Boise Weekly Vol. 23 Issue 05 by Boise Weekly

GAS FORWARD Taking a hard look at Idaho’s building gas boom NEWS 8

MICHAEL BRUNE Sierra Club executive director on natural gas and the Boulder-White Clouds CITIZEN 12

LONELY MAGIC Portland, Ore., band Aan and its deep Boise connections CULTURE 19

A MOST WANTED MAN Boise Weekly reviews Philip Seymour Hoffman’s last starring role SCREEN 21

“I try to keep this neighborhood together, but we’re ﬁghting,” VOLUME 23, ISSUE 05

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FROM NATURAL GAS TO NATIONAL MONUMENTS This is one of those weird weeks when big chunks of our coverage coincidentally converge on a couple of topics. Speciﬁcally, readers of this edition of Boise Weekly will ﬁnd on Page 8 an in-depth story from freelance writer Matt Furber taking a hard look at Idaho’s burgeoning natural gas industry. It’s a subject BW has covered extensively over the years, chronicling the promises and perils represented by tapping into the hydrocarbons sealed beneath Payette County. While many other news outlets trumpet the economic boon proffered by gas boom boosters, BW digs deeper to assess the risks and reality of drilling. On Page 12, the issue of natural gas exploration is again taken up in News Editor George Prentice’s conversation with Sierra Club Executive Michael Brune. Not surprising, Brune cautions against buying the hype surrounding the gas industry; what readers may be surprised to learn, however, is that Brune and his organization didn’t always feel that way. Beyond gas, Brune also addresses the purpose for his visit to Southern Idaho: stumping for the designation of the Boulder-White Clouds as a national monument. That’s another issue regular readers of Boise Weekly have become well acquainted with, through ongoing coverage of the debate and regular opinion pieces from columnist—and Sawtooth Valley resident—John Rember. While those in favor of national monument status claim designation will permanently protect the rugged landscape, those like Rember who stand against it maintain a national monument would actually open the area to more exploitation. One notable pro-monument individual is represented on Page 10: Bethine Church. The widow of late-U.S. Sen. Frank Church, Bethine passed away around Christmas 2013, but it wasn’t until July 17 that her ashes were given to the wind at a ceremony among the Boulder-White Clouds. It was there that 4th District Court Judge Patricia Young—Bethine’s cousin— said that establishing the Boulder-White Cloud National Monument was her dying wish. In Idaho, where so much power emanates from the land itself, issues of what’s both beneath the ground and growing from it wend in and out of each other as seamlessly as the rivers that carve its shape. From natural gas to national monuments, it comes down to a central issue: how best to sustain our most vital asset, our place. —Zach Hagadone

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

ANTI-TRAFFICKING A Seattle man is biking across the country to raise awareness about human trafﬁcking. Boise Weekly caught up with him during his Boise leg. Find out what he had to say on Citydesk.

TOP 10 BANDS Boise has made yet another top-10 list; this time from Paste Magazine, which ranked 10 must-listen Boise bands as part of its 50 States Project. See who made Paste’s cut on Cobweb.

DETENTION A 15-year-old Coeur d’Alene boy charged with murdering his father and brother is being held in conditions the ACLU of Idaho describes as “Guantanamo”-like. Get more on Citydesk.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK A N YO N E R E M E M B E R T HE EV E NTS THAT T O O K PL A C E AT T H E O K C O RRA L? I T’ S GON N A H APP E N A G A I N . I W I L L STE E R CLE A R. ”

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MAIL PROTECTING THE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUDS It’s time for this president to create a national monument for the Boulder-White Clouds. It is time for us to put aside our selfish interests and give the Boulder-White Clouds area the long-term protection it deserves. I grew up hiking, fishing and enjoying the scenic beauty of these two pristine mountain ranges. More recently, I have noticed increased pressure on this area from different user groups, and it makes me concerned about the future of this special place. Many of these user groups came together under the proposed CIEDRA legislation, sponsored by Rep. Mike Simpson, and recognized the importance of putting together some sort of protection for this spectacular area. Unfortunately CIEDRA did not have the support of all user groups or our current governor or U.S. senators. Without this support, the House bill had no chance of making it through our divided Congress back in D.C. This leaves the area in a state of limbo. The time is now to add some sort of long-term protection to the Boulder-White Clouds so that we may preserve this spectacular area for future generations. A national monument can accomplish this by respecting existing uses and making sure impacts don’t increase in the future. The Idaho economy stands to benefit from setting aside certain areas such as the Boulder-White Clouds as a national monument. Sitting at the trailhead last summer

on my way to backpacking in the White Clouds, I noticed all the out-of-state license plates. Having pristine wilderness like the Sawtooths and Frank Church, and hopefully a national monument in the Boulder-White Clouds, provides a huge economic benefit to our Idaho economy. We get a tremendous amount of visitors coming to spend time in our protected wild places to hike, whitewater raft, fish and hunt. We also get the added value of keeping and attracting businesses that think they need to be in a place that has our quality of life. Businesses such as mine [EKC Construction] find it easier to attract and retain good quality employees when we protect the things that make Idaho a great place to live. The quality of life here in Idaho is a good way to differentiate us from the rest of the country. The good thing is that people have noticed and are moving here, which stimulates our economy. I believe we can welcome new people, and keep this area as it is, but we need to plan ahead. Anything we can do to help protect the things that make this a great place to live are worth doing. Adding the Boulder-White Clouds to our list of national monuments gives us the best chance of protecting and enhancing our quality of life here in Idaho. This generation and this president can pass on a legacy to future generations by creating the Boulder-White Clouds National Monument. —Brian Ellsworth Boise

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INEXCUSABLE I am not a regular reader of the Boise Weekly and I am certainly not inclined to become one, after reading Jessica Murri’s article about the Payette River Games and, in particular, Derek Rabelo [BW, Rec, “Inspiring on the Payette,” July 25, 2014]. I attended the 2014 Payette River Games and had the distinct privilege of watching the River Surﬁng Competition. I was truly in awe as I watched Derek Rabelo, the blind surfer from Brazil, learn to river surf in front of several thousand people. The Derek Rabelo story should have been a journalist’s dream. A story of the phenomenal bond between father and son; a story of inspiration Derek and his father Ernesto brought to the other competitors and spectators; a story of immense courage; a story about how we all might reevaluate the perceived obstacles in our lives; a story of the incredible gift which the Payette River Games sponsors gave all of us by bringing Derek and his father to the games. Unfortunately, Ms. Murri chose not to capture any of these stories. Instead, Ms. Murri’s characterizations? That Derek stood up “only” for seven seconds? That he “only stood up twice”? That despite this, he still won the most inspirational award, as if that was somehow surprising? Really? To say that Ms. Murri missed the story is an understatement. I ﬁnd myself trying unsuccessfully to comprehend how anyone who was there could have missed this story. Whatever the answer, the fact that Ms. Murri did so is inexcusable. —Steven J. Millemann McCall Eds. Note: We stand by Jessica Murri’s reporting as sensitive and accurate.

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OPINION/BILL COPE

RESTRAINING RED Who speaks for the soccer babies? “What brings ya’p t’ this side o’ town, Cope?” “Oh, gosh, Red. My wife sent me for some milk and eggs and stuff. So here I am, at the grocery store. And when did Meridian get a ‘this side of town,’ anyway?” “I date it back t’ the day ya’ fired me, Cope. I fig’r since’n I ain’t acceptionable ’nuff f’r y’r dang column anymores, then maybe it’d be best if’n I’d stuck t’ my side, an’ you do the vicee-versee.” “OK then, how am I supposed to know where my side of town is, and where not to go because that’s your side?” “I figger the train tracks is the best way t’ tell what side we’s on.” “But we both live on the same side o’ the tracks, Red. And we’ve both been getting our groceries from this store for years. So who’s breaking the restraining order here? Me or you?” “Gull durnit, Cope! M’I supposed t’ think o’ ever’thin’? You could help a li’l, y’ know.” “Look, Red. This is silly. There’s no reason for us to be avoiding one another. And besides, a few weeks ago, I came to you to offer reconciliation, remember? But no, you were too busy running for governor to sit down and talk with me.” “Wull yuh. But the only reason I was runnin’ f’r gov’ner was acause ya’ fired me. Ya’ took away my platforum, Cope! Ya’ just can’t take away a man’s platforum, not when he’s got hisself used t’ havin’ one. Sos I ran f’r gov’ner t’ get myself a platforum back. An’ ’sides, I din’t sees no reconsilification. Where was it?… in y’r back pocket?” “No, I mean, I wanted to talk about maybe you coming back to the column. Maybe on a more limited basis than before.” “Wha’s tha’ mean? Lim’ted bassist?” “I was thinking that whenever some topic or issue or whatever comes up that I don’t give a crap about, then maybe I could let you write a column about it. See, we could say, And here’s Red, filling in for Bill, who is away on assignment, or on vacation, or whatever. You could be like Willie Geist to my Matt Lauer.” “Ain’t that what ya’ kept y’r pal Badger Bob ’round fer?” “Sure. But sometimes he doesn’t give a crap about the same things I don’t give a crap about. Like right now, everybody’s all zazzed up over soccer, and I feel an obligation to write something about it, but that’s hard to do when you just don’t give a crap about soccer. Then I went to Bob to ask if he’d write a column on it, but as it turns out, he doesn’t give a crap about soccer, either. So then I thought of you. You don’t give a crap about soccer, by any chance, do you?” “Dang sure I give a crap ’bout soccer! I din’t used ta’, but ever since I found out how

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soccer is roonin’ ’Merica, I had my eye on soccer like ol’ McCain on ol’ Ben Gassy.” “Soccer is ruining America? Gee, Red, that’s not exactly what I had in mind.” “Course it twern’t! It was you lib’rals what sat back like sleepy chickens and let all those ’Merican kids get indoosicated int’ the soccer lifestyle. Ain’t you heard what ol’ Annie Coultry had t’ say ’bout y’r dang soccer?” “Oh dear. Here we go.” “Moral decay! Tha’s what she says! Hows havin’ soccer balls bein’ booted back an’ forth in ’Merica is a sign of hows our morals are decayin’ away like a toot’ what ain’t never chewed nothin’ but jelly beans! Hows havin’ our childrens get taught how soccer is natural as shaggin’ ﬂies an’ shootin’ hoops in the driveway! Hows the reason all them foreigners love soccer so dang much is ’cause they hate the way we ’Mericans use our hands t’ catch a dang ball! Hows a sport ain’t really a sport ’lessen the players got brain damage by the time they’s too old t’ play no more.” “So, you still haven’t matured beyond Ann Coulter.” “Wha’ yew mean, Cope?… ‘still hain’t matured?’” “Red, I think of Ann Coulter as a clumsy, untalented, cheerleader from some special school for the dumb and dumber. And it’s her job to pump that crowd up for whatever dumb thing the team is playing at, be it accusing liberals of being un-American, or drumming up scandals where none exist, or showing scorn for a game that Americans didn’t invent and aren’t very good at. It’s what she does, and she’s so cruddy at it that anyone with a serious brain doesn’t pay her any attention. But she has to keep doing it because she’s no good at anything else. “But the thing is, she still appeals to those who are in this special school mostly because they don’t have much to choose from. It’s like, in the land of the stupid, the biggest mouth is king. So where people with a mature perspective on what matters and what doesn’t totally ignore her childish braying about how the special school and everyone who goes there are the bestest ever, the people in that school eat it up. Rah! Rah! Pa-tri-ots! We’re the tops, the rest are snots! “See, Red? Most people grow out of that adolescent fantasy that whatever they are and whatever they’re doing is the end-all-beall of creation. But not the people who are in this special school, oh no. And not Ann Coulter. And apparently… not you, either.” “Cope, since I’s too unmaturized f’r you, hows ’bout we call the frozen vittles aisle the center line o’ this store, an’ you stay on y’r side, and I’ll stay vicee-versee?” “OK, Red. But what if we’re both shopping for frozen peas?” B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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END OF EMPIRE PSYCHOSIS When cognitive dissonance just won’t do the job

When George W. Bush stood in a flight suit on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and declared the Iraq War a mission accomplished, I finally understood that the man was batshit crazy. Before that, I had regarded him as just another increment in the incremental takeover of American government by multinational corporations. It didn’t matter who was in the White House, I had thought. What mattered was that Exxon and British Petroleum and Halliburton would rule the seas, that Boeing and General Dynamics would rule the air, and that Monsanto and Archer Daniels Midland would get to say who planted what crops in every country with a patent office. It hadn’t occurred to me that Bush might actually believe what he said, or, worse, that he really thought he was the leader of a democratic country that in turn led other democratic countries against the bad people of the world, who hated us for our freedom. But there he was, in a flight suit that was itself a tangible lie, telling us without irony that Iraq and Afghanistan had joined the community of free nations. Since that time, I’ve decided the worst thing that can happen to a country is to have a leader who believes his own rhetoric. Voters understand this, and instinctively shy away from sincere politicians. Al Gore would have won the presidency had he adopted Bill Clinton’s easy smiling cynicism, and effortlessly communicated that he wasn’t about to feel anybody’s pain, no matter how much of it he saw coming down the pike. As a presidential candidate, John Kerry had a streak of awkward, truth-blurting integrity that made people think he might use the presidency to identify many more lost causes than Vietnam. George W. Bush won twice because people assumed nobody could be the kind of stupid he was in public. Somewhere behind that idiot grin, Americans assumed, was a kind of low cunning that was in touch with reality, and that reality justified the war crimes, the deaths of thousands of Americans and Afghans and Iraqis, and the emptying of the American treasury into corporate pockets. But there was no cunning, low or otherwise, and no being in touch with reality. There was only the idiot grin. Behind it was howling nothingness. I’ve seen his paintings. Lately I’ve started to worry that President Obama is starting to believe his own rhetoric. Never mind the hopeful signs of cynical realism—the devious foreign policy; the empty calories under the sugared phrases; the drone killings; the domestic spying; the absurd projections of hundreds of years of coal, gas and oil interspersed with environmental pieties. Never mind Obama’s obvious intelligence, which could stay in touch with the real world if it wanted to. It doesn’t want to. Instead, our president BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

is using his superior mind to insulate himself from reality rather than perceive it—a not uncommon malady among academics, but one rather more serious when the academic who’s come down with it is the leader of the American Empire. Psychologists have a term—cognitive dissonance—for what happens when the real world doesn’t match up with your beliefs about it. If you believe United States presidents can’t be crazy, and then Lyndon Johnson and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush come along, you have a moment of discomfort, usually resolved when you say, “Oh. I guess presidents can be crazy after all.” That’s called reality testing. A hallmark of mental health is that you occasionally test your beliefs against reality and—because you know reality is Godzilla and you’re Bambi— you let reality win. However, when you don’t let reality win, it’s a kind of psychosis—one where reality just gets in the way of your beliefs and has to be dispensed with. It can happen anytime, but it’s more apt to happen at the end of empire, when infrastructures, central banks, governments, universities and constitutions start to turn belly up and die. It’s happened to every empire that’s ever existed, and it looks to be happening to ours on schedule. That’s why, when I read about people who insist the climate isn’t changing, or who want us to go back into Iraq, or who believe that fossil fuels will last hundreds of years, or that the dollar will forever be the world’s reserve currency, I don’t bother to call them nuts. It’s just end-of-empire thinking, and it’s a given that it’s psychotic. Too much is at stake to stay sane, once the cocooning fabric of empire starts to rot and unravel. I am, of course, as guilty of end-of-empire thinking as Obama. I’m in the petro-state of Alaska right now, sitting in warm sunshine, eating a banana that won’t grow here, having gotten here via Alaska Airlines, rented a car and fought through the trafﬁc jams of Anchorage and down the southern highway. I’ve made it to the tourist town of Homer. Across the bay are huge greening mountains. The glaciers between them are considerably smaller than their photos in the Homer Chamber of Commerce brochures. In the local museum are displays dedicated to lives of bare subsistence, when people lived off the land, constructing their technology from local wood and rock and animals. Yet I’m planning on driving back to Anchorage in a week, and getting on another plane, getting off in Boise, and then driving to Sawtooth Valley. There will be trips to town when the groceries get low. There will be Netﬂix and the Internet, and music, and electricity, and music, and lots of time to waste. It all depends on an endless supply of oil. I’m deeply, sincerely certain that’s exactly what we have.

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YES, WE THROW AWAY A LOT OF YARD WASTE. FOOD, TOO. We’re beginning to get some answers to the question we posed in May: “What’s in there?” That’s when Boise Weekly visited the 2,700-acre Ada County landfill and first learned of something called a “waste stream analysis”—an innovative, yearlong trash count, sampled at four different times of the year. “When we have the kind of information that we expect to get from the analysis, it will really make it easy for Ada County to help shift the public’s perspective from looking at something as a commodity instead of a piece of trash,” said Sarah Arkle, community conser vation associate with the Idaho Conser vation League. With three quar ters of the study complete, preliminar y results reveal that significant amounts of recyclables are being tossed to the curb, quite literally, instead of being separated for recycling. For single-family homes, for instance, 12 percent of the waste that has been counted could be recycled. That number jumps to 19 percent if glass or metals were being recycled. The amount of wasted food is another issue; analysts tracked how much of the food in the landfill could have been eaten rather than tossed, if only it had been consumed sooner. The analysis indicates that anywhere from one quar ter to one third of the total food waste could have been edible. The amount of yard waste at the landfill is also significant—grass clippings and leaves represent a whopping 40 percent of waste from single-family homes. The study is being conducted by South Prairie, Wash.-based environmental consulting firm Green Solutions, with assistance from the URS Corporation, Republic Ser vices and Boise-based staffing agency LaborReady. Samples are being sor ted into as many as 77 different categories (including five separate categories of paper and eight categories of plastic). On the days of the sampling, select trash vehicles drop off their loads near sorting crews, who hand-sort the trash into cans and buckets. When the containers are filled, they’re weighed, emptied and crews go elbow-deep into the next pile. One more quar ter of sampling needs to be completed before the data can be fully realized, but it’s a fair guess that we’ll be hearing a lot more about recyclables in 2015. —George Prentice

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Workers go elbow-deep in “waste analysis sampling” at the Ada County Landﬂl.

DRILLING INTO IDAHO’S (OTHER) COMMON CORE The Gem State extracts more gas from earth’s crust MATT FURBER They’re called hydrocarbons and they’ve been trapped beneath Idaho’s landscape for millions of years. But now, for the first time in its history, Idaho is giving up its gas. The recipient: Texas-based Alta Mesa Holdings (which has created a subsidiary in Alta Mesa Idaho). As stakeholders wrestle with environmentalists to hash out the latest revisions to state rules to regulate the burgeoning industry, gas exploration and extraction has reached its most rapid pace. Turn to traditional Idaho media outlets and you’ll get the rosiest of pictures. In their coverage of an Alta Mesa-sponsored publicity event, showcasing their Idaho operations with a beaming Idaho Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter on hand, the July 18 Idaho Statesman reminded its readers of the millions that would flow into state coffers through royalties; and, on July 17, KTVB reported that “more wells could provide a greater benefit to the local economy.” Boise Weekly readers know different— that Idaho’s road to its first commercially viable gas exploration has been nuanced on its best days (BW, News, “A is for Act,” June 8, 2011), prickly on others (BW, News, “No Sale,” June 22, 2011), and downright clumsy on others still (BW, News, “Bridge Under Troubled Waters,” Oct. 5, 2011). But on July 17, it was all smiles as Alta Mesa President and CEO Hal Chappelle told members of its well and pipeline tour that his company was positioned—when all of its wells were online—to deliver daily some 20 million cubic feet of natural gas, possibly before the end of the year. The tour included journalists, Otter, top dogs from Intermountain Gas and other members of the oil and gas industry. The tour began on SW 3rd Avenue, in the Payette County town of New Plymouth. It’s a site that BW had visited on a number of previous occasions—it was drilled by Bridge Energy in 2010, a year before massive

Alta Mesa V.P. of Operations Dale Hayes (center) and Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter (right) were the media stars of a July 17 well and pipeline tour in Payette County.

debt sent the company into a tailspin. But, in the wake of Bridge’s failure, Alta Mesa snapped up many of the company’s leases (BW, Citydesk, “Bridge Resources Poised to Sell Assets,” March 7, 2012) and has since struck its own deal with Intermountain Gas, saying Alta Mesa could soon extract about 250,000 cubic feet of natural gas per day. In fact, Dale Hayes, vice president of operations for Alta Mesa, said the gas was so dry an adjacent holding tank for condensate had yet to be emptied for transportation to a waste center. The ground around the well looked “very clean,” said Otter who joined the tour to see how the industry was coming along. “We were out here when there was no ground disturbed, there was no equipment around and we were told this is what’s going to happen and this is how it’s going to happen. At that time we didn’t have a clue. I was the only one that had any inclination of what happens when you drill wells,” said the governor, explaining that he once managed an oil exploration company for the J.R. Simplot Company more than 30 years ago. “The only subsurface wealth anyone ever looked for was minerals or water.” Meanwhile, Justin Hayes, Idaho Conservation League program director for conservation, who has been a regular participant in negotiated rule-making sessions, described the guidelines as “moderate rules, not oldschool rules.” “Idaho is starting fresh with the beneﬁt of relatively protective rules, but we don’t have the experience,” said Hayes. “We’re still scrambling so we don’t get hoodwinked by a savvy industry. The rule-making process is ongoing.” Michael Brune, executive director of the 2.4 million member-strong Sierra Club, is much more blunt on the issue. He said Idaho shouldn’t even be considering gas exploration, let alone rule-making (see Page 12).

“Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel,” Brune told BW. “There’s no way to build an economy fueled by clean energy that includes natural gas.” Brune said Idahoans needed to “look out” if fracking was on the horizon. But Alta Mesa has told anyone who will listen that fracking isn’t in their plans. That claim doesn’t jibe, considering the fact that Bridge Resources, the company that actually drilled the wells that Alta Mesa currently owns, said back in April 2011 that its exploration plans included something it called “mini-fracking” (BW, News, “Getting MiniFracked,” April 27, 2011). Otter said during the July 17 Alta Mesa tour that when Bridge ﬁrst came knocking on Idaho’s door the state was indeed unprepared for the ramiﬁcations of exploring for gas. “There wasn’t anybody that knew anything about it. Why would we? We never had any gas exploration and development or oil or anything like that,” said Otter, adding that after some initial negative reaction to drilling, seismic testing (BW, News, “Payette County’s Manmade Quake,” Aug.2, 2012) and construction of a pipeline and dehydration facility (BW, News, “Payette County’s Thingamajig,”July 20, 2011), things “seem to be coming around” in support of the drilling for gas. “We don’t get near the phone calls we got when all of this started two and a half, three years ago,” said Otter. “They’ve done such a good job educating the public.” Alta Mesa’s Chappelle insists that gas discoveries in Payette and Canyon counties suggest enough potential commercial viability to justify Alta Mesa’s investment of tens of millions of dollars into a growing industry. 9 “There’s a lot a spuddin’ in here,” said Otter, showing off his command B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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Boise ofﬁcials want to charge a new $150 fee for all taxi cab companies.

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Idaho’s new payday loan rules JASMIN VERDUZCO Terri Sterling paints a very clear picture of who has been walking through the doors of Idaho’s payday lenders. “The people who take out these loans are desperate,” Sterling, executive director of Idaho Community Action, told Boise Weekly. “They’re seniors who are struggling to make it through the month and single moms who are on their own—people who cannot afford that kind of interest.” Sterling should know. Her organization has been on the front lines of advocating on behalf of Idahoans who have struggled with the nation’s highest payday loan rates—582 percent (BW, Citydesk, “We’re No. 1,” April 21, 2014). Earlier this year, a study from the Pew Charitable Trusts chronicled how, even in the face of more lending competition, payday loan stores still didn’t pull down their interest rates. But as of July 1, new Idaho laws went on the books designed to relieve what Sterling says is a “vicious cycle.” Revisions to the Idaho Payday Loan Act, authored by Twin Falls Republican Sen. Tim Heider, bring what Heider said are “substantial changes” to how payday lenders will operate in Idaho. “The legislation informs potential borrowers in advance of the risks associated with payday borrowing and helps them to understand their options, prior to the signing,” said Heider at the announcement of the

Among the changes to the Idaho Payday Loan Act is a cap on new loans: they can’t exceed 25 percent of the borrower’s gross monthly income or $1,000.

new law. “Our objective was to help those who may be trapped in the payday loan cycle to ﬁnd a way out with no further costs, interest or fees.” At the top of the list of changes is the fact that a new loan can’t exceed 25 percent of the borrower’s gross monthly income or $1,000. Lenders are also limited to how many times they present a borrower’s check for payment of the loan and are required to provide a payment plan once every 12 months for those having difﬁculties paying their loans. And no more small print: Disclosures are now required to be in 12-point bold and capitalized type. Still, Sterling worries that the new law isn’t enough. She told BW that if there isn’t a hard restriction on how much interest can be charged—the law only caps the amount of the loan, not the interest rate—Idaho consumers are still vulnerable to falling into the payday loan trap. “The reality of it is that we already have those same protections in place,” said Ster-

of “oil and gas speak” for preparing a well head for drilling. Meanwhile, the governor said he relies heavily on the 8 Idaho Land Board’s now year-old oil and gas commission to keep him abreast of the industry’s stewardship of the environment, including air and water quality. “You see a lot of this equipment that’s being put in here? There isn’t anybody that’s gonna dig a hole in the ground and walk away from this kind of investment,” Otter said. “So, it gives you a high level of conﬁdence that what they said they are gonna do, they’re doin’. What they told us our expectations were we can expect.” Although Chappelle characterized Alta Mesa’s current Idaho operations as an “exploration phase,” contractors were also busy constructing 11 miles of pipeline that will ultimately connect extracted reserves from up to a dozen natural gas wells, some drilled and some still-to-be completed later this summer. Fuel will be delivered by BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

ling, referring to current law, which allows a borrower to request a revised payment plan. “Until we get a rate cap, we won’t fix the problem.” To help stop the cycle, Sterling insists that Idaho adopt a 36 percent cap (per loan) for payday loans, similar to Colorado’s state limit (20 percent for the first $300 and another 7.5 percent for amounts above $300). Payday loan stores typically lure individuals who simply can’t get a desperately-needed loan from a local bank. But Sterling told BW that one of the positive outcomes from the fight against predatory lending is that two traditional lenders—Key Bank and Les Bois Credit Union, neither of which are in the business of payday loans—now offer shortterm agreements to borrowers at 15 percent interest, making it easier for consumers to avoid payday lending altogether. “We don’t need payday loan centers,” said Sterling. “Banks are supposed to loan us money; that’s where fair lending is going to happen.”

pipeline to compressors designed to prepare fuels for delivery to the 4,000-mile Northwest Pipeline owned by The Williams Companies, Inc, which runs adjacent to I-84, near New Plymouth, and serves much of the Northwest United States. Alta Mesa officials said they’re planning to drill five more wells this summer, and Otter said Alta Mesa was giving him increasing confidence that it will be taking the utmost caution in its gas exploration. “Having been here, listened to everything; does that make me an expert? No. Does that give me comfort? Yes,” said Otter. But Brune, with the Sierra Club, said he has seen too many gas exploration operations in too many other states not to have a bad feeling about Idaho’s choice to drill for gas. “Don’t believe the hype,” he told BW. “We are at a fork in the trail and we have an opportunity to reject fossil fuels.”

As the Boise City Council prepares to craft a Fiscal Year 2015 budget, lawmakers are also proposing a slew of new fees. In fact, there are nearly 200 fees—covering everything from using the Boise Depot to securing one of the city’s many electrical and plumbing permits—that are either new or could see more than a 5 percent increase. But two fees in particular may test the already-sensitive relationship between City Hall and taxi drivers. Currently, there are a whopping 86 taxi companies operating in Boise, but only 164 vehicles rolling through the streets. Simply put, Boise has a glut of one-car companies. Those one-vehicle businesses might want to take note of a newly proposed $150 annual fee to operate a taxi company in Boise. That’s in addition to a $36 fee (a proposed 4.3 percent increase) for each vehicle. In order to put a new taxi on the streets, there’s a $190 one-time fee (a 3.5 percent increase). Inspections would cost $84 (a 4.3 percent jump), and if a vehicle needs to be re-inspected for some reason, the bill would run $164 (a 4.4 percent increase). Additionally, each vehicle requires a meter seal, which is $39. City officials insist there’s a good reason for the new $150 business fee, in addition to the per-vehicle charges. “A couple of years ago we instituted a requirement that taxis need to accept credit cards for payment. But we’ve had some issues where that was not being administered properly,” said Council President Maryanne Jordan. “It’s tough to pinpoint where the problems are, but the reality is that the problem lies at the company level.” If a taxi company remains in good standing (no violations) for the year, the $150 annual fee would be waived for the next year. The city clerk’s office had initially proposed that the fee be charged each year; but after meeting with Jordan, a compromise was reached to waive the fee in the second year (and any subsequent year) for good performers. “But if there are violations, it will be incumbent on the company to remedy the situation and then have to pay a $150 license fee for the following year,” Jordan told Boise Weekly. “There’s an imperative to do things properly.” As for whether Boise has too many cab companies, Jordan thinks consumers will have the final say. “It’s a market-driven question,” she said. “On a Wednesday afternoon, there may be too many and on a Friday night, there might not be enough. Taxis are a component of public transportation, but they have to be self-sustaining.” —George Prentice

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The air-conditioned auditorium of the Ada County Highway District lured about two dozen people out of the triple-digit temperatures on July 15, when they saddled up as “stakeholders” on the hotly contended issue of Boise bike lanes. The conversation was only a few minutes old before one woman lifted her hand. “You really only emphasize bike lanes. Did you discuss all bike infrastructure that could be useful for bikes, or is the group assuming bike lanes are all there will be?” she said. That was the first indicator that the discussion would be more a marathon than a sprint. ACHD asked the stakeholders to represent a broad spectrum of interest groups— bicycle advocates, road maintenance crews, business owners, Boise State University administrators, police officers and even the president of the Idaho Trucking Association. The group was formed shortly after ACHD removed buffered bike lanes from downtown corridors in early June (BW, Citydesk, “ACHD Kills Continuation,” June 4, 2014). Initially, ACHD said it had hoped for recommendations within 60 days, but sitting through the July 15 stakeholder meeting—the group’s second gathering—implied that the 60-day goal was more likely wishful thinking. During the first meeting, on June 25, stakeholders were assigned homework to research in particular fields of expertise. On July 15, the group reconvened to share its findings in a two-hour session with topics drifting from education strategies to traffic congestion, parking, downtown business deliveries, street maintenance, public safety, bike laws, two-way street conversions, signal timing and different bike lane models. “We want to avoid the bike-versus-car argument,” Boise Bicycle Project’s Jimmy Hallyburton said during his presentation. “This is an education opportunity not just for bikes, but for all road users.” By the end of the session, that 60-day target seemed further away than ever. Craig Quintana, spokesman for ACHD, later told Boise Weekly that the goal may have been a little too optimistic. “It seems doubtful,” he said. Dave Wallace, deputy director of planning and projects at ACHD, steered the meeting and chose to remain positive through the discussion, saying he thought it went pretty well. “I think we’re actually making progress,” he said, adding that stakeholders highlighted several issues he hadn’t considered. Going forward, the plan is to break down the stakeholders into an even smaller committee to streamline the process of coming up with three alternatives, which will be presented to the larger group at its next meeting Tuesday, Aug. 5. Wallace said this level of community involvement is not the norm for ACHD. “I haven’t seen us do this before,” he said, “but I’m not sure we’ve ever done a pilot project like this before, either. I think it was pretty successful in uncovering both concerns and successes.” Wallace ended the session on a can-do note. “The next time we get together, we’re going to roll up our sleeves and work this stuff out,” he said. —Jessica Murri

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ASHES TO ACTION Bethine Church’s final, monumental wish GEORGE PRENTICE It turns out that the lioness of the Idaho Democratic Party had one roar left. In a final act of advocacy, weeks before she passed away a few days before last Christmas (BW, Citydesk, “Bethine Church,” Dec. 22, 2013), the political powerhouse and widow of U.S. Sen. Frank Church said it was her dying wish to push for national monument designation for the Boulder-White Clouds. So it was with a touch of politics and poetry that Church’s ashes were waved to the breeze July 17, in full view of the Sawtooth and Boulder-White Cloud mountains. Fourth District Court Judge Patricia Young, who helped carry her cousin Bethine’s ashes to the Sawtooths, said only a national monument designation would “finish the job” that Church’s husband (who died in 1984, four weeks after the Frank Church Wilderness of No Return Wilderness Act was signed into law) started more than 40 years ago. Young ended up marrying her husband, the late Idaho Supreme Court Justice Byron Johnson (BW, Citizen, “Byron Johnson,” May 2, 2012), in the Church’s home several months after the senator’s death. “Bethine knew that national monument designation for the Boulder-White Clouds would give these beautiful mountains the pro-

Accompanying Bethine Church’s ashes to the Boulder-White Clouds were Boise attorney Dan Williams (left), son Chase Church (center) and Peter Fenn (right), former chief of staff to Sen. Frank Church.

tection they’ve long deserved,” Young said at the ceremony to scatter Bethine Church’s ashes. Democratic Party veteran Larry LaRocco, himself a former congressman and ﬁeld coordinator for Sen. Church, said he hoped that what was a very personal memorial on July 17 would inspire a very public call to arms. “Too many who profess to love the White Clouds are sitting on the fence or imagining downsides to a monument designation,” said LaRocco. But it’s not as if the monument proposal doesn’t have its detractors, including more than a few people who live in in the shadows of the Boulder-White Clouds. “I would be hard-pressed to ﬁnd 1 percent of Custer County that are in favor of this,”

said Custer County Commissioner Wayne Butts in a June 23 debate (BW, Citydesk, “A River of Debate,” June 25, 2014). “I’m totally opposed. This whole thing became a jumbledup mess.” Near the top of Bethine Church’s passions was the Frank Church Institute at Boise State University, which has, for three decades, hosted national public policy forums. This October’s conference will highlight the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Wilderness Act and focus on the Boulder-White Clouds debate. “Over the coming weeks and months the family and friends of Bethine will be doing all we can to promote monument designation for the Boulder-White Clouds,” said Garry Wenske, the institute’s executive director.

THE WORDS ADD UP TO SENTENCES Add the Words protesters speak out in the courtroom BY JESSICA MURRI After nine years of pushing for a public hearing before the Idaho Legislature, LGBT-rights advocates reached a new level of desperation this past spring when, in silent protest, they ﬁlled hallways and blocked doors in the Statehouse. More than 190 arrests took place in February 2014 during demonstrations by Add the Words advocates, a group devoted to getting the words “gender identity” and “sexual orientation” added to the Idaho Human Rights Act—protecting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people from discrimination by landlords, business owners and employers. On the afternoon of July 21, the ﬁnal 23 protesters received their sentences from 4th District Magistrate Judge Michael Oths. The courtroom was packed with more than 100 people—many sitting two to a seat and still more turned away due to lack of space.

Each protester was charged with misdemeanor trespassing, most with plea agreements already worked out. They pleaded guilty at their sentencing, and each delivered a passionate statement about why they were arrested. Former state senator Nicole LeFavour was sentenced ﬁrst. The former congressional candidate pleaded guilty to two counts of trespassing and was sentenced to 70 hours of community service, court fees and $70 in ﬁnes. “I did what I had to do,” LeFavour told Boise Weekly. “We knew what we were doing. It was up to [the lawmakers] to listen to us and instead they chose to have us arrested.” Defendants and their witnesses used the opportunity to express how important the Add the Words effort was. Heart-wrenching stories illustrated the plight of discrimination—mothers who had lost children to suicide, friends who lost friends, and people living in fear of

losing jobs and housing, comparisons to the civil rights movement and many quotations from Martin Luther King, Jr. Judge Oths followed the recommended sentences, but several times applauded defendants for their civil disobedience and willingness to face the consequences. Other noteworthy protesters sentenced at the hearing included Rabbi Daniel Fink, Add the Words co-chair Emilie Jackson-Edney and 74-year-old U.S Navy veteran Madelynn Taylor—who Boise Weekly readers ﬁrst met in April, when she told the story of how Idaho rejected her request to be interred with her late wife at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery (BW, News, “Idaho Says No to Final Resting Place for Veteran and Spouse,” April 23, 2014). “These are the stories that people should have heard nine years ago,” LeFavour said. “These are devastating stories.” B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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CITIZEN OF TH ekly EW e w E EE IS K O B OUR CONVERSATION: they know the current controversy over fracking is signiﬁcant.

So, do you choose to live in that optimism? I live in that optimism that is infused with reality. But you can’t even get a hearing on the issue. You must acknowledge that congressional gridlock is getting worse with every passing day. It’s almost impossible not to be cynical and have a certain amount of sorrow and despair for the state of our government. I do think the Republican Party is more to blame on this, because their stated strategy is not to give the president any victories. But we have a president who will not run for any other political office. Doesn’t that give him some breathing room in exercising the Antiquities Act? Absolutely. Democrat and Republican administrations, most of them in the final two years of their presidency, have done some significant, very ambitious designations using the Antiquities Act. Can you speak to the Sierra Club’s research on the Alberta Tar Sands project? Idaho has some passing knowledge of the tar sands because some of its equipment has been hauled on so-called “mega-loads” rolling through our state. The Tar Sands are the most destructive project on the planet—straight up. You can see the strip mines from outer space. And talk to us about how President Obama’s decision on the Keystone Pipeline is tied to all of this.

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Our reporting tells us that the differing sides are only getting further apart on whether we should establish a Boulder-White Clouds Mountains National Monument (BW, Citydesk, “A River of Debate,” June 25, 2014). We don’t think there’s a unanimous agreement on anything; we do believe that a substantial part of the political middle supports protection for the Boulder-White Clouds.

MICHAEL BRUNE Boulder-White Clouds, gas exploration and that 60 Minutes interview GEORGE PRENTICE Michael Brune had some boots-on-the-ground—quite literally—research ahead of him at Idaho’s Boulder-White Clouds area. “We’re camping up there for three nights,” the executive director of the Sierra Club told Boise Weekly, anxious to give one final interview before heading for the hills. “We” is Brune, wife Mary and three children—9-year-old Olivia, 5-year-old Sebastian and 2-year-old Genevieve. The five were in the middle of a driving, hiking, biking and campaigning vacation that had already taken them to California’s Redwood National Park, Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park, and Washington’s Alpine and Wild Sky Wilderness areas. “A little bit of business and a lot of family time,” he told BW. Just before heading to one of Idaho’s most idyllic settings, Brune sat down to talk about the Boulder-White Clouds, natural gas exploration and some of the controversy that swirled around his November 2010 interview on 60 Minutes, just a few months after taking the top job at one of the oldest and most influential environmental organizations in the nation.

What we have found is that the more people know about the Tar Sands, the more inclined they are to not support the Keystone Pipeline. But even members of the Democratic Party are telling Obama to step away from the Keystone issue and let it go through. We think he’ll reject it, because there’s no way to approve an expansion of some of the dirtiest oil on the planet while, at the same

time, trying to reduce our use of fossil fuels. Idaho is entering a critical stage in its burgeoning industry of natural gas exploration. That’s a problem. What do you make of the immense marketing engine coming from the natural gas industry, insisting that it’s clean energy and a solution to many of our problems? They’re doing that because it’s a contest;

Which brings me to your November 2010 interview on 60 Minutes. I’m presuming that you’ve read the pushback and criticism of your comments on gas as a cleaner alternative to coal and oil. It’s important to look back. Seven or eight years ago, the Sierra Club looked at gas as a “bridge fuel,” an opportunity to get off of coal or oil. But right about the time I started with the Sierra Club, there was a lot of new information on the risks of fracking. And a lot of that information showed the impacts of gas were much worse than initially thought. Do you consider the Sierra Club’s position to have, let’s say, “evolved” on the use of natural gas? Our policy has changed signiﬁcantly. To be clear, are you saying gas is not clean energy? That’s correct. Natural gas is a dirty fossil fuel. It’s not a bridge. It’s a gangplank. There’s no way to build an economy fueled by clean energy that includes natural gas. And what would you say to Idahoans, including quite a few of our lawmakers, who see gas exploration as a positive thing, particularly for our economy? Look out. You’re in trouble if fracking expands throughout the state. Don’t believe the hype. The jobs that fracking produces are always overstated. We’re at a fork in the trail and we have an opportunity to reject fossil fuels. Finally, how important an issue is the environment on this November’s ballot? Elections matter, in explicit and implicit ways. We’re not going to be able to prevail on climate change and protect our wildlands until we get people that vote the right way. And the only way we can do that is to elect, or unelect, people because of their values.

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LES MISERABLES—International smash-hit that may be the most popular musical in the world. Suitable for all ages. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-3369221, idahoshakespeare.org. MCCALL MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST 2014—SummerFest 2014 is a weeklong festival of classical chamber music and jazz concerts held at several venues in McCall, presented by McCall Music Society. 7 p.m. FREE-$65. mccallmusicsociety.org/events/ summerfest-2014.

Art MEDICINE WHEEL PUBLIC ART DEDICATION—Help dedicate this new artwork, created by Boise artists Marianne Konvalinka and Lynn Fraley. Local artist Lisa Cheney will lead a workshop in creating a multipage visual journal using a single sheet of paper. 7 p.m. FREE. Jim Hall Foothills Learning Center, 3188 Sunset Peak Road, Boise, 208-514-3755, boiseenvironmentaleducation.org.

BUSINESS AFTER HOURS AT PACIFICSOURCE—Learn how PacificSource supports a healthier Treasure Valley, get tools and tips from their workplace wellness experts, and learn how you can make the Affordable Care Act work for your business. Featuring hors d’oeuvres, local beer and wine, raffle prizes and networking. 5 p.m. FREE-$10. PacificSource Health Plans, 408 E. Parkcenter Bivd., Ste. 100, Boise, 208-342-3709, pacificsource.com. SAN INAZIO FOR BEGINNERS—Learn about the history and culture behind the Basque festival. Signups are required. Call 208-577-2250 or email annieg@ basquemuseum.com. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Basque Museum and Cultural Center, 611 Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum. com. UNCORKED IN THE GARDEN: COLD SPRINGS WINERY—Chat with vintners and discover your new favorite Idaho wine. 6:30 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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On Stage DEATHTRAP—Murder mystery by Ira Levin. Get more info at the website. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-3369221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR.!—Boise Little Theater and Boise Parks and Recreation present the 15th annual youth summer theater program’s performances. 7:30 p.m. $6-$9. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater. org. MCCALL MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST 2014—See Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE-$65. mccallmusicsociety.org/events/summerfest-2014.

Art MING STUDIOS: CURATOR TALK—Guest curator Kerstin Winking of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam talks about “The Primitive and Us,” a curatorial perspective on Primitivism and contemporary art. 7 p.m. FREE-$7. MING Studios, 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-949-4365, mingstudios.org.

Talks & Lectures EXPLORING THE FOOTHILLS— Pete Ritter, Ridge to Rivers’ head trail ranger, will provide an overview of the Ridge to Rivers initiative history, trail etiquette, and the different areas of the trail system. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary. org.

Kids & Teens MEET A SCIENTIST—Hear about exciting ﬁelds of study from scientists in our community. For ages 6-12. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

Animals & Pets AUCTION FOR THE ANIMALS—Silent auction, cocktails and live music, with dinner and live auction to follow. Tickets include buffet dinner and drinks. To purchase tickets, call 208-634-3647. Cocktail attire. 5:30 p.m. $75. Blackhawk on the River, 11 Shooting Star Lane, McCall, 208-630-5070, blackhawkontheriver.com.

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RIGGINS HOT SUMMER NIGHTS 2014—Two days of fun for all ages. Both days feature live music, beer garden, food booth, kids games, water slides and much more. Get a complete schedule of events online. $5, $20 families. rigginshotsummernights.com. SAN INAZIO 2014—Events include performances by Basque musicians and dancers, street dances, pala games, picnic and religious services. Get the full

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8 DAYS OUT schedule at the website. 11 a.m. FREE. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-331-5097 or 208-342-9983, basquecenter. com.

On Stage DEATHTRAP—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-3369221, idahoshakespeare.org. DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR.!—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $6-$9. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org. MCCALL MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST 2014—See Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE-$65. mccallmusicsociety.org/events/ summerfest-2014.

Art THE LAIR PRESENTS THE DARK ARTS—Check out this multi-media event, featuring art, ﬁlm, performance and music at a local house show venue. For full details, visit facebook.com/ thelairboise. 7 p.m.

Literature CHRISTIAN WINN BOOK LAUNCH—Rediscovered Books will be down at Payette Brewing Co. to celebrate local author Christian Winn’s release of his ﬁrst book of short stories, Naked Me. With books, beer and music. 7 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing Company, 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City, 208-344-0011, payettebrewing.com. FRIENDS AND FAMILY FRIDAYS—Call or check the website for more info. 4 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

info at 208tattoofest.com. 8 p.m. $13-$30. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory. com. BABYPALOOZA—Check out Boise’s premier event for expectant and new parents, with over 50 companies, all offering top products and services for maternity, baby and toddler, along with an inspiring menu of speakers. Enjoy refreshments and pampering, enter to win fantastic prizes. Kids activities throughout the day. 10 a.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208343-1871, riversideboise.com. RIGGINS HOT SUMMER NIGHTS 2014—See Friday. $5, $20 families. rigginshotsummernights. com. SKIN CANCER SCREENING— The Skin Cancer Foundation’s Road to Healthy Skin Tour offers free full-body skin cancer screenings to the public. Get more info at skincancer.org. 1 p.m. FREE. Rite Aid, 1515 W. State St., Boise. SUMOBOT ROBOTICS COMPETITION—Open to the public. Get more info or register online. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise WaterCooler, 1401 W. Idaho St., Boise. robotics.pjhayward.net.

5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org. MCCALL MUSIC SOCIETY SUMMERFEST 2014—See Wednesday. 7 p.m. FREE-$65. mccallmusicsociety.org/events/ summerfest-2014.

Workshops & Classes MAKE ONE-OF-A-KIND BOOKPLATES—Learn how to make your own one-of-a-kind bookplates with Amy Nack, art educator, local printmaker and owner of Wingtip Press. Limited to 12 participants. Call 208-562-4995 or stop by the library to reserve your spot. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Literature MIGHTY GIRLS MOTHERDAUGHTER BOOK CLUB—Perfect for 6- to 10-year-old girls and their moms, but open to everyone. 1 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

Citizen On Stage BOISE’S FUNNIEST PERSON— The funniest of the funny will take home $1,000 cold, hard cash and the title of Boise’s Funniest Person. Get more info and tickets at boisesfunniestperson.com. 8 p.m. $6. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-2875379, liquidboise.com. DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR.!—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $6-$9. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org. LES MISERABLES—See Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival,

PUSH5K THE STROLLER RUN—Get out with your kiddos in strollers and enjoy a family-style 5K. Register at push5k.com. 10 a.m. $30. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise. SAWTOOTH SOCIETY’S SAGEBRUSH SOIREE—Enjoy a scrumptious dinner at Lost Creek Ranch at this fundraiser for the Sawtooth Society. Silent and live auction items run the gamut from unique outdoor experiences to travel, dinners, art and ﬁne wines. For more info or tickets, contact Executive Director Gary O’Malley at 208-721-2909 or gary@sawtoothsociety.org. 6 p.m. $200.

Kids & Teens AFTER-HOURS POOL PARTY— Teens can swim, listen to cool music, win prizes and hang out with friends. Featuring contests, giveaways, and music with a DJ from Wild 101. For ages 12-17 only. 9 p.m. $2. Fairmont Pool, 7929 Northview, Boise, 208-3753011, parks.cityofboise.org.

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SATURDAY JULY 26 Festivals & Events SAN INAZIO 2014—Events include performances by Basque musicians and dancers, street dances, pala games, picnic and religious services. Get the full schedule at the website. 11 a.m. FREE. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-331-5097 or 208-342-9983, basquecenter. com. THE 208 TATTOO FEST PIN UP PARTY—With Tana the Tattooed Lady as the featured burlesque performer, plus local greats Dapper Doyle & the Revelry Revue and Miss Bobby Pins, and comedy by Jen Adams. Get more

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8 DAYS OUT WINE TASTING BENEFIT—Ladies In Red raise money for Women’s and Children’s Alliance with a wine tasting, food, live music by A Tasty Jamm, dancing and 50/50 rafﬂe. Call for reservations. 7 p.m. $20. Helina Marie’s Wine and Gift Shop, 11053 Highway 44, Star, 208-286-7960, helinamaries.com.

Kids & Teens RUN WILD AT ZOO BOISE—Run Wild at Zoo Boise is a fun run designed for kids age 2-12. Visit the website for more info or to register. 9 a.m. $20-$25. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-608-7760, zooboise. org.

On Stage COMEDIAN BRETT BADOSTAIN—With Dustin Chalifoux and host Eric Cole. 8 p.m. $5. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com. DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR.!—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $6-$9. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org. LES MISERABLES—See Wednesday. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208336-9221, idahoshakespeare. org.

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

SUNDAY JULY 27 Festivals & Events SAN INAZIO 2014—See Saturday. 11 a.m. FREE. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-331-5097 or 208-342-9983, basquecenter.com.

black sheep in the storytelling family with stories of lust and appetites. Adults-only and positively shameless. Get more info or buy tickets at storystorynight.org. 8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com. SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY FREE CONCERT SERIES—The Sun Valley Summer Symphony celebrates its 30th year with 18 performances and events spread across late July and the month of August. Times and prices vary. Get a full schedule at svsummersymphony. org. $TBA. Sun Valley Pavilion, Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley, sunvalley.com.

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MAHONEY’S MOTORCYCLE ESCORT TO CAMP RAINBOW GOLD—Join over 500 bikers and supporters from all over the Paciﬁc Northwest to celebrate Idaho’s children diagnosed with cancer as they make their journey to nearby Camp Rainbow Gold. Get the details at facebook. com/MMEtoCRG. 11 a.m. FREE. Bellevue City Park, 300 Elm St., Bellevue, 208-788-2128, bellevueidaho.us.

MONDAY JULY 28 On Stage STORY STORY LATE-NIGHT: CRAVING—Get a taste of the

MILD ABANDON By E.J. Pettinger

FRIENDS OF THE ADA COMMUNITY LIBRARY FUNDRAISER—Enjoy an an afternoon of fun at this Friends of the Library fundraiser. Call for tickets. 2 p.m. $15. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org.

Kids & Teens BOISE PEAK VOLLEYBALL CAMP—Designed for girls ages 10-18 of all experience levels. Daily through July 30. Get more info or register at peakvolleyball. com. 9 a.m. $225. North Star Charter School, 839 N. Linder Road, Eagle.

TUESDAY JULY 29 On Stage

SEEK 2014 FESTIVAL SEASON SUN VALLEY WELLNESS FESTIVAL May 22-26 RIDE SUN VALLEY June 26-July 05 SUN VALLEY CENTER SUMMER CONCERT SERIES July through Aug HAILEY DAYS OF THE OLD WEST CELEBRATION July 02-06 KETCHUM ARTS FESTIVAL July 11-13 SUN VALLEY CENTER ANNUAL WINE AUCTION July 17-19 SUN VALLEY WRITERS’ CONFERENCE July 19-22 SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY July 28 - Aug 19 SUN VALLEY CENTER ANNUAL ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL Aug 08-10 WAGON DAYS Aug 27 –Sept 01 SUN VALLEY HARVEST FESTIVAL Sept 18-21 WOOD RIVER VALLEY STUDIO TOUR Sept 22-28 6TH ANNUAL ERNEST HEMINGWAY SYMPOSIUM Sept 26-27 TRAILING OF THE SHEEP Oct 09-12 SUN VALLEY JAZZ JAMBOREE Oct 15-20

OPERA IDAHO: THE KING AND I—Listen to the angelic voices of Opera Idaho as they sing songs from their summer musical. For all ages. 2 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Workshops & Classes GETTING PUBLISHED IN LITERARY JOURNALS—Join creative writing professor Mitch Wieland for a look at the ins and outs of getting published in literary journals. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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CONCRETE LEAF WORKSHOP— Create a garden ornament using concrete and a large leaf in this two-part workshop. All materials provided. Preregistration required. 10 a.m. $20-$25. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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ALIVE AFTER FIVE Hot for the pot.

Wildcats everywhere, wave your hands up in the air.

SATURDAY JULY 26 lovin’ in an oven

THURSDAY-SATURDAY JULY 24-AUG. 2 get’cha head in the game DISNEY’S HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL JR.!

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 JESSICA HERNANDEZ & THE DELTAS Opening Act: Aaron Mark Brown Obituaries have piled up around Detroit, with its vacant cathedrals of industry and neighborhoods that look like they’ve been carpet bombed. But there’s still life in Motor City and, listening to Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, it’s punchy, jazzy and full-throated. Hers is no swan song; rather a smoky, soul-infused scream that’s as elegantly gritty as the hard-bitten city whence it comes. 5 p.m. Grove Plaza, 900 W. Grove St., downtownboise.org.

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Boise Little Theater and Boise Parks and Recreation proudly present Disney’s High School Musical Jr!. This is the 15th year the youth summer theater program has put on a public performance and, since May, young people from all around have been hard at work rehearsing this Romeo-andJuliet-esque story. Troy Bolton and Gabriella Montez are from opposite sides of the fence: He is a talented athlete and she, the new girl, is a smart introvert. Troy and Gabriella not only turn heads when they audition for the school musical, they turn East High’s entire social strata on its head. Both kids and adults will enjoy BLT and BPR’s production of the popular comedy musical, and with tickets at $6-$9 per person, it’s affordable fun for the whole family. 2 p.m. $6-$9. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., 208342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

SPORTSMAN’S CHALLENGE DUTCH OVEN COOK-OFF Some people may look at a Dutch oven and see only a heavy, black bucket used for primitive camp cooking. Other people see a fully stocked chef’s kitchen. If you’re one of the latter, the Sportsman’s Warehouse in Meridian is where you and a partner should be Saturday, July 26, for the ﬁrst Sportsman’s Challenge Dutch Oven Cook-Off, sponsored by the Dutch Oven Grubbers of Garden Valley. Two-person teams must cook a main course and a dessert in a timed event during the day. Each team is allowed two Dutch ovens, and judges will taste-test their meals, awarding ﬁrst-, second- and third-place honors. Prizes include Sportsman’s Warehouse gift cards, recreation products and a brand new Dutch oven. Whether you’re planning to make traditional Dutch-oven dishes like franks and beans, cornbread and peach cobbler, or something more innovative like gluten-free chicken meatballs with braised lemon and kale, you can sign up until 9 a.m. July 26, so there’s still time to perfect what you’ll put in your pot. 10 a.m.-3:15 p.m. FREE. Sportsman’s Warehouse, 3797 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, 208-884-3000.

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“It is a happy talent to know how to play.”

Follow the thread.

SATURDAY-SUNDAY JULY 26-27 as above, so below GODDESS FEST In Greek mythology, Ariadne, the daughter of King Minos, gave Theseus a skein of golden thread before he ventured into the Labyrinth to slay the Minotaur living at its center. Ariadne knew that even if he succeeded, Theseus would likely be lost in the Labyrinth forever, so she instructed him to unwind the thread on his way in and follow it back to the entrance on his way out. Golden Thread Grove Church in Boise and Crone’s Cupboard invite men, women and kids to leave the labyrinthine stresses of daily life and follow the thread to Julia Davis Park for the 20th annual Goddess Fest, a celebration of spirituality, diversity and culture. Free and open to the public, the event promotes “peace, joy, harmony, ecology, understanding and compassion and every good thing” through live music, drum circles, tarot readings, crafts and vendors. This year, special guest Australian clairvoyant healer BelindaGrace will host a free talk as well as a paid workshop (for workshop tickets, email belinda@belindagrace.com). 10 a.m.-9 p.m., FREE. 700 S. Capitol Blvd., goddessfest.org.

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SATURDAY JULY 26 ‘only where children gather is there any real chance of fun’ KIDS’ PICKS If you’re tr ying to ﬁnd something for your young ’uns to do this summer, here are two activities that will keep them out of your steadily graying hair—for a while, at least. The four th annual Run Wild at Zoo Boise is a healthy way for ages 2-12 to expend some energy. This fun run lets kids cruise around the zoo in either a quar ter-mile or 1-mile race. Registration includes breakfast for the runners, giveaways and an afterpar ty. $25 nonmembers, $20 for Friends of Zoo Boise members, 8 a.m. registration, 9 a.m. race. 355 Julia Davis Drive, 208-608-7760, zooboise.org. If your 5- to 12-year-olds are still bouncing off the walls, enjoy a little me time: send them to Wings Center for the Mid-Summer Sleepover, where jumping around is encouraged. Kids can climb the rock walls, swim in the pool and play gym games until it’s time for pizza and a movie and then they’re off to bed. They’ll have so much fun, they won’t even realize you sent them to the sleepover as much for yourself as for them. $40 ﬁrst child, $35 each additional child, 7 p.m.-9 a.m.,1875 Centur y Way, 208-376-3641, wingscenter.com.

SLXTREME 4, SLXTREME 5 Your battery life read 100 percent when you left the house, but all that texting and app use has taken its toll. It’s not even evening and your battery is already down to 5 percent. It doesn’t matter if you’re on the Greenbelt, out camping or in the desert shooting skeet: Running out of batteries curbs your access to your phone, text messages, email and social media— $130-$150, putting you in snowlizardproducts.com precisely the kind of situation you bought a cellphone to avoid in the ﬁrst place. Never fear, the Snow Lizard XTreme powered smartphone case is here. The case is tough and waterproof up to a depth of 6 feet and contains a built-in power source that doubles the battery life of your phone. A bank of solar panels on the case’s back trickles electricity back into the case battery when you’re far from home. No more will you live under the tyranny of power outlets or USB ports (or, at least you’ll spend less time there). —Harrison Berry

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CULTURE (W)RAP It’s a Basque blast.

With funds and fashion, a mural and a medicine wheel, and a dab of didjeridu AMY ATKINS AND KELSEY CROW

SAN INAZIO FOR BEGINNERS Most of us who live in Boise have visited the Basque Block, we’ve eaten at Bardenay and walked past the insane parties held in the street every year. Not as many may know exactly what those festivals are about. This year, the Basque Museum and Cultural Center is making sure they do. “We thought we would make a ‘Basque 101/Survival Guide/Festivals for Dummies’ type of presentation for non-Basques to ease into the festival atmosphere and learn about the food, drink, music and dance before everyone ﬁlls the street and it turns to total chaos,” said Annie Gavica, education program specialist for the cultural center. She’s calling the program “San Inazio for Beginners,” and it’ll be held at the cultural center on Thursday, July 24, at 5:30 p.m. It costs $10 and includes a Basque cider tasting and pintxo (appetizers) lessons. “We’ll present the information about a typical Basque festival, why we do it, how it started—the educational part of it, if you will,” Gavica said. “My job is to promote the educational aspects of the Basque culture, so I tr y to get non-Basques to come. Food and drink and music seem to be the best way.” Gavica said the cider tasting will be one of the most interesting parts of the evening. “A lot of people are getting into the hard cider thing right now,” she said. “But hard ciders in the Basque Country have been around forever.” Basque cider is traditionally stored in giant barrels and poured four or ﬁve feet above the glass to make it bubbly. It doesn’t taste anything like your typical grocery store bottle of Angry Orchard, though. It’s tart. Gavica even compared it to the juice left over in green olive jars. “Some people hate it, some people love it,” she said. After the food and drink comes the music. The program will feature a few Basque musicians and participants can learn a dance or two so they can jump into the street and dance on San Inazio weekend. The Basque Block has been celebrating San Inazio for more than 50 years, according to Gavica, and usually draws 3,0005,000 people. This year, the festival falls on Friday, July 25-Sunday, July 27. Registration for the “San Inazio for Beginners” presentation is open through July 23. Call the Basque museum at 208-3432671 for more info. —Jessica Murri

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In her memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert’s Italian friend Giulio says each city has a single word that describes it. He and Elizabeth decide Rome is “sex,” New York is “achieve.” Based on the submissions the Idaho Commision on the Arts received for its FY 2015 fellowship awards, Boise’s word Candis Redfield’s mural at the Flying M Coffeegarage in Nampa is about “the young generations striving for a could be “art.” better future that involves sustainability and our love for the environment.” A memo from ICA said “panelists commented on the quality and earnestness of her head, her parachute in a soft heap next (Moscow) for photography, Rudy Kovacs the work, noting that Idaho must have to her. She holds a flower in her hands, (Pocatello) for tapestry and Anika Smuloa high per-capita population of artists.” examining it closely, paying no attention to vitz (Boise) for metalwork. arts.idaho.gov Artists from around the state submitted the plane slowly continuing its flight across In other Boise-is-art news, form and work in five categories: visual arts, design, the sky. function fuse together at Narrative Jewmedia arts, performing arts and literature, In a press release from Flying M, Redelry, a new exhibit at Brumfield’s Gallery. which were judged by a three-person panel field states, “The inspiration for this mural Through Saturday, Sept. 6, the gallery is comprised of Diana L. Daniels, curator comes from our community and what the home to work by “some of the country’s of contemporary art at the Crocker Art future holds for us. I wanted to capture best jewelry artists,” including local artMuseum in Sacramento, Calif.; Scott Fife, the young generations striving for a better ist Kay Seurat, along with Kat Cole, duo a native Idahoan sculptor who works in future that involves sustainability and our Robin Kranitzky and Kim Overstreet, archival cardboard; and Craig Hickman, a love for the environment.” flyingmcoffee. professor of art at the University of Oregon, Kim Nogueira, Rebecca Rose and Nancy com Worden. The miniature works are sublime whose work in the digital milieu has been Speaking of outdoor art, Boise artists and impossibly intricate yet are designed to acknowledged by the likes of Apple. Marianne Konvalinka and Lynn Fraley have be worn. Submissions were evaluated on artwork completed “Medicine Wheel,” the third As stated in the press release, “This and artist statement (85 percent) and republic artwork now outside of the Jim Hall collection of innovative jewelry does not sume (15 percent). Five artists from across Foothills Learning Center. The stone instalinclude complicated, conceptual catwalk Idaho each received a $5,000 fellowship lation was funded by the McCord family, contraptions that look as if they are inand three received $1,000 for honorable which lived on the land where the learning tended to confine, control or even garrote mentions. center now sits and is meant to “provide a the wearer. Each piece is completely wearFellowship winners included J. Casey place for rest and contemplation.” A public Doyle (Moscow) for a sculpture that “deals able, and it would be a crime to own them without the intention of wearing them. The dedication July 23, 7-8 p.m., will include with universal stereotypes through a highly a poetry reading about “Medicine Wheel” artists do not sacrifice function in order to intentional use of self as subject” to which by campers from The Cabin’s Writing Wild pursue their creative aims. They use tradipanelists gave “an emphatic yes.” Megan summer camp, as well as a workshop with tional jewelry forms such as the pendant Murphy (Hailey) for painting. Her “genrelocal artist Lisa Cheney, in which attendees or brooch, as a support for bending work tackles the will create a “multi-page visual journal … their work, and are no more ongoing challenge to find to document the experience.” bee.cityofconfined by this, than the inspiration in the past.” DIDJERIDU SUMMIT boise.org/foothills painter is confined by his/her Cheryl Shurtleff (Boise). Her Friday, Aug. 1, 7 p.m., And in more spiritual news, if you hear canvas.” brumfieldllc.com small-scale pencil drawings $15-$25. Boise Bible College, a low, musical, mystical rumbling Friday, Stepping outside of the are “evocative of fantastical 8695 W. Marigold St., Aug. 1, don’t fear. It’s the sound of the gallery, literally, an outside printmakers [and] exhibit an Garden City, 208-585-7868, Didjeridu Summit at Boise Bible College in wall of Nampa’s Flying M interesting tension between facebook.com/alejandro. Garden City (8695 W. Marigold St.). Local Coffeegarage is now a portal intimacy and intensity.” anastasio renaissance man (motivational speaker, into imagination. Candis Stephanie Wilde (Boise) for Redfield, a recent graduate of martial artist, moldavite dealer, musician, mixed-media work that is performer, knitter) Alejandro Anastasio is Boise State University, Flying “like a culmination of the bringing didge virtuosos Ondrej Smeykal M barista and artist-in-residence at the tradition of the illuminated manuscript.” and Stephen Kent to Boise for a “tete a tete new Nampa Art Collective’s Village Square Wendel Wirth (Ketchum), whose photograbetween … arguably the two most innovaphy “abandoned traditional rules of compo- Artist Residency, used bright white, earthy tive contemporary artists to have brought beige, muted grays, flashes of red and spots sition and pushed the boundaries between of organic green to create a sprawling mural the [instrument] to the attention of the representation and abstraction.” Three wider world, outside its traditional role in of a young girl sitting in a field of daisies, artists received honorable mentions and Australian Aboriginal culture.” her aviator cap and goggles pushed up on received $1,000 awards—Dennis DeHart B O I S E WE E KLY. 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Aan might be killing it in Portland, but it has a soft spot for Boise. The feeling is mutual.

LONELY MAGIC Aan doesn’t need love, gets it anyway BEN SCHULTZ don’t have hooks but have really great Play Aan’s modest official discography— textures. The blend of texture with pop three singles, the EP I Could Be Girl for You songcraft—for me, that’s everything. That’s (2010) and the new album Amor Ad Nauseum (2014)—and you’ll hear quite a few ref- what I love.” Wilson was interested in music from an erences to water and the sea. Bud Wilson, the band’s lead singer and songwriter, recognizes early age—he played in his first band in the eighth grade—but his imagination and how often this motif pops up, but he doesn’t tastes didn’t truly start to develop until he plan for it to happen. attended the University of Idaho in the early “I don’t really know how to explain it,” 2000s. Academically, he wasn’t always the Wilson said. “It’s just the vastness of the best student: He remembered getting a D in unknown. A lot of the songs on this album a music appreciation class taught by future [Amor] are kind of escapist. And to me, Finn Riggins singer-guitarist Lisa Simpson. the greatest escape would just be out in the “And I know she still remembers that,” middle of the ocean, completely isolated Wilson said, laughing, “because I’ll see her from everybody. It’s sort of lonely, but it’s and I’ll be like, ‘Remember when you pretty also magical.” Aan’s music has worked its share of magic much failed me from that class?’ And she’s like, ‘Well, you were a shitty student.’” on listeners for the past few years. The PortWilson drew more inspiration from Mosland, Ore.-based band has toured with Built cow’s DIY music scene and especially the to Spill and Smashing Pumpkins and seen vast music collection of KUOI, the univerits music and videos featured on Stereogum, sity’s radio station. Impose and ifc.com. A frequent visitor to “They [KUOI] just had kind of more Boise, Aan has played every Treefort Music than they could handle,” he said. “Over the Fest to date and will play a show hosted by years, working there, DJ-ing Duck Club Presents at The there—that was the biggest Crux on Thursday, July 24, thing.” with Portland-based (formerly AAN After graduating, Wilson Moscow, Idaho-based) electroWith Psychic Rites and Junior Rocket Scientist, Thursmoved to Portland in 2005 pop trio Psychic Rites and day, July 24, 8 p.m., $5. and formed Aan a couple of local indie-rock group Junior The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., years later. The band unRocket Scientist. facebook.com/thecruxcofderwent numerous personCombining disorienting feeshop. nel changes—Wilson called tempos and eerie electronic the turnover “kind of like a textures with wistful tunes and Spinal Tap situation”—before settling into aching vocals, Aan calls its music “experithe current lineup of Wilson, bassist Reese mental pop.” It’s a fitting description and Lawhon, drummer Jon Lewis and guitarist a style that, like the watery imagery of the Patrick Phillips. lyrics, comes easily to Wilson. Although Wilson considers Portland his “I can’t not implement pop in any of my home, he misses the experimentalism that he songwriting; it’s just there,” he said. “I’ve found in the city’s music scene when he first got to have a hook in there, but I really love avant-garde music and just things that maybe moved there. BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

“There are miniature scenes of people that are doing either very thoughtful, instrumental music or truly experimental music,” he said. “And there are lots of pop bands in Portland that are cool—they’re great bands, and I wouldn’t slight them in the least for their endeavors—but it’s not nearly as interesting to me.” But Wilson quickly added, “As long as people are doing what they actually want to do and not doing what they think can sell stuff or get them on Pitchfork, then I don’t really care.” Whatever feelings Wilson may have about the Portland scene, Portland has embraced Aan. The Deli Magazine named the band one of the “Best Portland Emerging Artists of 2012,” along with Lost Lander and Radiation City. Willamette Week’s Matthew Singer called Amor “a confident, muscular record that never quite does what you expect.” Portland Mercury’s Ned Lannamann praised the album as “one of the best sounding [italics his] albums to come out of Portland in a long time.” The spacious, meticulous sound noted by Lannamann is the result of two years of work between Aan and producer Jeff Bond, who used to play guitar in the band. “It was … just that monolithic first album where you pin everything on it [and] it’s do or die,” Wilson said. “So let’s make sure it sounds incredible.” Fans of Aan shouldn’t need to wait long for another full-length release. The band hopes to record an album’s worth of new material this year. Wilson has another musical project in the works, too. It’s not experimental, exactly, but it’s different. “I’ve got a little country side project,” he said. “I’m trying to write all these silly country songs, ship them out to Nashville and buy my first mansion.”

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SMALL SCREEN, BIG NEWS Something old, something new… you know the rest GEORGE PRENTICE Among Ravens was ﬁlmed in McCall in the summer of 2012.

AMONG RAVENS WILL BE AMONG FRIENDS AT THE FLICKS A 2010 summer retreat in McCall resulted in the making of Among Ravens, the often funny and sometimes heartbreaking consideration of the American middle class. “It’s based on a real event, four summers ago,” writer, co-director and co-star Russell Friedenberg told Boise Weekly. “Family and friends were spending a weekend on the lake, and in the middle of our weekend, in comes this stranger. He was a very nice person, but a little off rhythm. I always thought that how we chose to react to him and each other would make a great script.” Fast forward to the summer of 2012, when Friedenberg returned to the shore of Payette Lake, this time with co-direcAMONG RAVENS tor Randy Redroad Written by Russell to film the story Friedenberg of how a stranger Co-directed by Russell comes into a group Friedenberg and Randy of friends, and Redroad changes their lives Starring Johnny one-by-one. Sequoyah, Amy Smart, “I always Joshua Leonard and wanted to write Will McCormack something about Opens, Friday, Aug. 1 at the state of the The Flicks union of my peers and contemporaries,” Friedenberg told BW. And now, two summers later, Friedenberg says he’s particularly excited that Among Ravens will be screened at The Flicks, not far from the Boise home he shares with wife (and co-producer) Heather Rae and daughter (and co-star) Johnny Sequoyah. The Idaho screening comes after an international premiere at the Galway (Ireland) Film Festival and distribution in New York and Los Angeles. “I couldn’t be happier. Think of this: There were probably 3,000 films made in the U.S. last year and only 6 percent of them got distribution,” he told BW. “We made a film that has been picked up for domestic and international distribution and, more importantly, resonates with the audiences.” And Friedenberg insists that Among Ravens is definitely not a “critic’s movie.” “The literati aren’t coming into the theater with an open heart. They’re coming with a pen and paper, looking for a way to deconstruct the film in the smarmiest, socially political way possible,” he said. “This is an audience film.” —George Prentice

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There’s much (and much of it is good) to report on television this week: something old (the Television Academy handing out nominations to the best of last season), something new (a slew of really ﬁne programs on nontraditional television platforms), something borrowed (a lot more copycat programming is heading our way) and something blue (a lot of cable moguls have been swearing a blue-streak over a recent Wall Street Journal report, urging its readers to get rid of cable TV).

MEMO TO MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY: KEEP AUG. 25 OPEN

Matthew McConaughey is sure to score an Emmy Aug. 25; that will go nicely next to the Oscar he won in March.

The Academy of Television Arts & Scinew, fresh programs have been launched this ences will hand out its primetime trophies summer, belying that May through September for the 66th time in late August, and it’s a is a television wasteland. Of particular note pretty sure bet that Mr. McConaughey-hey- are two new series that you may have to hunt around to find, but hey will pick up a you’ll be glad you did. nice companion piece Matador on the for that Oscar he 66TH ANNUAL PRIMETIME EMMY AWARDS recently launched El took home in March. Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 Rey network, is a Voters just love movie funny, flashy spystars, and particularly Airing live at 6 p.m. MDT and-sports dramedy Oscar winners. McHosted by Seth Meyers on NBC from writer-producer Conaughey will join Roberto Orci, whose an exclusive list of impressive resume actors—including Al includes Alias and Hawaii Five-O on televiPacino, Katherine Hepburn and Laurence sion and The Amazing Spiderman franchise Olivier—who own both an Emmy and an Oscar. And there was only one other time in on the big screen. We also really like The Honorable Woman, history when an actor took home both trostarring the always-fine Maggie Gyllenhaal. phies in the same year: Helen Hunt won an This eight-part miniseries, commissioned for Oscar (As Good As It Gets) and an Emmy the BBC, is currently airing on the Sundance (Mad About You) in 1998. Besides, McCoNetwork and has great relevance in that it naughey absolutely, hands-down deserves this year’s Best Actor Emmy for his amazing deftly places an expertly written story against the current turmoil of the Middle East. performance in HBO’s True Detective. His only serious competition comes from his True Detective co-star, Woody Harrelson. IMITATION IS THE SINCEREST FORM HBO scored big again, taking home OF TELEVISION a whopping 99 nominations. My how You would be forgiven if you were to the mighty have fallen: CBS garnered 47 confuse ABC with its unofficial moniker: the nominations: NBC got 46, ABC received 37 Shonda Rhimes Network. The woman who nominations and FOX got 30 nods (even already gives us Grey’s Anatomy and Scandal Netflix, with 31 nominations, got more will add How to Get Away With Murder to than FOX). ABC’s fall lineup. In fact, all three comprise HBO’s Game of Thrones hauled in 19 ABC’s entire Thursday night slate. Emmy nominations, including Best Drama CBS has another NCIS spinoff this fall Series and Outstanding Supporting Actor (this one’s in New Orleans) to join the moth(Peter Dinklage). ership, NCI, and sibling No.1, NCIS: Los Angeles. Later in the season, CBS will have another CSI rendition: CSI Cyber to join all SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN the other CSIs. We’re really excited about how many

And following last November’s surprising hit live broadcast of The Sound of Music, NBC says it will dig up another old Broadway chestnut, Peter Pan, for a live broadcast. It has already cast Christopher Walken as Captain Hook. Meanwhile FOX wants a piece of that action, and it has announced a live broadcast of the musical Grease.

CUT THE CORD More than a few cable television executives woke up to a signiﬁcant jolt when they picked up the July 15 edition of The Wall Street Journal, where columnist Geoffrey Fowler wrote to the Journal’s older demographic about something that millions of 20-somethings and 30-somethings already know: It makes no sense to shell out so much for cable. “This makes me angry, and a little ashamed,” wrote Fowler. “My family’s Comcast bill for this month was $212.” Thus, Fowler crafted a how-to guide for going without cable—or at least considerably less of it. Fowler said moving to a digital antenna was key; he also championed the use of a Slingbox, which can beam your buddy’s TV signal over the Internet to your own tablet or TV. Finally, he advocated for “borrowing” a login from a friend or family member to access HBO, Showtime, ESPN or one of the many pay-services that require cable subscriptions. Fowler wrote that the latest market research indicated that about 19 percent of American TV households live without cable. Our guess is that number has increased in the past two weeks. B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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THE TALENTED MR. HOFFMAN A Most Wanted Man, his last starring role, is also one of his best GEORGE PRENTICE As I waited for the theater lights to drift into darkness before the beginning of A Most Wanted Man—featuring Philip Seymour Hoffman’s final leading performance—I thought about how much I would miss him. But in the first few minutes of the film, Hoffman, the actor, vanished. Instead, I was bracing against a chill from a Cold War spy (Hoffman), as he fiddled with a thermostat in a post-911 world. Not since 2011’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy have we seen such a smart, crackerjack espionage thriller. And that’s the magic of Hoffman, the definitive chameleon of his generation, who disappeared so adeptly into performances in The Talented Mr. Ripley, Capote, Doubt and The Master. Philip Seymour Hoffman gives his final above-the-title performance in A Most Wanted Man. It’s one of his finest. Unfortunately Hoffman also disappeared into his own personal hell in February of this and German intelligence and a cadre of other year, dying of a heroin/cocaine/amphetamine States’ counter-intelligence methods: short spies, want a piece of Bachmann’s action— cocktail. For me, his absence triggered an gains and long sacrifices. Simply put, le a plan to entrap a corrupt German banker uncomfortable mix of sadness and anger—I Carre reminds us in many of his books that felt robbed of a gift that I still hadn’t adAmerica—the CIA in particular—has chosen (think minnow), played by a fine Willem Dafoe; a Chechen refugee (barracuda) played equately valued, which is all the more reason to arrest and prosecute small-time terrorists to urge you to see Hoffman’s masterful instead of being patient enough to trap a big- in a star-making performance by Grigoriy Dobrygin; and a Muslim academic (shark), a curtain call in A Most time mastermind. Wanted Man. (Prior “It takes a minnow puppetmaster played by Homayoun Ershadi A MOST WANTED MAN (R) who was so good in 2007’s The Kite Runner. to his death, Hoffman to catch a barracuda, But Bachmann has only 72 hours to is said to have filmed a barracuda to catch a Directed by Anton Corbijn pull off the entire chess match. And this is some final supporting shark,” says HoffStarring Grigoriy Dobrygin, Homayoun Ershadi, complex stuff. So, a word of movie-going scenes for Decemman’s Bachmann. Philip Seymour Hoffman caution: get up from your seat at your own ber’s Hunger Games: But it’s difficult to Opens Friday, July 25, at The Flicks and peril. Miss a little and you’ll miss a lot. Mockingjay-Part 1 tell who is the barEdwards 22 When Bachmann is confronted by the sequel, but A Most racuda and who is a other “chess” players (spies and counterWanted Man was his shark. Consider this spies—we really can’t tell if they’re friend or final, starring big screen performance). hypothetical: If you knew that someone was foe), he is asked about his end-game: With a note-perfect German accent, going to build a bomb in the future, would “To make the world a safer place,” Hoffman plays Gunther Bachmann, an you arrest the bomber today, would you Bachmann says with deadpan certainty. At anxious and caffeinated but world-weary wait to catch the person paying the bomber, first blush, the line is a throw-off, meant to spy in Hamburg, Germany. Early in the or would you be patient enough to trap the dismiss the naïve and stupid. That is, until film, we’re reminded that Hamburg is where mastermind pulling all the strings? Le Carre we begin to consider what goes on in the al-Qaida terrorists hatched the 9/11 assault theorizes that the United States, in decidark corners of the real world—things we on the United States. Hamburg was a “guilty sions that have been increasingly driven by don’t want to think about too often. city,” wrote author John le Carre in 2008’s elections, has been trigger happy and overly As A Most Wanted Man came to an end A Most Wanted Man, the bestselling novel anxious to catch a minnow, convinced it’s (in a disturbing conclusion after a neatly and source material for the film. (In a rare really a barracuda. paced two hours), I recognized that Hoffmove for the author, le Carre is an executive “I have worked with Americans before,” man’s was one of the best performances of producer of the movie adaptation.) Bachmann tells a slippery U.S. agent (a 2014. The theater lights bumped up again, Le Carre’s 21st century novels like The raven-haired Robin Wright, always wonderand I again felt a wave of sadness. I missed ful). “It did not end well.” Constant Gardener and A Delicate Truth Philip Seymour Hoffman even more. But the CIA operative, as well as British have shown particular contempt for United BOI S EW EEKLY.COM

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GUIDE WEDNESDAY JULY 23 ALIVE AFTER FIVE: JESSICA HERNANDEZ AND THE DELTAS—With Aaron Mark Brown. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. Shor ty’s DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement DJ HOUSE MUSIC—8 p.m. FREE. Mode Lounge THE DONKEYS—With CAMP and Storie Grubb & The Holy Wars. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

OUGHT AND DUB THOMPSON— With Mindrips. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. The Crux

DJ ODIE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

PATIO CONCERT SERIES—Rex Miller, Lawson Hill and Rico Weisman. 7 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill

GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: HILLFOLK NOIR—6:30 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden

RED ELVISES—With Guess When and Fleet Street Klezmer Band. 8 p.m. $10-$15. Bouquet

HIP-HOP SHOW—9:30 p.m. $5. Liquid

RICHARD SOLIZ—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe RYAN WISSINGER—6 p.m. FREE. Solid SEUN KUTI—With Egypt 80. 8:30 p.m. $17-$25. Knitting Factor y SKYFOOT—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

EMILY TIPTON—7:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

SOUL PATCH—6:30 p.m. FREE. Roseberr y Townsite

GEORGE DEVORE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

SPEEDY GRAY—9 p.m. FREE. Solid

JIMMY BIVENS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s JOHNNY SHOES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY—Electronic live music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s PATRICIA FOLKNER—6 p.m. FREE. Smoky Mountain Pizza-Parkcenter

THE VENTIA FAIR—With The Higher Counsel. 8 p.m. FREE. Shredder

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FRUITION—9:30 p.m. $5. Reef

HOLOPHONICS—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffee/Concer t Garage JONAH SHUE AND CHUCK SMITH—7 p.m. FREE. Modern Hotel OLIPHANTS—7 p.m. FREE. Harr y’s Hyde Park Pub AAN—With Psychic Rites and Junior Rocket Scientist. See Culture, Page 19. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux THE REV. PEYTON’S BIG DAMN BAND—7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux SPEEDY GRAY—9 p.m. FREE. Solid STEVE AND GRACE WALL—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe TERRY JONES—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers THURSDAY THUNDER: SIMPLE RUCKUS—6 p.m. FREE. Boise Spectrum

ALANA DAVIS—8 p.m., $15, Liquid BARBARA LANG—6 p.m. FREE. Solid BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CLAY MOORE AND FRIENDS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

FRIDAY JULY 25 AUDIO/VISUAL DJ—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement BARE—9 p.m. $5-$15. Revolution

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BILL COURTIAL AND CURT GONION—6 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill BREAD AND CIRCUS—10 p.m. FREE. The Foresters Club COOL GHOULS—7 p.m. With guests TBA. $5. The Crux CRASWELL BRASS QUNITET—6 p.m. $69. Brundage Mountain Resor t DJ OXO—10 p.m. FREE. Reef FARAYI AND FRIENDS—7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Sapphire Room HOLODECK HUSTLE DJS—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

NAHKO BEAR AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE, JULY 25, EGYPTIAN THEATRE From clans that relied on bear meat for sustenance and bear fur for protection, to Wall Street’s use of the great Ursidae to describe a market in decline, bears have long held literal and symbolic signiﬁcance. In dreams, the bear is thought to represent stoicism, introspection, power, strength. It is also a symbol of comfort and joy—teddy bears are, historically, one of the most common and familiar children’s toys. Oregon native Nahko Bear, who is of Apache, Puerto Rican and Filipino descent, exudes all of the qualities associated with the great animal whose name he carries. With Medicine for the People, Bear performs world music described as “Earth-based, native-based and spiritinspired,” and he is a man on a musical mission to start a movement: “motivation and inspiration ... to spread awareness and take action to make the Changes we know are healthy for all Earthlings and Mother Gaia herself.” Visit facebook.com/nahkoandmedicineforthepeople for a chance to win tickets to the show. —Amy Atkins With Dustin Thomas, 9 p.m., $18 adv., $20 day of show. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.

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MERRYGOLD—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club NAHKO AND MEDICINE FOR THE PEOPLE—With Dustin Thomas. See Listen Here, this page. 9 p.m. $18 adv., $20 door. Egyptian PAT RICE—6 p.m. FREE. Solid POSSUM LIVIN’—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

TRACTOR BEAM—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill TWO FLAVORS OF VANILLA DUALDJ NIGHT—Featuring DJ Retronaut and DJ I.G.A. The Independent Grocer. 9 p.m. FREE. Spacebar Arcade WOLVSERPENT—With Ash Borer and HELL. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

SATURDAY JULY 26 BERNIE REILLY BAND—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s THE BLUE RAYZ—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s B.O.B—With Mayor Coalz and Party Girl. 8 p.m. $25-$65. Revolution BREAD AND CIRCUS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar BREWER AND SHIPLEY—8 p.m. $15-$22. Sapphire Room DAN COSTELLO TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement DJ MALLWALKER—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m., FREE, Chandlers GEORGE DEVORE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Salmon River Brewery JARED AND THE MILL—10 p.m. $3 adv., $5 door. Reef JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s KAYLEIGH JACK—1 p.m. FREE. Solid KAYLEIGH JACK—7:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub KEVIN SHRUMM—7 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. $3. 127 Club NEW MADRID—7 p.m., With Genders and Kithkin. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux PIRANHAS BC PUNK ROCK PARTY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s RYAN WISSINGER—6 p.m. FREE. Solid WILLISON ROOS—With Charlie Burry. 2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar WORKIN ON FIRE—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

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RHYTHM RANGERS—5 p.m. FREE. Redﬁsh Lake Lodge

AMELIA HYDE—2 p.m. FREE. Indian Creek Winery

ROCK THE VILLAGE: KAHUNA BEACH—6 p.m. With The Upperclassmen. FREE. Village at Meridian

BLACK FLAG—With Hor and Cinema Cinema. 8 p.m. $20-$40. Knitting Factory

ROYAL BLISS—7:30 p.m. With The Cavalr y and Fly2Void. $18-$35. Knitting Factor y

DJ ODIE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

RYAN WISSINGER—9 p.m. FREE. Solid SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub TITLE WAVE—8 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

THE DUDE ABIDES REVIVAL SHOW—With Sheep Among Wolves, An Empire of Lions, and Dweller at the Well. 7 p.m. FREE. The Crux FOUR SHILLINGS SHORT—6 p.m. FREE-$10. Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship

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ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berr yhill

JAM NIGHT WITH ALEX RICHARDS—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

JIMMIE SINN—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

RICK SPRINGFIELD—With Jared and the Mill, and Brian Bateman. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $40-$225. Revolution

JIMMIE SINN—6 p.m. FREE. Solid JOSH RITTER AND THE ROYAL CITY BAND—7 p.m. $20-$80. River Run Lodge LARRY CLARK—Noon. FREE. Gelato Cafe MUSIC FROM STANLEY: HILLFOLK NOIR—5 p.m. FREE. Redﬁsh Lake Lodge NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid OPEN MIC ON THE PATIO—2 p.m. FREE. Solid ROOFTOP PARTY SUNDAYS WITH SUITE LOVE/OHNO—9 p.m. FREE. Reef

MONDAY JULY 28 1332 RECORDS PRESENTS PUNK MONDAY—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid THE CABIN PROJECT AND OLD MONK—With Evergreen Machine. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

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TUESDAY JULY 29 ADAM CHAVARRIA—6 p.m. FREE. Solid BALLYHOO!—With Bumpin’ Uglies and guests. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux BERNIE REILLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s BLESSTHEFALL AND CHIODOS—With I Killed the Prom Queen and Capture the Crown. 7 p.m. $18-$35. Knitting Factory EVERCLEAR—With Soul Asylum, Eve 6 and Spacehog. 8 p.m. $20-$65. Revolution JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLYGOATS—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill KETCH’EM ALIVE CONCERT SERIES—7 p.m. FREE. Forest Ser vice Park

RADIO BOISE SOCIAL HOUR: DJ DR. FRESH—5:30 p.m. FREE. Neurolux YONATAN GAT (OF MONOTONIX)—With Maladroids, Point Break 2 and URB. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

WEDNESDAY JULY 30 ALIVE AFTER FIVE: BROTHERS COMATOSE—With Possum Livin. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza

DJ HOUSE MUSIC—8 p.m. FREE. Mode Lounge FRUGAL FATHER AND YOUNG PHARAOHS—With PoloMirror. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux GEORGE DEVORE BAND—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s JOHNNY BUTLER—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato Cafe KEYLEIGH JACK—7:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic live music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid MISSISSIPPI MARSHALL— 7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

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

OLIPHANTS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

BRANDON PRITCHETT—7 p.m. FREE. Reef

PATIO CONCERT SERIES—7 p.m. Featuring Greg & Johnny with friends. FREE. Berr yhill

BUBBA SPARXXX—With Ready Starr, Yung Verb, Young Knox and the Real Rel. 8 p.m. $20. Bouquet

POSSUM LIVIN’—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

CHICKEN DINNER ROAD—6:30 p.m. FREE. Roseberry Townsite CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH—With Stagnant Pools. 7 p.m. $15. Neurolux DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. Shor ty’s

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RICK SPRINGFIELD, JULY 28, REVOLUTION Becoming a world-renowned rockstar in the ’80s was both a blessing and a curse. Fame, fans and money: blessing. Being known for one hit and considered a hackneyed novelty act 30 years later: curse. But Grammy Award-winning musician/actor Rick Springfield managed to dodge the death knell that clanged for so many of those good-looking pop stars who graced the pages of Tiger Beat magazine, even though mention of his name today is often followed by, “That’s the ‘Jessie’s Girl’ guy, right?” Springfield escaped fading into obscurity by working. A lot. As “Jessie’s Girl,” off his successful 1981 release Working Class Dog was rocketing to No.1, Springfield was also playing Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital (which he reprised in 2005). He not only released an album every few years for three decades, he had recurring roles and cameos in a number of TV shows, including Showtime’s Californication, starring David Duchovny. Today, the still-handsome, 64-year-old Springfield is still rocking. Talk about blessed. —Amy Atkins With Jared and the Mill, and Brian Bateman. 8 p.m., $20$225. Revolution Concert House, 4983 Glenwood St., Garden City, cttouringid.com.

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WINESIPPER/DRINK RIESLING: TAKE A WALK ON THE DRY SIDE

2012 DOMANE WACHAU FEDERSPIEL TERRASSEN RIESLING, $24 This wine’s aromas are a rich mix of candied plum, peach and lime. The flavors are a bit light out of the gate, but they build nicely. After a few minutes, sweet mango and melon play against bright citrus and green apple. The finish is light but lively, colored by lemon drop and blood orange. It’s a lovely effort from this Austrian winery. 2012 KINGS RIDGE OREGON RIESLING, $13.99 Climate conditions in much of the Northwest are ideal for riesling, with warm days assuring ripeness and cool nights preserving crisp acidity. Kings Ridge offers honeyed melon, rose petal and clover on the nose with a touch of spice. On the palate, its tangy lime flavors are backed by apricot and green apple. Citrus zest and bright acidity mark the finish in this well-balanced, nicely priced riesling. 2012 VILLA HUESGEN NINE GENERATION RIESLING, $16.99 Steeply terraced vineyards line much of both the Rhine and Moselle rivers. The wines produced there vary in style from decadent dessert to bone-dry aperitif. This version from the Mosel region leads with floral aromas, including peach, citrus, ginger and herb-laced bacon. Beautifully balanced in the mouth, the flavors are a combo of sweet citrus and racy stone fruit with a smooth finish. —David Kirkpatrick

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Of all the noble grapes, riesling is probably the most misunderstood and under appreciated. Responsible for some of the world’s greatest sweet wines with strange names like Trockenbeerenauslese, riesling also produces exceptional dry whites. Originating in Germany, riesling has spread across the globe with good reason. As the mercury rises, nothing tastes better than a crisp riesling. And it is one of the most food-friendly whites, working well with spicy Asian, simple seafood, light pasta and more. Here are the panel’s top three picks:

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THAI BASIL: AUTHENTIC THAI CUISINE Hitting (almost) all the right flavors TARA MORGAN I approached the corner of Fairview Avenue and Eagle Road with a gnawing hunger that rivaled the intensity of the mid-summer heat. On all sides, strip malls stretched out like a hellacious mirage. Luckily, a new restaurant caught my eye—Thai Basil: Authentic Thai Cuisine. Rendezvous with the honey roasted half duck at Thai Basil. You won’t be sorry. It seemed like a challenge. Would the menu consist of the usual Treasure Valley went straight for the Thai hot wings ($7.95), shrimp. The Thai-style version featured a Thai suspects—pad Thai and an assortment hoping the spot would trump Pok Pok on blend of lime juice, garlic, ample glugs of fish of vaguely Chinese dishes that taste like they sauce, palm sugar and a surprising amount of another dish. Sadly, the small, lightly fried were freshly dumped from a can? Or would wings were coated in a puddle of generic, Thai chilies. It hit all of the flavors: sour, sathe spot indeed offer more authentic Thai vory, sweet and spicy. And damn was it spicy. sweet, garlic-y brown sauce with wilted green fare? The answer: Yes and no. onions draped over the top. We asked for a Though I ordered the salad with medium Thai Basil—decked out with burgundy side of bright-red chili oil and a couple of lime and butter-yellow walls, cherry wood tables, heat, there was an even more sinister “Thai Hot” option, which cautioned: “management wedges, which went a long way to amp up a row of giant fake bamboo plants and the flavor and cut the sauce’s sticky sweetness. accepts no responsibility for side effects.” dangling glass lanterns—is owned by the The yum woon sen salad ($11.50) was Blissed out after crunching my way same family that runs Pad Thai House on much more varied in flavor and texture: through a good portion of the searing salad, Five Mile Road. Though the spot serves Bean-thread noodles slithered around bits I spotted another dish I had to try: the honey ubiquitous American-Asian dishes like egg of ground pork, a couple of tail-on shrimp, roasted half duck ($13.25). rolls, Generals Tso’s chicken shreds of purple cabbage, shaved carrots, A beautiful arrangement of and Mongolian beef, the menu THAI BASIL cilantro leaves, green onions and lemongrass. duck parts, moist and lightly is also sprinkled with a few 3161 E. Fairview Ave., Ste. The mountainous dish was ample enough to pink, arrived with a glistening, delightfully delicious excep110, Meridian red-brown skin sprinkled with share with a few people. tions. The dish that piqued my 208-888-5797 But the best part of our return visit was green onions. But eating it was interest was the som tum, or thaibasilidaho.com another rendezvous with duck, in the form of a little less pretty. Since the pounded green papaya salad the Thai curry duck ($11.50). The intensely bird had been chopped with a ($8.25), available in Thai or sharp knife into chunks, each piece came with rich red curry coconut curry broth was spiced Lao style. Having sampled the salad a few bits of sinew and bone that had to be worked with fresh Thai basil and Kaffir lime leaves. times at Portland, Ore.’s popular Pok Pok, I Pops of sweet cherry tomato played off the around. After gnawing a few pieces of flavorwas curious to see how it held up. light snap of long beans, slices of moist duck As it turns out, I thought this one was bet- ful and perfectly fatty duck like a chicken and warm hunks of pineapple. It was the kind ter. Crunchy shreds of un-ripe papaya mingled wing, I packaged up the remainder and took of lunch you need a nap after. And in this it home to be tackled later. with shards of carrot, snips of bright long Speaking of wings, on a return lunch visit I heat, that’s never a bad idea. beans, hunks of tomato and tiny, chewy dried

FOOD/NEWS TWO NEW BRUNCHES LAUNCH AND KINDNESS CHANGES GRAND OPENING After years spent in a hollandaze, the Boise brunch scene is scrambling for something new. The Modern Hotel debuted its new brunch menu in mid-June, which includes eclectic items like house-corned beef with spicy kimchi broth and a lightly sweet egg pancake. Now a couple of other Boise restaurants are also offering some more unique brunch items. Saint Lawrence Gridiron, at 705 W. Bannock St., recently launched a brunch menu, which is served from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on Saturdays. Menu items include brisket and poached eggs with toast ($12); shrimp and grits with sausage and tomato gravy and grilled shrimp ($13); brioche French toast with bourbon-sorghum syrup and pan-fried plantains ($9); and smoked country ham with a poached egg, grit cakes and red-eye gravy ($12). Boozy brunch drinks are minimal—just a prosecco mimosa ($6) and a house sangria ($5)—but SLG’s regular beer and wine menu is also available.

Down the block at 211 N. Eighth St., Juniper also launched a brunch menu last weekend, served Saturday and Sunday starting at 9:30 a.m. Brunch plates include a roasted beet benedict with spinach and bearnaise sauce ($8); a linguica scramble with caramelized onions, sweet peppers and kale ($9); a fried chicken sandwich with honey mustard, grilled kale and pickles ($9); and a Lava Lakes Lamb reuben with purple kraut and sweet pepper aioli ($11). Juniper also offers a few small plates from its regular menu, including the grilled ﬂank steak salad ($13) and the gin-andhoney glazed salmon ($14), along with classic cocktails like the French 75 ($7) and the Pimm’s Cup Royale ($8.50) And in not-quite-ready-to-open-yet news, we got word just before we went to press that the grand opening of the Owyhee’s new restaurant, Kindness, has been pushed from Thursday, June 24 to Thursday, Aug. 7, due to “unexpected circumstances.” —Tara Morgan B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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SUMMER SKIING IN THE SAWTOOTHS So this is why they invented chairlifts BY JESSICA MURRI An off-leash dog policy has neighbors at odds.

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Standing before the Boise Parks and Recreation board of commissioners on July 17, Cherrie Rasmussen couldn’t get through her two-minute testimony without breaking into tears. “I try to keep this neighborhood together, but we’re fighting,” she said. Her neighborhood is at odds over a pilot project introduced to 72-acre Marianne Williams Park in East Boise that allows dogs to be off-leash from sunrise to 10 a.m. and from 4 p.m. to sunset. Parks and Rec, meeting to decide whether to continue the year-old project, hosted 40 minutes of public testimony ranging from nods of support, to accusations and tears. The folks most unhappy with the policy were those, like Elaine Finch, whose houses border the park. She reported a “huge” increase in barking, occasional dog fights and a change in the demographic of the park. “There’s no kids there anymore,” Finch said. “There used to be kids all the time. Now it’s just dogs and adults. We all own dogs, but this affects everyone. It’s a neighborhood, not a dog park.” Another speaker claimed a sharp decrease in youth sports teams practicing in the park since it became off-leash, but commissioner Stephen Smith said he was recently on the board of youth lacrosse and heard of no problems. In general, Parks and Rec said it hasn’t heard many complaints related to the dog policy from parents. Still, one woman complained that during her child’s birthday party, a few 11-year-old boys wrestling in the grass came back with their arms smeared with dog feces. Underscoring the point about dog waste, neighborhood homeowner Peter Reed presented the commissioners with a video that opened with a close-up of a pile of dog feces. It continued showing owners and dogs playing together, though video time-stamps revealed they were doing so outside of designated off-leash hours. A few community members testified in favor of the dog park, enthusiastic about bringing more life to the park, creating more socialization in the neighborhood and providing ready outdoor access to those with pets. Further complicating the public opinion picture, a recent survey of neighbors within a half-mile radius of the park showed 70 percent in favor and 30 percent opposed to the off-leash policy. After striking down motion after motion— the commission finally settled on extending the pilot project another year, and might adjust evening times in August. Commissioners also promised to reevaluate criteria for off-leash parks in general.

to experience the whole thing.” 2,000-foot elevation gain took place in that When a boulder the size of a spare tire barOnce again, I pulled on my pack and we final mile. reled toward me in the middle of the night, started side trekking up to Alpine Peak at Four hours later, we made it to Sawtooth near the top of Alpine Peak in the Sawtooth Lake and dropped our packs. I felt the wonder- 10:30 p.m. Target elevation: 9,871 feet. I Mountains, I knew Peter was wrong; this ski reached a whole new level of exhaustion. ful weightlessness for mere minutes before trip was not for beginners. Only 150 feet separated us from the summit Tyson said, “OK, ready to go ski?” I’d never done a trip like this before and of the pyramid-shaped peak; 150 feet of loose By then, I’d developed a deep hatred for had no idea what to expect, but my highly shale on a 40-degree pitch. We dumped our my skis. So far, none of this felt very beginnerenergetic friend Peter Kurst had been working gear and I took my first step on the shale field, friendly. on me for months. Any skill level can do it, he only to feel the rocks collapse beneath me. I “That’s why we came up here, right?” he said. No backcountry gear needed, he said. It knew I was done. Springing tears of exhaussaid. will be fun, he said. tion, I apologized and told them to go on withSo we started boot packing up the snowy So I loaded my backpack with the necesout me. Marcy leaned against me, uncertain North-facing chute of Mount Regan. Kick in sities and a collection of just-add-water food. twice, take a step, kick in twice, another step— and unsteady. Only one thing left: skis and boots. Peter, ever the truest friend, decided right the worst stair-stepper ever. A waterfall ran These skis and boots are no lightweight then he didn’t need to summit the mountain along the rocks beside us, contrasting my pain marvel of backcountry technology. They’ve either, and stayed with me. It took the others with the beauty of this place. never even touched snow outside of a ski 45 minutes of scrambling up the scree field, We put on our skis sideways and I went resort, and they doubled the weight of my cussing. pack; fully-loaded: 40 pounds—a We sat in the absolute mounthird of my body weight. A quick tain silence, watching stars reflect Google search highly recomin the lake almost 1,500 feet mends keeping your pack at a below us. The super moon filled quarter of your body weight and the valley with pale light and dark maybe after some pretty serious shadows. I had reached my own conditioning, you can get it up to summit, amazed at the physical a third. Conditioning? Hah. But strength I found. I thought of EmPeter insisted: you’ll be fine. ily, and her new life in our wild Saturday morning, July 12, the state. I was surprised when Peter plan: to meet on my street at 7:30 said it was 1:30 a.m. a.m. This is when I met Emily Abe and Tyson started down Thompson, my new next door the shale field after their sumneighbor who also got talked into mit, Abe taking a cautious route the trip by Peter. She moved to along the ridge and Tyson starting Boise only a week ago from Tendirectly down toward us. That’s nessee—mercifully, without skis. when he lost his footing. On the ride, she told me about “Rock!” Abe shouted, and I what brought her here: the end saw that boulder the size a tire of a decade-long relationship and flying toward me. I was up and the need for a complete change. She picked Idaho sight-unseen. The author, Jessica Murri, and her dog, Marcy, make a turn on Mount Regan. scrambling away when I saw it bounce 10 feet from me. More As we drove my dusty Subaru rocks were falling and Peter and I along the South Fork of the ran out of the way. Suddenly I had no trouble first, cruising through the slushy, easy snow. Payette River, she said, “I am so glad to be getting across the shale. I’m not sure I’d ever Marcy ran after me, free of her backpack. in this car right now. This is exactly where I felt so scared in my life. It took 10 turns and barely three minutes need to be.” Tyson apologized over and over as we put to get to the bottom after the half-hour hike At the Iron Creek Trailhead, we headed on our skis, sobered by the near-miss. But it toward Sawtooth Lake. I had no idea what the up, but skiing in shorts in July in 80-degree was time to ski. We skied almost 1,000 vertical weather in the Sawtooths was, well, pretty trail would be like, but tried not to be intimifeet by moonlight (and for me, headlamp). cool. I felt stoked, like I was finally starring in dated hiking behind Tyson Stellrecht—owner When the snow stopped, we systematically a Warren Miller movie. of Backcountry Pursuit—and his employee, strapped our skis on our backs, and hiked I was feeling pretty accomplished when Abe Traven. back down. At 3 a.m., I slid into my sleeping Tyson said, “OK, let’s go again.” The first two miles of the hike weren’t so Not believing myself capable, I did it again. bag and slept. bad. Marcy, my Chinese Shar Pei/German When I woke the next morning, muscles I Back in camp, I looked at our neat lines down Shepherd mix, trotted alongside with her didn’t even know I had ached. Even my lungs the most-photographed mountain in Idaho. own pack, full. We came into an open valley hurt. Marcy’s legs shook and she licked her We sat in happy tiredness, watching the surrounded by jagged peaks and cut through paws nonstop. The hike out was a journey clouds change colors over the lake as the sun by a roaring sweet-water stream. A waterfall much easier than the day before, with lighter set, passing Nalgenes full wine and whisky. cascaded from the top of one peak, down the packs, downhill trekking and thoughts of real When it got dark, Peter said, “You ready for full length of the mountain. food back in Boise. some moonlight skiing?” The third mile got worse. And the fourth. “Peter, this trip was definitely not for beginI looked at Emily, already asleep on her The last mile tested the limits of my strength. ners,” I said at the end. Therm-a-Rest, and longed for my own. Switchback after brutal switchback in the “Yeah?” Peter said. “Well, you did it.” “This is why you came,” Tyson said. “If the upper 80-degree, rarified air—40 pounds And so maybe he was right. digging into my shoulders. The majority of the you’re going to write a story about it, you need

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A Petition for Name Change by Shana Lynn Tubach and Martin Randal Tubach, now residing in the city of Boise, State of Idaho, proposing a change in name for their son, NATHAN ALEXANDER TUBACH, to OLIVER MCLOVIN TUBACH, has been filed in the above entitled court on June 25, 2014. The Petition alleges substantially the following: Petitioners are adult residents and domiciliaries of the state of Idaho, presently residing at 13226 N. Lookout Circle, Boise, Idaho 83714. Petitioners and the minor child subject to this action have continuously resided together in the state of Idaho since 2000. Petitioners were married on the 10th day of August in 1991 and are currently husband and wife. Petitioners are the legal and biological parents of NATHAN ALEXANDER TUBACH born December 8, 1998. Four (4) children were born as a result of the marriage of the parties to wit: Preston, age 18, Aubrie, age 17, Nathan, age 15, and Kyra, age 12. The minor child subject to this petition, NATHAN ALEXANDER TUBACH, was born on December 8, 1998 in Cheyenne, Laramie County, Wyoming. Throughout most of the minor child’s life, he has been by the first name “Oliver”, even though his true legal name is “ Nathan”. The minor child’s school records reflect the name “Oliver”. The minor child is to commence high school at Boise High effective August, 2014, and Petitioners are informed that the official school records must show the name “NATHAN” unless a name change occurs correctly identifying Petitioners’ minor child’s name as “Oliver”. It is in the minor child’s best interest that his legal name be changed as set forth herein. When the issue of name change occurred within the Petitioners’ family, “Oliver” indicated that he likewise wishes to change his middle name to “McLovin”. Thus, the proposed name change of the minor child is from “NATHAN ALEXANDER TUBACH” to “OLIVER MCLOVIN TUBACH”. Petitioners seek a name change for their son for the purposes set forth herein.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): A report in the prestigious British medical journal BMJ says that almost 1 percent of young pregnant women in the United States claim to be virgins. They testify that they have conceived a fetus without the benefit of sex. That’s impossible, right? Technically, yes. But if there could ever be a loophole in natural law, it would happen for you, Aries, sometime in the coming weeks. You will be so fertile, so prone to hatching new life, that almost anything could incite germination. A vivid dream or captivating idea or thrilling adventure or exotic encounter might be enough to do the trick.

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): As you weave your way through the next chapter of your story, I suggest you take inspiration from the turtle. You may even want to imagine that the turtle is your animal ally, a guide that helps you access the gradual and deliberate kind of intelligence you will need. Moving quickly will not be appropriate for the leisurely lessons that are coming your way. The point is to be deep and thorough about a few things rather than half-knowledgeable about a lot of things. There’s one other turtle-like quality I hope you will cultivate, too: the ability to feel at home wherever you are. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): America’s biggest winery is E&J Gallo. It sells more wine than any other company, and has been named the planet’s “Most Powerful Wine Brand” four different years. Ernest and Julio Gallo launched the enterprise in 1933 after studying the art of winemaking in pamphlets they found in the basement of a public library in Modesto, Calif. I foresee a less spectacular but metaphorically similar arc for you, Gemini. Sometime soon—maybe it has already happened—information or inspiration you come across in a modest setting will launch you on the path to future success. There is one caveat: You must take seriously the spark you encounter, and not underestimate it because it appears in humble circumstances. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Diamonds are not rare. They are so numerous that if they were evenly distributed, you and me and everyone else on the planet could each have a cupful of them. And if you are ever in your lifetime going to get your personal cupful, it may happen in the next 11 months. That’s because your hard work and special talent are more likely than usual to be rewarded with tangible assets. Strokes of luck will tend to manifest in the form of money and treasure and valuable things you can really use. Be alert for the clues, Cancerian. One may appear momentarily.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to legend, the boy who would ultimately become King Arthur didn’t know he was heir to the throne while he was growing up. The wizard Merlin trained him but made sure he never found out he was special. When the old King Uther Pendragon died, a tournament was staged to find a replacement. The winner would be whoever was able to withdraw the enchanted sword that was embedded in a large stone. Quite by accident, our hero got a chance to make an attempt. Success! I have reminded you of the broad outlines of this tale, Leo, because at least one of its elements resembles your destiny in the next 11 months.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When a crocodile slams its jaws shut, the energy it summons is powerful. But when the beast opens its jaws, the force it exerts is weak. That’s because the muscles used to close are much more robust than the muscles used to open. I’m wondering if an analogous story might be told about you these days, Virgo. Are you more prone to close down than to open up? Is it easier for you to resist, avoid, and say no than it is to be receptive, extend a welcome, and say yes? If so, please consider cultivating a better balance. You need both capacities running at full strength in the coming days.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the next 11 months, Capricorn, you will be given some choice riddles about the art of togetherness. To solve them, you will have to learn much more about the arts of intimacy—or else! It’s up to you: Either work your ass off as you strengthen your important relationships, or else risk watching them unravel. But don’t take this as a grim, sobering assignment. On the contrary! Play hard. Experiment freely. Be open to unexpected inspiration. Have fun deepening your emotional intelligence. That approach will work best.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the latter part of the 18th century, American rebels and rabblerousers used to gather regularly in the basement of the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston. There they plotted the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere’s ride and other dissident adventures that opposed British rule. That’s why the Green Dragon became known as the “Headquarters of the Revolution.” I think you and your cohorts need a place like that. It’s high time for you to scheme and dream about coordinated actions that will spur teamwork and foster liberation. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “When one has not had a good father, one must create one,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. What does that mean? How might you go about “creating” a good father? Well, you could develop a relationship with an admirable older man who is an inspiring role model. You could read books by men whose work stirs you to actualize your own potentials. If you have a vigorous inner life, you could build a fantasy dad in your imagination. Here’s another possibility: Cultivate in yourself the qualities you think a good father should have. And even if you actually had a pretty decent father, Scorpio, I’m sure he wasn’t perfect. So it still might be interesting to try out some of these ideas. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to get more of

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “If I seem free, it’s because I’m always running.” So said Sagittarian musician Jimi Hendrix, widely regarded as one of the most inventive and electrifying guitarists who ever lived. Does that prospect have any appeal to you, Sagittarius? I don’t, of course, recommend that you keep running for the rest of your long life. After a while, it will be wise to rest and ruminate. But I do think it might be illuminating to try this brazen approach for a week or two. If it feels right, you might also want to mix in some dancing and skipping and leaping with your running.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Hypothesis: The exciting qualities that attract you to someone in the first place will probably drive you a bit crazy if you go on to develop a long-term relationship. That doesn’t mean you should avoid seeking connections with intriguing people who captivate your imagination. It does suggest you should have no illusions about what you are getting yourself into. It also implies that you should cultivate a sense of humor about how the experiences that rouse your passion often bring you the best tests and trials. And why am I discussing these eccentric truths with you right now? Because I suspect you will be living proof of them in the months to come. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1961, Paul Cezanne’s painting “The Artist’s Sister” was on display at a museum in Aix-enProvence, France. Then a lucky event occurred: It was stolen. When it was finally recovered months later, it had been ripped out of its frame. An art restorer who was commissioned to repair it discovered that there was a previously unknown Cezanne painting on the back of the canvas. As a result, the appraisal of the original piece rose $75,000. Now both sides are on view at the St. Louis City Art Museum. I foresee a comparable progression in your life, Pisces. An apparent setback will ultimately increase your value.

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