told BW. A similar story unfolded in 2008, when workers were caught on camera abusing—sometimes sexually— pigs in an Iowa sow barn. The mistreatment was captured undercover

by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and resulted in the arrest of one employee. According to a 2013 Mother Jones piece, it was the first criminal livestock neglect conviction from a Midwestern farm and only the seventh animal abuse conviction in the American meat industry’s long history.

While Midwest meat and dairy producers instituted some reforms in the wake of the Iowa investigation, the PETA revelations threw the industry into a panic. With the increasing use of smartphones, anyone—anywhere—could be documenting similar incidences of abuse. Lacking the ability to silence whistleblowers after the fact, agribusiness looked for a way to stop the investigations before they could start—and it didn’t have to look far.

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) had already crafted a tool that could be used to drop a veil of secrecy around factory farms. In January 2004, the nonprofit—which “works to advance limited government, free markets and federalism at the state level”— approved a piece of “model legislation” crafted by industry members on its Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force called the “Animal and Ecological Terrorism Act.” AETA, written during the period of post-9/11 paranoia in which then-Vice President Dick Cheney claimed “eco-terrorists” were the largest domestic threat to the United States, was a sweeping measure that outlawed individuals from “depriving the owner of an animal or natural resource from participating in an animal or natural resource activity” by obstructing use; holding it for ransom; “alter[ing] its condition or usefulness that the value ... is substantially reduced”; and providing training, housing, funding or materials that could in any way be used to support animal or eco-terrorism.

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NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION: 2010: $63,850 2011: $120,932 2012: $250,000 Sources: Center for Responsive Politics, opensecrets.org; National Institute for Money in State Politics, followthemoney.org

ity or its owner; entering or remaining on the premises of 11 an animal or research facility if the person or organization: had notice that the entry was forbidden; or, received notice to depart but failed to do so.”

According to the Center for Media and Democracy, which maintains a massive clearinghouse of leaked ALEC documents at ALECexposed. org, members of ALEC’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force include (or have included) energy giants ExxonMobil, Duke and Peabody; major manufacturers International Paper and General Motors (which suspended its membership in 2012); Koch Industries; and ag leader J.R. Simplot Co. AETA didn’t get much play in statehouses around the country until 2011, when Minnesota lawmakers in both the House and Senate introduced bills parroting the model bill’s prohibition on “entering an animal or research facility to take pictures by photograph, video camera, or other means” without permission from the owner.

According to Mother Jones, the Minnesota bill came after workers were caught on film “throwing sick, injured and surplus birds into grinding machines while still alive.”

Similar—and in some cases nearly identical—bills to Minnesota’s soon followed in Florida and Iowa, all tracing their lineage to AETA. In 2012, Utah joined the “aggag” states, a term coined in a 2011 column by New York Times food writer Mark Bittman, with its HB 187.

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device on the agricultural operation; obtains access to an agricultural operation under false pretenses; [and] applies for employment at an agricultural operation with the intent to record an image of, or sound from, the agricultural operation.”

Idaho’s ag-gag statute, which which was signed into law by Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on Feb. 28 (BW, Citydesk, “Otter Signs Ag-Gag Bill Into Law,” Feb. 28, 2014), making Idaho the seventh state to do so, reads much the same: “A person commits the crime of interference with agricultural production if the person knowingly: Is not employed by an agricultural production facility and enters an agricultural production facility by force, threat, misrepresentation or trespass … obtains employment with an agricultural production facility by force, threat, or misrepresentation with the intent to cause economic or other injury to the facility’s operations ... enters an agricultural production facility that is not open to the public and, without the facility owner’s express consent or pursuant to judicial process or statutory authorization, makes audio or video recordings of the conduct of an agricultural production facility’s operations.”

Violation of the law would carry a fine up to $5,000 and as much as a year in jail—ironically, a stiffer penalty than faced by the employee convicted of animal cruelty in the 2008 Iowa case.

Otter, himself a longtime former employee of J.R. Simplot Co., signed the SB 1337, saying it “is about agriculture producers being secure in their property and their livelihood.”

Opponents—including more than 100,000 people who signed an anti-ag-gag petition delivered to the Governor’s Office on Feb. 26, as well as Chobani yogurt founder Hamdi Ulukaya, who said SB 1337 “would limit transparency”—fear the law will have a chilling effect on

First Amendment rights, as well as jeopardize food safety.

“Gov. Otter betrayed the will of his constituents and the majority of Americans who strongly oppose efforts to criminalize whistleblowers who dare to expose cruelty and corruption on Idaho’s farms,” Mercy for Animals Executive Director Nathan Runkle wrote in a statement following the bill’s signing. “Clearly Gov. Otter knows that Idaho’s factory farmers have a lot to hide from the American people if he is willing to go to such despicable lengths to conceal their cruel and abusive practices.”

Equally clear is the clout enjoyed by Idaho’s $2.4 billion dairy industry. According to data from the nonprofit National Institute on Money in State Politics, and reported Feb. 27 by KPVI Channel 6, one-third of Idaho senators and one-fifth of state representatives took campaign contributions from various dairy interests in 2012. Of the 23 senators who voted in favor of SB 1337, 12 benefited from dairy largesse; while, in the House, 14 of the 56 representatives who cast aye votes took dairy dollars. All told, according to figures from NIMSP, ag industry groups funneled more than $540,000 into campaigns, lobby efforts and other causes in Idaho during 2012.

As for the governor, he took a combined $5,500 from the Idaho Milk Producers, Idaho Dairymen’s Association and former Idaho State Veterinarian Greg Ledbetter, a Magic Valley dairy farmer.

“It really is a transparent attempt by the industry to keep their cruel practices hidden from the public,” MFA investigations chief Rice told BW in the days leading up to the bill’s signing. “What these industries want to do is have the power to put you in prison for taking a picture against their rules. It violates freedom of speech and freedom of the press. [SB 1337] will be challenged in court and it will cost taxpayers a lot of money.”

GUNS-ON-CAMPUS April 16 will mark the seventh anniversary of the Virginia Tech massacre, in which Seung-Hui Cho, a senior at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, gunned down 49 people on campus, killing 32 and wounding 17. In the seven years—and nearly 20 mass shootings—since, Cho’s spree at Virginia Tech remains the deadliest single-shooter event in United States history.

In the horror of the aftermath were calls for strengthened gun laws and improved mental health services but also concerted—albeit much quieter—efforts among some conservative groups to broaden the availability of guns, specifically on campuses.

As with ag-gag, the American Legislative Exchange Council was quick to supply a tool for state legislators in the form of a model bill: the Campus Personal Protection Act. Adopted by ALEC’s Criminal Justice and Homeland Security Task Force in May 2008, the CPPA model bill summary stated simply: “This Act amends state criminal codes and concealed carry laws to remove prohibitions on the possession or carrying of handguns on the campuses of postsecondary educational institutions by individuals issued valid licenses to carry concealed handguns. Also limits the application of rules and regulations established by governing boards of postsecondary educational institutions on the possession of firearms on campuses by individuals issued valid licenses to carry concealed handguns.”

ALEC’s Criminal Justice and Homeland Security Task Force was later replaced by the Public Safety and Elections Task Force, which crafted the model bills that would later become known as “Stand Your Ground” or “Castle Laws,” as well as a suite of restrictive voter ID laws that made headlines across the country in the 2012 presidential election. Controversy surrounding both pieces of legislation—particularly in the wake of the February 2012 shooting death of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin and shooter George Zimmerman’s use of the Stand Your Ground defence—prompted ALEC to disband the task force that same year. The National Rifle Association had served as corporate co-chair of the Public Safety and Elections Task Force only a year before, in 2011.

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 19 states introduced some form of guns-on-campus legislation in 2013 and, as of January 2014, six states allow concealed weapons on public postsecondary campuses: Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Oregon, Utah and Wisconsin.

Utah, however, is the only state that specifically strips public colleges and universities of the authority to ban concealed carry—a provision that directly mimics the intent of the ALEC bill’s summary, and one shared by the guns-on-campus bill currently cruising through the Idaho Legislature.

According to the Utah law, “Unless specifically authorized by the Legislature by statute, a local authority or state entity [defined later as including “public school districts, public schools and state institutions of higher education”] may not enact, establish, or enforce any ordinance, regulation, rule, or policy pertaining to firearms that in any way inhibits or restricts the possession or use of firearms on either public or private property.”

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SB 1254, states: “Except as expressly authorized by state statute, no county, city, agency, board or any other political subdivision of this state may adopt or enforce any law, rule, regulation, or ordinance which regulates in any manner the sale, acquisition, transfer, ownership, possession, transportation, carrying or storage of firearms or any element relating to firearms and components thereof, including ammunition.”

A later section in the bill strikes out a paragraph giving the boards of any state college, university, professional-technical school or community college the “authority ... to regulate in matters relating to firearms,” replacing it with a new section stipulating that while school officials have some power to make rules regarding firearms, they “shall not extend to regulating or prohibiting the otherwise lawful possession, carrying or transporting of firearms or ammunition to persons” who have an “enhanced” concealed carry permit.

“That screams ALEC to me, the way you just described it,” Nick Surgey, director of research at the Center for Media and Democracy, told BW. The office of Nampa Republican Sen. Curt McKenzie, who introduced the bill, did not respond to BW’s request for comment on the origins of SB 1254, but according to former BW staffer Andrew Crisp, writing as a fellow with Boise State University public policy journal The Blue Review, McKenzie told a crowd at Boise State’s downtown campus Feb. 25 that he had not been pressured by Senate leadership, nor had legislators been courted with cash contributions by the NRA to push the campus carry bill.

While campaign finance records show that indeed McKenzie has not received campaign contributions from the National Rifle Association, he did turn over introduction of SB 1245 in the Senate State Affairs Committee to NRA lobbyist Dakota Moore, who made a 40-minute presentation on the bill. Testimony was closed without hearing opposition, including from law enforcement officials across the state—notably, Boise Police Chief Mike Masterson.

“Where is our democracy today when police leaders directly responsible for developing policy and training for your safety are effectively silenced by the chair of a committee who introduced the bill himself?” Masterson wrote in a statement issued after the hearing.

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would face should SB 1254 pass.

Lodge serves as ALEC’s state representative for Idaho.

The guns-on-campus legislation went on to clear the full Senate by a similarly comfortable margin, 25-10 (BW, Citydesk, “Idaho Senate Republicans Push Through Guns on Campus Bill,” Feb. 18, 2014).

Mike Nugent, who manages the Research and Legislation Division of the Idaho Legislative Services Office, characterized SB 1254 as “based on kind of a re-write of what the universities brought years ago to prohibit guns on campus.”

What’s more, Nugent said, it’s routine for legislators to look at laws passed in other states and use them as jumping off points for their own bills.

“At least you’ve got something you can have on paper to move the words around,” he said. “Plagiarism at times in this business is an art form. It’s not to be frowned on, it’s to be lauded.”

Though he added, in reference to Idaho’s guns-on-campus bill, “I realize the NRA came in and spoke for it.”

And despite what Sen. McKenzie said at the Boise State forum, the NRA does more than speak for legislation it supports in Idaho. Money from the powerful gun industry group makes its way into the Gem State—one way or another.

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics’ Open Secrets database on influence and lobbying, the NRA gave $63,850, $120,932 and $250,000 to the Republican Governors Association in 2010, 2011 and 2012, respectively, making it one of the single largest benefactors of NRA cash.

Based on figures from the National Institute on Money in State Politics, in the 2010 election cycle, the RGA gave $503,449 directly to Idaho: $3,499 to Gov. Otter and $500,000 to the Idaho Republican Party under the “ideology/single issue” category.

That year, RGA contributions to the Idaho GOP represented 56.43 percent of all funds flowing to the party, ranking Idaho 12th in the nation for total RGA funding. The Idaho Republican Party, meanwhile, ranked seventh in the nation among party committees receiving money from the RGA. It turns out “ideology/special interest” contributions far and away make up the largest percentage of the Idaho GOP’s economic heft: The next largest source of contributions in 2010 came from the finance, insurance and real estate sector ($103,750) followed by contributions from candidates themselves ($102,272). A total of 75 institutions donated to the Idaho Republican Party in 2010— compared to 104 individu14 als—and they accounted for BOISEweekly | MARCH 5–11, 2014 | 13

REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS ASSOCIATION CONTRIBUTIONS TO IDAHO, 2010 $3,499 to Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter $500,000 to Idaho Republican Party (seventh in the nation for party committee contributions) Total: $503,499 (12th in the nation for state-level contributions) Percentage of RGA contributions to Idaho GOP total: 56.43 percent Percentage of out-of-state contributions to Idaho GOP: 67 percent

Sources: Center for Responsive Politics, opensecrets.org; National Institute for Money in State Politics, followthemoney.org

74.8 percent of the party’s total contributions, or 13 $663,719—the bulk of that directly from the RGA. A full 67 percent of all donations came from out of state.

Beyond that, the NRA did directly donate to Idaho politicians in 2010—a total of $7,500, ranking Idaho 24th in the nation in terms of contributions, according to NIMSP. Otter alone received $4,500, ranking him the sixth-highest grossing individual state-level candidate in the country. Other Idaho lawmakers to receive NRA money in 2010 included Sens. Bart Davis and Russell Fulcher, and Reps. Judy Boyle, Mike Moyle and Ken Roberts, the latter whom resigned from the House in 2012 to serve on the four-member Idaho Tax Commission.

Meanwhile, the NRA has been active in promoting SB 1254 through its various outlets, going so far as to refer to the measure as “an important NRA-backed self-defense bill” in a Feb. 26 action alert calling on supporters to contact members of the Idaho House State Affairs Committee, which voted 11-3 to move the bill to the full House Feb. 28 with a “do pass” recommendation— after six hours of overwhelmingly oppositional testimony.

“If you think this bill was a collaborative bill and we were part of the process, it wasn’t,” former Idaho House Speaker Bruce Newcomb told

the House State Affairs Committee, speaking on behalf of Boise State University (BW, Citydesk, “GOP Majority on House State Affairs Approves Idaho Guns on Campus Measure,” Feb. 28, 2014). “It was a silo process. My suggestion is this: Instead of ramming this bill through, invite all the stakeholders to the table.”

The bill now heads to the House, where its passage in the coming weeks is widely expected.

RELIGIOUS LIBERTY Much of the political theater animating the 2014 Idaho Legislature has been played out in opposition to Republican lawmakers’ continued refusal to even consider adding the words “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” to the state’s Human Rights Act. To date, more than 120 protesters have been arrested at the Capitol for staging demonstrations in favor of adding the words.

Clad in black shirts that read “Add the 4 Words Idaho,” they have stood, hands over their mouths in reference to the Legislature’s eightyear-long failure to give so much as hearing to the Add the Words proposal, silently blocking entrances to legislative chambers and assembling in long lines through the Statehouse (BW, Citydesk, “More Add the Words Arrests at Statehouse,” Feb. 27, 2014).

At the same time Add the Words

fell (again) on deaf ears, lawmakers took up two pieces of legislation that would not only have effectively served as anti-Add the Words measures but would have legally protected a broad field of discriminatory practices based on religious belief.

House Bills 426 and 427 caused a firestorm of controversy when they were introduced by Boise Republican Rep. Lynn Luker in January (BW, Citydesk, “GOP Gives New Life to Religious Freedom Bill,” Feb. 5, 2014).

HB 426 would amend state code to protect professionals from having their licenses, certifications or registration revoked for refusing to provide services or take oaths that violate their “sincerely held religious beliefs.” At the same time, the bill would protect expression of religious beliefs, providing faith-based services and making business-related decisions such as employment, client selection and financial decisions based on religious beliefs.

HB 427 aims to protect religious freedom by limiting government’s ability to “burden a person’s exercise of religion” only if such burden is “essential to further a compelling governmental interest” or the “the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest.” What’s more, a person could use HB 427 either as a claim or defense against another person or the state itself if their “exercise of religion” was burdened.

Critics immediately pointed out that taken together or separately, Luker’s “religious freedom” bills would give legal justification—and protections—for vast inequalities in virtually every area of life, from housing and employment to nonemergency health care and basic services, even including dining in a restaurant.

Beyond that, opponents said, HB 427 would open cities that have adopted LGBT anti-discrimination ordinances to lawsuits from citizens who claimed abiding by the laws violated their beliefs. So far seven Idaho cities, including Boise, have enacted local ordinances protecting LGBT citizens from discrimination in housing, employment and education.

“The city of Boise is prepared to defend our ordinance. We will not allow a segment of our community to be unprotected,” Boise City Council President Maryann Jordan said during testimony on the bill, adding that Luker’s measures “codified discrimination and could negate [anti-discrimination] ordinances across the state.”

Luker seemed dumbfounded that anyone would interpret his bills in such a way and, though it’s all but certain his bills won’t resurface this session after being lambasted by hundreds of opponents in a three-

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plus-hour round of testimony, he issued a statement in late Februrary expressing his disappointment.

“The intent of the bill was to provide a shield to protect the free exercise of religion under the First Amendment in light of the variety of increasing government mandates.

However, many misinterpreted the intent to be a sword for discrimination,” he wrote.

Luker wasn’t alone in finding socalled “religious freedom” legislation a hard sell with voters. About a week after Luker’s announcement, Arizona State Republican Sen. Bob Worsley was backtracking from his co-sponsorship of a similar bill passed through the Arizona Statehouse but vetoed Feb. 26 by Republican Gov. Jan Brewer. His statement, signed by two fellow senators, apparently drew from the same source material as Luker’s.

“While our sincere intent in voting for this bill was to create a shield for all citizens’ religious liberties, the bill has instead been mischaracterized by its opponents as a sword for religious intolerance,” Worsley and his colleagues wrote.

The similarities between the Idaho and Arizona bills don’t end there— not by a long shot.

First, “Arizona’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act” SB 1062, introduced Jan. 10, and Idaho’s HB 427, introduced on Jan. 28, contained nearly identical language, down to the stipulation that govern-

ment can only burden a person’s exercise of religion, “In furtherance of a compelling governmental interest [or is] The least restrictive means of furthering that compelling governmental interest” and setting forth that “a person whose religious exercise is burdened in violation of this section may assert that violation as a claim or defence in a judicial proceeding,” whether that violation came from an individual or the government itself.

Nugent, at the Idaho Legislative Services Office, said that’s no surprise. Both Arizona’s SB 1062 and Idaho’s HB 427 were amendments to the same existing statute.

“Years ago [in 2000] there was a legislator in Boise named Grant Ipsen. He felt there needed to be a religious freedom bill, and ironically, they copied Arizona’s freedom of religion bill, which they’d passed,” Nugent said. “In some respects, it does sound like Rep. Luker’s changes were very similar to what Gov. Brewer vetoed in Arizona.

You’re dealing with the same corpus of a bill.”

More than that, the changes Luker and lawmakers in Arizona, Kansas and other states tried to graft onto existing legislation come from a common source—part of a yearslong campaign by right-wing groups to circumvent a range of progressive 16 policies, from birth control coverage in the Afford-

DIRECT NRA CONTRIBUTIONS TO IDAHO POLITICIANS, 2010 Rep. Judy Boyle: $750 Sen. Bart Davis: $500 Sen. Russell Fulcher: $500 Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter: $4,500 (sixth highest amount given to an individual state-level candidate)

Former Rep. Ken Roberts: $500 Total: $7,500 (24th highest contribution level in the nation)

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THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION With its brutal crackdown on civil rights of LGBT citizens, Russia has joined Uganda as a global center of anti-gay discrimination. So much so that United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon used his speech to the International Olympic Committee ahead of the 2014 Sochi Winter Games to take Mama Rus’ to task.

“We must all raise our voices against attacks on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people,” Ki-moon said.

“We must oppose the arrests, imprisonments and discriminatory restrictions they face.”

But to the web of organizations pushing for “religious freedom” bills in the United States, Russia’s policies aren’t so abhorrent.

In September 2013, “pro-family leaders” representing about two-dozen organizations from around the world met in Moscow to plan the agenda for the World Congress of Families VIII—a “celebration of the natural family” set to take place in the Russian capital Sept. 10-12, 2014.

Among those attending the meeting as members of the International Planning Committee were representatives of the National Organization for Marriage, Alliance Defending Freedom and Focus on the Family—all deeply involved with the crafting, introduction and defense of “religious freedom” bills introduced in states including Idaho and Arizona.

The theme of the 2014 congress: Every Child a Gift—The Future of Humanity.

Among the possible items on the agenda: “pro-family” initiatives in Russia, “the ideological roots of the anti-family lobby,” “countering the radical sexual rights agenda,” promoting “family-friendly” businesses for economic prosperity, and “building the international pro-family/prolife movement.”

It’s no accident that powerful, conservative American faith organizations are included in the planning for the Russian conference, just as it’s no coincidence that the event takes place in Moscow this year—World Congress of Families is not only a Rockford, Ill.-based organization but has been vocal in its support

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for Russia’s attitude toward faith, family and, therefore, gay rights, calling Russian values crusaders “true allies.”

WCF is supported directly by groups including Focus on the Family, which, according to a Feb. 21 report from Mother Jones, pays $2,500 a year as a WCF partner. Focus on the Family and the Alliance Defending Freedom (the Arizonabased “legal ministry” that wrote the religious freedom bill mirrored by Idaho’s HB 427) each spent $20,000 to support the 2012 Congress in Madrid.

“We are proud to work with our allies in Russia and around the world to protect marriage as the union of one man and one woman,” National Organization for Marriage President Brian Brown told Rachel Maddow in an interview last year.

NOM co-founder Robert George was appointed chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom

by House Speaker John Boehner in July 2013, and the organization on Feb. 27 took to its blog to decry Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer’s veto of that state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act legislation: “It is clear that unless particular legislation such as the Religious Freedom Restoration Act is passed in states across the country, it will be people of faith who have to compromise their beliefs and violate their consciences or face government sanction in the name of same-sex marriage.”

What’s more, NOM closed its statement with a call for support of Idaho Republican U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador’s longstalled Marriage and Religious Freedom Act (HR 3133), whose language should sound familiar by now—both in Moscow, Idaho, and Moscow, Russia: “Prohibits the federal government from taking an adverse action against a person on the basis that such person acts in accordance with a religious belief that: (1) marriage is or should be recognized as the union of one man and one woman, or (2) sexual relations are properly reserved to such a marriage.”

—Zach Hagadone

able Care Act to same-sex marriage, using “religious 15 liberty.”

In 1990, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that despite its use in Native American religious services, peyote is still an illegal substance and not protected by the Free-Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

To protect against future rulings against religious practices, Congress passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in 1993, establishing specific definitions for religious practice; outlining how, and when, government can infringe on them; and offering a relief for those whose beliefs have been “substantially burdened.”

In 1997, after another Supreme Court ruling that the states could not be forced to comply with the RFRA, statehouses around the country—including in Idaho—began enacting their own versions of the law, often copied from the federal statute.

Twenty years later, with the debate over the Affordable Care Act ramping up and conservatives emboldened by their Tea Party-fueled electoral sweep in 2010, the RFRA would become a central weapon in the religious right’s culture war arsenal.

It was in 2010 that national conservative faith organization Focus on the Family launched a campaign called “Ignite: An Enduring Cultural Transformation.”

In mailers sent to sent to states across the country, including Idaho, Focus on the Family—through its more than three-dozen state-level “family policy councils” like Cornerstone Family Council, based in Eagle—presented a strategy aimed at the “three key areas of the culture war overlap”: preparing leaders, promoting values and providing accountability. Under the “promoting values” heading came the explicit call for legislative action to “pass religious liberty amendment.”

Arguing that inclusion of birth control in the ACA would “substantially burden” the religious beliefs of many, Focus on the Family worked through its political action affiliate, Citizen Link, to push the North Dakota Religious Liberty Restoration Amendment of 2012.

The text of the ballot measure would occur again and again in socalled “religious freedom” bills in the years to come: “The right to act or refuse to act in a manner motivated by a sincerely held religious belief may not be burdened unless the government proves it has a compelling governmental interest in infringing the specific act or refusal to act and has used the least restrictive means to further that interest. A burden includes indirect burdens such as withholding benefits, assessing penalties, or an exclusion from programs or access to facilities.”

Citizen Link funneled almost $42,000 into the North Dakota Religious Liberty Restoration Amendment Committee, which received a total of nearly $200,000. Despite that support, the ballot initiative went down to defeat 64.02 percent-35.98 percent.

Undaunted, religious freedom bills resurfaced with a vengeance in 2014. A Feb. 26 article in Mother Jones quotes an estimated 15 states considering some form of the legislation.

According to MJ reporter Kevin Drum, the current fascination among conservative legislatures for these bills is more organic than in cases such as voter ID or antiabortion measures, where “a group like ALEC writes model legislation, and that becomes the basis for laws all over the country.” However, the pedigree of both Idaho’s and Arizona’s religious liberty bills is clear.

Speaking to Al-Jazeera America, Cornerstone Family Council Executive Director Julie Lynde said that while her group is “not following a [legislative] template ... we’ve been

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involved with working on the language” of HB 426 and 427. Cornerstone did not return a call requesting comment from BW, but Lyndie admitted to Al-Jazeera that “a lot of these battles across the country have been caused by homosexual issues.”

That runs counter to Luker’s assertion, which he made in an email to BW in early February.

“I do not have an issue with the right of the LGBT community to choose how, with whom and where they choose to live. In fact, despite much discussion in the press and social media to the contrary, the bills that I have sponsored are not directed at that community. They are based upon concern over the growing interference by government mandate in the lives of all people, but particularly those who have religious convictions that are being burdened or ignored by government,” Luker wrote.

Luker’s defense notwithstanding, anti-gay animus is in the marrow of these bills, and it was inherited from Focus on the Family’s agenda.

According to a Feb. 24 statement on Citizen Link’s website: “When government elevates sexual orientation to a ‘protected status,’ what follows has been increasing government coercion and punishment of those people of faith who resist being forced to participate, such as wedding photographers, bakers, florists, bed and breakfast inns, and faith-based adoption agencies, among others, who have found themselves prosecuted and/or penalized in recent years all around the country for taking the Bible’s commands about marriage and children seriously. … Whether or not the Arizona bill gets signed into law, understand this: These laws are a shield to protect everyone’s religious freedom, not a sword [emphasis added] to harm gays and lesbians or anyone else.”

Just like the language in the bills and the language used to defend them, Arizona’s SB 1062—like

Idaho’s HB 426 and 427—ties every bit as strong to Focus on the Family.

Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Alliance Defending Freedom, a self-described Christian “legal ministry,” was open about its role in helping write Arizona’s law. Its senior counsel, Doug Napier, even issued a statement following Gov. Brewer’s veto.

“Freedom loses when fear overwhelms facts and a good bill is vetoed. Today’s veto enables the foes of faith to more easily suppress the freedom of the people of Arizona,” Napier wrote.

Alliance Defending Freedom, which started its life as the Alliance Defense Fund, was co-founded in 1994 by James Dobson, the father of Focus on the Family.

The sponsors of Arizona’s SB 1062 were tangled up not only with Focus on the Family and ALEC, but—in a bizarre twist—Idaho itself.

Lead sponsor Sen. Steven B. Yarbrough, a lawyer and former Arizona State University official who was first elected to the Arizona House in 2002, leads a group known as the Arizona Values Action Team, “which supports public policy that is pro-life, pro-traditional marriage, pro-school choice and pro-religious liberty.”

The Arizona Values Action Team is a state-based wing of the national Values Action Team, which, according to the Center for Media and Democracy’s Sourcewatch, was founded in 1998 by then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay, R-Texas, after Focus on the Family founder James Dobson threatened to splinter the Christian right from the Republican Party.

Among the specific aims of VAT is the passage of so-called “religious freedom amendments.”

Another of the sponsors of Arizona’s bill was Sen. Nancy Barto, whose accomplishments include being named Legislator of the Year by ALEC in 2011.

The third sponsor of the Arizona bill has strong ties to Idaho.

DAIRY INDUSTRY CONTRIBUTIONS TO IDAHO LAWMAKERS, 2012 Senate: $7,100 (12 members—34.2 percent of total body)

House: $5,400 (15 members—21.4 percent of total body)

Governor: $5,500 Source: KPVI Channel 6; National Institute for Money in State Politics, followthemoney.org

Sen. Bob Worsley, a Brigham Young University graduate and founder of ExecuShare and SkyMall magazine, moved with his family from Utah to Boise when he was 10 years old. Worsley grew up in Boise, graduated from Capital High School in 1974 and married his wife, Christi, who was also raised in Boise, in 1977. The couple retains a summer house in Idaho, and a photo page on Worsley’s campaign website features numerous snapshots of the Worsleys huckleberry picking in Cascade, fishing in Stanley and visiting family in Boise.

Worsley served on the executive board of directors for the Institute for American Values—a private, nonpartisan group focused on the “renewal of marriage and family life.” One of its former resident scholars is Maggie Gallagher, who heads the Institute for Marriage and Public Policy and serves as a board member (and former president) of the National Organization for Marriage. In 2009, NOM spent $1.5 million on ads around the country attacking same-sex marriage—spe-

cifically, according to the TV spots, that same-sex marriage supporters “want to change the way I live. ...

That means wedding photographers and marriage counselors could be labeled bigots and sued if they oppose working with same-sex couples.”

According to Sourcewatch, Gallagher told the New Jersey StarLedger, “It’s obviously going to happen if gay marriage is the law of the land.”

Five years later, Rep. Luker had this to say about the threat facing those like a wedding photographer in New Mexico or a baker in Oregon who refused to provide services to members of the LGBT community: “This is pre-emptive. The issue is coming, whether it’s 10 years, or 15 years, or two years.”

Though dead this year, if groups like Focus on the Family have anything to say about it, the issue will certainly be back—one way or the other.

Additional reporting by Harrison Berry, Andrew Crisp and George Prentice.

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Fashion, fiction, fun.

SATURDAY MARCH 8 down the rabbit hole THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS: BALLET IDAHO FASHION SHOW The beauty of the Far East here in the Wild West.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 konichiwa ART EXHIBIT RECEPTION Boise State’s Art Department is putting the spotlight on a pair of Japanese artists this week. Art by Yuji Adachi and Naohiko Watanabe has recently been put on display in the campus galler y, and now you have the opportunity to hear them talk about their art. By day, both artists are employed as professors at Japan’s legendar y art and design school Nagoya Zokei University, yet their styles are completely polar opposite of one another. Adachi’s pieces are edgy, with a distinct, other-worldly aspect to them as he focuses mainly on illustrating tales of myster y, while Watanabe’s art aims to get back to the roots of Japanese art, using flowers and floral prints heavily in his work. The two will present an artists’ lecture in the Boise State Student Union Building, followed by a reception in the galler y where their art will be on display for another month.

4 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1242, finearts.boisestate.edu.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 take me out to the ballgame HOMETOWN TEAMS EXHIBIT Listen up, sports fans. The Idaho Historical Society is getting to the heart of American sports by heading home this week. Hometown Teams: How Sports Shape America is a celebration of our love of the game, showcasing how important

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sports like baseball, football, soccer and even roller derby have influenced the world as we know it. It examines ever ything from collegiate sports and pick-up games at the park, to the real McCoy, the big leagues.

Including such attractions as video montages and ballpark food, the event has ever ything anyone who loves the game shouldn’t miss. And seriously, who doesn’t love a good video montage, sports enthusiast or not?

The event is the latest installment of the Smithsonian Institution’s Museum on Main Street,

Envision a fusion of fashion, ballet, graffiti and champagne, interspersed with wild spoofs of Alice in Wonderland, and you’ll have a good idea of what to expect at the upcoming Ballet Idaho Fashion Show at the Rose Room.

Dancers will walk the runway as haute couture models and supply ample snippets of spoof, providing a “very un-ballet like” event. “I don’t want to say the dancers will be performing, exactly, but they will certainly be running out to do snippets of choreography put together

by Daniel Ojeda,” said Kim Kaine, Ballet Idaho’s marketing director Regardless of whether your vocabulary includes words like flatforms, ferosh or skinnies (a reference to fit, not models), an evening spent in the company of award-winning dancers promises to be admission fee.

Upping the cool factor, Sector 17, a local cooperative known for graffiti-inspired artwork, has created Alice in Wonderland-themed canvases that will be available via the evening’s silent auction. Also on hand will be an array of locally crafted jewelry, the perfect opportunity to assemble your own “arm party”—fashion’s latest buzzwords for multiple bracelets worn at once. To round out any style maven’s dream event, gift certificates for various Boise salons and boutiques will also be available through the silent auction.

Front row (or frow, for those in the know) seats are $64; open seating tickets are $44. Either way, appetizers and champagne are included in the ticket price. And with everything from catwalks to canapes to auctions to graffiti art, there’s a good chance you’ll find something fierce.

8 p.m. $44 general, $64 reserved runway. Rose Room, Union Block Building, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise. 208-343-0556, balletidaho. org/fashionshow.

a series of exhibits across the countr y in collaboration with state-run humanities groups to bring histor y right to your backyard. The exhibit finds its home at the Idaho State Historical Museum through Saturday, April 12, and is free with regular museum admission.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays. $3-$5. Idaho State Historical Museum, 610 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, history. idaho.gov.

WEDNESDAYTHURSDAY MARCH 5-6 it’s nice to have you FRED MEYER BROADWAY IN BOISE: HELLO, DOLLY! In the ‘70s, Norman Lear changed the face of sitcoms.

His families were the antithesis of the post-war nuclear families portrayed on TV, and many of his characters were relatable. Viewers saw their family, B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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“Hey, Bob. I don’t think these stones are going to fit in your knapsack.”

TUESDAY MARCH 11 there’s diamonds in them thar hills BROWN BAG LECTURE: OWYHEE DIAMONDS A California couple recently discovered $10 million in gold coins buried in their backyard. You can dig around your own house if you want to—make sure you check with the utility companies first—but you might have better luck if you attend the current installment of the Brown Bag Lecture series.

Father and daughter team Charles and Melissa Osgood will be on hand at the Idaho State Historical Museum to inform amateur gold diggers about the riches buried in them thar hills. Charles has a working knowledge of Owyhee diamond lore and Melissa makes jewelr y inspired by natural elements. Perhaps if you listen intently, you might glean the exact spots where a bevy of precious gems await, or you can leave the digging to others and purchase one of Melissa’s creations. And if you happen to know a girl whose best friends are diamonds, you could wow her with reciting interesting facts about diamond folklore. Think about it: Admission is only a few bucks and by attending the lecture, you could improve yourself by adding to your knowledge base and maybe by learning where some bling is buried. That’s an investment, friends.

Noon. $3-$5. Idaho State Historical Museum, 610 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, histor y.idaho.gov.

friends, neighbors and even themselves in Lear’s shows, which featured strong-willed patriarchs or matriarchs who often made life hell for those around them: Good Times’ mother Florida spent a lot of time keeping son JJ in line; Maude’s titular character disagreed with husband Walter on almost everything; Sanford and Son’s Fred Sanford referred to son Lamont as “Dummy;” and bigoted All in the Family father Archie Bunker had a similar whipping boy in son-in-law Mike, who he called “Meathead.”

But for all of their blustering, these characters also had someone who loved them in spite of their flaws, like Ar-

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chie’s sweet daughter, played

by Sally Struthers. Struthers now embodies a fierce character of her own, bringing tenacious nosy match-maker Dolly Gallagher Levi to life in the classic musical Hello, Dolly! See Struthers sing, dance and strut her stuff in this Broadway in Boise production as Dolly heads to Yonkers, N.Y., to find a wife for cranky Horace Vandergelder—who doesn’t know the wife Dolly has in mind is herself.

7:30 p.m., $38-$58.

Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

Wearing your favorite black sweater around dogs. Now that’s love.

TUESDAY MARCH 11 a writer’s best friend THE CABIN PRESENTS SUSAN ORLEAN Dogs. Few creatures in the world are more agreeable than man’s best friend. A mystical, ancient bond that has developed between humans and canines over millennia, something author Susan Orlean both celebrates and confirms in her bestselling novel Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend. As one reviewer wrote, Orlean weaves “history, war, show business, humanity, wit, and grace into an incredible story about…the countless ways we would be lost without dogs by our sides.”

Hear what Orlean herself has to say about her work when she reads at the Egyptian Theatre.

Presented by The Cabin, Orlean’s reading kicks off the 2014 season of Readings and Conversations, a series aimed at presenting unique perspectives on life and writing, as seen through the eyes of internationally acclaimed authors.

Orlean is no one-trick pony. An accomplished staff writer for The New Yorker, she also wrote the bestselling 1998 novel The Orchid Thief, which chronicles the dark underbelly of borderline criminal flower activity. In order to capture the details, Orlean spent months shadowing a (crazed?) flower fanatic in search of the elusive ghost orchid. The protagonist, alternately described as “deeply eccentric” yet “oddly attractive,” moves through a hidden world of Florida flower lovers that few have ever encountered.

Beyond reading excerpts, Orlean will also be talking about her own writing process. Book sales will be available in the lobby, as well as the opportunity to have copies signed by Orlean.

According to The Cabin, tickets having been selling quickly, but some balcony seating remains available at $28 general, $15 for students.

7:30 p.m. $15 student, $28 balcony. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208- 331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.

In the future, computer interfaces will be holographic screens that we manipulate like orchestra conductors—moving windows with the sweep of a hand and closing tabs with the jab of a finger, all in mid-air.

At least that’s what techies have been saying ever since Minority Report came out. They might not have been too far off.

Enter the Leap Motion Controller, a glossy black, aluminumringed rectangle about as big as a fun-sized candy bar that you plug into your computer and—presto—you’re in the future.

Well, not quite, but close.

Leap Motion Controller Leap, which is basically a lit$79.99 tle box of infrared optics, tracks leapmotion.com your fingers and translates them into action on your desktop, though only through compatible apps from its Airspace Store.

When Boise Weekly played with it, the sensation was at first awkward—thumbs registered as fingers, and if you lean too close to the sensor field, your forehead can show up as a big thumb. After trying some free apps—a sculpting game called Freeform and an artsy interactive landscape called Kyoto—we got the hang of it.

There are currently 186 apps on the Airspace Store, ranging from free-$7.99, and nearly all skew to the artistic, educational or entertaining. A few are available to give you at least partial control of your operating system—compatible with both Macs and PCs—but it’s clear that we’re still a ways off from Minority Report.

Verdict: For games and eye candy, Leap Motion is good entertainment. If you have actual work to do on your computer, we suggest waiting a few more years for the future to arrive.

—Zach Hagadone

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 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, Gilmore Girls). Get more info or buy tickets at boisestatetickets. com/event/hello-dolly. See Picks, Page 18. 7:30 p.m. $37.50$57.50. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA— When a wealthy Southern woman’s emotionally stalled daughter falls in love with a young Italian man during a summer vacation in Tuscany, she must reconsider not only her daughter’s future, but 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 WOMEN’S BUSINESS CENTER LEGAL FORUM—Learn what businesses need to know about business law. Ticket includes breakfast. For more info, email spokorney@wbcidaho.org. 8:30 a.m. $45. Concordia University School of Law, 501 W. Front St., Boise, 208-955-1001, concordialaw.com.

Art ANNA FIDLER: VAMPIRES AND WOLF MEN—A long-term fascination with horror films inspires Anna Fidler’s powerful portraits of imagined denizens of the night, vampires and wolf men. TuesdaysSaturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m., through May 25. $3-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS: ANITA KAY HARDY AND GREGORY KASLO COLLECTION—Among the notable ceramic artists included are Rudy Autio, Frank Boyden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jun Kaneko, David Smith and Peter Voulkos, as well as two-dimensional works

by Bill Lewis, Judy Cooke, Alden Mason and Hung Liu. TuesdaysSaturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., and Sundays, 12-5 p.m., through Oct. 5. $3-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org.

ON VIEW: 2014 ANNUAL STUDENT JURIED EXHIBITION—Annual juried showcase of student artwork. Mondays-Thursdays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Fridays, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., through March 14. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110, 1819 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

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Calls to Artists

On Stage

MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING YOUTH VISUAL ARTS EXHIBIT—What influences you?

Mothers Against Drunk Driving is hosting a free Youth Visual Arts Exhibit, with the theme “The Power of One Influence.” Youth are invited to submit their interpretation of what influences their lives. All pieces will be displayed at a March 20 reception. Visit madd.org/id for more info and submission guidelines. Deadline March 14. FREE.

BALANCE DANCE COMPANY— Balance Dance Company’s spring performance, Reflexivity. 7:30 p.m. $5-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $9-$15.

Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre. boisestate.edu.

SPRING AUTHOR SERIES: CHRISTI PAULINE—Pauline’s God Doesn’t Write With a Pen is the heart-wrenching true story of political refugees who fled GuineaBissau and eventually relocated in Boise. In the Sagebrush Room.

12 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.org.

BROADWAY IN BOISE: HELLO DOLLY!—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $37.50-$57.50. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate. edu.

SEAN PEABODY—Stand-up comedy, with featured act Ryan Noak.

8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

Art Talks & Lectures ARTIST LECTURE AND RECEPTION—Japanese artists Yuji Adachi and Naohiko Watanabe, professors from Nagoya Zokei University of Art and Design, talk about their work shown in the exhibit Japanese illustration and Painting.

Reception follows at 5:30 p.m.

See Picks, Page 18. 4 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Bishop Barnwell Room, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1000.

WHY WALDORF?—Take your questions for a lively, informative presentation that will help you understand “Why Waldorf?” In the Minnie Moore Room. 6:30 p.m.

FREE. Community Campus, 1050 Fox Acres Road, Hailey, 208-7883481.

Sports & Fitness HOMETOWN TEAMS— Discover how sports have become an integral part of American society through current and historic athletes, equipment and fan memorabilia.

See Picks, Page 18. TuesdaysFridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Continues through April 11.

FREE-$5. Idaho State Historical Museum, 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, history.idaho.gov.

THURSDAY MARCH 6 Festivals & Events FRESCO AWARDS—Fresco Arts Academy hosts this gala fundraiser to honor Idahoans who have made great contributions to the arts. Featuring a special performance by award recipient Marcus Eaton, and actress Maureen O’Hara will receive the Lifetime Achievement Award. Visit frescoarts.org for more info. 6 p.m. $30. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, egyptiantheatre.net.

METAL PREVIEW—Enso Artspace presents four Idaho artists in a new exhibition, Metal: Sue Latta, Dennis Proksa, Susan Madasci and Michael Cordell.

Metal runs through April 17. See Culture, Page 28. 3 p.m. FREE. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-9910117, ensoartspace.com.

Talks & Lectures AN EVENING WITH MARK BITTMAN— Mark Bittman, New York Times food writer and best-selling author, is the final presenter of the 2013–14 Lecture Series.

Bittman’s core message is that food has the power to make or break not only our personal health but that of the planet. Tickets are available online or by calling 208726-9491. 6:30 p.m. $25-$35.

Church of the Big Wood, 100 Saddle Road, Ketchum, 208-7265123, brehmcenter.org.

Kids & Teens ALICE IN WONDERLAND STORY BALLET CLASS—Join Alice in her journey down the rabbit hole to relive the story through dance, mime and arts and crafts. On the final day of class, parents will enjoy a performance demonstrating everything your child has learned. For ages 4-6. 5:15 p.m. $100. Ballet Idaho West Academy, 12554 W. Bridger St., Ste. 100, Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

FRIDAY MARCH 7 Festivals & Events VIDEOGAME CHALLENGE—Kids ages 8 and up will play games on Wii and Xbox 360. 4:30 p.m.

FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org.

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8 DAYS OUT On Stage BALANCE DANCE COMPANY— Balance Dance Company’s spring performance, Reflexivity. 7:30 p.m. $5-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA—The BBO performs Overture to Iphegenie in Aulis, by Gluck and Mozart, and Haydn’s “Surprise Symphony,” featuring Boise native Renaud BoucherBrowing on double bass. Buy tickets at caldwellfinearts.org, at 208-459-5279, or the Bird Stop Coffee House, 718 Arthur St., Caldwell. 7:30 p.m. $5-$20.

Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-459-3405 or 208454-1376, caldwellfinearts.org.

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $9-$15.

Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre. boisestate.edu.

SEAN PEABODY—See Thursday.

8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

SLOVENIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL: INSTRUMENTAL WORLD PREMIERE CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT—Features Trio for flute, oboe and piano, with Boise State Associate Professor of Music Nicole Molumby, Jeanne Belfy and Slovenian composer Blaž Pucihar. 7:30 p.m. FREE-$5. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1609.

BRAVE NEW WORLD—Capital High’s Golden Guild presents Aldous Huxley’s dystopian story of the future. which takes a look into such controversies as reproductive theory, hynopeadic indocrination, conformity and happy pill vacations. 7 p.m. $5. Capital High School Auditorium, 8055 Goddard Road, Boise.

TREASURE VALLEY SYMPHONY: REVEL & DELIGHT— The Treasure Valley Symphony performs Dvorak, Prokofiev and Saint-Saens. 7:30 p.m. $1-$5.

Meyer-McLean Theatre, 676 S.W. Fifth Ave., Four Rivers Cultural Center, Ontario, 541-881-8822, tvcc.cc.

EL KORAH SHRINE’S 51ST ANNUAL MELODRAMA—See double-feature shows of Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie, and The Treasure of Huckleberry Ridge or... Hey, Jude. Buffet dinner precedes show at 6 p.m. 8 p.m. $13, $90 8-person table. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

Art BOISE STATE MFA THESIS EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION—Featuring Racial Epithet Vignettes by Luz Camarena, and Awful/Awful-An Archive of Light Embarrassments by Teysha F. Vinson. Exhibits run through March 21. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery

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METAL: OPENING RECEPTION—Enso Artspace presents four Idaho artists in a new exhibition, Metal: Sue Latta, Dennis Proksa, Susan Madasci and Michael Cordell. Metal runs through April 17. See Culture, Page 28. 5 p.m. FREE. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-9910117, ensoartspace.com.

Citizen THIRD ANNUAL BRONCO APPATHON—Boise State student designers and developers will team up over a weekend to create web or mobile apps. The event begins with a keynote address at 4:30 p.m. Friday. Coding begins following the address. All full or part-time Boise State students are eligible. Visit oit.boisestate. edu/appathon to register. 4:30 p.m. Boise State Interactive Learning Center, west end of campus, between the Multi-Purpose Classroom Building and the Math and Geosciences Building, Boise.

SATURDAY MARCH 8 Festivals & Events SPORTS CARD SHOW—Discover the newest and hottest cards in the hobby, as well as vintage items, nonsports cards and memorabilia. For the entire family.

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

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—Enjoy a magical adventurous evening when fashion, art, dance and music become one. Ticket includes appetizers and champagne. See Picks, Page 18.

Buy tickets online at balletidaho. org or by calling 208-343-0556. 8 p.m. $44-$64. Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-3810483, parklaneco.com/roseroom.

On Stage BALANCE DANCE COMPANY— Balance Dance Company’s spring performance, Reflexivity. 7:30 p.m. $5-$15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

BRAVE NEW WORLD—See Thursday. 7 p.m. $5. Capital High School Auditorium, 8055 Goddard Road, Boise.

EL KORAH SHRINE’S 51ST ANNUAL MELODRAMA—See Friday.

8 p.m. $13, $90 8-person table.

El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

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THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $9-$15.

Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-3980, theatre. boisestate.edu.

SEAN PEABODY—See Thursday.

8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

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8 DAYS OUT Literature AUTHOR TIMOTHY A. SUCHLA BOOK SIGNING EVENT—Boise author Timothy A. Suchla will sign copies of his book, Mike Champ.

5 p.m. FREE. Hastings, 1870 Caldwell Blvd., Nampa, 208-4616070, gohastings.com.

SUNDAY MARCH 9 Festivals & Events TREASURE VALLEY ORCHID SOCIETY ANNUAL SHOW AND SALE—If you’ve ever thought of keeping orchids yourself, here is an opportunity to see beautiful orchids on display, experience orchid care demonstrations, and gain advice and information from local experts. Part of the Read Me reading project. 10 a.m.

FREE. Hilton Garden Inn, 7699 W. Spectrum, Boise.

On Stage BOISE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA—Featuring Renaud BoucherBrowning on the double bass, who will perform Vanhal’s Concerto for Double Bass, plus the music of Haydn and Gluck. Tickets available at boisebaroque.org, 208-891-1300, or at the door. 2 p.m. $17-$22. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

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FRANKLY BURLESQUE—Burlesque performance. 8 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344.

SEAN PEABODY—See Thursday.

8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

SLOVENIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL: FLUTE CONCERTO AMERICAN PREMIERE—Check out a pre-concert talk with Slovenian composer Blaž Pucihar from 6:30-7:15 p.m., in Room C125. Featuring the Boise State Symphony Orchestra conducted by Craig Purdy with Pucihar’s Flute Concerto performed by Associate Professor of Music Nicole Molumby. 7:30 p.m. FREE-$5. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

contact the Stanley City Clerk’s Office at cityclerk@ruralnetwork. net or 208-774-2286. FREE. Downtown Stanley, 1-800-8787950, stanleycc.org.

MONDAY MARCH 10 Festivals & Events BOOK IT FORWARD! IDAHO KICK-OFF—Learn more about Book it Forward! Idaho, a new nonprofit that collects, cleans, sorts and distributes gently used and new books to kids in Idaho who need them to become successful readers. 5 a.m. FREE. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.

TUESDAY MARCH 11 Literature THE CABIN PRESENTS SUSAN ORLEAN—Join New Yorker staff writer and author of The Orchid Thief and Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend for this installment of The Cabin’s Readings and Conversations series. A book signing will follow. Part of the Read Me reading project. See Picks, Page 19. 7:30 p.m. $15-$38. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, egyptiantheatre.net.

Talks & Lectures BROWN BAG LECTURE: OWYHEE DIAMONDS— The Father-daughter team of Charles and Melissa Osgood

both have their hands deep into the rocks of Idaho. Charles will speak about Gem State mining lore surrounding “Owyhee diamonds” and Melissa will share about her experience creating jewelry inspired by nature. See Picks, Page 19. Noon. FREE-$5.

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

WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 On Stage BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER SESSION GIG—All active bands at Boise Rock School will perform, putting what they’ve learned into practice on stage.

All ages; full bar (I.D. required), Pie Hole pizza and other treats available. For more info, call 208-559-0065, email info@ boiserockschool.com or visit boiserockschool.com. 4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

Talks & Lectures SLOVENIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL: MUSIC AND CULTURE IN MODERN SLOVENIA—Presentation by Slovenian composer Blaž Pucihar, Boise State Associate Professor of Music Nicole Molumby, and Boise State History Professor Nick Miller that includes live performances of Pucihar’s pieces, composer insights into his compositional process, and background on society and culture in modern Slovenia. 4 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-4261609.

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SUNDAY STORYTIME—Every Sunday, bring the family down for Rediscovered Books’ new Storytime, featuring a selection of picture books hand-picked by staff member Jamie. For ages 3-7. Noon. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Animals & Pets STANLEY SLED DOG RENDEZVOUS—The fifth annual Stanley Sled Dog Rendezvous will feature mid-distance and sprint dog sled races, as well a skijoring. Food and hot drinks will be available, as well as a large bonfire to keep spectators warm. For more info,

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FIRST THURSDAY/LISTINGS East Side BANDANNA—Inviting women of all ages for a night of girly fun, featuring bra fittings, a spring fashion show, beverages, treats and giveaways. 5 p.m. FREE. 504 W. Main St., 208-3869017, bandannarunning.com.

BASQUE MARKET—Celebrating olives, with olive-inspired tapas and 25 percent off olives, olive oil and olive oil decanters. Paella will be served around 6 p.m., plus free wine tasting. 4:30 p.m. FREE. 608 W. Grove St., 208-4331208, thebasquemarket.com.

BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—Enjoy free gallery tours for the new exhibit, “An Enduring Culture: The Basques Past & Present,” and guided tours of the Jacobs/Uberuaga house. Local musicians join together for a jam session beginning at 6:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St., 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

BOISE ART GLASS—Make your own paperweight for $40 per 30-minute session while enjoying snacks and watch a free glass-blowing demo. 5 p.m. FREE. 530 W. Myrtle, 208-3451825, boiseartglass.com.

BRICKYARD STEAKHOUSE—Featuring Snake River Farms Kobe culotte steak charbroiled, paired with a Cinder red, plus Todd Carney on the piano. 5 p.m. 601 W. Main St., 208-283-8048, brickyardboise.com.

FREE. 121 N. Fifth St., 208-333-0123.

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FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—Featuring paintings by Betsie Richardson on display. 5 p.m. FREE. 500 W. Idaho St., 208-345-4320, flyingmcoffee.com.

MELTING POT—Enjoy wine and cheese with two glasses of wine and one cheese fondue. 5 p.m. $22.

200 N. Sixth St., 208-343-8800, meltingpot.com.

BRICOLAGE—Featuring artists Dennis and Jinny DeFoggi and LIT Candle Co., the maker of the month, selling candles and other handmade awesomeness. 5 p.m. FREE. 418 S. Sixth St., 345-3718, bricoshoppe.com.

FRONT DOOR TAP HOUSE—Enjoy Full Sail Brewery and a menu pairing. 6 p.m. $18. 105 S. Sixth St., 208-2879201, thefrontdoorboise.com.

EPITOME HOME AND GARDEN— Celebrating 10 years in business with 15 percent off storewide sale. 5 p.m.

GUIDO’S PIZZERIA—A large onetopping pizza with your choice of one bottle of wine, two bottles of beer or four sodas for $20. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. 235 Fifth St., 208-345-9011,

REEF—Featuring fresh Red Snapper fillet paired with jumbo prawns and a Sake spritzer. Insert Foot Live Improv performs. 5 p.m. 105 S. Sixth St., 208-2879200, reefboise.com.

WISEGUY—Featuring $6 pitchers of Rainier, $1 off draft beers and $3 glasses of wine. 5 p.m. FREE. 106 N. Sixth St., 208-336-7777, wiseguypizzapie.com.

ZOOMCARE—Free exams on a first-come, first-served basis by Dr. Lauren Chasin. 5 p.m. FREE. 510 Main St., 208-258-2025, zoomcare.com/clinics/in/boise.

South Side BODO CHIROPRACTIC—offers a one-hour yoga class with Dr. Jen. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., 208342-7136, bodochiro.com.

BODOVINO—Check out a unique local artist and installation featuring reclaimed gears and metal repurposed into art and lighting. 5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., 208-336-8466, bodovino.com.

BOISE ART MUSEUM—Talk with Idaho artist Kirsten Furlong and create a work of art inspired by the 2013 Idaho Triennial exhibition, from 4–7 p.m. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. By donation. 670 Julia Davis Drive, 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org.

BOISE PUBLIC LIBRARY—Find out more about wine making, testing and tasting from a local wine expert.

5 p.m. FREE. 715 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

BUNS IN THE OVEN—Free samples and bundles at great savings created for this event. 6 p.m. FREE. 413 S. Eighth St., 208-342-5683.

COLE MARR GALLERY—Check out the new photo exhibition by Linda Ruppel. 6 p.m. FREE. 208-3367630, cmphotoworkshops.com.

FRESH OFF THE HOOK—Enjoy half-off appetizers. 5 p.m. FREE. 401 S. Eighth St., 208-343-0220.

IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM—View the Hometown Teams mascot exhibit, then enjoy photo ops with Treasure Valley Roller Girls and Boise Hawks mascots. Create your own mascot from 5:30–7 p.m.

5 p.m. FREE. 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, 208-334-2120, history.idaho.gov.

LISK GALLERY—Featuring works from local artists and wine by Carmela Vineyards. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 403 S. Eighth St., 208-342-3773, liskgallery.com.

NFINIT GALLERY—Meet oil painter Becca Towler and watercolorist Debra Bruner while enjoying frosty suds

by The Ram Brewery and crispy critters from Uumpa Lumpia. 5 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth, 208-371-0586, nfinitartgallery.com.

SALON 162—Featuring art by Chiqui Carmona-deVille.

5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., 208-386-9908.

SNAKE RIVER WINERY—Stop by for wine Jell-O shots or their wine flight. All full-price cases are 20 percent off. 5 p.m. FREE. 786 W. Broad St., 208-3459463.

SOLID BAR AND GRILL—Enjoy live music from Kay Leigh Jack, free liquor tasting from Hood River Distillers and art by Ed Anderson. 4 p.m. FREE. 208-3456620, solidboise.com.

Central Downtown ARTISAN OPTICS—Featuring the annual Bevel Trunk Show. 1-9 p.m. 190 N. Eighth St., 208-338-0500, artisanoptics.com.

BARBARA BARBARA AND CO.—Check out the special surprise happening. 6 p.m. FREE. 807 W. Bannock St., 208-342-2002.

BERRYHILL—Check out March Martini Madness $7 Martini Specials preview, BOGO happy hour (4-6 p.m.), and music from Ken Harris and Rico Weisman 6-9 p.m. 4 p.m. FREE. 121 N. Ninth St., 208-387-3553, johnberryhillrestaurants.com.

CHOCOLAT BAR—Enjoy Fraser Winery wines paired with chocolates. 5 p.m. FREE. 805 W. Bannock St., 208-338-7771, thechocolatbar.com.

COSTA VIDA—Satisfy your hunger for beach-inspired Mexican food. 5 p.m. FREE. 801 W Main St., 208429-4109, costavida.net.

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FIRST THURSDAY/LISTINGS FETTUCCINE FORUM—Professor Amanda Johnson presents The Temporary Phenomenon of Transforming Place. 5 p.m. FREE. The Rose Room, 718 W. Idaho St., 208-433-5676.

FINDINGS—Sip local wine while trying out fresh spring fashions.

5 p.m. FREE. 814 W. Idaho St., 208-343-2059, findingsapparel. com.

GROVE FITNESS CLUB AND SPA—Check out the fitness club and pick up a free seven-day pass. 5 p.m. FREE. 245 S. Capitol Blvd., fifth floor, 208-514-4434, grovefitness-spa.com.

LES FILLES—See the new Spring Collection, with 20 percent off everything this night only, plus complimentary drinks while you shop. 5 p.m. FREE. 274 N. Eighth St., 208-342-4888, lesfillesbyclaudia.com.

LUX FASHION LOUNGE—Check out the unique selection of new and resale men’s and women’s clothing, jewelry, hats and purses.

Featuring seasonal art and live music. 5 p.m. FREE. 785 W. Idaho St., 208-344-4589.

MIXED GREENS—Check out the shopping specials on work from local and regional artisans and a variety of gift vendors. 5 p.m.

FREE. 237 N. Ninth St., 208-3441605, ilikemixedgreens.com.

MIXING BOWL—Stop by for a stemware blowout sale, featuring martini, margarita, pilsner, white and red wine glasses and champagne flutes for only $6 each.

5 p.m. FREE. 216 N. Ninth St., 208-345-6025, themixingbowlboise.com.

PLAN B LOUNGE—Sign up for the March Madness NCAA Tournament Bracket ($20) and receive a $10 gift card while you enjoy BOGO Happy Hours from 5–7

BODOVINO

Get in gear and check out the new work at Bodovino.

Serendipity. That’s the word Bodovino events coordinator Mandy Wood might use to describe how the installation of a new, custom work by local artist Darcie Nelson came to be.

Bodovino was looking for a customized work of art that would reflect the “warm industrial” vibe of the wine bar.

Nelson, who uses reclaimed motorcyle gears, old wine-barrel rings and other salvage yard finds, stopped into Bodovino for lunch one day and she and Wood started talking. Fast-forward to now, when a construction crew will be installing the giant artwork Bodovino commissioned Nelson to create. The piece, comprised of three gears, emulates Bodovino’s simple threering logo, but it takes a crew to install because one of the reclaimed gears alone weighs almost 50 pounds.

It promises to be a sight to see—and if you need a little more light with which to do so, Nelson will also have some of her wine-barrel-ring lights on display and available for sale.

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p.m. and 10 p.m.–close. 5 p.m. $8. 121 N. Ninth St., 208-387-3553, johnberryhillrestaurants.com.

PORTSCHE’S JEWELRY BOUTIQUE—Local Girl Scouts will be selling cookies from 4–8 p.m.

FREE. 224 N. Ninth St., 208-3434443, portsches.com.

THE PRESS—Enjoy a taste of wine from the Proletariat Wine Company, with glass specials all night on any Proletariat wine on tap. 5 p.m. FREE. 212 N. Ninth St., 208-336-9577, facebook. com/thepressboise?sk=info.

SAGE YOGA AND WELLNESS— Highlights include Gina Marie Photography’s Real Life Genuine Art exhibit and Indian Creek Winery tasting. 5 p.m. FREE. 242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200, 208-3385430, sageyogaboise.com.

THE STUDIO—Featuring Illuminations, a watercolor exhibit by Laurel Lake McGuire. 5 p.m. FREE. 702 W. Idaho St., 208-577-6252, facebook.com/thestudioanelitesalonandspa.

2014 Treefort Music Fest. Noon.

FREE. 1008 Main St., 208-4335671.

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THE CRUX—Check out the work of three new Boise artists, plus a one-of-a-kind organic artist collaboration with bare canvas, wood panel and chalk space open to anyone. 5 p.m. FREE. 1022 W. Main St., 208-342-3213, facebook.com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

THE ALASKA CENTER—Art in the Alaska Center, featuring Allan R. Ansell’s photography show, Joseph Pacheco’s pen-and-ink drawings, and Chi E. Shenam Westin 2-D art, Zen Space West.

5 p.m. FREE. 1020 Main St. ART SOURCE GALLERY—Featuring new works by Zella Bardsley. 6 p.m. 1015 W. Main St., 208-3313374, artsourcegallery.com.

BOISE 150 SESQUI-SHOP— Check out a behind-the-scenes presentation of The Skyship Tour, a promotional web series for the

DINE, DRINK AND DRESS UP

Olive the tapas and paella at The Basque Market, don’t you?

Food, drink and lifestyle stores are a big part of First Thursday, too: The Basque Market (pictured) celebrates olives with olive tapas and a sale on olive-related goods. Plus, the Market’s signature paella is on at about 6 p.m. Guido’s Pizzeria has a dine-in “group plan” you’ll want to sign up for: a large one-topping pizza and one bottle of wine, two bottles of beer or four sodas for $20. Solid has free apps and a liquor tasting, Snake River Winery has wine Jell-O shots and a complimentary wine flight, and Berryhill leaps into spring with March Madness martini specials. Or you can think drink at Boise Public Library with a talk on the finer points of making, testing and tasting wine. And don’t forget to check out Artisan Optics’ annual Bevel Trunk Show; get 20 percent off everything at Les Filles; and see new local clothing company, Banana Ink, at PreFunk.

And for your home, Epitome Home and Garden, is celebrating 10 years downtown with a storewide sale and raffle; and stemware at the Mixing Bowl is on sale for $6 each.

DV8 SALON—Celebrate the addition of dv8 Body Spa. Introducing a new local and organic skin care line, Layfin, and take home a swag bag. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. 1025 W. Main St., 208-3421003, dv8salonboise.com.

BEN & JERRY’S SCOOP SHOP—Enjoy $1 scoops in cups or cones all day long. 5 p.m. $1.

103 N. 10th St., 208-342-1992, benjerry.com.

THE DISTRICT COFFEE HOUSE— Expand your coffee palate and knowledge, as the The District’s connoisseurs explain the different origins and the flavors and aromas that can be squeezed from the bean. 8 p.m. FREE. 219 N. 10th St., 208-343-1089, districtcoffeehouse.com.

FOOT DYNAMICS—Save 10 percent on Shoe Shed sale room footwear. 5 p.m. FREE. 1021 W. Main St., 208-386-3338.

PREFUNK BEER BAR AND GROWLER FILL STATION—Featuring local clothing company Banana Ink. 5 p.m. FREE. 1100 Front St., Boise, prefunkbar.com.

THE RECORD EXCHANGE— Meet Radio Boise DJs and help raise money for the station, with 20 percent of sales going to the nonprofit community radio station. 5 p.m. 1105 W. Idaho St., 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.

LISK GALLERY

I wanna hold your big, beautufil hand.

About three years ago, Lisk Gallery moved from its Main Street location to its current spot in BoDo. As that area has continued to grow and change, the gallery has, too, and now it’s time for another move. In May, Lisk Gallery is moving to a new—and bigger—location at 518 Americana Blvd. (next door to Inkvision Tattoo), another area of town experiencing growth.

The expanded space will allow for an evolution in how and what the gallery exhibits, and on First Thursday, visitors can get a glimpse of what the new Lisk will look like, with art

by Karen Bubb, Jerry Hendershot, Pat Kilby, Anne Peterson Klahr, Jerri Lisk, Mark Lisk, Swede Lisk, Erin Pietsch, Carl Rowe, Rachel Teannalach and Randy VanDyck, and jewelry by Melissa Osgood and Kay Seurat. Be sure to check out Jaime Gustavson’s strangely mesmerizing hand paintings, and Karen Klinefelter’s exotic tagua nut jewelry, which looks almost otherworldly, and her leather-and-sterling silver cuff bracelets or “wrist wraps.”

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE WEDNESDAY MARCH 5 CARMEL CROCK AND KEN HARRIS—6 p.m. FREE. Sofia’s DEVIANT KIN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow JIM LEWIS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill OLYGHOST AND CHOPPA CLIQUE LIVE—9:30 p.m. $5.

Liquid SAINT RICH— With Guantanamo Baywatch and Boom. 7 p.m. $5.

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JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe

LADY ANTEBELLUM, MARCH 12, TACO BELL ARENA If you know anything about contemporary country music, you’ve heard or heard of Lady Antebellum. The trio—Dave Haywood, Charles Kelley and Hillary Scott—is younger than a second-grader, but in its relatively short time, Lady Antebellum has received nearly every award and accolade afforded. In 2010 alone, the group took home five Grammy Awards: Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, Best Country Song and Best Country Album. That kind of recognition doesn’t come without hard work; the band extended its Take Me Downtown Tour, which started in 2013, for a total of 80 dates, including a stop in Boise. The bonus for country music fans is Lady Antebellum’s special guests Kip Moore and fellow Grammy-winner Kacey Musgraves, who won Best Country Album for 2013’s Same Trailer Different Park.

—Amy Atkins 7 p.m. $35-$70. Taco Bell Arena, 1401 Bronco Lane, 208426-1900, tacobellarena.com.

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BLISTERED EARTH METALLICA TRIBUTE BAND—8 p.m. $12$20. Knitting Factory DJ BITCOIN AND BUNNY KITTY—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux EMILY TIPTON TRIO—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

CARTER FREEMAN—7 p.m.

FREE. The District

FUNHOUSE—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

CASH’D OUT—With Innocent Man. 8:30 p.m. $11-$20. Knitting Factory

HANG ELEVEN—10 p.m. $5.

Reef JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SATURDAY MARCH 8

CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

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

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

LYDIA—With Saint Motel and Golden Sun. See Culture/Noise, Page 29. 7 p.m. $12. The Crux

RED ELVISES—7 p.m. $10-$12.

The Crux

POKE—7 p.m. $TBD. Sapphire Room

HANNAH GLAVOR AND THE FAMILY BAND—With Mitar and The Happily Ever After. 8 p.m. $5. Flying M Coffeegarage

REAL ESTATE— With Shilohs. 8 p.m. $15. Neurolux

JACK HALE—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

ROCK N ROLL SOUL PIANO SHOW—Featuring High Street Band members. 7 p.m. $25. $40 couples. AEN Playhouse

LINDA LEE MICHELET JAZZ QUARTET—8 p.m. $15. Sapphire Room

TORY LANEZ—9 p.m. $3-$7.

Revolution

THURSDAY MARCH 6

FRIDAY MARCH 7

AARON ENGLISH—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

AISLE OF VIEW—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

CLASSICAL REVOLUTION—7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop

ANDY CORTENS AND CODY RAMEY—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

THE FORGOTTEN—With Breakdown Boulevard. 9 p.m. $5. New Frontier TOM ANGLE—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

PEGBOARD NERDS—8 p.m. $10-$25. Revolution PILOT ERROR—10 p.m. $5.

Reef RHYTHM RANGERS—9 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s RYAN WISSINGER—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE GUIDE SPUDMAN—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

XDS, MATTRESS—7 p.m. $5.

The Crux

TAUGE AND FAULKNER—9:15 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

MONDAY MARCH 10

SUNDAY MARCH 9

BOISE MODERN JAZZ ORCHESTRA— 7 p.m. FREE. Sapphire Room CHUCK SMITH AND NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

JOSHUA POWELL AND THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE, Chandlers

LADY ANTEBELLUM—With Kip Moore and Kacey Musgraves.

See Listen Here, Page 26. 7 p.m. $35-$70. Taco Bell Arena

OPHELIA—8 p.m. FREE, Sockeye ROSE GOLD—With Lovelace. 7 p.m. FREE. The Crux TERRY JONES AND DAN COSTELLO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers TRAVIS WARD—5:30 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s

MICHAEL JOHNSON—7:30 p.m. $25. Sapphire Room OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s RESTLESS SOULS—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE—7 p.m. FREE. The Crux

LESLIE AND THE LY’S, MARCH 9, REEF

TUESDAY MARCH 11

FRED CRABTREE—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

MARCUS EATON—7 p.m. $13$18. Sapphire Room

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

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek

Tight pants. Body rolls. Gem sweaters. Ames, Iowa. What do those things have in common? Comedic musician Leslie Hall wears them all proudly. Hall was popular before videos were really a thing, and many conversations that have started with, “Have you seen that ‘Gold Pants’ video?” have been followed with, “Do you think she’s for real?” She absolutely is, in the same way that any performance artist with a point of view and a wicked sense of humor is for real.

On stage, Hall looks like she has her calendar permanently set to 1981, wearing bouffant hairdos, eyeglass styles that are decades past, shiny Spandex, neon-bright makeup and sweaters—covered in appliques and rhinestones—that she names and jumpsuits that she doesn’t. Hall’s deadpan hip-hop music is surreal, salacious and seriously funny, and here’s hoping this first visit to Boise isn’t her last.

—Amy Atkins

THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—6 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

DEAD MEADOW—With Hi Hazel and Bliss. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

V E N U E S

With Dean and the Delilahs, 18 and older only, 8 p.m., $10.

Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

LYLE EVANS AND BRAD AGGEN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow Electric Six ELECTRIC SIX—With Yip, Deceiver and CC/NN. 7 p.m. $12.

Neurolux

PAT THE BUNNY AND SOLE— With Josh Powell and The Great Train Robbery. 9 p.m. FREE, The Crux

JIM LEWIS—10:30 a.m. FREE. Bella Aquila; 6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s LESLIE AND THE LY’S—With Dean and the Delilahs and Boone County Comedy Troupe.

See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $10. Reef

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WEDNESDAY MARCH 12 BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF WINTER SESSION GIG—4-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation.

Linen Building

GALEN LOUIS—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato

The Wailers THE WAILERS—With British Dependence. 8 p.m. $20-$40.

Knitting Factory

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NEWS/ARTS ARTS/CULTURE HAR R IS ON B ER RY

Knock ‘Em Dead is looking for new digs.

MOVIN’ AND SCHOOLIN’ Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre will stage no more performances at the Parkcenter Mall. The local theater group announced on its Facebook page Feb. 27 that it had unexpectedly been given 30-days notice to move out of its space at 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., and was unable to negotiate a lease agreement beyond March 31.

“We will no longer be performing at the Parkcenter Mall, so our last two shows of the season are on hold until we find a performance venue,” KED stated on its website.

Shows on hold include Avenue Q, a Tonywinning contemporary musical about a group of unique 20-somethings making their way in New York; and a stage adaptation of the Jane Austen classic Sense and Sensibility. Avenue Q had been scheduled for March 21-April 19, while Sense and Sensibility had been slated for May 16-June 15.

KED has asked cast members and supporters to lend a hand starting with moving Wednesday, March 5, at 7 p.m., when shoes, props and hats will be boxed up. Saturday, March 8, will include packing up costumes and the prop room, and taking them to a storage unit, followed by another moving day Saturday, March 15.

“With lots of hands, it should make the work easy. Please consider helping us!! After 29 years we must once again live out of storage while we work on performance venues!!”

KED posted on its Facebook page March 1.

Go to kedproductions.org for more info.

In other stage news, serious improv performers—or those who feel like it’s time to get serious—have a golden opportunity to hone and/or build those skills. iO Chicago, the internationally famous improv school and theater located a mere block from Wrigley Field, is coming to Boise for a weeklong, intensive course in long-form improvisation.

Running from noon-6:30 p.m. March 24-29 and led by iO Artistic Director Charna Halpern—author of the “improv bible” Truth in Comedy (which Bill Murray called “The most important group work since they built the pyramids”)—the class will introduce attendees to the principles of long-form improvisation, which include intense collaboration.

Halpern, who co-founded iO with the late improv pioneer Del Close, has trained more than 5,000 performers since the school opened its doors in 1981. Among the distinguished alumni of iO: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Seth Meyers, Stephen Colbert, Chris Farley, Jason Sudeikis and Mike Myers.

The class, which costs $335, is presented

by Meridian-based Brand! New Productions, formerly Improvolution. Location still to be determined.

For more info, call 208-899-1862 or email info@boiselaughs.com.

—Zach Hagadone

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“‘Till I Break The Skin,” Sue Latta

“Untitled,” Michael Cordell

“Alcoholic Desolation,” Sue Latta

BEYOND WALL ART Metal works stress medium’s possibilities at Enso exhibition HARRISON BERRY From the street, Boise artist-blacksmith Michael Cordell’s house—hidden behind a dense row of imposingly tall, bushy trees—is practically invisible. Cordell has an obsession with fences and barriers: He said though it would take him years, he’d like to create a fence from hundreds of the one- to one-and-a-quarter-inch Schedule 40 steel pipes he was twisting into knotty stocks under an open propane forge into an untitled art piece.

“Untitled”—a grove of these melty stocks affixed to a black metal stand—is one of Cordell’s metallic explorations and is part of Enso Artspace’s upcoming exhibition, Metal, opening Friday, March 7. The group of unaffiliated metal artists with works in the exhibit include Cordell, Sue Latta, Dennis Proska and Susan Madasci.

And as much as it’s a display of the distinctive artistic voices, it’s also a statement about the processes and possibilities of metal artworks.

In Cordell’s workshop behind his Benchneighborhood home, he discussed the breadth of Metal’s contributing artists in terms of his impression of Boise’s market for fine art. It’s a market, he said, that’s driven by the comparative preciousness of floor space to wall space. Paintings are light and can be hung with ease; sculpture and metalworks are heavy, three-dimensional and compete with furniture for square-footage.

“The art consumer here is more likely to live in a suburban home and put something on the wall,” he said.

That may explain why many of the works that will be exhibited in Metal are, in contrast to assumptions about the medium,

“Every piece was a problem to solve, and wall-friendly. Cordell’s “Untitled” could until I got to the red velvet, this problem stand neatly near a wall without cramping was not solved,” she said. interior design plans, as could Sue Latta’s Metalworking is an ancient craft—the “‘Till I Break the Skin,” a chemically oldest copper tools are more than 10,000 treated steel frame with ragged interior years old. But despite advances in materiedges holding a photograph of a defaced als and our knowledge of how to work Marilyn Monroe poster. Latta’s works them, metal can still surprise. While Latta’s eschew abstraction, and “‘Till I Break the works stress message and beg interpretaSkin” is a clear statement about Monroe as a cultural icon and how the public gaze has tion, Cordell’s “pursue unintended form.”

“Sketch,” a series of hammered and chemitransformed her. cally treated copper rings mounted on a “All these ideas are added on to her rack, capitalizes on Cordell’s search for the now,” Latta said. “I appreciate her. I feel random, the unexpected. somehow protective.”

“That’s why I’m calling it ‘Sketch.’ It’s a “Treasure,” another of Latta’s works series of trials,” he said. that will be part of Metal, is similarly The piece has the unfinished quality of scarred and sheltering. Its menstrual-red lining is encased in a pastiche of found-steel the most ancient examples of hammered copper. It recalls history but more specifipanels haphazardly welded into a Frankencally, it recalls metalworking as an emergbox, beneath which dangles a similarly ing craft driven by gold and copper, tin, velvet-lined keybox from a metal stand. lead, mercury and iron. The The piece’s vulva-centric weathered, haphazard apimagery is no accident.

METAL pearance of the copper rings, Latta described her Opens Friday, March 7, 5-8 which strongly resemble artworks as “writing their p.m., FREE. bracelets, evokes early own stories”—half-dreams Enso Artspace, 120 E. 28th St., craftsmen’s delight in their that resolve into realities Suite 105, Garden City, medium. through the process of cre208-991-0117, Latta and Cordell work ation. In the case of “Treaensoartspace.com in a tangible and durable sure,” the piece’s velvet medium. And they work with lining was a missing link fire and tools—the playthings of adults. between her vision and the final product.

“Always with the tools,” Latta said.

Then, at a house party, a friend walked For artist-blacksmiths, creation is into Latta’s workshop, saw “Treasure” and pleasure, and finished products have, said suggested lining its interior space with the Cordell, “tactile sensuousness.” The works velvet. Latta described herself as normally demand to be touched. apathetic to suggestions from audiences of “I’m going to put a sign by this: Please her works, but she knew a good idea when Pet the Sculpture,” he said. she heard it.

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NOISE/NEWS CULTURE/NOISE DIR K M AI

Marcus Eaton can’t get that David Crosby song out of his head.

BOISE BOYS TO MEN, BOYS OF SUMMER

Lydia shines a new light on an old favorite.

THIS IS TWICE, NOW Lydia revisits fan-favorite album BEN SCHULTZ In an interview in 2012, Australia-based music Antelman said that multiple fan requests prompted the band to dust off the Illuminate blog cooltry.net asked Lydia frontman Leighmaterial. ton Antelman, “If you could have a dream “We had a kind of break in our schedule, tour with three other bands/musicians who and we just really wanted to do it because would they be?” we’ve just had so many requests over the “John Lennon, Eminem, Otis Redding,” years,” he explained. “So it’s not that we’re Antelman responded.

When Boise Weekly asked Antleman about trying to revisit the past or anything like that; we just love to see the fans smile.” this dream-team, he chuckled.

Antelman, 28, has been seeing those smiles “I said that? That is a good list. I don’t remember saying that, but I’ll concur,” he said. since he was a teenager. The original lineup of Lydia formed in 2003 and won a songwritAs unlikely as Antelman’s trio may be, it ing contest held by Atticus—a clothing label would suit his band: Lydia’s music combines started in part by Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus sunny melodies and sweet, boyish vocals with conflicted, occasionally acerbic lyrics. The Gil- and Tom DeLonge—in 2004. Lydia’s swoonbert, Ariz.-based ambient pop band is currently ing, melodious sound set them apart from much of Gilbert’s music scene at the time. touring the U.S. with L.A.-based Saint Motel, “I don’t know if it’s still going on, but it and Salt Lake City’s Golden Sun, and will was very saturated with heavy, hardcore-type stop in Boise Friday, March 7, as part of The music,” Antelman said. “When you played a Illuminate North American Tour—so named show when we were starting out, people didn’t because Lydia is playing its sophomore album expect what [we] were going to play. They Illuminate (Motown, 2008) in its entirety. expected a heavy guitar Reviving a 6-year-old part or somebody screamalbum is a peculiar move, LYDIA: THE ILLUMINATE NORTH ing, and when [we] didn’t especially since Lydia’s AMERICAN TOUR play that, people were kind subsequent albums have With Saint Motel and Golden Sun, of surprised,” Antelman been well-received. After Friday, March 7, 7 p.m., $12 adv., recalled. breaking up briefly in $14 door.

Lydia built on its early 2010, Lydia re-formed The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., success quickly, releasing and self-released Paint It facebook.com/thecruxcoffeeshop debut album This DecemGolden in 2011 and Devil ber; It’s One More and I’m in 2013. While Alternative Free (HourZero Records) in 2005 and joining Press called Paint It Golden “a solid addition the Warped Tour in 2006. With the release of to [Lydia’s] catalog,” New Noise Magazine dubbed Devil “a winner, just [like] every other Illuminate two years later, Lydia firmly secured its fanbase.

Lydia release.”

The idea of playing Illuminate on tour Fans have continued to support Lydia as again may have been forming in Antelman’s well. The 100-plus people who attended the band’s concert at The Venue last April cheered mind for a while. In 2011, he told blog propertyofzack.com, “I think if you ask most Lydia as loudly for new songs as for old ones. But BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

fans, they’re going to say Illuminate is their favorite record. I don’t know why, but for some reason that record has a cult following.”

Indeed, the following for Illuminate is fierce. So much so that some fans have asked how Antelman—the only remaining member of that album’s lineup—can play Illuminate songs without the original band, particularly former vocalist Mindy White, who sang lead on the album’s closing track, “Now the One You Once Loved is Leaving.”

“I can understand where people are coming from by asking that,” Antelman said. “I’m not mad about it or anything. … The band’s just at a different point in [its] progress or whatever.”

He also mentioned that he and White, who now fronts the band States, remain friends.

As for Lydia’s current lineup, which includes Matt Keller and Justin Camacho and support from tourmates Golden Sun, Antelman welcomes the freshness that different musicians bring to his band’s songs.

“A lot of people want to have this certain image of the band, and that’s fine. But I feel like it would be so boring if it just stayed the exact same. Every band evolves and changes and goes through different stuff,” he said.

Antelman plans to continue that evolution.

He said the band has completed four or five new songs and hopes to spend a few months writing more material after this tour. He’s also putting finishing touches on a new album for his electro-pop side project, The Cinema.

When asked what his personal favorite achievement is, Antelman admitted that he didn’t really have one.

“Every record, I really try to make sure it’s perfect before I put it out. So I would say all the records are kind of my proudest moment,” he said.

John Nemeth spent his formative years in the City of Trees, honing his musical talents before striking out and hitting the big time. Nemeth, a tow-headed, babyfaced teen when we first heard him slay on the harmonica, is now a well-respected, internationally adored blues man. Nemeth, who now lives in Memphis, Tenn., returns to Boise from time to time to share whatever new style he has added to his constantly evolving sound, and Saturday, March 29, at 8 p.m., Nemeth brings it on back to the Egyptian Theatre. Not one to come empty handed, he’s bringing with him a new album, Memphis Grease (Blue Corn Music; March 25, 2014) and what Nemeth rightly calls “a slew of Memphis heavies,” including Percy Wiggins and the Bo-Keys, with whom he recorded Memphis Grease. The album features 11 originals, covers of Otis Rush’s “Stop” and Roy Orbison’s “Crying,” and is a smokin’ hot release. Don’t get burned: get tickets while you still can. Tickets are $25-$32.50. Visti egyptiantheatre. net for more info and a ticket link.

Marcus Eaton is another musician making it big outside of Boise. His appearance on David Crosby’s new album, Croz (Blue Castle Music, January 2014), turned into a recent appearance with Crosby on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Eaton, a talented singer-songwriter, comes from a family of talented folks and his Sunday, March 9, concert at the Sapphire Room is presented

by Idaho Songwriters Association, of which his father, Steve Eaton, is a hard-working member. Tickets are $13-$18 and available at ticketbud.com.

In other tour news, taking an old album for a new ride is a popular move—see our interview with Lydia frontman Leighton Antelman on this page—because it can provide fans a joyfully nostalgic experience.

Pop-punk ’90s band The Ataris has loaded seminal 2003 release So Long, Astoria (Sony) back on the bus, along with the original album lineup of John Collura, Mike Davenport, Chris Knapp and Kristopher Roe, and headed out on a reunion tour. For this one tour only, the band is performing So Long, Astoria in its entirety at every stop. And yes, that includes radio hits “In This Diary,” “The Saddest Song” and, of course, The Ataris’ cover of the Don Henley hit, “Boys of Summer.” See The Ataris, with support from Authority Zero, Drag the River and Versus the World Thursday, March 15, at the Knitting Factory at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $18-35. Visit bo.knittingfactory.com for more info.

—Amy Atkins

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A BIGGER “CORRAL” Building a better waterpark, one wave at a time.

Student cheering section at Boise State grows

BY JESSICA MURRI

BOISE PREPARES FOR NEXT WAVE OF IMPROVEMENTS TO WHITEWATER PARK The second phase of Boise’s whitewater park includes three more waves, terrace seating and a connection from Veteran’s Pond all the way to Quinn’s Pond for paddlers.

During a Feb. 26 meeting, city of Boise Engineer John Tensen presented plans to overhaul the river’s banks with native vegetation and natural cobble-sand beaches.

More than 100 people—a mix of boaters sans lifejackets and helmets, hardcore Greenbelt commuters, graying folks and nature enthusiasts—attended the meeting.

The presentation team included McMillen, a local environmental engineering firm; S2o Design, a Colorado-based whitewater park design firm, famous for designing the London Summer Olympics kayak course; and DHM Design, a river restoration landscaping team.

The first wave in the new series will be wide, letting boaters surf next to each other.

Designers envision the second wave to be a rodeo wave, perfect for national competitions. The last feature will be a gentler wave for beginner and intermediate boaters.

Designers are even planning to put in a wheelchair-accessible boat dock.

The plan includes a three-quarter-mile loop of paddling that will be made available when the ponds are connected, so instead of boaters having to lug their boats along the bank, they’ll be able to paddle straight to the top of the features. The city would then reroute the Greenbelt to run on the opposite side of Veteran’s Pond from where it is now, to keep commuter traffic flowing.

The city already paid for the planning phase of the whitewater park expansion, costing around $250,000, but the rest of the multimillion-dollar project will be funded through private donations, with fundraising done by Friends of the Park. Depending on funds, the earliest Boiseans could see the park complete will be summer 2017.

The meeting turned tense when the floor opened up for questions. Folks from the boating community asked over and over about parking, fearing there wouldn’t be enough for large competitions. Now, the design team will take those and other comments back to the drawing board and hold another meeting in the spring, addressing the public’s concerns.

At that next meeting, they plan to release a cost estimate.

—Jessica Murri

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Floating through the student section at the Boise State vs. University of Nevada, Las Vegas basketball game Feb. 22, was a colorful and bizarre collection of “fat heads.” These three-foot-high cut-outs included many basketball players’ faces, Boise State basketball head coach Leon Rice, and celebrities like Zach Galifianakis and Eli Manning. Students also held up giant spinning hypnosis wheels to No, that’s not Jason Voorhies trying to blend in. It’s Boise State sophomore Cameron Hutchinson distract the other team during free throws. cheering on the men’s basketball team.

Sitting one row up from the basketball court, sophomore Cameron Hutchinson wore attendance record.’ To feel like you left someAustralian players took control of the game. a hockey mask painted with orange and blue thing behind [when you graduate] means a lot He fell quiet only when the ball came within stripes. He had slapped a Broncos sticker to students.” feet of the hoop. across the forehead of the mask and wore a Roberts’ big goal for the game on Feb. 22 Hutchinson is the athletic marketing declumpy, furry blue-and-orange wig underneath, was to fill the entire Corral section with #Propartment’s favorite kind of student. synthetic hair sticking out in every direction. ject3K (a hashtag used in Boise State’s social Lindsay Roberts, a marketing graduate For Christmas, Hutchinson’s family had assistant, has devoted the past six years trying media), or 3,000 students. She helped organize given him a giant, 3-D, expensive-looking to get students like Hutchinson out to the bas- a mid-game flash mob to Bon Jovi’s “Livin’ Bronco-themed foam finger—he adds to his ketball games. Even in heels and a headset, she on a Prayer” and set up a TV in the arena Boise State basketball fan attire every season. lobby to teach students the moves, though the To respond to a text message, Hutchinson ran as hard as the basketball players during choreography wasn’t complex: participants the game on Saturday night, organizing proheld his phone two inches from one of the waved their arms around and brought their motions and entertainment between periods. eyeholes, but not because the mask was in hands together on the word “prayer.” Roberts She remembers when fewer than 400 stuthe way. missed her goal by half, but said she enjoyed “Something most people don’t know about dents would come to basketball games. the flash mob.

“It was like, nothing,” she said. “Then we me is that I’m visually impaired,” Hutchinson UNLV’s small crowd of traveling fans said. “I can’t see half the game and I still show had our first flash mob and got like, 1,500 couldn’t make a dent in the decibels coming students to show up. It was so cool to see our up.” He has only missed one game so far this from the Corral. Boise State basketball player efforts pay off.” semester and although it was for a “family Jeff Elorriaga said the student section has an Since then, the student section has grown matter,” Hutchinson was disappointed he effect on him. to a riot of blue and orange. Roberts said the couldn’t make it to the game.

“The more fans we have, the better we basketball team has improved, helping students This level of fandom is new: In the 2009play,” Elorriaga said. realize Boise State isn’t only a football school.

2010 basketball season, only 350 students on Elorriaga has played basketball at Boise But she and the university have put some seaverage went to Boise State basketball games. rious effort into getting students into the arena. State for four years and has seen the student On Feb. 22, 2014, the number of students section change. He said when the Broncos play For this game alone, Roberts spent 20 hours in the cheering section was quadruple that. away games against teams with outrageous They filled the “Corral”—Boise State’s official getting the word out through email blasts, student sections, the distractions work. social media, fliers, sidewalk chalk, posters all student section—sporting beards made of “You have to be really dialed in to the blue and orange yarn, Mardi Gras beads, blue over campus, videos and classroom visits from Buster Bronco, the giant, brown, fuzzy, basket- game to know what’s going on and stay sunglasses, orange cowboy hats and Bronco focused,” he said. ball uniform-wearing school mascot. sweatbands.

Head coach Leon Rice feeds off of the And it probably hasn’t hurt attendance “I wanted to stand out in the crowd,” energy from the student section, too. When that Boise State now offers Hutchinson said. “The he started coaching at Boise State four years incentives for students who players know all their wild ago, “you could have heard crickets in there,” go to games: water bottles fans and they get motivated The Boise State men’s basketball team has two more games in its he said. and Bronco decals, as well to play better, so I want to regular season: Wednesday, March Now the student section is giving his team as being eligible to win iPad be that motivation.”

5, against Nevada at home, and a better home-court advantage, Rice said. It’s Minis, a 50-inch TV, even Every time his team Saturday, March 8, against Air a cycle: The better the team plays, the more a car. had the ball, Hutchinson Force at USAFA, Colo. Visit broncosports.com for more info. fans come to support. The more fans that “We want to create cheered and chanted with come support, the better the team plays and excitement for Boise State,” the rest of the student secthe crazier the student sections gets.

Roberts said. “The biggest tion, and every time UNLV At the Feb. 22 game, guys from Elorriaga’s problem that we have is there isn’t a lot of had it, he booed. For every one of Boise fraternity waved around his “fat head,” with tradition here. So we’re trying to get people State’s free throws, all of the students held its one eyebrow raised as if to say to the other excited about being in college and being contheir hands out in front of them, like a giant team, “That’s the best you got?” nected to something, so when they leave, they congregation laying hands on one body.

If UNLV had an answer, it couldn’t be heard Hutchinson chanted, “Aussie, Aussie, Aus- can be like, ‘Wow, I was part of something so over the roar coming from the Corral. cool. I did a flash mob,’ or, ‘I broke a student sie, Oy, Oy, Oy!” when one of Boise State’s B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

PLAY/REC K EELY M ILLS

He’s throwin’ rocks tonight.

GAME OFF Boise State considers closing Game Center KEELY MILLS The number of games bowled has dropped 50 percent from 2011, and Fiscal Year 2014 is projected to see a $30,000 loss in revenue.

These figures have prompted the discussion of repurposing the Game Center, located in Boise State University’s Student Union Building.

Brent Delong, director of the Student Union, explained the Game Center is going to continue to lose revenue for the SUB and something needs to be done about it.

“In short, we’re kind of at a point with the Game Center where we need to make the decision to subsidize the space,” Delong said.

“The other option is to look at repurposing the space.”

The goal is not to entirely rid the SUB of the Game Center, but rather to reintegrate some aspects of the center in different areas of the SUB. Travis Browndyke, a freshman marketing major, and his roommate Kailyn Duncan, a freshman construction management major, both live on campus. They would not have any other place nearby to play pool—as neither of them are 21 yet and can’t get into bars.

“I shoot pool every day,” Browndyke said.

Neither Browndyke nor Duncan felt that the center gained much revenue for the SUB. Still, “I’d be bummed if the Game Center were to be repurposed,” Browndyke said.

The center was added in 1967, when the SUB was originally designed.

“When buildings were built in the ’60s and ’70s, they were built with thin space,” Delong said. “Spaces built with very specific purposes.”

This means each space is very clearly defined and in a linear format. The difficulty is it doesn’t leave room for the spaces to overlap, which isn’t very efficient.

Factors such as street parking availability (or lack thereof) and the rise of personal gaming devices have contributed to the decline in usage. Also, in 2012, the kinesiology department stopped offering bowling as a class.

Billiards was also going to disappear as a class, but a donor stepped in and paid for a private instructor for the classes to continue.

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“A national trend, a lot of game center spaces are coming out; they’re expensive to maintain,” Delong said. “They take up a lot of space.”

If the area were to be repurposed, the main idea currently is to put the Admissions Office in the Game Center’s current location. Finding the Admissions Office in the center of campus can be tedious and tiresome for prospective students and their families who are unfamiliar with campus.

“It’s great that prospective students and parents are having to come all the way through the building [the SUB], but it’s also bad that they are having to go all the way through the building,” Delong said. “They don’t find it [Admissions] efficiently and often it’s a frustrating thing.”

With the area comprising about 13,000 square feet, a reconstruction project would take approximately six to nine months.

“The whole project would probably take 18 months from start design to finish,” Delong said.

If reconstruction happened, the Bookstore would not be affected, but the Bronco Express mail area might be moved. The goal is to create integrative recreation.

“It’s not eliminating recreation, it’s just rethinking how we deliver recreation,” Delong said.

The bowling alley will probably not be reintegrated, as it is cumbersomely large and the most expensive to maintain.

Job positions would be eliminated, but no one would lose their current jobs, Delong assured. Game Center employees will be reintegrated into other places in the SUB. Amy McGrath, a senior criminal justice major, doesn’t use the Game Center now, but still feels a sentimental value for it.

“I don’t think they should get rid of it because I remember as a kid it was fun to go there and visit there,” McGrath said.

A version of this article first appeared in the Feb. 24 edition of the Boise State University Arbiter.

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BEERGUZZLER/DRINK MAKE MY PA AN IPA

Crooked Fence Hop Notion IPA, $4.49-$5.99, 22 ounce This brew pours a cloudy straw color and sports a single-finger head that collapses quickly but leaves a nice lacing. On the nose, it’s a mix of smooth hops, fresh-mowed grass, saltine crackers and green tea. Beautifully balanced, this beer has citrus, tropical fruit and light malt, backed by bright hops that carry through to the crisp finish. The local boys made good with this easy-drinking IPA at a great price.

Stochasticity Project Grapefruit Slam IPA, $6.99-$8.99, 22 ounce A thick, egg-white head with good retention tops this crystal clear, bright amber brew. The aromas are on the exotic side, with candied ginger, clove, Orange Creamsicle, dried fig and caramel malt. Hops make more of an appearance on the palate, where they blend nicely with the smooth malt and graham cracker flavors.

The fruit component combines citrus and peach with grapefruit zest on the finish.

Widmer Upheaval IPA, $1.39-$1.79, 12 ounce In the glass, this beer is a tangerine-tinged, hazy golden pour with a very thin, porous head.

Lightly herbaceous, resiny hops dominate the nose, gradually letting through hints of citrus, mango and melon.

Bitter hops are first out of the gate on the palate, as well, colored by pine and citrus, and backed by just the right hit of creamy malt. This brew finishes dry and refreshingly bitter.

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FOOD/WINE PATR IC K S W EENEY

The American version of this stalwart ale bears little resemblance to the English original. Originally, India Pale Ales had an extra dose of hops added to act as a preservative during the keg’s long voyage from the British Isles to the Jewel in the Crown. The bite contributed by the hops was an added bonus.

But we Americans like to amp things up, especially in the Northwest. Here are three very different IPAs, one from a new project backed

by Escondido, Calif.’s Stone Brewing:

GARDEN CITY’S NEW WINE DISTRICT Five urban wineries are now clustered around 44th Street TARA MORGAN Drivers barreling down Chinden Boulevard In the Split Rail Winery tasting room, Jed Glavin keeps warm inside and out. might have spotted a sign advertising another kind of barrel: the District 44 Wineries and Tasting Room. The sign went up last week, “The new space is just a big, huge industrial town and they always carry wine.” after Split Rail Winery and Syringa Winery The 44th Street Wineries’ warehouse has warehouse so our tasting room is in the same relocated their tasting rooms from 3500 cultivated a similar hang-out vibe, with giant Chinden Blvd. to 4338 Chinden Blvd. The two location that our production area is, so it’s all doors that roll up in the summer and a smatwineries are now a stone’s throw from the 44th open,” he said. “You walk in and you see all tering of high-top tables. According to Cinder Street Wineries complex, which houses Cinder the barrels so it feels more like an urban-style Winemaker Melanie Krause, having more winery.”

Wines, Telaya Wine Co. and Coiled Wines. wineries in the neighborhood will increase visGlavin wanted to create a laid-back ambiGarden City, which is already the Treasure ibility for everyone. ance that encourages patrons to linger over Valley’s brewery belt, now has its own bur“We’re very excited to have Split Rail and a glass (or growler) of wine. At the end of geoning wine district.

Syringa moving in next door and we think that March, Split Rail will introduce a few kegged “Our whole vision was for it to be kind of the clustering of wineries together in Garden wines—including an off-dry like a wine district. … Let’s style Riesling, a cabernet and pe- City makes it possible for our customers to make it easy for people who SPLIT RAIL WINERY tit verdot blend, and a syrah and experience the great representation of Idaho want to go wine tasting to just 4338 Chinden Blvd., wines within a short drive of most of the popublue franc (aka blaufrankisch) park in one spot and they can Garden City, lous,” she said. blend—under the label Strange all walk around and hit up five 208-490-0681, Glavin hopes that collaborative events beFolk. Growler fills will range different wineries,” said Split splitrailwines.com tween the wineries will invigorate the area. from $10-$12.

Rail’s Jed Glavin.

“Everybody organizes events in Boise, but “We really want people to Located inside an old auto just come hang out, have a glass of wine,” said all these guys are brewing beer and making body warehouse, Split Rail’s tasting room has wine and stuff in Garden City,” said Glavin.

Glavin. “I built a big kegerator so we’re going a funky, industrial vibe with a bright teal door “We just need more cool events that represent and “a little bit of cowhide to give it that Idaho to put local beer on tap, which you never see in wineries—I’ve been to a million breweries in the culture that’s going on down there.” feel,” Glavin said.

FOOD/NEWS CANDY BEERS, KILTED PIZZAS AND DOUGH CLOSURES The Payette Brewing crew traded the City of Trees for the City of Roses last week to officially launch Payette beers into the Portland, Ore., market.

“A bunch of us came over for a bunch of events,” said Director of Marketing and Events Sheila Francis. “So we’re now distributed throughout the entire state of Oregon—drafts and cans, which is pretty exciting.”

Francis added that Payette is now distributed all over Utah, as well.

Asked if the brewery plans to expand any further, Francis answered with a definitive “yes.”

“We’re currently evaluating what our brewing capacity is because we don’t want to enter a market and not have the brewing capabilities to support it, so it’s a slow and calculated growth. But we’re definitely eyeing our next project. It’ll be in the Northwest area,” she said.

Payette has another exciting development a bit closer to home. In mid-February, Payette linked up with New Belgium brewer Jamie Mastin to concoct a collaborative beer for Treefort Music Fest. “[Mastin] had this wild idea, because we wanted to do something a little off the wall because Treefort’s pretty fun, he was like, ‘So, what if we do something with Crunch Berries and Squirt and make it really fun?’” said Francis.

The end result is a tart, low-alcohol radler made with Cap’n Crunch Berries in the mash and blended with Squirt extract. The collaborative brew

will be available at the Treefort Mainstage, a number of official festival venues and in Alefort, with a few one-off special additions. (Nerds, perhaps?)

“Our brewers are giddy with excitement to get it out there,” said Francis.

In other brewery news, Kilted Dragon Brewing moved its taproom from 9115 W. Chinden Blvd. to 5865 N. Glenwood St. in order to combine forces with New York-style pizza and sandwich shop New York Richie’s.

“We know you love our beer and just wait until you try a pint with a huge and deadly delicious New York-style sandwich or slice of pie at our new location,” Kilted Dragon wrote on Facebook.

The Kilted Dragon Tap House will now be open seven days a week. For more info, visit kilteddragon.com.

In closing news, Feb. 23 was a rough day for Boise bakeries. Not only did Le Cafe de Paris officially shut its doors, but Ketchum bakery Rolling in Dough also quietly closed down its Boise outpost in the former La Vie en Rose space in the Idanha Building.

In other Ketchum food news, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts is hosting Mark Bittman, New York Times columnist and author of How to Cook Everything, Thursday, March 6, at 6:30 p.m. at the Church of the Big Wood. Tickets are $25 for members and $35 for nonmembers. For more info, visit sunvalleycenter.org.

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THE BIG SCREEN/SCREEN S TAN HONDA

FILM DOCUMENTS ANITA HILL’S REAL-LIFE DRAMA ‘It’s up to you to believe her or not to believe her’ MARCIA FRANKLIN The voice on the phone message was cheerful, but direct: “I would love you to consider an apology sometime, and some full explanaThe trials and triumphs of Anita Hill are chronicled in the new documentary Anita, to be showcased Saturday, tion of why you did what you did with my March 8 at the Family of Woman Film Festival at the Sun Valley Opera House. husband.”

After a few more sentences, the caller lieve her,” Mock said. “That’s not the purpose services and reduce maternal mortality. signed off amiably: “Have a good day.”

Goldwyn calls herself a “reformed sitcom of the film. For me, it was just an opportunity It was the voice of Ginni Thomas, wife writer” and is the ex-wife of Samuel Goldto tell her story that I think was lost in the of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence wyn, Jr., son of the famous movie mogul.

Thomas, and the message was for Anita Hill, sensationalism of the hearings.”

For 20 years, she was a vice president of We learn, for instance, that Hill is the a professor at Brandeis University.

Samuel Goldwyn Films and as such, she’s youngest of 13 children whose parents left Hill received the message 19 years after her 1991 bombshell testimony at Thomas’ Capitol behind the Jim Crow laws of the South to raise able to use her connections in the industry to secure some of the films for the festival: their brood on a farm in Oklahoma; that Hill Hill confirmation hearing, during which Hill alleged that Thomas had sexually harassed her has a wry sense of humor; and that her life was Anita, for instance, is being distributed by Goldwyn Films. But others she finds on her threatened many times after the hearing. when he was her boss. own, including this year’s Buddha Collapsed The documentary also considers the The message is the first thing heard in Out of Shame, a feature by a young Iranian changes that have occurred in U.S. workAnita, the latest documentary by Academy filmmaker, Hana Makhmalbaf. places since Hill’s testimony and the people Award-winning filmmaker Freida Lee Mock “I had seen it when it first came out in (Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, Best Feature she inspired to speak up about sexual harassFrench with subtitles and it just bowled me ment, many of whom wrote to her. Their Documentary, 1996). Anita—Mock’s look over and it haunted me,” said Goldwyn. back at the controversial hearing and what has letters are among the estimated 25,000 she “So… I tracked it down. I like to bring films happened to Hill since—is one of five films fea- has received and saved. that may never been seen.”

“It’s really a story of gender equality and tured at the seventh annual Family of Woman Other films include Rafea: Solar Mama empowerment of girls and women,” Mock Film Festival in Sun Valley.

by Mona Eldaief and Oscar-nominated told BW. “And I think men have benefited The Saturday, March 8, screening of director Jehane Noujaim, Tall as the Baobab Anita is a chance for festival-goers to see the just as much as women have from that testiTree by Jeremy Teicher, and Annie Eastdocumentary before it opens commercially in mony 20 years ago.”

For festival co-chair Peggy Elliott Goldwyn, man’s Bay of All Saints.

New York City Friday, March 21. It’s also an This year, the festival requested funding opportunity to hear from Mock, whose fam- Anita also mirrors this year’s theme: women from the Sun Valley City Council for advertisand education. ily has been visiting “It addresses educa- ing but was turned down after several council Sun Valley for more FAMILY OF WOMAN FILM FESTIVAL members said they viewed the festival as a tion in many different than 25 years.

March 6-10, single screening $15, all films partisan political event. It was a surprising ways, starting with “We’re very excited $60. Film screenings are at Sun Valley characterization for Goldwyn, a full-time the fact that when about finally bringing Opera House, 1 Sun Valley Road; talks are Anita Hill went to that resident of the community. this to the public at at the Community Library, 415 Spruce Ave., Ketchum. Tickets available at Chapter One “This was a very political attack that hearing just feeling she large,” she told Boise Bookstore, 340 E. Second St., Ketchum, came out of left field that was shocking to was doing the right Weekly. “It’s a pretty 208-726-5425. Visit familyofwomanfilmfestime,” she said. “There is nothing political thing, oh boy, did she amazing story, sort of val.org for complete schedule. about educating women and girls. There is get an education,” a David and Goliath nothing political about trying to lower materGoldwyn told BW. story in one sense.” nal mortality. There is nothing political about “And because of what happened to her, the The subtitle of the 77-minute Anita is rest of America got an education about what any of the things UNFPA does.”

“Speaking Truth to Power,” also the title of Festival-goers will also hear from Anita Hill’s autobiography. The film includes women faced in the workplace every day.”

Meagan Carnahan Fallone of the Barefoot Goldwyn, board member emeritus of ample television clips from the now-infamous College in India, Anzaira Roxas, a nursethe Friends of the United Nations Populagrilling that Hill received from an all-white, midwife from the Philippines, and Idaho’s tion Fund, began the Family of Woman Film all-male panel of U.S. senators. own Barbara Morgan, former astronaut and But Mock said her film isn’t about proving Festival in 2008 as a way to draw attention to distinguished educator in residence at Boise the mission of the fund, which works around whether Hill was telling the truth. the world to improve access to family planning State University.

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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. Objec-

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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.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Nancy Garrity Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1403172 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Nancy Elisabeth Garrity, 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 Nancy Elisabeth Fallon. The reason for the change in name is: Divorce.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 24, 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 19 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 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: Roger Alan Miller Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1403307 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Roger Alan Miller, 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 Jonathan Roger Smith. The reason for the change in name is: for artist reasons.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 22, 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 25 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Parker Benson Elgethun Legal Name of child Case No. CV NC 1402885 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Minor) A Petition to change the name of Parker Benson Elgethun, a minor, 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 Parker James Kavulich.

The reason for the change in name is: because: Benson and Elgethun both have ties to a father who is not a part of Parker’s life. He is in and out of prison and Parker is blessed to now have a stable loving father who has taken on the role of his dad.

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 142014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2014.

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102 Snow queen in Disney’s “Frozen” 103 *1948 Ingrid Bergman film 105 Elegance 108 eBay user 110 Certain newspaper advertisement 111 Like Christiane Amanpour, by upbringing 113 Pub containers 115 Perfect, as a home 119 Director of the eight starred films in this puzzle, who was born on 2/23/1889 123 Torrey Pines Golf Course locale 125 Suffer humiliation, in slang 126 Comeback 127 Brooks Robinson’s team 128 Sitcom with a 1974 wedding 129 Foreign traveler’s purchase, maybe 130 Source of the line “What’s past is prologue,” with “The”

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10 What Babe wants to be in “Babe” 11 Finish (up) 12 New Haven reuner 13 “Frasier” role 14 Major glitch 15 Puts together 16 Things that should be tied up by the curtain?

17 Playfully 18 Complete, informally 19 Transudes 25 Beatles title girl 27 Queen of literature 30 Send off 31 Gave up 33 Birthplace of 22-Across 34 Hunts, with “on” 35 Lacking variety 37 Gives up, in slang 38 “Then again, I could be wrong” 39 Adult’s counterpart 42 Obsessed with 45 Fortunetelling aids 46 1980s-’90s series based on the fictional firm McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney & Kuzak 48 Doing ___ (dancing springily) 49 Basis in accounting 50 Head to Paris?

52 Overly confident 55 Recipe instruction 57 Wiry-coated terriers 59 Lead-in to Pen, commercially 62 Genuflect 64 Night that “Friends” aired: Abbr.

65 Swashbuckles, say 69 Some London lords 70 Effected, in a bad way 71 “___ ba-a- ack!”

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79 Milan’s La ___ 80 Go-getter 81 Unemotive 83 Means of access to a cafeteria, maybe 84 In past centuries 86 Joint parts 87 Specialties 90 Give off coherent light 91 Overreacting sort 93 Essen article 98 *1925 Percy Marmont film 101 One way to the top 103 Pub measure 104 1960s western sitcom 105 Chopped ___

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122 Finish (up) 123 Fate 124 “___ we done?”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you between jobs? Romantic partners? Between secure foundations and clear mandates and reasons to get up each morning? Probably at least one of the above. Foggy whirlwinds may be your intimate companions. Being up-in-the-air could be your customary vantage point. During your stay in this weird vacationland, please abstain from making conclusions about its implications for your value as a human being.

Remember these words from author Terry Braverman: “It is important to detach our sense of self-worth from transitional circumstances, and maintain perspective on who we are by enhancing our sense of ‘self-mirth.’” Whimsy and levity can be your salvation, and lucky flux should be your mantra.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The renowned cellist Yo Yo Ma once came to the home of computer pioneer Steve Jobs and performed a private concert. Jobs was deeply touched, and told Ma, “Your playing is the best argument I’ve ever heard for the existence of God, because I don’t really believe a human alone can do this.” Judging from the current astrological omens, Taurus, I’m guessing you will soon experience an equivalent phenomenon: a transcendent expression of love or beauty that moves you to suspect that magic is afoot. Even if you are an atheist, you are likely to feel the primal shiver that comes from having a close brush with enchantment.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my dream, I was leading a pep rally for a stadium full of Geminis.

“Your intensity brings you great pleasure,” I told them over the public address system. “You seek the company of people who love you to be inspired. You must be appreciated for your enthusiasm, never shamed. Your drive for excellence doesn’t stress you out, it relaxes you. I hereby give you license to laugh even louder and sing even stronger and think even smarter.” By now the crowd was cheering and I was bellowing. “It’s not cool to be cool,” I exulted. “It’s cool to be burning with a white-hot lust for life. You are rising to the next octave. You are playing harder than you have ever played.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “My old paintings no longer interest me,” said the prolific artist Pablo Picasso when he was 79 years old. “I’m much more curious about those I haven’t done yet.”

I realize it might be controversial for me to suggest that you adopt a similar perspective, Cancerian.

After all, you are renowned for being a connoisseur of old stories and past glories. One of your specialties is to keep memories alive and vibrant by feeding them with your generous love. To be clear, I

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don’t mean that you should apologize for or repress those aptitudes. But for now—say, the next three weeks—I invite you to turn your attention toward the exciting things you haven’t done yet.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I recommend that you sleep with a special someone whose dreams you’d like to blend with yours. And when I say “sleep with,” I mean it literally; it’s not a euphemism for “having sex with.” To be clear: Making love with this person is fine if that’s what you both want.

But my main point is that you will draw unexpected benefits from lying next to this companion as you both wander through the dreamtime. Being in your altered states together will give you inspiration you can’t get any other way. You won’t be sharing information on a conscious level, but that’s exactly the purpose: to be transformed together by what’s flowing back and forth between your deeper minds. For extra credit, collaborate on incubating a dream. Read this: tinyurl.com/ dreamincubation.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “One chord is fine,” said rock musician Lou Reed about his no-frills approach to writing songs. “Two chords are pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.” I recommend his perspective to you in the coming weeks, Virgo.

Your detail-oriented appreciation of life’s complexity is one of your finest qualities, but every once in a while—like now—you can thrive by stripping down to the basics.

This will be especially true about your approach to intimate relationships. For now, just assume that cultivating simplicity will generate the blessings you need most.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): You Librans haven’t received enough gifts, goodies and compliments lately. For reasons I can’t discern, you have been deprived of your rightful share. It’s not fair! What can you do to rectify this imbalance in the cosmic ledger? How can you enhance your ability to attract the treats you deserve?

It’s important that we solve this riddle, since you are entering a phase when your wants and needs will expand and deepen.

Here’s what I can offer: I hereby authorize you to do whatever it takes to entice everyone into showering you with bounties, boons and bonuses. To jumpstart this process, shower yourself with bounties, boons and bonuses.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing,” wrote the Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius more than 1,800 years ago. Is that true for you, Scorpio? Do you experience more strenuous struggle and grunting exertion than frisky exuberance? Even if that’s usually the case, I’m guessing that in the

coming weeks your default mode should be more akin to dancing than wrestling. The cosmos has decided to grant you a grace period—on one condition, that is: You must agree to experiment more freely and have more fun that you normally allow yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For the itch you are experiencing, neither chamomile nor aloe vera will bring you relief. Nor would over-the-counter medications like calamine lotion. No, Sagittarius.

Your itch isn’t caused by something as tangible as a rash or hives, and can’t be soothed by any obvious healing agent. It is more in the realm of a soul itch—a prickly tickle that is hard to diagnose, let alone treat. I’m guessing that there may be just one effective cure: Become as still and quiet and empty as you possibly can, and then invite your Future Self to scratch it for you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The world is awash in bright, shiny nonsense. Every day we wade through a glare of misinformation and lazy delusions and irrelevant data. It can be hard to locate the few specific insights and ideas that are actually useful and stimulating. That’s the bad news, Capricorn. Here’s the good news: You now have an enhanced ability to ferret out nuggets of data that can actually empower you. You are a magnet for the invigorating truths you really need most.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you come up with an original invention, apply for a patent immediately. If you think of a bright idea, put it to work as soon as possible. If you figure out crucial clues that everyone else seems blind to, dispel the general ignorance as quickly as you can.

This is a perfect moment for radical pragmatism carried out with expeditious savvy. It’s not a time when you should naively hope for the best with dreamy nonchalance. For the sake of your mental health and for the good of your extended family, be crisp, direct and forceful.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 1997 film Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, the lead character announces that “’Danger’ is my middle name.”

Ever since, real people in the UK have been legally making “Danger” their middle name with surprising regularity. I think it would be smart fun for you Pisceans to add an innovative element to your identity in the coming days, maybe even a new middle name. But I recommend that you go in a different direction than “Danger.” A more suitable name might be “Changer,” to indicate you’re ready to eagerly embrace change. Or how about “Ranger,” to express a heightened desire to rove and gallivant?

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