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Sun Block

How (and why) Idaho Power wants to limit the amount of solar power produced in Idaho

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Fish-Off

Boise Weekly challenges two local restaurants to create unusual fish dishes

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‘Na Triobloidi’

Opening at The Flicks, indie film ’71 is a sobering glimpse at The Troubles in Northern Ireland FREE TAKE ONE!

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EDITOR’S NOTE MEGAWHAT? In reporting on Idaho Power’s effort to reduce the amount of solar energy it is required to buy, we ran into an interesting question: How many homes does a megawatt of power supply?

In another life, I was a business reporter, and one of my beats was energy. When writing those stories, I almost always used the handy formula 1 MW = 1,000 homes. I probably would have continued using it if not for a startling number from Idaho Power: If all of the solar projects currently planned in Idaho come to fruition, nearly 2,000 new MWs of energy would begin flowing onto the grid in 2016. According to my math, that would be enough to supply 2 million homes, or 400,000 more homes than there are people in the state of Idaho. It would keep the lights on in almost every U.S. Census-designated housing unit in Cook County, Illinois (which includes the Chicago Metro Area). It could supply Seattle residents six times over.

That couldn’t be right.

Then we learned not all MWs are created equal. According to the Solar Energy Industries Association, the number of homes powered by a MW of solar energy depends on average sunshine, electricity consumption, temperature and wind. Nationally, that’s 164 homes per MW—a far cry from the ratio of 1 MW:1,000.

Website commodities-now.com has a more precise—and circuitous—way of finding how many homes are supplied by a MW, with a formula that includes regional yearly average usage, the type of power plant and how efficient it is. The spread ranges from 400-900 homes per MW hour, with coal at 60 percent capacity or more, and solar at less than 25 percent. So 1 MW of solar could equate to 164 homes; 400-900 homes; or 1,000 homes.

We asked the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to settle the matter, and it came down somewhere in the middle: 1 MW hour can serve about 650 residential homes. Using that formula, Idaho’s impending solar boom is still impressive: enough power to supply 1.3 million homes or more than twice the number of housing units in Phoenix, Ariz., as identified by the 2010 Census.

That sounds like an energy gold strike but not to Idaho Power.

Find out why on Page 7.

—Zach Hagadone

COVER ARTIST Cover art scanned courtesy of Evermore Prints... supporting artists since 1999.

ARTIST: Misty Benson, Morbidly Adorable TITLE: “Ignored, Embraced, Destroyed” MEDIUM: Acrylic on Canvas ARTIST STATEMENT: In 1993, I stood captivated as Built to Spill practiced in a dingy basement with Butterfly Train and Big Mud Wagon. So began my love affair with the Boise music scene. Here is my tribute to “In My Mind.”

SUBMIT Boise Weekly publishes original local artwork on its cover each week. One stipulation of publication is that the piece must be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in November. A portion of the proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all artists are eligible to apply. Cover artists will also receive 30 percent of the final auction bid on their piece. To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. All mediums are accepted.

Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded.

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

FIXER-UPPER THE ADA COUNT Y HIGHWAY DISTRICT IS CONSIDERING A PL AN TO IMPROVE SIDE WALK AND BIKE AC CES S ON EMER ALD AND AMERICANA . AC CORDING TO A POLL CONDUCTED IN JANUARY, 90 PERCENT OF RESPONDENTS WANTED BE T TER SIDE WALKS, WHILE 79 SAID BIKE L ANES WERE ALSO NEEDED. MORE ON CIT YDESK.

GROVE 2.0 While work is progressing on the City Center Plaza project, a handful of options have been fronted for how “Grove Plaza 2.0” will look and feel: events, public space or a combo. Details on Citydesk.

GOOOLLL! The Basque Soccer Friendly at Boise State University’s Albertson Stadium this summer will play host to teams from Spanish soccer league La Liga and Mexico’s Liga MX. Read more on Cobweb.

BIG TEETH A North Idaho wolf sanctuary is pushing back against Idaho Fish and Game, which suspended the group’s exhibition license after a Coeur d’Alene woman was bitten. More on Citydesk.

OPINION

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OPINION GAG IN YOUR FACE Does Cope have the right huff ’n’ puff?

BILL COPE CC: Bill Cope Subject: Be Our Snoop Dog? Mr. Cope, I believe I have found the perfect fit for you in our G.A.G. team. After much spit-balling, the Trending Now Troop—formerly the Programming Development Division of the G.A.G. Media Group, of which I was Director until I convinced the boys up-stairs that “Trending Now Troop” is a more Millennial-sounding approach to what we do and now I am Director of that—has decided to add an exciting new investigative viewer watchdog feature to our KGAGNews@5&10News. If you ever watch any of the other local news productions—which I encourage all G.A.G. employees to do because knowing what the competition is up to is a short-cut to keeping informed on what we should be up to, too—you may have noticed they have been 1) reporting on troubles individuals have encountered with contractors, businesses, government agencies, landlords, neighbors, etc., and 2) confronting said troubles causers and asking “Hey! What’s the deal here?”

For instance, just last week, in one segment of another station’s broadcast, they reported on a Kuna woman who had paid a cement contractor $3,500 to tear up her old driveway and install a new one.

The very next day, the contractor showed up with a jackhammer and broke her old driveway into big chunks, but never came back to finish the job, or even pick up the chunks. That was four months ago, and the poor woman has had to replace the oil pan on her Subaru twice already because every time she drives into the garage, the bottom scrapes over all those chunks.

So then the reporter went to confront the cement contractor, but it turns out he moved to Arizona the day after he broke the woman’s driveway. The reporter then talked to a guy at the Better Business Bureau, who advised people to never, ever pay a cement contractor up-front. Especially a cement contractor who drives by your house in a 1987 Econoline van with his wife and kids, stops and knocks on the door, then tells you that he couldn’t help but notice your driveway has some oil spots on it, and if you don’t do something about it, the EPA might declare your property a Superfund cleanup site.

The reporter ended the segment with “This is No-Lie Jack, at your back!... reporting.”

It was thrilling journalism—or at least, as thrilling as journalism in a place like Boise is apt to get—and we have committed to launching our own version. We have tentatively titled it “The G.A.G. Corps” with the tagline “Looking out for Number YOU!” But we are open to other suggestions.

Mr. Cope, we would really like to see you join our proposed crackerjack team. The Trending Now Troop feels you would have no problem taking on City Hall, crooked contractors, lousy landlords, anyone who thinks they can get away with doing rotten things to innocent Boise people. Or Kuna people. Whatever. Adding to your value as a G.A.G. Corps reporter is that you would be the only member over 27-years old, meaning those bad people would take you seriously—something that doesn’t always happen with our younger reporters.

Please consider our proposal. And keep in mind that G.A.G will cover the expenses of dental work if someone you’re chasing down for an interview knocks your teeth out.—Alanah Bronahnah; Director The Trending Now Troop; G.A.G. Media Group ••• Re: Alanah Bronahnah Subject: I like my teeth the way they are Ms. Bronahnah, once again I am flattered that you have considered me for a position with your company. However, I am semi—mostly—retired now, and have no wish to be the guy whom all the fresh young perky people turn to and say things like, “William, I imagine you’ve seen a lot of this sort of thing in your time,” or “And now, for the seniors’ perspective on the Meal On Wheels debate, here’s our own Bill Cope.”

Even though I no longer have any interest in showing up somewhere for work every morning, I would be more than pleased to help choose a name and/or slogan for your proposed crackerjack team.

I love making up names for things. I seriously considered going into the freelance rock band names biz, until I realized that few rock musicians would be willing to hand that privilege over to a total stranger. As is often the case, naming their band is as close to creativity as a rock musician will ever get.

But I digress. Let me throw out a few tags for your segment and see if anything sticks. How does this sound? “GAG!... Up Your Alley!” Or perhaps, “The ‘Got Screwed?’ Crew,” along with the promise that “We’ll ask the questions you didn’t think to ask in the first place!”

Here’s one I like: “Force KickAss From G.A.G.—We’ll bring the camera... you bring the sad story.”

And: “The Butt-In Bunch: On hand for you (in a non-legal, non-binding way)!” I believe this is my favorite: “The GAG Pack—We’re paying attention for a day or two!”

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OPINION SEWER LINE TO THE FUTURE Externalized costs and grandchildren JOHN REMBER One of the defining characteristics of American culture is that it maximizes profits by minimizing expenses. Most corporate executives and stockholders think this is a good thing, but one of the ways corporations minimize expenses is by externalizing costs—they make other people pay for the hidden costs of their business. For example, one of the great hidden costs of the nuclear power industry is the permanent disposal of nuclear waste. Nobody’s figured out what to do with the radioactive tailings of uranium mines, or spent fuel rods in the cooling ponds beside reactors, or the deadly hulks of decommissioned plants.

If you think that’s a bad thing for the nuclear industry, you haven’t looked at its balance sheets, which shift the costs of waste disposal to people who haven’t even been born yet.

Nuclear waste is a great example of how posterity subsidizes our civilization, but it’s not the only one. Since the first mud hut was built on the bank of a river, people have dumped their waste products into the water and hoped the current would do the rest. In the case of our own grandchildren, the river is time, and they’re just far enough downstream that they won’t know where we live when they realize how badly we’ve fouled their nest.

They’ll have every reason to hate us. Besides nuclear waste and reverse mortgages, our externalized-costs include fracked freshwater supplies, antibiotic-resistant superbugs, barren oceans, flattened mountains, pesticides in the food chain, bioactive plastics in the food chain, gut-biomealtering GMO crops in the food chain, droughts followed by floods followed by droughts, drowned coastal cities, thousands of square miles of once-productive farmland covered by instantslum suburbs, and great, howling negative spaces left by extinct species and melted ice caps.

These are lethal gifts, and we have lots more to give. But if we’re lucky, the grandkids won’t drag us out of our Lexuses and hang us from lampposts. They’ll happily repay their high-interest college loans over the course of their lives. They’ll contribute to our Social Security. They’ll pay the taxes that guarantee our pensions formerly guaranteed by bankrupt companies and institutions.

They’ll invent telomere-extending drugs to lengthen our dotage and simple kitchen faucet filters to take the fracking chemicals out of tap water. They’ll work hard to preserve our democracy, becoming upright Democrats and honest Republicans, and volunteer for freedom-protecting military service. They’ll attend our American churches and worship our American gods.

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ide into the air to turn the sky orange and cool the planet to tolerable levels. They’ll reconstruct extinct genomes and restore rainforests and provide us old folks with companion robots when we get too cranky for human companionship.

That flying car you saw in a 1958 issue of Popular Mechanics? In your garage, complete with a handicapped parking sticker. And fusion power and ships that will visit Alpha Centauri and inskull Facebook hookups and…

Nah. They’re not going to do any of those things. That’s because we’ve shifted another cost to posterity. We’ve stopped spending the money it takes to educate young people. In a misguided attempt to externalize educational expenses, we’ve turned schools into warehouses where people study for standardized tests, and take and retake them until they achieve a minimum score. We rate teachers and schools by student test scores, forgetting that human intelligence depends on human connection and community.

When an English teacher looks out at a class of 35, and a standardized test is coming up in a week, you can bet that teacher isn’t thinking about any human community that includes her students. You can also be sure that the students aren’t thinking of the meaning of the literature they were supposed to read. Instead, they’re looking at Cliff’s Notes or their equivalent, and listening to the teacher’s helpful hints on how to defeat a multiple-choice test.

“Two choices,” she’s saying, “are clearly going to be wrong. Eliminate those, and look at the other two. If you can’t decide between them, guess. There’s a 50-50 chance you’ll be right.”

Some of the students aren’t listening to her at all. Some are bored to tears by their testing routine and are daydreaming about what they’re going to do when test prep is done for the day.

And a couple of concussed football players are wondering why math class, which used to be so easy, now seems incomprehensible.

This is not education, much less the careful transmission of cultural wisdom. It is the sort of thing that turns happy, enthusiastic children into the human equivalent of nuclear waste. The toxic effects will drift downstream for generations.

When we won’t spend the money to put well-paid, intelligent teachers in small classes where they can do some good, it makes our taxes lower and our balance sheets more robust.

But it will not develop the sort of flexible, independent intelligences that will allow grandchildren to deal with the world that we’re handing them. The good news is that they won’t be smart enough to figure out what’s been done to them, and by whom.

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HERE COMES THE SUN: IDAHO POWER’S PURPA PROBLEM But clean energy advocates argue for a solar solution GEORGE PRENTICE

It seems simple on the surface: Southern Idaho has an abundance of sunshine-filled days. It also has a growing need for electricity during those same days and, in the next 18 months, at least a dozen new major solar power projects will begin running electricity onto the Idaho Power grid, where currently there are none. Problem solved.

If only it was that simple.

In the coming weeks, regulators will be parsing Idaho Public Utilities Case IPC-E-15-01—also known as Idaho Power’s petition to modify the terms and conditions of prospective Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act contracts. Put simply, PURPA requires utilities to purchase renewable energy from sources such as solar, wind and hydroelectric power generators. Since the 1980s, the act has prompted Idaho utilities to enter contracts to buy energy from 64 hydro producers, 27 wind power producers, 10 biomass generators and three thermal projects.

“But then there’s this,” Idaho Power attorney Donovan Walker said, pointing to an oddshaped graph. “I call it the ‘hockey stick’ chart.”

The chart has a long, steady line stretching for decades before rising rapidly as it reaches 2014 and 2015. With the exception of the numbers and data, the chart looks exactly like a hockey stick. Hydro projects have supplied nearly 200 megawatts of power since 1982, enough electricity for nearly 130,000 homes—the template used by the Idaho Public Utilities Commission is 1 MW hour can serve approximately 650 average residential homes for one hour. Wind projects have added another 627 MWs but only in the past few years. Contracted and proposed solar projects would add nearly 2,000 MW hours beginning in 2016 or enough power for about 1.3 million homes. Hence, the steep incline.

“Now keep in mind that we usually talk about megawatts around here,” said Donovan. “Idaho Power’s entire system operates somewhere between a minimum of 1,000 MWs and maximum peaks of 3,200 MWs. That’s the entire load across our territory: about 24,000 square miles.

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said, pointing to the graph. “We already have, under contract, 400 MWs that will be coming in from new solar projects next year. Then on top of that there’s another 900 MWs from proposed contracts. To put that in perspective, that’s larger than our entire Hells Canyon three-dam complex.

It exceeds the total load on our system.”

Therein lies Idaho Power’s argument: The company is required to buy the power, but it insists that its customers

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Idaho Power wants to knock down its required purchases by reducing the currently mandated 20year contracts with PURPA providers to two years.

IDAHO POWER’S FANCY AD Ben Otto thinks it’s ludicrous for a prospective renewable energy provider to strike a two-year deal; it would be insufficient to commit to a massive operation, and it would scare away investors.

“It’s like asking someone to buy a house but only with a two-year mortgage,” said Otto. “This would squash any future development.”

Otto, energy associate with the Idaho Conservation League, said he spends his days, “fighting for clean energy for Idaho. So yes, sometimes I pick fights with Idaho Power.”

He acknowledges the fight coming up, in front of the Idaho Public Utilities Commission, should

be heated in more ways than one. He already knows he’s up against a massive corporation with a considerable marketing arm.

“Have you seen this?” Otto asked, holding out a full-page color advertisement from Idaho Power, which appeared in the Feb. 8 edition of the Idaho Statesman as well as the Feb. 11 edition of Boise Weekly.

“This is the most sophisticated ad I’ve ever seen Idaho Power put out.”

The ad trumpets how attractive Idaho Power’s residential rates are ($105.26 per kilowatt hour versus the national average of $138.10 per kWh); how Idaho Power already uses an abundance of what it calls renewables (nearly all of it hydro); and an open letter to its customers, decrying the 20-year contracts.

“That’s not fair to you,” Idaho Power President and CEO Darrel Anderson wrote in the ad. “The cost of this unneeded power is passed on to you.”

Otto thinks Idaho Power is saying one thing but doing another.

“We actually had an ICL member event, and I had somebody come up to me and say, ‘Hey, I saw that Idaho Power ad. It’s great. It appears they really support solar.’ The guy took a quick glance at the ad, said it was great and didn’t really know the backstory,” Otto said. “That’s actually a very crafty thing. Idaho Power is saying stuff that makes them look great. But their actions are actually against clean energy. They’re saying, ‘We acknowledge solar power. It’s here to stay.

That said, we don’t think it’s a good investment.’”

Back at Idaho Power, Donovan again balked at the 20-year agreements.

“Those 20-year contracts—they’re a riskfree investment for the solar developers that are unfortunately shouldered by our customers.

We think it’s no longer reasonable to have that burden entirely on our company and our customers,” he said. “That’s why we want two years. We would have the ability to 8 refresh and update, as needed, the prices and inputs on a two-year basis.”

Hollywood Man was promoted as “briker trash ... in a million dollar murder spree.”

WHO’S AT THE SWITCH AT BTV? Anyone looking to BTV—Boise State University’s television station—for a guest lecture from the Frank Church Institute or a recent commencement address from President Bob Kustra may have been in for a rude awakening on the morning of March 15. That’s when BTV aired a movie that included scenes of sexual assault on one woman, the murder of another and an ugly scene of a woman in a bridal gown being blasted to bits with a shotgun—all part of a 1976 exploitation film, Hollywood Man. “We do have some content that we do have in our archives that is absolutely atrocious,” said Nathan Snyder, director of University Television, who added that the objectionable content would never be used unless it was properly introduced because of its possible historical or sociological significance.

“It was a gross mistake,” he said.

University Television is a division of the Boise State Department of Communication and, according to its mission, “serves the Boise State University campus and community by recording and broadcasting a wide range of educational, cultural and sports programs.”

Boise State spokesman Greg Hahn told BW that the university, station and students all take responsibility and it was a “teachable moment.”

BTV is part of the basic-tier platform of Cable One, which broadcasts to 50,000-plus households in the Boise metro area.

As for Hollywood Man, it is 107 minutes of bad acting and plenty of violence.

“It’s biker trash against the Hollywood Mafia in a million dollar murder spree,” the film producers trumpeted in the late 1970s.

“There are absolutely programming guidelines in place [at BTV],” said Snyder. “At minimum, it’s PG-13 or better. I used to tell my students, ‘Don’t put something on the air that your grandmother wouldn’t watch.’”

Snyder added that letting the images beam across BTV was an aberration.

“I’m grateful for the chance to rectify it so that it doesn’t happen again,” he said.

Traditionally, BTV’s alternative content has included documentaries and classic animation.

When Hollywood Man came to an end on the morning of March 15—with its leading man and lady gunned down in the bloody final scene—a Looney Tunes cartoon followed.

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NEWS IDAHO POWER RENEWABLE ENERGY CONTRACTS (20 YEAR TERMS) 7

Both men’s and women’s teams from Boise State are in the tourneys for the first time in 20 years.

MAD MONEY Good luck finding a barstool over the next two weekends as the NCAA men’s and women’s hoops tournaments occupy the airwaves.

“Get here an hour-and-a-half before the game, and you’ll have a shot at having the best seats in the house,” said Legends Bar and Grill owner Bob Steele.

With both the Boise State University men’s and women’s basketball teams participating in this year’s madness—only the second time in school history and the first time since 1994—local pubs and eateries couldn’t be more thrilled.

“We’ll have people waiting outside the door,” said Buffalo Wild Wings waitress Trenise Cross.

“It’s just non-stop and I love it.”

While March Madness adds up to big money for sports bars like Buffalo Wild Wings and Legends, it doesn’t play so well with bottom lines at many workplaces. According to global outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, lost wages paid to “distracted and unproductive workers” could reach as high as $1.9 billion.

“But we would never rat anybody out,” said Buffalo Wild Wings Training Manager Scott Cooper. “They show up when we open and they’ll be here until the final game is over.”

Those same “distracted” workers will, no doubt, have their heads in the game when the Boise State men’s and women’s basketball teams step into the national spotlight during the tournament. The men take to the court against Dayton on March 18 and the women face off against Tennessee on Saturday, March 21.

“We get big Boise State crowds during the regular season,” said Cooper. “I can only imagine what we’re going to see during the tournament. It’s awesome.”

Meanwhile, at Legends, Steele said his staff is up to the task of non-stop serving, “But they’re all really good at having each other’s back. They take care of themselves and, more importantly, one another.”

At Buffalo Wild Wings, waitress Kristen Armacost said those long shifts pay off: “You can make some really good money those days.”

It might be good practice for March 2019, when Boise is set to host the opening rounds of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament for the first time since 2009. Economists estimate that the tournament brings a $4-$6 million economic impact to its host city.

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SOME SOLAR IS ALREADY A DONE DEAL

Regardless of Idaho Power and its contract fight, solar energy is coming to an electrical outlet near you. It has to. The utility is already locked into 20-year contracts with 13 soon-to-come developers in Idaho and six more in Oregon. Boise City Solar, a subsidiary of Sunergy World, is soon to break ground on its 360-acre, 40-MW solar plant on South Cloverdale Road. The parcel, which the company is leasing from the city of Boise, is part of the Twenty Mile South Farm, a biosolids application facility. As part of the deal, the city receives approximately $54,000 annually in rent. To sweeten the deal, the city will receive around 2.75 percent of the solar farm’s gross operating revenue, which could amount to an additional $143,000 per year.

Another major project will be Grandview PV Solar Two, 230 miles southeast of Mountain Home. Grandview developers are planning to lease a huge tract of land from the J.R. Simplot Co. to construct an 80-MWh facility, enough to supply 52,000 Idaho homes. All of the alreadyunder-contract solar projects are expected to be up and running by 2016, including Boise City Solar—due to be on-line in January 2016—and Grandview, slated to begin producing energy in September 2016.

“That probably has a lot to do with the fact that a federal tax credit is set to expire in 2016,” said Idaho Power spokesman Brad Bowlin.

“That credit reimburses a significant portion of capital costs.”

Over the past several years, the Solar Investment Tax Credit has been critical for solar energy growth. It’s a generous 30 percent tax credit, which amounts to about a dollar-fordollar reduction in income taxes. However, it is set to expire on Dec. 31, 2016—all the more reason for prospective developers to want to lock up 20-year contracts.

“Essentially, what we’re dealing with right now is a wave of large-scale solar development that came to us in a very short amount of time,” said Bowlin.

Boise Weekly found records indicating 36 companies in Idaho, and another 12 in Oregon, have all submitted contracts—hopefully for 20 years—to Idaho Power. If they were all approved, they would generate another 885 MWs. “We’re facing a very big problem in the near future of having too much power,” said Donovan. “It has to be used somewhere, or it has to be shut off. And we don’t have the ability to turn of PURPA, so that means we’re required to turn off our own generation even if that’s the lower cost to our customers. That’s a problem.”

Otto pushed back at that logic.

“That’s not really what the facts are. Solar is becoming increasingly cheap,” he said. “No

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Grandview Solar two

80

ID

09/01/2016

$312,729,719

Boise City Solar

40

ID

01/01/2016

$156,299,294

Mountain Home Solar

20

ID

12/31/2016

$79,877,543

Pocatello Solar 1

20

ID

12/31/2016

$74,712,956

Clark Solar 1

71

ID

12/31/2016

$243,227,312

Clark Solar 2

20

ID

12/31/2016

$69,246,830

Clark Solar 3

30

ID

12/31/2016

$102,774,966

Clark Solar 4

20

ID

12/31/2016

$67,990,610

Murphy Flat Power

20

ID

12/01/2016

$69,184,146

Simco Solar

20

ID

12/01/2016

$69,951,245

American Falls Solar

20

ID

12/01/2016

$65,313,902

American Falls Solar II

20

ID

12/01/2016

$62,494,248

Orchard Ranch Solar

20

ID

12/01/2016

$65,605,413

Plus six Oregon projects, all opening by 12/31/2016, with an estimated obligation of $225,830,701

Total: 461 MW with an estimated 20-year obligation of $1,665,238,886 Proposed: 48 projects (36 in Idaho), generating 885 MW with estimated 20-yr. obligation of $2,102,489,019

matter what they say, there’s a reason that they’re shutting down their Boardman [Ore.] coal plant in 2020. The economics are terrible. We think that’s true of their other plant in North Valmy [Nevada]. Idaho Power owns half of that. It’s the most expensive coal plant they have. Solar can totally replace that power plant. It’s way cheaper to get clean energy.”

That appears to be where the battle line has been drawn in what could be the most contentious debate of 2016: How much is clean energy worth to Idaho?

Even though much of the public doesn’t yet know about the upcoming hearings, public comments have already started to fill the Idaho Public Utilities inbox, many of them from consumers: “Our goal as responsible Idahoans has to be to encourage the shift away from carbon-based fuel electric generation,” wrote Chris Harding.

“Idaho Power is using circular reasoning,” wrote Jack Sutz. “This is just another trick to keep the status quo.”

“Please allow clean solar energy to be part of what Idaho Power sells me,” wrote Bruce Smith.

SOME UNCOMFORTABLY FAMILIAR COMMENTS Letters have also been submitted to the PUC from some significant public and private entities. An analysis of several of those letters— signed by high-profile individuals—reveals some striking similarities: “Moving toward a clean energy future cannot come at the expense of reliability and affordability,” wrote Jim Kissler, CEO of Norco Inc.

“Moving toward a clean energy future cannot come at the expense of reliability and affordability,” wrote Nathan Mitchell, mayor of Star.

“Moving toward a clean energy future cannot come at the expense of reliability and affordability,” wrote Mary Vagner, superintendent of the Pocatello/Chubbuck School District.

As BW was going to press, the PUC was set to announce that the official public comment period on the contentious issue would soon begin.

“We’re giving the public about four months to send their comments in,” said Gene Fadness, public information officer for the PUC. “Considering that those comments are already coming in, we should have a pretty healthy amount of input.”

Fadness said the comment period will lead to three hearings—a technical hearing where attorneys representing all of the parties will cross-examine each other; the public hearing, which could easily stretch in multiple days; and a telephonic hearing, allowing Idahoans who are not able to come to Boise to phone in their remarks to PUC commissioners. The in-person hearings will take place at PUC headquarters at Fifth and Washington streets.

A decision could come from PUC commissioners within 60 days of the hearings.

“We’ve had some pretty intense, high-profile public hearings in the past on net-metering and on the Jim Bridger coal power plant,” said Fadness. “I would expect this issue to be right near the top, on that level.”

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CITIZEN How does a referral start?

Griffin: A phone call or inquiry on the Web. We get referrals from physicians and a lot of caregivers. Plus parents, and sometimes even children themselves. The majority of the children are diagnosed with cancer. But we see a fair amount of muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis. If a physician says the child is eligible, they get their wish.

Vogt: We have a medical adviser on our board and there are additional doctors in our national office. Whenever we need to, we put the doctors together in a peer-to-peer conversation.

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BRENDA VOGT AND MEGAN GRIFFIN

Dragons, dorm rooms and granting wishes GEORGE PRENTICE Megan Griffin and Brenda Vogt aren’t required to be Idaho’s biggest optimists—but it sure helps.

Vogt is the director of program services at Make-A-Wish Idaho (she has been with the organization for three-and-a-half years), and Griffin recently took the reins as Make-A-Wish Idaho’s new president and CEO. “I’ve been here since December [2014], and I can honestly say I have the best job in Idaho,” said Griffin. “It’s the perfect combination of a nonprofit with a fabulous mission that is part of a national organization that understands the value of the brand they created. But most importantly, we have children and families from all across Idaho who have benefited from Make-a-Wish.”

Boise Weekly sat down with Griffin and Vogt at their Boise headquarters where, without a single magic wand in sight, they talked about the serious business of wish-granting.

The idea of making wishes, at least at an organizational level, started in the 1980s?

Griffin: There was a 7-year-old boy, Chris Greicius, and he had leukemia. And he wanted, more than anything, to be a policeman. The city of Phoenix, Ariz., rallied around him and even made a junior uniform for him. That group was so touched by what they could accomplish that they started Make-a-Wish. That was 1980. Today, there are 61 chapters around the country and even some international chapters.

Wow. How do you wrangle that many volunteers across the state?

Griffin: They come to us, primarily, by wordof-mouth. One of the misnomers of Make-a-Wish is that we’re an organization that goes out and buys wishes for kids, and we perform all the duties ourselves. Well, Make-a-Wish funds the wish, but the actual wish-granting is done by volunteers.

Vogt: Last year, 14,000 wishes were granted nationally, but it’s estimated that there were 28,000 children eligible.

And the Idaho chapter?

Griffin: [It] was founded in 1986. North Idaho used to be aligned with the Washington/ Alaska chapter, but today, all of Idaho is together as one organization.

And in Idaho?

Vogt: We granted 79 wishes last year. We’re on track to grant 85 wishes this year. We’re told that there are about 150 children potentially eligible for our program, so it’s always our goal to make sure every child receives their wish.

How many people make up your organization?

Griffin: We have six people, mostly focused on programs and wish coordination. And right now, we have about 175 active volunteers statewide.

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Let’s talk about the process. Who’s eligible?

Griffin: A child with a life-threatening illness, between 2-and-a-half and 18 years old.

It’s my understanding that the average cost of a wish is somewhere near $6,500. I’m guessing a big piece of that is travel.

Griffin: We don’t get any breaks on airfare.

However, people can donate their frequent-flier miles to Make-a-Wish. We’re the only entity in the country that can accept airline miles and once they’re donated, they never expire. It usually takes us seven to nine months to put a wish together, but sometimes we need to act fast. Brenda here, is a miracle worker.

Vogt: We have a boy on a plane right now to Chicago to meet the creators of “Mortal Kombat.”

Sometimes we’re asked to accelerate a wish and it’s all hands on deck in our office. We’re part of a national network, so we turn to our peers in Chicago to help make those arrangements.

Conversely, I’m assuming that you assist children’s wishes to come to Idaho.

Vogt: One child from upstate New York wants to go to a specific dude ranch in Harrison, Idaho this summer.

Griffin: Last year, we had a child come to raft the Salmon River. And another one was pretty unique: a young girl from Washington who was about to start at Boise State wanted something special for her dorm room. Boise State let us in the room the night before she arrived and it was renovated by a star from HGTV, Jillian Harris. It was spectacular.

Tell me about the big dragon wish last summer.

Vogt: Eight-year-old Brody loves dragons. And he wanted a pet dragon, not remotely controlled, but a dragon that could learn from him. I stared at the paperwork and thought, “What am I going to do?” Well, we contacted Caleb Chung, co-creator of the Furby, who happens to live here. He said, “Absolutely,” and got a whole team of people to build the dragon.

Griffin: We called Dreamworks and they agreed to premiere How to Train Your Dragon 2 at the Egyptian Theatre a week before the national release. We filled the theater with hundreds of staff, volunteers, inventors and caregivers, and so many of them were dressed in Viking outfits.

Vogt: I’ll never forget it for as long as I live.

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pearly fish strollers and old ladies steadied themselves scale sailed with shopping carts as they marched into over ov my head the usually quiet market. Whitley examined as I elbowed a package of thin Enoki mushrooms and for space at the placed them in his basket. Komori and Orient Or Market’s Henry were already huddled around the bu crowded cro fish stling fish counter. counter. cou Wide-eyed, Hand-lettered signs advertised bluefish I watched wa a mallet ($3.25 a pound), milkfish ($2.99 a pound) split a thick fish spine and Norway mackerel ($3.99 a pound). with a rhythmic thwack Piles of shiny snakehead ($4.99 a pound) and a knife scrape glided through the crushed ice like fat eels. flesh against ag the grain, For those most familiar with shrimp, salmon, scattering scatterin scales like bits of canned tuna, tilapia and pollock—the top burnt toast toast. five seafoods consumed per capita in the This wasn’t wasn the grocery store United States, according to the National fish counter count n er experience ex I was used Fisheries Institute—it can be a pretty to: to: Piles of pre-c pre-cooked bubblegum intimidating environment. shrimp p resting next to pretty portions of “I don’t think most people can handle skinless salmon in a p pristine aquatic diorama the guts and the scales flying everywhere,” adorned with glistening half lemons and said Whitley. “Everything has to be pristine, decorative fluffs of kale, no muck or mess or it’s not fit for consumption.” in sight.

According to an article in the The Orient Market, however, pulls back Washington Post, that’s exactly how most the curtain on this fishy facade, leaving Americans prefer their fish. Paul Greenberg, heads, guts, gills and other bony bits intact. author of Four Fish and American Catch, The bounty arrives early on Saturday says people tend to have three complaints morning and so do the customers. about fish: “One, I don’t want to touch it.

To navigate these Two, I don’t know how unfamiliar waters, I to cook it. And three, I ORIENT MARKET convinced Modern Hotel don’t want it smelling up 4806 EMERALD ST., 208-342-5507 my kitchen.” chef Nate Whitley— recently named a James Orient Market Beard Award Semifinalist customers don’t seem in the Best Chef Northwest category— to have the same concerns. They prefer and State & Lemp chefs Jay Henry and flavor over fairytale.

Kris Komori to join me at the market on a Scanning the selection, Komori ran recent Saturday. I also proposed a friendly his fingers down the gray fin of a milkfish, challenge: Select fresh fish from the market known as bangus in the Philippines, where that day and figure out how to serve it in it’s the national fish. Milkfish is an their restaurants later that night. important source of cultured seafood When I pulled into the potholed Orient in Southeast Asia, where it is often 12 Market parking lot at 10 a.m., it was already pressure-cooked because of its filled with cars. Young families pushed notorious tiny bones.

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“I would say about 80 percent of their fish I’ve never Lemp—we watched the fishmongers go to work. Grabbing dealt with,” said Komori, who worked in places like a pair of kitchen shears, one fishmonger lopped off the Portland, Ore.’s Park Kitchen before relocating to Boise. snakehead’s fins then began scraping off its scales. With a Next, Komori’s eyes landed on the snakehead, crack, she split its head down the middle, sliced through its an elongated predatory fish native to parts of Africa firm belly with a flick of her knife and scooped out its entrails. and Asia with skin the color of a dirty quarter. Snakehead After a quick rinse in the sink, her partner placed the catch reproduce rapidly and are a popular food source, in a clear bag and threw it on the scale. especially in Thailand.

On the way to the register, Komori stopped to snag some “There’s something about the snakehead,” said Komori, Chinese long beans, a bundle of green tendrils that snaked with a laugh. “I kind of want to check it out, just to be able around like Medusa’s tresses. I had a suspicion those beans to tell people, ‘This is snakehead.’” would slither their way into a particular dish.

Aside from its exotic name, snakehead has some creepy street cred. National Geographic named it one of the “13 Scariest Freshwater Animals” because it’s a top-level predator with a row of sharp teeth and is “known to attack MILKFISH AND NORWEGIAN MACKEREL anything moving” when breeding. Snakehead can also Later that evening, The Modern’s tiny kitchen had the breathe air and survive out of water for up to four days. same fluorescent glow as the Orient Market, but the space They’re considered an invasive species in North America. hummed with a different kind of controlled chaos. Whitley While Komori and Henry rooted around for the most watched a frypan spit and sizzle, nudging the handle slightly appetizing snakehead, Whitley gravitated toward a mound as flames licked its sides. Inside the pan, three tidy portions of medium-sized Norwegian mackerel with a silvery, tiger-like of milkfish drank in the dark, gingery juices pooling around pattern spread across their dorsal sides. them.

“I was thinking about getting mackerel, just because it’s a “The milkfish—turns out it’s really boney,” said Whitley, good size to serve either the whole fish or also have smoked placing the fish onto a plate, crispy skin-side up. “I marinated mackerel, which I think is delicious,” said Whitley. it in sesame and soy, so I did more of an Asian-style thing.”

According to an article in ScienceNordic, Norwegian As a special that night, Whitley was serving the milkfish in mackerel are much sought after in Japan. In the 1980s, the a tangy fermented black bean sauce on a mound of thin Japanese mackerel industry crashed due to overfishing, and enoki mushrooms with a side of gai lan, a flowering Chinese the country started purchasing the oily fish from Norway. broccoli. Though the fish had a dense, moist white flesh, Though Japanese fishermen today net more mackerel than it was, as Whitley had warned, riddled with tiny bones. As their Norwegian counterparts, the country still imports about I tried to covertly extract vermicelli-sized bones from my 100,000 tons from Norway every year. The reason for that mouth mid-bite, I realized why milkfish isn’t a staple on most lies with biology: At their peak in September and October, American tables.

Norwegian mackerel contain “I was thinking of maybe doing twice as much fat as Japanese black cod instead of the milkfish with mackerel. the same preparation,” said Whitley.

Komori’s eyes lit up as he “It’s a dish I’d do again, just maybe THE MODERN HOTEL AND BAR recounted a unique Japanese not with that fish.”

1 3 1 4 W. G R O V E S T . , 2 0 8 4 2 4 8 2 4 4 , fish preparation perfect for Luckily, the Norwegian mackerel T H EM ODER N H OT E L .COM mackerel. didn’t give Whitley nearly as much “There’s a cool dish called trouble. nanbanzuke. It’s a Japanese “I just salted it for a few hours and pickled fish where you fry it first then smoked it,” he said, assembling and then you pickle it. … It the hearty salad. “I let it chill and obviously doesn’t hold that am serving it with a little bit of kind of crispy texture like mustard greens, potatoes, a dredged, fried fish, cipollini onions and a but it’s a pretty cool poached egg with a little bit technique,” he said. of pancetta.”

After settling on The rich, oily flavor of their selections— the smoked fish popped milkfish and when paired with the Norwegian mackerel dish’s light, lemony for The Modern dressing and creamy and snakehead, Yukon Gold potatoes. mackerel scad and “Usually, I try to source sardines for State & 10

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regionally, so mackerel is not something that comes to mind,” Whitley said. “But I lived in Ireland, and it’s really common there, so that’s kind of why I like it. It’s nostalgic for me.”

After swirling a final bite of smoky mackerel in a puddle of egg yolk, I said my goodbyes and made my way to second dinner: State & Lemp’s Saturday Night Supper Club.

STATE & LEMP: SNAKEHEAD, MACKEREL SCAD AND SARDINES While most Boise restaurants start clearing out at 9 p.m., that’s when State & Lemp is getting started. The spot offers a pared-down version of its prix fixe menu on Saturday State & Lemp created a dish (left) using snakehead with shimeji mushrooms and Chinese long beans, drizzled with dashi-thickened black tea broth. nights for $60, instead of the usual $105. State & Lemp has The Modern’s entry (right) included smoked Norwegian mackerel served with mustard greens, potatoes, cipollini onions, poached egg and pancetta. dubbed it the Saturday Night Supper Club, and the place pulses with a low-lit, speakeasy vibe.

Clutching a glass of bubbly handed to me at the door, I or Frankenfish, as it’s sometimes (rather unappetizingly) snuck past the boisterous crowd into the kitchen for a sneak called. A bowl containing a skin-on portion of snakehead peek at what Komori and Henry had concocted. The small topped with a snake-like long bean was placed in front of space buzzed like a hive as cooks moved with an almost each diner. Then, a stream of steaming dashi-thickened choreographed efficiency, adding a dollop of foam here or black tea broth was poured over the top. a dash of leek ash there.

“This guy is called snakehead. That’s the fish,” Komori “So this is the fish that we picked up: Its name is Purchasing whole fish can be intimidating announced to the dining room with a grin. “It’s hard to turn galunggong; it’s a sort of mackerel,” Komori said. “We also to the uninitiated. Thankfully, chefs Kris Komori, down such a challenge, something called snakehead. It have some sardines; we cured them in opposite ways. So Jay Henry and Nate Whitley had some helpful is, we found out, a very earthy fish. Similar to catfish. … So the mackerel … we floured and then fried it and then kept it instead of trying to mask that earth, we just went ahead words of advice: in a pickle, barbarian style. And then the sardines we cured and put more earth in. We kind of took it into the forest.”

“For people that are buying whole fish—that in a mixture of sake and rice vinegar, and then we pulled Komori continued. “So we have some shimeji aren’t comfortable with it—you want to check them out and then we kept them in ginger oil, so they’re mushrooms, the little guys there. We roasted those on the eyes,” said Komori. “You’ll be able to see kind of reversed.” cedar; there’s some pine oil, and then there’s some Chinese the difference.”

To accompany the pickled fish, Komori and Henry piled long green beans. There’s some that have been coined Look for bright, clear eyes that bulge a little. on an assortment of leeks: leek rounds cooked using the up and sauteed with garlic, and then there’s one that’s “You can tell by the flesh how oily it’s going sous-vide (French for “under vacuum”) method, leek chips, supposed to look like a snake, and it’s just been blanched.” airy tufts of frozen leek cream, and disks of to be,” added Henry. “If it’s darker and denser The snakehead was as unusual black leek ash whipped into a meringue or a little lighter and more delicate; you can as its name. One of my tablemates then dried. A sprinkle of salmon roe, puffed tell just by touching it.” compared it to “licking fresh soil,” wild rice and ground-cherries finished STATE AND LEMP while another added: “It’s what I’d Other things to look for when buying whole things off with a colorful kick.

2 8 7 0 W. S TAT E S T . , 2 0 8 - 4 2 9 - 6 7 3 5 , imagine Muddy the Mudskipper fish include shiny skin with scales that adThough the mackerel had an intensely S TAT EA DL EM P. C OM tasting like.” here tightly, firm flesh that springs back when fishy flavor, the sardines lent the dish a I was less disturbed by the pressed, cherry red gills that aren’t browning pleasant umami, with pops of salmon roe snakehead’s overt earthiness, which and moist, and flat tails. and the crunch of fried rice adding I attributed to my lifelong love Just because you buy a fresh whole fish interesting texture. My favorite of catfish. Perhaps, more doesn’t necessarily mean you have to tackle part was the wine pairing, a truthfully, my long day 2011 Chateau de la Roche cleaning it yourself. of fish guts and fry Touraine sauvignon “A lot of butchering stuff is really hard if you pans, good food blanc. How they found don’t know what you’re doing because you and great wine, a suitable wine to had numbed my end up hacking it all away,” Komori said. compliment pickled senses and left The Orient Market will clean, scale and mackerel, leeks me content to even fillet your fish for you. So will grocery and sardines in a soak up the store fish counters like those at Fred Meyer few short hours still strangeness of and Whole Foods, when they have whole fish baffles me. it all. in-stock.

Which brings us to the snakehead,

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY MARCH 18 On Stage BROADWAY IN BOISE: MAMMA MIA—Have the time of your life at this smash-hit musical that combines ABBA’s greatest hits with an enchanting tale of love, laughter and friendship. FREE parking. 7:30 p.m. $40-$60. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.

Workshops & Classes FARWEST FAIRY GARDEN CLASS—Make a mini garden that fairies or woodland creatures can live in. All materials provided. Call to RSVP. 5:30-6:30 p.m. $25. FarWest Garden Center, 5728 W. State St.,

Boise, 208-853-4000, farwestgardencenter.net.

PARENTING THE LOVE AND LOGIC WAY—Learn helpful ways to confidently deal with the challenges of raising children in today’s uncertain world. Wednesdays March 18-April 22. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Call for prices. Wings Center of Boise, 1875 Century Way, Boise, 208376-3641, wingscenter.com.

TREE SELECTION & PLANTING—Instructor Ryan Rodgers, a Boise City arborist, will point out cultural requirements and growth habits of tree varieties that do well in the Treasure Valley. 6-8:30 p.m.

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

WATER-EFFICIENT LANDSCAPING DESIGN—Learn how to design a water-conserving garden at your home. Susan Bell from the U of I will discuss landscape design.

Register by e-mailing landscape@ unitedwater.com or by calling 208-362-7336. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Library at Cole and Ustick, 7557 W.

THURSDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 19-21

Ustick Road, Boise, 208-362-7336, unitedwater.com.

Art 38 MINUS: THE IDAHO FISH PROJECT—Don’t miss your chance to see this unusual a collection of handmade paper relief sculptures documenting the 38 native Idaho fish species by artist Lonnie Hutson. Monday-Friday through April 17. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. College of Idaho Rosenthal Gallery, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208459-5321, collegeofidaho.edu/ rosenthalgallery.

THE BRAIN: A BIG IDEA MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT— Mondays-Fridays through April 17.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter.org.

HAZLETT, ROHRIG & COBO SOLO EXHIBITIONS—Through April 30.

9 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE admission.

Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Ave. N., Ketchum, 208-726-5079,

gailseverngallery.com.

IN TRANSLATION: MARIAMERCÈ MARÇAL—Through March 28. For more info, visit mmmintranslation.com. FREE. Boise State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-4261246, mmmintranslation.com.

LAUNCH: 2015 ANNUAL STUDENT JURIED EXHIBITION—10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 1, Liberal Arts Building, Room 170, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-4263994, boisestate.edu/art.

LIU BOLIN: HIDING IN THE CITY— Through May 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $3-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-3458330, boiseartmuseum.org.

MFA THESIS EXHIBITION— Through March 20. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110, 1819 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

RED CIRCLE PRESS: TRANSLUCENCY—Through July 12. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center,

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 20-22

Child’s play.

The games people play.

1800 University Drive, Boise, 208426-1242, finearts.boisestate.edu.

Literature

Cole and Ustick, 7557 W. Ustick Road, Boise, 208-570-6900, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Talks & Lectures

READ ME TV: AN EVENING WITH AUTHOR RICHARD CURREY—Read Me Treasure Valley featured author Richard Currey, who served as a medical corpsman during the Vietnam War, will share information on his background and works, focusing on his widely acclaimed and PEN/Hemingway Awardnominated novel, Fatal Light, then field questions from participants. 7 p.m. FREE. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-331-5097 or 208-342-9983. readmetv.com.

SPRING AUTHOR SERIES: JANICE HILDRETH—Idaho native Janice Hildreth will be speaking on “Why Write?” and on the steps to becoming a published author.

Hildreth has published eight novels, a play and a nonfiction title. She is currently working on a seven-book series. 12 p.m. FREE. Library at

LIZ UNIVERSITY—LIZ University presents Patricia Somers-Hockett, who will talk about “High Touch Marketing the LIZ Way.” She’ll discuss one-on-one meetings, follow-ups and mentoring. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Cacicia’s Cucinas Old World Sicilian Foods, Village at Meridian, 3630 E. Monarch Sky Lane, Ste. 100, Meridian, 208-8935020. localimpactzone.com.

SOLDIERS IN SKIRTS: WOMEN OF THE CIVIL WAR—Celebrate Women’s History Month by exploring books about women of the Civil War, and discuss how history and fiction can come together to tell us more about our world. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY, MARCH 20-21

“Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.”—Alfred Hitchcock

GREEN ZOO THEATRE PRESENTS: CHILD KILLERS

GEM STATE GAMING CONVENTION

EL KORAH SHRINE’S ANNUAL MELODRAMA

When you’re new in town, it can seem like nothing’s going your way. That’s how Samantha, the protagonist in Green Zoo Theatre’s fourth offering, Child Killers, feels. She doesn’t have any friends, her search for a bass player to help finish her album is a bust and her job as a customer service representative to, ahem, the penultimate judgement interview in the offices of The Great Cosmic Other is double-plus uncool, entailing escorting child murderers around all day while not making any progress on her aforementioned album. To complete her project, she’ll have to navigate board games, fruit pies, paperwork, good and evil, ancient Incas and open mic nights. Be there or be square at the debut preview brought to you by the folks behind Signal to Noise, A Night at the Zoo and Toast.

Shows continue Friday and Saturday, March 20-21.

7 p.m.; March 19: pay what you want, March 20-21: $10.

Crazy Horse, 1519 Main St., crazyhorse.com.

Dust off the controllers and dig out the cards because it’s time for the annual Gem State Gaming Convention. Gamers will have a multitude of entertainment options at the GSGC with trading-card games, board games, video game matches and even LAN gaming. Hit the deck in a “Pokemon” card-game tournament or “Weiss Schwarz” tutorial; get your tabletop “Ticket to Ride” or become the “King of Tokyo”; answer the “Call of Duty” or break-out “Super Smash Bros.” in the console gaming room; and network with other area locals during “League of Legends” play. Both one- and three-day passes are available ($17 and $25 respectively), and gamers get a special room rate, so fun won’t cost you a fortune.

10 a.m., $17-$25, Boise Hotel and Conference Center, 3300 S. Vista Ave., theboisehotel.com, gemstategamingconvention.com.

The Shrine Circus is world-renowned, but it’s only one facet of the philanthropic fraternity. Our own local El Korah Shrine hosts several fundraising events, including its long-running annual tradition of staging a melodrama—2015 marks the 52nd annual year El Korah has presented these entertaining plays, and on Friday, March 20, or Saturday, March 21, you can catch the double feature of The Paper Bag Bandit Rides Again or Behind the Cheap Mask and Hold the Onions. Tickets are $12.50 for the show, $27.50 for the show and a buffet dinner (which includes dessert at intermission), or $90 for a table of eight.

8 p.m., tickets are available in advance or at the door.

El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

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CALENDAR Sports & Fitness BOGUS BASIN SPRING HOURS— Enjoy it while you can. Beginning March 14, Bogus will be open weekends only as conditions permit. Alpine lift tickets will be sold for $25. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area, Bogus Basin Road, Boise, 208-332-5100, bogusbasin.org.

TREASURE VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS OPEN ENROLLMENT 2015—Treasure Valley Roller Derby wants you! No experience needed. For more info, visit the Roller Derby Open Enrollment Facebook page. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Eagle Skate Park, Horseshoe Bend Road, Eagle. facebook.com/ events/340918006116158.

Citizen VOLUNTEER FOR WILDLIFE— People interested in volunteering at the Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge are invited to attend this

volunteer orientation session and learn about the refuge, its wildlife, and upcoming volunteer opportunities. Refreshments will be served.

For more info, contact Mackenzie Tietjen at 208-467-9278 or deerflat@fws.gov. 7 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-467-9278, fws. gov/deerflat.

THURSDAY MARCH 19

some PieHole pizza, learn how to fool infrared sensors and explore the new exhibition, Launch It! 6-10 p.m. $12-$15. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208343-9895, dcidaho.org.

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

COMEDIAN KIRK MCHENRY—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Festivals & Events ADULT NIGHT: CSI @ DCI—Delve into the world of forensics and criminology. DCI’s March Adult Night is all about the science of solving crimes, from talking with an expert DNA witness to learning what footprint impressions can tell investigators. Go have a drink and

GREEN ZOO THEATRE: CHILD KILLERS PREVIEW—Child Killers is the company’s fourth production of original work, written by local playwright and Green Zoo founder Thomas Newby, and directed by Kyle Barrow. Pay-what-you-want preview. 7 p.m. By donation. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-982-4294, crazyhorseboise. com/calendar.

KNOCK ‘EM DEAD: NUNSENSE—8 p.m. $39 dinner/show, $20 show only, $22 door. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise. 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

SATURDAY, MARCH 21

SVCA DANCE: BRIAN SANDERS’ JUNK—Under the direction of choreographer Brian Sanders, JUNK is known for their ingenious use of found objects and clever inventions that bridge the gap between dance and physical theater. 6:30 p.m. $15$35. Wood River High School, 1250 Fox Acres Road, Hailey, 208-5785020, sunvalleycenter.org.

Workshops & Classes READ ME TV: VETERANS WRITING WORKSHOP—Area veterans are invited to a workshop designed to encourage writing. Facilitated by featured author Richard Currey and Cabin staff. 1:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Ice is nice.

LEARN TO CURL If you were hoping to read about how to do a ’do, sorry. This class is for people who want to master the sport of curling. Though it made its debut at the first Winter Games in 1924, it suffered setbacks during the next several decades, being relegated to a demonstration sport before earning medal status in 1998. Be a part of history by joining the Boise Curling Club for lessons at Idaho IceWorld. Equipment is provided for this all-ages class, where you will learn to sweep, throw stones and stay upright on the ice during 30 minutes of off-ice instruction on etiquette and technique, followed by a full hour of on-ice lessons and game play. Wear warm, loose-fitting clothing; clean rubber-soled shoes (such as sneakers); and a jacket or sweatshirt.

5:15 p.m. and 6:15 p.m., $10-$20. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, 208-608-7716, boisecurlingclub.org.

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Literature AUTHOR CYNTHIA HAND—Cynthia Hand, author of the bestselling Unearthly Trilogy, will read and sign copies of her new YA novel, The Last Time We Say Goodbye. 6 p.m.

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

Talks & Lectures THE IDEA OF NATURE LECTURE SERIES: FROM HOWLING WILDERNESS TO THE CALL OF THE WILD— Guest speaker David Lowenthal, professor emeritus, Department of Geography, University College

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CALENDAR London, will present the second lecture for the Arts and Humanities public lecture series. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Jordan Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-5800, boisestate. edu.

Sports & Fitness VAN O BARREL RACE AND TIME RUNS—Indoor time runs followed by jackpot barrel race. Concessions on site. For more info, call 208-2844653. 4:30 p.m. FREE to watch.

Canyon County Fairgrounds, 111 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-4558500, canyoncountyfair.org.

Citizen WACOAL FIT FOR THE CURE EVENT—Participate in a Fit for the Cure event and receive a complimentary bra fitting from a Wacoal fit specialist.

For every fitting, Wacoal will donate $2 to Susan G. Komen for breast cancer research and community health programs. Wacoal will also donate an additional $2 for every Wacoal bra, shapewear piece or b.tempt’d bra purchased at these events. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. Dillards Boise Towne Square, 430 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-3214646, fitforthecure.com/details.

FRIDAY MARCH 20

Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-3850021, kedproductions.org.

COMEDIAN KIRK MCHENRY—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

NORTHWEST TUBA AND EUPHONIUM CONFERENCE—Enjoy music by artists and ensembles from throughout the region. For a complete schedule of events, visit the conference website at music. boisestate.edu/iteanw. $TBA. Morrison Center Recital Hall, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise State campus, Boise, 208-426-1609.

EL KORAH SHRINE 2015 MELODRAMA—For the 52nd year in a row, El Korah Shriners are proud to present their annual melodrama.

The double feature features The You can go for the show only or enjoy a buffet dinner with your laughs. For advance tickets, call or drop by the Shrine. 8 p.m. $12.50 show, $15 dinner. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

GREEN ZOO THEATRE: CHILD KILLERS—Green Zoo Theatre presents a story of board games, fruit pies, paperwork, good, evil, ancient Incans and open mic nights. It’s the company’s fourth production of original work, written by local playwright and Green Zoo founder Thomas Newby, and directed by Kyle Barrow. 7 p.m. $10.

Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-982-4294, facebook. com/GreenZooTheatre.

KNOCK ‘EM DEAD: NUNSENSE— Friday and Saturday dinner seating at 6:30 p.m., with show at 8 p.m. $39 dinner/show, $20 show only, $22 door. AEN Playhouse, 8001

Citizen FRIENDS OF THE AVALANCHE CENTER LADIES NIGHT—Revel and romp with mountain friends and support the Sawtooth Avalanche Center. Purchase tickets online at sawtoothavalanche. com (click the “donate” button) or at Sturtevant’s on Main Street in Ketchum. 6-10 p.m. $75. Galena Lodge, HC 64 - Box 8326, Ketchum, 208-726-4010, sawtoothavalanche.com.

KOOL OLDIES WISH GRANTERS RADIOTHON—Wish Granters grants wishes to adults 18 and older in Ada and Canyon counties who have terminal illnesses. Tune into KOOL OLDIES 99.5 FM to help raise the funds needed to help make those 21 wishes come true. For more info on Wish Granters, visit

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Festivals & Events BOISE FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW—Find everything you need to make your garden beautiful. Daily through March 22. 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

FREE-$8. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, gardenshowboise.com.

GEM STATE GAMING CONVENTION—Video games, card games and board games galore, from “Call of Duty” to “Pokemon” and “Magic the Gathering.” Daily through March 22.

10 a.m. $17-$25. Boise Hotel and Conference Center, 3300 S. Vista Ave., Boise, theboisehotel.com, gemstategamingconvention.com.

PRIMAVERA SALSA—The evening kicks off with beginner Merengue, Bachata and Salsa lessons at 9 p.m., followed by performances and social dancing with DJ Giovanni.

All military (plus one) get in FREE with military ID. 8 p.m. $8. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, facebook.com/salsaidaho.

On Stage BAGGAGE—8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald

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Camp Modern

Films contain adult subject matter and may not be suitable for children.

1314 West Grove Street - Downtown Boise

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T O M O RROW W EDir.DIJimSGoldblum, A PPE AAdam R Weber

T HE D I S G U S T IN G S

Feature

Dir. Jordan Firstman Two horrible people who happen to be best friends go about their day together.

Thursday 1:30 PM

n o b u d g e t f il mm a k in g

No Budget Film School founder Mark Stolaroff will examine the current state of no-budget filmmaking, analyzing the innovative techniques used, the aesthetic results obtained, and the empowering opportunities afforded by this democratic form of filmmaking.

3 9 R O O M S S H ODir.W Various CASE

A showcase of the short-film program from the Modern Hotel's 39 rooms festival.

When their land is sold to developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Kathputli Colony must find a way to unite -- or splinter apart forever.

-Q&A with Directors Jim Goldblum & Adam Weber

Short

the art of:

Wedn esday 9:00 PM

modern hotel:

Thursday 4:00 PM

Shorts Block:

thursday 5:30 PM

os N W F i l m m a ke rs’ f e s t i v a l b u f f a l o j u g gDir.a lScott Cummings The Northwest’s premiere showcase of new work by regional filmmakers.

Featurette

An experimental exploration and celebration of the Juggalo subculture in Buffalo, New York.

- Q&A w/Director of Photography Nandan Rao

Thursday 7:00 PM

Friday 12:00 PM

Friday 1:30 PM

Borscht shorts showcase distribution panel@ H A C K F O R T secret Screening Borscht Corp is an open source collaborative dedicated to telling Miami stories. We redefine the perception of Miami—empowering locals to tell their stories and offering a global platform to share them.

Brought to you by Hackfort + Treefort Film Fest.

Screening may or may not be monitored by the FBI.

Friday 1:40 PM

Night

Soil/fa6:15-6:30 k e p a r a d is e Dir. Melanie Bonajo Featurette

Night Soil examines the healing effect of the hallucinatory plant Ayahuasca on modern man's troubled mind.

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F r id ay 2 :5 0 p m

hotel 22

6 :15-6:30

Dir. Elizabeth Lo Short

Hotel 22 captures one dramatic night on a Silicon Valley bus.

joy kevin

Moderated by Marshall Simmonds, Founder of Define Media Group, Inc., this panel will discuss the implementation of tech in the distribution of music, film and literature.

Panelists include: Anthony Prestia, Mark Stolaroff, Michael Fitzgerald, and Jared Mees.

6:15-6:30

Dir. Caleb Johnson Feature

A tiny dancer and her comedian husband find co-habitation at odds with their art. An exploration of whether true love is more likely to make a house into a home or a bonfire.

- Q&A with Director Caleb Johnson

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FRIDAY 6:40 PM

world of tomorrow

Saturday 3:00 PM

sleeping gian t Dir. Andrew Cividino

Saturday 5:50 PM

Dir. Michael Mohan Short

While spending a boring summer on Lake Superior, Adam falls in with two locals and begins attempting ever more hazardous stunts — but the arrival of pretty young Taylor could spark the trio’s riskiest dare yet.

p a p a m a c h eté

Dir. Charles Poekel

Saturday 8:00 PM

Dir. Jonathan David Kane Short

A young married couple brings two of their single friends out to Palm Springs for a long weekend. It does not go as planned.

christmas again

tomorrow we di sappear

Short

We are proud to present this selection of short films by some of the most talented filmmakers in the Gem State.

- Q&A with Directors

pink grapefruit

Gene spends his days canvassing about childhood obesity.

One day he canvasses Titty, an emotionally-arrested 19-year-old who has successfully sued his own father to win back a large inheritance and gotten himself disowned in the process. -Q&A with Director Alison Bagnall

Sundance 2015 Grand Jury Prize winning short film about a little girl who is taken on a mind-bending tour of the distant future.

Saturday 12:40 PM Dir. Maxwell Moser, Damon Ridgeway, Rob Scribner, Zach Voss, Hutt Wigley

Dir. Alison Bagnall Feature

Dir. Don Hertzfelt Short

646 West Fulton Street - Downtown Boise

local gems

Funny Bunny

lake los angeles

Feature

A heartbroken Christmas tree salesman spends the season living in a trailer and working the night shift until a mysterious woman and some colorful customers rescue him from self-destruction.

A middle-aged Cuban man and a ten-year-old Mexican girl bond over being away from home in the hopeless back-drop that is Lake Los Angeles.

- Q&A with Filmmakers

The esoteric and secluded group responsible for the creation of the world's standardized tests must find a way to adapt when their way of life is threatened by dissent within their ranks.

WHEN THE BELL RINGS Dir. Brad Bores

Feature

This gritty vérité documentary takes us into the life of Dino “The Lethal Warrior” Wells, a 40 year old former boxer who makes a gutsy attempt to return to the ring while reuniting with his estranged son.

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IN SEARCH OF THE MI RACULOUS Dir. Sam Kuhn Short

A seventeen-year-old aristocrat, expecting to be married to a rich claimant by her mother, falls in love with a kind but poor artist aboard a luxurious, ill-fated craft.

slACKJAW

Dir. Zach Weintraub Feature - Work in Progress Screening Rob convinces his best buddy to become a human guinea pig at the local medical testing facility of a large, controversial corporation and then promptly loses contact with him.

- Q&A with Director Zach Weintraub

Sunday 3:30 PM

Short

When their land is sold to developers, the magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers of Kathputli Colony must find a way to unite -- or splinter apart forever.

-Q&A with Directors Jim Goldblum & Adam Weber

A short film exploring the esoteric art of Haitian machete fencing through the life and practice of an aging farmer who is one of the few remaining masters.

Dir. Mike Ott Feature

T H E G R E G G SDir. Various

Dir. Jim Goldblum, Adam Weber Feature

Sunday 6:00 PM

F i l m ake r M agaz i n e gue st show case

OH lucy!

Dir. Ryan Gillis Short

Dir. Atsuko Hirayanagi and Britni West

An old crop-duster discovers a mysterious crate floating in the Florida Everglades, and it ruins his day.

Curated by Filmmaker Magazine

Tired Moonlight

Whether in Montana or Japan, the protagonists of these two highly acclaimed festival hits are in search of a realm beyond themselves. OH LUCY! (Jury Award Sundance 2015) concerns a 55-year-old office worker in Tokyo who unearths a new identity with the help of some unorthodox English classes. TIRED MOONLIGHT (Grand Jury Prize Slamdance 2015) is a searching, naturalistic portrait of the director's hometown of Kalispell, Montana, and its quietly transfixing inhabitants, cast as semi-fictionalized versions of themselves.

Sunday 8:30 PM

PALM ROT

GIRLHOOD

Dir. Céline Sciamma Feature Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boy’s law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of 3 free-spirited girls.

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VIEWING SCHEDULE Wednesday March 25th

CAMP MODERN THE FLICKS HACKFORT Thursday March 26th

6:00 PM

9:00 PM

TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR

THE DISGUSTINGS

1:30 PM

MODERN HOTEL 39 ROOMS SHOWCASE

*Q & A WITH DIRECTORs

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Thursday March 26

4:00 PM

THE ART OF NO-BUDGET FILMMAKING

NW FILMMAKERS FESTIVAL

Friday March 27th

5:30 PM

7:00 PM

buffalo juggalos

12:00 PM

SHHHHH!

*Q & A WITH filmmaker

1:40 PM

BORSCHT SHORTS SHOWCASE

1:30 PM

DISTRIBUTION PANEL

NIGHT SOIL / FAKE PARADISE

Friday March 27th

Saturday March 28th

2:50 PM

hotel 22

WORLD OF TOMORROW

JOY KEVIN

Saturday March 28th

3:00 PM

SLEEPING GIANT

6:40 PM

12:40 PM

FUNNY BUNNY

LOCAL GEMS

*Q & A WITH DIRECTOR

*Q & A WITH DIRECTORs

8:00 PM

5:50 PM

TOMORROW WE DISAPPEAR

pink grapefuit

christmas again

papa machete

*Q & A WITH DIRECTORs

Sunday March 29th

lake los angeles

IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS

*Q & A WITH filmmakers

1:00 PM

3:30 PM

SLACKJAW

the greggs

*Q & A WITH DIRECTOR

when the bell rings

Sunday March 29th

6:00 PM

OH LUCY!

8:30 PM

tired moonlight

palm rot

girlhood

Films contain adult subject matter and may not be suitable for children.

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Kids & Teens EASTER BUNNY PHOTO OP—The Easter Bunny is headed to Boise Towne Square. He arrives Friday, March 20, and will be ready for visitors in the JC Penney Court every day through April 4. 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Photo package prices vary. Boise Towne Square, 350 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-378-4400, boisetownesquare.com/easter-photos.

Food

ST. MICHAEL’S LENTEN LUNCHES—Observe Lent with lunch each Friday through March 27. Menu features clam chowder, salad or slaw, cheese bread and beverage. Homemade pie is available for $2.50 extra. Sponsored by the Episcopal Church Women of St. Michael’s Cathedral. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. $6.50. St. Michael’s Episcopal Cathedral, 518 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-5601.

2015 DANCE PARTY ON THE BLUE—Celebrate the 10th annual World Down Syndrome Day with music and dancing, performance by the Xtreme Pulse Sweethearts, refreshments, and FUN with your friends and family from Treasure Valley Down Syndrome Association. 12-2 p.m. FREE. Boise State Broncos Albertsons Stadium, 1910 University Drive, Boise.

208-954-7448, facebook.com/ events/804454829634501.

SATURDAY MARCH 21

On Stage

Festivals & Events

BASQUE MARKET FRIDAY THREE-COURSE DINNER—Choose a starter, entrée and a dessert from weekly seasonal and locally sourced Chef’s Menu. Wine pairings for each course and pintxos will also be available for an additional charge. Check the market’s Facebook page for upcoming choices.

Call to RSVP. 4:30-8 p.m. $25.

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

BOISE FLOWER & GARDEN SHOW—10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE-$8.

Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, gardenshowboise.com.

WATERSHED WEEKEND: SPRING AWAKENING—9:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, boiseenvironmentaleducation.org.

WORLD DOWN SYNDROME DAY

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BAGGAGE—8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

BOISE CHORDSMEN ANNUAL SHOW—Climb “Back In The Saddle” with the Boise Chordsmen, with chorus and quartets performing a cappella four-part harmony. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. $8-$10. Parkview Christian Church, 201 W. Ustick Road, Meridian, 208-888-3099, boisechordsmen.com.

COMEDIAN GABRIEL IGLESIAS—Gabriel Iglesias is one of America’s most successful stand-up comedians and his stand-up is a mixture of storytelling, parodies, characters and sound effects that bring his personal experiences to life. 7:30 p.m. $49-$89. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110, mc.boisestate.edu.

COMEDIAN KIRK MCHENRY—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208287-5379, liquidboise.com.

DAVID STONE: THE JOHNNY CASH EXPERIENCE—A polished, authentic representation of the original Johnny Cash Show, the music, the look, and who Johnny Cash, June Carter and the Tennessee Three were as people. 7:30 p.m. $26. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.

EL KORAH SHRINE 2015 MELODRAMA DOUBLE FEATURE—8 p.m. $12.50 show, $15 dinner.

El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-343-0571, elkorah.org.

GREEN ZOO THEATRE: CHILD KILLERS—7 p.m. $10. Crazy Horse, 1519 W. Main St., Boise, 208-982-4294. facebook.com/ GreenZooTheatre.

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Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating.

Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: A BEATLES CELEBRATION—Hear all the Beatles music you love. T7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-3431871, riversideboise.com/dining/ sapphire-room.

STARBELLY DANCERS—6-8 p.m.

FREE admission. Sofia’s Greek Bistro, 6748 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-891-6609, starbellyschoolofdance.com.

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CALENDAR Workshops & Classes IMAGES SPEAK: WRITING TO READ ART—Join poet Megan Levad, Surel’s Place March artistin-residence, for this workshop that uses art as the starting points for poems. Registration required. For ages 15 and up. 10 a.m.-12 p.m. $10-$15. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 206-4077529, surelsplace.org/levad.

RUSSIAN COOKING CLASSES— Join the cooks of the St. Seraphim of Sarov Church and learn the secrets of authentic Russian dishes.

You will enjoy a delicious meal, a glass of wine, and take home recipes. 12-2 p.m. $45. St. Seraphim of Sarov Russian Orthodox Church, 872 N. 29th St., Boise, 208-5982899, stseraphimboise.org.

Literature AMERICAN INDIAN AUTHORS DISCUSSION—Johanna Jones, Office of Indian Education, Idaho State Department of Education, will facilitate a panel of American Indian guests who will provide their perspectives on contemporary and traditional American Indian literature. 7 p.m. FREE. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000, thecabinidaho.org.

Talks & Lectures CONVERSATIONS: WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN THE 21ST CENTURY— The Library! at Hillcrest is launching a new current events program, Conversations. First up, in honor of National Women’s History Month, is a discussion of contemporary women’s issues, with an emphasis on economic justice. 1-3 p.m. FREE. Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-562-4996, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Sports & Fitness

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LEARN TO CURL—Register at the Boise Curling Club website. 5:15 p.m. and 6:15 p.m. $10-$20. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-608-7716, idahoiceworld.com.

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VOLITION AMERICA HALF MARATHON AND 5K—Check out the inaugural Volition America Half Marathon and 5K. 7:45 a.m.-2 p.m. $13-$85. Barber Park, 4049 Eckert Road, Boise, 602-621-3854, volitionamerica.com.

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Kids & Teens AFTER-HOURS INSURGENT PARTY—For ages 12-18. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

AUDITIONS FOR DISNEY’S THE LITTLE MERMAID JR—MeridianCUE is holding auditions for Spring Break camp: Disney’s The Little Mermaid Jr. For ages 6-18. Rehears-

als are March 23-27 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., and performances are March 27-28 at Centennial High. Call or visit the website to register. 11 a.m.1 p.m. $85. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-8410320, meridiancue.org.

Food AN AYURVEDA COOKING EXPERIENCE—Learn your body type and how to best eat and live for that type, and the value of fresh herbs and Ayurvedic herbs. 9 a.m.-12 p.m. $50. PowerHouse Event Center, 621 S. 17th St., Boise, 208-5213816, lifesbalance.org.

LEADBETTER CIDER CO. KICKSTARTER PARTY—Meet the Leadbetters, learn about their start-up business, and join the adventure.

11 a.m. FREE. Outdoor Exchange,

1415 W. Grove St., Boise, 970-2701025, leadbettercider.com.

SAWTOOTH WINERY CABERNET SAUVIGNON & CHEESE VERTICAL TASTING—Enjoy a vertical tasting (consecutive years) of Sawtooth’s Cabernet Sauvignons with gourmet cheese pairings. 12-1:30 p.m., 2-3:30 p.m., and 4-5:30 p.m. $15-$20. Sawtooth Winery, 13750 Surrey Lane, Nampa, 208-4671200, sawtoothwinery.com.

SUNDAY MARCH 22 On Stage COMEDIAN GABRIEL IGLESIAS—7:30 p.m. $49-$89. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts,

ARTS/REVIEW MARCH IS FOR DANCE FANS For fans of dance, March was like being a kid in a candy store.

Ballet Idaho presented the spring offering of its NewDance, Up Close, a series of new works by company dancers and freelance choreographers. Balance Dance Company presented Balance Alchemy, a program of new works NewDance, Up Close opened strong with Daniel Ojeda’s “With All Disrespect,” a dance defined by focus and clarity.

“Ringkiri,” a moving work by Phyllis Rothwell Affrunti, featured dancers on Lazy Susans, illustrating motion and stasis as aspects of romance. Ballet Idaho dancer Adrienne Kerr was elegant and gracePhoto courtesy of Ballet Idaho. ful in Lydia SakolskyBasquill’s “Fear. Unveiled.,” an anxiety-ridden stress test on the relationships between sound and music, and motion and dance.

The highlight of the program was Edson’s “Missed Migration,” an intensely emotional experience with the energy and scale of a full ballet.

In Balance Dance’s Balance Alchemy, Molly Heller’s “Outside the Lines” opened a program of problem-solving and science-themed dances. In Sadi Mosko’s “Wherever There Is,” dancers explored fission and cohesion, while Amanda Micheletty’s “On Memory” tackled orbital motion and chaos. “Time:space,” by Artistic Director Leah Stephens Clark, and Christine Chang Gillespie, a former NASA engineer,was Alchemy’s most explicit treatment of problem solving with its meditations on chaos, resolution and order. While Alchemy comprised several thoughtful thematic works, like Ciera Shaver’s geometrical-themed “125,” its soul was Johanna Kirk’s “Tough Love,” which drew from the nervous energy of failed relationships and flawed reconciliations in a way that left the audience stunned.

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CALENDAR 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

COMEDIAN KIRK MCHENRY—8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

Sports & Fitness RAINBOW BOWLING LEAGUE— The Treasure Valley’s only gay and gay-friendly bowling league is always looking for fun new people and bowlers of all skill levels. Weekly on Sundays. 6:30-8 p.m. $11. 20th Century Lanes, 4712 W. State St., Boise, 208-342-8695, 20thcenturylanes.net.

TREASURE VALLEY ROLLER GIRLS OPEN ENROLLMENT 2015—9-11 a.m. FREE. Eagle Skate Park, Horseshoe Bend Road, Eagle. tvrderby.com.

Animals & Pets SNIP’S 7TH ANNUAL ‘SPAY’ GHETTI NO BALLS—Fundraiser helps Spay Neuter Idaho Pets continue their low-cost services. 5-9 p.m. $40, $300 table of 8. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-968-1338, snipidaho.org.

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MONDAY MARCH 23 Talks & Lectures READ ME TV: DRAFTED! VIETNAM AT WAR AND PEACE—Local writer, humorist and photojournalist David Frazier talks about his experiences in the Vietnam War, as well as impressions from recent return visits to Vietnam, featuring his new photo memoir. For ages 18 and older. 7 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

Citizen KEGS4KAUSE: IDAHO SMART GROWTH—Drop by and enjoy a beer and 50 percent of all beer proceeds will be donated to Idaho Smart Growth. 3-10 p.m. Payette Brewing Company, 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City, 208-344-0011.

Kids & Teens

BCT SPRING BREAK CAMP— Students ages 6-12 learn the fundamentals of acting, storytelling and performing March 23-27.

Call 208-331-9224, ext. 205, to register. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. $250.

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

PCS EDVENTURES LAB SPRING BREAK CAMPS—Get your student excited about STEM. Check out the website for more details on camp dates and prices. Also in Eagle. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. $75-$175 per camp.

PCS Edventures Lab, 345 Bobwhite Court, Ste. 200, Boise, 208-3433110, edventureslab.com.

WARM SPRINGS GOLF COURSE SPRING BREAK GOLF CAMP—For ages 7-15; all skill levels welcome.

March 23-27. For more info, call the clubhouse at 208-343-5661.

9 a.m.-4 p.m. $250. Warm Springs Golf Course, 2495 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-343-5661, warmspringsgolfcourse.com.

Animals & Pets EASTER BUNNY PHOTO OP PET NIGHTS—Help fill the Idaho Humane Society’s Pet Pantry with a donation of $5 or 5 lbs. of food. 6-8 p.m.

Prices vary. Boise Towne Square,

350 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208378-4400, boisetownesquare.com/ easter-photos.

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TUESDAY MARCH 24 Workshops & Classes CWI BOISE FAFSA COMPLETION NIGHT—Get help completing your Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA). RSVP required. Also in Nampa. 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. FREE. College of Western Idaho-Ada County Campus Pintail Center, 1360 S. Eagle Flight Way, Boise, 208-562-3000, cwidaho.cc/ FAnight.

Citizen COFFEE WITH MERIDIAN MAYOR TAMMY DE WEERD—Drop by to discuss issues or hear updates from Meridian Mayor Tammy de Weerd. 8-9:30 a.m. FREE. Ameriben/IEC Group, 3449 E. Copper Point St., Meridian, meridiancity. org.

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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY MARCH 18

THURSDAY MARCH 19

BROOKE FAULK—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

ABOVE AND BEYOND—With 16 Bit Lolitas. 8 p.m. $25-$55.

Revolution

BRS END OF SESSION GIGS—49 p.m. $5 suggested donation.

Boise WaterCooler

ANI DIFRANCO, MARCH 24, REVOLUTION CONCERT HOUSE Depending on whom you ask, Ani DiFranco is either a music pioneer, a feminist culture hero or the answer to “Who’s playing at Lilith Fair?” She is all three and unlike many others who have been at the forefront of a musical/cultural movement, DiFranco has stood the test of time: She has released more than 20 albums over the course of her career (more than 40 if you count recordings of live concerts) on her independent label, Righteous Babe Records.

Along with being a monumentally prolific musician, DiFranco is still an activist and continues to support a variety of social and political causes.

Seemingly tireless, she’ll return to the City of Trees on Tuesday, March 24, to remind us just how good she is—and maybe inspire a few of us to get out there and do something.

—Harrison Berry With Pearl and the Beard, 8 p.m. $35-$55. Revolution Concert House, 4983 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-938-2933, cttouringid.com.

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

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

THE BRET WELTY BAND—8 p.m.

Bouquet

DALE CAVANAUGH—6 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF SESSION GIGS—4-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. Boise WaterCooler

HOLY GHOST TENT REVIVAL— With Emily Tipton. 7 p.m. $5.

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

FRANK MARRA—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

TYCHO—8 p.m. $20-$35. Knitting Factory

FRIDAY MARCH 20 BILL COURTIAL AND CURT GONION—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 DALE CAVANAUGH—6 p.m. FREE. The Bird Stop, Caldwell DOOBIOUS COBB—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill EMILY TRIPTON—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LIVE GERMAN MUSIC—6 p.m.

FREE. Schnitzel Garten LUKAS NELSON AND PROMISE OF THE REAL—1 p.m. FREE. River Run Lodge, Sun Valley THE NAUGHTIES—10 p.m. $5.

Reef PRIMAVERA SALSA—$8. Knitting Factory THE ROOSTER AND THE RAM—7 p.m. FREE. High Note SOUL PARTY WITH DJ DUSTY C—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux TIN MISQUITO—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s

GINA JONES—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District

SATURDAY MARCH 21

KARAOKE WITH DJ BONZ—5:30 p.m. FREE. Six Degrees Nampa

JAZZ AT THE RIVERSIDE JAZZ JAM—9 p.m. FREE. Sapphire Room

ACOUSTIC OUTLINES—2 p.m.

FREE. Artistblue

STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

NORTHWEST TUBA AND EUPHONIUM CONFERENCE—7:30 p.m. $TBA. Morrison Center

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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

TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

TERRY JONES—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

ANDREW MCBRIDE—4 p.m.

FREE. Artistblue

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

BLAZE & KELLY—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s

LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY— Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid SCHYLAR DAVIS—8 p.m. FREE. The Crux

FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

TRIZ AND SUSPECT—7 p.m.

FREE. The Crux

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MUSIC GUIDE BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m.

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

FREE. Chandlers DAVID STONE: THE JOHNNY CASH EXPERIENCE—7:30 p.m. $26. Nampa Civic Center FIVESTAR—7 p.m. FREE. The Crux FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers HILLFOLK NOIR—9:30 p.m.

FREE. Juniper JERRY FEE—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s LIVE GERMAN MUSIC—6 p.m.

FREE. Schnitzel Garten

TUESDAY MARCH 24

RADIO BOISE TUESDAY: PREFORT DANCE PARTY—With DJs KC Joney, Kisses and Big Ups. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

ANI DIFRANCO—With Pearl And The Beard. 8 p.m. $35-$55.

Revolution BEN BURDICK AND DAN COSTELLO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers BERNIE REILLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s DAN COSTELLO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers GAYLE CHAPMAN—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 JAZZ AT THE RIVERSIDE: CLAY MOORE AND FRIENDS—7 p.m.

FREE-$7. Sapphire Room

LYLE EVANS AND BRAD AGGEN—7 p.m. FREE. Boise Brewing

THE JESUS REHAB, MELVILLE, MINDSHOES—8 p.m. $5. The Crux

MICHAELA FRENCH DUO—7 p.m.

FREE. High Note

OPEN MIC—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s

Tyrone Wells TYRONE WELLS—With Dominic Balli and Emily Hearn. 7:30 p.m. $18-$35. Knitting Factory THE WAR FAIR—8 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

MIKE CRAMER—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 MIKE RUTLEDGE—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill THE NAUGHTIES—10 p.m. $5.

Reef OLD DOGS NEW TRICKS—9 p.m.

FREE. O’Michael’s ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: A BEATLES CELEBRATION—7:30 p.m. $10-$15. Sapphire Room

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SHON SANDERS—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Piper SOULPATCH—9-11 a.m. FREE. Barber Park

SUNDAY MARCH 22 KARAOKE—8 p.m. FREE. The Crux NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

VARIOUS ARTISTS, MARCH, BAR 365 AND SAPPHIRE ROOM AT RIVERSIDE HOTEL

THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

Now is the time to check out the recently jazzed-up Bar 365 or the Sapphire Room in the Riverside Hotel, Bar 365 has free live music every night with esteemed ocals like Gayle Chapman, Steve Eaton (pictured), Patricia Folkner, Johann Helton, Frank Marra and more. During the week and on Saturday, music starts at 5 p.m.; on the weekend brunch comes with morning music starting at 9 a.m.

Kick it up a notch at the all-ages Sapphire Room with the inaugural Jazz at the Riverside jam on Friday, March 20 (9 p.m., FREE)— take your instrument and sit in with professionals and amateurs.

Rooftop Revolution, a Beatles tribute group, peforms Saturday, March 21 (7:30 p.m., $10-$15) and Swing is the Thing with Pamela DeMarche, which includes a lesson and dancing, begins Wednesday, March 25 (6 p.m., $5). Take the kids on Saturday, March 28 (11 a.m., $7-$9) for Melodic Mossi’s Musical Matinee Adventure for Kids by Mossi Walene, aka Yo Gabba Gabba’s “Brobee.”

—Amy Atkins

MONDAY MARCH 23 CLAY MOORE AND NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers JEREMY STEWART—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers KEVIN KIRK—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL—8 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

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BOOZEHOUND SPICY GINGER LIQUORS

YAZI GINGER FLAVORED VODKA, $29.95 Produced by Oregon’s Hood River Distillers— makers of Pendleton Whiskey and Broker’s London Dry Gin—Yazi is packaged in a triangular bottle emblazoned with a dragon. Hood River says the liquor contains four species of ginger, lemon, orange, cayenne and red pepper, but the nose has a distinctly medicinal character. The palate is full of ginger heat, with a burn that tickles the back of your throat.

CRATER LAKE SWEET GINGER VODKA, $21.95 Despite the cutesy gingerman smiling from the bottle, this 70-proof vodka from Bendistillery hits your nose with a burst of freshly crushed ginger. The company says it uses fresh whole-root ginger crystallized with natural cane sugar, and you can see bits of sediment in the bottle. The taste is insanely spicy, like German schnapps, and burns all the way down.

DOMAINE DE CANTON FRENCH GINGER LIQUEUR, $26.95 Though made in France, this liqueur incorporates Vietnamese ginger, Tahitian vanilla beans and Tunisian ginseng.

With wafts of acetone and almond extract on the nose, this blend of eau de vie, VSOP and XO Grande Champagne cognacs smells a bit like sushi ginger. On the palate, the viscous tipple has strong vanilla and honey flavors with a pleasant ginger bite. Though the sweetest of the three, it was the panel’s favorite.

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FOOD REVIEW

TAR A M O RG A N

Though you can serve a Moscow Mule without its signature copper mug, you certainly can’t serve it without its primary ingredients: vodka and ginger beer. To simply thigns, we decided to sample three different ginger liquors that require only a spritz of lime and some ice to make a potent variation on the Moscow Mule.

FRIDAY NIGHT DINNER AT THE BASQUE MARKET

A seasonal three-course meal for $25 TARA MORGAN Recipe for a successful Friday dinner: basil-crusted cod and braised pork with white bean ragout.

Wednesday, I was told they were already booked Three times a week, the Basque Market sets up, except for a 5:30 p.m. seating. I arrived a up a gigantic paellera—a shallow paella pan few minutes before our reservation, expecting with thin handles on each side—and ladles the place to be packed, but the long wooden out mounds of saffron-hued rice studded with communal tables were mostly empty. Though seafood, chicken and chorizo. The scent wafts the lack of people made the small, quiet space down the Basque Block, luring downtowners. a bit awkward to dine in, ample food and wine The market also offers a variety of pintxos, or Basque tapas, throughout the week—everything helped us shrug off the ambiance.

We kicked things off with an order of salmon from skewered chorizo and manchego banderilcakes with pink pickled onions and a dill caper las to wedges of Spanish tortilla with caramelremoulade, and a green bean ized onions. But the space hasn’t salad topped with figs and treaded into full-fledged dinner THE BASQUE MARKET toasted walnut vinaigrette. territory. Until now.

608 W Grove St., 208-433While the salmon cakes were The Basque Market recently 1208, thebasquemarket.com. modestly sized with an excellent launched a Friday night prix-fixe crunch, the green beans were on dinner. Each week, Chef Jake the soggy side. Thankfully, the figs and walnuts Arredondo crafts a unique seasonal menu with contributed a bit of texture to the salad and the three starters, three entrees and three desserts for $25 per person. The menu also features sug- walnut dressing added a pleasant zip.

Our entrees—braised pork with white gested wine pairings for each course with super bean ragout, roasted apples and onions; and reasonable by-the-bottle prices ($10-$14). basil-crusted cod with garlic mashed potaWhen I called to make a reservation on a

toes and tomato caper sauce—were both well executed. The tender, shredded pork, crowned with a mound of white onions and a few tart apples, rested on a sea of well-seasoned white beans with a few floating carrot coins. It was classic comfort food, classed up a bit. But the cod ended up being our favorite. The fish was perfectly prepared—not dry or rubbery as cod often can be—and topped with a rich tomato caper sauce and a whole basil leaf. The skin-on mashed potatoes were creamy with a subtle hint of garlic and just the right amount of salt. The desserts followed suit: the chocolate caramel pudding was thick and decadent, with a sprinkle of crushed walnuts, and the ice cream bocadillo (a chocolate chip cookie and vanilla ice cream sandwich) was appropriately comforting.

When we received our relatively modest bill, I made a mental note to book our next Friday night dinner further in advance. I’m hoping the later seating has a more boisterous vibe to match the vibrant menu.

FOOD/NEWS PAYETTE BREWING EXPANSION IN THE WORKS Payette Brewing Co. has been expanding its capacity ever since it opened in Garden City in 2011. Now, according to documents submitted to Boise’s Planning and Development Services, it appears the brewery also plans to expand into a new facility at 733 S. Pioneer St. in downtown Boise.

Payette wants reconfigure the existing 31,676-square-foot building, located off of River Street near the Boise Greenbelt, to allow for a production brewery with an office, a tasting room, an outdoor patio, new truck docks and vehicle ramps with “glass roll-up doors to allow passersby a view into a working brewery.” According to PDS documents, the tasting room will be open seven days a week from 3-10 p.m., and the outdoor patio will feature a fire pit, an area for food trucks, lawn games and live music. Payette Brewing owner Michael Francis declined to comment on the expansion at this time.

In other Payette news, the brewery has once again partnered with Treefort Music Fest to release an official beer for the festival. According to Payette’s

website, this year’s brew, the Axe Handle India Pale Lager, has “notes of lemon and a tangy hop bite.” Past Treefort beers have included: Reckless Radler, Imaginary Friend and No Girls Allowed.

The last beer, now called Rodeo Rye, recently stirred up a bit of a controversy when the brewery distributed a handful of treefort-shaped tap-handle toppers with tiny signs that read, “No Girls Allowed.” Sheila Francis, Payette’s director of Marketing and Events, addressed the issue in a witty blog on the brewery’s website.

“I can get why people are bothered by a little cardboard sign on a Popsicle stick treefort but channel your inner eight-year-old and think, ‘Screw you, I drink what I want,’” she wrote. “Be that strong female with an opinion and don’t let anyone tell you can’t do what you want because of your gender.”

To read the entire entertaining post, visit payettebrewing.com/adventure-log.

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In ’71, audiences get a bracing, non-stop thriller that explores a chapter of history little known to contemporary Americans: The Troubles in Northern Ireland.

THE WEARIN’ OF THE BLOOD The mean streets of new film, ’71 GEORGE PRENTICE The choice by screenwriter Gregory Burke I’ve been to Belfast, Northern Ireland on three and director Yann Demanges (both making their occasions: in the 1970s, the ’80s and the ’90s.

On my first visit, in 1979, I heard someone say feature-length debut) to not make ’71 a character study and instead focus on the events of one fatethe Gaelic phrase “Na Triobloidi.” I certainly ful night in 1971, when a British soldier is sepaknew of “The Troubles” and, quite frankly, considered it to be a passive term for the sectar- rated from his unit during a Belfast riot months before the Bloody Sunday massacre, which left 26 ian violence that defined Northern Ireland from 1969 through the late 1990s, spilling into unarmed civilians dead.

We know little about protagonist Private Ireland, England and even mainland Europe.

Gary Hook (Jack O’Connell) as ’71 begins, with My first memories of Belfast are the ones that the exception that he’s parentless and acting as have remained the clearest: like the day I saw the a surrogate father to a younger brother who has guard towers at the Ireland/Northern Ireland been sent to a miserable foster facility. On Hook’s border laid out in a serpentine design to hinder first day as a soldier in Belfast he is inspecting car bombs plowing through the checkpoint. homes for firearms when things “We’re nothing more than turn ugly fast. In a matter of cannon fodder,” a too-young ’71 minutes, Hook and another British soldier told me that same soldier are separated from their day in a Protestant-friendly pub, Directed by Yann Demange, written by Gregory Burke squad; the second soldier is dreading the British military assassinated by a street thug and orders that had placed a target Starring Jack O’Connell Hook becomes the prey in a on his 18-year-old back.

Opens Friday, March 20 at The hunt through an urban setting Those words and that boy’s Flicks, 646 W. Fulton St., 208342-4288, theflicksboise.com. as dangerous as any war zone. I face, indelibly etched in my promise, you’ll need to remind mind, rushed to the surface yourself to breathe. the other day while I watched ’71 is gritty and streetwise, and there are mo’71, one of the best—if not the best—narrative ments that harken back to 1957’s Paths of Glory, film concerning The Troubles. ’71 is a bracing, non-stop thriller without a political agenda and is 1979’s The Warriors and even 1981’s Escape From New York. ’71’s breakneck speed is intense without required viewing for anyone concerned with this little-chronicled chapter in contemporary history. being overbearing and, to that end, it’s far supeBOISE WEEKLY.COM

rior than many other contemporary thrillers. It’s an astounding first-time-out-of-the-gate achievement from Burke and Demange, whose use of 16-millimeter camerawork for day shots and digital equipment for night scenes is highly effective, especially considering how this particular saga takes place in a single night—a familiar choice for an Irish storyline (i.e. James Joyce’s Ulysses).

Ultimately, ’71 is O’Connell’s movie. Audiences may know him better as the star of 2014’s big-budget Unbroken, directed by Angelina Jolie.

However, in ’71, O’Connell’s quiet intensity is a wonder to behold and will help rocket him to the top of the list of must-see actors.

When ’71 opens at The Flicks in Boise on Friday, March 20, many of us may still be nursing a St. Patrick’s Day hangover—perhaps from downing one too many Irish Car Bombs, that particularly American (and particularly offensive, considering the bloodshed stemming from The Troubles) concoction of Irish stout, Irish cream and Irish whiskey. More sobering will be the conclusion ’71, which reminded me of my last visit to Belfast, when I took note of several memorials to the slain that had been erected in the city. Many chose not to erect statues or plaques and instead opted to leave untouched a few of the craters caused by The Troubles bombings.

No memorial could ever fill the holes—in the ground or in their hearts.

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7 50-50 chance 8 It can be sappy 9 Parodist’s principle 10 Charges 11 There’s one every year for Person of the Year: Abbr.

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CS 2015, available for both iPhone and Android, is a cute, simple little game in which you are a frisky kitten scampering around, knocking things over, collecting gold coins and FREE, catsimulator2015.com being all-around annoying to the humans you encounter as you complete small, timed missions like smashing a big-screen TV or catching and feeding the puppy romping around the yard.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: April Nicole Davis Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1502023 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of April Nicole Davis, 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 April Nicole McConnell. The reason for the change in name is divorce.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) March 24, 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 February 12, 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Feb. 25, Mar. 4, 11 & 18, 2015.

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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 application of: ANTHONY I. SEITZ, for change of name.

CASE NO. CVNC 1422943 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of Anthony I. Seitz, a minor, now residing in the City of Meridian, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Ashley Kayy Spencer.

The reason for the change in name is the minor child is transitioning her gender and desires to change her first and middle name to reflect this transition. The minor child desires to change her surname to reflect that of her siblings.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p. m. on March 24, 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.

Dated this 12th day of February, 2015.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Brandon Gregory Brown Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1501534 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Brandon Gregory Brown, 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 Brandon Jeffrey Gehman. The reason for the change in name is: to take the name of the man who raised me my entire life.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) March 24, 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.

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): You’re entering a time and space known as the Adlib Zone. In this territory, fertile chaos and inspirational uncertainty are freely available. Improvised formulas will generate stronger mojo than timeworn maxims. Creativity is de rigueur, and street smarts count for more than book-learning. May I offer some mottos to live by when “common sense” is inadequate?

1. Don’t be a slave to necessity. 2.

Be as slippery as you can be and still maintain your integrity. 3. Don’t just question authority, be thrilled about every chance you get to also question habit, tradition, fashion, trendiness, apathy and dogma.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): By 1993, rock band Guns N’ Roses had released five successful albums. But on the way to record their next masterpiece, there were numerous delays and diversions. Band members feuded. Some were fired and others departed. Eventually, only one original member remained to bring the task to conclusion with the help of new musicians. The sixth album, Chinese Democracy, finally emerged in 2008. I’m seeing a similarity between Guns N’ Roses’ process and one of your ongoing projects, Taurus. The good news is that I think most of the hassles and delays are behind you, or will be if you act now. You’re primed to make a big push toward the finish line.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The anonymous blogger at Neurolove.me gives advice on how to love a Gemini: “Don’t get impatient with their distractibility.

Always make time for great conversation. Be understanding when they’re moody. Help them move past their insecurities, and tell them it’s not their job to please everyone. Let them have space but never let them be lonely.” I endorse all that good counsel and add this: “To love Geminis, listen to them attentively, and with expansive flexibility. Don’t try to force them to be consistent; encourage them to experiment at uniting their sometimes conflicting urges. As best as you can, express appreciation not just for the parts of them that are easy to love but also for the parts that are not yet ripe or charming.” Now feel free, Gemini, to show this horoscope to those whose affection you want.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You have recently been to the mountaintop, at least metaphorically. Right? You wandered out to the high frontier and ruminated on the state of your fate from the most expansive vista you could find. Right? You have questioned the limitations you had previously accepted, and you have weaned yourself from at least one of your devitalizing comforts, and you have explored certain possibilities that had been taboo. Right? So what comes next? Here’s what

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I suggest: Start building a new framework or structure or system that will incorporate all that you’ve learned during your break.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): According to the international code of food standards, there are 13 possible sizes for an olive. They include large, extra large, jumbo, extra jumbo, giant, colossal, super colossal, mammoth and super mammoth. If I had my way, Leo, you would apply this mindset to everything you do in the coming weeks. It’s time for you to think very big. You will thrive as you expand your mind, stretch your boundaries, increase your territory, amplify your self-expression, magnify your focus, and broaden your innocence.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough,” proclaimed humorist Josh Billings.

That’s an exaggeration made for comic effect, of course. (And I think that some of life’s troubles also come from saying no too much and not saying yes enough.)

But for you, Virgo, Billings’ advice will be especially pertinent in the coming weeks. In fact, my hypothesis is that you will be able to keep your troubles to a minimum and boost your progress to a maximum by being frugal with yes and ample with no.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your mind says, “I need more room to move. I’ve got to feel free to experiment.” Your heart says, “I think maybe I need more commitment and certainty.” Your astrologer suggests, “Be a bit more skeptical about the dream lover who seems to be interfering with your efforts to bond with the Real Thing.” I’m not sure which of these three sources you should heed, Libra. Do you think it might somehow be possible to honor them all?

I invite you to try.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Without your wound where would your power be?” asked writer Thornton Wilder. “The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.”

Let’s make that one of your ongoing meditations, Scorpio. I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to come to a greater appreciation for your past losses. What capacities has your suffering given birth to? What failures have made you stronger? What crucial lessons and unexpected benefits have emerged from your sadness and madness?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Creating is not magic but work,” says Kevin Ashton, author of the book How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery. In other

words, inspiration is a relatively small part of the creative process.

Over the long haul, the more important factors are self-discipline, organized thinking, hard work, and attention to detail. And yet inspiration isn’t irrelevant, either.

Brainstorms and periodic leaps of insight can be highly useful. That’s a good reminder as you enter a phase when you’re likely to be more imaginative and original than usual. I expect creative excitement to be a regular visitor.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The fictional detective Sherlock Holmes was a good Capricorn, born Jan. 6, 1854. In the course of Arthur Conan Doyle’s 60 stories about Holmes’ life, he revealed his exceptional talent as an analytical thinker. His attention to details was essential to his success, and so was his expertise at gathering information. He did have a problem with addictive drugs, however. Morphine tempted him now and then, and cocaine more often, usually when he wasn’t feeling sufficiently challenged. Let this serve as a gentle warning, Capricorn. In the coming weeks, seek more relaxation and downtime than usual. Focus on recharging your psychic batteries.

But please be sure that doesn’t cause you to get bored and then dabble with self-sabotaging stimuli.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): English is my first language. Years ago there was a time when I spoke

a lot of French with my Parisian girlfriend, but my skill faded after we broke up. So I’m not bilingual in the usual sense. But I do have some mastery in the language of music, thanks to my career as a singer-songwriter. Having raised a daughter, I also learned to converse in the language of children.

And I’ve remembered and worked with my nightly dreams every day for decades, so I speak the language of dreams. What about you, Aquarius? In the coming weeks, I bet you’ll be challenged to make more extensive use of one of your second languages. It’s time to be adaptable and resourceful in your approach to communication.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you need a reason to think sharper and work smarter and try harder? I’ll give you four reasons.

1. Because you’re finally ready to get healing for the inner saboteur who in the past has undermined your confidence. 2. Because you’re finally ready to see the objective truth about one of your self-doubts, which is that it’s a delusion. 3.

Because you’re finally ready to stop blaming an adversary for a certain obstacle you face, which means the obstacle will become easier to overcome. 4. Because you’re finally ready to understand that in order to nurture and hone your ample creativity, you have to use it to improve your life on a regular basis.

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Date FEB 12, 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB FEB. 25, MAR. 4, 11, & 18, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Margarita Maria Lorenz Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1502441 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Margarita Maria Lorenz, 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 Margarita Katniss Cale. The reason for the change in name is: I would like to carry the last name of my father who raised me from young.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 07, 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 FEB 19, 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Brittany Elizabeth Barr Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1501017 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Brittany Elizabeth Barr, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The

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A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 2, 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 28 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEBRA URIZAR DEPUTY CLERK PUB MAR. 4, 11, 18 & 25, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: LAUREL JANE WALKER Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1502627 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of LAUREL JANE WALKER, 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 LAUREL JANE OSTERHOUT. The reason for the change in name is: returning to my maiden name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) April 14, 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 FEB 25 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 11, 18, 25 & April 1, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: DANIELLE MARIE MORGAN Legal Name

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Case No. CV NC 1502754 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of DANIELLE MARIE MORGAN, 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 DANIEL AEDYN MORGAN. 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) APR 14, 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 FEB 25 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 11, 18, 25 & April 1, 2015.

LEGAL NOTICE SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION CASE NO. CV 14 10445 IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE THIRD JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF THE STATE OF IDAHO IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF CANYON, Fieldcrest Village Subdivision Neighborhood Association, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Roberto Acosta and Ana Cabrera Acosta, Defendants. TO: ANA CABRERA ACOSTA You have been sued by Fieldcrest Village Subdivision Neighborhood Association, Inc., the Plaintiff, in the District Court of the Third Judicial District in and for Canyon County, Idaho, Case No. CV 14 10445. The nature of the claim against you is for unpaid homeowner association assessments, more particularly described in the Complaint. Any time after twenty (20) days following the last publication of this Summons, the Court may enter a judgment against you without further notice, unless prior to that time you have filed a

written response in the proper form, including the case number., and paid any required filing fee to: Clerk of the Court, Canyon County Courthouse 1115 Albany Caldwell, Idaho 83605 Telephone (208) 454-7300 and served a copy of your response on the Plaintiff’s attorney at : Jeremy O. Evans of VIAL FOTHERINGHAM LLP, 12828 LaSalle Dr Ste 101, Boise, ID 83702, Telephone 208629-4567, Facsimile 208-392-1400.

A copy of the Summons and Complaint can be obtained by contacting either the Clerk of the court or the attorney for Plaintiiff. If you wish legal assistance, you should immediately retain an attorney to advise you in this matter.

DATED this 25 day of Feb., 2015.

CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT CHRIS YAMAMOTO PUB. FEB. 11, 18, 25 & APR. 1, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: LEANN ELIZABETH WOOD Legal Name

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Case No. CV NC 1502671 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of LeAnn Elizabeth Wood, 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 Elizabeth Ada Shakespeare. The reason for the change in name is: to reflect personal and marital changes.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 14, 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 FEB 25 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH

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New York Times BestSellers (print and e-book fiction), as of March 15:

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I t t a ke s s o m e courage to suppor t this kind o f b i l l.”

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1. The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins (8 weeks) 2. Dead Heat, by Patricia Biggs (1 week) 3. All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (25 weeks) 4. The Assassin, by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott (1 week) 5. Fifty Shades Darker, by E.L. James (61 weeks) 6. The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah (5 weeks) 7. Fifty Shades Freed, by E.L. James (58 weeks) 8. A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler (4 weeks) Miss Idaho International Madison Summers met Lt. Andy Johnson (L) and Sgt. Danielle Young (R) on March 17 when she joined a number of Vista neighborhood residents at the inaugural Boise Police Department Coffee with a Cop at Caffe Capri on Vista Avenue.

9. Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James (80 weeks) 10. Still Alice, by Lisa Genova (8 weeks)

READER COMMENTS From our most shared Facebook post, March 11-17, “Why Idaho Kids Don’t Go to College”: Benjamin Hall: Education is the key to liberty whereas ignorance is the consolation of tyranny.

Luciano Filicetti: The cost of a college degree has increased more than 1120% in the past 30 years. … The national student loan debt is more than 1 trillion dollars. … This is clearly not an issue of education. If you want people to be educated then make college free or reduce tuition costs [drastically].

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I make more than the average wage and so does my husband.

But I agree that there needs to be opportunities that require the degree for people to be motivated.

Mike Tandrow: Yeah! We’ll teach them educated liberals! We’ll stay stupid just to spite ’em!

Yee-haw!!

J.K. Kelley: An education population would have the ability to see how badly it was governed, so of course as little as possible is done to promote education.

Bo Hayes: I must always remind myself… “I choose to live here, I choose to live here.”

Leah Kaupanger-Woodward: [M] ost of the jobs available here don’t require a high school diploma and pay minimum wage. I’m glad I went to college.

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Inches of snow at Bogus Basin, as of March 16 National Resources Conservation Service

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Reffeahcs Eam Hannah: I’m really tired of the institution of higher education brainwashing us into thinking the only way to be successful is through higher education. … Perhaps [the reason] the “uneducated’ don’t pursue “successful” jobs that require “an education” is because their minds and creativity are being stifled by people telling them that their path to knowledge and their abilities to learn aren’t good enough.

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Average number of days the slopes are open at Bogus Basin vs. number of days the resort was open for the 2014-2015 snow season Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area

44%

Amount tickets sales were down at Bogus this year compared to the 2013-2014 season Bogus Basin Mountain Recreation Area

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—BOISE MOTHER CL ARE CARE Y, WHO HAS CAMPA IGN ED IN FAVO R O F ALLOWING AC CES S TO CANNABIDIOL OIL FOR SEIZURE TRE ATMENT, O N IDA HO L AWMA KERS WHO VOTED TO SEN D A MEDICAL CBD BILL TO THE F ULL SENATE.

“ENA f inds it self in the anomalous position of havi ng undeniably provi ded val uab l e ser vi ce s to the [ I dah o Educ ati o n Net work] , but b ei ng den i ed pay men t b ec aus e of the unilateral ac tions of the S t ate.”

— L AW F IRM GREEN ER BURKE SHO EMA KER A N D O B E RREC HT I N A $ 6 MILLIO N TORT C L A IM F ILED AGA IN ST IDA HO ON BEHALF OF EDUCATION NET WORKS OF AMERICA .

$12.2 BILLION

Estimated value of the ski industry Natural Resources Defense Council

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FROM THE BW POLL VAULT “Do you think Sen. Sheryl Nuxoll should apologize for her comments against the Hindu religion?”

Yes: 462 votes (91.3%) No: 27 votes (5.34%) Who cares?: 17 votes (3.36%) Disclaimer: This online poll is not i ntend ed to b e a s c i enti f i c s a mp l e o f l o c a l, statewi d e o r nati onal op i ni on.

$1 BILLION

Decline in ski industry revenue attributed to low snowfall, 19992010 Natural Resources Defense Council/Protect Our Winters

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Number of ski resorts across the country that CNL Lifestyle Properties may put on the market

Number of Idaho ski resorts that endorse the “Sustainable Slopes” environmental charter for ski areas.

Associated Press

National Ski Areas Association

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