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PLAZA PLANS Everything you need to know about the big changes coming to downtown NEWS 8

HEAD GAMES Untangling the maze of Idaho’s mental health system FEATURE 11

BIKE WEEK These are important times for local cyclists.

Find out why.

CULTURE 20

DAIKAIJU Godzilla: Much more than a monster SCREEN 25

“One human farting is a tragedy. Seven billion humans farting is a climate change statistic.”

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AWARDS SEASON When people ask me what it’s like to work at Boise Weekly, I generally say that it’s pretty awesome. But the best part has got to be watching the outstanding work of my fellow journalists honored at the annual Idaho Press Club awards.

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

CASE MADE

VOCAB TEST

DUBULIHASA

A quartet of samesex couples had their day in court May 5, challenging Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage. Read more on Citydesk.

Ever wondered which hip-hop artists could rival Shakespeare with their lyrics? (Hint: Not Kanye.)

Find out who ranks where on Cobweb.

Local band Gem State will perform a CD release show Thursday, May 8, at The Crux. Get a preview of the new album, Dubulihasa, on Mixtape.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

CLIVEN BUNDY’S PARTY The house that hatred built In August of 1980, Ronald Reagan went to Mississippi to deliver a major campaign speech in support of returning to the states those “rights” he felt had been usurped and defiled by the federal government. Why Mississippi? And why a county fair just outside the small town of Philadelphia, Miss.?

Those who continue to adore Reagan will say it was a popular county fair, presumably crawling with potential voters.

And why wouldn’t a presidential candidate go to where there’s already a crowd to make his speech?

Those who grow ever more repulsed by everything Reagan represented—I count myself among them—look more toward the speech itself as the focus of that campaign stop, rather than the opportunity to charm some Southern voters. A policy address on states’ rights in Mississippi?... the most vicious and unrelenting holdover from the vile Confederacy. An appeal to return the power over the election process to local officials in the very epicenter of the most brutal attitudes and attacks on civil rights and civil rights workers? A rally to extol the old South’s approach to governance in that open sore on the underbelly of America, where the simple and fundamental right to vote had been resisted for a century with violence and intimidation and murder?

And why Philadelphia specifically, where only 16 years earlier, three young civil rights workers, doing nothing more offensive than registering black voters, had been slain like animals in one of the most hideous crimes of the 20th century? That is where Reagan chose to show his sympathy for the poor, poor states who had had some of their authority preempted by the feds, if only because they had used that authority like the Klan used nooses and fire bombs?

To those who see nothing inherently corrupt and diseased in that speech in that place at that time, don’t bother to try to answer those questions. We’ve heard it all before.

Oh no, Ronald Reagan wasn’t a bit racist.

Oh no, Ronald Reagan was a great defender of individual freedom and would never dream of seeing America return to the day when millions of black citizens were denied full citizenship. Oh no, Ronald Reagan was merely trying to demonstrate how far we have fallen from the intentions of the Founding Fathers.

However, those who still adore Ronald Reagan are right about one thing. He was the perfect man to represent his political faction. The faction that, ever since the passage of the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts in the mid-1960s, had become the haven for any and everyone who objected to African Americans having a full and equal role in the American story. The faction that took the party of Abe Lincoln and Ike Eisenhower, and twisted it into the party of Jesse Helms

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and Strom Thurmond. The faction that now covers its true face under the hood of the Republican Party.

UUU So are we shocked at the things Cliven Bundy said about “Negroes”?

Absolutely not. We’ve been hearing it for decades, but usually from people whose acts are more polished than Bundy’s. In essence, how different is that Nevada moron’s comments about blacks sitting around doing nothing, from Mitt Romney’s 47 percent remark? How different is it from Paul Ryan crowing that this country is being overrun by “takers” who demand “free stuff”?... or Newt Gingrich speaking of no work ethic among urban blacks and acting like he gives a damn whether they have jobs or not?

How different is Bundy “wondering” if blacks weren’t better off enslaved than Republican-controlled state administrations passing law after law limiting that population’s access to that most fundamental component of freedom—the vote? Or Darrell Issa treating Rep. Elijah Cummings like a “boy” who had forgotten his place in a Congressional hearing?

The old, nasty words have been replaced by encoded pictograms: “welfare queens,” “inner city thugs,” “feckless” in place of “lazy,” “disengaged” instead of “no-count.”

But we have deciphered the code, designed to disguise the same old hostility that has plagued America for centuries.

Some of us even remember how this current conservative rage for school vouchers and charter schools traces directly back to the years following the integration of public schools, back to when white Southern parents were hastily throwing together private schools, then pushing for any gimmick they could devise to get hold of public funding to pay for the covert segregation.

And the insatiable lust for more and bigger guns in public places?... who are the criminal hordes the most hysterical gun nuts see coming for them, anyway?

No, there is nothing new about Cliven Bundy’s racism. It is what we have come to expect from the modern Republican Party, from top to bottom. And it pre-dates Barack Obama by decades. Upon the passage of those civil rights laws, Lyndon Johnson told his aides he feared he had lost the South for the Democrats for a generation, all in resentment over his having done what was fair and just and moral. He was absolutely right about the hatred and bitterness that drove away those people for whom racial differences meant everything.

But he was wrong when he predicted a single generation of such bitterness. We are now into the third generation of that racial sourness—the continuing decay that gathers and organizes under the banner of a Grand Old Party.

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JOHN REMBER/OPINION

AN EXCUSE FOR SOME FART JOKES Anthropogenic climate change explained

It’s snowing today in Sawtooth Valley.

According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration website, it’ll snow tomorrow and the day after that, and so on. The week’s row of little weather icons shows snowflakes on a dark background for our nights, snowflakes on a light background for our days. Hope for sunshine this week rests with the usual NOAA inaccuracy when it comes to mountain weather. We find it a comfort that one of the meteorologists in the Pocatello NOAA office is named Hedges.

Before industrial civilization made climate into an object lesson in uncertainty, forecasters had names like Reginald McCertain, or Alistair Sureheart, names steady and British, names to sustain you through a long week of late-spring snow when all you yearned for was to go outside, sniff some flowers, and dig your toes in warm dirt. “Summer is Icumen In,” McCertain once sang. Sureheart sang back, “Sing loudly, cuckoo!”

Together they chanted: The seed is growing The meadow is blooming The wood is coming into leaf now The ewe is bleating after her lamb The cow is lowing after her calf The bull is prancing The billy-goat farting.

Sing well, cuckoo! Never stop now.

But as NOAA struggles to adapt to a climate that has lost all connection to centuries of weather records, official forecasts have ceased to resemble medieval English songs.

Now, the agency that employs Hedges would fire McCertain and Sureheart for having inappropriate surnames. Hired to replace them would be Iphegenia “Iffy” Darkenstab.

Iffy would say there’s an 85 percent chance of Summer Icumen In, at least by August, although given the probability of an El Ninoinspired drought, the meadow might not bloom at all and the leafy wood will have a 45 percent probability of being ash and firecracked rock when the first Fukushima-mutated snowflakes start Icumen In January.

I’ve been re-reading James Gleick’s Chaos, a book that discusses the complexities of climate. He devotes a chapter to the Butterfly Effect—the idea that the miniscule compression of air under an Amazonian butterfly’s wings can turn into a prom-wrecking Texas tornado a few days later. Scientifically, this is called a “sensitive dependence on initial conditions,” meaning that in experiments as in life, atomiclevel causes can have cosmic-level effects.

Gleick says the weather can never be predicted. If you put a sensor in the middle of every cubic foot of the earth’s atmosphere, the data thus collected would be overwhelmed by conditions between the sensors within hours.

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weather’s up to, look out the damned window.

Gleick also brings up the idea of phasechanges, the sort of thing that happens when a solid changes into a liquid or a gas. You can warm H2O from minus 273 degrees Centigrade to zero and it’s still going to be ice.

Warm it another degree and you can pour it in a glass and drink it. Warm it another 100 degrees and you’ll get a steam burn.

On a planet with weakness for phasechanges, this is serious stuff, because geological history tells us that we’ve gone back and forth across a multitude of climate tipping points. Extremes have ranged from an icecovered Snowball Earth to the deadly seasonless heat of the Cretaceous. Even though our current 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere doesn’t sound like much, it can be the flap of the butterfly’s wing that puts us into a different climate. So can methane, a much more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2, and the chief component of animal farts.

To paraphrase Joseph Stalin, one human farting is a tragedy. Seven billion humans farting is a climate change statistic.

When I Google “Arctic Ice,” the first website that comes up is Arctic Sea Ice and Analysis, which has kept track of the extent and volume of the Arctic ice cap since satellites made accurate measurements possible.

This year’s data are contradictory. They indicate a build-up of multi-year ice just north of Canada. But they also reveal open water north of Russia and the second-to-lowest-ever total ice extent for this time of year. The volume of ice, seen as the most accurate indicator of what’s happening, is declining at a rate that it will be gone sometime before 2020.

What this means for next week’s Sawtooth Valley weather is anybody’s guess. But over time, we can expect big things from the solar energy that will be absorbed by an open Arctic Ocean, including faster melting of Greenland glaciers, more extreme weather in the midlatitudes (that’s us) and increased atmospheric presence of the fossil methane (mammoth farts) buried in the tundra and frozen in the shallows off eastern Siberia.

Taken together this suggests that a couple of decades hence, we won’t recognize the earth’s climate. The joy with which medieval weather forecasters greeted the summer will be replaced by bewilderment as former weather constants swing from outlier to outlier.

I expect Hedges and the rest of his crew in Pocatello to come up with a series of new icons: a shrugging emoticon that means We Have No Idea, a cartoon of a grieving Bangladeshi refugee that means Another 50 Square Miles of Ganges Delta Have Become Indian Ocean, and a little cuckoo that means If You Can Look Out the Window and See One, They’re Not All Extinct Yet.

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UNDA’ THE ROTUNDA NEWS

THE CENTRE PIECE Fuzzy math? Otter’s claim of Project 60 achievement was never adjusted for inflation.

GOV’S PROJECT 60 VICTORY: ‘IT’S KIND OF A GIMMICK’ You can tell it’s primary season when the political claims are popping up faster than the flowers, and Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter offered voters a full bouquet with his May 1 proclamation that the goals of his so-called “Project 60” had been met. The initiative, launched in 2009, was intended to grow the state’s gross domestic product from $51.5 billion a year to $60 billion (or more) during Otter’s term of office.

According to a news release, the $60 billion mark was met in the fourth quarter of 2013, and Idaho’s GDP is expected to hit $62 billion sometime this year.

“I’m thrilled that we’ve achieved that goal despite weathering some of the toughest economic times in memory,” Otter stated in the release.

The governor’s rosy assessment of Idaho’s economic growth plays well for his re-election bid, in which he’ll face Meridian Republican Sen. Russ Fulcher in the May 20 GOP primary, and was immediately followed by the announcement of a new initiative named “Accelerate Idaho.”

Indeed, the day of the announcement, the Project 60 website was taken down and replaced with accelerate.idaho.gov, which promises to use education, support for industry and strengthened communities to make Idaho “a national and global leader for economic growth and prosperity.”

Megan Ronk, spokeswoman at the Idaho Department of Commerce, said the new strategy builds on successes like the opening of the Chobani yogurt plant near Twin Falls.

“There are good things happening,” she said. “We feel very confident that the economy is on the right track.”

The news was good and the timing, for Otter’s campaign at least, was perfect—the numbers, however, tell a slightly different story.

According to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis, Idaho’s GDP—which is a measure of the monetary value of all the goods and services in the economy—rose from $54.2 billion in 2009 to $58.2 billion in 2012.

But the BEA stat for 2013, the only number the Labor Department tracks, won’t be released until June 11. in the meantime, Labor spokesman Bob Fick said, “I don’t know what number they’re using.”

Ronk confirmed that official GDP numbers aren’t available yet, but told Boise Weekly the governor’s announcement was based on projections from Idaho Chief Economist Derek Santos, who calculated the fourth quarter 2013 GDP numbers 9 through HIS Economics (formerly, HIS Global Insight).

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A flurry of public partners jump on the City Centre bandwagon, but Basque Block neighbors aren’t so thrilled.

ANDREW CRISP AND GEORGE PRENTICE Apparently, one hole deserved another.

In 2011—even before Gardner Company had begun filling the infamous “Boise Hole” at Eighth and Main streets in what would soon become Idaho’s tallest building—Gardner Chief Operating Officer Tommy Ahlquist started thinking about digging an even bigger hole right across the street. And as his Gardner colleagues began scraping the sky to construct the Eighth and Main Tower, Ahlquist was already noodling the company’s next venture: buying the US Bank tower and its surrounding parcel of land for a dense redevelopment known as City Centre Plaza.

It’s not an overstatement to say Gardner’s $70 million grand plan will dramatically alter the footprint of Boise’s downtown core. In fact, you may be well advised to take a photo, sooner than later, of that prime real estate framed by Capitol Boulevard, Front, Main and Eighth streets, because heavy equipment will soon roll into the area. And in approximately 22 months, we’re told to expect a subterranean multi-modal transit center, aka MCC, to be operated by Valley Regional Transit; a fivestory convention facility to be operated by the Greater Boise Auditorium District; a nine-story office building that will become the new headquarters of Clearwater Analytics; and some additional renovations (primarily on the ground floor) to the US Bank Building which, since Gardner’s purchase of the property, has become the company’s new Idaho headquarters.

But there has already been a short but serious delay.

THE OIL ISSUE Boise Weekly first reported in April that shortly after its purchase of the US Bank Plaza, Gardner had hired Boise-based Materials Testing and Inspection to perform what it thought would be some routine testing of its new property.

“We found petroleum,” MTI project manager Jon Kruck told Gardner general counsel Geoff Wardle and officials with the Capital City Development Corporation, owners of the nearby Grove Plaza.

And that’s a problem, considering that CCDC was prepared to donate the land beneath the plaza to Valley Regional Transit for its use of the MMC. It turns out that there were as many as three gas stations in and around the intersection of

An artist’s vision (from Main Street) of City Centre Plaza, which will begin construction in June and presumably be completed in 2016.

Main Street and Capitol Boulevard during the 1940s through the early 1970s. Upon hearing of the contaminated soil, CCDC agreed April 21 to pay a maximum of $200,000 for costs incurred to clean up any hazardous materials, including removal, treatment and containment.

“We’re going to be digging all that dirt up anyway,” Kruck assured the CCDC. But the discovery of petroleum shouldn’t have been too much of a shock to CCDC commissioners. In fact, a December 2010 Brownfield Assessment report earmarked that exact land parcel in and around Capitol and Main as a prime candidate for grants to help fund a hazardous material cleanup.

Meanwhile, Gardner isn’t letting a little thing like petroleum in the soil slow down its desire to bring the project in on time. Company executives were set to stand before the City of Boise Design Review Committee on May 7 to unveil more details of their plans.

In anticipation of the high-profile effort, Boise Weekly and The Blue Review have teamed up to examine one of the more controversial pieces to the City Centre Plaza design— plus we consider the unprecedented number of public partners who have jumped on what has now become a very crowded bandwagon steered by Gardner.

BASQUES, ZEBRAS AND A CANTILEVER David Wali, a 13-year veteran broker with Colliers International who was recently hired

by Gardner to serve as the company’s vice president of operations, said the construction will be relatively quick. “By the end of the summer, you’ll see another hole downtown,” he said. “But 18 months later, you’ll see a completed project.”

But the proposed City Centre Plaza’s neighbors to the east of Capitol Boulevard, in Boise’s Basque Block, aren’t thrilled with the speed of

the project or with Gardner’s design choices.

“I would say probably 95 percent of the people in Boise do not know that this is coming down like this, and that Capitol Boulevard is going to be changed this way,” said Patty Miller, executive director of the Basque Museum and Cultural Center. Specifically, Miller said her colleagues don’t like the plans that include steep in- and out-ramps, a contra-lane to accommodate buses that will be turning into the in-ramp on Capitol, and a cantilever overhang to the Centre Building, blocking out an open view of the Grove Plaza.

“We started from the beginning saying we were not opposed to the project. But we were very much against doing that to Capitol Boulevard. And if you were to look at their plans … looking down Grove Street to the West [toward the Grove Plaza], there will be 120-feet of ramps down there. And we think that that’s very unsightly, and totally unnecessary.”

Wali and Miller can only agree to disagree; both said negotiations have been unproductive.

Miller claimed Gardner Company had failed to respond quickly to their complaints, adding that she received a phone call from Gardner only after she took her concerns to City Hall.

“I think, more than anything, they’ve just been patronizing, meeting with us. Because this was pretty much set already in January, even before our discussions began,” said Miller. “I don’t even know if you could call it dialogue, really.”

A renovated US Bank tower with two buildings on its west and south sides will be rebranded as City Centre Plaza. New ramps will flow on and off of Capitol Boulevard and Main Street to access the MMC below the plaza. Making matters even more complex will be a new lane running against traffic on Capitol—called a contra-flow lane—in order for buses to enter the MMC. And squeezing all B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

CITYDESK/NEWS NEWS that into what’s left of a 2.14-acre parcel is no small feat. “[It’s] a limited footprint, and a limited amount of money,” said Wali.

The foundation, quite literally, of the MMC will be an eight-bay underground bus terminal, designed as part of Valley Regional Transit’s plans to expand and improve its services.

Atop all of that will be the US Bank building, the to-be-built nine-story Clearwater Building to the west and the five-story Centre Building to the south. In addition to GBAD’s meeting and banquet space, the Centre Building will also include two floors of parking and retail space. Gardner has indicated that there will be six to eight retail spaces on the ground level, and it expects three or four of the spaces to be restaurants.

But the Centre Building also includes a cantilever, in effect connecting the structure to the Grove Hotel, which will result in an 18-foot pedestrian walkway that will look and feel like a tunnel into the Grove Plaza.

According to Wali, the cantilever is necessary in order to accommodate a 21,500-square-foot ballroom and related facilities inside the Centre Building—a major component of the convention center expansion.

“We’ve talked to the Basque Block about encompassing Basque signage throughout [the pedestrian walkway], but in short there’s no way to make them happy without eliminating the [Centre Building],” said Wali.

“You can put stripes on a horse and make it look like a zebra, but it’s still a horse. You can put fancy things on a tunnel, but it’s still a tunnel,” responded Miller.

To which Wali conceded that some of the project “is less pedestrian-friendly. But this is a very wide sidewalk that doesn’t carry much traffic.”

THE PAPER CHASE The sheer number of players in the City Centre Plaza, and the volume of paper they are pushing reveals how complex Boise’s newest high-stakes game of redevelopment really is.

And the papers are flying fast—a steady stream of some of Idaho’s largest public entities and a handful of private interests (mostly Boise law firms) have already queued up to become champions for Gardner, which has rapidly become a significant development force with its other Treasure Valley projects: the Eighth and Main Tower, St. Luke’s Nampa Medical Plaza, Eagle Island Crossing, the Mace River Ranch planned community and the Portico office and retail park in Meridian.

Among the public partners: Ada County Highway District: Oversight of traffic requirements in and out of the multimodal transit center (MMC), including lane changes and signal installations; will also be responsible for equipment traffic rolling in and out of the construction site.

Capital City Development Corporation: Oversight of changes to Grove Plaza; transfer of subterranean property to Valley Regional Transit to operate the MMC once it is built

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An artist’s vision (from Capitol Boulevard) of City Centre Plaza, includes a number of driveways and walkways that Basque Block neighbors insist on calling “tunnels.”

help GBAD pay for the Centre Building.

The City of Boise: Oversight of planning and zoning, design review, code compliance, building permits and conditional use permits for the entire project.

Greater Boise Auditorium District: Ultimate owner and operator of Centre Building; will pay Gardner Company approximately $38 million for its construction once the building is complete.

Valley Regional Transit: Ultimate owner and operator of the MMC; will pay for the MCC with a $9 million Federal Transit Authority grant.

The highest-profile private partner is Clearwater Analytics, which will help pay for construction of what will become the Clearwater Building, where the company will take four of the building’s nine stories.

“Each group has an idea of what they want to see their city look like and it’s our job to try to take all of those different elements and bring it together in a realistic, deliverable project,” said Wali. “Everyone wants their signature on the finished project, whatever it is. But it’s hard to take all these different needs and wants and cobble them together into something that’s useful when it’s done. This is not an easy project. You have to bite your tongue a lot.”

And there may not be much tongue left considering that Gardner must sit on the sidelines as some dense agreements are forged among the many public partners in order to make Gardner’s vision come true. For example, in order for CCDC (the region’s urban renewal agency) to help GBAD (which owns and operates the Boise Centre) finance the $38 million needed for the Centre Building through the issuance of bonds, a 25-page lease agreement between the two parties needed to include 12 distinct articles (sections) and 66 subsections.

In addition to that contract, CCDC and GBAD have also drafted the following: a resolution to approve a predevelopment agreement for long-term financing (four pages); the actual predevelopment agreement (five pages); a resolution to approve a memorandum of understanding (five pages); the actual memorandum of understanding (five pages); a resolution to approve a development agreement (four pages); and the actual development agreement (eight pages).

Still more contracts have been drawn up between CCDC and Gardner: a property use agreement so that Gardner can dig up the Grove Plaza (11 pages) and a so-called Type 3 participation agreement in which CCDC promises to pay for the cleanup of the contaminated soil, known as the “Grove Plaza subsurface parcel” (four pages).

Enter the lawyers: A number of the legal agreements are also sure to pad the coffers of a few Idaho law firms, including Elam and Burke PA, Sherman and Howard LLC and Piper Jaffray. Some will serve as “financial counsel,” while others are being brought in to draft the wording of the bonds. Fees will range from $6,500 to $25,000.

Wali insists that the project makes sense because it has so many diverse partners, not in spite of them.

“Having it as individual projects would make it very challenging,” he said. “But doing it everything at once brought the pricing down to a level that made sense for everyone.”

And keeping tabs on those costs—construction and legal—for the next two years will, most probably, pale in comparison with keeping all of the private and public stakeholders in line.

“Part of the reason why we’re so excited is that it’s so hard,” said Wali. “You put a project like this together and, well, the next one’s going to be easy, by comparison.”

What’s more, even that $58.2 billion number isn’t exactly what it ap8 pears to be, because it’s “nominal”— meaning it hasn’t been adjusted for inflation. Taking into account rising prices in the economy, Idaho’s GDP looks abysmal. According to BEA, Idaho’s inflation-adjusted (or “real” GDP) was $49.9 billion in 2009 and had only risen to $50.9 billion by 2012: a 0.4 percent rate of growth, ranked 45th in the nation. According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, an economy that’s delivering 5 percent nominal GDP growth is considered to be “doing reasonably well for its population. The ideal breakdown is 2 percent inflation and 3 percent real growth.”

Not so in Idaho. Put another way, the Gem State’s economy may well be worth $60 billion, but it’s only because prices have risen with inflation, not on the back of healthy business growth.

“It’s kind of a gimmick,” said Mike Ferguson, former chief economist to Otter and a 25-year veteran economist who left the Statehouse in 2011 to found the nonpartisan information clearinghouse Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy. “You’re not really getting a heckuva lot of real useful information [with that number]. If you take inflation out … it’s kind of mediocre.”

Ronk said Project 60 was always based on nominal GDP: “That was the foundation for what we were tracking the goal against.

We’ve consistently used those numbers throughout.”

But Ferguson and others say it goes beyond gimmick and into the realm of irrelevance.

“I think there are far better single measures than the one that was chosen,” Ferguson said. “I would come back to what our per capita income is in relationship to the United States—basically that measures our total income for residents of the state divided by population. … Since about 2006, we’ve seen our relative position plummet. If you look at that as a measure of wellbeing in Idaho and how well our economic development strategy is doing, it gives you a completely different perspective.”

Jasper LiCalzi, chair of the Department of Political Economy at the College of Idaho—Otter’s alma mater—put an even finer point on it.

“The original statement’s meaningless.

You say we want to hit $60 billion. Yeah, we’ll do that in 30 years; we’re going to do that if we’re living in caves, just about. … We have had growth, but it’s basically been inflation.

It’s a stupid thing to say to begin with.”

LiCalzi agreed that if Otter wants to talk about the strength of Idaho’s economy, a better measure would be per capita personal income, and specifically disposable income.

“That’s really what’s in your pocket; what you’re actually bringing home,” he said.

And that, ultimately, is what’s going to matter to voters, regardless of whatever number the state’s GDP is pegged at. “[Otter] can say, ‘Look, this is what I promised to do and I did it.’ The only thing that could hurt him is if they don’t feel it in their pocket. Have people seen an improvement in their lives since 2009?” LiCalzi said. “And 2009 was horrible. What could be worse than that?”

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CITIZEN because, other than that, I was not really there. I just didn’t care about anything. I was always in court. I was on probation from when I was 13, so I wasn’t doing very well.

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Why? It was the first time that I ever had it click in my head that I could do something that I enjoyed. And the people made me realize that not all learning was like the learning in high school, where it was very difficult for me. They taught us a lot. And they taught us things like how to buy car insurance and how to live on my own.

JOEY LOVE Cooking it forward CARISSA WOLF May 10, 2004, marked a turning point in Joey Love’s life. The date stands frozen in time, etched on Love’s graduation diploma from Life’s Kitchen, and in his mind as the day that opened a new door in Love’s life.

“I just have to give credit to the instructors. They just pushed us really hard,” Love said of his time at Life’s Kitchen, a place many Boiseans know for a nourishing lunch and a place Love honors for nourishing his soul.

Ten years after the push by Life’s Kitchen, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming the lives of at-risk youth through culinary training and life skills coaching, Love can look back and see a pre-Life’s Kitchen life that looks unrecognizable to the life he leads today. Love now wears the title of sous chef at Kahootz Steak and Alehouse in Meridian—a job Love earned after working his way up the ladder at kitchens across the Treasure Valley.

That graduation date stands between a juvenile delinquent and a doting dad, and took Love from an apathetic, lost kid to a driven, passionate chef.

May 10 also stands as a day that reminds Love of his blessings and the importance of paying it forward. To say thanks on this 10-year milestone, Love plans to cook up a meal of gratitude for a Life’s Kitchen fundraiser.

What was your life like before you enrolled at Life’s Kitchen?

I didn’t really have any goals. I really didn’t want to graduate or do anything. I was held back in school twice. I was getting into a lot of trouble. I was breaking into people’s cars. I really didn’t have a care in the world. I put my mom through a lot. And she helped

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out a lot. She’s the whole reason I went to Life’s Kitchen.

How did your mom help you out?

She basically had nothing left to do for me. She tried to make me realize that I was almost 18, and if I didn’t stop what I was doing I was going to go to jail. So she went and saw a counselor and the

When did things start to change for you?

When I went to Life’s Kitchen.

counselor told her about Life’s Kitchen. My mom knew that I liked to cook. I liked to make her dinner and that was one of the only times that we would bond.

It sounds like you had the seeds of your culinary future in the kitchen with your mother.

Yeah. It was a bonding time—

What was the most important lesson you learned from Life’s Kitchen?

We can grow up. It put something in my head to make me realize that the world was ahead of me. Life was just beginning. I did get into drugs when I was younger and I abused them. Life’s Kitchen saved me. It really did. It worked.

It helped me become an adult.

How did Life’s Kitchen help you become the adult you are today?

It’s such a great program, I referred one of our dishwashers there. It’s free and you can get college credit. Before Life’s Kitchen, I was doing a lot of bad things.

I was born with fetal alcohol syndrome, so I was drinking a lot.

I felt there was nothing out there for me. They made me realize that family is so important and having a career that you love makes life that much better.

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RUGGED. REMOTE. BEAUTIFUL. THE STATE OF IDAHO HAS MANY QUALITIES, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO HELPING ITS MENTALLY ILL, IT HAS A LONG DISTANCE TO TRAVEL DANIEL WALTERS From Grangeville, Idaho, it’s a one-hour-and-18-minute drive to the closest Walmart and a one-hour-and-18-minute drive back. This blip of a town along Interstate 95 sits at the edge of national forest, somewhere between Lewiston and the middle of nowhere. Yet with just over 3,000 people, it’s the largest city in the most spread-out county in the entire state.

Jennifer Griffis and her family live outside of Grangeville, in a green-roofed house with bikes scattered across the lawn. “Sometimes our cellphones work out here and sometimes they don’t,” she said.

Griffis, her husband and their seven children moved here in 2010, drawn by how close the mountains were. But when something went wrong with her daughter Monique, Griffis learned exactly how far away they really lived.

There are no licensed psychiatrists in private practice in Idaho County, nor in neighboring Lewis and Clearwater counties. Yet there was no question Monique needed help. She’d hurt people, then smile.

In one episode, Griffis recalls Monique choking her 2-year-old sister in the backseat of their Suburban. “She looked at me with this very cold expression,” Griffis said. “[She said]: ‘I was trying to choke her.

Because I wanted to kill her.’”

Eventually Monique was diagnosed with a conduct disorder with limited prosocial emotions. “No remorse,” Griffis said. “No conscience, no empathy ability.”

That disorder has meant a 140-mile round trip to Lewiston to visit a psychologist. It’s meant driving back from Boise in a blizzard after visiting Monique in therapeutic foster care. It’s meant five-hour trips back and forth to a treatment facility in Helena, Mont., with the whole family packed into the SUV.

“There are absolutely no residential treatment facilities for females under the age of 12 in Idaho,” Griffis said.

Rural communities are never going to have every kind of doctor.

But in Idaho, the problem is compounded: The state is rural and underfunded, with a high incidence of mental illness.

Despite its sky-high suicide rates, it was the last state in the nation to get a suicide hot line.

“The number of holes that are occurring in Idaho has been getting progressively larger,” said Casey Moyer, a program manager with Idaho’s Health and Welfare Department.

With a third of its population living out in the country, Idaho ranks with Montana among America’s most rural states—and every Idaho county has a mental health care provider shortage. Analysis by the nonprofit Mountain States Group shows that a quarter of Idaho’s population lacks access to a psychologist or psychiatrist.

The state is last in the number of psychiatrists per person, according to 2012 Kaiser Family Foundation data. It also ranks last in mental health funding (though Idaho officials claim that ranking is skewed because it doesn’t include Idaho’s Medicaid spending).

“I’m trying to think of anything they do well, actually,” said Kathie Garrett, board member of the Idaho chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness and a former state representative from Boise. “We do very little on the front end. All our state-funded services are for those in crisis, who are a danger to themselves and others.”

On a sliver of a budget, Idaho is trying to change that, shifting its entire mental health care model and searching for ways to bring help to the farthest reaches of the state.

But to get there, it has a very long way to go.

The correlation is undeniable: State by state, population density is one of the strongest predictors of suicide. All that loneliness, that isolation, that proud individualism that makes asking for help difficult adds up. Another major driver: access to firearms, which are used in more than half of Idaho’s suicides.

The state is sixth in the nation when it comes to suicide rate, according to 2010 data from the Centers for Disease Control. Nearby Montana ranked third.

Yet for years, Idaho was the only state without a suicide hot line. That finally changed in November 2012.

The state amassed enough funding to reopen the Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline, which went dark in 2006 due to budget cuts.

“I think it’s too early to tell if there’s been an impact,” said John Reusser, the hot line’s director. “Anecdotally, I can say we’ve saved lives.”

Last year, nearly 1,000 Idahoans—including 120 militar y members—dialed 1-800-273-8255 to receive counseling from a team of 43 volunteers manning the hot line. This year, the hot line has already received 752 calls. Follow-up calls have shown suicides have been prevented and callers have been connected with outside resources to help them get better.

Currently, those calling on weekends or between 1 and 9 a.m. on weekdays have their calls answered by a network of volunteers from other states, but by the end of the year, Reusser said the Idaho hotline will operate 24/7.

Local volunteers are crucial. When callers call from towns like Filer or Coeur d’Alene, Reusser said, Idaho volunteers know exactly where they’re calling from, and what rural life is like: “We understand what it’s like to live here.”

It’s far from the only effort to stop suicide in Idaho. Last year, the Idaho Department of Education won a three-year grant for youth suicide prevention.

JENNIFER GRIFFIS’ FAM ILY M O VED T O H I S H O U SE ABO U T 10 MI L ES O U T SI D E O F G RAN G EVI L L E, I N PART BECAU S E T HE Y L OV E D T HE OU T DOOR S .

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FACT : IN A 2013 FEDERAL REPORT, ONLY 28 PERCENT OF IDAHO CHILDREN IN THE MENTAL HEALTH SYSTEM REPORTED IMPROVEMENT DUE TO THEIR TREATMENT, COMPARED TO 70 PERCENT NATIONALLY.

J E N N IFER G RIF F IS, H ER H USBAND AND THEIR SEVEN CHILDREN (FIVE BI O L O G I CAL , T WO AD O PT ED ) H AVE S T R U GG LED TO F IN D MENTAL HEALTH TREATM ENT FOR THEIR DAUGH T ER I N RU RAL I D AH O .

ROADBLOCKS It’s Tuesday evening at the Snake River Community Clinic in Lewiston. The clinic helps patients with both mental and physical problems, but today, a full two-thirds of the patients are suffering from depression. A few have anxiety. Clinic staff helps one woman—suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after domestic violence—sneak out the back door.

“Over 30 percent of our patients come here for mental health because they can’t go anywhere else,” said clinic director Charlotte Ash. Nearly 1,750 different patients have come to the clinic over the past year. They drive from hundreds of miles away, from tiny towns like Riggins and Weippe and Enterprise, from at least five counties in Idaho, two in Washington and one in Oregon.

The rural counties in Idaho’s lower panhandle are among the state’s poorest, but at the Snake River clinic, there’s no sliding scale, no messing with insurance. If you can get in, it’s free. But getting there isn’t.

“A lot of our patients have to decide: Are they going to spend the money on gas to get here and get help, or are they going to get groceries?” Ash said.

The clinic sometimes mails out medications when clients can’t get to appointments. Other times, Ash gives patients a $20 bill for gas to get home. One state clinician said he’s personally driven clients down from Moscow in his state-provided Chevy.

There are other barriers: Sometimes the roads themselves are hard to traverse. One 2010 study called Idaho’s roads the second-worst-maintained in the nation.

“A lot of these patients live in these extra-rural wilderness areas,” said Fayth Dickenson, a clinical care manager at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. “They’re on top of a mountain, [at the end] of a one-way dirt road. They call, and can’t leave their house because their roads are snowed in.”

In Boundary County, at the very top of the Idaho panhandle, a zoning ordinance warns prospective property owners of rugged living where “snows often knock out power, sometimes for days or weeks on end, and roads are often rendered impassable by snow or by flooding in the spring when the snow melts.”

Bonners Ferry resident Jini Woodward knows that county and its mental health system well. Her daughter, now 45, has dealt with severe anxiety and mood disorders for more than two decades.

“Because there weren’t enough services, her illness progressed,” Woodward said. “Boundary County has to depend on Bonner County, and Bonner County has to depend on Kootenai County. The services are so inadequate in Kootenai County. And we’re clear at the end of the road; we’re the last hair on the tail.”

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Without enough services in Bonners Ferry, Woodward’s mentally ill daughter decided to move to Sandpoint. There weren’t enough services there either, so she moved to Hayden. That’s put her hours away from her parents.

“We rely on telephones and emails to keep in touch,” said Woodward, who’s considering moving to Sandpoint herself.

“It’s a lot harder to monitor her situation.”

Social stigma around mental health can be another obstacle to care, especially in smaller towns. But some providers are now moving toward combining medical and mental health services.

At a clinic on the sprawling Nez Perce Indian Reservation, patients may come in with coughs, but a doctor might also tell them they’ve scored high on a certain depression measure. It may be their only chance to talk.

“When I see a patient, it may be the first and last time I see the patient,” said Kristy Kuehfuss, Nimiipuu Health’s director of behavioral health.

That means Kuehfuss may have to streamline months of therapy—diagnosing and educating the patient—in less than an hour. She concentrates on immediate practical tips, such as encouraging depressed patients to get out of bed and go outside every day.

Kuehfuss said living rurally carries additional psychological costs.

“For somebody who already has a mental health disorder, anxiety and depression,” she said, “it’s going to be exacerbated by the physical and social isolation.”

I.T. HELP In a clinic in Cottonwood, a child and parent talk with psychiatrist William Terry. They may talk about bipolar disorder, attention-deficit disorder or abuse, discussing how well their medication is working. It’s a typical conversation in almost every way but one: The kid and his parents are talking to a head on a high-definition screen hanging from a robot called the RP-Lite. The RP-Lite looks less like C-3PO and more like a coat rack with a face attached to the end.

Terry is 200 miles away, at a dual-screen terminal at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in Boise. Using the joystick, he swings the robot’s head and the video screen side to side. He can zoom in to observe a patient’s tremors or tics.

“You can move the camera so that we can focus in on the people’s face,” Terry said. “If they’re around the room, I can follow them in the room.” It only takes seconds for the distance to fade away, and for it to feel almost like any in-person session.

“One of the kids that has been seen by the psychiatrist saw the robot in the hallway,” recalls Pam McBride, special assistant to the president of St. Mary’s/Clearwater Valley Hospital and

clinics. “The kiddo just ran up to it and hugged the robot and said, ‘Hi, Dr. Terry!’”

St. Mary’s Hospital in Cottonwood and Clearwater Valley Hospital in Orofino are in areas defined as “frontier”—the most rural of the rural. Psychiatric help for children is at least three hours away.

“Over 80 percent of the patients who took advantage of telepsychiatry services had never seen a psychiatrist before,” said McBride. “They had no access.”

When the first robots rolled into the two hospitals back in 2009, isolated communities were connected with psychiatric care for the first time. And it worked. A nonscientific examination of their data indicated a dramatic decline in primary care doctor, emergency room and hospital visits among those who’d conducted long-distance sessions with the psychiatrist.

In other words, it was not only helping patients—it was driving down costs for the entire system.

“We’ve seen kids go from almost getting kicked out of schools, because of behaviors that are out of control, to becoming Student of the Month,” McBride said.

In study after study analyzing Idaho’s mental health system, “telepsychiatry” continues to come up as one piece of the solution. The St. Mary’s hospital system wants to go further, using cheaper and more conventional video-chat technology to provide psychiatric help to even more far-flung clinics.

“Patients adapt to it much easier than health care providers do,” said psychiatrist William Hazle. “Think of how much time we spend watching the television screen. Now we talk to it.”

While telepsychiatry can bring help to remote locations, it doesn’t fix the fact that psychiatrists are in short supply everywhere in Idaho, even in Boise. Not all of them are comfortable conducting therapy sessions over video screen.

“Doctors weren’t trained to practice this way. You have to have a certain kind of doctor who’s willing to try this method,” McBride said. “They’re used to having someone in front of them.”

Last year, Idaho doctor-turned-legislator Rep. John Rusche (D-Lewiston) launched the Idaho Telehealth Task Force, which recently applied for a $2.3 million grant to train doctors and encourage providers to adopt telemedicine technology. Over three years, the Task Force estimates the state could save $19.3 million.

Yet there are places like St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, which once used telepsychiatry but longer do. The program ended when the provider left the practice. That’s the challenge with any rural innovation: Not just attracting the right talent, resources and programs—but keeping them.

THE COST OF CUTS Nuclear engineer Ryan Mitchell had never heard the name Gerald Durk Simpson before Simpson shot him in the back.

Mitchell only happened to be at Mocha Madness in Pocatello on that day in September 2010 because he didn’t have Internet access at his apartment.

He was a few steps outside the coffee shop when Simpson, a schizophrenic 54-year-old, shot him point-blank. The bullet went through his back, through his left lung and embedded itself in his sternum. It missed the heart chamber by about an inch.

“Ryan won’t ever fully recover,” said his father, Robert.

“The scar went from his spinal cord almost to his sternum.

He’ll always have some deformity. He has permanent nerve damage. His scapula is detached.”

Statistically, mental illness rarely results in violence. But when it does, it thrusts the issue into the public eye.

“It’s not like we wanted to become the poster children for mental health care in Idaho, but we kind of became that,” Robert Mitchell said.

Idaho’s Health and Welfare department is intended to fill a gap, providing mental health care for those without access to insurance or Medicaid. To balance the budget, Idaho eliminated B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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redundancy. In the summer of 2010, 451 mentally ill Idahoans were kicked off state coverage and onto Medicaid or private insurance.

Simpson was among 70 Pocatello-area residents who’d been dropped from a state-funded, community-based treatment program that assisted them in living independently.

A month after the shooting, Ryan Mitchell attended a political candidates’ public forum in downtown Pocatello and asked a pointed question about why he got shot.

“The fact of the matter is this was caused by recent budget cuts to our mental health program,” he said. “My question is ...

What are you going to do to fix it?”

Two years later, the charges against Simpson were dismissed after a magistrate determined he lacked the mental capacity to stand trial. During those two years, Mitchell and his parents’ plea for more mental health care funding went unfulfilled: An additional $1.85 million was cut from the state’s mental health budget.

The recession devastated Idaho’s mental health care system in a way it still hasn’t recovered from. From 2008 to 2012, state funding fell by more than 28 percent. During that same period, federal funding collapsed nearly by half.

The cuts gouged deep through Idaho. In 2010, Health and Welfare eliminated 126 positions statewide and shuttered nine rural offices.

“We made it a goal to not stop serving people,” said Ross Edmunds, administrator of the department’s Behavioral Health division. When the offices closed, the department continued working through local clinics. The state served more patients total, yet had to dramatically cut back on the breadth of services.

For patients who aren’t suicidal or homicidal, the state has stopped providing psychotherapy and case-management services.

Of course, in the midst of all this, Idaho had an option to give vastly more people mental health care, while saving the cash-strapped state more than $400 million across 10 years, according to a report from the Idaho Workgroup on Medicaid Expansion. It just had to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Initially, the federal government would pay the entire bill.

But Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, like most Republican governors, rejected the offer, arguing that Medicaid should be reformed first.

THE BRIGHT SIDE In fact, reform is happening. An in-depth 2008 report called Idaho’s mental health system “severely fragmented, with a significant lack of clarity.” It proposed solutions like combining mental health and substance abuse departments. Now, Idaho has done just that.

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It’s also handed state regional mental health boards a little more power. “Previously they were only an advisory group.

They couldn’t have their own budget or own staff. They couldn’t apply for grants. Nothing,” Edmunds said.

On July 1, the old regional mental health boards will disappear, replaced by behavioral health boards that focus on mental health and drug abuse. Each of the seven regions will have a small $45,000 budget, be able to hire staff members and apply for their own grants. The boards know their communities, the thinking goes. They know where resources are most needed.

That’s far from the biggest change. In September, Idaho switched from a fee-for-service model for Medicaid to a “managed care” model, run by a national organization called Optum.

Instead of the healthcare business model that profits more the longer patients are sick, managed care organizations have financial rewards for getting people healthy quickly. They strictly monitor the cost and effectiveness of treatments. “The impact of that is tremendous,” Edmunds said.

In Grangeville, Griffis has been impressed. “They handled our very complex situation well,” she said. “We were able to get some answers to questions before I even needed to ask.”

Yet reviews have been far from universally positive. Some providers see Optum as another layer of red tape: more paperwork, more restrictions, less time with patients.

“We used to be able to do 60-minute sessions,” said Jenny Brotherton-Manna, who runs North Idaho Children’s Mental Health in Sandpoint. Now most sessions are limited to 45 minutes. She now has to ask for permission to give patients certain treatments, and getting it sometimes means waiting two or three days.

And since she’s only a therapist, there are now some practices Medicaid under Optum won’t pay for at all.

“Medicaid has now stopped the payment of all testing to be done by masters-level therapists. I cannot get reimbursed,” she said.

“It has to be referred on to a psychologist or psychiatrist.”

Nearly half the counties in Idaho, according to the Mountain States Group, have neither. She said there’s now an unprecedented four-month-long wait in her region for kids to see a

neuropsychologist.

“I want to be able to provide the type of service [a patient] needs at that moment, without having to make two or three phone calls a day to get him some services,” she said.

Optum has been given another huge responsibility: Fix rural access issues. Their contract demands there be at least one mental health care provider located within 45 miles or 45 minutes of any Idaho residence. In more densely populated counties, like Kootenai and Ada, the requirement is even stricter: 30 minutes or miles or less. If not, Optum is contractually bound to come up with a plan to fix it.

There’s more good news: The budget stopped plummeting.

Since last year, the state of Idaho has slowly been restoring mental health funding, though even by 2015, it will still fall short of pre-recession levels.

In this past legislative session, Health and Welfare asked for funding to add three new behavioral health crisis centers.

One would be in Boise, another in Idaho Falls and another in Coeur d’Alene.

The Legislature came through—but only partially.

“The Legislature has only funded one of those facilities. It’s embarrassing,” Robert Mitchell said. “At least that’s progress.”

Right now, Coeur d’Alene is intensely competing with the biggest cities in eastern and southern Idaho for the clinic.

Kootenai County’s sheriff and four regional police chiefs signed a letter to Coeur d’Alene Republican Sen. John Goedde last month, urging the state to pick Coeur d’Alene.

“Kootenai County has one of the highest suicide rates in the state,” said Claudia Miewald, director of the Kootenai Behavioral Health Center. “We desperately need this in our community.”

STAYING PUT Activists have called for more psychiatrists in Idaho, more telemedicine, more funding, more coordination and support.

But change is slow, and many families of the mentally ill living in rural Idaho have had to consider another solution: packing up and finding somewhere else to live.

“We were told by two different people early on: ‘If you were going to be dealing with this, Idaho is not where you’re going to be,’” Griffis said. “There were times that we wondered if we needed to move.”

But she feels like she has a responsibility to stay, to change Idaho instead of leaving Idaho. Today, she’s on the State Planning Council on Mental Health. She urges the state to concentrate more on children’s mental health, respite care and day-treatment centers to give parents a break.

“We feel like we’re in a position to push for mental health services,” Griffis said. “It will take some time to see where that goes. It takes people willing to speak out.”

This article was first published in the April 24, 2014, edition of the Pacific Northwest Inlander.

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FRIDAY MAY 9 snaps GINGERFEST 2014 Where’s their Tour de France?

WEDNESDAY MAY 7 make way HALF THE ROAD DOCUMENTARY In the world of professional road cycling, all male riders who reach the Union Cycliste Internationale’s Pro Continental level receive a minimum-wage annual base salary. In 2011, the president of UCI, cycling’s international governing body, was asked if female pro cyclists at the same level also deserve the same salary.

“I am not so sure. Women’s cycling has not yet developed enough,” he said.

The response from the women of professional cycling: “We’re not so sure that UCI has developed enough.”

That’s what Half the Road: The Passion, Pitfalls and Power of Women’s Professional Cycling is all about. In the same vein as the women’s ski jump documentary Ready to Fly, which screened at last year’s Banff Mountain Film Festival, this documentary explores the issue of inequality that modern-day women face in male-dominated sports.

These women ask, where is their Tour de France? Interviews from world champions, Olympians including Idaho’s own Kristin Armstrong, coaches, doctors and officials piece together the story. Boise even makes it into the movie, with footage from the Exergy women’s bike races in 2012.

“What did you think really happened out there in the peloton?

Everyone stopped to put on makeup, or what?” James Carkulis, CEO of Exergy Development Group, says in the documentary.

Whether you’re a hardcore Hill Road cyclist or simply a cow-bellringing admirer of the Twilight Criterium, Half the Road will demand you probe deeper into the passions, pitfalls and power of women’s professional cycling.

7 p.m., $10. Northgate Reel Theatre, 6950 W. State St., 208-3772620.

THURSDAYFRIDAY MAY 8-9 queen for a day CARAVAN OF GLAM Hankering for a bit of burlesque? Or is straight-up

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burlesque not quite risque enough—too old-school, too passé? Then try the Caravan of GLAM, a gender-bending, LGBTQ community-building, “traveling queer cabaret-style show” performing live at downtown Boise’s Balcony Club for two nights only.

Caravan of GLAM is Portland, Ore.’s relatively new performance troupe (formed in 2013),

Red is the color of love, life, passion, anger, danger, luck and heat.

It’s also the hair color of historically significant figures. Redheads or “gingers” (both natural and elective) have played significant roles in everything from the humanities to the hard sciences: Boudica, Lucille Ball, Vincent Van Gogh, Elizabeth I, Christina Hendricks, Anne Boleyn, J.K. Rowling, Seth Green, Ron Howard, William the Conqueror, Carrot Top, Felicia Day, Conan O’Brien, Danny Elfman, William Blake, Ken Kesey, Tina Louise (Ginger, of Gilligan’s Island), Ann Margaret, Rita Hayworth, Henry II, Sarah Bernhardt and Shaun White, to name a few.

But if you live in Britain or are a fan of South Park, you know redheads are an oft-maligned group. Not so much in Boise, where we will celebrate redheads and all things red in the inaugural Gingerfest at the Old Idaho Penitentiary. It promises to be a ruddy good time with contests for Best Male Ginger, Best Female Ginger, Best Kid Ginger and even Best Ginger Pet. Redhead wannabes can slap on a red wig, red beard, red mustache and some red stripes and get their mugshot taken.

And everything will be rosy for the kids, who can play games like Big Red Races, 99 Red Balloons Targets and the Cherry Pit Spit.

Grown-ups can join the junior gingers at a craft station to make redbead necklaces or have some adult fun with red ale from Crooked Fence Brewing and red wine from Indian Creek Winery. Of course, there will be plenty of ginger ale.

Old Pen volunteers will be on hand to answer questions and point the way to a special exhibit about inmates incarcerated during the “Red Scare.”

6-10 p.m., $5 adults, $3 kids, FREE for children 3 and younger. Old Idaho Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, 208-334-2844, history. idaho.gov/oldpen.html.

which found itself with a burning desire to provide “LGBTQ community events in smaller cities around Oregon,” said founder Justin Buckles. Debuting to sellout crowds, the group quickly expanded to cities throughout the Pacific Northwest, and currently has its sights set on the admittedly less-than-edgy Midwest.

However, it’s probably fair to say this is not your father’s burlesque, since GLAM offers performances ranging from the somewhat expected to the extraordinary—drag gymnastics anyone? Co-producer Ecstasy Inferno, known as “Portland’s Hood Rat Ghetto Queen,” will host the event, adding in live singing for good measure, while fellow Drag Queen Artemis

Chase plies the crowd with her own brand of humor. Boise’s very own Vivica Valentino will add a dash of local flavor.

Isaiah Esquire, known for his staggering height—over seven feet in heels—will perform gender bending acts that are (more than) likely to amaze. And if that’s not enough, Jayla Rose Sullivan, dubbed the group’s “acrobatic queen,” will execute gymnastic feats, including back flips and aerials—all while sporting seven-inch heels. That’s right, seven-inch heels. And back flips.

Who knew the two could mix?

8 p.m., $10 general, $20 VIP. The Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., 208-336-1313, facebook. com/thebalconyclubboise/ events.

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FRIDAY MAY 9

And you thought it was tough to meet nice people online?

how does your garden grow?

NATIONAL PUBLIC GARDENS DAY A well-kept garden is a sight to behold, but it’s also a lot of work—and all it takes is a neighbor kid’s mischief to bring it to ruin. Luckily, Boise is home to the Idaho Botanical Garden, and you can see all of nature’s jewels without spending every weekend this summer trying to develop your green thumb. Even better, on National Public Gardens Day, you can do that for free.

That’s right, from open to close on Friday, May 9, Idaho Botanical Garden is offering free admission in an effort to draw attention to public gardens and offer helpful suggestions for those looking to create their own backyard oasis of foliage.

Organizations including Madeline George Garden Design Nursery and Willowglen Landscape will be on hand to give guidance regarding conservation efforts and sustainable green practices. Educational carts will be located throughout to teach garden-goers about everything from carnivorous plants to howto’s on tomato sauce. Vendors such as Bel Cibo, Crooked Fence Brewery and Indian Creek Winery will offer their wares and free cake will be passed around at 1 p.m. in honor of the garden’s 30th anniversary.

The Idaho Department of Mining and Geology, also a part of the Old Idaho Penitentiary Historic District, will host a free open house and guided hikes for those seeking adventure.

9 a.m. FREE. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

SATURDAYSUNDAY MAY 10-11 snakes on the brain REPTICON BOISE There are two types of people in this world: those who, like Sam Jackson, would do anything to get those motherf**king snakes off that motherf**king plane, and those who found themselves silently rooting for the high-flying herpetiles.

If you fancy frogs, love lizards, think turtles are tops

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or are smitten with serpents, get thee to Repticon—a twoday exposition of all things cold-blooded May 10-11 at the Nampa Civic Center.

Hundreds of animals will be on display and available for sale, as well as booths from vendors selling everything from reptile housing and terrarium art to pet products and “feeders” like insects and rodents.

Presentations will cover topics including reptile rescue and choosing the right habitat, and include a hands-on show of species, including a Burmese python and Gila monster.

Attendees are encour-

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THURSDAY MAY 15 peculiar procreation THE SCIENCE OF SEX Don’t let the title fool you—The Science of Sex is not cleverly disguised porn for the nerd-squad set. Instead, it’s porn for insects. That’s right, everything weird and mildly disgusting about the mating habits of non-human beings will be up for discussion during Discovery Center of Idaho’s upcoming adults-only night on Thursday, May 15.

Zoo Boise will give a presentation on the strange mating habits of the six-legged set, including a show-and-tell display of live stick bugs—little Amazonian gals who mate either sexually or asexually, depending on the environment. Who knows, maybe they got wind of the bedbug method—aptly named “traumatic insemination”—and decided they wanted no part of it.

If that’s too graphic for your liking, head for the tonguein cheek performance of Dr. Tatiana’s Sex Advice To All Creation, a hilarious book by author Olivia Judson devoted to the origins of biological propagation. The single nod to human procreation will come by way of Dr. Dawn Shepherd, presenting research data gleaned from the (too often) bizarre world of online dating.

Party tents in the back alley will offer ample food and adult libations, including live music by local band Great Bait.

But leave the kids at home for this one—it’s strictly an over21 event.

6 p.m. $10, DCI members $8. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, dcidaho.org.

aged to bring no more than two of their own animals to the event, but they must be in good health, kept under control and cannot be venomous. Nothing kills the mood at a reptile show quicker than having to bust out the bite kit. Only permitholding vendors are allowed to sell at the event, so don’t show up trying to cash in on your crested gecko. Go to repticon.com/idaho for more info on the rules. Suffice to

Whether it’s a magazine in a discreet black plastic sleeve or a Ziploc baggie full of cat hair from your stalker, mystery mail is dubious at best. But that’s a reputation the Brico*Box from Bricolage is working to reverse.

The Brico*Box belongs to the family of unassuming and unmarked packages, but what’s inside is both charming and cherishable. For $240 (monthly shipments) or $80 $80-$240, bricoshoppe.com (one shipment per quarter), you or your friend/loved one receives a brown box graced only with a Bricolage packaging sticker. Inside is a handmade, hand-wrapped, limited-edition work of art by Idaho artists and makers and, maybe, a few extras—the March Brico*Box contained a decorative plate with a self-described “goofy little owl” hand-painted on it by Jaidyn Erickson.

Also included was a wall mount for the plate, a postcard by designer-photographer Melanie Flitton-Folwell and an “It’s A Boise Thing” magnet.

Bricolage: making mail fun again.

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A second Repticon is scheduled for Sept. 20-21.

Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sunday, May 11, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; two-day pass: $5-$15, $5-$12 VIP pass (available online), $5$10 one-day pass (available only at the door). Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

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Volunteer programs. 10 a.m.

FREE-$7. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-6087760, zooboise.org.

Festivals & Events BOISE PARADE OF HOMES— See the latest in home design trends, meet local builders and check out the newest communities in the area. Daily through May 11. For more info, visit buildidaho.com/home_buyer_ tools/toolbox/idaho_parade_ of_homes. Mondays-Fridays 5-8 p.m., Saturdays 11 a.m.-8 p.m., Sundays 1-6 p.m. FREE. BOISE POETRY SLAM TEAM FINALS—Featuring the eight top poets from Boise fighting for the four spots on the team for the National Poetr y Slam in Oakland, Calif. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213, facebook.com/ thecruxcoffeeshop.

HALF THE ROAD DOCUMENTARY SCREENING—This film explores the world of women’s professional cycling. Presented

by Boise VeloWomen, the screening depends on a minimum number of tickets being sold. Get more info or buy tickets at tugg.com/ events/8694#.Uz7Ong1kOvU. gmail. See Picks, Page 14. 7 p.m. $10. Nor thgate Reel Theatre, 6950 W. State St., Boise, 208-377-2620, halftheroad.com.

On Stage JACK HALE’S HOT JAZZ CABARET SHOW—Hot jazz, blues and swing of The Jazz Age per formed by Jack Hale, Camden Hughes, David Gluck, Bill Liles, Lauren McConnell, plus comedy and MC Leif Skyving. It’s a Roaring ’20s speakeasy experience. 8 p.m.

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

Kids & Teens 2014 HERSHEY’S TRACK AND FIELD GAMES—Youth are invited to compete in this basic track and field event May 21 (ages 7-8 and 9-10) and May 22 (ages 11-12 and 13-14) at Timberline High School, 701 E. Boise Ave. Registration begins at 4 p.m. both days; events star t at 5 p.m. Par ticipants must pre-register by May 18 at the City Recreation Office.

For info about how to register online, see “Activities, Classes & Spor ts” at parks.cityofboise. org. For more info, call 208608-7650. Mondays-Fridays, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. FREE. Boise City Recreation Office, 110 Scout Lane, Boise, 208384-4256, cityofboise.org/ parks.

Animals & Pets DISCOVER DINOSAURS— Discover six animatronic dinosaur exhibits, including styracosaurus, ornithomimus and acrocanthosaurus, daily through Sept. 1. You will also be able to take your photo at the special T-Rex photo-op for only $1. All proceeds benefit Zoo Boise’s Education and

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THURSDAY MAY 8 On Stage BOISE MUSIC WEEK: THE SECRET GARDEN—Free tickets via a redeemable coupon printed in the April 16 edition of the Idaho Statesman. Stand-by seating is available 15 minutes before curtain. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Per forming Ar ts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

CARAVAN OF GLAM—Por tland’s Caravan of GLAM features drag, burlesque, acrobatics and live singing. See Picks, Page 14. 8 p.m. $10-$20.

Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-336-1313, thebalconyclub.com.

Workshops & Classes PERFECT PICNIC PAIRING— From bright whites to smooth reds, you’ll learn how to identify key characteristics of each food and wine and some keys to ensuring that your picnic is a success. 6 p.m. $55. House of Wine at the 44th Street Wineries, 107 E. 44th St., Garden City, 208-297-9463, thehowofwine.com.

Idaho State Penitentiar y, 2445 Old Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, histor y.idaho. gov/oldpen.html.

NATIONAL PUBLIC GARDENS DAY—Get free Garden admission all day long. The event is a national day of celebration to raise awareness of America’s public gardens and the role they play in promoting environmental stewardship and awareness, plant and water conversation and education. See Picks, Page 15. 9 a.m. FREE. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiar y Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage BOISE MUSIC WEEK: THE SECRET GARDEN—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Per forming Ar ts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

CARAVAN OF GLAM—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $10-$20.

Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-336-1313, thebalconyclub.com.

SPOKEN-WORD ARTIST BUDDY WAKEFIELD—The three-time world champion is embarking on his 2014-15 world tour Riled Up and Wasted On Light. 9 p.m. $7. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213, facebook. com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

Art

MFA READING SERIES: JACQUELYN MITCHARD—Fiction writer Jacquelyn Mitchard will read from and talk about her work. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Lookout Room, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2468.

CLAY AND FIRE SALE—The semi-annual exhibit and sale features a large selection of handcrafted ceramics by Boise State students, faculty and alumni. Proceeds from the sale suppor t the Depar tment of Ar t’s Ceramic Visiting Ar tists Program. 5 p.m. Boise State Visual Ar ts Center Galler y 1, Liberal Ar ts Building, Room 170, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208426-3994, boisestate.edu/ar t.

Talks & Lectures

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THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION TECHNOLOGY—COMPASS Education Series presents Randy Knapick, who will talk about how information technology, big data and real-time information are changing society’s expectations and attitudes toward transpor tation. 5:30 p.m. FREE. COMPASS, 700 N.E. Second St., Ste. 200, Meridian, 208-855-2558.

DODGE A BOBCAT FAMILY NIGHT DODGE BALL TOURNAMENT—Check out South Jr. High School’s annual Make-A-Wish benefit. Pasta dinner begins at 5:30 p.m., to be followed by a game of dodge ball at 6 p.m. Raffle tickets will also be on sale. This year’s recipient is 11-year-old Gabriel, who is battling a congenital hear t condition. His wish is to go to Hollywood and shadow a film crew. 5:30 p.m. $3-$5. South Junior High School, 3101 Cassia St., Boise, 208-854-6110.

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FRIDAY MAY 9 Festivals & Events GINGERFEST—Celebrate redheads and red fun with contests, food from Free Range Pizza and The Funky Taco, red ale and other beers from Crooked Fence Brewing, and red wine, ginger ale and other red drinks. Last admission at 9 p.m. See Picks, Page 14. 6 p.m. $3-$5. Old

SATURDAY MAY 10 Festivals & Events ASTRONOMY DAY—The evening of astronomical activities includes an outdoor activity, a planetarium lesson on using and reading a sky char t, as well as outdoor moon, planet and

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8 DAYS OUT stargazing using telescopes.

RSVP by calling Kinga Britschgi at 208-459-5211. 6 p.m. FREE. Whittenberger Planetarium at The College of Idaho, Boone Science Hall, Caldwell, collegeofidaho.edu/planetarium.

BOISE RACE FOR THE CURE 2014—The 16th annual Susan G. Komen Boise Race for the Cure features 5K and 1 mile run/walk course, plus a new 5K competitive race option. Get more info and register at komenidaho.org. 9 a.m. $10-$35.

Alber tsons Headquar ters, 250 Parkcenter Blvd., Boise.

IDAHO AD FED ROCKIE AWARDS—The Idaho Adver tising Federation honors advertising in Idaho. This year’s space-themed event recognizes creative excellence in all areas of adver tising throughout the state. Space suit optional.

7:30 p.m. $40-$50. Stueckle Sky Center, Boise State football stadium, Boise.

REPTICON BOISE REPTILE SHOW—Featuring vendors offering reptile pets, supplies, feeders, cages and merchandise.

Par ticipate in free raffles held for enthusiasts, animal seminars and kids activities.

See Picks, Page 15. 10 a.m.

FREE-$10. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

JACQULINE HURLBERT OPENING RECEPTION—The Oregon ar tist and longtime galler y favorite returns in a solo show with new ceramic sculptures and paintings. No-host bar provided by 13th Street Pub and Grill. Exhibit runs through July 5. 7 p.m. FREE. Brumfield’s Galler y, 1513 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-333-0309.

Literature NANCY BLUFFINGTON AT THE SATURDAY MARKET—Local author Nancy Bluffington will sign copies of her new kids book, Ruby Lee and the Ver y Big Deal, at the Saturday Market. 11 a.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks. org.

Kids & Teens KIDS CONSIGNMENT SALE— More than 100 consignors offer excellent quality, brand-name, gently used childrens clothing, shoes, baby gear, toys, books, DVDs, strollers and more.

Hosted by Boise Kidsignments.

8 a.m. FREE. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

Animals & Pets On Stage BOISE MUSIC WEEK: THE SECRET GARDEN—See Thursday. 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

FREE. Morrison Center for the Per forming Ar ts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.

COME TOGETHER CONCERT— The Treasure Valley Music Teachers Association presents a free concer t by kids, teachers and friends. 1 p.m. FREE. Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, 1900 N. Records Ave., near Fair view Avenue and Eagle Road, Meridian.

GRAND ILLUSIONS—See Jason, an award-winning illusionist and exper t in the ar t of deception. His show will keep you in awe. Suitable for all ages. 7 p.m. $10-$12. AEN Playhouse, 8001 Franklin Road, Boise, 208-658-3000, aenplayhouse.com.

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATORY BIRD DAY AT MK NATURE CENTER—Enjoy bird banding, live bird presentations, owl pellet dissection, bird games, face painting, feather printing and other ar t activities. Native plants will be on sale again this year. Food will be available for purchase during this event.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. $3. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-334-2225, fishandgame.idaho.gov.

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATORY BIRD DAY AT WORLD CENTER FOR BIRDS OF PREY—Exper ts will be on hand for this family-friendly day to discuss avian migration through games, activities, and presentations.

Take your binoculars for birding walks with a raptor biologist.

There also will be live bird demonstrations and tours of the Archives of Falconr y. 10 a.m. $5-$7. World Center for Birds of Prey, Velma Morrison Interpretive Center, 5668 W. Flying Hawk Lane, Boise, 208362-8687, peregrinefund.org.

SUNDAY MAY 11 Festivals & Events MOTHER’S DAY AT ZOO BOISE—All moms will be admitted to the zoo for only $7.25, plus they will receive one complimentar y ride on the Conser vation Cruise. The zoo will also host special animal presentations and zookeeper talks celebrating the zoo’s extraordinar y moms. 10 a.m. $7-$10. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-6087760, zooboise.org.

REPTICON BOISE REPTILE SHOW—See Saturday. 10 a.m.

FREE-$10. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208468-5555, nampaciviccenter. com.

On Stage BOISE MUSIC WEEK: THE SECRET GARDEN—See Thursday.

2 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Per forming Ar ts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

Workshops & Classes THE HILLS ARE ALIVE—Learn about flowers and birds from local ar tists and master naturalists. Drop by anytime from 10 a.m.-1 p.m.; no preregistration required. 10 a.m. FREE. Jim Hall Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise, 208-514-3755, boiseenvironmentaleducation.org.

Art CLAY AND FIRE SALE—See Friday. 10 a.m. Boise State Visual Ar ts Center Galler y 1, Liberal Ar ts Building, Room 170, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-3994, boisestate.edu/ar t.

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8 DAYS OUT Citizen NATIONAL CANCER SOCIETY BENEFIT CONCERT—Featuring students of Craig and Peggy Purdy. Prizes donated by local businesses will be raffled off to raise money for the National Cancer Society. 2 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1609.

Odds & Ends HELLS CANYON WINERY MOTHER’S DAY—Celebrate local moms with new release wines from both Hells Canyon and sister brand Zhoo Zhoo, available by the glass and bottle. Plus live music and gourmet pizza from Fire Pie Pizza or take a picnic to enjoy on the lawn. Noon. $12 adv., $15 door. Hell’s Canyon Winer y, 18835 Symms Road, Caldwell, 208-454-3300, hellscanyonwiner y.org.

MOTHER’S DAY WINE TASTING—Enjoying wine, live music

by The Flavors, wine slushies, beer and food for purchase by Boise food trucks. Plus clowns, face-painting, Tiki’s Shaved Ice, and a special appearance by the Sawtooth Yeti for the kids. Picnics are welcome. Get more info at the website. Noon.

Sawtooth Winer y, 13750 Surrey Lane, Nampa, 208-467-1200, sawtoothwiner y.com.

MONDAY MAY 12 Festivals & Events BUSINESS BUILDER DAY— Join hundreds of small-business owners and decision-makers to get motivated, educated, talking and networking. Get more info at idahobusinessleague.com/business-builderday. 10 a.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, riversideboise.com.

CITY CLUB OF BOISE FORUM—Hear from and ask questions of the GOP primar y candidates for Idaho attorney general. Attend for a reduced fee to just listen (not including lunch). Open to ever yone.

11:45 a.m. $5-$25. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000.

TUESDAY MAY 13 Talks & Lectures

Art CLAY AND FIRE SALE—See Friday. 10 a.m. Boise State Visual Ar ts Center Galler y 1, Liberal Ar ts Building, Room 170, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-3994, boisestate.edu/ar t.

Literature MINI-MONDAY BOOK SALE— Suppor t the Friends of the Garden City Librar y and visit their weekly “Mini-Monday” dollar book sales. 9:30 a.m. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-4722941, notaquietlibrar y.org.

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IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM: BROWN BAG LECTURE—Jody Hawley Ochoa, director of the museum, explores the museum’s evolution from a one-room display in a local home to its current location in Julia Davis Park. Noon.

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

WILD ABOUT LIFE LECTURE— Learn about sage grouse from Jason Pyron, a wildlife biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser vice. The next Wild About Life lecture will be held in the fall. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-467-9278, fws.gov/ deerflat.

WEDNESDAY MAY 14 Workshops & Classes BYO WINE GIRLS NIGHT OUT—Learn how to paint J’adore step by step. Ever ything you need to create your painting is provided. Bring your own refreshments and register online. 7 p.m. $35. My Masterpiece Par ties, 603 E. State St., Eagle, 208-938-1370, mymasterpiecepar ties.com.

IDAHO CONFERENCE ON DRUG AND ALCOHOL DEPENDENCY—The conference theme is 30 Years of Wisdom: Transforming Systems, Transforming lives in celebration of the 30th year of ICADD. View schedule and register online. $215$420. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Dr., Boise, 208-426-4636, attendicadd.com.

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

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

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POINT OF SALE FOR 2014 AND BEYOND—Get a better understanding of Retail Point of Sale (POS) systems for the year 2014 and beyond. 2 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Micron Business and Economics Building, 2360 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

WEDNESDAY MEMBERS’ REPAIR CLASS—Ever y class will cover a different handson repair topic. All repair, all the time. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

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ARTS/CULTURE K ELS EY HAW ES

The collage hanging in Bricolage, created by local artist Theresa Burkes, is tall and narrow. Shreds from a tattered magazine fall like autumnal leaves from a house down the long, white space of the work. At 24 inches by 50 inches, the work, which depicts the Fowler House in Boise’s Central Addition neighborhood, is awkward by design.

That’s because the Fowler House, as with many historic homes in the Central Addition, has been passively threatened by neglect— and is now actively under threat of demolition

by Trilogy Development, which is planning to build a surface parking lot near the corner of Fifth and Myrtle streets. Burkes’ collage, intentionally or not, reflects the historic home’s uncertain future.

As part of a fundraising campaign for the Preservation Idaho Central Addition Fund, Burkes’ piece is up for auction. After making its debut at Bricolage during First Thursday, it will make a circuit of downtown sites, accumulating bids until the end of May, when the collage’s new owner will claim his or her prize.

Apart from bids—which can be made by emailing Kathleen Barrett at kathleen@ preservationidaho. org—Preservation Idaho is also soliciting suitable sites where the historic Fowler, Beck and Jones houses might be relocated.

While old Boise houses are looking for new locations, MASSV Music Festival has found a new time following events that led to the cancellation of MASSV 2014. According to a Facebook post dated May 2, the “party music” festival, which was set to run July 25-26, was canceled due to snags in the event permitting process, but announced it will continue in 2015.

“Since we lost a year in space, MASSV will be twice as intergalactic when the spaceship returns,” the page administrator wrote.

People who have already bought tickets to MASSV 2014 will be refunded the ticket price and receive tickets to MASSV 2015 at half price.

And if you guessed that the number of participating artists in the May 3 Gallery Five18 grand opening was five, 18 or 518, you’d be wrong: The correct answer is 19.

Some recognizable personages from the Boise-area art scene, including the likes of Jerri Lisk, Anne Klahr, Carl Rowe, Karen Bubb, and Mark and Swede Lisk, showed their work at the new gallery, located at 518 Americana Blvd.

—Harrison Berry

ROLL ON Boise Bike Week highlights important times for local cyclists HARRISON BERRY Call it what you will, the City of Trees is a city of cyclists—even in the most inclement of weather, bikes and bike riding are never far from Boiseans’ minds. That’s more true now than ever: With a slew of recent car-onbicycle accidents—including one fatality—and infrastructure changes designed to make Boise a more rider-friendly place, this year’s Boise Bike Week comes at a particularly important time for the two-wheeled set. Here are a few things you should know going into this week’s celebration of all things cycling.

BOISE BIKE WEEK Whether bikes are your passion or your occasional pleasure, the 12th annual Boise Bike Week, which runs from Saturday, May 10-Saturday, May 17 (plus May 19), is chock full of new events to suit riders of every stripe.

For the first time in the history of Bike Week, Idaho Smart Growth is sponsoring Neighborhood to Market, a group ride that begins at 10 a.m. in multiple locations across Boise and ends at nearby farmers markets.

For more information about where groups are meeting and to which markets they’re traveling, call Deanna Smith at 208-3338066. If your ride takes you to the Capital City Public Market, be sure to cruise by the bike corral manned by the Treasure Valley Cycling Alliance.

Riders don’t also have to be globetrotters to fill out passports, starting at Highlands Hollow Monday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m.

That’s where Boiseans can pedal for brews with the Trail of Beers, a beer passport program in which riders visit 12 local brewpubs over the course of the week, getting their passports stamped for deals on drinks while entering to win beer-related prizes. The parking lot will be closed for a party featuring live music by Random Canyon Growlers. Other pubs on the list include Bier:Thirty, The River Room at Whole Foods, Payette Brewing Co., Crooked Fence Brewing and Woodland Empire Ale Craft. Trail of Beers concludes Monday, May 19, at Payette Brewing Co., where half of all beer proceeds will benefit the Idaho Pedestrian and Bicycle Alliance.

One of the stops on the Trail of Beers is Sockeye Brewing. Cruise by between 6:309 p.m. Thursday, May 15, to get your card stamped and be one of the first in town to try out a Bike Week-inspired brew at the SWIMBA Trail Digger Release Party.

Learn about one of the most grueling bike treks in North America on Friday, May 16, when rider Michaedl “Mac” McCoy gives a presentation on the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, which he helped pioneer.

A pilot project in downtown Boise aims to make the city much more bike friendly.

The route follows the North American continental divide from Banff, Canada, to Antelope Wells, N.M., near the U.S. border with Mexico. The ride is almost 2,800 miles long—73 of which are in Idaho—and more than 200,000 feet of total elevation gain.

McCoy’s talk will take place at Boise Bicycle Project beginning at 7 p.m.

BIKE SAFETY Bike Week comes at a trying time for Boise’s cycling community. The morning of May 1, a car-vs.-bike collision near the Boise State University campus resulted in minor injuries to the cyclist and a citation for a 19-year-old Nampan for failing to yield to a bicyclist. April 20, a 13-year-old Meridian girl was seriously injured in another car-on-bike accident near the intersection of West Ustick Road and Jullion Street. She later died in a local hospital.

Readers online expressed what they saw as a running conflict between motorists and cyclists on Boise’s roads. Some wrote that bicycles belong on the sidewalks because the streets are simply too dangerous.

“What I want to know is why there aren’t charges on the driver/better laws in effect for bicyclists to stay off the roads,” user AngReed3180 wroted on Boise Weekly’s Facebook page.

Facebook user Ronda King worried that cyclists are being held to a different standard than motorists on Boise area roads.

“A driver cannot drive 10 miles per hour in a 50mph road, so having a bicyclist do the equivalent is ridiculous,” she wrote.

Statistics provided by the city of Boise reveal that about 4 percent of all crashes in the Boise area involve bicycles; most of them take place between 7 a.m. and 4 p.m. These numbers explain the “when” and “how frequently” of car-vs-bike accidents, but were less clear about which road users are to blame for the spate of collisions. According to the city, responsibility is shared pretty equally: 44 percent were attributed to motorists, while 56 percent were borne by cyclists.

BIKE LANES Boise’s downtown core is evolving.

Mixed-use developments like the nearly completed Owyhee Plaza and a growing Downtown Neighborhood Association, along with projects like the Eighth and Main Tower and a forthcoming multi-modal transit center at the Grove Plaza, will result in a more urban atmosphere in Idaho’s largest city. Part of city and county officials’ design for that environment is the increased profile of pedestrian and bicycle traffic.

That agenda manifested May 1 in the form of clearly marked bicycle lanes stretching along Capitol Boulevard from the Boise River to Bannock Street, and on Idaho and Main streets from 16th Street to Broadway Avenue. Each lane is bordered traffic-side by white markers, and at major intersections, green bike boxes have been painted into the road to provide cyclists turning with traffic greater visibility to motorists. The lanes and boxes are part of a pilot project by the Ada County Highway District that will last up to two months and potentially be made permanent.

The catches are that all three bike lanes and paid roadside parking spots have been cut out of lanes of traffic, stoking fears of increased traffic congestion along those roads. Bike boxes are, for many Boiseans, an unfamiliar feature that may be a source of confusion.

The lanes have been lauded, however, by Boise cycling advocates for the role they’re likely to play in making cyclists more visible—and, therefore, safer—on high-traffic roads. According to Treasure Valley Cycling Alliance President Lisa Brady, the lanes will make bicycle riders more secure using roads downtown, strengthening Boise’s bike culture.

“People talk about why they don’t ride in certain areas, and if people get out there and ride, they’ll understand the safety it gives to cyclists, pedestrians and the drivers,” she said.

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CULTURE/COMMUNITY JES S IC A M U R R I

FOR SALE AND NOT FOR SALE The fate of Velma Morrison’s interesting collection of unsellable items JESSICA MURRI

“Probably a telemarketer,” Corbett said.

Here’s a little about George: The grandkids Corbett facilitates auctions for estates, grew up reading to him, he can’t legally be high-end fundraisers, real estate and heavy sold and he’s a giant taxidermied sea turtle. machinery. Morrison’s isn’t the largest auction Right now, he sits by a fireplace in the Boise mansion of the late Velma Morrison. Next to he’s done, but it has some of the most unique George is a handwritten sign: “Not for Sale.” items. Some of them can’t be legally sold.

In Morrison’s 1,500-square-foot bedMorrison passed away in June 2013, room—complete with two seating areas, a leaving behind Boise’s version of Camelot: a kitchenette, two massive walk-in closets and a 12,000-square-foot home overlooking Ann sauna—a few fur coats hang on a rack in the Morrison Park. The mansion is packed with delicate china, exotic jade carvings, original oil corner. Next to a gray chinchilla poncho hangs a leopard skin coat, another item Corbett paintings, bronze sculptures, furnishings and doesn’t feel comfortable selling. other unique finds like George.

“She’s had it for years and years. Probably This is where Kent Corbett comes in. He’s got it back in the ’60s or ’70s and at the time, the general manager of Boise-based Corbett the world probably looked differently on furs Auctions and he talks fast. If you’re not listenthan they do now,” Corbett said. Because it’s a ing closely, you’ll miss the jokes and peculiar protected species, the coat stays on the rack. tidbits he weaves into conversation. It’s his Corbett said there are pictures of Morjob to sell every last object in the home—save rison in the coat from decades ago, but in the for George the turtle and a handful of other auction business, “you’re better off not to sell interesting collectibles. something unless you have a lot of documentaAfter Morrison’s family members had their pick of possessions, Corbett set up three online tion. We want to err on the side of caution. auctions, letting buyers from all over the world There’s also some political correctness of things as well,” he added with a chuckle. pore over two dozen pages of her jewelry, art Corbett likes seeing the strange things and furnishings. He’ll host a live auction on people collect over the course of their lives Saturday, May 10 at 10 a.m. in Morrison’s when he sets up estate auctions.

Crescent Rim Drive home.

“It does give you a little bit of an insight When Corbett first walked through the into their world and what they enjoyed,” he home’s giant glass front doors, past the glass said. “Everything has a story. Some stories you elevator and through sitting room after sitting know and some things you just don’t.” room, everything was just as Morrison left In the dining room, light filters through it—she spent most of the last few years of her a two-story stained glass window where a life in her home in California. Corbett and his princess reaches for a knight employees started taking things on horseback, an iconic white out of drawers, opening cupVELMA MORRISON castle in the background. Opboards, emptying shelves and ESTATE AUCTION posite the window, two dozen putting Morrison’s belongings Saturday, May 10, 10 a.m. pieces of carved ivory take up a on display. Corbett figures his 3505 W. Crescent Rim Drive dark wooden shelf. The scrimcompany has spent more than corbettauctions.com. shaw depicts a row of elephants 300 hours sorting and arrangmarching across an arch, a lion ing her belongings.

“Every time I come in here, I see something crouching, an eskimo hunting from his kayak and several galloping horses, all beside another new,” Corbett said, looking up at the intricate “Not for Sale” sign. moulding on the ceiling. “There were five The ivory is tricky. Like the coat, ivory can bedrooms and eight bathrooms at last count. be sold if there’s proper documentation. CorYou can fit 18 cars in the garage. Probably 20 bett even had Idaho Fish and Game examine if you’re into small cars like Porsches.” whale teeth at another estate auction and got Just then, the house phone rang. The ringing echoed around, ricocheting off of the spiral the thumbs up to sell it.

“Most of the ivory that we run into has staircase, the rock wall inlaid with small lightbulbs and 100-pound bronze ballerina figurine. been legally obtained, but how do you verify BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

Meet George, the priceless turtle.

that?” Corbett said. “It’s like if someone came into your house and asked you for the receipt on everything you own. Do you still have that?

Can you prove when and where you bought everything you own? So it puts us in a bad position to sell and we don’t want to have any of that.”

A member of Morrison’s family said they aren’t sure what will happen with the ivory either, but Corbett suggested donating it to Boise Art Museum.

On the basement level, the massive garage is lined with long tables stacked high with Morrison’s knickknacks. There’s costume jewelry, a hardhat with Morrison’s name on it, a mink throw blanket, a collection of porcelain chickens, umbrellas and even a box of cleaning supplies with half a bottle of Windex inside.

“It’ll all sell,” Corbett said. “All of it.”

Except for George.

George is the third sea turtle Corbett has run across in his auction days, but he is by far the largest. But George, who Harry Morrison bought back in the ’40s or ’50s before he married, has a bright future. The Morrison family will donate him to Idaho Fish and Game, which will then loan him to Zoo Boise. And zoo officials are excited for that.

“We’ll use the turtle for education programs so that kids can get up close to animals they usually wouldn’t be able to,” said Liz Littman, spokeswoman for Zoo Boise. “They can learn about the differences between turtles and tortoises and learn about endangered species.”

Zoo Boise has a collection of other critters on loan from Fish and Game and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, like an Amur leopard pelt, an anaconda snake skin, a rhino horn, a walrus tusk, a purse made of alligator skin (alligator head still attached) and a caiman lizard ashtray. Even another sea turtle.

“We do want people to think more about how they can protect endangered species and think of the way that we live with animals,” Littman said.

Morrison’s house will be the last item to go. Almost every window reveals an iconic view of Boise, from Ann Morrison Park to the Boise Foothills, from Table Rock to Bogus Basin, from the downtown Boise skyline to Boise State University. Corbett has listed the house starting at $0, and he’s taking offers now.

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Songs employ wildly diverse sounds, some starting in the land of sweet pop, others ending the ride in a kind of free jazz ether. Throughout it all, Doe Eyeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s breathy vocals can lend a sense of melancholy one moment and, under a waterfall of distortion, feel almost ominous the next, while glittery melodies share space with discomďŹ ting offkilter beats.

With John Vanderslice (who has worked with the likes of Death Cab for Cutie, Spoon and St. Vincent) sitting in the producerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s chair, Television is one of the most interesting, most listenable and most addictive debuts to come out in a while. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Amy Atkins With Cutting Cages and Uintahs. 7 p.m., $5. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.

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OLD 97’S, MAY 14, KNITTING FACTORY A band able to keep it together for 20 years is kind of an anomaly, and that accomplishment should be lauded. Altcountry rockers Old 97’s are celebrating in the way they know best: touring behind a new album.

It is that touring life that informs Most Messed Up (April 29, ATO Records), 12 no-holds-barred, rowdy tracks that unearth the unsurprising truths of life on the road for this quartet.

Even from song titles like “Let’s Get Drunk and Get it On,” “Wasted” and “Wheels Off,” it’s pretty clear what story Most Messed Up is trying to tell, and like the Old 97’s albums before it, it does a damn good job telling it.

If you don’t know Old 97’s, this is a good album with which to make introductions. And for a second date, see the band live, especially the engaging, hip-swaying, sweet-voiced frontman Rhett Miller. They’re the kind of band you can imagine having a beer with—just be prepared to party.

—Amy Atkins With Nikki Lane, 8 p.m., $20-$45. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.

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WINESIPPER/DRINK THINK PINK FOR SPRING Ten years ago, there were only three or four dry rose choices, and you had to beg people to try them. Now they are one of the hottest tickets in town, practically flying off the shelves. Dry roses work well in all seasons, but some of the first to hit our market were from the south of France, where they know something about beating the summer heat. Today, the choices are more diverse, and this week’s picks prove that with representations from three different wine regions.

2013 Adelsheim Rose, $17.99 This bright pink wine hails from Oregon’s Willamette Valley and is appropriately made from that region’s premier grape, pinot noir. The aromas are a heady blend of strawberry, lime and spring greens.

It’s a charmingly elegant rose with creamy, ripe berry flavors up front that are nicely balanced by tangy citrus. It’s great on its own or with food.

2013 Azulejo Rose, $7.99 From a region nestled along Portugal’s Atlantic coast, this wine is a blend of an Iberian native grape, camarate, and cabernet sauvignon.

It’s a vibrant, rose petal-colored wine with a touch of spritz when first poured. The aromas are light but lovely, combining soft strawberry and clover. In the mouth, there are hints of fresh and fruity strawberry punch, backed by ripe citrus. This wine shows very light acidity (typical of camarate), but is still refreshing. This is a definite bargain.

2013 Domaine des Lauribert La Cuvee de Lisa Rose, $9.99 This is a very pale pink pour that offers subtle floral aromas blended with bright strawberry and lemon zest. It’s made entirely from grenache grapes from the southern Rhone region of Vaucluse, located in the southeast corner of France. The flavors are rich but wellbalanced, with ripe red currant, raspberry and blood orange countered by crisp acidity. This rose is as refreshing as it is delicious.

—David Kirkpatrick

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AMERICAN CRAFT BEER WEEK CALENDAR A daily guide to celebrating ACBW 2014 in Boise TARA MORGAN

Pre Funk: Cellar Night. “Monday night’s going to be a cellar night where I bring a bunch of bottles from my cellar, so lots of rare, one-off beers. … I haven’t picked through it yet, mostly just like barleywines, stouts, sours, things that age well in a cellar from various breweries,” said Driscoll.

Bittercreek: The RAM and Lamb. A fourcourse meal for $30 featuring the RAM’s 2013 Saison, Imperial Red, Sweep Scotch Ale and Black IPA along with lamb from Lava Lakes in each course except the dessert.

TUESDAY, MAY 13: Bier:Thirty: A Brewery & Bier:Thirty, NoLi Brewhouse, 6-9 p.m. Featuring the Wrecking Ball Imperial Stout with coffee and the double dry-hopped Jet Star Imperial IPA. Woodland Empire: Brew-Master Dinner at State and Lemp, featuring six beers and six courses from 7-10 p.m. Sold out.

Payette: Movie Night. Payette will screen the craft beer rom-com Drinking Buddies in the tasting room. The movie starts at 6 p.m. and throughout the movie, cans are $2. Food Truck: TBD.

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14:

American Craft Beer Week is a nebulous holiday. From Monday, May 12, through Sunday, May 18, craft beer brewers and enthusiasts across the country will host thousands of events to celebrate craft suds. How many thousands? Who knows? It should come as no surprise that getting folks who drink lots of craft beer to post their events on a central website (craftbeer.com) is like herding drunk cats. So Boise Weekly did what Pre Funk’s Ryan Driscoll called “the Lord’s work” and compiled a calendar of local events going down around Boise for American Craft Beer Week. Here’s what we dug up.

MONDAY, MAY 12: Boise Co-op: World Beer Cup Winners Tasting, 4:30-6 p.m. Sample some 2014 winners from the Olympics of beer, including Widmer Hefeweizen, Firestone Walker Wookey Jack, Anderson Valley Brewing Brother David’s Double, The Commons Flemish Kiss and Beer Valley Black Flag.

“These are recognized by their industry peers as the best beers within the style. There were a lot of entries this year, so those should be excellent beers which really are above and beyond the everyday—though a lot of them are everyday beers,” said Co-op Beer Guy Matt Gelsthorpe.

Bier:Thirty: A Brewery and Bier:Thirty, New Belgium Brewing, 6-8 p.m. Featuring 2011 Biere de Mars, 2013 La Folie, 2014 La Folie and Snapshot Wheat run through the randall with strawberries, lemon and orange peel.

Sockeye: Hopnoxious Release Party, 5 p.m.

Snag a nine-ounce pour of Hopnoxious paired with Korean bulgogi in a wasabi spoon topped with fresh cilantro pesto, sliced Fresno chili and candied orange peel for $6.

Crooked Fence: Celebrate the release of Crooked Fence’s new summer seasonal, Winters Demise, and the new Animos double IPA at the Crooked Fence tasting room from 4-10 p.m. The first 25 people through the door will receive a signed 11 inch-by-17 inch poster of their choice.

Bittercreek: A tasting with PBR (Proponents of Barleywine Recognition). Sample an array of barleywines along with food pairings, including a cheese and apple tart, lamb shanks and a cheese board.

“In our opinion, barleywine is an underappreciated style that could use a little bump,” wrote Bittercreek Beverage Manager David Roberts. “For this event we’ve partnered with PBR, a barleywine advocacy group, to highlight barleywine history, food pairings and unique contributions to the American Craft Beer scene. To accomplish this we will be pulling some vintage barleywines out of the cellar and featuring them as a flight alongside barleywine-friendly foods and information.”

Payette: Art & Ale V, 3-10 p.m. Five local artists will have their work on display in the brewery’s tasting room. Payette is offering $2 can specials, and if you buy art, they’ll throw in a free koozie. Food Truck: Burgerlicious.

THURSDAY, MAY 15: Boise Co-op: First-Time Cellar, Longtime Listener tasting, featuring Stone Brewing from 4:30-6 p.m. The Co-op will pour vintage bottles of Stone Double Bastard, Old Guardian Barleywine and/or the Imperial Russian Stout “The educational component will be about cellaring beer and just where some of that thinking is and where some of the science is

at this point, and along with that, we’ll have some vintage beers to taste alongside their fresh counterparts,” said Gelsthorpe.

Bittercreek: Traditional Cask Ales with Woodland Empire, featuring firkins of Return of The Rivers Porter with cacao nibs and City of Trees IPA dry-hopped with Nelson Sauvin hops.

“We’ll be pouring one traditional cask ale through the beer engine with another on top of a modified dish cart that Rob [the brewmaster of Woodland Empire] will be pushing through the dining room serving samples of,” explained Roberts.

Payette: Cheese and Chocolate. Sample a variety of cheeses and chocolates in Payette’s tasting room from 5-7 p.m.

FRIDAY, MAY 16: Bier:Thirty: Oskar Blues Brewery 10 Tap Takeover, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Featuring Home Skillet Black IPA, Obliterator Doppelbock, Mama’s Little Yella Pils and many more.

Payette: Third Anniversary + Outlaw Rodeo, noon-10 p.m. Featuring a mechanical bull, a shooting gallery and a dunk tank where you can try to win Payette prizes. Food truck: Archie’s Place.

Pre Funk: Fort George Tap Takeover, with 10 taps and lots of cans.

SATURDAY, MAY 17: Sockeye: Brew-O-Lympics, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. outside of Sockeye’s new location at 12542 W. Fairview Ave. Teams from Sockeye, Payette, Woodland Empire, 10 Barrel, Crooked Fence, Edge, RAM, Highlands Hollow, Bogus, Slanted Rock and Sawtooth will compete in beer events, including keg toss, flip cup, quaffing, corn hole, basketball sharpshooter, tug of war and an obstacle course relay. Sockeye will provide trophies and each brewery will have a beer on tap. All proceeds will be donated to the state brewer’s guild, Idaho Brewers United.

Meridian: New Belgium Brewing’s Meridian Bike Ride. Registration is $5 and takes place from 11 a.m.-noon at The Curb. The ride will cruise to stops at Harry’s, Rudy’s, Brewforia and Beef O’Bradys, with $3 New Belgium pint specials.

Bittercreek: Cellar Bottle Blowout. For one day only, Bittercreek is offering specials on select bottles from the cellar, in addition to samples of “coveted vintage rarities” and snacks.

SUNDAY, MAY 18 Woodland Empire: Pac-Man Tournament in the tasting room from 6-8 p.m., with a special tapping of Space Stout, Woodland’s collaboration with Spacebar Arcade.

Bier:Thirty: Southwest Idaho Mountain Biking Association Ride with Sockeye Trail Digger Pale Ale, 10 a.m.

“We’ll be going on a split mountain bike ride with SWIMBA, then coming back to Bier:Thirty for some Sockeye Trail Digger Pale Ale with portion of proceeds benefiting SWIMBA,” explained Bier:Thirty’s Chris Oates.

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GODZILLA ATTACKS BOISE The 1954 classic returns for one night only GEORGE PRENTICE It’s a creature feature.

It’s a kids’ flick.

It’s a foreign film must-see.

It’s a geopolitical statement.

There are many reasons to revisit the original Japanese version of Godzilla on its 60th anniversary, but the best two reasons are: it’s a classic, and it links the Idaho Japanese Association with the Idaho Horror Film Festival.

Godzilla then and now: The creature made his big-screen debut in 1954 (released in Japan as Gojira), and his “It’s culturally important,” IJA Spokesgreat-grandson storms North American theaters on Friday, May 16. woman Naho Nakashima told Boise Weekly.

Not missing a beat, IHFF Director Molly The Flicks so that they can look at Godzilla Idaho Horror Film Festival slated to screen from a different level,” said Nakashima.

Deckart said, “All these years later, it’s still in October, saw working with The Flicks The original Godzilla is deadly serious, groundbreaking.” and IJA as a natural fit.

The timing couldn’t be better for the two playing off the planet’s Cold War fears of “Yes, Carole and I had a lovely convernuclear Armageddon in visceral fashion. organizations to lure the original Godzilla sation,” said Deckart with a laugh. “And Godzilla director Ishiro Honda is credited to Boise; a 2014 reboot, with a rumored while I’m pretty busy getting set for this with being the Japanese godfather of the budget of $160 million invades North fall’s festival, we thought Godzilla would kaiju (“monster”) genre and is quoted as American cineplexes on Friday, May 16. be a unique collaboration in the meantime. saying, “If Godzilla had been a dinosaur But Nakashima and Deckart are betting And what’s so great about Godzilla is, yes, or some other animal, he would have been that more than a few film buffs and sci-fi it’s a monster movie, but it’s still pretty killed by just one cannonball. But if he were family-friendly. It’s less of a horror film and enthusiasts will converge at The Flicks on equal to an atomic bomb, we wouldn’t Thursday, May 15, to thrill to the original more of a sci-fi classic.” know what to do. So, I took the characterisbeast.

And while no one is heaping overt praise tics of an atomic bomb and applied them to on the 1954 film’s old-school special effects, Westerners may recall the “AmericanGodzilla.” ized” 1956 version of Godzilla, with scenes director Ishiro Honda’s choice to film in But long before featuring soon-to-be black-and-white still holds up exceptionally Honda was to become well, particularly in one opening nighttime TV star Raymond one of Japan’s most Burr (Perry Mason) scene as Godzilla rises from a storm-swept GODZILLA (1954, NR) revered filmmakers, sloppily edited into sea. he was a soldier in the Japanese origiWhen Godzilla was first released in Directed by Ishiro Honda the Japanese Imperial 1954 (as Gojira) in Japan, an astounding 9 nal. But the May Starring Takashi Shimura, Akihiko Hirata, Army. Even though 15 screening at The million tickets were sold and the film was Momoko Kochi he survived World Flicks will showcase nominated for two Japanese Movie AssociaThursday, May 15, 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 War II, he made a the unedited classic. tion awards, the nation’s version of Oscar. door. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342point of visiting the Nakashima, who Godzilla won for best special effects but 4222, theflicksboise.com. bomb-flattened city grew up in Japan, relost best picture to Akira Kurosawa’s Seven of Hiroshima to get members it well from Samurai, still considered one of the greatest a sense of those who her childhood. films of the 20th century and the source had no chance of survival. A decade later, “The Japanese people saw Godzilla very material for The Magnificent Seven. Kinema Honda filmed the story of an unparalleled differently than American audiences did Junpo magazine lists Godzilla as one of the onslaught from a creature mutated by in the 1950s,” she said. “It’s important to top 20 Japanese films of all time. nuclear radiation. remember that in the 1950s, Japan was still Godzilla eventually spawned 27 se“Over the years, the Idaho Japanese Asdeeply scarred from the war. Japan was quels—many of them laughable—and endnearly destroyed. So, we were just beginning sociation has sponsored a number of films less imitations—some of them great (withand, quite honestly, when we started talking out Godzilla, there is no Jaws or Jurassic to rebuild our country. But in Godzilla, the about the possibility of screening Godzilla Japanese thought, ‘We can defeat this. We Park). The 1954 original opened to mixed a few months ago, we forgot that the 60th have strength. We can do this.’” and negative reviews, but 60 years later, it To that end, Nakashima and Deckart remains a credible warning that if humananniversary was coming up,” said Naagreed that the 1954 Godzilla was a carekind continues to abuse nature it faces the kashima. “And when I started talking with fully crafted propaganda film to boost Carole [Skinner, owner of The Flicks] about risk of an unleashed retribution.

Japanese morale in the wake of its defeat Yes, the 2014 version of Godzilla looks securing the rights to show Godzilla, she to Allied forces, while including some stark rather terrifying, but his great-grandfather suggested we collaborate with Molly.” warnings. still packs a wallop. In fact, he’s a pretty Deckart, who is spending the better part “I really hope that people will come to great great-grandfather. of 2014 putting together the inaugural BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Fireworks displays excite the eyes and lift the spirit. But the smoke and dust they produce can harm the lungs with residues of heavy metals. The toxic chemicals they release may pollute streams and lakes and even groundwater. So is there any alternative? Not yet.

No one has come up with a more benign variety of fireworks. But if it happens soon, I bet it will be due to the efforts of an enterprising Aries researcher. Your tribe is entering a phase when you will have good ideas about how to make risky fun safer, how to ensure vigorous adventures are healthy, and how to maintain constructive relationships with exciting influences.

way to ride two horses with your one butt.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Free jazz is a type of music that emerged in the 1950s as a rebellion against jazz conventions. Its meter is fluid and its harmonies unfamiliar, sometimes atonal.

Song structures may be experimental and unpredictable. A key element in free jazz is collective improvisation—riffing done not just by a featured soloist, but by the entire group of musicians playing together. To prepare for your adventures in the coming days, Taurus—which I suspect will have resemblances to free jazz—you might want to listen to music by its pioneers, like Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra. Whatever you do, don’t fall prey to scapabobididdilywiddilydoobapaphobia, which is the fear of freestyle jazz.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In your imagination, take a trip many years into the future. See yourself as you are now, sitting next to the wise elder you will be then. The two of you are lounging on a beach and gazing at a lake. It’s twilight. A warm breeze feels good. You turn to your older self and say, “Do you have any regrets? Is there anything you wish you had done but did not do?” Your older self tells you what that thing is. (Hear it now.) And you reply, “Tomorrow I will begin working to change all that.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Apple and Exxon are the most valuable companies in America. In third place, worth more than $350 billion, is Google. Back in 1999, when the future Internet giant was less than a year old, Google’s founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page tried to sell their baby for a mere million dollars. The potential buyer was Excite, an online service that was thriving at the time.

But Excite’s CEO turned down the offer, leaving Brin and Page to soldier onward by themselves. Lucky for them, right? Today they’re rich and powerful. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Gemini. An apparent “failure” may, in hindsight, turn out to be the seed of a future success.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You can’t have your cake and eat it, too” is an English-language proverb. It means that you will no longer have your cake if you eat it all up. The Albanian version of the adage is, “You can’t go for a swim without getting wet.” Hungarians say, “It’s impossible to ride two horses with one butt.” According to my analysis, Cancerian, you will soon disprove this folk wisdom.

You will, in effect, be able to eat your cake and still have it. You will somehow stay dry as you take a dip. You will figure out a

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I know this might come as a shock, Leo, but... are you ready?... you are God! Or at least godlike. An influx of crazy yet useful magic from the Divine Wow is boosting your personal power way beyond normal levels. There’s so much primal mojo flowing through you that it will be hard if not impossible for you to make mistakes. Don’t fret, though. Your stint as the Wild Sublime Golden Master of Reality probably won’t last for more than two weeks, three tops. I’m sure that won’t be long enough for you to turn into a raving megalomaniac with 10,000 cult followers.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Over a hundred years ago, the cattle industry pressured the U.S. government to kill off wolves in Yellowstone National Park. By 1926, the wolves had all but vanished. In the following decades, elk herds grew unnaturally big, no longer hunted by their natural predator. The elk decimated the berry bushes of Yellowstone, eating the wild fruit with such voracity that grizzly bears and many other species went hungry.

In 1995, environmentalists and conservationists got clearance to reintroduce wolves to the area.

Now the berry bushes are flourishing again. Grizzlies are thriving, as are other mammals that had been deprived. I regard this vignette as an allegory for your life in the coming months, Libra. It’s time to do the equivalent of replenishing the wolf population. Correct the imbalance.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I have no problem with you listening closely to the voices in your head.

Although there might be some weird counsel flowing from some of them, it’s also possible that one of those voices might have sparkling insights to offer. As for the voices that are delivering messages from your lower regions, in the vicinity of your reproductive organs: I’m not opposed to you hearing them out, either. But I hope you will be most attentive and receptive to the voices in your heart. While they are not infallible, they are likely to contain a higher percentage of useful truth than those other two sources.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Kangaroo rats live in the desert.

They’re at home there, having evolved over millennia to thrive in the arid conditions. So welladapted are they that they can go a very long time without drinking water. While it’s admirable to have achieved such a high level of accommodation to their environment, I don’t recommend that you do something comparable. In fact, its probably better if you don’t adjust to some of the harsher aspects of your environment. Now might be a good time to acknowledge this fact and start planning an alternate solution.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled,” said writer William Blake. I think you will challenge this theory in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

Your passions will definitely not be weak. They may even verge on being volcanic. And yet I bet you will manage them fairy well. By that I mean you will express them with grace and power rather than allowing them to overwhelm you and cause a messy ruckus. You won’t need to tamp them down and bottle them up because you will find a way to be both uninhibited and disciplined as you give them their chance to play.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Would you please go spend some quality time having non-goal-oriented fun? Can I convince you to lounge around in fantasyland as you empty your beautiful head of all compulsions to prove yourself and meet people’s expectations?

Will you listen to me if I suggest that you take off the mask that’s stuck to your face and make funny faces in the mirror? You need a nice long nap, gorgeous.

Two or three nice long naps.

Bake some damn cookies, even if you’ve never done so. Soak your feet in epsom salts as you bingewatch a TV show that stimulates a thousand emotions. Lie in the grass and stare lovingly at the sky for as long as it takes to recharge your spiritual batteries.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dear Pisceans: Your evil twins have asked me to speak to you on their behalf. They say they want to apologize for the misunderstandings that may have arisen from their innocent desire to show you what you had been missing. Their intent was not at all hostile or subversive. They simply wanted to fill in some gaps in your education. OK? Next your evil twins want to humbly request that you no longer refer to them as “Evil Twin,” but instead pick a more affectionate name, like, say “Sweet Mess” or “Tough Lover.” If you promise to treat them with more geniality, they will guarantee not to be so tricky and enigmatic.

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