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BOISE WEEKLY LOCAL AND INDEPENDENT

DECE MBER 17–23, 2014

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“Drinking a whole pack of beer in one day, that’s not something I would normally be able to do.”

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Stargazing

Boise planetarium peers into a 2,000-year-old night sky

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Sonic Stuffers

A roundup of local albums that would fit nicely into a stocking

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Boise Weekly reviews some of the last of this year’s biggest and (mostly) best films FREE TAKE ONE!

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FEAST OF FILMS If your household is anything like mine, the holidays are as much about bingeing on food and drink as they are about catching up on some serious screen time—and I’m not referring to whatever dopey smartphone game is currently crippling your productivity and hijacking your bathroom visits. There is no better time of year to curl up with a three-hour-long fantasy epic or to mainline two complete seasons of any of the new shows 1etÁi[ pumps out like so many moistened mogwa—yes, that’s a reference to Gremlins, one of my favorite Christmas movies.

Boise Weekly’s own Àlm fanatic *eorge 3rentice who will happily tell you everything you never knew you wanted to know about Babes in Toyland) works like a man possessed, watching and reviewing every movie of note that comes out each year. He sits through hundreds of hours of Àlm, not only here in %oise where he’s often the only audience member, haunting The Flicks during secret, solo morning screenings), but as far away as the Canadian province of Ontario, where he attends the Toronto International Film Festival each September.

It’s in Toronto where *eorge feasts on days of Àlms we mere civilians won’t see in theaters for months, sometimes years.

He meets the stars, chats with the directors and brings it all back to %oise where he teases it out in weekly installments.

This week we carved out three pages for *eorge to e[plore a number of big-screen offerings set to open during the holiday weeks: The Imitation Game, on 3age Wild, on 3age and The Hobbit, on 3age .

1e[t week, keep an eye out for *eorge’s annual Àlm bracket, showing what movies he predicts will win big at awards time.

Share your own predictions at boiseweekly.com.

Correction time: Due to an editing error in John Rember’s opinion column (%oise :eekly, Opinion, “Diamond in the Back,” Dec. 10, 2014), a reference to the superintendent of Idaho’s Craters of Moon National Monument was left out. It has been replaced online.

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

GENEROUS THE CITY OF BOISE HAS APPROVED A DEAL LINKING NEARLY 11 MILES OF PATHWAYS TO THE RIDGE TO RIVERS TRAIL SYSTEM. THE LAND COMES FROM THE GROSSMAN FAMILY, WHICH THIS PAST SUMMER PROVIDED A FREE EASEMENT OF 12.6 MILES OF TRAILS. MORE ON CITYDESK.

GRIZZLY CRIME A Fremont County man will serve two years probation for poaching a grizzly bear—the first time the state has successfully prosecuted a grizzly poaching case. More on Citydesk.

SIGNED UP The Boise Co-op completed a big cosmetic step in its ongoing rebranding effort when it unveiled a new sign on its North End location.

If you haven’t seen it yet, check out a photo on Cobweb.

MORE MEDICAID According to a study from the Idaho Center for Fiscal Policy, expanding Medicaid in Idaho would create thousands of jobs and trigger $173 million in budget savings. Details on Citydesk.

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OPINION BILL’S DELETE TREET This space reserved for columnal waste only BILL COPE Spatially discerning devotees of Boise Weekly will have noticed that several weeks ago, the paper got smaller. From one edition to the next, it went from, like, a size “L” to an “M.” To my eyes, it looked like a wool sweater that went through the wash. Even now, I keep wanting to pull on the corners and stretch it out to its rightful size.

My esteemed editor tried to explain why this change had to be made—something to do with adjusting to the realities of the available printing facilities… or something—but I did what I usually do when someone tries to explain anything technical, administrative or procedural to me. I drifted off into that recurring daydream about how great things would be if I were king of the world. However, just as I was getting to the part where I would save the remaining elephants and rhinos in Africa by boiling all the poachers and ivory traders in oil, out of a corner of this pleasant reverie, I heard the words, “and, of course, we’re going to have to cut your word count.”

CUT my WORD count?!

I considered… brieÁy… throwing a Àt. You can’t DO that! Do you know who I AM?! I was writing columns for this paper when YOU were still eating peas with your FINGERS! How DARE you tell me I gotta lose… uh, wait. How many words did you say I would have to lose?

As it turned out, I didn’t have to lose very many of my precious words. About 40, was all. So I never did actually throw that Àt I was daydreaming about throwing. But I soon learned there was indeed a problem. Turns out, I have been producing the same number of words for so long, I could not stop. It was like trying to retrain a corpse-snifÀng dog to sniff only for corpses of people who weigh less than 150 pounds. Or something like that.

Anyway, the paper went to its new dimensions weeks ago, but I continue to submit the same sized column, week after week. Can’t stop. I hand in my 1,000 words, then a day or two later, my editor calls and says, “OK, Bill. Which 40 of ’em do you want me to throw away this week?”

It is thoughtful of him to allow me to pick which words might be amputated from any particular column without doing irreparable damage to the rest of the piece. Yet to simply throw them away goes against every instinct I have as a writer.

Those 40 words, useless as they may be, come with the same sweat and tears and existential anguish as all the other words. And to imagine them lying unprinted and pointless out in the Dumpster behind Boise Weekly ofÀces?… why, it makes my skin crawl.

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to send the severed remains back to me, where I could preserve them for some future use. And today, I’ve come up with a future use. I am going to re-submit them as a column of their own. I’m going to put these little trimmings in one framework—this framework—and hand them back in as next week’s column. Think of it like what butchers do to all the odds and ends that don’t make it as far as steak status, or even ground beef status. Or Vienna sausage status, even.

I shall call this collection “Bill’s Delete Treet,” and if you’ve ever shopped for Spam substitutes, you will understand the apparent misspelling isn’t a misspelling after all. Furthermore, don’t be surprised if “Bill’s Delete Treet” doesn’t become a semi-regular feature on this page. And after I’ve done enough of them—each one getting 40 words cut from it, of course—I’ll put together a “‘Bill’s Delete Treet’ Deletions: Special Edition” from all the leftovers left over from these leftovers columns.

So let’s get started. The sooner I get ’em written, the sooner I can decide which ones to cut. … and at the very moment the government shutdown, Sen. Cruz, with the goat under one arm and the orphan Nicaraguan boy under the other, was seen scurrying into a Georgetown Motel 6, where police later discovered items of women’s … … appointed to the Idaho Department of Labor, laughed. “This just goes to show what happens when misinformed citizens are spoonfed the absurd perception that this agency has anything at all to do with making their working conditions a little more …” … Gwartney allegedly sat down on the trussed dogie and explained, “Butch, the best part of getting this broadband shit up and running is to spread some of that heavy corporate grease around to the right wheels, if you catch my …” … for which they blamed 3resident Obama, in spite of the facts he was in China when the car-jacking took place, and that he was unaware there even was such a place as Bumwater, Ala.— aka “The Home of the Deep-Fried …” … “Cope, is you trying t’ tell me yer ne’er had a bowl o’ Fritos and Mountain Dew f ’r breakfast? ‘Caus’n if you are, i’d ‘splain a lot ‘bout hows come you don’ know nuthin’ ‘about why us reg’ler people sees …” … of events gets murky, as the grand jury could not decide if the deceased screamed “Don’t shoot” before the ofÀcer discharged his weapon, or if there was a ventriloquist among the witnesses, throwing his voice and making it only seem …

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OPINION FISHERS OF MEN Sorting the Bycatch JOHN REMBER Readers of this column may consider my weekly meditations less than gifts, or gifts that are problematic, like a Little Drummer Boy ensemble album.

However, I persist in thinking that I brighten Wednesday mornings for lots of people, even if they’re working in a Western state governor’s ofÀce, plotting to steal already-stolen Indian lands. Or devising extortionate billing policies in a hospital. Or packaging loans to students who won’t ever be able to pay them back. Or destroying something—a village, a mountain range, a livelihood, a hostage—to save it.

Is your morning brightened yet? It should be, especially if you’re in an occupation that has misery and death as its end product. It’s always a relief to face up to these things rather than lie to yourself about them, and it’s a comfort to Ànd that you won’t be alone in the dock, come Judgment Day. In fact, the problem might be Ànding a dock big enough for all the people who are going to be in it.

Here’s the problem: Human beings don’t scale up very well. For years, I’ve told a stupid human joke. The set-up: “I’ve just discovered I’m one-8 billionth of humanity.”

The punchline: “I always thought I’d amount to more than that.”

There’s another punchline, but it’s not as funny. It’s that if you’re one of 8 billion humans, anything you have in common with the 8 billion minus one is probably lethal to the planet: We all eat, which means that a total land area the size of Africa has become overworked farmland. It used to be habitat for wild species, which are going extinct at the rate of 200 per day.

Most of us consume antibiotics in our food, and resistant superbugs are emerging that promise to bring back the days of death in childbirth, fatal playground abrasions and TB sanitariums.

It’s already happening in India.

Most of us burn things to stay alive, whether it’s straw for cooking Àres, wood to keep the house warm, coal for electricity, or natural gas and oil for transportation and industry. As a result the atmosphere has reached 400 parts-permillion of CO2 and is heading for 450, where the really serious positive feedback loops kick in. If you think the climate is disturbing now, wait until you and the other refugees are stopped at the Canadian border.

All of us require inefÀcient, energy-consuming militaries to protect us from inefÀcient, energy-consuming militaries. Half of us require expensive and dirty nuclear weapons to protect us from people with expensive and dirty nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons don’t scale up well, either, and the 20,000 in existence could reduce 6 | DECEMBER 17–23, 2014 | BOISEweekly

life on Earth to a few one-celled extremophiles.

Recent UN estimates on population predict our numbers will reach 11.1 billion at the end of this century. That many humans will require management as social insects. There are historical reasons against such schemes—Mao’s Great Leap Forward comes to mind—but the idea that 11 billion people could exist on a resourcelimited planet with intact human rights is absurd.

Your grandchildren and even your children will face a world where the Borg Collective won’t be conÀned to Star Trek episodes.

An applicable concept: bycatch. It’s a term that came into use to describe dolphins dying in tuna nets. But it can refer to the accidental kills attendant to your job. I learned about it in a sadly literal way, on a gill-netter in Alaska, when I kept pulling beautiful, dead, 30-inch Dolly Varden from our nets. We were Àshing for high-value sockeye, and the Dolly Varden got thrown in the waste-Àsh hold with the Áounders and humpies.

Any of these Dollies was the Àsh of a decade or even a lifetime if you caught it in a lake in Idaho, but in Alaska it was ground into dog food or used for organic garden fertilizer. Dolly Varden are an endangered species now, so you can’t catch them in Idaho at all. I suspect they do still show up in Alaskan gill nets and Boise organic gardens.

Simply by being a consumer, you acquiesce to a much larger but just as literal bycatch. Think of the 6-year-old Bangladeshi who hand-tied your ofÀce carpet, the young Chinese woman who assembled your smartphone in a factory with suicide nets outside its windows. Think of the Ànancial services industry, whose most proliÀc derivatives were, after 2009, the unemployed and the homeless. Think of the poisoned waste released by fracking. Think of the obesity epidemics hatched in fast food labs. Think of civilians in air strikes. Think of the bottom 5 percent and their Ànancial realities. Think of brain-damaged football players. Bycatch.

SufÀce it to say that no one in our culture gets to follow Hippocrates’ Àrst-do-no-harm advice.

We are all guilty of bycatch. It’s the contemporary version of Original Sin. Which brings us back to Judgment Day. The Christmas season is the best time to think about it, because forgiveness is in the air, even for those who have sacriÀced their children on an altar of gold. The Cosmic Prosecutor is in a jovial mood, in a hurry to make a deal, looking forward to getting drunk on eggnog at the ofÀce party. Even though you’re in serious trouble—charged with wanton wasting of game and deliberate habitat destruction—he might accept a guilty plea to a lesser charge, if you can come up with one.

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Madelynn Taylor at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery.

Faith and science converge at Boise planetarium

SHE WANTS IT IN WRITING

GEORGE PRENTICE Christmas Eve, 1968. It is estimated that as many as 1 billion people across the globe watched as a grainy black-and-white image glowed from television sets. It was a live broadcast from the crew of Apollo 8 showing the surface of the moon. The United States was gripped with space fever in anticipation of man’s Àrst walk on the moon seven months later, so it was with a special sense of awe that viewers glimpsed not only a live image of the moon but planet Earth slowly emerging on the horizon.

“We’re approaching the lunar sunrise,” said Apollo 8 lunar module pilot Bill Anders, who also took a photograph of Earth that was to become one of the most reproduced images in history. “And for all the people back on Earth, the crew of Apollo 8 has a message that we would like to send to you.”

What followed was controversial, to be sure. It turns out that the crew had brought a copy of the King James Bible aboard and each

Tom Campbell opened the T.C. Bird Planetarium at Christmastime in 1969. He has presented a “Star of Bethlehem” show every Christmas—save one—since.

the crew of Apollo 8, we close with good night and good luck, a Merry Christmas, and God bless all of you—all of you on the good Earth.”

Faith and science have often collided, but in that particular Christmas they met brieÁy in a bold and, some would say, improvisational call by NASA. Command module pilot Jim Lovell would radio back to Earth the next morning, “Roger, please be informed there is a Santa Claus.”

Meanwhile, back on Earth, a much smaller miracle was starting to come true in Boise,

Campbell, 75, was teaching chemistry at North Junior High School at the time, “But I applied for the planetarium job and got it.”

Boise’s new indoor star show was designed

by Pennsylvania-based Spitz, Inc., still considered the world’s top designer of planetariums (the company has installed more than 1,200 across the planet). Campbell was there in 1969 to take the keys to the T.C. Bird Planetarium, named for the then-Boise schools superintendent who secured the bond’s passage. To this day, Campbell says he’s the only one with the keys—more on that in a moment.

THE CHRISTMAS STAR

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THE WORD ‘PLANET’ MEANS ‘WANDER’ IN LATIN, AND INDEED JUPITER AND SATURN ARE WANDERING.”

—Tom Campbell,

of the three astronauts took turns reading the Àrst few verses of the Book of Genesis as their capsule skimmed over the lunar surface.

“In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth,” read Anders.

Years later, the astronauts said they saw no contradiction in reading a biblical passage that was at odds with the science that had propelled them into history.

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where school administrators, having been turned down by voters the year before, were able to convince enough taxpayers to pass what they called a “no frills bond” to expand some classrooms and build a planetarium, part of a new wing on Capital High School.

“Actually, half of the money came from the U.S. government,” said Tom Campbell. “The feds were funding planetariums throughout the United States because of the new interest in the space program.”

“We wanted to do something special when we Àrst opened and it was Christmastime,” said Campbell. “So we put together a show on the Star of Bethlehem.”

Forty-Àve years later, he’ll be dimming the lights this Christmas and guiding visitors through a special program that investigates the theories and science behind what may have happened in the sky 2,000 years ago.

The planetarium has been dark only once, Àve years ago, when Campbell needed to take his wife to Salt Lake City for medical treatment (she’s doing Àne now).

“But I change the program each year; this year I’m going to be talking about the Rosetta space probe [and its breathtaking touchdown on a comet Áying 34,000 mph through space in November], and the New Horizons spacecraft which is heading to 8 Pluto next July,” said Campbell.

The T.C. Bird Planetarium has

No, the case of Madelynn Taylor versus the state of Idaho isn’t over.

It was last spring when Boise Weekly first introduced readers to Taylor, the Navy veteran who was fighting for the right to be interred with her same-sex spouse at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery (BW, News, “Idaho Says No,” April 23, 2014). The story was picked up by other media outlets and ultimately made international headlines.

Meanwhile, the state of Idaho was waging a losing battle in its attempt to keep its constitutional ban of same-sex marriage. Ultimately, Taylor ended up suing the state in order to secure her burial benefits as a veteran (BW, News, “Enough is Enough,” July 9, 2014) and when a federal cour t judge and the 9th Circuit Cour t of Appeals ruled that Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriages was indeed unconstitutional, Taylor was allowed to lay her late spouse’s ashes to rest at the Veterans Cemeter y (BW, News, “Till Death Did They Par t,” Nov. 5, 2014).

“But the Attorney General’s Office never agreed to a final judgment order being entered in Madelynn’s favor,” said Boisebased attorney Deborah Ferguson, who along with Craig Durham and the National Center for Lesbian Rights is representing Taylor.

Simply put, Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden has filed a motion in U.S. District Court that Taylor’s case “is moot” and that “because there no longer exists any case or controversy, the Court should dismiss this case without prejudice for lack of subject matter satisfaction.”

But that’s not true—legally or conceptually—according to Ferguson.

“To protect Madelynn, we think we should get that final judgment order,” she told BW. “It turns out that Idaho is one of a small minority of states where a civil-rights action does not survive a death.”

In other words, if Taylor were to pass away while her case is still unresolved, her civil-rights claim would disappear.

“Truly, I don’t think this is a matter that should be left to [the 8 state of Idaho’s] discretion,” said Ferguson. “The cemetery is run by Idaho rules.”

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Madelynn Taylor (center) flanked by her attorneys: Deborah Ferguson and Craig Durham.

David Brasuell, administrator of the Idaho Division of Veterans Services, wrote to the court that “Veterans Services has done all it can, within the bounds of Idaho law,” in allowing Taylor’s late spouse, Jean Mixner, to be interred in early November.

But in Ferguson’s memorandum to the court, dated Dec. 11, she argued that the state of Idaho “is unwilling to enter into a binding agreement to honor Ms. Taylor’s request to be interred with her spouse in perpetuity” and “that declaration falls short of making it absolutely clear that the [state’s] allegedly wrongful behavior will not recur if the lawsuit is dismissed.”

And the urgency? That’s personal, too.

It turns out that Taylor recently experienced a medical emergency. Taylor said she was experiencing severe abdominal pains and went to Boise’s VA Medical Center for a checkup.

“It was very serious. Two of the three arteries supplying blood to the intestines were completely blocked and the third had a partial blockage,” said Ferguson. “They needed to perform emergency surgery.”

Taylor has recuperated from the surgery and has since been discharged from the VA hospital.

“But it’s a reminder that she’s not completely invincible,” said Ferguson.

Wasden insists that there’s no reason to expect that Taylor will confront the “same controversy” as she did earlier this year.

“The controversy on which this case was based was the fact that Veterans Services had denied Ms. Taylor’s application to have Ms. Mixner’s remains interred at the Cemetery,” wrote Wasden in his brief. “Veterans Services has since granted the application and interred Ms. Mixner’s remains so the same controversy will not recur.”

But Ferguson wants that in writing—from a judge.

“Ms. Taylor can obtain that relief only through a binding judgment from this Court,” she wrote.

Whether a federal court judge wants Ferguson and Wasden to present oral arguments before ruling on the matter should occur in the next few weeks.

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NEWS awestruck thousands of Boise school children over the decades—many of 7 those years, it was a part of the thirdgrade curriculum. Just this past year, the school district shifted astronomy to sixth grade. Additionally, Campbell puts together special demonstrations for fourthgraders studying Native American mythology and Àfth-graders studying explorers who used the skies to blaze trails.

“But 10 years ago, they almost closed the planetarium down,” said Campbell. “So I went to the district and offered to retire if they would let me come back and run the planetarium and they agreed. I’m not a teacher anymore, but I’m paid for 10 hours a week to do the planetarium programs for the kids. The district keeps the planetarium going with an annual maintenance budget of $8,000-$9,000. That includes a technician from Pennsylvania coming here once a year to take our main systems apart and replace all of the parts.”

Campbell said he’s thrilled that the district has kept the program running.

Campbell: “I change the program every year; this year I’m going to be talking about the Rosetta space “What can I say? This is a great retirement. probe [and its breathtaking touchdown on a comet flying 34,000 mph].”

I can’t think of another job where you give a lesson to kids and you get an ovation.” very important to them because it occurred 43 degrees. You’re seeing the same stars, a And this year, just like nearly every other within the constellation of Pisces. Anything little different but not much.” year since 1969, Campbell will also swing the happening in Pisces would have connoted a Two thousand years doesn’t change things doors open to the planetarium to the general signiÀcant event at the same time on Earth.” that much either, considering that a star’s life public for the Star of Bethlehem program, Finding Jupiter or Saturn in today’s night span is closer to 10 million years. running twice an evening from Wednesday, sky isn’t too difÀcult, although it helps to have Unfortunately, stargazing has become a Dec. 17-Tuesday, Dec. 23 (admission is $4 someone like Campbell nearby. bit more challenging with the preponderance for adults, $2 for students and seniors). Boise “Saturn is only about as bright as a pretty of so-called “light pollution,” the excessive Weekly asked Campbell to dim the lights one bright star, but Jupiter is two to three times as amount of manmade light that dims the natumore time to give us our own exclusive prebright as any star. At midnight tonight, you’ll ral clarity of the night sky. view of his presentation. see Jupiter rising in the east and at sunrise, it’s “In Boise, outside at night, we see in the “We’re going back in time, almost straight overhead,” neighborhood of 1,200 stars. If you go to 2,000 years to re-create what said Campbell, who sped up McCall or Sun Valley, you can see close to would have been the night “THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM” and slowed down the planets 1,500; that’s about as many stars as you’ll see sky in that time,” he said as Wednesday, Dec. 17-Tuesday, and stars to illustrate the at one time,” said Campbell. “But those numour eyes adjusted to the pitch Dec. 23; shows at 6:30 p.m. passing of time. “Yes, the bers are going down, because we’re getting black. “The best possibility and 7:30 p.m.; $4 adults, $2 students and seniors, no chilplanets are moving around more light pollution all the time.” to explain the Star of Bethledren under school age admitted. the sun, but because of the As much as Campbell loves to talk about hem is that it wasn’t a star at Plan on arriving early. earth’s motion and their own the past, he’s more excited about the future. all. It was a triple conjuncmotion, Jupiter and Saturn “Did you see Orion blast off this morntion of planets, as one planet T.C. Bird Planetarium, appear to be stopping and ing?” he asked. passes another, involving 8055 Goddard Road, Boise, moving backwards and then NASA’s new Orion spacecraft had Jupiter and Saturn, around 208-854-4502, email planet@boiseschools.org forward again. For a period launched on the very same day that BW met the time of 6 B.C. ... The for more info. of about Àve months, these Campbell. Its successful Dec. 5 test mission word ‘planet’ means ‘wander’ planets are very close to one was the Àrst leap of a project that could send in Latin, and indeed Jupiter another in the sky. And that the rocket farther from Earth than any spaceand Saturn are wandering. motion would have been very important to craft built for humans.

But their last conjunction was in the western the wise men.”

“It’s terribly exciting,” said Campbell. sky, which would have been over Bethlehem.

If all goes as planned, Orion could send a And we believe that the wise men would been crew to Mars sometime in the 2030s, meaning WHY 6 B.C.? traveling from the east.” those astronauts are probably young school “That’s because the calendar was made up And what about those “wise men?” children right now—about the same age as after Christ was born. We know that they got “There were people called Zoroastrians the boys and girls who will walk into the T.C. the dates wrong,” said Campbell, who added [practicing a monotheistic Iranian belief sysBird Planetarium for the Àrst time this year. tem] and they studied the skies. We would call that the skies over the Middle East aren’t And Campbell will be among the Àrst to guide dramatically different than Southwest Idaho. them astrologers,” said Campbell. “And this them through the stars.

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CITIZEN Let’s talk about the future.

I try to focus on the here and now. I would love to see myself at the Olympics in 2016 or 2020, probably in the 10K or the marathon.

But to do something like that, you must have very specific goals for 2015.

The U.S. Cross-Country Championships are in Boulder, Colo., in February and the 2015 [International Association of Athletics Foundations] World Outdoor Championships are in China in August.

Has your life changed much since your national championship run?

It has and it hasn’t. People tend to forget pretty quickly.

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EMMA BATES Athlete of the year GEORGE PRENTICE Sure, the Bronco football team is returning to the national limelight when it competes in the Fiesta Bowl on New Year’s Eve, but the most successful athlete at Boise State, by far, in 2014 was Emma Bates. The 22-year-old senior was crowned champion in the 10,000-meter race at the NCAA championships in June (the Àrst woman to win an NCAA outdoor track title at the school), named the Mountain West Conference female student-athlete of the year and earned All-American honors—more than any other Bronco track and Àeld athlete in history.

So it was a rare opportunity for her to sit still long enough for a year-end conversation with Boise Weekly to talk about her phenomenal year and her hopes for the future.

I’ve heard that both your folks are fine athletes.

Dad was a bull-rider and played football in Texas and mom was a runner. I started running when I was little.

But kids aren’t usually running crosscountry. Aren’t they usually sprinting?

I started sprints in sixth grade but mom thought I should run cross-country because I had so much pent-up energy. I was very hyper and couldn’t pay attention in class. I started cross-country in seventh grade and it deÀnitely calmed me down.

But you’re from Minnesota, where you can’t run outside a good portion of the year.

So I took up cross-country skiing.

Is that why you didn’t end up going to the University of Minnesota?

I remember Àrst visiting Boise State. It was February and it was zero in Minnesota and 30 degrees here, and I thought it was quite pleasant. I was in a T-shirt and shorts.

Is that why you’re in Idaho?

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age, but I also liked being away from home. I’m very close to my family, but I was anxious to get a sense of self.

Take us back to your incredible 10K run this past June at the NCAA indoor track and field championships. I’m curious how you celebrated your win.

We had U.S.A. nationals two weeks later, so I was pretty focused and in bed on time. And I always have the same post-race meal: margherita pizza, a coke and vanilla bean ice cream.

How is it practicing at Boise’s elevation?

I can deÀnitely feel it when I come back to Boise from Minnesota.

And you practice in the Boise Foothills, yes?

Every day. And on Saturdays, the team does 16 miles up to Bogus Basin.

And Sundays?

My boyfriend and I love going to the Sawtooths. Sometimes we hike, sometimes we run.

This past summer, we hiked 11 miles into the Sawtooths and then ran about 15 miles a day.

We were up about 10,000 feet.

I promise you that we haven’t forgotten your achievement.

But there’s always another race.

But that moment must give you great confidence.

I know that I can run faster than a lot of the girls I’m competing against. I’m friends with a lot of my competitors.

A lot of champion athletes would probably tell you that it’s not always advisable to be friends with your opponent.

I know; our coach deÀnitely says that. But there is so much camaraderie with someone when you’re out there running 25 laps with them.

Do you have a sense of what a big deal your NCAA championship was to Boise State?

Not really. I’m told that some visiting recruits say they want to meet me or come to Boise State because I’m here. I just don’t get it.

But your success is a tangible benefit to the university. It must have been a particularly satisfying moment when you stepped out on the blue turf at Albertsons Stadium during a recent football game and received a huge ovation.

It was overwhelming. I didn’t realize people cared that much about track. It was very touching.

Have you experienced the moment when a young girl tells you that they want to be like you?

I’ve heard of a few who have said that, mostly over social media. I think they’re too nervous to talk to me.

But that will most certainly happen.

I love talking to people who are motivated or inspired by me. That’s amazing.

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY DEC. 17 Festivals & Events BBP WONDERFUL BIKE SALE—This is the best time of year to purchase a bicycle and/or parts at BBP. Not only is their selection huge, due to the bad weather, it’s also their biggest sale of the season.

Discounts start at 15 percent on Dec. 17, go to 25 percent on Dec. 18, and top out at 50 percent on Dec. 19. 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

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

DOWNTON ABBEY SEASON 5 PREMIERE—Be among the first to see where the new season of Downton Abbey takes members of the Crawley family and their staff of

(mostly) loyal servants. You can enjoy hors d’oeuvres and no-host bar as you watch the drama unfold. For more info and tickets, visit idahoptv.org. 6-8 p.m. $20, plus pledge. The Owyhee, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611, theowyhee.com.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—Boise Holiday Lights Trolley Tours offers hourlong jaunts every night from Wednesday, Dec. 10-Saturday, Dec. 27 (closed Christmas Day) aboard the vintage 31-passenger “Molly Trolley.” Times vary. Check americanheritagetrolleytours.com for details and tickets. $4-$16.

Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, corner of Cole and Ustick, Boise.

TREASURE VALLEY SINGLES CLUB SLEIGH RIDE—Meet in the parking lot by the Library at Cole and Ustick for a ride in Santa’s sleigh to view the Christmas lights, sing carols and get in the Christmas spirit. Contact Santa’s helper Juanita at the weekly TVSC Sunday night dances at

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Where do you think you’re going? Nobody’s leaving. Nobody’s walking out on this fun, old-fashioned family Christmas.

NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION We’d be surprised if you didn’t go to Boise Classic Movies’ showing of National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. If we woke up tomorrow with our head sewn to the carpet, we wouldn’t be more surprised than if you didn’t buy your tickets now.

This year, the Egyptian Theatre is offering two showings on Thursday, Dec. 18. So giftwrap the cat, don your best shimmerysilver running suit and find the Tylenol. Tickets are $9 online and $11 at the door. Beer, wine and mulled wine will be available to help fuel the holiday cheer.

6:45 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., $9 in adv., $11 at the door. Tickets are available at boiseclassicmovies.com. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main Street, 345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

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the Eagles Lodge to sign up and prepay by Sunday, Dec. 14. 6:30 p.m. $7.50. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.org.

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW— Don’t miss your chance to see the dazzling display of more than 300,000 sparkling lights artfully displayed throughout the holiday season. Santa will be on hand Friday-Monday, Dec. 19-23.

Military personnel enjoy $1 off admission price (with valid ID), and on Carload Mondays, admission is just $20 for up to six guests. Daily through Jan. 4. 6-9 p.m. FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org/wintergarden-aglow.

and The Uncanny Valley? A ridiculous comedy set in a submarine, of course. Join the crew of the DSV Lugubrious as they seek to discover the mysterious mating habits of the elusive but all-too-real one-horned leviathan. Through Dec. 20. 8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

POPPIN’ CHERRIES STOCKING STUFFERS!—Check out this community-based showcase for “first time” acts, featuring an assemblage of local burlesquers and other varieties of talent. It’s gonna be a Cherry Poppin’ good time. 8:30-10 p.m. $5. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6605, facebook.com/ events/763129067087907.

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On Stage NARWHAL! UNICORN OF THE SEA—What’s next from the writers of A Nighttime Survival Guide

AHMAD EJAHALI: TIME FOR ALL TIME 3—Check out the Iraq-born artist’s socially and politically charged works that

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evoke healing for both artist and viewer. Through Jan. 5. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, sub.boisestate.edu.

ARP, MIRO, CALDER—Featuring three modern masters who pushed color, line and form beyond convention and became innovators in art of the 20th century. For more info and a complete listing of programs and events, visit the website. Through Jan. 11. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$5.

Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

BOISE MADE: FOUND OBJECT ASSEMBLAGE—Explore a quirky collection of object assemblages and one-of-a-kind shadow boxes.

You’ll get lost in the vast collection of upcycled, recycled and found art by Pam McKnight. Coffee served by ST(R)EAM Coffee Bike. 12-6 p.m. FREE admission.

Arts and History Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-3848509, boise150.org/sesquishop.

There’s no shor tage of pride in this community, but it’s not all reser ved for the boys in blue and orange. On Saturday, Dec. 20, thousands will cheer on another group accustomed to wearing uniforms—and another set of Broncos—when the 18th annual Famous Idaho Potato Bowl kicks off at Alber tsons Stadium with the Air Force Falcons playing against the Western Michigan Broncos (no relation). Head over to the Basque Block on Friday, Dec. 19, for the Mash Bash, a pep rally and battle of the bands. Visit idahopotato.com for mouthwatering potato-based tailgating recipes.

3:45 p.m., $22-$101. Tickets available at famousidahopotatobowl.com. Alber tsons Stadium at Boise State University, 1910 University Drive, 208-426-1000, broncospor ts.com.

JAMES CASTLE INQUIRY FAIR—Boise State’s James Castle Curriculum Project, in partnership with BAM, will showcase examples of recent James Castlebased research, teaching and additional inquiry processes and projects appropriate for diverse age levels. A variety of hands-on art making activities and takeaway educational resources will also be offered. RSVP by Dec. 12 to rsvp@boiseartmuseum. org. 5:30-8 p.m. FREE. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

SUNDAY, DEC. 21

Time for some french-fried football.

FAMOUS IDAHO POTATO BOWL: AIR FORCE FALCONS VS. WESTERN MICHIGAN BRONCOS

FORAY IV: PUSHING THE ENVELOPE—Check out this collection of recent works by 46 Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance members, featuring 55 pieces in a dazzling array of media and styles. Get more info at treasurevalleyartistsalliance.org. In the Boise State Public Radio offices through Jan. 30. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Yanke Family Research Park, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise.

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READ! BUILD! PLAY! When Danish carpenter Ole Kirk Christiansen starting making interlocking wooden blocks in the early 1930s, he likely didn’t imagine his toys would become a household name. That name: LEGO, from the Danish phrase leg godt, “play well,” and it may be an understatement. More than 500 billion LEGO blocks have been produced since then, and 10,000 of them are headed to the Library at Hillcrest—one of 750 libraries in the United States to receive bricks from the Association for Library Service to Children. On Sunday, Dec. 21, little builders are invited for an afternoon of LEGO (and Duplo) entertainment: Library staff will read aloud while kids use the blocks to make scenes from the story they heard. It’s a surefire way to “play well.”

2-4 p.m., FREE. Boise Public Library-Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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CALENDAR QUILT EXHIBITION—“The Narrative Thread,” an exhibition of quilts and stitched artworks, features work by 37 quilters representing the Panhandle, Eastern Idaho and the Boise Valley. Through Feb. 8. FREE. Idaho State Capitol Building, 700 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-4339705, capitolcommission.idaho. gov.

SILVERCREEK ART DECEMBER SHOW—Check out works by Bellevue painter Nolina Burge and Boise ceremicist Jerry Hendershot. Through Dec. 28. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Silvercreek Art, 331 Leadville Ave., Ketchum, 208720-4093, silvercreekart.com.

UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL—Celebrate an art form with uniquely American origins and its impact on our culture. Featuring paintings, photography, sculpture, contemporary and historic show posters and a timeline of the 1960s created by Sage School students that illustrates the connections between rock ‘n’ roll and social,

political, musical and historical events. Through Jan. 30. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter.org.

WINTER GROUP EXHIBITION— Don’t miss your chance to check out works by 10 groundbreaking artists during this show’s 48-day run. Through Jan. 9. 12-4 p.m.

FREE admission. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-4330593, stewartgallery.com.

Literature RUMI NIGHT—Join the celebration of the life and works of Rumi, the 13th century Persian poet and mystic philosopher, at this evening of poetry, music, conversation and tea. Feel free to take a favorite poem to share. 7 p.m.

FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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Talks & Lectures AVALANCHE LECTURE SERIES—Learn about human factors and the “Bro You Should Leave Behind” in this series of avalanche safety classes.

Hosted by the 705 Backcountry Ski Patrol and the Idaho Outdoor Association. 7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Outdoor Association Hall, 3401 Brazil St., Boise, idahooutdoorassn.org.

Citizen BOISE CULTURAL PLANNING PROCESS—The Boise City Department of Arts & History wants your help developing the first citywide cultural plan. You’ll discuss cultural needs and preferences, and outline a cohesive vision for the role of culture in our civic environment and throughout Boise. For more info, visit boiseartsandhistory.org. 4:30-6 p.m.

FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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CHARITABLE DINING AT MAI THAI—Local Impact Zone hosts, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the Women’s and Children’s Alliance. Just make sure to mention “charitable dining” when you order. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Mai Thai, 750 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-514-7238, facebook.com/ events/339851442861252.

IDAHO FOODBANK FOOD DRIVE—MGM Association Management is a designated drop-off site for this year’s Idaho Foodbank food drive. You can take your nonperishable canned goods to their corporate office in Meridian Mondays-Fridays, through Dec. 20. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. MGM Association Management, 289 S.W. 5th Ave., Meridian, 208-846-9189, gomgm.com.

THURSDAY DEC. 18 Someone is xcited about the holidays.

XTREME HOLIDAY XTRAVAGANZA 9 Internationally known singer-songwriter-saxophonist Curtis Stigers is an xemplar of community spirit and the importance of helping those less fortunate.

Stigers’ annual Xtreme Holiday Xtravaganza raises funds for the Interfaith Sanctuary shelter and, now in its ninth year, the xtremely popular event has xpanded to three nights of musicians, dancers, actors and comedians at the Egyptian Theatre stage, with xceptionally funny duo Joe Conley Golden and Tom Willmorth (aka The Fool Squad) sharing co-host duties with Stigers.

The Xtravaganza sells out fast, so don’t wait to get tickets.

Dec. 21-Dec. 23, 7:30 p.m., $35-$75, curtisstigers.com.

Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., 208-345-0454, 208-3871273, egyptiantheatre.net.

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Festivals & Events BBP WONDERFUL BIKE SALE— Discounts go to 25 percent today, and top out at 50 percent on Dec. 19. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE admission. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-4296520, boisebicycleproject.org.

COUCH SURFER SERIES: AUTHORS & ARTISTS—Enjoy and intimate conversation with artist Travis Ward of Hillfolk Noir, comedian and storyteller Emma Arnold and moderator Justin Vaughn.

Also on the third Thursday through February. 8 p.m. FREE. Saint Lawrence Gridiron, 705 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-8307030, saintlawrencegridiron.com.

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CALENDAR VICTORIAN HOLIDAY OPEN PARLORS—See the vintage decorations and Christmas tree, and enjoy a craft corner, storytime with Santa and a gift shop. 4-8 p.m. FREE-$4. Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-342-3279, thebishopshouse.com.

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BOISE CHORISTERS HOLIDAY CONCERT— Join the Boise Choristers as they “Light up the Tree” this holiday season with traditional and original holiday music. Proceeds benefit the group’s music scholarship program. For more info, visit boisechoristers.org. 7 p.m. By donation. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-939-1404, chs.meridianschools.org.

CHRISTMAS BELLES—A church Christmas program spins hilariously out of control in this Southern farce about squabbling sisters, family secrets, a surly Santa, a vengeful sheep and a reluctant Elvis impersonator. For reservations, visit eventbrite. com/org/2762190930 or call the theater. Through Dec. 20.

7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

COMEDIAN ZOLTAN KASZAS—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Citizen BOGUS SKI PATROL WAX & BEER NIGHTS— Bogus Basin Ski Patrol’s Wax N Beer nights have just about everything needed to warm a skier’s or snowboarder’s heart (sans snow): hot ski/snowboard waxing from Bogus Basin ski patrollers ($12 for skis, $15 for snowboards), a complimentary craft brew and screenings of ski and board movies on the patio--which is heated. Proceeds support the mountain’s ski patrol operations. 6-9 p.m. $12-$15.

Sockeye Grill and Brewery, 3019 N. Cole Road, Boise, 208-6581533, sockeyebrew.com.

Kids & Teens HOGWARTS HOLIDAY PARTY— Get sorted into your houses and complete your training at Hogwarts for snacks, crafts and a chance to win prizes. Costumes encouraged. For all ages. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208297-6700, adalib.org.

FRIDAY DEC. 19 Festivals & Events BBP WONDERFUL BIKE SALE— Discounts top out at 50 percent today. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE admission. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-4296520, boisebicycleproject.org.

BOISE MADE: PAINTING AND JEWELRY—Go treasure hunting with Amy Bishop and find repurposed vintage-inspired jewelry. You can also shop a collection of small paintings by artist Darren Crosby.

12-6 p.m. FREE. Arts and History Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150. org/sesqui-shop.

BOISE STATE WINTER COMMENCEMENT—Seating is open on a first-come, first-seated basis beginning at 8:30 a.m.; no tickets required. A reception will follow at 12:15 p.m. in the Student Union Jordan Ballroom for graduates and families. Parking on campus is free all day. For more info, visit commencement.boisestate.edu.

10 a.m. FREE. Taco Bell Arena,

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COMPANY OF FOOLS: PETER AND THE STARCATCHER—Set sail with a wildly theatrical, hilarious and innovative retelling of how a miserable orphan came to be Peter Pan. For more info, visit sunvalleycenter.org/companyoffools. Through Jan. 3. 7 p.m. $15-$35. Liberty Theatre, 110 N. Main St., Hailey, 208-578-9122, companyoffools.org.

Art BOISE MADE: FOUND OBJECT ASSEMBLAGE—Explore a quirky collection of object assemblages and one-of-a-kind shadow boxes.

You’ll get lost in the vast collection of upcycled, recycled and found art by Pam McKnight.

12-6 p.m. FREE admission. Arts and History Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150.org/sesqui-shop.

TINY WONDERFUL— Featuring paintings by Erin Cunningham, paper collages by Andrea Merrell, wall sculptures highlighting hobby figures by Cate Brigden, mixedmedia assemblages by Christine Raymond and Chris Binion’s embellished deer antlers. Thursdays and Saturdays through Christmas. 3-8 p.m. FREE. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-9910117, ensoartspace.com.

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CALENDAR 1910 University Drive, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-4261900, tacobellarena.com.

SANTA EXPRESS—The Thunder Mountain Line takes families on a half-hour train ride to a wildlife sanctuary decorated as a magic Christmas forest. Kids get 30 minutes to explore the forest and Santa’s Village, pose for pictures with Santa on his custom-made sleigh, and hang out at the Candy Cane house for free milk and candy canes.Advanced reservations are recommended. Through Dec. 23. 12:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m. $10-$50. Thunder Mountain Line Scenic Train Rides, 120 Mill Road, Horseshoe Bend, 877-IDA-RAIL or 208-793-4425, thundermountainline.com.

On Stage BALLET IDAHO: THE NUTCRACKER—Celebrate the season in glittering fashion, with over 100 children from Ballet Idaho Academy and company dancers on stage. Plus live music by Boise Philharmonic. For more info and tickets, visit balletidaho.org/performances/the-nutcracker. 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

COMEDIAN ZOLTAN KASZAS—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12.

Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV— Two teams of comics battle it out for your laughs. Suitable for all ages. 7:30 p.m. $9.99.

ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedysportzboise.com.

COMIC CINEMA REMIX: JINGLE ALL THE WAY— Join comedians Brett Badostain, Chad Heft, Dylan Haas and special guest Dylan Hughes as they turn Jingle All the

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Way from one of the most difficult holiday movies to stomach into pure comedy gold. 8 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-340-7173, comiccinemaremix.com.

ENGAGE BOISE: GOOD KING WHATSISFACE—Join the royal court for the annual Christmas dinner and see how the king decides to determine the true intentions of his courtiers. For more info or to order tickets, call the church office or email info@ engageboise.com. 6:30 p.m. $7.

Engage Boise, 270 E. Pennsylvania St., Boise, 208-336-1925, engageboise.com.

IRISH DANCE IDAHO CELTIC CHRISTMAS—Enjoy Irish step dancing. For more info, visit irishdanceidaho.com. 7 p.m. $10$12.50. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.

SATURDAY DEC. 20 Festivals & Events BOISE FARMERS MARKET— Featuring Meyer lemons, Eureka lemons, limes tangelos and oranges from Idaho Tropical Fruit Company. Saturdays through Dec. 20. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Boise Farmers Market, 516 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-9287, theboisefarmersmarket.com.

BOISE MADE: ADOPTABLE PETS AND JEWELRY—Give the gift of a furry friend this holiday season at the Idaho Humane Society’s pop-up animal adoption event.

You can also go treasure hunting with jewelry makers Amy Bishop and Monica Galvan. 12-6 p.m.

FREE. Arts and History SesquiShop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150.org/ sesqui-shop.

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—Market goers will find booths full of locally made and grown foodstuffs, produce, household items and a variety of arts and crafts. Saturdays through Dec. 20. 9:30 a.m.

FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and Bannock streets, Boise, 208-3453499, seeyouatthemarket.com.

DOWNTOWN BOISE CITY SANTA—For a small donation, children can tell Santa their Christmas wishes and have their picture taken with the Jolly Old Elf. Proceeds benefit the Children’s Home Society. Saturdays through Dec. 20. 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

D.L. Evans Bank, 213 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-331-1399.

WATERSHED WEEKEND: HOLIDAY EXTRAVAGANZA—Spend some time with the Jolly Old Elf and Mrs. Claus as you learn how to recycle old holiday cards into new cards or gift tags, and make beautiful ornaments and decorations from recycled or reusable household items. Plus holiday carols provided by a local choir and tasty treats for all. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-489-1284, cityofboise.org/ bee/watershed.

HANDEL’S MESSIAH SING-ALONG/ PLAY-ALONG—Join the Serenata Orchestra for a fun evening. You can opt to join the orchestra and play along, or be part of the choir, and sing all your favorites. For more info, visit boiseserenata.com. 6 p.m. FREE. Summit Church, 10375 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-375-4031, summitchurchboise.org.

Festivals & Events BARBARIAN BREWING KICKSTARTER EVENT—Barbarian Brewing will be pouring tasters of their new brews. Wetos Locos will be on hand with delicious Mexican food to buy, and Cinder Wines will be open to purchase

wines by the glass and bottles for last-minute Christmas shopping.

6-9 p.m. FREE, 208-340-5151.

Cinder Winery, 107 E.44th St., Garden City, kickstarter.com/ projects/1423682592/barbarianbrewing-idahos-first-barrel-house.

Workshops & Classes SATURDAY ART AFTERNOON— Create two hardcover journals, one to keep for yourself and one to give as a personal holiday gift.

Art educator, local printmaker and Wingtip Press owner Amy Nack will teach the class. Class is limited to 12 participants; call or stop by the library to reserve your spot. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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Art TINY WONDERFUL—Thursdays and Saturdays through Christmas. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Enso Artspace, 120 E. 38th St., Ste. 105, Garden City, 208-991-0117, ensoartspace.com.

On Stage BALLET IDAHO: THE NUTCRACKER—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

COMEDIAN ZOLTAN KASZAS—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12.

Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—7:30 p.m. $9.99.

ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedysportzboise.com.

Citizen BBP CHRISTMAS KID’S BIKE GIVEAWAY—Boise Bicycle Project will provide 350 Treasure Valley children with their dream bicycle during the eighth annual giveaway. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

SUNDAY DEC. 21

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CALENDAR CHRISTMAS AT THE RANCH—Celebrate a country Christmas by being transported back to the Ol’ West town of Coolwater via covered wagons. You’ll enjoy a buffet dinner, Wild Bill’s Saloon, Cowboy poetry and even a visit from Santa. 6 p.m. $27.50-$45.

Coolwater Creek Event Center, 7355 S. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-887-7880, coolwatercreekevents.com.

VICTORIAN HOLIDAY OPEN PARLORS—See the vintage decorations and Christmas tree, and enjoy storytime with Santa.

4-8 p.m. FREE-$4. Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-342-3279, thebishopshouse.com.

On Stage BALLET IDAHO: THE NUTCRACKER—12 p.m. and 4 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

COMEDIAN KEITH ROSS NELSON—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

CRITICAL MASS ENSEMBLE CHRISTMAS CHORAL CELEBRATION—Don’t miss this performance by the semi-professional choral ensemble under the artistic direction of Dr. C. Michael Porter. For more info, visit facebook.com/CriticalMassBoise. 2 p.m. FREE-$10. First Presbyterian Church, 950 W. State St., Boise, 208-345-3441, first-presbyterian. org.

EVIL WINE PRESENTS CHRISTMAS IS SWELL—Evil Wine is back with a rock ‘n’ roll theatrical showcase (with complimentary themed drinks) attempting to cure the common Christmas. This unique Christmas tale features musical performances that propel the plot. 7 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-982-4294, crazyhorseboise. com/calendar.

MONDAY DEC. 22

WEDNESDAY DEC. 24

On Stage

Festivals & Events

BCT CHILDREN’S READING SERIES: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—Idaho actor Geoffrey Bennett takes on each character from the story and places them directly into the imagination of the listener, much like Dickens once did. 7 p.m. $8-$12. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

BOISE PUBLIC LIBRARY HOLIDAY CLOSURES—All locations of the Boise Public Library will close at 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve, and will be closed Christmas Day. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

SUBTERRANEAN COMEDY—Yuk it up with a lineup of some of Boise’s favorite comics. 10 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s Basement, 109 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-3452505.

TUESDAY DEC. 23

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW—See the dazzling display of more than 300,000 sparkling lights artfully displayed throughout the holiday season. Military personnel enjoy $1 off admission (with valid ID), and on Carload Mondays, admission is just $20 for up to six guests. Daily through Jan. 4. 6-9 p.m. FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org/wintergarden-aglow.

Kids & Teens On Stage BCT CHILDREN’S READING SERIES: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—7 p.m. $8-$12. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

WINGS CENTER CLUB KID HOLIDAY CAMP—Shake things up this holiday with two weeks of all-day, holiday-themed excitement. For ages 3 years to eighth grade. Through Jan. 2. 7 a.m.-6 p.m. Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Century Way, Boise, 208376-3641, wingscenter.com/ child-care/holiday-daycamp.

EYESPY Real Dialogue from the naked city

Citizen OPEN HOUSE AND TOY DRIVE—Check out the interior of the historic building dressed in its holiday best while you donate new, unwrapped gifts for Toys for Tots.

Free guided tours at 5:30 p.m. and 7 p.m. Registration required for tours at bit.ly/BPRPublicEd. Continues on Sundays and Mondays (except holidays) through Jan. 5. 5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Train Depot, 2603 W. Eastover Terrace, Boise, parks. cityofboise.org/parks-locations/ parks/boise-depot.

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Local hiker treks span of Pacific Crest Trail

BY JESSICA MURRI Boise native Clay Jacobson Ànally read Wild: Lost DQG )RXQG RQ WKH 3DFLÀF &UHVW 7UDLO because every time he mentioned he hiked the PCT, the Àrst question people asked was, “Did you read the book?”

The best-selling 2012 memoir follows author Cheryl Strayed as she recounts her journey hiking several hundred miles of the trail that stretches from the border of Mexico to Canada.

The book was adapted into a Àlm starring Reese Witherspoon, which opens at The Flicks on Friday, Dec. 19 (see Screen, Page 21), and Strayed paid a visit to Boise in April, speaking to a full house at the Egyptian Theatre and taking people on a hike to talk about writing. Rediscovered Bookshop has struggled to keep her book on the shelves since then.

Jacobson plans to see the movie, too, but his experience was wildly different from Strayed’s.

“Obviously there’s a lot of different kinds of hikers out there,” he told Boise Weekly. “She was doing a different thing than we were. She was doing 700 miles or something. I saw, in her book, there were characters she had seen blowing past her and her thoughts were, like, they were missing out, they can’t just relax and enjoy it because they just go, go, go.”

Jacobson is the hiker who blows past people.

He hiked the PCT in 2010, starting the trek at the end of April and Ànishing four-and-a-half months later in Canada. He hiked almost 2,700 miles, taking 10 days off. He hiked at least 20 miles every day until mid-September.

And, yes, he enjoyed it.

“It’s a totally different mentality,” he said.

Even while Jacobson was on the PCT, he was already thinking about the next trail. He said it’s hard to Ànish such a long hike like that, and then come home. Day hikes and overnighters just don’t cut it.

“It’s sad because, you got so good at what you were doing, and then it’s over,” he said. “You can’t really come home and be a great hiker.”

Now he has his sights set on the the Idaho Centennial Trail, a 1,000-mile trail that runs the length of the state from north to south.

“You go through the Frank Church Wilderness. It’s 500 miles without crossing a road, which is unmatched, even on the PCT,” he said. After hiking it, Jacobson plans to write a guidebook.

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(Clockwise from top left:) Clay Jacobson on his trek through California; contemplating a mountain lake; suffering through the 5-pound pancake challenge; and reaching the U.S.-Canada border on the PCT.

“I want to be part of seeing this trail grow in Idaho,” he said. “People are starting to hear about the PCT now, but the Idaho Centennial is something people here should be proud of.”

Reasons for hiking any long trail are as different as the people who hike them, but while Jacobson and Strayed had different itineraries on the PCT, they hiked the same trail for reasons bigger than the—sometimes literal—hell of it. Strayed’s book explored her struggles with drug addiction, divorce and the death of her mother. Jacobson hiked for the Wildland FireÀghters Foundation, raising $2,000 along the way.

“The season before I hiked the PCT, we had a helicopter go down and 10 guys passed away,” he said. “This was something I could do, something close to me.”

Jacobson has always lived the vagabond lifestyle. The 30-year-old has worked as a lift operator at Bogus Basin for the past eight years, fought Àres, ridden freight trains across the country and hiked the Appalachian trail before the PCT. His most recent purchase was a sailboat.

While Strayed’s Àrst night spent backpacking was her Àrst night on the trail, Jacobson had the hiking thing down pat by the time he reached the PCT. Strayed’s account includes beginning the trail with a pack so heavy she couldn’t lift it onto her shoulders and wearing a pair of brand new hiking boots—all rookie mistakes Jacobson discovered on the Appalachian.

Jacobson was just weeks away from graduating Boise State University, “reading Walden and shit,” when he decided to drop out and head

into the woods. He took a freight train to the Appalachian trail and his trail name became “Woodward.”

He started the trail in Carhartts and leather work boots. After the Àrst 100 miles, his clothes and his feet were “destroyed,” everything he owned was rain-soaked, he had $180 in his bank account and he posted on Facebook: “This is crazy, I’ll be home soon.”

Then, another hiker gave him a pair of Keen sandals to wear and he kept going.

“I put the sandals on and it was like, ‘Oh, this is what it’s supposed to be like.’ Most people don’t wear hiking boots.”

Jacobson’s time on the PCT was not without challenges. He hiked through 300 miles of snow in the Sierra Nevada mountains, struggled through mental roadblocks up icy peaks and was challenged to eat Àve pounds of pancakes.

He took another famous challenge on the PCT not mentioned in Strayed’s book—the 24-24-24 Challenge.

“It’s 24 beers in 24 miles in 24 hours,” he said. “We did it in the middle of the desert, in 100-degree heat. At the beginning, it was so heavy to carry all those beers that we would just shot gun them every few minutes. All day, people were passing us and laughing because we were so drunk.”

It took until 7 a.m., but they reached the 24mile mark without a can of beer left.

“Drinking a whole pack of beer in one day, that’s not something I would normally be able to do,” he said, “but that’s the challenge and that’s what we’re here for.”

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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY DEC. 17

KARAOKE—7:30 p.m. FREE. High Note LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

ALPHA ASCENSION—With Mortal Ashes and Psychomachy.

8 p.m. $3. Crazy Horse

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock and Barrel

CHUCK SMITH AND FRIENDS—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

PENGILLY’S 37TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY—Tyler Nelson performs The Grinch. 8 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

CLINT BUDGE—6 p.m. FREE. Cylos Lounge DEVIANT KIN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow HUNGRY CLOUD DARKENING—With Atomic Moses and Taylor Robert Hawkins. 7 p.m. $5.

The Crux

STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAM— Hosted by For Blind Mice. 8 p.m.

FREE. Tom Grainey’s

WEDNESDAY SKATE NIGHT— Featuring Dope by Design. 8 p.m. $5. The Shredder

THURSDAY DEC. 18 B SIDE PLAYERS—9 p.m. $7$25. Bouquet BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CUTTING CAGES—With RevoltRevolt and Sleepy Seeds. 8 p.m. $5.

Crazy Horse FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock and Barrel

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper

KORY QUINN—10 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s

BREAD AND CIRCUS—9 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye Grill

TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

DEFJAK—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

TOM TAYLOR—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

FRIDAY DEC. 19

FRANK MARRA—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers FRIGHTMARE BEFORE XMAS— Featuring DJ Dynysus and DJ Inferno. 9 p.m. $5 adv., $7 door.

Crazy Horse GARTH OLSON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE—9 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers REX MILLER AND RICO WEISMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

SNOW DAY LOCAL HIP-HOP SHOWCASE—Featuring Magic Mic, The Audio Pilots, ShakaShine, SlapsDelux, Mr. Proper and MCMD. 8 p.m. $8. Revolution SOUL SERENE—10 p.m. $5.

Tom Grainey’s TYLOR BUSHMAN AND THE TRAIN ROBBERS—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

SATURDAY DEC. 20 AFROSONICS—With Shimi Tree, Mercury Villager and Logic Beat. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

NOISE

TUNES FROM THE 208 Some top picks from 2014 local releases BEN SCHULTZ If you want to give the gift of music this holiday season but would rather eat wrapping paper than buy Darius Rucker’s new Christmas record, we have a solution: Go local. Boise-based bands released great albums in 2014, and below are some of our top picks:

HOLLOW WOOD, SEASONS EP The only problem with Hollow Wood’s debut EP is a breathy, old-timer rasp that lead singer Adam Jones sometimes affects. It’s unnecessary—his lyrics about yearning, existential dread and resilience do enough to establish him as an uncommonly thoughtful, mature young man.

Of course, thoughtfulness or maturity alone wouldn’t have made Seasons this year’s top-selling local release at The Record Exchange. Credit for that should go to Hollow Wood’s dreamy tunes, exultant chants and rousing stomps. Mark Doubleday deserves props, too, for his pristine production, which captures the warmth, intimacy and irrepressible good spirits of the band’s live performances.

Jones doesn’t need to sound so old so soon.

He’ll get there naturally because, most likely, he and his bandmates have long lives and careers ahead of them. hollowwood.bandcamp.com

EDMOND DANTES, JUNO EP One nice thing about getting older is that you learn to be more considerate.

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Electro-soul duo Edmond Dantes exempliÀed this truism with debut EP Etta (2013). On “Decade,” a man ponders years past and love lost before heading into the night. On “I Don’t Like You,” a nightclubbing guy disses a bimbo, who then Àres back and makes him look like the lesser person.

Edmond Dantes’ follow up EP, Juno, didn’t pack any of those same punches but the duo of Andrew Stensaas and Ryan Peck delivered equally catchy tunes, funkier beats and even more hooks (some courtesy of keyboardist Todd Dunnigan). There’s another nice thing about getting older: You Ànd your groove and build on it. edmonddantesband.bandcamp.com

THE COUNTRY CLUB, AN IDAHO DOZEN The most hyped country album of 2014 was Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music. Boiseans who liked it might Ànd the homegrown stuff just as fresh.

If you Áipped for Simpson’s Waylon Jennings-esque ode to agnosticism “Turtles All the Way Down,” try The Country Club’s Willie Nelson-inspired anti-Monsanto diatribe “The Great Cornspiracy.” Elsewhere, Jonah Shue’s pen and nasally croon do well by love and prison (sometimes both at once). He gets help from Dave Manion’s James Burton-like guitar and a saucy cameo from Catherine Merrick, whose own band, a.k.a. Belle, put out an excellent album this year, too. thecountryclub. bandcamp.com

TRACY MORRISON, DANCING THROUGH MEDBURY Doing no-frills traditional country is tougher than it sounds. Many times, musicians who try come off as staid, corny, self-important or reclusive. With her indelible melodies, warm voice and spare, winningly plain-spoken lyrics, Pinto Bennett protege Tracy Morrison gets it just right. tracymorrison.org

UGLY HUSSY, HOST While it sticks in the mind, the name “Ugly Hussy” is a bit of a misnomer. In fact, the music of Alex Maddalena’s one-man guitar-and-loops project is frequently quite lovely. His “Luk,” the third track on Host, popped up this past September on Stereogum, which called it “gorgeously discordant and jarringly beautiful,” an apt description of the whole album. uglyhussy.bandcamp.com

BREAD AND CIRCUS, FORTUNE FAVORS THE BOLD Question: What kind of jam band covers The Decemberists and name-checks The Smiths, Billy Bragg and Oscar Wilde in the liner notes of its debut album? Answer: A jam band worth listening to.

Brady Myers’ mandolin gives the music a suitably rustic, laid-back feel; Jon England’s bass and Garrett Finley’s drums give it forward motion; and Michael Blumenstein’s guitar solos give it liftoff. As the Billy Bragg name-check might suggest, Blumenstein’s lyrics have a socially conscious streak. Check out the ecocollapse warning “Sucker in a Suit” or “Road

Less Traveled,” in which a footloose drifter gets robbed and killed while a hard-working family man changes the world for his kids. reverbnation.com/breadcircusboiseid

AFROSONICS, AFROSONICS This band’s mix of funk, reggae, rock and African music adds some welcome spice to the Boise scene. Dayo Ayodele and company sound a little too contained on this debut EP, but their smooth grooves, assured musicianship and upbeat spirit are enjoyable throughout.

At the least, these recordings should encourage people to see Afrosonics live (the band’s next show is Saturday, Dec. 20, at Neurolux). reverbnation.com/afrosonics

COBA, COBA Getting Steve Fulton and Curtis Stigers to co-produce your album probably means you have something special, which young jazz-prog-rock musician Andrew Coba deÀnitely has. Sharp tempo shifts, supple drumming and nimble guitar blend with wistful melodies, tender piano and clean, strong vocals making Coba easily one of 2014’s best local albums. facebook.com/pages/Andrew-Coba Other notable local releases: a.k.a. Belle, The Devil Loves You; Storie Grubb and the Holy Wars, Storie Grubb and the Holy Wars; Aaron Mark Brown, Grow Something in the Ground; Dying Famous, 40 Minutes Late; The Very Most, Things Too Obvious to Sing; Sleepy Seeds, Sleepy Seeds; Possum Livin’, What Are We Working For; Audra Connolly, Slowly; James Coberly Smith with LeAnne Town, Living Room Songs; The Dirty Moogs, Songs for Clones B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

MUSIC GUIDE BREAD AND CIRCUS—8 p.m.

FREE. Cylos

DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

SCOTT MCCORMICK AND CYMRY—2-6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

MONDAY DEC. 22

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

FREE. Chandlers

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

RICHARD SOLIZ—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

CRAIG BERNAUER AND FRIENDS—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

HOLIDAY JAM—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DANNY BEAL—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

KEVIN KIRK—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

DEFJAK—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

MONDAY NIGHT KARAOKE—10 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s

DJ DUSTY C’S SOUL PARTY—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

DJ MANIK—10 p.m. $5.

Grainey’s Basement EVERGREEN MACHINE’S MANIC CHRISTMAS TOUR—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District FRANK MARRA—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers MOSSI WATENE—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 NOT SILENT NIGHT EDM SPECTACULAR—Featuring Boise’s best EDM DJs. 8 p.m. $8-$12.

Revolution OWLRIGHT—With Asher Fly and Ryan Brackney. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION—7:30 p.m. $10-$15.

Sapphire Room

DC3: DAN COSTELLO TRIO— 7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

WEDNESDAY DEC. 24 CHUCK SMITH—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CHUCK SMITH AND FRIENDS—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

TUESDAY DEC. 23

CLINT BUDGE—6 p.m. FREE. Cylos Lounge

CARTER FREEMAN—5:30 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s

LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

KARAOKE—7:30 p.m. FREE. High Note

V E N U E S Don’t know a venue? Visit www.boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map.

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SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper SOUNDS OF SATELLITES AND JORDIE SAENZ—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage TAUGE AND FAULKNER—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SUNDAY DEC. 21 AUDIO/VISUAL DJ— 10 p.m.

FREE. Tom Grainey’s HIP-HOP SUNDAY RAP BATTLE CHAMPIONSHIPS—10 p.m.

FREE. Grainey’s Basement HOLIDAY JAM—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s MARCUS EATON—With Alana Davis. 7 p.m. $15-$25. Sapphire Room NOCTURNUM: INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—6 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

HOT DOG HOLIDAY, DEC. 19, THE SHREDDER Here’s a punk rock recipe for the holidays: serve up a Hot Dog Sandwich (don’t forget The Meatballs), invite your pals Russ Pfeifer and the Sun Cat Brothers—make sure Emanuel’s Redheaded Stepchild is at the kids’ table—and by all means have Ben the Drunken Poet say grace.

That’s a party no one can Sneezz at, and it’s precisely the kickass gathering planned for Friday, Dec. 19, at The Shredder.

Hosted by aforementioned local punk pillars Hot Dog Sandwich, the ninth annual Hot Dog Holiday brings together music, poetry and general rowdiness in service of a good cause.

Cover is $3 at the door, but a $1 discount is given for each can of food brought to the event. Math says if you bring three cans of food, you’ll get in for free. Donations benefit the Corpus Christi House.

—Zach Hagadone 8 p.m., $3 at the door, $1 off for each can of food donated.

The Shredder, 430 S. 10th St., 208-345-4355, shredderboise. com.

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SCREEN THE REAL THING: THE IMITATION GAME 7KH EHVW ÀOP RI GEORGE PRENTICE It happens every year, and sometimes the wait feels interminable. We slog through dozens of movies (some of us sit through hundreds) in search of something special: a feature-length motion picture head-and-shoulders above any other. Eventually, it does happen and the sensation is always one of revelation. For me, the moment happened not once but four times, comprising a quartet of Àlms that struck distinctive chords with their explorations of the human condition. In no particular order, they are %R\KRRG, which arrived unheralded in June and has matured into a critic’s favorite; The 7KHRU\ RI (YHU\WKLQJ, which gave us something to be particularly thankful for in November; :LOG which opens this week in Boise (see the review on Page 21); and 7KH ,PLWDWLRQ *DPH, which opens Christmas Day and is the nearperfect movie of the year. It’s an intimate story told against a substantial backdrop, not unlike David Lean classics such as /DZUHQFH RI $UDELD and 'U =KLYDJR 7KH ,PLWDWLRQ *DPH connects a true story with a smart script and an even smarter cast led by Benedict Cumberbatch (in the best male performance of 2014), and it reveals something to Àlm-goers who may know little to nothing about the life of Alan Turing, one of the 20th century’s most important Àgures.

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War II, some say, two years early. It’s estimated will be executed for high treason.â€? What the that they saved 14 million lives.â€? young logician and mathematician is suddenly Turing’s story, however, is much greater privy to is Enigma, the now-legendary Nazi than that achievement. Turing was a gay man code that held the key to stopping Hitler. who was ultimately punished for that by the “It’s beautiful,â€? says Turing. “It’s the greatsame British government he helped save. est encryption device in history.â€? “He’s a gay icon, somebody who was pun“Mr. Turing, do you know how many die ished, in the cruelest of ironies, when he was because of it?â€? asks Menzies. prosecuted in the 1950s,â€? said Cumberbatch. “I don’t,â€? Turing says. “He couldn’t ‌ live life as he chose.â€? “Three, while we’ve been having this Unlike other festivals, TIFF doesn’t hand conversation,â€? responds Menzies, checking his out a slew of awards for Ă€lms, save one: the watch. “Oh look, there’s another.â€? “I like solving problems commander,â€? says People’s Choice Award, voted for by the moviegoers. This year the people chose The an overly conĂ€dent, almost pompous Turing. ,PLWDWLRQ *DPH. Cumberbatch himself was also “Enigma is the most difĂ€cult problem in the the people’s choice, taking world.â€? extra time on the red carpet to Turing was correct. The pose for scores of photos and Nazis changed the entire THE IMITATION GAME selĂ€es. code each day at the stroke (PG-13) “This is a fan-led festival. of midnight, which meant, Directed by Morten Tyldum I want to celebrate that by for years, attempts to break Starring Benedict Cumberbatch, having an actual conversation Enigma had to start from Keira Knightley and Mark Strong with them,â€? Cumberbatch said. scratch every 24 hours. To Opens Thursday, Dec. 25, at The “Some of them have stood solve Enigma, Turing built Flicks, 646 W. Fulton St., 208here for ages. They’re the the world’s Ă€rst computer, 342-4288, theicksboise.com. people who buy the tickets and melding machinery and follow your work. Spending logic, famously dubbing his time with them is a joy.â€? idea “an electrical brain.â€?

Cumberbatch took home “Alan’s legacy is all around us,â€? Cumberbatch told %RLVH :HHNO\ pri- several honors in 2014: an Emmy Award for or to the September premiere of 7KH ,PLWDWLRQ his television work in 6KHUORFN; a spot on 7LPH magazine’s annual list, “Time 100: The Most *DPH at the 2014 Toronto International Film InĂ uential People in the World.â€? In 2015, if Festival. “Turing is the father of the Commy hunch is right, he’ll take home an Oscar puter Age. He’s a war hero who helped, along for his portrayal of Turing in 7KH ,PLWDWLRQ with other brave, quiet, stoic, unconventional *DPH, his best performance to date. heroes who broke the code and ended World B O I S E WE E KLY. C O M

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:LWKHUVSRRQ SDFNV D VSRW RQ SHUIRUPDQFH LQ Wild GEORGE PRENTICE When %RLVH :HHNO\ asked director Jean-Marc Vallee about casting Reese Witherspoon in :LOG, the extraordinary adaptation of Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 autobiographical odyssey, he shook his head and laughed.

“No, you have it backwards,” said Vallee, whose directing cred skyrocketed with 2013’s 7KH 'DOODV %X\HUV &OXE. “Reese actually hired me.

You can say that she was the one who cast me.

She’s the boss.”

Witherspoon had optioned :LOG )URP /RVW WR )RXQG RQ WKH 3DFLÀF &UHVW 7UDLO three months before it was published in March 2012, but Strayed’s no-holds-barred memoir was a risky property for an actress who would need to strip bare— literally and Àguratively—in order to portray a woman who had lost everything, including her mother, her marriage, her job and her sense of self before spiraling into a life deÀned by addiction by the age of 26.

“I think we made a Àlm that tells women not to be ashamed of their bodies, in any experience they had,” said Witherspoon when asked about :LOG·V stark drug and sex scenes. “People deal with so much hardship; but this is about Ànding yourself and most importantly, it tries to say that it’s going to be OK.” Strayed’s book (which rocketed to the top of 7KH 1HZ <RUN 7LPHV Best Seller list, was translated into 30-plus languages and was NPR’s Best Book of the Year), is a Àrst-person account of Strayed’s solo trek across the PaciÀc Crest Trail, from the Mojave Desert to the Oregon-Washington state line. More than that, it is a story of one woman’s grief, healing and salvation, and more than a few critics were appropriately fearful of diluting such a Àerce book into a neatand-easy Hollywood treatise.

“My biggest challenge was to make this movie as emotional and powerful as the book was,” Vallee told BW during the premiere of :LOG at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

“Cheryl’s book was amazing because it had zero censorship, and it’s rare to read something with such honesty.”

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Reese Witherspoon to Boise Weekly: “After five-and-a-half weeks of filming and carrying that pack for hours-onend, I got used to it. And isn’t that the way it should really be?”

can pretend that this is heavy.’” spoon and Vallee had adapted her story.

But director Vallee would have none of it.

“Even before my book was published, Reese “No, no, this backpack LV going to be heavy,” somehow got a copy of it and read it in one weekend,” Strayed told BW. “She called me right Vallee told the Oscar-winning actress, ordering the pack to be Àlled with camping gear. away to say ‘I want to bring this book to the Moviegoers will sense that the backpack screen.’ Look, Reese is a major movie star, but I really wanted to know from her why she wanted is digging deep into Witherspoon’s shoulders.

More importantly, she doesn’t over-act, trying to do this.” to be convincing in her struggle to carry it; her Most important for the Àlm, Strayed said, character tries, without success, to will her mind was to capture the emotional mystery between to believe the pack is lighter than it is. herself and her late mother, played in a heart“But after Àve-and-a-half weeks of Àlming breaking performance by Laura Dern. and carrying that pack for hours-on-end, I got “It was critical that the representation used to it. And isn’t that the way it should really with my mother be portrayed accurately,” said be?” said Witherspoon.

Strayed. “Reese and Laura blew me away.”

A word of caution for anyone thinking Perhaps more than any other element of :LOG is a “woman’s picture.” It is a tale of one Strayed’s journey, the Àlm’s portrayal of her woman’s endurance, but she is relationship with her mother not an everywoman. In fact, pushes :LOG to rare on-screen Strayed was at the bottom-most honesty and far beyond what WILD rung of life’s ladder, something some critics call Oscar-baiting.

(R) that too many of us can relate :LOG will certainly be one of Directed by Jean-Marc Vallee to. the Motion Picture Academy’s Starring Reese Witherspoon “I knew even before my nominees for Best Picture— and Laura Dern book was published that this and Witherspoon, Dern and Opens Friday, Dec. 19, at The wasn’t going to be a book just Vallee should all plan on atFlicks, 646 W. Fulton St., 208for women,” said Strayed. “Yes, tending the Oscar ceremony in 342-4288, theflicksboise.com.

I’m a feminist and I love to tell February—but :LOG is a major my own and other women’s and authentic achievement of stories. But from the beginning, acting and storytelling.

I insisted that :LOG was never marginalized. And Witherspoon says she was, at Àrst, pretty convinced she could pull off pretending to carry what’s really beautiful is that it never was.”

The bonus is that even more people will a ridiculously heavy backpack. undoubtedly pick up Strayed’s inspiring book “I’ve been on plenty of movie sets and they usually stuff things like suitcases and backpacks after seeing Witherspoon play her so magniÀcently. with newspapers,” she said. “I said, ‘For sure, I BOISEweekly | DECEMBER 17–23, 2014 | 21

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NETFLIX NEWS During the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference, NetďŹ&#x201A;ix Chief Content OfďŹ cer Ted Sarandos announced aggressive plans for the site. According to Ad Age, Sarandos said NetďŹ&#x201A;ix hopes to â&#x20AC;&#x153;premiere a new series or new season every two-and-a-half weeksâ&#x20AC;? and would like to reach that goal within ďŹ ve years, adding that NetďŹ&#x201A;ix â&#x20AC;&#x153;will eventually be the largest producer of original content in the world.â&#x20AC;? Though NetďŹ&#x201A;ix has seen huge returns in the form of audience and critical acclaim for House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black, not every project will have an â&#x20AC;&#x153;allthings-to-all-peopleâ&#x20AC;? approach: Ad Age reports Sarandos saying NetďŹ&#x201A;ix hopes to â&#x20AC;&#x153;appeal to specialized markets.â&#x20AC;?

NetďŹ&#x201A;ixâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ďŹ rst release since the announcement seems to be bearing that out. Marco Polo (a NetďŹ&#x201A;ix/Weinstein Co. collaboration) is an opulent epic that has been compared to Game of Thronesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but in visual richness only.

Marco Polo, a $90-million production set in 13th century China and Mongolia, is the collaborative effort of NetďŹ&#x201A;ix and The Weinstein Co., the ďŹ lm studio that gave us The Artist and The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech, as well as a surfeit of utter crap like Piranha 3DD. In Marco Polo, scenes are too long, characters are underdeveloped and viewers arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t engaged. The series will be watched by a lot of peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; NetďŹ&#x201A;ix has more than 50 million subscribersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but the adage â&#x20AC;&#x153;if there are more people on stage than in the audience, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing something wrongâ&#x20AC;? seems apropos.

A multi-million-dollar boondoggle isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t writing on the wall for NetďŹ&#x201A;ix, though, and it gets kudos for its willingness to take a riskâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or two or three. In September, The Hollywood Reporter wrote about plans by NetďŹ&#x201A;ix and The Weinstein Company to release Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon sequel The Green Legend (Ang Lee) day-and-date, which means online and in theaters simultaneously. NetďŹ&#x201A;ix also inked a deal with Adam Sandler, who will produce and star in four ďŹ lms that will debut exclusively on NetďŹ&#x201A;ix. That last one is a little fraught: Since 2010, Sandler has produced, starred in or written Jack and Jill, Grown Ups, Grown Ups 2 and Blended, all of which have Rotten Tomatoes ratings of 20 percent or lower (Jack and Jill topped out at an embarrassing 3 percent). Maybe NetďŹ&#x201A;ix knows something the rest of us donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Amy Atkins 22 | DECEMBER 17â&#x20AC;&#x201C;23, 2014 | BOISEweekly

Into the Woods The Hobbit DQG Big Eyes GEORGE PRENTICE

Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in the homestretch. A few months ago, I was prepared to write off 2014 as an DQQXV KRUULELOLV at the movies. Weeks of lousy Ă&#x20AC;lms turned into months, and by summerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end, it was clear that audiences were staying away from the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cineplexes. There were a few major exceptions: %R\KRRG, 7KH /HJR 0RYLH and *XDUGLDQV RI WKH *DOD[\ basically saved Hollywoodâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bacon, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a terrible batting record, considering that the laughable reboots of *RG]LOOD and 7UDQVIRUPHUV are in the top 10 for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s box ofĂ&#x20AC;ce receipts.

Forget all of that, though, for we bring you good tidings of great joy. This Christmas is just like the ones we used to know: full of dandy surprises.

Dungeons, dragons and big-eyed children. (Clockwise from top left:) Into the Woods, Big Eyes and The Hobbit: The Battle of The Five Armies.

production to Ă&#x20AC;lm to no avail. Director Rob Marshall Ă&#x20AC;nally captured the hints of darkness In 1987, I was sitting in what was then the and mystery that weave in and out of the interMartin Beck Theatre (now the Al Hirschfeld twined stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Theatre) on Broadway. The curtain had just Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk and Rapunzel. come down on a fabulously original new musiThe cast, particularly Emily Blunt, Meryl Streep cal, ,QWR WKH :RRGV. The audience was enthralled and as I grabbed my coat to head for the exit, I and star-in-making James Corden are wonderful, and I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t recommend this enough to saw a very young girl anxious to see it againâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; children of all ages. right away. Her mother was aghast, having just plopped down the then-sky high price of $50 for the ticket, but the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s experience, like BIG EYES that of others her age, was akin to rewinding a Here we have the bafĂ ing, yet sweet story video tape of 7KH /LWWOH 0HUPDLG or %HDXW\ DQG of Margaret Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the American artist WKH %HDVW which allowed the VCR-generation to who painted those sad big-eyed children that watch musicals to their endless gained implausible success in delight. The mother explained the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2122;60s. And no THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF to the girl that live theater was director intersects bafĂ ement THE FIVE ARMIES (PG-13) Opens Friday, Dec. 19 a rare treat and the child was and sweetness more than Tim ultimately disappointedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not Burton. In %LJ (\HV, Burton INTO THE WOODS (PG-13) in the show but because it was weaves the twisted tale of how Opens Thursday, Dec. 25 so deliciously entertaining that Keaneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s husband Walter took BIG EYES (PG-13) she wanted to relive its magic credit for her work, raking in Opens Thursday, Dec. 25 again, sooner than later. untold amounts of cash and That young girl is old fame. Amy Adams is perfectly enough to have children of her own now, so I cast as the vulnerable Margaret, who musters imagine sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s out there somewhere, anxiously up enough gumption to take on her rather evil anticipating the big screen adaptation of the spouse (Christoph Waltz).

Stephen Sondheim classic, which opens on The Ă&#x20AC;lm builds to a brilliant climax when the Christmas Day. And, oh my, it has been worth two quite literally face off in a paint-off in front the wait. For nearly 30 years, there have been of a jury who will ultimately decide who is the multiple attempts to adapt the Broadway artist and who is the charlatan. We know how

INTO THE WOODS

the story will end, but Burton puts together an inspiring true-life fable.

THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES For the record, I am not the biggest fan of director Peter Jacksonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s return to Middle Earth.

I felt the Ă&#x20AC;rst two parts of his treatment of The +REELW lacked the joy of adventure he so wonderfully corralled in his /RUG RI WKH 5LQJV trilogy.

But something wickedly fun this way comes with his Ă&#x20AC;nal Tolkien journey, which has been going now for nearly two decades. Epic-lovers wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be disappointed: the pre-opening credit scenes of Smaug the dragon raining down Ă&#x20AC;re and desolation is awesome and almost worth the admission price alone. Two-and-a-half hours later, balance is restored and emotions Ă ow right along with all the thrills.

Special kudos to the marvelous Martin Freeman as Bilbo; heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not accorded half the praise he deserves for holding this gazillion-dollar thrill ride together. When Freeman is not charming, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hilarious; and when heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not either of those things, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s heart-tuggingly scrumptious.

Next week, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll wrap up 2014 in a bow with our annual movie-madness bracket. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d also love to hear from you, so let us know what your favorite Ă&#x20AC;lms of 2014 were in the comments on boiseweekly.com.

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HIGH WEST AMERICAN PRAIRIE RESERVE BOURBON, $43.95 High West’s APR contains a 6-year-old and a 10-year-old bourbon sourced from Midwest Grain Products (MGP) in Indiana. The whiskey has a pleasant, mild nose and is smooth on the palate, with slight honeydew sweetness along with light vanilla bean wood character.

HIGH WEST WHISKEY CAMPFIRE, $54.95 This blend of straight bourbon, 95 percent straight rye and an unnamed peated Scotch whiskey definitely delivers. The peat dominates the nose, earning its campfire name with plenty of smoke and a bit of fiery alcohol heat.

On the palate, peat and sweet battle with flavors of roasted peaches, vanilla, caramel and spice.

Our tasting panel noted that, “It’s hemming and hawing about whether it wants to be a Scotch.”

HIGH WEST 36TH VOTE BARRELED MANHATTAN, $47.95 Commemorating Utah casting the 36th vote to end Prohibition, this barrel-aged Manhattan includes two parts High West Rendezvous Rye, one part sweet vermouth and two dashes of bitters. It’s sweet and smooth on the nose, with spicy hints of clove, cinnamon and orange peel. Maraschino cherry flavors shine through on the palate along with light vanilla oak. Verdict: this concoction is “incredibly drinkable.”

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Park City, Utah’s High West Distillery opened in 2007 and has the honor of being the state’s first legal distillery to open since 1870. High West offers an extensive line-up of bourbon and rye whiskeys, many of which you can now find on Idaho shelves. If you’re looking for a unique Christmas gift for the brown booze-lover on your list, High West has plenty to choose from.

CHRISTMAS ON THE TOWN If you want to skip the stress of cooking and cleaning this Christmas, your only options aren’t eggrolls and General Tso’s chicken at a Chinese joint. Here’s a list of Boise area restaurants that are open and serving dinner on Christmas Day, Thursday, Dec. 25.

Backstage Bistro and Village Cinema: Theater opens at 11 a.m., Backstage Bistro opens at 3 p.m. and closes around 10 p.m.

Serving regular menu. 3711 E Longwing Lane, Meridian, 208-995-2943, facebook.com/thebackstagebistro Berryhill & Co.: Open 5-9 p.m. with a prime rib dinner buffet. $29 for adults, $16 for children under 10. 121 N. Ninth St., Ste. 102, Boise, 208387-3553, johnberryhillrestaurants.com Cottonwood Grille: Serving regular dinner menu along with a traditional holiday meal. Limited reservations after 6:30 p.m. 913 W. River St., Boise, 208-333-9800, cottonwoodgrille.com The Flicks: Open 4-9:30 p.m. for movies, with a cafe featuring soup, sandwiches, wine and beer. 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-4288 or 208343-4222 for show times, theÁicksboise.com Madhuban: Open 11 a.m.-2 p.m. with annual free lunch buffet. No reservations required.

6930 W. State St., Boise, 208-853-8215, madhubanindiancuisine.com Modern Hotel and Bar: Open 4-10 p.m.ish. Serving regular menu along with Russian pelmeni and roast pheasant and wild mushrooms.

Yule appreciate not having to do the dishes after dinner.

No reservations required. 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244, themodernhotel.com Mulligans: Open at 5 p.m. Serving regular menu. 1009 W. Main St., Boise, 208-336-6998 Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine: Open 11 a.m.-9 p.m. with regular menu along with lobster tail sushi roll special and surf and turf entree. Holiday drinks include rumchata, cranberry mojito and hot peppermint patty.

Reservations recommended. 228 E. Plaza Drive, Eagle, 208-939-2595, riceeagle.com Saint Lawrence Gridiron: Open 3 p.m. until close. Serving regular menu and taking reservations. 705 W. Bannock St., 208-433-5598, saintlawrencegridiron.com Sa-Wad-Dee Thai Cuisine: Open 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. with regular menu and a couple

specials. Live music from 6-9 p.m. Reservations recommended. 1890 E. Fairview Ave., Meridian, 208-884-0701, sawaddeethai.com Shari’s Restaurant and Pies: Open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. 8521 W. Franklin Road, 208-322-3696; 8121 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-378-4700, sharis.com Sushi Joy: Open 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. and serving regular menu, including shiro maguro sashimi and teriyaki yellowtail. 2275 W. Main St., 208-4338888, sushijoyboise2.com.

Thai Cuisine: Open noon-9:30 p.m. with regular menu, including panang curry and drunken noodles. Reservations available for parties of six or more. 6777 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-6580516, boisethaicuisine.com —Tara Morgan

FOOD/NEWS BEAR ISLAND BREWING AND HAFF BREWING OPEN This month, Boise’s burgeoning beer scene is taking two steps forward and one step back.

Bear Island Brewing Co. is now distributing its first beer to a few select bars around town. The three-barrel brewery is based in brewer and owner Beth Bechtel’s home garage.

“Literally all the beer is coming from my home to yours,” said Bechtel, who was a personal trainer and professional boxer before she joined the Navy in 2007. Now, she’s turned her homebrewing passion into “a veteranowned, community-supporting” business.

“We have the normal styles—pale ale, brown and IPA—but all of them offer something different that no one’s done,” Bechtel said.

For example, Bear Island’s Fuse Pale Ale, is infused with jalapenos.

“It was invented for people coming over for a barbecue, so it goes really good with grilled food and meats,” said Bechtel.

Bear Island’s other two flagships include the Bearfoot Brown, a nutty, roasty brown ale, and an IPA with a “secret ingredient.” The company’s logo is a silver dog tag with a bear and the state of Idaho.

“My husband and I are both veterans, so a big part of our company is not only spreading the veteran love, let’s say, but we also want to spread

the awareness of especially disabled veterans and we’re going to start doing a lot of veteran events,” said Bechtel.

You can find Bear Island’s Fuse Pale Ale on tap at Bittercreek Ale House, Grind Modern Burger, Prefunk, Bier:Thirty and Haff Brewing. For more info, visit bearislandbrewing.com.

Speaking of Haff Brewing, the Garden City brewery hosted its grand opening party Dec. 13 at its taproom, located next door to Cobby’s Sandwich Shop on Chinden Boulevard. The taproom pours brews like Sargent Haff IPA and Watermelon Wheat Wednesday-Friday from 4-8 p.m. and Saturday from noon-8 p.m. Haff’s cotton candy-hued handles can also be found at spots like PreFunk, Wiseguy Pizza Pie, Brewer’s Haven, Silly Birch and The Lift. Visit Haff Brewing’s Facebook page for more info.

And in brewery closing news, Kilted Dragon Brewing announced that its second anniversary party on Dec. 13 would also be its last day open.

According to the brewery’s Facebook page, brewmasters Cory Matteucci and Jeremy Canning both now have day jobs.

“We have had a good run, made some great beer, made even better friends, but unfortunately we will have to close our doors,” they wrote.

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BOISE VALLEY TOWING 6381 Supply Way, Boise, ID 83716 208.389.9707 On December 26, 2014 between the hours of 8:00am and 12:00 pm the following described vehicle will be sold on a sealed bid process. Vehicle will be sold on an AS IS-WHERE IS BASIS ONLY. Odometer reading may not be the actual mileage. NO KEYS AVAILABLE, payment terms are cash or credit card (with 3% convenience fee) only, vehicle will not be released until credit card is cleared. Viewing of Abandon Vehicle and bidding process will take place on the DAY OF SALE ONLY. NO EXCEPTIONS COLOR/YEAR

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White/1985 Chev Caprice

1A2A339 (ID) 1G18N69H4FY202056

Ashtyn Lamb

$1894.00

Green/1997 Nissan Pathfinder

1A4532B (ID) JN8ARO5Y0VW184566

Tanner Wells

$1831.00

Black/1998 Honda CRV

78C8581 (ID) JHLRD1840WCO81245

Cassondra Leigh Nelson

$1984.00

White/1981 Datsun Pickup

JA5J937 JN6MD0159BW008987

Lyndall Irene Williams Russell Roger Webb

$1958.00

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B O I S E W E E K LY NOTICE TO CREDITORS IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF GEM Case No. CV 2014-725 In The Matter of the Estate of Lester M. Rose, deceased.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Angel M. McKenzie has been appointed Personal Representative of the above-named estate. All persons or entities having claims against the said deceased or estate are required to present their claims within four (4) months after the date of first publication of this Notice or within sixty (60) days after the undersigned mailed or delivered a copy of this Notice to

such person or entity, whichever is later or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be (a) presented to: Angel M. McKenzie, Personal Representative c/o William F. Lee, Attorney at law, 629 E. Main Street, Emmett, ID 83617,and (b) filed with the Court.

DATED: October 21, 2014. /s/ William F. Lee Pub. Dec. 17, 24 & 31, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Brock Vincent Teretto Legal name of child Case No. CV NC 1417774 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name

of Brock Vincent Teretto, a minor, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Brock Vincent Teretto Wilkosz.

The reason for the change in name is: The child wishes to have this father’s/guardians last name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) JAN. 27 2015 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date SEP 26 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Dec. 17, 24, 31, 2014 & Jan. 7, 2015.

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Case No. CV NC 14 22764 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Donald Jay Leesch, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Sam Jay Leesch.

The reason for the change in name is: Sam is the nickname I have always been known as.

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THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Donald Jay Leesch Legal Name

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25 Web browsers 27 “Off the hook” 28 Cookware brand 29 Tofurky, to turkey, e.g.

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32 Demanding sort 35 Having left the company, maybe 36 Seeds 40 “Let’s Be Cops” org.

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10 Descriptive of dingos and jackals 11 Blue expanse 12 Actress Paquin 13 It might be clipped and filed 14 Capital on a river of the same name 15 Like early Sears business 16 Leftover bit 17 When doubled, part of many a Robin Williams tribute 18 Abbey area 24 Faithful, in old poetry 26 Korda who directed “Sahara” 31 Chemical compound often labeled “S” 33 Barn attachments 34 Pot money 36 Took care of 37 Blue expanse 38 Some queenly attire 39 Fighter pilots fly them 41 Friday night series?

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “There are two kinds of light,” said author James Thurber, “the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.” Lately you have been an abundant source of that first kind of light, Leo. The fire in your heart and the gleam in your eyes have not only brightened the mood wherever you’ve gone, they have also clarified confusing situations, warmed chilly attitudes, and healed dispirited allies. Thank you! In the coming weeks, I’d love to see you continue on your hot streak. To help ensure that you do, keep your ego under control. Don’t let it pretend that it owns the light you’re emitting. With a little introspection, you will continue to generate illumination, not glare.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When I started writing horoscopes many years ago, I was a good astrologer but an unexceptional writer. Eventually, the practice of composing 12 packets of pithy prose every week allowed me to improve my authorial skills. The stuff I composed in the early years wasn’t bad, but I wouldn’t want to present it as my work any more. So should I feel guilty that I got paid and appreciated for those old efforts even though I was less than perfect? Did I get away with something I shouldn’t have gotten away with? I don’t think so. I was doing the best I could at the time. And even my unpolished astrological musings were helpful to many people.

Now, Libra, I invite you to apply these meditations to you own unfolding destiny.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Too much happiness can make you unhappy,” reported journalist Marta Zaraska in the Washington Post. Citing research by psychologists, she concluded that being super-extra cheerful can make you selfish, gullible and more prone to stereotyped thinking. On the other hand, she said, maintaining merely moderate levels of happiness is pretty damn good for your mental and physical health.

So here’s the takeaway, Aries: The astrological omens suggest you’re due for a surge of joy and pleasure. Just be careful it doesn’t spill over into rash, delirious excess. Here’s your watchword: well-grounded delight.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the 19th century, the Grimm brothers gathered more than 200 old fairy tales from a variety of sources and published them in an unprecedented collection. Many of their stories are still popular, including “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Hansel and Gretel” and “Rapunzel.” Around the same time they did their work, a storyteller named Franz Xaver von Schönwerth assembled his own compendium of fantastic myths, fables and folklore. Unlike the Grimm brothers’ book, his work faded into obscurity. But it was rediscovered in 2011, and 500 lost fairy tales are now finding their way into newly published books. I foresee a comparable phenomenon happening for you in

2015, Taurus. Forgotten stories will return. Raw material from the depths will resurface. Interesting news from the past will come flowing into the present.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your first task is to ascertain the half-truth, the whole half-truth and nothing but the whole half-truth.

Only then will you be able to find the other half of the truth. I realize it may be frustrating to use this approach. You’d probably prefer to avoid wrangling with the deceptions and misdirections.

But I think it’s the only way to jostle loose the hidden or missing information. For best results, be a cunning and unsentimental detective who’s eager to solve the mystery. Don’t focus on finding fault or assigning blame.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): One of the ingredients that makes yoga mats so soft and springy is the chemical azodicarbonamide.

The same stuff is added to the soles of shoes. There’s a third place where it’s used, too: in the burger buns sold by McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s and other fast food joints. I’m not suggesting that you order a big supply of azodicarbonamide and ingest it.

But I do hope you will consider the metaphorical equivalent: doing whatever’s necessary to make yourself bouncy and fluffy and pliable and supple and resilient.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Studies suggest that 57 percent of all people with access to the Internet have engaged in the practice known as ego-surfing.

This modern art form consists of searching Google for mentions of one’s own name. This is a suspiciously low figure unless we factor in the data uncovered by my own research—which is that a disproportionately small number of Virgos go ego-surfing: only 21 percent. If you are one of the 79 percent of your tribe who does not indulge, I invite you to remedy the situation. It’s an excellent time to risk exploring the potential benefits of increased self-interest and self-regard.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may already know what I’m about to tell you. It’s a core principle at the root of your Scorpio heritage. But I want to focus your attention on it. In the coming months, you’ll be wise to keep it at the forefront of your conscious awareness. Here it is, courtesy of philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche: “You have it in your power to invest everything you have lived through—your experiments, false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your love and your hope—into your goal, with nothing left over.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “A savage desire for strong emotions and sensations burns inside me: a rage against this soft-tinted, shallow, standardized and sterilized life.” So says Harry Haller, the protagonist of Herman Hesse’s novel Steppenwolf. His declaration could serve as an interesting point of reference for you in the coming months, Sagittarius—not as a mood for everyday use, but as a poetic inspiration that you periodically call on to invigorate your lust for life. My invitation has a caveat, however. I advise you not to adopt the rest of Harry Haller’s rant, in which he says that he also has “a mad craving to smash something up, a department store, or a cathedral, or myself.”

guessing this has a metaphorical resemblance to what your life will be like in the next six months, Capricorn.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I have lived near an open space preserve for five years. Up until the last two months, it has been a peaceful, quiet place. But then the coyotes moved in. Just after dusk every evening, a pack of them start yipping and yowling in the distance. At first I found the racket to be eerie and unsettling. It activated some primal unease in me. And yet the coyotes have never actually been a problem. They don’t roam into my neighborhood and try to bite people or prey on pets. So now I’ve come to relish the situation: The wild things are close and exciting, but not dangerous. I’m

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When a dead tree topples over in the woods, its withered branches may get entangled with the branches of a living tree that’s standing nearby. As years go by, the living tree must grow the best it can with the decaying wood trapped in its midst.

Has something like that ever happened to you? Are you still carrying the rot that other people have burdened you with? If so, the coming months will be an excellent time to get disentangled. A tree isn’t capable of freeing itself from the dead weight of the past, but you are—especially in the first half of 2015.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stanstead, Quebec, and Derby Line, Vt. are really a single town that straddles the U.S.-Canada border. Many of the people who live there have dual citizenship, but they’re still supposed to carry their passports with them at all times. I suspect you may experience a metaphorical version of this split in the coming months, Aquarius. You will be in a situation that has a split down the middle or a seemingly unnatural division. Whether it turns out to be a problem or an opportunity will depend on your adaptability and flexibility.

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