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BECOMING BASQUE Who is this famous Boisean?

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I’m certain you’re familiar with the adage “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” I should have taken that caution to heart when we first picked up Becoming Basque. I assumed I was being handed another history book to be neatly tucked on the shelf and possibly forgotten.

I couldn’t have been more wrong.

What I discovered and share in our main news feature this week is the discovery that the just-published Becoming Basque is a great read, but it overflows with 21st century relevance. It adeptly examines the city of Boise’s ethnic patchwork and how the city “even now, is suspended between the past and the present,” according to Dr. Todd Shallat, director of Boise State’s Center for Idaho History and Politics and series editor for the Center’s many publications.

Becoming Basque also reveals a local tension between those who desperately want to learn and share information on the decades of Basque oppression under the iron fist of Gen. Francisco Franco, and those who have moved on, physically and emotionally, from their native land.

“This has been an area that a number of people just didn’t want us to get into with this book,” said Dr. John Bieter, editor of Becoming Basque.

But indeed, they “get into it,” as does the story, which begins on Page 10. By the way, you’ll definitely want to take a look at an accompanying photo of a familiar Boisean on Page 11.

I’m also happy to report that right before he helps launch Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 season this week, Tom Ford—star of the first production of the year, Deathtrap—sat down with me to talk about his career and his particular affection for Boise audiences.

“Nothing but endlessly supported,” Ford told me. “Really generous, sometimes very moving.”

And Ford has emotionally moved more than a few audience members as well. When I asked him about one particular moment in 2008’s ISF production of Into the Woods, a few tears were shed and … well, you’ll just have to read our conversation on Page 12, won’t you?

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“It’s the latest illustration of tension between residents of the West and the federal government over management of public lands.”

The preceding sentence, from an Associated Press report printed in the Idaho Statesman a couple of weeks ago, contains a glaring semi-truth that a more precise writer would not have made. Do you see it?

The “latest illustration” part is fine, referring to the incident on May 10, when a clutch of rebellious Utah hillbillies showed their defiance not only to Bureau of Land Management restrictions by throwing an ATV hillbilly parade on a trail that had been closed to ATVs, but to hundreds—possibly thousands—of years of archeological treasure and the appreciation that people of a much higher quality than them would experience by knowing such physical history is being preserved and kept safe from the likes of those hillbillies.

Nor can we find anything objectionable about the “tension ... over management of public lands” part, as we are aware that in loosely civilized provinces like Utah, Nevada and, of course, Idaho, we have neighbors who want to be free to do any despicable thing they are so inclined to do to any part of the landscape it suits their hillbilly fancies to do it to.

Furthermore, we are aware that all too many of these hulking nincompoops with the minds, moralities, sensibilities and scientific acumen of spoiled children have risen to positions of local and regional leadership, often by blaming the federal government for not allowing them and their natural constituencies to go out and shit at will in the very nests that we all own a share of. This attitude has of late run rampant in everything from the refusal of Nevada ne’er-do-well Cliven Bundy to comply with BLM grazing fees, to our own ridiculous governor crowing in his campaign ads how he resisted the EPA’s standards of the water we put in our mouths.

It is an attitude only bound to grow in intensity as the accumulated conservative vermin that infest so many legislative chairs, county seats and town halls in these hayseed zones continue to challenge the people of the United States of America—as represented by the federal government—to let them be the ones who decide what happens to some of the last remaining natural refuges in America.

So overall, the quote is accurate enough, except for that one glaring semi-truth—the one that would lead the reader to believe this tension is between the feds and “residents of the West.” Yes, in large part, it is “residents of the West” who constitute this simmering rebellion against federal management of publicly owned lands. But 1) the statement as written neglects to consider that there are also “residents of the West,” large numbers of them, who believe it would be insane to

hand over such huge tracts of that which we inherited, and that which we must pass on, to the most self-serving, self-indulgent, intellectually-limited and greed-motivated people in our population, and 2) we can be assured that much of the fuel powering this noisy engine of state control is coming straight from the pumps of ALEC (the American Legislative Exchange Council) and other hothouses of rape-and-pillage capitalism, and has a lot less to do with “residents of the West” than the corporate pimps would like us to believe.

Let us save the shadow of the Koch brothers and other plutocratic vultures for later consideration, as it’s certain that with the kind of politicians we elect in these rubelands—men and women more than eager to lick the salt from a billionaire’s scrotum— the grab for Western lands by those scavengers will not go away anytime soon. Let us for the rest of this examination consider only the rubes, the hayseeds, the hillbillies, who would insist to the point of lawlessness that they have the authority to drive their white-trash mobiles through what remains of a 2,000-year-old culture.

What must go through their mushy minds as they leave their ATV tracks all over the reverence of other people?

Why is it so important to them that they be allowed to go to that spot to piss on the laws and flaunt their Yer-Not-The-BossO’-Me! ignorance? Can they really have so little respect for the wishes of the original people, and for the desire for the rest of us to learn all we can about what came before us, and to leave as much of it as it is and has been for centuries?

In short, are they, those masters of the mud-covered machines, really so low-life that nothing matters to them as much as their hillbilly pleasures?

Yes. Yes. They are really that low-life.

There really are trashy people—everyone but the trashy people knows that—and nowhere are they hogging more spotlight than in the West.

Still, it’s worth remembering that whenever a few “residents of the West” come out to show off their weaponry, their cammo grunge and their “Gimmee! Gimmee!” defiance, several million of us other “residents of the West” don’t attend. That’s you and me, brother and sister, along with all those Westerners who believe the motorized hillbilly brigades already have enough desert and forest and mountaintop to go pollute with their very presence, without giving over that little stretch of pueblo trail in Utah to their thoughtless ruination.

And brother and sister, it will have to be us who stop the trash—in elected office or out—from turning the West into one big junker, rusting away on cinder blocks in the side yard of America.

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Back when I taught eighth-grade literature, Ed Abbey’s coming-of-age novel, Fire on the Mountain, was always on the reading list.

It’s about a Southwestern rancher fighting to protect his property from condemnation by the U.S. Air Force. The Air Force wants the property for a missile range.

The 12-year-old narrator is the rancher’s grandson. He who knows the old man will die if he’s forced off the place he loves. But his parents are trying to get his grandfather to live with them in the city. The novel showcases conflicts between the collective and the individual, parents and children, military and civilians, modernity and agrarianism.

I didn’t choose the book for its good writing. I chose it because Abbey makes bad guys really bad,and good guys really good. Bad: collective parental military modernity. Good: individual civilian child agrarians.

But when I asked my students to write essays supporting one side or the other, the response was, “The old man didn’t want to leave his ranch, but the Air Force needed it for missiles. They were both right.” Most of my eighth-graders had recently discovered how to use relativism against their parents, and were loath to give it up. When I insisted their essays take a moral stand, they wouldn’t do it, even when I threatened F-minuses.

Later, when I taught undergraduates creative writing, I told them writing necessarily involves moral judgments. My students still hated this idea. Many of them were channeling the Writer as Tragic Hero, or above-it-all Nietzschean Hero or Sullen-Hero-in-BlackWho-Chain-Smokes-Gauloises—sometimes the same person channeled all of them at once.

These Beyond-Good-and-Evil folks seldom got much writing done.

Other students, finding evil tough to write about, found easier subjects in prelapsarian childhoods. I was handed stories about secret meadows, favorite sweaters or finding longlost stuffed animals a week before college.

Remembering my experience teaching Ed Abbey, I put Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita on the reading list of a course titled The Literature of Desire. It went well, sparking insightful discussions and essays that noted Nabokov’s technical skills, empathy and genius as a witness.

But it was a rare student who would identify Nabokov’s pedophilic Humbert Humbert as a horrible human being. Some students— not all of them men—defended Humbert’s journey toward evil, saying that he was simply trying to escape a stultifying and ordinary life.

Eighteen- to 22-year-olds are by nature voraciously narcissistic. I suppose they could claim Humbert, a predatory and lonely narcissist, as one of their own. But it was disturbing to have students who thought Lolita neither contained nor required a moral judgment.

A teaching career leads to the inescapable conclusion that people aren’t born with an innate sense of right and wrong. It’s something they have to be taught. Reading literature is a good start, and Lolita is a better instruction manual than Pollyanna, because Lolita is not about thinking of six impossible things before breakfast. Instead, it’s about the awful possibility that ordinary life requires child victims.

If this idea is shocking to you, you didn’t grow up during the Vietnam War. It wasn’t until I began to teach graduatelevel writers—specifically, women in their 40s and 50s who were going back to school—that I encountered students who understood life requires an understanding of who is being traded for what.

Their reaction to my rule that writers must make moral judgments was, “Tell us something we don’t know.” It meant we could get to work, that they could find their subjects in the alternating light and darkness of the world rather than in the minor aches and pains of the self. That doesn’t mean that I discouraged inward-looking autobiographical fiction. But I pointed out that the great human struggle between awareness and shadow is usually easier to see in fictional characters than it is in one’s own interior.

I recommended morally-purposed novels to my graduate students. Besides Lolita, their reading list included Barbara Kingsolver’s The Poisonwood Bible, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Joyce Carol Oates’ Black Water. These novels make explicit the evil that a powerful male hierarchy inflicts upon women, children and less powerful men.

The bleakness of these novels is balanced with a dark humor—the humor of the tumbril, if not the gallows. Without an awareness of the dark, funny and lethal ironies of life, literature degenerates into the ineffectual didactic cant heard in fundamentalist churches and American history courses.

Like Lolita, these books lead us to an unvarnished vision of humans as poor, deluded, mortal, forked animals—even the most powerful, even the most wealthy and, God forbid, even the wisest.

After a career teaching writing and literature, I can say it’s better to be outside power than in it. It’s better to abdicate power than to use it to oppress others, to be self-consciously weak than unconsciously powerful.

Of course, writing offers the possibility of being consciously powerful, of being able to look at the world in its disturbing entirety, to eventually come to the knowledge of what’s right and what’s wrong, and to share that knowledge with everybody, if everybody’s lucky.

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There are advocates, there are lobbyists and then there are the kids from Hailey’s Sage School. Not only are they the inspiration of a precedent-setting law banning exotic circus animals from nearby Ketchum, but the protections are the first-of-their-kind for any city in Idaho—or even Nevada or Wyoming, for that matter.

“I think it’s pretty cool,” 12-year-old Sam Laski told Boise Weekly. “Not many people on the Ketchum City Council knew about how circus animals are mistreated; so I think it’s pretty neat that we can spread this message out to the community.”

And the kids haven’t stopped with Ketchum. They’ve already made similar presentations in front of Blaine County commissioners (who ordered their county prosecutor’s office to investigate the matter) and the Sun Valley City Council (which indicated its initial support). But when the kids went before the Hailey City Council, that city’s lawmakers said they had already been caged in by an agreement to allow the Jordan World Circus (and all of its exotic animals) to come to town in June.

“That’s right; the circus is coming to our town this summer,” said 13-year-old Harrison Blamires. “But we would rather encourage more human-performance circuses, like Cirque du Soleil.”

The ambitious campaign started out as research project for Sage sixth- and seventh-graders.

“The hope of our school is to see our kids engage with real-world connections,” said Chris McAvoy, lead teacher for sixthand seventh-graders at Sage. “But remember, they’re kids; they’re normal kids.”

Unfortunately, that doesn’t shelter the kids from receiving plenty of pushback from some in their community who support circus animals being on display.

“Oh yeah, pick up the local paper and there’s a huge debate,” said McAvoy.

“It reinforces the view that the city is populated by a bunch of silly people,” commented 57feneder on the website of the Idaho Mountain Express.

“And here I thought Idaho’s Legislature was the only group to waste taxpayer’s money with such a ridiculous waste of time and laws,” wrote Sawtooth75.

But the students—five of them made the presentation to the Ketchum City Council— did plenty of research on circus animals, thanks in large part to their mentor, Maya Burrell.

“Maya reached out to us,” said 11 Matt Rossell, campaign director of Los Angeles-based Animal Defenders

co-author of Becoming Basque, a Basque Confusing Becoming Basque:Ethnic Heritage we were passed by Franco’s Guardia Civil Museum and Cultural Center volunteer (military police) with submachine guns. My on Boise’s Grove Street with another history and board member, and the external affairs friend quieted me down, saying, ‘Don’t you book would be a mistake; assuming that it’s simply a bouquet from Boise State University see who just went by? They’re listening to our program manager with the U.S. Fish and to the mayor would be another. In fact, a rare conversations.’ It was a presence that most of Wildlife Service.

Sitting in Boise State’s downtown offices us would never understand.” and fascinating photograph of a young Dave Years later, when Bieter returned to a post- in BoDo, just a few hundred feet away from Bieter as a Basque dancer (tucked into page the Basque Block, Boise Weekly spoke with Franco Basque country to attend a family 127) is one of the book’s only references to wedding, he was handed a family treasure: 55 Mackey, Dr. Bieter, recent Boise State grad Boise’s most famous Basque resident. letters from his late grandfather that had been Heidi Coon, also a co-author of Becoming This latest publication from Boise State’s Basque (the book has no fewer Center for Idaho History and than 13 contributors), and Dr. Politics does include a deTodd Shallat, director of Boise finitive chronicle of the city’s State’s Center for Idaho History Basque heritage. But it’s also and Politics and series editor for an exploration of this city’s the Center’s many publications. ethnic patchwork, and it delves “I’m sitting here listening into a current ripped-fromto John talking about his own the-headlines downtown Boise experiences and it’s bringing controversy (BW, News, “The back a big flood of memories for Centre Piece,” May 7, 2014). me,” said Mackey. “Both of my And, perhaps most importantly, grandparents were French Basque. it includes a long-overdue My grandfather was a sheepherder examination of the political in Nevada, and when I was a turmoil and oppression that little girl, I would spend time with defined Spain and its Basque him the Sierra Mountain sheep country through the latter half camps.” of the 20th century and how If there is such as a thing as that turmoil affected Idaho.

Basque-American royalty, Mackey “I had to push really hard is a part of its bloodline. The for this book to include Anaiak words “son of a Basque sheepDanok. This has been an area herder” often accompanied the that a number of people just name of her uncle Paul Laxalt, a didn’t want us to get into with former U.S. senator and governor this book,” said Dr. John Bieter, of Nevada, also referred to as editor of Becoming Basque and “The First Friend” to President co-director of the Center for Ronald Reagan. And Mackey’s Basque Studies at Boise State. other uncle, Robert Laxalt, is con“Well, it’s time.” sidered by many to be the defini“Anaiak Danok” is tive Basque-American writer.

“Brothers All,” a little-talked “His book Sweet Promised about Boise group that was Land is still, to this day, a mustcomprised of immigrants read in the Basque community. It’s and their children that openly a classic,” she said. “That book supported Basque nationalism captured the tension between in their homeland. At its peak, the old and new of becoming Anaiak Danok had few—but Basque—what it is to be, say, an powerful—members, including American senator or governor or a then-Idaho Secretary of State prominent writer, but your father Pete Cenarrusa. But at the Young Basque dancers entranced thousands of visitors to Jaialdi in 2010. is a Basque sheepherder.” same time, quite a few people And that assimilation, accordin the local Basque community ing to Shallat, is still to this day a had mixed feelings about the palpable tension. written about his journey to, and his new life political unrest in their homeland, defined in “Even now, the city of Boise is suspended in, America. large part by the iron fist of Spain’s dictator, between the past and the present,” he said.

“But they were all censored,” said Bieter.

Gen. Francisco Franco.

“The other books that we have published “It’s so hard to understand that kind of a Decades later, that era of oppression still over the years may have been about innovapolice presence.” burns deep into the head and heart of Dr. tion or economics, but this book is about the Many Basques who had emigrated to Bieter. In 1974, Bieter, who was 12 years old character of Boise—truly an immigrant city at the time, went with his family to the Basque America during and even before Franco’s and what it means to be us.” reign of terror, had moved on, in more ways country (Franco remained in power until Among the multiple other books than one.

November 1975). that Shallat has, let’s say, shepherded “My grandparents were in a new world.

“I grew up in Boise, where you’re taught 11 are a chronicle of Ada County’s climb They had already left, physically and that the police are our friends,” said Bieter. out of the great recession (BW, News, emotionally,” said Meggan Laxalt Mackey, “But as I was sitting, talking with a friend, B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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“Down and Out,” May 2, 2012) and a reconciliation of the Treasure Valley’s 10 agrarian roots and its present-day food production (BW, News, “Thought for Food,” May 22, 2013).

“But this time, Becoming Basque evolved into a community research publication,” Shallat said. “We recruited scholars and authors who had already written extensively about the Basque culture; and we added a few students—a very select few—who teamed up with mentors.”

One of those select few was 23-year-old Heidi Coon, the youngest of the book’s contributors. She teamed up with another familiar name with strong Basque ties--John Ysursa, director of the Basque Studies Center at Boise State--as her mentor.

“And my work all began with Jay,” said Coon with a huge smile.

Jay is Juanita “Jay” Uberuaga Hormaechea, who, beginning in 1936 and continuing for generations, taught countless Boise children traditional Basque dances, such as the jota and porrusalda.

“And by doing so, she began a formal transformation of the Boise Basque community,” wrote Coon in Becoming Basque.

“Her dance lessons provided a valuable metaphorical sense of glue —a community that learned to dance together would continue to stay together.”

To an outsider, the thought of dance lessons helping to refine the definition of a growing metropolis may seem frivolous, but Boiseans have come to learn that the 400 Basque dances are indeed, a living museum of story and significance.

Which brings us back to that rare photograph of a young Dave Bieter. The image (above) of a Basque dance troupe, taken at the Boise Depot in 1975, may cause a doubletake. But there he is, sixth from the left in the back row: the man who would be mayor.

“And when he was elected, my brother was the only Basque-speaking mayor of any major city in the world, including the Basque country,” said John Bieter.

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A young Dave Bieter, a third-generation Basque, Oinkari dancer, and future mayor of Boise, posed with his dance troupe at the Boise Depot in 1975.

Bieter clan and, in particular, its matriarch.

“The first thing people usually assume is that it was my father, Pat Bieter, who was Basque. He was not. He was a Midwestern Irish lad, and he didn’t know a Basque from a bass,” said Bieter, the fourth of five children.

“It was my mother Eloise Garmendia who was the daughter of Basque immigrants to Idaho. My father fell in love with her and fell in love with the Basque culture.”

And indeed it was Pat Bieter who established Boise State’s first Basque studies program, beginning with that 1974 trip to Spain, when Pat and Eloise took their five children, 75 Boise State students and seven faculty members to launch America’s first-ever extended studies program on Basque soil. Pat Bieter went on to be elected and re-elected to the Idaho House of Representatives, but in 1999, Pat and Eloise were killed in an automobile accident, north of Horseshoe Bend on State Highway 55. Their son David succeeded Pat at the Statehouse, thus launching his highly successful political career.

“When we went to the Basque country in 1974, it instantly changed our family. But it changed Boise, too,” John said. ”It launched a whole host of exchanges.”

And as Boise has evolved, so has its Basque Block on Grove Street.

But perhaps the two have never been in greater conflict than now, tension simmering over what is to become of the Grove Plaza, the Basque Block’s neighbor and part of the Grove Street spine stretching from the canal to a still-working waterwheel at Grove and Fifth streets. In early May, Boise Weekly examined the Gardner Company’s grand plans to transform the space in and around the U.S. Bank Building on the Grove Plaza.

Among the dramatic changes proposed by Gardner is a significant blockage of any view of the Grove from the Basque Block—instead filling any open space with office buildings

and huge driveways leading to a subterranean transit center. (BW, News, “The Centre Piece,” May 7, 2014).

That has gotten under Shallat’s skin. Not one to shy away from controversy, in his introduction of Becoming Basque, Shallat penned a scathing indictment of the proposal: “Ethnic stakeholders on the Grove still fear the wreckage of urban renewal to the west, near the entrance to the Grove, is a brewing dispute over a phalanx of bus ramps for an underground transit center. Neighbors foresee a traffic nightmare. To the east in the grey-field of surface parking, the concern is that glassy construction might dwarf Grove Street’s pedestrian scale.”

And Shallat even offered a political lifeline to officials at Boise City Hall—including Mayor Dave Bieter: “If the damage can be mitigated, if the city can work to preserve a walkable streetscape, a treasure unique to Boise can still tell meaningful tales. We dedicate this book to the hope that whatever happens will be rooted in its immigrant story and historically informed.”

If some kind of compromise can be reached over the controversy, that could lead to a new chapter—if Becoming Basque were to go into a second printing.

“We’ve made this mistake, over and over again. And I’m afraid that we might make it again,” Shallat said. “I want to be careful because I treasure and respect the mayor and Boise City Council, and I know they’re looking out for our community. But as a historian and preservationist, I ask: If this thing is going to happen, please, let’s not forget our cultural resources.”

Mackey added her own concern.

“When you have a culture as important as the Basque culture and that culture has a voice, why is it that this particular voice was not heard from?” she asked. “The Basque voice is also a Boise voice.”

International. “It’s been absolutely inspiring to see these kids in action.

10 This wasn’t just a school project; they went out and became citizen lobbyists with enormous success.”

Rossell insists that the average circusgoing audience “would be appalled if they knew what went on behind the scenes of the average American circus.”

“It’s horrific to see how many of these animals live: in a trailer with no window to look out or in a tiny cage where the animal is pacing for hours on end,” Rossell told BW. “Tigers are usually in small cages and our investigations reveal that elephants spend the majority of their lives chained up.”

And indeed, the Sage students tugged at the heartstrings of Ketchum council members in convincing the lawmakers to agree to the ban of circuses using exotic animals.

“Quite often, the abuse happens behind the curtain and no one can film it. You can rarely get the evidence,” said 13-year-old Will Griffith. “And if you try to call the police to report abuse, quite often the circus is out of town by then.”

Rossell said the myth that “an elephant never forgets” is, in fact, very true.

“An elephant remembers the last severe training session that they had.

Trainers commonly use electric shocking devices or ‘bull hooks’ to train elephants,” said Rossell.

And even Dieter Galambos, the manager of Jordan World Circus (which comes to Hailey in June), admitted to Butte, Montana’s KXLF-TV that his circus used the controversial hooks.

“Yes, they have hooks, but you can look at the animals and they are not all cut up, they are not bleeding,” Galambos told KXLFTV in April 2013, when the Jordan World Circus came to Butte, Mont. “But you don’t take advantage of them, and you don’t hurt them with it because they are big and they could retaliate.”

To which Rossell was quick to add that it is a misnomer to ever think of an elephant as a tame animal.

“There’s no such thing as a domesticated elephant,” he said. “You can never train an adult elephant to do these ridiculous tricks. It’s extremely dangerous, and the decision makers on the Ketchum City Council understand that now.”

And as for Hailey, the students say they’re not ready to work on a ballot initiative to put before that city’s citizens until sometime in 2015.

“You bet, I would love to work on that ballot next year,” said 13-year-old Blamires.

—George Prentice

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“Then I saw Annie Get Your Gun and Oliver; I sat there the whole time, thinking to myself, ‘I want to do that.’” Ford said.

And indeed he has done “that” extremely well, appearing in scores of theatrical productions around the country, on Broadway and, to the delight of Boise audiences, eight seasons with Idaho Shakespeare Festival.

Just a few days before ISF opens its 2014 season on Friday, May 30, Boise Weekly sat with Ford on the rehearsal set of Deathtrap to talk about his career, life and loves. He even shed a tear or two along the way.

When did ISF first come onto your radar?

Drew Barr is a dear friend. We had both worked for Maurice Sendak [legendary children’s book author] for several years. Maurice had created a national children’s theater touring company. By 2002, Drew had begun directing and had worked here at ISF and he was set to direct You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown.

And I really wanted to do it. But Drew and I are very good at… how should I say this?

Are you possibly trying to say that you don’t compromise your friendship with business?

Exactly. I had always wanted to do Charlie Brown, so I turned to Drew and asked, “Do we really have to have this conversation?”

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Thankfully, he said, “No.” My memory is that [ISF Producing Artistic Director] Charlie [Fee] offered me the job the day we started. The next summer, I did The Fantasticks, and the year after, I was in three productions.

Where is home for you now?

I really don’t know at the moment. I lived in New York City for 20-some-odd years, but I had an operation last year—a hip replacement.

I had been booked for a solid year and…

Wait a minute. A hip replacement? That sounds like a big deal.

I had no cartilage left in my left hip. My physical therapist said I needed to have surgery.

Did it help you, knowing that you have to get better in order to play Sweeney Todd?

Oh yes. I had the surgery at the end of February last year. We worked on the music three times a week; and I went to physical therapy three times a week. I was on a cane up until May, and our rehearsals started in June.

The thing that really moved me is that not once was there a conversation about replacing me.

Charlie said, “You just need to let me know if there’s a problem.” I had nothing but support.

And Sweeney was a rather physical production.

It was. But I must tell you that I do more stage combat in Deathtrap than any show I’ve ever done.

I vividly recall seeing the original production of Deathtrap in New York during the 1970s, and it was stunning that I had never experienced genuine screams from an audience in a large Broadway theater before.

It’s a really good play, brilliantly put together. And when we did the play in Cleveland earlier this year, people screamed. Oh my God, they screamed.

But isn’t lighting very important to the producton? This time you’ll be outdoors.

It will be very interesting to see here.

You’re playing Sidney Bruhl, a playwright who was once immensely successful, but he’s desperate to find that success again. Where did you find this character? Have you met someone like him before?

I dated a playwright years ago.

Is that part of your character development?

He had been successful and had a lot of very successful friends.

That does sound a lot like your character.

The play is written by Ira Levin, and some of his most famous novels, A Kiss Before Dy-

ing and Rosemary’s Baby, include men who desperately want to be successful. And the character in Deathtrap wants that success, that fame.

Can you talk a bit about some of your favorite, maybe personal, moments in the theater?

I would certainly have to say Charlie Brown and definitely I Am My Own Wife, for a number of reasons.

Such as?

It was a challenge for this community.

I definitely felt a huge responsibility to tell that story well. I would also include Into the Woods for personal reasons.

Can I stop you there? My favorite moment in any production on a Boise stage was when you sang “No One Is Alone” near the end of Into the Woods.

You’re going to make me cry. [Pause.] My sister had just passed away.

And in particular, those Stephen Sondheim lyrics you sang: “Sometime people leave you, halfway through the woods.”

I need a moment. [Pause.] During our rehearsal, my director, Victoria Bussert, knew everything that had happened and there were moments where I couldn’t sing. Usually, she’s pretty firm but this time she said, “Take your time. Whenever you’re ready.” I would be crying through the whole song. I got past that, but there were moments when I couldn’t even speak.

You should know how powerful your performance was to the audience. We never knew about your personal loss.

Thank you.

What have your experiences been like with Idaho audiences?

Nothing but endlessly supportive. Really generous, sometimes very moving. I had a woman tell me once that she had never seen a play before I Am My Own Wife, and since then, she goes to the theater all the time.

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the office. $99-$175. Treasure Valley Institute for Children’s Arts (TRICA), 1406 Eastman St., Boise, 208-344-2220, trica.org.

Festivals & Events VINYL PRESERVATION SOCIETY MEETING—Members and guests spin their favorite colored vinyl.

For more info, email info@vpsidaho.org. 7 p.m. FREE. Crooked Fence Barrelhouse, 5181 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-3764200, vpsidaho.org.

On Stage BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF SPRING SESSION GIG—Student bands will do their thing. Pizza available from Piehole, along with drinking refreshments for adults (with ID) and kids. 4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, boiserockschool.com.

THURSDAY MAY 29

SUN VALLEY CENTER SUMMER CLASSES—The Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Company of Fools will offer a variety of classes and workshops for students of all ages throughout the summer, beginning June 12. For more info and to register, see online or 208-788-6520 (COF). Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter.org.

WEDNESDAY MEMBERS’ REPAIR CLASS—Every class will cover a different hands-on repair topic. All repair, all the time. Get more info at the website. 6 p.m.

FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

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) at km@bctheater.org or phone 208-331-9224, ext. 204. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

TAI CHI IN THE GARDEN— Become centered within the invigorating morning sounds and scents of the IBG. This popular class is suitable for beginners.

9:30 a.m. FREE-$7. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

BCT SUMMER BLOCK PARTY—BCT is throwing a block party, featuring live music by Hillfolk Noir, Amuma Says No and Calico, beer from Payette Brewing Company, and food by Pie Hole Pizza, Basilio’s Mexican Tacos and Archie’s.

Tickets on sale on the website or by calling the box office. See Picks, Page xx. 6 p.m. $5-$10.

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

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF SPRING SESSION GIG—See Wednesday. 4 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY—A charmingly madcap adventure about love, life and man’s eternal love affair with… golf.

Get advance tickets by calling the box office or visiting the website.

7:30 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater. org.

HOMEGROWN THEATRE: DIRT— HomeGrown Theatre presents a new play by Heidi Kraay. and tickets at brownpapertickets. com/event/672479. 8 p.m. $5 min. donation. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise, facebook.com/HGTheatre.

FRIDAY MAY 30 Festivals & Events COMIC CINEMA REMIX: COMMANDO—See the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic with a new twist. See Picks, Page xx. 9 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

DECORATION DAY AT PIONEER CEMTERY—Enjoy refreshments, tours of the Cemetery, and biographies of the well-known and not-so-well-known buried there. Ice cream and lemonade, nostalgic postcards, flowers for graves, and materials to create gravestone rubbings will be available for purchase. Proceeds benefit the Pioneer Cemetery Trust Fund. 2 p.m. FREE. Pioneer Cemetery, 460 E. Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-608-7598, parks.cityofboise. org/parks-locations/parks/pioneer-cemetery.

On Stage DEATHTRAP—Murder mystery by Ira Levin. Get more info at the website.

See Picks, Page xx. 8 p.m. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

HOMEGROWN THEATRE: DIRT— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $5 min. donation. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise.

GROUP REIKI HEALING—Reiki Grand Master Jacqueline Kennedy introduces you to the power of Reiki healing in a group setting.

Only 15 spots available. Prepay to reserve your place. 6:30 p.m. $10. Body Harmony Massage, 3137 S. Meridian Road, Ste. 110, Meridian, 208-392-2937, bodyharmony.massagetherapy.com.

Literature AUTHOR KURT KOONTZ—Author presentation and reading from his book A Million Steps, about his 500-mile trek on the El Camino de Santiago in northern Spain. Slideshow and Q&A for those interested in learning more about completing the pilgrimage themselves. 7 p.m. FREE. Hyde Park Books, 1507 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-429-8220, hydeparkbooks.net.

Talks & Lectures DHARMA TALK BY ZEN MASTER BON SOENG—Email emptygateboise@gmail.com to RSVP or for more info. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Institute for Buddhist Studies, 660 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-3710614, bibscenter.org.

Kids & Teens SUMMER SPLASHTACULAR— Kick off the 2014 summer swim season with water safety educational booths and fun safe swimming activities at the Lakeview Waterpark and Lincoln Pool.

May 30-31, 1-4:45 p.m. FREE. Lakeview Park, Garrity Boulevard at 16th Avenue North, and Lincoln Pool, 508 Davis Ave., Nampa, 208-465-2218, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

SATURDAY MAY 31

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. on Thursday, July 31. Entry forms are available at all locations or online. Limit of one entry per person. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org/LibraryComicCon.

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.

NARI OF IDAHO REMODELED HOMES TOUR—Meet the contractors and find out how they can transform your kitchen, bath or entire home. Tickets and tour maps available online or by calling 208-322-8191. 11 a.m. $5, nariofidaho.org.

TIME ZONE TOYS OUTDOOR TOY SHOW—Buy, sell, trade and network with other collectors in Idaho. See Picks, Page xx. 9 a.m. FREE. Time Zone Toys, 2945 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-6358, timezonetoys. com.

On Stage DEATHTRAP—See Friday. 8 p.m.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208336-9221, idahoshakespeare. org.

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $11-$16.

Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

HOMEGROWN THEATRE: DIRT— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $5 min. donation. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise.

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.

Kids & Teens IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN SATURDAY CAMP—Children ages 5-9 learn about nature and the biological world using experiential learning activities like nature walks, games and crafts.

This session’s topic: Sensational Seeds. 9 a.m. Boise Urban Garden School, 4821 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-891-4769, boiseurbangardenschool.org.

MERIDIAN LIBRARY CARNIVAL—Kick off Summer Reading with bounce houses, face painting, clowns, snow cones and more. Pick up your reading log (program runs 6/1–8/31), and see what’s new at the library.

Teen and adult Summer Reading Programs also offered. Outdoor event. All ages welcome. 10 a.m.

FREE. Meridian Public Library, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 208-888-4451, mld.org.

SUMMER READING KICKOFF PARTY—Kick off your summer reading with an awesome party, featuring Faboo Puppet Theatre.

You can sign up for the summer reading program, pick up your books, and get your face painted.

1 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

SUMMER SPLASHTACULAR— See Friday. 1 p.m. FREE. Lakeview Park, Garrity Boulevard at 16th Avenue North, and Lincoln Pool, 508 Davis Ave., Nampa, 208-465-2218, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

Religious/Spiritual

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. and 3 p.m. $5-$7. Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-287-8828, treasurevalleychildrenstheater.com.

MEDITATION RETREAT—A meditation retreat will be held at 4917 Wildrye Drive, Boise. Email emptygateboise@gmail.com to RSVP or for more info. 8 a.m. FREE.

Art

Festivals & Events

ULI WESTPHAL: CORNUCOPIA—Inspired by American supermarkets and agriculture, German artist Uli Westphal uses large-scale prints, sculpture and installation to urge viewers to look more closely at where their food comes from and how it’s being produced. 10 a.m. FREE. Ming Studios, 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, mingstudios.org.

NARI OF IDAHO REMODELED HOMES TOUR—See Saturday. 11 a.m. $5.

Festivals & Events

Kids & Teens TRICA OOMPH! SUMMER CAMPS—TRICA offers a full slate of summer camps for kids, beginning June 9 with Rock Band Camp. Other camps include Ukelele Jam, Purple Ballerina Warriors, Break Dancin’, Girls Rock, Shadow Dance and Musical Theatre. For more info and to register, visit the website or call

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY— See Thursday. 8 p.m. $11-$16.

Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

Workshops & Classes

Festivals & Events

On Stage Workshops & Classes

Odds & Ends

Citizen CYCLING FOR HEARTS FIREFIGHTER SEND-OFF—The Jayden DeLuca Foundation’s family friendly event with three bike rides to choose from, escorted by Nampa and Caldwell fire engines, child safety bike course, helmet sizings, Sparky the Firedog, vendor booths, and Wild 101. All proceeds from this event go toward helping children with cardiac disease. 9 a.m. $40. Rolling H Cycles, 115 13th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-466-7655, rollinghcycles.com.

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On Stage DEATHTRAP—See Friday. 8 p.m.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208336-9221, idahoshakespeare. org.

THE FOX ON THE FAIRWAY— See Thursday. 2 p.m. $11-$16.

Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

OPERA IDAHO’S ART SONG RECITAL SERIES—Featuring performances by Resident Company singers Tiffany Calás, Jason Detwiler, Melissa Hamilton, Suzanne Hansen, Leslie Mauldin and Michiko Miller. Followed by reception with appetizers and wine. 2:30 p.m. FREE. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-9116.

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8 DAYS OUT Literature SUMMER FEST READING PROGRAM KICKOFF—Readers of all ages are invited to join the fun, have some goodies and get registered for summer reading. The parties run from 1-3 p.m. at the Main Library, the Library at Collister and the Library at Hillcrest, and from 2-4 p.m. at the Library at Cole and Ustick. For more info, pick up a brochure at any location. 1 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary. org/SummerReading.

MONDAY JUNE 2 Workshops & Classes ART JOURNALING—Why is journaling a good practice for visual artists? A diverse panel of artists discusses why and how they journal. Attendees are invited to take their own journals for sharing. 6 p.m. FREE. Creative Access Arts Center, 500 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3425884, ipulidaho.org.

Literature 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, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary. org.

Citizen KEGS4KAUSE—Drink local to support Open Space, with 50 percent of tasting room sales benefiting the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley. Live music at 7 p.m., plus a food truck. Get more info online. 3 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing Company, 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City, 208344-0011, lttv.org.

Kids & Teens PARKLIFE SUMMER DAY CAMP—Kids will enjoy supervised free play indoors and outdoors, as well as participate in organized sports, games, crafts, stories, and activities.

Runs Monday through Friday for 10 weeks through Aug. 8. For more info or to register, visit the website or call the office. 10 a.m. FREE. Karcher Church of the Nazarene, 2515 W. Karcher Road, Nampa, 208-467-7479, karchernaz.org.

TUESDAY JUNE 3 Workshops & Classes

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FIT AND FALL PROOF—Seniors will learn simple exercises to increase their balance in order to prevent falls. 11 a.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Literature JANET WORTHINGTON TO PORTRAY FAMOUS AUTHORS—Local performer Dr. Janet Worthington portrays Louisa May Alcott and how Alcott’s novels evolved from her life experiences. Part of the library’s Summer Fest Reading Program. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-5706900, boisepubliclibrary.org.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 4 Festivals & Events PUBLIC WORKS EXPO—This annual event is both fun and informative for people of all ages and will feature live demonstrations, kid-friendly interactive displays, large equipment, food, giveaways and more. 4 p.m.

FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208888-4433, meridiancity.org.

WEDNESDAY MEMBERS’ REPAIR CLASS—Every class will cover a different hands-on repair topic. All repair, all the time.

Get more info at the website. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-4296520, boisebicycleproject.org.

WEDNESDAY WINE WORKSHOP—Sip, sample, savor, learn about varietals, regions, flavor profiles of wines, viticulture and enology. Call for varietal schedule. 7:30 p.m. $10. Helina Marie’s Wine and Gift Shop, 11053 Highway 44, Star, 208286-7960, helinamaries.com.

Art ART WITHOUT BOUNDARIES— People with motor or cognitive challenges now have an opportunity to receive a free Art Without Boundaries session at Good Samaritan Society Boise Village.

To schedule a half-hour session, contact Mary at 208-859-6231 or art4all.mary@gmail.com.

11:30 a.m. FREE. Good Samaritan Society Boise Village, 3115 Sycamore Drive, near State Street and Collister, Boise, 208343-7726, good-sam.com.

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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.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

THE LIQUID FORUM—Learn about important issues and celebrate the important work nonprofit organizations do for our community amidst the sounds of local musicians. May features The Rebecca Scott Band and a discussion with Add The Words’ Mistie Tolman. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

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MILD ABANDON/CARTOON “I eat Green Berets for breakfast. And right now, I’m very hungry.”

Calico is the color of young talent.

THURSDAY MAY 29 dancin’ in the streets BOISE CONTEMPORARY THEATER SUMMER BLOCK PARTY Downtown doesn’t have much in the way of green grass. Nor does it have a barbecue or a fire pit. But nonprofit organizations are nothing if not resourceful, and that holds especially true for Boise Contemporary Theater, which doesn’t need a yard to throw a good old-fashioned street party.

The third annual BCT Summer Block Party goes down Thursday, May 29, from 6-10 p.m. Tickets are $5 for the under-21 crowd and $10 for adults, and it’s a fully-loaded event. The beer will come from Payette Brewing and the food from Pie Hole Pizza, Archie’s Place and Basilio’s Mexican Tacos. Tunes are courtesy of Hillfolk Noir, Amuma Says No and Calico, a band comprised of talented Boise High School students.

6-10 p.m. $5-$10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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FRIDAY MAY 30 funny flick COMIC CINEMA REMIX: COMMANDO While not as quotable as Terminator 2: Judgment Day or Predator, the Arnold Schwarzenegger classic Commando provides plenty of satisfying one-liners, making it a perfect candidate for the Comic Cinema Remix treatment. We’ve all done it: re-watch a movie, point out all the cliches, snicker at the contrived dialogue and wax nostalgic about the era from whence it came. With Comic Cinema Remix, you can take the night off and let comedians Dylan Haas, Chad Heft and Brett Badostain lampoon the motion picture for your enjoyment.

Think of it as a live version of Mystery Science Theatre 3000, only the robots have been replaced with local comics. Justin Chalifoux serves as emcee but not kid wrangler: This is an adults-only event. You can leave the children with a sitter and a copy of Commando—then maybe they’ll get the jokes you’ll probably repeat for days after CCR. 9 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

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BEAUTYBLENDER This is one trap you won’t mind getting caught in.

Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things. But he would kill to find a mint-in-box Telescoping Lightsaber Darth Vader, circa 1978.

FRIDAY MAY 30

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IRA LEVIN’S DEATHTRAP Author and playwright Ira Levin knew all about the hazards of being a professional creative. In his novel Rosemary’s Baby, a failing actor makes a deal with the devil to resurrect his career by selling his child’s soul. In his 1978 play Deathtrap, Levin leaves the abstractions of buying and selling souls behind, instead offering a tale of a struggling playwright who jealously covets a student’s blockbuster play to the point of murder.

Sidney Bruhl (played by Tom Ford; see Citizen, Page 12) has had trouble writing. And despite an auspicious start as a playwright, his last few have been box office flops. Enter Clifford Anderson, Bruhl’s promising student with a play, titled Deathtrap, that Bruhl thinks is a shoo-in success. After the two meet to discuss possible improvements to Anderson’s script, Bruhl apparently kills his student, kicking off further murderous shenanigans.

Deathtrap runs through Friday, July 25. Preview night is Friday, May 30; opening night is Saturday, May 31.

8 p.m. (7 p.m. Sunday shows) $25-$69. Idaho Shakespeare Amphitheater, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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by the power of greyskull TIME ZONE TOYS OUTDOOR TOY SHOW If it existed in late-20th century pop culture, there was a toy of it. From Madballs to Alf and those McDonalds food-themed Transformers, the 1980s and’90s were the golden age of toys—if you grew up then, odds are you’re an afficionado.

Whether you were obsessed with Ninja Turtles, Hot Wheels or He-Man, there’s something for you to ogle at the upcoming Outdoor Toy Shows at Time Zone Toys. Kicking off Saturday, May 31, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., Time Zone will host dealers in vintage toys (attention Fett fanatics: that includes Star Wars action figures), as well as items from the McFarlane, Marvel Legends and DC universes, and sports cards. Buy, sell, trade or chat it up with fellow enthusiasts.

Shows continue on the last Saturday of each month—June 28, July 26, Aug. 30 and Sept. 27, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. (weather permitting)—in the parking lot in front of the store on Chinden.

9 a.m., FREE. Time Zone Toys, 2945 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-6358, timezonetoys.com.

Learning that a product is used by Kim Kardashian, Rachael Ray and Kirstie Alley probably won’t send any but the biggest fan running to the nearest store—and not only because of the oversaturation of two of those women and the “who is that?” name recognition of the other.

Celebrity endorsements also often seem hollow and insincere. It’s hard to believe Fergie (The Black Eyed Peas), whose net worth hovers around $30 million and whose $90,000 engagement ring boasts a 4-carat, brilliant-cut diamond, uses Wet ‘n’ Wild (usually the least expensive line of beauty products on drugstore shelves) makeup. But there Fergie is, her face gracing the Wet ‘n’ Wild display at Walgreens.

It is likely, however, that Kardashian (ahem, sorry, Mrs. West), Ray, Alley and maybe even Fergalicious herself would use the Beautyblender. It sounds strange to describe a simple makeup sponge, no matter how brightly colored or ergonomically shaped as “revolutionary,” but a product that can be used with $20, beautyblender.net any foundation or powder to cover any kind of blemish from acne, to scarring, to hyperpigmentation, to rosacea, without looking like it was slathered on with a trowel, really is.

At $20 (or $40 if purchased with the recommended cleanser), the Beautyblender is not the most economical beauty product, considering that it has to be replaced every few months, but its suede-like texture and ovoid shape combined with the recommended stippling (think: bouncing) technique makes even the least expensive makeup look flawlessly applied. Even Wet ‘n’ Wild.

—Amy Atkins

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Our two cents: This is a great new show.

PENNY DREADFUL: PRETTY WONDERFUL While I admit that I’ve never been much of a fan of the genre, American television needed another series about the undead like it needed a stake in the heart.

But Penny Dreadful is a deliciously macabre and rather smart bit of business, which recently debuted on Showtime. I’m hooked.

A good amount of the fun in this expensive-looking production comes from a liberal introduction of some famous literar y characters to Penny Dreadful’s primar y plotline: Dorian Gray, Mina Harker (of Dracula) and a young physician named Victor Frankenstein, who brings someone back from the dead in the first episode.

Rounding up this motley crew that must battle with marauders, rippers, vampires and such—not unlike The League of Extraordinar y Gentlemen—is the smoky and utterly composed clair voyant Vanessa Ives (played by the equally smoky Eva Green).

“I’m in need of a gentleman who is not hesitant to engage in dangerous endeavors,” Ives half-whispers to arrogant marksman Ethan Chandler (Josh Hartnett), telling him that his shooting skills are needed for “some night work.”

Ives is doing the recruiting on behalf of the well-to-do and well-connected Sir Malcolm Murray (a well-cast Timothy Dalton), whose wealth is matched only by his obsession to find his kidnapped daughter.

“To save her, I would murder the world,” Murray grizzles.

A word of caution: Penny Dreadful is adult fare, with a sur feit of sex scenes and a bunch of bloodshed. While I’m not enamored with stylized violence, this has a wonder fully bookish discipline.

Penny Dreadful is, by pay-cable accounts, a hit, with more than 1 million viewers tuning in to the first episode, added to the nearly 1 million more who previewed the series for free on Showtime on Demand. It’s not too late to catch up; only three episodes have aired thus far.

You can thank us later.

—George Prentice Airs Sundays at 10 p.m. ET. For more info, visit sho.com/sho/penny-dreadful.

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There is no Sam, there is no Vega. There is only Samvega.

MUSIC FOR THE MASSES Samvega lives a life not normally lived BEN SCHULTZ all influence each other,” he said. “And what In the essay “Affirming the Truths of the better way than through creativity?”

Heart,” Buddhist monk Thanissaro Bhikkhu Samvega’s interest in raising consciousness describes the concept of “samvega.” through art began when its founding members, “It’s a hard word to translate,” he writes, Feistel and Napa-raised sisters Melissa and “because it covers such a complex range—at Mercedes Baker, were students at the Univerleast three clusters of feelings at once: the opsity of Wisconsin. The three helped found the pressive sense of shock, dismay and alienation Jambalaya Art Cooperative in Oshkosh, Wis., that come [sic] with realizing the futility and which Feistel said showed them “the effect of meaninglessness of life as it’s normally lived; how you can get excited about something and a chastening sense of our own complacency how that energy just brings other people in.” and foolishness in having let ourselves live so Mercedes moved back to California with blindly; and an anxious sense of urgency in trying to find a way out of the meaningless cycle.” Feistel and his old band, Forgotten Roots, in Samvega, a band based in California’s Napa 2002. Samvega formed in 2005 after Forgotten Roots broke up and Melissa, who had already Valley, certainly isn’t interested in life as it’s played in a couple of groups with Feistel normally lived. On the song “People’s Park” before, moved back as well. from the album Brain Sugar Blue (2009), a According to North Bay Bohemian writer man screams over droning bass, yowling guitar Nicolas Grizzle, Napa Valley doesn’t provide and rumbling drums: “There’s so much more the most supportive climate for launching a to this life. / There’s so much more. / There’s new musical project. just so much more. / How “Napa is kind of a dead can’t you see it?”

SAMVEGA zone for local, live music,” For almost a decade, SamWith Mindshoes and A Mighty Grizzle said. “There’s not a vega has worked to bring Band of Microbes. Presented by lot of venues, and the music this message to audiences Red Amp Productions. that is there is usually at with a quirky, ominous yet Sunday, June 1, 8 p.m. $5. The wineries, and it’s background playful mix of psychedelic Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., facebook.com/BoiseTheBouquet. jazz and stuff like that.” rock, funk and world music In spite of the lack of that the band describes as Find more event info at facebook. com/redampproductions and venues, Samvega persevered. a “dark circus” sound. The more about Samvega at facebook.

The band played gigs in band will leave Napa Valley com/pages/samvega. nearby cities like Santa Rosa at the end of May for a and San Francisco and began coast-to-coast summer tour, organizing events in Napa like the Under which will include a show at The Bouquet on the Sun music and art festival. Samvega also Sunday, June 1, featuring local openers Mindconverted a seven-acre cattle ranch into an arts shoes and A Mighty Band of Microbes. commune, where the band’s current lineup Pat Feistel, Samvega’s drummer and manlives today. ager, acknowledged that the band’s ambitions Grizzle got to check out the commune while go beyond the purely artistic.

“You need to be a participant in life and we writing a story on Samvega back in 2012.

“Their space was really cool,” he said. “They had a couple of small buildings; they all looked like converted barns. But one of them was their rehearsal studio, which is also their recording studio.”

“We’ve made a little compound down here for us, and it’s been great ever since,” said Feistel.

The members of Samvega still seek to enrich their people’s lives through art. The Baker sisters teach drawing and painting at Nimbus Arts, a nonprofit “dedicated to curiosity, fostering creative expression, and building a sense of community.” Bassist Vincent Gutierrez works with the nonprofit Collective Sound, which gives lessons in writing, performing and recording music to kids aged 12-18. The band also assists with events like Nimbus Arts’ recent art auction and fashion show, Nimbash 2014.

These events and organizations are part of a growing trend of community-engaging art projects that Grizzle has observed in the North Bay area.

“It seems like there’s this whole DIY aesthetic that’s really getting more popular at the moment,” Grizzle said, “and I think maybe that has something to do with it. You can make your own art; you don’t have to go buy someone else’s version like the thing at Ross [or] the mass-produced Target paintings.”

Feistel said that Samvega will release some more of its own art soon—the band plans to put out a new album in the fall. He’s more excited about touring, though.

“Music is for the masses, and there’s nothing better than live music,” he said. “It’s vital for us, for bands to be out there really connecting with people. People need that all across the country and the world.”

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BOISE HIVE COMES ALIVE New nonprofit hopes to help financially, emotionally struggling artists JESSICA MURRI

Near the corner of Overland Road and Latah Street, there’s a rundown cinder-block building. Its rooms are windowless, carpeted in brown shag and packed full of decades-old recording equipment. But Gabriel Rudow sees something quite different when he looks at the building. He has a vision for the space: Gabe Rudow (left) and Jason Ringelstetter (right) are working on a honey of a plan. the Boise Hive.

Clean-cut and sporting a colorful sleeve tattoo, Rudow is a father, a musician and a Ringelstetter has helped corral the nonThe Hive plans to charge $6-$10 per student working toward his Master’s degree profit’s board, and Rudow said a few of the hour—other rehearsal spaces in town charge in health promotion. He saw a void in the per month— for its three rehearsal rooms and, members have their own experience losing Boise music community, and thought he someone close to them to suicide. They’re like Nuci’s, Rudow’s plans for Boise Hive are might be able to fill it. working to scrounge up the money to get the to combine a passion for music with access to “I started brainstorming for a nonprofit Hive off the ground, accepting donations and mental health resources. In order to accommanagement class I was taking, something planning a benefit concert for June 8 from 2 plish his goals, Rudow began reaching out to that would solve this problem of no practice p.m.-11 p.m at The Crux. Bands include Fox other members of Boise’s music community. space [for musicians] and the whole mental Alive; Chung Antique, from Seattle; Cassie Rudow met Jason Ringelstetter at Radio health situation here in Idaho,” Rudow said.

Lewis; and Possum Livin’, with a $10 sugBoise, and, six months ago, Ringelstetter He said the Boise Hive will offer inexcame on as chairman of Boise Hive’s board of gested donation. pensive rehearsal spaces for musicians and The more time passes, the more Rudow directors. help get those who struggle with depression, feels pressure to get Boise Hive up and runOwner of the Tonic Room recording anxiety or any other mental illness referred ning, though. He said a few area counselors studio, Ringelstetter has produced tracks for to therapists and counselors around town.

Queens of the Stone Age, the Black-Eyed Peas, have been asking about it, hoping to refer Rudow also plans to provide gear rentals, clients to the project. workshops and seminars on the business side Josh Ritter and Built to Spill. When he walks “Just hold on, hold on, we’re getting it through the dilapidated space, he envisions of being a musician. together,” Rudow said, adding that he hopes work by local artists hanging on the walls, a “I know a lot of people who have small stage here, a coffee stand there, acoustic to eventually have a full-time social worker struggled financially and emotionally just by onsite at the Hive and use donations to shows and a gathering place for musicians, being a musician,” Rudow said. “You don’t help cut costs for musicians wanting to visit writers and artists. make a lot of money. I personally struggled therapists.

Plus, he loves the history of the space. to find practice spaces in Boise. And I have Rudow and Ringelstetter aren’t sure yet “This 3,500-square-foot building was been through things myself, too. Divorce, when the Hive will open its doors, but they’re one of Idaho’s oldest unemployment. Not working hard to make it happen by the end recording studios,called having the money to of the summer. They’re bringing in volunteers Custom Recording and afford the chance to BOISE HIVE to help paint and clean the space in July.

Sound,” Ringelstetter just talk to somebody But it was only recently that a local said. “They recorded about things can just 3907 Custer Drive, boisehive.org. hospital got in touch with the Musicians’ Paul Revere and the really be difficult for Boise Hive benefit concert Raiders and the Kings of Fund of Boise—a nonprofit that supports some people, and I think Sunday, June 8, 2 p.m.-10 p.m. $10 suglocal musicians—when a drummer in the Swing.” that’s a problem.” gested donation. The Crux, 1022 W. Main area was suicidal and looking for musicians Rudow and RingelRudow is modeling St., facebook.com/thecruxcoffeeshop to play with. stetter are helping the Boise Hive on Nuci’s “He actually followed through with it,” owner of the space clear Space, a similar non“Rudow said. “That really made me be like, out all the old recordprofit located in Athens, ‘Wow, what if Hive was around when that ing equipment through auctions and sales.

GA, Nuci’s Space, founded 15 years ago and They’ve already installed their first soundproof guy was going through things? What if he named for Nuci Phillips, a young musician could have met people to play with and had a who committed suicide after years of depres- wall and are collecting donated instruments. place to go?’ I don’t think most people realize They say they’re doing Boise neighborhoods sion, is a “resource center that provides it, but if you don’t have a place to just go a favor by bringing bands into a soundproof rehearsal and performance space for local practice space, rather than leaving them to jam play, that can make a huge difference on your musicians, as well as services to support the mental state.” out in garages or basements. well-being of the music community.”

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Where “learning your lesson” is a good thing.

OLD BOISE MUSIC STUDIOS: MORE THAN A RECORDER At the same time as buzz builds for Boise Hive (see Culture, this page), another musical nonprofit is drumming up support.

According to Old Boise Music Studios Director Jordan Paige, the group will offer music workshops and classes downtown for all ages.

“Music and art programs are so lacking [in schools] while they’re finding ways to cut the budget,” Paige said. “There’s a wide age range of people whose lives would be better with music. It gives people confidence and emotional stability.”

Paige is excited to offer classes and camps in a variety of genres such as jazz and African drumming. They’ll even have a ukulele program. Being a nonprofit will help keep the costs for students to a minimum.

“I just know of so many people who have said they’ve always wanted to learn to play guitar, but then think, ‘OK, I’m going to go buy a guitar, spend $150 to get something decent, then pay a teacher $100 upfront for lessons. Oh, I have to scrounge up $250 together just to get started,’” she said.

Paige is working with Dunkley Music to get discounted rates on instrument rentals as well. She said her nonprofit will help elementary school kids learn something more than “the recorder and the glockenspiel.”

Paige said she’s going through the process of filing paperwork with the state and federal government. She recently hosted a benefit concert at The Crux to raise money for fees—more than $850—to file the paperwork. Many local businesses donated, including Goldy’s, High Note Cafe, Proof, Boise Contemporary Theater, Treefort Music Fest, the Record Exchange, Flying M, Fiddlin Frog Foundation and several private instructors.

It can take up to a year for the government to process a nonprofit’s paperwork, but Paige said she hopes to move forward anyway and offer workshops as soon as the fall. She also looks forward to collaborating with Boise Hive.

“I feel like it’s the per fect interlaced relationship that we’re going to be able to build,” Paige said. “No part of what we want to do is going to compete with what they’re doing.”

The nonprofit shares space with a collective of private music instructors above Pengilly’s on Main Street, but they’re not affiliated.

—Jessica Murri

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE PIPER FER GU S ON

GUIDE WEDNESDAY MAY 28 ASSUMING WE SURVIVE—With Behind The Fallen, When Earth Awakes, Piranhas and The Headcases. 6 p.m. $8. Shredder AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s COUNTRY CLUB—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow

PIGEON JOHN, MAY 31, NEUROLUX If you’re familiar with the work of SoCal-based rapper Pigeon John, then you’ll understand why, with his new release, Encino Man (April 2014, MRI) he’s as dependable as ever—he can always be counted on to deliver something engaging, smart and utterly fresh.

In a February press release, Pigeon John explained why, with each successive album, he has a need to be creative.

“I’m still trying to find my voice,” he said. ““That’s always been the mission—getting deeper, shedding off the layers—and that’s never really stopped.”

Singles “Oh Yeah” and “Champagne on My Shoes” are quintessentially Pigeon John, yet are informed by different worlds: “Oh Yeah” is a rocker—he even name drops Joan Jett—while “Champagne on My Shoes” is a pop-infused jam with a sense of humor.

One sure thing about Pigeon John: Expect the unexpected.

—Amy Atkins With Grayskul and Rafael Vigilantics, 7 p.m., $10. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.

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

The Crux SEAN HATTON FROM NEW TRANSIT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing Company

THURSDAY MAY 29

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

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

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

BERNIE REILLY—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

DUCHESS DOWN THE WELL— 9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

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

JACK GISH—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

JAMES ORR—8 p.m. FREE. Reef

GIGGLEBOMB—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LIMEHOUSE JAZZ TRIO—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel LIVE ACOUSTIC MUSIC—7:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing METALATCHI—With Hot Dog Sandwich and Gorcias. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux

HILLFOLK NOIR—With Amuma Says No and Calico. 6 p.m. $5-$10. Boise Contemporary Theater

ROYAL BLISS AND LIKE A STORM—With Fly2Void and Faded Leroy. Win tickets by listening to KQXR 100.3 The X. 7:30 p.m. FREE. Knitting Factory STEVE AND GRACE WALL—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

FRIDAY MAY 30 AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s Basement AVATAR—With Ripchain. 8 p.m. $14-$30. Knitting Factory BLOODY BEETROOTS—8 p.m. $20-$60. Revolution BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m.

FREE. Reef CHICKEN DINNER ROAD—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

HIP-HOP SHOW—9:30 p.m. $5.

Liquid

CLOUDMOVER ALBUM RELEASE SHOW—7 p.m. $5. The Crux

JOHNNY SHOES—7 p.m. FREE. Whole Foods Market

DC3-DAN COSTELLO TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LUMINOX—9 p.m. $10. Fatty’s

DJ BITCOIN AND JOSEPH FRIESENHAUSEN—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

OPHELIA—8 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

PAUL BASILLE (OF NEW YORK BAND GREAT ELK)—6 p.m.

FREE. Riverside Sandbar

HILLFOLK NOIR—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Edge Brewing

Lock Stock & Barrel KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers THE LIKE ITS—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill MARGOT AND THE NUCLEAR SO & SO’S—With Jake Bellows and Kate Myers. 7 p.m. $12 adv., $14 door. Neurolux MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club MUSIC ON THE PATIO WITH PATRICK RICE—5:30 p.m. FREE. Solid REBECCA SCOTT—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub REX MILLER AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill SOUL PATCH—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s SOUL SERENE—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s SPACE CAR—7:30 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Sandbar

SATURDAY MAY 31 A TASTY JAMM—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

KAYLEIGH JACK—5 p.m. FREE.

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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE AEG LIVE

GUIDE BLUES ADDICTS—2 p.m. FREE. Riverside Sandbar

and Magic Mic. 8:30 p.m. $10.

Shredder

CAROLINA MORNING—6 p.m.

FREE. Riverside Sandbar

SOUL SERENE—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s

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

FREE. Chandlers

TAUGE AND FAULKNER—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DARK HIP FALLS—With Red Hands Black Feet, Lake Island and JRS. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s Basement DJ VERSTAL—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux DOUG CAMERON—8:30 p.m.

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

FREE. Chandlers HENCHMEN FOR HIRE—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel JOSHUA TREE—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

SUNDAY JUNE 1 ALEX RICHARDS AND FRIENDS—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

TURNSTILE—With Take Offense, Compromised, Six Feet and Alone. 7 p.m. $10. Shredder TWEAK BIRD—With URB and guests. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. The Crux

PIGEON JOHN—With Grayskul and Rafael Vigilantics. See Listen Here, Page 20. 7 p.m. $10.

Neurolux

MONDAY JUNE 2

PIGS ON THE WING—Pink Floyd tribute band. 8 p.m. $12-$30.

Knitting Factory

JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Solid

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

TUESDAY JUNE 3

DJ VERSTAL—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

BOISE OLD TIME JAM—6:30 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s FATHER MURPHY—With The Finer Points of Sadism and Bath Salts. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux GAYLE CHAPMAN—6 p.m.

FREE. Riverside Sandbar RADIO BOISE HAPPY HOUR: DJ BONEFISHSAM—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Neurolux

NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30. FREE. Liquid

MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club

SEARCHIN’ FOR SASQUATCH TOUR—Featuring Russell Rock, Black Lion, Dr. Nick, Icy Blu, MC Pigpen and DJ Nizzle, with Kemp

1332 RECORDS’ PUNK MONDAY—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid

KEN HARRIS AND CARMEL CROCK—7 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing Company

WEDNESDAY JUNE 4 ALIVE AFTER FIVE—Coastwest Unrest with Dedicated Servers. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza BROTHERS GOW—9:30 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s

THE FRAY—With Barcelona and Oh Honey. See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $35. Idaho Botanical Garden HOKUM HI-FLYERS—6 p.m.

FREE. Banbury Golf Club JOHNNY SHOES—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s NEW TRANSIT—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s PATIO CONCERT SERIES—With Terry Jones and Clay Moore. 7 p.m. FREE. Berryhill PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel REVERIE, SHEEP AMONG WOLVES, KING BRAT—8 p.m. $3. High Note Cafe ROCKY VOTOLATO—With Lotte Kestner and Kevin Long. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

CARMEL CROCK AND KEN HARRIS—6 p.m. FREE. Sofia’s Greek Bistro

THE FRAY, JUNE 4, IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN The Idaho Botanical Garden kicks off its highly popular Outlaw Field Summer Concert Series with Colorado-based, platinum-selling pop-quartet The Fray.

The band’s recent release, Helios (February 2014, Epic), is only its fourth but with it, The Fray shows a desire to stretch its creative chops and try something new. Though not straying too far away from the style of tracks such as the piano-driven, heart-rending hit “Ungodly Hour,” Helios explores some new avenues, like the trip-hop-tinged tune “Same As You” Fans, don’t fret. It’s still 100 percent The Fray, doing what it does best. Plus, openers for the show are Oh Honey and underrated Seattle indie-rockers Barcelona, whose three-part concept EP series—Love Me (Part 1), Love You (Part 2) and Know Love (Part 3)—you might fall in love with.

—Amy Atkins

V E N U E S

Don’t know a venue? Visit www.boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map.

With Barcelona and Oh Honey, doors 5 p.m., show 7 p.m., $35-$840. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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BEERGUZZLER/DRINK FLEMISH SOUR ALES

BOURGOGNE DES FLANDRES BELGIAN BROWN ALE, $3.79-$4.99 This beer is a vibrant mahogany in the glass, with a generous mocha head that dissipates quickly. It’s fairly sweet on the nose, where ripe stone fruit, fig and caramel are complemented by soft oak. This brew is rather subdued for a sour; tart cherry lurks beneath burnt brown sugar and smooth malt.

A touch of oak comes through on the refreshing finish. If you are new to sours, this might be a good place to start.

VANDERGHINSTE OUD BRUIN FLANDERS SOUR ALE, $4.49-$5.99 A blend of fresh ale and oak-aged lambic, this brew pours a crimson-hued chestnut with a wispy, off-white head. Fruity aromas dominate, leading off with spicy, sour cherry backed by touches of earth, mineral and blue cheese. The flavors are round and well-balanced, offering tangy berry and cherry, just-sweet malt and a soft, tannic bitterness. This beer is the tartest of the three, so may not be for the uninitiated.

—David Kirkpatrick

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AMIR MEDITERRANEAN FOOD AND BAKERY Middle Eastern fare with a Jordanian twist TARA MORGAN At 7 p.m., Luay Kayyali was slumped over the small counter of his restaurant, Amir. Kayyali, originally from Jordan, opened his bare-bones bakery and cafe two months ago and hasn’t slept much since. From 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. seven Amir’s lamb and cheese pocket pie (left) and tabbouleh salad (right are two don’t-miss dishes. days a week, Kayyali serves pocket pies, salads and dolmas to a growing crowd of customers. menu: the lamb and cheese pocket pie ($3).

On this particular evening, three young men bite. The baba ghanoush ($4) was even better.

Seasoned with a blend of seven spices that Immensely flavorful, the creamy spread flung open the restaurant’s doors shouldering Kayyali coyly refused to divulge, the lamb had balanced a light garlic heat with a heavy hit heavy, black plastic bags that appeared to be a light curry flavor that shone through an oozy of lemon. My friend and I both agreed it’s filled with meat. As they handed the bags to layer of cheddar. Encased in a lightly crisp the best we’ve ever had. The baba ghanoush Kayyali, my dining companion whispered, “I sourdough shell, the pie was a bit like a Middle wasn’t served with pita, but it did add a weldon’t know if it’s good or bad that people are Eastern calzone. After I polished it off, I imcome depth to the strangely bland zaatar and bringing in meat in plastic bags.” cream cheese pie ($3). Though the crisp, pizza- mediately ordered another one to take home, Very good, it turned out. As soon as our along with a side of baba ghanoush. like dough was slathered with a thin layer of colorful feast came out cradled in a startling And I’m not the only one singing Amir’s cream cheese and a mixture of sumac, sesame amount of Styrofoam, it was apparent this praises. The place is so popular that both times seeds and herbs, it needed a place was going to be legit. PerAMIR MEDITERRANEAN I tried to order the mansaf ($7.99)—a Jordalittle something else to tie it all haps the most obvious example FOOD AND BAKERY nian dish consisting of lamb and fermented together. As did the meat and was the tabbouleh salad ($3)—a 201 W. Boise Ave. yogurt served over rice—they were sold out. cheese pie ($3), a flat crust cut bright green mound of chopped 208-297-4318 So Kayyali has decided to expand into the into quarters and topped with parsley sprinkled oh-so-sparcrumbles of beef, minced bits of empty space next door and open a full-service ingly with flecks of bulgar, tiny bell pepper and onion. Crowned with an green restaurant, which he hopes to unveil in three chunks of tomato, mint and sweet red onion. weeks. For now at least, there doesn’t appear pile of tabbouleh, the pie came to life.

The salad was strikingly fresh with just the to be much sleep on the horizon.

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YOU OCTO TRY THESE Genki Takoyaki’s dumplings deliver Octopus doesn’t make it onto many Boise menus. The cephalopod sometimes shows up on a sashimi plate, but it’s usually revoltingly rubbery, which is a shame, considering that it can be a real treat when prepared with care.

At Genki Takoyaki, a new Boise food cart, owners Christy Beavers and Rhett Atagi soak their pre-cooked octopus in soy sauce and dashi for at least an hour before plopping cubes of it into their tiny round dumplings.

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“We do orders of four, six and eight, and you can split them up if you’d like to try both.”

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balls that are crispy on the outside and fluffy inside. They’re topped with a streak of mayo, a drizzle of takoyaki sauce, a shake It’s takoyaki time every Saturday at the Capital City Public Market. of ground nori, a pile of bonito flakes and a this Thursday, May 29, for the debut of scoop of green onions.

Crooked Fence’s new, politically charged India “We lived in Japan for two years teaching brown ale.

English and this was our favorite food,” said “This Thursday we’re going to be at PreBeavers. “We just wanted to bring our favorite Funk again for the Little Bitch Otter release,” food back to Boise, really. We built this cart said Beavers. “So we’re going to call them from the ground up.”

Little Bitch Balls and we’ll have canned tuna Genki Takoyaki had its soft opening May … corn and jalapenos for that one. That’s my 22 in front of PreFunk, before setting up shop favorite.” at the Capital City Public Market May 24.

Genki Takoyaki will also be set up on “We actually did the Saturday market this Eighth Street in front of Ruth’s Chris each Satweekend and we thought, ‘People aren’t going urday at the Capital City Public Market. For to want to try the octopus; they’re going to be more info, Genki-Takoyaki’s Facebook page. freaked out.’ But we sold out of that at like noon,” said Beavers. “I was very surprised.”

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SWEET DREAMS (INZOZI NZIZA) Three scoops: passion, love and amazing grace GEORGE PRENTICE Comparing Sweet Dreams to the claptrap currently taking stranglehold on many of the nation’s cineplexes is a bit like comparing a perfect scoop of ice cream to a cup of sugar water. In fact, Sweet Dreams, one of the most satisfying documentaries of this or any other season, reminds us of something we learned as children: Ice cream may not solve all of the world’s problems, but it sure doesn’t hurt .

I cannot urge you enough to take this important, adept and highly emotional cinematic journey with sibling directors Lisa and Rob Fruchtman—she, the Oscar-winning editor of Apocalypse Now and The Right Stuff; he the Emmy-winning director of documentaries Sister Helen and Seeing Proof. And The women of Butare, Rwanda found amazing grace, first in an all-female drumming group, and then in the Fruchtmans’ destination is considerable: brining Inzozi Nziza (Sweet Dreams) to their homeland.

Rwanda, a nation of great natural beauty but ill-defined by its late 20th century genocide, robbing nearly 1 million families of fathers, the women new skills, such as marketing and sands pack into the National Stadium of mothers, daughters and sons. the commercial manufacture of ice cream, Rwanda to honor the dead. It’s chilling to I’m a fan of previous films that have exwhile reminding the women of some some plored the Rwandan tragedy, including 2004’s note that Rwandans now take the entire themes that remain universal: ethics, comonth of April to mourn their ever-present Hotel Rwanda and the 1997 documentary operative management and perseverance. losses.

When Good Men Do Nothing, so I must But when the ice cream equipment arrives “Even some of the living are not alive,” admit I had some reluctance to revisiting this on the scene, worse for the wear from its Rwandan President Paul Kagame tells the theme in yet another movie. But the journey bumpy shipment, none of the machinery of Sweet Dreams is along a road less-traveled: packed stadium. In the background we hear seems to be working. And with just days until people collapsing into hysteria and being a specific, but unlikely, tale of nourishment their opening of the shop, only warm, milky taken away by ambulances. for the body and soul.

The women of Sweet Dreams are not only goo comes out of the dispensers. Meanwhile, Only a decade removed from the tribealive but have found a the Rwandan women take the calculated versus-tribe/neighborrisk of reaching out to a local prison, where way to truly live, first versus-neighbor SWEET DREAMS by forming a spectacu- they ask some of the inmates—many of them genocide, Rwanda’s convicted murderers—to construct some new lar all-female drumpopulation—now Directed by Lisa and Rob Fruchtman tables and chairs for the shop’s outside patio. ming group, Ingoma primarily young and Special sneak preview Thursday, May 29, 7 But more heartbreak is in store when the Nshya, which has female—still has fresh p.m., $12. Part of the proceeds will benefit the Agency for New Americans. recently begun touring women learn that only 10 of them can be and quite deep scars. employed at the ice cream shop. And when to and performing in In Sweet Dreams, Opens Friday, May 30. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

Sweet Dream’s final list of 10 workers is another nations. And we meet, one by one, nounced to the village … well, let me put it then, by opening the women who take this way: I can’t remember crying this much Inzozi Nziza (literally this journey with us: at a film in quite some time. translated as “sweet dreams), a first-of-itsMarta, whose husband from a different tribe Ultimately, the women of Sweet Dreams kind ice cream shop in the small Rwandan was murdered while she was hunted because choose unique names for their three ice village of Butare. she was carrying his child; Clementine, who cream-cup sizes: Baby for small, Be Happy for The Rwandan women’s fairy godmothers only recently returned to her native country of Rwanda after being pawned off, at the age come in the form of Jennie Dundas and Alexis medium and Don’t Be Cheap for the large.

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I’m single and have nobody to write. I’m 5’4, 130 pounds.

Green eyes. I have 90 days to do.

Please write this address if intertest it’s pretty lonely in here, I am single no children. Thank you.

Pocatello Women’s Correctional Center,1451 Fore Rd, Pocatello, ID 83204.

Single F 27 year old- bi-sexual, exstripper incarcerated and looking for pen-pals-friends-and maybe, more. If interested in getting to know me write me at: Georgia Smith #82451, c/o PWCC unit 5-B-10A, 1451 Fore Rd. Pocatello, ID 83204.

If you are looking for a tall, long legged lady who enjoys exploring things that are enjoyable and interesting. I am your lady. I am a 43 year old woman who is currently incarcerated at PWCC. Write me to find out more. Anna Sangberg #37015 PWCC Unit 1-4A, 1451 Fore Rd, Pocatello, ID 83204.

MWM 28 seeking MF who wants a private connection with uncontrollable desires. Remove yourself from loneliness and displeasure.

Let down your hesitations and let’s make some fire. Understand that this place won’t hold me here much longer and this “Bad Boy” wants it all. If you want more, then

take off that mask and write to me, but don’t get us caught open up a post office box and don’t forget to hide my letters… Buck Basey #94099 ISCI unit 15A63B, PO Box 14 Boise, ID 83707.

Single, white Christian M looking for pen-pal. My name is Michael Bullock, JR. I am 22 years old. I have long blond hair, bright blue eyes. I’m 5’8” tall. To be clear, I’m not looking for money. I’m looking for someone to correspond with and build a friendship that’s worth holding onto. I’m not looking for a relationship at this time because I believe a lasting relationship is built upon a solid friendship first.

I have a good sense of humor, I’m loyal, considered handsome with a muscular build, romantic and thoughtful, very respectful, I have moral and values, and a hear of gold. I’m also easy going and honest. I’m in prison for grand theft, but will be our in 5-6 months. If you’d enjoy getting to know me better feel free to write to me at: Michael Bullock JR #103857 ISCI 15A-6B, PO Box 14, Boise, ID 83707. Have a wonderful day and smile!

I am Jennifer Stringer. I am looking for a pen pal. I am 24 years old. I top out January 12, 2016, I love to have fun and laugh around. Easy to get along with. I hope to get some letters from a fun person.

Jennifer Stringer #92862 PWCC Unit 4- 10A, 1451 Fore Rd, Pocatello, ID 83204.

then give me a chance. I’ll make it worth your while. Please write me at Aaron Anderson#73932 ISCI unit 15A, PO Box 14, Boise, ID 83707 or at Aaron Anderson, 1391 Jackson, Dr Ammon, ID 83406.

leg, stomach, back, and the back of my neck. I’m real good looking, with ocean blue eyes and short dark hair. I’m looking forward to hearing from you. Kodi J Larsen #109644 SMU 34 ICC, PO Box 70010, Boise, ID 83707.

Sexy private dancer doing time seeks M or F pen pal and or sugar daddy/ momma. Sandra Thomas IDOC #96379 PWCC Unit 2 16B, 1451 Fore Rd, Pocatello, ID 83204.

Single white M, 45, 5’8, blue eyes, brown hair, 195 lbs. Likes heavy metal music, working out, tattoos. Currently incarcerated until Oct 27, 2014. If interested please write to Chad Laughlin, #28548 ICC P-1, PO Box 70010, Boise, ID 83707 or see pictures on facebook to friend.

Good sense of humor, down to earth, sexy country girl… SWF29 seeking understanding, fun, outdoorsy pen pal between the ages of 27-37. Amber Shockey, 1415 Albion Ave, Burley, ID 83318.

Hey what’s up? My name’s Kodi J. Larsen and I’m looking for a “female” “pen-pal”. I’m currently incarcerated. Here at ICC in Boise. I’m in prison for accessory to forgery. I have a little more than 14 months till I’m released. I’m thinking of moving here to Boise after my release. I’m looking for a female pen pal. In the area that I can write back and forth and get to know. I’m 25 years old. I’m 5”8 at height, and I weigh 170 pounds. I’m muscular built from daily work outs. I’m in real good shape. I have a lot of tattoos. Left sleeve, Eutive chest, whole left

I’m a single white M. I’m 25 years old, 6’0 tall. Brown hair blue eyes 185 pounds. I’m in good shape I Like to work out. I have tattoos,.

I like to skateboard and snowboard, I like all types of music, I am a good conversationalist, great listener. I will be released October 30th, 2014. I can send a picture if requested. My address is Ryan Greer, #100955 P1 07 A ICC, PO Box 70010, Boise, ID 83707.

SWM. Likes outdoors, fishing, camping etc. On the out I ride bulls and the whole cowboy thing.

I have money, just want a pen pal.

Brian Measel, 104656 ICC Pl 37B, PO Box 70010, Boise, ID 83707.

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Hey, it’s Sam! If you were my pen pal and your letter got returned it’s because I moved to the prison from a state hold county. Here is my new address. Anyone else interested in having an awesome pen pal feel free to write! Samantha Kukkonen- Peterson #107531 PWCC unit 4/10B, 1451 Fore Rd, Pocatello, ID 83204.

SWM 28 years old, 155 lbs with amazing bright blue eyes. I’m looking for a female who is down for just about anything, fun times, lots of laughs and smiles, and real conversations. Relieve yourself of feeling alone and unwanted and treat yourself to a fun-loving, spontaneous, playful, kind- hearted, real individual like myself. I do also have a bad boy side, a child at hearts. I’m wanting to create extraordinary connections and to fulfill uncontrollable desires. I’m in shape. Sexy, and have a wild-side that cannot be contained. If your looking for a good man that can make you feel alive, bring out the best in your, and make you smile,

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “When I was young,” wrote French author Albert Camus, “I expected people to give me more than they could—continuous friendship, permanent emotion.” That didn’t work out so well for him. Over and over, he was awash in disappointment.

“Now I have learned to expect less of them than they can give,” he concluded. “Their emotions, their friendship and noble gestures keep their full miraculous value in my eyes; wholly the fruit of grace.” I’d love to see you make an adjustment like this in the coming months, Aries. If you do, the astrological omens suggest you will experience a blessing like Camus’.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some earthquakes happen in slowmotion. These rare events occur 22 to 34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier.

Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, this gradual variety can take many days to uncoil and never send dishes flying off shelves up here on the earth’s surface. I suspect your destiny will have a resemblance to this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I suspect that some night soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand on stage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There’s a strong possibility you will be wearing pink and green striped socks and a gold crown.

And it gets worse. In your dream, I bet you will forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd. Your mouth will be moving but no words will come out. So that’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life. So when you are called on to show what you’ve got and make a splashy impression, you will be well-prepared.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When I slip into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that’s rotting on the forest floor. I see exuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cowpie in a pasture.

I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So what do my visions mean? I’m guessing you’re going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay. You are shedding and purging and flushing.

In the process, you are preparing some top-notch fertilizer. It won’t be ready for a while, but when it is, a growth spurt will begin.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Diary: Almost everything that was possible to change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding and I am not exaggerating.

Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chipchip-chipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud?

Why is it I’m not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders?

Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defenses were totally stripped away? I think I’ll go with that theory.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): About 32,000 years ago, squirrels in northeast Siberia buried the fruits of a flowering plant deep in their burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then a flood swept through the area. The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got a hold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you will be capable of pulling off during the next 12 months, Virgo.

I’m not sure what exact form it will take. A resuscitation? A resurrection? A recovery? The revival of a dormant dream? The thawing of a frozen asset or the return of a lost resource?

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): For German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won. Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate. He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never took home an Oscar. If there is anything that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favorable time ever to break the spell. In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I should have kissed you longer.” I hope you won’t be re-playing that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now.

I hope you won’t be obsessing on similar mantras, either, like “I should have treated you better” or “I wish I would have listened to you deeper” or “I should have tried harder to be my best self with you.” Please don’t let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now to make any necessary changes in yourself so that you will be fully ready to give the important people in your life the care they deserve. If you do so, you will be free of regrets later.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?” Those are questions Louise Gluck asks in her poem “Prism.” Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That’s what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into beginner’s mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You could really benefit from engaging with a compassionate critic—someone who would gently and lovingly invite you to curb your excesses, heal your ignorance, and correct your mistakes. Would you consider going out in search of a kick-ass guide like that? ideally, this person would also motivate you to build up your strengths and inspire you to take better care of your body. One way or another, Capricorn, curative feedback will be coming your way. The question is, will you have a hand in choosing it, or will you wait around passively for fate to deliver it? I highly recommend the former.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Now would be an excellent time for you to dream up five new ways to have fun. I’m not suggesting there’s anything wrong with your existing methods. It’s just that in the next few weeks, life will conspire to help you drop some of your inhibitions and play around more than usual and experience greater pleasure. The best way to cooperate with that conspiracy is to be an explorer on the frontiers of amusement and enchantment.

What’s the most exciting thing you have always wondered about but never done? What interesting experiment have you denied yourself for no good reason? What excursion or adventure would light up your spontaneity?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Now is an excellent time to transform your relationship with your past.

Are you up for a concentrated burst of psychospiritual work? To get the party started, meditate your ass off as you ponder this question: “What fossilized fixations, ancient insults, impossible dreams, and parasitic ghosts am I ready to let go of?” Next, move on to this inquiry: “What can I do to ensure that relaxed, amused acceptance will rule my encounters with the old ways forever after?” Here’s a third query: “What will I do with all the energy I free up by releasing the deadweight I had been clinging to?”

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