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“You have this little ghost following you around, whispering ‘You need to work on this.’” NEWS 8

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Little Boy Lost New Plymouth remembers Robert Manwill

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Cloudy Skies

The Boulder-White Cloud Mountains: Wilderness or Monument?

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Digging for Meaning Local musician Lee Penn Sky on 29 Left Down FREE TAKE ONE!

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EDITOR’S NOTE LIVING IN THE MOMENT (Associate Editor Amy Atkins here, sitting in for Zach Hagadone, who is out on assignment. Yep, even the chief has to do a story once in awhile.)

I leave BWHQ on Tuesdays with a strange sense of detachment. Though the next Boise Weekly will hit stands (and the Internet) a few hours after I lock the doors and set the alarm, I’m already thinking about the next-next edition. I’m by no means alone in my dismissal of the here-and-now: More than ever, we plan for the hours, days, even weeks and months ahead in an effort to better design our professional and personal lives, and I am on a continuous quest to be more organized. I know planning is vital to success, but focusing on the future pushes the present out of my periphery. This may sound like the end of every romantic comedy ever, but wealth really isn’t defined by material goods: friends and family are the real currency. As Bob Marley said, “The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.”

It’s easy to go about our days as though the people who matter most to us will always be just a phone call or a visit away, and to forget how quickly everything can change.

In this week’s edition, we have a few stories that remind us to be more present, like our News feature on Page 8, where News Editor George Prentice writes about his visit to the small town of New Plymouth, where Robert Manwill lived until his life was cut short by those who should have been protecting him. People who knew Robert remember a sweet boy and each year since his 2009 murder, they have honored his memory with an art auction.

On Page 24, local musician Lee Penn Sky talks about how the death of 29 miners and a near-death experience of his own inspired an album almost 10 years in the making.

On a personal note, I am working on changing my own paradigm. One of my nieces was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor. The tumor was removed and her recovery was quick, but the prognosis—and thereby her future—isn’t all sunshine and rainbows. Her situation has reminded me of the value of living in the moment and, at the risk of being maudlin, how rich I really am.

—Amy Atkins

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

SHARIA LAW? THE DEFE AT OF SENATE BILL 1067, DESIGNED TO BRING IDAHO IN LINE WITH FEDER AL RE G U L ATI O N S O N C HI L D S U PP O RT PAYMENTS, SPARKED AN INTENSE WAR OF WO RDS AMONG LEGISL ATORS AF TER A FE W OF THEM SUGGESTED THE BILL WOULD SOMEHOW OPEN THE WAY FOR SHARIA L AW IN IDAHO. MORE ON CIT YDESK.

CIVIL SERVICE Boise Mayor Dave Bieter is once again inviting teens to sit on city boards and committees for Arts and History, Housing Authority, Parks and Rec and more. Details on Citydesk.

BAD ENERGY The former vice president of would-be nuke plant developer Alternate Energy Holdings is expected to plead guilty to securities fraud and forfeit more than $500,000. More on Citydesk.

FLYING OFF THE HANDLE A new Airline Quality Rating report shows some improvement but, for the most part, airline travel is still just the worst. Details on Citydesk.

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OPINION THE FLUTTER!

Special Edition: The Other SFMPB BILL COPE My dearest Brothers and Sisters in our dear Society For Making People Better, You must be wondering what has happened to make me think you can stomach another THE FLUTTER! so closely upon the heels of the last one. Well, if you don’t like it, don’t blame me! It is Ken Burns’ fault. You know, that guy who does all those documentaries about American things that they show on the PBS channel? Okay, yes. I admit. It was me who decided we needed a special edition of THE FLUTTER!. But one of Ken Burns’ darn documentaries made me decide it.

Do you remember in the last THE FLUTTER! (#17) that I gave you a new rule for the The Official Society For Making People Better Rule Book? You should. It’s only been three weeks. It is Rule 18 and here it is again, in case you forgot to add it to your personal rule book: If you chose to reject sound, scientific evidence in some fields, you cannot take advantage of sound, scientific results from other fields.

You may also remember, or not, that I didn’t have room to explain why I thought it would be a good new rule for our dear Society because I used up so many words talking about other things. First I explained my transition from Rajah Bill to Brother Bill. And then I warned you about the big hashtag/ number/pound/tic-tac-toe conspiracy going on with that monstrous “#” thingie, and by the time I got to the new rule, I was plumb out of space. Don’t blame me. It’s that darn Boise Weekly’s fault for not giving me all the room I need to get to everything that needs gotten to.

What I would have explained about the new rule, had I been allowed the space to do it, is how it concerns the way certain people refuse to accept what highly-trained professional scientists are trying to tell them when it comes to such matters as climate change, the effects on the environment by toxic chemicals and deforestation and over-population, and the general mess industry has made of human health and life on Earth as a whole. Yet those same certain people—many of whom hold powerful positions such as Senators and Governors and oil company CEOs—expect their doctors and medical care providers to be up-to-the-minute on any science that concerns their own, personal health.

See what I mean? They are so dead-set against science getting in the way of their making tons and tons of money, they resort to calling scientist liars and hoaxsters, to destroying reputations and careers, to defunding research and denigrating entire fields of inquiry, to rewriting textbooks and distorting history itself, rather than admit those scientists may be right. Yet who do they turn to when they get sick? Who do they turn to when they want longer, healthier lives?

SCIENTISTS! ... that’s who! The very same smart, highly trained professional people they call liars and hoaxsters when the evidence says Earth is going to hell in a fondue pot, and it’s happening because of stuff they are doing or selling or digging out of mountain tops in West Virginia or spilling into the Gulf of Mexico or whatever.

But there’s another aspect to being scientists I hadn’t really thought about much until I saw Ken Burns’ latest documentary last week. The three-parter was called Cancer: The Emperor of Maladies, and it chronicled the century-long search for a cure to this bastard dirty asshole disease that has cursed—or likely will curse—virtually every man, woman and child on Earth, either directly or collaterally. What makes Burns’ documentaries so powerful is how he turns the narrative of his subject matter—be it the Civil War, baseball, jazz, the national parks—into a series of profiles of the people involved. He reminds us that every Civil War soldier, every ball player, jazzman or preservationist were mere men and women first, historical figures second. In every one of his films, Burns’ makes clear it is the history of individuals that determines the history of nations.

This documentary on cancer was no different. The history of the war on cancer is nothing more than the interlocking histories of the men and women who have dedicated—and still are dedicating— their lives to making ours longer and better. It takes a passion few of us have, to keep digging ever deeper into the mysteries of our world, and it’s seldom, if ever, done for any other reward other than to save and improve lives, preserve a livable world, and learn. I see it now, thanks to Ken Burns and his darn documentary: These people belong to their own Society For Making People Better, and their society has been around for centuries.

So with this considered, I feel it is my duty as founder and Brother-in-Chief of our dear SFMPB, to rescind Rule 18. Yes, just rip it out of your rule books and burn it in a waste basket. (A metal waste basket would be best.) I wrote it in a moment of weakness and resentment. I wrote it because, at the time, I felt people who refuse to accept the evidence of global warming don’t deserve the benefits of what other scientific endeavors have bequeathed us.

But that darn Ken Burns and his darn documentary made me realize the members of that other Society For Making People Better would never deny their science to anyone. Not even to people who would deny them the gratitude and respect they deserve.

Signed: Your Founding Brother—Working hard everyday to be a better Bill.

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OPINION ENDING HISTORY

Five thoughts on Boise State’s Year Zero JOHN REMBER 1. “What has been will be again. What has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.” That’s the poet of Ecclesiastes speaking, and he makes it hard to get excited about history. Ecclesiastes also says that human endeavor is vanity upon vanity upon vanity. The poet repeats this latter point rather more often than is necessary.

If I were an historian, and if I accidentally read a couple of chapters of Ecclesiastes before breakfast, I’d go to a pancake house and order a double portion of artery-clogging cheese blintzes with bacon and a cinnamon roll and black coffee.

Because why not?

I’d borrow a stained copy of The National Enquirer and read several extensive articles about the Kardashians before staggering home, uncorking the gin and drunk-texting old girlfriends. I’d blow off writing any history for the week.

2. The literary critic Harold Bloom advanced the notion that every serious writer tries to erase the work of his or her ancestors, so as to write upon a blank page. This idea puts historians in a bind: if you erase the efforts of your ancestors, you destroy your material. Sure, you can go back and reinterpret primary sources. For instance, you can look at George Washington as the great patriot who fathered a country or as the slaveowning oligarch who refused to pay his fair share of taxes. Same data, different conclusion.

But George Washington still manifests as the heavy, dead hand of the past. There’s been a bunch of stuff written about him, so you’ll never begin with a blank page if you’re honest. A lot of hostility toward the past results from our ancestors being so hard to erase—and how little room to maneuver their accomplishments allow us. It makes you sympathize with the history-hating folks who burned the Library at Alexandria, even if it did contain all the lost plays of Sophocles and a simple kitchen formula for eternal youth and the schematics for the faster-than-light starship that brought our alien ancestors to this planet.

3. Insecure rulers have burned the libraries and defaced the statues of kings and queens that preceded them. The French Revolutionary calendar started with Year Zero and got to year 12 before Napoleon abolished it. The Muslim calendar marks 2015 as 1436. In the Chinese calendar it’s 4709. It’s 5775 in the Jewish calendar.

The Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, perhaps inspired by their long ordeal as a French colony, also declared a Year Zero and set about slaughtering anyone who remembered otherwise. It is not good to know history in the midst of a revolution, whose leaders tend to insist that there is indeed something new under the sun. It’s the naBOISE WEEKLY.COM

ture of revolutionaries to prefer blank slates, clean sheets of paper and new ideas. These things testify to the palpable nonexistence of their predecessors.

In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge destroyed the records of archaeologists trying to reconstruct ancient Khmer temples, leaving carefully-numbered piles of building stone and statue fragments: three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles with millions of look-alike pieces.

4. “History is more or less bunk,” said Henry Ford in 1916. Ford should have remembered his own assertion when he came across The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but he treated that piece of malevolent fiction as an authentic primary source. It formed the foundation for his anti-Semitism, provided the impetus for his antiSemitic newspaper, and ultimately inspired Hitler to keep a picture of Henry Ford on his desk.

Ford’s example shows that it’s hard to escape a naïve faith in history, even when you say it’s bunk. Rejecting history doesn’t get rid of the past, it just ensures that you don’t look critically at the artifacts the past has delivered. Any old piece of junk can be a valuable antique. Any piece of propaganda can be true. Any belief can be justified by historical facts made up on the spot. The United States didn’t start out as a fundamentalist Christian country? No problem. It was now.

The story goes that Ford remained an unrepentant anti-Semite all his life, railing against Jewish bankers and war profiteers until he saw films taken by the liberators of the Nazi death camps. Upon witnessing the endgame of his own propaganda, he had the cerebral hemorrhage that killed him. This story could be true, but it has a symmetry that suggests it is propaganda disguised as history.

5. In our own time, technology may create a Year Zero. Certainly the folks who gutted the Boise State University history department seem to think so. Human intelligence will be made obsolete by artificial intelligence, which will go on to invent a future that has no connection to the past. It will be a revolution in the truest sense of the word.

“We just can’t afford to subsidize [History] anymore,” is how Boise State administrators are introducing a brave new world of corporate grants, branded classrooms, technology initiatives and pay-as-you-go liberal arts.

They’ve reduced the number of credits required to graduate. Students are being told that history is vanity, which indicates that these administrators have been selectively reading their Ecclesiastes, or that they devoutly wish for a Year Zero to free them from the impossible burden of two already-played Fiesta Bowls, or both.

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GEORGE PRENTICE

NEWS

Imagine their surprise when Boise School District officials received a mystery check for $419,000.

THE CHECK WAS IN THE MAIL Nancy Landon, Budget and Finance Administrator for the Boise School District, gets a lot of mail but nothing like the envelope that crossed her desk in March.

“It was crazy,” she said. “You know how you get those fake checks in the mail all the time? I wish you could have seen this particular check. It was teeny, and the only thing it said was ‘CDA Dairy Queen vs. ISIF.’” It’s a good thing Landon didn’t toss the check. Not only wasn’t it fake, it was for $419,000, payable to the Independent School District of Boise City.

“We went to a website, researched it and lo and behold, it’s very real,” said Landon.

A Dairy Queen in Coeur d’Alene had sued the Idaho State Insurance Fund, alleging the fund had not properly calculated or distributed its dividends between July 1, 2002 and May 5, 2009.

“And they prevailed in that lawsuit. I think they ended up winning $35 million,” said Landon.

More importantly an Idaho District Court ordered proper dividends to be distributed to members of the fund.

“And yes, our worker’s comp insurance is paid to the State Insurance Fund,” Landon confirmed. “They had to send dividends out to everyone who had a policy in those years and most of the school districts received money.” That included a $419,000 windfall to the Boise School District.

Landon said as soon as she confirmed the validity of the check, it was deposited into the school district’s general fund and she was next turning to the district’s Board of Trustees for permission to transfer the fund the plant facility account.

“We’re in need of doing some facilities maintenance work,” said Landon. “This will definitely help pay for some of that maintenance.”

—George Prentice

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Robert Manwill was 8-years-old when he died in the summer of 2009. He was re-imagined as a 13-year-old by artist Katy Belanger in 2014. Manwill’s classmates, now eighth-graders at New Plymouth Middle School, helped designed a sculpture (right) that today stands in New Plymouth’s city park.

ROBERT

Seeing Robert Manwill today GEORGE PRENTICE There is a particular lilt to children’s laughter in spring. As the sun’s warmth coaxes the first carpet of grass, high-pitched squeals of glee becomes a soundtrack for the season. Such is the case on the front lawn of New Plymouth Elementary School where the last bell of the school day ushers in an hour or two of swinging, playing kickball or exploring. One thing missing is Robert Manwill.

Since his death in 2009, he has remained a grade-schooler in the collective memory of the general public, but to the people who knew him best—especially his former classmates, now eighth-graders—Robert is ever-present.

“And when they graduate from the middle school this spring, there will be an empty chair for Robert,” said Christy Morales, Manwill’s second-grade teacher. “His favorite color was green, and I’ll have some green pins to hand out to his classmates. In a very real way, Robert will be there.”

For New Plymouth artist Katy Belanger, Manwill remains an inspiration and even a motivation.

“Sometimes I’ll paint a picture with a child in it. A year ago, I painted something ….” Belanger paused for a moment to search for the right way to describe her art.

“I think that piece was incredible,” added fellow artist Pattie Young. “It would have been how Robert might look like today.”

Belanger said her painting depicted a boy, somewhere between childhood and young manhood.

“He’s a bit older now,” Belanger said. “Deep into the background, there are boys looking through a window. Deep into its background, I varnished child abuse awareness images but up

front, you see him looking through a window with flowers and birds all around. I don’t know; I just painted it.”

A few nights later, long after Belanger had tucked her 10-year-old daughter in bed and laid down next to her, her daughter tugged on Belanger’s sleeve.

“I think it was two in the morning,” Belanger said, “and she leaned over and whispered, ‘I think that painting is really nice.’”

‘EVERYTHING CHANGED’ Belanger, who grew up in New Plymouth and has been an art instructor at Homedale High School for 20-plus years, has painted multiple pieces inspired by Manwill in the past six years.

“In 2009, I was working on my masters from the University of Idaho and struggling with what I was going to say with my art,” she said. “When I first started, I wanted something nice to hang on the wall. I’m a quiet person, but I realized I can reach many more people with my art than I ever could speaking. I like the idea of using art as vocabulary. And then Robert when missing. Everything changed. Social work starting coming through my [art]. I started cutting newspaper articles out regarding Robert. I varnished them onto a canvas and then painted big flowers over the article—the flowers represent children who seem fine, but grow among these complex issues.

And if you really look closely, there’s always more to what you think you see initially. It’s not always pretty.”

Belanger paused for another moment, thinking back to 2009.

“I don’t know what I needed to do, and I think I was an auto-pilot. These were very large

pieces of art, but I was doing one after another,” she said. “And then I turned to my U of I professors and they said they liked what I was doing.”.

Soon enough, Belanger said she felt the “need to get them out into the community and promote a dialogue.” In April 2010, just months after the body of Robert Manwill was discovered in a Boise canal, triggering the arrest of Manwill’s mother and her boyfriend, Belanger decided to hold an art auction with dual purposes: to raise money for a scholarship fund and to inspire more conversation about how to better protect our children. The 2010 event realized Belanger’s dreams and each year since, including the upcoming Saturday, April 25 auction, her idea has grown into a bigger success.

“To some degree, you have this little ghost following you around, whispering ‘You need to work on this’ and ‘Don’t forget about this,’” said Belanger, smiling at Young. “So for the next year, I knew we had to reach out to other artists.”

Young, a metal artist whose work appears in galleries throughout the Northwest and who has donated some of her previous work to the Discovery Center of Idaho, said that by the time she got a phone call from Belanger, she’d had similar thoughts.

“I had already been hit by many of the same emotions. I had to get involved,” Young said.

“As the years have gone by, my projects got bigger and just last year, I worked with Robert’s classmates—they were in the seventh grade at the time—and we asked the welding class at New Plymouth High School to participate. It’s a big sculpture that, today, sits in 10 the New Plymouth City Park.”

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NEWS

A GOP war of words erupted in the wake of the defeat of Senate Bill 1067.

‘HEAVY-HANDED THEATRICS’ It only took a few hours after the 2015 session of the Idaho Legislature concluded April 11 for lawmakers to begin sniping at one another. This time it wasn’t elephants versus donkeys—it was a pachyderms-only rhubarb.

The bickering began when Boise Rep. Lynn Luker decided to gloat over the defeat of Senate Bill 1067, which had been designed to bring Idaho in line with federal regulations on child support payments. Luker said the bill had “serious risks and flaws” in its alignment with international agreements which critics linked to Sharia law. The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare immediately warned in nixing the bill, lawmakers had put the Gem State at risk of losing $16 million in federal child support funding.

Making matters worse, Luker’s criticism of the bill was pushed out to local media outlets by the Idaho House Majority Caucus, prompting a few of his own GOP brethren to cry foul.

“Representative Luker does not speak for Idaho or me.”Scuttling SB 1067 without debate was heavy-handed opportunistic theatrics at the expense of single parents and children,” said Coeur d’Alene Rep. Luke Malek. “I do not support the erratic behavior that will lead to the dismantling of our child support system, nor the implication that this mockery of a legal analysis in any way represents our Republican caucus.”

Nampa Rep. Robert Anderst chimed in, saying, “I will not allow Mr. Luker to be perceived as speaking for me or the caucus.”

Burley Rep. Fred Wood added, “It is not my opinion. I do not want to be associated in any way with it.”

That was enough for the House GOP Caucus Communications Director to backpedal, writing that Luker’s comments did “not reflect the opinion of the entire House GOP Caucus.” By then, yet another Republican, Meridian Rep. Joe Palmer, had heard enough.

“Well, if there is a conference committee, please don’t put me on it,” wrote Palmer.

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(Left) Robert Manwill’s classmates, now eighth-graders, helped create a 2014 sculpture in his memory that now stands in New Plymouth’s city park. Artist Pattie Young (center), stands next to a 2015 sculpture which includes six roses (one for each year that Robert has been gone). New Plymouth Elementary School teacher Christy Morales (upper right) stands next to a swing, bult in her former student’s honor, on the front lawn of the school. Students from New Plymouth High School (lower right) helped to weld the sculptures in Robert’s honor.

and her boyfriend, Daniel Ehrlick, regularly appeared on camera, asking for help. Manwill’s body was found in the New York Canal near Cloverdale Road on August 3, 2009. Two weeks later, Jenkins and Ehrlick were indicted on murder charges and on September 11, 2011, District Court Judge Darla Williamson, who said she wanted to impose a greater sentence, accepted an agreement to give Jenkins 25 years behind bars without parole. Ehrlick was sentenced to life in THE BOY WHO LOVED TO HUG prison without parole.

“I have a picture of Robert right over here,” Meanwhile, a probe of records revealed that, said Morales, pointing toward her desk in a New despite numerous red flags, the State of Idaho Plymouth Elementary classroom. “There are had failed Robert Manwill and memories of Robert all around prompted multiple community the school. There’s a photo in Robert Manwill Artists conversations about how strong the trophy case down the hall, for Kids Art Auction Idaho’s safety net is for its most and we have a swing outside Friday, April 24, 6 -8 p.m. vulnerable citizens. with his photo and name on it.”

NEW PLYMOUTH VFW HALL “Hopefully there isn’t a ‘next Morales met Manwill the 144 New Plymouth Ave.., time,” and that engagement fades year before she would become 208-739-6464, so often, but there was something his second grade teacher.

4rhc.org special about Robert’s situation “He walked up to me and that still holds,” said Roger Shersaid, ‘My name is Robert man, executive director of the Idaho Children’s Manwill, and I’ll be in your class next year.’ I Trust Fund. remember thinking that he was a real pistol. He Sherman sat in the Boise offices of the state’s just cracked me up,” said Morales. “He would come up behind you and give you ambush hugs. highest profile organization, one designed to “strengthen families to prevent child abuse and He absolutely loved to hug. He was the sweetest neglect,” surrounded by scores of federal and boy. I see his little face all the time.”

When school let out for the summer of 2009, state case studies. Among those is the 158page “Facts, Figures and Trends, 2014-2015,” it would be the last time Morales would see published by the Idaho Department of Health young Manwill. A few weeks later, on July 25, and Welfare. On page 36 is a series of numbers 2009, 8-year-old Robert Manwill was reported revealing either a troubling trend in Idaho or missing by his mother Melissa Jenkins, who was reflecting an increased level of reporting on living in Boise’s Oak Park Village apartment child protection/prevention incidents: There complex near Vista Avenue. A massive manhunt were 2,084 referrals involving the alleged physiand national media attention followed—Jenkins

worked with Payette-based artist James Dobney to create a sculpture that stands 8 more than 8-feet tall and which will eventually belong to the winner of a raffle (tickets are $5).

“There are six hand-forged roses on the sculpture: one for every year that Robert has been gone,” Young said.

cal abuse of a child in Idaho in fiscal year 2014.

That’s up from 1,993 in FY 2013 and 1,860 in FY 2012. Additionally, in FY 2014, there were 5,393 referrals involving the alleged neglect of a child in Idaho in FY 2014, up from 5,031 in FY 2013 and 4,676 in FY 2012. “Neglect” includes abandonment, failure to protect or supervise and court-ordered investigations. Overall, there were 12,750 child protection referrals in FY 2014, up from 11,461 in FY 2013 and 11,716 in FY 2012.

“The story of Robert Manwill helps us to personify a situation that is normally described clinically,” Sherman said. “With Robert, it’s much more personal. It gives us a face.”

When Sherman and his advocates talk about Robert Manwill and the broader topic of protecting children, he says it’s a unique opportunity to not simply talk about “bad families” and “good families.”

“That’s critical. When we stigmatize, we say ‘Only good families raise good kids.’ Well, that’s not true. Some bad families may have strength and do some things right, but they need some help,” said Sherman. “Instead of asking, ‘Isn’t this terrible?’ why can’t we ask, ‘How can I help?’”

Strengthening families is what the April 25 New Plymouth art auction and raffle in New Plymouth is all about.

“To date, we’ve raised $20,000 and we’ll continue raising funds until 2019,” said Morales, adding 2019 is the year Manwill would have graduated high school. “We’re building a scholarship fund for his classmates, and when I go over to the middle school, when I see those kids, those same kids I had in second grade with Robert, I think to myself, ‘That would be him.’”

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are incredibly expensive to operate. We’ve all been misled by the belief that these four dams are economic miracles for eastern Washington and this whole region, and it’s actually the opposite.

Of course they make money. They’re generating revenue; it just doesn’t match the loss. There’s more economic advantage from breaching the dams, primarily because of the cost that it takes to operate those dams is almost $300 million a year.

In terms of economic development, you’ve got recreational benefits that range from $80 to $350 million per year you could gain if you breach the dams. That will clearly outweigh any other hydropower benefits.

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“I’ll probably get fired for what I’m about to tell you, but these dams are a travesty.”

JESSICA MURRI During his 35-year career with the Army Corps of Engineers as a civil engineer, Jim Waddell spent some of his time studying the four Lower Snake River dams bordering Idaho and Washington. He concluded the dams are an economic sham and recommended the Corps breach the dams back in 2002.

Now, 13 years later, Waddell is retired, but is featured in the 2014 documentary DamNation (distributed by outdoor clothing company Patagonia), which explores several dams in the United States and the benefits to removing them. The documentary was featured in the 2014 Banff Mountain Film Festival World Tour, was screened at Boise State University twice, and continues its own tour throughout the world. It’s also now streaming on Netflix.

Boise Weekly sat down with Waddell to talk about the film as well as his personal and professional insight into the controversial subject of dams.

How did the Army Corps of Engineers react when you recommended breaching the Lower Snake River dams?

They didn’t come out and say you’re a total jerk or anything but, you know, they can’t do that. I basically became persona non grata. You know what the final answer was: “We’re going to keep the dams,” and, of course, they ignored what I was saying and just went with the status quo.

They went with what they knew they were always going to say, despite spending $30 million on the [Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report/Environmental Impact Statement] study.

knew a lot about those, I started intently listening.

One of them was from Patagonia [Outdoor Clothing and Gear], Yvon Chouinard, and he was giving a really eloquent presentation about the damage to salmon and how bad it was. He said that these dams—unlike the Elwha dam—have a lot of economic output and so forth, so it will be much harder to get these dams down.

Of course, I knew better. At the end, I grabbed the mic and said, “I have a statement to make,” and that’s when I told them I worked for the Corps, and I said, “I’ll probably get fired for what I’m about to tell you, but these dams are a travesty. They lose money.”

Those comments were caught in camera ... by Then what’s the point of the study? the film crew working on DamNation. They asked They were told they had to do the study, and it me for interviews, and that’s how I ended up in created a lot of jobs. It lasted five or six years. Oth- the documentary. er than that, I don’t know what the benefit was.

What was the Corps of Engineers’ reacTell me more about your experience with tion? Did you get fired?

DamNation.

I was not reappointed again.

I got surprised by it quite frankly. About three years ago, the Elwha dams—on the Elwha River You’ve been participating in panel discusnear where I live in Port Angeles, Wash.—were sions, including here in Boise, following starting to be dismantled, and there was a science screenings of DamNation. What did you symposium at the college here, and I was there hope that people would take away from listening to presenters. I thought they were going that dialogue? to talk about the Elwha dams, but they started I hope they learned something that no one talking about the Snake River Dams and since I has understood clearly about these dams: They BOISE WEEKLY.COM

What do you think is the likelihood that those dams will ever be breached?

Oh, I am absolutely convinced they will be breached and I think we can do it pretty quick.

The Corps, like many government agencies, is struggling to have enough money to run all these dams, so why don’t you breach those dams and then invest the money into other dams that are viable, like the ones on the Columbia, and get a better return on investment? These dams are very ripe for breaching and it could be done in a matter of 18 months to two years if people would wake up and get serious, and tell your congressmen and senator that we’re tired of seeing our money wasted. That’s our tax money. That’s our ratepayers money, and oh, by the way, we’re killing salmon.

Just to be clear, you’re not advocating to remove every dam in the United States.

Heck no. Absolutely not.

What makes these dams so unviable?

One of the big things is, the amount of water that flows through. The Snake is handicapped because it doesn’t have the massive volume of water that the Columbia does. The Columbia dam is bigger and can run generators pretty much all year long, whereas the Snake River peaks in the springtime when the snowmelt comes in, so you’ve got all this energy being produced driving the prices down to nothing, so you’re not getting good returns on that power. Then in the summertime, the Snake River flows go down so low that they can’t run the generators all the time and yet, that’s when they could make the most money.

Flow constraints are number one. Two, because they are the top four dams in the system for salmon, you’ve got a lot of expensive bypass systems on those four dams. They’re 100-foot-high dams so that stuff is pretty involved technology. It was billions of dollars to install, and it continues to cost more money than we have to maintain it.

Then [the infrastructure] becomes dangerous, so it’s not doing its job anymore, and in fact creating more salmon mortality.

It’s the hydropower halo around here. It’s our thing in the northwest. But these things are expensive. There are better, cheaper alternatives these days.

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THE ART OF WAR AND WILDERNESS

Defining the fate of Idaho’s Boulder-White Cloud Mountains MIKE MEDBERRY

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nce upon a time, Idaho’s forests were green, water ran gin-clear from the mountains, and the sky was not cloudy all day. In those days, there was no need for political wilderness. But in the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, people like Mardy Murie, Bob Marshall, Howard Zahniser, Aldo Leopold, Sigurd Olson and Wallace Stegner felt compelled to protect the last remaining wild places. Logging, mining and road building were rampant and wildlands were being diminished like “snow on a hot summer’s day,” as conservationist John Muir once said.

Zahniser wrote, shortly before dying: “I believe we have a profound fundamental need for areas of the earth where we stand without our mechanisms that make us immediate masters over our environment.” In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson enacted the Wilderness Act, seeking to protect unroaded land and 9 million acres were immediately designated as wilderness areas.

A MONUMENT OR A WILDERNESS? In February, U.S. Representative Mike Simpson and Senator Jim Risch introduced the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act, a bill that would designate 275,665 acres of wilderness in three areas of the Boulder-White Cloud mountains.

This bill has been in discussion for 30 years, but the current proposal, a re-crafted version of Simpson’s CIEDRA legislation (Central Idaho Economic Development and Recreation Act), which would have designated 332,928 acres in the Boulder-White Clouds, is much smaller than other plans over the years. The legislation shrank by 60,301 acres over several days of recent discussions with snowmobile and heli-skiing interests.

Compromises have been traded for a dozen years, including, of late, attempts to win support from Risch, who is said to have blocked the last version of the bill in the Senate.

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ness under the Wilderness Act, making the areas smaller while gaining begrudging support from some wilderness purists.

Simpson and Risch introduced their wilderness bill when they heard that President Barack Obama planned to proclaim a national monument in the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, an apparently frightening and nebulous proposal that worried many of their constituents in Central Idaho. The monument was said to protect the ecosystem overlaying the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, but it didn’t define exactly what that protection meant. It could mean anything, as presidents have the power to protect the land under the Antiquities Act of 1906 by proclamation.

It could be accomplished before anyone really knew what it would do. It would be fait accompli in a year and that threat prompted snowmobile supporters and off road motor vehicle users to react. In 2014, 89 percent of voters in Custer County, which is adjacent to the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, opposed the monument in an advisory ballot measure.

“We do need wilderness,” Sandra Mitchell, public lands director of the Idaho State Snowmobile Association told me in February. “It is not a completely bad idea, however I believe there is enough wilderness in Idaho.” Mitchell is a veteran of the “wilderness wars” the ’80s and ’90s and was an aide to former Senator Steve Symms. Consequently she is careful with her words but mostly clear on the message.

Before about 1998, logging and mining were seen as the biggest conflicts on roadless areas, but today logging in Idaho is only a small percentage of what it was in 1990 and mining has many more regulations attached to it after years of environmental litigation and wrangled-out compromises. Today the issues in the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains are mostly recreation-based conflicts.

“There are a lot of compromises in Simpson’s (new) bill,” said Dani Mazzotta, Central Idaho associate for the Idaho Conservation League (ICL).

“It’s tough, and over a decade it has been getting smaller every time we see it. We don’t oppose it

but we’re disappointed in the trade-offs that are being made now. However, the national monument proposal has legs and strong support.” A national monument does not protect wilderness, Mazzotta agreed. But she added that she thought that “President Obama will listen to all interests. It will be pretty balanced. The big thing is that ICL will continue to support the national monument and build more support for it.”

But compromise is the name of the game in Idaho today. One of the reasons that Simpson again raised issues in Central Idaho in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area and Jerry Peak Wilderness Additions Act is that President Obama is considering proclaiming a national monument over the same area and Simpson doesn’t like the uncertainty of the president’s proposal. The president visited Idaho on Jan. 21 and Simpson’s bill was offered just two days later for discussion.

Lindsay Slater, chief of staff for Simpson, said that Simpson “…wouldn’t have suggested the bill if he thought that he couldn’t get it done before the monument would be declared.” John Podesta, known as a knuckle-rapping environmental emissary for the administration and former counselor to Obama, gave Simpson six to nine months to get his bill passed before the president would move on the monument idea. “Rep. Simpson has met with the affected groups and he continues to push for a bill that works for everyone. We think that an Idaho based solution would be better than a Washington D.C. plan,” Slater added.

IS THE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUD NATIONAL MONUMENT A VIABLE PLAN? The national monument would be proclaimed by the president under the Antiquities Act of 1906 but it’s unclear exactly what it would protect. Nonetheless, everyone has big plans for it. Call it the president’s smorgasbord proclamation, a political compromise favoring the president and his supporters. The proclamation would most likely support mountain bikes in roadless areas recommended by the Forest Service as wilderness, would support the concept

of wilderness and probably would offer snowmobiles and ORVs a number of routes within the approximately 600,000 acres. Simpson and Risch’s bills would create three new Wilderness Areas that exclude mountain bikes, motorized vehicles, and allow other adjacent roadless areas to be managed for other uses. The wilderness areas that would be designated under Simpson’s legislation are the Hemingway–Boulders Wilderness (68,030 acres), White Cloud Wilderness (90,841 acres), and the Jim McClure-Jerry Peak Wilderness (120,421 acres).

Mitchell laughed when asked whether she supported the national monument or Simpson’s bill.

“It’s not a decision that the recreation coalition ever envisioned. But it is our reality now and we are working on it. We’ve worked on the monument proposal and we’ve put together excellent material. We went to D.C. to meet with the Under Secretary (U.S. Department of Agriculture), to CEQ (Council on Environmental Quality) and to the Pew foundation. We’ve taken our message and we’ve told folks how we feel about the monument. I’ve done everything but crying big and if I thought that would make a difference I’d cry!” Mitchell would gain more out of Simpson’s wilderness bill because much of the land that is used by snowmobiles or ORVs was eliminated from the wilderness. That was not the case in earlier versions of CIEDRA. According to a 2010 Congressional Research Service report on national monuments, the Act requires designation of “the smallest area compatible with the proper care and management of the objects to be protected.” But that statement from the Antiquities Act has been interpreted rather liberally over the years since it was written. Consider the 1.9 million acre Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in which, with the stroke of his pen, President Bill Clinton zeroed out a very valuable coal mine and supported a huge recreation industry. In Alaska, President Jimmy Carter, with the support of his Interior Secretary, Gov. Cecil Andrus from Idaho, reserved 100 million acres of land which led to a negotiation protecting 56 million acres of wilderness, as well as national BOISE WEEKLY.COM

Idaho: Congress hasn’t acted in a responsible period of time to deal with Central Idaho’s public lands. Simpson WHITE CLOUDS 90841.85 ACRES has attempted to pass legislation since 2004 on the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains, the creme-de-la-crème of JERRY PEAK 120421.74 ACRES Idaho’s unprotected mountain ranges. Legions of Congress members have considered the issue of Idaho’s roadless areas since 1986 (Reps.

John Seiberling, Peter HEMINGWAY/BOULDERS 68030.87 ACRES Kostmayer, Bruce Vento, Larry LaRocco, Morris Udall and Sens. James McClure, Steve Symms, and Larry Craig among them). No decision Latest vicinity map of three proposed wilderness areas in the could be made on the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains (as of Feb. 25, 2015) roadless forested areas in Idaho and advocates for wilderness faced-off parks and national refuges. That negotiation against advocates for logging, mining and grazing. process also opened up other areas for specific A report put together with funding from the purposes like logging and oil production. Carter said that he had been forced to use the Antiquities State of Idaho in the 1990s recommended against Act by Congress’ failure to act in a reasonable time deciding on the wilderness issue because wilderness was too contentious to solve. And there it is to deal with the land issue in Alaska. has lingered and festered. The Antiquities Act was Those are exactly the circumstances today in

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designed to protect federal lands and resources quickly; presidents of both political parties have proclaimed monuments. Many of the 178 monuments were controversial, some have been converted to National Parks or National Reserves or other categories, and none of the proclamations needed to follow environmental laws, including the National Environmental Policy Act. NEPA normally requires a time consuming and costly Environmental Impact Statement to justify significant changes to the environment.

The Antiquities Act was used by President George W. Bush in 2009 to create the 60.9 million acres of the Marina Archipelago National Monument near Guam. President Herbert Hoover, also a Republican, created the Death Valley National Monument and Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Grand Canyon National Monument.

Both of these monuments have been expanded and converted into National Parks. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan created the El Malpais National Monument in New Mexico and in 2000 President Clinton expanded the Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho. So far Obama has designated 16 national monuments, including, most recently, Pullman town in Chicago, the Honouliuli Internment Camp near Pearl Harbor and the 21,000-acre Browns Canon in Central Colorado.

In other words, Simpson’s worries about a national monument being proclaimed in Idaho are well founded. But Simpson knows well the

political strategies on the art of war and wilderness. One political sleight-of-hand might be to change an Idaho national monument into some other land protection category through legislation following its proclamation, as Simpson did with the Craters of the Moon National Monument and Reserve. That national monument became, in part, a legislated national reserve. And the law affirming it assured ORV advocates that they would continue to have access to Craters of the Moon, contingent upon a travel plan being developed.

Another complication is that Senators Crapo and Risch offered another bill, S. 228, in January, which would make the process of proclaiming a national monument far more difficult than it is now. That bill would require the approval of Congress and legislation in the state where the national monument is proposed before any monument can be approved. It would also require compliance with NEPA. Anger over creation of the Jackson Hole National Monument in 1943 altered implementation of the Antiquities Act in Wyoming; it required the support of Congress for any national monument crafted by the president in that state.

That provision proved effective in eliminating presidential power over national monuments in Wyoming. Passage of S. 228 or inserting it into other legislation would likely have the same effect in Idaho or elsewhere if it is universal. However, Obama would most 14 likely veto it.

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WILDERNESS IN THE WHITE CLOUDS? NOT SO MUCH? OR MAYBE A LITTLE…

With 4.5 million acres of Wilderness Areas, Idaho is currently in third place in the 50 states 13 for the amount of designated wilderness, behind Alaska’s 57 million acres and California’s 15 milAfter passage of the Wilderness Act, lion acres. There are now 109.5 million acres of the U.S. Forest Service created a nationdesignated wilderness in the United States. Idaho wide roadless area policy that looked at all of the still has about 11 million acres of wild, unroaded unroaded Forest Service lands. Conservationists land that qualify as wilderness out of a total of challenged that policy twice and the land under 53 million acres of land in the state. Eight and a study increased both times. Congress sought to half percent of the state, has been designated as resolve the wilderness issue in 1986 by designatwilderness under the Wilderness Act, including ing 8.6 million acres in 20 states, and in those the Frank Church River of No Return, Selway20 states they largely succeeded. However, many Bitterroot, Gospel Hump, Sawtooth, Craters of Western states, including Idaho, were left in the the Moon, Seven Devils and Owyhee (517,000 lurch with outstanding roadless areas in contenacres of BLM land) wilderness areas. Is 8.5 tion for wilderness designation by 2015. percent enough wilderIdaho had roughly 9 million acres ness for a state that has of roadless areas, in another 11 million acres addition to 4.5 million acres that were already The negotiations over 9.4 million acres of wilderness were of undeveloped land?

In his recent guest held from March 1990 to April 1992 and were paid for by designated as wilderthe Idaho Legislative Council. Senate Concurrent Resolu- opinion in the Idaho ness. Moreover, the tion (SCR 148) granted funding to hire a mediator. The Statesman, Eric Melson, Bureau of Land ManState of Idaho spent $150,000. former program director agement’s organic law of the Selway-Bitterroot was amended in 1976 Frank Church Foundation, wrote the following: and protected all of the inventoried unroaded “…The traditional conservation demographic lands in that agency’s desert land as Wilderness has shifted. Instead of just backpackers, hunters, Study Areas. Every WSA, of which there were anglers, boaters, and climbers speaking up for 1.8 million acres in Idaho, was protected, not by a mere policy as the Forest Service had done, but healthy landscapes, mountain bikers are voicing specifically by the Federal Lands Policy and Man- their concern about access to and protection of America’s wild places. Adrenalin-fueled activities agement Act (FLPMA) until they were studied piloted by younger activists should now have a and “released” from, or protected, as wilderness.

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seat at the table… National monument status is sensical [sic], does not need legislative approval, and has room to negotiate travel panning for all parties, especially mountain bikers.” That states the position of the nouveau advocates for mountain bikes on the national monument for Idaho but it fails to account for the political element of wilderness designations.

In fact, Rep Simpson stated this month that “Allowing [mountain bike] corridors in the three proposed wilderness areas is non-negotiable, and the three wildernesses in my bill will each remain undivided and without corridors. I am certain that anything else will result in a monument.”

Brad Books, deputy regional director for The Wilderness Society, took a different twist. “We are not working on a wilderness bill for the BoulderWhite Clouds,” he said. “It’s all been talk, and talk is cheap. The proof is in the pudding. It’s not a Congress that we think will support a lot of wilderness.” TWS, ICL, along with Wood River Bicycle Coalition and the International Mountain Biking Association have a formed a firm agreement with each other, signed as a Memorandum of Understanding, committing them to work on the national monument.

Brooks laid out the plan for the monument which he termed was “a very real and credible proposal that has the attention of the president and the Administration… We’ve created a coalition of support that is quite broad: recreation groups, elected officials, sportsmen organizations

and conservation groups. One of the things that I like about the monument is the watershed protection. But what makes the Boulder-White Clouds special is the people, uses, and the land itself.”

Brooks mentioned that the East Fork of the Salmon River has the longest migration route for anadromous fish and the highest elevation spawning habitat for salmon and steelhead. “It also includes the entire East Fork of the Salmon River drainage, allows a variety of recreation uses from mountain bikers to hunters and all of them would have a place in the monument.” The monument might include comprehensive protections for the region’s wildlife, fisheries, wild lands, recreation and historic values and a management plan would determine where mechanized and motorized use would be permitted in a travel plan.

Gary Macfarlane, director of Friends of the Clearwater in Moscow, gave the process his organization’s perspective.

“Both proposals have problems and I find a lot of irony in them. There is less mountain biking allowed in certain places than in the monument.

That’s weird and making a deal with the mountain bikers is a strategic blunder,” he said. Macfarlane’s group supports 1.5 million acres of wild areas in North Idaho.

“The wilderness bill is too small but it’s better than anything I’ve seen before because it doesn’t include all of the special language that CIEDRA had. It’s the cleanest wilderness language bill that we’ve seen from Simpson; it’s cleaner than what

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passed in the River of No Return Wilderness Bill in 1980,” Macfarlane said.

George Nickas, director of Wilderness Watch, concurs with Macfarlane. He has worked for more than 20 years at maintaining the quality of designated wilderness areas and runs a national organization doing that work. He said that “the national monument proposal eviscerates the land with all of the ORV and mountain bike paths.

Simpson’s bill provides wilderness, and it doesn’t mandate a bunch of crap like it once did. I think that the land in Simpson’s current bill would be better protected than it would be under a monument. But the protected land should be about twice as big.”

Regardless of all of the disagreement, The Wilderness Act defines wilderness as an area “… where the earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain… (It) retain(s) its primeval character and influence, without permanent improvements or human habitation, which is protected and managed so as to preserve its natural conditions.” When the law passed in 1964 it allowed grazing, hiking, river boating, horseback riding, but no motorized vehicles nor bicycles, and it allowed each state to manage wildlife. There were other compromises in specific areas as they were designated and in the River of No Return Wilderness, jet boats were allowed to run up the Salmon River, airplanes were allowed to continue landing within the

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wilderness and a large area was reserved for cobalt mining within the wilderness if the need for cobalt ever became essential. Still the Wilderness Act has been the envy of many nations, providing inspiration from South Africa to Canada and India to Costa Rica. It has harbored animals and plants that can live nowhere else, and it remains a place in the imagination where all wild things may continue living in a warming climate on an overpopulated planet.

Tom Pomeroy a long-time supporter of wilderness and a resident in the Big Wood River Valley between the Smoky and Boulder Mountains, provides a more passionate view of unroaded lands.

“I love wilderness,” Pomeroy wrote in an email. “It’s the best and most important resource that Idaho has! It lasts forever and is available for anyone who wants to go there to explore, enjoy, and be grateful that it still exists. I know that compromise is part of the game, but it’s so shortsighted to always reduce the issue to what one user group says they need. That’s why 95 percent of the continental U.S. is already roaded and gone. The mountain bikers are just another new user group wanting to tear across the landscape so they can say that they ‘did’ it, snap a picture, and then get back home because they’re so busy.

Many don’t want to take the time to enjoy the land on its own terms and think what’s best for wildlife, the future, and ever-increasing threats that a rapidly expanding civilization creates.”

THE ART OF WAR Whatever you think about Idaho’s wilderness, none can say that the debate lacks passion. But since 1964 the human population has grown substantially, forests have burned, the Gross Domestic Product has climbed, the poverty rate has hovered at around 14.5 percent nationwide, the world has grown warmer and wetter and no one dares to dream of a four-day work week anymore. Recreation is mostly a lounging trip on a tour ship in the Caribbean, a day-trip on a mountain bike or on a motorized vehicle, riding up and down snowy mountains to gather bragging rights. A few hikers, rafters, kayakers and horseback riders—seekers of solitude, wildlife and untrammeled landscapes—seem to value wilderness these days but they are quickly growing old. The greatest value of wild places is their connectivity to each other and the refuge of protected fish and wildlife habitat that only wilderness guarantees.

Simpson is bucking his natural colleagues to get a job done, to protect the wildest places he knows in Idaho, and he is accepting compromises in a few places where some don’t think he should. But Simpson is no shrinking violet.

He’s marching the direction his heart tells him is the right way. Idaho Conservation League in Idaho and the Wilderness Society, at the na-

tional level have set course for a national monument. Both have strengths and weaknesses but the monument is ill defined. Conservationists are at the crossroads, as Simpson moves toward a final conclusion that will resolve the character of the Boulder-White Cloud Mountains. Simpson’s supporters are solid. The primary unanswered question is what President Obama will say to Simpson’s new Boulder-White Clouds bill.

Simpson advances his new legislation with compromises that recognize the facts on the ground in this conservative state and lead toward completion of a job that began when the forests still were green, the water ran ginclear from the mountains, and the sky was not cloudy all day.

Mike Medberry worked for The Wilderness Society as its Utah director for three years; was the legislative director, water quality representative and conservation director for Idaho Conservation League for nine years; and was the director of the Hells Canyon Preservation Council for two years. After that he wrote a book about having a stroke in the Craters of the Moon National Monument and has written numerous opinion and non-fiction articles for local and regional magazines. A version of this article appeared March 13 on thebluerview.org.

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 Festivals & Events SHANGRI-LA’S 9TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY WITH CELTIC WAYS—It’s an Irish celebration as Shandri-La rings in its ninth year of good tea and vegetarian cuisine with the Celtic Ways. 7 p.m. FREE. ShangriLa Tea Room, 1800 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-424-0273, shangri-latearoomandcafe.com.

On Stage BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THE CURE AT TROY—7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4263980, theatrearts.boisestate.edu.

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL— 8 p.m. $26-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

IDAHO JAZZ SOCIETY: ROB VERDI & SAXOPHOBIA—Get a rare historical glimpse at some of the most unusual saxophones ever made and hear tributes to many of the great jazz legends who contributed to the development of jazz and the popularity of the sax. 7 p.m. $17$22 adv., $20-$25 door. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208343-1871, saxophobia.net.

Workshops & Classes BOISE COMMUNITY EDUCATION REGISTRATION FOR SPRING CLASSES—Registration for Boise Community Education spring classes is now open. Classes run April 27-May 21. Visit boiselearns. org for a class schedule and to register. Through April 26.

Art 38 MINUS: THE IDAHO FISH PROJECT—Monday-Friday through April 17. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE.

THURSDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 16-19

Rosenthal Gallery, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208459-5321, collegeofidaho.edu/ rosenthalgallery.

ALBERTSONS LIBRARY 50TH ANNIVERSARY JURIED ART EXHIBITION—Through May 3. FREE. Albertsons Library, 1910 University Dr., Boise, 208-426-1204, library. boisestate.edu.

THE ART OF FISHING—The country’s best young outdoor artists display their work. Featuring works

by Ed Anderson, A.D. Maddox, Paul Puckett, Josh DeSmitt, Andrea Larko and many others. Through May 31. FREE. Fulton Street Showroom, 517 S. Eighth St., Boise. 208869-4713, facebook.com.

BOISE STATE ART METALS ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION—Through April 30, FREE. R. Grey Gallery Jewelry and Art Glass, 415 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9337, art.boisestate.edu/undergraduateprograms/art-metals.

THE BRAIN: A BIG IDEA MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROJECT—Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-7269491, sunvalleycenter.org.

HAZLETT, ROHRIG AND COBO SOLO EXHIBITIONS—Through April 30. 9 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Gail Severn Gallery, 400 First Ave. N., Ketchum, 208-726-5079, gailseverngallery. com.

BENJAMIN JONES SOLO EXHIBITION—Wednesday-Saturday through May 30 or by appointment.

Noon-4 p.m. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-433-0593, stewartgallery.com.

HEMINGWAY’S VENETO EXHIBITION—Through May 24. 8 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1242, finearts.boisestate.edu.

BFA EXHIBITION: BALL OF WAX— Monday-Friday through April 30. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 2, Hemingway Center, Room 110, 1819 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

LIU BOLIN: HIDING IN THE CITY— Through May 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Continues through May 23. $3-$6.

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

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RED CIRCLE PRESS: TRANSLUCENCY—Through July 12. FREE. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise. 208426-1242, finearts.boisestate.edu.

Kids & Teens BOISE ROCK SCHOOL SUMMER CAMPS—Get details and sign up at the website. $100-$165. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-572-5055, boiserockschool.com.

CABIN WRITING CAMPS SUMMER 2015—Visit the website for a complete listing of classes, times, locations, fees and an online registration form. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-3318000. thecabinidaho.org/youtheducation/writing-camps.

ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC SCHOOL ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS—For information about enrollment call the school or e-mail Principal Ann Marie Ricks at aricks@stmarys-boise.org. St. Mary’s Catholic School, 2612 W. State St., Boise, 208-3427476, stmarys-boise.org.

Food ZHOO ZHOO NEW WINE RELEASE PARTY—New wines from local winery Zhoo Zhoo will be available for sampling and on tap. 5-8 p.m. FREE. Bodovino, 404 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-454-3300, facebook.com.

THURSDAY APRIL 16 On Stage BLT: THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME—Olivia and Gabe are moving into their first apartment together, halfway across the country from their parents, so imagine their surprise when everyone shows up to help. Funny and touching, this one will make you laugh out loud and fall in love all over again. 7:30 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-3425104, boiselittletheater.org.

FRIDAY-SUNDAY, APRIL 17-19

JOHN KELLY

Danse de trois.

Meet the Comic Ambassador for the United States. Seriously.

IDAHO DANCE THEATRE’S SPRING PERFORMANCE

COMIC BOOK PARTY: JOSH ELDER

Idaho Dance Theatre has long been a staple of Boise’s dance community, bringing innovative works to the stage. Its Spring Performance features the new works by New York choreographer and former IDT dancer Jenn Freeman, IDT Artistic Director Marla Hansen and dancer Gonzalo Valdez. Hanson’s “The Mountain” will be performed alongside a score for a string quartet and center on themes like “prey and predator, growth and decay.” Her “To Be Loved” is a series of pas de deux performed to Tracy Chapman jams, while Valdez’s new piece is set to music by Bajofondo, an Argentinian electro-Tango group. Special guests include Ballet Idaho principal dancer Andrew Taft, who will be performing in “To Be Loved” with IDT dancer Alia Kelley.

Thursday, April 16-Saturday, April 18, 8 p.m.; Sunday, April 19, 2 p.m. $10-$30, Boise State University, Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, idahodancetheatre.org.

What’s the highest perch from which one can spread the gospel of comic book love, and what bird perches there? The answer is: Comics Ambassador for the U.S. State Department. This is a real job held by Josh Elder, who has worked with DC Comics on one of its Superman titles, edited the Comics that Make Kids Smarter anthology and is the co-creator of nationally syndicated comic Mail Order Ninja. He’ll be dropping in at Rediscovered Bookshop Friday, April 17, at 7 p.m. with Shivertown illustrator Shanae LaVelle. They’re fixing to show Boiseans how to become involved in the comic book industry, and they’ll also show attendees how to teach with graphic media.

This is a do-not-miss event for comics enthusiasts.

7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., rdbooks.org.

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When you’re here, you’re family.

ANNUAL PINTO BENNETT AND THE FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION Reunions let us reconnect with family, see old friends and make new ones, and have a helluva a good time. Nowhere is that more true than at the annual Pinto Bennett and The Famous Motel Cowboys Reunion weekend. This year marks the 12th annual reunion and will be celebrated in true FMC style. Nearly 20 musicians and bands will hit Hannah’s stage, including Muzzie Braun, The Kip Attaway All-Stars, Steve Fulton Music and many other local acts—including two performances by Bennett and FMC, honoring the spirit and dedication of longtime FMC drummer, Joe Dow, who lost his battle with leukemia last year. This year, the three-day fun fest closes with the highly anticipated Bloody Mary Sunday.

Friday, April 17, 5 p.m., Saturday, April 18, 5 p.m., Sunday, April 19, 2 p.m. Friday-Saturday, $15; Sunday, FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., famousmotelcowboys.com.

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CALENDAR BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THE CURE AT TROY—7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4263980, theatrearts.boisestate.edu.

C OF I THEATRE: YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN—7:30 p.m. FREE-$15.

Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd. College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5426.

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL—8 p.m. $26-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—Featuring the premiere of “Elements of Kin,” a major new work by guest choreographer Jenn Freeman, a dancer, teacher and choreographer based out of New York City. Plus new works by Marla Hansen, Gonzalo Valdez and Yurek Hansen. 7 p.m. $5-$10. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, 208-3319592, idahodancetheatre.org.

NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: THE WIZARD OF OZ—7 p.m. $10.

Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

OPERA IDAHO: BRUNDIBAR—Enjoy this children’s opera by Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa with a libretto by Adolf Hoffmeister. 7 p.m. $16-$32. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 208-3871273, operaidaho.org.

PARTICLE FEVER: THE STORY OF THE HIGGS BOSON—Learn about the path that led to the discovery of one most fundamental particles in reality. 6:30-10 p.m. FREE-$5.

Boise State Student Union Lookout Room, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2468.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW PREVIEW: CREATURES AND DREAMSCAPES—Take a wild journey blending movement and tease through aerial arts, modern dance, film, live music, burlesque and boylesque. 9 p.m. Pay what you want. Visual Arts Collective, 3638

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Osage St., Garden City, 208-4248297, redlightvarietyshow.com.

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE: HAIRSPRAY—7 p.m. $10-$12. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208-869-0583, spotlight-theatre.com.

Literature POET CATHERINE KYLE—Join local poet Catherine Kyle for a reading, Q&A and signing of her new collection of poetry, Flotsam. 7 p.m.

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

Animals & Pets VAN O BARREL RACE AND TIME RUNS—Indoor time runs start at 4:30 p.m., with Jackpot at 7:30 p.m.

Concessions on site. FREE. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 111 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-455-8500, facebook.com/pages/VanO-BarrelRacing.

Food CREATE COMMON GOOD SUPPERCLUB: AROUND THE WORLD IN 3 COURSES—Enjoy a delectable three-course meal prepared by world-renowned Executive Chef Brent Southcombe. 6-8:30 p.m. $95. Create Common Good Kitchen, 2513 S. Federal Way, Ste. 104, Boise, 208-258-6800, createcommongood.org.

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Go green

CAPITAL CITY MARKET AND IDAHO GREEN FEST This Saturday, embrace your green, eco-conscious North End-y, granola self. Start at sunrise—after yoga practice, of course—by celebrating the opening day of the Capital City Market, launching into its 22nd season. The market sprawls through the streets of downtown Boise with fresh flowers, free-range meats, organic veggies and artisan vendors aplenty from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Afterward, stick around for the Idaho Green Fest, taking place on Eighth and Bannock Street at 4 p.m. The fest includes a fashion show, live music, performing artists, local food and exhibitions by nearly 40 nonprofits and businesses advocating for environmental protection and sustainability.

Capital City Market: 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m., FREE, Eighth Street, 208-345-3499, capitalcitymarket.com.

Idaho Green Fest: 4-10 p.m., FREE, Eighth and Bannock streets, idahogreenfest.org.

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BBP TOP SECRET UNVEILING EVENT—Be among the first to hear Boise Bicycle Project’s plan to create a pedal-powered movement designed to raise $50,000 for a groundbreaking Bicycle Community Center and to transform Boise into the 24-hour Bicycle Capital of America. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org.

IDAHO MOTORCYCLE SHOW— Featuring new motorcycles, gear, parts, seminars, industry-related exhibitors, live music and plenty of activities. 3-8 p.m. FREE-$10, $15 adult weekend pass. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, idahomotorcycleshow.com.

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CALENDAR RECORD STORE DAY EXCLUSIVES LISTENING PARTY—Get a preview of RSD ’15 releases while you enjoy FREE Payette Brewing Co. beer. 5 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, recordstoreday.com/SpecialReleases.

On Stage BLT: THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME—8 p.m. $11-$16.

Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY: TONEY ROCKS—Toney Rocks breaks out progressive blues-influenced rock.7 p.m. $6-$9. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, sapphireboise.com.

BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THE CURE AT TROY—7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4263980, theatrearts.boisestate.edu.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN—7:30 p.m. FREE-$15.

Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd., College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5426.

ESPINOZA PAZ—With Banda La Adictiva and Los Caminantes de Humberto Navarro. 8 p.m. $45 adv., $60 door. Ford Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa, 208-468-1000, fordidahocenter. com.

St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, redlightvarietyshow.com.

HAIRSPRAY—7 p.m. $10-$12. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208-8690583, spotlight-theatre.com.

STAGE COACH THEATRE: MURDER AT THE HOWARD JOHNSON’S—All is fair in love? Even murder? That’s the question posed by this funny suspense comedy about a love triangle in a Howard Johnson Motor Inn. 8 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Literature COMIC BOOK PARTY WITH JOSH ELDER AND SHANAE LAVELLE—Join Rediscovered Books, comic book writer Josh Elder and local comic book illustrator Shanae LeVille for an evening of comic books and merriment. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

lecture in Room 150. Bogard is an associate professor in ceramics at the University of Nevada Reno, as well as a studio artist. Noon. FREE. Boise State Liberal Arts Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, rebekahbogard.com.

Kids & Teens 8TH ANNUAL KIDS ARE SPECIAL FAMILY EVENT—Check out the Out of This World Family Dance Party hosted by Kids Are Special People and TRICA. There’ll be activities, dancing, food and an incredible silent auction. For more info and to purchase tickets, call KASP at 208-343-8441. 6-8 p.m. $12, $45 family. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-343-8441, kidsarespecialpeople.com.

SATURDAY APRIL 18 Festivals & Events

Talks & Lectures VISITING ARTIST REBEKAH BOGARD LECTURE—Visiting artist Rebekah Bogard presents a

CALDWELL GUN SHOW—Check out the vendors from around the Northwest displaying all types of guns, accessories and much more.

You could even win a door prize just

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THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL—8 p.m. $26-$32. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—8 p.m. $10-$30. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, 208-331-9592, idahodancetheatre.org.

LIPSINC: QUEEN BEES— Let the Queen Bees from Idaho’s first professional female impersonation troupe give you a buzz, honey. Call 208-3680405 to RSVP. 8:30 p.m. $20.

Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-336-1313, lipsinc.net.

NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: THE WIZARD OF OZ—7 p.m. $10.

Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

PINTO BENNETT AND THE FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION— The boys are back in town for their 12th annual reunion weekend.

See a full schedule of performers online. 5 p.m. $15. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557, famousmotelcowboys.com.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: CREATURES AND DREAMSCAPES—9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door.

Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage

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CALENDAR for showing up. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE$6. O’Connor Field House/Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208-455-3004, gunsmokegunshows.com.

CWI NATIVE PLANT SALE—Find native plants ranging from small 2.5-inch pots starting at $2 to midsized shrubs and everything in between. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. College of Western Idaho-Nampa Campus, 5500 E. Opportunity Drive, Nampa, 208-562-3400, cwidaho.cc.

FRASER VINEYARD CELLAR SALE—Everything will be for sale, from winery equipment and office furniture to amazing deals on the last of the Fraser wine. 9 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Fraser Vineyard, 1004 LaPointe St., Boise, 208-345-9607, facebook.com/fraserwines.

IDAHO GREEN FEST COMMUNITY EARTH CELEBRATION—Head on down to Eighth and Bannock in Downtown Boise to celebrate Mother Earth. This all-ages festival features speakers, vendors and exhibitors, along with live music, local food and beverages, a “refashioned” show, recycled and repurposed art projects, and lots of activities for the kids. 4-10 p.m.

FREE. idahogreenfest.org.

IDAHO MOTORCYCLE SHOW—10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE-$10. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, idahomotorcycleshow.com.

REALITY PARTY FOR PARENTS: EXPOSING UNDERAGE DRINKING AND THE DRUG CULTURE— Before your teen heads to a graduation or prom party, learn the facts.

Preregister online to reserve your 30-min tour and group discussion.

1-5 p.m. FREE. Forward Movement Training Center, 125 W. Taylor Ave., Ste. 600, Meridian, 208-570-6404, drugfreeidaho.org.

RECORD STORE DAY 2015—More than 500 limited-edition Record Store Day exclusives, including vinyl, CDs, cassettes and other fun formats, will be available. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecordexchange.com.

BOISE PHILHARMONIC: ROMEO AND JULIET— Don’t miss your chance to experience the story of two star-crossed lovers with the Boise Philharmonic, Boise Philharmonic Master Chorale, and College of Idaho and Boise State Choruses.

Season finale. 8 p.m. $23-$71.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, mc.boisestate.edu. 208-3447849, boisephilharmonic.org.

BOISE STATE THEATRE ARTS: THE CURE AT TROY—7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Danny Peterson Theatre, Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4263980. theatrearts.boisestate.edu.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN—7:30 p.m. FREE-$15.

Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd.

College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5426.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—Two teams of comics battle it out for your laughs. Suitable for all ages.

7:30 p.m. $10. ComedySportz Boise, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Lane, Ste. 184A, Boise, 208-991-4746, comedysportzboise.com.

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $26-$32.

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

IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—8 p.m. $10-$30. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, 208-331-9592, idahodancetheatre.org.

LIPSINC: QUEEN BEES—8:30 p.m. $20. Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208336-1313. lipsinc.net.

MURDER MYSTERY DINNER: LICENSE TO KILL—Doors open at 6:30 p.m., dinner at 7 p.m. and show time at 8 p.m. All dinner reservations must be made 24 hours in advance of show date. $20-$37.50. AEN Playhouse, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-7790092, aenplayhouse.com.

NAMPA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: THE WIZARD OF OZ—2 p.m. and 7 p.m. $10. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, nampaciviccenter.com.

PINTO BENNETT AND THE FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION—5 p.m. $15. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557, famousmotelcowboys.com.

POPPIN’ CHERRIES: ATTRACTION VARIETY AND BURLESQUE SHOW—8 p.m. $10. Bouquet, 1010 W. Main St., Boise, 208345-6605, facebook.com/pages/ poppin-cherries.

RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW: CREATURES AND DREAMSCAPES—9 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door.

Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, redlightvarietyshow.com.

SPOTLIGHT THEATRE: HAIRSPRAY—7 p.m. $10-$12. Columbia High School, 301 S. Happy Valley Road, Nampa, 208-869-0583, spotlight-theatre.com.

STAGE COACH THEATRE: MURDER AT THE HOWARD JOHNSON’S—8 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

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TREASURE VALLEY KITE FESTIVAL—Enjoy a day of fun, food and FREE kites for the kids. 9 a.m.-noon. Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, 1900 N. Records Ave., near Fairview Avenue and Eagle Road, Meridian. tvkitefestival.com.

WATERSHED WEEKEND: WETLANDS DISCOVERY—Discover your urban wetlands with outdoor activities at Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Hyatt Hidden Lakes Reserve, 5301 N. Maple Grove Road, Boise, boiseenvironmentaleducation.org.

On Stage BLT: THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME—8 p.m. $11-$16.

Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

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CALENDAR TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN’S THEATER: WIND IN THE WILLOWS—Call or visit the TVCT website for tickets. 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. $5-$9.

Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-287-8828, treasurevalleychildrenstheater.com.

Literature AUTHOR PRIYA KANAPARTI—Meet and greet Boise author Priya Kanaparti, who’ll be reading and signing her newest book, The Dracian Legacy, a paranormal romance for young adults. 2 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepubliclibrary.org.

POET CHRISTIE ECHOLS—It’s “beatnik” night at Shangri-la, with a live poetry reading by Christie Echols, accompanied by Matt Short. 7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La Tea Room, 1800 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-424-0273, shangri-latearoomandcafe. com.

Sports & Fitness RACE TO ROBIE CREEK—If you didn’t get signed up back in February, you’re out of luck, unless you just like to watch. If you’re one of the lucky ones, pick up your race packet at the Basque Center from 5-8 p.m. on April 15. Noon. SOLD OUT.

Citizen DEER FLAT EARTH DAY WORK DAY—Celebrate Earth Day by removing noxious weeds and litter around the shores of Lake Lowell, followed by a pizza lunch. Preregister by contacting Mackenzie Tietjen at deerflat@fws.gov or 208-467-9278.

9 a.m.-12 p.m. FREE. Deer Flat National Wildlife Refuge Visitor’s Center, 13751 Upper Embankment Road, Nampa, 208-467-9278, fws.gov/deerflat.

HATURDAY FOR HEADS—Help support migraine research and awareness by donning your funniest, silliest and craziest hat and joining the fun. 2-4 p.m. By donation.

BBQ4LIFE (formerly MFT BBQ), 930 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-906-4960, bbq4life.net.

Kids & Teens BALLET IDAHO TEA FOR TUTUS—Children experience the music and movement that is ballet.

Recommended for children ages 5-9 and their families. 3-5 p.m. $35. Esther Simplot Center for the Performing Arts, 516 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-343-0556, ext. 20, balletidaho.org/events/ tea-for-tutus.

KIDS HELPING KIDS FUNDRAISER FOR HOMELESS AND ABUSED CHILDREN— Teach kids to become lifelong advocates.

10 a.m.-4 p.m. $5-$100. Penny Lane Kids Toy Store, 1778 W. State St., Boise, 208-871-2878, welkerphotography.com/kidshelpingkids.

Food SAWTOOTH WINERY SPRING ESTATE OPEN HOUSE AND BARREL TASTING—Noon-5 p.m. $15-$20. Sawtooth Winery, 13750 Surrey Lane, Nampa, 208-467-1200, sawtoothspringtasting15. bpt.me.

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CALENDAR SUNDAY 19 APRIL 19 Festivals & Events CALDWELL GUN SHOW—10 a.m.4 p.m. FREE-$6. O’Connor Field House, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208-455-3004, gunsmokegunshows.com.

YOU’RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN—2 p.m. FREE-$15.

Langroise Center for the Performing and Fine Arts, 2112 Cleveland Blvd., College of Idaho campus, Caldwell, 208-459-5426.

IDAHO DANCE THEATRE—2 p.m. $10-$30. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise, 208-331-9592, idahodancetheatre.org.

IDAHO MOTORCYCLE SHOW—10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE-$10. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650.,idahomotorcycleshow.com.

PINTO BENNETT AND THE FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION—2 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s, 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557, famousmotelcowboys.com.

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BCT CHILDREN’S READING SERIES: CAMP GHOUL—2 p.m. $8-$12.

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

KARAOKE FOR A CAUSE—Fundraiser for the LGBT Community Center.

9 p.m.-2 a.m. FREE. Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-336-1313, facebook.com.

THINGS MY MOTHER TAUGHT ME—2 p.m. $11-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

PARTY IN PINK—A breast cancer fundraiser to support men and women who can’t afford treatment or mammograms. 5-9 p.m. $35, $60 couples.

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E. Winding Creek Drive, Ste. 100, Eagle, 425-466-3705, facebook. com/windingcreekgrillofeagle.

MONDAY APRIL 20 Sports & Fitness GOLF FOR A CURE— Raise money for the fight against prostate cancer.

Entry includes green fee, cart and $5 food voucher. Proceeds benefit the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Call to reserve your space. Mon., April 20, 9 a.m. $49. Plantation Country Club, 6515 W. State St., Boise, 208-853-4440, plantationcc.com.

TUESDAY APRIL 21 Festivals & Events POLITICS FOR LUNCH: BOISE MAYOR DAVE BIETER—Noon. FREE-$12.

Boise State Andrus Center in BoDo, 301 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208426-3777, andruscenter.org.

On Stage IDAHO THEATER FOR YOUTH: MAGGIE LUMIERE AND THE GHOST TRAIN—Suitable for children 5-12 years old. 7 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, box office: 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

Literature IDAHO WRITERS GUILD LITERARY LUNCH—Author Christian Winn will present “Creating Meaning in Fiction: The Craft of the Artful Story.”

11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. $15-$20.

Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, idahowritersguild.com.

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CABI SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM SERIES—Gain a new perspective on the plight of Jewish and African refugees, explore the journeys to their respective safety, and hear their resettlement stories. A short discussion will follow each film.

Thursdays through May 5. 7 p.m.

FREE. Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, 11 N. Latah St., Boise, 208-343-6601, ahavathbethisrael. org.

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MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY APRIL 15 ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC AND KARAOKE—With Clint Budge. 7 p.m.

FREE. Cylos CHRIS GUTIERREZ—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers EMILY STANTON BAND—8 p.m.

FREE. Bouquet ESTEBAN ANASTASIO FLAMENCO GUITAR—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers GERONIMO GETTY—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s IDAHO JAZZ SOCIETY: ROB VERDI AND SAXOPHOBIA—7 p.m. $17-$22 adv., $20-$25 door.

Sapphire Room

NAOMI PSALM AND FIONA MAURY—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage ROBBER’S ROOST AND FRIENDS—7 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

THURSDAY APRIL 16

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

AARON WATSON—With Steve Fulton Music and the Brook Faulk Band. 8 p.m. $10-$25. Revolution

SAD HORSE—8 p.m. $5. Crazy Horse

BARTON AND BOLLER—7 p.m.

FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

SHANGRI-LA’S 9TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY WITH CELTIC WAYS—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

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

SLACKLINE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow SOJA—8 p.m. $20-$35. Knitting Factory SPUD MAN—6 p.m. FREE. Gelato STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

BRENT MARCHBANKS—11:45 a.m. FREE. Shangri-La CESCHI—Featuring Ecid. 9:30 p.m. $7. Reef FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s HANG ELEVEN—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JEREMY STEWART—5:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

CHICKEN DINNER ROAD—8 p.m.

FREE. Sockeye

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

JIM PERCY—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement

OLD DEATH WHISPER—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

WENDY MATSON—7 p.m. FREE. Kind Cuisine

ELISE NICOLE—7 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

PEELANDER-Z—With Trite and Far From Giants. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

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Local musician Lee Penn Sky on life’s disappointments and blessings Lee Penn Sky knows how good can come from bad.

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something more complex.

Lee Penchansky, aka Lee Penn Sky, took the “That’s a horrible event and we need to be title of his self-released March 2015 album, 29 reminded of it,” Penn Sky said, “but it’s not the Left Down, from “The Big Branch Mine,” his only thing to life, and it’s not the only thing song about the 2010 Pike River Mine disaster about this album. This album is this rise and in which 29 men were killed. He sees the incifall—there’s good and bad. So these skulls are dent as both a tragedy and an outrage. really seeds for these flowers. It’s really kind of “You have this event that is horrible and so this cycle. That’s the concept of the album and tragically sad and indicting,” Penn Sky said. the concept of the cover of the album.”

“It’s so preventable. And there’s that whole The other 12 songs on 29 Left Down flesh circus around that thing—‘We know four are out Penn Sky’s concept. Combining plaindead, but we know that 25 are alive in the safe spoken, compassionate lyrics with soothing room.’” This whole heartbreaking trip that we folk melodies and gently funky rhythms, the all took collectively through the media to find album mixes reflections on social injustices out, ‘Actually, we’ve walked by these dead bodand life’s disappointments with an appreciation ies several different times.’ … This place was of family, friends and the Idaho in such disrepair that they didn’t landscape. Penn Sky released the even see the bodies.” leepennsky.com album on March 29 during his 29 Left Down (produced by Treefort Music Fest set with his Audio Lab Studios’ Steve Fulton) band, The Oliphants. isn’t about wallowing in anger or despair, Penn Sky knows from personal experience though. Local artist Heather Bauer’s album about good coming from bad. Originally from cover art—an encaustic image of flowers growAnn Arbor, Mich., the singer-songwriter had ing from skulls buried in the ground—suggests 24 | APRIL 15–21, 2015 | BOISEweekly

played in a band while in college. However, he didn’t start singing, writing songs or playing guitar seriously until after he was almost killed in a 2001 accident..

At the time, Penn Sky was working for a wilderness treatment program for children in Gooding, Idaho.

“I stopped to help somebody on the highway going over this huge pass,” he remembered. “They were rolled over. I was responding to them, and a car came off and drilled me. I had to be Life Flight-ed, and I had eight surgeries on my leg. Long story short, I could no longer do those physical [tasks] that I moved up here to do.”

As part of his recovery, Penn Sky began wandering alone through the Idaho desert. He also channeled his energy into making music.

“That’s when I wrote my first album [Prelude to Hindsight (Parker’s Records, 2005)]. All the songs on my first album were from that time period of recovery and loneliness and starting to feel some of that association with the land,” Penn Sky said. He began performing locally and playing such festivals as Denver’s Underground Music Showcase and Spokane, Wash.’s Fall Folk Festival, but he didn’t release a follow-up to Prelude until this year. The 10-year gap between albums was due to a lack of money as well as focusing on raising his two children.

“That kind of derails you,” Penn Sky said of parenting, “but it also sets you up for some beautiful and wonderful things that you would

not have [expected].”

Penn Sky values the wonderful and unexpected in music as well. He credited the other members of the Oliphants, bassist Troy Ferguson and percussionist Jake Englehorn, with bringing out new elements in his songs.

“When we play live, we kind of become a jam band,” he said. “Because I want that stuff to come out. I want everybody to have that expression. … We’re listening to each other, we’re letting it go places.”

Steve Fulton helped take the 29 Left Down material to new places in the studio. He pushed Penn Sky to add, remove and rewrite different parts of various songs.

“He actually did challenge me to change quite a few things,” which, Penn Sky said, he was uncomfortable with. When Fulton told him he needed to rewrite the chorus of a song, Penn Sky said, “What do you mean? This is the song.

What’re you talking about?”

But he realized he had to “go through that process and see what’s there.”

Listeners can see and hear the result of that process soon. Penn Sky and the Oliphants plan to play events like the Yellow Pine Music and Harmonica Festival in the next few months, and he also hopes to have a more organized release show for the new album.

Whatever response to the new album he encounters, it probably won’t faze Penn Sky. “After literally almost dying, what’re they gonna do?” he said, recalling his start as a singer.

“What if they say, ‘I don’t like your voice?’

What’s that gonna do, kill me?”

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LORD HURON, RECORD EXCHANGE, APRIL 19 Like a bookstore or a library, a record store is a great equalizer—a place where people from all walks of life can find a sense of kinship.

Record Store Day (Saturday, April 18) honors these citadels of equality, and our own Record Exchange will celebrate itself and its customers with exclusive releases, special performances and cool giveaways, like the commemorative Built To Spill poster, designed

by Erin Cunningham for RSD, which is free with the purchase of BTS’ Untethered Moon (Warner Bros., April 2015). The RX takes the celebration even further with a weekend of events including the only in-town performance by indie folk band Lord Huron, which has its own celebrating to do: Lord Huron’s sophomore full-length, Strange Trails (Iamsound), dropped just days ago on April 6. NPR described the Strange Trails track, “Fool for Love,” as “a beautiful, meditative mix that shimmers with the kind of hope and determination that only a new day can hold in its earliest hours, just after waking.”

What started as a solo project by Michigan-born Ben Schneider has become a full-fledged band and with Strange Trails, follows the captivating musical path Lord Huron forged with its 2012 debut, Lonesome Dreams (Iamsound).

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BOOZEHOUND Potent, honey-hued herbal liqueurs are popular aperitifs and digestifs across Central and Eastern Europe. The Czech Republic makes Becherovka, Hungary produces Unicum and countries like Croatia and Slovenia put out versions of Pelinkovac. We sampled three of these bitter liqueurs that are now on Idaho shelves.

BECHEROVKA, $23.95 At first whiff, this 38 percent alcohol liqueur smells like grandma’s candy from the Old Country. Heavy hints of clove, gumdrops, cinnamon and anise fill the nose, while balanced sweet and bitter notes wash over the palate. The bitterness lingers but in a subtle, enjoyable way. As the Czechs say, “Na zdravi,” or “Cheers.”

ZWACK UNICUM BITTERS, PLUM, $27.15 Considered the national drink of Hungary, Unicum was established in 1790 by Doctor Jozsef Zwack, royal physician to the Imperial Court. Half of this liqueur’s 40 herbs are distilled, while the other half are macerated in corn alcohol before they’re blended and aged in oak casks. The plum version is aged on dried plums, which gives it a dark caramel color. The 35 percent alcohol liqueur has a fruity, coughmedicine nose. Plum and clove come through on the palate, which has a bitter, medicinal finish.

PELINKOVAC BITTER LIQUEUR, $19.70 Though various versions of Pelinkovac are produced in Europe using wormwood, this particular product is bottled by Luxco, Inc. in St. Louis, Mo., which also bottles Pearl vodka and Rebel Yell bourbon. Pelinkovac Bitter Liqueur has licorice, mint and bubblegum notes on the nose, with a fair amount of heat. On the palate, it’s a syrupy sweet mash-up of mint and cinnamon flavors, with little-to-no bitterness.

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TELAYA AND POSTMODERN GET NEW DIGS Plus, El Gallo Giro becomes Enrique’s and Amigo’s goes Peruvian TARA MORGAN Telaya Wine Co. recently announced that it’s leaving the 44th Street Wineries warehouse it shares with Cinder and Coiled Wines in Garden City. The winery is constructing a new, 11,000-square-foot production facility and tasting room in a vacant parking lot at the end of 32nd Street, adjacent to the Riverside Hotel.

“It’ll be our production facility for the winery, including barrel and case goods storage, and then it’ll have a tasting room and a patio,” said Co-owner and Winemaker Earl Sullivan.

“On the second floor we’ll have offices and a conference room.”

Telaya’s new facility will allow the winery to increase its capacity to 5,000 cases annually.

“We’ve expanded our production every year since we’ve been open,” said Sullivan. “We started with 50 cases in 2008 and we just finished this past year with 2,500 cases. … The building’s designed to take us all the way up to 5,000.”

Though the new building won’t be outfitted with a kitchen, Sullivan says he’s working on procuring some snacks for the tasting room, which will overlook the Boise River.

“We are working out an arrangement right now—we don’t have it finalized—of a very limited menu from the Riverside Hotel,” said Sullivan. “Things like a meat and cheese tray or fruit or small desserts or a cold sandwich or something like that.”

Construction is set to begin soon, and Sullivan says the new facility should be open sometime this fall. In the meantime, Telaya will continue to operate its tasting room inside the 44th Street Wineries warehouse. telayawine.com.

In other booze news, the former Brewforia location on Capitol Boulevard—which closed in late December, two months after opening—is now being transformed into a taproom for PostModern Brewers.

“We’re in the process of converting the space over right now,” said Grind Modern Burger partner Rick Boyd. “It’s going to be a work in progress

Carrie and Earl Sullivan, owners of Telaya Wine Co., stand smiling at the site of their soon-to-be new tasting room.

for a bit … There will be about 50 seats, a limited food menu, most of our more unique beers will be on that side of the building, while the full lineup will be on over at Grind.”

The taproom will offer PostModern pilot batches, one-off beers and, eventually, vintage and barrel-aged brews. It’ll open later than Grind, at around 3 p.m., and stay open later on the weekends, until around midnight.

“We’re trying to create a space that’s really not like any other tasting room around town …

While Grind has a little more clean and polished look, it’s going to be a little more urban in the new space and a little more casual,” said Boyd.

Boyd says he’s reached out to a number of local artists to create “a really unique art installation” in the new taproom, which he hopes to have open

by Monday, April 20. He also says they’re hosting Pigapalooza in the Grind parking lot Saturday, June 13. The all-day barbecue fest will feature 1012 vendors, live music and, of course, PostModern beer. grindmodernburger.com.

In Kuna food news, the popular Mexican eatery El Gallo Giro has officially changed its name to Enrique’s Mexican Restaurant.

“It’s been 17 years since we took ownership of the business and I just felt that Enrique [Contreras], my husband, he has made it to what it is,” said co-owner Ana Paz. “So in honor of him, we decided to change it to his name. And also so people don’t get confused from this restaurant and the other restaurant in Garden City.”

Paz says customers frequently assume that the El Gallo Giro in Kuna is affiliated with the restaurant of the same name on Glenwood Boulevard in Garden City.

“We’ve never been the same, different owners, but it’s always confused people that our restaurant in Boise is not as good,” said Paz. “So we just

thought, ‘Well, let’s just totally change it all up.’”

Paz and Contreras also have some bigger changes in the works. In early 2016, the restaurant will move into a much larger space down the street at 345 W. Avenue E, in the same building as Cowgirls.

“Basically, they’re gutting the whole place and doing everything from scratch,” said Paz. “They say it’s going to take about six months. If everything goes well, we’ll be able to accommodate 275, compared to now 150. We’re also going to have outdoor seating. Same menu, same recipes, everything is going to stay the same, but we’ll just have more ability to bring on new dishes because we’re going to have a bigger kitchen.” facebook.com/elgallogirokuna.

In other Mexican restaurant news, Amigo’s Mexican Restaurant, located at 2919 W. State St., recently hired a Peruvian chef from the Bay Area named Ines Zarate.

“She’s got experience for a little more than 15 years cooking up Peruvian dishes,” said Peruvian owner Gil Portocarrero. “She’s from Mexico, but she used to work for this Peruvian restaurant in San Francisco.”

Amigos will incorporate a number of Peruvian classics onto its menu, including: lomo saltado, ceviche, papa a la huancaina, Peruvian tamales and aji de gallina, chicken in a creamy aji pepper sauce. Amigos will also offer rema volteada, a flanlike dessert; and chicha morada, a Peruvian soft drink made with purple corn, fruit, cinnamon, cloves, sugar and lime juice.

“You have no idea how excited I am,” said Portocarrero. “I’ve been wanting to serve these Peruvian dishes for a long time and I finally found the right person.”

Zarate will take the reins in the kitchen Thursday, April 23. amigosboise.com.

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SCREEN WONDERFUL AND WICKED WILD TALES A savage sextet of stories GEORGE PRENTICE Wild Tales (Spanish: Relatos Salvajes) is one of my favorite films of 2014. After a brief stopover at the Academy Awards where it was nominated for the Best Foreign Film Oscar, this ArgentineSpanish production is now being widely distributed in U.S. theaters and will hit the big screen at The Flicks on Friday, April 17. Lucky you.

Wild Tales is a savage and sometimes sexy sextet of stories: No. 1 finds a planeload of passengers who realize they’re all connected to one mysterious musician; No. 2 is a waitress’s Wild Tales: One of the most accurately named films of the year. revenge on a particular customer; No. 3 is a road-rage comedy that is a bit like an R-rated Wild Tales has faced some recent controversy, Szifron wisely opted not to force his six separate Road Runner cartoon; No. 4 involves a custody battle, a birthday cake and a bomb; No. 5 is the elements of Wild Tales together. Yet these jigsaw too. One of its twisted stories—the one which takes place aboard a plane—has reminded puzzle pieces of vice, intersection of an acEuropean filmgoers of the March 24 crash of violence and vengeance cident victim, a wealthy WILD TALES (SPANISH: RELATOS SALVAJES) Germanwings Flight 9525 in the French Alps, fit together well. driver trying to buy his ( R) I was fortunate to see but Wild Tales was completed more than a year way out the accident Written and directed by Damian Szifron Wild Tales’ North Ameri- prior to the Germanwings tragedy and the conand a prosecutor who Starring Erica Rivas, Julieta Zylberberg and can premiere at the 2014 nection is unfair. sees through the driver’s Rita Cortes Ultimately, Wild Tales stirs up strong emotions.

Toronto International scheme; and No. 6 Opens Friday, April 17 at The Flicks, 646 W. The audience I shared it with shrieked at some Film Festival where it invites us to a wedFulton St., 208-342-4288, theflicksboise.com. was an audience favorite. of the more deliciously outrageous scenes and ding gone wrong. Each when the lights came up at the end of the film, It won acclaim at the of Wild Tales’ stories the cheers were even louder than the screams. I Cannes and San Sebastian film festivals as well, vary in style but build in intensity; and unlike can’t think of another film that has inspired such and has since become the biggest box-office so-called “hyperlink films”—such as Crash, mature delight in some time. champ in Argentine history.

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SCREEN EXTRA GREAT TV? THAT MAY COST YOU A BIT (BUT NOT ALWAYS) Some of television’s best doesn’t come cheap.

Beginning with the launch of the final season of AMC’s Mad Men and HBO’s triple-threat April 12 season premieres of Game of Thrones, Silicon Valley and Veep, pay-cable and -streaming services have a choke-hold on much of our must-see TV. That grip only gets tighter with upcoming premieres of Inside Amy Schumer (Tuesday, April 21, Comedy Central), Ripper Street (WednesBOISE WEEKLY.COM

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June 21, HBO). And not leaving anything to chance, Orphan Black will launch its third season premiere Saturday, April 18 by simulcasting on five cable platforms: AMC, BBC America, IFC, Sundance and WE. Here’s some good news for those who have cut the cord: Some top notch broadcasts are

Game of Thrones now airing on HBO.

slated for “free” TV as well. On Monday, April 27, Idaho Public Television airs Dick Cavett’s Vietnam, featuring rare clips from the legendary 1960s and 70s series. Fox debuts its much-anticipated miniseries Wayward Pines from director M. Night Shyamalan on Thursday, May 14.

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76 Title in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” 78 Bill : William :: ____ : José 79 Skater Midori 80 Wasn’t square 82 Cut, in a way 83 Leans 86 P.D. broadcast 88 Cry for attention, maybe 90 Roald Dahl won three of these 92 Nail a test 93 Team leader 95 Nile biter, for short 96 Extract by percolation 97 Eyes for emoticons 98 Owner of StubHub 100 Spa specialty, for short 103 A.C.A. part 104 Environmental terrorism 106 Is an ass?

107 Language along the Mekong 108 Flight 109 Soap brand with cocoa butter 110 Mustier 112 Cable, e.g.

114 Not digital 116 Do something extravagantly 118 Delight 119 Policy on some cruises 120 Slice of history 121 Base 10?

122 X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g.

123 Monopoly holdings 124 Photog’s choice 125 Broadcast inits. since April 1971

126 Gifts often received while bowing the head

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2 Postcard message 3 ____ palm 4 Line in Gotham 5 Beverage brewed without barley or wheat 6 Ones found in the closet?

7 Die, say 8 Have a heart-to-heart with?

9 Local, e.g.

10 Mercury had 26 of them 11 Becomes an adult 12 Drill sergeant’s bark 13 First lady of the 1940s-‘50s 14 Experiment with something 15 Sons of Liberty gathering 16 Uniform material 17 Peak performance, informally 19 Grp. that knows the drill?

22 How things may be rated 27 [Wham!]

31 Setting for a Marx Brothers farce 33 Priority system 37 Class with a Classics unit: Abbr.

39 Where to see the horn of Africa?

41 Model Banks 43 Tombstone lawman 45 ____ bar 46 Certain gelatin 49 Tattooed toon 53 Top-notch 55 Supercollider bit 57 Moving vehicle 59 Wins 61 Future atty.’s challenge 63 “Follow my command!”

64 Horatio who wrote the Tattered Tom series 65 Progenitors 68 Street cred 70 “What was I talking about before?”

73 ____ nerve 74 Bone whose name means “clasp” in Latin 75 Big-eyed Betty 77 “I hate the Moor” speaker 81 Go downhill 83 Dreamworld 84 Winter race vehicle 85 Next one in a row 87 Some young colleagues 89 Raised railroads 91 Drought 94 Bright spot?

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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: Anthony Steven Garcia Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1503054 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Anthony Steven Garcia, 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 Anthony Steven Richardson Gerrard. The reason for the change in name is: Desire to legally use family names on mothers side.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) APR 28 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.

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Date MAR 11 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB March 25, April 1, 8, & 15, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Robin Lee Landing Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1503979 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE A Petition to change the name of Robin Lee Landing, 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 Robin Lee Hood. The reason for the change in name is because the Petitioner would like to use her maiden name following her divorce in February of 2004.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on May 12 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.

MAR 23 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB April 1, 8, 15 & 22, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE IF IDAHO, INA AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Shelby Lampkin Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1313861 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Shelby Lampkin, 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 Shelby Lucius. The reason for the change in name is: Don’t want fathers name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 05 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: MAR 11 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The California Gold Rush hit its peak between 1849 and 1855.

Three hundred thousand adventurers flocked to America’s West Coast in search of gold. In the early days, gold nuggets were lying around on the ground in plain sight, or relatively easy to find in gravel beds at the bottom of streams.

But later prospectors had to work harder, developing methods to extract the gold from rocks that contained it. One way to detect the presence of the precious metal was through the use of nitric acid, which corroded any substance that wasn’t gold. The term “acid test” refers to that process. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because it’s a good time for you to use the metaphorical version of an acid test as you ascertain whether what you have discovered is truly golden.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The time between now and your birthday will provide you with excellent opportunities to resolve problems, bring drawn-out melodramas to a conclusion, and clean up old messes—even the supposedly interesting ones. You want to know what else this period will be good for? I’ll tell you: 1. Surrendering control-freak fantasies. 2. Relieving your backlog of tension. 3. Expelling delusional fears that you cling to out of habit. 4. Laughing long and hard at the cosmic jokes that have tweaked your attitude.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the mid-19th century, the entrance exam for the British Royal Navy was quite odd. Some candidates were required to write down the Lord’s Prayer, recite the multiplication table for the number three, get naked and jump over a chair, and drink a glass of sherry.

I’m guessing that your own initiation or rite of passage may, at least initially, seem as puzzling or nonsensical as that one. You might be hard-pressed to understand how it is pertinent to the next chapter of your life story. And yet I suspect that you will ultimately come to the conclusion—although it may take some time—that this transition was an excellent lead-in and preparation for what’s to come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1909, Sergei Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes, a Parisian ballet company that ultimately revolutionized the art form. The collaborative efforts he catalyzed were unprecedented. He drew on the talents of visual artists Picasso and Matisse, composers Stravinsky and Debussy, designer Coco Chanel, and playwright Jean Cocteau, teaming them up with top choreographers and dancers.

His main goal was not primarily to entertain, but rather to excite and inspire and inflame. That’s the spirit I think you’ll thrive on in the coming weeks, Cancerian. It’s not a time for nice diversions and comfy

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satisfactions. Go in quest of Ballets Russes-like bouts of arousal, awakening and delight.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Don’t ever tame your demons— always keep them on a leash.”

That’s a line from a song by Irish musician Hozier. Does it have any meaning for you? Can your personal demons prove useful to you if you keep them wild but under your control? If so, how might they be useful? Could they provide you with primal energy you wouldn’t otherwise possess? Might their presence be a reminder that everyone you meet has their own demons and therefore deserves your compassion? I suspect that these are topics worthy of your consideration right now. Your relationship to your demons is ripe for transformation— possibly even a significant upgrade.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Will you be the difficult wizard, Virgo? Please say yes. Use your magic to summon elemental forces that will shatter the popular obstacles. Offer the tart medicine that tempers and tests as it heals. Bring bracing revelations that provoke a fresher, sweeter order. I know it’s a lot to ask, but here’s no one more suited to the tasks. Only you can manage the stern grace that will keep us honest. Only you have the tough humility necessary to solve the riddles that no one else can even make sense of.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My message this week might be controversial to the Buddhists among you, but I’ve got to report the cosmic trends as I see them, right? It’s my sacred duty not to censor or sanitize the raw data. So here’s the truth as I understand it: More desire is the answer to your pressing questions. Passionate intensity is the remedy for all wishywashy wishes and anesthetized emotions. The stronger your longing, the smarter you’ll be. So if your libido is not already surging and throbbing under its own power, I suggest you get it teased and tantalized until it does.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Georgia is not just an American state. It’s also a country that’s at the border of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. Many people who live there speak the Georgian language. They have a word, shemomedjamo, that refers to what happens when you love the taste of the food you’re eating so much that you continue to pile it in your mouth well past the time when you’re full.

I’d like to use it as a metaphor for what I hope you won’t do in the coming days: get too much of a good thing. On the other hand, it’s perfectly fine to get just the right, healthy amount of a good thing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Karelu is a word from the Tulu language spoken in South India.

It refers to the marks made on human skin by clothing that’s too tight. As you know, the effect is temporary. Once the close-fitting garment is removed, the imprint will eventually disappear as the skin restores its normal shape and texture. I see the coming days as being a time when you will experience a metaphorical version of karelu, Scorpio. You will shed some form of constriction, and it may take a while for you to regain your full flexibility and smoothness.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When you’re a driver in a car race, an essential rule in making a successful pit stop is to get back on the track as quickly as possible.

Once the refueling is finished and your new tires are in place, you don’t want to be cleaning out your cup holder or checking the sideview mirror to see how you look.

Do I really need to tell you this?

Aren’t you usually the zodiac’s smartest competitor? I understand that you’re trying to become more skilled at the arts of relaxation, but can’t you postpone that until after this particular race is over?

Remember that there’s a difference between the bad kind of stress and the good kind. I think you actually need some of the latter.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Until the early 20th century, mayonnaise was considered a luxury food, a hand-made delicacy reserved for the rich. An entrepreneur named Richard Hellman changed that.

He developed an efficient system to produce and distribute the condiment at a lower cost. He put together effective advertising campaigns. The increasing availability of refrigeration helped, too, making mayonnaise a more practical food.

I foresee the possibility of a comparable evolution in your own sphere, Aquarius: the transformation of a specialty item into a mainstay, or the evolution of a rare pleasure into a regular occurrence.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Piscean author Dr. Seuss wrote and illustrated over 40 books for children. Midway through his career, his publisher dared him to make a new book that used no more than 50 different words. Accepting the challenge, Seuss produced Green Eggs and Ham, which went on to become the fourth best-selling English-language children’s book in history. I invite you to learn from Seuss’s efforts, Pisces. Take advantage of the limitations that life has given you. Be grateful for the way those limitations compel you to be efficient and precise. Use your constraints as inspiration to create a valuable addition to your life story.

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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: Stephen Anthony Marion Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1504970 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Stephan Anthony Marion, 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 Amy Claire Marion. The reason for the change in name is: Personal Preference.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 28, 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 March 30 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: Debbie Nagele DEPUTY CLERK PUB April 8, 15, 22 & 29, 2015.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA IN RE: Kathryn Edmark Legal Name Case No. CV NC 1504751 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of Kathryn Edmark, 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 Kathryn Chroninger McLeod. The reason for the change in name is: My

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A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) May 19 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 MAR 30 2015 CHRISTOPHER D. RICH CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERK PUB APR 15, 22, 29 & May 6, 2015.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal representative of the above-named decedent.

All persons having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Michelle O’Connor, Personal Representative C/O Susan Lynn Mimura & Associates PLLC, 3451 E. Copper Point Dr, Ste #106, Meridian, Id 83642.

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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: MAKAI JORDAN WILLIAMS Legal Name of minor Case No. CV NC 1505584 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of MAKAI JORDAN WILLIAMS, 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 MAKAI JORDAN HOWELL. The reason for the change in name is: So the childs last name will be the same as his mother’s last name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) JUNE 11, 2015 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections

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“A good f ilm is when the price of the dinner, the theater admis sion and the b a by s i t te r we re wor th it,”

SCREEN EXTRA GUARDING THE GUARDIANS Perhaps the silliest debate about the movies —and I’ve had more than a few—is when I selected Guardians of the Galaxy as a “Final Four” film in my year-end bracket of 2014 movies. (BW, Screen, “Movie Madness: A Bracket-Busting Look at a Year at the Movies,” Dec. 24, 2014). For the record, the other three were Boyhood, The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Imitation Game.”

“Guardians of the Galaxy? Really?” posted one disagreeing reader.

“Agreed,” echoed a second.

I don’t take a backseat to anyone in my love for movies, though I must prefer that I prefer the back row of a theater. I also don’t dismiss a film simply because it’s popular, let alone a box office smash. Boise Weekly prides itself as being a champion of “smaller” films: foreign flicks, documentaries and art-house gems, but we don’t pull our punches when a pretentious piece of pulp fiction stains the screen.

So why would we have a different set rules for big-screen fare? Major studio releases don’t need our help (or anyone else’s for that matter) to promote their wares, but when something stinks up the joint, we’ll let you know. Conversely, when something is entertaining and (heaven forbid) popular, like Guardians of the Galaxy, so be it.

1. All the President’s Men 2. Young Frankenstein 3. A Bridge Too Far

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“The most hone st fo rm of f ilmmaking is to make a f ilm for your self.”

4. The Apartment 5. Chinatown 6. Bunny Lake is Missing

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7. The Great Race 8. Groundhog Day 9. Network 10. Advise and Consent

Source: George Prentice

“ When p eop le ask me if I went to f ilm school, I tell them, ‘No, I went to f i l m s .’”

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“If you want a happy ending , that d e p e n d s , o f c o u r s e, on where you stop your stor y.”

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READER COMMENTS

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From screen related postings: Johnny: “James Franco have [sic] no dignity at all.”

Andrew Ebert: “This review is

shockingly incorrect. Who sends this sort of sourpuss to review anything other than an arthouse film?”

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Johnny, responding to George Prentice’s June 2014 chronicle of Mr. Franco’s career.

Boisent: “I watched Cloud Atlas and thoroughly enjoyed the film.”

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Dal: “That was a lousy review.”

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