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HOLD THE AMMO National fast-food chain Chipotle, which recently opened a location in downtown Boise, is asking that customers leave their ﬁrearms at home—or in the car. Read more on Citydesk.

GOLD MEDAL If you missed the Brew-O-Lympics, part of American Craft Beer Week May 12-18, that’s too bad. If you want to see a video of it, crack a brew and go to Cobweb.

ROCK STATION Local rock band Faded Leroy released it debut full-length album, Days Between Stations, and will play the Knitting Factory Thursday, May 29. Sneak peek at Mixtape.

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I HE A R BA NJO .” —Pete Wadams (Boiseweekly.com, Citydesk, “No Wedding Bells Yet: 9th Circuit Issues Temporary Stay in Idaho Gay Marriage Case,” May 15, 2014).

MAIL A TRADITION WORTH KEEPING I’m ready to take a stand. I support gay marriage. As I sat in a courtroom on Monday [May 5] and listened to arguments from the state in defense of the current ban on gay marriage in Idaho, I was bafﬂed. I did not hear arguments that gay marriage would hurt anyone; in fact, many courts have already found that children raised by gay parents fare no better or worse than those raised by “traditional” couples. So what exactly is the argument? One word: tradition. Even though they could not be hurt personally, their churches would not need to marry homosexual couples and their communities would not need to spend a dime; despite all this they want marriage to remain as-is. Tradition. When is it OK to challenge traditions? It was OK when we allowed interracial marriages, gave women the right to vote and outlawed slavery. Why not now? Come on Idaho, let’s not be last to afﬁrm what we all know is true—same-sex couples can be in love. They should be able to marry, have kids and be afforded every right our “traditional” couples have. It’s fair, and THAT’S a tradition every Idahoan truly wants to keep. —Jason Sears Boise

WE OWN THIS PLACE When Boise buys trails

we shouldn’t lose trails. The open land between Harrison Hollow and Hillside Junior High now belongs to us all. Nice. But as that new-trail smell wears off, I realize the public property managers we pay to steward our new backyard may not want what mountain bikers and other trail users want. The number of trails there will now dwindle due to factors and factions dressed in cloaks that looks like progress. You see, our property managers think our new place is a fixer-upper. The city and Ridge to Rivers will manage this parcel for us from now on. But at two recent open houses held to get the public involved, maps were displayed highlighting the huge percentage of trails that exceed a 10-percent grade. This bunch opposes most trails steeper than 10 percent. And while this rule is just written in dirt and not stone, they seem to regard many of our favorite routes as damned to be closed and “restored.” Julia Grant, the city’s Foothills and Open Space manager, all but confirmed this as a likely outcome when I met with her [in March]. I’d agree with them but then we’d both be wrong. Only in Hillside to Hollow will you find this combination of steep climbs, descents and gut-tightening side-hills. Most built and maintained for years by one man—a poacher of sorts—who, without permission, somehow got ’em right. Made them unique, steep, sometimes

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thrilling and did it without those hills sliding all the way down to Hillside and Hill. One man. In his spare time. And they’re still there. Maintainable. Sustainable. Wonder ful. But I’m hearing that there are not enough bucks in the bank to keep them all open or keep them in shape. They could get by with a little help from my friends. For some reason R2R and nongovernment organizations, like SWIMBA and BAMBA, just don’t play well together. But in spite of the declared maintenance budget shortfalls, Ridge to Rivers often prefers to go it alone. The relationship between these groups seems to have hit bottom. It’s almost tragic. Stop it. You are talented, experienced people with huge money invested in equipment, all with access to volunteers— but you’re all working your own corners of the system. Cooperation between these troops is the answer to keeping these trails open. Hell, it’s the answer to improving all the trails on the Boise Front. You guys need to get together for a pitcher, hug it out and get back to playing in the dirt together. The managers have had too much on their plate. The massive effort to acquire this land has taken the collective eye off of trail development. According to David Gordon, coordinator of the Ridge to Rivers effort, there are no new trail projects scheduled for the Boise Foothills they manage. This means our antiquated and crowded trail system will fall even further behind the rest of the cycling cosmos if things don’t advance and advance quickly. We own this place. Let’s make it what we want it to be. —Steve Noyes Boise B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

BILL COPE/OPINION

CONDI’S CON

Considering Rice in the can Bill, are you the kind of liberal who believes all arguments and differing opinions deserve equal exposure in the theater of ideas, particularly those centers of free thought that are what our universities are ideally supposed to be? Or are you one of those liberals who think certain ideas and certain speakers should not be allowed in those ivied halls when they don’t conform to your views? Ah, he’s back—my old friend and tormentor, the Disembodied Voice whose only purpose it seems is to ask me uncomfortable questions. More often than not, he shows up when I’m trying to get to sleep at night, or even worse, when I’m in the bathroom, preparing to evacuate my... oh, don’t you give me that look! I suppose I’m the only guy who does a lot of his thinking on the toilet. Hey, I heard that Martin Luther came up with that whole Protestant Reformation thing in a 16th century outhouse, so don’t tell me I can’t conduct an inner dialogue while taking care of other business. Yes, now back to this particular uncomfortable question, which I’m confident my Disembodied Voice won’t let me forget until I answer the damn thing. I’m equally confident he (she? honestly, I can’t tell, though I’d prefer to think it’s a fellow, especially when he so often shows up when I’m on the john) wouldn’t have brought it up if it weren’t for the events at Rutgers University, when Condoleezza Rice was invited to give the commencement address, then pulled out when students and faculty protested her coming. So, here it is. My answer. I am all for letting any vile shithead—Sarah Palin, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz… my goodness, there are so many vile shitheads to chose from, aren’t there?—show up on any university anywhere to spew his (or her) half-baked brain droppings, no matter how antithetical to learning, common decency and basic morality they may be, because in the broad swath of human experience, learning always leads to a deeper understanding of the truth, and the truth has no lasting tolerance for half-baked brain droppings. Except!... when the vile shithead happens to be a war criminal. But Bill, Condoleezza Rice has never been convicted of committing war crimes. Or are you just speaking hyperbolically? Me? Hyperbolic? No, no my little Disembodied Voice buddy. You know me better than that. I never speak hyperbolically. Or almost never. But never when it comes to those hyenas who twisted our country into a war that had no need to be waged, using pack upon pack of lies to get us there, in which tens upon tens of thousands of innocent people died, all for no lasting purpose or good whatsoever. There’s no need to be hyperbolic about something that started out as hyperbole from the very first lie. BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

And as to Condoleeza Rice’s not being convicted for her part in the crimes, let us remember most war criminals are never properly convicted. Actual war crime trials are always more an aberration than the norm. But that’s not to say villainous deeds weren’t committed by villainous doers, does it? The proof of war crimes is not so much in proper trials and solemn courts as in the corpses left rotting in the ruins. And there are more than enough of those in what’s left of Iraq to convict Condoleeza Rice and all the rest of George Bush’s death squad. But Bill, if Barack Obama chose not to make an issue of the criminality of the Bush administration, how dare you presume that you... or the students and faculty of Rutgers, for that matter... have the right to pass judgment on them? Wouldn’t it be prudent to keep your suspicions to yourself and let history be the judge of their guilt or innocence? And how would history make that judgement, except for the truth to come out? Which is exactly what has happened. No weapons of mass destruction—check! No links with 9/11 or al-Qaida—check! No threat whatsoever to America—check! Just a trilliondollar craphole for Halliburton to squat in, snatching up pallets of war profits as fast as Cheney could direct the CIA to squeeze them out. The history is now, Disembodied Voice. It won’t take a hundred years and a thousand historians to reconstruct this crime. It’s being stripped bare even as we’re here talking about it. And we’re here talking about it because the criminals still walk among us, getting paid blood money for speaking engagements. I imagine Rice and Rumsfeld and Cheney were hoping their lies would out-live them, that they would never have to face the consequences of what they did. But anymore, information spreads too fast for them to outrun it. Dedicated reporters and conscientious insiders have exposed them for the murderous monsters they are, even if the worst punishment they will likely ever face is the disgust decent American citizens will continue to have for them. But Bill, even if Condoleeza Rice is a war criminal as you say she is, you haven’t given a convincing reason why a war criminal shouldn’t be allowed to give a commencement address. For the same reason a common criminal isn’t allowed to profit from his crime by selling a book about it. Rice wasn’t making that speech out of the goodness of her heart, you know. She was getting $35,000 for a 15-minute appearance. And had she not been an integral part of that massive crime, she would have never been asked to do it in the first place. What else did she ever accomplish? But Bill... “But Bill” nothing! You shut up now so I can concentrate on what I’m doing. Damn, I gotta cut down on the cheese.

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OPINION/JOHN REMBER

CULTURAL PSYCHOSIS EXPLAINED What to do when reality goes haywire

If you’re sane in an insane culture, you’re insane—at least according to your culture. If your Emperor has no clothes, and you say that the Emperor has no clothes, you’re going to upset the Emperor’s tailor, who has constructed a consensus that insists the Emperor is wearing clothes. You will be called crazy, by the tailor and everybody else sharing the Emperor-wears-clothes consensus. They will put you away if they can. This idea comes from British psychiatrist R.D. Laing, who devoted his life to showing how civilization robs its citizens of experience, leaving hallucination in its place. Laing suggests you’re insane when you live with nuclear weapons, religious wars, rape culture, prisonindustrial complexes and mind-destroying jobs—and still keep your head down, show up at work, go to classes, take standardized tests, pay taxes and tithes, raise kids, wait for retirement and call yourself normal. Laing’s thinking bothers people, because he shows that being normal requires a frenzied self-deception indistinguishable from psychosis. When normal people graduate from college, they trade the wide world for an office, their time for meetings, their lives for money. That money goes to car payments and mortgages and child-care and package vacations. Normal people’s fears and joys are delivered to them by marketing departments. Normal people’s social lives are conducted in franchise restaurants with themed menus. Normal professionals front their names with titles and back them with degrees. Laing is convincing when he says that if a person is comfortable in civilization, his entire identity is hallucination. To those familiar with Laing, The Matrix movies are a simple extrapolation of early 21st century life. Either you take the blue pill and relax into cultural illusion, or you take the red pill, wake up to a hellish world, pull the tubes out of your orifices, escape your cell and find out what reality is all about. Most people find this path too difficult to contemplate. But—if only it were so easy. Laing also says the thing we call the self is a pastiche of the cultural and the biological, and that we can’t function without both components. Those who make the break—who take the red pill, as it were—end up without a cultural narrative. They are unable to construct a purely biological sanity. Their selves shatter into pieces, as do their senses of time and event. We normals experience these people as schizophrenics. If their break is absolute, they become the muttering homeless, the militiabound paranoids, the staring orange-tinted faces in the Statesman’s arrest photos, the catatonics in the back wards, the Internet trolls, the bridge-jumpers, the suicides-by-cop. Laing says that their word-salad monologues, secret languages and multiple personas are artifacts

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of a culture whose illusions are so shabby that schizophrenics have seen right through them. He also cautions that just because you can see the truth doesn’t mean you can see the truth for everyone. Lots of people ignore this caveat and read Laing to reassure themselves that they’re right and everybody else is wrong. That’s harmless, mostly, except when armed paranoids decide that civilization is a pack of lies and liars and a few brave right-thinking individuals are needed to restore lost illusions. Laing has lost credibility since he published The Divided Self and The Politics of Experience. Contemporary neurochemistry uses far different metaphors to explain mental illness. Psychoanalysis has become passé, obsoleted by theorists who insist there’s no such thing as a psyche or even a self. Postmodern critics have promoted the idea that all truth is culturally constructed, which is to say there is no truth— and no sanity—and there’s no point in trying to define them or seek them out. Laing himself relaxed into what looked like dementia near the end of his life. Still, his writing offers us the possibility of real experience. He defines sanity by showing what it’s not, and he suggests that once you’ve identified the general neighborhood where sanity hangs out, you can, most days, choose it over craziness. He demonstrates that some cultures are saner than others. He shows that civilizations must eventually face the constraints of reality. To return to the most valuable and most chilling of Laing’s insights: Culture relies on violence to enforce consensus. Such violence can be as blatant as a forced lobotomy or as subtle as a C-minus on a fifth-grade homework assignment. Schools suck in 5-year-olds, who delight in being in the midst of a bright new world and its creatures. Seventeen years later they spit out disaffected and frightened job-seekers whose highest spiritual aspirations involve mortgage-sized tuition loans. That’s educational violence in action. You might consider these words ironic, coming from a man who spent his life as an educator. But when I taught journalism I made good use of Laing’s ideas. I insisted that the craft required honest witnesses above all else. Journalists who substituted cultural narrative for truth were mere propagandists for a crazymaking normalcy. “If the Emperor has no clothes,” I told my classes, “write that he has no clothes. Never write consensual lies. Define the truth by showing what it isn’t.” My advice might not have been worth my students’ tuition. The ones who went on to become politicians ignored it. The ones who went on to become journalists never got rich. But I was pointing out an incremental path to the true and the sane. If they followed it, their financial investment would cease to matter—in the real world, if not in this one. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND Community garden offers unique bond among refugees, Boise synagogue

Farzan Faramarzi captured this image of Brother Jed’s tussle with a Boise State student.

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KIVI-TV CHANNEL 6 PUTS THE ‘FREE’ BACK INTO ‘FREELANCER’

It’s called tikkun olam—a 6th century Hebrew word that means “improve the world.” And while no one is saying that a garden on the Boise Bench will yield everlasting peace on Earth, this nondescript parcel of land unites people from multiple nations and religions, all kneeling together—not in a house of worship, but on a plot of soil. And what is merely tilled dirt now should be a bountiful oasis come July. Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel—home to what is believed to be the oldest synagogue in the Western United States—has, for the past 10 years, opened its garden to its newest neighbors, a growing community of refugee families, so that they may work the land and grow their own crops, free of charge. Boiseans remember well when, in 2003, Ahavath Beth Israel pulled its historic synagogue from its foundation and slowly rolled the architectural wonder from its former State Street address to its current home on Latah Street. But the congregation soon recognized that it had more land than it knew what to do with. “We had plenty of room to build a new education center, more than we actually needed,” said Sherrill Livingston, former president of the congregation. It didn’t take too long for the Idaho Office for Refugees, which has helped resettle dozens of families from war-torn nations into the Boise Bench neighborhood, to take notice of the potential for some of the land. The office approached the synagogue with a proposition: build a refugee community garden. Livingston and Rabbi Dan Fink were both receptive to the idea. “We happen to be located across the street from an apartment complex that’s mostly populated by refugees,” Fink told Boise Weekly. “We love having our neighbors on our property helping create something beautiful for them and for us.” Livingston quickly put together a committee for the garden—she became its chair— and they got to work. “We got a lot of volunteers to help,” she said. Indeed, through donations and grants, the garden became a reality and, a decade later, it is still growing, along with other refugee gardens that have blossomed throughout the Treasure Valley. Global Gardens, a program of the Office for Refugees, has grown as well, sponsoring agricultural projects at various locations in and around Boise, serving as many as 280

Farzan Faramarzi has all the right skills to be a ﬁne photojournalist. It’s too bad he hasn’t been paid for his work, in spite of the fact that it was a primetime attraction on KIVI Channel 6’s evening broadcast of May 8. Indiana-based minister Brother Jed Smock was back in town, and again targeting Boise State University students with his confrontational mash-up of scripture and bigotry. But things were getting particularly tense during this visit (Brother Jed surfaces at campuses throughout the United States on a regular basis); the Boise State Secular Student Alliance opted to give Smock a taste of his brimstone, handing out sheets of “Bigot Bingo” to onlookers, giving extra points if Brother Jed revisited some familiar themes, such as “Women should be baby machines” and “Pray the gay away.” “One of my teachers called me and said something was going on there,” said Faramarzi, a communications major who just wrapped up his junior year at Boise State. “I grabbed a camera and tripod from the communications department and I was there in no time.” And indeed Faramarzi captured the moment—and then some. As one of the students attempted to give Smock a hug, the minister resisted and pushed the student away—some, including the student, said that Smock struck the alleged victim. And indeed, the video is the best proof of what happened. Faramarzi edited approximately 40 minutes of footage to 4 minutes, 48 seconds and uploaded it to his YouTube page, where he has also posted content from University Television Productions, a unit of the Boise State Department of Communication. Faramarzi is also a staff member of The Arbiter and embedded his video as part of the student newspaper’s coverage of Brother Jed’s shenanigans. But Faramarzi was about to learn another valuable, albeit unpleasant, lesson about video content and the wild west of television news. He said he was stunned to learn that KIVI Channel 6 had taken his video, tailored it to their own needs and made it the foundation of its reporting on the campus kerfufﬂe. “The whole thing captured on a cellphone,” announced 6 on Your Side news anchor Michelle Edmonds, introducing the story. But that’s not true. Faramarzi had chronicled the events with equipment familiar to any professional photojournalist. More importantly, the tentpole of Channel 6 reporter 10 Chris Oswalt’s story was propped up, almost entirely, by Faramarzi’s work.

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Abdullahi Shangala hopes to see beans, corn, pumpkins and watermelons appear in the gardens outside of Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, on the Boise Bench

refugee families. “We’re kind of here as a resource,” said Katie Painter, agricultural coordinator at Global Gardens. “We give them any help they need, connect them with any resource.” When Ahaveth Beth Israel ﬁrst tilled its refugee garden in 2004, there were maybe four other refugee gardens in the community—now Painter estimates there are 11. “Many of those gardens, initially when they thought about making a garden, had heard about a successful garden project of ours,” Painter said. That has inspired many neighborhoods and organizations to sponsor their own refugee garden, then contact Global Gardens to lay, quite literally, the groundwork. “We go out and do an initial site visit, look at their water situation, their soil situation, and make some recommendations on how they could set it up,” said Painter, who added that Global Gardens helps put refugees and Boise gardens together. “A lot of the time we target people that live right in that same neighborhood. It gives it more of a neighborhood feel than if everybody was driving there.” And that certainly was the case for the garden at Ahaveth Beth Israel, where many of the refugee gardeners, a number of them from Somalia, live in nearby apartment complexes. Many of the gardeners who began working in the garden in 2004 are still there today. “They come from an agrarian culture. Having gardens to not only raise food but to have that social connection was important for them,” said Livingston. The current garden coordinators, Renee Kline and Tom Rogers, said they’re anxious to take the garden to the next level, making it completely organic and sustainable year-round. “Our No. 1 goal for us is community—getting everyone to work together,” Kline told BW. “And then sustainability, using this land to feed as many families as possible.” What were 29 plots just last year have al-

ready expanded to 65. And some new features to the garden’s ever-evolving design involve the addition of more worm compost, raised beds, ﬂower berms and a 3-foot-tall raised bed shaped like the Star of David, which would include worm composts and a drip irrigation system. “Plus we’re starting to try to open up the gardens to our own members of our congregation,” said Fink. Plots are free but must be applied for. In return for a plot, the congregation asks that all gardeners put in several hours of work a week and help maintain the garden. The gardeners are free to plant whatever they choose and take home all of their yield. “They want to use stuff that comes from their own culture,” said Abdi Kadir, one of the Somalian refugees who grows in the garden along with his family. A popular crop of Somali refugees is corn, Kadir explained; but in the past, he said they grew so much corn that the other vegetables didn’t have room to grow and couldn’t thrive. “We’ve been trying to persuade people to move away from corn into other things that are good for them, too,” added Rogers. But Idaho sometimes has a very different climate from the native lands of the refugees, so the synagogue provides free classes to the gardeners, showing them which crops to grow and when. “This season we are going to make some changes,” said Kadir. “We’ll use half the space for corn and half for other vegetables, now that we have a little bit of training.” And even though many of the refugees live in apartments where they have no room to garden, they live close enough to the synagogue that they can walk there. “Being here is a very good thing for us,” Kadir said. The synagogue’s garden planners 10 have been busy securing grants. One, from Sunrise Rotary, helped fund an

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NOT JUST YET Brother Jed Smock is a regular ﬁxture on college campuses, including Boise State.

The 31-year-old student talked with Boise State educators, who in turn reached out to the Student Press Law Center. “He could have sent [Channel 6] a bill for $200 and said, ‘Thanks for using my freelance piece. Here’s how much it costs to use my work,’ said Dr. Seth Ashley, Boise State communication professor and adviser to The Arbiter. “Or Farzan could send them a letter, referencing the DMCA.” That would be the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, used by television stations all the time to protect their video content. Eventually, Faramarzi received an email from Jennifer Peterson, deputy counsel for Journal Communications, the parent company of Channel 6. “I understand that you have already talked to station personnel about this issue,” wrote Peterson. But that’s not true, either. Faramarzi called Channel 6 and asked to speak to a producer, broadcast director or news director, but was told they were all in meetings and was shufﬂed off to a voicemail box. No one ever called him back. We know the feeling, Channel 6 didn’t respond to Boise Weekly’s request for a comment on this story, either. “You have to call and plead, even for some credit, which is outrageous,” said Ashley. “Legally, yeah, they can probably get away with it. But what concerns me is it’s more like lazy and unethical journalism than a legal issue.” 9

Ultimately, days after it was broadcast, Channel 6 added the following words to its online script: “The video was captured by BSU student Farzan Faramarzi,” with a hyperlink to Faramarzi’s YouTube page. “We can agree to disagree about fair use,” wrote Peterson, responding to Faramarzi’s insistence that his work was “the essential part” of Channel 6’s report. “Under the copyright law, fair use allows a broadcaster to do a news story that is about the video and the conduct shown in the video and, in doing so, use excerpts from the original content. That’s the exact format followed here,” she said. Meanwhile, Boise State communication students will have a fascinating case study to examine in the years ahead. “Stations and corporate media outlets are increasingly cutting their own staff so they can rely more on this kind of work, yet they can’t even be bothered to give this student some credit for his video,” said Ashley. “They probably know they’re in the clear. But it’s unfortunate.” —George Prentice

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Same-sex couples are anxiously awaiting some more good news GEORGE PRENTICE Seriously, everybody loves cake. As hundreds of well-wishers gathered on the steps of the Ada County Courthouse—celebrating the May 13 landmark ruling that shelved Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage—they were met by some token opposition, insisting that weddings were the exclusive domain of a man and woman. “But at one point, some of the protesters were having some of our cake,” said Emily Walton. “That makes me enormously happy. From now on, any protester can show up at any of our parties and have some cake.” And that may be sooner than later, as the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals could rule at any moment on Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter’s effort to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Candy Dale’s ruling (BW, Citydesk, “Historic Ruling,” May 13). In her 57-page decision, Dale wrote that current Idaho law denied same-sex couples the “economic, practical, emotional and spiritual beneﬁts of marriage, relegating each couple to a stigmatized, second-class status. Plaintiffs suffer these injuries not

because they are unqualiﬁed to marry, start a family or grow old together, but because of who they are and whom they love.” And the love that four particular samesex Idaho couples share led them to Dale’s courtroom in Boise’s U.S. Courthouse, where they said they had been denied wedding licenses at the Ada County Courthouse. When Dale agreed with the couples, Otter and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden turned to the 9th Circuit.

“I am proceeding with an aggressive challenge in the appellate court,” said Otter. “I’m hopeful for a better outcome.” But Otter may want to take a good look around at his neighbors: On May 19, another federal judge threw out Oregon’s same-sex marriage ban, marking the 13th legal victory for equality advocates. And on the same day, yet 11 another federal judge ordered Utah ofﬁcials to start recognizing more

automatic watering system in half of the garden. Another, a city of Boise 9 Neighborhood Reinvestment Grant, will help pay for the second half. “Yes, it’s a community project so it should be sustained by the neighborhood and by the community, so it doesn’t all fall back on the synagogue,” said Kline. Kadir said the garden is a uniting force for the refugees, whereas in Somalia, many of the people are segregated into many different ethnic groups and tribes. “We have to be equal,” he said. The gardeners will spend much of the summer working on replenishing the soil with nutrients so that they will be able to grow crops all year long. “So, next year we want to capture that; we want to do fall crops,” Kline said. “Think of that. People could be eating their own salads right now.” Global Gardens also plays a part in agricultural education. “One of the main things we deal with in the classes is what to plant and when,” Painter said. “There are a lot of things that they may have grown at home that they would like to grow here; one example would be bananas.”

Despite the garden being located at the synagogue, it is available to anyone. “As a congregation, we continue to do the project management of it, manage it and provide the resources, but anybody in the community, no matter what their faith, what nationality they are, they can apply for a plot,” said Kline. The garden brings together the tenets of different religions; many of the gardeners follow the faith of Islam. “It’s an important part of Judaism to be good stewards of the land,” Rogers said. “To work together is another important part of this and that’s an important part of Judaism and Islam.” Last summer, while Rogers was reading a newsletter of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, he discovered something called Green Faith, a movement that urges a push towards sustainability. “So now, we’re applying for what’s called Green Faith certiﬁcation,” Rogers said. A representative from Green Faith is expected to visit the garden soon, inspect all the buildings and property, and help the congregation work toward becoming more energy efﬁcient and sustainable.

“Part of this is educational, too. We want to not just do it as an institution here, but to encourage people to do it in their own lives, so that we have a world for our children and grandchildren,” Rogers said. Many of refugees, when they came to Boise, had a hard time ﬁnding work. “It may be that somebody who was a nurse or a doctor in their own country, but they can’t do it here,” Livingston said. But the community garden can offer a way for them to supplement their income: Some families even sell their crops at different Treasure Valley farmers markets. “It gives them an opportunity to get out and do something. It’s good for people’s mental health, it’s good for people’s physical health,” said Painter. Not only does it connect different people from the refugee community, but it also connects the local population with refugees. “The market growers have a big impact on the face of our farmers market; it’s become much more multicultural and given people in the broader community a reason to talk to a refugee person,” said Painter. “I think it does help educate the community about the broader refugee settlement process.”

Cakes (courtesy of Pastry Perfection) and coffee (courtesy of Flying M) served as some “common ground” between opposing factions in the debate over same-sex marriage.

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than 1,000 same-sex marriages that took place in that state after a judge 10 overturned Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ban. The U.S. Supreme Court has since issued an emergency stay on that ruling. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Optimism here in Idaho? I would say it was very high,â&#x20AC;? said Walton, executive director at the Idaho Civic Engagement Project and the woman who planned the May 16 celebration on the courthouse steps. Walton told Boise Weekly that, in 2011, she saw a collage of photographs of couples celebrating on the steps of Manhattanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s City Hall after New York State became the sixth state to recognize same-sex marriage. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a photo gallery on BuzzFeed and it was just so telling,â&#x20AC;? Walton remembered. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You know, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one thing to talk about marriage equality. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s something quite different to see the faces of couples who are married. I just had to make sure, that if something like that were to ever happen in Idaho, I had to be there. And I knew a lot of my friends felt the same way.â&#x20AC;? Indeed, a simple Facebook post went viral, prompting hundreds of partygoers to ďŹ ll the Ada County Courthouse steps and hundreds more offering their well-wishes via social media. BW readers would have readily recognized one of the celebrants: Madelynn Taylor (BW, News, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Idaho Says No to ďŹ nal Resting Place for Veteran and Spouse,â&#x20AC;? April 23, 2014). BW chronicled the 74-year-old Taylorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dilemma of being refused the right to be interred along with her same-sex spouse at the Idaho Veterans Cemetery. â&#x20AC;&#x153;She has the option of possibly waiting BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

to see â&#x20AC;Ś well, to see if things change,â&#x20AC;? Dave Brasuell, chief administrator of the Idaho Veterans Affairs Commission, told BW in April. When, and if, the 9th Circuit issues an opinion supporting Daleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s initial ruling is anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s guess, though Kristen Wilkinson, chief deputy of operations for the U.S. District Court in Boise, told BW that, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be probably at least until the fallâ&#x20AC;? (BW, Citydesk, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No Wedding Bells Yet: 9th Circuit Issues Temporary Stay in Idaho Gay Marriage Case,â&#x20AC;? May 15, 2014). But when it does, Boise City Hall will be more than happy to be the scene of same-sex marriages. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We actually had a couple of requests for Mayor [Dave] Bieter to perform samesex weddings, including two of the four couples that were plaintiffs in the case,â&#x20AC;? said Adam Park, spokesman for the mayor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So, yes the mayor will be performing same-sex weddings when, and if, it becomes legal in the state.â&#x20AC;? Bieter has performed approximately one wedding per month during his time in ofďŹ ceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s performed as few as three one year and as many as 15 in another year. But itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the Ada County Courthouse that is marriage central: In 2013, the Ada County Recorderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s OfďŹ ce processed 3,236 marriage licenses, or an average of 269 a month. It spikes quite a bit in summer months, with last July seeing 425 marriages. If all goes as expected, Walton said, this summer will see more than a few more. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And once we can really watch those people get married, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll deďŹ nitely have another party,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll throw that party, even if we have to plan it in 10 minutes. Believe me; weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be there.â&#x20AC;?

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MEAGAN AND CHRIS BAUER Summer started a little early this year (May 1 to be exact) HARRISON BERRY Since they bought Fanci Freez in 2008, Chris and Meagan Bauer have updated the North End eatery’s exterior, refurbished the iconic neon sign out front, expanded their menu and hours, and built a heated tent on a nearby parcel of land owned by the First Baptist Church. They even bought a portion of Big Bun, a similar burger joint on the Bench. Warm weather always brings change to the State Street restaurant: Patrons order more of Fanci Freeze’s famous Boston milkshakes and fewer fried foods. This year, the couple is rolling out a new menu item, fruit smoothies, to better serve dairy-free patrons beginning in the last week of May.

What’s going to be your core lineup of smoothie flavors? Meagan: We’re going to have five set flavors and then just a small list of one thing you can choose from so you can mix and match. But I’m going to keep it limited so things don’t get crazy. We’re going to do a pina colada, a mixed berry, like a choco-fruit one, strawberry banana. So that should start in about two weeks. How long have patrons been asking for smoothies? Chris: There’s been huge demand for the last couple of years. We’ve had people, they

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stop by, “Do you have smoothies?” They’re out because they’re non-dairy. There’s so many health-conscious people in the North End, and we’ve had to get gluten-free buns. Lettuce wraps, a ton of gardenburgers. Meagan: We’ve noticed that in the peak of July, the hottest days of the year, it kind of mellows out a little bit. You’d think the hotter it is outside, the more ice cream would sell, but it’s so sugary that less people buy it. I think the smoothies will help offset that. How many ice cream ﬂavors do you have? Chris: The 55 shake ﬂavors, that’s where we really drive our business. We’re getting

close to where we’re pushing 100,000 shakes per year. I don’t know if we’ll get there this year, but we’re really, really close. When we took over, they were probably only selling 20,000-25,000. Our Boston shakes are 30 percent of our business for the whole year. Meagan: It scares some people to order the Boston shake. Some people are intimidated by it. They don’t understand if they’ve never had a Boston shake, so they don’t understand the concept. It’s a shake with a sundae on top, so they’re like, ‘So, am I getting a milkshake or a sundae? What is a sundae?’ Some people just give up and order a vanilla milkshake. Chris: So we try to explain it to them, explain what a Boston is. We give them a couple ideas. Do you like fruit or do you like candy? Then we’ll give them some recommendations. How do you know when summer has started? Chris: It’s crazy, it’s usually in spring, in March, when you get the nice, 60-degree days. It was May 1 this year: 81 degrees. We didn’t have a record day, it was in the top two. It was the second biggest day we’ve ever had. Meagan: You start seeing the high-school kids at lunch. You see 30 of them, rather than 10, and at 3 o’clock, all the kids get out of school and their parents drive them home from school, so that’s a huge hour for us. And then the 6-9 [p.m.] “sugar rush,” I call it. We had Rocky Mountain High School, Boise High School. Who are your customers? Chris: Kids. That’s the cool thing about this business is that we’re so close to schools. Our demographic is all the way from 2 to 92. We get huge business from St. Luke’s. People come here a lot after the dentist because that’s all they can eat. It’s Idaho Power. It’s the State Insurance Fund. The foot trafﬁc here is just incredible. People are down here bicycling all over the place. Just walking. We have people coming down almost on their deathbeds and they went to Boise High and they’re 92 years old and they want a shake.

You were in the thick of improvements and buying equity into Big Bun at the height of the recession. How did the Great Recession affect you? Chris: For here, this place, that was 2008. It was pretty bad, but we’ve continued to grow constantly. This place has grown, probably on average since 2006, we’ve grown 15-20 percent. Constant growth. The winters were so bad here. Since we put heated seating out there, we’ve really been able to grow. We’ve grown in the summer months, but in the winter there’s been a lot of opportunity. What’s the difference between Fanci Freez when you bought it and now? Meagan: TLC, honestly. We’re here. We own it. We’re cooking the burgers, making the milkshakes. I was here ’til midnight last night scrubbing ﬂoors. Dumping grease. That’s all it takes. Chris: The old owners, it wasn’t a full-time deal for them. They weren’t getting their hands dirty, not like we are. Me and Meagan work 70-plus hours, and that’s what it takes. Since taking over, we’ve had a single month when we’ve been down due to bad weather. Tell me a story. Meagan: We had one lady, her name’s Barbara and her husband passed away and he loved Fanci Freez. She was having his funeral at the Botanical Gardens on a Sunday and she ordered 600 milkshakes for the funeral. Six hundred milkshakes? Chris: He was over at St. Luke’s and he was in a mountain climbing accident. His name was Don Scott. He was over at St. Luke’s forever and his wife, Barbara, this is where they’d come. They lived in the North End. This was their spot. It was his favorite place to get a blackberry shake, so she ordered 600 shakes and we had to buy these huge coolers, a bunch of dry ice. We had to follow them down there in a truck with all these milkshakes. We had six people on a Sunday morning making shakes.

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Exploring the hard parts of the hot months As John Steinbeck wrote in his memoir Travels with Charley, “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” We’re big fans of the idea that there are two sides to every story, and that includes summer itself. Sure, those dew-touched mornings on the Greenbelt are life-affirming, those bike rides through the foothills are spectacular and there’s nothing quite like being wrapped in the near-narcotic sweetness of a Boise summer evening. But we live in a desert, and deserts are harsh places—especially in the summer. It will be hot, almost unbearably so for a lot of people. There will be allergies and dust storms, our lawns will die and we’ll get stuck in traffic. Almost certainly, a blanket of sun-choking smoke will descend on us for at least a week, lighting the Treasure Valley’s sky on fire and making us feel like we’re living through a nuclear winter. These are the prices we pay for the other, unparalleled benefits of summer in Boise. What follows is a summer guide of a different type; instead of going on and on about how wonderful the hot months in Boise are (and they are indeed), we take a serious look at some of the challenges we face as a growing, high-desert community. Organized by the elements (earth, air, fire and water), some of these challenges are universal—construction and traffic happen everywhere—but others are not. The dryness of our region impacts us in almost every way: from the amount of water available to quench our yards, to air quality problems stemming from nearby forest fires. Elsewhere in this edition of Boise Weekly you’ll find more traditional summertime fare: a roundup of arts and music events, as well as a calendar of happenings in Idaho’s second-largest city. But for these few pages, we’re facing facts: More than once this summer we know we’ll complain about some aspect of the season. Think of this guide as a primer on how to complain with authority.

FIRED UP Fireworks, your furry friend’s fear of them and keeping the Boise Front fire-safe BY JESSICA MURRI Twenty-eight miles westbound from Boise on I-84, past Nampa, past the Caldwell Industrial Airport, past deep green farm fields and scrubby sagebrush, off Exit 26 for Notus, there’s a bright yellow cinderblock building. The sign in front has a bobcat painted in the middle, with gold and orange and green firework explosions behind it. Welcome to Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur Co. “People buy fireworks year-round,” said Jake Smith. He has run the shop for eight years, but it’s been in his wife’s family since 1982. “For graduations, birthdays, anniversaries, divorces. People celebrate all kinds of things.” But summer is most definitely fireworks season, and Smith’s shop is ready. Half the store is covered floor to ceiling in bottle rockets, artillery shells, firecrackers, fountains, missiles, Roman candles, sparklers and spinners—one 6-foot-tall packaged collection of fireworks costs $370. The other half of the shop is covered in deer head wall mounts, animal pelts and antique traps. “Ninety-eight-point-six percent of all fireworks are manufactured in China,” Smith said. “I’m about as blue-blood American as they come, and I would love to buy a U.S.made product. They just don’t exist.” Firework purchases are on the rise. According to the American Pyrotechnics Association, 41.2 million pounds of fireworks were consumed in the United States in 1980. In 2011, that number skyrocketed to more than 234 million pounds. Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur sets up 14 sale stands all around Canyon County and as far north as Cascade, selling thousands upon thousands of fireworks around the Fourth of July. That’s despite Southern Idaho’s extremely dry conditions and heightened wildfire risks. Smith says as long as you use common sense when lighting fireworks, they’re safe.

Not everyone has as much enthusiasm as Smith for fireworks in the summertime. Hannah Parpart, communications director of the Idaho Humane Society, has “been on the front lines” during the days after the Fourth of July. The Humane Society’s busiest days of the year for stray intake are July 5 and July 6. Both in 2013 and 2012, the Humane Society took in 84 dogs found away from their homes. “That is a huge number to get in two days,” Parpart said. The Humane Society only has 50 kennels available for stray dogs, which are held for seven days before going up for adoption, and 50 kennels for dogs available to the public. But many of those kennels are already filled with the normal number of dogs found or surrendered to the shelter on any given day. When a stray comes in, it has to be photographed, documented and immunized within hours of its arrival, which takes time. Making matters worse, many of the dogs that are found are injured—much more often than strays found at other times of the year. Parpart said they see worn paws, injuries to the mouth and feet, or dogs hit by cars. “It’s a fear thing,” she said. “It’s the ‘fight or flight’ response.’ You can’t explain to them that it’s a celebration or that we’re just having fun. Their senses are heightened, so it’s louder and the smells are much harsher. Even a pet that’s very well behaved in a normal situation can become scared and then hurt themselves or become destructive trying to escape.” Most pets are reclaimed within a few days, and Parpart said the Humane Society tries to waive as many redemption fees for owners as they can, which are mandated by the county rather than the facility. She advises pet owners to keep their pets in a quiet room and play music to distract them from the noise of fireworks.

But fireworks, Parpart said, are “a reality of living here.” For Deputy Chief Fire Marshal Romeo Gervais of the Boise Fire Department, it is literally his job to run around and put out fires. The Fourth of July is, of course, one of the fire department’s busiest days as well. On July 4, 2013, BFD responded to 12 reports of fires and 15 fires the year before. Gervais isn’t particularly bothered by the fireworks, but like Smith at Rocky Mountain Fireworks and Fur, he wants people to be smart about it. He’s not worried about sparklers and fountains, because as long as they’re lit in the street and cooled off before thrown away, they’re pretty innocuous. His bigger concern comes from folks breaking the Foothills prohibition or shooting off illegal fireworks. “Anything that flies into the air,” Gervais said. “You don’t have much control with where they land, and we have a lot of dry fuels around here.” Only around half of the fireworks sold at Rocky Mountain can be legally lit in Idaho. For the rest, Smith makes his customers sign a waiver promising they’ll take them out-of-state. But, “as we all know, there’s a group of people who will take them and shoot them off here in the city of Boise, as can be seen in the sky any Fourth of July,” Gervais said. Eighty-six percent of fires in the Boise Front are caused by humans, according to the Boise Fire Department, which can include fires started by anything from fireworks to campfires to chain sparks on the highway. “And that sucks up resources,” Gervais said. “[Fireworks] can be done safely. Rather than just saying, ‘Don’t light any fireworks,’ just do it safely. And that does mean at some point of time, you shouldn’t light them, when you can increase the chances of starting a fire.”

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CLEARING THE AIR Air quality challenges the Treasure Valley, but there are ways to improve it BY JESSICA MURRI It never seemed to happen a few years ago, now it feels like the new norm: late summers in Boise and a thick, orange hazy smoke that descends into the valley, creating a weird, apocalyptic-feeling fog that snows ash and smells like perpetual, inescapable campfire. “It’s hard to say if severe wildfire impacts are the new reality for Boise summers,” said Michael Toole, airshed coordinator at the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. “The past two years have definitely seen more significant impacts than the previous five to seven years.” While 2012 and 2013 were particularly bad years for smoke in the Treasure Valley, DEQ Airshed Manager David Luft said 2001 was also historically smoke choked. Predicting the future of Boise’s air quality is Toole’s job. Toole has worked at DEQ for almost 14 years, and every day, he determines the Air Quality Index. Every hour, he checks air quality monitors scattered around the Treasure Valley and outlying areas that provide real-time levels for air pollutants. Then he looks at current weather conditions and forecasts for the next few days, as well as consulting air quality models, weather pressure systems and wildfire activity. He takes all that information and makes a prediction on what air quality will be for the next day. “Nothing real fancy or exciting, but over time, this process has become fairly reliable and accurate,” he said. Toole also looks at the fire outlook provided by the Boise-based National Interagency Fire Center, which looks at past weather, drought, fuel conditions and current forecasted weather conditions. Based on that assessment, Toole said Idaho will probably have a normal potential for fire activity for May and June. But for July and August, he said wildfire activity is predicted to be above average for Southwestern Idaho, normal for Central Idaho and below normal for the Panhandle. The NIFC report states areas suffering

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from drought—like Southwestern Idaho—are more likely to be hit with wildfires. That could mean another summer of poor air quality for the Treasure Valley. Or maybe not. “It is important to note that these are predictions and depending on actual weather conditions, fuels and ignition sources, these could change,” Toole said. “Unfortunately, with all the variables involved in wildfire activity, it’s difficult to determine better, worse or similar conditions until later in the wildfire season.” Smoke can have harsh impacts on sensitive populations like children, seniors and those with respiratory illnesses like asthma. Luft urges people to stop adding to the bad air quality during fire season. He suggests tuning your car and checking air and fuel filters, tire pressure and spark plugs; driving less; maintaining gas-powered lawn equipment or switching over to electric alternatives; never burning garbage; and limiting the use of products that form ozone, such as paints and solvents. But Luft added that wildfire isn’t necessarily the Treasure Valley’s biggest threat to air quality. Last summer was “one of the worst years we have had, as far as the number of air quality advisories issued,” Luft said, and the culprit was mostly ozone. Almost twothirds of all the days in July and August 2013 had air quality that was in the “moderate” Air Quality Index category—or worse. “Particulate matter from smoke is much more easily observable than ozone,” Luft said. “You can see and smell the smoke. This results in people paying much more attention to poor air quality days that are smoke-related than days that are ozone-related.” Between that and the wildfires, last year was a tough one for air quality in the valley. “With hot, dry summers being predicted for the future, it is not difficult to assume they will be part of our summers,” Toole added. “However, with all the variables involved in smoke impacts from these wildfires

like location, weather and wind conditions, size, fire crew response and fuels, predicting exactly what the impacts will be is a very difficult task.” Then there are the other air particles that you can’t see, but many of us can certainly feel: pollen. Dr. Michael Keiley works as an allergist at the Boise Valley Asthma and Allergy Clinic, and he’s a busy guy right now. “I’m probably seeing 16 to 18 patients a day,” Keiley said. This is the time of year when pollens from elm, juniper, maple, ash and sycamore trees are the most intense, and grasses are starting to come in. Keiley said the valley is experiencing a particularly severe spring for tree pollen. “Many days when the weather is nice, [there’s more pollen production], then it rains and the pollen goes down, but that’s just fuel for the fire,” he said. We’re all familiar with the classic allergy symptoms: sneezing, running nose, itchy eyes and throat, and generally feeling irritable. But Keiley deals with people whose allergies are so severe, “they can’t sleep, they can’t concentrate. Allergies really have an impact on your quality of life and your ability to function.” Keiley’s clinic is able to offer a pollen count every day (when this week’s Boise Weekly was going to press, the pollen count was high, at 116, with pine at 75, ash at 3, maple at 18, grass at 19, and birch at 1). Those numbers come from a rotorod pollen counter that sits atop of Saint Alphonsus Medical Center building. It’s a little box that periodically opens up and spins around quickly, exposing a rod covered in sticky substance. Keiley then looks at the glorified fly-trap paper under the microscope and counts the pollen. He’s expecting the allergy season to die down soon as the weather heats up—just in time for wildfire season.

AIR TIPS FOR CLEANING THE AIR INSIDE YOUR HOME The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that Americans, on average, spend 90 percent of their time indoors. In Boise—especially in the summer—that’s probably not entirely accurate, but the point stands: The air you breathe most is going to be inside your own four walls. When smoke blankets the valley and those ozone levels trigger advisories, here are a few simple things you can do to make sure your inside time isn’t hurting your insides: -Don’t smoke inside or let others smoke inside your house. (Kind of a no-brainer.) -Don’t let your car, or other gas-burning engines, idle—especially in the garage. -If you you put off checking on your roof, foundation, basement and/or crawlspace this winter, time to get on it. Fix leaks and cracks to cut down on humidity, which spurs growth of mold and mildew. -Get your air conditioner and/or dehumidifier cleaned. Leaks and drips from those appliances can contribute to mites, mold and mildew. -Keep your place ventilated: run the fans in your bathrooms and get rid of mold as soon as you see it. When cooking, crack a window. -If you buy an air purifier, make sure it doesn’t generate ozone. The California Air Resources Board has a list on its website of appliances to avoid: arb.ca.gov/research/ indoor/o3g-list.htm. -Get some house plants. According to a 1989 NASA study, some plants are better than others at filtering air. Gerbera daisy and English ivy, azalea and peace lily are particularly good at removing benzene, formaldehyde and trichloroethylene (used in refrigerants like air conditioners). For the full study (and a list of plants) go to scribd.com/ doc/1837156/NASA-Indoor-Plants. *Sources: American Lung Association, NASA

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WATER There are days in Boise when it’s hard to do anything but lie on the floor, cool drink in hand, surrounded by fans. According to the National Weather Service, the City of Trees typically swelters at 90 degrees or higher for 44 days each year, with only a handful of days hitting 100 or higher. Last year that number rose to 70 days at 90 or higher and 10 days of 100-plus heat. In fact, summer 2013 was the hottest in Boise since records started being kept in 1875. On days like that—which, if trends hold up, we’ll experience again and soon—nothing beats a dip in the Boise River or jumping in the pool, even getting someone to spray you with a garden hose will do. But we live in a desert, and water is precious. How it’s delivered to us is a delicate system that can easily be thrown out of balance. “Everything here ties back to water and our ability to keep it,” Scott Lowe, associate professor in the Department of Economics at Boise State University and director of the Environmental Studies Program, told Boise Weekly back in November 2013 (BW, Feature, “A World Without Winter,” Nov. 6, 2013). When you’re complaining that you can hear your lawn cooking in the sun, remember that the degree to which you can revive it depends on how much snow you had to shovel in the winter. According to the NWS, about 80 percent of the Boise area’s annual precipitation comes as snow: It accumulates in the mountains; spring rains saturate the soil, ensuring that further precipitation isn’t absorbed; and, as temperatures increase the snowpack melts, flowing as water into rivers and reservoirs where it is managed throughout the year for irrigation, power generation and flood control. Boise gets about 14 inches of precipitation each year, and almost all of that comes during the winter. The only reason humans can reasonably live here in large numbers—have farms, lawns, indoor plumbing and drinking water—is that we have mountains that accumulate snowpack.

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How Boise gets—and keeps—its water ZACH HAGADONE

Things weren’t looking so good on that front earlier this year. In January, after unseasonably dry weather in November and December, more than half the state was under “severe” or “extreme” drought conditions, including the Treasure Valley, which was rated “extreme.” That makes people like Ron Abramovich nervous. As a water supply specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service, Abramovich monitors snow levels at more than 100 sites around the state. On a trip to monitor snowpack at Mores Creek in February, he told BW that snow levels were “marginally adequate” (BW, News, “February’s Gift,” March 5, 2014). Still, that was a great improvement: snowfall in February was equivalent to 10 inches of water and was enough of a bump to boost the Boise Basin from 58 percent of average on Feb. 1 to 83 percent of average on March 1. At Mores Creek, accumulation went from 14 inches on Feb. 1 to 24 inches on March 1. That 10-inch increase was double the average accumulation for the month of February, and the mountains in the Upper Snake River area were measured at 135 percent of average. That’s all good news, but drought conditions still persist. According to the United States Drought Monitor, as of May 13, just more than 27 percent of the state was in severe drought, compared to 0.09 percent at the same time last year. Those severe drought areas were south and east of Boise, stretching from Owyhee County, northeast through the Magic Valley—where extreme drought conditions were reported—and continuing almost to the Montana border in Jefferson and Clark counties. As of April 30, ﬁve counties were declared drought emergencies: Blaine, Butte, Clark, Custer and Lincoln. In the Treasure Valley, the southern portion of Ada County was listed as “abnormally dry,” as was the eastern portion of Canyon County. Going west, to the Oregon border, conditions get drier, with moderate and severe drought reported in central and

western Canyon County. According to the May 13 reading, the Boise area is suffering no water shortage, nor was mountainous Boise County—crucial for Boise as the source of most of its runoff. The wet weather in February likely saved the Boise area from a damaging summer, but it’s part of a larger, disturbing trend. In recent years, water watchers have seen more precipitation coming to the Treasure Valley as rain, rather than snow, while higher temperatures push the snow line further up into the mountains. “If we did not get that snowpack, it would be a huge impact on agriculture and water supply in general,” Lowe told BW in November. For one thing, we don’t have enough dams to manage a rain-dominant water system, and building more would be a controversial process, to say the least. Wetter, warmer winters would also mess with growing seasons, pushing the planting season for some crops earlier into the year and others later. Another, major, impact would be on groundwater, as more users look to wells rather than surface water. It’s already a contentious issue and likely to get more heated. While Boiseans see the 102-mile-long Boise River, rushing at 1,800 cubic feet per second this spring, as the most visible example of the area’s 4,100-square-mile watershed, 94 percent of their drinking water is coming from beneath their feet. The biggest source of groundwater in Idaho is the Snake River Plain, a 200-milelong basalt aquifer that stretches from Twin Falls almost to the Idaho-Montana border north of Idaho Falls—about the same as the area that is currently in “extreme” or “severe” drought conditions. While the Boise River drains the Snake River Plain, Boise’s main ground water source is the Treasure Valley Aquifer, located from Lucky Peak Reservoir in the east to the Idaho-Oregon border in the west, and from the Emmett area in the north to the CJ Strike Dam near Kuna in the south.

Depletion of these aquifers has been a serious, growing problem for years. The Snake River Plain was once amply replenished by rain, snow and seepage from rivers—a process called “recharging”—but the number of users tapping directly into the water source has risen dramatically. So much so that, according to a 2011 study, the aquifer has lost about 225,000 acre-feet of water per year since 1980. Closer to home, officials are working to ensure the Treasure Valley Aquifer doesn’t suffer the same fate. According to the 2012 Treasure Valley Comprehensive Aquifer Management Plan, more than 100,000 acre-feet of water is pumped from the aquifer each year for domestic, commercial, municipal and industrial use, accounting for 94 percent of water use. Meanwhile, almost 1.6 million acre-feet of water is used for irrigation each year—accounting for 97 percent of all irrigation water in the valley. As agricultural land decreases—according to a 2010 Givens Pursely study, total farmland in the Treasure Valley declined 130,000 acres between 1978-2007—and is replaced with subdivisions, that demand on groundwater is only going to increase. The aquifer plan supports use of surface water, rather than groundwater, for new developments, as well as a basket of conservation efforts like retrofitting neighborhoods for pressurized irrigation and wastewater/gray water reuse. “Future water demand, driven mostly by increased population and economic growth, may be partially met by water conservation and land use and water use changes,” the plan stated. “Particularly difficult to anticipate is what proportion of growth will be on undeveloped land, rather than farm land, and what industrial or commercial uses might develop. Those changes are most likely to increase demand for water above current usage.” When your own usage goes up, and the heat gets to be too much—sending you bobbing down the Boise River, surfing a wave at the new River Park or sitting under the sprinkler in your (slightly charred) backyard, remember to pray for snow.

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EARTH MOVING It wouldn’t be summer without road construction AMY ATKINS As temperatures rise, so does many a driver’s ire. Never more so than in summer (and never more so than this year) does it seem like every road and thoroughfare in the Treasure Valley is dotted with orange cones, lined with “Construction Ahead” signs and manned by hard hat-wearing flaggers directing traffic. And with all of the changes to bike lanes and traffic flow happening in downtown Boise alone, that feeling is exacerbated. The warmer months are indeed when most roadway projects begin and end, and like day turning to night or spring turning to summer, it’s inevitable that motorists, cyclists and pedestrians alike will have to navigate some kind of road construction, like chipsealing, road resurfacing, sidewalk/curb/gutter repair, drainage improvements and road rebuilding. Knowing where it’s happening can help travelers plan accordingly, and knowing why can help tamp down tempers. Nicole Pineda, public information specialist for Ada County Highway District, confirmed that, yes, most roadwork does happen beginning in late spring and going through early fall. “ACHD crews rely on the warmer temperatures. … Frozen ground makes excavation difficult at best, and asphalt and concrete both require warmer temperatures in order to set up properly,” Pineda said.

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The majority of what people will see this summer will be resurfacing and chipsealing, the smelly process that leaves tires and shoes tracking tar. But chipsealing is a preventative measure that ultimately extends the life of a road. “It prevents further aging, adds skid resistance, adds additional strength to the pavement, provides a moisture barrier and seals cracks,” Pineda explained. And though it may seem like it’s happening everywhere, it really isn’t: ACHD divides Ada County into zones, which are rotated each year and only one zone is chipsealed each summer. This year’s zone includes Kuna, South Boise, two miles of Cole Road and 14 miles of Bogus Basin road, although not every road in that zone will get chipsealed. Most projects only take a few weeks to complete, but ACHD is cognizant of the inconvenience. “We apologize for construction,” said ACHD construction supervisor Justin Bledsoe, “but the short-term inconvenience will be outweighed by the long-term beneﬁts.” For example, ACHD is required by law to close roads for utility work when utilities lie beneath them, so when sewer, water, gas or phone work needs to be done, roads need to be closed. ACHD works with utility

companies to coordinate efforts to minimize the impact. And along with warmer weather allowing for crews to dig into the roadways, summer is also the best time to work in areas near schools—no kids in class and no cars or buses doing pick-ups and drop-offs. “We are always thinking about the impact to motorists,” Pineda said. “We are motorists, too, and understand how frustrating road construction can be.” Anyone venturing outside this summer will also likely come in contact with overlays or road resurfacing, the other maintenance project ACHD crews work on in the warmer months. “Overlays, or road resurfacing, is another way we extend the life of the roadway, buying more time before a road has to be completely replaced,” Pineda said. “Fresh asphalt is laid down over the existing roadway, creating a smoother surface. The road segments selected are based on an in-depth ranking system that accounts for wear and deterioration. During overlays, ACHD crews also replace pedestrian sidewalk ramps so that they comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act.” To the right is a list of locations scheduled for overlays and when those projects are expected to begin and when they’ll be completed.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY MAY 21 Art CREATIVITY AT WORK—Explore the role of creativity in work at this thought-provoking new visual arts exhibition, which also includes Shapes from Idaho, part of internationally known artist Allan McCollum’s ongoing Shapes Project. 9 a.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, www.sunvalleycenter.org.

Calls to Artists LIBRARY COMIC CON DRAWING CONTEST—Draw or paint your favorite comic book, television or movie character, or even invent a character of your own. Then, ﬁll out an entry form and take your art and the form to the checkout desk at any library location starting Sunday, June 1, through 8 p.m. Thursday, July 31. Entry forms are available at all locations or online at boisepubliclibrary.org/LibraryComicCon. Limit of one entry per person. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3844076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

to get the financing you need to launch or expand your business. To register, email sheila. spangler@zionsbank.com or call 208-501-7450. 4 p.m. FREE. Zions Bank Business Resource Center, 800 W. Main St., Ste. 600, Boise, 208-501-7450, zionsbank.com. WEDNESDAY MEMBERS’ REPAIR CLASS—Every class will cover a different hands-on repair topic. Get more info at the website. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. WEDNESDAY WINE WORKSHOP—Sip, sample, savor, learn about varietals, regions, flavor profiles of wines, viticulture and enology. Call for varietal schedule. Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m. Continues through June 25. $10. Helina Marie’s Wine and Gift Shop, 11053 Highway 44, Star, 208-286-7960, helinamaries.com.

Literature RUMI NIGHT—Celebrate the life and work of the 13th century Persian poet and mystic philosopher with an evening of poetry, music, conversation and tea. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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Citizen OLIVIA SCHNACKER FUNDRAISER—The clinic will be offering new patient exams and X-rays for $25 through Wednesday May 28. Thursday May 29 is patient appreciation day for all who have had an exam, with snacks, raffles and door prizes. Proceeds benefit the family of Olivia Schnacker, the young girl who was killed in a bicycle/traffic accident. Call for more info or an appointment. Alpine Cottage Chiropractic, 1326 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-8843368, alpinecottage.net.

Kids & Teens BOISE ROCK SCHOOL SUMMER CAMPS—This summer Boise Rock School is adding some new camps, including one for refugees and at-risk youth in August. For more info, visit the BRS website or contact Ryan at info@boisrockschool.com or 208-559-0065. $150. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-5590065, boiserockschool.com. HANSEL & GRETEL SUMMER ARTS CAMP—Young actors must preregister for the Idaho Performing Arts summer camp before Monday, June 9 to be cast in the show. The cast is limited to 50 young people. First-come, ﬁrstserve to join the cast. Rehearsals take place June 9-14, with two performances Saturday June 14. For more info, call Kim Hasenoehrl at 208-461-8796 or email kim@ kimhazdesign.com. $100. IDAHO SUMMER WRITING CAMPS—Idaho Writing Camps nurture the imagination and awaken the senses through adventures in the art of writing. Camps are offered in Boise in June, July and August, Twin Falls in June, and Hailey in August. For a complete listing of classes, times, locations, fees and an online registration form, visit the website. $130-$230. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.

Odds & Ends IDAHO MEDIA PROFESSIONALS LUNCHEON—Producer Lorena Davis and other members of the North by Northwest Digital Studios team discuss their adventures in the production process. 11 a.m. FREE-$5. Smoky Mountain Pizza and Pasta, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-429-0011, smokymountainpizza.com.

THURSDAY MAY 22 Festivals & Events 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. Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

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NAMPA CHAMBER ANNUAL EVENING OF EXCELLENCE—Featuring new Boise State University football coach Bryan Harsin and the annual Awards of Excellence. For more info or tickets, call Dawn at 208-466-4641, ext. 101. 5:30 p.m. $50-$75. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter. com.

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8 DAYS OUT SUN VALLEY WELLNESS FESTIVAL—The 17th annual Sun Valley Wellness Festival will include presentations and workshops addressing body, mind, and spirit wellness by a long list of nationally renowned speakers. Visit website for more info. 9 a.m. Sun Valley Inn, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, 208622-2001 or 1-800-786-8259, sunvalleywellness.org.

On Stage COMEDIAN HEATH HARMISON’S FAREWELL BOISE SHOW—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. LOCAL COMEDY SHOWCASE—10 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Workshops & Classes WINE 101: FROM GRAPE TO GLASS—Learn basic grapegrowing and winemaking techniques, the ins and outs of wine tasting and evaluation, and explore ﬁve “classic” varieties via tasting and guided discussion. 6 p.m. $45. House of Wine at the 44th Street Wineries, 107 E. 44th St., Garden City, 208297-9463, thehowofwine.com.

dise for sale. Runs continuously until 6 p.m. on Monday, May 26. See Picks, Page 24. 10 a.m. $16-$44 four-day admission; $8-$23 single day. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000, animeoasis.org.

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY—A charming, madcap adventure about love, life and man’s eternal ﬁxation with golf. 8 p.m. $11$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. For t St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

DOWNTOWN NAMPA FOURTH FRIDAY—The summer food truck rally and concer t series kicks off with a per formance by Hillfolk Noir. Slinging grub will be Bel Cibo, Cacicias Cucinas, Calle 75 Street Tacos, Lucky Dog Ice Cream and RiceWorks Asian Food. For more info, visit downtownnampa.com. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Lloyd Square, Intersection of 14th and Front streets, Nampa.

Odds & Ends CONSCIOUS COUPLING DATE NIGHT—Join executive coaches Jami and Marla Keller for a small group of couples, a meal (either provided by a caterer or food truck), beverages (wine or beer for those who wish) and a “hot topic.” 7 p.m. $75. Passion Provokers, 127 E. State Ave., Meridian, 208-853-8888, passionprovokers.com.

On Stage COMEDIAN HEATH HARMISON’S FAREWELL BOISE SHOW—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

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Talks & Lectures BEYOND BOUNDARIES: BUILDING THE BENCH—Join local historians Jim Duran, Angie Davis and Barbra Perr y Bauer for an informative presentation that traces the histor y of the Bench from the early farmer and rancher settlers to current residents and businesses. Take family photos, ar tifacts or other items that relate to the Bench to share. 6 p.m. FREE. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 3200 Cassia St., Boise, 208-344-7741.

Odds & Ends SUPER SURPRISE SALE—Sale on select nurser y items, plus free wine tastings from Indian Creek Winer y, live music with Andy Rayborn and the Danger Quotient, a class by guest speaker Mar y Ann Newcomer, a fun rafﬂe with great prizes and more. Call the ofﬁce or email info@madelinegeorge.com to RSVP. 5 p.m. FREE. Madeline George Garden Design Nurser y, 10550 W. Hill Road, Boise, 208-995-2815, madelinegeorge.com.

FRIDAY MAY 23 Festivals & Events ANIME OASIS COMPILE—Anime Oasis is an annual event dedicated to Japanese animation, providing four days of events, guest speakers, video games and a wide selection of related merchan-

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FREE SUMMER MOVIES IN THE PARK We can’t talk about summer movies without talking about the free ﬁlms screened in Boise’s Julia Davis Park and Meridian Settlers Park. You may want to circle three particular nights on your calendar: Saturday, June 21; Friday, July 11; and Friday Aug. 8. These should be pretty adorable evening as hundreds of kids sing along with Pharrell Williams’ “Happy,” the Oscar-winning song from Despicable Me 2 (June 21 in Julia Davis Park and again on Aug. 8 in Settlers Park), and the entire chart-topping soundtrack from Frozen (July 11 in Settlers Park). If our guess is correct, you should be able to hear kids singing for miles around. Settlers Park, screening movies ever y Friday evening (beginning at dusk) from June 6-Aug. 29, will show a dozen ﬁlms this summer, including Finding Nemo (June 13), The Jungle Book (June 27) and The Nut Job (Aug. 22). Julia Davis will host three Saturday night movies (again, starting at dusk): Despicable Me 2 (June 21), Percy Jackson and the Sea Monsters (July 19) and The Lego Movie (Aug. 16). —George Prentice B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

8 DAYS OUT SATURDAY MAY 24 Festivals & Events ANIME OASIS COMPILE—See Friday. 10 a.m. $16-$44 four-day admission:; $8-$23 single day. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000. BOISE FARMERS MARKET— Featuring produce, honey, jams and jellies, fresh pasta, award-winning Idaho wines, fresh baked artisan breads and delicious pastries. 9 a.m. FREE. Boise Farmers Market, 1080 W. Front St., Boise, 208-345-9287, theboisefarmersmarket.com. CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—Market goers will ﬁnd booths full of locally made and grown foodstuffs, produce, household items and a variety of arts and crafts. 9:30 a.m. FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-3453499, capitalcitypublicmarket. com. EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET— Check out this quaint and cozy market located in the heart of downtown Eagle, featuring an assortment of fresh produce, specialty foods, and ﬁne arts and crafts. Plus live local music, kids’ activities and culinary demonstrations. 9 a.m. FREE. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle.

On Stage COMEDIAN HEATH HARMISON’S FAREWELL BOISE SHOW—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com.

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ROBIN HOOD—Check out this interactive adaptation of the classic tale of the thief who stole from the rich to give to the poor and found love along the way. Appropriate for ages 4 and older. Buy tickets online at the TVCT website. 11 a.m. $5-$7. Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-2878828, treasurevalleychildrenstheater.com.

7 YEAR ITCH OPENING RECEPTION—Celebrate the Gilman Gallery’s seventh anniversary and meet the artists at the opening reception for this exhibit of works by photographers Lisa Wood and James Talbot. 5 p.m. FREE. Gilman Contemporary, 661 Sun Valley Road, Ketchum, 208-7267585, gilmancontemporary.com.

Workshops & Classes INTRO TO TAI CHI CHUAN—Join local teacher Jeffrey Vik at the Library at Collister for an introductory class on Yang Style Tai Chi Chuan. Tai Chi helps focus the mind on the body’s movement, and brings about awareness and balance between mind and body. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org. PLANTING 101 AND SPRINKLERS 101—Confused about the right way to plant and how to set and adjust your drip/ sprinklers? Learn the basics so you can grow with success. RSVP requested by phone or email at info@madelinegeorge.com. 11 a.m. FREE. Madeline George Garden Design Nursery, 10550 W. Hill Road, Boise, 208-995-2815, madelinegeorge.com. THE SCIENCE OF PLANT COLOR—Gain a basic understanding of how (and why) chemicals in plants interact with light to create color and how to choose and site plants in ways that maximize enjoyment of their colors. Preregistration required. 10 a.m. $10-$15. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY— See Friday. 8 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E.

GALLERY WALK—Featuring Inez Storer: Hidden Agendas, and a group exhibit, State of Nature III. 5 p.m. FREE. Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Ave. N., Ketchum, 208726-5079, gailseverngallery.com. GALLERY WALK: BRUCE MAUREY—Check out the new exhibit Tijuana and Beyond, featuring new works by Boise-based artist Bruce Maurey. 5 p.m. FREE. Gateway Funding, 360 Sun Valley Road E., Ketchum, 208-8061641, gatewayfunding.com.

Literature BOOK BINGO AT THE SATURDAY MARKET—Participants will pick up a bingo sheet at the register, then complete fun activities. Participants who complete a Bingo row win a Blind Date with a Book, a wrapped book with a few descriptive words written on the front. 11 a.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks. org.

Citizen SNIP BENEFIT YARD SALE— Find bargains and hidden treasures while helping fund Spay Neuter Idaho Pets programs. Drop off sellable donations from 7-9 a.m. the day of sale or call 208-371-5055. 10 a.m. FREE. Hillcrest Shopping Center, 5100 W. Overland Road, Boise.

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2014 OUTDOOR YOUTH FAIR—Great opportunity for young people to try out outdoor activities: archery, pioneer activities, rod and reel casting, boating safety, waterfowl identiﬁcation and calling, nature scavenger hunts and more. Free lunch for all youth attendees. See Picks, Page 25. 9 a.m. FREE. Snake River RV Resort, 4030 River Resort Drive, Homedale, 208-337-3744, snakeriverrv.com.

SUNDAY MAY 25 Festivals & Events ANIME OASIS COMPILE—See Friday. 10 a.m. $16-$44 four-day admission:; $8-$23 single day. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000.

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8 DAYS OUT where all participants will have the opportunity to add their style to a large collaboration piece. Email mysteryhousecomics@ gmail.com for more info. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208918-0597, spacebararcade.com. FIBERTRAIN WOOL FESTIVAL—Check out demonstrations of spinning, weaving, sheep and alpaca sheering, goat milking and blacksmithing. Also a full slate of paid classes will be offered. Visit

website for information and class registration. See Picks, Page 25. 9 a.m. FREE. Lloyd Square, Intersection of 14th and Front streets, Nampa, ﬁbertrainfestival.com.

5379, liquidboise.com. FRANKLY BURLESQUE—Featuring some of Boise’s best burlesque performers. 8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344.

On Stage COMEDIAN HEATH HARMISON’S FAREWELL BOISE SHOW—See Friday. 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-

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ANIME OASIS COMPILE—See Friday. $8-$23 single day. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000.

MINI-MONDAY BOOK SALE— Support the Friends of the Garden City Library and visit their weekly “Mini-Monday” dollar book sales. All books are $1. 9:30 a.m. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

WISHES AND WINE WISH GRANTERS BENEFIT—Help grant wishes to adults with terminal illnesses. Featuring wine tasting, tasty eats and live music. Get more info at wishgranters.org. 11 a.m. $15-$40. Indian Creek Winery, 1000 N. McDermott Road, Kuna, 208-922-4791, indiancreekwinery.com.

FIBERTRAIN WOOL FESTIVAL—See Sunday. 9 a.m. FREE. Lloyd Square, Intersection of 14th and Front streets., Nampa, ﬁbertrainfestival.com.

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HAWAI’IAN 8 DAYS OUT Workshops & Classes SELF MASSAGE QIGONG/ MOVEMENT MEDITATION— Taught by acupuncturist Heather Bergstrom of Vitality Acupuncture, this quick and easy QiGong form can help you to relax and energize at the same time. Only 15 spots available. Prepay at body-harmony.massagetherapy. com/classesgroup-sessions to hold your place. 6 p.m. $10. Body Harmony Massage, 3137 S. Meridian Road, Ste. 110, Meridian, 208-392-2937, bodyharmony.massagetherapy.com.

TUESDAY MAY 27 Workshops & Classes DOING BUSINESS WITH THE GOVERNMENT—Learn about the SBA’s government contracting certiﬁcations for small businesses interested in selling to government agencies. For more info or to reser ve your space, call 208-334-9004, ext. 336, or visit sba.gov/BDO-Workshops. 9 a.m. FREE. Small Business Administration District Ofﬁce, 380 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Ste. 330, Boise, 208-334-1696, sba.gov.

Calls to Artists BCT GENERAL AUDITIONS—All interested actors are encouraged to audition. For more info or to schedule an appointment, contact BCT Resident Stage Manager Kristy J. Martin, by email (preferred): km@bctheater.org or phone: 208-3319224, ext. 204. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise Contemporar y Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org.

Talks & Lectures BOISE RIVER COMMUNITY LECTURE—Idaho Rivers United and the Garden City Librar y present Idaho City District Ranger Brant Petersen to talk about the Middle Fork of the Boise River. It offers outstanding recreation, ﬁsh and wildlife habitat, scener y and historic sites, all just a short drive away. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrar y.org. FIT AND FALL PROOF—Seniors will learn simple exercises to increase their balance in order to prevent falls. 11 a.m. FREE. Garden City Librar y, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-4722941, notaquietlibrar y.org. SMART STARTUP PART II WORKSHOP—Get handson assistance to design and implement your business model before you seek outside funding. Offered in conjunction with Smart StartUp Part I. To register, email sheila.spangler@ zionsbank.com or call. 4 p.m. FREE. Zions Bank Business Resource Center, 800 W. Main St., Ste. 600, Boise, 208-501-7450, zionsbank.com.

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ST. JUDE DREAM HOME TICKETS ON SALE—Get your ticket for a chance to win a house with an estimated value of $340,000 or another great prize while helping St. Jude save the lives of children. The winner will be drawn on June 22. Reser ve tickets at 800-537-8939 or dreamhome.org. Through June

CALDWELL FARMERS MARKET—Featuring fresh produce, baked goods, specialty foods, live entertainment and local crafts in downtown Caldwell along Indian Creek. Continues through Sept. 10. 3 p.m. FREE. VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY MEETING—Members and guests spin their favorite colored vinyl. For more info, visit vpsidaho.org or email info@ vpsidaho.org. 7 p.m. FREE. Crooked Fence Barrelhouse, 5181 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-376-4200, facebook. com/crookedfencebarrelhouse.

Art AN IMAGE TELLS A STORY: LASER GEL TRANSFER—The An Image Tells a Stor y: Laser Gel Transfer exhibition showcases 25 of local artist and TVCC Art instructor Tammy Kinney’s latest paintings in the Art Galler y through the month of May during FRCC business hours. FREE. Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, 676 S.W. Fifth Ave., Ontario, 541-889-8191. CHRISTEL DILLBOHNER SOLO EXHIBITION—Christel Dillbohner’s evocative multimedia installations are an intriguing blend of visual art, anthropology and landscape. 11 a.m. FREE. Stewart Galler y, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-433-0593, stewartgaller y.com. CRAFTING A CONTINUUM: RETHINKING CONTEMPORARY CRAFT—Exhibit showcases more than 60 ceramics, wood and fiber works from the Arizona State University Art Museum and Ceramic Research Center that reflect current trends in the contemporar y craft field. Among the notable ceramic artists included are Rudy Autio, Frank Boyden, Helen Frankenthaler, Jun Kaneko, David Smith and Peter Voulkos, as well as twodimensional works by Bill Lewis, Judy Cooke, Alden Mason and Hung Liu. 10 a.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org. STACEY STEERS: NIGHT HUNTER—Artist Stacey Steers’ hand-made film Night Hunter is composed of more than 4,000 collages and was shot in 35mm color. It evokes a disquieting dreamscape, drawn from allegor y, myth and archetype. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3458330, boiseartmseum.org.

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Sports & Fitness BOISE HAWKS SINGLE-GAME TICKETS GO ON SALE—Tickets for the Boise Hawks 2014 regular season home games become available. Buy yours online at the Hawks website or at the stadium box ofﬁce. 10 a.m. Hawks Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-322-5000, boisehawks.com.

Kids & Teens BIOBLITZ FESTIVAL AND KIDS’ FISHING DAY VOLUNTEERS— Help staff the Saturday, June 14, BioBlitz Festival and Kids’ Fishing Day activities. Contact Kacey Kai at deerﬂat@fws.gov or 208-467-9278 if you are interested in volunteering. Wednesdays. Continues through June 13. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-467-9278, fws.gov/deerﬂat. NICK & TESLA’S SUPER SCIENCE BOOK CLUB—Check out this science book club with a twist: a science demonstration at ever y meeting. Plus each participant will take home a science kit. Buy tickets at Rediscovered Books or the Discover y Center. 3:30 p.m. $18. Discover y Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-3439895, dcidaho.org. DISCOVER DINOSAURS—Discover six animatronic dinosaur exhibits, including styracosaurus, ornithomimus and acrocanthosaurus. You will also be able to take your photo at the special T-Rex photo-op for only $1. All proceeds will support Zoo Boise’s Education and Volunteer programs. 10 a.m. FREE-$7. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-6087760, zooboise.org.

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FRIDAY-MONDAY MAY 23-26 animeniacs ANIME OASIS COMPILE 2014 Even if you’re not an anime enthusiast, you’re probably familiar with the art form of Japanese animation. You’ve seen traces of it in Sailor Moon or Pokemon, either during your childhood or your child’s childhood. But those are only scratching the surface; there is much more to anime, and you can immerse yourself in it and all its accompanying glory at the Anime Oasis. You’ll have the opportunity to engage in cosplay chess, a fashion show, a costumed dance and an anime music video contest. If that doesn’t convince you, maybe wifﬂe ball, roller disco or speed dating will get you there. According to Anime Oasis’ popular Facebook page (facebook.com/pages/AnimeOasis), the fun begins Friday at 10 a.m. with full programming starting by early that afternoon. Saturday through Monday, events will begin by about 11 a.m. each day. Everyone from noob to the anime super-fan is welcome. 6 p.m. $10-$44. The Grove Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., 208333-8000, animeoasis.org.

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SATURDAY MAY 24 take a hike GEOLOGY FIELD TRIP Geology may have seemed like a boring class choice back in college, but it was one of the only science classes one could suffer through without doing any math or dissecting a once-living creature. Turns out, it’s pretty interesting. Interesting enough to road trip with a copy of the Geology of Idaho guidebook on your front seat. Here’s your chance to discover the history of the earth we walk on every day, never thinking about why it is the way it is. The Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology will host a ﬁeld trip into Owyhee County on Saturday, open to anyone. A professor of the College of Western Idaho will lead the trip through Kane Springs and Reynolds Creek, examining the Cretaceous Silver City Batholith, Miocene sediments and pillow basalt eruptions in Lake Idaho, and rhyolites cut by a fault line. There’s some off-trail hiking, so wear good shoes and maybe bring a walking stick and some snacks. Registration is the day of, in the WinCo Parking lot at the I-84 Meridian Road exit at 7:30 a.m. Departure is at 8 a.m. Plan to be back in Boise by 5 p.m. and go learn about nature. 7:30 a.m. $5-$15. WinCo parking lot, 1050 S. Progress Ave., Meridian, 853-1678, idahomuseum.org.

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the great outdoors 2014 OUTDOOR YOUTH FAIR Kids love adventure. Whether it’s building a fort in the backyard, floating in canals or running away down the street to the gas station, they’re always looking for a thrill. The Treasure Valley provides many thrills with its rich natural resources, and kids can take advantage of those at the 2014 Outdoor Youth Fair. Hosted by the Snake River RV Resort, young adventurers can explore workshops in archery, waterfowl identification and bowfishing. Does the phrase “nature scavenger hunt” do anything for you? If so, you’re in luck. And don’t worry—if you’re not skilled in the art of catching fish and you can’t hunt like Katniss Everdeen, a free lunch will be provided. If it makes you feel better, you can shoot an arrow through your sandwich. 9 a.m. FREE. Snake River RV Resort, 4030 River Resort Drive, Homedale, 208-337-3744, snakeriverrv.com.

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Counting imaginary sheep can serve as a useful tool for falling asleep. Counting real sheep is useful when you’re at the FiberTrain Wool Festival. That’s right—no pulling the wool over your eyes—this is an entire festival dedicated to the warm fuzzy material sheared off docile mammals. Festival goers will have the opportunity to try everything from sock-spinning to goat-milking to how to select the proper fleece for your scarf or sweater. If you’re a first-timer, no need to feel sheepish—instructors will be on hand to teach you what you need to know. For the casual herders out there, there are free classes available. For those looking to level up to Master Shepherd, a variety of experts will be on hand to bestow knowledge in paid workshops. So whether you’re a cashmere collector, a merino man or an angora enthusiast, go to the festival on Sunday and call in sick Monday—because you’re sick of not going to wool festivals on weekdays. 9 a.m. FREE. Lloyd Square, 14th and Front streets, Nampa, fibertrainfestival.com.

RUBY WING COLOR-CHANGING NAIL POLISH As the warm breezes of spring blow a path to the hot, still days of summer, riotous colors splash across the pages of fashion magazines, with models and movie stars wearing bright citrusy hues, striking jewel tones and pretty pastels. The colors aren’t always in the clothes, though. Sometimes its makeup making a statement, and Ruby Wing color-changing nail polish deﬁ$10, rubywing.com nitely does that. Ruby Wing polishes use a patented SolarActive technology that causes them to change color when exposed to sunlight: turquoise green becomes gunmetal gray (color name: Eternal); tangerine turns garnet (Summer Love); fuchsia becomes a ruby red (Groupie); and from the Spring Garden collection, white becomes a cantaloupe orange (Fresh Linen)—and, like the colors in Ruby Wing’s Cupcakes & Champagne collection, all of the Spring Garden colors are scented. The color-changing aspect of Ruby Wing polishes is reason enough to add them to a summer (or any other season’s) wardrobe, but they are formulated and bottled in New York City, nontoxic, environmentally safe, vegan and not tested on animals. So you can feel good while you look good. —Amy Atkins

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As the saying goes, everything is bigger in Texas, so local artist Ed Anderson’s large paintings are well-suited for a current group exhibit in the Lone Star State at the Longview Museum of Art. His wildlife- and outdooradventure-themed works are also popular in other parts of the country as well, showing in Florida and Massachusetts. Anderson uses ink and acrylic in bold, organic lines and bright jewel and earth tones to create imagery familiar to any outdoors enthusiast—elk, moose, duck, fish, the Sawtooth Mountains—often in large-scale triptychs, a format he prefers for a simple reason. “They’re so big, this makes them easier to move,” Anderson said with a laugh. His work recently appeared in the current edition of Gray’s Sporting Journal, with a 7-foot-by-4-foot fish triptych (“Colored Brown”) illustrating a story about New Zealand’s South Island. Along with painting wildlife, Anderson also portrays a wilder side of life, painting skiers, pilots and kayakers—he is a sponsored fisherman for Jackson Kayaks. When he isn’t painting, isn’t chasing after his twin girls and isn’t designing chalkboard signs for a number of restaurants and buildings, Anderson is curating art for Solid Bar and Grill, working on re-opening the Fulton Street Showroom (inside the same building as Renewal Consignment Homewares). “We had the twins and then I broke my back,” Anderson said, explaining why shows at Fulton Street had been on hiatus. He added that the Showroom is up and running and will be open for First Thursday in June. For more info or questions about exhibiting at Fulton Street, visit facebook.com/fultonshreetshowroom. edandersonart.com. Summer brings sun, fun and cons. No, not some kind of grift or ponzi scheme. Cons as in conventions, bringing together like-minded individuals to celebrate a shared love. In this case, it’s the second annual Library Comic Con, slated for Saturday, Aug. 30. To gear up for what promises to be a kick-ass event, everyone is invited to participate in the 2014 Library Comic Con Drawing Contest. The rules are basic: draw or paint a comic book, television or movie character, or design an original; designs can be in color or black-and-white but must be no larger than 24 inches by 36 inches; contest is open to all ages; only one entry per person and entries must be accompanied by an entry form, which can be downloaded or picked up at any library branch. Contest is open Sunday, June 1-Thursday, July 31. For more info or to download a submission form, visit boisepubliclibrary.org. —Amy Atkins

It’s easy to get lost in the haze of summer. Between lazy bicycle journeys along the Greenbelt, hikes through the Foothills, daylong backyard grilling parties and rafting the Boise River, remember to make time for the arts and culture blossoming in and around the City of Trees. From downtown community events like the San Inazio Festival at the Basque Center to day trips to the Wood River Valley for the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, Boise Weekly has made a list of some of the must-see cultural events to help you plan your sunshiny season.

SECOND AND FOURTH F R I DAY S, JU LY - SE P T. MOVIES IN THE GARDEN IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN idahobotanicalgarden.org There’s something ghostly about drive-in movie theaters. Motor cinemas used to be everywhere, cropping up out of fallow lots like dandelions. Today, they’re vestiges of a time when watching a movie and being outside weren’t mutually exclusive. Thankfully you can still get your outdoor ﬁlm viewing at the Idaho Botanical Garden. Join other moviegoers for Movies in the Garden: Every other Friday from July through September, catch O Brother Where Art Thou?, Field of Dreams, Secondhand Lions, Matilda, 50 First Dates and Finding Nemo while noshing on goodies from Willow Creek Grill. Tickets are $5-$7.

J U LY 1 9 - 2 2 SUN VALLEY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE SUN VALLEY RESORT svwc.com What do Dave Barry, Justice Stephen Breyer, Neal Conan, David Epstein, Scott Turow and Yiyun Li have in common? They’ll all be at the Sun Valley Writers’ Conference, a fourday literary house party. This year, 28 writers, stars of stage and screen, and other personages with yens for the written word descend on Sun Valley. You can go, too, but tickets are pricy: A full-conference pass is $850, and includes special sessions with visiting speakers and food. Single-event passes are $20.

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Boise’s Basque community is so active it has its own block. Little did many Boiseans know that community, which has long historic ties to Boise, has its own patron saint, as well—Saint Ignatius of Loyola. The Basque Block will celebrate Ignatius’ life and legacy July 25-27, with local musicians, dancers, athletes and, of course, Basque food. In the past, entertainment has been courtesy of music ensemble Txantxangorriak, Oinkari Basque Dancers and Amuma Says No.

From adirondack chairs and wind chimes to original glassworks and paintings, Art in the Park is where makers of all kinds gather to show their wares—and where people from all across the Treasure Valley go to mingle, check out the art and partake of food truck fare. One of the largest arts events of the year, it will bring more than 200 creatives to Julia Davis Park Sept. 5-7.

A U G. 2 7 - 3 1 SPIRIT OF BOISE BALLOON CLASSIC ANN MORRISON PARK spiritofboise.com Early risers across the Treasure Valley are rewarded for a few days each summer as brilliantly colored hot air balloons lift above a sea of trees and buildings, catching morning sunshine while offering their riders majestic views of Boise. That’s the Spirit of Boise Balloon Classic, which takes place this year from Aug. 27-31. Each morning at 7:10 a.m., between 15 and 50 balloons will inﬂate and launch from Ann Morrison Park. If you’re not a morning person, you can still check out the Nite Glow event taking place Saturday, Aug. 30, at Ann Morrison, where glowing balloons illuminate the park.

S EPT. 12-14 HYDE PARK STREET FAIR CAMEL’S BACK PARK northend.org The Hyde Park Street Fair doesn’t take place in Hyde Park. It’s not even particularly bound to a street, but every year, Boise’s North End neighborhood gets together to ring out the summer. With booths aplenty— including everything from home solar power advocacy to massages—a spacious beer garden, food trucks and a slew of live music acts (last year, Built to Spill made an appearance), it’s hard to beat the smell of french fries and churros wafting across Camel’s Back Park. This year the fair takes place Sept. 13-15.

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FESTIVAL WEATHER Summer music fests in Boise and beyond SAM HILL The Gorge has Sasquatch, Tennessee has Bonnaroo, Chicago has Lollapalooza and the Warped Tour takes punk rock across the country. Summer ushers in tank tops, ﬂip ﬂops and umbrella drinks, but it also brings hordes of sweaty fans moving their bodies in time to music under the blazing sun. Festivals are a great excuse for a mini-vacation, and the anticipation of seeing your favorite artist(s) makes being packed like sardines in a crushed tin box (pat yourself on the back if you get the reference) in the backseat of your friend’s Volvo seem like a good time. It’s good to make a music exodus, but you don’t have to leave town in order to hear quality tunes. While Boise—and Idaho in general—may not come to mind when you think of must-see shows, there are plenty of artists playing in the state within the next few months that are well worth your time.

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Perhaps the most beautiful venue in the area to catch a show, Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden gives fans the opportunity to enjoy music in the cool summer air, with options like a VIP table or canopy if general seating seems too plain. Currently there are three shows scheduled—one each for June, July and August—featuring The Fray, Slightly Stoopid with Stephen Marley, and Nickel Creek, respectively. More shows may be added, so keep your ears open for further information throughout the summer.

About two hours north of Boise, near McCall, the Summer Music Festival at Roseberry is a good option for outdoorsy types looking for adventure. Presented by the McCall Folklore Society, the festival starts with a locals night and moves to separate categories as the festival proceeds. String Night features performances by bluegrassers Chicken Dinner Road, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado and Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers. World and Rock Night welcomes Americana/indie banjo player Tony Furtado, the Appalachian-ﬂavored Black Lillies and African-rock-jam band Toubab Krewe. Shows begin every night at 6:30.

As the event name denotes, the Brothers Braun make music a family affair. The original Braun Brothers lineup—Billy, Gary and Muzzie (plus Cindy Braun)—will perform on Friday and Saturday evenings. The rest of the lineup includes artists such as Micky and the Motorcars, Jeff Crosby and The Refugees, Reckless Kelly and Jay Farrar and Gary Hunt of Son Volt. You can stay in a nearby hotel or bring your your tent and folding chairs to rough it for Braun-y authenticity. Musical diversity is not the focal point of this festival but if you’re in the mood for Americana, you’ve come to the right place.

SAT U R D AY, J U NE 2 8 BOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL EXPO IDAHO boisemusicfestival.com That’s right—it’s back. The festival that brought you MC Hammer and Vanilla Ice keeps the ’90s rap train rolling by bringing in none other than Sir Mix-A-Lot. If you’re not a fan of hip-hop derriere connoisseurs, don’t fret, there are other options. Other main stage performers include Kelleigh Bannen of “Famous” fame, Tonic’s Emerson Hart, 2010 American Idol winner Lee DeWyze, Sky Blu from LMFAO, Fitz and the Tantrums and Train. Several yet to be announced local acts will also be performing on other stages. True, you won’t necessarily know a lot of the performers, but it’s free. And how can you pass up a chance to see Mix-A-Lot?

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Yellow Pine’s population of 35 will jump signiﬁcantly during the ﬁrst weekend of August when the Yellow Pine Music and Harmonica Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary and becomes the harmonica capital of the world (universe?). A celebration of all things harmonica, catch performances by Stellar Tide, Harmonica Bob Miner, Dick Earl’s Electric Witness and many more. There’s a music parade, youth jam session and contests. Now’s your chance to wow with that Bach/David Bowie medley you’ve been working on.

This festival requires the most travel—it takes 8-10 hours to drive from Boise to Sandpoint— but boasts an impressive lineup appealing to fans from across the music spectrum. Set on the scenic shores of Lake Pend Oreille, listen to the likes of The Head and The Heart, Ray LaMontagne, The Belle Brigade and Huey Lewis and The News, just to name a few. The festival also features a family concert titled “Musical Magic,” and if the bounce houses pictured on the website are any indication, it will be magical indeed.

If you’ve caught Hell’s Belles one of the hundred times they’ve played Boise, you’ve seen Adrian Conner wailing on the guitar—and often shirtless—as a female version of Angus Young in the all-female AC/ DC tribute band. You also may have seen Conner fronting her own band Adrian and the Sickness—stylized as Adrian (&theSickness). She’s a force to be reckoned with, her long dreadlocks whipping around like the arms of a sea creature as she delivers an assault of pop-rock tunes, expending enough energy at each show to power the Boise Weekly ofﬁces for a month. Conner is on the road supporting the newest—and maybe the last—Adrian and the Sickness album, Be Your Own Saviour. She’s not going retiring or anything, just moving away from and-the-Sickness. “The next album I put out will be ADRIAN,” Conner wrote in an email to Boise Weekly. “Mostly because I’m the only thing that stays constant … I write 90 percent of the music. My members come and go … I’m working with different band members live than those who recorded with me, [but] I’m lucky to have several players that I can choose from depending on who is available.” The Austin, Texas-based Conner and the current Sickness stop in Boise Monday, May 26, for a bombastic show at Liquid (liquidboise.com), as part of what Conner calls a “formidable West Coast tour.” More info about Conner and links to Be Your Own Saviour available at adrianconner.com. If you decide to catch Conner at Liquid, follow David Wood’s advice and wear ear protection. Wood, best known as a member of local band TEENS, would like to educate people about how hearing can be damaged much sooner than they might think. “At 115 decibels, pain and hearing loss can begin in about 90 seconds,” Wood said. A typical rock concert is around 110-120 dB. The reason Wood cares—and why he created the website Before It Hertz, a resource for concert-goers (beforeithertz.com)—is in working on his Ph.D in audiology, he found that a little education could go a long way. A tinnitus sufferer himself, Wood surveyed 326 regular concert-goers in the Boise area, asking about their use and opinion of hearing protection. He found that most people believe loud music leads to hearing damage but don’t often wear it or “forget to bring their own hearing protection.” Wood’s website has more from his survey, information about different types of hearing protection and where to ﬁnd it, and an interview with Eric Gilbert about why Treefort made hearing protection available on a donation basis at each venue this year during the music festival. —Amy Atkins

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GUIDE WEDNESDAY MAY 21

TECH N9NE AND KRIZZ KALIKO— With Freddie Gibbs, Jarren Benton, Psych Ward Druggies and Oly Ghost. 7:30 p.m. $28-$56. Knitting Factory

AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

WETT WEDNESDAYS—Featuring live electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

TYLER THE CREATOR—7:30 p.m. $25-$55. Revolution

THURSDAY MAY 22

FRIDAY MAY 23

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

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement

KYLE GASS BAND—With Innocent Man and Bread and Circus. 9 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux

BREAD AND CIRCUS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

BILLY BRAUN—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

FLY2VOID ACOUSTIC SHOW—10 p.m. $5. Reef

CAITLIN ANDERSON—8:30 p.m. $5. Reef

BUCKLE RASH—With the Fiddle Junkies. 10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DAVE ROBINETTE—7 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

LEE PENN SKY—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

GROWLER TRIO—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DOUGLAS CAMERON—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

COUNTRY CLUB—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

THE GUIZE—7 p.m. FREE. Jim’s Alibi

DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

DARK HARLEQUIN—With Negated, My Back to the Sea, White Trash Nightmare, Psychomachy. 7 p.m. $5. The Shredder

JE DOUBLE F—8 p.m. $5. Grainey’s JE DOUBLE F AND GUESTS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC—7:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s THE MOORE AND HARDING FOUR— 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel PERFECT PUSSY—With Potty Mouth and The Nunnery. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. The Crux RYAN WISSINGER AND MICHAEL RUNDLE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow SEAN HATTON FROM NEW TRANSIT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing SOUL SERENE—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

DJ ODIE—10 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s LINDSEY STIRLING—With Dia Frampton. SOLD OUT. Knitting Factory OPHELIA—8 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny SOFT WHITE SIXTIES—See Listen Here, Page 29. 8 p.m. $5. Neurolux

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DANIEL G. HARMANN AND KYE ALFRED HILLIG—With With Child and Tim Andreae. 7 p.m. By donation. Bricolage

SONS OF THUNDER MOUNTAIN—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DC3-DAN COSTELLO TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers DJ JUSTIN CASE—10 p.m. FREE. Reef

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KAYLEIGH JACK—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub LESSON DEN STUDENTS—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s THE NAKED AND FAMOUS—With White Sea, Strange Babes. 8 p.m. $20-$40. Knitting Factory PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SMOOTH AVENUE—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

VETERANS MEMORIAL CONCERT— See Friday. $5. Shorty’s

MICHAEL HUNTER—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

GUIDE/LISTEN HERE

MITCH AND WILL SEVY—7:30 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

HOLLY ANDRES

SMOOTH AVENUE—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

SUNDAY MAY 25

SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

BLAZE AND KELLY—2 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

A TASTY JAMM—7 p.m. $10. Helina Marie’s

CONTRABAND—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

TERRY JONES AND CLAY MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill VETERANS MEMORIAL CONCERT—6 p.m., Featuring Pinto Bennett and Friends, Capgun Suicide, Soul Kitchen and more. Proceeds beneﬁt veterans organizations. $5. Shorty’s

TUNE-YARDS, MAY 26, KNITTING FACTORY

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SATURDAY MAY 24

When Boise Weekly spoke to Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus in 2011, describing the video for single “Bizness,” writer Tara Morgan said Garbus was “both enchanting and unsettling—an exotic bird with rufﬂed plumage and razor sharp claws.” An apt description of musician and music. In just a few short years, Garbus has evolved from a bird to a grifﬁn: Her third release, Nikki Nack (4AD, May 2014), is as clever, thoughtprovoking, substantial and entertaining as ever, but gone is the feeling of having stepped into a museum of oddities. There’s a maturity in Nikki Nack that doesn’t snuff out the joy of Garbus’ sound; songs are instead elevated and imbued with a new spirit and musicality that is engaging and quite remarkable. Garbus does not eschew her way with words, however. In “Water Fountain,” she sings “I saved up all my pennies and I gave them to this special guy / When he had enough of them he bought himself a cherry pie / He gave me a dollar, a blood-soaked dollar / I cannot get the spot out, but it’s OK / It still works at the store.” So, clearly, she doesn’t eschew her way with weird, either. —Amy Atkins

AMY ROSE AND THE BEN BURDICK TRIO—2 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

With Sylvan Esso, 8 p.m., $14.50-$31. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.

ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

BILLY BRAUN—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CRYSTAL KARNOW BENEFIT SHOW—With City of Embers, Search Lights, Our City Skyline, Compromised, Telescopes As Time Machines and Six Feet. 7 p.m. By donation. The Shredder CYPRESS BROS.—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

DevilDriver DEVILDRIVER—With White Sea and Strange Babes. 6 p.m. $22 adv., $24 door. Knitting Factory FOSTER BODY—With King Brat and Friends. 6 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe HIP-HOP SUNDAY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement HOODIE ALLEN—7:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. Revolution JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30. FREE. Liquid

DJ DVNGEROUSBIRDZ—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

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

DJ VERT SIN—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement

WAYNE WHITE—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE GUIDE KEVIN KIRK WITH SALLY TIBBS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

MONDAY MAY 26

THE FAINT—With Reptar, Darren Keen 8 p.m. $19-$40. Knitting Factory

ADRIAN AND THE SICKNESS— With Trigger Itch, The Acrotomoans. 8 p.m. $3. Liquid

RADIO BOISE SOCIAL HOUR: DJ THOMAS PAUL—5:30 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

CHUCK SMITH AND NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

ROB HARDING—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

DAPHNE LEE MARTIN—With Sam Cooper & Co. 9 p.m. FREE. The Crux

FLOYD STANTON—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Solid

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COUNTRY CLUB—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

SOFT WHITE SIXTIES, MAY 22, NEUROLUX

DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sandbar Patio

LIMEHOUSE JAZZ TRIO—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC—7:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing The Unlikely Candidates

DEVIANT KIN—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

ASSUMING WE SURVIVE—With Behind The Fallen, When Earth Awakes, Piranhas and The Headcases. 6 p.m. $8. Shredder

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

TUNE-YARDS—With Sylvan Esso. See Listen Here, Page 28. 8 p.m. $15-$31. Knitting Factory

BOISE OLD TIME JAM—6:30 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

THE PHARMACY—With Rollersnakes and guests. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JAMES ORR—8 p.m. FREE. Reef

SCREEN DOOR PORCH—With The Patti Fiasco and J. Shogren Shanghai’d. 8 p.m. $5. Neurolux

TUESDAY MAY 27

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DJ ODIE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

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DISCOMFORT AND ZOIC—With Pork Chopper and Flanders Ned. 7 p.m. $7. Shredder

SLOW RICKY, THE OLD ONE TWO AND TACENDA—7 p.m. FREE. The Crux

WEDNESDAY MAY 28

THE UNLIKELY CANDIDATES— With Fires in France. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

Sean Hatton SEAN HATTON FROM NEW TRANSIT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing WETT WEDNESDAYS—9:30 p.m. Featuring live electronic music and DJs. FREE. Liquid

METALATCHI—With Hot Dog Sandwich and Gorcias. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

XANDRA BONAR—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

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In an episode of 30 Rock, a midi version of Jefferson Airplane’s “Somebody to Love” emanates from Jack Donaghy’s pocket. Liz Lemon says sarcastically, “Nice ringtone, Jack,” to which he replies, “That’s not my ringtone. I hate that California sound,” as he realizes he has someone else’s cellphone. Even that uptight, dyed-in-the-wool Republican might change his tune upon hearing San Francisco-based band the Soft White Sixties. SWS has only been around a few years, but the band’s classic rock sound, with edges rounded by R&B, has garnered SWS a sizeable fan base and the attention of music media. We’re fans of the band and our affection has been rewarded by SWS’ repeated visits to Boise. We are always happy to see them because recorded material has been scarce, but this visit is particularly pleasing: SWS is touring behind new release Get Right (March 2014, Shift Independent), which contains more than a few tracks that would make great ringtones. Download a sampler of Get Right at noisetrade.com. —Amy Atkins 7 p.m., $5. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.

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EVENTS/CULTURE M ER IDIANC ITY.OR G

MEET ME IN MERIDIAN Summer fun in Idaho’s second city AMY ATKINS Gone are the days when we thought a trip from Boise to Meridian required a travel plan. Even here at Boise Weekly, we’ve been guilty of referring to destinations in the city as “worth the drive,” as though it’s a world away. Growth of both cities has brought them closer together, their noses nearly touching as dairy farms between the two have made way for neighborhoods, retail outlets, restaurants, businesses and, of course, go-to fun spots Roaring Springs Waterpark and Meridian Speedway. Now the second largest city in Idaho, Meridian is inhabited by people both native to the area and transplanted, who choose to live in the bedroom community because of the quality of life it affords. During the summer, that quality is enriched by the Meridian Parks and Recreation Department, the mission of which is to “enhance the community’s quality of life by providing well-designed and properly maintained parks and recreational opportunities for all citizens.” This summer, if you can’t ﬁnd one of those citizens, they’re probably at the park.

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MOVIE NIGHT IN MERIDIAN Watch movies like Despicable Me 2, Monsters University, The Nut Job and more for free, under the stars with a few hundred of your closest friends at Settlers Park. Visit meridiancity.org/movienight for a full schedule of ﬂicks.

MONDAY, JUNE 16SATURDAY, JUNE 21

MERIDIAN DAIRY DAYS For 85 years, the city of Meridian has celebrated dairy, an industry vital to the area’s well-being and the livelihood of many an Idahoan. Dairy Days is a downhome celebration complete with a carnival, parade, pancake feed, cattle and goat show, and more. Get details and a full schedule at dairydays.org.

SATURDAY, JUNE 28

BARN SOUR FUN RUN This 10K, 6K, or 1-mile fun run is good for participants but, more importantly, helps Meridian Parks and Rec’s Care Enough to Share initiative, which offers scholarships to recreation programs for to low-income

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Settlers Park: Meridian’s summer headquarters.

Meridian kids. Register at meridiancity.org/ barnsour.

SATURDAYS, JUNE 28, JULY 19, AUG. 9 AND AUG. 30

CONCERTS ON BROADWAY Bask in the big sounds of Kevin Kirk and Onomatopoeia, Kings of Swing and High Street at Meridian City Hall Plaza. Concerts are free and begin at 7 p.m. Beyond special events, Meridian Parks and Rec offers enough youth and adult activities to keep the entire family busy all summer long. Even preschoolers (ages 18 months-3 years and 3-5 years) can build brain and body with Preschool Fun and Preschool Fun Plus. The eight-week classes will help children enhance awareness in a variety of areas, including citizenship, motor skills, listening, transitioning, spatial awareness and more, using arts and crafts, song, creative movement and storytelling to help them. Preschoolers and gradeschoolers alike can begin what may become a lifelong love of martial arts. Martial Arts for Kids, taught by Family Tang SooDo, is a great ﬁrst step for 5- to 8-year-olds. Kids will learn basic techniques, self-defense, concentration and discipline, all of which contribute to an increased conﬁdence. For the 7- to 14-year-olds, Shoshin Ryu for Beginners is a “complete system of martial arts that places emphasis on physical and mental skills required for self-defense and personal growth.” Classes are noncompetitive and teach techniques such as strikes, blocks, joint locks and manipulations. Tennis, anyone? From Tiny Tots Tennis to Junior Tennis Lessons, kids of all ages

can get ready for the courts. Or make some happy campers with one-week or all-summer at Camp Mer-Ida-Moo. Give your own little Picasso an outlet with classes like Wonders of Watercolor, Beginning Art Creativity or Animal Drawing and Painting. Your budding Ai Weiwei may find the building blocks to architecture in Lego Story Adventures, and your little Stan Lee might find the perfect way to channel some cartoon creativity in the Superhero Cartoon Workshop. If your student is already showing a sartorial side, enroll them in the Fashion Runway Workshop; or let your mini Magellan explore the globe in the Worldly Artistic Designs Pastels Workshop. If Broadway is your kid’s calling, the Outdoor Summer Musical Theatre might set them on the path to the Great White Way. Summer activities aren’t only for the kids. The young-at-heart can join the young in everything from the Beginner Ukulele Group Class to North African and Middle Eastern Dance to Making Ben’s Bells, a community art project in which participants make windchimes to promote everyday kindness (more info at bensbells.org). Or, while the teens are learning MIT-designed Scratch Programming in the Game Programming for Kids class, the adults can reap the benefits of relaxation in the Yoga Nidra Meditation Workshop; get their cowboy on in the Line Dance class; or learn how to really enjoy Idaho’s natural resources in the Inflatable Kayak Clinic. And, it wouldn’t be summer without Adult Co-Ed Dodgeball, Softball and Volleyball Leagues. You can find class and registration information online at meridiancity.org/activityguide and at facebook.com/MeridianParksandRecreation. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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WINESIPPER/DRINK SUMMER REDS, MAKE ME FEEL FINE

2011 DOMAINE CABIRAU COTES DU ROUSSILLON, $15.99 In this wine, 70 percent old vine grenache is blended with syrah and carignan in order to meet the requirements for carrying the Roussillon appellation. You get dark red fruit on the nose along with earthy vanilla and anise. It’s on the bigger side of the summer red spectrum, but it’s nicely balanced with only the softest hint of tannin. This wine begs for barbecue. 2010 IDILICO GRACIANO, $21 Washington winemaker Javier Alfonso brings an Old World sensibility to his Spanish varietal label, Idilico. I love this graciano with its intriguing black pepper and lively raspberry aromas. The flavors are just as interesting, offering an irresistible core of red berry fruit, backed by touches of cracked pepper and olive oillaced, heirloom tomato. This wine is deliciously different. 2012 RYAN PATRICK VINEYARD REDHEAD RED, $9.99 This Washington blend leads off with merlot at 88 percent, adding 10 percent primitivo and 2 percent malbec. On the nose, it has appealing cherry cola notes with touches of spice and red licorice. Sweet cherry carries through on the palate, as well, with a silky texture and a smooth finish. A fruitdriven effort that should take to a chill nicely, this wine is definitely a great value. —David Kirkpatrick

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FOOD/GARDENS JES S IC A M U R R I

When the heat is on, you’re tempted to turn to white or rose wines, but when there’s beef on the barbecue, you’ll still want red. What makes a good summer red? I look for lighter, fruit-driven wines that don’t mind spending 20 minutes or so in the fridge. They still need enough umph to hold up to brisket or burgers, so slightly richer wines will work as well, so long as they are well-balanced and offer enough acidity to carry the fruit. What doesn’t work? Wines with a tannic bite or big, jammy fruit. Save those for the fall. Here are the panel’s top three summer picks:

NOT A COMMUNITY GARDEN Private lot draws dozens of volunteer green-thumbs JESSICA MURRI “Greetings Earthlings,” bellowed a man with a large gray beard. “I’ll be Quazar.” Quazar, whose real name is Richard Quenzer, is one of dozens of volunteers who show up to pick weeds in exchange for veggies from Greg Hayes’ 0.2-acre, ditch-irrigated, pesticide-free garden off 32nd Street. Hayes, a self-employed engineer who moved to Boise from California, has a knack for collecting rusty tools and animal bones in the Boise Foothills and using them to decorate his backyard. Though he’d only ever grown a handful of carrots as a kid, Hayes decided to take on the challenge of converting a piece of his property into the 32nd Street Garden two years ago. In recent years, the urban farming itch has struck countless others like Hayes across the country. From backyard chicken coops to rooftop gardens and apiaries, the impulse to grow your own grub in a city environment has spread rapidly. But not everyone has the time, space or resources to tend gardens in their own backyards. So Hayes decided to do something a little different. “It’s not a community garden,” Hayes explained. “I own the land.” In the fall of 2012, after watching an hourlong video about the beneﬁts of not tilling soil, Hayes covered his property in a layer of cardboard boxes to keep the weeds down. Then, he gathered hundreds of bags of raked-up leaves from around the North End in his little blue Subaru Forester. “I just drove around and knocked on doors, asking if I could take their leaves,” Hayes said. “They’d say, ‘OK, but why would you want our leaves?’” He spread the leaves an inch thick over the cardboard and allowed them to decompose over the winter, expecting the lot to turn into amazing soil rich with healthy micro-organisms. It kind of worked. When spring came, he went out with packets of seeds from local organic farms and ran into the still intact cardboard layer. Hayes had to cut through it before he could actually plant anything. But after he ﬁnally got his seeds sowed—and added a $4,200 solar panel pump and drip lines—everything started to grow “like crazy.” When the garden became too much to

Greg Hayes’ land is open to the public for farming, but it’s not a public garden. “I own the land,” he said.

handle on his own, Hayes launched Free Veggie Wednesdays to ease the weeding burden and unload some extra produce. That also only kind of worked. Hayes would come out of his house before the garden officially opened and find complete strangers picking through his vegetables without weeding or leaving anything in the tip jar. “I didn’t know who they were. They were just friends of friends. Word spread and they would just show up,” Hayes said. So this season, things will be different. “Now you have to pay to play. You gotta at least come pull some weeds for a few hours before you can leave with the produce,” Hayes said. Every Wednesday at 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 4 p.m., a dozen or so volunteers will weed Hayes’ garden and haul off some of the bounty—including spinach; beets; cilantro; radishes; chives; garlic; arugula; kale; carrots; beans; sunchokes; swiss chard; five kinds of squash; cucumbers; watermelons; pumpkins; what Hayes called “that crazy, frizzy-hair-woman lettuce,” otherwise known as “drunken woman frizzy headed lettuce”; tomatoes; and more. One volunteer even set up a bee box in the garden, which Hayes heard can double productivity. Quenzer, who spends two days a week at the garden inspecting leaves and pulling weeds, discovered the 32nd Street Garden at a time when he needed it most. He had been leasing a one-acre garden plot in the North End that he watered via pump from the Boise Canal, when he says he was “ejected” from the land. Watering a garden using city water wasn’t an affordable option for him, so 32nd Street Garden and its nearby ditch worked perfectly.

“It’s cheaper to buy organic food at the Co-op than it is to pay for water, if you can imagine that,” said Quenzer. “We’re just trying to eat good. That’s the main thing.” Jordan Street Garden manager Shana Moore echoed Quenzer’s sentiments about the costs of water. “Water is the biggest challenge with urban gardening,” Moore said. “Gardening with city water can cost $700 to $800 a year.” Located only a couple of blocks away from the 32nd Street Garden, the Jordan Street Garden is a more traditional community garden. Moore said most of the gardeners are refugees who live in nearby apartments. All told, there are 15 families, representing eight different countries, that share space on the 0.4-acre lot. Moore said they’re lucky that the privately owned lot is ﬂood irrigated, which at only $120 a year, keeps the garden free to growers. But there is still volatility inherent in both urban garden models. Recently, Hayes had to warn Quenzer that he may have to sell his land someday. “It’s my goal to hang onto it forever, but I always want the option to be able to sell it without disappointing people,” explained Hayes. “So when Quazar came, I had to tell him, ‘We’re doing it this year, but it might not happen next year.’” And after six years, the Jordan Street Garden faces the same uncertainty. “It’s probably going to be a house someday,” Moore said. “This isn’t a permanent thing. I’d like it to be, but every year I talk to the landowner in the spring and say, ‘Do we get to do it again?’ So far, we’ve gotten to. But it’s very valuable property.”

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KINDNESS, JUNIPER SLATED TO OPEN THIS SUMMER TARA MORGAN Juniper is bringing a touch of the South to Eighth Street.

For more info on Kindness, visit kindnessYou might’ve noticed the sleek gray paint job boise.com. on the recently remodeled Owyhee building, And in other downtown renovation news, but there are even more exciting renovations husband-and-wife duo Kacey Montgomery going on behind the scenes. The historic 1910 and Shannon Lincoln are converting the hotel’s former restaurant and lounge have former Cazba space at 211 N. Eighth St. into gotten a major overhaul and will soon reopen a new local, seasonal, small-plates concept under the name Kindness. Owners Anna and called Juniper. Michael Tapia, formerly of Tapia Family “The space will be 100 percent completely Catering and Tapia’s Gourmet, will serve New redone,” said Montgomery, a former ownerAmerican fare with a Mediterranean twist in operator at Matador. “We’ve gutted it and the 100-seat space. there are some really cool features that have Anna, the restaurant’s chef, will craft been covered up that we’re excited about.” “kicked up” yet accessible classics for Picture a 120-seat space with a “modern breakfast, lunch and dinner. Think muffuletta sandwiches, elk medallions, fresh-made pastas rustic feel,” including exposed brick, big and the Southern staple: meat and two, where windows, interesting fabrics and chandelier lighting. you select a protein and two sides. “We’re not going for a pub vibe at all, but “Basically what we try to do with everywe’re not going for Chandlers,” said Montthing—with the service and the food—it’s gomery. “I think it’ll be really comfortable.” kicked up; it’s upscale but it’s comfortable,” Though chef Aaron Wermsaid Michael. “It’s not a preerskirchen is still fine-tuning tentious place.” kindnessboise.com. Juniper’s menu, Montgomery The restaurant’s decor will said it will feature updated stay relatively simple. facebook.com/Juniperon8th. classics with a seasonal focus “There won’t be a lot of and a bit of a Southern flair. decoration, mainly because “We’re going to do snacks, small plates and we inherited the last classic architecture that’s that’ll be the bulk of the menu, and then we’ll left in the building. … Some of the original probably have five or six main entrees. We’ll 1910 tile is still going to be visible in our new also cook with juniper,” he said. lounge,” said Michael. Naturally, juniper will also make an apIn addition to operating the restaurant pearance on the cocktail menu. and lounge, the Tapias will also cater larger “We’re really going to focus on classic events in the building, including live music cocktails; gin-forward,” Montgomery said. nights that will be open to the public on the “We’ll do a lot of house-made simple syrups rooftop terrace. and probably some house-made bitters and “Beyond the restaurant, we will be caterthat sort of thing, but just from a production ing in the newly remodeled Owyhee Ballstandpoint, we’ll probably stay away from room, which will have the capacity for sitfour-liquor cocktails.” down dinners of about 340. And that can be In addition to a smaller fixed menu, Juniper divided into three different spaces for smaller will have a larger fresh sheet menu that rotates events,” said Michael. “And also we’ve got regularly. That will allow the restaurant to the rooftop penthouse and that can seat 80 be “a little bit more flexible” with using local people and then another 80 or 90 people out ingredients when they’re available. on the big terrace.” The spot will also offer a 10-seat chef’s Kindness has a grand opening slated for table with five courses and two nightly seatWednesday, July 9. As for the name, Michael ings for around $40-$45 a person. says it’s more of an overarching philosophy. “I think that’s going to be a great avenue to “It’s about treating people well; about bereally highlight some ingredients that people ing kind. Really being at people’s service. … are growing around here,” said Montgomery. It’s an aspiration and it’s also a promise and Juniper will serve lunch and dinner Monalso it’s an expectation,” said Michael. “It’s day through Friday, and brunch and dinner funny how polarizing that name is, actually. Saturdays and Sundays. The spot plans to be Some people really love it and some people shake their heads. In a weird way, I like that.” open by mid-June. BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

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LISTINGS/SCREEN Special Screenings GMO OMG DOCUMENTARY—Check out this documentary, which asks the question, Is this the end of real food? Wed., May 28, 6:30 p.m. $7. Overland Park Cinemas, 7051 Overland Road, Boise, 208-377-3072, opcmovies.com.

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SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS, B-GRADES AND BUSTS What to expect (and avoid) on big screens this summer GEORGE PRENTICE Way too many films open between Memorial Day and Labor Day, all vying for your $10. This summer won’t be terribly different from previous years—expect dozens of sequels, a dozen more remakes and a steady flow of intelligence-insulting drek coming from Hollywood’s crap factory. Given the ridiculous box-office prices, we need to be more selective with our film choices. Boise Weekly has already previewed a good number of this summer’s features: Many are turkeys, others are so-so and a select number are actually worth your hard-earned cash.

10 MUST-SEES Now Playing 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE—(R) Overland Reel BRICK MANSIONS—(PG-13) Northgate Reel, Overland Reel, Overland Park Cinema THE LEGO MOVIE—(PG) Northgate Reel, Overland Reel, Overland Park Cinema LONE SURVIVOR—(R) Overland Reel THE MONUMENTS MEN—(PG-13) Northgate Reel, Overland Reel MUPPETS MOST WANTED—(PG) Northgate Reel, Overland Reel, Overland Park Cinema MR. PEABODY AND SHERMAN—(PG) Northgate Reel, Overland Reel, Overland Park Cinema

A Million Ways to Die in the West—Opens May 30. Seth McFarlane knocked it out of the park with Ted, one of the biggest sleeper hits ever. This crude western is equally hilarious, especially the scenes with legendary Irish leading man Liam Neeson. A Most Wanted Man—Opens July 25. We’re still mourning the loss of Philip Seymour Hoffman, so any opportunity to relish his amazing talent is appointment viewing. And this spy thriller looks particularly fine. Begin Again—Opens July 4. We fell in love with this film at its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival 2013. It’s a genuinely original musical from the filmmakers who gave us 2007’s Oscarwinning Once, and stars Keira Knightley (she has a great singing voice), Mark Ruffalo, Catherine Keener, Hailee Steinfeld, Cee Lo Green, Mos Def and Adam Levine. Boyhood—Limited opening July 11. Filmmaker Richard Linklater, the man behind the Before Midnight trilogy, got rave reviews at Sundance for his latest film, which features an authentic portrait of a boy growing up. It was filmed over 12 years. Chef—Opens TBA. Jon Favreau has been busy directing blockbusters (Ironman, Ironman 2, Cowboys & Aliens) but with Chef, he returns to his indie roots (Swingers) with a film that we hear has audiences drooling in the aisles. It co-stars Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey Jr. and Dustin Hoffman.

10 MOVIES TO SEE AT THE DISCOUNT THEATER These movies are ﬁne, but not worth emptying your wallet for. It’s worth waiting for them--to hit a discount movie house.

NEED FOR SPEED—(PG-13) Northgate Reel, Overland Park Cinema NON-STOP—(PG-13) Northgate Reel, Overland Park Cinema OCULUS—(R) Northgate Reel. THE QUIET ONES—(PG-13) Northgate Reel. THE RAID 2—(R) Overland Reel

And So It Goes—Opens July 11. Twenty years after The American President, director Rob Reiner reunites with Michael Douglas; and invites Diane Keaton to the party. Dawn of the Planet of the Apes—Opens July 11. Yes, the 2011 reboot was really good, but this is more of a curiosity than a must-see. Edge of Tomorrow—Opens June 6. This Tom Cruise vehicle looks rather smart, and we’re crazy about Emily Blunt. But we can wait. The Fault In Our Stars—Opens June 6. Advance word on this big-screen adaptation of John Green’s 2012 bestseller is solid; but we can’t get too excited about this ﬁlm, knowing we’ll cr y buckets of tears. Jersey Boys—Opens June 20. This Great White Way blockbuster was the only Broadway “jukebox” musical that we could tolerate. The true stor y of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons is quite entertaining and get this: Clint Eastwood directs.

RIDE ALONG—(PG-13) Overland Reel TIM’S VERMEER—(PG-13) Northgate Reel.

IF YOU SEE THESE 9 MOVIES, WE’LL NEVER TALK TO YOU AGAIN

22 Jump Street and Let’s Be Cops—Open June 16 and Aug. 13. We double-dare you to explain the difference. Blended—Opens May 23. Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore star in... oh, who cares. The Expendables 3—Opens Aug. 15. Hold it, you’re telling us that there have been three of these things? TRANSCENDENCE—(PG-13) Northgate Reel, Overland Reel, Overland Park Cinema

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Hercules—Opens July 25. Due to his acting, it’s tough to distinguish Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson from the dead lion on top of his head.

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10 MILLION WAYS TO DIE IN THE WEST (A MUST-SEE) STARS NEIL PATRICK HARRIS AND SETH MCFARLANE

MUST-SEE CON’T. Fed Up—Opens TBA. This startling documentary from Katie Couric lays a platter-full of blame for childhood obesity at the front door of the food industry. Guardians of the Galaxy—Opens July 25. The trailer is solid gold. This promises to be the best and funniest superhero flick of the summer. The Hundred-Foot Journey—Opens Aug. 8. Lasse Hallstrom, one of our favorite directors (Cider House Rules, Chocolat), films Helen Mirren as a snooty French chef who finds stiff competition from a tiny Indian restaurant. One Chance—Opens Aug. 29. We instantly fell in love with this delightful, true-life musical comedy about a shy clerk who becomes Britain’s biggest singing sensation. The Trip to Italy—Opens TBA. Steve Coogan and Rob Bydon gear up for more roadtrip hijinx in this sequel to 2011’s The Trip. If you haven’t seen their dueling Michael Caine impressions before, take a change of clothes.

DISCOUNT CON’T.

Magic In the Moonlight—Opens July 26. Woody Allen’s latest, this time with Colin Firth, Emma Stone and Marcia Gay Harden. Sin City: A Dame to Kill For—Opens Aug. 22. Joining the return of Jessica Alba, Rosario Dawson, Mickey Rourke and Bruce Willis are Josh Brolin, Eva Green and Lady Gaga. Tammy—Opens July 2. Though not a great film, the plot doesn’t really matter here. It’s Melissa McCarthy, the funniest woman in film. They Came Together—Opens June 27. Director David Wain (Wet Hot American Summer) has put together a fine cast for this stor y of hate at first sight: Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Ed Helms, Kenan Thompson, Jack McBrayer X-Men: Days of Future Past—Opens May 23. Fourteen years of X-Men movies rolled into one, bringing in the best of the casts: Hugh Jackman, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berr y, Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, Jennifer Lawrence.

NEVER-SEE CON’T.

Jupiter Ascending—Opens July 18. This will certainly descend into a black hole. Maleﬁcent—Opens May 30. Disney must stop picking at the carcasses of its classics. Planes: Fire and Rescue—Opens July 18. Seriously, Disney? Snap out of it. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—Opens Aug. 8. This isn’t from Disney but it could be. Ugh. Transformers: Age of Extinction—Opens June 27. Just for agreeing to star in this re-tread, Mark Wahlberg should have to star in a Boogie Nights sequel.

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MORE MOUNTAIN Forest Service gives ski areas a ‘shot in the arm’

YMCA offers more than 125 summer camps and classes to kids from Boise to Cascade.

BY JESSICA MURRI

Y NOT SEND YOUR KIDS TO CAMP The owners of Soldier Mountain Ski Area spent this past winter praying for snow harder than anyone else. They waited longer than any other ski resort in the area, missing the crucial Christmas break, and finally scrounged up enough snow to open on Feb. 13. Their ski season lasted 13 days. “Try running a business with 13 days of income,” said Kristi Schiermeier, chair of Soldier Mountain’s board. “All the other ski resorts were finishing up their season, and we had just opened.” The little two-chairlift ski area outside of Fairfield runs as a nonprofit today. But the 2013-2014 winter was devastating. Schiermeier and her board made the decision to honor all season passes and many vouchers issued during the dismal ski season, representing a $60,000 loss to the resort. The lack of snow hurt the community as a whole, as Soldier Mountain hired 40-50 people from Fairfield—population 416—making it one of the biggest employers in Camas County. Those employees planned to work for at least two months. They got less than two weeks. Suffering through the lackluster winter, Schiermeier was ecstatic when she heard of the U.S. Forest Service’s new policy guidelines to allow more year-round recreation opportunities at ski areas on Forest Service land. The guidelines came out in mid-April, allowing activities like zip lines, mountain biking, disc golf and rope courses. Soldier Mountain got its special use permit on Forest Service land in 1949, but the permit is strictly for winter recreation. That meant Schiermeier had to ask special permission for anything from concerts to weddings to family reunions taking place at the ski area. “It’s hard when you want to do something you think sounds fun, but the government has to think about it. … If [an activity] isn’t in your winter recreation plan, forget it. If you forgot to say you wanted to serve potato chips in the lodge, forget it,” she said. “But now, we don’t have to ask for everything. We can have dinners and festivals.” She’s filled with ideas for summer recreation opportunities on the mountain’s 1,150 acres, like geocaching, frisbee golf, archery contests, the Knobby Tire Race—a 26-mile mountain bike race through the ski area— and a summer festival on June 21-22 with all-day live music. “This is a little shot in the arm,” Schiermeier said. “Maybe we can survive.” BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

Soldier Mountain can soldier on through the summer now that the U.S. Forest Service has eased rules for ski areas using federal land.

Soldier Mountain is a huge part of Schiermeier’s history. She was born and raised in Fairfield after her grandmother came to the area in a covered wagon. She met her husband on a blind date at Soldier Mountain. Then they owned the resort for 15 years before selling it to Bruce Willis with high hopes. He didn’t do much with the mountain before he turned around and donated it back as a 501(c)3. Now, Schiermeier works as the chair of the board, a volunteer, an office administrator and the manager of summer operations. Schiermeier isn’t the only one a little relieved with the new guidelines. Steve Frost works as recreation program manager at the Sawtooth National Forest’s Fairfield office, and his job just got a little easier. He works closely with Soldier Mountain, approving various recreation activities throughout the summer. Now, he won’t have to spend much more time on that. “People like me don’t have to sit around and say, ‘Hmm, I wonder if that should be allowed or not,’” Frost said. “It streamlines that process. This act takes care of clarification; it says what’s in and what’s out. Where in the past we might have been wondering if we should do something or not, this gives us clear direction.” The new guidelines don’t allow everything. Any permanent construction still requires the Forest Service to perform an analysis and allow public comment. But Frost is excited about the guidelines for another reason, too. “It’s good for the public to have more opportunities on National Forest land,” he said. “And it opens the door for ski areas to be more of a year-round operation, which is obviously good for their bottom line.”

Especially for Soldier Mountain. But other area ski resorts don’t need the new guidelines as desperately. For Sun Valley, July and August are the resort’s busiest months anyway. The resort sells 20,000 lift tickets in the summer alone. Bogus Basin owns a square-mile of the land its resort is on, allowing resort ofﬁcials to do a lot without Forest Service permission. Schweitzer Mountain Resort, in the North Idaho Panhandle, isn’t on Forest Service land at all. The Forest Service might be throwing a bone to the 122 ski areas on public land nationally—many of which may be struggling to cope with shorter snow years—in an attempt to give them more revenue. But these changes also stem from larger trends in outdoor recreation. Dave Olson, Boise National Forest spokesman, told Boise Weekly that when most of the special use permits were doled out 60 or 70 years ago, everyone wanted to ski. Now, more people than ever are hiking and mountain biking and playing disc golf, as well. Olson said these new guidelines reﬂect the growing interest in outdoor recreation as a whole. The Forest Service estimates these new changes will increase summer visits on National Forest land by 600,000 nationwide. The agency expects a $40 million boost to local mountain communities throughout the country. “We are so excited that it passed,” Schiermeier said. “It’s huge.” Now her challenge will be to attract the Magic and Treasure valleys to the mountain, year-round. Her husband, who works as mountain manager, just bought and donated two more chairlifts, which will effectively double the mountain’s terrain. Weather pending.

If you’re sick of listening to your child say, “I’m bored,” all summer, the Treasure Valley YMCA has launched a solution. Pick up the Get Up, Get Out, Get Going youth summer program guide at the downtown, West Boise, Caldwell or Homecourt YMCA and read up on more than 125 classes and camps offered for preschoolers all the way up to teenagers. And they’re not necessarily the classes you’d expect. They go way beyond climbing classes, swim lessons, mountain biking camp and Y-Ball. Kids can partake in weeklong camps focused on stop-motion film (check with your kid’s school to see if it’s offered), improv comedy camp (Y-member price: $144, nonmember price: $216) and Legomania ($108/$162). The YMCA now offers camps dedicated to STEM Education through Engineering and Robots, stopping “summer learning loss” and teaching kids about chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical engineering. Half-day camps include Simple Machines, Journey into Space, Battle Bots, Amusement Park, City Scape, Go Green and more ($108/$162). For the young, future writers of Boise Weekly, kids ages 7-15 can experience a week of Author’s Camp, writing and illustrating their own short stories, and ending the class with a printed and bound book of their own ($42/$68). Or, future homeowners can play in the dirt and learn a thing or two about growing food in the Community Learning Garden through Garden Camp ($38/$59). The Y also offers weeklong camps at their facility by Horsethief Reservoir near Cascade, letting kids explore the outdoors through canoeing, archery, talent shows, rope courses and campfires ($406/$514). The Y offers classes and camps from $5 to $515, but financial aid is available. Whether it’s Jedi Training Day Camp ($50/$75), scuba dive camp (call for more info) or kayak lessons (see Play, Page 38), don’t give your kids any excuse to sit around and watch TV this summer. —Jessica Murri

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EIGHTH ANNUAL WEISER RIVER TRAIL RIDE—The 28-mile ride begins west of New Meadows and ends in Council. Proceeds benefit Friends of the Weiser River Trail. Visit website for details and to register. Sat., June 7, 9 a.m. $4045, bluecirclesports.com/EventDetail_Master.aspx?meid=910. Weiser River Trail Head, Council. NAMPA SUMMER PROGRAM REGISTRATION—Nampa Parks and Recreation Department offers a variety of activities to keep kids and adults active. Sign up online at namparecreation.org, or at the Nampa Rec Center. Through May 31, 8 a.m. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation.org. OUTPOST DAYS 5K FUN RUN/ WALK—Register for the Owyhee County Historical Society’s Outpost Days 5K Fun Run/Walk, set for Saturday, June 7, starting at 7:30 a.m. Forms available by contacting OCHS, P.O. Box 67, Murphy, ID 83650 or online at owyheemusuem.org. $12-$20. Owyhee County Historical Museum, 17085 Basey St., Murphy, 208-495-2319. SUMMER GYMNASTICS ENROLLMENT—For boys and girls ages walking to 18 years. Check out classes and times at the website. Call the business office for pricing information and to register. Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Century Way, Boise, 208-376-3641, wingscenter.com. FIRST TIME FLY TYING—Fly tying for the whole family with Boise Valley Fly Fishers. Each participant will tie their own fly and take it home. Registration required. Thu., June 26, 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Events & Workshops CAVING DAY TRIP—Join Nampa Parks and Rec and the Silver Sage Grotto to explore the underground wonder of Gypsum Cave, located north of Gooding. Participants should be in good physical condition and prepared to walk, stoop and crawl on hands and knees. Take a lunch and camera. Fee includes transportation and gear. Sat., June 7, 8 a.m.-7 p.m. $35. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation. org. NAMPA DOWNTOWN CRITERIUM—Featuring competitive categories with $3,600 in prize money, plus races for kids and nonprofessionals who want to experience the thrill of criterium racing. Get more info at nampadowntowncriterium.com and register at bikereg.com. Sat., June 14, 3 p.m. $10-$55. OUTPOST DAYS 5K FUN RUN/ WALK—Registration forms available by contacting Owyhee County Historical Society, P.O. Box 67, Murphy, ID 83650 or online at owyheemusuem.org. Sat., June 7, 7:30 a.m. $12-$20. Owyhee County Historical Museum, 17085 Basey St., Murphy, 208495-2319.

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Roll, roll, roll your boat...

AN HOUR SPENT UPSIDE DOWN, UNDERWATER The roll is by far the most counterintuitive, perplexing, blackmagic part of whitewater kayaking for me. For those unfamiliar: When the river current flips you underwater, you have to be able to roll your boat back up—unless you like the feeling of your head bouncing against boulders. After many frustrating practice sessions on Quinn’s Pond last summer, some of which ended in throwing my paddle aside and a deep desire to give up on the sport forever, I finally started getting my roll with some consistency—even nailed a handful of combat rolls (unplanned rolls taking place in the river). But that wouldn’t have happened if it weren’t for several roll clinics. On a recent Sunday night, I headed back to the downtown YMCA for a clinic put on by Cascade Raft and Kayak as a start-ofthe-season refresher. About 20 other folks and I bobbed around in the pool, trying not to bump against the water slides, the pool sides and each other. Cascade provides the kayaks, paddles and spray skirts. For every three confused and scared-looking KAYAK ROLL LESSONS novice boaters, there’s Sunday nights, 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 an instructor wading p.m. $5-$10. Downtown YMCA, 1050 W. State St., Boise, 208-344around, there to help. 5502; West Boise YMCA, 5959 N. One of them is Jeremy Discovery Place, Boise, 208-377Shoemaker. He’s 23, 4886, ymcatvidaho.org. with long, curly surfer hair and a kind, encouraging demeanor. He started teaching roll clinics three years ago and he said getting kayakers to the pool is no problem. Teaching them the proverbial kayak roll is a little tougher. These instructors know that the less time you spend struggling with your roll, the less time you’ll spend feeling frustrated. “The funny thing is, the lightbulb goes on and off,” Shoemaker said. “So you’ll do your roll and say, ‘Oh, I got it!’ Then come back to me next week and say, ‘I don’t know what happened, I lost my roll.’” Shoemaker said it’s easy for him to look at someone like me while I try to roll upright and see what I’m doing wrong. “You might feel like you’re in the right position every time, and just not getting it. But having that little tweak... it’s honestly more just finding the proper way to say it. It’s making the verbiage make sense because different things work for different people,” Shoemaker said. He has lots of analogies to help his students visualize the roll. Glue your ear to your shoulder, follow your paddle with your eyes, disconnect your upper half with your lower half, lean forward, cock your wrists, smile. And the good news for me: “I’ve never had anybody that can’t figure out the roll eventually,” Shoemaker said. The roll clinic attracts all kinds of river rats, from little kids to older men, play boaters and river runners alike. People who have never sat in a boat before to seasoned veterans practicing hand rolls. The clinics are held every Sunday night, alternating between the downtown and West Boise YMCA. —Jessica Murri WWW. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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PARENTS’ DAY—All parents get in free when accompanied by a paying child. Sun., June 15, 1-4:45 p.m. and 6-8:45 p.m. Day pass rate. Lakeview Park, Garrity Boulevard at 16th Avenue North, Nampa; and Lincoln Pool, 508 Davis Ave., Nampa, 208-4652218, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

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Belligerent belle.

BOMBS AWAY! BW TAKES A FLIGHT IN A B-17 While walking across the tarmac toward the “Memphis Belle”—a giant, four-propeller B-17 bomber from World War II— the pilot said to me, “Everytime those young men went up in one of these planes, they knew they had an 80 percent chance of never coming back.” “We have better odds than that, don’t we?” I asked. Jim Lawrence laughed and assured me we’d land safely. He’s a retired Air Force pilot with 600 combat missions in a fighter jet. The “Memphis Belle” was brought to Boise by the Liberty Foundation, an Oklahoma-based nonprofit dedicated to maintaining and touring the plane around the county, taking the public for a 30-minute spin in the sky. The plane, built by Boeing in 1945, flew over Germany and Japan in World War II, before being sold as surplus in 1960 for a little more than $2,500. It was then converted into a fire-fighting tanker until 1982, when it was restored to its original appearance as a wartime B-17. In 1990, the plane starred in the Hollywood movie Memphis Belle, “MEMPHIS BELLE” PUBLIC FLIGHT Friday, May 24-Saturday, May 25, and since 2005, the 10 a.m.-3 p.m. $450. Gowen Field Liberty Foundation has Airport Jackson Jet Center, 3815 had the aircraft on loan Rickenbacker St., Boise. Call 918to take to a different city 340-0243 to make reservations or every weekend. go to libertyfoundation.org. On Monday, it was our turn. The crew lead us into the plane, equipped with machine guns, bombs and much more complicated seat belts than your standard airline. After a shorter safety spiel than any commercial airline in the world, the four propellers fired to life for an incredibly loud, somewhat rickety flight. The back windows of the plane were completely open, and a section of the ceiling was an open sunroof. We leveled off at a pretty low altitude and walked around the plane. I held onto the barrel of a Browning .50 caliber machine gun for support and stuck my head out the window at 175 mph—strangely liberating. I stumbled around the length of the plane, over the foot-wide walkway above the bomb bay, and up to the cockpit where two pilots weren’t remotely fazed to have a stranger standing behind them. Ducking beneath their wall of flight instruments, I crouched into the nose of the plane, made of plexiglass and offering a 180-degree view of the city below us. Despite its size, this was no smooth airliner flight. It felt like an overgrown Cessna, with the occasional dip and spurt of weightlessness that left me glad I popped a few Dramamine beforehand. “We give you a very, very slight taste of what the veterans went through and the sacrifices they made,” said Chuck Giese, our de facto flight attendant. “We don’t take you up to 20,000 feet, you’re not going to be on oxygen, it is not going to be 40 below, and if we do this right today, nobody will be shooting at us.” It was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, but if you don’t have the $400-plus for a quick flight, go to boiseweekly.com for a photo slideshow and video of Boise Weekly’s time in the flying fortress.

BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT OPEN SHOP—Donate unwanted bicycles or equipment to a good cause and receive a tax write-off. The shop is also open at the same time for volunteers interested in working on bicycles for children of low-income families, refugees and Boise’s homeless population. For more info, visit the website or call the shop. Wednesdays-Fridays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Saturdays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. HIGHLANDS HOLLOW RUN/ RIDE—Every Tuesday McU Sports will be hosting a trail run 5K, mountain ride and road ride, all departing from the Highlands Hollow parking lot. Afterward, the brewpub will be offering drink and food specials for participants. For riders and runners of any level. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow Brewhouse, 2455 Harrison Hollow Lane, Boise, 208-343-6820, highlandshollow.com. KID’S FIX-IT NIGHT—For children 3-11 who already have bicycles in need of repair. Bikes brought to BBP volunteers on the fourth Thursday of the month will be overhauled for free. For more info, visit the website or call the shop. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. PILATES MAT CLASS—This class uses traditional Pilates methods focusing on breath, precision and core engagement to increase strength and stability, improve posture and enhance mind/body awareness. For all levels. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 5:30 p.m. $12. Body Calm Yoga Studio, 1565 E. Leigh Field Drive, Ste. 175, Meridian, 208914-0910, bodycalmstudio.com. SATURDAY NIGHT OPEN GYM ROCK CLIMBING—Climb your cares away in a beginner-friendly gym, featuring a variety of slopes, routes and elements. Use their gear or take your own. The staff will get beginners trained and climbing in just a few minutes. Subject to cancellation, so call or check the website. Saturdays, 6-9 p.m. $10. Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Century Way, Boise, 208-376-3641, wingscenter.com. SOCIAL RIDE—Meet at BBP and pedal to the chosen destination on the ﬁrst Friday of each month. To get more info, visit the website or call the shop. First Friday of every month, 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): I believe your persuasive powers will be stronger than usual in the weeks ahead. The words coming out of your mouth will sound especially interesting. I also suspect that your intelligence will get at least a temporary upgrade. The clarity of your thoughts will intensify. You will see truths you have been blind to in the past. Innovative solutions to long-running dilemmas are likely to occur to you. The only potential snag is that you might neglect to nurture your emotional riches. You could become a bit too dry and hard. But now that I’ve warned you of that possibility, let’s hope you will take steps to ensure it won’t happen.

excellent time for you to revise the way you understand this part of your world, and then update your relationship with it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If there was a Hall of Fame for scientists, physicist Isaac Newton (1642-1727) would have been the charter member. He was like Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry were to rock and roll, like Babe Ruth was to baseball. The theory of gravity and the three laws of motion were his gifts to the world. He made major contributions to mathematics and optics, and was a central figure in defining modern science. There is also a legend that he invented the cat door, inspired by his pet felines. Whether or not that’s true, it serves as an excellent metaphor for this horoscope. It’s an excellent time for you to apply your finest talents and highest intelligence to dream up small, mundane, but practical innovations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Years ago I had a Virgo friend who was a talented singer. She had technical skill, stylistic flair and animal magnetism, making her worthy of being a lead vocalist in almost any great band. And yet when she was asleep and had dreams of performing, she often found herself standing in the shadows, barely visible and singing tentatively, while her backup singers hogged the spotlight at center stage. Moral of the story: Some of you Virgos are shy about claiming your full authority. It doesn’t always come easy for you to shine your light and radiate your power. And yet you can most definitely learn to do so. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to make progress in this direction.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During the next 12 months you will have exceptional opportunities to soak up knowledge, add to your skill set, and get the training you need to pursue interesting kinds of success in the coming six to eight years. What’s the best way to prepare? Develop an exciting new plan for your future education. To get in the mood, try the following: make a list of your most promising but still unripe potentials; meditate on the subjects that evoke your greatest curiosity; brainstorm about what kinds of experiences would give you more control over your destiny; and study three people you know who have improved their lives by taking aggressive steps to enhance their proficiency. CANCER (June 21-July 22): The moon shows us a different phase every 24 hours, which makes it seem changeable. But in fact, not much actually happens on the moon. It has no atmosphere, no weather, no wind, no plant life, no seasons. There is some water, but it’s all frozen. Is there anything like this in your own life, Cancerian? Something that on the surface of things seems to be in constant motion, but whose underlying state never actually shifts or develops? According to my analysis, now would be an

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is always an enormous temptation in all of life,” writes Annie Dillard, “to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for itsy-bitsy years on end. ... I won’t have it. The world is wider than that in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright.” Your assignment in the coming weeks, Libra, is to transcend whatever is itsy-bitsy about your life. The alternative? Head toward the frontier and drum up experiences that will thrill your heart and blow your mind. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours,” writes novelist Heidi R. Kling. That’s good advice for you to keep in mind these days, Scorpio. Those little imps and rascals that live within you may get you into bad trouble if they feel bored. But if you arrange for them to have play dates with the imps and rascals of people you trust, they are far more likely to get you into good trouble. They may even provide you with bits of gritty inspiration. What’s that, you say? You don’t have any demons? Not true. Everyone has them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “When people tell you who they are, believe them,” writes blog-

ger Maria Popova (Brainpickings. org). “Just as importantly, however, when people try to tell you who you are, don’t believe them.” Those suggestions are especially crucial for you to keep in mind these days. You are entering a phase when your best relationships will be up for review and revision and revitalization. To foster an environment in which intimacy will thrive, you’ve got to be extra receptive, curious, tolerant and tender. That’s all! Not hard, right? A good place to start is to proceed as if your allies know who they are better than you do—even as you ask them to return the favor. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “Kludge” (pronounced klooj) is a slang word that refers to a clumsy but effective fix for an engineering problem. It’s a cobbled-together solution that works fine, at least temporarily, even though it is inelegant or seems farfetched. Let’s use this concept in a metaphorical way to apply to you. I’m guessing that you will be a kludge master in the coming days. You will be skilled at making the best of mediocre situations. You may have surprising success at doing things that don’t come naturally, and I bet you will find unexpected ways to correct glitches that no one else has any idea about how to fix. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hesitate to compare you to your fellow Aquarian Kim Jong-Il. When he was alive and ruling North Korea, he was an egomaniacal tyrant. You’re definitely not that. But there are certain descriptions of him in his official biography that remind me of the kinds of powers you may soon exhibit. He was called The Great Sun of Life and Highest Incarnation of Revolutionary Comradely Love, for instance. Titles like that might suit you. It is said that he invented the hamburger. He could command rain to fall from the sky. He once shot 11 holes-in-one in a single round of golf, was a master of gliding down waterslides, and never had to use a toilet because he produced no waste. You may be able to express comparable feats in the coming weeks. (Do it without falling prey to excessive pride, OK?) PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Even if you had a sensitive, nurturing mommy when you were growing up, and even if she continues to play an important role in your life, now would be a good time to learn how to mother yourself better. You are finally ready to appreciate how important it is to be your own primary caregiver. And I’m hoping you are no longer resistant to or embarrassed about the idea that part of you is still like a child who needs unconditional love 24/7. So get started! Treat yourself with the expert tenderness that a crafty maternal goddess would provide.

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