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EDITOR’S NOTE ONE TOKE OVER THE (STATE) LINE Nearly all the protests I’ve attended have been events to be covered, rather than participated in. One exception was a rally for the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws on the Capitol steps in Boise. It must have been 2000 or 2001, because I remember being really into Rage Against the Machine— I even wore a Che Guevara T-shirt (so humiliating). A few College of Idaho classmates and I piled into somebody’s crappy car and made the trip from Caldwell, which I recall was way too early in the morning. Like, 9 a.m. on a Saturday. When we arrived at the Statehouse, the hour had clearly limited attendance. “Who the hell schedules a weed rally for 9 a.m. on a Saturday?” I remember saying. There were about 20 people milling around and we were immediately embarrassed to be among them. More NORML supporters eventually showed up. There was some chanting and a guy dressed up like a giant bong. Things went on like that until a security guard told organizers their time was up and unplugged the PA system. There was a moment of anger in the crowd at the unceremonious end of our rally, but we all seemed to shrug our shoulders and wander off. I don’t smoke weed. However, pretty much everyone I’ve ever known has at least occasionally done so. They are not bad people and I’ve never seen why it should be a jailable offense. Thankfully, I’m far from alone in that thinking, as the so-called “debate” over legal weed has matured beyond anything we could have expected back in the early ’00s. More than half the country has legalized marijuana in some form and for a variety of uses. Looking at a map of the Western United States, Idaho is surrounded by a sea of green: Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Montana, Nevada, Oregon and Washington have all lifted bans on marijuana for medicinal use. Yes, Montana. Then there’s Idaho, dangling out there with Utah and Wyoming like an appendage of the Bible Belt. Meanwhile, there are families like those profiled in our feature story on Page 11 who are being displaced from their homes so their children can receive medical treatments that would mean jail time in the Gem State. Whatever our lawmakers are smoking should be illegal. —Zach Hagadone

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

HISTORIC HEARING BOISE WEEKLY HAS BEEN FOLLOWING THE HISTORIC ADD THE WO RDS HE ARINGS AT TH E IDAHO CAPITO L, AS L AWMAKERS HE ARD FROM HUNDREDS OF IDAHOANS ON WH E THER THE WO RDS “SE XUAL ORIENTATION” AND “GENDER IDENTIT Y ” SHOULD BE ADDED TO THE STATE’S HUMAN RIGHTS L AW. SEE C OV E R AG E O N CIT YDESK.

BERGDAHL CHARGES Hailey native Bowe Bergdahl, who was held captive by Taliban forces in Afghanistan for five years, will be charged with desertion. Officials report charges could come in a week. More on Citydesk.

EDM DOC Electronic dance music festival Esthetic Evolution ended its 10-year run in June 2014, but fans can relive its final days through a mini-documentary. Find details and a link to the video on Cobweb.

FLU SPIKE Flu-related deaths in Idaho spiked in the first weeks of 2015, with 16 deaths reported between Jan. 8 and Jan. 22—that’s almost the average total number of deaths per season. Details on Citydesk.

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OPINION SPEECHIN’ M’ MIND

Red wants his share of the 1st Amenderment BILL COPE “Cope, you gonna let me put another collum in y’r collum hole?” “No, Red, I’m not. I’m never going to let you put another column in my column hole. Not ever... ever... ever.” “Wull whys not?” “Because the last time I let you sub for me, you insulted Catholics, gays, the Pope, English teachers everywhere and my readers’ intelligence. Because you write even worse than you speak. Because if people want to hear insane, juvenile, right-wing stupidity, that’s what Fox News is for. Because I made a mistake by even suggesting you might contribute a column in the first place. Because I made an even bigger mistake in imagining that you wouldn’t sound so dumb if you made the effort to organize your thoughts into what I mistakenly assumed would be coherent sentences and logical arguments.” “Wull it so happens I got me lots o’ frien’s what think y’r the dumb one, and who think that collum what I wrote was ’bout the best thin’ they e’er seen in that paper wheres you got y’re collum hole. They e’en asted me t’ come out t’ Kuna an’ do one o’ them writer’s readin’s outside a Dutch Cuzzins coffee shack. What y’ think o’ that, Mister Smarmy Pants? Anybody e’er ast you t’ do a writer’s readin’ in Kuna?” “Red, I’ve never doubted there are lots of Idahoans who might consider you their intellectual ideal. But I wouldn’t care if every citizen of this state agreed with you on every dumbass thing that rolls out of your mouth, I still wouldn’t ever let you fill in for me again.” “But there be thin’s what needs t’ be said, Cope. An’ I knows you ain’t ne’er gonna say ‘em.” “And what would those thing be, Red? Ah, wait! Let me guess. Things to do with President Obama, I bet.” “You betcha! You hear what that gull durn guy done now?” “I assume you mean other than taking the first significant steps in two decades to slow global warming, taking the first significant steps to immigration reform in three decades, encouraging renewable energy and domestic oil production early in his administration, thereby bringing gas prices down to their lowest levels in a generation, thereby boosting the American economy to its healthiest levels since the Clinton administration, thereby lowering the unemployment rate back to pre-Bush disaster levels, all while ending America’s two longest wars, eliminating a major portion of the leadership of international terrorist organizations, pushing Vladimir Putin into an economic rathole, and at the same time saving millions of American lives with previously-unBOISE WEEKLY.COM

attainable health coverage, empowering women to ever higher accomplishment and workplace equity, doing more to open Cuba than the past eight presidents combined, and bringing the evils of torture and Gitmo to an end?” “No no! I mean ’mpor’nt stuff. I mean like him sittin’ on his fanny at home, making his two li’l girls listen to that there Buyancy floozie singin’ her nasty songs, when he oughter o’ been over in Paris with all them other bigwigs what’re out demonistratin’ how they were agin them Charlie fellas gettin’ shot dead by them Mooslim terrists!” “Ah, you’ve been listening to Mike Huckabee again.” “I ain’t never stopped, Cope. Ol’ Huckably’s the closest thing what this country’s got t’ whatcha-call a ‘mortal compress’. An’ when he ain’t talkin’ ’bout how Buyancy oughta keep her shimmyin’ and shakin’ to the bedroom where it belongs, he says the reason we still be havin’ trouble wit’ those Mooslim fantastalics is acause y’r pal Obama won’t come out ’n’ say there’s a holy war ’tween us an’ them.” “No, it was Lindsey Graham who said that. You’re conflating one wormy little twerp with another.” “I’s ain’t conflusterin’ no wormy li’l twerps! Durnit, yous don’ think I knows the diff’rence ’tween Mike Huckably and Lintseed Gram!?” “What-ever. Anyway, it’s a holy war only in the feeble minds on both sides of the religious nuttery. Moderate Islam doesn’t have any more to do with radical terrorism than mainstream Christianity has to do with Timothy McVeigh and the Ku Klux Klan. What’s more, whether or not Obama went to that demonstration in Paris, doesn’t have a damn thing to do with his response to terrorism... past, present or future. And Beyonce doesn’t have a damn thing to do with any of this, and I’m not going to let you use my column to spread ignorant crap like that. Not again, not ever... ever... ever!” “Oh, I gets it now! I guess you don’ believe in my freedom o’ speechin’ m’ mind, does ya’, Cope? Yous thinks you can say any gull durn thang you want, but y’r tryin’ t’ denyify me my fair share o’ that first amenderment, acause you don’t like what I have t’ say!” “I don’t give a damn what you say, Red. I’m just not going to let you say it in my column. You’re perfectly free to go start your own newspaper, if you want.” “Wull I jus’ might do that, Mr. Smarmy Pants.” “You just do that, Red.” “Wull... I jus’ might!” “Go ahead. You do that.” BOISEweekly | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | 5

OPINION ONLY A PAPER WILDERNESS Why we can’t have nice things JOHN REMBER U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson’s resurrection of the Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act (CIEDRA) has garnered support from national monument opponents, who call it “the lesser of two evils.” I agree—emphasis on the evils. Lots of evil to go around in both proposals. For years, I opposed CIEDRA on the basis that it weakened the 1964 Wilderness Act by using wilderness as a bargaining chip, trading protection of wild areas for the privatization of public lands around Stanley, which would then be subdivided and developed for trophy homes. Subsequent versions of CIEDRA eliminated this “View Lots of Evil” provision, but the bill remained, and will remain, a dilution of the concept of wilderness outlined in the 1964 Act. The biggest problem with CIEDRA is that it contains no provision for funding wilderness personnel. If “wilderness personnel” sounds like a contradiction in terms, take a look at Idaho’s Sawtooth Wilderness, which will have 1.5 people in the field to protect it during the coming tourist season. That’s down from 36 when I was a wilderness ranger in the Sawtooths during the 1970s. Neglect of the Sawtooths hasn’t been benign. Designating a wild area as wilderness can attract an ugly type of tourist who thinks wilderness is to be conquered rather than respected, or that it offers freedom from the rules of civilization rather than acceptance of the responsibilities of conservation. Much of my time as a ranger was spent telling these people the 19th century was over, and irresponsible use of their freedom would turn the Sawtooths into a trashy artifact of civilization. In an act of bureaucratic malfeasance, the Sawtooth National Forest has taken funds intended for the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and distributed them to its other districts, preserving permanent office jobs at the expense of on-the-ground seasonals. One result is that the Sawtooth Forest has elaborate forest plans but no one to implement them. Wilderness education programs have been canceled. Trails have gone unmaintained, resulting in dozens of paths around fallen trees or washouts. The Sawtooths have acquired a worn and seedy look. High-use areas are surrounded by what looks like crime-scene tape, keeping people off campsites worn down to bare gravel. The Sawtooth Wilderness demonstrates that Congress can have good intentions, but in the face of devious or uncooperative administrators, good intentions don’t necessarily show up on the ground. A wilderness can exist on paper, but without funding, it’s not much more than an advertisement for tourists. In the face of the tourists 6 | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | BOISEweekly

it then attracts, it shouldn’t be neglected. Someone has to be out there protecting it, because tourists are like rats. They don’t consume much individually. But get them in a horde, and they can strip a place bare, gnaw toes off babies in their cribs and spread disease. I exaggerate. A little. What you should take seriously is that wilderness without wilderness education and educators is wilderness in name only. Visit the lakes of Shangri-La above Redfish Lake on a July weekend and you’ll see what I mean—if you can navigate through the maze of beaten paths to get there. I have some suggestions for Mike Simpson as he refines this year’s version of his bill: • With wilderness, smaller is better. It’s easier to protect a small area than a large one. Redraw the maps for your wildernesses with an eye toward quality, not quantity. This move will make almost everybody happy except for the acre-counters in the Pew Foundation, and Idaho Conservation League and Wilderness Society fundraisers. • Phase in the three wildernesses one at a time, at five-year intervals. Experience with one wilderness will allow for changes in the parameters and management of the next. • Look carefully at what’s happened to the Sawtooth and Frank Church Wildernesses before you finalize CIEDRA plans. Specifically, look at use and abuse, commercial exploitation, fire control and negative economic impact. • Dedicate funding for an adequate number of wilderness rangers and other field personnel so administrative agencies can’t siphon off funds for their own purposes. While you’re at it, use the Congressional Budget Office to investigate where the monies Congress intended for the SNRA have gone for the last 35 years or so. • Finally, stop looking at tourism as a cure for central Idaho’s economic ills. Tourism has an uncertain future in a world where resources and energy are coming up against hard limits. In the meantime it creates a false-front world full of empty pageantry and canned experience. It prices poor people out of their environment. It divides people into herders and the herded. It damages the human spirit, as any refugee from Las Vegas or Disneyland or even Sun Valley can attest. Central Idaho is a beautiful place. It’s well worth treating well. That doesn’t mean commodifying it as a tourist attraction, or letting special-interest groups sit on boards that will decide what it will be. That’s what a national monument would do, and that’s why CIEDRA is the lesser of two evils. It can be a lesser evil yet if Mike Simpson decides to listen to the people who know central Idaho well. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

Palliative caregivers look to clear Idaho’s cultural barriers

Big City donates $1 of each Big Titty Blend package sold to Barbells for Boobs.

NO BIG CITY OATBOMBS OR BIG TITTY CANS AT BOISE AIRPORT

GEORGE PRENTICE It’s not as if we weren’t warned. “She’s 5 feet of hugs and enthusiasm. She’s going to hug you… just so you know,” said Angela Hult, executive director of the Cambia Health Foundation. “Olga is amazing.” That would be Olga Gerberg, director of patient negotiation for Familias en Accion, a Portland, Ore.-based health care advocacy group. Sure enough, within minutes of meeting, Gerberg’s arms were wrapped around this reporter. That’s just who she is—patient advocate, caregiver and hugger-in-chief. Gerberg spends her days helping families facing diagnoses of cancer, diabetes, HIV/AIDS and end-stage cardiovascular and renal disease. In 2001, Gerberg first met and hugged Pilar (her full identity is not revealed here because of her immigration status). Pilar, who was brought to the United States when she was a teenager, is a mother of three. She was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer and given six months to live. But following some aggressive treatment and a lot of assistance from Gerberg (including thousands of hugs), Pilar has survived cancer thus far and was proud to share her story of survival to dozens of Boise caregivers at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center. While she spoke to a meeting room filled with doctors, nurses and social workers at Saint Al’s Boise campus, a column of words appeared on a screen behind her: respeto, personalismo, confianza, familismo (translations: respect, personal relationships, trust, extended family). Pilar’s appearance was part of special, culturally sensitive training on palliative care, with particular emphasis on Latino families, sponsored by the Cambia Health Foundation. “Mi nombre es Pilar,” she said, walking to the front of the room. “When my doctors said, ‘cancer,’ that was a new world. It was like someone had opened a door and I was pushed through.”

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Olga Gerberg met Pilar in 2001, following Pilar’s diagnosis of Stage 4 breast cancer. Today they’re colleagues in bringing culturally sensitive palliative care to Latino families.

and radical surgery treatments for cancer and other serious illnesses. Palliative care, however, is still relatively new. The concept is well established—the desire for respeto (or respect) and confianza (trust) are universal— but it wasn’t until a couple of decades ago that American hospitals fully embraced the reality of palliative care. Not to be confused with hospice care, which focuses on relieving symptoms and supporting terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of months, palliative care can be offered at any stage of a person’s illness. Still, many Americans aren’t familiar with the term. “Research shows that a big part of the challenge is that most Americans don’t understand what palliative care is,” said Hult, speaking from the Cambia Health Foundation’s office in Portland, Ore. “It’s really about asking the question, ‘What matters to you?’ rather than asking, ‘What’s the matter with you?’ Many patients have a life-limiting or terminal illness; but we’re really talking about quality of life and making sure that a patient’s wishes are respected and honored.” Dr. Kevin Clifford has been at the forefront of palliative care in Idaho. A physician in Boise since 1988, Clifford was a faculty member at the Family Practice Residency of Idaho, helped create the first HIV specialty clinic in the state and, in 2002, started the palliative care program at Saint Al’s. When Boise Weekly

asked him about the genesis of palliative care in America, Clifford pointed to the fact that while more patients now live longer with disease, they do so in greater pain. “The price that we’ve paid for a 50 percent increase in life expectancy is that many people have had a bad death,” said Clifford. “As we were able to keep people alive, the quality of that life deteriorated.” Studies continue to document how American caregivers haven’t done a good job of taking care of people in their final days, Clifford said. “We lost something as we became more and more specialized, more and more effective at disease management,” he added. “We lost some of the wisdom that accompanied the role of a healer. We certainly knew more answers and knew more studies, but we didn’t know if our patients were happy.” When it comes to so-called living wills, which have become more commonplace since the Patient Self-Determination Act became law in 1991, Clifford said the good intention of a living will was appropriate, but the end result left too many vagaries. “A living will often read, ‘If there’s nothing you can do to prolong life more than a short while, then I want to be comfortable.’ That’s a very limited document,” 8 said Clifford. “Maybe they should read, ‘If my cancer is advanced and I

What’s in a name? Plenty in a post 9/11 world. The Boise Airport and city officials were over the moon recently, when they announced that the airport would dramatically revamp its concessions. A 5,400-squarefoot reset at the airport’s retail space includes new stores from plenty of familiar Boise retailers, including Big City Coffee and Cafe, Parrilla Grill, 13th Street Pub and Grill, Bardenay and shops sponsored by the Idaho Statesman and KRVB 94.9 FM The River Don’t expect to see everything you might normally spot at one of the retailer’s anchor stores outside the airport, though. Case in point: Big City’s infamous gluten-free Oat Bomb—packed with oats, honey, almond butter, nuts, coconut and chocolate chips. “Yeah, they asked us not to use that name,” Big City Manager Adam Ringlstetter told Boise Weekly from the restaurant’s location in Boise’s Linen District. “I’m not sure who it came down from. It was to avoid any potential problem.” Boise Weekly learned that, in fact, it came down from the Delaware North Corporation, which, in 2014, took over food and beverage operations at Boise Airport and licensed the local concepts. “That’s right. It wasn’t the airport that asked [Big City] to change the name. It was Delaware North,” said Sean Briggs, Boise Airport marketing manager. “We certainly weren’t against the name change, but it was their call.” Delaware North took it one step further: The corporation also asked Big City to drop the name of its popular Big Titty Blend, which has an illustration of a pink brassiere on all its cans. Big City proudly donates $1 of each package sold to Barbells for Boobs, a nonprofit dedicated to early breast cancer detection. However, Big City didn’t take the labels off all of its Big Titty Blend cans at the airport. Instead, the company strategically placed Buy Idaho stickers on the labels, obscuring the offending mammarial moniker. Welcome to Boise, travelers. —George Prentice BOISEweekly | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | 7

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While the state has not moved to fund pre-K, Boise is launching its own pilot program.

BOISE PROPOSES ITS OWN PRE-K In one of its most ambitious efforts in recent memory—while tweaking the nose of the Idaho Legislature, which has refused to consider funding for preschool programs for Idaho’s youngest citizens—the city of Boise, in conjunction with the Boise School District, is moving forward with a proposal to offer its first pre-K program. The program, which could be rolled out as early as this fall, would be offered to eligible children in Boise’s Vista neighborhood as part of the city’s Energize our Neighborhoods project. “We’re nesting this in our bigger livability initiative,” said Diana Lachiondo, director of community partnerships for the city. “This will be our first program out of the gate.” On Jan. 27, Lachiondo briefed Boise Mayor Dave Bieter and the Boise City Council on what would be called “The City of Boise Early Childhood Project,” which would offer pre-K education for 60 income-qualified children. The children would attend three-hour sessions five days a week, with three sessions each for 20 children at Hawthorne Elementary (two sessions) and Whitney Elementary (one session). The first year of the program, including start-up costs, would need $262.000. Ongoing annual costs would be $182,000. “The investment pays off in so many ways,” said Bieter. “The big part of this is to find matching private money and ideally keeping more of our partners at the table.” Therein lies the key of the program’s sustainability: private funding from foundations, nonprofits, industry and the school district. “I would happily be tasked with helping to bring those partners in,” said Councilwoman Lauren McLean. “I’m in,” echoed Councilman Ben Quintana. The proposal received unanimous support to move forward. With funding, it will move fast. Lachiondo said she’ll return to the Council with an update by April. A budget could be set as soon as May, and the school district would begin hiring staff immediately thereafter. Pre-K families would be identified in June and July, and the program could start in August. “The key question here is, ‘What’s the city’s role in helping to make this happen?’ Quite frankly, there hasn’t been a state role in this thus far,” said Councilwoman Elaine Clegg. “But for us to start small and then verify our success is a pretty great place to start.” —George Prentice 8 | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | BOISEweekly

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have eight weeks to live with aggressive treatment, or two weeks to live without 7 it, I want to be comfortable.’ And when physicians talk to families about what the patient wants, we use abstractions and talk in terms of medical procedures, and that limits the conversation. For example, San Francisco General Hospital has a very good internal medicine program, but they found that the amount of time that hospitalcertified physicians spoke with patients about the patient’s preference was one minute. And when that patient is being admitted to an emergency room, that patient is sick and tired and is being asked, ‘Do you want this or that procedure?’ and there’s very little verification that people understand what’s going on.” That’s where palliative care steps in.

‘I HAVE TO BE INVITED.’ “It’s a very privileged position,” said Clifford, who meets with his team before making rounds on Saint Al’s intensive care and coronary care units each morning. “But I can’t see a patient about palliative care unless a doctor asks for it. I have to be invited,” Clifford said. “As times passes, yes, more people have heard about palliative care; but over two-thirds of the patient population still don’t know what it is.” And “what it is” is a lot of listening: listening to the patient, the patient’s family, friends, social workers, specialists, etc. It’s a challenging task when more and more differing cultures, some of whose practices conflict with modern American medicine, are presented in emergency rooms each day. “When I first came here, everybody spoke English. Now, there are… well, how many cultures are there in Boise?” Clifford said. “Tibetans, Nepalese, Bosnians, Yugoslavians, Iranians, Iraqis, Saudis, Somalis… I could go on.” With that, the Cambia Health Foundation has chosen to train more caregivers in Idaho on culturally sensitive palliative care, with particular emphasis on the Latino community. According to census data compiled by the Idaho Commission on Hispanic Affairs, Idaho’s Latino population is growing faster than the general population: From 2000-2010, Idaho’s non-Hispanic population increased by 17 percent; during the same 10 years, Idaho’s Hispanic population increased by around 73 percent. “Inside the Latino community, there’s a higher rate of Stage 4 cancer diagnosis,” said Hult. “And without proper and timely care, I’m afraid that can lead to a terminal outcome.” She added that because many Hispanic families weren’t comfortable with asking questions, whether because of cultural barriers or uncertainty over their immigration

Dr. Kevin Clifford, a Boise physician since 1988, started the palliative care program at Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center in 2002.

status, they weren’t getting the information they needed in a timely manner. That’s when Cambia teamed up with Familias en Accion to reach out to Latinos in Portland, Ore., to discuss palliative care. “And we saw some fantastic results,” said Hult. Some of the barriers are more obvious than others: linguistics, for example, require a translator, which could conflict with HIPAA (the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) which requires strict confidentiality of a patient’s records. “There have even been some questions among providers saying, ‘We’re not quite sure what we can or cannot say.’ Even within the system, there’s some confusion. But, yes, interpreters are perfectly allowed,” said Hult. “And a patient navigator can help eliminate those barriers.” That would include a patient navigator like Gerberg, who spends her days building trust with patients’ families and sometimes with patients who feel alone—like Pilar, whose family was far away at the time of her own cancer diagnosis. “Here I was in the States and somebody says, ‘cancer.’ But three years later, here I am today, sharing my story because Olga was there for me,” Pilar said. “In a very real way,

I’m the voice of all those people who deal and struggle with the system. They’re diagnosed with a chronic disease and they don’t know where to go and whether something like palliative care is there for them.” Pilar and Gerberg spent time with caregivers at Saint Al’s locations in Boise and Nampa, as well as St. Luke’s Boise Medical Center, to talk about palliative care for Idaho’s Latino community. The need, however, is much broader. “A community needs to be ready to offer palliative care for different cultures,” said Hult. “You have to have providers in place, providers like Dr. Clifford. And with that, we hope there’s a ripple effect.” Clifford emphasized that it is equally important to understand that there’s a risk of actually knowing too much about a culture, then defining a person by that culture. “All cultures respond to genuine effort of respect,” he said, adding that almost every day of his work includes combinations of joy, sorrow and grief. “I see them every day,” Clifford said, pausing to look out on the Boise Foothills from the fifth floor of Saint Al’s. “To be a very good palliative care physician, you have to be able to access the joy, the relief and, yes, the heartbreak. They’re all necessary. It’s the human condition.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

NEWS BARACK OBAMA’S BIG RED STATE ADVENTURE JES SICA MURRI

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Boise Mayor Dave Bieter hitched a ride aboard Air Force One for Obama’s Boise trip (Bieter had to hop a commercial flight back to Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Conference of Mayors).

President Barack Obama visits with military families at Gowen Field.

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More than 5,000 filled the Caven-Williams Sports Complex to hear Obama’s Jan. 21 address.

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Obama’s Jan. 21 “Middle Class Economics” speech echoed the themes of his seventh State of the Union message, made before a joint session of U.S. Congress the night before.

Obama hugs Boise State engineering student Camille Eddy after her introduction of the president.

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CITIZEN Why do you think TTIP is important? It’s not the average trade agreement. It’s a trade agreement that’s looking at not only tariffs, but market access and regulation. We think it could increase Idaho’s exports to the EU by about 24 percent. And obviously once exports are increasing, that increases growth for that company, and brings jobs with it.

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Were you always interested in going into diplomacy? Well that’s a funny story. I have no real historical connection to the world of diplomacy. My father is from India; my mom’s from the U.K. He was in business; she was a teacher. And actually, until I was about 16, I wanted to be an astronaut. So that was sort of my life plan. [But] I ended up studying international politics at university. As part of that opportunity I did an undergraduate “attachment,” sort of like an internship, at the Foreign Office in China. I worked at the U.N. Women’s Conference in Beijing back in the day [1995], and that was such a great experience. And so I thought I’d try my luck. I applied for the Foreign Office and got in. I’ve been here ever since.

about a state than actually being here, talking to people, getting a feel for what’s on people’s minds. Even just looking at a city like Boise, which is obviously going through lots of development. You like to ski, yes? I love to ski and have two boys who love to be outside. What are your priorities for this visit? We’re always looking at business-to-business links and connections, so looking at where Idaho businesses are looking to expand globally, and when they’re looking to go to the U.K., what we might be able to do to support them.

What kind of products are being exported from Idaho to the U.K.? A large majority of the exports are around the Did you know anything about Idaho growing semiconductor space. After that, it’s mining. up? Idaho just really wasn’t on my horizon. Not ag? At the moment, ag isn’t a large export, but we And what have you learned about Idaho think that could change with the Transatlantic since you got the job? There’s nothing that you can experience better Trade and Investment Partnership. 10 | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | BOISEweekly

It just seems like it’s a real sticky wicket. Now you’re using the British expressions. There are also concerns of using arbitration panels to resolve disputes instead of courts. I think where we are is that everyone recognizes that the prize is huge. We think a TTIP agreement could average out more than $800 per American family. Just because of the increase in exports, the increase of wealth, the job creation. That’s a huge prize. Some people are scared of these huge trade agreements. I think conversely, barriers to trade are more of an inhibitor for free market growth. And your other priorities? The one area there that’s a focus for us is increasing the student exchanges. And so one of the things that we’re talking to Boise State about is how we might support their study abroad program more. These are normally four-year positions, which would mean your term would be up in 2015. What’s next for you? I have pushed mine out to five. We just enjoy it so much. The boys are really happy and they enjoy what the region has to offer. My husband is an avid sportsman, cyclist, Ironman, so he gets out and about and does his stuff. And what do you like about this region? It is beautiful, for a start. What you can do as a tourist in states like Idaho is unsurpassed. The people … have universally been wonderful, very genuine and really interesting. And I think there is huge potential. There is a longstanding, historical relationship with the U.K., but I think there’s huge potential to do more in the future. And if I in my job as consul general can play a small role in cementing that and strengthening that, that makes me happy. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

Family Medicine Spotty medical marijuana laws sentence families to lives of uncertainty

By Carissa Wolf he view from the Careys’ home in the Boise Foothills is a sweeping vista of parks, cottonwood trees and mountains, but the Carey kids mostly look out the windows. Summers are spent indoors, waiting for the heat to pass. The slightest rise in temperature or even a ray of sunshine can trigger another seizure in 9-year-old Alexis. Trips outside the home are mostly little more than air-conditioned car rides. On a blazing July day last summer, Clare Carey loaded up her cabin-fevered kids for a drive in the hills. She drove along the Boise River, past parks, toward Lucky Peak Reservoir in a rare respite from their usually sequestered life. When they arrived at a vantage point, the Carey children peered out the windows, watching kids splash in the spray of a fountain, play in the water and run on the sandy beaches of Lucky Peak State Park.

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The traditional activities of childhood summers in Boise, just feet from their car, tempted Alexis’ big brother; but for the Carey children, it might as well have been on TV. “He asked, ‘Can we stop?’ I said, ‘No, it’s too hot. We can’t,’â€? Clare said. Clare’s voice cracked as she told the story of that summer excursion. The matter-offact mom usually speaks of the contentious UMLQKIT UIZQR]IVI LMJI\M _Q\P \PM [KQMV\QĂ…K objectivity and calm she employed in her career as a physical therapist, but she battles emotion as she talks about the price all of her children pay for Alexis’ illness. “I should be taking my kids to the park, not the Statehouse,â€? Clare said. The kids often hear “noâ€? and “can’tâ€? as they ride a roller coaster of canceled vacations and hospital stays while the Careys battle NWZ \PMQZ LI]OP\MZÂź[ N]\]ZM <PMa Ă…OP\ NWZ QV[]ZIVKM KW^MZIOM# \PMa Ă…OP\ \W SMMX \PMQZ daughter alive and comfortable; and, when they have time, Clare, a full-time mom and BOISE WEEKLY.COM

her husband, Boise pathologist Dr. Michael +IZMa Ă…OP\ \W KPIVOM 1LIPWÂź[ UMLQKIT UIZQjuana law—one lawmaker, one conversation and one study at a time. During the 2014 legislative session, the Careys quietly lobbied Idaho lawmakers to introduce a medical marijuana bill that would allow patients access to low-THC cannabis for medical use. Legislators told the Careys the time wasn’t right: Elections were around the corner. The family was told to wait. “We can’t wait,â€? Clare said. Any seizure could be Alexis’ last. The Careys hold out hope that the 2015 legislative session ends the waiting game. They’re asking lawmakers, once again, to allow them to give their daughter a medicine that could save her life. But they need help. “We just don’t have time for this. We should be in the park. We shouldn’t have to be dragging our sick kids to the Capitol so they can get their medicine,â€? Clare said.

Zip Codes & Health Codes

Zip codes matter in the battle Alexis has been _IOQVO [QVKM [WWV IN\MZ JQZ\P <PM ÅZ[\ [MQb]ZM racked her body when she was 2 months old. What the Careys hoped was an isolated event increased in frequency and continued in daily waves. Now the Careys stay within arm’s reach of their daughter at all times. They’re always ready to catch her. By 17 months, Alexis’ development started to regress. She lost her ability to walk and talk as several seizure types emerged, eventually leading to a diagnosis of Severe Myoclonic Epilepsy of Infancy, also known as Dravet syndrome, a life-threatening epileptic disorder with no known effective treatment. Most kids with Dravet syndrome progressively worsen as they grow. Many lose developmental gains as daily, and sometimes hourly, seizures fracture their days and pharmaceutical cocktails fog their minds, dull their emotions and turn their bodies toxic. Sometimes a seizure overwhelms their small bodies and they die.

Parents of children with the disorder often brace for a goodbye every time a seizure hits. Do-not-resuscitate orders, medically-induced comas, feeding tubes and wheelchairs become part of their children’s health care plans. But zip codes changed all of that for some. Clare Carey and Paige Figi once shared the same story. They both watched Dravet syndrome consume their daughters. Swimming, playing games, riding bikes and even laughing—the stuff of childhood—existed only in hopes. The biggest difference in their stories was their zip codes, then the story changed for Figi’s daughter, Charlotte, when Colorado allowed medical marijuana to become a part of Charlotte’s treatment. +PIZTW\\M PIL PMZ ÅZ[\ [MQb]ZM I\ UWV\P[ old, and they kept coming. The seizures worsened and, within months, up to 20 seizures gripped her infant body every day. Her parents PIL X][PML NWZ IV[_MZ[ NZWU \PM ÅZ[\ seizure. Like the Figis, many parents 12 begin a waiting game in the early BOISEweekly | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | 11

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The Careys wondered, could Charlotte’s Web work for Alexis? Idaho law gave them WVTa \_W _Ia[ \W Ă…VL W]\" <PMa KW]TL UW^M WZ break the law. “It’s just ludicrous that people would suggest that [we move]. Why not change the law?â€? Clare said. Six years ago, the Careys called Salt Lake City home. Then Michael, landed a job interview in Boise. While he interviewed, she spent the day touring Boise. “I wandered around the downtown area and just loved it,â€? Clare said. Michael got the job, and the couple settled in. “We just love Boise. Idaho is beautiful,â€? Clare said. “We can’t just give up a job and move to Colorado.â€?

Medical Refugees Clare Carey must stay within arm’s reach of her daughter, Alexis, at all times to prevent her from falling. Alexis suffers from sudden and frequent seizures that her parents hope medical marijuana can control.

days. They’re told the seizures may stop; their baby may outgrow the unex11 plainable; or, maybe, with the right anticonvulsant cocktail, the seizing may remit or at least diminish. Charlotte grew, and the seizures grew with PMZ *MNWZM PMZ Ă…Z[\ JQZ\PLIa \PM [MQb]ZM[ JMKIUM I SQVL WN KTWKS" Ă…^M [MQb]ZM[ M^MZa minutes. “She was labeled with intractable epilepsy,â€? Paige said. Paige read that while cannabis could not cure seizures in patients with similar disorders, it had been shown to dramatically reduce \PMU <PI\ _I[ OWWL VM_[ J]\ Ă…Z[\ [PM IVL her husband had to confront their ideas about marijuana. “We’re a military family,â€? she said. 8IQOMÂź[ P][JIVL 5I\\ XMZ[WVQĂ…ML \PM UQTQtary man. Straight-laced and law abiding, he NWTTW_ML Z]TM[ \W \PM TM\\MZ¸ IVL PM LMĂ…VQ\MTa never, ever smoked marijuana. “We were very conservative,â€? Paige said. But Charlotte was very sick. “We were saying our goodbyes to her.â€? Paige and Matt turned into the medical students and health care advocates that many parents become when their children face a devastating illness. They scoured the Internet, dug into medical journals, quizzed doctors and connected through Facebook with others dealing with similar issues. Along the way, medical marijuana kept popping up. 5I\\ _I[ \PM Ă…Z[\ \W []OOM[\ \PMa \Za Q\ IVL with a Colorado zip code, access wasn’t a problem. The results were almost instant. š<PMZM _MZM [MQb]ZM[ [PM LQLVÂź\ PI^M \PI\ Ă…Z[\ _MMS Âş 8IQOM [IQL Almost immediately, Charlotte began a reawakening. 12 | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | BOISEweekly

“I’m meeting her again for a second time,â€? Paige said. Dr. Sanjay Gupta documented Charlotte’s dramatic turnaround for a CNN documentary, Weed, in which the physician admitted his skep\QKQ[U IJW]\ \PM MNĂ…KIKa WN UMLQKIT UIZQR]IVI Gupta later wrote that the public had been š[a[\MUI\QKITTa UQ[TMLÂş IJW]\ \PM JMVMĂ…\[ WN marijuana. Gupta’s documentary reported on the low-THC, high-cannabidiol marijuana strain now dubbed “Charlotte’s Web,â€? which the Figis credited with the nearmiraculous recovery of their daughter. A representative of Realm of Caring, the Colorado VWVXZWĂ…\ \PI\ []XXTQM[ \PM [\ZIQV [IQL \PM LWK]mentary prompted thousands of viewers to call with questions and requests to be next in line to try Charlotte’s Web. Many landed on a waiting list that topped 12,000 or found themselves caught in a tangle of state and federal laws that restrict medical access to marijuana according to geography. The Careys watched Weeds and saw their own experiences. <PM Ă…Z[\ XIOM[ WN +PIZTW\\MÂź[ [\WZa ZMIL TQSM Alexis’. Both girls entered the world as healthy babies, but after epilepsy entered in infancy and \PM [MQb]ZM[ QV\MV[QĂ…ML \W P]VLZML[ XMZ _MMS the girls’ development stalled: they struggled to gain weight, create words and learn as seizure after seizure set them back. But there was Charlotte on CNN, playing like a typical kid.

Kim Clark is one of thousands who have made a medical pilgrimage to Colorado, seeking treatment for her son, Caden. “We came out here thinking, ‘Oh, gosh. Let’s see what these crazy people are trying in Colorado—the crazy pot people,’� she said. “That’s exactly what we thought of people in Colorado. So we thought, ‘Let’s go see what the crazy pot people are doing, because what else did we have? Who are we if we don’t do it? Who are if we don’t get him this treatment?� Kim asked. That question split the Clarks in half. Kim would move with her two youngest sons to Colorado. Her husband and teenagers would stay in Atlanta, Ga.

?Q\PQV I KW]XTM WN PW]Z[ IN\MZ \PM Ă…Z[\ LW[M Kim noticed something different about her son: The frequency of little tics, twitches and spasms that had become near-constant features in +ILMVÂź[ [MQb]ZM Ă…TTML TQNM JMKIUM NM_MZ “He had never had a seizure-free day since he was 2 months old. Then, after a week of JMQVO WV KIVVIJQ[ _M Ă…VITTa PIL W]Z Ă…Z[\ seizure-free day,â€? Kim said. “After one 24-hour period of not seizing, I started screaming, literally, ‘This is working! This is happening!’ I was in shock. After 10 years, we had a seizure-free day. Just one day changed everything for me. Then we had two days and three and four.â€? Their Facebook friends started counting the days with them. Five, six... Caden experienced a seizure on the sixth day, but it was different: It came and went in near isolation, and hundreds of seizures didn’t follow in its wake. “He still struggles; he still has breakthrough seizures,â€? Kim said. “The miracle is that he is in double digits. We were never supposed to see 2 years old. We had a lot of ‘nevers’ with Caden. He was never going to walk, he was never going to talk and he was never, ever going to have seizure control. I’m getting to know Caden in a way I never have before.â€? 5IVa WN \PW[M Ă…Z[\[ UIa IT[W KWUM _Q\P some lasts. “We are forced out of our homes to seek this treatment, this life-altering treatment. So we do really feel like refugees,â€? Kim said. “Medical treatment for our children is now being determined by our zip code and that seems very

“We just don’t have time for this. We should be in the park. We shouldn’t have to be dragging our sick kids to the capitol so they can get their medicine.â€? “This was a very, very hard, very emotional decision for our family,â€? Kim said of her decision to move half of the family so that her son could access the medicine they saw as a last hope. “My children are growing up without their father. How is that OK? We are not divorced. We are not separated. We are very much married. We are a family. And we are living like a divorced couple,â€? she said. “What I can tell you is the two oldest boys are struggling. They miss their brother. It’s PIZL _PMV I aMIZ WTL KZQM[ 0M _IV\[ \W go [back to Atlanta]. He gave up everything,â€? Kim added. In March 2014, 11-year-old Caden received PQ[ Ă…Z[\ LW[M WN +PIZTW\\MÂź[ ?MJ¸I TW_ <0+ and non-psychoactive cannabis strain—as an oil-based tincture.

anti-American to me. That just doesn’t feel like our country to me.â€? Thousands of families are trapped by the nation’s patchwork of medical marijuana laws. “We’re ready to do things with [Caden],â€? Kim said. “Just little things. I would love to have Caden see the beach. I would be a federal LZ]O \ZINĂ…KSMZ QN 1 LQL \PI\ Âş A drive to the Oregon coast would mean a tour through Idaho and entry into a jurisdiction _PMZM TI_[ _W]TL TIJMT 3QU I LZ]O \ZINĂ…KSMZ and a danger to her children. The borders KWVĂ…VM IVL LZQ^M I _MLOM JM\_MMV NIUQTa 3QU longs to visit with Caden. Typically a straighttalker, Kim pauses when she mentions her sick father. She wants say her goodbyes, but she can’t leave Colorado. “I’m probably going to lose my father while I’m sitting in Colorado,â€? Kim said. “There are BOISE WEEKLY.COM

“It’s just ludicrous that people would suggest that [we move]. Why not change the law?â€? choices that we shouldn’t be making. I want to be near my father.â€? Uneven marijuana laws can mean the difference between keeping families intact, holding onto a job and a community, accessing medicine or breaking the law. During the 2014 Idaho legislative session the Careys pursued a third option to secure medical marijuana access for Alexis: They decided to stay in Idaho IVL Ă…OP\

A Sound Decision

Between prolonged hospital stays, doctor appointments and the 24/7 job of raising three children, the Careys work the phone. They’re calling lawmakers, lobbyists, Colorado parents, and moms and dads who know what it’s like to have their days punctuated by dozens of epileptic seizures. It’s a part-time political job the family never asked for and one they don’t have time for. Clare spends much of her time sticking close to her oldest daughter. “I just follow her,� she said. Alexis could fall from the onset of an epileptic seizure at any moment. Anticonvulsant medications can offer a degree of relief and for patients in 29 states, it’s their only option. Lethargy, developmental delays and liver damage are among the side effects of some of the drugs commonly prescribed to treat seizure disorders. The side effects of cannabis typically include sleepiness and increased hunger. “I’ll take that over liver failure,� Clare said, noting that children with Dravet syndrome usually struggle to get a full night of sleep and put on weight. “We’re just asking to make a sound decision and lawmakers don’t want to make medical decisions, either,� she said. The Careys’ quiet, behind-the-scenes TWJJaQVO MNNWZ\[ KIUM WV \PM PMMT[ WN I Senate concurrent resolution that stated that Idaho should never legalize marijuana for any purpose. Sides dueled in committee, but the bill gained overwhelming support with mostly Republicans voting to keep marijuana—in any shape or form—outside of Idaho. The Careys heard a similar message in 2014.

The Family Waiting Room

“We were told that we can’t do this on election year and we’ll just have to wait. While two [Idaho] children [with Dravet syndrome] have already spent part of the summer in the PICU [pediatric intensive care unit],â€? Clare said. 8IZMV\[ Ă…OP\QVO NWZ XI[[IOM WN TMOQ[TI\QWV granting access to medical marijuana for children like Alexis boast on Facebook of the successes they’ve experienced using cannabis to treat an array of seizure disorders. They also BOISE WEEKLY.COM

note more somber news. They share word of children who have passed away following a catastrophic seizure. Around the same time a seizure landed Alexis in the hospital and put her in a nearly week-long coma, a girl about Alexis’ age, who shares her diagnosis, died in Wisconsin. Her parents were actively lobbying the state of Wisconsin to pass legislation to approve the use of medical marijuana. “It really is about time. Families are being [separated] and children are dying. They don’t have time so the time is now,â€? Serra Frank, founder of Northwest marijuana advocacy group Moms for Marijuana, told Boise Weekly. The kids were in bed and Frank, the fulltime mom and part-time patient, could wear the activist hat. On the night she spoke with BW, Frank, now leader of New Approach for Idaho, a newly organized marijuana legalization advocacy group, spoke of marijuana legalization and family matters. She can’t seem to unwind the two. “There are a lot of families that are moving out of state,â€? Frank said. A few years ago, she moved to Oregon so she could swap the daily doses of morphine— which she used to control the pain of interstitial Ka[\Q\Q[ I +ZWPVÂź[ TQSM QVÆIUUI\WZa LQ[MI[M¸ for medical marijuana. “My life was better,â€? she said. And she could parent better. “I didn’t feel like a zombie‌ I was a worse parent when I was on pharmaceuticals,â€? Frank said, but, she added, “My entire family lives in Idaho. Everyone I know and love lives in Boise.â€? Family ties brought Frank back to Idaho, but the relief she found in Oregon propels her to bring Idaho laws in line with eight other western states that have fully or partially legalized marijuana use—only Idaho, Utah and Wyoming still bar any use or possession of the substance. Frank knows popular opinion can make or break her cause, and she courts everyone from the parents of sick kids to the conservative retirees and avowed anti-pot prohibitionists. She counts her new organization’s more than 25,000 Facebook likes as a measure of hope: New Approach has already out-liked the now defunct medical marijuana advocacy group Compassionate Idaho by thousands. She keeps coming back to a 2010 Boise State University poll that found 74 percent of Idahoans support the legalization of medical marijuana. Frank wants that majority to sign a petition for a 2016 ballot initiative and thinks reason can get the other 26 percent to come around. New Approach organizers gathered att a Boise pizza parlor in December 2014 14 BOISEweekly | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | 13

to perfect their arguments and even sling a few religion angles into their 13 pitches, pointing to Bible passages they interpret as supportive of medical marijuana. “It’s in the Bible,â€? organizer Dana Wilson told the crowd. Frank tries to pull the mainstream into the grassroots cause and, in a recent press release, she boasted of support among Latter-Day Saints with a headline that read, “Idaho Mormon Family Begging for Medical Marijuana.â€? The headline referred to Bryce Bunderson of Montpelier, Idaho—dad, Mormon and southern Idaho rancher. “We were trying to decide whether to cut part of my son’s brain out,â€? Bunderson said. “The sad thing is that it doesn’t have to be that way. Isn’t [marijuana] worth trying?â€? He said he has a lot of stereotypes to challenge and minds to change as he joins New Approach and its push for full marijuana legalization. Lawmakers who backed the IV\Q XW\ ZM[WT]\QWV \WTL BW that they sympathize with the plight of the Careys and even see a need to legalize marijuana for medical use. But the ins and outs of regulating the medicine get tricky, some say, and they have constituents to answer to. “I am not a supporter of legalizing marijuana. I am somewhat sympathetic for medicinal use,â€? said Idaho Falls Republican Sen. Dean Mortimer, who echoed the sentiment of many of his Republican colleagues. š<PM LQNĂ…K]T\a Q[ QV \PM LM\IQT[ IVL PW_ IVL when,â€? he added. “I have received a few emails from constituents supporting legalization of marijuana. I have had more input from law enforcement against it.â€? Constituents sent Nampa Republican Sen. Todd Lakey a different message. “I do not favor legalization of marijuana. Most of my constituent communications on the issue take the same position,â€? he said. The Careys are daunted by the “noâ€? vote of \PM IV\Q XW\ ZM[WT]\QWV I[ _MTT I[ NWZUMZ Moscow Republican Rep. Tom Trail’s failed attempt to get a medical marijuana bill past committee in 2011. But, for a moment last summer, Clare drew a sigh of relief as news broke of the introduction in Congress of the Charlotte’s Web Medical Hemp Act of 2014. The bill proposed passage of prohibition exemptions for non-psychoactive, low-THC, high-CBD strains of hemp for medical purposes. Named after Paige Figi’s daughter, Charlotte, the bill would have effectively ended \PM +IZMa[Âź Ă…OP\ \W KPIVOM [\I\M TI_ ITTW_ML the Clarks to reunite as a family and lifted the travel restrictions for Colorado families that relocated to the state as marijuana refugees.

When Clare heard news of the bill’s introL]K\QWV IVL JIKSQVO Ja KW [XWV[WZ[ [PM called BW. This time her voice sounded lighter and it quickened as she spoke. “This is huge. It’s a game changer,� Clare said. “This would give people immediate access.� For a moment, the 2015 legislative session and all that could follow looked different for the Careys. They could bypass the Statehouse for the park. Maybe Clare could stop the car instead of driving past Lucky Peak in the summer, she thought. Maybe all the kids could even swim. The 2014 congressional session moved forward, Paige lobbied Congress, patients and parents wrote letters and the legislation didn’t budge. When Congress adjourned, the bill remained where it started and the Careys

“Medical treatment for our children is now being determined by our zip code and that seems very anti-American to me.�

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returned to counting their legislative allies. BW surveyed Idaho lawmakers who offered a continuum of positions on medical marijuana, with a handful reporting they’d say “no� to any medical marijuana bill while a near equal number of bipartisan legislators said they’d consider a proposal. “Why won’t we, at least, seriously discuss these possible alternatives to zombie-like medications, brain surgeries and invasive implanted electrical stimulation devices with little to no relief of their symptoms?� said Ketchum Democratic Sen. Michelle Stennett. Others said they’re willing to listen. “There’s a lot of education that the proponents need to do in order to move legislation like that,� House Speaker Scott Bedke (R-Oakley) said. “I think that the Legislature will listen. I think that we’ll have an open mind and listen.�

Wishful Thinking

“This is a hot button topic,� said Boise neurologist Robert T. Wechsler. “There are amazingly strong opinions either for or against CBD that are out of proportion with the available data. What that tells me is that there are a lot of emotions and a lot of politics playing into these positions.� Wechsler tries to wade through all of those emotions and ground the medical marijuana debate in science. As a specialist in epileptic disorders, he often sees patients seeking BOISE WEEKLY.COM

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Alexis Carey has been prescribed dozens of medications and special diets in an effort to control her seizures with little success. Medical marijuana is one of the last medications that Alexis has not tried.

medical marijuana. As an Idaho physician he can’t do much more than keep his eyes on the research, which comes in volumes and often ^ITQLI\M[ \PM MNĂ…KIKa WN UMLQKIT UIZQR]IVI in treating a variety of conditions. Studies do note the limitations of medical marijuana, often citing the IQ points teens tend to lose when experimenting with the drug. Meanwhile, dozens of other studies reveal a high success rate and anecdotal reports show success rates as high as 70 percent. That’s on par with what Realm of Caring sees with its patients receiving Charlotte’s Web. Wechsler looks at those studies with the skepticism of a scientist. Marijuana’s Schedule I controlled substance status restricts the kind of research that can be conducted on medical marijuana, and many reports come from anecdotal evidence or studies on mice. In April, the American Academy of Neurology issued guidelines that called for more research on medical marijuana, noting that marijuana could offer relief from several illnesses. “Cannabinoids should be studied as W\PMZ LZ]O[ IZM \W LM\MZUQVM \PMQZ MNĂ…KIKa and when evidence is available, should be prescribed as other drugs are,â€? stated the guidelines. <PM O]QLMTQVM[ [\MU NZWU \PM ZM^QM_ WN studies that presented evidence for the use of marijuana in treating a variety of neurological disorders. The review also highlights the need for more high-quality studies of the long-term effectiveness and safety of medical marijuana in the treatment of neurologic diseases. “The data just isn’t great. There have been a bunch of small studies. There have been individual case reports,â€? Wechsler said, BOISE WEEKLY.COM

though he pointed to an abstract presented at a December American Epilepsy Society conNMZMVKM \PI\ NW]VL I XMZKMV\ []KKM[[ ZI\M among epileptic patients who used CBD—a rate that’s comparable to conventional medications. But he said one subset in the study had a much higher success rate: Families that uprooted their children to Colorado to try CBD saw a 51 percent success rate. Wechsler credits wishful thinking, which could have a kind of placebo effect. Still, Wechsler sees a place for medical hemp and marijuana in treatment plans. Every drug has its successes and each person responds differently to every drug. Sometimes a conventional therapy works, sometimes it doesn’t. Sometimes parents try every drug available, special diets and even undergo brain surgeries to halt seizures. Sometimes they all fail. “It’s in that realm that CBD becomes of interest,â€? Wechsler said. “If the only choice was [medical marijuana] or sit at home having seizures after you’ve tried everything else, absolutely, try everything,â€? he added. “But do it in an informed way.â€? It’s in that realm that the Careys want to give CBD a shot. And the Careys—a pathologist and a physical therapist—know medicine. They know medical marijuana may or may not work. But it’s more than worth a shot, Clare said. They’ve tried everything. Marijuana offers the family hope. “It could be lifesaving. Any one of Alexis’ seizures could be life-threatening,â€? she said. “It [medication] should all be available. We didn’t PI^M \W OW \W \PM 4MOQ[TI\]ZM \W I[S NWZ \PM Ă…^M medications that Alexis is on. ... We’re just asking to make a sound decision.â€?

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CHARLES HAMAN—MondaysSaturdays through Feb. 3. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City. 208-472-2942, facebook.com/ events/324384827764269.

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FORAY IV: PUSHING THE ENVELOPE—In the Boise State Public Radio offices Mondays-Fridays through Jan. 30. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Yanke Family Research Park, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise.

FATA MORGANA—Brace yourself for this world premiere by Jeni Mahoney set at the edge of a toxic lake in the Mojave Desert, where Tori and Jack have built a quiet new life. But the silence is broken when the life they left behind comes knocking. Through Feb. 21. 8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org.

Art ALEXANDRA GRANT: A PERPETUAL SLOW CIRCLE—See the Los Angeles-based artist’s “nimbus” series, made from 2004 to 2014. Through March 8. FREE. Ochi Gallery, 119 Lewis St., Ketchum, 208-726-8746, ochigallery.com.

INTERNATIONAL VIDEO ART EXHIBITION—PROJECT 35 VOLUME 2 features 35 videos by international artists selected by 35 curators from six continents. Other people’s feelings are also my own by Markus Hansen utilizes photography and video to create portraits in which he assumes the facial expressions and posture of others to express what they may be feeling. MondayFriday through Feb. 18. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110, 1819 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

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KAREN WOODS: SHIFT—Tuesdays-Saturdays through Feb. 28. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-4330593, stewartgallery.com. LISA BOWER: FROSTED—Tuesdays-Saturdays through February. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. Crossings Winery, 1289 W. Madison Ave., Glenns Ferry, 208-366-2313, CrossingsWinery.com. QUILT EXHIBITION—Through Feb. 8. FREE. Idaho State Capitol Building, 700 W. Jefferson St., Boise, 208-433-9705, capitolcommission. idaho.gov. RED CIRCLE PRESS: TRANSLUCENCY—Through July 12. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, 208426-1242, finearts.boisestate.edu. UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF ROCK ‘N’ ROLL—Mondays-Fridays 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.

Calls to Artists BOSCO ACCEPTING NEW MEMBERS—Boise Open Studios is accepting applications for membership, open to working artists with studios in the greater Boise metro area. For more info, visit boiseopenstudios.com, the BOSCO Facebook page or email Marianne at mksarts@msn.com.

Sports & Fitness JEFF GALLOWAY RUNNING SCHOOL—Olympian and run/walk/ run guru Jeff Galloway gives you the information you need to reach your goals. Visit jeff-galloway-e-shop. mybigcommerce.com/jeff-galloways-running-school. 6 p.m. $99. Therapeutic Associates Physical Therapy-State Street, 1520 W. State St., Ste. 210, Boise, 208-3368441, therapeuticassociates.com. TREASURE VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS OPEN ENROLLMENT 2015— TVRD 2015 Open Enrollment

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, JAN. 30-31

has been postponed until further notice. Keep checking tvrderby.com for updates on future Fresh Meat Enrollment plans.

Citizen POLITICS FOR LUNCH: BOULDER WHITE CLOUDS—Featuring former Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus. Reservations are required. Email cathescott@boisestate.edu or call 208-426-3784. 12 p.m. Admission is free, $12 lunch. Boise State Andrus Center in BODO, 301 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-426-3777, andruscenter.org. TRANSFORM IDAHO CITIZEN LOBBY CORPS—Learn how you can get involved in TransForm Idaho’s Citizen Lobby Corps during the 2015 Legislative Session. For more info, visit transformidaho.org, email info@transformidaho.org or phone Sue at 208-340-9450. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 6200 N. Garrett, Garden City, 208-658-1710, boiseuu.org.

Odds & Ends SWING IS THE THING WITH PAMELA DEMARCHE—Dance lesson kicks off the evening, with live music and open dancing from 7-10 p.m. 6 p.m. $5. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-3431871, riversideboise.com/dining/ sapphire-room.

THURSDAY JAN. 29 Festivals & Events ISU ALUMNI LEGISLATIVE RECEPTION—Bengals and other members of the community can meet ISU leaders and state lawmakers. RSVP to alumni@isu.edu or call 208-2823755. 5-8 p.m. FREE. The Grove

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Hit the bricks. It’s good for your brain.

Tinsel and tassels.

Norwegian Olympic Nordic Team approved.

LET’S GO PLAY WITH LEGOS

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Everyone needs a stress relief; but with as many options as there are people, you could end up needing something to relieve the stress of trying to find the perfect stress relief. We would like to suggest you take the Boise Public Library up on its offer to play with LEGOS. Not only can playing with LEGOs be a distraction from the responsibilities of adulthood, being creative is good for you. In the 1960s, Dr. Marian Diamond found that enriched environments have a positive effect on the brain’s “ever-changing cerebral cortex.” LEGOs provide opportunities for creativity, problem-solving, innovation and entertainment, and the Library is providing the opportunity, the location and the LEGOs. A stress-relieving activity for adults in an enriched environment: the Library may have just redefined “happy hour.” 7 p.m., FREE. Boise Public Library, Marion Bingham Room, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

The show is never really over at Red Light Variety Show, but its winter production, Hollywood, is coming to an end. Beginning Jan. 15 with a pay-what-you-want preview, Hollywood cruised through two weekend runs and is closing in on its last weekend performances Friday and Saturday, Jan. 30 and 31. It’s the last chance to see emcees Joe Golden and Veronica Von Tobel as they introduce the evening’s entertainment, which includes music by Green Zoo, aerial and modern dance by Angela Bryson and Katie Ponozzo, physical comedy, vaudeville and burlesque performed with a tinsel town twist featuring James Sharp, Frankly Frankie, Juniper Rose and Kelly Green. As always, RLVS promises smart, sexy fun—and remember, the Visual Arts Collective has a full bar, making this party for the 21-and-over crowd only. SOLD OUT, 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, redlightvarietyshow.com.

In the winter months, Sun Valley becomes “Nordic Town, USA.” The cross-country skiing is so good that the Norwegian Olympic Nordic Team treks to the Wood River Valley to train. The Annual Sun Valley Nordic Festival celebrates the area’s 200 kilometers of groomed trails, the Boulder Mountain Tour Nordic race and the exceptional scenery for nine days, Jan. 30-Feb. 8. New this year is the Snowball Special fat-tire bike race. The race is on Saturday, Jan. 31 and courses include a 20-kilometer loop, a 40-kilometer loop and a 40-kilometer relay on the White Clouds and Boundary Creek trails. Sun Valley Nordic Festival: Jan. 30-Feb. 8, various times, $49, Ketchum. For a list of events, visit www.nordictownusa.com. Snowball Special: Jan. 31, 10 a.m., $25-$40, Sun Valley Nordic Center, 1 Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley, colleenquindlen.wix.com/ snowballfatbike.

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CALENDAR Hotel, 245 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-333-8000, grovehotelboise. com. SPEED MENTORING—Sit across the table from an expert and get free advice on marketing, loans, accounting, business operations or business law. For more info, contact Shari Herrera at 208-336-6722 or sherrera@wbcidaho.org. 5:30-7 p.m. FREE. Boise International Market, 5823 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-336-6722, boiseinternationalmarket.com.

On Stage COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com. FATA MORGANA—8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK: THE STORY OF RODRIGO Y GABRIELA—This is the story of Rodrigo Sanchez and Gabriela Quintero, two Mexicans who at a very early age decided to take the risk of pursuing their dreams to live from what they loved the most: music. Sponsored by the Sun Valley Center for the Arts as part of its Under the Influence of Rock & Roll exhibition, which wraps up its run Jan. 30. 7 p.m. By donation. Magic Lantern Cinema, 100 E. 2nd St., Ketchum, 208-726-3308, mlcinemas.com. INSERT FOOT THEATRE— Yuk it up with some of Boise’s best comics, who provide unscripted, uncensored and unpredictably hilarious improv comedy. For more info, visit IFT Facebook page. 8 p.m. By donation. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287 RUN FOR YOUR WIFE—In this British farce by Ray Cooney, a taxi driver tries getting away with having two wives in different areas of London, but his double life threatens to

explode after a car accident starts overlapping his two different lives. Through Feb. 7. 7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise. 208-342-2000, eventbrite.com/org/2762190930.

Talks & Lectures MUSE PROJECT SHE-TALKS— Hear Sharon Patterson Grant, Idaho Grow Smart and Better Brick Award winner, talk about “Sustainable We.” Followed by Evolutionary Dialogue, a new social technology in the exploration of emerging our fresh future. 7-8:30 p.m. By donation. Muse Building, 1317 W. Jefferson, Boise, 208-345-2704, musebuilding.com.

FRIDAY JAN. 30 Festivals & Events 2015 MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL—Celebrate 50 consecutive years of Winter Carnival fun with some of your own. You can enjoy the famous snow sculptures, Torchlight and Mardi Gras parades, live music, daily events spanning everything from comedy shows to art auctions, snowbike races to the Monster Dog Pull and much more. For more info and a complete schedule of events, visit mccallchamber.org/wintercarnival. Jan. 30-Feb. 8. McCall.

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BBP ANNUAL OFFICIAL MEMBERS MEETING—Boise Bicycle Project members meet to review 2014’s accomplishments and figure out what to do in the coming year. There will be beer and food. For more info, check out the Facebook event page. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

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RECEPTION FOR LIU BOLIN: HIDING IN THE CITY He has been called “The Invisible Man,” but Liu Bolin has gained international fame and his photographs are icons of the 21st century. Bolin was a little-known artist in 2005 when the Chinese government bulldozed through the artists’ village of Suo Jia Cun in Beijing. As his own form of protest, Bolin painted himself and stood in front of the ruins, blending in with the debris. His subsequent work has earned him the nickname “The Invisible Man.” Bolin will come to Boise on Friday, Jan. 30, for the opening of “Hiding in the City” at Boise Art Museum. Through an interpreter, Bolin will talk about his statements on politics and identity. The exhibit runs through Sunday, May 24, but act fast to get a ticket to see Bolin himself. Following his opening night appearance, he’s not likely to appear in Boise again anytime soon. 6 p.m., $10 BAM members, $15 non-members. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Dr., boiseartmuseum.org. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

ISU ALUMNI GATHERING—Bengals meet up with other alumni for food and drink specials and FREE appetizers. RSVP to alumni@isu. edu or call 208-282-3755. 4-7 p.m. Leku Ona, 117 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-345-6665, lekuonaid.com. SUN VALLEY NORDIC FESTIVAL— Featuring nine days of activities, races, clinics and fun events culminating in the world-famous Boulder Mountain Tour. There will be discounts on demos and rentals, lodging and dining, and special free events, as well as a nine-day valleywide ski trail pass for $49. For the complete list of events, special deals and opportunities, go to nordictownusa.com/sun-valley-nordicfestival. Jan. 30-Feb. 8. Sun Valley.

On Stage COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110,

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MOMIX reMIX Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise. com. ComedySportz—Enjoy an all-improvised, for-everyone comedy match with two teams that compete against each other for points and laughs. 7:30 p.m. $9.99. ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-9914746, comedysportzboise.com. AN EVENING WITH BILL PAYNE— Bill Payne co-founded, with Lowell George, the band Little Feat. He is considered to be one of the finest American piano rock and blues music artists. He is also an accomplished songwriter. 6:30 p.m. $15-$35. Sun Valley Opera House, Sun Valley Village, Sun Valley, 208622-2244, sunvalley.com. FATA MORGANA—8 p.m. $16-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

MOMIX REMIX: THE BEST OF MOMIX—This delightful and often startling show breaks the bounds of the conventional and enters an aesthetic orbit of its own. 8 p.m. $29.50-$39.50. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise. 208426-1110, boisestatetickets.com/ event/momix. RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: HOLLYWOOD—Pull back the curtains on the delightfully good and sinfully bad sides of Tinseltown. For more info and tickets, visit rlvs-boise. com/rlvs-boise/RLVS.html. 9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com. RUN FOR YOUR WIFE—8 p.m. $15 Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Em-

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LIU BOLIN: HIDING IN THE CITY OPENING RECEPTION—Chinese artist Liu Bolin will travel from Beijing to Boise and speak, with the aid of an interpreter, for this special occasion at BAM. His exhibition, Liu Bolin: Hiding in the City, runs through May 24. Reception immediately following, with no-host bar and complimentary hors d’oeuvres. 6 p.m. $10-$15 Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. MODERN QUILTER ABIGAIL KOKAI EXHIBITION AND ART TALK—Check out this tactile collection of experiences that construct a visual identity of the community artist-in-residence Abigail Kokai encounters during her residency. The exhibited work will offer an installation that invites viewer participation by contributing themselves. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Surel’s Place, 212 E. 33rd St., Garden City. 206-407-7529, surelsplace.org/kokai.

Literature WORD READING SERIES: DIANE RAPTOSH—Hear Idaho Writer-inResidence Diane Raptosh read from her poetry. Raptosh teaches literature and creative writing at The College of Idaho, where she also directs the criminal justice/ prison studies program. More info at dianeraptosh.com. 7:30 p.m. FREE. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabinidaho.org.

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Citizen AMERICANA SMORGASBORD BENEFIT FOR BOISE HIVE—Featuring The Oliphants with Travis Ward, Deviant Kin and The Woolly Buggers. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208982-4294, crazyhorseboise.com/ calendar.

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BRUNDAGE CELEBRATES MCCALL WINTER CARNIVAL 50TH ANNIVERSARY—Brundage Activity Center will host a snow sculpture in celebration of McCall Winter Carnival’s 50th Anniversary. For more info, visit the website. 10:30 a.m.-12 p.m. FREE. Brundage Adventure Center, 600 N. Third St., McCall, 208-634-6631, brundage. com/event/winter-carnival-parade.

FLASH POINT SNOW BIKE WAR—Watch competitors tear up the snow in races for motorized snow bikes, fat tire bikes and Nordic skiiers. This new event is cheap to do, fun to watch and a great little warm-up for the Nordic crowd the week before the Boulder Tour. 2:30 p.m. FREE-$5. McCall Golf Club, 925 Fairway Drive, McCall, 208-208-634-7200, mccallgolfclub.com.

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WISE WOMEN EXPO—Get ready for this exciting event that will help you focus on setting and achieving meaningful goals. You’ll collaborate with other women to be the success you were meant to be. One dollar from each ticket donated to the Women’s and Children’s Alliance. For more info and advance tickets, visit wwboise. com. 1-6 p.m. $12. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6605.

On Stage COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise. com. COMEDYSPORTZ—7:30 p.m. $9.99. ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedysportzboise.com.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

DAISY’S MADHOUSE: WILL ACT 4 FOOD—Don’t want to miss the sixth edition of this Daisy’s Madhouse fundraiser for the Idaho Foodbank. It provides a unique opportunity to see seven original one-act plays that were written and produced by local talent during the previous 24 hours. Get your tickets online at daisysmadhouse.org and willact4food.bpt.me, or if you’re a gambler, at the Boise Little Theater box office the evening of the show. 7:30 p.m. $15. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater. org.

Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating. Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

FATA MORGANA WORLD PREMIERE OPENING NIGHT—Brace yourself for this world premiere by Jeni Mahoney set at the edge of a toxic lake in the Mojave Desert, where Tori and Jack have built a quiet new life. But the silence is broken when the life they left behind comes knocking. Through Feb. 21. 8 p.m. $16-$32 Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

MERIDIAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA YOUNG ARTIST COMPETITION 2015—The Meridian Symphony is proud to sponsor their annual Young Artists Competition, open to students through grade 12 residing in Southwest Idaho. Always an audience favorite, the concert showcases some of the amazing young talent in our area, is highly entertaining. 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. FREE admission. Meridian United Methodist Church, 240 E. Idaho Ave., Meridian. 208891-2721, meridiansymphony.org.

HOT JAZZ 1920S SPEAKEASY SHOW AND DANCE—7:30-9:30 p.m. FREE. The District Coffee House, 219 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-343-1089, districtcoffeehouse.com. JIM HENSON’S DINOSAUR TRAIN LIVE! BUDDY’S BIG ADVENTURE—Join Buddy, Tiny, Don and all of their friends and family in this fun-filled, interactive and immersive live trip back in time to an age when dinosaurs roamed

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the earth… and rode in trains. 1 p.m. $15.50-$34.50. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise. 208-426-1110, boisestatetickets. com/event/dinosaurtrain.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: HOLLYWOOD—9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com. RUN FOR YOUR WIFE—8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise. 208-342-2000, eventbrite.com/ org/2762190930.

TREBELLE PIANO TRIO CONCERT—Violinist Jennifer Dunn, cellist Heidi Nagel and pianist Robyn Wells perform The Four Seasons by American composer Rick Sowash, and music by Beethoven and Dvorak. 4-5:15 p.m. By donation. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise. 208-426-0326, trebellepianotrio.com.

SUNDAY FEB. 1 On Stage COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com. RUN FOR YOUR WIFE—2 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, eventbrite.com/ org/2762190930.

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STANLEY WINTER EXTRAVAGANZA—Join the Sawtooth Society and The Redd to learn to curl, cook in a dutch oven or skate ski. Attend one, two or all three hourlong lessons as part of the Sun Valley Nordic Festival. For more info, email Kelly Conde at kelly@sawtoothsociety. org or call 208-994-1654. 12-3 p.m. FREE. Pioneer Park, Stanley. 208-994-1654, nordictownusa. com/events.

MOM’S NIGHT OUT! COMEDY SHOW—Hey, Moms--are you tired of dealing with all the B.S. you don’t remember signing up for? Well, then, this is YOUR night! Hear Emma Arnold, Jen Adams, Alisha Donahue and Jynx Jenkins lay down so much hilarity that you’ll be able to survive the rest of the winter relatively intact. All door proceeds benefit the Alex Donahue Medical Fund; get more info at gofundme.com/HelpAlexDonahue. 8 p.m. $5. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise. 208-941-2459, facebook.com/ events/1532318363720942.

SVCA BOOK DISCUSSION: SHANKAR VEDANTAM’S THE HIDDEN BRAIN—Join local educator Harry Weekes, head of The Sage School, to discuss Shankar Vedantam’s The Hidden Brain over dinner. The NPR social science correspondent will speak Thursday, Feb. 5, as part of The Center’s BIG Idea multidisciplinary project: The Brain. For more info, visit the SVCA website. 6:30 p.m. $10-$12. ZINC Restaurant, 230 Walnut Ave., Ketchum, 208-727-1800, zinc-ketchum. com.

Animals & Pets KEGS 4 KAUSE—Have some drinks anytime between 3-10 p.m. and 50 percent of all proceeds will go to SNIP’s low-cost spay and neuter programs. 3-10 p.m. FREE admission. Payette Brewing Company, 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City. 208283-6102, snipidaho.org.

VISITING ARTIST SERIES: IDAHO SHAKESPEARIENCE—CWI Visiting Artist Series presents Idaho Shakespearience, The Comedy of Errors production, and a follow-up workshop. 7-9 p.m. FREE. College of Western Idaho-Nampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportunity Drive,

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WEDNESDAY FEB. 4 On Stage FATA MORGANA—8 p.m. $16$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org.

Literature POETRY SLAM OF STEEL—Slam of Steel is Big Tree Arts’ all-ages poetry slam and workshop held on the first Wednesday of every month. FREE. Workshop starts at 6 p.m., slam begins at 7 p.m. All Big Tree Arts events are freespeech events, and discretion is advised. 6-9:30 p.m. $1-$5. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise. 208-629-9066, facebook.com/ events/1521688471428463.

Talks & Lectures WILD ABOUT LIFE LECTURE: CALIFORNIA CONDORS—The California condor is the largest flying land bird in North America and one of our most endangered species. Tate Mason from The Peregrine Fund will review the recovery process and the vital role played by The World Center for Birds of Prey in Boise. 7-8 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa. 208-4679278, fws.gov/deerflat.

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MHCMF, MOTLEY CRUE, MOMIX The Mountain Home Country Music Festival isn’t until July, but it never hurts to plan ahead—especially for an event this big. Although the lineup of the festival, which runs July 31-Aug. 2, hasn’t been released, the acts confirmed so far include some of country music’s hottest and well worth the $15-$250 fest pass price tag: Blake Shelton, Florida Georgia Line and Brad Paisley are headlining, with Justin Moore, Sara Evans, Parmalee and more on the bill. mountainhomefestival.com Another upcoming concert goes back-tothe-future when Motley Crue docks at the Taco Bell Arena on Tuesday, July 28, for a stop on its two-year-long Final Tour. Fellow iconic rocker Alice Cooper opens. Tickets start at $20 and are now on sale. tacobellarena.com Turning from aural arts to visual, two exhibits at Boise State University’s Visual Arts Center may cause viewers to look at how they see the world and themselves. Project 35 Volume 2 (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) is a traveling exhibit produced by Independent Curators International. The show is comprised of videos selected by 35 ICI curators “who each chose one work from an artist they think is important for audiences to experience today.” Also on display is Other People’s Feelings Are Also My Own (Jan. 20-Feb. 18), a collection of side-by-side portraits by multi-faceted, award-winning German artist Markus Hansen. For this series, Hansen took photos of himself “assuming the facial expressions, posture and emotional state of others to express what they may be feeling.” The opening reception for both exhibits, as well as the Annual Student Juried Exhibition, is Friday, Feb. 6, 6-8 p.m. at the Visual Arts Center galleries. art.boisestate.edu/ visualartscenter From the visual to the literary, Idaho Writerin-Residence Diane Raptosh will read from her poetry Friday, Jan. 30 at The Cabin, as part of the organization’s WORD Reading Series. This incredible opportunity to hear Raptosh read from her own work starts at 7:30 p.m., and admission is free. thecabinidaho.org Jumping out of books and onto the stage, MOMIX, the internationally renowned company of dancer-illusionists, comes to the Morrison Center on Friday, Jan. 30, with reMIX, a show that combines new works and works from its repertoire to “break the bounds of the conventional and enter an aesthetic orbit all its own.” mc.boisestate.edu —Amy Atkins 20 | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | BOISEweekly

Left to Right: Scenes from the McCall Winter Carnival 1969, 1978 and 1984.

SCULPTING A WINTER TRADITION

At 50 years old, the McCall Winter Carnival is more vibrant than ever JESSICA MURRI There is one thing that Jane Sager wants to make clear: she will not be wearing a tiara. “My friends keep asking me if I’ll wear a tiara. No, I’m not going to wear a tiara,” she told Boise Weekly. “I’m going to be wearing whatever I need to stay warm.” If there is anyone who deserves to be treated like a princess from Frozen during McCall’s 50th Winter Carnival, it’s Sager. If it wasn’t for her efforts—as well as those of her husband, Hal, and a few of their friends—the McCall Winter Carnival would look different today. Sager moved to McCall in 1980 and fell in love with the carnival, which began in 1965. As McCall Star-News Co-Publisher Tom Grote put it, the problem was that by 1984 “the Winter Carnival was being suffocated by its own success.” With only a weekend-long schedule of events, the number of attendees clogged the small town. Sager and her friends took it upon themselves to extend the celebration to 10 days. “It was a hairy task, but it happened, and it worked very well,” Sager said. To pull it off, Sager and her crew persuaded businesses to build more snow sculptures—even when it meant helping to build them herself. They created the Idaho Snow Sculpting Championship, pushed for the creation of several new events throughout the week and introduced an ATV race through the middle of downtown— dubbed the McCall Grand Prix. “It was wild and crazy. After the first two years of that, we couldn’t get the insurance,” she said, laughing. “I can’t imagine it these days.” Because of her work rejuvenating one of the state’s most well-known festivals, she and her hus-

band were selected as this year’s grand marshals. The Sagers—who spend summers at their cabin in the Secesh wilderness near McCall—will fly from their winter home in Arizona to participate. “We will probably be sitting on the back of an open car [during the parade] and waving,” she said. Again, she wants you to know she won’t be wearing the tiara. Extending the carnival in 1984 was a gamechanger. When the population of a small mountain town increases from 2,925 to almost 60,000 for one week, everyone feels the impact. During carnival time, McCall Police Chief Justin Williams focuses on handling the influx of visitors. He adds an extra officer to every shift on the weekends, borrows three officers from the Idaho State Police and asks two Valley County sheriff’s deputies to stay nearby during the festivities. “We’re a sworn-in department of 13, so it gets a little difficult, but we do it,” Williams said. “[But] the clientele that comes up for the winter carnival is a lot different than the Fourth of July celebration, which is more like college kids on Spring Break. For the carnival, we get more families.” His officers concentrate on traffic control and congestion, as well as alcohol-related issues in the evening. For Jerame Petry, manager of the Hunt Lodge Holiday Inn Express, the carnival means a fully booked hotel. It also means the construction of a giant snow sculpture outside. Last year’s creation—an Egyptian pyramid, complete with hieroglyphs, that spectators could walk through—won first place. This year the

sculpture will mimic a wrecked pirate ship, complete with portholes viewers can peek through. “It keeps the tradition alive,” Petry said. McCall artist John Schulz has built the hotel’s sculpture for the past few years. He receives payment from the Hunt Lodge and, if he wins, he gets to keep the prize money as well. Petry said having the largest, most impressive sculpture in town helps drive business from year to year. “As soon as guests come up this year, they make their reservations for next year,” he said. McCall Winter Carnival Director McKenzie Christensen said a few new events have been added by the chamber of commerce and local businesses to mark the 50th anniversary, including the Last Chance Winter Dance at the North Fork Lodge on Saturday, Feb. 7, with local band Bottom Line playing covers of classic rock songs. “For the 50th, we had a lot of pressure for something new and great,” Christensen said. “What it resulted in was everyone adding something bigger to their own event.” Other new events include a nordic race and a fat tire bike race. The fireworks show is bigger and there will be 38 snow sculptures—a dozen more than last year. All of McCall’s hotel rooms are already sold out and Christensen said vacation rentals and condos are filling up, too. She’s also looking forward to honoring this year’s grand marshals, because she said so much of what the Winter Carnival is today came from them. “I think it will run another 50 years,” Christensen said. “I only imagine it growing from here.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

NOISE MISSION OF MERCY Brendan Scholz keeps the faith with Mercy Music BEN SCHULTZ For most of Brendan Scholz’s life, fame and success have seemed just out of reach. His uncle, Tom Scholz, founded ‘70s-’80s arena rock group Boston. It wasn’t a stepping stone to the industry, though. “Yeah, it’s weird,” Scholz said. “I wish I could say he’s helped me out or something like that, but he never has. At this stage of the game, it’d be really appreciated, but it’s just something that never happened.” The 28 year-old musician may not need the help, though. In his home base of Las Vegas, he has his share of supporters: Las Vegas It’s a hard-rock life for Brendan Scholz (center), Jarred Cooper (left) and Michael McGuinness (right). Weekly writer Max Plenke noted that Scholz “[has] been someone’s favorite local musician for as long as he’s been at it.” Boiseans will get the way that I want to do them [to] go and do When I Die, I’m Taking You with Me (Sept. a chance to maybe make Scholz a non-local favorite when his latest project, Mercy Music, 2014, SquidHat Records), wear their pop-punk what someone tells me to do, unfortunately.” Scholz, who now has two children, admitand hard rock influences lightly. The pained plays The Shredder on Friday, Jan. 30. Las ted that he has difficulty balancing music and Vegas folk-punk act No Red Alice, local punk lyrics, well-honed tunes and rousing perforday-to-day life. He loses any steady job he has group Far From Giants and local horror-punk mances have the ease and confidence that can whenever he goes on tour. To earn money, he only come with experience. act Gorcias will open. often plays covers on the Las Vegas Strip. In the Las Vegas Review-Journal, entertainScholz, who has spent much of his musical “It’s a good paycheck,” he said. “It also career in Las Vegas-based punk and hard rock ment reporter and music critic Jason Bracelin bands, appreciates the irony of his connection wrote, “While the sound is more muscular and drains you and makes you feel soulless.” Still, Scholz is grateful for his support fleshed out [than his earlier work], the honest to the man behind classic-rock radio staple system, which includes his family and his wife way in which Scholz addresses the uncertainty “More Than a Feeling.” and struggle of what he’s chosen to do with his of three years. It also includes his friend Dave “We’re completely different types of musiHoldredge, who has engineered albums for life remains intact.” cians,” Scholz said of his uncle. “He’s very Scholz is relatively young, but he has earned Incubus, Escape the Fate and others. Holdredge mathematical and planned. Whatever comes offered to record When I Die for less money the right to consider himself an old hand. He out of me, comes out of me.” than he’d make on other projects. started playing in coffee shops when he was Mercy Music is a perfect case in point. Scholz called his friend the album’s “ace in 9 years old and formed various bands while Scholz started the project as a solo acoustic the hole.” in high school. One of those bands, Absent act after his band, Deadhand, stalled out due “He was willing to work with me and what Minded, recorded an album to his bandmates’ reluctance I wanted. It was great, and I’m happy we got it in 2005 with Black Flag and to tour. It evolved into a MERCY MUSIC Descendents drummer Bill Ste- done,” he said. trio, with bassist Jarred Friday, Jan. 30, with No Red The response to seeing Mercy Music live has venson. It was never released. Cooper—who played with Alice, Far From Giants and been encouraging as well. “My mom refinanced our Scholz in pop-punk band Gorcias. 8 p.m., $TBA. Shredder, 430 S. 10th St., 208-345-4355, Scholz said on this current tour, “The one house so I could go do it,” Lydia Vance—and drummer shredderboise.com. question we get asked is, ‘Why are you guys Scholz said. “I have a lot of Michael McGuinness roundplaying here?’… Everyone’s surprised that we’re guilt about it.” ing out the lineup. playing to 10 people [or] 15 people on bad Scholz’s next band, Lydia Scholz said the name nights,” Scholz said. Vance, had similar hard luck. Atlantic Records Mercy Music “popped into my head. I wish I Scholz would like to record another Mercy had an intelligent backstory for it. It’s the only offered the group a demo deal but withdrew its support when Lydia Vance refused to sound Music album but for now, he wants to tour band name or project that ever just came out behind When I Die for at least another six more like Green Day. without thought or trying to plan something months. “That’s the way it goes: They sign bands for intelligent or witty or whatever.” “It’s the first time I really want to stick something they see, and then they molest it That unforced feel is part of the band’s behind something longer than a few months music as well, and one of its biggest strengths. into something else,” Scholz said. “And at this before I start to get antsy,” Scholz said. point in time, I’ve gone too far doing things The songs on Mercy Music’s debut album, BOISE WEEKLY.COM

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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY JAN. 28 BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m. FREE. Reef CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

WAYNE WHITE—6 p.m. FREE. Cylos

TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

ELEKTRAPOD—10 p.m. $5. Tom Grainey’s

WEDNESDAY NIGHT JAM—Hosted by For Blind Mice. 8 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s

TRIBAL SEEDS—With Hirie and Leilani Wolfgramm. 8 p.m. $17$25. Knitting Factory

BILL PAYNE—6:30 p.m. $15-$35. Sun Valley Opera House

WEDNESDAY SKATE NIGHT—With bands TBA. 8 p.m. FREE. The Shredder

WHITEY MORGAN AND THE 78S—With Joe Fletcher. 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux

HAPPY KARAOKE—5:30-6:30 p.m. FREE. AEN Playhouse

SHADES, JAN. 31, NEUROLUX Boise Weekly has been following the evolution of local band Shades since its debut in 2011, watching its evolution and its contributions to Boise’s music scene. Shades makes dreamy, atmospheric music that its label, Synthemesc Recordings, describes as an “eclectic mix of woozy melodic synths, crunched drums, smooth vocals and sweet vibes.” Shades’ chillwave sound is not unlike laptop pop, but the band combines high-tech soundmakers with the talents of its four flesh-and-blood humans to create something richer and with more depth. Shades’ bandcamp.com page reveals that before a spot at Treefort in March, the band has a couple of shows in the U.K. bookending the Jan. 31 Neurolux gig—yet another reason to keep our gaze on Shades. —Amy Atkins With Ancient Psychic (Tandem War Elephant). 8 p.m., $7. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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JACK GISH—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS—With host Emily Stanton. 10 p.m. FREE. Mulligans OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel RL GRIME—With Lunice and Tommy Kruise. 8 p.m. $20-$35. Knitting Factory STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 SWING IS THE THING WITH PAMELA DEMARCHE—7 p.m. $5. Sapphire Room TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

THURSDAY JAN. 29

FRIDAY JAN. 30

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

AMERICANA SMORGASBORD BENEFIT FOR BOISE HIVE—Featuring The Oliphants with Travis Ward, Deviant Kin and The Woolly Buggers. 8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse

BERNIE REILLY AND DAVE MANION—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel CALABRESE—With Piranhas, BC and Social Antidote. 8 p.m. $7. Crazy Horse DONCAT—10 p.m. FREE. Tom Grainey’s FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s MATT HOPPER AND THE ROMAN CANDLES—With Gipsy Moon Rise. 9 p.m. FREE. Bouquet ROB HARDING—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

BIG WOW BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Cylos BILLY BRAUN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel BREWER’S GRADE—10 p.m. $5. Reef COUNTRY KARMA—8 p.m. $5. AEN Playhouse DAN COSTELLO—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper DJ PRETT BERRY—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

FRANK MARRA—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers MATT HOPPER AND THE ROMAN CANDLES—6 p.m. FREE. River Run Lodge, Sun Valley MERCY MUSIC—With No Red Alice, Far From Giants and Gorcias. 8 p.m., $TBA. Shredder MIMICKING BIRDS—With Transistor Send and Tisper. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux MOUNTAIN MOONSHINE BAND— 8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill THE NIXON RODEO—With Breakdown Boulevard, Fault Paradox and Jimmy Sinn. 8 p.m. $7-$14. Knitting Factory THE PEACEFUL STORMS—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District POKE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s REX MILLER AND RICO WEISMAN— 6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill WENDY MATSON—7 p.m. FREE. Kind

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MUSIC GUIDE SATURDAY JAN. 31 4 HOUR WOODY BAND—8 p.m. FREE. Cylos BREAD AND CIRCUS—9 p.m. FREE. Salmon River Brewery CHRIS GUTIERREZ—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers CURE FOR THE COMMON—10 p.m. $5. Reef DAN COSTELLO—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 DJ MALLWALKER—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux DJ MANIK—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement

OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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

HAPPY KARAOKE—5:30-9:30 p.m. FREE. AEN Playhouse

DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JEANNE CANNON—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s KARAOKE TUESDAYS WITH DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. Crazy Horse OPEN MIC—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s BREAD AND CIRCUS—With The Oliphants. 8 p.m. $5. Neurolux

ERIC GRAE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

GARETH EMERY—With DJ Jeremiah, Sugarpillz and DJ KC Jonez. 8 p.m. $20-$40. Knitting Factory MATT HOPPER AND THE ROMAN CANDLES—10 p.m. $5. Whiskey Jacques, Ketchum

EXCISION—8 p.m. $34-$60. Knitting Factory

KARAOKE WEDNESDAYS—With host Emily Stanton. 10 p.m. FREE. Mulligans LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers WILD WOMEN WEDNESDAYS WITH DJ BONZ—9 p.m. FREE. The Ranch Club

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ALPHA ASCENSION—With Splattered Throat and Swamp Shrine. 8 p.m. $3. Crazy Horse

TUESDAY FEB. 3

ELEKTRAPOD—10 p.m. $5. Tom Grainey’s FRANK MARRA—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

WEDNESDAY FEB. 4

ROBERT MEAD TRIO—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s SCOTT KELLY AND THE ROAD HOME—With Darling Rollercoaster and A Seasonal Disguise. 8 p.m. $7 adv., $10 door. Crazy Horse SHADES AND ANCIENT PSYCHIC—7 p.m. $7. Neurolux SWINGIN’ WITH ELLIE SHAW—2 p.m. FREE. Artistblue THOMAS PAUL—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s ZOMBOY AND PARTY FAVOR— With Meaux Green and DJ Fresh Direct. 8 p.m. $10-$40. Revolution

SUNDAY FEB. 1 JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com. THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

MONDAY FEB. 2 CHUCK SMITH AND NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—6 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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SCOTT KELLY AND THE ROAD HOME, JAN. 31, CRAZY HORSE Scott Kelly likes to stay busy. In addition to playing and recording with metal band Neurosis, which had two entries on Decibel Magazine’s list of the 2000s’ top 100 metal albums, Kelly has put out four solo records. He has also formed numerous side projects, including industrial group Corrections House with Eyehategod’s Mike Williams, and Kelly contributed guest vocals to several albums by alternative metal band Mastodon. Recently, Kelly has been recording an album for one of those side projects, Rivers of Madness—featuring Brett Netson (Caustic Resin, Built to Spill, Brett Netson and Snakes)—and preparing to write with Neurosis again. In the midst of all this, Kelly has somehow found time to tour again behind his somber, folk-influenced solo material. This time, he’s playing with Noah Landis from Neurosis and Munly J. Munly from Slim Cessna’s Auto Club. That’s the definition of busy. —Ben Schultz With Darling Rollercoaster and A Seasonal Disguise. 8 p.m., $7 adv., $10 door. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., 208-982-4294, crazyhorseboise.com BOISEweekly | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | 23

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2010 BODEGAS ZUGOBER BELEZOS CRIANZA, $18.99 Founded in 1987, Zugober is a newbie in Rioja terms, and the style of their Belezos wines is a mix of old world and new. This tempranillo-dominant red (95 percent) is fresh and lively with ripe cherry and vanilla aromas. It’s a fruit-forward, user-friendly wine filled with berry, cherry and plum flavors with soft tannins and just a kiss of oak. This wine is an excellent value. 2006 LOPEZ DE HEREDIA VINA CUBILLO CRIANZA, $26 A blend of tempranillo (65 percent) garnacha (25 percent) and equal parts graciano and mazuelo, this Crianza spent three years in the barrel. The result is a well-aged red that’s exceptionally smooth and elegant. Cherry liqueur, leather and licorice come through on the nose. Silky red fruit with touches of oak and earth color the palate. This is a nice example of an old world-style Rioja. 2010 MUGA RESERVA, $30 This blend of tempranillo (70 percent), garnacha (20 percent), graciano and mazuelo spent two years in oak casks. It offers meaty aromas of dark fruit backed by leather, coffee and anise. It’s a well integrated wine filled with spicy flavors of ripe cherry and currant and colored by touches of dark chocolate, creamy cappuccino and chewy tannins. Delicious. —David Kirkpatrick 24 | JANUARY 28 – FEBRUARY 3, 2015 | BOISEweekly

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There was a time when Spanish wine almost always meant Rioja. Winemaking in Rioja goes back to Roman times and while there has been a wine explosion throughout the country, Rioja is still Spain’s leading region. Red wines are predominately made with tempranillo, the most widely planted grape, but blends with garnacha are typical. Here are the panel’s top picks:

TEA PARTY Three new tea houses open in Boise JESSICA MURRI If you boil water, pop in a tea bag and add several spoonfuls of sugar, Terry Hathaway will tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Hathaway, the co-owner of Joyful Tea, is a tall guy with a calm demeanor. He drinks up to five pots of tea per day and keeps his pot covered with a cozy made to look like a British flag. Hathaway has been drinking and studying tea for almost 35 years. He knows the origin and process and has an anecdote for almost every jar of the 120 loose leaf teas he carries in his shop, located inside the Boise International Market (5823 W. Franklin Road). He says good tea doesn’t need sugar, and it shouldn’t be shoved in a teabag. Hathaway and his wife, Karen, opened Joyful Tea three months ago. It’s a small space and even with only a handful of customers picking jars off the wall to smell the contents, it can start to feel cramped. But it’s room enough for the Hathaways. “We’re using tea to bring people back together,” said Hathaway. Joyful Tea hosts a variety of classes and gatherings in the small shop, which has a wall that boasts two dozen delicate china tea pots. The Hathaways invite patrons to pick one, sit down around a small table scattered with newspapers, and drink as much tea as they’d like for $5 per hour, per person. Joyful Tea carries decafs, mates, herbals, rooibos, oolongs, yellow teas, green teas, black teas and four different kinds of chai, and each tea costs between $1.90 and $15.50 per ounce. Despite the tight quarters, the Hathaways like being inside the Boise International Market. The couple recommends their Moroccan mint or ginger green tea to pair with BIM’s restaurants, which include Kibrom’s African and Eritrean Restaurant, and the Goodness Land, a Middle Eastern eatery. Hathaway says tea shops are “popping up like mushrooms” in Boise, but it doesn’t worry him. “All of us are in this together,” he said. “The more interest we can get in tea, the more we’re all going to prosper. We all have our own schtick and we all thrive. Tea is cool.” Another new tea shop in town is Snake River Tea Co., which opened at 801 W. Main St, Suite 103, six weeks ago. It is a large space filled with stylish tables, chairs and couches,

Karen and Terry Hathaway opened Joyful Tea in the Boise International Market three months ago, where they’re “using tea to bring people back togther.”

but the centerpiece of the shop is the Alpha Dominche Steampunk 4.1, a futuristic coffee and tea brewing machine. “It’s obviously not the traditional way tea is brewed,” said co-owner Mike Neal. The Steampunk 4.1 features a touchpad, a self-cleaning system and four cylinders that fill with water and boil the tea to a specific temperature. The machine costs the same as a new car and, according to Neal, there are only a few hundred in the world. The tea brewed in the Steampunk 4.1 tastes different from bagged tea: richer, stronger flavors and a natural sweetness that doesn’t call for honey or sugar. “It’s over the top when you’re talking about equipment to brew tea for the investment, but it’s our opportunity to talk to our customers because everybody is excited about it and interested in it,” said Sue Neal, Mike’s wife and business partner. Snake River Tea Co. feels more like a coffee shop than a tea house. It even has an espresso machine, but the Neals use it to make tea lattes instead of coffee drinks. They say chai teas and black teas like Earl Grey work well with steamed milk. According to the Neals, the most challenging part of their business is figuring out how to convince downtowners to skip their cup of coffee in favor of tea. To lure in new customers, Snake River Tea Co. offers samples of three unique teas and plans to offer tasting events. A few blocks away, at 212 N. Ninth St.,

Susan Judge opened her tea shop in July 2014. Leaf Teahouse sells more than 80 loose leaf teas—a handful of which Judge blends herself—and also offers a small selection of vegan sandwiches, salads, soups and pastries. While Joyful Tea has a British feel and Snake River is more modern, Leaf has an Asian vibe. Houseplants sit on countertops and in corners, and the shop is colored in shades of chocolate brown and tan. Leaf Teahouse is more than just a quiet place to stop for tea in the afternoon, though. It’s also a community gathering space. “I looked for over a year at places to lease, and I could have gotten a cheaper place on Broadway or State Street, but I wanted space to have events for the downtown area,” said Judge, tending to a pot of tea she blended herself—a rich, chocolatey black tea with tiny heart-shaped sprinkles among the leaves. The second level of Leaf Teahouse opens up into a large room with a wall of windows, a lending bookshelf and a large skylight. Judge has hosted poetry readings and book clubs; and acoustic, jazz and blues ensembles, as well as the Boise Cello Collective. Like Hathaway at Joyful Tea, Judge believes Boise will embrace all of the new tea shops that have popped up recently. “We might all have a few teas that overlap—everybody’s got English Breakfast and Earl Grey. You can buy tea anywhere,” Judge said. “But what we each present is a totally different tea experience.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

SCREEN OSCARNOMINATED SHORT STUFF Small films with big ideas GEORGE PRENTICE I was having a grand ol’ time surfing the wave of this year’s Oscar-nominated short films. Then a wallop of an emotional punch hit me from the unlikeliest of places: an 18-minute cartoon called The Dam Keeper. It is, without exception, the most genuinely entertaining and powerful piece of film I’ve seen among this year’s bumper-crop of Academy Award nominees. Crafted from more than 8,000 paintings, The Dam Keeper comes from artists Robert Kondo (Ratatouille, Monsters University) and Daisuke “Dice” Tsutsumi (Ice Age, Robots) who blend old-school hand-drawn animation with lush brushstrokes. It’s unlike anything I’ve seen These Oscar-nominated films may be short on length, but they’re tall on talent: (clockwise from top) Feast, from the before, which is reason enough to recommend Disney studios; Parvaneh, a Swiss film from director Talkhon Hamzavi; and The Dam Keeper, a wonderment from this achievement, but what floored me was how artists Robert Kondo and Daisuke Tsutsumi. wonderfully told this short-on-length but tallin-stature tale is told. and, ultimately, their own identities. I wanted ed Kingdom, a darkly humorous tale of caring Set in a desolate future, The Dam Keeper is more of this story, and I’m secretly hoping about a young piglet whose job it is to crank up for an elderly parent; Me and My Moulton, a someone adapts this into a feature-length film joint production from Canada and Norway a windmill/dam each morning before heading sooner than later. about three sisters who beg for a bicycle from off to school. The windmill acts as a fan that Another superb entry is Aya from Israel. It’s their avant garde parents; and A Single Life, pushes poisonous clouds away from the village, a story of two strangers who meet at an airport. which is inhabited by bunnies, kittens, beavers, from The Netherlands, about a young woman who discovers a mysterious vinyl 45-rpm single He (Ulrich Thomsen) mistakenly assumes turtles and other animals. The piglet is a loner record that can transport her to different stages she (Sarah Adler) is his assigned driver, but and is teased and bullied at school. The other she’s enchanted by the random encounter and of her life. animals don’t know that the piglet protects Each year, we’re privileged to see most of the doesn’t hurry to prove him wrong. 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name will change to Kilgore Trout Jr. The reason for the change in name is: for artistic reasons. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) FEB 17 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 DEC 30 2014 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Jan. 14, 21, 28 & Feb. 4, 2015. LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS FOR PUBLICATION. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF, THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA, In the Matter of the Estate of: VINA FERN HANSON, Deceased, BARBARA DORSEY, Personal Representative. Case No. CV-IE-2014-20172. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been ap-

pointed personal representative of the above-named decedent. All persons having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned at the address indicated, and filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 15th day of January, 2015. Barbara Dorsey c/o Gary L. Davis, MANWEILER, BREEN, BALL & DAVIS, PLLC, P.O. Box 937, Boise, ID 83702 (208) 424-9100 Jan. 21, 28, & Feb. 4, 2015. LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS FOR PUBLICATION. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF, THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA, In the Matter of the Estate of: SEAN COLLINS BEAVER, Deceased, CRAIG W. BEAVER, Personal Representative. Case No. CV-IE-2014-23134. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that

the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named decedent. All persons having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the undersigned at the address indicated, and filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 15th day of January, 2015. Craig W. Beaver c/o Gary L. Davis, MANWEILER, BREEN, BALL & DAVIS, PLLC, P.O. Box 937, Boise, ID 83702 (208) 424-9100 Pub. Jan. 21, 28 & Feb. 4, 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Michelle Vanden Busch Legal Name

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1768, Britain’s Royal Society commissioned navigator James Cook to lead a long naval voyage west to Tahiti, where he and his team were supposed to study the planet Venus as it made a rare transit across the face of the sun. But it turned out that task was a prelude. Once the transit was done, Cook opened the sealed orders he had been given before leaving England. They revealed a second, bigger assignment, kept secret until then: to reconnoiter the rumored continent that lay west of Tahiti. In the coming months, he became the first European to visit the east coast of Australia. I foresee a comparable progression for you, Leo. The task you’ve been working on lately has been a prelude. Soon you’ll receive your “sealed orders” for the next leg of your journey.

gooders and sweet faces. Just be careful that their naivete doesn’t cause problems. And in the meantime, check out what the raw, rowdy folks are up to.

Case No. CV NC 1420757 ANOTHER NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult)

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A Petition to change the name of Michelle A. Vanden Busch, 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 Mishel Vanden Busch. The reason for the change in name is: personal reasons. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) March 3, 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 DEC 30 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Jan. 21, 28, Feb. 4, 11 2015. IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Cameron Jon Purvis Legal Name

Case No. CV NC 1500417 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Cameron Jon Purvis, 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 Cain Gray Matthews. The reason for the change in name is Harassment from Mother. I have no contact with family. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) MAR 10 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 Jan 21 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Jan. 28, Feb, 4, 11 & 18, 2015.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have an entourage or posse that helps you work magic you can’t conjure alone? Is there a group of co-conspirators that prods you to be brave and farseeing? If not, try to whip one up. And if you do have an inspirational crew, brainstorm about some new adventures for all of you to embark on. Scheme and dream about the smart risks and educational thrills you could attempt together. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you especially need the sparkle and rumble that a feisty band of allies can incite.

and later became a pre-eminent translator of Polish poetry. Her work has been so skillful that Nobel Prize-winning Polish poet Czselaw Milosz selected her as his authorized biographer. Interviewing Milosz was a tough job, Clare told blogger Cynthia Haven. He was demanding. He insisted that she come up with “questions no one’s asked me yet.” And she did just that, of course. Formulating evocative questions is a Gemini specialty. I invite you to exercise that talent to the hilt in the coming week. It’s prime time for you to celebrate a Curiosity Festival.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The cosmos seems to be granting you a license to be brazenly ambitious. I’m not sure how long this boost will last, so I suggest you capitalize on it while it’s surging. What achievement have you always felt insufficiently prepared or powerful to accomplish? What person or club or game have you considered to be out of your league? What issue have you feared was beyond your understanding? Rethink your assumptions. At least one of those “impossibilities” may be more possible than usual.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,” writes poet John Ashbery, “at incredible speed, traveling day and night, through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes. But will he know where to find you, recognize you when he sees you, give you the thing he has for you?” This passage might not be literally true, Cancerian. There may be no special person who is headed your way from a great distance, driven by a rapt intention to offer you a blessing. But I think Ashbery’s scenario is accurate in a metaphorical way. Life is in fact working overtime to bring you gifts and help. Make sure you cooperate. Heighten your receptivity. Have a nice long talk with yourself, explaining why you deserve such beneficence.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When I attended the University of California at Santa Cruz, my smartest friend was Gemini writer Clare Cavanagh. She headed off to Harvard for her graduate studies,

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): According to computer security company Symantec, you’re not in major danger of contracting an online virus from a porn website. The risk is much greater when you visit religious websites. Why? They’re often built by inexperienced programmers, and as a result are more susceptible to hackers’ attacks. In the coming weeks, Virgo, there may be a similar principle at work in your life. I suspect you’re more likely to be undermined by nice, polite people than raw, rowdy folks. I’m not advising you to avoid the do-

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Life has a big, tough assignment for you. Let’s hope you’re up for the challenge. There’s not much wiggle room, I’m afraid. Here it is: You must agree to experience more joy and pleasure. The quest for delight and enchantment has to rise to the top of your priority list. To be mildly entertained isn’t enough. To be satisfied with lukewarm arousal is forbidden. It’s your sacred duty to overflow with sweet fulfillment and interesting bliss. Find ways to make it happen!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Talking will be your art form in the coming week. It’ll be healing and catalytic. You could set personal records for most engaging phone conversations, emails, text messages and face-to-face dialogs. The sheer intensity of your selfexpression could intimidate some people, excite others and generate shifts in your social life. Here are a few tips to ensure the best results. First, listen as passionately as you speak. Second, make it your intention to communicate, not just unload your thoughts. Tailor your messages for your specific audience. Third, reflect on the sometimes surprising revelations that emerge from you. They’ll give you new insights into yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You may have never sampled the southeast Asian fruit called durian. It’s controversial. Some people regard it as the “king of fruits,” and describe its taste as sweet and delicious. Naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace said it was like “a rich custard highly flavored with almonds.” But other people find the durian unlikable, comparing its aroma to turpentine or decaying onions. TV chef Anthony Bourdain asserts that its “indescribable” taste is “something you will either love or despise.” I foresee the possibility that your imminent future will have metaphorical resemblances to the durian, Scorpio. My advice? Don’t take things personally.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Let’s say you want to buy an 18-karat gold ring. To get that much gold, miners had to excavate and move 6 tons of rock. Then they doused the rock with poisonous cyanide, a chemical that’s necessary to extract the good stuff. In the process, they created toxic waste. Is the gold ring worth that much trouble? While you ponder that, let me ask you a different question. What if I told you that over the course of the next five months, you could do what’s necessary to obtain a metaphorical version of a gold ring? And although you would have to process the equivalent of six tons of raw material to

get it, you wouldn’t have to use poison or make a mess. Would you do it? AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1899, the King of the African nation of Swaziland died while dancing. His only son, Sobhuza, was soon crowned as his successor, despite being just 4 months old. It took a while for the new king to carry out his duties with aplomb, and he needed major guidance from his grandmother and uncle. Eventually he showed great aptitude for the job, though, and ruled until his death at age 83. I’m getting a Sobhuzatype vibe as I meditate on you, Aquarius. New power may come to you before you’re fully ready to wield it. But I have confidence you will grow into it, especially if you’re not shy about seeking help. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In the 1951 animated movie version of Alice in Wonderland, Alice says to herself, “I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.” I hope you won’t be like her, Pisces. It’s an excellent time for you to heed your own good advice. In fact, I suspect that doing so will be crucial to your ability to make smart decisions and solve a knotty problem. This is one of those turning points when you really have to practice what you preach. You’ve got to walk your talk. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

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