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TOP-DOWN VIEW Getting the facts about Boise’s downtown bike lanes from ACHD’s eye in the sky FEATURE 13

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THE WAIT The older I get, the more I find myself getting nervous with air travel. It’s senseless, I know; the oddsmakers tell me that I stand a 1-in-11 million chance of dying in a plane crash.

Meanwhile, I have a 1-in-32 chance of winning something in the Idaho Lottery. Am I seized with anticipation every time I buy a scratch ticket? No. Do I catch myself white-knuckling the armrest on takeoff? Yes. It’s called vivid information and it makes perfect sense: We all know the odds of dying in a car accident are 1-in-5,000, but they don’t televise every car wreck like they do air crashes. The more vivid the image, the larger it looms in our minds.

I was thinking about vivid information the other day, idling on Capitol Boulevard behind a lane of cars waiting to make a right turn onto Myrtle Street. It has never taken me more than 10 minutes to drive from my house on the Bench to BWHQ, on Sixth and Broad streets—not even when the bike lane pilot project started in May and “my” lane was appropriated for cyclists. That said, it looks more congested, but despite appearances, the length of my commute hasn’t changed at all.

And that’s not just me. According to the Ada County Highway District, the bike lanes that so many think have snarled downtown traffic have actually had little to no impact on the speed with which motorists navigate the core. For more on Boise Weekly’s afternoon watching the watchers at ACHD’s traffic management center, see Page 13.

And speaking of waiting around, you’d better stop it if you plan on submitting work to BW’s annual Black-and-White Photo Contest. The contest is open until Friday, June 6, at 5 p.m. Bring in your black-and-white or monochrome photographic work, measuring at least eight inches in one dimension and mounted on white 16-inch by 20-inch poster board, foam core or mat board. Prizes will be given to entrants in three categories: People, Place and Things. The winner will be published on the cover of the June 25 edition of BW, which will also feature other top-ranked pieces. Include your name, category, phone number and address on the back of each entry. There is no limit to the number of submissions per person, but each entry costs $5 (goes toward prize money). Drop off work at BWHQ, 523 Broad St. in Boise. Questions? Contact production@boiseweekly.com.

And finally, a congratulations to frequent freelancer Jessica Murri, who joins BW as a full-time staff writer this week.

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VITTLES VENUE Boise food trucks will have a place to call their own at the West End Food Park, set to open Thursday, July 3, on Fairview Avenue between 24th and 25th streets.

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KUNST In case you missed it last week, work by German artist Uli Westphal is on display at Ming Studios. The agriculture-themed Cornucopia hangs until Aug. 30. See more on Cobweb.

RESIDENCE The newly refurbished Owyhee Plaza opens Wednesday, July 9, and the mixed-use complex has announced a high-profile tenant. Find out who (or what) on Citydesk.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

HIGH FIVE, HARLEY! Right up the middle, pal!

Hey bud, I just finished watching parts of your debate performance on... oh, I can’t remember what it was on. Colbert’s show, or Rachel Maddow’s or maybe it was Chris Matthews’ show... it doesn’t matter. You managed to get on all of them, plus a few dozen more over the past several days. And the deal is, before your star fades, or your 15 minutes are up—or whatever it is that happens to mouthy idiots who make a big splash in the viral pool, then are forgotten like yesterday’s farts—I want to thank you for making Idaho a laughingstock.

Ah, let me rephrase that, Harley. I want to thank you for exposing Idaho as the laughingstock it has actually been for years and years, only it has needed the ravings of a ridiculous clown like yourself to bring Idaho’s true ridiculousness to the attention of the nation.

Now, I realize a lot of those stuffy, politically-correct-type snots are saying you made Idaho a laughingstock like that was a bad thing. But guys like you and me know that, when the truth hits the fan, it’s never a bad thing, is it, Harley? And to me, it’s as obvious as the unpleasantness of your basic nature that until you came along with the insanely disjointed rambling which was your idea of a gubernatorial campaign, Idaho has been a laughingstock just waiting to be discovered ever since the Republicans took total control of the state.

Oh, but don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to imply that your insanely disjointed rambling was anything particularly unusual. Not in Idaho, anyway. When you think back to some of the insanely disjointed rambling that has come from the unchecked mouths and cloudy minds of folks like Steve Symms, Bill Sali, Helen Chenoweth, Larry Craig, George Hansen, Butch Otter... gosh, I could go on for days it seems... your insanely disjointed rambling is just one more loony tune in Idaho’s iPod. And think about this!... those people actually won!

Several times!

Why, if you ask me, the only thing that separates you from all the other insanely disjointed rambling that passes for politics in this state is your choice of get-up. Had you put on a nice blue suit instead of going with the biker-goth costume, you might be the Republican nominee as we speak.

I don’t know if you read it when it came out in the May 21 edition of Boise Weekly, but my boss, Zach, did a nice job in his editor’s note of pointing out that Walter Bayes—who, by the way, comes off every bit as crazy as you, if not quite as stupid—isn’t such a radical-fringe character as he might seem to be, not when his views are juxtaposed to the state Republican platform. Which is not to say that he isn’t a radical-fringe character. It simply illustrates how radical-fringe the entire GOP has

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become. Only real difference is old Walter, unlike more polished politicians, doesn’t have the sense to disguise his derangement a little better.

And that’s pretty much the way I see you, Harley. You are no more a turd in the punch bowl than is Otter or Fulcher or about three-quarters of our Legislature. It’s that you simply don’t have the sense not to say “turd in the punchbowl” during a debate televised to the whole state. Now, had you been talking only to these blue-collar, biker gang, truck-driving, tranny-grinding heroes of yours... (and Christ, do I shudder to think what kind of crowd would hang out with you)... that kind of no-class trash talk would probably be the funniest thing at the party, I’m sure.

But Harley!... those kind of people don’t watch political debates! And the kind of people who do watch political debates expect something a little classier than the kind of drool they’d hear at closing time in a Garden City bar.

All of which brings me to the last thing, Harley old pud. It’s about this political correctness you hate so much. You called it “bondage.” But just so you know, some of us have other words for it. “Politeness,” for instance. “Consideration,” that’s another.

“Kindness,” “manners,” “thoughtfulness,” “trying not to be a willfully abusive jackass”... any or all of those serve pretty much the same purpose.

Understand, I’m so, so sorry you feel put out that decent people are a little offended when guys like you work so hard to be offensive, but I went to your “Harleyisms” website and I gotta tell ya’, it doesn’t appear to me that political correctness has slowed you down much.

Oh but wait! It just hit me. You couldn’t possibly be so outraged that decent people are controlling what you can say and not say, because obviously, nobody has stopped you from telling any stupid joke or making any stupid slur that comes to your mind.

So could it be you’re just pissed off because decent people think you’re an asshole for doing it?

And if that’s true, you know what it means, don’t you? That “bondage” you feel isn’t your speech being suppressed. It’s you being recognized as the fool you are. And I hate to be the one to tell you this, bro, but those are chains you forged yourself.

P.S. Harley, maybe you’d better check in with God again and ask if you heard right.

I have a feeling He didn’t say “Harley, you’re going to be president.” I suspect it might have been something more along the lines, “Harley, you’re going to be a pissant!”

Like you say, bud... “Right up the middle!”

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RAINGEAR GAMES

Reflections on living and its alternatives When I was 14, my father contracted to build a log-worm fence west of Stanley, beside the then-new State Highway 21. He put me to work cutting 16-foot logs out of jumbled piles of lodgepole dozed from the right-of-way. It was hard and dangerous work, made more so when it rained 26 out of 30 days that June.

My work clothes were olive-drab rubberized pants and a matching hoodie, wet logging boots and slick wet cowhide gloves that made running a chainsaw more a matter of grip than skill. When the sun finally hit in July, I folded my rain gear, stowed it above the garage rafters and called it good riddance.

When I was 30—16 years being long enough to finally forget one rainy June—I signed on as the crew on a two-man gillnetter in Alaska’s Bristol Bay. My work clothes were yellow rubberized overalls and a matching hoodie, rubber boots and fishgripping gloves.

It was hard and dangerous work, made more so by the storms that swept in from the Bering Sea. Six of our fellow boats— their holds full of fish—sank in a storm where the waves rose higher than our 25foot radio mast. We were lousy fishermen, so we bobbed around like a cork. A good thing, as we only had one survival suit between the captain and me. One of us would have drowned.

There were weeks of horizontal rain, days of being soaked inside my rain gear when I slipped and fell flat on a deck sloshing with two inches of fish slime. Back in Idaho, I folded my yellow suit, put it on top of the green one, and called it good riddance.

Last week Julie and I tossed out an enormous amount of torn and worn old clothes.

I remembered the rain gear, and crawled up into the top of the garage. Both suits were cracked and useless. I added them to the rest of the load.

“I’m going to miss my good ol’ rain gear,” I told Julie as we entered the dump station.

“Good grief,” she said. “You haven’t worn it for 30 years. And it smells like rotten salmon.”

“It reminds me of how little I’ve had to worry about rain in my life,” I said. “It reminds me I didn’t spend my life building log-worm fence or pulling salmon out of a net.”

In truth, I enjoyed building fence, just not in the rain and not for a career. As for commercial fishing, for a long time after Alaska I got nervous just taking the shuttle boat across Redfish Lake. And having caught my lifetime quota of fish, I quit fishing altogether.

“Why hold onto things that remind you of what didn’t happen?” Julie asked. Her questions are often designed to discourage theoretical conversation. It never stops me.

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“That summer on the fence,” I said, “picking up one end of a 300-pound log and loading it on a trailer—I was strong and getting stronger and thought there would be no end to it. And I got to be a Chainsaw Samurai. And in Alaska, after we had loaded a full load of fish into a tender, when we had hosed down the decks and the sky was clear and we were sitting on the deck with a bottle of wine, waiting for the tide to turn and broiling a couple of big salmon fillets, half asleep in the midnight sun, listening to Bette Davis Eyes and Another Brick in the Wall on the Dillingham radio station—even that life felt good.”

“Life feels good right now—and we don’t have to listen to pretentious Pink Floyd songs,” said Julie. “Besides, you’ve got good rain gear.”

I nodded. Two years ago, on a trip to Vietnam, we purchased Gore-Tex rain suits, light and compact enough to fit in our carry-ons. They stayed packed. No rain the whole trip.

No sense telling Julie I sometimes get up at 3 a.m. and listen to The Dark Side of the Moon three or four times on headphones. It’s part of life feeling good now, of integrating an iffy and worrisome past with a present I am thankful for. Anyway, when Pink Floyd songs were brand-new, they didn’t seem pretentious at all. Roger Waters could get away with a few cosmic lyrics, considering that Charley Manson had found a whole universe of meaning in the Beatles’ White Album.

Hanging in my closet beside my unworn rain gear is another set of work clothes— my academic gown and mortarboard, still in good shape, worn once a year in a different kind of unlived life, one where all the fish get away and you build fence all week only to have someone tear it down on the weekends.

This time of year our Sirius Radio more or less continuously plays Pomp and Circumstance on its classical station. At the fast part in the middle, I do a little dance, celebrating my happily unlived lives: the commercial fisherman I never became, the professional fence builder I never became, the academic who refused to retire.

It’s a ritual, a mute kinetic interpretation of the fact that any life floats precariously over unactualized thoughts, unfulfilled yearnings and barely ducked risks. I dance until the slow cadence of the march returns. Then I think about going outside, where a cold rain falls on an unraked lawn that reflects an unlived life as a landscaper. But there’s tea water boiling on the woodstove, and Julie in the kitchen, starting dinner. There are more unlived lives to contemplate from the safety of the couch, as well as this one I’m living, which promises more happiness than all the rest of them put together.

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CITYDESK/NEWS NEWS PATR IC K S W EENEY

TRAILBLAZERS U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was swapped for five Taliban POWs on May 31, 2014.

Hillside to Hollow users map out ‘island oasis’ GEORGE PRENTICE

WHAT ROLLING STONE KNEW, AND IDAHO MEDIA FORGOT, ABOUT SGT. BOWE BERGDAHL Soon after the May 31 announcement that Idaho native and U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl had been freed by his Taliban captors, some Idaho media outlets dropped professional protocols and begin referring to Bergdahl and his family with uncomfortable familiarity, using only their first names.

KBOI-TV even chose to underscore its reporting with an orchestral flourish.

But within 48 hours of the announcement, things took a turn. Social media blew up with commentary—much of it from fellow soldiers—that Bergdahl’s pending return as a hero was premature at best and flat-out inappropriate at worst. Idaho media may have been well-advised to refer to a 2012 Rolling Stone report from the late Michael Hastings, who painted a very different portrait of the Hailey native. Hastings presciently wrote in 2012 of a then-radical proposal to swap Bergdahl for five Taliban prisoners (BW, Citydesk, “Explosive Article on POW Bergdahl to Appear in Rolling Stone,” June 7, 2012). Nearly two years to the day of that report, that’s exactly what happened.

In the same 2012 report by Hastings, who died in a car accident a year later, we learned that in October 2008, Bergdahl was initially described as “a normal Joe” by his fellow soldiers. But in time, the same soldiers called Bergdahl “Mr. Intensity.” In an email sent to his parents on June 27, 2009, three days before he disappeared from his post, Bergdahl wrote about his complete disillusionment with the war.

“Life is way too short to care for the damnation of others as well as to spend it helping fools with their ideas that are wrong,” wrote Bergdahl. “I have seen their ideas and I am ashamed to even be American. The horror of the self-righteous arrogance that they thrive in. It is all revolting.”

Calling the U.S. Army “the biggest joke,” Bergdahl said his colleagues were “liars, backstabbers, fools and bullies.”

On June 30, 2009, Bergdahl gathered up water, a knife, his digital camera and his diary, and slipped off his outpost. The following morning an acting platoon leader called in a report of a missing soldier—Bergdahl.

Nearly five years later, Bergdahl was free. Following medical treatment at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany and San Antonio’s Fort Sam Houston, the Pentagon hopes for a thorough debriefing.

Meanwhile, Idaho media is expected to pull out all the stops for wall-to-wall coverage of Bergdahl’s Idaho homecoming, perhaps with an orchestral flourish.

—George Prentice

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Maybe it was the turnout. Perhaps it was the old-school, roll-up-your sleeves engagement.

Or possibly the fact that Boise citizens were, quite literally, mapping out the future of one of the city’s prize possessions.

“This is pretty amazing,” said Tim Breuer, executive director of the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley, surveying the scene as scores of Boiseans grabbed fistfuls of highlighter markers to blaze new trails through what has become known as the Hillside to the Hollow.

“It’s vast in size, yet highly accessible. It is, quite possibly, the most accessible piece of property that we have in the Foothills,” said Boise Parks and Recreation Director Doug Holloway. “And what’s fascinating is that this property had been used by the public for years as if they owned it, in spite of the fact that it was privately owned.”

But it wasn’t too long ago that any kind of access to the hundreds of pristine acres—running north of Hill Road between Bogus Basin Road and 33rd Street—was in jeopardy. Much of the land was owned by Boise Foothills LLC (formerly known as DBSI Boise Foothills), a consortium of 51 individuals who were convinced by DBSI executives that the land could turn into their own personal ATMs by filling the hilltops with housing developments.

For better or worse, DBSI collapsed in a landslide of controversy. In fact, four of its top executives were convicted of dozens of instances of fraud. Prosecutors pointed to a slew of questionable deals including DBSI’s purchase, through a subsidiary, of the Hillside to the Hollow land. When everything went south, the 51 investors did everything possible to distance themselves from the doomed housing project and, ultimately, put the land on the open real estate market. That’s when the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley saw the silver lining in a very dark cloud and stepped in to purchase a 59-acre slice of the controversial, but very desirable land.

“Think of that for a moment, said Breuer.

“Only a few years ago, more than 300 acres of Boise land were at risk of being developed, but citizens decided to shine a spotlight on this hidden gem and they rallied to save the land. That gave us the confidence to do the deal.”

The city of Boise took note of the Land Trust’s confidence and completed its own complex transaction, purchasing the remaining 260 acres.

“I like to call it an ‘island oasis’ because it’s not like, say, Hulls Gulch, which is an entryway into the greater Boise Foothills. Hillside to the Hollow is more self-contained, surrounded by homes,” said Breuer. “The people

More than 100 people spent a gorgeous early summer evening May 28 to help map out the destiny of hundreds of acres in the Boise Foothills better known as Hillside to the Hollow.

who use it have created the land’s own distinct personality.”

But instead of hiking its trails, many of those same people chose to spend a gorgeous early summer evening May 28 indoors, packing into a cafeteria of Hillside Junior High School, a stone’s throw from the trails. Close to 150 people, some hikers, some bikers and more than a few dog walkers, grabbed a seat— about 10 to a table—and huddled over big topographical maps of Hillside to the Hollow.

“Put your trays up in their upright position; here we go,” joked Breuer, before introducing the evening’s tour guide, Ellen Campfield Nelson, who staffs Agnew Beck environmental resource consulting offices in Boise.

Nelson often wears several hats—and on this occasion she wore all of them at once, quite literally.

“The first hat should inspire you to ask, ‘How do I like to use Hillside to the Hollow?’” she said, pulling out a cap with the word “ME” taped to the front.

“The second hat should encourage you to think about what your neighbors and the kids in the community would like to see,” she said, placing a second cap bearing the word “COMMUNITY’ on top of the first cap.

“And now, there’s a third cap,” she said, pulling it on top of the other two. “By the way, I can barely see any of you. But the words in front of the hat say ‘LAND MANAGER.’ We’re asking you to start thinking about all of the resources that might be necessary to do all the things you wish to see happen.”

But those wish lists were varied and, sometimes, in direct conflict with one another. For example, when one attendee suggested that the trails should be ideal for dogs, another resident quickly countered: “No, no, no.”

But it turned out that there were a lot more agreements, than not.

“I would like to see things remain the way it is right now. Everybody gets along up there,” said one participant.

“Right on!” shouted a man from the other side of the room.

But keeping things “the way it is right now” is easier said than done.

“I have heard a lot of people say, ‘It’s been like this for so long without anyone overseeing anything. Why do we even have to be at this meeting?’ I’ll tell you why,” said Nelson.

“Boise’s population is growing, and the more people you have, the more pressure there will be on our resources. I promise you, nothing will stay the same if you leave it alone. In order for it stay the way it is today, we have to figure out how to manage it so that it stays that way. That’s a fact.”

And a more immediate fact is that many of the trails at Hillside to the Hollow need maintenance as soon as possible.

“The trails are severely rutted in some places,” Breuer told Boise Weekly.

“Oh yes,” agreed Holloway. “The trails need a lot of work. And that’s something we can start sooner than later.”

But Holloway was quick to caution the workshop attendees that any rumors they may had heard regarding changes to Hillside to the Hollow simply weren’t true.

“You may have heard that we’re changing or even eliminating trails. Someone called me and even said, ‘I’ve run my dog up there for 20 years and now I’m not going to be able to do that.’ None of that has been decided,” said Holloway. “We absolutely need to engage the public. Now, that may mean we have different types of trails for different types of users.

That’s what this whole process is all about.”

And when the Hillside to the Hollow planning process wraps up, Foothills users can expect even more maps and more engagement.

“We’ve got a lot more planning to do for all of the Foothills; the city has 4,000 acres now through its preservation fund,” said Holloway. “So, we’ll be working on that master plan for the next year to year-and-ahalf.”

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NEWS HAR R IS ON B ER RY

CHEERS AND JEERS ‘Little Bitch Otter’ beer release unites critics of governor’s same-sex marriage stance HARRISON BERRY

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Cindy Gross doesn’t drink beer, but she sure votes: “[Otter] needs to support equality and give his constituents what they want.”

of Appeals issued its stay of the ruling, those plans were waylaid. Grigg said the Little Bitch Otter release party showed how much society—including in Idaho—has evolved on the issue of same-sex marriage and gay rights in general.

“Times and opinions have changed,” he said. “Over half these people are gay. What does that say?”

Saxton told BW that any argument that insisted same-sex marriage was some sort of special right is a red herring.

“We want to all be on the same keel,” he said.

“Butch is old-school, and it sucks that he put the kibosh on [gay marriage]. My friends deserve to be married,” added Coate.

Newburn chimed in, echoing Coate’s feelings: “It’s an election year so he has to fight it,” he said.

Little Bitch Otter has become shorthand for disaffection with the governor, but in the beginning, it was just India brown ale sitting, nameless, in Crooked Fence’s tanks. At some point in the brewing process, Knopp said the company decided to make this beer a political statement. Coincidentally, Add the Words Crooked Fence Brewing sells Little Bitch Otter for $4—either demonstrators were being arrested for an on-tap pint or a 22 oz. bottle. on a semi-regular basis at the Idaho Statehouse and four same-sex couples had sued the state over its ban on gay marMeanwhile, standing in the Pre Funk patio was another group of equality advocates riage. Knopp said at some point, someone asked, “Why don’t we make a beer called (and self-professed beer lovers)—Roxanne ‘Little Bitch Otter?’”

Coate, Marian Boyer, Rob Newburn, John “It’s unfortunate [Otter] has an animal Saxton and David Grigg. Grigg and Saxton name,” he said. have been partners for 21 years. When It may be unfortunate for Otter, but it Idaho’s constitutional ban on gay marriage was struck down, they called their friends to was a godsend for Crooked Fence Brewing, the LGBT community, beer lovers and say they’d finally get to be married in their punsters alike. home state. But when the 9th Circuit Court and many in attendance were there primarily to support LGBT causes. Add the Words campaign member Cindy Gross was proud to advertise her advocacy with her own yellow-on-black “Add the Words, Idaho” T-shirt, adding that she wasn’t there to taste the beer, but to help the LGBT community and its allies send a message to Idaho political leaders.

“I don’t even drink beer,” she told Boise Weekly. “Obviously the public supports equality. [Otter] needs to support equality and give his constituents what they want.”

CROOKED FENCE BREWING

Within a half-hour of the May 29 launch of Crooked Fence Brewing’s “Little Bitch Otter” beer, an employee of Boise’s Pre Funk taphouse hopped up on a planter to survey a long line of thirsty downtowners. He had some bad news: the kegs of Little Bitch Otter, an India brown ale, were already depleted for the evening. Only 480 bottles of the stuff remained, and that was going at a brisk pace.

Little Bitch Otter was an instant hit— even before anyone tasted it. Brewed to poke fun at Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter, who many Idahoans see as standing against the tide of history on the issue of same-sex marriage, the beer’s name alone made it a social media phenomenon when it was announced May 16—three days after U.S. Magistrate Judge Candy Dale ruled Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and one day after the 9th Circuit Court had issued a stay of the ruling pending an appeal filed by Otter and Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden.

Kelly Knopp, Crooked Fence marketing and events director, said the “Little Bitch” barb was directed at Otter’s political position on LGBT issues, and as a result, Crooked Fence said it would earmark 10 percent of the release party’s proceeds to LGBT advocacy groups Pride Foundation and the Add the Words campaign, which has worked for eight years to win legislative approval to add the words “sexual identity” and “gender orientation” to Idaho’s human rights law.

“Anyone that is going to try to take away freedoms or not let someone be equal, Crooked Fence is against,” Knopp told Boise State Public Radio May 28.

Crooked Fence ended up pouring more than four kegs of Little Bitch Otter, raising $700 for the two organizations. Hundreds of revelers squeezed into Pre Funk’s Front Street bar while hundreds more stretched around the block. “[Otter] says he listens to the people of Idaho. But what about these people?”

Knopp said, gesturing to the crowd.

Though more than a few attendees came out for the beer, the evening’s center of gravity was the brew’s political implications;

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BEKAH SPILLE Meet Grace Jordan’s ‘Rock Star’ GEORGE PRENTICE As school days dwindle down to a precious few, students in Boise classrooms are a bit overanxious this week—but that’s the norm when kids pour out of Grace Jordan Elementary in Boise’s Central Bench neighborhood. At Grace Jordan Community Center, just a few feet from the school, Nic Ginter was ready for them.

“Oh yes, you just watch,” said Ginter, site coordinator at the community center. “The students… let me correct that: a lot of the students… will be coming over here and, you just watch, they’ll be asking for Bekah.”

That would be 24-year-old Bekah Spille, who spends part of her days managing the school kids during recess and her afternoons and early evenings as a rec attendant at the community center’s after-school program. But that doesn’t really describe her.

“She’s a rock star,” said Ginter with a laugh. “You just watch.”

And watch we did, as scores of students competed for her attention. Yet, she treated everyone as if they were a favorite.

Boise Weekly spent a few minutes with the “rock star,” minutes before the bell rang and the madness began on one of the last days of the school year.

What was your big dream in high school?

I really wanted to be a photojournalist and see the world. I ended up going to Boise State, where I got a degree in social sciences.

Did some of your thinking change while you were in college?

My eyes were definitely opened to social problems.

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The term “social problem” means different things to different people. What does it mean to you?

Well, now I work with Title 1 kids here at Grace Jordan.

Can you appreciate that many people your age don’t know what Title 1 stands for?

A Title 1 school means that 50 percent or more of the kids who go to that school

How did you end up here at Grace Jordan?

It was really random. I had worked for Blue Sky Bagels for years while I was in college. And I had interned with Snake River Alliance and the Sierra Club. And once I graduated I never anticipated working with children, but I applied with the city of Boise to become a community center recreation attendant and somehow got the job. I had done some babysitting before, but nothing like this.

But it’s my understanding that you can’t hold this job for more than nine months, because of some crazy city of Boise rule, in spite of the fact that this center stays open year-round.

It’s a bummer.

And correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t you have to wait 90 days to apply to do the same job?

That’s right.

I can’t help but think that they risk losing good employees. So, what’s in your immediate future?

I want to work this summer with the Treasure Valley YMCA and I desperately want to apply to be a tutor here at the school.

The bell is about to ring any minute. Tell me about the kids who will run through this door.

Mostly 4th- through 6th-graders; completely diverse, so unique and tons of personality.

I’m presuming that you have to be a disciplinarian. What is the art and science to that?

You have to find out the full story behind the behavior and keep your emotions out of it. But mostly, it’s a lot of patience.

So, let’s talk about a very big honor that came your way from the U.S. Green Building Council.

I heard someone on the radio talking about a competition that challenged schools to implement green-learning and make Idaho schools more earth-friendly. I thought that sounded awesome.

But you were responsible for a whole host of innovations here at the school.

We gathered paper from the school, shredded it, blended it, made new paper and turned it into Christmas ornaments; we built a food compost pile, using scraps from afterschool snacks; and we went on field trips to the recycling center and to the Create Common Good garden.

And you started a Green Club here at the school.

That’s right. And a yoga club to teach a healthy balance between mind and body.

I’m looking at your trophy; it’s pretty unique.

They made it from repurposed metal.

Plus a pretty big check, figuratively and monetarily.

One thousand, five hundred dollars for the school. We’re going to get a new greenhouse to turn our own garden into a year-round effort.

Tell me about the phone call announcing that you won.

They said they had some news. I worried at first. Then they said it was good news. It was the best day… ever.

You will be missed here this summer.

Right now, I’m not going to think about that. I’m staying positive.

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The view from above Boise’s downtown bike lanes project HARRISON BERRY AND JESSICA MURRI

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he Ada County Highway District hired Wendy Tillman and Mike Boydstun two weeks apart, 14 years ago. Now, they’re practically family.

“We’re like brother and sister,” Tillman said. “We fight like brother and sister and we make up just the same.”

As traffic operations engineers at ACHD’s Traffic Management Center, they spend their days in a darkened room staring at a wall of video screens displaying 60 street intersections. Till-

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man and Boydstun keep a close eye on the live feeds they share with Ada County Dispatch, Idaho State Police and various media outlets, toggling between 115 cameras installed on stoplight posts around town. Five dispatch radios chatter in the background and they keep a classic rock station playing during the day.

From their god’s eye view of the Treasure Valley, Tillman and Boydstun watch for fender benders, traffic delays, disabled vehicles and debris on

the road. They ease the flow of traffic through heavy congestion, accidents or construction. They have the power to change red lights to green, clear the way for emergency vehicles and generally control the pulse of travel.

It’s hard to recognize the city from their perspective, 30 feet in the air and looking down at traffic; the view is a little mesmerizing. Other ACHD employees regularly loiter in front of the control room’s fishbowl windows, watching the watchers.

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When Tillman and Boydstun started work at ACHD more than a decade ago, they had four cameras to watch; now they have more than 25 times that number, and are adding another 30 this year, with a long-term goal of 250. The cameras rotate a full 360 degrees and zoom in.

“We could tell you heads or tails of a coin on the ground,” Tillman said.

“Oh, people say it’s Big Brother watching out, but it’s not. We don’t zoom in on car windows or anything like that.

We could, but we’d be fired if we did.”

Tillman and Boydstun’s near-omniscience of the valley’s streetscape makes them experts on the state of traffic in Idaho’s most populous county—and that includes the impact of Boise’s latest infrastructure brouhaha: ACHD’s bike lane pilot project on Capitol Boulevard, and Main and Idaho streets. The project, which began in May, installed new buffered lanes along those roads and was originally slated to last a month.

The fate of the project—whether the pilot program will be extended, the lanes made permanent or if they will be removed—will be decided at a regularly scheduled ACHD meeting Wednesday, June 4, and there is a possibility that the project could be extended through August: a full month longer than the original maximum duration of the project.

At the Traffic Management Center, Tillman and Boydstun have a front row seat to the impacts of the new bike lanes. With the click of a button, ACHD’s wall of video monitors populated with live feed overlooking the lanes. On one screen, car traffic was scarce on Main Street. So was cycle traffic. From Tillman and Boydstun’s point of view, while the new lanes are being used, they’re not being used to their full capacity.

“The number of bikes that use the lanes every day has been less than minimal,” Tillman said.

But that might be changing. According to ACHD bike counts, 664 riders used Capitol Boulevard, Main Street and Idaho Street, whether they were on the road or the sidewalk, the week before the lanes were installed. A week and a half into the project, a second count showed a 90 percent increase in bike traffic—1,263 riders. And the lanes have been changing cyclist behaviors. In the first bike count, two-thirds of riders were counted riding on the sidewalk on a stretch of Capitol Boulevard. After the bike lanes, two-thirds of riders were using the provided lanes.

“We’ve had some success pulling people off of the sidewalks and onto the facilities,” said Craig Quintana, chief information officer at ACHD. Bicycle friendliness has had a measurable impact on taking commuters out of their cars and placing them on bike seats. Reports of the increase in bike traffic are in line with ridership increases in other cities. In Philadelphia, the installation of buffered bike lanes has increased ridership by 266 percent.

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lane on Pennsylvania Avenue—President Barack Obama’s home address—has increased bike traffic by 200 percent.

In New York City’s Prospect Park, the increase has been 190 percent.

What Tillman and Boydstun can’t see from their cameras is that public opinion is sharply divided. But they do hear about it. When the bike lanes were installed in May, commute times were anything but normal. Boydstun recalled a phone call he received from one irate motorist whose trip down Capitol Boulevard on the first day of implementation was 10 minutes long, when the average length of that trip is between four and six minutes long. It’s a phenomenon Boydstun attributed to the sudden appearance of the lanes.

In a similar instance, on the day of Boise State University’s commencement ceremony, the time it took for traffic to return to normal flow on Capitol Boulevard was 90 minutes. That’s double what it has been in years past.

Drivers perceive the bike lanes are making traffic congestion worse. Quintana has received more than 750 emails on the topic, two-thirds of which are against the lanes, and many of them tell horror stories about long waits at red lights and stressful commutes. An ACHD poll conducted in the first month of the bike lane pilot drew more public response than any such poll in the highway district’s history—“about 10 times the input the district generally receives on even its biggest projects,” according to Quintana. The poll’s results have shifted over time from comparatively balanced to leaning negative. The first report of the lanes’ approval ratings, a week into the pilot project, were 52.5 percent, 52.8 percent and 51.5 percent of respondents opposing the lanes on Capitol Boulevard, Main Street and Idaho Street, respectively. More recent numbers show that respondents are 55 percent against to 45 percent in favor of the lanes. ACHD also reported a tide of almost 1,000 phone calls and emails from road users opposing the lanes.

Discussion of the lanes has spilled beyond the ACHD poll. When the lanes appeared last month, admirers said they would make downtown safer for bike commuters, giving them a secure place on the road away from motorists.

Detractors said they were confusing, slowed traffic and were underused.

“Did they do this to create a hazard for cars wanting to turn right on a red so they can get hit instead?” asked Boiseweekly.com user “mjs28s.”

“Boise is 3rd in the Nation for percentage of bike commuters, so there is enough demand for more bike lanes.

However, the way the ACHD has gone about this is very confusing and does not make me feel safe as a driver or a biker,” wrote user “freethought.”

Despite public opinion, ACHD hasn’t found that dedicating traffic lanes for bicycle use has significantly lengthened travel times under normal circumstances in and out of Boise. According to Quintana, average and even rush-hour traffic now flows at pre-bike-lane speeds.

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“We hear a lot anecdotally about congestion but we’re not seeing it.

We’re not seeing measurable delays at intersections, but people continue to say they’re experiencing congestion,” he said.

While turnout for the poll and the

over from the first cycle and another 10 cars coming, then the left turn lane is full, plus another 15 cars coming in behind them,” Boydstun said, pausing to take a breath. He laughed and added, “It doesn’t seem like much, but it can have a big impact.”

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The Ada County Highway District monitors 115 cameras trained on streets and intersections across the Treasure Valley. flood of emails speak volumes about how much motorists and cyclists alike care about the lanes, feelings don’t trump safety, convenience or ease of use. Like Quintana, Boydstun said many of the claims made about the bike lanes are overblown, starting with the assertion that the lanes have slowed motor traffic.

“The first few days were pretty chaotic, but it doesn’t look like [the lanes are] having as big of an impact now,” Boydstun said, noting that the lanes were installed on roads with “a lot of extra capacity.”

According to Quintana, much of the opposition to the lanes seems to be rooted in perception.

“They find it makes downtown kind of confusing or an ugly environment. A lot of it’s aesthetic,” he said.

For Boydstun, the argument that new bike lanes exacerbate traffic congestion ignores the role motorists play in ugly traffic jams. Boydstun said distracted driving, like checking a phone at a red light, can act as a butterfly effect and actually back up traffic.

“They’ll be reading a text and the light will turn green and, ‘Oh, I need to go,’” Boydstun said. “So they wasted, like, five or 10 seconds before they realized they’re supposed to go. That decreases the capacity of the road.”

Boydstun said it takes five seconds to get the first car moving, and then one vehicle should move through the intersection every two seconds.

“So if you wait 10 seconds or so, you reduce the number of vehicles through the intersection by five or six cars. That can cause a snowball effect, and then all of the sudden a left turn signal will only clear 10 vehicles when it’s supposed to clear 15, so you have five vehicles left BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

The split between advocates and detractors of the lanes doesn’t simply pit motorists against cyclists, and some downtown bikers have spoken out against the new thoroughfares. First among those are some of downtown’s most prolific cyclists—Jimmy John’s sandwich couriers.

JJ’s delivery cyclists may ride up to 30 miles a day around downtown.

For them, making quick deliveries is a priority, since the fast food joint uses a sophisticated system to give the most consistently swift riders higher pay and plum schedules. With the average delivery time at just more than six minutes, JJ’s employees like bike captain Shane Scaggs aren’t just racing for bragging rights.

“You get paid more if you’re fast; you get first pick of the scheduling, but every time you have an error it adds time to your average,” Scaggs said.

Jimmy John’s riders take seriously the mechanics of bicycling through and around Boise’s downtown core, and have even developed their own bike regulations with the Boise Police Department (no riding against the flow of traffic, use bike lanes when present, adhere to the rolling stop law for bikes, no hopping on and off curbs, and avoid the use of sidewalks for distances greater than a city block). Every day they push the performance envelope of Boise’s downtown infrastructure and have found its new bike lanes wanting.

Some of them gave Boise Weekly readers a few of their reasons why the lanes aren’t ideal for all cyclists (BW, Citydesk, “Jimmy John’s Cyclists: A Unique ‘Focus Group’ That Isn’t Exactly a Fan of Pilot Bike Lanes in Boise,” May 14, 2014).

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parking spaces on the outside of the bike lane. I don’t like the idea of my whole side being a blind spot to a car. I would rather be inches away from the car where I can see what it’s doing,” said Scaggs.

The unnaturalness of using parked cars as a bike lane buffer hasn’t escaped Boydstun, either.

“It looks like three cars were in an accident, but those are parked cars,” he said, pointing to Capitol Boulevard near its intersection with Myrtle Street, where a column of cars sat in the road.

ACHD justified placing the bike lanes between the sidewalk and parking spaces to maximize segregation between bikes and cars. The arrangement strikes JJ’s riders as dangerous and Boydstun as disconcerting—after decades of watching traffic, this is the first time he has seen cars legally parked in the middle of a street—but it allows parked cars to enter and exit traffic without ever having to cross a bike lane. This, however, creates a new safety hazard for cyclists riding straight through an intersection, invisible to automobile traffic turning at the same intersection.

“It hides us, so now the drivers can’t see us. I can’t make eye contact with the driver, and that’s my biggest issue.

I can’t see that this person acknowledges I’m there,” said JJ’s courier Riley Burnett.

Though they follow the rules of the road, JJ’s couriers’ speed and distinctive jerseys make them a prominent subset of cyclists on the road—one that Scaggs said has made them straw men in the debate over cyclists’ behavior on Boise’s roads.

“It’s easy to blame someone with a brand across their chest, even though there are literally thousands of motorists, pedestrians and cyclists downtown,” Scaggs said.

For his part, Boise Bike Share Program Director Dave Fotsch doesn’t consider JJ’s riders typical bike lane users.

“They’re motivated by one thing: to make as many deliveries as possible in the shortest amount of time. I don’t know they’re a good measure of what you want to see out [on the bike lanes],” he said.

Fotsch has skin in the Boise bike friendliness game. He said a target user group for the bike share, which is slated to hit roadways in 2015, are riders who would like to ride but don’t because of a lack of safe cycling infrastructure.

The lanes “provide this extra layer of protection,” he said. While Tillman and Boydstun haven’t observed an increase or decrease in bicycle accidents along the bike paths, Fotsch said that attracting reluctant cyclists is a function of increasing the public perception of cyclist safety downtown.

“It addresses the majority of cyclists who fall into the category of interested but concerned. They’re not comfortable riding in traffic with just four inches of paint between them and the vehicles,” Fotsch said.

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tal to the larger project of measurably improving safety and attracting bike commuters. Fotsch, who said he would like to see the length of the pilot project extended as long as possible at the June 4 ACHD meeting, argued that the longer the pilot project, the fewer the instances of riders on the sidewalk or going against traffic.

“People need to understand that the bike lanes are one-directional. That’s why we’re advocating for extending the pilot period beyond just 30 days,” he said.

Fotsch’s argument underlines the significance of the decision ACHD will make this week. For downtown cycling’s advocates, granting the bike lanes a longer stay on Boise streets will help lay a groundwork for an enhanced and expanded bicycle and pedestrian culture. For nearly everyone, it will represent a landmark shift in the role motorists play in Boise’s downtown core.

But when it comes to separating fact from fiction regarding the lanes, it’s best to ask the traffic operations engineers at the ACHD Traffic Management Center.

Theirs is the only eye in the sky.

APRIL 3O Bike lane appears on Capitol Boulevard.

MAY 1 Bike lanes appear on Main and Idaho streets.

MAY 5 ACHD releases bike lane public opinion survey.

JUNE 4 Public ACHD meeting to determine if bike lane pilot project will be extended.

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8 DAYS OUT WEDNESDAY JUNE 4

THURSDAY JUNE 5

Festivals & Events

On Stage

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.

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE: NEXT TO NORMAL—This musical featuring more than 30 original songs shows how far two parents will go to keep themselves sane and their family’s world intact while coping with mental illness. For mature audiences. Tickets available at the door or online at spotlight-theatre. ticketleap.com/next-to-normal.

7 p.m. $10-$12. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208-498-0571.

Workshops & Classes SUN VALLEY CENTER SUMMER CLASSES—The Sun Valley Center for the Ar ts 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, visit sunvalleycenter.org or call 208-726-9491 (The Center) or 208-788-6520 (COF). Sun Valley Center for the Ar ts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-7269491, sunvalleycenter.org.

Calls to Artists BW B+W PHOTO CONTEST—Bring in your black-and-white or monochrome photograph that is at least eight inches in one dimension mounted on white 16” x 20” poster board, foam core or mat board. Be sure to put your name, categor y, phone number and address on the back of each entr y—there is no limit to the number of submissions per person. Each entr y costs $5 and all fees go toward prize money. Entries must be submitted by 5 p.m. on Friday, June 6. $5 per entr y.

Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, 208-344-2055, boiseweekly.com.

LIBRARY COMIC CON DRAWING CONTEST—Draw or paint your favorite comic book, television or movie character, or invent a character of your own.

Then, fill out an entr y form and take your ar t and the form to the checkout desk at any librar y location through 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 31. Entr y forms are available at all locations or online at boisepubliclibrar y.org/ Librar yComicCon. Limit of one entr y per person. FREE. Boise Public Librar y, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrar y.org.

Literature POETRY SLAM OF STEEL— Check out the Slam of Steel all-ages poetr y slam, with a free workshop at 6 p.m., followed by the slam. Note that all Big Tree Ar ts events are free-speech events. Discretion is advised. 7 p.m. $1-$5. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213, facebook.com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

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Beverage Co. For more info, visit boisegreekfestival.com. See Picks, Page 24. 11 a.m. $1, kids under 12 FREE. Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 2618 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-3456147, ser fes.org.

On Stage

Workshops & Classes

AS YOU LIKE IT—Comedy abounds in the fertile Forest of Arden, where a clandestine, gender-bending courtship ensues and a quartet of couples emerge in this timeless and transcendent romantic comedy. Suitable for all ages. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208429-9908, box office 208-3369221, idahoshakespeare.org.

STAR GAZING WITH THE STREET ASTRONOMER—L. Paul Verhage, the Street Astronomer, will introduce you to star gazing with just your eyes and a pair of binoculars.

6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary. org.

DAISY’S MADHOUSE THEATRE: THE LAST 5 YEARS—In this lovely two-person musical, a young novelist and a struggling actress tell the story of their relationship. Book, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown. 8 p.m. $12 online, $15 door. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise, daisysmadhouse.org.

WRITERS REVIEW: FICTION WITH VALERI KIESIG—Take your work to the next level—ready for submission and publication.

Six-week session on Thursdays through July 17. For more info or to register, visit thecabinidaho. org/WordWorkshopSeries. 6:30 p.m. $175-$210. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.

Art IDAHO’S FRESH NEW ARTISTS— Hotel 43’s “Fresh 43” art contest asked middle- and high-school students from around the state to express how Idaho inspires them.

Meet the winning artists, view their work and enjoy Idaho-inspired refreshments. 6 p.m. FREE. Hotel 43, 981 Grove St., Boise, 208342-4622, hotel43.com.

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE: NEXT TO NORMAL—See Thursday. 7 p.m. $10-$12. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208-498-0571.

Art ANNE WATSON SORENSEN OPENING RECEPTION—Anne Watson Sorensen is recognized as one of Idaho’s most accomplished watercolor painters. Meet the artist, and enjoy wine and treats. 5 p.m. FREE. The Gallery at Finer Frames, 164 E. State St., Ste. B, Eagle, 208-888-9898, finer frames.com.

STUDENT ART SHOW OPENING RECEPTION—Students will be doing demos during show hours.

7 p.m. FREE. Hasbrouck House, 1403 12th Ave. S., Nampa.

FIRST FRIDAY—Celebrate the one-year anniversary in the new space with tours, demos and door prizes, plus wine by Perks of Life, music by solo pianist Christian Housel. Featured Northwest kiln glass artist Christopher Gibson. 5 p.m. FREE. Fusions Glass Studio, 135 N. Second St., Eagle, 208-938-1055, fusionsidaho.com.

Kids & Teens

Kids & Teens

PICNIC IN THE PARK—The Idaho Foodbank will provide the USDA’s free summer feeding program at River Pointe Park, behind the library. For all children up to age 18. For more service times and info, call the food bank or visit their website. 11 a.m. Continues through Aug. 15. Kids FREE, adults $1. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

GRIDIRON DREAMS FOOTBALL CAMP—Camp for ages 7-18 focuses on football and speed fundamentals. Mentors include current NFL athletes. Athletes ages 12-18 will participate in two sessions on June 6-7, while athletes ages 7-11 will participate in one session June 7. For more info and to register, visit gridirondreams.net. 5 p.m. $50-$75. Capital High School, 8055 Goddard Road, Boise, 208854-4490, boiseschools.org/ schools/capital.

FRIDAY JUNE 6 Festivals & Events GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL—Enjoy traditional Greek dishes, including souvlaki, gyros, dolmades, pastries and other traditional meals, along with Greek and domestic wines and drafts from Payette Brewing and Hayden

SPECIAL OLYMPICS YOUTH ACTIVATION SUMMIT—The annual Project UNIFY Youth Activation Summit (YAS) presents the opportunity for youth to be involved in a variety of leadership, team building and service learning activities throughout the weekend of June 6-7. Call or visit the website for more info or to register. 7:30 a.m. FREE. Special Olympics Idaho Headquarters, 199 E. 52nd St., Garden City, 800-915-6510, idso.org.

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8 DAYS OUT Odds & Ends HOKUM HOEDOWN SQUARE DANCE—Enjoy a modern take on the old-time hootenanny, featuring the infectious swing of the Hokum Hi-Flyers acoustic string band. All ages; full bar (I.D. required). 7 p.m. $7. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-3850111, thelinenbuilding.com.

SATURDAY JUNE 7 Festivals & Events “AS-IS” BIKE SALE—BBP will sell “as-is” bikes at the shop on the first Saturday of each month.

Proceeds from all bike sales will benefit BBP kids programs.

11 a.m. FREE admission. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

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.

BOISE STAGE STOP’S SUMMERFEST—Enjoy two days of cars and motorcycles on display, live music from local bands, family friendly activities, motorcycle events, vendors, food and more. Proceeds to

benefit the Boise Rescue Mission and their affiliated shelters. Get more info at boisestagestop. org/summerfest.html. 10 a.m.

FREE. Boise Stage Stop, 23801 S. Orchard Access Road, I-84 off Exit 71, Boise, 208-343-1367, boisestagestop.org.

or just stroll through the show and view all the various category entries and competitions. It’s a beautiful sight to behold. In the Aspen Room. Noon. FREE. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, riversideboise.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.

IRONMAN 70.3 BOISE— The triathlon returns to Boise. Welcome athletes at the finish line in Julia Davis Park. See Picks, Page xx. ironman.com.

EAGLE ART FESTIVAL 2014— Featuring more than 30 local artists, prizes and giveaways.

Brought to you by Frame Works.

Get more info at frameworksidaho.com or 208-939-7075. 10 a.m. FREE. North Channel Center, 600 S Rivershore Lane, Eagle.

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.

GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL—See Friday. 11 a.m. $1, kids under 12 FREE. Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 2618 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208345-6147, serfes.org.

IDAHO ROSE SHOW—Enter your own garden roses to compete

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On Stage AS YOU LIKE IT—See Friday.

6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-4299908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

DAISY’S MADHOUSE THEATRE: THE LAST 5 YEARS—See Friday. 8 p.m. $12 online, $15 door. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise, daisysmadhouse.org.

IDAHO MUSCLE CLASSIC— Competition featuring bodybuilding, fitness, figure, physique and bikini championships. Judging at 10 a.m., with finals at 6 p.m.

10 a.m. and 6 p.m. $20 judging, $30-$40 finals. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208426-1609, box office: 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.

MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS—A Classical Revolution Outdoor Concert featuring the Boise Philharmonic. These classically trained musicians will perform in a relaxed outdoor venue in downtown Crouch. Take chairs and coolers. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Garden Valley Center for the Arts, 1068 Middlefork Road, Garden Valley.

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE: NEXT TO NORMAL—See Thursday. 7 p.m. $10-$12. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208-498-0571.

Art ANNUAL WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBIT OPENING RECEPTION—Check out the opening reception of the exhibit, which features works by artists Brad Brown, Chad Buck, Garth Claassen, Christel Dillbohner, Lennox Dunbar, Henry Jackson, Benjamin Jones, Gustavo Ramos Rivera, Seiko Tachibana, and Stephanie Wilde. 11 a.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208433-0593, stewartgallery.com.

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THE GREAT EAGLE ART PARTY—Enjoy a fun evening of food, wine and music to support the arts in Eagle. The event kicks off the Eagle Sculpture Invitational.

Award presentation, silent auction and more. Tickets are available at Fusions, Finer Frames and Second Avenue Consignment in downtown Eagle or by calling 208888-9898. 6 p.m. $25. Fusions Glass Studio, 135 N. Second St., Eagle, 208-938-1055, fusionsidaho.com.

STEPHANIE DASH MARVEL ARTIST RECEPTION AND GALA—Enjoy wine and snacks at this meet-the-artist gala. Exhibit runs through June. The Gallery is also open Thursday through Sunday. 11 a.m. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden Valley Center for the Arts, 1068 Middlefork Road, Garden Valley.

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8 DAYS OUT Literature GHOSTS AND PROJECTORS POETRY READING—Hear readings from Tyler Brewington and Kelly Schirmann, both of Portland, with Boise writers Zeke Hudson, Heather Hamilton and Catherine Kyle. 7 p.m. $2 suggested donation. Hyde Park Books, 1507 N. 13th St., Boise, 208-429-8220, hydeparkbooks.net.

Kids & Teens GRIDIRON DREAMS FOOTBALL CAMP—See Friday. 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. $50-$75. Capital High School, 8055 Goddard Road, Boise, 208-854-4490, boiseschools. org/schools/capital.

FRANKLY BURLESQUE—Featuring the best burlesque performers in Boise. 8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3456344.

MONDAY JUNE 9 Workshops & Classes INTRODUCTION TO PINTEREST—Learn how to set up an account, how to pin and ways to use Pinterest to help you organize your life. Registration is required.

Register online at boisepubliclibrary.org/calendar. Call for more info. 11 a.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Animals & Pets PET-A-PALOOZA 2014—Watch Boise K-9 cops do demonstrations, along with raffles for prizes, face painting, vendor booths, food truck, special Boise K-9 dog collars for sale and animals available for adoption. Fundraiser sponsored by WendyWorks Realty for the BPD Canine Foundation and Fuzzy Pawz Rescue. See Picks, Page 25. 11 a.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise.

SUNDAY JUNE 8 Festivals & Events BOISE STAGE STOP’S SUMMERFEST—See Saturday. 10 a.m.

FREE. Boise Stage Stop, 23801 S. Orchard Access Road, I-84 off Exit 71, Boise, 208-343-1367, boisestagestop.org.

TUESDAY JUNE 10 On Stage AS YOU LIKE IT—See Friday.

6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-4299908, box office 208-336-9221, www.idahoshakespeare.org.

THERESA CAPUTO LIVE! THE EXPERIENCE—The psychic medium and star of the hit TLC show Long Island Medium will give interactive readings and share personal stories about her life and unique gifts. 7:30 p.m. $39.75-$89.75. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208426-1609, box office: 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.

OWYHEE COUNTY OUTPOST DAYS—See Saturday. 8 a.m.

FREE. Owyhee County Historical Museum, 17085 Basey St., Murphy, 208-495-2319.

SAVOR IDAHO—Featuring a vast array of Idaho wineries and restaurants, Savor Idaho gives consumers a unique opportunity to savor the best Idaho has to offer in wine and food. Limited to 900 guests. SOLD OUT. 2 p.m. $45. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

Talks & Lectures BROWN BAG LECTURE—Leslie Beck shares the history of the National Old Time Fiddler’s Contest at the Washington Group Plaza Central Auditorium. Attendees will be eligible to win two CDs of classic fiddle music by Old Time Fiddler Mannie Shaw or two tickets to this year’s contest June 16-21.

Noon. FREE. Washington Group Plaza, 720 Park Blvd., Boise.

Kids & Teens VOLCANO DEMONSTRATION SUMMER READING KICKOFF— Experience the power of a volcano erupting and start your summer reading off with a boom. 2 p.m.

FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 On Stage AS YOU LIKE IT—See Friday.

6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-4299908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Citizen CITIZEN’S CLIMATE LOBBY PRESENTATION—TransForm Idaho hosts Tim Dec, of the Silicon Valley North Chapter of the Citizens Climate Lobby, who will explain how the CCL is addressing the global problem of climate change and how to influence policies. Get more info at transformidaho.org. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6200 N. Garrett, Garden City, 208-658-1710, boiseuu.org.

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On Stage AS YOU LIKE IT—See Friday. 6 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-4299908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

BOISE HIVE FUNDRAISING PARTY—Door proceeds will go toward the purchase of necessary equipment and facility repair to get Boise Hive up and running.

Featuring andyrayborn & the Danger Quotient, Fox Alive, Chung Antique, Grandma Kelsey, Cloudmover, Tambalka, Possum Livin’, Cassie Lewis and John Primrose.

2 p.m. $10 suggested donation.

The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213, facebook. com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

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FIRST THURSDAY/LISTINGS East Side BASQUE MARKET—Enjoy a refreshing glass of wine or Basque Cider and summer specialty tapas while the paella is prepared for ser ving on the patio at 6 p.m. Enjoy a complimentar y wine tasting. 4 p.m.

FREE. 608 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com.

BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—Check out the free galler y tours of the new exhibits about Basque boarding houses and fronton, or ball courts, and guided tours of the Jacobs/Uberuaga house. Local musicians provide Basque music. 5:30 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

THE BRICKYARD—Enjoy fresh King Salmon fillet with lobster ceviche, accompanied by tableside salad ser vice, baked in-house rolls and finished with a nice muffin. Also featuring local musician Todd Carney and Idaho wines. 6 p.m. FREE. 601 Main St., Boise, 208-287-2121, brickyardboise. com.

SILLY BIRCH—It’s 32 oz. Tub Night, featuring $3 domestics and $5 crafts with 14 handles to choose from, plus $3 select shot specials. 9 p.m. FREE admission. 507 Main St., Boise, 208-345-2505.

South Side ATOMIC TREASURES—Celebrate reuse with an eclectic mix of vintage, retro, art and found objects, decorative and unique treasures for home, jewelr y, accessories, clothing, books and collectibles. 5 p.m.

FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-344-0811.

BODOVINO—Enjoy the pairing of wine and art like you’ve never seen, with stunning colors, rich textures, dramatic shadows

in Off-Loom Weaving, acr ylic on canvas and watercolor mixed-media wall sculpture. 5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-336-VINO (8466), bodovino.com.

BOISE PUBLIC LIBRARY— Experimental, instrumental, jam-pop garage rock played live for your listening pleasure in the Hayes Auditorium. All ages welcome. 6:30 p.m. FREE. 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3844076, boisepubliclibrar y.org.

BUNS IN THE OVEN—Free samples and super great bundles that save you the big bucks have been created just for this event. 6 p.m. FREE. 413 S. Eighth St., Stes. A and B, Boise, 208-342-5683.

THE COLE MARR GALLERY/ COFFEE HOUSE—Amazing Photographic images of Kenya from Shar yl Jackson, a Cole/

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It’s our 41st Anniversary!

Come celebrate with us on:

June 6th from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m.

Try our specially made anniversary items from Toni’s Sun Valley Ice Cream Co., Guru Donuts, MFT, Acme Bake Shop, and the Co-op Kitchen!

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BRICOLAGE—Don’t miss the bi-annual Sixth and Myrtle block party, with Bricolage featuring local artist Elizabeth Hilton, and lighting artist Marie Mortensen.

5 p.m. FREE. 418 S. Sixth St., Boise, 345-3718, bricoshoppe. com.

DRAGONFLY—All chimes are 20 percent off now through June 7. Chimes are a great idea for weddings and Father’s Day. 5 p.m. FREE. 414 W. Main St., Boise, 208-338-9234.

FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE— Check out paintings by Tomas Montaño. 5 p.m. FREE. 500 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-3454320, flyingmcoffee.com.

GOLDY’S CORNER—Enjoy a drink and the local handmade jewelr y and the unique collection of 10 local artists. 6:30 a.m. FREE. 625 W. Main St., Boise, 208-433-3934, facebook.com/pages/Goldys-Corner.

GUIDO’S—Take advantage of Guido’s Original group plan: large one-topping pizza, bottle of select wine, two bottles of beer or four fountain sodas for $20.

Dine-in only. 11 a.m. FREE. 235 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-3459011, guidosdowntown.com.

HUMPIN’ HANNAH’S—Ride Di Riddim Reggae Night, featuring Voice of Reason with Pause for the Cause. Enjoy microbrews for $3. 9:30 p.m. FREE. 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557.

MELTING POT—Take advantage of the First Thursday 2 for $22 special: cheese fondue for two and two glasses of house wine.

5 p.m. $22. 200 N. Sixth St., Boise, 208-343-8800, meltingpot.com.

REEF—Enjoy charbroiled Columbia River King Salmon marinated in soy and sake, with shaved cucumbers and tea-infused rice, tempura asparagus and a sesame salad. Featured artist will be Wendy Leger of the Stitchin’ With My Paintbrush books. Also Insert Foot live comedy improv 8-10 p.m. 5 p.m. FREE. 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

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BASQUE CULTURAL MUSEUM The big “B” on Tablerock could stand for “Basque” just as much as it means “Boise.” The proud Euzkaldunak (“speakers of the Basque language”) have inhabited the Treasure Valley and Eastern Oregon for more than 150 years. Today, their numbers have increased to make the Boise area among the largest Basque populations outside their ancient home in the mountainous north of the Iberian Peninsula.

How the Basque came to Boise and the history of their lives here is recorded at the Basque Museum and Cultural Center at 611 W. Grove St. in downtown Boise.

This First Thursday, from 5:30-8 p.m., visit the museum and explore new exhibits on the boarding house lifestyle of early local Basques and the sports associated with their frontons, or ball courts.

Free admission and guided tours of the Jacobs/Uberuaga House from 6:30-8 p.m., plus live Basque music.

If all that history makes you thirsty, duck into the bar for a kalimotxo at the Basque Center on the corner of Sixth and Grove streets. Topa!

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FIRST THURSDAY/LISTINGS Marr Photography Workshop student. Artist will be present and comfort food will be ser ved. 6 p.m.

FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Ste. B 100, Boise, 208-336-7630, cmphotoworkshops.com.

FRESH OFF THE HOOK—Enjoy halfoff appetizers. 5 p.m. FREE. 401 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-0220, freshoffthehookseafood.com.

HAIRLINES—Ready for a new hair style for summer? Stop in or call Lui The Hair Wisperer for a appointment.

5 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-383-9009.

IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM—Meet and mingle with local author Steven Koonce, who will be signing his new book, Idaho Beer: From Grain to Glass in the Gem State from 5:30-7 p.m. 5 p.m. FREE. 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208334-2120, histor y.idaho.gov.

JULIA DAVIS PARK—Julia Davis Park Docent Tours. Designed for enthusiasts of local histor y and those new to Boise, the one-hour Julia Davis Park Docent Tours offer visitors an introduction to Boise’s flagship park. Starts at the Rose Gar-

den Gazebo. Registration required at juliadavispark.org or by calling 208-338-9108. 4 p.m. FREE. 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise.

LIQUID—Enjoy the hilariously funny improv comedy troupe Sausage Par ty Of 5, winners of the 2013 Improv Comedy Cage Match. Doors open at 7 p.m., show star ts at 8 p.m. 7 p.m. $10. 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

THE LISK GALLERY—This month features photographer Mark Lisk and his passion for the black-and-white

image. 5 p.m. FREE. 403 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-3773, liskgaller y.com.

of two pair? Now is the time. Summer is here. 5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-344-1390.

LIT & CO. CANDLES—Kick off summer with Fresh Cut Grass soy candles for only $10 (regularly $14) or make your own custom scented candle or home fragrance. Per fect for Father’s Day, too. 5 p.m. FREE. 755 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-9941041, litandco.com.

NFINIT ART GALLERY—Celebrate the galler y’s second bir thday with a great big par ty featuring 31 ar tists in 31 different flavors. Plus delectable appetizers by caterer Uumpa Lumpia and cold brews by The Ram Brewer y. 5 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 131, Boise, 208-371-0586, nfinitar tgaller y.com.

MR. PEABODY’S OPTICAL SHOPPE—BOGO sale: Have you been wanting a pair of prescription sunglasses but didn’t want the cost

QUE PASA—Check out a selection of Mexican ar twork, including wall fountains, silver, metal wall ar t and blown glass. 5 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9018.

RENEWAL CONSIGNMENT HOMEWARES—Renewal is hosting a wine tasting with select wines from the Sunnyslope region, while the Fulton Street Ar t Showroom has outdoor contemporar y works by local ar tist Ed Anderson, and WineKeeper is opening it’s doors for more wine tasting and tours of the facility. 5 p.m. FREE. 517 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-338-5444.

R. GREY GALLERY JEWELRY AND ART GLASS—View the work of more than 125 American ar tists specializing in handcrafted jewelr y, wood, ceramics, and hand-blown glass, featuring the bridal jewelr y collection of designer Alishan. 5 p.m. FREE. 415 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3859337, rgreygaller y.com.

SNAKE RIVER WINERY— Chocolate and wine pairing with our friends from The Chocolat Bar, plus newly released Orange Muscat and Touriga Nacional, as well as some old favorites. Twenty percent off regular price cases. 5 p.m. FREE. 786 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-345-9463.

SOLID—Enjoy tasting and ar t, with live music, free appetizers and 2-for-1 drinks, a $6 happy hour food menu from 4-6 p.m. and 10-midnight, and trivia at 8 p.m. 4 p.m.

FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208345-6620, solidboise.com.

SWANK BOUTIQUE—Enjoy 20 percent off all dresses. 5 p.m. FREE. 860 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-3314126.

Central Downtown ANGELL’S RENATO—View the watercolors of featured ar tist Cheri Meyer and enjoy two-for-one drinks, as well as half-off bar appetizers. 5 p.m. FREE. 999 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-4900, angellsbarandgrill. com.

ARTISAN OPTICS—Stop by to see the entire collection of eyewear and sunglasses by Bar ton Perreira, featuring classic, timeless designs, ar tfully melding the past with the present. Live music by Ryan Wissinger. Noon. FREE. 190 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-338-0500, ar tisanoptics.com.

THE ART OF WARD HOOPER GALLERY—Enjoy 20 percent off all signed and numbered limitededition prints. 5 p.m. FREE. 745 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-866-4627, wardhooper.com.

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

BERRYHILL & CO. RESTAURANT— Enjoy happy hour 4-7 p.m., with live jazz from Ken Harris and Rico Weisman 6-9 p.m. in the outdoor patio lounge. 6 p.m. FREE. 121 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-387-3553, johnberr yhillrestaurants.com.

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FIRST THURSDAY/LISTINGS BITTERCREEK ALEHOUSE—Art of the Worm: Get to know the underground worms that Bittercreek Alehouse employs in their quest to eliminate organic waste, with tours from 6-8:30 p.m. 5 p.m. FREE. 246 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-1813, bcrfl. com/bittercreek.

MIXING BOWL—Get everything you need to start grilling. The Himalayan Salt Blocks and Pizza on the Grill are the seasons best sellers. Father’s Day gifts wrapped free of charge. 9 a.m.

FREE. 216 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-345-6025, themixingbowlboise.com.

BOISE CASINO RUEDA—Come learn and enjoy some salsa dancing with Boise Casino Rueda in front of the Capitol building. Don’t be shy and just jump in! 6 p.m. FREE. 700 W. Jefferson St., Boise.

PLAN B LOUNGE—Spring Wine Flight by Vale Winery 6-8 p.m., plus two BOGO Happy Hours from 5-7 p.m. and 10-close. 5 p.m. $9.

121 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-3873553, johnberryhillrestaurants.com.

CHANDLERS STEAKHOUSE— Celebrate the New Social Hour from 4-6 p.m., with a menu of delicious small plates and creative cocktails all priced between $5-$7. This menu is exclusive to these hours ONLY. 5 p.m. FREE. 981 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-3834300, chandlersboise.com.

PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP—Visit the Annual Open House, featuring displays of art glass by Boise area artists and local wines from Indian Creek and Woodriver Cellars. 5 p.m.

FREE. 121 N. Ninth St., Ste. 303, Boise, 342-2765.

SAGE YOGA AND WELLNESS— Highlights include Betsie Richardson’s Sweet, Savory, Sustainable and a Little Saucy exhibit, plus Indian Creek Winery tasting.

5 p.m. FREE. 242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208-338-5430, sageyogaboise.com.

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FLATBREAD NEAPOLITAN PIZZERIA-DOWNTOWN—Enjoy happy hour 4-6 p.m. and half-off cocktails, wines and drafts. Also featuring $4-$6 appetizers. 4 p.m. 800 W. Main, Ste. 230, Boise, 208-287-4757, flatbreadpizza.com.

GALLERY 601—An African Experience features new mixed-media originals by Robert Aswani, Zak Aswani and Ben Njuguna depicting tribal life. Plus wildlife artwork by Simon Combes

HOTEL 43—Middle- and highschool students express how Idaho inspires them in the “Fresh 43” art contest. Meet the artists, view their work, and enjoy Idaho-inspired refreshments. 6 p.m. FREE. 981 Grove St., Boise, 208-342-4622, hotel43.com.

THE RECORD EXCHANGE— Featuring buy-two, get-one-free savings all around the store, including used CDs, vinyl, DVDs, Blu-ray and cassettes, espresso drinks and select Gift Shop items. 5 p.m. 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.

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ART SOURCE GALLERY—Featuring ODDITREE, new works

by Julie Clemons in oil stick, colored pencil, and acr ylic that focus on the many colors and shapes of trees. Music by harpist Julia Robison, wine

by Indian Creek Winer y. Show runs through June 28. 5 p.m.

FREE. 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-3374, artsourcegaller y.com.

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

ARTS AND HISTORY SESQUISHOP—Eyes on Idaho. Explore 100 historic photographs and discover life as we knew it through the lenses of Idaho Statesman photographers. Light refreshments with live music

by Bear & Hippo at 7:30 p.m.

Noon. FREE. 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509.

ILLUMINATE SALON—Featuring art by Tressa Martin. 6 p.m.

FREE. 214 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-345-1398.

LUX FASHION LOUNGE—Check out the unique selection of new and resale men’s and women’s clothing, jewelr y, hats and purses. Featuring SweetTarts pop cover band. 5 p.m. FREE. 785 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208344-4589.

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FOOT DYNAMICS—Save an additional 10 percent on Shoe Shed sale room footwear. 5 p.m.

FREE. 1021 W. Main St., Boise, 208-386-3338.

and one-of-a-kind pieces of jewelry by Nairobi artist and jewelry creator Jaymini Desai. 5 p.m.

FREE. 211 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-336-5899, gallery601.com.

THE ALASKA CENTER—Help Eric Obendor f go to the World Cup by purchasing art. Plus new original pen and ink drawings

by Joseph Pacheco, Allan Ansell Photography studio demonstrations and door prizes, and original oil paintings by Chi E Shenam Westin. 5 p.m. FREE. 1020 Main St., Boise.

COSTA VIDA—Satisfy your hunger for beach-inspired Mexican food. 5 p.m. FREE. 801 W Main St., Boise, 208-429-4109, costavida.net.

MIXED GREENS—Featuring Jamison Rae Jewelr y and the Boise Cycle Pub, the 15-person passenger-powered pub on wheels. 5 p.m. FREE. 237 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-344-1605, ilikemixedgreens.com.

ZENERGY BOISE—SQN Sport, a luxur y sportswear clothing company from Sun Valley, will hold an exclusive trunk show.

Refreshments, appetizers and spa specials will be available.

Tour the new facility and receive a complimentar y day pass. 5 p.m. FREE. 800 W. Main St., Ste. 210, Boise, 208-789-0477, zenergyboise.com.

THE DISTRICT COFFEE HOUSE—Expand your coffee palate and knowledge, as the The District’s connoisseurs explain the different origins and the flavors and aromas that can be squeezed from the bean.

Also featuring the ongoing world photography of Aaron Rodriguez.

8 p.m. FREE. 219 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-343-1089, districtcoffeehouse.com.

ALLIES LINKED FOR THE PREVENTION OF HIV AND AIDS—Featuring a film night and discussion of HIV. Refreshments will be ser ved. 5 p.m.

FREE. 1009 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-424-7799, alphaidaho.org.

CITY PEANUT SHOP—Join City Peanut Shop and Sockeye Brewing for the official release of their latest collaboration. Think Sockeye Powerhouse Porter on nuts and Dagger Falls IPA on our Hopcorn. 5 p.m. FREE. 803 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-4333931.

MCU SPORTS—Members from Boise Aeros and House of Pain will give triathlon training tips from 6-7 p.m. Call Jimmie or Travis at 208-322-7734 for more info. 5 p.m. 822 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-342-7734, mcusports.com.

TONIC HAIR AND SKIN BAR— Enjoy appetizers and a special discount on all retail products, GHD flat irons and Clarisonics.

5 p.m. FREE. 220 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-344-1700.

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CHOCOLAT BAR—Enjoy Snake River Winer y wines paired with chocolates. 5 p.m. FREE. 805 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208338-7771, thechocolatbar.com.

MAI THAI—Enjoy Izakaya (smallplate appetizers) and 2-for-1 drinks during happy hour, plus the rotational wine-by-the-glass special. 5 p.m. FREE. 750 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-3448424, maithaigroup.com.

THE STUDIO: AN ELITE SALON AND SPA—Featuring art by Canadian-born artist Patricia York. 5 p.m. FREE. 702 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-577-6252, facebook.com/TheStudioAnEliteSalonAndSpa.

Classy glass.

BOISE ART GLASS Boise Art Glass, long a fixture at the corner of Sixth and Myrtle streets, is celebrating the grand opening of its new location at 1124 W. Front St., and it’s throwing open its doors to the public for an evening of food, drink, music and—most important—art.

From 5-10 p.m., Thursday, June 5, Boise Art Glass and Fire Fusion Studio will offer free admission, glass crafting demonstrations, live jazz, beer, wine, food from Barbacoa and Le Crepe, and the chance to make some glass art of your own.

For $40 per piece, you can craft your very own glass cup in a 30-minute session, or, for $10 per piece, make an enameled pendant in a special one-hour class. Advanced signup required for the classes; call 208-345-1825 to get your name on the list.

Beyond the entertainment, this First Thursday is your chance to pick up some of the gallery’s one-of-a-kind pieces for 10 percent off.

BEN AND JERRY’S SCOOP SHOP—Enjoy $1 scoops in cups or cones all day long.

5 p.m. $1. 103 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-342-1992, benjerr y. com.

BOISE ART GLASS AND FIREFUSION STUDIO—Check out the grand opening of the new location. Ever ything is 10 percent off one night only. Featuring demonstrations, live music, beer and wine, with Le Crepe out front with delicious crepes and fresh squeezed lemonade.

Call for class details and availability. 5 p.m. FREE. 1124 W. Front St., Boise, 208-345-1825, boiseartglass.com.

CHANDI DESIGN—Check out a First Thursday photo booth with photographer Graham B. McBride. Enjoy a sneak peek of his ongoing photo series “Occupation.” 5 p.m. FREE. 1110 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-3318332, chandilighting.com.

Pride of the parks.

JULIA DAVIS PARK Some of Boise’s biggest, best parks are named after women who played integral roles in the city’s growth and prosperity: Kathr yn Albertson, Julia Davis, Ann Morrison, Dona Larsen. We are familiar with these parks insofar as the amenities they offer and how convenient the are when we’re in the mood for a picnic or rousing round of Frisbee, but we don’t often know their histor y.

Become park proficient on First Thursday with a one-hour Julia Davis Park Docent Tour. Tours begin at 4 p.m. in the Rose Garden Gazebo and as you walk through Boise’s flagship park, you’ll learn more about it as your guide points out historically significant sites and markers, and you’ll see why Julia Davis Park is the “cultural and historic heart of Boise.”

Tour registration is required. Register online at juliadavispark. org or by calling 208-338-9108.

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MILD ABANDON/CARTOON Cue the Black Sabbath.

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FRIDAY-SATURDAY JUNE 6-7 good greek 33RD ANNUAL GREEK FOOD FESTIVAL While barbecue season commences in late spring and the masses slip on flip-flops to chow down on burgers, sometimes you get in a rut and need some new cuisine. Something fresh and exciting—foreign, perhaps. In this case, go Greek. A good rule of thumb: The trickier the food is to pronounce, the more adventurous it will be: fasolia yahni, spanakopita and dolmades.

Of course, there’s no better way to end a festive evening than dessert, so take a bite of baklava and munch on some melomakarona to add a little sophistication to your sweet tooth.

If you’re kicking yourself because you’re going to miss Savor Idaho—tickets are sold out—don’t make the same mistake, and get yourself to the Greek.

11 a.m. $1 donation, children 12 and younger FREE. Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, 2618 W. Bannock St., boisegreekfestival.com.

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SATURDAY JUNE 7 running just as fast as they can IRONMAN 70.3 If you’re a recreational cyclist, your gear probably includes a bike, a helmet and a pair of shorts. Maybe a water bottle. A triathlete’s kit, by comparison, is prolific: aerobars (handlebars designed to make the rider aerodynamic); goopy, high-energy foods stashed in a bento box; a teardrop helmet; and wheels with carbon fiber blades instead of spokes.

Triathletes need all this gear because the bicycle leg of a triathlon is, arguably, the easy part. Sure, riders are going fast, but a bike makes a great hideaway for the food and drink that will get athletes across the finish line. Being a triathlete involves planning, pacing and strategy.

Join world-class athletes Saturday, June 7, for Ironman 70.3, beginning at noon at Lucky Peak Reservoir. There, participants will swim a 1.2-mile loop, followed by a 56-mile bike ride back into the City of Trees. Finally, they’ll run 13.1 miles along the Boise River, with the finish line in Julia Davis Park.

The contest features 40 qualifying slots for the Ironman 70.3 World Championship in Mont-Tremblant, Quebec.

Noon. FREE. Lucky Peak Reser voir, Idaho 21; Downtown Boise; Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, ironman.com.

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PRIMULA FLAVOR IT INFUSION PITCHER For once, this car ride doesn’t end at the vet’s office.

He’s your knight in shining armor, and he loves you.

SATURDAY JUNE 7 a furry affair

SUNDAY JUNE 8

PET-A-PALOOZA 2014

turn the other cheek

Here’s an understatement: Pets are an impor tant par t of our lives. In fact, the word “pet” may not be the best choice—animals are family. We walk with them, plan vacations around them, celebrate their bir thdays and some of us even dress them. So if your puppy is your pal or your cat is your companion, you need to get to Pet-A-Palooza.

This animal-centric festival features Boise Police Depar tment K-9 dogs, who will per form demonstrations and be available for pictures. If you’re looking to take a snuggly new friend home, animals will be on hand for adoption.

With face painting, a raffle and grub from P. Ditty’s Wrap Wagon, make a day of it with your quadruped buddy—but be prepared to share some of those eats should you find yourself staring into a pair of sad, puppy-dog eyes.

11 a.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, 1000 N. Americana Blvd., Boise, 208-338-2657, wendyworks.com/petapalooza.

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KENNY ROGERS: THROUGH THE YEARS Turns out, The Gambler really does know when to hold and when to fold ’em: In February, 76-year-old Kenny Rogers canceled a handful of performances—including a show at the Morrison Center—due to illness. After nearly 60 years of writing and performing (and co-founding Kenny Rogers Roasters, which closed U.S. operations and filed for bankruptcy but now thrives in Malaysia and the Philippines), the Academy Awardwinning, Country Music Hall of Fame-inducted, chart-topping silver-haired icon is entitled to some time off.

Forty years ago, Rogers was a master of genre-crossing, lending his deep, Texas-born country tone to pop tunes with ease. Recently honored with the Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award at the 74th Country Music Awards, Rogers is on the road with his Through the Years Tour, which includes a rescheduled stop in Boise on Sunday, June 8.

7:30 p.m., $47-$75. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

In the United States, our favorite new thing is marketed as the Flavor It Infusion Pitcher by Primula; to which we say, au contraire. We much prefer to call our latest summertime beverage dispenser pichet d’Infusion, as it is described on the flip side of its packaging.

But to either, we exclaim, c’est magnifique.

The concept is ridiculously simple; the patented technology is genius. The BPA, dishwasherprimulaproducts.com safe pitcher, which fits in the fridge door, has a circular “core” that twists into the center—that’s the infuser. Fill the pitcher with water, and fill the core with anything that suits your fancy, like spices, herbs, fruit, vegetables. We’ve already tried several combinations: oranges and lemons, strawberries and blueberries, lemons and limes. If you covet that fancy cucumber water they serve in day spas, slice some cucumbers and drop them in the core. It’s spectacular. Another favorite is sliced lemon and six fresh mint leaves. Tap water is great, but sparkling water is extra special.

Primula also sells two accessories: a stainless steel tea infuser for brewing loose tea or ground coffee, hot or cold; and a “chill core,” which you fill with water and freeze, and it keeps beverages in the pitcher cool for several hours, even out on the patio.

The Flavor It Infusion Pitcher retails for $19.99 (includes the flavor infuser) and $29.99 for the 3-in-1 Beverage System, which includes the pitcher and all the accessories (favor infuser, tea infuser and chill core).

—George Prentice

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ONE MAN’S TREASURE The transformation begins at BIM.

MENTAL HEALTH, A FEAST OF FESTIVALS, ART AND CULTURE When Spotlight Theatre opens the awardwinning play Next to Normal, Thursday, June 5, audiences will be treated to more than 30 original pop-rock songs that frame the story of a family fighting to remain whole—to be “normal”—as mental illness threatens to tear them apart. spotlight-theatre.com.

If you saw hundreds of people running around with cameras, lights and sound equipment last weekend and wondered what was going on, you’re probably new in town. Those frantic folks were participating in the annual i48 Film Competition and Festival in which teams have 48 hours to write and produce a short film. See what all the hubbub was about at The Egyptian, Sunday, June 8, at 5 p.m. during the Best of the Fest screening.

Tickets are $6. idaho48.org.

And in other fest news, organizers are proud to announce the Boise Pride Festival has been reborn as Boise Pridefest, thanks in part to Valley Entertainment. The 24th annual LGBT celebration moves from Ann Morrison Park to fill downtown Boise with all the colors of the rainbow Saturday, June 21, beginning at 10 a.m. with the traditional rally on the Capitol steps, followed by the Pridefest Parade and ending with events and entertainment throughout the day. Get tickets and a schedule at boisepridefest.com.

Still feasting on fests, if you or your kids plan to spend the lion’s share of summer chewing up The Hunger Games or chilling out with A Song of Fire and Ice, Boise Public Library would like to reward you. Join the library’s reading program, Summer Fest 2014, and earn prizes. Sign up at boisepubliclibrary. org/classes-events/summer-reading.

Reward yourself in another way by experiencing Kirsten Furlong: Repeat and Shift, a new exhibit opening Thursday, June 12, 3-8 p.m. at Enso Artspace. In Repeat and Shift, Furlong, a lecturer at Boise State University and director of its Visual Arts Center, exhibits “prints, drawings and installations that speak to her interest in issues of human/animal interactions and the impact of this relationship on the natural world.” Opening reception is Friday, June 13, 5-8 p.m. ensoartspace.com Looking forward to the future, the new Boise International Market is scheduled to open later this summer. The 12,000-squarefoot building at 5823 W. Franklin Road will be transformed into a multicultural marketplace, open seven days. Nearly 30 business owners from around the world will share their cultures through food, art, music and more.

Watch the video, Meet Our People (bit. ly/1m8dkdA) and then watch these pages for more on BIM. facebook.com/boiseinternationalmarket.

—Amy Atkins

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Metal detectors unearth relics that some say should stay buried JESSICA MURRI The gold nugget hanging from a chain around Gerry McMullen’s neck is worth almost $1,000. He found it 15 years ago and since then, has unearthed gold nuggets worth 25 times more. But for McMullen, the nugget around his neck represents a passion for metal detecting that began in 1974, when he was 7 years old and growing up in Boise’s North End. With his metal detector, he was able to find enough silver coins—and flip them at a jewelry shop—to afford admission to the Meridian Speedway, hot dogs and soda.

“This money-finding detector was my dream ticket,” McMullen said.

He couldn’t have guessed at the time that he would someday make a living off metal detectors. Twenty years ago, McMullen and his wife were laid off from Micron on the same day. As she sat beside him, crying, he told her, “I’m going to take this hobby and make it into a full-time business.”

That was the beginning of Gerry’s Metal Detectors, a business McMullen runs out of the basement of his North End home. He sells about 300 metal detectors a year worldwide— they can cost as much as $5,000 each—and offers training to his customers, taking them to the Nevada desert, Arizona, the Bahamas, Alaska, Hawaii, Mexico, Lake Tahoe, Australia, England and the East Coast. The walls of McMullen’s basement business are lined with hundreds of different detectors and the shelves are filled with bottles, small toys, hinges, locks, glass cases of coins, bike licenses and dog tags from 1896, 1909 and 1918.

McMullen is careful to go by the books. Every year, he gets a permit from the city to metal detect in parks. Whenever he finds something overseas, he goes through export laws and works with archeologists to get those items catalogued and even displayed in museums.

But many metal detector enthusiasts aren’t so careful. Two laws, the Archaeological Resources Protection Act and the 43 CFD 8365, state that any archeological or historic item on public lands needs to stay there. In Idaho, that covers a lot of territory: a combined 65 percent of the Gem State is owned by the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and the Idaho Land Trust.

“Items that are out there on public lands, they’re part of our history,” said F. Kirk Halford, deputy preservation officer and state archaeologist for Idaho’s BLM office. “People should think of it like an outdoor museum.

You see it, touch it, take pictures, take notes, then leave it behind. When you go into a museum, you don’t take stuff away.”

“Beep, beep, beep, beep.”

Those rules have proved a challenge for what is a growing hobby in the Treasure Valley. The Boise Basin Search and Recovery Club boasts about 50 members who get together at Idaho Pizza Company every month to show off their latest finds. They also hold a biannual planted hunt. Their most recent hunt took place last month on a ranch outside of New Plymouth, where 2,000 modern coins were spread out across an acre. Members combed the field, large headphones covering their ears, their detectors ranging the ground. For every coin, a chorus of beeps filled the air. One member of the club, who didn’t want to be named, said he is fed up with the federal laws.

“I’ve heard of people on government land getting their metal detectors confiscated,” he said. “I’m getting paranoid about going places. I go to old homestead sites, some that aren’t even on a map. This stuff is going to be in the ground forever and eventually just decay away to nothing.”

Other metal detector advocates, like the author of metal-detecting-ghost-towns-of-theeast.com, echo concerns that enthusiasts are unfairly prohibited from pursuing their hobby.

“As you read this page, you will begin to understand that those laws are a hindrance to our right of enjoying our public lands,” the website states, going on to relay horror stories of small children getting arrowheads ripped from their hands by archeologists whose goal is “to control every item of history.”

This is an issue that has Halford scratching his head. It’s hard to catch people in the act, which can lead to a $100,000 fine and five years in jail. But he’s happier leaving metal detector hobbyists with a warning and some education on the issue. Halford also wants to encourage them to work with the BLM and archaeologists to help develop research opportunities.

The president of the Society for American Archaeology, Jeff Altschul, feels the same frustration.

“The artifacts should be owned by the public and not privately,” Altschul said. “It’s

important that those items sit in the dirt. Once it gets out of the dirt, if it’s not recovered adequately, it’s just a thing on the shelf. It has no importance to history. You’ve lost the entire story of what that piece meant, and you lose all ability to reconstruct the past, the settlement of the West and how people lived.

“These are generally not the people in history books; they’re not wealthy,” he added.

“The only thing that remains is the archaeological record. If you take that out, the story is gone. All it does is sit on your shelf.”

Halford said the issue erupted with reality TV shows like National Geographic Channel’s Diggers.

“It promotes people treasure hunting and unfortunately they don’t give the proper message,” Halford said. “It teaches folks that it’s OK to go out and find this stuff and sell it.

It’s teaching people to go out and steal from the public.”

For McMullen, detecting is only half the hunt. Once he finds an item, “it’s a whole new treasure hunt, trying to find the history of the items,” he said. “So you’re on the Internet, doing Google searches, finding forums, talking to people. Eventually someone will know what it is. Then sometimes you’ll see a picture of somebody in the old days wearing that exact item.”

McMullen returns rings he finds along beaches on almost every trip he takes. A family recently called and asked him to find an engagement ring that a young woman threw out the car window during a fight with her fiance. He said he loves seeing the reaction people have when they think they’ll never see something again.

“It’s a community service that we do,” he said.

As far as the gold nugget around McMullen’s neck, he said if he does ever lose it, “Part of me hopes [the person who finds it] would try to track me down. And the other part of me says, ‘Enjoy it. Have fun with it.’ But I don’t want to see it just sit in the ground because then no one gets to enjoy it.”

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE GUIDE 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 CARMEL CROCK AND KEN HARRIS—6 p.m. FREE. Sofia’s

REVERIE—With Sheep Among Wolves and 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

THURSDAY JUNE 5

DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar (Riverside Hotel)

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

When a song opens with the deep, melancholy strains of a cello, it’s often a warning: The song you are about to hear covers some serious stuff. That theory is borne out in “Annie”—the first track on The Sky Is Falling (April 2014, Big Bubba Dog), the new digital-only release from Washington-based Star Anna. And whether it’s a more rocking tune, a horn-drenched song or a quiet guitar piece, Anna continues to deliver difficult truths.

“The Sky Is Falling is an album about getting sober,” Anna writes in the album notes. “It’s about letting go and moving forward. It’s not a Laughing Dogs record, and it’s not quite a solo record either. … Though these songs were recorded before Go To Hell [2013, Sparkle & Shine Records], the album seemed too tender and self-reflective to come out on the heels of my band breaking up. ... Now that the dust has settled from the road bumps of the last few years, I feel ready to put The Sky Is Falling out into the world.”

—Amy Atkins

DAVID HENRY—6 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing

DAVE ROBINETTE—7 p.m.

FREE. Jo’s Lounge

EMILY TIPTON—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

THE FRAY—With Barcelona and Oh Honey. 7 p.m. $35. IBG

KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

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

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m.

FREE. Whole Foods

With Heather Reid (of the Murmurs), 7 p.m., $TBA. The Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., facebook.com/boisethebouquet.

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

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MCGINNIS BAND—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Highlands Hollow 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

SPAFFORD—With Andyrayborn & the Danger Quotient and Horsefly. 7 p.m. $5. Crux TERRY JONES—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

FRIDAY JUNE 6 THE BLUE RAYZ—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

DARIN CAINE—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District

SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

DIESTO—With Cerberus Rex and Sun Blood Brothers. 8 p.m. $5.

Shredder

TANGO ALPHA TANGO—With Mother Shipton and A Sea Of Glass. 8 p.m. $5. Bouquet

EMILY REO—With Cuddle Formation, Ancient Psychic Tandem War Elephant, Incan Abraham and Evil-Liza. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

TERRY JONES AND CLAY MOORE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

FLOATER—With Dying Famous and Bliiss. 8 p.m. $16-$31. Knitting Factory

SATURDAY JUNE 7

GREAT BAIT—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers JOHN MARTINEZ AND LEGENDS OF THE YOUNG—8 p.m.

FREE. Artistblue Gallery JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers THE MILK CARTON KIDS—With Tom Brosseau. 8 p.m. $15.

Neurolux MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. 9 p.m. $3, Kay and Traci’s PATRICK RICE—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Solid PAUL TILLOTSON AND PETE PETERSEN—With Luke Brodt. 8 p.m. $14-$30. Sapphire Room POSSUM LIVIN CD RELEASE PARTY—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

BODYBUILDING.COM EXPO AFTER-PARTY—8 p.m. With Seven Lions, Gladiator and Two Fresh. FREE-$100, Revolution CARA—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers COMMON KINGS—With Sammy J and the Jimmy Weeks Project 10 p.m. $15. Reef ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel JAMES COBERLY SMITH, LEANNE TOWN AND FRIENDS—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s LEFT COAST COUNTRY—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

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GUIDE/LISTEN HERE GUIDE MOTOPONY—With Empires and Aaron Mark Brown. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door, Neurolux

LARRY CLARK—Noon, FREE. Gelato Cafe

HAVOK—With Wretched and Kr ystos. 7 p.m. $12. Shredder

NORTHERN GIANTS—With Marshall Poole. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS—With Loamlands. 8 p.m. $19-$35, Knitting Factory

JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s

PAUL TILLOTSON AND PETE PETERSEN—With Luke Brodt. 8 p.m. $14-$30. Sapphire Room

RED FANG—With Big Business, American Sharks and Helms Alee. 7 p.m. $15. Neurolux

PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE—With Actual Depiction, Zack Quintana and Fort Harrison. 8 p.m. $6-$12.

Knitting Factory

THE SIDEMEN—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

REBECCA SCOTT—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

MONDAY JUNE 9

STAR ANNA—See Listen Here, Page 28. 8 p.m. $TBA, Bouquet TOM TAYLOR AND DOUGLAS NARRY—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar (Riverside Hotel) ZOLOPHT—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

SUNDAY JUNE 8 DEROCK AND OSO NEGRO PRESENT: GLIFE, DJ POOKIE, NU3TRON AND EMCEE EVOLUTION—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s KENNY ROGERS—See Picks, Page 25. 7:30 p.m. $48-$75.

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FREE. Chandlers JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Solid

TUESDAY JUNE 10 BERNIE REILLY BAND—7 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye Grill and Brewery

JOSHUA COOK & THE KEY OF NOW—7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door, Neurolux KEVIN KIRK WITH SALLY TIBBS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers WYATT LOWE AND THE OTTOMATICS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar (Riverside Hotel)

WEDNESDAY JUNE 11 ADDAM CHAVARRIA—8 p.m.

FREE. Reef ALIVE AFTER FIVE: SHOOK TWINS—With Bread & Circus. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza

KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers MARRIAGE + CANCER—With HiHazel and Velvet Hook. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder MIKE WOJNIAK—With Andrew McBride. 7 p.m. $5. Grainey’s MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s NEON TREES—With Smallpools and Nightmare & The Cat. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $23-$50. Knitting Factor y OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s PATIO CONCERT SERIES—With Andrew Cortens, Tom Jensen and Billy Mitchell. 7 p.m. Berr yhill RESTLESS HEART—7:30 p.m. $35-$45. Sapphire Room SCOTT KNICKERBOCKER—6 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing

BEN BURDICK—6 p.m. FREE. Banbur y Golf Club

SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub

KEN HARRIS AND CARMEL CROCK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar (Riverside Hotel)

BOISE OLD TIME JAM—6:30 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s BUD BRONSON AND THE GOOD TIMERS—With Velvet Hook and guests. 7 p.m. FREE. The Crux

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NEON TREES, JUNE 11, KNITTING FACTORY Neon Trees looks and sounds like a band from the ’80s should look and sound. But members of this band weren’t performing in the decade of excess, DayGlo colors and synthesizer music, they were being born.

The band’s third album, Pop Psychology (April 2014, Island/ Mercury) is aptly titled: it’s a catchy, hooky collection of pop tunes, and it’s also somewhat biographical, with frontman Tyler Glenn sharing his personal life (as he has done on previous Neon Trees releases) and the psychological effect of watershed moments in songs like “First Things First.”

Neon Trees found a wide audience opening for The Killers in 2008 and found commercial success with its debut release, 2010’s Habits (Mercury). Since then, Neon Trees has continued to deliver listenable, ’80s-esque tunes that don’t necessarily espouse band members’ Mormon upbringing, but definitely adhere to a safe-for-the-kids vibe.

—Amy Atkins With Smallpools and Nightmare & The Cat, 8 p.m., $23$50. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., bo.knittingfactory.com.

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THE BIG SCREEN/SCREEN

DR. JEKYLL AND MR. FRANCO The wonderful/terrible career of James Franco GEORGE PRENTICE James Franco will turn in an amazing motion picture performance someday. He has to; he’s already done everything else.

Not since Orson Welles has a wunderkind fired such scattered buckshot at so many possible cultural targets: film, television, stage, literature, recordings, photography, advertising—even an art exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. Add all of that When he wasn’t teaching (upper left), Franco has appeared in (clockwise) Spring Breakers, Palo Alto, Pineapple to his now-infamous debacle as an Oscar host Express, Tristan & Isolde, Of Mice and Men and 127 Hours. and stints as a university professor at both UCLA and USC, the young Mr. Franco has targeted teens in Spring Breakers; which came about a teenage wasteland where high schoolapparently crossed everything off his bucket on the heels of a ridiculous exercise in daytime ers have a bit too much privilege and way too list… plus mine, yours and everyone else’s. creepiness on the ABC soap opera General little parental involvement.

Yet, Franco’s bucket seems to be dry, Yes, Coppola is one of those Coppolas. Her Hospital (Franco was a semi-regular on the though it’s not for lack of effort. In fact, he’s show for three years). aunt is Oscar-nominee Sofia; and Gia even currently appearing live on Broadway, eight We all know that Franco can do much hired some more of her relatives to fill out the times a week in Of Mice and Men, and is the better—just look at his performances in 127 cast of Palo Alto: great aunt Talia Shire (The producer and co-star of a new film, Palo Alto Hours, Milk and even Pineapple Express, (opening Friday, June 13 in Boise)—the screen- Godfather, Rocky); cousin Bailey Coppola; which had streaks of greatness. But an acceptand her legendary grandfather, Francis Ford play is based on Franco’s 2010 short-story able batting average doesn’t cut it. And when Coppola (you only hear his voice as a judge). collection of the same name. an artist such as Franco has ample skills, his Unfortunately, the But so much of his choices of quantity versus quality is exhaustsource material is weak. work feels instantly PALO ALTO (R) ing. We’ve seen this kind of wasted career In a 2010 critique, Pubforgettable; and, of late, Directed by Gia Coppola lisher’s Weekly ripped the before: Marlon Brando and Richard Burton Franco’s fame seems Starring James Franco, Emma Roberts, Jack Kilmer book Palo Alto to shreds come to mind. Yet, it’s Mr. Franco’s career to to be more rooted in Opens Friday, June 13. The Flicks, 646 Fulsaying, “The author fails abuse as he sees fit. online selfies, rather than ton St., 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

But then there was the aforementioned Orto find anything remotely any of his performances. son Welles who, at the age of 36, had already insightful to say in these “Attention is power,” done his best work. Today Welles is consid11 amazingly underwhelming stories.”

Franco wrote in a December 2013 article for ered by many to be one of America’s greatest But Coppola’s freshman filmmaking effort The New York Times. filmmakers; but much of that adulation came is a valiant attempt to make a decent film out He may have delusions of such power, but posthumously. In truth, by the latter part of the of a pedestrian story. In it, a creepy soccer if Franco’s statement were true, he would be coach screws around with a troubled teen who 20th century, no studio would finance Welles’s more of a despot than simply desperate for befriends another troubled teen who is friends attention. projects because he continually diluted his with a third troubled teen who… sorry, am I The good news is that Franco’s latest, talent by becoming a TV commercial pitchman boring you? Suffice to say, Palo Alto actually Palo Alto, isn’t half bad—at least the half of and participated in too much buffoonery on looks great. Unfortunately, somebody made the movie in which he doesn’t appear. As the TV variety shows. the fatal error of adding sound to this film. film’s producer, Franco earns extra points (at This is not necessarily the path that young In Palo Alto, Franco portrays the (you least behind the lens) for his encouragement Mr. Franco (who just celebrated his 37th birthguessed it) creepy soccer coach. This follows of debuting director Gia Coppola, who cuts day) is on. It’s just that if we saw less of him, her cinematic teeth on this contemporary story a 2013 performance as another creep who we could enjoy him more.

SCREEN/THE SMALL SCREEN DON’T FORGET TO SET THE DVR There are plenty of reasons not to unplug the TV set this summer—here are a few series/ season premiere dates to program into the DVR: Orange is the New Black begins its second season on NetBOI S EW EEKLY.COM

flix on Friday, June 6. True Blood launches its seventh and final season on HBO on Sunday, June 22. The Leftovers, a new HBO series based on Tom Perrotta’s bestselling novel, debuts Sunday, June 29. Unforgettable begins a third season on CBS Sunday, June 29, and CBS’s Under the

Dome, a big hit from the summer of 2013, returns for a second season Monday, June 30. In Extant, which premieres Wednesday, July 9, on CBS, Halle Berry takes her first foray into a weekly TV series.

Two NBC sitcoms, Welcome to Sweden and Working the Engels, both debut Thursday, July

10, and two of TV critics’ favorites, Ray Donovan and Masters of Sex, return to Showtime for their second-season premieres Sunday, July 13. Lastly, Food Fighters, which pits amateur chefs against pros, premieres Tuesday, July 22, on NBC. —George Prentice

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WINESIPPER/DRINK GIMME GAVI Gavi is a tiny comune located on the eastern edge of Piemonte in northwest Italy. The Piemonte area produces some of the world’s best reds, from big, age-worthy barolos to light and luscious dolcettos, but Gavi’s cortese grape makes the region’s signature white. Its popularity soared in the 1960s, then as competition from other regions in Italy increased, it fell out of favor.

That’s a shame because, at its best, cortese produces a delicious wine with food friendly acidity. Here are three that are worth your attention.

2012 BROGLIA GAVI, LA MEIRANA, $24 This wine’s richly perfumed aromas include blood orange, sweet Meyer lemon, quinine, fig and sage. The flavors are as intriguing, blending mango, tangerine, lime, mineral and a touch of almond on the lengthy finish. The La Meirana estate, which was acquired by the Broglia family in 1972, is inextricably linked to the region, with a document as far back as 971 AD identifying Gavi vineyards and giving reference to Meirana.

2012 CÀ DA MEO GAVI, $12.99 Cà da Meo is a district in the heart of Gavi, and this wine, produced

by Tenuta di Magda Pedrini, benefits from the estate’s thin, infertile soils that limit yields while producing higher quality grapes. The result is a mix of unctuous stone fruit and racy lime on the nose, along with touches of almond and mineral. The flavors are round and ripe, offering creamy peach that’s nicely balanced by crisp citrus. This wine is an exceptional bargain.

APPLES AND ORANGES Boise restaurants experiment with unusual cider and food pairings TARA MORGAN Kasespatzle with crispy onions; the HuntsAccording to an article on Seriouseats.

Ask a sommelier what goes great with man Burger with Gloucester cheddar, stilton com, there are three primary things to champagne and you’ll often get an unexconsider when pairing cider and food. First, blue and honey-glazed bacon; and the pected answer: French fries. Dry bubbly grilled pork chop with polenta, parmesan cuts the salty fat of the humble fried potato body: “Try to match the dish’s heft with and truffle oil. the body of your cider.” Second, fat: “As perfectly. So it should be no surprise that “We always have one cider on draft and the fat content in your dish goes up, so a bone-dry hard cider, with ample fizz and several selections in bottle or can,” exshould the carbonation of your cider. The just the right amount of apple acidity, also tackles fried fare effortlessly. And almost all added bubbles will scrape your palate clean plained Beverage Manager David Roberts.

“Most ciders available to us are a little on ciders—whether they’re dry, off-dry, sour or and prepare you to try the next bite.” And the sweet side, limiting what they can be finally, match flavors: “Try to bring out sweet—pair amazingly well with cheese. successfully paired with to menu items that the flavors of the cider in your sauces and Though most local beer aisles boast a are higher impact. Lots of cheeses selection of soda-pop sweet hard mainly. A drier cider is more verciders, a handful of new craft satile and could venture into fish, ciders are also starting to pop up salads and brighter deserts but will on Boise shelves. And as a recent still stand up to pungent or sharp cider dinner at State and Lemp cheeses.” demonstrated, these more complex Chris Oates, owner of hard ciders can accentuate an Bier:Thirty—which also offers hard astounding array of foods. cider on tap, along with a selecThe dinner, which featured tion of bottles and cans—has a cidermaker Nat West of Reverend few cider pairing suggestions of his Nat’s Hard Cider in Portland, own. Though Oates says he cooks Ore., matched seven delicately his mussels in a blend of cider and assembled, seasonal dishes with hefeweizen, he prefers a less obviseven varieties of hard cider, some ous combo. comprised of a single heirloom ap“The one I always recommend ple variety and others infused with is our banh mi,” said Oates. “It things like hops, apricot juice, is spicy with a lot of herbal notes ginger, lime zest and lemongrass. from basil and cilantro in the “For any given taste, any give pickled daikon and carrots that are food, we have a cider to pair it on top of the glazed pork. I like a with,” explained West. semi-dry cider with it, something To start things off, Reverend with a touch of sweetness to balNat’s Revelation Newtown Pippin ance out the fat of the Sriracha was paired with an airy bit of mayo and tame the spiciness of the fried pig’s ear, pickled mustard fresh jalapenos.” seed and fiddlehead ferns. The And Oates isn’t the only percrunch of the fried pork and pop son digging that pairing. Kerry of the mustard seed were heightCaldwell, head brewer at Edge ened by hints of tart apple in the Brewing Co., says Edge’s houselight-bodied, effervescent, off-dry made cider goes well with both cider. the restaurant’s banh mi—packed And things got more intricate with Vietnamese pork meatballs, from there. Hop-cured scallops carrot-daikon radish slaw and jabalanced on a jiggly puddle of lapenos—and the habanero mango apple panna cotta and chive gelee burger with sliced avocado and were paired with Reverend Nat’s Swiss cheese.

Hallelujah Hopricot, a cider in“We try to always keep a cider fused with Cascade hops, Belgian Nat West, of Portland, Ore.-based Reverend Nat’s Hard Cider, brought seven on. It’s made on our pilot system so wit beer spices and fresh apricot varieties of his libation for a special pairing dinner at State and Lemp. it’s only one keg at a time; somejuice. Morels stuffed with rabbit times it runs out before the next tenderloin, bathed in a pool of cebatch is ready,” said Caldwell. “We dar mushroom broth and drizzled do currently have one on. It’s very sweet and marinades, and look for ciders that share with smoky pimenton oil were matched apple juice-like. I’d pair it with the banh mi with Reverend Nat’s seasonal Br’er Rabbit, the essential flavors of your dish.” sando or the mango habanero burger.”

Less than a week after the State and a slightly funky blend of fermented apple For those who’d prefer to experiment Lemp dinner, Bittercreek Ale House also and carrot juice. Braised pork shoulder hosted a small cider and food pairing event. with cider and food pairings in the comfort with sous vide leeks, charred ramp pickles of their own home, Reverend Nat’s Hard The evening featured flights of three Tieton and pea tendrils was served with West’s Cider will soon be available in a few bottle Cider Works ciders—the Yakima Drypersonal favorite: the Revival Dry. Made shops and restaurants around Boise. You Hopped Cider, the Cherry Blend and the with a blend of American heirloom eating can also find a selection of craft ciders at the Wind, a brandy-fortified, bourbon barrelapples and English bittersweet apples, aged cider—along with a menu of suggested Boise Co-op, Bier:Thirty, Brewer’s Haven West called this tannic, uber-dry cider “my and Whole Foods. pairings, which included the housemade proudest creation.”

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2012 BATASIOLO GAVI, $15.99 Like most Piemonte estates, Batasiolo is best known for its red wines, but it also produces a little chardonnay, as well as this cortese from Gavi. The aromas are soft and subtle, tending toward honeydew melon and sweet clover. That melon carries over to the palate, where it’s joined by ripe Asian pear, vanilla and spice. A nice hit of crisp citrus adds balance to the finish.

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Date APR 16 2014 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Debra Urizar DEPUTY CLERK PUB May 14, 21, 28 & June 4, 2014 LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS FOR PUBLICATION. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF, THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA, In the Matter of the Estate of: WANDA IRENE MULDER, Deceased, STEVEN HAROLD MULDER, Personal Representative.

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within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned at the address indicated, and filed with the Clerk of the Court.

DATED this 13th day of May, 2014.

Steven Mulder c/o Gary L. Davis, MANWEILER, BREEN, BALL & DAVIS, PLLC, P.O. Box 937, Boise, ID 83702, (208) 424-9100.

Pub. May 21, 28 & June 4, 2014.

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Hey my name is Brittany Burrell, but you can call me Britt or just B. I’m 22 years old. I’m 5’2 with amazing green eyes. I’m an extremely positive person with a positive out look on life. I’m honest and a straight forward person. I love to laugh and make people laugh and have fun. I’m interested in a real, fun pen pal to keep me company. Brittany Burrell #107776 13200 S Pleasant Valley Rd Kuna, ID 83634.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Marcel Proust’s novel Swann’s Way, the narrator speaks of how profoundly he is inspired by an older writer named Bergotte: “Each time he talked about something whose beauty had until then been hidden from me, about pine forests, about hail, about Notre-Dame Cathedral ... with one image he would make that beauty explode into me.” I bring this to your attention because in the coming days I suspect a great deal of beauty will explode into you. Why? I think it’s because you’re more receptive than usual to being delighted and enchanted. The triggers could be anything: exciting people, eavesdropped conversations, good books, surprising music, who knows what else?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Little horses cannot carry great riders.” So says a Haitian proverb. Now, in accordance with the astrological omens, I’m urging you to meditate on its meaning for your life. Here are four possible interpretations: 1. Are you a “little horse” trying to carry a “great rider” who’s too much for you? 2.

Are you a little horse that could grow into a bigger, stronger horse worthy of a great rider? 3. Are you a “great rider” who is in need of a horse that is big and strong enough to serve your big, strong ambitions? 4. Would you like to be a “great rider,” but you can’t be one as long as you have a horse that is too small and weak?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Declare victory, Leo. Even if victory is not quite won yet. Even if your success is imperfect and still a bit messy around the edges. Raise your arms up in elated triumph and shout, “I am the purified champion! I am the righteous conqueror! I have outsmarted my adversaries and outmaneuvered my obstacles, and now I am ready to claim my rightful rewards!” Do this even if you’re not 100-percent confident, even if there is still some scraping or clawing ahead of you. Celebrate your growing mastery. Congratulate yourself for how far you’ve come. In this way, you will summon what’s needed to complete your mission and achieve final, total victory.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Give special attention to what will last the longest. That’s my recommendation for you in the coming weeks. Devote less of your energy to transitory pleasures and shortterm hopes. Turn away from the small obsessions that demand far too much of your energy. Withdraw from the seemingly pressing concerns that will soon start to fade because they really aren’t that important. Instead, Virgo, devote your love and intelligence to the joys and dilemmas that will animate your life well into the future.

Express reverence and care for the mysteries that will teach you

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and teach you and teach you for years to come.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My favorite bridge in the world is the Golden Gate Bridge. In the hundreds of times I have driven on it over San Francisco Bay, it has never let me down. I’ve always gotten from one side to the other without any problem. In addition to its reliability, it uplifts me with its grandeur and beauty. What’s your most beloved bridge, Libra? I suggest that in the coming weeks you make it your lucky charm, your magical symbol. Why? Because the next chapter of your life story requires you to make a major crossing. You will traverse a great divide. Having your favorite bridge as a shining beacon in your imagination will inspire your strength and courage as you travel.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): U2’s Bono has called Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah” “the most perfect song in the world.”

It is mournful and triumphant, despairing and uplifting. It’s a riddle that improbably offers cathartic release. More than 300 recording artists have arranged cover versions of it, and it has even been the subject of books. Yet it was a challenge for Cohen to compose. He wrote more than 80 verses before choosing the few he would actually include in the final version, and in one famous session he resorted to banging his head on the floor to stimulate his creative flow. “To find that urgent song,” he said, took “a lot of work and a lot of sweat.” I nominate “Hallelujah” to be one of your sacred symbols for the next 12 months, Scorpio. From your strenuous effort, I predict, will come masterful creations.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Let me outline the breakthroughs I hope to see for you in the coming months. First, what is pretty good about you will not interfere with what is potentially great about you, but will instead cooperate with it and boost it. Second, your past accomplishments won’t hold back your progress; you will not be tempted to rely on them at the expense of your future accomplishments. And third, the brave ideas that have motivated you so well won’t devolve into staid old dogmas; you will either renew and reinvigorate them or else move on to a new set of brave ideas.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): If you are in even moderate alignment with cosmic rhythms during the next 12 months, you will be a connoisseur and master of recycling. I’m speaking metaphorically here. What I hope is that you will reanimate worn-out inspirations and convert faded dreams into shiny new fantasies. You will find ways to revive alliances that went off track. A once-vibrant shtick or trick that lost its cool could be

retrieved from the ash heap of history and turned into a fresh, hot asset. Gear yourself up for some entertaining resurrections.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I wish I could tell you that your power animal this month is the eagle or dolphin or panther.

Having a glamorous creature like that as your ally might boost your confidence and charisma. To be paired with one of them might even activate dormant reserves of your animal intelligence. But I can’t in good conscience authorize such an honor. That’s not what the astrological omens are suggesting. In fact, your power animal this June is the bunny rabbit. Please understand that there is no shame in this. On the contrary. You should be charmed and appreciative. It signifies that you will be fertile, fast, a bit tricky and very cute. (To read an essay on the mythology of the rabbit as trickster, go here: tinyurl.com/rabbittrickster.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Buddhist meditation teacher Chogyam Trungpa said that one of the best ways to become fearless is to cultivate tenderness. As you expand your heart’s capacity to feel compassionate affection for the world, you have less and less to be afraid of. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom, which says you become brave by toughening up, by reinforcing your psychic armor. Of all the signs of the zodiac, you Pisceans are best set up to benefit from Trungpa’s method—now even more than usual.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires and comets inside us,” writes novelist Robert R. McCammon. “We are born able to sing to birds and read the clouds and see our destiny in grains of sand. But then we get the magic educated right out of our souls.

We get it churched out, spanked out, washed out and combed out.

We get put on the straight and narrow path and told to be responsible.” That’s the bad news, Aries.

Here’s the good news: The next 12 months will offer you a series of excellent opportunities to remagic yourself. If you have not yet caught wind of the first invitation, I bet you will soon.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “When given a choice between owning an object and having an experience,” says art critic Holland Cotter, “I always choose the experience.” He prefers to spend his money on adventures that transform his sense of self and his understanding of the world. I recommend that approach in the coming weeks, Taurus. The most valuable “possessions” you can acquire will be the lessons you learn, the skills you hone and the relationships you ripen.

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