LOCAL, INDEPENDENT NEWS, OPINION, ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT BOISEWEEKLY.COM VOLUME 22, ISSUE 43 APRIL 16–22, 2014
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TEXTUAL BUDDIES Book ban inspires blockade busters NEWS 8
HE SAID, THEY SAID A lab accident, a family’s plight and a tale of two tales FEATURE 11
FOR THE RECORD The power and promise of Record Store Day NOISE 24
SPECIAL DELIVERY The Lunchbox tells a one-in-a million story SCREEN 33
“I really don’t know how it’s going to go, but it’s beer-flavored.”
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ON STORIES ON STORIES As sometimes happens, this week we have a couple of pieces that ended up playing on a similar theme: that the stories we tell (especially to ourselves) have a life of their own, even if we don’t want them to. On Page 6, Boise Weekly columnist Bill Cope puts on his investigative journalist cap and continues his pointed dissection of the meaning behind the Don’t Fail Idaho education reform campaign—specifically, the differences between reality and what we’re told about for-profit and charter school education. While Idahoans might think they defeated the so-called Luna Laws at the polls, Cope argues that the same privatization advocates are still at work, pushing the same solutions to the same problems—and angling for some major cash. You’ll find another piece about the power of stories on Page 8, where BW staff writer Harrison Berry takes a look at the controversial decision in Meridian to remove Northwest author Sherman Alexie’s novel Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian from a high-school reading list. Pulled from the curriculum on the concerns of a few parents—led by a grandmother, speaking on behalf of her Rocky Mountain High School sophomore grandson—district officials claim they simply want a book with a higher reading level. Free speech advocates call it as they see it: censorship. But as is the usual case with any kind of prohibition, putting something off limits makes people want it more. Berry’s piece shows how the novel’s sales have jumped on Amazon. com, and he talks with a pair of Washington state women so angered by news that the book had been removed from Meridian’s curriculum that they’re taking it on themselves to make sure any kid who wants to read it can get a copy. Finally, on Page 11, we have a big story about two stories: one told by a man who claims his life has been upended by a radiological accident at the Idaho National Laboratory; and the lab itself, which says that while mistakes were definitely made, the resulting damage was not its doing. Part of Boise Weekly’s ongoing Watchdog series of investigative reports, freelance writer Jessica Murri spent the better part of two months piecing together the story of Ralph Stanton and his exposure to plutonium at INL in 2011. Through hundreds of pages of documents, dozens of hours of conversation and a trip across Southern Idaho, the story unfolds but it’s far from clear-cut. —Zach Hagadone
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BOISEWEEKLY.COM What you missed this week in the digital world.
EXPERT OPINION Renowned urban planner David Leland spoke in Boise on April 15, talking about the future of downtown. Find out what he had to say on Citydesk.
VERY TASTY Boise Weekly joined 750 thirsty patrons at the third annual Taste 208, a gathering of beer, wine and liquor connoisseurs that went down in Hyde Park. See some pics on Cobweb.
FUNNYMAN Patton Oswalt’s new Comedy Central special Tragedy+Comedy=Time is just the latest installment of the comic’s general awesomeness. Get more on Mixtape.
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MAIL MAYOR: CITY BUDGET FEATURES SUSTAINABILITY EFFORTS Over the last 10 years I’ve been pleased with the city’s steady efforts to integrate more and more sustainable initiatives into every aspect of our work. From becoming the first city in Idaho to sign on to the U.S. Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement in 2006, to the Curb It program, the Boise WaterShed, the Dixie Drain and much more, the city has continually strengthened its commitment to sustainability. This year marks another important step as the City Council and I look to increase these efforts with a number of new initiatives that will push the city’s efforts even further. The upcoming 2015 budget process will feature consideration of a number of exciting projects, including a push to increase local food production, increased conservation efforts, a demonstration project for sustainable practices, the Neighborhood Opportunity pilot program, and an expanded education and communication program, to name just a few. If approved by the Council, this expanded effort will require a new staff lead to oversee these projects and ensure they include interaction and communication with stakeholders and the public. In all likelihood the position will include oversight of a number of city initiatives, some related to sustainability and some to other priorities. Like the City Council, I am less concerned about the symbolism of a position than I am with the substance of our activities. I am proud of the high level of substance that the City Council and I have brought to our sustainability efforts and I look forward to seeing them continue. —Dave Bieter, Boise mayor
WHAT DO YOU SEE? A Colorado man is making national news by suing the state of Idaho for alleged “license plate profiling,” after he was pulled over—he contends—because his plate singled him out as hailing from a state where marijuana has been legalized (Cobweb, boiseweekly.com, “See Traffic Stop Video of Man Allegedly Pulled Over for Having Colorado License Plate,” April 9, 2014). After watching a video of the traffic stop, readers on boiseweekly.com were divided on whether the lawsuit is justified. Officers gotta understand that they are not viewed as “protectors” by most, but as instigators—so of course this old guy is gonna be rattled. You have incognito chargers that rapidly accelerate on unsuspecting vehicles, what do you expect? A cheery “Hello, sir! Why’d you stop me for doing absolutely nothing?” No! Sure, neither side handled this perfectly from the beginning—the driver shouldn’t have answered any questions (cops might pigeonhole you with cornering questions because they’re not there to help you, they’re there to “serve and protect,” whatever that means to each individual officer), but the point at which the officer detained the gentlemen, he’s in the wrong IMO. —Andrew Scott Heikkila Someone wants a check from State. Nothing wrong nothing to see… move on. —Smoke Family And people wonder why police officers are seen as in the wrong? He intimidates that person into allowing him to do a search—I dunno I personally would have felt like the officer was being intimidating but maybe that’s just me. —des What a bully! A gentle senior who has to go to the bathroom who manages
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to stay calm and collected through the process. The guy is transporting his daughter’s gifts from a baby shower?! I pity the person who is less collected who gets pulled over by the ISP and doesn’t manage to stay calm. You can see the potential for this to escalate rapidly. ISP should be ashamed of themselves. —Young Turk Looked fine to me. The guy seemed shady even though he ended up being straight up. I want my police to ask questions and go on their hunches and experience. I don’t want them to Barney around and just give out motorist tickets. —Mr. B They found nothing in the vehicle, yet still took him to jail. It’s an obvious fishing expedition and I hope he sues their asses off. —Sal
RUFFLED FEATHERS Idaho’s plan to spend $100,000 over two years to poison 4,000 ravens at three sites near Arco, the Curlew National Grasslands and Washington County (Citydesk, boiseweekly.com, “Once Upon a Midnight Dreary: Idaho’s In the Raven-Killing Business,” April 9, 2014) ruffled a few feathers online. Here’s what readers had to say: How stupid. Put a $5 bounty on them. I just saved the state $80k. Seriously, who came up with the idea of spending $100k to kill 4,000 ravens? —Joe Mikitish It is 2014 in Pocatello, Idaho and genocide is not far from our porches. The Idaho Department of Fish and Game is the genocide policy maker. Butch Otter is their boss. We are the witnesses to the current genocide, the result of modern manifest destiny. ... Why do we allow animal genocide in Idaho? Murder Management must be stopped. It is unacceptable to me to allow hunting and grazing in areas where this genocide is going on. First it was people and animals, now it’s animals. When will the people be next? —Paul Schmidtlein
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OPINION/BILL COPE
CRUMBLING FOUNDATIONS 4 They’re trying to sell us what!? Six hundred billion dollars. Billion. Let me put that another way: $600,000,000,000. Keep that figure in mind as we examine one reason so many rich people have the hots for such phenomena as charters schools, vouchers, online education and other alternatives to the American public school system that have sprung up—and no doubt will continue to— like dandelions in a distressed lawn. I don’t mean to imply that all this concern and consternation over the condition of education in our country might be founded on lust for wealth only. I’m suggesting it is an explanation we can’t rule out. Because, let’s face it, as the hit/miss record for those alternatives to public ed. comes increasingly into focus, we find that there is little to get excited about, and possibly much to be alarmed about. Online charters schools, for instance—and for our purposes here, let me focus on the performance of K12 Inc., one of the largest and most powerful corporate providers of online instruction. How confident would you be in K12 Inc.—as either a parent or a taxpayer— after hearing the following experiences of teachers who had worked for that company? In this case, from a former teacher at the K12 Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania who had been assigned 300 students: “A huge portion of my students never showed up or did anything. I have no clue what happened to them, though I have no doubt Agora was charging the state for them.” Or this, from an ex-teacher in the Colorado Virtual Academy, another K12 Inc. enterprise: “Three-quarters of my ... kids never logged in, never completed any work. Never answered their emails or phone calls, yet they remained on my class rosters. ... No one is monitoring this as far as I can see.” These are not isolated incidents. According to a report from the Center for Media and Democracy, K12 is being sued by shareholders who are disenchanted with the gap between what that company has promised and what it has delivered. Now there’s something you’d want hanging on your child’s wall of fame, right?... a diploma from a joint like that. Incidentally, thanks to Tom Luna, K12 is the provider to the Idaho Virtual Academy, this state’s largest online charter school. Idaho isn’t the only state where charter schools are falling below expectations. But first, let’s re-examine what makes a charter school a charter school. Generally, they are portrayed as grassroots-generated antidotes to a failed public education system, formed by loving parents so insistent that their children receive better educations that they band together like outraged villagers marching to Frankenstein’s castle, clutching higher academic standards instead of pitchforks. Yeah, that happens. But increasingly, the chartering is done by one of the 97 companies in America that are in the business of making a profit off these schools. (Michigan leads the
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country with 79 percent of its charter schools being run for-profit.) Being a charter means that a school can pick and choose which students get in, and if your child is a dumb, misbehaving delinquent whom the best teacher in all of history couldn’t do anything with, don’t hold your breath until a charter school takes him in and turns him into the state debate champ. Perhaps another way of looking at charters is to understand they are a means by which some parents can send their kids to a private school, only it’s being paid for by public funds. Yet in spite of being able to leave special-needs kids and low performers out of the mix—and in spite of sucking public education monies out of the public system, making it harder and harder for those schools to meet expectations—charters have been exposed for producing no better results, and in many cases worse results, than their public counterparts. The Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University issued a study four years ago that demonstrated only 17 percent of charters were outperforming comparable public schools—“comparable” in terms of the socio-economic status of the students—while 37 percent were doing worse. The Albertson Foundation has been one the most enthusiastic supporters of charter schools in Idaho since our laws were changed in 1998 to allow charters. Since 1997, they have awarded $500 million in grants to Idaho public schools and charters. At present, forprofit charters haven’t been OK’d in Idaho. Still, when you give a bunch of tax money to a charter or public school, which then pays for online material from profit-driven companies, we have to question how meaningful it is to claim there are no for-profit charters in Idaho. Plus, we sense that with a little more softening up of our state leaders, it is just a matter of time before for-profit outfits come flooding into Idaho like locusts. I repeat, there are currently 97 companies in America whose motivation it is to turn a profit off of students. Incidentally, last we heard, the investment wing of the Albertson family (Alscott, Inc.) owned 355,000 shares of K12 stock. Oh... and about that $600 billion— billion—I mentioned at the beginning of this piece? According to the most recent data from the National Center for Education Statistics, that is the combined total of what the United States spent in 2011 to educate its public school children. Can you even imagine an investor who wouldn’t go to any lengths to get access to an ocean of cash like that? And before we let vested interests scare us into handing such an enormous and endless reservoir of public funds over to them, we need to examine the state of America’s public schools with a mind open to the possibility that maybe they’re not as bad off as we’re continually being told they are. That is what I intend to do next week. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
JOHN REMBER/OPINION
MY LIFE AS A TOURIST Hard to leave the groomers behind
In early December 1983, I was unemployed. I’d been working cement on Hailey’s new municipal water tank up Indian Creek, but the job had finished in November. It was cold and dark in the Wood River Valley. The skies and hills were gray and dry. It was another start of another Sun Valley ski season. I was 33 years old, more or less single, flush with overtime money and had a night job lined up once the tourists hit town. The season before, I had tended bar in Ketchum. I had bought a ski pass and skied 80 days by April. I’d made six or eight runs down Baldy’s groomed slopes every sunny morning before going to work and spending long après-ski hours in lazy conversations across the bar. The winter had passed in a fog of mildly pleasurable boredom. Nights off, I’d head for the Christiania, where I drank with a ski instructor who had arrived in town in 1949. He had married a wealthy divorcee, quit skiing and claimed a stool at the Christie. He had been there ever since. He told me that the real Sun Valley, the good Sun Valley, the Sun Valley where time wasn’t circular—had died when Union Pacific sold the place in 1964. In my spare time I read through the Ketchum library’s collection of existential psychology books, none of which mentioned the unrestrained joy a season pass in a ski resort is supposed to produce. I was waiting for the new season in the Christie when a retired lawyer, drunk and morose, turned to me, pushed his blossoming face up to mine, pressed his index finger hard into my sternum, and said, “You young bastards. You think you’ve got all the time in the world. You don’t.” He had been fair-haired and full of promise once, and had run for governor of Idaho and almost won. His recommendation had gotten me into an East Coast college. After I had graduated, he told me I shouldn’t have come back to Idaho, especially not to the part of Idaho I had come back to. So late in January 1984, instead of being behind a bar, I was in 20 feet of cool, optically clear water off the southern coast of Thailand, looking down at forests of bright corals and waving pale green sea grass, sunflashing fish, sea snakes, the spiked flowers of anemones—there were more species in the oval glass of my snorkel mask than in any square mile of Idaho. The ticket to Bangkok had been half the price of a Sun Valley season pass. I stayed in Thailand for 10 weeks, swimming in its surf, visiting its temples and walking its flip-flop littered beaches. I slept in beach bungalows for $1.50 a night, rode railroads in openwindowed cars and ate better than I had in all my life. I had budgeted $3,000 for the trip, and still had $300 left when I got off the plane in Boise in March. I was happier than I’d been in years, BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
because I was already planning to go back. Nobody I met in Thailand had much money, but they smiled and laughed far more than the people I had left behind in Ketchum. Existential psychology, which described reality as a series of happy or unhappy choices, suddenly made sense. So did Buddhism, with its emphasis on non-attachment to the material world. Not that I reached unrestrained joy. I don’t think children of Western Civilization ever can. I also don’t think we can become deep-down Buddhists. But we can become deep-down existentialists. Existentialism offered its usual choice. I chose Somewhat Painful Being over Mildly Pleasurable Nothingness, and got the hell out of Ketchum. That was 30 years ago. In the interim, my faith in happy or unhappy choices has been tempered by an even stronger faith in good or bad luck. I’ve been back to Thailand many times, sometimes writing for Travel and Leisure, whose editors sent me to high-end resorts on the island of Phuket. I’d stay in low-rent guest houses until I began dreaming of hot showers and haute cuisine. One phone call and I would enter a world of concierges, limousines, expense accounts and dissolute companions. It was like going back to Ketchum without the 24-hour plane ride. On my last trip to Thailand, in 2011, I took the same snorkeling tour I had taken in 1984. This time, the water was lukewarm and cloudy. The coral was bleached and dead, and the plants and anemones were gone. What few fish remained had been chummed in by the tour guide, a Scandinavian girl who had been hired the day before. “They hire you if you can speak English,” she said. “You know how to run a boat?” At sundown, the guide stopped the boat at one of the tall karst islands in the bay. It had a low cave through it at water level, and she told the passengers to jump into the water for some spelunking. She’d meet us on the other side and take us back to our hotels. It was dark in the cave. Swimming in its black waters excited plankton into bioluminescence. We delighted at the long neon-blue streamers that we left with our thrashing arms and legs. A strobe-lit water fight broke out. But after a few minutes, we grew tired and bored and swam on through the island. I had a brief fantasy that the cave led to 1983, and I’d swim out to a world as unspoiled as it was then. But there was our boat, and the girl. She managed, after a few wrong turns, to get us to our beach, with its jumble of night clubs, pizza restaurants, carefully raked and emptied sand, and—more bad luck—tsunamidamaged hotels and ruined, half-submerged seawalls.
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HARD TO PUT DOWN Banned from Meridian curriculum, controversial book lands in more hands HARRISON BERRY
There’s an art “movement” in downtown Boise.
LOCATION… LOCATION… As Gardner Company officials prepare to stand before Boise’s Design Review Committee Wednesday, May 7, when they’ll ask for permission to move for ward with plans to continue changing the city’s downtown core, another impor tant but little talked about question will also need to be addressed: What should happen to some of the public ar t at the Grove when Gardner’s demolition of the area gets under way? “It’s my understanding that it’s an inevitability,” ar tist Dwaine Car ver told Boise Weekly. “We’re talking about a permanent relocation.” Car ver’s 16-foot-tall “Heliotrope,” which he designed with Trout Architects, hasn’t even stood at Eighth and Main streets for a year (it was installed in summer 2013), and already it’s going to have to move. “I have some favorite locations, but it’s sor t of complicated to get all of the stakeholders and proper ty owners on board,” he said. “Honestly, this is a pretty interesting backward way of doing things. I actually kind of like this problem.” But it’s a problem nonetheless, and Karen Bubb, public ar ts manager with the Boise City Depar tment of Ar ts and Histor y, doesn’t have a lot of time to solve it. “It will be happening in May,” Bubb told BW. “We’re working with Dwaine to determine what’s best for it.” And Bubb has a definite preference. “This is one of three projects running along the Eighth Street corridor,” she said, referring to “Litharacnium,” which was recently installed at Eighth and Broad streets (BW, Ar ts, “Planting the Seeds,” March 26, 2014) and the soon-to-be installed “Virgo” at Eighth and Front streets. “Our preference is to keep ‘Heliotrope’ on Eighth Street as well, somewhere between Bannock and the Boise River,” Bubb added. And that’s not all that needs to move. A red historical viewer also designed by Car ver and “Keepsies,” the popular bronze sculpture of children playing marbles, both currently stand in the middle of the Grove Plaza—they’ll be temporarily relocated during the construction. What’s more, BW readers already know that Alive After Five organizers will soon have to determine where to relocate their summer concer t series once the bulldozers move in (BW, News, “Plan B or Plan C?” Feb. 26, 2014). Take a quick picture Boise. Things are changing… fast. —George Prentice
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When trustees of Meridian Joint School District No. 2 gathered for a special meeting April 1, it was to answer a simple question regarding author Sherman Alexie’s novel, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Should it stay or should it be removed from a supplemental reading list for high-school sophomores? After nearly two hours of emotionally charged public testimony, the board voted 2-1, with one trustee absent and Chairman Juan “Mike” Vuittonet not voting, to remove True Diary from the five-title reading list and review the list in its entirety by the beginning of the 2014-15 school year. “I’m going to speak from the heart: Please do the courageous thing and remove this book from the curriculum,” said Sharon Blair, who lodged a complaint against the title on behalf of her grandson, a Rocky Mountain High School sophomore. “I do not want our children exposed to explicit filthy, racist things,” she told the board of trustees during the hearing. Just days after the April 1 meeting, Sara Baker of Seattle read an article in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer about the removal of True Diary from the Meridian district’s reading list. Like Blair, Baker’s response to the book was emotional; unlike the grandmother, she was spurred to act on behalf of the book by making it more available to Treasure Valley high-school students. “I was very surprised that the book would be challenged,” she said. “I sort of had a visceral response. I want to buy a copy for a kid right now.” Baker, her friend Jennifer Lott, Centennial High School English teacher Stacy Lacy and school librarian Gena Marker are members of an effort to purchase copies of True Diary and distribute them to Centennial High School students on World Book Night, which takes place the evening of Wednesday, April 23. “When we heard about the school removing it from the curriculum, we thought it would be great if kids could still read the book in their free time,” Baker said. Currently, the group has about 200 copies of the book purchased from Amazon.com and has raised more than $2,000. If it meets its fundraising goal by Saturday, April 19, it will spend $3,000 on up to 350 copies. Initially, Baker and Lott had less ambitious goals for the book drive, but interest in their project has been wide enough for them to expand its reach. “We didn’t expect this to be as big as it was. We thought there would be 25-30 books we’d realistically be able to send,” Baker said. Baker first encountered True Diary about five years ago, when she was in her early 20s, and said she enjoyed how it made real-world
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issues like poverty and racism relatable for young readers. “To have those issues brought up in a way that’s accessible and relatable for teenagers is a really special quality about the book and it broke my heart to see people, many of whom haven’t read it, making it out to be something that it’s not,” she said. National anti-censorship organizations have identified misrepresentation of challenged books— particularly on the part of parents— as part of an emerging trend. “I’ve seen a lot of cases where the complaint comes from a church leader or someone in the church. We’ve seen a growing trend in the parents’-concern area,” said Acacia O’Connor, of the Kids Right to Read Project, part of the National Coalition Against Censorship. “In this case, you have school board officials who, notwithstanding the professional judgment of the educators of the district, decided to remove the book from the reading list. We feel that’s a censorship issue,” she added. True Diary has been a widely used educational text since its publication in 2007.
Semi-autobiographical in nature, it tells the story of Junior, a Native American boy, who attends a mostly white school where he is confronted by racism and bullying, on top of typical teenage challenges like depression and awakening sexuality. A National Book Award-winner, True Diary is used in schools across the country but has frequently been targeted by parents who find classroom treatment of the issues raised in the novel objectionable. The book is the thirdmost-challenged text on the American Library Association’s challenged books list, which was updated April 13. Alexie himself addressed these concerns in a 2011 Wall Street Journal blog post. Responding to a piece by WSJ columnist Meghan Gurdon, Alexie noted that many young people are already familiar with issues of sexuality, abuse and depression: “Does Ms. Gurdon honestly believe that a sexually explicit YA novel might somehow traumatize a teen mother? Does she believe that a YA novel about murder and rape will somehow shock a teenager whose life has been damaged by murder and rape? Does she believe a dystopian novel will frighten a kid who already lives in hell?” Meanwhile, the challenge to True Diary has raised the book’s profile. Since the April 1 board meeting in Meridian, it has become the No. 1 bestselling book of Native American stories on Amazon.com, having sold more than 200 copies so far this month and 258 copies in March. The evening of the April 1 board meeting, there were six holds on a single copy of True Diary in the Meridian Library District. Currently there are more than 30. “The more publicity something gets, the more people are exposed to the title,” said Meridian Library District Library Director Gretchen Caserotti. The effect of publicity is similar when it comes to sales or check-outs of any book, Caserotti said, but in instances of book challenges to young-adult works, many of the readers are parents. “I think there’s just as many adults [reading True Diary] because their kids are asking to read it,” she said. The popularity of challenged books has a life cycle: Challenges beget recognition, which begets adult readership, sales and check-outs at libraries. When the controversy surrounding True Diary subsides, Caserotti said, so will the rush on copies of the book. “Otherwise it does not have adult readership. In another year when things are not as contentious, it will not have adult readers,” she said. “Books like that sit on the shelf until the right reader comes along.” B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
UNDA’ THE ROTUNDA NEWS K ELS EY HAW ES
Cabin sales on Payette Lake totaled $6 million.
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Sustainability could become an even bigger part of how Boise defines its livability.
LIVABLE? YOU BET. SUSTAINABLE? LET’S SEE April 22 should be an important day for Boise’s future GEORGE PRENTICE Anyone who thinks that a special Boise City Council work session was haphazardly scheduled for the morning of Tuesday, April 22, hasn’t been paying attention. On that day— the 44th anniversary of the creation of Earth Day, where nearly 200 nations demonstrate support for environmental protection—the city of Boise is expected to unveil a cluster of initiatives, including a push to increase local food production and new conservation efforts. The latter is one the city’s most ambitious sustainable efforts to date. But whether those initiatives are enough to link Boise’s brand of “livability” to “sustainability” remains to be seen. In 2006, Boise became the first Idaho city to sign on to the U.S. Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement; that was followed by the 2008 opening of the Boise WaterShed (BW, Arts, “Flush With Art,” Aug. 6, 2008), the 2009 launch of the city’s Curb It program (BW, Feature, “Boise Recycling Gets a Makeover,” July 15, 2009) and a 2010 plan to reduce dangerous phosphorus levels in the Boise River through the use of the Dixie Drain (BW, News, “Water, Water,” Aug. 3, 2011). Boise Mayor Dave Bieter told Boise Weekly, “This year marks another important step … that will push the city’s efforts even further,” adding that, if approved, the efforts might require “a new staff lead to oversee these projects and ensure they include interaction and communication with stakeholders and the public.” Back in 2007, as Boise was dialing up its environmental campaigns, Bieter met with Sara Arkle shortly after the Idaho Conservation League had hired her to take the reins as its community conservation associate. “And I remember the mayor telling me, BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
‘You’re going to need to push us on some of these conservation issues. We care about this stuff, but we have a lot going on,” Arkle recalled. But one person’s “pushing” is another person’s advocacy. In fact, BW has learned that a recent letter to Bieter and the Boise City Council is pushing hard for the creation of an Office of Sustainability at City Hall. “And we envision that the office would report directly to the mayor or the Council,” said Arkle. “You have to have an entity that’s on equal footing, so that it’s able to bring as many departments together as needed.” In addition to the ICL, the March 28 letter to Bieter and Council was co-authored by officials from the Conservation Voters for Idaho, Idaho Chapters of the Sierra Club and U.S. Green Building Council, Idaho Clean Energy Alliance, Idaho Green Fest, Idaho Green Works, Idaho Pedestrian & Bicycle Alliance, Idaho Rivers United, Land Trust of the Treasure Valley, Boise Urban Garden School and the Snake River Alliance. It is the first such coalition to formally call for the creation of a new City Hall office. “A project-by-project approach to sustainability is not enough,” wrote the coalition. “We urge you to take the next step in our city’s evolution to meet the goal of the ‘Most Livable City in the Country’ … by creating an Office of Sustainability.” And advocating for such an office isn’t just limited to NGOs, nonprofits or environmental activists. It also happens to include some of Idaho’s largest corporations. “Simplot, Hewlett-Packard, Idaho Power— they all have formal sustainability programs in their corporate infrastructure,” said Arkle. “There are specific studies proving that a dedi-
cated executive, on par with other department heads, can accomplish efficiencies, save money, protect natural resources and be accountable to the desires of owners and shareholders.” When, or even if, officials from Simplot or HP get a chance to brief city officials on their own corporate successes, Boise Councilwoman Lauren McLean said it all pencils out because “sustainability fuels prosperity.” “Great cities make important investments in sustainability,” she told BW. “Our environment, our community and our economy are central to our long-term livability and success.” McLean, who remains one of City Hall’s champions for environmental stewardship, told BW in 2013 that she would “like to see an Office of Sustainability … that works with all the existing departments.” (BW, News, “A Sustainable Boise,” May 29, 2013). Eleven months later, McLean said, “My concern isn’t specifically how this comes about. I want to make sure that we are thinking conscientiously about sustainability in everything we do, and every action we take as a city; and that this effort has the attention and support it needs to thrive, and that it grows over time.” Bieter added that he expected a City Hall staff position could, in all likelihood, provide oversight for a number of city initiatives, but he was “less concerned about the symbolism of a position than I am with the substance of our activities.” Arkle insisted that whatever is placed before the City Council on April 22, whether it’s the creation of a new City Hall office or a string of new projects, “We stand to lose our identity without a focused sustainability effort.” “Small incremental movements can turn a large ship,” she said. “But you need a consistent wind in your sails.”
It’s all about perspective. From the outside looking in, the takeaway from the April 5 state auction of 21 cabin sites along Payette Lake is that the Idaho Department of Lands netted $6 million. “Twenty of 21 Payette Lake Lots Sell to Current State Leaseholders,” trumpeted the April 8 edition of the Idaho Statesman. But from the inside looking out, the story becomes very personal. “Family Loses McCall Home in State Lot Auction,” reported the April 10 edition of the McCall Star-News. The official April 7 press release from the IDL was rosy; and why not? Auction proceeds totalling $4.5 million had already been earmarked for the Idaho Department of Education, Idaho State University and Lewis-Clark State College, while another $1.5 million will go to State Hospital South in Blackfoot, which provides acute and long-term care for the severely mentally ill. After years of often contentious debate between cabin owners and the state, which owned the land beneath the cabins, the Land Board voted in 2010 to divest its ownership of most of the lots. State officials argued that leases had been kept unreasonably low, while cabin owners begged for a slow and reasonable adjustment to appropriate market values for the land. From the outside, much of the state saw missed opportunities by not managing its assets to produce higher returns; but from the inside, owners openly worried about keeping their idyllic views. And in one case, on April 7, that worry became a nightmare for the family of Lynn Terry, which had celebrated vacations and weddings at their Rocky Shore Drive cabin for more than three decades. “The state doesn’t seem to put a whole lot of stock in that,” Terry told Dave Goins of Idaho News Service, reporting for the StarNews. “It’s a very sad day.” Terry watched 20 other families successfully bid for the right to stay in their cabins, two of them in competitive auctions that brought in $28,000 more than the appraised value of the land. But Terry’s own effort to stay put was unsuccessful when a competitor paid $42,000—$5,000 above the appraised value of the land. The successful bidder, Jeanine Cleary, also agreed to pay Terry $68,580 for Terry’s three-bedroom cabin. More than 150 people attended the auction, which took place at the Hilton Garden Inn in Eagle, rather than McCall. The bidding wars could get even more intense as 95 state-owned sites on Priest Lake and more than 100 other state-owned sites on Payette Lake head for the auction block later this year. —George Prentice
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I’m assuming that you didn’t necessarily start out professionally with hopes of owning a candy store. I always wanted to be a teacher, and I was in California, Hawaii, Washington and, for the longest stretch, in Idaho. I met Joe when we were both in school. He’s a biologist and spent a number of years in law enforcement. We were both public servants for a long time. That isn’t the most natural career path toward operating a sweet shop. We wanted more out of life and kept asking ourselves, “What business should we get into?” One of Joe’s bosses kept telling him, “You’ve got to take your kids to this candy store.” He was talking about the original California store run by Michael Powell. We thought, “What’s the big deal?” But finally, we went there and immediately thought that this would be great in Boise. Your kids must be over the moon about the family owning a candy store. They’re 11 and 10 years old. And they’re always helping out in the summer and on spring break, and especially if Joe and I have to both be here at the same time.
DEB GIORDANO Taming Boise’s candy crush
But the kids must acknowledge the cool factor of their parents running Powell’s. We’re really doing our best to ensure our children’s popularity.
GEORGE PRENTICE Maybe it was the countless varieties of Easter Peeps—small Peeps, jumbo Peeps, chocolate eggs with Peeps inside, blue, pink, yellow, even orange Peeps. Within an hour, we had a sugar high, just from breathing the air. In search of the Easter Bunny’s private stash, we visited Powell’s Sweet Shoppe; and there, among the canyons of Easter-themed Sweet Tarts, Starbursts, Skittles, Dots, Junior Mints, a colony of chocolate bunnies and even some edible Easter basket grass, we found Deb and Joe Giordano, owners of the Powell’s Franchise, which has operated in Boise’s Bown Crossing neighborhood for a little more than seven years. While Joe worked the counter, Deb took us on a moveable feast of sugar. “I know our store looks chaotic but trust me, there’s a method to all of this,” she said.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen this many varieties of Jelly Bellies all at once. And these are just a few of their flavors. Here’s a test: Do you know what the No. 1-selling flavor of Jelly Belly is? I’ll guess buttered popcorn. It’s pretty amazing. Good guess. Buttered popcorn is actually No. 2. The most popular is Very Cherry. We’ll be getting a new flavor in soon. I really don’t know how it’s going to go, but it’s beer-flavored.
Talk to me about the gourmet chocolates behind your glass display case at your main counter. I counted 22 different varieties, just of the truffles. They’re really popular as gifts. Our big seller for Easter is a strawberry cheesecake truffle. The other two shelves are filled with hand-crafted chocolates, made special just for us—turtles, huge peanut butter cups, almond bars, sea salt caramels, and over there is chocolate-dipped bacon—it’s bacon, fried on a skewer and dipped in chocolate. It’s very popular. I’m assuming there’s a model to how to lay out a store like this, by dividing it into distinct sections. That’s right. In the back, we have something we call our theater section. I’m guessing that those are all the jumbosized candies that we spend a fortune on at the movies. Junior Mints, Goobers, Good and Plenty, Dots, all of them. And right next to that we have what we call our memory lane section—Snow Caps, Charleston Chews, Chuckles, Clark Bars, Zagnuts. Talk to me about your soda fountain section. Eighty-six different types of bottled soda. A lot of them have the original formula, so they’re made with cane sugar instead of today’s corn syrup. I have to pause here to talk about the video and music that is constantly playing throughout the store. We have the original Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory movie playing on a continuing loop on two old-fashioned TV sets. And the music you hear is all candy- or soda-themed songs. [As we spoke, the soundtrack included “A Spoonful of Sugar,” “Sugar, Sugar” and “Lollipop.”] What are the demographics of the people who walk through your door? Everyone says, “Oh, you must get a lot of kids.” And we do. But they’re really not our No. 1 customers. It’s definitely adults. How do you not keep yourself from sampling all day? I’ll admit that it comes and goes in waves. Joe and I joke around that if something gets broken, we get to eat the rejects. I’ll admit that I never realized before just how many sections you have in the store. Novelties, retro toys, gelato ice cream and over here is our little girls’ section. That’s where we have Disney Princess, Hello Kitty and My Little Pony candies. And I would be remiss if I didn’t point out the cupcake-flavored toothpaste. Everybody needs that.
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alph Stanton was one of 16 workers exposed in an uncontrolled release of plutonium on Nov. 8, 2011, at the Idaho National Laboratory. The event happened two and a half years ago, but for Stanton, it might as well have been yesterday. Passionate, dogged and obsessed with telling his story, he’s the kind of guy who will settle in for phone conversations lasting full afternoons, undertake eight-hour-long road trips to deliver documents and send text messages before dawn. The anger he carries for the INL cannot be doused by any official document, scientific opinion or reassurance from upper management. Stanton filed a whistleblower complaint against
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INL in April 2013. Now, more than a year later, mediation between Stanton and the lab will begin at the end of May. If it doesn’t work out, Stanton will wait for his chance in court to prove his claims. While he feels the company that runs INL, Battelle Energy Alliance, should be held accountable in the public eye, the U.S. Department of Energy has a much different opinion. At the end of March 2014, BEA was awarded a contract renewal to run INL through September 2019. The DOE said it extended the contract because of BEA’s consistently strong annual performance reviews. Stanton still insists that his job, family and 12> health have been shattered. INL says: Not by us.
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The alarm was terrifying. It took the 16 workers at the Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR) a moment to realize what it was. It sounded like a fire alarm, but working for the Idaho National Laboratory at this high-security facility, handling fuel-grade plutonium, the alarm was bad news. Worse
than a fire alarm. Contamination had gone airborne. That Tuesday morning, Nov. 8, 2011, had started simply enough: Stanton, who had worked for INL for almost a decade, was to enter the ZPPR vault—a giant concrete refrigerator with one of the largest stockpiles of plutonium in the world—pull out 33 plutonium plates and repackage them to be sent to another laboratory. Stanton slid his white lab coat over his broad shoulders and buttoned it down his thick middle. From the vault, he pulled four tightly clamped metal boxes called clamshells, each the size of a kid’s lunchbox, and brought them over to his work area, called a “hood.” The hood looked more like a salad bar than somewhere to handle radioactive materials, but that’s where he unpacked the clamshells, inside each of which rested a plate of fuel-grade plutonium the size of a Hershey’s bar, sealed in stainless steel. For Steve Braase, the morning was hectic. He didn’t expect this job until later in the week, but management bumped it up a few days. As health physicist, it was Braase’s job to check all the safety equipment in the room before Stanton could start pulling out the plates. He constantly looked for contamination that could danger his co-workers. Finding all his instruments in order except for one radiation monitor, the ZPPR facility’s ventilation system was placed in “Operate Mode.” But Stanton and a dozen other co-workers stopped when they saw a bright yellow label bearing a red haz-mat symbol on one of the clamshells. “ATTENTION: RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL,” it read, and beneath, in delicate black handwriting, it said, “Plate wrapped in plastic.” According to Stanton, Braase, INL officials and a U.S. Department of Energy
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investigation following the incident, the shift supervisor called two tiers of management, asking if the team should open the clamshell. Though this task was common, Stanton had never seen a plate wrapped in plastic before. Management gave workers the OK to continue. Braase was nervous about going forward
Braase grabbed a sample of the powder and threw a wet towel over it to keep it from going airborne. He reached for a handheld alpha radiation detector. Normally, the detector has to be a quarter inch away from the subject to pick up radiation. As far as three inches from the swab, the needle bounced into the red.
Ralph Stanton, surrounded by daughter Marissa (left) and wife Jodi (right), has spent the past two and a half years fighting the Idaho National Laboratory frrom his family’s kitchen table.
with the work. He wiped the outside of the clamshell with a piece of paper and fed the swab into a radiation detector, but found no trace of contamination. Wearing two pairs of gloves and standing behind a plate of lead shielding, Stanton took the clamshell into his hood. Several filters lined the back wall of the hood, but a few months before, Stanton had noticed three of the four exhaust fans weren’t working. He didn’t like that, and had brought it up to his supervisors, but they hadn’t been fixed yet. He didn’t push it. He opened the clamshell to reveal the plutonium plate wrapped in several layers of plastic and duct tape. It had sat in the vault like that for more than 30 years. Braase again swabbed for contamination and, again, found none. Stanton sawed through the first layer with a box cutter. He turned over the plate and cut off the next. He flipped it over three or four times, getting closer to the stainless steel that separated him from the plutonium. Braase said he heard fellow nuclear facility operator Brian Simmons, who has refused to comment to the press pending mediation in a court case, say, “I seen something fall out.” As the workers gathered around, Braase heard him say it again. “Yeah, I seen something fall out. We’ve got powder.” Stanton said this is where he “puckered.” He looked at Simmons, thinking, “Man, I hope that’s not what we think it is, or we’re hosed.” Stanton feared the contamination was alpha radiation. While alpha radiation isn’t strong enough to penetrate someone’s skin or clothes, it can be extremely poisonous if inhaled.
“Stop the work,” Braase said. Based on the distance from the sample and the reading on his monitor, he knew his colleagues were being dosed with far more radiation than they could safely—or legally—be exposed to. “We’ve got to get Ralphie out of there,” he said. But Braase couldn’t let Stanton out of the hood until he was checked for contamination. Running a detector over his Stanton’s body, Braase was shocked to find alpha radiation on his shoulder. “No, Ralph, you can’t come out,” Braase said. What he thought was, “Oh shit.” At that moment an air monitor—installed 15 feet away and upstream of the ventilation—started screaming. That was the workers’ cue to evacuate immediately. The contamination was airborne. Everyone but Braase and Stanton rushed out of the room. Stanton stripped off his gauntlets and gloves and Braase sealed his hands inside a plastic bag. By 11:15 a.m., less than 10 minutes after Stanton cut through the plastic wrapping on the plate, the ZPPR workroom was empty. Sixteen employees waited in a control room for decontamination. Thirty-two miles away, Jodi Stanton was waiting, too. An employee at INL’s buried waste facility, Jodi was on her lunch break, waiting for her husband’s call. Married for 23 years, he called her every lunch hour and they’d talk on the phone for 40 minutes or so, about plans for the weekend or what the kids were doing. Family stuff. But on Nov. 8, 2011, he didn’t call. She thought it was weird, but figured her husband was busy and went back to work. The hours dragged on as Stanton watched his co-workers get checked for contamination. The alpha detector moved at half an
inch per second, a hair’s width from their bodies. The decontamination team found contamination in Braase’s hair and all over his face. He remembered feeling like Pigpen from Peanuts, surrounded by a cloud he couldn’t see. Every movement he made stirred the particles more. A few hours later, Stanton, Braase, Simmons and another worker with the highest levels of contamination were led to a room lined with beds. Beside each bed was an IV drip, containing a chemical solution meant to absorb heavy metals in their bloodstream and prevent radiation poisoning. To Stanton, it was “surreal,” like a science fiction novel. Braase was scared. At 4:30 p.m., Jodi finished her work out in the field and headed to her work trailer. A phone call came in from a number she didn’t recognize, but she knew it was her husband. He told her he’d been involved in an accident, but he couldn’t say anything more. He told her he would talk to her when he could, that he was on his way to be checked by medical staff. Right after she hung up, she got another call from a friend. “It was on the news, it was just on the news,” her friend told her. “There’s been a radiation accident at work and Ralph was involved. It was in his facility.” Jodi felt stunned. Then she got angry. Something happened to her husband and nobody had called to tell her—even four hours after the incident and even though she worked for the same company. Then, she fell apart. “I’ve got to go,” she told her boss. She fled to the medical facility where Ralph was, but couldn’t get in to see him. They told her, “Just go home. It’ll be a long night.” She had an hour’s drive ahead of her to get home. She called her mom, but her mom couldn’t understand her because of the crying. Once at home, Jodi had to try to explain to her 14-year-old daughter what happened, without even knowing herself. She sat on their couch facing the door and she waited, staring at the door. Just after midnight, Ralph walked in. Jodi met him at the door. “You’re good?” she asked. “I’m OK,” Ralph replied. “No, I mean, you’re good? They cleared you to come home. They said you’re good to come home?” Jodi said. “Yes,” he said. Jodi grabbed her husband, held him around his shoulders and cried, kissed his face, kissed his ears and helped him in. Stanton peeled off the surgical greens the INL sent him home in and spent the night sicker than he’s ever been in his life. So sick, he thought he was going to die.
WHERE THE STORIES DIVERGE The account of what happened in the ZPPR facility on Nov. 8, 2011, is mirrored by INL officials, the Department of Energy’s investigation and the memories of Braase and Stanton. But they diverge from the point when Stanton opened the door to his own little beige home. He brought something with him from the lab that day—he claims it was radiation. INL is doubtful of that. Regardless, it upended his family’s life. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
Stanton spent the whole night after the exposure in and out of bed, violently sick. He and a few other co-workers who were also exposed went to the INL site doctor the next day, complaining about vomiting and diarrhea. “The doctor told us we had influenza,” Stanton recalled, bitterness creeping into his voice. “We said, ‘That’s bullshit.’ The minute he told us that, that’s when all the trust went away.” Sharon Dossett, the health and environmental safety director at the INL, pointed out that radiation-blocking therapy (called chelation) can also cause flu-like symptoms. She said there’s no way that Stanton tracked any radiation into his home, or that he inhaled enough into his lungs to be poisoned. “We have no evidence that there was any release of contamination from this event, ever,” Dossett told Boise Weekly. “We cleared everybody the night of the event. They did not go home contaminated.” Stanton doesn’t believe that now any more than he believed it then. He had all the proof he needed from the other nuclear facility operator exposed alongside him: Brian Simmons. By April 2012, five months after the exposure, Stanton said Simmons was still vomiting two or three times a week. Stanton remembers times when he and Simmons would be driving down the highway and in mid-conversation, Simmons would tell him to pull over. “He’d run into the sagebrush, just puking,” Stanton said. The INL doctors changed his diagnosis from influenza to post traumatic stress disorder. Stanton didn’t buy it and started calling around for another doctor with radiological experience who could help his friend. He landed on Marco Kaltofen, president of Boston Chemical Data Corporation, which specializes in environmental investigations from petroleum, chemical and radiological releases. Though he’s tracked radioactivity from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and most recently the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico, Kaltofen isn’t a medical doctor, so he told Stanton he couldn’t help his friend. “But just out of curiosity, what happened?” Kaltofen asked Stanton during their first phone call. Stanton told him about the incident, about the failed stainless steel cladding around the plutonium, about the “hellacious uptakes” of the radioactive particles. “Well, Ralph,” Kaltofen said. “Good luck to you. But you don’t have to worry about your family because they showered you. That would have taken all the alpha off of you.” Stanton stopped. “They didn’t shower us,” he told Kaltofen. “Let me get this straight,” Kaltofen said. “You’re handling plutonium K.G.s [kilograms] in a hood, they don’t have you in respiratory gear, you had a breach, and you had a 5.5 million D.P.M. [disintegrations per minute] smear and a huge D.A.C. [derived air concentration] reading 15 feet away from you, and they didn’t shower you?” “No.” BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
“No,” Dossett confirmed to BW. “What we typically do on a personnel contamination in decon is we survey people. Then, if we can easily remove the contamination, we don’t shower them,” she said. Dossett said contamination was removed that night by taking off the workers’ clothes, using tape and wiping them down with wet wipes. The DOE report said another reason why contaminated workers weren’t showered was “an insufficient supply of hot water” at the facility. Out of the 16 workers, two did go to another facility to shower, including Braase, who thinks that his shower prevented him from getting sick that night. Back on the phone with Stanton, Kaltofen said, “Look, what I want you to do is send me some dust samples from inside your house.” “There’s no contamination in my house,” Stanton told him. “My wife is a very tidy housekeeper. She’s kind of a clean super-freak.” Not only that, but the Stantons had their carpets cleaned after the holidays. “Plus, my daughter and my wife did the spring cleaning. There’s no contamination in my house,” Stanton said. “Ralph, with the levels of contamination you were in, just humor me,” Kaltofen said. Stanton stuck strips of duct tape to his walls and ripped them off. He did the same on the shelves, cupboards and elsewhere around the house. He mailed them off to Massachusetts and Kaltofen’s call came a week later. Kaltofen told him the samples tested positive for plutonium-239 and americium-241. He asked for more samples, so Stanton sent him his vacuum bag—the third since he came home the night of the exposure. It tested positive. Braase sent in his pillowcase as well. Positive. Dossett, meanwhile, is not positive those results can be trusted. She said INL has reached out to Kaltofen repeatedly, asking questions about his methods and the credibility of his lab to test for plutonium, but her questions have gone unanswered. Stanton said it’s because his Massachusetts scientist won’t release anything until there’s a trial in the whistleblower complaint he filed a year ago. John Grossenbacher—director of INL, president of BEA and a retired U.S. Navy vice admiral—told BW that INL offered to have an independent lab come check Stanton’s home for contamination. He said he offered radiation-detecting body scans for his family six times, but Stanton declined. “We know what kind of radiation exposures will result in physical impacts on a person’s health, and none of these exposures came anywhere near that,” Grossenbacher said in an interview. “I don’t know what else we can do. We’re very serious about it … everything we know and understand is that these people are not hurt. And [they] certainly didn’t track any contamination home. If they feel that they did, then we want to do everything we can to resolve it. If they won’t cooperate, it puts us in a difficult position.”
‘SO I BOUGHT ME A RESPIRATOR’ When Ralph told Jodi about the contamination Kaltofen found in their house, she bawled for hours. “Here, the last six months we’ve spent laying on the floor, reading books, taking naps, having my 14-year-old daughter vacuum and dust every weekend. Just living life as normal,” Jodi said. “This home is my refuge. This is a place where my family can come and be together and feel peace and comfort and now that’s gone. These people have taken over my home. Every time you think it can’t get any worse, it gets worse.” Jodi, a small, delicate woman with curly red hair and bright green eyes, struggled to cope with her new, “tainted” life. She started carrying a pink .22 pistol in her purse and went from taking a daily multivitamin and the occasional ibuprofen, to a daily schedule of 23 medications: blood pressure medication, anti-depression medication, anti-anxiety pills, a cocktail of migraine medications, sleeping pills, B-12 injections, vitamin-D pills, calcium, potassium and magnesium supplements. Her hands are ice cold all the time. “So I went and I bought me a respirator, and put it on, and started cleaning,” she said.
dust could have been radioactive. “So I’ve got another vacuum now,” she said. “But we sent some samples off again and yeah, we still have it. So now both vacuums are contaminated. But I can’t just keep going through vacuums.” The Stantons are frustrated, too, because they feel they’re paying a mortgage on a house that’s pretty much worthless now. Idaho state law says homeowners must disclose the presence of hazardous materials to buyers, so the Stantons ask, “Who would ever want to live in that?” The effects of the exposure have reached their teenage daughter, Marissa, as well. Their older boy lives in Arizona with his wife, so he’s not directly impacted. But as her parents became more engulfed in their situation, Marissa dropped out of high school and got in trouble a few times for drinking. “Nobody deserves to live through the stress and the nightmare of what she’s been through,” Jodi said. “This one got lost along the way.” Ralph also regrets the way the two and a half years since his exposure have hurt Marissa. “We weren’t there,” he said. “We weren’t focused like good parents should be.”
The Idaho National Laboratory facility where Ralph Stanton and 15 other workers were exposed to airborne plutonium in November 2011.
She scrubbed walls and shelves and floors and baseboards. She cleaned everywhere she could think of. She had just purchased a $800 vacuum in the past year, but when Ralph told her about Kaltofen’s test results she bought another one just like it. At the store, the clerk reminded her of the 12-month warranty on her first vacuum. “I gotta have another vacuum,” she said, feeling a surge of guilt. Only a few weeks earlier, she had taken in her vacuum for one of its two free services. The worker pulled off the bottom and, “whoof, dust went everywhere,” she said. Now, Jodi knew that
Since then, Marissa earned her diploma online. She’s 16 now and her hair fades wildly from bleach blonde to dark brown. She longboards and hangs out with her friends on Friday nights, eating pizza and seeing movies like any other teenager. But she doesn’t talk about her home life. “None of my friends have gone through something like this. No one can relate,” Marissa said. “I just want all of it to go away. Going through all this, my parents have been so stressed all the time. I haven’t seen them happy since it happened. I 14> want everything to go back, and that’s
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never going to happen. It’s never going to be the same.”
AN INVESTIGATION, AN OBSESSION Life’s definitely never going to be the same for Stanton, who says that a culture of unsafe working conditions doomed him to this nightmare, in which he returns again and again to the belief that some form of cancer will crop up and kill him in the next 10 years. In some ways, a Department of Energy investigation mirrors his safety concerns. Driving through the high desert of Eastern Idaho, it’s easy to feel like there are secret powers hidden in the scrubby, rock-studded expanse. And you’d be right. Spread over 890 square miles is the Idaho National Laboratory—an amorphous entity encompassing dozens of facilities and 4,000 employees, many drawn from nearby Idaho Falls. Though administered by the U.S. Department of Energy, INL has since 2005 been run by contractor Battelle Energy Alliance. Among its hundreds of projects and roles, INL specializes in nuclear material storage and research, with common customers like the National Nuclear Security Administration and NASA, as well as TerraPower—a company owned by Bill Gates. Back in 1992, the Zero Power Physics Reactor—where the exposure happened—was taken out of operation. It sat abandoned for the next 13 years until BEA moved in and reopened the site. Containing metric tons of fuel- and weapons-grade plutonium, scientists from all over the world came to run tests at ZPPR. And they had no major problems in the facility until that November day in 2011 when plutonium oxide spilled out of Stanton’s hands. Two days after the exposure, the DOE launched an investigation into the incident, with findings that left Stanton feeling bitter and betrayed. “The board concluded that this accident was preventable and that, over time, a number of opportunities had been missed that could have prevented the accident,” the investigative report stated in its opening summary. The report, which resulted in $412,000 in fines for BEA, scolded the company for “not recogniz[ing] the hazards associated with the possibility of releasing plutonium material.” Grossenbacher agreed. “Frankly, I don’t think we paid enough respect to that uncertainty and the hazard,” he told BW. “It’s at all levels. It’s at the managerial level and I certainly accept responsibility, and it’s at the worker level, too.” The report found much of the equipment wasn’t working during the exposure, from missing alarms to cracks in the ventilation system to faulty decontamination techniques. Phil Breidenbach, who manages nuclear operations at the lab, told BW that “anytime you have a complex facility, there’s going to be times when the equipment isn’t working, and we can normally compensate for that and safely continue.” But during the exposure, he added, the stars aligned in such a way that too much equipment was out of service and couldn’t safely compensate.
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“That was a mistake,” Breidenbach said. Grossenbacher said part of their error at the lab was, “saying it bluntly, complacency. We had done this operation many, many times. … We were set up for failure and we didn’t recognize it.” The report found the continuous air monitor—the alarm that signalled workers to evacuate—wasn’t good enough. There used to be an alarm in the hood that would have detected the alpha radiation immediately, rather than leaving the workers exposed to airborne plutonium for almost five minutes, but it was taken out before the incident due to cost. BEA concluded that the continuous air monitor, installed 15 feet from the hood where the plutonium plates were handled, would be enough. The DOE report disagreed. To add to that, the report dinged BEA for not fully training employees in the event of an uncontrolled airborne contamination. From 2010-2011, only one radiological drill was performed at the ZPPR facility. “Medical and radiological staff stated that none of the drills that were performed would have prepared them to recognize and respond to the human aspects (emotional trauma) of such a radiological event,” the report said. Urine and fecal samples of the most contaminated workers were sent to another lab, but weren’t “properly handled … due to a verbal miscommunication,” so the samples were thrown out. Those samples would have shown the highest doses of plutonium and americium. Despite all this, Grossenbacher said part of the day-to-day operations include constantly weighing safety risks—and, in the wake of the DOE investigation, he added that BEA took 80 corrective actions after the exposure, leaving the ZPPR facility out of commission for nine months. He’s confident that INL is a safer place to work than ever. “An extreme example is when NASA has to make the decision to launch or not,” Grossenbacher said. “It’s never a perfect decision, they weigh all the considerations and they make the best judgment that they can. And for whatever reason, if their judgment goes wrong, the results are unacceptable. … We make these kind of decisions frequently, and we get it right the overwhelming majority of the time. Our goal is always, no matter what happens, even given that people make mistakes and machines break, that in the end, nobody gets hurt.” Stanton certainly felt that he had been hurt. As the DOE launched its investigation, another investigation of sorts began at his dining room table. He filled filing boxes with documents, memoranda and internal emails. He was on the phone constantly— with other workers involved in the exposure incident, with friends in other facilities, with retired INL employees, with past whistleblowers. Stanton became consumed with piecing together the events the led up to his exposure and the ways BEA could have prevented it. In his search, Stanton discovered one letter in particular that devastated him. It was written by an independent safety review committee chairman named Ted Lewis. “I feel there is a potential for finding failed [stainless steel] cladding on the ZPPR
Plutonium-239 plates that are now in storage in the ZPPR vault in ‘sealed containers,’ (clamshells),” the letter read. “My concern is I think the potential for discovering the failed [stainless steel] cladding plates in the Hood is greater than the facility and senior management realizes.” The letter spelled out the exposure that happened to Stanton, and it had been presented to Breidenbach and Grossenbacher in 2009, and once more a mere five months before the accident. “Ted [the author of the letter] actually came into my office,” Breidenbach told BW. “It was kind of an informal meeting where Ted was talking to me about several things. It was one issue in a 15-minute meeting. In hindsight, clearly that was a missed opportunity to prevent this event from happening. It was one of several missed opportunities that would have prevented it.” Grossenbacher said he was also in that meeting. The container of plutonium that Ralph Stanton opened, only to discover He said that Stanton’s interthat it had oxidized into a powder which then contaminated the facility. pretation is taking it too far. “This letter, when it’s That’s the only safety component left to looked at outside the context of what goes protect the worker. Now you know that on here every day, creates the image that three years prior, they find out they have someone ran in here and said, ‘No, stop, an issue with the cladding. So what do you danger, danger, danger.’” Grossenbacher have left to protect the worker? Nothing.” said. “That’s not the case.” The DOE’s report referenced Lewis’ letThe two recalled the meeting as cordial ter several times, each time stating that, and “soft-spoken.” “its significance was not recognized and no Despite the faulty safety measures, Breaction was taken.” idenbach said one simple action could have “BEA continued operation of the ZPPR prevented the exposure: Stanton and othFacility with known safety basis deficieners could have stopped the work once they cies and without adequately analyzing the found the plastic-wrapped plate. hazard to the worker,” the report said. “I’m not a rocket scientist or a Ph.D.,” “But you manage the risk,” GrossenGrossenbacher added, “but if I’m a radbacher countered. “There’s always the imcon tech and I think, ‘Well, what happlication that because of cost and schedule, pens to this stuff after 30 years of being we’re going to compromise safety and the wrapped in plastic, anybody know?’ And if answer to that is no, never. Now we do the answer is no, I would say, ‘You know consider cost and schedule when we balwhat, let’s stop.’” ance those controls, or we’d never get any Stanton underscores that his supervisors work done.” told him to proceed; what’s more, he takes The work Braase performed as health BEA to task for never warning workers physicist has left him struggling with guilt, about the potentially faulty stainless steel even years after the exposure. cladding. He figured addressing the issue “It stressed me out so bad to think I was would have cost millions of dollars and the head health physicist,” Braase said. “I put the facility out of commission for some took a lot of the blame on myself for letting time, stopping the large bonuses he claims it happen. I took it really, really hard.” management was getting from these “mileA recent doctor’s visit pegged Braase’s stone jobs”—jobs where bonuses are given blood pressure at 151 over 95. Skinny and for meeting tight deadlines. nervous, the middle-aged man was put on Reading that letter, Stanton “just went two different medications to treat deprescrazy,” he said. sion. He lives with his mom now, taking “You’ve got problems with the work care of her with the same sense of seriousroom’s ventilation,” he added, “three out ness he had on the day of the exposure— of four exhaust fans aren’t working, the the same seriousness he carries in every asupstream alpha alarm is 15 feet away, the pect of his life, from clinging to his job to other alpha alarm was removed from the managing his budget. Repeatedly adjusting hood. So the only thing you have to protect his bifocals and the silver chain around his you is the cladding around the plutonium. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
neck, he said he never feels like going fishing anymore. “They let him take the blame,” Stanton said of Braase, “when they’re the ones who knew those plates were bad.”
FALLOUT Through his digging, Ralph started to change in ways that scared Jodi. A few days after the exposure, she got home from work and jumped in the shower as Stanton stepped out. He stayed in the bathroom, getting dressed and talking to Jodi about his recent discoveries. In mid-sentence he stopped talking. Jodi figured her husband walked into the bedroom and would come back. She waited and didn’t hear anything more. “Ralph?” she yelled over the running water. “What?” he responded. “Where’d you go? Did you walk into the bedroom?” she asked. “Jodi, I haven’t left. I’m right here,” Ralph replied. “Ralph, you were just talking to me You were in mid-sentence,” Jodi remembered saying. And he said, “I was talking to you?” Jodi knew things were not good. Ralph continuously had trouble holding onto his thoughts and found it difficult to concentrate. Through hours of interviews with BW he peppered conversations with the question, “Where was I?” Stanton’s obsession only continued to grow as he started reaching out even further, calling Washington, D.C., calling the FBI, looking for anyone who would listen. Jodi started to miss him. “Up to that point,” she said, “I was the middle of [his] whole universe. It was him and me and the kids. And when [the exposure] happened, it all changed. It’s like none of that even existed. … He said, ‘You have no idea what I’m going through. I can’t talk to you. You weren’t there when the alarm went off.’ So here he is with his thing and here I am with the three kids and trying to keep myself focused at work and keep the house going and the finances. I am trying to be the mother and the father and help with homework and pay the bills. Life as we knew it and normality is gone. “And to know that they knew [about the failed cladding],” Jodi added in tears. “To know that they could have prevented this infuriates me.” The Stantons’ anger eventually spilled over into the pages of the Idaho Fall Post Register. On a Sunday in mid-August 2013, a large, above-the-fold photograph showed Ralph and Jodi sitting on their couch—Ralph’s eyes downcast and Jodi’s head in her hands. The headline: “Living in Fear.” Below the photo, a quote from Jodi in large font: “It makes me so angry that they have turned my world upside down and they won’t take responsibility. As long as the milestones are met, as long as their bonuses are met, human life (doesn’t matter) out there.” Exactly a week later, Grossenbacher wrote a guest editorial in the same paper. “We must … address seriously inaccurate statements that call public safety into question and threaten to undermine this community’s trust in BEA and how it operates BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
INL,” he wrote. “All employees involved in the November 2011 exposure were checked for external contamination before being cleared to go home. No affected employees left the site with detectable contamination on their skin or clothes.” Grossenbacher stated that “no dose exceeded the safety threshold for radiation workers.” “I truly regret that this family is feeling such distress and has resisted our offers to address their concerns,” Grossenbacher wrote. “However, I reject their assertion
deserves to know and the employees deserve to know. ITS THE ETHICAL AND TRANSPARENT THING TO DO!!! [sic]” Dossett didn’t reply to his email. Instead, another lab employee emailed Stanton back, letting him know he was on the schedule for the following morning to have his home surveyed by Oak Ridge. He refused. Stanton’s email exchange with Dossett reflected his increasing willingness to speak out to upper management. He filed the whistleblower complaint alleging that BEA created an unsafe work environment
the top: “TERMINATION OF EMPLOYMENT.” Grossenbacher told BW that he was twice seen sleeping on the job, a claim Stanton bitterly rejects. But his relationship with INL is far from over. He’s waiting for mediations between him and the company by May 2014. If that doesn’t go well, he expects his day in court next spring. He’s continued his personal investigation with vigor. Jodi still works out at the INL, but she continues to worry every day about her husband and possible long-term health
Jodi Stanton becomes emotional while talking about her family’s struggles in the aftermath of her husband’s exposure to plutonium in 2011.
that BEA hasn’t taken responsibility for this incident and doesn’t value human life.” Three months after Grossenbacher’s letter to the editor, the printed argument continued. This time, the letter came from Jodi, who, using fewer than 300 words, poured out her frustrations in a flood of raw accusations, a rant on how she felt BEA failed at every turn and a demand that the company believe her when she said her house was poisoned. Because of all the press, Dossett said she went to each of the 16 workers who experienced the 2011 exposure and offered them in-home surveys in December 2013. Four of them took the offer. The surveys— conducted by Tennessee-based Oak Ridge Laboratory, which is funded by DOE and run by UT-Battelle, LLC.—showed nothing abnormal. Stanton wrote an email to Dossett recommending the company that cleaned his carpets less than a month after the exposure also be surveyed, as well as the houses the carpet cleaners went to next. “Sharon, it is my expectation that you and I will visit the local business owner and home owners together,” Stanton wrote. “We will explain what happened. Should they ask why DOE and BEA sat on this information for so long, I expect that you will answer them truthfully and honestly. Sharon, its time for the truth. The public
and then—he alleges—retaliated against him by forcing him to see a psychologist. He pushed the lab internally to admit contamination doses were higher than reported, and appeared on the front page of the paper. Stanton said his superiors started to chip away at his credibility. His annual performance reviews used to say things like, in 2010: “Ralph was recognized for his ability to work safely and promote safety among the crew by being awarded the ‘You Shine’ safety award,” and, in 2011: “Ralph takes policies and procedures seriously. … Ralph has a perfect safety record this year. Ralph keeps the issue of safety on his fellow worker’s minds at all times. … Ralph was commended for his courage to speak up and be heard. One of Ralph’s most admirable qualities is he maintains the highest standards of personal integrity.” By 2012, his scores had fallen to 1’s and 2’s on all marks, from “Safety” and “Teamwork” to “Respect” and “Integrity.” He started being written up for things like having his feet on the desk. He was written up when inappropriate comments were made about upper management and he “took no action to correct the conduct. [Though] it was reported that you did not make the comments,” the report stated. On Dec. 23, 2013, Stanton received a letter from INL with three words across
problems that could crop up from the exposure. “It hurts me deeply to have to see him go through what he’s gone though, physically, mentally, emotionally. If I could do anything to take it back, and change it, or talk it away, I would,” Jodi said. “But I can’t. All I can do now is try and prevent this from happening to some other family. This will tear a family apart. This will destroy a marriage. All because someone wants a bonus.” The stresses on the Stanton family are obvious. Sitting at their dining room table, 23 family photos hang on the wall behind Ralph, Jodi and Marissa—photos of their older son and his wife, photos of the whole family embracing against a backdrop of autumn leaves. They’re typical family portraits. Everyone in them looks happy. But no one is smiling now.
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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 Festivals & Events IDAHO MEDIA PROFESSIONALS LUNCH—Members of the media are invited to have lunch and mingle, as well as discuss issues related to the media in our community. April’s’s featured speakers are filmmakers David Thompson and Bronwyn Leslie. 11 a.m. FREE-$5. Smoky Mountain Pizza and Pasta, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-4290011, smokymountainpizza.com. NATIONAL HEALTH CARE DECISION DAY—Get information about advance care planning and directive forms such as power of attorney and living wills. 10 a.m. FREE. Harrison’s Hope Hospice, 3137 S. Meridian Road, Ste. 120, Meridian, 208-947-6800, nationalhealthcaredecisionsday. org.
HIVE FILMMAKING WORKSHOP FOR TEENAGE GIRLS—Register through May 16 for The HIVE, sponsored by the Idaho Film Office and Surel’s Place. Selected participants learn how to write, direct, film and edit their own short films, to be premiered at a public screening. Workshops are June 20-22 and June 27-29. Email dthompsonfilms@gmail.com for application and details. $20, Surel’s Place, 212 E. 33rd St., surelsplace.org. SCHOOL BREAK PROGRAM— Celebrate Earth Day early with earth-friendly crafts and science activities and a wastewater treatment plant tour. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-489-1284, cityofboise.org/bee/watershed.
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CHEF SERIES DINNERS—Space is limited, keeping the experience special and intimate so guests enjoy not only the three-course meal and wine, but the preparation of the food by Chef Felix Gonzalez. Call for reservations. 6 p.m. $75. Sawtooth Botanical Garden, 11 Gimlet Road, Ketchum, 208-7269358, sbgarden.org.
On Stage BOMBSHELL TRASHION SHOW—Check out the costumes created by local artists and designers from 100 percent post-consumer materials. Hosted by Bombshell Salon as part of Aveda’s Earth Month. Proceeds benefit Idaho Rivers United and Global Green Grants. 7 p.m. $10. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557. COLLEGE OF IDAHO THEATRE DEPARTMENT: A LIE OF THE MIND—Sam Shepard’s family drama set in the American West tells the story of two families whose lives are forever altered by an incident of domestic violence. For tickets and info, call the Langroise
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WICKED—Winner of 35 major awards, including a Grammy and three Tony Awards, Wicked returns to Boise to give audiences the untold story of the witches of Oz . Tickets at boisestatetickets. com. 7:30 p.m. $55-$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.
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Workshops & Classes BACKYARD COMPOSTING— Learn how to assist nature in making compost. For more info or to register, visit the website. 6:30 p.m. $10-$15. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.
Literature HISTORICAL SOCIETY BOOK DISCUSSION—Archivist Steve Barrett will lead a discussion of Stephanie McCurry’s Confederate Reckoning: Power and Politics in the Civil War South. Then stay for a guided tour of the “Abraham Lincoln: His Legacy in Idaho” permanent exhibit. 6 p.m. FREE. Idaho State Archives, 2205 N. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208) 334-2620, history.idaho. gov/idaho-state-archives. POETRY NIGHT WITH LIVE POETS OF IDAHO—Poetry reading in the Riverside Reading Room. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary. org.
Talks & Lectures TEACHING YOUNG KIDS IN THE DIGITAL AGE—Author and teacher Diane Levin talks about how to promote optimal development and learning for today’s kids as they grow up in an environment saturated with media and technology. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-5800, boisestate.edu.
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SWITCHFOOT: FADING WEST (ATLANTIC RECORDS) It has been more than a decade since Switchfoot first broke into the mainstream with its rock single “Meant to Live,” and little has changed in all that time. The band is still one of the more thought-provoking rock groups out there, writing songs that are simply about being human—warts and all—albeit with a Christian bent. Switchfoot’s latest effort, Fading West, is no different in any of these regards, though it is different in some notable ways. The album, inspired by and written during the band’s 2012 world tour, veers from sounding like a traditional pop-rock record to achieve a more organic aesthetic. “Let it Out” is guided by a sort of tribal percussion and “BA55” features a more ambient, at times droney rock sound, which gives the song a more ethereal feel. Because of flourishes like these, the music on this album feels a bit more diverse than previous efforts. Also worth noting is the fact that the lyrical themes on this record are different. Most of Switchfoot’s discography is characterized by meaty, philosophical content. But a large chunk of Fading West is actually simpler than that, though far from simplistic. “When We Come Alive” is like a moment of rebirth and “Who We Are” is an unabashedly hopeful song featuring kids singing along to the chorus. It’s hard to judge this album without thinking of it as a foil or at least a bookend to 2011’s Vice Verses. After all the tension, struggle and build-up of that album, to then follow it with an album that feels like an explosion of joy is too coincidental—Fading West expresses a weight that has been lifted from the band, if only for this season of its life, and it’s a pretty solid release. —Brian Palmer
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8 DAYS OUT box office at 208-459-5426. 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208459-5011. COMEDIAN SIMON LOVELL— With featured act Olek Szewczyk. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com. IDAHO DANCE THEATRE SPRING PERFORMANCE—This is IDT’s final performance with longtime co-artistic director and choreographer Carl Rowe. See Picks, Page 22. 7 p.m. $10-$37. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, idahodancetheatre.org. RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: GAME ROOM—Explore interpretations of game shows, board games, classic arcades and even sports through aerial acrobatics, burlesque, boylesque, comedy, modern dance and more. Buy advance tickets at redlightgameroom.bpt.me. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, rlvs-boise.com.
and refreshments. There will be a short seminar on the benefits of sports taping and stretching for improved performance and injury prevention. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Therapeutic Associates Physical Therapy-Meridian, 3645 E. Overland Road, Meridian, 208888-7765, therapeuticassociates. com.
FRIDAY APRIL 18 Festivals & Events RECORD STORE DAY LISTENING PARTY AND FILM SCREENING— Screening of the documentary Last Store Standing, plus Payette Brewing Co. beer, 20 percent off used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes, and raffle prizes, including drawings for the first five places in line on Record Store Day. 5 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.
SPANK! HARDER: THE SEQUEL—Check out the sequel to the satirical play Spank! The Fifty Shades Parody. 5:30 p.m. and 9 p.m. $30. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.
SECOND CHANCE SQUARE DANCE—Enjoy a modern take on the old-time hootenanny featuring the infectious swing of an authentic acoustic string band. All ages, full bar (I.D. required). 7 p.m. $7. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.
WICKED—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. $55-$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.
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Workshops & Classes TREE CIRCUS—Check out this fun, entertaining and educational family program featuring modern-day Johnny Appleseed Tim Womick. For more info, visit treefamily.org/see.html. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3844076, boisepubliclibrary.org.
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COLLEGE OF IDAHO THEATRE DEPARTMENT: A LIE OF THE MIND—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5011. COMEDIAN SIMON LOVELL— See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.
An Evening with George Winston—Grammy Award-winning solo pianist performs. Take canned goods for a food drive to benefit the Idaho Foodbank. 8 p.m. $30 adv., $33 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net. IDAHO DANCE THEATRE SPRING PERFORMANCE—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $10-$37. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, idahodancetheatre.org. RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: GAME ROOM—See Thursday. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com. TREBELLE PIANO TRIO—Violinist Jennifer Dunn, cellist Heidi Nagel, and pianist Robyn Wells perform “Suite in A” by American composer Horatio Parker, and “Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor” by Felix Mendelssohn. 7:30 p.m. By donation. Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208459-5011. WICKED—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $55-$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate. edu.
Art PRIMAVERA III—One-night group art exhibition features drawings and paintings, jewelry, ceramics and sculpture from Boise artists Karen Bubb, Amber Day, Kevin Flynn, Matt Grover, Pat Kilby, Karen Klinefelter, Hannah Taylor, Rachel Teannalach, Genie Sue Weppner and Olive Wicherski. 7 p.m. FREE. Beside Bardenay, 612 Grove St., Boise, 208-426-0538, bardenay.com.
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HAPPY HOUR BOOK CLUB— Featured selection: Wild by Cheryl Strayed. 5:30 p.m. FREE. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.
Talks & Lectures CONVERSATION ON GENDER, SEXUALITY AND CENSORSHIP IN IDAHO—The Boise State Gender Studies Club presents a panel discussion of the graphic novel Blue is the Warmest Color, the tender story of a young woman who becomes captivated by a girl with blue hair—the film by the same name was recently banned in Boise. 6 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.
Odds & Ends THERAPEUTIC ASSOCIATES ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY—Meet the clinic staff, learn what makes Therapeutic Associates effective and enjoy food
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8 DAYS OUT Literature MFA READING SERIES: BRIAN BLANCHFIELD—Brian Blanchfield is the author of two books of poetry, as well as a chapbook. His collection of essays in progress, “Onesheets,” was a finalist for a 2013 Creative Capital Innovative Literature grant. For more info, visit english.boisestate.edu/mfa/visiting-writers. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208426-INFO, sub.boisestate.edu.
Talks & Lectures BIKE TALKS—BBP will host a featured guest presenter or bikerelated lecture on the third Friday of each month. See website for more info. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. SOCIAL RELATIONS IN A DIGITAL AGE—Explore the effects that technology is having on social relationships. Featuring key note speaker Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden, presentations, information tables and technology demonstrations. 9 a.m. FREE. College of Western Idaho-Nampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportunity Drive, Nampa, 208-562-3400, cwidaho.cc.
Kids & Teens TEEN MINUTE TO WIN IT— Teens, got skills? Try out some fun and hilarious challenges and
win prizes. For ages 12-18. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org.
SATURDAY APRIL 19 Festivals & Events CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—Check out the opening of the market on Eighth and Idaho Streets. See Picks, Page 23. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Eighth Street, Downtown Boise, capitalcitypublicmarket.com. THE CONDOR’S SHADOW DOCUMENTARY—View a screening of The Condor’s Shadow, which documents threats to condors and Joseph Brandt’s efforts to prevent their extinction. See Picks, Page 22. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $18, $15 students and military. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre. net. CWI BIOLOGY CLUB NATIVE PLANT SALE—The club sells native plants to raise money for educational signs in their garden and to educate the community on landscaping with native plants. Also on sale: up-cycled dog leashes made of used climbing rope that would otherwise go into the landfill. 10 a.m. College of Western Idaho-Nampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportunity Drive, Nampa, 208-562-3400, cwidaho.cc.
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EARTH DAY CELEBRATION—Celebrate the earth with eco-friendly games, crafts and activities. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-489-1284, cityofboise.org/ bee/watershed. EARTH DAY WORK DAY—Celebrate Earth Day by helping remove noxious weeds and clean up litter around the shores of Lake Lowell and carry out trail maintenance. Followed by a pizza lunch at the Visitor Center. 9 a.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208467-9278, fws.gov/deerflat. IDAHO GREEN FEST—Celebrate the Earth with live music, performance artists, local food and drinks, and exhibits and presentations. Downtown Boise on Bannock between Capitol and Ninth and on Eighth Street between Bannock and Idaho. 4 p.m. FREE. LEGACY BUCKING BULL DERBY—Check out the 3-year-old bucking bulls with riders. Concessions on site. 7 p.m. $8. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-455-8500, canyoncountyfair.org. LEGACY BUCKING BULL FUTURITY—Two-year-old bulls buck with a machine. 10 a.m. FREE. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-455-8500, canyoncountyfair.org. RECORD STORE DAY AT RECORD EXCHANGE—The Edge gift shop opens at 8 a.m. for line, with free drip coffee and Guru Donuts until 9 a.m. Featuring the release of 400 exclusives, plus Go Listen Boise buskers and bake sale on the sidewalk, and 20 percent off used CDs, vinyl, DVD/Blu-ray and cassettes. Discounts extend through Sunday, April 20. See Culture/ Noise, Page 24. 9 a.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com. SEVEN ARROWS POWWOW—Drummers and dancers come from all over the U.S. and Canada compete in full regalia. The event also showcases singing, storytelling and demonstrations, which help preserve the rich heritage and vibrant culture of Native Americans. Grand entry at noon and 7 p.m. Saturday; noon Sunday. For more info, call 208-426-5950. 10 a.m. FREE-$5. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-5800, boisestate.edu.
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COLLEGE OF IDAHO THEATRE DEPARTMENT: A LIE OF THE MIND—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208459-5011. COMEDIAN SIMON LOVELL— See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com. RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: GAME ROOM—See Thursday. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.
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8 DAYS OUT WICKED—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $55-$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.
Workshops & Classes ADVANCED AERIAL SILKS WORKSHOP—Participants must be able to climb and get into an aerial foot lock on each foot. 3:30 p.m. $25. Ophidia Studio, 2615 W. Kootenai St., Boise, 208-4092403, ophidiastudio.com. BASIC AERIAL SILKS WORKSHOP—Learn climbs, foot locks, inverts and more in this perfect introduction to aerial artistry. 2 p.m. $25. Ophidia Studio, 2615 W. Kootenai St., Boise, 208-4092403, ophidiastudio.com. MAKER CLASS: SEW LIKE A PRO—Learn how to sew a T-shirt into a bag with Chelsea Snow from Bricolage. 2 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.
Art CHRISTEL DILLBOHNER EXHIBITION OPENING RECEPTION— Christel Dillbohner’s evocative multimedia installations are an intriguing blend of visual art, anthropology and landscape. 11 a.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-433-0593, stewartgallery.com.
Literature BOOK, CHEESE AND BEER NIGHT—Featuring an author talk from Tami Parr, and beer and cheese tastings. At the end of the night, take home a custom-made growler full of beer from Bittercreek and a copy of Parr’s Pacific Northwest Cheese. See Picks, Page 22. 7 p.m. $30. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.
Sports & Fitness BOISE STATE MEN’S TENNIS—Vs. Air Force; and vs. San Francisco at 6 p.m. 11 a.m. FREE. Appleton Tennis Center, Boise State campus, Boise, boisestate. edu. LEARN TO SKATE FOR FREE— Workshops are all-ages and free but require registration. 1:30 o.m. and 2 p.m. FREE. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-331-0044, idahoiceworld. com.
Citizen BE EPIC CHARITY INDOOR CYCLING—Support the Jayden DeLuca Foundation’s Cycling for Hearts event and join the Firefighter Cycling Team as they get ready for their epic journey from Boise to San Francisco. Four rides to choose from. Register at jaydendelucafoundation.org/ events or goepiccycling.com/ events. See Picks, Page 22. 9 a.m. $20. GO EPIC Indoor Cycling, 2483 E. Fairview Ave., Ste. 112, Meridian, 208-887-8680, goepiccycling.com/.
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WALK MS BOISE—Help make strides for a world free of multiple sclerosis and raise funds for National MS Society Utah-Southern Idaho Chapter. For more info or to register, visit walkMSidaho.org or call 800-344-4867 (option 2). See Picks, Page 22. 8 a.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise.
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SEVEN ARROWS POWWOW— See Saturday. 10 a.m. FREE-$5. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-5800, boisestate. edu.
EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA— Family friendly community event featuring age-specific egg hunts every 30 minutes for children fourth grade and under. 10 a.m. FREE. First Baptist Church, 607 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-344-7809. EGGSTRAVAGANZA—The egg hunt is not the end of the fun. There will be carnival games, bounce houses, face-painting, interactive Easter story tents, food trucks, train rides and door prizes. 10 a.m. FREE. Karcher Church of the Nazarene, 2515 W. Karcher Road, Nampa, 208-467-7479, karchernaz.org. EGGSTRAVAGANZA 2014—Children of all ages are welcome to experience an egg scramble, craft stations, sugar cookie decorating and photo opportunities. Donations will be accepted to offset event costs. 10 a.m. FREE. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511. FLASHLIGHT EASTER EGG HUNT—Take your own flashlight and search the park for every last egg. For ages 13-17. 9 p.m. $3. Lakeview Park, Garrity Boulevard at 16th Avenue North, Nampa. POOL EASTER EGG HUNT—Enjoy a new way of hunting Easter eggs hidden in the pool. There will be prizes for the eggs you find. Take a waterproof bag to collect your treasures. For ages 12 and younger. 2 p.m. FREE with regular admission. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation.org. TRY HOCKEY FOR FREE—Boys and girls ages 5-13 can give hockey a try in this one-hour clinic. Skates, sticks, gloves and helmets are provided. New players only. Advanced registration is required. 11 a.m. FREE. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-331-0044, idahoiceworld.com. UNPLUG AND BE OUTSIDE— Free green fees on the Wee 9 for kids 17 and younger. Golf clubs are available for use if needed. 12 p.m. FREE. Ridgecrest Golf Club, 3730 Ridgecrest Drive, Nampa, 208-468-9073. Free large bucket of range balls for ages 17 and younger. 12 p.m. FREE. Centennial Golf Course, 2600 Centennial Drive, Nampa, 208-468-5889.
Odds & Ends BANBURY WEDDING SHOW— Check out the venue and wedding vendors, with food and prizes for all. 10 a.m. FREE. Banbury Golf Club, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle, 208-939-3600, banburygolf.com.
Festivals & Events BOISE LIBRARY HOLIDAY CLOSURE—All locations of the Boise Public Library will be closed for the Easter holiday.
On Stage COMEDIAN SIMON LOVELL— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. IDAHO DANCE THEATRE SPRING PERFORMANCE—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $10-$37, idahodancetheatre.org. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise. WICKED—See Wednesday. 1 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. $55-$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.
Literature MFA READING SERIES: ENDI BOGUE HARTIGAN AND ROB SCHLEGEL—Endi Bogue Hartigan is author of Pool [5 choruses] and One Sun Storm. Rob Schlegel is author of The Lesser Fields. For more info, visit english.boisestate. edu/mfa/visiting-writers. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344.
Odds & Ends EASTER BRUNCH—Reservations required at 208-939-4600. 9 a.m. $30-$15, kids 6-12, FREE under 6. Banbury Golf Club, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle, 208-9393600, banburygolf.com. GRAND EASTER BUFFET—Featuring herb-crusted Baron of Beef, carved honey roasted pit ham, apricot-glazed pork loin, chicken Florentine Alfredo, seafood station, plus various breakfast favorites. 9 a.m. $14-$34. Eagle Hills Golf Course, 605 N. Edgewood Lane, Eagle, 208-939-0402, eaglehillsgolfcourse.com.
MONDAY APRIL 21 Citizen BOISE CRAWL FUNDRAISER— Bardenay will donate 20 percent of all pre-tax sales of appetizers, dinner, desserts and drinks to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. 5 p.m. FREE admission. Bardenay, 610 Grove St., Boise, 208-4260538, boisescrawl.org.
Kids & Teens LEGOS AND K’NEX—Tackle fun and challenging projects with the world’s most creative building
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UNPLUG AND BE OUTSIDE: INTRODUCTION TO BIRDS AND BIRDING—Find out what makes a bird a bird and go on a bird-watching hike along the Refuge nature trail. Call or email deerflat@fws.gov to preregister before 3 p.m. April 21. 4 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-4679278, fws.gov/deerflat.
THE CONVERSATION PROJECT—Get prepared for the end of life at this series of “conversations” on three consecutive Tuesdays through May 6. Get more info online at theconversationproject.org. 7 p.m. $30. Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, 11 N. Latah St., Boise, 208-343-6601, ahavathbethisrael. org.
EARTH DAY FAIR—Celebrate Hawthorne Elementary’s brand new school garden and permanent outdoor picnic shelter. Local groups will be there with free hands-on art and garden activities for the kids. 4 p.m. FREE. Hawthorne Elementary School, 2401 W. Targee, Boise.
Literature READINGS AND CONVERSATIONS WITH CHERYL STRAYED—SOLD OUT. 7:30 p.m. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-3871273, egyptiantheatre.net.
On Stage WICKED—See Wednesday. 7:30 p.m. $55-$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.
Talks & Lectures LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: THE SHALLOWS—Check out this series on the humanity of science and technology. Call or check the website for more info. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org. NO WATER NO ENERGY—Find out why the lights will go out if the rivers run dry at this free community program sponsored by Snake River Alliance, Idaho Rivers United, and Boise State University’s Sustainability Club. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Hatch Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-4261677, sub.boisestate.edu.
WEDNESDAY APRIL 23 Festivals & Events DEVELOP.IDAHO 2014 SOFTWARE CONFERENCE— Software developers, designers, IT professionals, entrepreneurs and students can connect with Idaho’s brightest software leaders and special guests. Get more info at idahotechcouncil.org. 1 p.m. FREE-$35. Stueckle Sky Center, Boise State football stadium, Boise.
On Stage COLLEGE OF IDAHO THEATRE DEPARTMENT: A LIE OF THE MIND—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5011. WICKED—See Wednesday, April 16. 7:30 p.m. $55$150. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.
Literature MFA READING SERIES: BENJAMIN PERCY—Benjamin Percy is the author of two novels and two books of short stories. For more info, visit english.boisestate.edu/mfa/visiting-writers. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-INFO, sub.boisestate.edu. NONFICTION BOOK CLUB—Participants will read a book of his or her choice related to a monthly theme. The April theme is “killers.” 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.
Kids & Teens ART MANIA SERIES: WEB WEAVING—Kids ages 6-12 will have a fun time weaving colorful webs using supplies found in most homes. Children should be accompanied by an adult. Part of the library’s Art Mania series for school-age children, offered on the fourth Wednesday each month. 4 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.
Animals & Pets UNPLUG AND BE OUTSIDE: BE THE BIRD—Find out what it’s like to be a bird by doing experiments with different kinds of “beaks” and developing your own bird beak and feet. Call or email deerflat@fws.gov to preregister before 3 p.m. on April 23. 4 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-4679278, fws.gov/deerflat.
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Condors remind us that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
SATURDAY APRIL 19 born to be wild Take a bow, Mr. Rowe.
THURSDAY-SUNDAY APRIL 17-20 swan song IDAHO DANCE THEATRE SPRING PERFORMANCE
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In a recent profile of Idaho Dance Theatre, Boise Weekly looked at the company’s 25-year history of bringing contemporary/modern dance to Boise audiences, its evolution and its many generations of alumni—all of which was fostered by IDT executive director, co-artistic director and choreographer Carl Rowe. IDT’s 2013-14 season will be Rowe’s last, and this year’s Spring Performances, set for Thursday-Sunday, April 17-20, at the Boise State University Special Events Center, will honor the longtime IDT member’s legacy by performing some of his greatest hits. The program will feature five works from Rowe’s oeuvre and will also premiere a new Rowe piece, with music by Jim Cockey commissioned by Rowe and IDT. As part of Rowe’s send-off, the company is also bringing in the College of Idaho’s Langroise Trio, IDT alumnus Yurek Hansen and former Trey McIntyre Project dancer Jason Hartley as special guests. The spring program will also be brought to life by IDT dancers, including Sayoko Knode, Jessica Liu and Nell Rollins. Thursday, April 17, 7 p.m., $5-$10, Friday-Saturday, April 18-19, 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 20, 2 p.m.; $12-$37. Boise State University Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, 208-331-9592, idahodancetheatre.org.
SATURDAY APRIL 19 cause to run or ride WALK MS AND JAYDEN DELUCA FOUNDATION FUNDRAISERS Puerto Rican actor/comedian Ramon Rivero is generally credited as the founding father of the walkathon: In the ’50s, he traversed the 80 miles between San Juan and Ponce on foot to raise awareness for the work being done by the Puerto Rican League
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Against Cancer. Today, walkathons are an extremely popular way for health-related groups to raise both awareness and funds, and participants can do something good for both themselves and the organization without having to train for months beforehand. Walk MS, which has raised nearly $800 million since its inception in 1988, is one such organization, and is looking for teams of runners and volunteers. Runners can expect a 3-mile jog/ run/walk/shuffle (whatever the skill level may be) around Julia Davis Park. Breakfast and snacks will be provided.
THE CONDOR’S SHADOW While once California condors could be found soaring through the skies across the Western United States, by 1982, there were only 22 of the birds spreading their 10-foot wingspans in a small pocket of California. Today, the population has grown to more than 400, occupying habitat in California, as well as the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, thanks to the help of Joseph Brandt, a biologist with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. For a year, filmmaker Jeff McLoughlin followed Brandt’s journey to save these grand birds from extinction. McLoughlin’s documentary film, The Condor’s Shadow, is “set in the ruggedly beautiful Southern California habitat of the iconic California condor that explores the great hope and extreme lengths that biologists, zookeepers, scientists and a feisty condor with the Native American name Pitahsi bring to the task of pulling the condor back from the brink of extinction.” Both Brandt and McLoughlin will be at the Boise screenings and will hold a Q&A after. All proceeds from ticket sales benefit The Peregrine Fund’s California Condor Program. Hold on to your ticket stub because each stub will serve as entry for up to four people to the Velma Morrison Interpretive Center at the World Center for Birds of Prey, where more than 50 condors (18 breeding pairs) live in the Peregrine Fund breeding facility, which works to “establish a self-sustaining population of California condors in the Grand Canyon/Arizona Strip regions of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah.” $18 general, $15 students and military. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.
Bikeathons are a good way to do some good, too, and the Jayden DeLuca Foundation is also looking for health-conscious participants. In May, five firefighters will begin a journey they’re calling Cycling for Hearts: a bicycle ride from Boise to San Francisco in memory of Jayden, who passed away before the age of 3 from heart complications. To support the firefighters, indoor cyclists are invited Saturday, April 19, to join them at Go Epic Cycling for a ride to raise awareness and money for the fight against pediatric heart conditions. For $20, riders can reserve a seat in one of the day’s four ride times and a chance to win some prizes. Walk MS: 8 a.m. Registration fees vary. 700 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-336-0555, walkutu.
nationalmssociety.org. DeLuca Foundation Cycling for Hearts indoor event: 9 a.m. first ride, $20, GO EPIC Indoor Cycling, 2483 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, 208-887-8680, jaydendelucafoundation.org.
SATURDAY APRIL 19 history of the humble curd BOOK, CHEESE AND BEER NIGHT AT REDISCOVERED BOOKS Foodie historians, foodies and historical foodies rejoice—Rediscovered Books is hosting its second annual Book, Cheese and B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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The Grand Entry is a grand tradition.
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to market, to market CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET OPENING DAY It’s Saturday morning. Throw back a cup of coffee and throw on some clothes because it’s time to go to where the people are. And once you hear the peal of the opening bell, you’ll know you’re there: opening day of Capital City Public Market. CCPM, which opens Saturday, April 19, and runs each Saturday through Dec. 20, provides some of the best people watching in the city, as folks come from all over to buy wares sold by vendors lined along Eighth Street. It’s a place to see and be seen, where cowboys, urban gardening enthusiasts, brunchers and children stroll past stalls offering everything from fine art to kettle corn. Street performers will pepper the sidewalks, like Fresco Arts Academy students performing Radiohead covers in front of Artisan Optics, child cello prodigies serenading in front of Pollo Rey, the crooner tucked into the alcove near Jamba Juice and belly dancers and jugglers in the Grove. Market goers will find booths full of locally made and grown foodstuffs, produce, household items and a variety of arts and crafts like handmade hats for wee ones from Angels Chest Boutique, paintings by Betsie Richardson Studio, etched drinking glasses and mugs from Idaho Glass, and custom knives (and sharpening) by Incredible Edge & Michaelangelo Customs. Through October, Capital City Market also hosts events like the Bike to Market/Mothers Day Giveaway on May 10, World Refugee Day on June 29 and the Berry Festival on July 19. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Eighth Street, Downtown Boise, 208-3453499, capitalcitypublicmarket.com.
Beer Night with author Tami Parr. Parr’s recently published book, Pacific Northwest Cheese: A History, highlights regionally relevant trials and tribulations of the humble curd—beginning with fur trappers and ending with modern-day cheese makers throughout Oregon, Washington and Idaho. If you’ve never spent much time considering the cheese on your sandwich or pizza, now might be a good time to reflect. For example, did you know that the production of
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cheese predates recorded history? Or that the true origin of cheese is impossible to pinpoint, with possibilities ranging from the Middle East and Central Asia to Europe and the Sahara? How about the fact that some historians believe cheese was first produced as a byproduct of transporting milk in the bladders of dead ruminates? Velveeta, admittedly a distant cousin to cheese—twice removed—was originally marketed as a nutritious health food but has since been rela-
Powwows have long been central to the life of many Native American tribes as times when members of the community gather to feast, dance, socialize and, in general, celebrate their shared culture. In Boise this week, the Seven Arrows Powwow will combine handcrafts, demonstrations and fierce competition among practitioners of Native American dance and drumming, open to tribal and nontribal members alike. Boise State University’s Multicultural Student Services will host the 21st annual competition in the Student Union’s Jordan Ballroom, with the Grand Entry occurring at noon. For those unfamiliar with a powwow grand entry, it marks the official start of the event, when elders who have served in the Armed Forces are honored with a stately procession. Adding to the pageantry are various flags representing each of the tribes in attendance. Following behind are the dance and drum competitors. The powwow has drawn more than 2,500 spectators in previous years, and Boise State works hard to ensure the event remains true to the Native American tradition. Once the competitions get started, dancers and drummers go head-to-head in various age brackets, both for bragging rights and prize money. A wide variety of vendors will also be on hand, selling everything from beads to knives and jewelry. Winners of the powwow dance and drum competitions will be announced on Saturday evening. The Multicultural Center is joined by Red River Powwow, the MLK Human Rights Committee and Intertribal Native Council of Boise State University in hosting the event. 10 a.m. Grand Entry at noon. Adults $5, children under 12 $3, Boise State students FREE with ID. Nonperishable food donations for the Native American Council of Boise will be taken at the door. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-5950, boisestate.edu/ pow-wow.
beled as a pasteurized recipe cheese product. As lovers of manchego, gouda or even the lesser known and extremely difficultto-find Vacherin Fribourgeois (a cheese sourced from cows fed nothing but wild flowers and alpine grass) will eagerly attest, few things in life rival a really great cheese. Unless you pair it with an equally great
BKR WATER BOTTLES Remember when big plastic water bottles were all the rage? Circa 2006, it was hard to avoid the cylinders hanging from backpacks or cutting imperious profiles on office desks. The water bottle trend declined precipitously after it was discovered the receptacles emitted toxic chemicals into the water they were designed to protect, but they forever established the practice of carrying your own H2O as a fashion statement and accessory of choice. The BKR Bottle ($30 for a 50 ml bottle and $40 for a 1L $30-$40, mybkr.com or atkinbottle) is the next step in the sonsmirrorandglass.com evolution of that trend. Made from recyclable, BPA- and phthalate-free “clean bubbly glass,” the bottles are leak-proof and lightweight, and they don’t degrade, melt, leach carcinogenic chemicals into your beverage of choice or make it taste like oxidation or brushed metal. Caps are made of food-grade polypropylene and have a carabiner-ready ring, and each bottle comes with a silicone sleeve that shields your drink from the rays of the sun and your bottle from accidental fracture. Sleeves come in a cornucopia of colors with cute names: sweet pastels like “cupcake (pale pink)” and “pixie” (light green), deep earthtones like “ever (forest green)” and “rocket (fire-engine red)” and eye-popping brights like the “bambi (neon pink) and “true (bright blue).” Best of all, BKR bottles are available locally at Atkinsons Mirror and Glass. —Harrison Berry
beverage, of course. In full knowledge of such an obvious fact, Rediscovered Books has seen fit to provide the event with various cheesy selections along with hand-selected tasters of finely crafted beer supplied by Bittercreek Alehouse. 7 p.m. $30. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., 208376-4229, rdbooks.org.
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DAY OF THE UNDEAD Score some exclusives and help keep indie retail alive on Record Store Day AMY ATKINS Don’t be an album; shop indie for your music.
RECORD STORE DAY, ER, WEEKEND In the Culture story on this page, we give you a rundown of what exclusive releases a few Record Exchangers are looking forward to as they celebrate the seventh annual Record Store Day Saturday, April 19. We need to clarify two things: 1.) the staff at The Record Exchange made it clear that regardless of how much they might want one (or 20) of the 400 titles available, customers get first choice; and 2.), at The Record Exchange, Record Store Day is a misnomer. It’s a Record Store Weekend. Festivities kick off Thursday, April 17, at 6 p.m. with a rockin’ in-store performance by St. Paul and the Broken Bones presented by 94.9 FM The River and your favorite independent, locally owned alt-weekly newspaper. Friday, April 18, at 6 p.m., the party continues with beer, pizza, a screening of the documentary Last Shop Standing: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the Independent Record Shop, a preview of some of the RSD exclusives and, at 6:30 p.m., a Q&A with store owner Michael Bunnell. You can also enter a raffle to win great prizes, including five spots at the front of the line on Saturday morning. Then on Saturday, The Record Exchange Gift Shop opens at 8 a.m. and will provide free coffee and Guru Donuts for the linestanding diehards waiting for The Record Exchange’s 9 a.m. opening. As a bonus, the first 25 diehards in line will get vouchers that net them a free gift bag with purchase—and one of those bags will have a $50 gift card inside. Outside the store, Go Listen Boise will have a bake sale and buskers. And throughout the whole weekend, Boise Bicycle Project will provide free bike parking and anyone who rides a bike to The Record Exchange April 17-20 will be eligible to win a BBP/Record Store Day prize package. More info on Record Store Day/Weekend is available at recordexchange.com. In other multimedia news, we have added Mixtape to our boiseweekly.com blogs, so we can let readers know about some of the new CDs, DVDs and books that are sent to BWHQ for review but which we don’t have the bandwidth to explore. —Amy Atkins
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Smell is considered the most evocative memory trigger; a particular scent can bring vivid images flooding from the brain’s recesses into conscious thought. Sound—especially music— can unlock the unconscious as well, firing off neurotransmitters that spark visual memories as well as long-ago feelings and emotions. For the record, you won’t find better deals on exclusive titles anywhere, anytime. Record Store Day was founded in 2007 and is celebrated at more than 700 independent record stores both nationally and first dates and hook-ups take place in our ings from Devo with an introduction by internationally. But it is not only a way for aisles and I’ve watched loners wander the David Bowie, made O’Neil’s list, along with a community to support its purveyor of the racks or sit for hours at the listening stations, platforms upon which so many of our memo- Ultimate Alternative Wavers, the first album being in the public on their own terms. I’ve ries are made; it’s also a chance for music lov- by indie-rock innovators Built To Spill; and a ers to score some sweet finds, as record labels 7-inch from Tayla Lynn, a new musician with heard roars of laughter and squeals of delight as customers discover unusual items in the an old-school pedigree: She’s Loretta Lynn’s both big and small release a grip of titles gift shop. I’ve watched children attend their granddaughter. exclusive to independent music stores. This Chad Dryden, The Record Exchange’s mar- first live music performance, talk to their first year, more than 400 titles on vinyl, CD, cassette, digital, and multimedia formats will be keting and promotions director and co-found- rock star and discover their first artist on er of the Vinyl Preservation Society, had a long their own. I’ve seen some of the world’s best available at every store involved—including list of must-hears, which included old and new musicians perform on our stage, including an Boise’s own indie, The Record Exchange— alike. He agreed with O’Neil on Devo, adding astonishing number of talented local artists. but numbers are limited, so when they’re I’ve watched every type of music fan come in a vinyl reissue of Joy Division’s first EP, An gone they’re gone. and marvel at a new discovery and I’ve seen Exclusives are by artists all along the musi- Ideal for Living; Public Enemy’s It Takes a our amazing staff thoughtfully serve them, Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on vinyl cal spectrum, from Aerosmith to ZZ Ward and serve the community as a whole through or, as Dryden put it, “PE’s first masterpiece with everyone and everything in between— an unwavering support of Boise’s music back on wax where it deserves to be.” Mix even musical comedy from Cheech and master John Morales also made the cut, as did scene. All of this comes together on our most Chong and The Lonely Island. (Find the full a 12-inch from Rick James, because it includes revered day of the year, Record Store Day. list at recordexchange.com.) “Record Store Day is an affirmation for all a Morales mix and “the cover is badass. Also, To drill down the list to some of the of us who love and support independent reit’s Rick James.” Dryden also included a box highlights, we asked a few people who know tail—not just music retail—and I’m proud my set on which various artists, including Youth a little something about music and music husband, Michael Bunnell, helped conceive Lagoon, contributed “space-inspired tracks,” stores to share their top picks. Interestingly, the idea and sits on the board of directors that they each had something in their list from the and the RPM Turntable Football 12-inch, oversees this successful, international event. which is “literally a football game played on past—a memory trigger of their own. Record Store Day is a day for music lovers a turntable using a specially grooved record. Mike Bunnell, co-owner and executive to score amazing exclusive titles and a day to Too weird not to love.” director of the Coalition of Independent celebrate music culture, but it’s also a day to The Record Exchange co-owner Jil Sevy Music Stores, looks forward to releases from show support for indie retail. I have a lot of gave us her list, too, which includes Built to some of rock music’s elder statesmen like people tell me they share my love of the store Spill, Bob Wills and Velvet Common Ground: Dave Alvin and downtown Boise and how they always Underground, as well as & Phil Alvin Play and Sing bring out-of-state friends and relatives in to Mazzy Star on clear vinyl The Songs of Big Bill Broonzy; RECORD STORE DAY ‘see’ The Record Exchange and the rest of and The Pogues’ Live with reissues of Velvet Underground Saturday, April 19 the shops in the neighborhood. But often in Joe Strummer, the “first and the Yardbirds; unreleased 9 a.m.-10 p.m., FREE. The the same breath they tell me it’s been months U.S. release of the famous music by brilliant bassist Jaco Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., 208-344-8010, or even years since they actually shopped the 1991 performance when Joe Pastorius; and Alternate Takes, therecordexchange.com. store or the downtown area themselves. I Strummer sat in for Shane an album of alternate versions MacGowan.” Sevy also added guess most people just assume that someone from Gram Parsons’ first two else is doing the supporting or that because some “personal musings” on solo albums. the stores are still open they don’t need to Longtime Record Exchange manager John why she feels Record Store Day is important make the effort. Nothing could be further beyond what it does for independent music O’Neil is also looking forward to some new from the truth. Record Store Day reminds stores and how it can be a reminder of what releases/reissues by old-school masters. He us that independently owned shops like ours it means to be part of a community: also has Dave and Phil Alvin’s take on Big have value and create a sense of ‘place’ for a “I’ve witnessed multiple generations Bill Broonzy on his list, as well as Donny lot of people and that we need to cherish and of Boiseans fall in love with The Record Hathaway, Die Kreuzen and Bob Wills and support indie retail throughout our commuExchange and become lifelong customers,” The Texas Playboys. Live at Max’s Kansas nity, throughout the year.” City 11/15/77, comprised of early live record- Sevy wrote in an email. “I’ve seen countless B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
B3 SIDE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill
SPACE CAR—8 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe
BROOK FAULK AND DARYL DASHER—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue Gallery
CLOUD MOVER—With Spencer Rule. 7:30 p.m. FREE. The District
SOUL PARTY WITH DJ DUSTY C—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux
CHARLIE WORSHAM—8 p.m. $13-$25. Knitting Factory
CYPRESS BROTHERS—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s
CUNNINLYNGUISTS—Featuring Sadistik, J-Live, Nemo, and Nemo Achida. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux
CLUB REV: DIZZY WRIGHT—9 p.m. $3. Revolution
DOUG CAMERON—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub
COSMONAUTS—8 p.m. $5. Flying M Coffeegarage
HILLFOLK NOIR—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow
FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
FIVESTAR CD RELEASE PARTY—With Storie Grubb and the Holy Wars, Cutting Cages, and Give Chase. 8 p.m. $6. The Crux
KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
GEORGE WINSTON—8 p.m. $30 adv., $33 door. Egyptian
IKE FONSECA—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s
JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
OLYGHOST AND GUESTS—10 p.m. $5. Liquid
JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES—6 p.m. Record Store Day Weekend kickoff in-store concert. FREE. The Record Exchange; and 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux
PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
VOICE OF REASON—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
WEDNESDAY APRIL 16 BROOK FAULK AND DARYL DASHER—5:30 p.m. FREE Flatbread-Bown
PEELANDER-Z, APRIL 22, NEUROLUX What do you get when you combine giant foam headpieces, costume colors reminiscent of the Power Rangers, a cosmic anime aesthetic and Japanese punk music? New York City-based band Peelander-Z. The uninitiated could understandably underestimate the group and dismiss it as a novelty act, but since its founding in the late ’90s, Peelander-Z has recorded and toured extensively, providing audiences an unrivaled visual and aural experience. The band’s 2013 release, Metalander-Z (Chicken Ranch Records), saw the “action comic punk band” looking to metal music (and a few “hair metal” bands) for inspiration, finding it among albums like AC/DC’s High Voltage, Cinderella’s Night Songs, Def Leppard’s Pyromania, Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast, Motley Crue’s Too Fast for Love and Van Halen’s 1984. But make no mistake, Peelander-Z is in its own world (members will tell you they hail from the Z area of the planet Peelander) and you don’t want to miss a chance to visit. —Amy Atkins
NNU LIVE JAZZ—8 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage ONWARD, ETC.—7 p.m. $5. The Crux
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MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club POKE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s PROPHETS OF ADDICTION AND DYING FAMOUS—7 p.m. FREE. Sundance Saloon REVOLVER GOLDEN GODS TOUR—Featuring Black Label Society, Devil You Know and Butcher Babies. 8 p.m. $30-$65. Knitting Factory
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With In the Whale, 7 p.m., $5. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.
MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—6:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s
ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
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SATURDAY APRIL 19 CHARLES ELLSWORTH BAND— 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CIRCLE TAKES THE SQUARE— With Ditch Tiger and Red Hands Black Feet. 8 p.m. $8-$10. The Crux ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JACK LOYD GISH—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s
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Please join us in support of the Idaho Food Bank by bringing a donation of canned food to the concert. Collection baskets at the entrances. $27 in advance, $30 day of show, plus $3 service fee. Reserved seating. All ages.
“One of the hottest axmen of the last few years doesn’t actually play guitar.” - Rolling Stone
A musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable. alculable.
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WEST WATER OUTLAWS—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s
Call (208) 387-1273 Tues – Sat 11am – 6pm to charge by phone
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$28 in advance, $33 day of show, plus $3 service fee. Reserved seating. All ages.
TERRY JONES & CLAY MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill
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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE GUIDE KAYLEIGH JACK—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
CHUCK SMITH—2 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
MICHAELA FRENCH—7:30 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe
ERIC GRAE, TERRI EBERLEIN AND TODD DINNIGAN—9 a.m. FREE. Berryhill
MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club OLD DOGS AND NEW TRICKS—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s
FRANK MARRA—10:30 a.m. FREE. Chandlers JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s
SEAN FLINN AND THE ROYAL WE—With Bread & Circus. 9 p.m. $5. Bouquet
JOSHUA COOK & THE KEY OF NOW—With Super 78! and Frankie Tillo. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux
SIMPLE RUCKUS—10 p.m. $5. Reef
SEVENDUST—8:30 p.m. $23$60. Knitting Factory
WOMEN’S AND CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE BENEFIT—Featuring Gorcias, Ghostbox and Malachi. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux
THE SIDEMEN—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
THE WOOLY BUGGERS—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub
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SUNDAY APRIL 20 AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s BLAZING HIP-HOP—Featuring Stranger Danger, Zabian, Earthlings, CAMP, Jacob Ray, GLife & DJ Pookie, Cramebroolay and Donnie Bonelli. 9 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement BROOK FAULK AND DARYL DASHER—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
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BERNIE REILLY BAND—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill CHUCK SMITH AND NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers WAYNE WHITE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow ZACH RYAN AND THE RENEGADES—9 p.m. FREE. The Crux
TUESDAY APRIL 22
BARBARA LAING AND KAYLEIGH JACK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow
BOISE OLD TIME JAM—6:30 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
BROOK FAULK AND DARYL DASHER—9 p.m. FREE. Reef
KEVIN KIRK AND SALLY TIBBS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
COUNTRY CLUB—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s
TY CLAYTON—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s
FRANZ FERDINAND—With Cate Le Bon. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. Knitting Factory
THREE 6 MAFIA (NOW KNOWN AS DA MAFIA 6IX)—With The Menace, Twisted Insane, Whitney Peyton, Sozay, Olyghost, Known and MC Kado. 8:30 p.m. $15-$30. Knitting Factory
THE HAGUE—With Fox Alive, Obscured By The Sun, Reverie, Sheep Among Wolves. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux
PEELANDER-Z AND IN THE WHALE—With In the Whale. See Listen Here, Page 22. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux
KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers
PREDATORY LIGHT—7 p.m. $5. The Crux RADIO BOISE SOCIAL HOUR: DJ GILBERT—5:30 p.m. FREE. Neurolux
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JOHNNY SHOES—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel
LINDSEY SAUNDERS—7 p.m. FREE. Bouquet LIQUID LATE NIGHTS—Featuring live electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—6:30 p.m. Willi B’s MOBB DEEP—7 p.m. $20 adv., $23 door. Neurolux ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s
V E N U E S Don’t know a venue? Visit www.boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map.
FRANZ FERDINAND, APRIL 23, KNITTING FACTORY When Franz Ferdinand delivered its debut self-titled full-length in 2004, you couldn’t listen to the radio for long without hearing the jangly “Take Me Out”; you couldn’t flip through a music magazine without reading something about FF frontman Alex Kapranos. The band was everywhere. Awards were won. A 2005 Boise Weekly review of FF’s first album rightly suggested it was “time to check out Franz Ferdinand before its 15 minutes of darlinghood is over.” That kind of momentum can propel a band into the stratosphere, from which a fall can be painful. But rather than soar too close to the sun or crash and shatter, FF managed to keep it together despite the celebrity. In that same review, we wrote FF’s music “relies on a solid arty, confident, post-punk/modern-rock foundation—catchy, danceable tunes with repetitive beats and repetitive lyrics that drive the songs home.” By staying true to its original shape without being stunted, FF continues to be a worthy draw regardless of who is (or isn’t) talking about it. —Amy Atkins With Cate Le Bon, 8 p.m., $22.50-$50. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.
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Saddle up for the 2014 Idaho Horse Expo.
HORSE SHOW, CITY GRANTS AND COMMISSION OPENINGS
Juniper and aspen trees, combined with natural rock formations, make the Bumblie trail a must-visit.
MOTHER NATURE’S OUTDOOR MUSEUM Discovering the City of Rocks SCOTT MARCHANT It isn’t difficult to understand the unfettered appeal of the City of Rocks National Reserve. With its weather-chiseled cliffs, multi-storied pinnacles and smooth granite domes, it’s long been a sought-after destination for rock climbers. Amusing names like Incisor, Anteater, Animal Cracker, Transformer, Banana and Broken Arrow allude to the park’s monolith diversity and it is hard to believe a climber, or any visitor for that matter, who would not be captivated by this rocky Garden of Eden. Maybe one of the best ways to experience the nature reserve is to hike one of the local trails. More than 22 miles of trail intertwine like a web, and you are able to combine routes to create a myriad of out-and-back hikes or combine a few and make an idyllic loop. All trails are well- marked and many of the rock formations are identified with signs. Although the reserve is accessible yearround, spring is best for wildflowers—nearly
500 species of plants are found in the area— with peak color being from mid April to early June. Summer is an excellent choice, too; however, it is also the reserve’s busiest season. Aspen dot the landscape and you will normally find their golden leaves the last two weeks of October. To experience a diverse hike with superlative views, blooming wildflowers, plenty of rock formations and a multitude of intersecting trails, look no further than the Flaming Rock trail. Combining Flaming Rock with the Bumblie trail makes for a pleasant 2.8 mile out-and-back hike. The hike description ends at the base of the colossal Lost Arrow rock formation. An added bonus: Nearby granite knolls provide flat perches to enjoy a snack and contemplate another one of Mother Nature’s outdoor museums. From the Flaming Rock Trailhead, hike west to a junction for Transformer. Continue west, toward Tribal as the trail ascends a
granite knoll and descends to another junction. Continue through a few more junctions, following the signs for the Bumblie trail. At a half mile, turn left at the sign for the Bumblie Wall area. Here the trail passes through juniper and aspen and ascends 200 feet to a gate. Pass through the gate and descend 150 feet as the trail winds down to a small wooden bridge. Cross the bridge and turn left on a small footpath signed for the Lost Arrow. Follow the trail as it gently climbs to the base of the impressive Lost Arrow spire. Retrace your steps back to the trailhead.
HOW TO GET THERE: From Exit 53 in Boise, travel east on I-84, 163 miles to Exit 216. Travel south on Hwy. 77, approximately 23 miles to Elba-Almo Road. Turn right and drive another 16 miles through the small town of Almo. The City of Rocks Visitor Center and park entrance is less than a mile south of Almo.
LISTINGS/REC Register 5TH ANNUAL WEISER RIVER TRAIL 50K RELAY AND ULTRA—The event begins 9 a.m. April 26 at the fairgrounds in Council and ends in Midvale. A lunch will follow. The race benefits the Weiser River Trail. Register online. For detailed race information, visit the Weiser River Trail website. Through April 26. $60 individual, $200 team (up to 5). Adams County Fairgrounds, 2000-2199 S. Galina Road, Council, 208-253-4968.
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NAMPA SUMMER PROGRAM REGISTRATION—Nampa Parks and Recreation Department offers a variety of activities to keep kids and adults active. Sign up online at namparecreation.org, or at the Nampa Rec Center. April 22-May 31, 8 a.m. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation.org.
Recurring BANBURY SPRING JUNIOR PROGRAMS SA1—An eight-session pro-
gram designed to introduce beginning junior golfers pre-K through kindergarten ages to the game of golf. For more info, visit the website. Wednesdays, 3:30-5:30 p.m. Continues through May 21. $225. Banbury Golf Club, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle, 208-939-3600, banburygolf.com. BANBURY SPRING JUNIOR PROGRAMS SA2—An eight-session program designed to introduce beginning junior golfers of all ages to the game of golf. For more info, visit the website. Wednesdays, 5-6:30 p.m. Continues through May 21. $225. Banbury Golf Club, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle,
208-939-3600, banburygolf.com. BANBURY SPRING JUNIOR PROGRAMS SA3—An eight-session program designed to introduce beginning junior golfers of all ages to the game of golf and refine the skills of more advanced players. For more info, visit the website. Fridays, 4:30-6 p.m. Continues through May 23. $225. Banbury Golf Club, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle, 208-939-3600, banburygolf. com. BANBURY SPRING JUNIOR PROGRAMS SA4—An eight-session program designed to introduce beginning
Experts disagree on when humans first domesticated the horse—some say 4,000 years ago, some say 6,000, others claim the process started as far back as 10,000 years ago. Suffice to say, bringing horses into our lives has been one of the most important developments in history. Celebrate all things equine at the Ford Idaho Center Horse Park, where the 28th annual Idaho Horse Expo is set to take place April 18-20. Put on by the Idaho Horse Council, the event covers everything you ever wanted to know about horses and horsemanship: from seminars and classes on all aspects of training, to riding techniques, breed recognition, and care and feeding. There will also be skill demonstrations and competitions each day, showing off some of the best riding and most impressive horses trained by groups ranging from the Boise Pony Club to Ada County Sheriff. Nearly 100 vendors will be on hand throughout the show, plus kids’ activities, silent auctions and a horse sale. The expo runs Friday, April 18, from 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturday, April 19, from 9 a.m.9 p.m.; and Sunday, April 20, from 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Tickets are $10 for adults and $8 for seniors at the door. Advance tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors. Youth 12 and under get in free. Go to idahohorsecouncil. com for more info. Going from horses to two-wheeled steeds, the Lusk Street neighborhood is set to receive new bike racks, paid for with $12,600 from a City of Boise Neighborhood Reinvestment Grant. The bike racks are one of 41 grants to be awarded this year, totaling $288,812. To see more recipients, go to Citydesk on boiseweekly.com. And speaking of government entities, if you ever thought you’d like to contribute to wildlife conservation beyond writing a check or two, now’s your chance. Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter is accepting applications for two positions on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission. To be considered, applicants must be residents of either the southwest or southeast regions of Idaho and be “well informed and interested in wildlife conservation and restoration,” according to a news release. Appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Idaho Senate, Fish and Game commissioners serve four-year terms and meet five times a year: January, March, May, July and November. For more info, call Ann Beebe in the governor’s office at 208-334-2100 or email ann. beebe@gov.idaho.gov. Applications must be emailed or postmarked by May 9. —Zach Hagadone
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REC/LISTINGS junior golfers ages 11-15 to the game of golf and refine the skills of more advanced players. For more info, visit the website. Fridays, 6-7:30 p.m. Continues through May 23. $225. Banbur y Golf Club, 2626 N. Mar ypost Place, Eagle, 208-939-3600, banbur ygolf.com. BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT OPEN SHOP—Donate unwanted bicycles or equipment to a good cause and receive a tax write-off. The shop is also open at the same time for volunteers interested in working on bicycles for children of low-income families, refugees and Boise’s homeless population. For more info, visit the website or call the shop. Wednesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Dec. 31. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. DUMP LOOP RIDE—Meet up weekly on Wednesdays for a fast recreational ride and a beverage at The Modern after ward. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. Continues through May 7. FREE. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com. SATURDAY NIGHT OPEN GYM ROCK CLIMBING—Climb your cares away in a beginner-friendly gym, featuring a variety of slopes, routes and elements. Use their gear or take your own. The staff will get beginners trained and climbing in just a few minutes. Subject to cancellation, so call or check the website. Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. Continues through May 31. $10. Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Centur y Way, Boise, 208-3763641, wingscenter.com. TREASURE VALLEY SINGLES CLUB WALKS—Meet by the bandstand. Call Fred at 208384-0438 for info. Mondays, 5 p.m. Continues through May 12. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise.
UNPLUG AND BE OUTSIDE: TRAVELING PLAYGROUND— Enjoy organized activities such as soccer, football, basketball, jump rope activities, volleyball, tag games and more. All equipment provided. Mon., April 21, 4-5 p.m. FREE. Lions Park, 409 Lyons Drive, at the corner of Davis Avenue and Winther Boulevard, Nampa, 208-468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org. Enjoy organized activities such as soccer, football, basketball, jump rope activities, volleyball, tag games and much more. All
equipment provided. Tue., April 22, 4-5 p.m. FREE. Liberty Park, 520 N. Liberty, Boise. WEST VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER 5K/10K—Starts at West Valley Medical Center, winds through town, along the Indian Creek (through College of Idaho out to the Caldwell Family YMCA for the 10K run) and back to hospital. Register at ymcatvidaho. org. Sat., April 19, 10 a.m.12:30 p.m. $30. West Valley Medical Center, 1717 Arlington, Caldwell.
REC/PLAY WRINGING THE SLOPES DRY The last day of ski season is bittersweet. The morning snow is chattery and unforgiving, while an hour later, the snow gets so soft you can’t tell anymore if you’re snow skiing or water skiing. But good snow or not, it’s still something we’ll miss for the next seven months. I hit the slopes on the last day of the season for Brundage Mountain Resort, and shared in the bittersweetness with other goggle-tanned ski bums hoping to get the very most from the snow melting beneath their feet. I asked folks to finish one simple sentence to sum it all up: “I ski because…” —Jessica Murri “I ski because of the freedom it allows me to enjoy the mountains. I don’t really go to, like, a church, but being out here in nature, this is the cathedral that I aspire to.” —Steve Wesley, British Columbia Steve Wesley
“I ski because I get to hang out with my inner child on the slopes. I’m 27. She’s 6. Halloween is the only other time she comes out. And Tour de Fat.” —Megan Shellhorn, Boise
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TREASURE VALLEY SINGLES CLUB—Bowl weekly on Tuesdays with other club members. Call Roberto at 208-342-0243 for more info. Tuesdays, 1 p.m. Continues through May 14. FREE admission. Westy’s Garden Lanes, 5504 Alworth St., Garden City, 208-376-6555, westysgardenlanes.com. UNPLUG AND BE OUTSIDE IDAHO—Kids, teens and adults are invited to “unplug” April 19-26 by participating in free or low-cost activities in Boise, Meridian, Nampa and Star. For a complete schedule of events, visit unplugandbeoutside.com. April 19-26. UNPLUG AND BE OUTSIDE: PARK BINGO—Pick up your game card and then explore the park and see if you can fill in the squares. Tue., April 22, 4:30-5:30 p.m. FREE. Lions Park, 409 Lyons Drive, at the corner of Davis Avenue and Winther Boulevard, Nampa, 208468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org. Pick up your game card and then explore the park and see if you can fill in the squares. Tue., April 22, 4:305:30 p.m. FREE. West Park, Lone Star Road and Midland Boulevard, Nampa, www.nampaparksandrecreation.org.
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“I ski, because. Period. It’s everything. I’ve been skiing for 53 years. These ski boots are from 1984, and they’re the best boots I ever had. I’m never giving them up.” —Kevin Gray, Council Kevin Gray
“I ski because nothing else matters when I shred. Rent, girlfriends, nothing. I will miss the employment, though. Now I have to go get a real job.” —Kyle Freeman, McCall
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BLACKMAKER, $17.95 With a distinctive whiff of root beer candies on the nose, Blackmaker is anything but subtle. Though it’s the least alcoholic of the three—clocking in at 35 percent ABV—Blackmaker has the harshest alcohol burn on the palate, which it counters with an equally aggressive syrupy sweetness. As one taster put it, “Blackmaker is the root beer version of Fireball.” This one’s meant to be shot not savored. ART IN THE AGE: ROOT, $33.95 With a sleek wooden topper and an illustrated guide to the its certified organic botanicals—including anise, allspice, smoked black tea, wintergreen and birch bark—Root nails the folksy, apothecary aesthetic. Thankfully, it’s not just good packaging. The nose boasts complex notes of cardamom and clove that continue to the equally nuanced palate. While one taster crowned it “the American version of Fernet,” another called it “oppressively esoteric.” UNDERGROUND, $17.95 Though not technically labeled “root beer,” this “handcrafted herbal spirit” fits comfortably into the category. Bottled by Ogden’s Own Distillery in Ogden, Utah, Underground blends 33 herbs and spices, including cassia, angostura, anise, cardamom, gentian, wormwood, mate, guarana, ginseng and molasses. The result is a balanced, lightly sweet libation dubbed “a cross between Jäger and root beer,” and the panel’s favorite. —Tara Morgan
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Root beer alcohol has deep roots: first brewed in the 18th century as a lightly alcoholic tea, then introduced commercially in 1876 by Philadelphia pharmacist Charles Hires as a nonalcoholic thirst-quencher. The drink boasts a complex, highly varied combination of botanicals—ranging from sarsaparilla to birch bark to dandelion root. Whether you serve it on ice or ladled over vanilla ice cream, root beer booze definitely deserves a spot in your liquor cabinet.
SATURDAY MORNING SPECIAL Exploring Orient Market’s weekly shipment of fresh produce and meat TARA MORGAN Every Saturday morning, far from the stroller and canvas tote bag mayhem of Boise’s downtown farmers markets, another market Need some bitter melon? Running low on chicken feet? Get down to the Orient Market, but get there early. pops up quietly on the Boise Bench. Beginning at 8 a.m., the Orient Market parking lot off Emerald and Orchard streets fills up with avalanche of ice. And things get even stranger when you cars and an assortment of families file into On a recent Saturday morning, the store’s head to the meat counter in the back of the the well-lit store. truck had broken down en route to Boise and store. Dozens of metal trays rest on a bed of Inside, the formerly fallow produce aisle Ta stood at the store’s entrance instructing crushed ice. Inside, there’s an almost theatrinow teems with unfamiliar fresh vegetables, disappointed customers to come back later. cally gruesome array of animal bits—severed fruits and roots. In the refrigerator case, plas“We don’t have veggies ’til 2 p.m. today,” tic bags are stuffed with leafy greens like sweet pink pork snouts and ears, beef bones sawed into hunks, fresh chicken feet and he told a young mom, pushing her baby potato leaves, watercress and toward the door in a shopping cart. even pork uteri. red shen choy. On the top shelf, ORIENT MARKET Sighing, she turned the cart around and Orient Market Owner Hoa Ta there’s a collection of smaller bags 4806 W. Emerald St. said the store sends a truck to Los headed back to the car. Word soon spread like filled with fresh spices—fresh 208-342-5507 wildfire around the parking lot and the cars Angeles every week to pick up curry leaves, Thai basil, fresh bay departed as quickly as they had arrived. By 4 this bountiful shipment. One of leaves. Across the aisle, rows of p.m. that afternoon, the late shipment of fresh his most popular items is the whole fish. open cardboard boxes boast roped bundles produce, fish and meats had already been “We do a lot of fresh fish—red snapper, of Chinese long beans, pointed purple banana picked over. Which goes to show, whether it’s tilapia, tuna, mackerel, yellowtail,” said Ta, blossoms and spiky India bitter melons. the farmers market or the Orient Market, it gesturing toward a colorful assortment of There’s even a box of thorny durians—the pays to get there early. fish, their heads peeking out from beneath an fruit famous for its stinky, custard-y pulp.
FOOD/NEWS A BIT OF BRUNCH Whether your celebration of Easter is ecclesiastical or egg-lesiastical, chances are you’ll be brunching on Sunday, April 20. To help you find a better buffet experience, Boise Weekly has compiled this (by no means complete) list of where you break that long Lenten fast, or just enjoy a little midmorning decadence. BanBury Golf Course Restaurant is doing brunch the old-fashioned way from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., with buffet-style and full-ser vice omelet and waffle stations. Biscuits and gravy go side-by-side with Asian options like orange chicken and fried rice. Some of the choicest items on the menu are meats, including prime rib, cherr y lamb and bacon. Prices are $28.50 for adults, $14.25 for kids ages 6-12, and free for children ages 6 and under. Call 208-939-4600 for reser vations. As of press time, there were still a few reser vations left at Berryhill & Co. downtown, where from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Chef John Berr yhill is offering hear ty options like hash browns, sausage patties and smoked ham, alongside upscale options like parmesan brie bass, chive biscuits and gravy, and the vegetarian chef scramble. Add to that a slew of desser ts and the bloody mar y bar, and you have a recipe for an unforgettable Easter brunch. Price is $29 per person. Call 208-387-3553 for reser vations. Castle Ranch Steakhouse at the Boise Hotel is ser ving up a buffet from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. with turkey and ham car ving stations; french toast, waffle, pancake and cheese blintze stations; eggs benedict,
scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, Idaho potato biscuits and gravy, and brisket hash and eggs; and a fully loaded desser t station. Prices are $21.99 for adults, $12.99 for kids 4-10 years old and free for kids 3 and under. Call 208-914-3952 for reser vations. Chandlers Steakhouse is hosting its brunch from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. featuring the Chandlers benedict, which, in addition to poached eggs, English muffin and Hollandaise sauce, also includes sliced filet mignon and asparagus pomme frites. If you’re looking for something a little lighter, tr y the trout ’n’ eggs—Idaho ruby red trout, scrambled eggs, fried potatoes—or the veggie omelette. Brunches also include biscuits, a fruit cocktail and, to top it all off in grand chocolatey fashion, Grand Marnier chocolate mousse. Price is $30. Call 208-3834300 for reser vations. The Riverside Hotel’s Grand Easter Brunch is set for 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in the hotel ballroom, where you can dine on car ved prime rib, baron of pork, omelets and crepes, eggs benedict and bottomless mimosas—all to the elegant sounds of harpists Stephanie Leavell and Jacqueline Marcus. Children’s Easter egg hunts will take place at 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Prices are $28 for adults, $23 for seniors, $15 for kids 5 and older, and free for kids under 5. Call 208-343-1871 for reser vations. —Harrison Berr y and Zach Hagadone B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M
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THE LUNCHBOX: SPECIAL DELIVERY Nourishment for the heart and soul GEORGE PRENTICE I’ve been raving to friends and family about The Lunchbox—one of the best films of 2013—since Christmas. It’s almost Easter and, finally, I’m able to share this irresistible treat with Boise. So think of this modern The Lunchbox takes the frantic pace of Mumbai and slows it to explore a one-in-a million miracle. classic as one of those Christmas presents that you hid a little too successfully. But, on the rarest of occasions, that same delivery system and concluded that only one The first thing you need to know about metropolis can be benevolent. And it takes in 1 million lunchboxes is ever delivered to The Lunchbox is that you absolutely must a one-in-a million lunchbox to cause a small the wrong address. cancel all of your plans for the two hours But one is all it takes for a good story and, miracle in the big city. following your visit to the movie theater, On paper, The Lunchbox may seem like a in this case, a great film. because I promise that you’ll be making a familiar convention: an serendipitous happen“Honestly, I started out to make a docubeeline to the nearest Indian restaurant to stance triggering a life-changing moment. But mentary on the dabbawalas,” writer-director recount some of your favorite moments of second-guess the convention of The Lunchbox Ritesh Batra told Boise this film—I double-dare at your own peril. This is a very special story Weekly at the September you to resist. THE LUNCHBOX (PG) about two lives that have never and may never 2013 Toronto International To appreciate The Directed by Ritesh Batra (sorry I’m not going to spoil the ending for Film Festival. “But I ended Lunchbox (and there’s you) cross paths. Young housewife Ila (the up with this.” much that requires your Starring Nimrat Kaur, Irrfan Khan gorgeous Nimrat Kaur) lives in a conservative And “this” is pure magic. appreciation), you should Opens Friday, April 18, at The Flicks Hindu enclave, while nearly-retired Saajan Through the journey of a first know about the (Indian superstar Irrfan Khan) lives in an old lunchbox, we meet two dabbawalas, an army of Christian sector of the west Mumbai suburb of people from two different worlds, yet they dabba (lunchbox) deliverymen, a weekday Bandra. But neither fits into the present times. tradition that has been repeated on the streets share the experience of finding hope in the Ila, struggling with a contemporary yet tradimost unexpected quarters. and trains of Mumbai for more than 120 tional marriage, tries to add some spice to the “I stayed away from [Mumbai] for many years. Every morning, more than 5,000 dabyears after I moved to New York,” Batra told relationship through her cooking. And Saajan, bawalas appear on the doorsteps of Mumbai a lonely, self-contained insurance accountant, BW. “And by the time I returned, so many homes where they pick up hot meals—often is a prisoner of his days. That is, until one day things looked different while so many others stacked in a series of tins—to be delivered to a lunchbox appears at his desk. never changed.” (primarily) men, who have already arrived in And that’s all of the story that I want One of those things was the unsettling their offices spread across a city of 18 million to share with you. I don’t want to ruin the truth that an urban pace such as Mumbai’s is residents. The dabbawalas are, quite often, surprise of this delicious present that has been like a conveyer belt, moving people and their illiterate but use a complex coding system of waiting for you to open. lunches from place to place, its forward mocolors and symbols to deliver the lunchboxes Oh, and one more thing: Merry Christtion never allowing its residents to stop and in the labyrinth that is Mumbai. In 2010, ponder their dreams or what became of them. mas. Harvard University analyzed the dabbawala
EXTRA/SCREEN UNDER THE SKIN This is the one: the movie in which Scarlett Johansson drops trou. I’m sorr y to say, however, Ms. Johansson has chosen poorly for her fullfrontal nudity debut. Under the Skin (adapted from Michel Faber’s 2000 novel of the same name) isn’t half bad, which means about 50 percent of the film is pretty BOI S EW EEKLY.COM
terrible—emphasis on “pretty” for Ms. Johansson’s presence, “terrible” for ever ything else. An alien appears as a speck of light in the film’s opening moment; then morphs into a disc-shaped human eye, before becoming one of the most striking women on the planet. And I do mean, quite literally, striking. In one disturbing sequence,
involving a near-drowning man and an infant, the alien’s bloodlust will probably give you nightmares for a solid week. Oddly enough, it’s the most effective scene in the film. Director Jonathan Glazer chose not to include the alien’s back stor y and as a result, Under the Skin feels as if it’s missing a middle reel. Glazer also opted to cast
many of the male roles with amateur actors, but the result is more disorienting than ambitious. I was a huge fan of Johansson’s work in Her, where she used none of her physical charms. But in Under the Skin, she uses way too much with too little effect. —George Prentice
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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CANYON IN RE: Tanya Ann Johnson Legal Name Case No. CV-2014-2942-C NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Tanya Ann Johnson, now residing in the City of Nampa, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Canyon County, Idaho. The name will change to Tanya Ann Clarke. The reason for the change in name is: I no longer wish to keep my married name due to divorce. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 900 o’clock a.m. on (date) May 8, 2014, 2014 at the Canyon County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any
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change in name is: career reasons A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 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 MAR 17 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 26, April 2, 9, & 16, 2014. LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION CASE NO. CV OC 201315568, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA Crossroads Neighborhood Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Rick A. Erickson, Defendant. TO: RICK A. ERICKSON You have been sued by Crossroads Neighborhood Association, the Plaintiff, in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in and for Ada County, Idaho, Case No. CV OC 13 15568. The nature of the claim against you is for continued violation of the Covenants, Conditions, and Restrictions of the homeowners association of which you are a member, more particularly described in the Complaint. Any time after twenty (20) days following the last publication of this Summons, the Court may enter a judgment against you without further notice, unless prior to that time you have filed a written response in the proper form, including the Case No., and paid any required filing fee to the Clerk of the Court at: Clerk of the Court Ada County Courthouse 200 W. Front Street Boise, Idaho 83702-7300 Telephone: (208) 287-6900 and served a copy of your response on the Plaintiff’s attorney at: Brindee Probst of VIAL FOTHERINGHAM LLP, 12828 La-
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Salle Dr Ste 101, Boise, ID 83702, Telephone 208-629-4567, Facsimile 208-392-1400. A copy of the Summons and Complaint can be obtained by contacting either the Clerk of the Court or the attorney for Plaintiff. If you wish legal assistance, you should immediately retain an attorney to advise you in this matter. DATED this 20th day of March, 2014. CHRISTOPHER D. RICH, CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ Ric Nelson, Deputy Clerk Pub. March 26, April 2, 9 & 16, 2014. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: PAUL DAVID ESTEP, JR. 08/07/1980 AND DUSTIE RENAE HEIDEMAN 11/14/1979 Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1404984 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Paul David Estep, Jr. and Dustie Renae Heideman, now residing in the City of Star, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Paul David EstepValentine, and Dustie Renae Valentine. The reason for the change in name is Paul wants to take his step-dad’s last name and child of the parties already has the last name, “Valentine.” A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 13, 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 March 17, 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 26, April 2, 9 & 16, 2014.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN in the Estate of Dorothy Jean Marr, Case No. CV IE 1405818, that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named decedent. All persons having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Nicole Marr C/O Susan Lynn Mimura & Associates PLLC, 3451 E. Copper Point Dr., Ste 106, Meridian, ID 83642. Pub April 9, 16, & 23, 2014. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Joshua Talis Siegel Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1405541 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Joshua Talis Siegel, 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 Talis Joshua Margairaz. The reason for the change in name is to carry on my mothers last name, and have always gone by my middle name Talis. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 27, 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 APR 03 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB April 16, 23, 30 & May 7, 2014. LEGAL & COURT NOTICES Boise Weekly is an official newspaper of record for all govern-
ment notices. Rates are set by the Idaho Legislature for all publications. Email jill@boiseweekly. com or call 344-2055 for the rate of your notice. LEIN SALE July 30, 2014, noon. 2002 Montana Trailer. 4YDF3282324058194. 1903 Columbus St., Boise, ID, 83705. Pub. April 16 & 23, 2014. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CANYON IN RE: Rafael Salinas Legal Name Case No. CV 2014-2316 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of Rafael Salinas, now residing in the City of Nampa, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Canyon County, Idaho. The name will change to Roxie Chula Salinas. The reason for the change in name is: Gender Identity. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 930 o’clock a.m. on (date) May 15, 2014 at the Canyon County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change. Date 3-3-14 CHRIS YAMAMOTO CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: T CRAWFORD DEPUTY CLERK JUDGE JEROLD W LEE
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe,” said novelist John Updike. That’s a sad possibility. Could you do something to dispute or override it, Taurus? Would it be too much to ask if I encouraged you to quest for lyrical miracles that fill you with wonder? Can I persuade you to be alert for sweet mysteries that provoke dizzying joy and uncanny breakthroughs that heal a wound you’ve feared might forever plague you? Here’s what the astrological omens suggest: Phenomena that stir reverence and awe are far more likely than usual. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I wonder if it’s time for you to modify an old standby. I’m getting the sense that you should consider tinkering with a familiar resource that has served you pretty well. Why? This resource may have some hidden weakness that you need to attend to in order to prevent a future disruption. Now might be one of those rare occasions when you should ignore the old rule, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” So be proactive, Gemini. Investigate what’s going on beneath the surface. Make this your motto: “I will solve the problem before it’s a problem—and then it will never be a problem.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Do you really have what it takes or do you not have what it takes?” That’s the wrong question to ask, in my opinion. You can’t possibly know the answer ahead of time, for one thing. To dwell on that quandary would put you on the defensive and activate your fear, diminishing your power to accomplish the task at hand. Here’s a more useful inquiry: “Do you want it strongly enough or do you not want it strongly enough?” With this as your meditation, you might be inspired to do whatever’s necessary to pump up your desire. And that is the single best thing you can do to ensure your ultimate success. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I swear my meditations are more dynamic when I hike along the trail through the marsh than if I’m pretzeled up in the lotus position back in my bedroom. Maybe I’ve been influenced by Aristotle’s Peripatetic School. He felt his students
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learned best when they accompanied him on long strolls. Then there was philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who testified that his most brilliant thoughts came to him as he rambled far and wide. Even if this possibility seems whimsical to you, Leo, I invite you to give it a try. According to my reading of the current astrological omens, your moving body is likely to generate bright ideas and unexpected solutions and visions of future adventures. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Throughout North America and Europe, there are hundreds of unused roads. Many are former exit and entrance ramps to major highways, abandoned for one reason or another. Some are stretches of pavement that used to be parts of main thoroughfares before they were rerouted. I suggest we make “unused roads” your metaphor of the week, Virgo. It may be time for you to bring some of them back into operation, and maybe even relink them to their original pathways. Are there any missing connections in your life that you would love to restore? Any partial bridges you feel motivated to finish building? LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Karma works both ways. If you do ignorant things, ignorant things may eventually be done to you. Engage in generous actions, and at some future date you may be the unexpected beneficiary of generosity. I’m expecting more of the latter than the former for you in the coming days, Libra. I think fate will bring you sweet compensations for your enlightened behavior in the past. I’m reminded of the fairy tale in which a peasant girl goes out of her way to be kind to a seemingly feeble, disabled old woman. The crone turns out to be a good witch who rewards the girl with a bag of gold. There could also be a bit of that other kind of karma lurking in your vicinity. Would you like to ward it off? All you have to do is unleash a flurry of good deeds. If you have a chance to help people, do it. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): As they lie in the sand, African crocodiles are in the habit of opening their jaws wide for hours at a time. It keeps them cool, and allows for birds called plovers to stop by and pluck morsels of food that are stuck between the crocs’ molars. The relationship is symbiotic. The teeth-cleaners eat for free as they provide a service for the large reptiles. As I analyze your astrological aspects, Scorpio, I’m inclined to see an opportunity that has a certain resemblance to the plovers’. Can you summon the necessary trust and courage to take full advantage? SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Are you sure you have enough obstacles? I’m afraid you’re
running low. And that wouldn’t be healthy, would it? Obstacles keep you honest, after all. They motivate you to get smarter. They compel you to grow your willpower and develop more courage. Please understand that I’m not talking about trivial and boring obstacles that make you numb. I’m referring to scintillating obstacles that fire up your imagination; rousing obstacles that excite your determination to be who you want and get what you want. So your assignment is to acquire at least one new interesting obstacle. It’s time to tap into a deeper strain of your ingenuity. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1937, physicist George Paget Thomson won a Nobel Prize for the work he did to prove that the electron is a wave. That’s funny, because his father, physicist J.J. Thomson, was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1906 for showing that the electron is a particle. Together, they helped tell the whole story about the electron, which as we now know is both a wave and a particle. I think it’s an excellent time for you to try something similar to what George did: follow up on some theme from the life of one of your parents or mentors; be inspired by what he or she did, but also go beyond it; build on a gift he or she gave the world, extending or expanding it. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You have been a pretty decent student lately, Aquarius. The learning curve was steep, but you mastered it as well as could be expected. You had to pay more attention to the intricate details than you liked, which was sometimes excruciating, but you summoned the patience to tough it out. Congrats! Your againstthe-grain effort was worth it. You are definitely smarter now than you were four weeks ago. But you are more wired, too. More stressed. In the next chapter of your life story, you will need some downtime to integrate all you’ve absorbed. I suggest you schedule some sessions in a sanctuary where you can relax more deeply than you’ve allowed yourself to relax in a while. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You have the power to shut what has been open or open what has been shut. That’s a lot of responsibility. Just because you have the power to unleash these momentous actions doesn’t mean you should rashly do so. Make sure your motivations are pure and your integrity is high. Try to keep fear and egotism from influencing you. Be aware that whatever you do will send out ripples for months to come. And when you are confident that you have taken the proper precautions, by all means proceed with vigor and rigor. Shut what has been open or open what has been shut—or both.
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