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EDITOR’S NOTE TRUST AND CONSEQUENCES In a widely reported Gallup poll released in September, respondents delivered a clear message to practitioners of mass media: “We don’t trust you.” According to the survey, only 32 percent of Americans said they have “a great deal” or “a fair amount” of confidence in the media’s ability to “report the news fully, accurately and fairly.” As Gallup noted, it was the lowest such accounting of mass media’s trustworthiness in the company’s 81-year polling history and represented an 8 percent decline from 2015.

How much further that level of trust has fallen since September—or even since the Nov. 8 election—remains to be seen, as we now have the specter of so-called “fake news” to contend with. In an essay for The New York Times published Nov. 18, John Herrman, who tackled Facebook’s “political-media machine” in a NYT Magazine feature in August, wrote the reckoning is still to come with “fake news,” which has the power to pass off any notion as true by sheer force of sharing on social media. According to Herrman, traditional media “does not yet understand how threatened its ability is to declare things true, even when they are.”

For anyone with a passing belief in the importance of the Fourth Estate, this is a chilling diagnosis; and, lest we write off these concerns as “media elite” hand-wringing, “post-fact” was declared word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary.

The extent to which the ever growing chorus of criticisms against “the media” are valid will likely inform every discussion happening in journalism schools for the next four years (at least), as President-elect Donald Trump has already set himself up as the nation’s Media Critic-in-Chief. Meanwhile, despite the general sense of pessimism about the news business, there are still thousands of talented journalists turning out important work— much of it drowned out in our current media landscape. Project Censored and its annual top 10 list of under- or unreported news stories shines a light on a handful of important pieces of journalism that deserved better and more attention in the past year.

Find the 2016 Project Censored reprinted on Page 9, and, maybe, take some heart that there are reporters out there who should garner more than 32 percent of your trust.

—Zach Hagadone

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

STANDING WITH STANDING ROCK A CROWD OF BOISE ANS PACKED THE LINEN BUILDING TO LE ARN MORE ABOUT THE ONGOING DEMONSTR ATIONS AG AINST AN OIL PIPELINE IN NORTH DAKOTA . AT TENDEES ALSO ASKED THAT A PE TITION BE SENT TO BOISE CIT Y HALL IN THE HOPE THAT LOCAL LE ADERS WOULD SIGN A RESO LU TION IN SUPPORT OF THE PROTESTERS. GE T MORE AT NE WS/CIT YDESK.

‘STAY THE COURSE’ An Idaho teacher evaluation system came under fire in 2015 when it was found some districts were leaving out info. Still, the state is standing by it. More at News/Citydesk.

PLAYS TO PLAY The Idaho Shakespeare Festival announced it roster of plays for the 2017 season, including works ranging from Hamlet to Wait Until Dark. More at Arts/ Arts News

NOT RIGGED Despite assertions to the contrary (including from Donald Trump), ProPublica and Electionland say their 1,000 poll watchers reported no evidence of election tampering.

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MAIL ‘I TOLD YOU SO’ Dear Editor, As America continues its downward spiral, it boggles my MENSA mind to piece together Trump’s attraction.

What do Trumpers think they’ll take from the upcoming presidency? Do they think The Donald’s ability to make money will rub off on them?

Or what is it? Ooh, we get to put up a wall in the southern U.S.; ooh, we get to lose our health insurance along with, I’m sure, other benefits; ooh, we don’t have to help the Little Guy anymore. All to protect the ex-middle class from any more losses. And to change the definition of “American” to one who excludes. Contrary to today’s popular thought, fear and spite aren’t great partners of decision making.

The day after the election, I applied for a job in a foreign country, so I empathize with those who want to flee an America they don’t recognize anymore, where one’s neighbors all seem like Martians whose minds have been marinated in mush. I even heard rumors that some Democrats who can afford to will be moving overseas.

Yet why give the Republicans that satisfaction? Why conjure up that old “love it or leave it” slogan, which is simply another attempt to erode what it means to be American? We only have to love what America can be to stick around.

We need everyone here.

We’ll need clear thinkers in the years ahead, and they won’t come from the Trump camp. Those Hillary supporters who can, even those who would never consider it, should run for office. Despite what Hillary requested in her

concession speech, instead of giving Trump a chance we need to set up a coalition to mitigate the damage that will undoubtedly ensue from the coming administration.

As I said to my Republican husband after the second Bush had made it impossible for Americans to travel, among other travesties: “I told you so.” If I have the chance to say the same about Trump, I hope we won’t be standing knee deep in ruins.

—Henrietta More Boise

TRUMP VICTORY Dear Editor, We are humbled and proud the American people have risen up in the face of Washington, D.C. This victory expresses what we as a nation have been feeling for so long: The desire and need for change.

Donald Trump will ensure that we once again have a government of, by and for the people.

With a Trump presidency we will finally be able to attack the deficit our country has had for so long by bringing our jobs home to American shores and renegotiating our trade agreements.

We will have constitutional judges who will protect our religious liberties and second amendment, and protect the precious lives of the unborn.

Donald Trump looks forward to representing all Americans and fulfilling his promise to make America safe again, to make America prosperous and make America Great Again.

—Layne Bangerter Trump For President Idaho State Director

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SMOKED OUT Dear Editor, When is the city of Boise going to wise up and get serious about wood smoke pollution? I can’t even walk from the front yard to the back yard when my neighbor’s wood stove is damped down—the horrible smoke coming from their chimney is a choking hazard.

A recent study by Washington State University found that Boise residents inhale a stunning amount of particulate from their neighbors’ wood stoves—even with all windows and doors closed.

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‘MISSED OPPORTUNITIES’ Dear Editor, I attended the Boise Whitewater Park planning meeting [Nov. 2] and am confused at some of the missed opportunities. The city has hired Scott Shipley, of S2O Design, to design Phase 2 of the park. Scott is a three-time world champion whitewater slalom racer and former Olympian. Despite this, the city has not asked him to design any whitewater slalom features in the park, and said that they’ll manage that “operationally.” To put this in perspective, it’s like paying Arnold Palmer to design a city park and telling him, “Don’t worry about designing any holes for golf, we’ll figure that out later on our own.”

This is an historic missed opportunity for the city of Boise, but it’s not too late.

The park is in the design stage for Phase 2 and I hope the city will ask Mr. Shipley to plan some slalom portions of the park.

—Ben Jacob Boise

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NEWS FROM IDAHO, MERRY CHRISTMAS Gem State evergreen set to light up U.S. Capitol

Idaho Nonprofit Center: “If you’ve already implemented these changes, stay the course.”

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The Capitol Christmas Tree arrived in Washington, D.C. on Nov. 28, in preparation for its illumination in front of the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, Dec. 6.

program Hayes remembers from the ’50s is still training local kids.

“That place is kind of the roots of skiing in McCall,” said McCall City Councilwoman Laura Scott, whose kids spend three days a week at the hill after school, carrying on the McCall tradition.

“It’s part of the city’s heritage.”

That the Capitol Christmas Tree was chosen from a beloved local monument is somewhat serendipitous.

Isabella Gerard (center), with Madison (left) and mother Annalyn (right) will help light the tree.

“I can’t tell you how many times I skied past that tree,” said Hayes, adding he only stopped skiing three years ago. “For us here, it’s a feather in our cap. We’re proud of the fact that our tree will be in Washington D.C.” The Little Ski Hill was built in 1937, originally as a pastime for local foresters who worked in Valley and Adams counties. Before long, McCall locals and skiers throughout the region had adopted it as their own. The after-school ski

Every year, a different national forest is selected to provide the Capitol with an impressive evergreen. The Payette National Forest was chosen for 2016, and Payette smokejumpers have spent more than a year scouring the forest for potential trees. They sent their top picks to higher up’s in Washington, and the Little Ski Hill spruce was chosen purely on aesthetic value.

“We didn’t have anything to do with picking it,” said Kim Pierson, a Payette National Forest

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Isabella Gerard, stands in front of the truck carrying the U.S. Capitol Christmas tree.

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ranger on the Capitol Christmas Tree team.

The tree was harvested in early November and loaded onto the back of an 18-wheeler for a month-long tour to D.C. Payette forest rangers accompanied the tree as it traveled first through Idaho, then across the U.S.—stopping in places like Nashville and St. Louis on the way to the capital.

Community members filled the streets when the tree passed through McCall, led by local kids

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—George Prentice

Like many people who grew up in southern Idaho, Ed Hayes learned to ski at the aptly named “Little Ski Hill” three miles north of McCall.

Hayes, 75, remembers spending most of his winter evenings on the one-lift hill as far back as second grade. On weekdays, the ski bus would take Hayes and his friends to the hill after school. On Saturdays, he would hop a bus on Idaho Highway 55, also destined for the Little Ski Hill.

“I lived there,” Hayes said. “Or at least, I might as well have.”

Generations of boys and girls have learned to downhill ski on the Little Ski Hill—including some of McCall’s seven Winter Olympians, like biathlete Lyle Nelson and slalom specialist Patty Boydston-Hovdey.

This Christmas, the Little Ski Hill is in the spotlight for producing another star: an 80-foot Engelmann spruce, chosen as the 2016 U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree. The tree arrived in Washington, D.C. earlier this week, and will be lit on the west lawn of the Capitol on Tuesday, Dec. 6.

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As if November 2016 hasn’t already been full of national drama, many U.S. employers were stunned when, just before Thanksgiving, a federal district judge issued an injunction suspending a new U.S. Department of Labor overtime regulation slated to go into effect Thursday, Dec. 1.

“I said to myself, ‘Am I really seeing this?’

I had to rub my eyes when I got the email,” said Amy Little, executive director of the Idaho Nonprofit Center. “I was really shocked.”

The INC provides resources and advocates for the more than 5,000 registered nonprofits in Idaho, and its hundreds of members range from organizations with significant payrolls to some with few personnel. Following the announcement, inquiries started flooding into INC. “Yes, we fielded several phone calls of, ‘Oh my gosh, I don’t know what to do,’” said Little.

The Department of Labor mandate would have raised the minimum salary below which workers must be paid overtime from around $24,000 to $48,000 per year. In response to a legal challenge from business groups saying the ruling would be cost prohibitive and result in fewer hours for workers, Texas-based Judge Amos L. Mazzant III issued a 20-page order stating the regulation, which would have affected more than 4 million workers, was unlawful under the statutory language of the Fair Labor Standards Act. However, don’t think for a moment the debate over the proposed change is over.

“We’ve consulted with a human resource professional and attorney, and the message from us is this: If you’ve already implemented these changes, stay the course,” said Little.

“You should still be planning for something.

The threshold or criteria might change, but chances are there will be some change. For those who procrastinated? Maybe it paid off, for a while at least, but you should really continue planning and be prepared.”

The preliminary injunction isn’t permanent, it just keeps the status quo until the federal court can review the merits of both sides of the debate.

If November has taught us anything, it’s that change is the new normal.

Forest Service workers help load the tree from the Little Ski Hill near McCall.

in a parade. Parents walked hand-in-hand with their kids or lined up to watch from the sidewalks.

“It’s just really exciting that a tree from our neighborhood is going to the Capitol,” said Emily Simpson, who walked in the parade with her 3-year-old daughter, Abigail. Earlier in the year, Abigail made some of the 18,000 ornaments from Idaho that will decorate 8 the Capitol Christmas Tree and 70 smaller trees in government offices across D.C. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

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NEWS Another Idaho kid, fifth-grader Isabella Gerard, will also play a crucial part in the 2016 Capitol Christmas celebration when she helps light the giant spruce.

Isabella, 10, was one of 200 Idaho students who answered a call from Idaho Republican Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch for artwork representing the theme of this year’s Capitol Christmas Tree: “An Idaho Mountain Gem.” Her poem about being in nature, called “Pristine Idaho Mountains,” was chosen at random as the winner of the contest. As it happens, the words themselves were inspired by the same forest that provided the Capitol tree.

The Gerards, who moved to Idaho because of its natural beauty, bought a house in McCall a year and a half ago.

Though Boise is home, the McCall house is a perfect getaway for the family to spend a bit of time in the outdoors, said Annalyn Gerard, Isabella’s mother. The family hikes in the Payette National Forest, rafts in the lake and, in the winter, Isabella and her 5-year-old sister, Madison, ski with their father, Josh.

Being outdoors together is particularly valuable for the Gerard family. Josh works on hydroelectric projects overseas and his schedule often takes him out of the country for months at a time.

“It’s definitely something that our family needs, away from the computer, away from the internet, basically to have quality time,” Annalyn said. “It’s just peaceful being out there with your family, able to connect and communicate without

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Idaho’s gift to the nation rolled into Washington, D.C. on Nov. 28.

she lights the tree alongside Crapo and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan. She’s looking forward to touring the White House and seeing her dad, grandparents and cousins, who are all flying to the Capitol to watch the ceremony.

Isabella counts herself lucky to represent her state in front of the nation.

“I feel very proud,” she said.

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having any other distractions.”

Isabella said she likes the outdoors for the challenge.

“Sometimes [being outdoors] is hard, and I like hard things,” she said.

She thinks back to skiing with her dad, and pushing herself to go on the hardest runs she can.

“When I’m on it and I get scared because I see how steep it is. I just close my eyes and I start going down,” she said. “[When I get to the bottom] I feel proud of myself.”

It’s no surprise, then, that Isabella isn’t afraid of the national attention she’ll get on Dec. 6, when

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The Capitol Christmas Tree took a quick tour of the D.C. monuments.

chosen each year to provide The People’s Tree.

Representatives of the chosen forest also work with state forest officials to help provide smaller, companion trees to adorn government offices throughout the nation’s capitol.

Crews work to prep the Capitol Christmas Tree prior to its Dec. 6 lighting.

HOW IT BEGAN The tradition of the Capitol Christmas Tree or, as it is officially known, “The People’s Tree,” began in 1964 when then-Speaker of the House John McCormick helped plant a live evergreen on the lawn in front of the U.S. Capitol. The tree lived for three years before dying due to wind damage and destruction of its roots.

In 1970, the chief architect of the U.S. Capitol asked the Forest Service to help provide a Christmas tree from different locations across the nation. Since then, a different forest has been

The Capitol Christmas Tree finds its home for the holidays in front of the U.S. Capitol Building.

state symbols of Idaho were made by Idahoans to help fill The People’s Tree, in addition to the 70 companion trees in offices throughout Washington, D.C. The Payette National Forest worked with local artists and a variety of organizations throughout Idaho to develop prototypes of ornaments, with a “reuse and recycle” theme encouraged in the development.

Each of the artists created decorations that highlight their personal connection to Idaho state symbols, landscapes, wildlife, heritage and cultures of the Gem State.

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PROJECT CENSORED

The top

censored stories of the year

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Throughout its 40-year history, Project Censored has covered a lot of ground that the corporate mainstream media has missed.

Begun by Carl Jensen, a sociology professor at California’s Sonoma State University, shortly after Watergate in 1976, it’s become an institution involving dozens of faculty members and institutions working together to come up with an annual list of the Top Censored Stories of the Year.

The Watergate burglary in June 1972 “sparked one of the biggest political cover-ups in modern history,” Jensen later recalled. “And the press was an unwitting, if willing participant in the cover-up.

“Watergate taught us two important lessons about the press: First, the news media sometimes do fail to cover some important issues, and second, the news media sometimes indulge in self-censorship,” he says.

On the upside, it led to the creation of Project Censored.

As with the Watergate story, these aren’t censored in the overt, heavy-handed manner of an authoritarian dictatorship, but in the often more effective manner reflecting our society as an oligarchy with highly centralized economic power pretending to be a “free marketplace of ideas.”

It may give people what they think they want in the moment, but it leaves them hungry for more, if not downright

malnourished in the long run. The missing stories concern vital subjects central to the healthy functioning of our democracy.

The problem is, we may not even realize what we’re missing, which is precisely why Project Censored is essential.

Another way to think about it is as censorship of what the people as a whole can hear, rather than what any one individual can say.

This year, 221 students and 33 faculty members from 18 college and university campuses across the United States and Canada were involved. A panel of 28 judges, comprised of media studies professors, professional journalists and even a former commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission also participated.

This effort reflects the fact that news isn’t just created for individuals to consume, but for citizens to debate, discuss and then take action on. The real Project Censored, in short, includes you, the reader.

Project Censored has always dealt with specific stories, but on anniversaries like this one, the larger patterns those stories fit within are impossible to ignore. Economic inequality, global warming, petro-politics, suppression of health science, government spying, corporate influence of government: These are all familiar themes that appear again on this year’s list.

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U.S. MILITARY FORCES DEPLOYED IN 70 PERCENT OF WORLD’S NATIONS

interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness... The apparent endemicity of bad research behaviour is alarming.”

The covert exercise of U.S. military power is a Horton’s conclusion echoed Marcia Angell, recurrent subject of Project Censored stories. This year’s top censored story joins that long tradition. a former editor of the New England Journal of It deals with the massive expansion in the number Medicine, who went public in 2009.

A classic case was Study 329 in 2001, which of countries where the officially unnamed war on terror is now being waged by U.S. Special Opera- reported that paroxetine (Paxil in the U.S./Seroxat in the UK) was safe and effective for treating tions forces—147 of the world’s 195 recognized depressed children and adolescents, leading nations, an 80 percent increase since 2010. This doctors to prescribe Paxil to more than 2 million includes a dramatic expansion in Africa.

U.S. children and adolescents by the end of 2002, The majority of the activity is in “training missions,” meaning that this expansion is promot- before being called into question. The company responsible (now GlaxoSmithKline), agreed to pay ing a coordinated worldwide intensification of $3 billion in 2012, the “largest health care fraud conflict, unseen at home, but felt all around the settlement in U.S. history,” according to the U.S. globe. Writing for TomDispatch, the Nation and the Intercept, Nick Turse exposed different aspects Department of Justice.

Nonetheless, the study has not been retracted of this story and its implications. or corrected, and “none of the authors have been Turse’s story for the Intercept focused on the disciplined,” Project Censored points out. This, development of a single base, Chabelley Airfield, in the East African nation of Djibouti. It’s an “out- despite a major reanalysis, which “‘starkly’ contradicted the original report’s claims.” The re-analysis of-the-way outpost” transformed into “a key hub for its secret war ... in Africa and the Middle East.” was seen as the first major success of a new open data initiative known as Restoring Invisible and In the Nation, Turse tackled the question of Abandoned Trials. mission success. Project Censored noted that While Project Censored noted one Washing“Turse [had] reported skepticism from a number ton Post story on the re-analysis, there was only of experts in response to this question, pointing passing mention of the open data movement. out that “impacts are not the same as successes.”

“Otherwise, the corporate press ignored the reasIn Vietnam, body counts were mistaken for sessment of the paroxetine study,” and beyond signs of success. that, “Richard Horton’s Lancet editorial received “Today, tallying up the number of countries no coverage in the U.S. corporate press.” in which Special Operations forces are present repeats this error,” Vietnam veteran and author Andrew Bacevich told Turse.

RISING CARBON DIOXIDE

CRISIS IN EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE: RICHARD HORTON, “WHAT IS MEDICINE’S 5 SIGMA?” The role of science in improving human health has been one of humanity’s greatest achievements, but the profit-oriented influence of the pharmaceutical industry has created a crisis situation: That research simply cannot be trusted.

Burying truth for profit is a recurrent theme for Project Censored. The top 1981 story concerned fraudulent testing from a single lab responsible for one-third of the toxicity and cancer testing of chemicals in America. But this problem is much more profound.

“Something has gone fundamentally wrong,” says Richard Horton, editor of the British medical journal the Lancet and author of “What is Medicine’s 5 Sigma?”, commenting on a UK symposium on the reproducibility and reliability of biomedical research: “[M]uch of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses and flagrant conflicts of

LEVELS THREATEN TO PERMANENTLY DISRUPT VITAL OCEAN BACTERIA

Global warming is a recurrent Project Censored subject. Systemic changes associated with global warming threaten human welfare and all life on Earth through a multitude of different pathways. These remain largely hidden from public view. One potential pathway—directly dependent on carbon, not temperature—is through the catastrophic overproduction of Trichodesmium bacteria, which could devastate the entire marine food chain in some regions. It lives in nutrientpoor parts of the ocean, where it fixes atmospheric nitrogen into ammonium, an essential nutrient for other organisms—from algae to whales.

A five-year study by researchers at the University of Southern California and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found that subjecting hundreds of generations of the bacteria to predicted CO levels in the year 2100 caused them to evolve into “reproductive overdrive,” growing faster and producing 50 percent more nitrogen.

As a result, they could consume significant quantities of scarce nutrients, such as iron and

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phosphorus, depriving the ability of other organisms to survive. Or the Trichodesmium bacteria could drive themselves into extinction, depriving other organisms of the ammonium they need to survive.

“Most significantly, the researchers found that even when the bacteria was returned to lower, present-day levels of carbon dioxide, Trichodesmium remained ‘stuck in the fast lane,’” Project Censored noted, a finding that one researcher described as “unprecedented in evolutionary biology.”

SEARCH ENGINE ALGORITHMS AND ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES COULD SWING 2016 ELECTION Social media has played an important role in recent social movements, from the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, but technology can potentially undermine democracy as well as empower it.

In particular, search engine algorithms and electronic voting machines provide opportunities for manipulation of voters and votes, which could profoundly affect the 2016 election.

Mark Frary, in Index on Censorship, describes the latest research by Robert Epstein and Ronald E. Robertson of the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology on what they call the Search Engine Manipulation Effect, or SEME. Their study of more than 4,500 undecided voters in the U.S. and India showed that biased search rankings “could shift the voting preferences of undecided voters by 20 percent or more” and “could be masked so that people show no awareness of the manipulation.”

In an earlier article for Politico, Epstein wrote that the Search Engine Manipulation Effect “turns out to be one of the largest behavioral effects ever discovered. ... [W]e believe SEME is a serious threat to the democratic system of government.”

Because courts have ruled that their source code is proprietary, private companies that own electronic voting machines are essentially immune to transparent public oversight, as Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis have documented.

In 2016, about 80 percent of the U.S. electorate will vote using outdated electronic voting machines that rely on proprietary software from private corporations, according to a September 2015 study by the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law. The study identified “increased failures and crashes, which can lead to long lines and lost votes” as the “biggest risk” of outdated voting equipment, while noting that older machines also have “serious security and reliability flaws that are unacceptable today.”

“From a security perspective, old software is riskier, because new methods of attack are constantly being developed, and older software

is likely to be vulnerable,” Jeremy Epstein of the National Science Foundation noted.

On Democracy Now! and elsewhere, Wasserman and Fitrakis have advocated universal, hand-counted paper ballots and automatic voter registration as part of their “Ohio Plan” to restore electoral integrity.

While there has been some corporate media coverage of Epstein and Robertson’s research, the transparency and reliability advantages of returning to paper ballots remain virtually unexplored and undiscussed.

CORPORATE EXPLOITATION OF GLOBAL REFUGEE CRISIS MASKED AS HUMANITARIANISM The world is experiencing a global refugee crisis (60 million worldwide according to a June 2015 report, 11.5 million of them Syrian). This has been covered in the corporate media—though not nearly enough to generate an appropriate response. What hasn’t been covered is the increasingly well-organized exploitation of refugees, particularly those displaced in Syria.

An AlterNet article by Sarah Lazare—cited by Project Censored—warned of the World Bank’s private enterprise solution to the Syrian displacement crisis.

“Under the guise of humanitarian aid, the World Bank is enticing Western companies to launch ‘new investments’ in Jordan in order to profit from the labor of stranded Syrian refugees,” Lazare writes. “In a country where migrant workers have faced forced servitude, torture and wage theft, there is reason to be concerned that this capital-intensive ‘solution’ to the mounting crisis of displacement will establish sweatshops that specifically target war refugees for hyperexploitation.”

A World Bank press release touted “the creation of special economic zones or SEZs,” but Project Censored noted, “Myriam François, a journalist and research associate at SOAS, the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, told Lazare that the development of SEZs in Jordan ‘will change refugee camps from emergency and temporary responses to a crisis, to much more permanent settlements.’”

The SEZ proposals, François said, are “less about Syrian needs and more about keeping Syrian refugees out of Europe by creating (barely) sustainable conditions within the camps, which would then make claims to asylum much harder to recognize.’”

Another story, by Glen Ford of Black Agenda Report, described a related agreement between Turkey and the European Union to keep millions of refugees from entering Europe as “a deal between devils,” adding that Turkey has “cashed in on the people it has helped make homeless.”

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MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION AMERICAN FAMILIES LIVE ON $2 PER PERSON PER DAY Even the working poor receive scant attention, but those living in deep poverty—less than $2 per day—are almost entirely invisible.

Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer, sociologists and authors of the book $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America state that in 2011 more than 1.5 million U.S. families— including 3 million children—lived in deep poverty at any given month.

Their depiction of what poverty looks like reads “like a Dickens novel,” Marcus Harrison Green wrote in YES! Magazine, while in the Atlantic, economist Jared Bernstein noted that their research highlights the problematic long-term consequences of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 welfare reform initiative, with its “insistence on work without regard to job availability.”

Project Censored notes that Edin and Shaefer proposed three policy changes to address extreme poverty in the United States: • First, policy must start by expanding work opportunities for those at the very bottom of society.

• Second, policy must address housing instability, which Shaefer described as both a cause and a consequence of extreme poverty. “Parents should be able to raise their children in a place of their own.”

• Third, families must be insured against extreme poverty, even when parents are not able to work.

William Julius Wilson, a leading sociologist in the study of poverty, described their book as “an essential call to action,” in a New York Times book review, but this was a rare recognition in the corporate press.

NO END IN SIGHT FOR FUKUSHIMA DISASTER Five years after the Fukushima nuclear power plant was destroyed by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011, the nuclear disaster continues to unfold, with the ongoing release of large quantities of radioactive waste water into the Pacific Ocean, in turn affecting ocean life through “biological magnification.”

Meanwhile the Japanese government has relaxed radiation limits in support of its efforts to return the refugee population—a move that younger people, prime working-age taxpayers, are resisting.

Project Censored cites a media analysis by sociologist Celine-Marie Pascale of American University. Pascale analyzed more than 2,100 articles, editorials and letters to the editor on Fukushima in the Washington Post, the New York

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Times, Politico and the Huffington Post between March 11, 2011 and March 11, 2013, and focused on two basic questions: “Risk for whom?” and “From what?

She found that just 6 percent of articles reported on risk to the general public, and most of those “significantly discounted those risks.”

She concluded: The largest and longest lasting nuclear disaster of our time was routinely and consistently reported as being of little consequence to people, food supplies or environments. ... In short, the media coverage was premised on misinformation, the minimization of public health risks and the exacerbation of uncertainties.

In contrast, Dahr Jamail’s reporting for Truthout pointed out that the cooling process— still ongoing after five years—has produced “hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of tons” of highly radioactive water, much of which has been released into the Pacific Ocean. Such nuclear disasters “never end,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Jamail.

Project Censored also cited Linda Pentz Gunter, writing for the Ecologist about the Japanese government’s ongoing cover-up.

“In order to proclaim the Fukushima area ‘safe,’ the government increased exposure limits to 20 times the international norm,” Gunter writes, in order to force refugees to return home, despite medical or scientific evidence to the contrary.

SYRIA’S WAR SPURRED BY CONTEST FOR GAS DELIVERY TO EUROPE, NOT MUSLIM SECTARIANISM The Syrian war and its resulting refugee crisis have repeatedly gained headlines over the past five years, but the origins of the conflict—control of oil and gas, the politics of which have dominated the region since before World War II—are rarely considered. The hidden influence of oil—from climate change to campaign finance and corporate lobbying to foreign policy—has been a recurrent subject of Project Censored stories.

Project Censored cites a single September 2015 story by Mnar Muhawesh for MintPress News, but that story cites others as well, notably an August 2013 story in the Guardian by Nafeez Ahmed.

“The 2011 uprisings, it would seem—triggered by a confluence of domestic energy shortages and climate-induced droughts which led to massive food price hikes—came at an opportune moment that was quickly exploited,” Ahmed writes, as part of a broader strategy to undermine governments in the region, as well as manipulat-

ing social movements and armed factions for the purpose of maintaining control of oil and gas.

Muhawesh and Ahmed both point, in particular, to Syrian President Bashar-al Assad’s choice between competing pipeline proposals.

He refused to sign a proposed agreement for a pipeline from Qatar’s North Field through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey in 2009, because it would have hurt his ally, Russia.

“The proposed pipeline would have bypassed Russia to reach European markets currently dominated by Russian gas giant Gazprom,” Project Censored notes. Instead, Assad pursued negotiations—finalized in 2012—for a pipeline through Iraq from Iran’s South Pars field, which is contiguous with Qatar’s North Field.

Muhawesh cites U.S. cables revealed by WikiLeaks as evidence that “foreign meddling in Syria began several years before the Syrian revolt erupted.” Ahmed came to the same conclusions by drawing on multiple sources, including a RAND Corporation document, “Unfolding the Future of the Long War,” which discussed longterm policy options dealing with the complex interplay of energy interests and ethno-religiouspolitical manipulations.

There’s a whole deeper level of driving forces not being reported on behind the Syrian war and refugee crisis.

BIG PHARMA POLITICAL LOBBYING NOT LIMITED TO PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS The pharmaceutical industry (aka “Big Pharma”) already appeared in story No. 2, “Crisis in Evidence-Based Medicine,” due to the destructive influence of their financing on the practice of basic science in testing and developing new drugs. But that’s not the only destructive impact of their spending.

Although they spent $51 million in campaign donations in the 2012 presidential election, and nearly $32 million in the 2014 midterms, Mike Ludwig of Truthout reported that they spent $7 lobbying for every dollar spent on the midterms.

“The $229 million spent by drug companies and their lobbying groups that year was down from a peak of $273 million in 2009, the year that Congress debated the Affordable Care Act,” Project Censored noted. Legislation that was influenced involved all the industry’s top concerns, “including policy on patents and trademarks, management of Medicare and Medicaid, and international trade.”

The last item includes pressuring other countries to suppress the manufacture of life-saving generic AIDS drugs in India, to cite just one example.

“Pharmaceutical lobbyists also consistently lobby to prevent Medicare from negotiating drug

prices,” Project Censored also noted. Coverage of their spending is scant, and virtually never tied directly to the issues that Big Pharma itself is lobbying on.

CISA: THE INTERNET SURVEILLANCE ACT NO ONE IS DISCUSSING In July 2015, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell attempted to attach the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act, or CISA, as an amendment to the annual National Defense Authorization Act. However, the Senate blocked this action by a vote of 56-40, in part because, unlike an earlier version, it essentially enabled intelligence and law enforcement officials to engage in surveillance without warrants.

Yet, on Dec. 18, 2015, President Barack Obama signed CISA into law as part of a 2,000-page omnibus spending bill, amid media silence—with notable exceptions at Wired and the Guardian. The act authorized the creation of a system for corporate informants to provide customers’ data to the Department of Homeland Security, which, in turn, would share this information with other federal agencies—the National Security Agency, FBI, Internal Revenue Service and others—without privacyprotecting safeguards.

In one sense it followed a familiar—if distressing—pattern, as the Guardian reported: Civil liberties experts had been “dismayed” when Congress used the omnibus spending bill to advance some of the legislation’s “most invasive” components, making a mockery of the democratic process. But this one was different, since censored stories usually do not stifle powerful voices, as Project Censored observed: [Andy] Greenberg’s Wired article noted that tech firms—including Apple, Twitter and Reddit—as well as 55 civil liberties groups had opposed the bill, and that, in July 2015, DHS itself warned that the bill would “sweep away privacy protections” while inundating the agency with data of “dubious” value.

In April 2016, Jason R. Edgecombe reported for TechCrunch on the glaring inadequacies of interim guidelines to deal with privacy and civil liberties concerns, while the corporate media silence continued. And in May, Violet Blue wrote for Engadget about candidates’ positions on cyber issues. Only Bernie Sanders and Rand Paul opposed CISA, but it never became the subject of any broader media discussion.

Paul Rosenberg is the senior editor for Random Lengths News in southern California and is a contributing columnist for Salon.com. Terelle Jerricks is the managing editor who contributed to this article.

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FIRST THURSDAY First Thursday pricing. Plus enjoy the Flippin’ Happy Hour with 2-for-1 specials, 3-6 p.m. 3-9 p.m. FREE. 121 N. Ninth St.

Central ANGELL’S BAR AND GRILL RENATO— It’s Toys for Tots Night, so take in a toy and receive free appetizers. Plus live music and great $4 drink specials. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 999 W. Main St.

BITTERCREEK ALEHOUSE—Drink by candlelight and know you’re saving the planet while enjoying a different DJ from Radio Boise every First Thursday. Plus, one dollar per beer sold during the set goes to Radio Boise. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 246 N. Eighth St.

BANANA INK—Enjoy 15 percent off storewide, a $10 rack of tees, giveaways and samples of a local libation and food throughout the evening. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 214 N. Ninth St. BERRYHILL— Sample select wines from Berryhill’s list, then purchase at special

BOISE FRY COMPANY—For one night only, enjoy poutine specials and live music. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 204 N. Capitol Blvd.

BUY IDAHO HOLIDAY MARKET—Make it an Idaho Christmas at the Buy Idaho Pop-up Shop and Fifth Annual Buy Idaho Holiday Market. Take your shopping list and visit more than 20 vendors featuring Idaho products and services. In the Jefferson Building space formerly occupied

by Latta For the Home. 4-9 p.m. FREE. 350 N. Ninth St. , Ste. 100.

CATCH INC.—Join CATCH and its We Can’t Wait campaign to help end homelessness. Check out the CATCH Door at Mixed Greens to find out more. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. Mixed Greens Modern Gifts, 237 N. Ninth St.

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CHANDLERS—Enjoy special new bites at Chandlers New Social Hour from 4-6 p.m., featuring a menu of delicious small plates and creative cocktails, all priced between $5 and $7. 4-9 p.m. FREE. 981 W. Grove St. CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM—Take advantage of specials on products as well as audio/visual presentations on spiritual healing based on the Bible. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 222 N. 10th St. COSTA VIDA—The coast is calling at Costa Vida downtown. Surf in for the best beach-inspired fresh Mexican food

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DOWNTOWN BOISE ASSOCIATION—Christmas in the City takes place throughout downtown Boise with events through Christmas. Stroll by all the beautifully painted windows and vote for your favorite artist. Don’t forget to visit Santa and the Giving Tree on the Grove Plaza, benefiting the WCA. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Downtown Boise, downtownboise.org.

EVEN STEVENS—Enjoy beer and craft sandwiches as you help welcome Even Steven’s newest craft partner, Slanted Rock, with a beer tasting from 6-8 p.m. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 815 W. Bannock St. EVERMORE PRINTS—Evermore showcases the Idahoinspired Watershed by Idaho Conservation League’s 2016 Artist-in-Residence Josh Udesen. Drinks and light snacks by The Mode Lounge. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 780 W. Main St. FLATBREAD NEAPOLITAN PIZZERIA—Enjoy happy hour from 4-6 p.m. with 50 percent off all cocktails, beer and wine. After 5 p.m., 20 percent off all bottles of wine until they’re gone. Kids under 12 eat free with the purchase of an adult meal. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 800 W. Main St. GRAEBER & COMPANY SALON AND SPA—Holiday Open House: First 25 in the door get a prize. Featuring 20 percent off Aveda open stock, limited edition gift sets, raffle, local vendors, double points for Aveda rewards, demos, appetizers, refreshments and more. Gift certificates available. 5:30-8 p.m. FREE. 350 N. Ninth St.

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JAMBA JUICE—Enjoy free samples of premium freshly squeezed juices, including all natural fresh produce, all day long. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 132 N. Eighth St. LEAF TEAHOUSE—Enjoy samples of holiday tea and cookies, a new gallery show by Boise artist Jo Danilson, and live music from 6-8 p.m. by Angel Food. Enjoy 15 percent off all bulk tea purchases all day. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 212 N. Ninth St.

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MAI THAI—Enjoy special prices from 7-10 p.m. on Mai Thai’s holiday Thai-inspired cocktail launching First Thursday. 5-10 p.m. FREE. 750 W. Idaho St., 208344-8424, maithaigroup.com.

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MCU SPORTS—Shop early for the best selection of winter gear. Plus great low prices on used ski and snowboard equipment, and used rental bikes for $200. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 822 W. Jefferson St. MIXED GREENS MODERN GIFTS—Join CATCH to learn how you can help our homeless citizens get back on their feet. Plus a raffle to benefit CATCH. Featuring Jamison Rae Jewelry, Payette Brewing Co. beer, and Genki Takoyaki food cart. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 237 N. Ninth St. OLD CHICAGO—Enjoy happy hour from 4-7 p.m., featuring food and drink specials: $1 off all pints, $3 wells, and $5 mules. 4-9 p.m. FREE. 730 W. Idaho St.

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D.L. EVANS BANK—Join D.L. Evans Bank for its annual open house and holiday celebration with City Santa. Featuring Bogus Basin 75th anniversary historic art exhibit, and Winter Window Gallery Stroll artist Kaiya Tyson. Plus hors d’oeuvres and wine tasting. 5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. 890 W. Main St., 208-331-1399.

THE GROVE HOTEL—Enjoy sweet holiday treats from Emilio’s, seasonal libations in The Bar, and regional Idaho art in the grand lobby. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 245 S. Capitol Blvd.

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now available downtown, on the Grove. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 801 W. Main St.

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OLIVIN OLIVE OIL AND VINEGAR TAPROOM—Make your holiday dishes delicious and healthy with olive oil and vinegar. Cinder Winery will be pouring and selling.

Ask about First Thursday special. 5-8 p.m. FREE. 218 N. Ninth St. PORTSCHE’S JEWELRY BOUTIQUE—Join Portsche’s for its second annual Christmas open house, featuring instore artisan pieces. Visit with the designers, and enjoy music by Joseph Lyle, wine tasting and appetizers. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 224 N. Ninth St. SAGE YOGA AND WELLNESS—Check out the new show by local photographer Greg Sims, Dust, featuring the play of light on the human form. With music with DJ Dusty C, tastings by Indian Creek Winery and pop-up shops. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200.

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FIRST THURSDAY SCOTTRADE SECURITIES—Drop by and say hello to the Scottrade team and the newest team member from Salt Lake City. They’ll have some goodies to share. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 176 N. Ninth St.

WEST ELM—Start your holiday shopping right with more than nine local artists and makers.

Peaceful Belly Farm will be pouring hard cider. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 824 W. Idaho St.

SHIFT BOUTIQUE—SHIFT Boutique will be hosting The Speedy Foundation, whose mission is to prevent suicide, support mental health education and promote conversations to end stigma. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 807 W. Bannock St.

East Side BARDENAY—Catch the distillers and tour the distillery to find out all you want to know about our nation’s first small batch distillery pub. A Boise original, indeed. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 610 W. Grove St.

SNAKE RIVER TEA CO.—Snake River Tea will have free tea samples all day, BOGO 12 oz. drinks from 5-9 p.m., and music

by Natalie Staley. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 801 W. Main St.

BASQUE MARKET—Stop in for a mulled wine tasting and save 20 percent off Mulling Spices to take home. Plus a holiday tapas bar starting at 5 p.m. and Paella at 6 p.m. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 608 W. Grove St.

SUPERB SUSHI—Swing on down and sample wine and the inhouse smoked salmon samples.

Unlimited dollar nigiri with the purchase of any sushi roll all night long. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 280 N. Eighth St.

BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—Enjoy free admission, live music, appetizers and wine, plus a sing-along with the kiddos. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St.

THE CHOCOLAT BAR—Holiday cheer is in the air, and The Chocolat Bar has something for everyone. Sawtooth Winery will be pairing delicious wines with chocolates. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 805 W. Bannock St.

FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—Grab something warm and check out Candis Redfield-Darrah’s Undefined 2016. These works in oil and mixed media represent a tale of lived experiences that convey an undefined world. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 500 W. Idaho St. GUIDO’S ORIGINAL NEW YORK STYLE PIZZERIA—Enjoy pizza with an attitude. Get a large onetopping pizza and one bottle of select wine, two bottles of beer, or four fountain sodas for only $22 plus tax. Dine in only. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 235 N. Fifth St. HIGH NOTE CAFE—Live music

by Megan Nelson begins at 6 p.m. You can enjoy $2 specialty mimosas with homemade juice all day. Plus a from-scratch menu and local art for sale. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 225 N. Fifth St.

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WASHINGTON TRUST BANK— Stop by the downtown branch 5-8 p.m. to decorate sugar cookies and enjoy hot cocoa. 5-8 p.m.

FREE. 901 W. Bannock St. WEAR BOISE—Enjoy delicious Idaho beer and wines, and everything in the shop will be 15 percent off. 4:30-8 p.m. FREE. 828 W. Idaho St.

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TRADER JOE’S—Drop by Trader Joe’s to see what’s festive, nibble on something yummy, and enjoy beer and wine tastings. 5-8 p.m.

FREE. 300 S. Capitol Blvd.

WHISKEY BAR—Enjoy whiskey flights and cheese pairings. 6-10 p.m. FREE. 509 W. Main St. ZEE’S ROOFTOP CAFE—Enjoy live music by Doug Cameron and friends, free wine samples, sushi made to order, and holiday gifts, beer and wine for sale. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 250 S. Fifth St.

South Side ATOMIC TREASURES—Check out the collection of vintage, retro, art and found objects. You’ll find decorative and unique treasures for home, jewelry, books, collectibles, vintage ephemera. Lots of weird stuff, cool junk, and unusual and unforgettable gifts. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Ste. 105.

LIQUID LOUNGE—First Thursday special: BOGO comedy show tickets. 5-9 p.m. $10. 405 S. Eighth St.

FRESH OFF THE HOOK SEAFOOD— Voted “Best of Boise” 10 years in a row, Fresh Off the Hook will be offering $2 off all beer on tap. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 401 S. Eighth St.

MR. PEABODY’S OPTICAL SHOPPE—Mr. Peabody’s is always getting in new frame styles, with frame and single-vision lenses starting at $95. Now taking vision insurance. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Ste. 101.

HA’ PENNY BRIDGE IRISH PUB AND GRILL—Enjoy 20 percent off food and drinks, plus live music.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 855 Broad St. HAIRLINES—Call today to make an appointment for a new DU by Lui The Hair Whisperer. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St.

PAYETTE BREWING—Payette Brewing and Ballard Family Dairy and Cheese pair a variety of award-winning handmade specialty cheeses and beer. Meet the cheese maker and enjoy free samples. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 733 S. Pioneer St.

HAPPY FISH SUSHI AND MARTINI BAR—Enjoy a 20 percent discount on Happy Fish’s great sushi, which is rolled to order and made with the freshest ingredients.

Plus full bar. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 855 W. Broad St.

QUE PASA—Enjoy the best in Mexican expression, featuring thousands of items from Mexican master craftsmen: sterling silver, pottery, blown glass, Talavera, dragons, fairies, mermaids and Day of The Dead. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St.

INN AT 500 CAPITOL—Join the Inn at 500 Capitol for a tour of its pre-opening model room and a glass of local wine. Get a sneak peek into downtown Boise’s new upscale hotel. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 333 S. Capitol Blvd.

R. GREY JEWELRY GALLERY— Stop in for a look at Marcel Roelofs’ jewelry trunk show and meet the designer in person. His sophisticated designs allow you to customize your jewelry to suit your mood. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 415 S. Eighth St.

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BODOVINO—Enjoy artwork donated by LaBry Fine Art, plus complimentary wine tasting. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St.

TWO ZERO EIGHT SALON AND SPA—Enjoy sweet treats, Odell Brewing, live music, 20 percent off all Bumble and Bumble products and more. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 810 W. Bannock St.

WARD HOOPER GALLERY AND VINTAGE SWANK—Find original, unusual and personalized gifts for that special person. Drop by all day for specials throughout the store. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. 745 W. Idaho St.

THE MELTING POT—Take advantage of the First Thursday 2-for-$22 special: a cheese fondue for two and two glasses of house wine. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 200 N. Sixth St.

Durham, who will be on hand. Light refreshments will be served. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Ste. L100.

AVA RAE BOUTIQUE—Naughty or nice? Ava Rae’s doesn’t care. Warm up while finishing your Christmas shopping with complimentary hot cocoa. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 439 S. Capitol Blvd.

TITLE NINE—On Dudes’ Night, Title Nine will help guys find the perfect gifts for all the ladies in their lives. (Ladies welcome, too.) 5-9 p.m. FREE. 170 N. Eighth St.

THE VANDAL STORE—Take 10 percent off your purchase with donation to Toys for Tots. Get pictures with Santa Joe Vandal from 6-8 p.m. Hot chocolate and coffee will be provided. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 821 W. Idaho St.

THE AMSTERDAM LOUNGE—Geo Handy will be showcasing her latest jewelry and photography, which seeks to bridge the gap between the natural and the synthetic. Martine Castoro, curator at Barbacoa, will also be showcasing her unique and seductive paintings. 5-7 p.m.

FREE. 609 W. Main St.

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THE MODE LOUNGE—Local landscape painter Pat Kilby’s quirky oil paintings reflect the unique color and character of Idaho and the Pacific Northwest with a slightly skewed perspective. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 800 W. Idaho St.

CITY CENTER WINES—Enjoy free wine tasting at Boise’s newest boutique wine store, specializing in European wine and beer. Holiday gift baskets are available. 4-8 p.m. FREE. 574 W. Main St.

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THE GYRO SHACK—Stop by The Gyro Shack and receive 10 percent off your order. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 777 W. Main St., Ste. 115.

CAPITOL CELLARS—Enjoy 25 percent off Idaho wines by the bottle and Pinney’s Potato Croquettes for $7.43 starting at 5 p.m. 5-9

p.m. FREE. 110 S. Fifth St., 208344-9463.

Visual art on a whole different level.

JUDSON COTTRELL FRACTAL ART Though fractals were long the domain of mathematicians, photographed and computer-generated fractal imagery now decorates college dorm rooms and school kids doodle versions of them on notebook paper. Local artist Judson Cottrell has combined the beauty of fractals with the technology of 3-D printing to create works stressing the look and, more important, the feel of fractals.

Cottrell, who is legally blind, constructed the 2-D and 3-D pieces of fractal art in his exhibition at the Alaska Center with the sight impaired in mind.

“The blind aren’t able to appreciate art like those that are sighted, so I designed a way so that they could,” he wrote in a post on his blog.

After feeling your way through Cottrell’s exhibition, check out Allan Ansell’s open studio for a free portrait, and swing by Radio Boise’s open house.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 1020 W. Main St., tactilefractals.com.

BOISE ART MUSEUM— BAM offers extended hours on First Thursday, with admission by donation. From 4-7 p.m., visit the Tall Tales exhibition and discover how museums access artwork, then create art that tells a story. Shop creative holiday gifts in the BAM store. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. By donation. 670 Julia Davis Drive.

BOISE PUBLIC LIBRARY—Celebrate the holidays by sipping hot cocoa and enjoying a medley of wintry music from Opera Idaho’s Children’s Choruses and Resident Company. For all ages. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 715 S. Capitol Blvd.

BUNS IN THE OVEN—Celebrate with feast, friendship and featured artist Brenda Raub. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 413 S. Eighth St. CHERISHED IMAGES PHOTOGRAPHY—Gift certificates make the perfect gift, so drop by the studio and get one good for any portrait service. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 521 S. Eighth St. COLE/MARR PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS AND COFFEEHOUSE—Check out the opening of the new photography exhibit, Northern Exposures, by Chelsi

Visions of a dark chapter in U.S. history.

MINIDOKA: ARTIST AS WITNESS Within months of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order sending almost 120,000 Japanese Americans into isolated internment camps in one of the largest forced relocations in U.S. history.

Between 1942 and the end of World War II three years later, more than 13,000 Japanese Americans were imprisoned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center in south-central Idaho. Those dark years have been captured by five artists with personal or family ties to the camp in Minidoka: Artist as Witness, which runs through Saturday, Jan. 14 at Boise Art Museum. See works by watercolorists Takiuchi Fuji and Kenjiro Nomura, large-scale painter Roger Shimomura, woodworker Wendy Maruyama and photographer Teresa Tamura.

10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE. 610 S. Julia Davis Drive, boiseartmuseum.org.

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FIRST THURSDAY SNAKE RIVER WINERY—Buy3-Get-1-Free First Thursday only.

Complimentary tasting while you shop the awesome selection of gifts. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 786 W. Broad St. SOLID GRILL & BAR—Don’t miss out on the free tasting, free art show and free appetizers. Plus 2-for-1 drinks and live music. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St.

West Side THE ALASKA CENTER— Big Christmas sale on all original art and prints. Featuring Judson Cottrell, Allan Ansell, Radio Boise Open House, Trend Forgetter Gallery, Chi E Shenam Westin and Joseph Pacheco. Plus music in the atrium

by SACA Entertainment. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 1020 W. Main St. ALLAN R. ANSELL PHOTOGRAPHY—Featuring an open studio, with complimentary portraits. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St.

LANEIGE BRIDAL AND TUX— Stop by and find the dress of your dreams. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St., Ste. 104.

LOCK STOCK & BARREL—Chose from 25 different varieties of wine for just $20 each. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 1100 W. Jefferson St. ONE NINETEEN BOISE—Stop in to talk about living downtown.

Powderhaus Brewing offers local craft brews. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 117 S. 10th St. THE OWYHEE—Featuring art by Bonnie Peacher and live music

by Mike Cramer and The Baldy Mountain Band. Plus Crossings Winery and Sockeye Brewing will be on hand with local wine and beer tastings. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1109 Main St. RADIO BOISE—Check out Radio Boise’s open studio. 5-9

p.m. FREE. 1020 W. Main St., Alaska Building, Ste. 200.

THE RECORD EXCHANGE— 94.9FM The River presents Idaho Ho Ho Live at The Record Exchange. Musicians from this year’s benefit album for the Idaho Foodbank will perform mini-sets, and the CD will be available for purchase. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1105 W. Idaho St. STILLWATER FLOAT CENTER— Check out Tyler Crabb’s artwork, which creates a sense of intrigue that encourages viewers to look deeper and reflect on their own lives. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 213 N. 10th St. XTREME FITNESS AND WELLNESS—Enjoy fresh fruit and veggie smoothies as you check out Xtreme’s workout facility in connection with Endurance Boise.

Meet the owners and coaches who will be available to answer any questions about your fitness program. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1114 W. Jefferson St.

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ART SOURCE GALLERY—Meet December featured ceramics artist Jerry Hendershot and enjoy his new vessel-focused work and exciting glazing techniques. Plus wine by Indian Creek and music by JB Duo. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1015 W. Main St.

son, and K. Bubb. Plus wine tasting

by Sawtooth Winery. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. 518 S. Americana Blvd.

BEN & JERRY’S—As always, enjoy $2 scoops all day on First Thursday. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 103 N. 10th St.

Girls Night Thursday, December 1st 4:00pm - 8:00pm Bistro Specials • Give-aways Refreshments 20% off entire purchase

BOISE ART GLASS— Watch free glassblowing demos or take a class while enjoying beer or wine and music by Wayne White. Plus all items in the gallery will be 10 percent off. Special guest: Even Stevens. Class: Make Your Own Ornaments $40. 5-9 p.m. FREE. 1124 W. Front St. CHI E SHENAM WESTIN—Introducing oil paintings of the Boise River, Spring Awakening. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. Alaska Center, 1020 W. Main St. CRAZY NEIGHBOR—Check out the “Abandoned Fashion” Holiday Pop-Up Event, featuring vintage clothing from Angie Berman’s collection. Plus in-store specials and merrymaking. 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

FREE. 1415 W. Grove St. ECHELON FINE HOME—Enjoy festive music, appetizers and warm sips. The store is full of the latest fine furnishings and holiday accessories. 5:30-8 p.m. FREE. 1404 W. Main St. GALLERY 601—Enjoy a taste of wine with winemaker Neil Glancey, save 35 percent off all framed artwork, and enter to win a piece of art. 5-9 p.m. FREE, 211 N. 10th St.

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GALLERY FIVE18—Check out the December Group Show, featuring new work from 22 artists: J. Hendershot, B. Richardson, K. Eastman, J. Udesen, C. Wood, C. Rowe, M. Lisk, M. Grover, R. Van Dyck, S. Rooke, T. Norton, S. Latta, J. Lisk, M. Osgood, S.E. Lisk, R. Teannalach, S. Phillips, K. Seurat, K. Klinefelter, C. Raymond, A. Peter-

This little shopper went to the Boise Farmers Market.

BOISE FARMERS MARKET POP-UP SHOP For kids, the holidays are a season of themed music, decorations, lights, bundling up and gifts. For parents, the holidays can be as painful as getting braces a second time—and as expensive.

On Cyber Monday, the first work day after Thanksgiving, more than 100 million Americans shopped on the web, making it one of the biggest days for retail in U.S. history.

Growing in tandem with mass consumer holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday is a movement to shop locally, and it doesn’t get more local than the Boise Farmers Market, currently housed in its winter location. Though typically open only on Saturdays, the market is breaking out for a special First Thursday to offer fresh autumnal produce, delicious sweets, crafts, locally sourced meats and more.

5-9 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., theboisefarmersmarket. com.

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY NOV. 30 Festivals & Events IDAHO DIAPER BANK NO GALAGALA—Check out this informational fundraiser for the Idaho Diaper Bank. You’ll learn about the work IDB does to keep babies healthy and dry, and have the opportunity to make a donation. Appetizers and refreshments will be served. 5:307:30 p.m. FREE. Windermere Real Estate/Boise Valley, 1412 W. Idaho, Ste. 120, Boise.

SEMILLA NUEVA’S PLANTING THE FUTURE—Learn about and support this Boise-based agency working in Guatemala to help poor farm families develop nutritious foods and sustainable futures.

Director Curt Bowen will speak. Plus food, refreshments and auction.

5:30-8 p.m. $25. Zions Bank Tower, 800 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3445523, semillanueva.org.

VIRTUAL REALITY NIGHT—Experience virtual reality as you learn more about this exciting technology in an interactive and entertaining way. There’ll be multiple stations to experience and view VR. Brought to you by the Idaho Virtual Reality Council and Black Box VR. 5 p.m.

FREE. The Amsterdam Lounge, 609 W. Main St., Boise, 2083459515, idahovirtualreality.com.

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW—Daily through New Year’s Day. 6-9 p.m.

FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage BCT: A NIGHTTIME SURVIVAL GUIDE—Elevenyear-old Idaho boy Verne is terrified of what comes out when the sun goes down, and Aki hates her new home in rural Japan.

They’re united by a shared mystery and an unshared darkness in this fantastic adventure of friendship,

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 30

hope and imagination set in two places where monsters just might exist. Through Dec. 17. 8 p.m. $16$34. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org.

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—Travel Carole King’s bumpy road to stardom. 7:30 p.m. $40-$85. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box office: 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com.

Art THE CENTER BIG IDEA: IDAHO STORIES—Through Jan. 6. 9 a.m.5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-726-9491, sunvalleycenter. org.

MINIDOKA: ARTIST AS WITNESS—10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6.

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

PATRICK KIKUT: SQUARE STATES AND MOONSCAPES—Through Dec. 5. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Visual Arts Center Gallery 1, Liberal Arts Building, Room 170, 1874 University Drive, Boise, 208426-3994.

RACHEL TEANNALACH: PAINTINGS FOR MAIREAD—Through Nov. 30. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Gallery Five18, 518 S. Americana Blvd., Boise, 208-342-3773, teannalach.com.

THERESA BURKES AND CONNIE WOOD: COMPLEX ECOSYSTEMS—Through Dec. 19. 7 a.m.-midnight. FREE. Boise State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1242, finearts.boisestate.edu.

GIUSEPPE LICARI: CONTRAPPUNTO—Through Dec. 3. 3-7 p.m.

FREE. MING Studios, 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-949-4365, mingstudios.org.

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Get immersed.

A beautiful life on stage.

TVAA: CELEBRATING PRIVATE IDAHO—Through Dec. 2. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Public Radio, Yanke Family Research Building, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-426-3663, treasurevalleyartistsalliance.org.

ZELLA BARDSLEY: A BESTIARY—10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Art Source Gallery, 1015 W. Main St., Boise 208-331-3374, artsourcegallery.com.

SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL KICKOFF EVENT—Sneak a peek at SVFF flicks, check out a short film forum for students and chat with film gurus. 3:30-7 p.m. FREE. JUMP Room at Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W. Myrtle St., jumpboise.org.

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THURSDAY DEC. 1

BCT: A NIGHTTIME SURVIVAL GUIDE—8 p.m. $16-$34. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Festivals & Events

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—7:30 p.m. $40-$85.

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com.

FIRST THURSDAY IN DOWNTOWN BOISE— Stroll through the unique shops and galleries in downtown, while enjoying in-store entertainment and special events. See a special section elsewhere in this issue of Boise Weekly. 5-9 p.m.

FREE. downtownboise.org.

BLT: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET—7:30 p.m. $11-$14.

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

THURSDAY, DEC. 1

Sneak peek.

VIRTUAL REALITY NIGHT

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL KICKOFF EVENT

The Idaho Virtual Reality Council is pushing for the Gem State to become the next hub of virtual reality development. The Boisebased team of startup and tech entrepreneurs hosts community events to introduce people to VR, including an expo in October that featured business moguls from Silicon Valley and VR experiences ranging from games to simulated car repair. IVRC is showcasing multiple VR experiences Wednesday, Nov. 30, at Amsterdam Lounge.

Among the experiences to be offered is a VR project IVRC has been working on with local refugees from Mozambique. Event cohost Black Box VR is also creating a VR gym experience, which will hopefully turn into a more fun way to workout. Curious? As they say in the VR world: “Immerse yourself.”

5 p.m. FREE The Amsterdam Lounge, 609 W. Main St., Boise, (208) 345-9515. Idahovirtualreality.com, blackbox-vr.com.

Four-time Grammy winner, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and Idaho resident Carole King came from humble beginnings. Born in Manhattan to a firefighter and a teacher, King climbed her way up the ranks of the songwriting biz, selling her first song at age 16, then writing with her husband for a decade before picking up the mic and becoming a singer-songwriter legend.

The acclaimed Broadway production Beautiful: The Carole King Musical explores these, and other aspects, of King’s ascent to fame. The musical, which has won a Tony Award and Grammy for its soundtrack, will be at the Morrison Center for the next week. Enjoy a musical filled with King’s biggest hits, and educate yourself on the making of a legend.

Nov. 30-Dec. 1, 7:30 p.m.; Dec 2, 8 p.m.; Dec. 3, 2 and 8 p.m. $40-$85. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts. 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com.

Film buffs can get a sneak peek at this year’s Sun Valley Film Festival nearly four months before the event at a launch party Dec. 1. The afternoon of festivities starts with a forum, where students grades 7-12 can handle professional cameras and editing equipment, get advice from experts about creating short films, and possibly win scholarships for JUMP classes and programs. Afterward, SVFF organizers will announce the special guest for the 2017 festival, chat about grants and programs from SVFF labs, get a glimpse of upcoming Nat Geo series Untamed with Filipe DeAndre and host a talk with the filmmaker. What’s better than the free Tito’s vodka and Old Forester Whiskey at the reception? Drawings for free festival passes and discounted sales at the end of the night.

Future Filmmakers: 3:30-5 p.m., JUMP Play Studio; reception and screening: 5-7 p.m., FREE. JUMP Room at Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W Myrtle St., 208-639-6610, jumpboise.org.

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CALENDAR BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: DIE HARD—Bruce Willis single-handedly saves Christmas from German terrorists in BCM’s third-mostrequested Christmas movie. 7 p.m. $9 online, $11 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273, boiseclassicmovies.com/deals.

COMEDIAN ANDREW SLEIGHTER—8 p.m. $10. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-9412459, liquidboise.com.

Stout. 2017 CSB memberships will be on sale. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Boise Brewing, 521 S. Broad St., Boise, 208-342-7655, boisebrewing.com.

THE CENTER BIG IDEA: IDAHO STORIES EVENING TOUR—Take a guided tour with The Center’s curators and gallery guides. When the tour concludes at 6:30 p.m., local award-winning author Julie Weston will deliver a free lecture. 5:30 p.m.

FREE. Sun Valley Center for the Arts, 191 Fifth St. E., Ketchum, 208-7269491, sunvalleycenter.org.

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

CERAMIC ARTIST JERRY HENDERSHOT: NEW WORKS— Through December. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

FREE. Art Source Gallery, 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-3374, artsourcegallery.com.

Art

ERIKA MCGINNIS: THE LAST HURRAH—Drop by for Eagle Art Gallery’s final show before the gallery closes Dec. 22. Featuring Boise artist Erika McGinnis, music by Steve Flick and Friends, and wine by Cellar 616.

5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Eagle Art Gallery, 50 Second St., Eagle, 208938-6626, eagleartgallery.net.

AARON MAYNARD ART SHOW— Check out the original and print art, gifts for the holidays, live music, drinks, and silent auction. 6-9 p.m.

FREE. Maitri House, 1617 W. Jefferson St., Boise.

BOISE BREWING ART SHOW— Featuring work by Austin Knop and the release of the last CSB beer of the year—the Cafe Mule Coffee

JOSH UDESEN: WATERSHED— Join the Idaho Conservation League for the opening of its 2016

Artist-in-Residence Year End Show.

Josh Useden’s solo exhibition focuses on Idaho’s watersheds, landscapes, fish and rivers. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Evermore Prints, 780 W. Main St., Boise, 208-991-3837, idahoconservation.org.

OPEN STUDIO—Drop by the studio of Visual Artist Katherine Bajenova Grimmett to check out her paintings, watercolors, prints and drawings. 5-9 p.m. FREE. Visual Artist Katherine Bajenova Grimmett Studio, 503 E. Parkway Court, Boise, 208-908-2788.

THE OWYHEE ARTIST RECEPTION—Enjoy local artists, live local music, wine and beer tastings, and more. Featuring Bonnie Peacher of Art by Peacher, and Crossings Winery, Sockeye Brewing and live music

by Mike Cramer and The Baldy Mountain Band. 5-7 p.m. FREE. The Owyhee, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208343-4611, theowyhee.com.

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Odds & Ends MERIDIAN CITY HALL CHRISTMAS BAZAAR—9 a.m.-3 p.m.

FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208888-4433. meridiancity.org/ christmas.

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SNIP IPA RELEASE PARTY—Join SNIP and Bark n’ Purr at Edge Brewing for a special SNIP IPA release. A percentage of all sales of food and beer will be donated to SNIP’s spay/neuter programs. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing Co., 525 N. Steelhead Way, Boise, 208-968-1338, edgebrew.com.

FRIDAY DEC. 2 Festivals & Events BIRD SEED SALE—Find quality bird seed in assorted locally preferred types in small and large bags.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-334-2225, idfg.idaho.gov/ site/mk-nature-center.

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BOWN CROSSING HOLIDAY BLOCK PARTY— Stores will be open late and offering an array of samples from appetizers and drinks to fresh fudge, candy canes, and yam fries with marshmallow sauce. Plus photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, and a photo booth. 4-8 p.m. FREE. Bown Crossing, Bown Street, end of Parkcenter Boulevard, Boise.

MERIDIAN WINTER LIGHTS PARADE AND CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING—Tree lighting will take place directly after the parade at Meridian City Hall Generations Plaza. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208-888-4433, meridiancity.org/christmas.

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CALENDAR ON STAGE BCT: A NIGHTTIME SURVIVAL GUIDE—8 p.m. $16$34. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-3319224, bctheater.org.

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—8 p.m. $40-$85. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com.

BLT: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET—8 p.m. $11-$14. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

BOISE PHILHARMONIC AND MASTER CHORALE: HANDEL’S MESSIAH—Conductor Case Scaglione leads the Boise Philharmonic Orchestra and Master Chorale with soloists in Handel’s Messiah.

8 p.m. $30-$35. St. John’s Cathedral, 775 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-3511, boisephil.org.

COMEDIAN ANDREW SLEIGHTER—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—7:30 p.m. $5-$10. ComedySportz Boise, 4619 Emerald St., Boise, 208991-4746, boisecomedy.com.

STAGE COACH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—8 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

STAGE COACH LATE NIGHT: 7 SANTAS—In this adult holiday comedy by Jeff Goode, scandal erupts at the North Pole when the most powerful man on Earth is sentenced to rehab for a minor traffic violation. Christmas will never ever be the same. 11 p.m. $10. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-3422000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

provided for everyone. They’re also taking collections of nonperishable food for the Idaho Foodbank.

6-8:30 p.m. FREE. Eagle Seventhday Adventist Church, 538 W. State St., Eagle, 208-939-6625, eagleadventist.com.

Odds & Ends HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—Dec. 2-17. 6-8 p.m. $5-$18. Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, corner of Cole and Ustick, Boise, 208-433-0849, boisetrolleytours.com.

SALSA DANCING—8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. $5-$8. Ochos Boise, 515 W. Idaho St., Boise, tangoboise.com/ ochos.

SATURDAY DEC. 3 Festivals & Events BIRD SEED SALE—9 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE. MK Nature Center, 600 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-334-2225, idfg.idaho.gov.

BOISE FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Boise Farmers Market Indoor Winter Market, Eighth and Fulton in BoDo, Boise, 208-345-9287, facebook.com/ TheBoiseFarmersMarket.

CALDWELL MODEL RAILROAD CLUB HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE— Special Thomas, Chuggington and holiday trains for the kids will be on display and running. Saturdays

through Dec. 10. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. By donation. Caldwell Model Railroad Clubhouse, 809 Dearborn St., Caldwell, cmrchs.org.

p.m. $125-$250 per team. Special Olympics Idaho Headquarters, 199 E. 52nd St., Garden City, 800-9156510, idso.org.

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET HOLIDAY MARKET—10 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Idaho and Jefferson streets, Boise, 208-345-3499, facebook.com/ capitalcitypublicmarket.

WYAKIN FOUNDATION GUARDIAN BALL GALA—Enjoy an evening of fine dining and inspiring speakers, as well as your chance to be drawn by some of the nation’s leading cartoonists. 6-10 p.m. $75.

Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise. 208-853-6001, wyakin. afrogs.org/#/index.

IDAHO CITY CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION—This call-day event is packed with fun for all ages. 8 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. Idaho City, Hwy. 21, 40 miles past Boise, Idaho City, 208-392-4159, idahocitychamber.org.

MODEL RAILROAD HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE—See a variety of model trains, including special Christmas trains, running through scenic towns, mountains and industrial areas. Saturdays through Dec. 31. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. By donation.

The Pioneer Building, 106 N. Sixth St., Boise. facebook.com/oldboiserailroad.

SANTA VISITS EDWARDS GREENHOUSE—Whisper your wishes into the ear of the Jolly Old Elf himself at Edwards Greenhouse. Noon-2 p.m.

FREE. Edwards Greenhouse, 4106 Sand Creek St., Boise, 208-3427548, edwardsgreenhouse.com.

SPECIAL OLYMPICS FIRE TRUCK PULL AND HOLIDAY PARTY—Trophies will be given for fastest time, slowest time and best team costumes. Plus a visit from Santa, music and dancing, food, candy canes and more. Proceeds help support the almost 3,000 registered Special Olympics athletes in Idaho. 1-3

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BCT: A NIGHTTIME SURVIVAL GUIDE—8 p.m. $16-$34. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $40-$85. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110, morrisoncenter.com.

BLT: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET—8 p.m. $11-$14. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

BOISE PHILHARMONIC AND MASTER CHORALE: HANDEL’S MESSIAH—8 p.m. $30-$35. St. John’s Cathedral, 775 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-3511, boisephil.org.

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF FALL SESSION GIG—More than 50 bands will perform. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-572-5055, boiserockschool. com.

TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN’S THEATER: LITTLE WOMEN—Saturdays through Dec. 24. 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. $5. Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-287-8828, treasurevalleychildrenstheater.com.

Art ADVOCATES FOR ART—Five local artists have transformed rooms in the Family Advocates building, and you’re invited to experience these remarkable installations and learn more about the organization and the great work they are doing in our community. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Family Advocates, 3010 W. State St., Ste. 104, Boise, 208-3453344, strongandsafe.org.

SHOOTING WITH FILM—Join Studio Boise for an interactive film workshop. Learn all the basics, and shoot an entire roll of film. 1-4 p.m. $199. Studio Boise, 4619 Emerald Street Ste. 106, Boise.

208-917-742, studioboise.org.

Odds & Ends 3RD ANNUAL GEORGIA WADSWORTH HOLIDAY BAZAAR—9 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Boise Elks Lodge No. 310, 6608 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-377-2763.

CHRISTMAS CRAFT SHOW AND BAKE SALE—9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Nampa Church of the Brethren, 11030 W. Orchard Ave., Nampa, 208-466-3321, nampacob.org.

HIP HOLIDAY MARKET—9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208467-5533, flyingmcoffee.com.

NORTH END ARTISANS MARKET—10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Fort Boise Senior Center, 690 Robbins Road, 208-345-9921, northendartisans.wixsite.com/mysite.

OWYHEE COUNTY MUSEUM CHRISTMAS BAZAAR AND CHILI COOK-OFF—10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Owyhee County Historical Museum, 17085 Basey St., Murphy, 208495-2319.

Animals & Pets CLAUS ‘N’ PAWS AT ZOO BOISE— Join Zoo Boise for Claus ‘N’ Paws, a free admission day to thank the community for supporting the zoo and their wildlife conservation mis-

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COMEDIAN ANDREW SLEIGHTER—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12.

Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise. com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—7:30 p.m. $5-$10. ComedySportz Boise, 4619 Emerald St., Boise, 208991-4746, boisecomedy.com.

MERIDIAN WINTER LIGHTS FUN RUN AND UGLY SWEATER 5K—The run starts at 6:25 p.m. and leads the Winter Lights Parade into downtown Meridian. Dress up brightly and lead the parade to Generations Plaza for the annual Christmas Tree lighting. There will also be a 5k Ugly Sweater Run starting at the Pulse Running and Fitness Shop, 6:15 p.m. Registration required online. 6:15-8:30 p.m. $5. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208-8884433, meridiancity.org/christmas.

IDAHO HO HO BENEFIT CONCERT—Each year, Moxie Java and Audio Lab Recording Studios come together to create Idaho Ho Ho, a celebration of the holidays with Idaho musicians to benefit The Idaho Foodbank. 8 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208424-8297.

MERIDIAN SYMPHONY HOLIDAY CONCERT—Featuring special guests Boise State choirs with choral director Michael Porter.

7:30 p.m. $4-$11. Centennial High School Performing Arts Center, 12400 W. McMillan Road, Boise, 208-939-1404, meridiansymphony.org.

Religious/Spiritual LIVE NATIVITY—Experience the Bethlehem marketplace, the inn, shepherds and, of course, baby Jesus. There’ll be a petting zoo and Clyde the Camel. Plus Christmas carols, Bell Choir and a Christmas program on Friday, and Christmas carols and musical concert on Saturday. Both nights will also have crafts and a puppet show for the kids, with hot drinks and soup

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STAGE COACH LATE NIGHT: 7 SANTAS—11 p.m. $10. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

STAGE COACH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—8 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

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CALENDAR sion. Last admission at 4:30 p.m.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208608-7760. zooboise.org/event/ claus-n-paws.

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PET PHOTOS WITH SANTA TO BENEFIT SNIP—You get digital images and a 5x7 print, and all the net proceeds will benefit SNIP’s spay-neuter programs. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. $20. Bark n Purr, 1036 S. Vista Ave., Vista Village, Boise, 208345-8886, snipidaho.org.

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YAPPY HOUR: HOLIDAY EDITION—Kick off the holiday season at Eagle’s pop-up dog park with a special holiday edition of Yappy Hour, hosted by the City of Eagle Parks and Recreation. 3-5 p.m.

FREE. Merrill Park, 637 E. Shore Drive, Eagle, 208-489-8763.

BLT: MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET—2 p.m. $11-$14. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

THE CHRISTMAS INTERLUDES: A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS IN WALES— Dylan Thomas’ prose poem reveals the wonder and magic of Christmas as seen through the eyes of a young boy. 4:30 p.m. $12. The Mode Lounge, 800 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-342-6633, christmasinterludes.com.

ARTS/REVIEW GOOD BAD BEAUTY: LOCAL ARTIST SUE LATTA EXPLORES WHY ‘BEAUTY’ GETS A BAD RAP

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The walls and floor of Sue Latta’s studio are covered with the tools—and detritus—of her trade: molds, nails, sand, bits of plastic, scraps of lumber and metal. Like that of many an accomplished, working artist, Latta’s workspace looks a mess to the untrained eye; but, in her hands, the items stacked and strewn about are the ingredients for dense, breathtaking and beautiful works of art. Latta’s most recent exhibit, Bad Beauty, which closed Nov. 30 at Visual Arts Collective, was not just about extracting the attractive out of the unappealing.

Latta took the “As Easy As Breathing” 2016, resin, cast aluminum, steel title of her show from a comment a professor made about her work.

“He said, ‘They’re beautiful, and I don’t mean that in a bad way.’

Why would beautiful be bad? I think there is a disdain for beauty in art makes us culturally irrelevant,” Latta said. “I’m not interested in incomprehensible art.”

Latta’s work is not only embraceable, it’s engaging and bridges the gap so often between artist and viewer. For many of the 35 works in Bad Beauty, Latta took photos from a cross-country road trip she had posted on her Instagram page. She ran the photos through some of the app’s filters, which resulted in saturated colors and hyper-realistic imagery.

Rather than eschew the unnatVisit suelatta.com to see more of the artist’s work or for inquiries. ural effect, Latta used emboldened images. Set in resin, the filtered photos take on a stereoscopic quality—like looking through a vintage View-Master toy. From a foggy alley to a pair of mismatched baby shoes to the bright scarlet bricks and cast aluminum tree branches in the large seven-panel piece, “As Easy As Breathing,” the images in Bad Beauty are mundane. In Latta’s hands, however, the simple becomes sublime, the bad truly beautiful.

—Amy Atkins BOISE WEEKLY.COM

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COMEDIAN ANDREW SLEIGHTER—8 p.m. $10. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

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STAGE COACH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—2 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre. com.

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By William Shakespeare June 2–25 The Hunchback of Notre Dame Music by Alan Menken, Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz,

By Frederick Knott May 26–July 30

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By William Shakespeare August 4–September 3 The Hound of the Baskervilles

Odds & Ends HOLIDAY BAZAAR—8 a.m.-3 p.m.

FREE. Ada County Courthouse, 200 W. Front St., Boise, 208-287-7000, adacounty.id.gov.

PROHIBITION REPEAL PARTY—Featuring live music by the Dan Costello Band and floor show by Frankly Burlesque.

9 p.m. $10-$15. Juniper Kitchen and Cocktails, 211 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-1142, juniperon8th.com.

by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Adapted by Steven Canny and John Nicholson. September 8–October 1

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Christopher Tocco*, Love’s Labor’s Lost. Tom Ford*, Twelfth Night. Jillian Kates*, My Fair Lady. *Member Actors’ Equity. Photography by DKM Photography and Roger Mastroianni.

SAINT AL’S 12TH ANNUAL ARTS AND CRAFT BAZAAR—In the McCleary Auditorium at the main entrance. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Saint Alphonsus Regional Medical Center, 1055 N. Curtis Road, Boise, 208-3672121, saintalphonsus.org.

TUESDAY DEC. 6 On Stage THE AMBROSE SCHOOL’S TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM—7 p.m. $15-$20. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com.

BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: A CHRISTMAS STORY—Watch Ralphie beg everyone who will listen for a Red Ryder carbine action BB gun. He’ll defeat bullies, decode secret messages, out-smart his parents, teachers, even Santa himself to get what he’s after. 7 p.m. $9 online, $11 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-3871273, boiseclassicmovies.com/deals.

MUNDEK CLEMENT STEIN’S COMEDY SHOWCASE—8 p.m. $5. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208941-2459, liquidboise.com.

TUESDAY DINNER—Volunteers needed to help cook up a warm dinner for Boise’s homeless and needy population, and clean up afterward.

Event is nondenominational. Tuesdays, 4:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. Immanuel Lutheran Church, 707 W. Fort St., Boise, 208-344-3011.

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LISTEN HERE IDAHO HO HO BENEFIT CONCERT, DEC. 3, VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE It’s lucky No. 7 for the Idaho Ho Ho Benefit Concert, which, since 2010, has brought together local artists who, in turn, bring together hundreds of Boiseans to do good for thousands of Idahoans.

Presented by Moxie Java and Audio Lab Recording Studios, this year’s bash features local musicians including David Bowie tribute band Davey Jones and The Spiders From Bars, Michaela French, Steve Fulton Music, Leta Neustaedter, The Fool Squad and more.

The show takes place Saturday, Dec. 3 at the Visual Arts Collective and—far more than a night of entertainment—it’s an important annual fundraiser for the Idaho Foodbank. All proceeds from the event benefit the Foodbank, including sales of the Idaho Ho Ho compilation CD, which every year tops the best-seller list at the Record Exchange and will be on sale at the VAC. This is no abstract way to help those in need—the sale of one CD feeds a family of four.

—Zach Hagadone Doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m.; $10 adv., $15 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, visualartscollective.com.

MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY NOV. 30

MIKE ROSENTHAL SOLO PIANO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE— 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid ARBOR GLYPH—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—7:30 p.m. $40-$85.

Morrison Center

STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

BLAZE AND KELLY—7 p.m.

FREE. WilliB’s

THE PRETTY RECKLESS—With Holy White Hounds and Them Evils. 8 p.m. $23-$65. Knitting Factory

BOISE PHILHARMONIC AND MASTER CHORALE: HANDEL’S MESSIAH—8 p.m. $30-$35. St. John’s Cathedral

TYLOR AND THE TRAIN ROBBERS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DEREK SCHAIBLE AND ASHLEY ROSE—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

THURSDAY DEC. 1

DJ GOODCLEANFUN—10 p.m.

FREE. Neurolux MIKE ROSENTHAL SOLO PIANO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—7:30 p.m. $40-$85.

Morrison Center BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers BILLY BRAUN—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 CHUCK SMITH SOLO PIANO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Bloom BLOOM (BREAD AND CIRCUS GUITARIST)—6:30 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers MERCHANDISE—With Gun Outfit and guests. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

ESSENTIAL JAZZ—7 p.m. $5$20. Sapphire FRIM FRAM FOUR—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s IDAHO HO HO SHOWCASE—With Steve Fulton Music, Davey Jones and the Spiders from Bars, and The Divas of Boise. 6 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange OPEN MIC JAM NIGHT—9:30 p.m. FREE. The Buffalo Club

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QUINN VAN PAEPEGHEM TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers SALSA DANCING—8:30 p.m. $5$8. Ochos Boise

SUNSQUABI—Featuring Maddy O’Neal. 9:30 p.m. $8 adv., $12 door. Reef

SOLITARY BAND: THE NEIL DIAMOND EXPERIENCE—Relive the magic of classic Neil Diamond songs played live. 6:30 p.m. $10-$15 adv., $15-$20 door.

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WILLISON ROOS—6 p.m. FREE. Lucky Dog

FRIDAY DEC. 2

THE SPIRIT OF HIP-HOP BENEFIT SHOW—7 p.m. $8. Knitting Factory

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—8 p.m. $40-$85. Morrison Center

TOMMY EMMANUEL CLASSICS AND CHRISTMAS TOUR—7:30 p.m. $34.50-$49.50 adv., $40$55 door. Egyptian

BILL COFFEY—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

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MONDAY DEC. 5

TUESDAY DEC. 6

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

1332 RECORDS PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

BEAUTIFUL: THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL—2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $40-$85. Morrison Center

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

THE AMBROSE SCHOOL’S TRADITIONAL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM—7 p.m. $15-$20.

Morrison Center

BOISE PHILHARMONIC AND MASTER CHORALE: HANDEL’S MESSIAH—8 p.m. $30-$35. St. John’s Cathedral

KOOL KEITH—With Kosha Dillz, Leafraker, GurILLa Glue, DJ Gladwell. 7 p.m. $17 adv., $20 door. Neurolux

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL END OF FALL SESSION GIG—More than 50 bands will perform. 10 a.m.-9 p.m. $5 suggested donation. The Linen Building

MIKE ROSENTHAL SOLO PIANO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

BREAD AND CIRCUS—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s CLAY MOORE TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers DAVID MOSS—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 EMILY STANTON BAND—7 p.m. $6-$12. Knitting Factory

OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL—8 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s PAMELA DEMARCHE—5 p.m.

FREE. Bar 365 PROHIBITION REPEAL PARTY— With the Dan Costello Band and floor show by Frankly Burlesque.

9 p.m. $10-$15. Juniper

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers JIM LEWIS—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 MIKE ROSENTHAL SOLO PIANO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers OPEN MIC—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s RADIO BOISE TUESDAY: THE CO FOUNDER—With Love-Lace and Stepbrothers. 7 p.m. $5.

Neurolux THE RINGTONES—8:45 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s

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

LISTEN HERE Harlis Sweetwater Band HARLIS SWEETWATER BAND—6:30 p.m. $15-$18 adv., $18-$21 door. Sapphire HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN—8 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s IDAHO HO HO BENEFIT CONCERT—With Davey Jones and The Spiders From Bars, Pat Folkner, Michaela French, Emily Stanton Band, SFM-Steve Fulton Music, Leta Neustaedter, The Fool Squad, Ben N Fletcher and Kelly Lynae. 8 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door. Visual Arts Collective MERIDIAN SYMPHONY HOLIDAY CONCERT—7:30 p.m. $4-$11. Centennial High MIKE ROSENTHAL SOLO PIANO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers PILOT ERROR—10 p.m. $5. Reef

SUNDAY DEC. 4 CLAY MOORE—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365 COME TOGETHER KUNA COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS CONCERT—7:30 p.m. FREE. Kuna Performing Arts Center NOCTURNUM LIVE INDUSTRIAL DJS—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—6 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL SESSION GIG, DEC. 3, LINEN BUILDING Sending the kids to camp can be an excellent way for parents to get a break and kids to gain both social and practical skills.

Sending the kids to Boise Rock School doesn’t provide a child-free respite, but what young people gain from the experience—discipline, understanding the importance of practice, having a creative outlet, learning how to collaborate and be on a team, speaking/performing in public—benefits both parties in spades. See for yourself at the BRS End of Fall Session Gig, when active BRS bands take the stage at the Linen Building. More than 50 acts will put their new (or newly honed) skills on display, sharing with an audience what they’ve learned during the 12-week fall session. Because these gigs are open to the public, they’re a great and inexpensive way not only for the performers’ families and friends to show their support but also an opportunity for parents and kids looking for a skill-building program to see results live and in rockin’ color. Plus, because this is an all-day event, and food and beverages are available, it’s kind of like music festival practice, too.

—Amy Atkins $5 suggested donation, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

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It has been a blockbuster year for high quality films, and the best are yet to arrive at the box office.

THE BEST OF THE REST OF 2016 The sixteen movies you must see in the next 60 days GEORGE PRENTICE Mele Kalikimaka (or “Merry Christmas”) is undoubtedly echoing through the hallowed chambers of the Motion Picture Academy.

Disney’s Hawaiian-themed Moana crashed onto Hollywood’s shore over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend with an $81 million-plus take at the box office. More important, the film has earned some of the best critical reviews of 2016, ensuring a reservation at the Academy’s annual luau, set for Sunday, Feb. 26, 2017.

In effect, Moana’s drumbeat has set the pace for what looks to be a busy 60 days before the Oscar nominations are unveiled.

If you’re a serious cinephile and intent on seeing most of this year’s nominees, the first thing you ought to do is play catch-up. Two award-worthy films, Loving and Moonlight, are playing at The Flicks, and Hell or High Water, Sully and The Jungle Book are already available on streaming platforms, so get out your day-planner because below is a list of 22 c NOVEMBER 30 – DECEMBER 6, 2016 c BOISEweekly

another 10 fabulous films hitting the big screen in the coming weeks, along with their Boise opening dates: Miss Sloane: Jessica Chastain is getting Oscarworthy advance notices. Opens Friday, Dec. 9 Manchester By the Sea: Count on contending for Best Picture, Director, Screenplay and Actor and Supporting Actress, as Casey Affleck and Michelle Williams deliver the finest performances of their careers, to date. Opens Friday, Dec. 16 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: If it’s Christmastime, there must be another Star Wars movie coming out, but this is the first standalone film in the anthology. Opens Friday, Dec. 16.

Lion: A gorgeous true story of being lost and found, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman. Opens Wednesday, Dec. 21.

Silence: A mysterious historical drama from

director Martin Scorsese, who is reportedly still working on it. Opens Friday, Dec. 23.

Sing!: A blow-the-roof-off-the-joint, animated instant classic. Opens Friday, Dec. 23.

Hidden Figures: The true story of three female African-American NASA employees is the real sleeper hit of the season. Opens Sunday, Dec. 25.

Fences: In his bid for a third Oscar, Denzel Washington swings for the… well, you know.

Opens Sunday, Dec. 25.

La La Land: The one that everyone will be talking—and singing—about. It’s really great.

Opens Friday, Dec. 30.

Jackie: Natalie Portman is the odds-on Best Actress favorite for her portrayal of our most famous First Lady. Opens Friday, Jan. 20, 2017.

Pace yourself, dear moviegoer. The best is yet to come.

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According to The Washington Post, Idaho takes in more than 68 refugees for every 100,000 residents, making it one of the most welcoming states for displaced people in the country. The Boise Police Department responded to the City of Trees’ growing population of new Americans by creating a refugee liaison position in 2006.

Since 2012, that job has been held by Officer Dustin Robinson, who coordinates with service providers, educates refugees on their rights and responsibilities in America, and trains officers to deal with situations where refugees are involved.

What are the strengths and challenges of the refugee community?

Refugees that come here are survivors. Refugees with the trauma and histories that they’ve faced, come from very oppressed areas where sometimes they weren’t even treated as human beings. They come here without the full understanding of what life in the U.S. is like.

You regularly give presentations to incoming refugees. What do you tell them?

We discuss that calling 911 is free of charge, that filing a police report is free of charge, that you can get fire department, paramedics—all can come and there’s no payment. We talk about what our criminal justice system looks like.

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What might surprise refugees most about how law enforcement works in the U.S.?

That they don’t have to pay police officers to get assistance. They don’t have to partake in bribery. … They would anticipate that should you get pulled over, there’s an immediate fee to be paid when the officer walks up.

How do refugees’ cultural differences pose a challenge to law enforcement?

It gives us an opportunity to work with members of the refugee community. By having those interpreters that are stakeholders and community leaders, they can be cultural brokers for us.

What happens when seconds count?

In those emergency situations we can use family, friends, neighbors to calm the scene down.

Once the scene is calm, start making telephone calls to the language line. In the worst scenarios we play a little “charades” for a few minutes.

Have you had conversations that pertain to controversial police actions in other cities or the Black Lives Matter movement?

Trauma they can see on television can spark trauma that they have faced. Giving them resources within our community, we’re showing that we are leveling that level of trauma they’re feeling.

What’s your response when someone brings up those controversial events?

We talk very transparently. Anything we can do to show what Boise is truly like and how opening and inviting it is, that’s what we’ll do.

What exactly are your responsibilities?

I start with doing a lot of education. I work heavily with educating our stakeholders and making sure we have resources available. We make sure refugees have an understanding of what’s expected of them, what the laws are. I work with different members of the Boise Police Department and cross-division boundaries. I am in charge of the interpretive program for the city of Boise, making sure we have access to highly-skilled interpreters.

If you have something that is starting to become an issue in the community, call me before it becomes a criminal matter.

How has your work changed the way rankand-file officers respond to refugee issues?

They have a greater understanding of what trauma refugees come with and the cultural expectations they come with, and they’re better able to make contact with a refugee family with more skills in their tool belt.

How has your job changed?

I’m not sure the job has changed as much as I have. I think I’ve learned to be a little more patient. I don’t take for granted living in the United States. I don’t take for granted the community I live in or the services that are provided.

What’s left to be done to serve refugees?

I think we continue doing what we’re doing.

Each time new refugees come in, the process starts all over again. I have invitations to speak all over the United States to talk about the model BPD has created. We are by far one of the most successful cities in this model of having a refugee liaison in our community policing unit.

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ODD BALL WHITES Nothing against Chardonnay, Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Gris, but sometimes you get tired of the same-old, same-old. For this tasting we sought out a group of whites made from grapes with which you might not be familiar. As the wines assembled proved, sometimes it’s a good thing to step outside your comfort zone. Here are the top three:

2015 DOMAINE LABBE ABYMES VIN DE SAVOIE, $11 The region of Savoie, is nestled in the foothills of the Alps on the Italian border of southwest France.

The grape is Jacquère, and the nose is an intriguing mix of dusty apple and melon with a pronounced minerality and touches of honeycomb and lemon curd. It’s a well-balanced wine with sweet apple flavors playing against crisp citrus and a nice bit of spice on the finish.

2014 DOMAINE NEBOUT SAINT POURCAIN, $19 Saint Pourcain in the Loire is one of France’s oldest wine regions, with its Tressallier grape one of the rarest. It creates a complex combo of fruit aromas including peach, pineapple, melon and tart apple. The flavors are equally complex offering pear, peach, ripe lemon and lime, all with a silky, almost creamy texture.

This wine finishes clean and crisp, the flavors lingering on and on.

2014 MAYU PEDRO XIMENEZ, $15 The Pedro Ximenez grape in this Chilean entry is more typically associated with Spanish Sherry, especially the sweet version of the same name.

Here it offers beautifully floral aromas of peach and apricot with a light hit of vanilla. Stone fruit flavors come through on the palate, balanced by bright citrus. The finish is long and lively with smooth mineral and chalk.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow,” wrote naturalist Henry David Thoreau in Walden, “to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.” I’d love to see you summon that level of commitment to your important rendezvous in the coming weeks, Aries. Please keep in mind, though, that your “most important rendezvous” are more likely to be with wild things, unruly wisdom, or primal breakthroughs than with pillars of stability, committee meetings and business-as-usual.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For you Tauruses, December is “I Accept and Love and Celebrate Myself Exactly How I Am Right Now” Month. To galvanize yourself, play around with this declaration

by Oscar-winning Taurus actress Audrey Hepburn: “I’m a long way from the human being I’d like to be, but I’ve decided I’m not so bad after all.” Here are other thoughts to draw on during the festivities: 1. “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone.”—Barbara De Angelis. 2. “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”—E. E. Cummings.

3. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.”—

Sandra Bierig. 4. “We cannot change anything until we accept it.”—Carl Jung.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Are your collaborative projects (including the romantic kind) evolving at a slower pace than you expected? Have they not grown as deep and strong as you’ve wished they would? If so, I hope you’re perturbed about it. Maybe that will motivate you to stop tolerating the stagnation. Here’s my recommendation: Don’t adopt a more serious and intense attitude. Instead, get loose and frisky. Inject a dose of blithe spirits into your togetherness, maybe even some high jinks and rowdy experimentation. The cosmos has authorized you to initiate ingenious surprises.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I don’t recommend that you buy a cat-o’-nine-tails and whip yourself in a misguided effort to exorcise your demons. The truth is, those insidious troublemakers exult when you abuse yourself. They draw perverse sustenance from it.

In fact, their strategy is to fool you into treating yourself badly. So, no.

If you hope to drive away the saboteurs huddled in the sacred temple of your psyche, your best bet is to shower yourself with tender care, even luxurious blessings. The pests won’t like that, and—if you commit to this crusade for an extended time—they will eventually flee.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel García Marquez loved yellow roses. He often had a fresh bloom on his writing desk as he worked, placed there every morning by his wife Mercedes Barcha.

I invite you to consider initiating a comparable ritual. Is there a touch of beauty you would like to inspire you on a regular basis? It there a poetic gesture you could faithfully perform for a person you love?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “For a year I watched as something entered and then left my body,” testified Jane Hirshfield in her poem “The Envoy.” What was that mysterious something? Terror or happiness? She didn’t know.

Nor could she decipher “how it came in” or “how it went out.” It hovered “where words could not reach it. It slept where light could not go.” Her experience led her to conclude that “There are openings in our lives of which we know nothing.” I bring this meditation to your attention, Virgo, because I suspect you are about to tune in to a mysterious opening. But unlike Hirshfield, I think you’ll figure out what it is. And then you will respond to it with verve and intelligence.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A reporter at the magazine Vanity Fair asked David Bowie, “What do you consider your greatest

achievement?” Bowie didn’t name any of his albums, videos or performances. Rather, he answered, “Discovering morning.” I suspect that you Libras will attract and generate marvels if you experiment with accomplishments like that in the coming weeks. So yes, try to discover or rediscover morning.

Delve into the thrills of beginnings.

Magnify your appreciation for natural wonders that you usually take for granted. Be seduced by sources that emanate light and heat.

Gravitate toward what’s fresh, blossoming, just-in-its-early-stages.

Cage to “summarize himself in a nutshell.” Cage said, “Get yourself out of whatever cage you find yourself in.” He might have added, “Avoid the nutshells that anyone tries to put you in.” This is always fun work to attend to, of course, but I especially recommend it to you Sagittarians right now. You’re in the time of year that’s close to the moment when you first barged out of your mom’s womb, where you had been housed for months. The coming weeks will be an excellent phase to attempt a similar if somewhat less extravagant trick.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): According to traditional astrology, you Scorpios are not prone to optimism. You’re more often portrayed as connoisseurs of smoldering enigmas and shadowy intrigue and deep questions. But one of the most creative and successful Scorpios of the 20th century did not completely fit this description.

French artist Claude Monet was renowned for his delightful paintings of sensuous outdoor landscapes. “Every day I discover even more beautiful things,” he testified.

“It is intoxicating me, and I want to paint it all. My head is bursting.”

Monet is your patron saint in the coming weeks. You will have more potential to see as he did than you’ve had in a long time.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Centuries ago, the Catholic Church’s observance of Lent imposed a heavy burden. During this six-week period, extending from Ash Wednesday to Easter Sunday, believers were expected to cleanse their sins through acts of selfdenial. They weren’t supposed to eat meat on Fridays. Their menus could include fish, however. This loophole was expanded even further in the 17th century when the Church redefined beavers as being fish. (They swim well, after all.) I’m in favor of you contemplating a new loophole in regard to your own self-limiting behaviors, Capricorn.

Is there a taboo you observe that no longer makes perfect sense?

Out of habit, do you deny yourself a pleasure or indulgence that might actually be good for you? Wriggle free of the constraints.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): A journalist dared composer John

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The Pacific Ocean was overflowing the borders of the map,” wrote Pablo Neruda in his poem “The Sea.” “There was no place to put it,” he continued. “It was so large, wild and blue that it didn’t fit anywhere. That’s why it was left in front of my window.” This passage is a lyrical approximation of what your life could be like in 2017. In other words, lavish, elemental, expansive experiences will be steadily available to you.

Adventures that may have seemed impossibly big and unwieldy in the past will be just the right size. It all begins soon.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I have a deep fear of being too much,” writes poet Michelle K. “That one day I will find my someone, and they will realize that I am a hurricane. That they will step back and be intimidated by my muchness.” Given the recent astrological omens, Pisces, I wouldn’t be shocked if you’ve been having similar feelings.

Here’s the good news: Given the astrological omens of the next nine months, I suspect the odds will be higher than usual that you’ll encounter brave souls who’ll be able to handle your muchness. They may or may not be soulmates or your one-and-only.

I suggest you welcome them as they are, with all of their muchness.

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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: Madeline Blair Packwood Legal Name Case No. CV 01 1620581 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME CHANGE (adult) A Petition to change the name of Madeline Blair Packwood, 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 Matthew Alistair Packwood. The reason for the change in name is: I am a transgender person transitioning with the full support of my parents and family.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) Jan. 12, 2017 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 Nov. 5, 2016 CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT DEBBIE NAGELE DEPUTY CLERK PUB Nov. 30, Dec. 7, 14 & 21

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DEAR MINERVA, I’m a gay lady in my 30s. While, for the most part, people don’t pry into my personal life, occasionally someone will lob a question at me along the lines of: “So, you have a lot of boyfriends?” When I answer with something like, “well, no I don’t” and try to change the subject, suddenly my interrogator assumes I’m hiding lovers all over the city. Is there a polite way to help people understand that I’m a lady who prefers the “V” to the “D” while still being polite? I’m tired of people assuming I’m straight but I also don’t want to come out constantly. What’s a lesbian to do?

Sincerely, —Lady’s Lady

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DEAR LL, Well, sister-friend, short of wearing “Radical Lesbian Pride” attire every time you meet someone, there isn’t much to be done about the assumptions that others make. With the majority of people we encounter identifying as heterosexual, we are always going to be “coming out.” The upside is, no matter how annoying the approach, you are under no obligation to share information unless you want to. I prefer to approach everything with humor, so come up with a quick response that gets the point across in a funny way.

Humor is a unifier. Sure, you’ll still run into uncomfortable people, but that’s their problem. It’s 2016. If they’re driving slow on the freeway of acceptance and enlightenment, pass them. You can also tell them, quite frankly, that it is none of their business.

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$935.58 BILLION

$655.8 BILLION

Estimated average amount spent by consumers during the 2016 holiday shopping season.

Estimated U.S. retail sales for November-December 2016, excluding autos, gas and restaurants—up from $469.1 billion in 2011.

(National Retail Federation)

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“HARDWIRED … TO SELFDESTRUC,” METALLICA

Local retailers: 27.27%

“57TH AND 9TH,” STING

The mall: 4.55%

“WE GOT IT FROM HERE …

“THE WEIGHT OF THESE THANK YOU 4 YOUR SERWINGS,” MIRANDA LAMVICE,” A TRIBE CALLED QUEST BERT “THE IMPOSSIBLE KID,” AESOP ROCK “YOU WANT IT DARKER,” LEONARD COHEN “EPONYM,” SFM-STEVE FULTON MUSIC

Where do you do most of your holiday shopping?

Online: 59.09%

“LIVE AT THE HOLLYWOOD BOWL,” THE BEATLES

Big box stores: 4.55%

“24K MAGIC,” BRUNO MARS

Elsewhere: 4.55%

“WALLS,” KINGS OF LEON

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Price of an iPhone 7 from the Apple Store, as of Nov. 28, 2016.

Price of a cellular car phone in 1990, the equivalent of $601.09 in 2016.

Price of a Samsung 24inch flat screen television at Wal-Mart, as of Nov. 28, 2016.

Price of a 25-inch color television in 1990, the equivalent of $922.90 in 2016.

Average household debt in the U.S. in 2015, including $15,762 in credit card debt.

(thepeoplehistory.com)

(walmart.com)

(thepeoplehistory.com)

(2015 American Household Credit Card Debt Study)

Average credit card debt for U.S. households with at least one credit card in 1990, equivalent to $5,485.60 in 2016.

(apple.com)

(The Christian Science Monitor)

(NRF)

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