Boise Weekly Vol. 25 Issue 26 by Boise Weekly

BOISE WEEKLY DECEMBER 14–20, 2016

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“They weren’t out there in the freezing cold just because they wanted to smoke crack every night.”

Stitching the Net

How the ‘Housing First’ model has (or hasn’t) worked to ﬁght homelessness in Utah

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EDITOR’S NOTE OPENING THE DOOR TO HOUSING FIRST It’s practically a holiday tradition that news media outlets report stories related to homelessness when the weather turns cold—often filled with warm sentiments about supporting those in need and reminding those who aren’t in (as much) need how thankful they ought to be. Peppered among those stories are dire warnings about the dangers of freezing temperatures and a few inspirational profiles of folks who have risen above adversity. Those are often great—and important—stories, but the issues surrounding homelessness are perennial. This week, Boise Weekly offers two stories that dig into homelessness both in Boise and elsewhere in the region with an eye toward where we’ve been, where we are and where we’re going with the fight to lessen the number of people who struggle to keep a roof over their head. On Page 6, BW News Editor George Prentice looks back a year to when Boise police dismantled the Cooper Court tent city that had grown up behind Interfaith Sanctuary. Among the most tense moments in Boise’s history of dealing with homelessness, the Cooper Court clearance spurred new action by city officials and advocates. Today, with more optimism and energy behind efforts to secure long-term solutions, the first concrete steps have been taken to establish a single-site, permanent housing model to serve the homeless in Boise. Referred to as “Housing First,” the model is certainly a first for Boise, but not for Salt Lake City. Our sister alternative newspaper Salt Lake City Weekly put Housing First under the microscope in a November report, which we republish on Page 8. As might be expected, City Weekly found Housing First has achieved mixed results: while it has been a boon for many of Salt Lake’s homeless, lack of funding has led to big holes in the safety net. What’s more, providing a safe and healthy environment for residents at the city’s Palmer Court housing center has turned out to be a big headache for first responders, especially police. While Salt Lake City’s experience has been its own, Boise would do well to consider some of the challenges that have come with Housing First—lest our optimism get the better of us. —Zach Hagadone

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TAXARACK The Tamarack Homeowners Association paid back taxes on 15 parcels at the Valley County resort, but unpaid taxes on other parcels prompted some seizures by the county. More at News/Citydesk.

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A Trump tweet decyring the F-35 program sent Lockheed Martin value into a $4 billion tailspin.

THE ODD ALLIANCE OF TRUMP AND SOME SOUTH BOISE RESIDENTS If the majority of Boise voters in Precinct No. 1807 had their way, Hillary Clinton would be president—they chose the former first lady-turned-U.S. senator-turned secretary of state over real estate mogul and reality TV star Donald Trump by an 18-point margin in the November election. Nonetheless, more than a few residents in the South Boise neighborhood have something in common with President-elect Trump: They’re not fans of the F-35 fighter jet. “The F-35 program and cost is out of control,” Trump tweeted Dec. 12, sending publiclytraded shares of aerospace giant Lockheed Martin into a freefall. Trump added that he looked forward to taking a cleaver to the F-35 budget, tweeting, “Billions of dollars can and will be saved on military (and other) purchases after January 20th.” The Guardian reported Trump’s 140-character tweet at 6:26 a.m. triggered a $4 billion drop in Lockheed’s value—amounting to a loss of about $28.6 million per character. Some South Boise residents have also been vocal in their opposition to the F-35, particularly over the possibility of the jets being permanently housed at Gowen Field. Citing the F-35’s 40,000 pounds of afterburner thrust, residents fear the sound of the jets will rattle their Vista neighborhood homes. Nonetheless, Boise city officials and the Idaho congressional delegation cheered the news Dec. 7, when the Idaho National Guard confirmed Boise was on the U.S. Air Force shortlist to house the F-35 program, pending a full environmental impact study and public hearings. The Air Force said it would conduct two-week site visits at Boise and four other cities in the coming months before selecting two “preferred” and two “reasonable” alternatives. That will trigger more reviews and a final decision by spring 2019. Following the Dec. 7 announcement, an informal Boise Weekly poll concerning the F-35 revealed 61 percent of respondents were in favor of the fighter jets finding a home in Boise. Meanwhile, Trump did not elaborate on his opposition to the F-35 budget, but he already has one anti-F-35 ally in Sen. John McCain (RArizona), who has said repeated problems with the fighter jet program were “both a scandal and a tragedy.” —George Prentice 6 c DECEMBER 14–20, 2016 c BOISEweekly

The ghosts of Christmas past, present and future beg Boise to rethink homelessness GEORGE PRENTICE

While some Treasure Valley residents might have considered area snowfall on Dec. 7 “Christmasy,” the caregivers and residents at Interfaith Sanctuary knew better: This was the type of weather that kills. Exposure to the winter elements has claimed many lives of homeless men and women in Boise, and the cold blast prompted postponement of a Christmas tree light lighting behind Interfaith’s shelter—a stark reminder that, while the season can bring great joy for many, it can also present great hardship for others. On December 3, 2015, Boise police erected a barricade not far from Interfaith, along River Street between Americana Boulevard and 15th Street, hemming in a tent city of homeless people that had become known as Cooper Court. The nearly 100 men and women who had spent the past several months in the tent city were shuttled to a temporary shelter at Fort Boise, but were quickly told they would need to find another place to sleep. Some ended up at Interfaith, others drifted away to find warmth elsewhere. Much has changed since the pre-Christmas sweep of Cooper Court. Through the spring and summer of 2016, community members and city officials hashed over numerous plans to lessen the number of Boiseans who struggle to keep a roof over their heads. From tiny houses to purchasing a parcel of land where homeless men and women might build another community, to the current Housing First model being pursued by the city, this Christmas, the homeless, advocates and city officials are looking back at what was, what is and what could—or will—be.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST “It seems like so long ago,” said Jodi Peterson, co-director of Interfaith Sanctuary, recalling the Dec. 4, 2015 clearance of Cooper Court. While the pre-Christmas sweep was conducted without incident or injury, resolving a situation that officials insisted could have become dangerous, unhealthy and a political headache, many agreed it was not the city’s finest hour. “Homelessness shouldn’t be criminalized,” said Leah Pederson, who once experienced her

Homemade decorations, many of them including prayers, adorn a Christmas tree located outside the back entrance of Interfaith Sanctuary.

own bout of homelessness. Pederson joined a handful of other demonstrators near the police barricade, holding a large cardboard banner that read, “Bieter Hates Jesus, Jesus Was Poor & Homeless.” The protestors laid much of the drama at the feet of Boise Mayor Dave Bieter, who had declared the encampment a state of emergency. City officials said the sweep culminated an increasingly dangerous situation to the residents of the tent city, including drug use, unsanitary conditions and the risk of carbon monoxide poisoning from heating units that some of the residents had propped up inside their tents. Homeless advocates pushed back hard, with the ACLU of Idaho labeling the sweep a “surprise attack.” Christmas 2015 was a particularly somber occasion, with a recurring question echoing through the Boise homeless community: Where did the Cooper Court residents go? As expected, a handful decided not to fight city officials or the elements and found a place to sleep inside Interfaith Sanctuary. Soon, however, it was clear many of the former residents of Cooper Court were still outside. On a mid-winter afternoon in early February, some of those homeless men and women joined with advocates in Julia Davis Park to remember Perry “Rusty” Woodard, whose frozen body had been discovered on the bank of the nearby Boise River. “We have hundreds of more [people] who are incompatible with shelters—still out in the cold—and thousands who are ‘homeless in waiting’ because they can’t meet their monthly bills,” said Barbara Kemp, a member of the Boise and Ada County Homeless Coalition. Woodard was not the only homeless person to

die in Boise in the months that followed the dissolution of Cooper Court. Four days before this Christmas, on the evening of Wednesday, Dec. 21, those who lost that struggle will be remembered on what has become known as Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT “I can promise you that it will be a particularly moving night,” said Peterson, referring to Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day. “What’s interesting is that it’s also the first night of the Xtreme Holiday Xtravaganza on the stage of the Egyptian.” This year marks the 11th anniversary of the Xtravaganza, the popular benefit concert to support Interfaith Sanctuary. Hosted by internationally renowned Boise musician Curtis Stigers (who is also Peterson’s husband), the Egyptian stage is expected to be filled with a long list of Idaho musicians, dancers, comedians and community leaders. The concert will be held on two nights, Wednesday, Dec. 21 and Thursday, Dec. 22. “I’m so incredibly nervous about this year’s event,” said Peterson. “Interfaith depends so much on those donations from those two nights.” She has little time to be nervous, given her new executive role at Interfaith Sanctuary. Peterson had been a long-time contract worker and volunteer at the shelter, but the controversy surrounding Cooper Court “changed everything,” she said. “I quickly learned that they weren’t out there in the freezing cold just because they wanted to smoke crack every night,” she added. “I truly learned about those who are shelter-resistant. Suddenly everything turned on its head.” After the sweep of Cooper Court, Peterson was tapped to become Interfaith Sanctuary’s new BOISE WEEKLY.COM

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A Christmas tree sits a few feet from what was once known as Cooper Court behind Interfaith Sanctuary.

director of development and programs. What followed was a big change to Interfaith’s operation. “We used to have two people with a master’s degree in social work, but we don’t have the luxury to counsel 164 people with two social workers,” said Peterson. “So we took the money from those two salaries and got 10 caseworkers who are currently working on their social work degrees at Boise State University to help us.” Interfaith’s new affiliation with Boise State came this past summer, after President Bob Kustra convened a meeting with the university’s deans of social work, nursing and engineering. “He said, ‘Let’s make Interfaith the teaching shelter for Boise State’s cross-disciplines,’” said Peterson. Now, in addition to the social work students, Boise State’s School of Engineering has committed five students to design a new entry and exit security system for Interfaith. Students from the School of Nursing will soon be participating in a weekly on-site health clinic, conducting assessments, checking blood pressure, giving flu shots and conducting wellbeing exams in conjunction with the nonprofit Friendship Clinic. While Peterson said there is more optimism surrounding service to the homeless community in Boise, the city’s most ambitious project to combat homelessness should become a reality by Christmas 2017.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS FUTURE Less than two months after Cooper Court was cleared out, Bieter stood before the press on February 2016 and announced a partnership to craft a solution known as “Housing First” to fight chronic homelessness (for more, see Page 8). “The best alternative is to get someone in a safe, clean place to live first,” Bieter said at the time. “Only then can you get to the root causes of homelessness.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

The mayor pointed to a then-new study that revealed community costs to help approximately 100 chronically homeless men and women run to more than $5.3 million each year. According to the Housing First model fronted by Bieter, annual expenses would rise to about $1.6 million. In mid-November, the Idaho Housing and Finance Association announced it was ready to move forward with a single-site permanent building that will be known as the “New Path Community Housing Project,” to be built on what is currently a vacant lot on Fairview Avenue and 23rd Street—a few blocks from Interfaith. The project will be funded through $5.8 million in low-income housing tax credits from IHFA, $1 million from the city of Boise and another $500,000 from IHFA. The project will be shepherded as a joint venture between the Northwest Integrity Housing Company and TPC Holdings V, LLC. New Path Community Housing will be developed to provide “safe, stable housing and services for up to 40 families and/or individuals experiencing chronic homelessness.” Another $500,000 has been committed for the project’s support services, including counseling and security. “Do I expect some of the people who were in Cooper Court or some of the chronically homeless that are currently at Interfaith to go into that new facility? Absolutely,” said Peterson. “Next Christmas? Who knows? It could be a lot better.” As for this Christmas, Peterson said a number of homeless men and women who had been rousted from Cooper Court a year ago have found their way back to the curbs of nearby Americana Boulevard. “They just can’t function in a big shelter with a lot of people,” said Peterson. “But Christmas is coming. The cold is here. The snow is here. The ice is here. We’ve got to keep them in our prayers.” BOISEweekly c DECEMBER 14–20, 2016 c 7

AS BOISE CONSIDERS A HOUSING FIRST MODEL TO FIGHT CHRONIC HOMELESSNESS, UTAH’S EXPERIENCE WITH THE PROGRAM SHOWS UNEVEN RESULTS

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mber Neves perches on the cigarette- and food-stained sofa, clutching a toothbrush. In the front room of a simple bed-and-kitchenette apartment in South Salt Lake, congested with three shopping carts full of bits and pieces that have value at least to 38-year-old Neves, she struggles to explain where she finds herself. “I need routine and structure,” she said on that muggy late May 2016 afternoon, if she is to negotiate the daily buffeting from being, she said, bipolar and obsessive-compulsive. Next to her are a few stained and wrinkled pieces of paper that explain how she lost that “routine and structure.” The tattered eviction notice reveals she was kicked out of her apartment in Palmer Court at 999 Main because she was a “nuisance.” Despite staff working with her for more than a year at the 7-yearold, permanent supportive housing complex for 300 chronically homeless individuals and families, the notice states that Neves failed to clean her apartment and maintain it in a sanitary condition, rendering it “severely unsafe.” On a recent check, the door could only be partially opened because of her chronic hoarding and she had also been caught on camera sheltering a former resident who had been banned. Neves spelled backward is seven, she said. “No luck,” she added. With her eviction, she joined the list of those “86’d” from Palmer Court, as tenants call being banned. Which begs the question, where does a mentally ill person go when her last resort has turned her out? Staff at Palmer Court, which is run by The Road Home, told her to go the downtown shelter, but as for many single, homeless women and men, that’s a very dangerous prospect, given the level of crime and violence both within and outside the downtown shelter. Ask Neves what her options are and she said, “I don’t really have any.” That’s reinforced by a man waiting outside to change the locks and put her out on the street.

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All she has to her name is what’s in the shopping carts, the contents of a storage unit in West Valley City, her federal disability check, and the kindness and concern of friends and advocates who fear for the worst if she ends up on the street. One such friend, and former boyfriend, is 59-year-old Ed Rehburg, a longtime Palmer Court resident. He negotiates his way around the mess in the apartment Neves is about to lose, trying to figure out how to help her pack. He doesn’t understand why Palmer Court evicted her. “They should be able to work with her,” he said. “Instead, they kick her out onto the street, and I’m afraid she will die.” Rehburg doesn’t know what to do. He can’t take her to his apartment because if he’s caught housing her, he could get kicked out, too. “I want to stay there,” he said. “I’d be lonely as hell if I had to leave.” Yet he can’t turn his back on a mentally ill person with nowhere to go, especially one he cares about. His fears are not without precedent that her eviction might amount to a death sentence. Jennifer Oryall was also evicted from Palmer Court with severe mental health problems. Six months later, despite efforts to house her elsewhere, she died in a hospital of congestive heart failure aggravated by meth use. The stories of Neves and Oryall, while perhaps outliers as Palmer Court staffers say, nevertheless underscore the limitations of Utah’s much-publicized approach to housing the homeless when the wrap-around services to support them are underresourced. “We are talking about a population of people who have an array of issues,” said Salt Lake City Homeless Court Judge John Baxter. “Poly-substance abuse, poor parenting, lack of education, lack of job skills, family associations and friend associations with people who are engaged in behaviors that are illegal or at least anti-social. And housing alone has not solved their problems.”

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Jeniece Olsen (left) and Kelli Bowers (right), of Palmer Court operator The Road Home.

OFF THE STREETS Palmer Court is one of the jewels in the crown of Salt Lake City’s embrace of the Housing First philosophy developed by national homeless advocate guru Sam Tsemberis. Housing First focuses on getting the chronically homeless off the streets and into housing to first stabilize and then provide them with services to build on that stability. When it opened in 2009, it was called a “paradise” in the local press, a description perhaps warranted not only for providing permanent homes for the chronically homeless, but also for its range of free services, including utilities, cable and a gym. Palmer Court offers a wide range of on-site services designed to support people dealing with, among other things, trauma, mental illness and substance abuse, although key to Housing First is that tenants should not be forced to use such services. For many of its 305 residents, said 51-year-old single father Jim Thurman, who moved there in March 2016, it’s still paradise. “It’s a godsend. I feel blessed for the opportunity to start my life again at a place that has all these things to offer,” he said, citing everything from a playground in the complex’s grass and concrete courtyard for his two children, to offices at the complex for multiple state and federal agencies, including Vocational Rehabilitation and Workforce Services, as well as counselors and food pantry deliveries. In the past seven years, this permanent refuge for chronically homeless individuals and families has developed some problems. Largely infested with cockroaches and mice—a new extermination company was hired in September 2016—and plagued by “off the hook” drug use, according to advocates and tenants, it generates calls for service in the thousands—particularly to the police, but also the fire department and ambulance services. In total, 52 tenants have died since it opened—an unsurprising number, said advocates, given the health and trauma issues its population acquired from years of homelessness. Nevertheless, cops and advocates complain that there are simply too BOISE WEEKLY.COM

many people with complex problems living together in one location, which itself is just around the corner from notorious motels on State Street riddled with drugs that only add to the situation. Palmer Court is run by The Road Home. Ask Jeniece Olsen, the shelter’s director of supportive housing services, what Palmer’s ultimate lack of success with Oryall and Neves reflects about homelessness at a time when Salt Lake City and Salt Lake County are in the midst of developing four new shelters, and she cites numerous factors that have remained, at best, marginalized in discussions mostly focused on the size of the shelters and where to locate them. With a 7,000-plus shortfall in the availability of affordable housing units in Salt Lake County, she points to a chronic need for not only a dramatic rise in affordable housing, but also a higher minimum wage. “At $7.25 an hour, a single person needs to work 72 hours a week to afford a modest one-bedroom,” she said. Along with the ever-fainter hope of expanding Medicaid to make substance abuse and mental health treatment available to all low-income households, she also cites “more resources for on-site services in permanent supportive housing.” That’s because, to some degree, the effectiveness of Housing First, particularly for those with extremely high needs such as Neves and Oryall, depends on the case managers-to-clients ratio. (Palmer Court’s management is divided into a property issues team, for whom members of its population are tenants, and a case management team, for whom many of those tenants are clients). In Utah, where money has gone to securing the housing, what’s left over has allowed for little more than rationing of services, and Palmer Court appears to be a case in point. It has six case managers with caseloads of 32-45 households each. That’s a caseload Olsen acknowledges is high, “but bear in mind not everyone needs services every single day. Service need fluctuates over time.” She cites an ideal ratio of 20-25 households for families and 25-30 for singles. Tsemberis recom-

When Palmer Court opened in 2009, it was hailed as a “paradise” in the press.

mends a ratio of 12-15 clients per case manager, advocates said. That’s accurate, Olsen said, for scattered site-management, where a case manager has clients with acute needs in different parts of the city. Having said that, she noted, “We’d love some money to get two more case managers.” That would allow them, case-management director Kelli Bowers said, “to focus on some of the things beyond the struggle of the day-to-day and give us more opportunity to explore more and direct more what the future can bring for folks.” Judge Baxter argues for a 1-5 case-managerto-client ratio, “given how needy folks are. Most of the folks I’ve interacted with, would be better off with daily contact, not just a 15-minute call or dropping by ‘to see how you’re doing.’” One person who did need on-site case management, and lots of it, was Oryall. Her sister Jodie Johnson said, “The whole point of Palmer Court is to keep [the mentally ill homeless] off the street. They altogether need a lot of involvement, almost like running a state hospital but with more freedom. There needs to be more case management.” Judge Baxter expresses frustration with Housing First as it has evolved in the city. The idea was, “Once an individual was placed in housing that would make it easier or more practical to access services necessary to maintain a state of fundamental health. If there’s been any breakdown in that model, it has been the access to, and successful implementation of, services, which has not been as effective as we hoped it would be. Those services are there, but there are not enough of them. I suspect social workers tear their hair out at the inability to reach as many people successfully as they would like to.” Rehburg argues the system “should have given Amber more help.” He doesn’t understand how she could have been evicted with no case manager to follow up with her, to help her. “Kicking them out, that attitude is just wrong,” he said. “Especially the mentally ill, the schizophrenic. Where’s the safety net?”

IT TAKES A VILLAGE When The Road Home’s director Matt Minkevitch found out a 297-room former Holiday Inn hotel on Main was up for sale, he tried to get both the city and county housing authorities to purchase it without success. Eventually, he secured private donors, including the LDS Church, with Salt Lake City Regional Development Agency tax credits funding a good chunk of the $21 million development. With an annual operating budget of $1.8 million, property management expenses come out of tenants’ rents—those that pay them—and county subsidies. “It’s a great adaptive reuse of an old hotel in terms of the reality of funding for permanent supportive housing for some of the highest users of services, some of the most expensive people on the street,” Salt Lake City Councilwoman Erin Mendenhall said. To be eligible for Palmer Court requires having experienced multiple episodes of homelessness and a disabling condition as head of a household, such as substance abuse issues, mental or physical health. “Everyone needs housing but not everyone needs on-site case management,” Bowers said. Bowers added that while her case managers’ work can be difficult at times, some residents “settle in, they do better, while others, for some reason, continue to need a high level of case management. Some folks it takes a village and all of us to help.” Several residents selected by Palmer Court staff, shared their experiences. All of them stressed that staying away from the “drama” caused by what one calls the building’s “problem children,” made their lives easier. After Thurman’s marriage fell apart, he said he took to drinking and ended up homeless, electing to sleep on the streets rather than face the violence he witnessed during a brief time at the shelter. When Palmer staff showed him the apartment on the third floor designated for families, he slid against the wall in disbelief, tears running down his cheeks. BOISEweekly c DECEMBER 14–20, 2016 c 9

On March 27, 2016, he moved into the twobedroom studio with his 6-year-old daughter and 10-year-old son. “I don’t think I could have ever got anything to start out my life with my children as nice as this.” Residents pay 30 percent of their income to Palmer Court in lieu of rent. Thurman’s income comes from selling his blood, Palmer taking 30 percent of his plasma money, which amounts to $280 a month, from twice-weekly blood donations. He doesn’t let his children roam the hallways freely, as other parents do, but prefers to accompany them to the courtyard playground, or play catch with his son. He’s passionate about his new home, but said if he got work and made money, he’d move out so others could enjoy the opportunity he’s had. In total, 438 men, women and children have moved out of Palmer Court, of which 42.5 percent, The Road Home has verified, went to other housing. Jennifer Neiser has no intentions of moving out. She and her daughter both are bipolar and came to Palmer Court in 2011 after homelessness and a spell at The Road Home. She has no income from which to pay rent, and is charged $25 a month. Neiser said she has all her needs met at Palmer, including ease of access to her meds and local supermarkets by bus. “As a mom, as an individual who has mental health issues, this is good,” she said.

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE Palmer Court is “overwhelming at times,” for law enforcement, said Salt Lake City Police Department spokesman Greg Wilking. It has a panoply of issues for law enforcement, fire department and EMTs to deal with. “Domestics, suspicious people, thefts, people dying, intoxication,” he said. Putting a large, diverse group of people, many of them with mental health and substance abuse issues, in a confined space leads to other problems, he said, such as noise, fights and theft. While The Road Home might view Palmer Court as a success, law enforcement, Wilking said, fears 10 c DECEMBER 14–20, 2016 c BOISEweekly

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“this model isn’t working.” Rather than answering calls from Palmer Court itself, the police are summoned to individual apartments, often with multiple residents not always registered with the complex. Calls for services over several years, he said, run into the thousands. “There’s definitely drug use,” Bowers said. But, Olsen added, it’s no different than many other low-income housing facilities. When drug trafficking increases, staff monitors it and then addresses it, until dealers disperse and move on. “After we’ve figured out how they can come into the building, we push them out,” a staffer said. All external doors are locked, bar the front lobby, with several monitors over the weekends. But it’s more complex than simply dealers and addicts. “We have a really vulnerable population,” property manager Karen Grenko said. “Unfortunately they feel looking out for each other involves sharing what they have,” including drugs. “Then you have the other spectrum of tenants saying, ‘How can you tolerate this, how can this go on?’” In some cases, Palmer staffers say, calls are made for the sake of making calls, or because of mental illness. One mentally ill resident called claiming she had been shot. According to a Salt Lake City Police report accessed through a records request, “Staff stated that [redacted] had been a problem and that they wanted to get her out of the building for a while due to her erratic behavior.” Sometimes, though, tenants still don’t get the help they need. One man requested an ambulance and was checked out by EMTs who then left. He asked a resident to take him to the hospital, where he died. No investigation followed. “It’s a hard topic to talk about, without having the feeling behind it,” Grenko said, succumbing to tears. Complaints by residents of being treated unfairly or abusively by the same services they call for help upsets staff, she said, who “call them out,” when they learn of such behavior. Grenko said, “I don’t want someone in that position to make our tenants feel less respected.” At meetings with first responders, they in turn

After Oryall got out of prison, she eventually returned to Palmer Court, Vonnie Johnson said, but to a different apartment from the man raising her child. When she got her Social Security check, hangers-on would converge on her room, throw food and other matter on the floor. “People in there take advantage of the weak and Jennifer was weak,” Vonnie Johnson said. “They’d go up there and sit in her room till all her money was gone and then have nothing to do with her.” Salt Lake City Councilman and longtime social worker Andrew Johnston said it’s difficult to understand the isolation of the homeless. “It’s not just drug and alcohol abuse. It’s a symptom of needing other things; it’s a profound isolation experience. It’s hard to convey that to folks who see them on the street or in apartments, just how hard it is to have lost touch with family and friends.” Jennifer Oryall with her third daughter.

express their frustrations with time-wasting calls or duplicitous efforts by residents to get free rides to the hospital or secure drugs.

HANGERS-ON The family of Jennifer Oryall are well known to homeless advocates, The Road Home and Palmer Court. “We have worked with the Oryall family for many years; their particular struggles have been addressed with great care and concern,” Olsen wrote in an email. Jennifer’s mother, Vonnie Johnson, said she and her children have struggled with issues including victimization by pedophiles, mental illness, alcoholism and substance abuse, trauma and homelessness. None more so than her second daughter Jennifer. Jennifer Oryall would get upset with people staring at her in the street or in stores. “What are you staring at?” she’d shout, followed by a string of expletives. She struggled with paranoia, convinced people were following her, trying to hurt her. “At first I believed her, then I realized it was her mental illness,” sister Jodie Johnson said. Johnson is 38 and HIV-positive. “She’d get mad at me when I was not doing something. She’d call me every name in the book, including ‘AIDS-infested whore.’ I had to learn it was not her talking to me, it was her illness, I guess.” Judge Baxter said he misses Oryall and huddles over a reporter’s iPhone to look at photographs provided by her family. He recalls her as “a loud character, who might prove a little scary if you encountered her on the street.” Even when she appeared before him in Homeless Court, he recalls, she would come up to hug him. Her sister said Oryall was schizophrenic and had a mental age of 9-13. She got an apartment in Palmer Court in 2010, when she was pregnant with her third daughter, but ended up going to prison on an assault charge in March 2011. She gave temporary custody of the baby to the man she thought was the father, who was staying at her apartment. (A subsequent DNA test revealed the father was unknown).

BROKEN WINGS Eight months after moving back in, Oryall was evicted. “You have been very disruptive to the enjoyment of other residents’ homes (screaming and yelling in the lobby and hallways even after being asked to stop on several occasions), threatening staff members and verbally abusing staff members and residents,” the court-filed notice dated July 30, 2015, stated. She called her sister in tears. “I got evicted. Where am I going to go now?” Oryall, who suffered from heart disease, went back to meth. “She went downhill from there, she let it all go, she didn’t care anymore,” Jodie Johnson said. Volunteers of America thought they found a place for her before Thanksgiving 2015, but the property owner belittled her because of her appearance and behavior. “She told her she couldn’t have it just by the way she looked,” Vonnie Johnson said. When Oryall came to see her mother that Thanksgiving, “her heart was broken. It was just like they broke her wings. ‘I don’t know why they won’t let me live there,’ she told me. ‘Do I look OK?’” The last three days of her life, Oryall slept on the floor in her sister’s house. She told her sister, Jodie Johnson recalls, “’I’m dying, what do I do?’ What do you say to that?” Doctors gave her morphine, making her comfortable in her last hours at the Salt Lake Regional Medical Center one late night in early January 2016. Oryall was 33 years old. Oryall “wanted to be clean. She didn’t want to die,” her sister said. “She was living in fear she wasn’t wanted or needed.”

A PREFERABLE DEATH Fifty-two Palmer Court residents have died, most on the premises, since it opened in 2009, said Road Home’s Olsen. The annual candlelight vigil for the dead homeless last winter revealed 97 homeless people died in 2015. This year, thus far, according to Fourth Street Clinic, 60 have died, of whom 29 were housed, nine of them in Palmer Court. Salt Lake City Councilman Johnston frames such deaths as positive compared to the alternaBOISE WEEKLY.COM

tive. “They died in housing, you lived in a place, had a permanent address, people knew when you passed away. Instead of finding them by the river in a snow bank with no ID.” In mid-September 2016, the man who raised Oryall’s third child died at Palmer Court of a drug overdose. He raised the toddler for several years, but the state eventually took her away from him after he overdosed, and Oryall’s mother, Vonnie Johnson got the child to raise. Four months after Jennifer died, Vonnie Johnson learned she had cancer in 60 percent of her bones. She’s currently raising four grandchildren, two by Oryall, two from her son who also has mental health issues. Vonnie Johnson will shortly undergo a stem-cell transplant, which she hopes will allow her to care for her grandchildren into their teenage years. During an interview with a reporter, Oryall’s third child came home from childcare. Vonnie Johnson hadn’t told her that her father is dead. As with Oryall, she talks about him in the present tense. “I think this one knows more than anything,” she said about her granddaughter regarding Palmer Court. When the girl was in her supposed father’s care, he would tie her to him. When Vonnie Johnson asks the child where he tied the string, the girl touches her wrist. And where did he tie the string to him? Again she touches her wrist. Her father would pass out from drug usage and the child would crawl in a circle around his bed looking for food. After Vonnie Johnson got custody of her, she found her one day “scarfing” wet cat food out of a tin.

A LIFE OF TINY ROOMS Palmer Court evicts on three grounds: drug manufacturing and dealing (if they have sufficient evidence), violence and a third, more general rule, that covers “any type of behavior that threatens the health and safety and wellbeing of other people that live in the building,” Grenko said. “The Jennifers, the Ambers, they’re rare,” case management director Bowers said. “More of the folks that get evicted are predatory, violent, taking advantage of folks that live here.” Palmer Court is slow to evict, Olsen said, in part because people they kick out only have the Road Home to turn to, because, with a less than 3 percent vacancy rate in Salt Lake County, finding any available property is extremely difficult. When it came to evicting Neves, Palmer Court staff worked with her for a year, trying to address her hoarding issues. “Her personal health and safety was, and still is, paramount to our staff,” Olsen said. Palmer Court even hired a cleaning company, but still, “at one stage, the unit was so uninhabitable that Amber no longer slept there.” She moved to another unit while the first was sprayed and cleaned, but both units ended up “cluttered and uninhabitable.” When Neves was evicted, her case manager told her to go to the shelter, where she could get a long-term-stay bed, if one was available. Otherwise she would end up in the overflow beds. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

Once someone is evicted from Palmer Court, case management ceases. Prior to the individual leaving, Olsen said the shelter is notified, and if that individual, like Neves, doesn’t go to the shelter, then VOA’s Homeless Outreach team “can provide services geared toward housing.” She said, “We aim to catch individuals that might otherwise fall through cracks in the system.” Through the summer, things only got worse for Neves. For a while, several people hid her in different apartments, but after she fell asleep in one tenant’s shower, flooding the place out, she was removed to the street. Neves was briefly hospitalized after she vomited blood at a dollar store. After she was released, she went to a storage facility in West Valley City and sat in a chair by the gate for 24 hours, waiting for someone to help her open the gate, only to suffer severe sunburn. By the end of September, a social worker had visited her at a motel on 3500 South, Rehburg said, and got her food and clothing. But by then, Rehburg was at his wits end. Her constant demands night and day were wearing thin. “This is killing me,” he said. Neves said she trusts no one and worries that her friends are trying to sabotage her. “I kind of get stuck in these tiny rooms,” she said.

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ALONE ON A DAWN-LIT STREET At both the national and state level, Olsen said, “mental health systems prioritize community care and inpatient treatment is scarce and hard to access.” To get someone “pink-sheeted” for a short-term-stay bed is one thing, to get them “white-sheeted” for a long-term-stay another because of a huge waiting list. “If we had that sixmonth time frame, where we could meet them at the hospital when they’re released, we’d have a chance,” Olsen said. “Without that chance, we’re stuck; we’re so stuck.” Olsen argues that Palmer Court, despite its flaws, is very much a success. “The families, the individuals that moved in here, even those that died, had their dignity restored, treated well, community around them cared about them and maybe that’s not something they had before. To us, that is a success.” Quite what success is for Neves, however, is difficult to tell. Her former case manager, Olsen said, recently reminded her she needed to schedule a meeting in October and negotiate returning. Staff at Palmer Court “care deeply for Amber and will continue to support her as long as she requires and through as many housing opportunities as it takes,” Olsen said. Problems for Neves, however, continue to push her back to the street. At 5:37 a.m. on an early October morning, Neves left a voicemail on a reporter’s phone. “Hi, it’s Amber. I’ve been outside Motel 6 all night long.” She said her reservation hasn’t been paid and her phone’s dying. “If you know of anybody who can help me, please let me know or send them my way. OK. Thank you.”

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY 14 EVENTS Festivals & Events BOISE BREWING ANNIVERSARY PARTY— Boise Brewing celebrates its one-year anniversary with a night of comedy, featuring Kenny Wait, Brett Badostain and special guests. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Boise Brewing Co., 521 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-342-7655, boisebrewing.com. CREATE COMMON GOOD OPEN HOUSE— Explore the CCG kitchen and training facilities, with beer from Sockeye Brewing and light hors d’oeuvres prepared by CCG trainees. Enter to win two tickets to a CCG’s Supperclub event. RSVP to Erin McCandless at erin@createcommongood.org. 5-7 p.m. FREE. Create Common Good Kitchen, 2513 S. Federal Way, Boise, 208258-6800, createcommongood.org.

MATTER SPLATTER—Explore materials used to produce advanced technology, including ferroﬂuids, biomimicry and slime. In the Splatter Zone, kids can play co-sponsored by the Micron Foundation, Idaho STEM Action Center, and Boise State. Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $7-$10. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, dcidaho.org. WINTER GARDEN AGLOW— Idaho Botanical Garden marks 20 years of Winter Garden aGlow with 300,000 bulbs illuminating displays, model trains, live music and surprise visits from the likes of Prancer and Santa Claus. Through Jan. 1, 2017, 6-9 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-3438649. idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage BCT: A NIGHTTIME SURVIVAL GUIDE—Verne, an 11-year-old Idaho boy is afraid of the dark. Aki hates her new home in rural Japan. They’re united by a shared

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mystery in this adventure of friendship, hope and imagination—and monsters. Appropriate for ages 6 and up. Through Dec. 17. 8 p.m. $16-$34. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org. BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE—This classic will have you running down Main Street yelling “Merry Christmas” to anyone who will listen. 7 p.m. $9 online, $11 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, boiseclassicmovies.com. COMEDY OPEN MIC—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise. com. ‘LIGHTS! CAMERA! MURDER!’ MURDER MYSTERY DINNER SHOW—Enjoy dinner to die for and help solve a murder. VIP seating reserved for diners. Continues Dec. 20-21 and Dec. 27-28. Dinner 6:30 p.m., show 7:30 p.m. $20-$40. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-779-0092, playhouseboise.com.

CULTURA AND TAMALES TRAINING—Two-day workshop provides an overview of Latino culture and tamale lessons. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $25. Univ. of Idaho Ada County Extension, 5880 Glenwood St., 208-287-5900, uidaho.edu.

STEPHANIE WILDE: PARAMNESIA—Wilde’s ﬁrst solo exhibition in Boise since 2010 includes works from “The Golden Bee” project, exploring the disappearance of the Western Honeybee. WednesdaysSaturdays, Noon-4 p.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-433-0593, stewartgallery.com.

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MING STUDIOS: HOLDING WHAT CAN’T BE HELD—Ming Studios and the Snake River Alliance present this group exhibition featuring contemplations of the radioactive clean-up sites at Idaho National Laboratory. Participating artists: Daniel Peltz, Amy O’Brien, Chad Erpelding, Sissi Westerberg, Eric Mullis, Kelly Cox, John Shinn, and Tim Andreae. Through Feb. 4. Tuesdays-Thursdays, 3-7 p.m. FREE. MING Studios, 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-949-4365, mingstudios. org.

STRESS OUT STRETCH YOGA— Stretch out your stress at Zen Riot. Take a mat and water. 6 p.m., by donation. Zen Riot Yoga and Wellness Studio, 1524 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-557-9102, zenriotstudio.com.

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Kids & Teens SANTA’S MAILBOX—Through Dec. 18, drop letters to Santa in Santa’s Mailbox located outside Meridian City Hall’s outdoor plaza. Make sure the return address is legible,

so Santa can send a personalized response. Through Dec. 18, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208-888-4433. meridiancity.org/ christmas. VIDEO GAME CHALLENGE—Open play on Wii and X-Box for ages 8 and up. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Victory Branch, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208362-0181. adalib.org.

Odds & Ends BOISE BICYCLE PROJECT BIKE AND PARTS PROGRESSIVE SALE—Used bikes and parts will be 15 percent, 25 percent and 50 percent off Dec. 14, 15 and 16 respectively. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., Boise, 208-429-6520, boisebicycleproject.org. CHRISTMAS LIGHT HELICOPTER TOURS—Behold the Treasure Valley’s Christmas lights from above. Wednesdays-Sundays, 6-10 p.m. Continues through Jan. 1. $150

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Dancing mice and sugar plum fairies ﬁrst graced the holiday stage more than a century ago, when the Moscow Imperial Theater debuted Tchaikovsky’s now iconic Nutcracker ballet the week before Christmas 1892. The work was a hit but, as history would have it, the rest of the show was met with a lukewarm reception. Since the 1960’s, however, The Nutcracker has been a holiday favorite for North Americans. Catch Ballet Idaho’s performance of The Nutcracker, with accompaniment from the Boise Philharmonic, the weekend before Christmas at the Morrison Center. More than 100 kids from the Ballet Idaho Academy will dance in this year’s performance, three of whom we feature in this week’s Citizen (see Page 21). Fri., Dec. 16, 8 p.m.; Sat., Dec. 17, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sun., Dec. 18, Noon and 4 p.m.; $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 W. Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1110, balletidaho.org.

Starving for some non-screen kids’ entertainment? Perhaps some holiday treats that aren’t loaded with sugar? Parents, you’re in for a treat. Local nutritional therapist Kendy Radasky, who hosts classes around the valley, is teaching a “Holiday Treats with a Healthy Twist” class at the Boise Co-op just in time for the holidays. Sensitive to sugars, Radasky specializes in recipes that minimize triggering foods like gluten, grain and dairy. In the class, kids will learn to use honey and natural sweeteners to make goodies like candy cane coconut milk cocoa, paleo cranberry bars and chocolatestriped clementines. Adults get free tastes when they bring their kids to class. Consider the class a training ground for the little elves: afterward, they’re practically obligated to help out with the holiday cooking. RSVP in advance. 10:30 a.m.-11:45 a.m., $12-$15. Boise Co-op at The Village, 2350 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, www.boise.coop/events.

Gear up for the spectacle of hundreds of Santas and kitschclad holiday enthusiasts running through the streets. The Ugly Sweater 5K is a fundraiser for the Canyon Track Club in Caldwell, with proceeds benefiting athletic training for local youth. Don your Santa suit for the Ho Ho Ho Hustle with a 5K, 10K or halfmarathon. If your favorite Christmas outfit doesn’t fit either of those categories, sign up for the YMCA’s one-, two- or six-mile runs and Christmas costume contest instead. Ugly Sweater 5K: Sat., Dec 17, 9:30 a.m.-11:30 p.m; $38. Whittenberger Park, Caldwell, runsignup.com/Race/ID/Caldwell/ UglySweater. YMCA Christmas Run: Sat., Dec. 17., 9:30 a.m.; $25-$35. Boise High School, 1010 W. Washington St., ymcatvidaho.org. Ho Ho Ho Hustle: Sun., Dec. 18; half-marathon, 1 p.m.; 10K, 1:15 p.m.; 5K, 1:30 p.m.; $35-$60. Julia Davis Park, 700 W. Capitol Blvd., hohohohustle.com.

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CALENDAR and up. Silverhawk Aviation, 4505 Aviation Way, Caldwell, 208-4538577, silverhawkaviation.net. DOWNTOWN NAMPA BUSINESS GINGERBREAD HOUSE CONTEST—Through Dec. 23, vote for your favorite gingerbread house and be entered to win a gift certiﬁcate from participating businesses. Mondays-Fridays, 6:30 a.m.-11 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208467-5533, ﬂyingmcoffee.com. HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—Hop aboard vintage Molly Trolley for a one-hour Holiday Lights Tour. Through Dec. 28. Times and space availability vary. Through Dec. 17. 6-8 p.m. $5-$18. Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, corner of Cole and Ustick, Boise. 208-433-0849. boisetrolleytours.com

Animals & Pets BOISE PARKS SEASONAL OFFLEASH AREAS OPEN—Off-leash areas are now open in Boise’s Ann

Morrison, Optimist Youth Sports Complex and Esther Simplot parks, sunrise to sunset, with the exception of the Greenbelt, parking lots, roadways and playgrounds. FREE. 208-608-7600, parks.cityofboise. org/parks-locations/dogs-off-leashparksareas.

Food RAMEN POP-UP 3—Woodland Empire Ale Craft, Manfred’s Kitchen and a Guy Named Dave present the third and ﬁnal 2016 ramen pop-up, three specially brewed craft ales. 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. seatings, space is limited. Woodland Empire Ale Craft, 1114 W. Front St., woodlandempire. com.

THURSDAY 15 EVENTS Festivals & Events

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IOGA OUTDOOR FUNDRAISER— Join the Idaho Outﬁtters and Guides Association for its Outdoor Fundraiser. Live auction items include sleigh ride and elk feeding in Garden Valley, Salmon River jet boat trip, Argentina dove hunt, safari in South Africa and more. Live music by Hobo Jim, Alaska’s state balladeer. 5:30-10 p.m. $55. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City. 208-342-1438, ioga.org.

On Stage ALLEY REP: DISENCHANTED!—In this off-Broadway favorite by Dennis T. Giacino, Snow White and her sisterhood of women are sick of popculture princess tales and reclaim their stories through songs like “Big Tits” and “All I Want To Do is Eat (Haagen-Dazs).” Through Dec. 17. 8 p.m. $15-$20. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297. alleyrep.org. COMEDIAN GABRIEL RUTLEDGE—Through Dec. 18. 8 p.m. $10-$12. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com. COMEDY OPEN MIC— 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com. MARCHFOURTH AND RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW—Enjoy a kaleidoscope of musical and visual energy and contemporary vaudevillian cabaret featuring circus arts, clowning, acrobatics, aerial arts and comedy. 8 p.m. $22 adv., $27 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net. STAGE COACH: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—A cast of 10 play more than 40 parts. 7:30 p.m. $12-$15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com. TRADITIONS OF CHRISTMAS— Christmas classics brought to life with song and dance. Through Dec. 23, times vary. $20-$35. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., 208-468-5555. traditionsofchristmasnw.com.

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Citizen STAR OF BETHLEHEM Whether you’re into science, faith or both, the Star of Bethlehem show at the T.C. Bird Planetarium is a sight to see. A Boise area tradition since 1969, the annual show has always been put on by 47-year planetarium veteran Tom Campbell, who recreates the night sky 2,000 years ago when the legendary “star” of Bethlehem would have shone. Was it really a star? Who were those wise men? What are the latest advances in space travel and knowledge? Get these answers and more at the show. Despite its long run, the show is changed up a bit every year. The planetarium inside Capital High School has limited seating, so anyone interested in booking seats on this space-time adventure should call in advance. (Take note: no children younger than school age will be admitted.) Shows at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. daily, $2-$4. T.C. Bird Planetarium, 8055 Goddard Road, 208-854-4502. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

NONPROFIT RESOURCE THURSDAYS—The Idaho Nonproﬁt Center invites nonproﬁt leaders, staffers and volunteers to learn about free and low-cost resources. 4-6 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-9728200. boisepubliclibrary.org.

Kids & Teens ANIME/FANDOM DAY FOR TEENS—Eat snacks, nerd out over movies and TV, and make custom pins. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Lake Hazel, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org/lakehazel.

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CALENDAR DO YOU WANT TO BE A SNOWMAN?—Take the kids for an evening of snowman-themed activities and crafts, including a scavenger hunt, relay race, a hot chocolate bar and more. For all ages. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Lake Hazel, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org/lakehazel.

NPL BOARD GAME NIGHT—Take your own games or play some of the library’s. No registration or library card required. For all ages. 4-6:30 p.m. FREE. Nampa Public Library, 215 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-468-5800. nampalibrary.org/ calendar.

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TRIVIA WITH MATT—7:30 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon, 12505 Chin-

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NOISE/CD REVIEW RED FANG, ONLY GHOSTS In 2012, Portland, Ore.-based Red Fang swung through Neurolux behind its most recent release, Murder the Mountains (Relapse Records, 2011), leaving an overflow audience sweaty and euphoric. Then, as now, it’s full of seasoned performers who know how to whip up a crowd of moshers. The band returns Thursday, Dec. 15, to Neurolux, this time on the heels of its fourth studio release, Only Ghosts (Relapse Records, 2016). The show is sure to be as ecstatic and muggy as the last, but beyond an excuse to thrash on Neurolux’s linoleum floor, Only Ghosts is a mature album threading the needle between listenability and energy in a way few metal albums do. If Red Fang has a sonic virtue, it’s “coherence.” Vocalists Bryan Giles and Aaron Beam don’t scream so much as they howl and call. Giles’ driving, melodic voice finds its counterpoint in Beam’s savage groans on tracks like “Flies” and “The Deep,” but not unerringly. In the Black Sabbath-esque “No Air,” Beam grumbles through the noise of scratching guitars, “How did I end up here? / Watch my soul disappear / Down a hole.” While the lyrics and sonic diffusion are fitting, they don’t add up to one of the album’s finer tracks. Guitarist David Sullivan’s opening riffs and beats by John Sherman give Only Ghosts an audible depth of influence. The sounds of Queens of the Stone Age are woven into the DNA of tracks like “Shadows” and “Cut it Short.” Elsewhere can be heard echoes of Sabbath and Big Four bands like Metallica and Anthrax. Only Ghosts is nevertheless a powerful statement for Red Fang’s sound. Across the arc of the album, Sherman’s drums leap ahead of the melody (“Cut it Short”) or drag along behind it (“The Smell of the Sound”). When he’s not howling lyrics from the beyond, Beam plays the bass guitar like he’s trying to find just the right combination of frequencies to start an avalanche. Though at times the instruments sound like they’re trying to escape the hands of tormentors, they swing back around to harmony. At the end of the 2012 show in Boise, Red Fang members turned their phones on the audience, snapping pictures of a crowd snapping pictures back at them. It was a moment of appreciation and recognition. The band has long had a grasp on who its fans are, trading an endless stream of energy into devotion. With Only Ghosts, Red Fang has an album that sounds as vital and invigorating over headphones as it does onstage. —Harrison Berry 14 c DECEMBER 14–20, 2016 c BOISEweekly

FRIDAY 16 EVENTS WINTER WONDERLAND—Start a family tradition with the inaugural Twin Oaks Farms Winter Wonderland. Fridays through Dec. 30. 4-11 p.m. $12. Twin Oaks Farms, 4000 N. Eagle Road, Eagle, 208-939-6373. idahoswinterwonderland.com.

On Stage ALL IS CALM: THE CHRISTMAS TRUCE OF 1914—On the ﬁrst Christmas of World War I, soldiers from both sides came out of their trenches and celebrated the holiday together. This a cappella musical explores the event through the letters and songs of the men who were there. 7:30 p.m. $10. Northwest Nazarene University, 550 Holly St., Nampa. home.encoreetc.org. BALLET IDAHO: THE NUTCRACKER—Ballet Idaho continues the beloved holiday tradition of the timeless family classic, The Nutcracker, returning with live music by the Boise Philharmonic. 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261110. balletidaho.org. BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: BOYS IN TOYLAND—This year’s concert begins at home, showing how special the holidays in Boise can be, then whisks away to Toyland with a ride on Santa’s sleigh. Social hour 6:30 p.m., with beer and wine available for purchase; show 7:30 p.m. Through Dec. 17. $10-$25. Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy, 516 S. Ninth St., 208-345-9116. boisemenschorus.org. DREAMWEAVER MUSICAL THEATRE: YES, VIRGINIA THE MUSICAL—It’s 1897 in New York City, and 8-year-old Virginia O’Hanlon has always loved Christmas. Then one day, her classmates ask, “Is there a Santa Claus?” sending Viriginia on a mission for the truth. The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-459-3405 or 208-454-1376. dreamweavermusicaltheatre.org. IRISH DANCE IDAHO: CELTIC CHRISTMAS—In this 10th annual Holiday Irish Step Extravaganza, Celtic Christmas, IDI dancers will perform traditional dances more than 100 years old as well as pieces exclusive to Irish Dance Idaho. Special guest musicians: Eddie (bagpipes) and Caleb (violin and ﬁddle) Hart. 7 p.m. $17. Boise State Special Events Center, 1800 University Drive, Boise. irishdanceidaho.com.

IT’S A FRIM FRAM FOUR CHRISTMAS—Get in the spirit with Frim Fram Four’s inaugural event. Every ticket buyer gets a free It’s a Frim Fram Four Christmas CD. Special guests: Emily Braden, Amy Rose, Nicole Christensen Pettinger and Billy Braun. 7:30 p.m. $15-$20 adv., $20-$25 door. Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, sapphireboise.com.

Calls to Artists DAISY’S MADHOUSE WILL ACT 4 FOOD—This annual short-play festival beneﬁts the Idaho Foodbank. Daisy’s is looking for 38 actors, seven writers, and seven director/ stage manager teams. Online registration open now through Dec. 27 or until full. The performance is Jan. 28 at Boise Little Theater. $15. daisysmadhouse.org.

Literature LITERATURE FOR LUNCH—On the theme of “King Lear and his daughters,” this month’s book is Fool by Christopher Moore. Books are 10 percent off at Rediscovered Books and 25 percent off at the Boise State Bookstore. 12:10 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-9728200, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Kids & Teens SPLASH-N-DASH—Parents, enjoy a Friday evening while the Rec Center entertains your children. Certiﬁed lifeguard and lesson staff will be in the water supervising and playing water games. Registration required, children must be potty trained. For ages 3-12. 5:45-9:45 p.m. $13-$18. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

SATURDAY 17 EVENTS Festivals & Events BOISE FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Boise Farmers Market Indoor Winter Market, 516 S. 8th Street, Boise, 208-3459287. facebook.com/TheBoiseFarmersMarket. 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. CITY SANTA—Children can tell Santa their Christmas wishes. Donations beneﬁt the Women’s and Children’s Alliance. 10 a.m.-3 p.m. By donation. D.L. Evans Bank, 890 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-1399. downtownboise.org. MODEL RAILROAD HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE—Join the Old Boise N Scale Model Railroad Club to see a variety of model trains, including special Christmas trains. Saturdays through Dec. 31. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. By donation. The Pioneer Building, 106 N. Sixth St., Boise. facebook. com/oldboiserailroad. NPL STAR WARS DAY—Celebrate

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, with a day of excitement, adventure, activities, games, crafts, costume contests and more. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Nampa Public Library, 215 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-4685800. nampalibrary.org. RUMI NIGHT—Celebrate the 13th century Persian poet with poetry, conversation, Persian desserts and tea. 2 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-9728200, boisepubliclibrary.org. IDAHO VETERANS CEMETERY: WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA DAY—WWA is a national nonproﬁt celebrating its 25th year of placing fresh evergreen memorial wreaths to remember our nation’s veterans. In Boise, WWA Day will be celebrated regardless of weather, and the public is invited to attend the brief outdoor ceremony. 10 a.m. FREE. Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, 10100 Horseshoe Bend Road, Boise, 208-780-1340. wreathsacrossamerica.org.

On Stage BALLET IDAHO: THE NUTCRACKER—Ballet Idaho continues the beloved holiday tradition of the timeless family classic, The Nut-

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Odds & Ends ANNUAL SALSA DANCING— Dance to Latin music from the best local DJs. Beginner lessons 8:30-9:30 p.m.; open dancing until 1 a.m. 8:30 p.m.-2 a.m. $5-$8. Ochos Boise, 515 W. Idaho St., Boise, tangoboise.com/ochos. UP MAKERSPACE OPENING CELEBRATION—Join UP MakerSpace to celebrate its grand opening, check out workspace and equipment, enter to win prizes including memberships, meet other makers/ creatives and take advantage of half-price membership rates. 6-10 p.m. FREE. UP MakerSpace, 4688 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City. 208-488-1173. facebook.com/ upmakerspace.

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CALENDAR cracker, returning with live music by the Boise Philharmonic. 2 and 8 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box ofﬁce: 208-426-1110. balletidaho.org/performances/ the-nutcracker.

24. 11 a.m. & 3 p.m. $5. Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-287-8828. treasurevalleychildrenstheater.com.

BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: CHRISTMAS VACATION—It’s a Christmas to remember when Clark Griswold reaches a breaking point only SWAT can diffuse. The 6 p.m. show is for all ages; 9:15 p.m. show for 21 and older. $9 online, $11 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273. boiseclassicmovies.com/deals.

FALUN DAFA GROUP PRACTICE— Learn the ﬁve gentle exercises of Falun Dafa, an ancient self-cultivation practice based on truthfulness, compassion and tolerance. 10 a.m.-noon. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-972-8200. falundafa.org.

DROP AND SHOP—Drop the kids at the Rec Center while you ﬁnish up your last-minute shopping. Advance registration suggested; $5 late fee after 7 p.m. For ages 5-12. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $17-$19. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

LITTLE SKI HILL RAIL JAM— Compete on a course of snow and metal, with prizes from Deft Optics, Proof Eye Wear, Eco Lounge Freeride, Prestige Skateshop and Unhly Supply. 4-7:30 p.m. FREE to watch, $10 to compete. Little Ski Hill, 3635 Idaho 55, McCall, 208634-5691, littleskihill.org.

HOLIDAY GIFT-MAKING: GLASS PAINTING—Join Back Gate Studio to create a unique keepsake gift. All materials provided, all ages welcome. 3-5 p.m. $8 and up. Dry Creek Mercantile, 5892 W. Hidden Springs Road, Boise. 818-4892272, facebook.com/BackGateStudioBoise.

YMCA CHRISTMAS RUN—Join the YMCA for the Christmas Run presented by Saint Alphonsus, which starts and ﬁnishes at Boise High School. Pick up your packet on Dec 16, 5-8 p.m. Dec. 17, starting at the Boise High cafeteria. 8:30 a.m. $25-$35. Boise High School,

TOYS FOR TOTS SANTA BREAKFAST—Enjoy all-you-can-eat pancakes, sausage, juice and coffee. Take a new, unwrapped gift for Toys for Tots to help kids in need. 9 a.m.-noon. FREE-$9. BanBury Golf Course, 2626 N. Marypost Place, Eagle, 208-939-3600, banburygolf. com.

THE ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: BEATLES CHRISTMAS—Rooftop Revolution is back again by popular demand. 7:30 p.m. $10-$15 adv., $15-$20 door. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, sapphireboise.com. TREASURE VALLEY CHILDREN’S THEATER: LITTLE WOMEN—Join Treasure Valley Children’s Theater for this one-hour stage adaptation of the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott, adapted by Jacqueline Goldﬁnger. Saturdays through Dec.

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SERENATA ORCHESTRA: SING ALONG PLAY ALONG MESSIAH— Join the orchestra and play along, or be part of the choir and sing all your favorite choruses. This year’s beneﬁciary is the Boise Schools Instrument Fund, 6 p.m. By donation. Summit Church, 10375 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-3754031. boiseserenata.com.

Odds & Ends ARTISANS FOR HOPE HOLIDAY SALES EVENT—Find handmade goods by the refugee artisans of Artisans For Hope, who earn 75 percent of the purchase price for each product they make and sell. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Artisans for Hope, 723 N. 15th St., Boise. 208477-8828, artisansforhope.org. RED HOT HOLIDAY SALSA PARTY—With DJ Giovanni. Ages 18 and older. 9 p.m. $6-$12. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

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SUNDAY 18 EVENTS Festivals & Events BOISE DEPOT HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE—Enjoy the elegance of the 91-year-old Spanish mission-style building during a Toys for Tots toy drive and holiday open house. Mondays, Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Continues through Jan. 9. FREE. Boise Train Depot, 2603 W. Eastover Terrace, Boise, parks. cityofboise.org.

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CALENDAR On Stage BALLET IDAHO: THE NUTCRACKER—Ballet Idaho continues the beloved holiday tradition of the timeless family classic, The Nutcracker, returning with live music by the Boise Philharmonic. Noon & 4 p.m. $38-$58. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box ofﬁce: 208-426-1110. balletidaho.org/performances/ the-nutcracker. “The Reef Cabaret” presents Boise band “Deviant Kin” a blend of bluegrass, Cajun, Celtic and Cuban sounds.

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BCT HOLIDAY CHILDREN’S READING SERIES: THE CHRISTMAS INTERLUDES—Enjoy a performance of Stubby Pringle’s Christmas, based on the beloved children’s story by Western author Jack Schaefer, and A Child’s Christmas in Wales by poet Dylan Thomas. Through Dec. 19. 2 p.m. $8-$12. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208331-9224, bctheater.org. THE CHRISTMAS INTERLUDES: A CHRISTMAS CAROL—Charles Dickens‘ beloved Christmas ghost story with music, bells and carolling. 4:30 p.m. $12. The Mode Lounge, 800 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-342-6633. christmasinterludes.com.

MONDAY 19 EVENTS On Stage ARTISTIC DANCE COMPANY: ONCE UPON A TIME— 6:30 p.m. $11. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccenter.com.

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Odds & Ends DIY GIFT WRAPPING STATION— The library’s DIY gift-wrapping station provides holiday wrapping materials, hot cocoa, and cookies. Just take your gifts. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-972-8200. boisepubliclibrary.org/calendar.

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music and traditions. 7:30 p.m. $30-$65. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, box ofﬁce: 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com. COMIC CINEMA REMIX: HOME ALONE—Comic Cinema Remix is back for the ﬁnal show of 2016: Home Alone. For ages 21 and older. 7 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297. facebook.com/ events/1467113553306759. INSERT FOOT THEATER’S IMPROV JAM— 8 p.m. $10. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

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CRAVIN’S CANDY EMPORIUM AND WINTER GARDEN AGLOW TOUR—Take a tour of Cravin’s Candy Emporium followed by a visit to the Idaho Botanical Garden Winter Garden aGlow. Includes transportation, tour, candy, admission to the Garden and dinner. Depart from and return to Nampa Rec Center. 4-9 p.m. $25. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitution Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, nampaparksandrecreation.org.

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

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Odds & Ends LIVE TRIVIA WITH LAST CALL— 7 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208467-5533, ﬂyingmcoffee.com.

BROADWAY IN BOISE: CIRQUE DREAMS HOLIDAZE—This circus-like stage spectacular features ornaments, costumes and acrobatics that celebrate holiday themes,

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POETRY SLAM— 7 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe, 225 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-429-1911, thehighnotecafe. com.

Sports & Fitness IDAHO POTATO BOWLING TOURNAMENT—Watch the two teams playing in the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl compete in a bowling tournament to beneﬁt the Idaho Foodbank. 5:30-7 p.m. FREE. Wahooz Fun Zone and Pinz Bowling Center, 400 W. Overland Road, Meridian, 208-898-0900, wahoozfunzone.com.

Citizen WRAP-WINE-DONATE—For each donated nonperishable food item for the Idaho Foodbank, Coiled Wines will wrap your holiday gifts— using your wrapping, ribbons and bows—while you relax and enjoy a glass of wine. 2-5 p.m. Overheard something Eye-spy worthy? E-mail production@boiseweekly.com

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FRIDAY DEC. 16

ARC IRIS—With Sun Blood Stories and Spiritual Warfare. 7 p.m. $7. Neurolux

CINDER THURSDAY NIGHT LIVE—BFD: Bud Gudmundson, Fonny Davidson, Divit Cardoza. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Cinder Winery and Tasting Room

ANDREW SHEPPARD BAND— 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon,

DEVIANT KIN—8 p.m. FREE. Reef

RED FANG, WITH TORCHE AND WHORES, DEC. 15, NEUROLUX October 16 is Defender of Ukraine Day. It’s also the anniversary of the Battle of Bristoe Station in the American Civil War and the ﬁlming of Roundhay Garden Scene—the earliest surviving motion picture. Add to that the release of stoner metal band Red Fang’s latest album, Only Ghosts (Relapse Records, October 2016). The Portland, Ore.-based band’s fourth studio release is a warm pillow of sound, with tracks blending together to create a smooth—but still deﬁnitely metal—sonic experience a la Them Crooked Vultures or Queens of the Stone Age. While a satisfying listen over high-end speakers, there’s a better way to take in Only Ghosts: at Neurolux, where Red Fang will perform with Torche and Whores Thursday, Dec. 15. Rock with them until your ears bleed, then go home and sleep like the dead. —Harrison Berry 7 p.m. $17 adv., $20 door, Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

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FIONA LURAY—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel

Old Dominion OLD DOMINION—With Steve Moakler. 8 p.m. $20-$129. Revolution REILLY COYOTE—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside WARHEAD AND BRAINDEAD— With Alpha Ascension. 8 p.m. $8. Shredder

MARCHFOURTH AND RED LIGHT VARIETY SHOW—MarchFourth is a kaleidoscope of musical and visual energy that inspires dancing in an atmosphere of celebration. The Red Light Variety Show is a contemporary vaudevillian cabaret featuring circus arts, clowning, acrobatics, aerial arts and comedy. 8 p.m. $22 adv., $27 door. Egyptian Theatre MOODY JEWS AND RIPPIN BRASS—8 p.m. $TBA. The Olympic RED FANG—With Torche and Whores. 7 p.m. $17 adv., $20 door. Neurolux RUSS—8:30 p.m. $25-$90. Knitting Factory.

EQUALITY ROCKS—With Jimmy Sinn and the Bastard Kinn, Ben the Drunken Poet, The Jerkwadz, Freedom Machine, and Hot Dog Sandwich with Nate Tate. 8-11:45 p.m. $5. The Olympic

BILLY BRAUN—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel BLISTERED EARTH: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE TO METALLICA— With Defenders of the Faith and Hand Of Doom (Black Sabbath tribute). 8 p.m. $10-$25. Knitting Factory Frim Fram Four

Boise Men’s Chorus BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: BOYS IN TOYLAND—7:30 p.m. $10$25. Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy DEFJAK—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon

IT’S A FRIM FRAM FOUR CHRISTMAS—Every ticket buyer will receive a free It’s a Frim Fram Four Christmas CD. Special guests Emily Braden, Amy Rose, Nicole Christensen Pettinger and Billy Braun. 7:30 p.m. $15-$20 adv., $20-$25 door. Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden JERRY JOSEPH AND THE JACKMORMONS—With Like A Rocket. 8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux THE LIKE ITS—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

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MONDAY DEC. 19

TUESDAY DEC. 20

THE BIG WOW BAND—8:30 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon

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

BRAD, LYLE AND ROGER— 7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: BOYS IN TOYLAND—7:30 p.m. $10$25. Esther Simplot Performing Arts Academy

CLAY MOORE—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel. GAME NIGHT LIVE ROCKIN’ MUSIC BINGO—Play with your friends for great prizes from local vendors. 7-9 p.m. FREE. Slicks Bar

JEREMY PARRISH PRESENTS TRAVELIN’ MILES: ONE MAN SUITCASE BAND— 7 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

OPEN MIC—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Derek Schaible and Ashley Rose DEREK SCHAIBLE AND ASHLEY ROSE—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel.

R.A. THE RUGGED MAN—With A-F-R-O. 9:30 p.m. $10 adv., $15 door. Reef. THE RINGTONES—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon

OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons JERRY JOSEPH AND THE JACKMORMONS—With Bread and Circus. 8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. Neurolux THE MOODY JEWS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon OLD DOGS AND NEW TRIX— 8 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s RED HOT HOLIDAY SALSA PARTY—With DJ Giovanni. For ages 18 and older. 9 p.m. $6$12. Knitting Factory

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EQUALITY ROCKS, DEC. 16, THE OLYMPIC Hot Dog Sandwich lost its State Street headquarters in 2013, but the venerable Boise punk rock band/comic book powerhouse is still very much part of the local scene. Proving you can’t keep a good (hot) dog down, Hot Dog Sandwich has appeared at or presented several special events since it moved to its online home, including Equality Rocks, set for Friday, Dec. 16 at The Olympic. Along with the eponymous Hot Dog, Equality Rocks features a raft of punk, rock and sundry artists “uniting for a night of love and solidarity to honor, celebrate and promote equal rights for the LGBTQ community.” Featuring Jimmy Sinn and the Bastard Kinn, Ben the Drunken Poet, The Jerkwadz, Freedom Machine and Hot Dog Sandwich with Nate Tate, proceeds beneﬁt the Pride Foundation. Hit up this show and you’ll be proud you did. —Zach Hagadone 8-11:45 p.m., $5, 21+. The Olympic, 1009 W. Main St., 208342-0176, theolympicboise.com. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

SCREEN MANCHESTER BY THE SEA: SWEPT AWAY One of the best films of 2016 GEORGE PRENTICE The grief that consumes Lee Chandler—played by surefire Oscar nominee Casey Affleck in the magnificent Manchester By the Sea—isn’t out of proportion. There are no Hollywood-sized waves of melodramatic sorrow crashing over this soulful young man. Rather, Lee quietly accepts his inward melancholy. As a result, his story of sadness never feels abstract or unfamiliar. As the soft-spoken handyman of a small apartment building in the Boston suburb of Quincy, Mass., Lee’s days are defined by shoveling snow, hauling garbage, fixing toilets and shoveling more snow. His subterranean life—he lives in the basement—is a perfect metaphor for his existence. He is jarred awake from his mundane routine one harsh winter day with the news his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler, in flashbacks), has died after a long bout with congestive heart disease. Worse, Lee is summoned to return to his hometown of Manchester in order to take care of his brother’s modest will and testament. The northern Massachusetts fishing community is technically known as Manchester-by-theSea and locals insist they don’t live by “the ocean” or “the water.” It’s always “the sea,” in deference to the pounding surges that carve its rugged shore. Manchester’s weather is equally untamed. One of the first things Lee is reminded of upon his return is that winter is so brutal Manchester’s ground is frozen rock-solid, thus making it impossible to bury the dead until a spring thaw. While Lee waits for winter to fade, he has to weather the

Casey Afﬂeck’s performance as Lee Chandler is a study in quiet, inward melancholy that looks and feels real.

September. “It’s very rare that you’ll have a story cold reality of his once hometown. that is so evocative, so complete, so smart, so well“Say, is that the Lee Chandler?” whispers a written… and even so funny, all at once.” passerby. “The very one,” another answers. Manchester by the Sea has plenty of much-need With that, filmmaker Kenneth Lonergan’s laughs in its Boston-bred authenticity. We’re extraordinary script unwinds Lee’s past, revealing reminded that, in New England, people why he is the loneliest man in aren’t afraid of sharks but are very afraid town—or any town. MANCHESTER BY of “sh-AH-ks.” The best science fiction Manchester is Lonergan’s third THE SEA (R) Written and directed by television show of all time? It wasn’t feature as a director, following Kenneth Lonergan Star Trek, but “St-AH Trek.” The film’s You Can Count on Me in 2000, Starring Casey Afﬂeck, Bostonian roots run deep: Not only which catapulted Mark Ruffalo to Kyle Chandler, Lucas does it star lifelong Red Sox and Patristardom; and 2011’s underappreHedges and Michelle ots fan Casey Affleck (younger brother ciated Margaret. With Manchester Williams to A-list leading man Ben Affleck), by the Sea, which has already been Opens Friday, Dec. 16 but its producer is Massachusetts-born named the Best Film of 2016 by at The Flicks Matt Damon. the National Board of Review, “And while our film may take place Lonergan is receiving the best notices of his career and will almost certainly land near Boston, our story could be anyone’s story. I really think people will have a very personal on the Oscar shortlist for best director. experience when they see this film,” Damon told “Working with Ken Lonergan reminded me BW jahead of the September premiere. “Our film of why I wanted to be an actor in the first place,” Affleck told Boise Weekly before the film’s premiere gets you in touch with a lot of your own stuff, as a lot of very rare, great movies do.” at the Toronto International Film Festival in

SCREEN EXTRA LION: THE CIRCLE OF LIFE The moment the lights came up following the September world premiere of Lion at the Toronto International Film Festival, the audience responded with cheers, applause and tears. Lion, co-starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara and Nicole Kidman, tells the true story of a 5-year-old Indian boy lost on the streets of BOISE WEEKLY.COM

told Boise Weekly at a post-screenCalcutta, who is eventually adopted ing press conference. by a family in Australia and, as an Kidman said adult, makes having adopted his way back LION (PG-13) children of her own to India using Directed by Garth Davis gave her particular Google Earth. Starring Dev Patel, Rooney Mara insight into her “I make so and Nicole Kidman character. many different Opens Friday, Dec. 16 at The Flicks “I can’t tell you ﬁlms, but it’s how much of a joy nice to do it was to to play a mother who just something that can put some goodloves her child,” she said. “To be a ness back into the world,” Kidman

part of something like this film that is so uplifting... well, there’s nothing quite like it.” Lion is one of a bounty of quality films opening in Boise this holiday season and has already been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, including nods for Kidman and Patel. Don’t let this one slip by. —George Prentice

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Das Alpenhaus Delikatessen boasts some of the best wurst Z ACH HAGADONE Native to southern Germany is the concept of brotzeit, or “bread time.” In the late afternoon, people stop what they’re doing and sit down to a hearty snack of meat, cheese, bread and sundry savory side items like pickles, potato salad and sauerkraut. It’s a tradition Americans would do well to adopt. The trouble has always been, of course, cobbling together the right ingredients—or, at least, it was. Say willkommen to Das Alpenhaus Delikatessen, a new Austrian-German-Swiss deli and eatery in Boise, co-owned by Jaime Webster and Gregory Hanson. Located in a mini-mall at 1340 S. Vista Ave., Alpenhaus goes beyond brotzeit, with eats for any occasion. Open since Oct. 10, the space is sparkling clean, well appointed and well lit. Floor-to-ceiling windows providing a view of busy Vista and two large beer garden-style tables hewn from heavy blonde wood lend Alpenhaus a cozy neighborhood feel. During a recent afternoon visit, customers came and went in pairs—picking up fresh-sliced hunks of wursts; blocks of specialty cheese; sausages and fish from the coolers; or grocery items from the ample selection of coffees, candies, condiments and even German-language publications. Speaking of German language, more than half the patrons who came in during our visit spoke it to each other and Webster, which is just about the best recommendation you can get. Step to the deli counter for the real attraction at Alpenhaus: a daily hot lunch special available

Monday-Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., or until German-imported pickle on the side. The sandwich was a robust noontime meal supplies run out. We ordered the schweinand a perfect introduction to Alpenhaus, made shaxe—a massive roast pork knuckle—for $20. It seems steep, but this bone-in ham hock wasn’t all the more so by the inclusion of juniper berries in the kraut. messing around. “Those just give you a little, ‘Hello, mouth. Weighing in at 2 1/2 pounds, the enormous cut of meat from Pennsylvania-based Forest Pork How are you?’”said Webster, the welcoming proprietor, who said he was inspired to open the Products dwarfed the pair of dumplings and deli after a lifetime affinity for German culture pickled red cabbage accompanying it. Digging and food and a long stint living in Thuringia, a into a traditional schweinshaxe (with which region in east-central Germany. visitors to the famous Munich Oktoberfest will With the goal of “bringing a piece of the be familiar) feels a bit like carving a Thanksgivbeloved Alps to the Boise area,” Hanson and ing turkey. Beneath a hard-cooked shell of skin Webster did their homework. The respectable dusted with rock salt, the roasted meat was a wine and beer selection at masterpiece of dense, rich Alpenhaus features dozens flavor and was still juicy as DAS ALPENHAUS DELIKATESSEN of labels, some of which are the next day’s leftovers. The Open Monday-Friday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., available at other markets in sides had their own charm: Saturday 10 a.m.-4 p.m., 1340 S. Vista Ave., 208-426-0773, town, but several that don’t The warm pickled cabbage alpenhausdelillc.com. often make their way from was simultaneously smoky, Europe to the Treasure Valley. sweet and sour, studded with Better yet, Alpenhaus has been hosting a handbits of beautifully blackened bacon. Covered in ful of beer and wine tastings in December, featura light gravy, the dumplings offered a perfect ing bottles from various vendors and samples spongy consistency and were the very definition of its deli offerings. Check the Facebook page of comfort food. (facebook.com/dasalpenhausboise) for events. In addition to hot service, Alpenhaus also ofOn a return trip to Alpenhaus, we ordered a fers a build-your-own sandwich option for $7.99. half-pound of wurst, a half-pound of rauchkase We asked Webster for his recommendation, and (smoked cheese) and loaf of German rye bread were rewarded with hot pastrami and muenster for a Saturday brotzeit every bit as lecker as the cheese on seven-grain bread, with mustard, real thing. warm sauerkraut and chilled cucumbers, and a BOISE WEEKLY.COM

CITIZEN ALLISON KIM Y, EMMA GINEL MORALES AND SOREN SAKADALES Two Claras and a Fritz: The Nutcracker Kids GEORGE PRENTICE

At first glance, Allison Kim y (yes, the “y” is lower-case), Emma Ginel Morales and Soren Sakadales are like millions of other kids: full of life but a little shy. A quick glimpse of their list of accomplishments, however, reveals they’re wonderful dancers. In particular, they’re Ballet Idaho students and cast members of the company’s 2016 production of The Nutcracker, with five performances from Friday, Dec. 16 through Sunday, Dec. 18. In alternating performances, Allison, a sixth-grader at Riverside Elementary School in Boise, and Emma, a seventh-grader at Eagle Middle School, are each playing Clara, the young girl who dreams the Christmas fantasy of a nutcracker that becomes a heroic prince. Soren, an eighth-grader at North Junior High School in Boise, portrays Clara’s older brother, Fritz. With only a few days before the curtain comes up on The Nutcracker, choreographed by Ballet Idaho Artistic Director Peter Anastos and accompanied by the Boise Philharmonic, the trio sat down to talk about their dreams of someday becoming professional dancers and what it’s like bringing visions of sugar plums to life. When did you begin dance lessons? Emma: I was 3. What a minute… what? Emma: Yes, I started classes at Ballet Idaho when I was 3.

Can I assume some of your earliest memories are of dancing here at Ballet Idaho? Emma: My mom took a lot of photographs so that helps me remember back then. Soren: I started here only two years ago. What led you here? Soren: My friend and I had some private lessons and we went to an intensive called Winter Move, but my friend bailed on me because he thought it was all “girly.” One of the teachers at Winter Move noticed me, talked to Ballet Idaho and now I’m here. The three of you are now in the same class? Allison: That’s right, the level five class. Level ﬁve sounds pretty impressive. Allison: You must be 11 years old and at a certain skill level. It’s the start of pre-professional. Emma: It’s every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday, about two hours each. Plus, we take other classes. Can I assume you’ve performed in other Ballet Idaho productions? Emma: I was in The Nutcracker last year, plus Sleeping Beauty. Soren: I was in The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty. Allison: I was in The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Alice In Wonderland.

How intimidating is it to perform in front of so many people? Allison: I don’t concentrate on people watching me. I concentrate on what I’m doing. Emma: I get a little nervous, but that’s normal. Soren: It’s not as nerve-wracking as you might think. The lights are so bright that you can’t see all the people out in the audience. Allison and Emma, you’re both playing Clara. Remind us of who she is. Emma: This is my first time as Clara. I think she’s curious and always moving. Allison: I played Clara in last year’s Nutcracker. She’s creative, happy and, depending on the choreography, changing her moods all the time. She’s less trouble than Fritz. Soren: Yes, Fritz is mischievous. He’s a lot of fun to play. Talk to me about the importance of a dancer staying in shape. Allison: Stretching. A lot of stretching. A do my splits and stretch my ankles, feet, every part of my body. You also have to make yourself strong with push-ups and crunches. Emma: Plus, you don’t want to stretch when you’re not warm. You have to warm up first. Soren: It’s a bit like homework.

Dancers in general—and ballet dancers in particular—are often compared to elite athletes. Soren: You really have to put a lot of time and hard work into what you do. Emma: Not everyone thinks ballet is as hard as it actually is. Do you want to do this for a living someday? Soren: Yes. Emma: Me, too. Allison: Absolutely. When a performance as big as The Nutcracker is over and everyone is cheering, you must love that. Allison: I don’t want people to think I’m perfect, because I’m not. But I love that people appreciate what we do. Emma: I’m a bit exhilarated and a bit exhausted. You do feel a little important. And there are the ﬂowers at the curtain call. Emma: That’s right, the flowers. Allison: That’s nice. Soren, would you like to get ﬂowers after a performance? Soren: A candy bar would be nice.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY BY ROB BREZSNY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how,” said dancer Agnes De Mille. “We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” As true as her words might be for most of us much of the time, I suspect they don’t apply to you right now. This is one of those rare moments when feeling total certainty is justified. Your vision is extra clear and farseeing. Your good humor and expansive spirit will ensure that you stay humble. As you take leap after leap, you’ll be surrounded by light. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange,” wrote author Carson McCullers. Are you ready to give that adage a twist, Taurus? In the coming weeks, I think you should search for foreign and strange qualities in your familiar world. Such a quest may initially feel odd, but will ultimately be healthy and interesting. It will also be good preparation for the next chapter of your life, when you will saunter out into unknown territory and find ways to feel at home there. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If you don’t use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you,” said writer Ronald Sukenick. That’s always true, but

it will be especially important for you to keep in mind in 2017. You Geminis will have an unparalleled power to enlarge, refine and tap into your imagination. You’ll be blessed with the motivation and ingenuity to make it work for you in new ways, which could enable you to accomplish marvelous feats of creativity and self-transformation. Now here’s a warning: If you don’t use your willpower to take advantage of these potentials, your imagination will be subject to atrophy and colonization. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Why are Australian sand wasps so skilled at finding their way back home after being out all day? Here’s their trick: When they first leave the nest each morning, they fly backwards, imprinting on their memory banks the sights they will look for when they return later. Furthermore, their exit flight path is a slow and systematic zigzag pattern that orients them from multiple directions. I recommend that you draw inspiration from the sand wasps in 2017, Cancerian. One of your important tasks will be to keep finding your way back to your spiritual home, over and over again. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Vault 21, a restaurant in Dunedin, New Zealand, serves sauteed locusts. For $5, patrons receive a plate of five. The menu refers to the dish not as “Oily Sizzling

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Grasshoppers,” but rather as “Sky Prawns.” Satisfied customers know exactly what they’re eating, and some say the taste does indeed resemble prawns. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it illustrates a talent you will have in abundance during 2017: re-branding. You’ll know how to maximize the attractiveness and desirability of things by presenting them in the best possible light. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The literal translation of the German word Kummerspeck is “grief bacon.” It refers to the weight gained by people who, while wallowing in self pity, eat an excess of comfort food. I know more than a few Virgos who have been flirting with this development, although the trigger seems to be self-doubt as much as self-pity. In any case, here’s the good news: The trend is about to flip. A flow of agreeable adventures is due to begin soon. You’ll be prodded by fun challenges and provocative stimuli that will boost your confidence and discourage Kummerspeck. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable,” wrote journalist Brenda Ueland. Pause for a moment and fully take in that fact, Libra. It’s breathtaking and daunting. What a huge responsibility it is to be absolutely unique. In

fact, it’s so monumental that you may still be shy about living up to it. But how about if you make 2017 the year you finally come into your own as the awesomely unprecedented creature that you are? I dare you to more fully acknowledge and express your singular destiny. Start today! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “To dream has been the business of my life,” wrote author Edgar Allan Poe. I don’t expect you to match his devotion to dreams in 2017, Scorpio, but I do hope you will become more deeply engaged with your waking fantasies and the stories that unfold as you lie sleeping. Why? Because your usual approaches to gathering useful information won’t be sufficient. To be successful, both in the spiritual and worldly senses, you’ll need extra access to perspectives that come from beyond your rational mind. Here’s a good motto for you in 2017: “I am a lavish and practical dreamer.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Physicist Stephen Hawking is skeptical of the hypothesis that humans may someday be able to travel through time. To jokingly dramatize his belief, he threw a party for time travelers from the future. Sadly, not a single chrononaut showed up to enjoy the champagne and hors d’oeuvres Hawking had prepared. Despite this discouraging evidence,

I guarantee that you will have the potential to meet with Future Versions of You on a regular basis during the next nine months. These encounters are likely to be metaphorical or dreamlike rather than literal, but they will provide valuable information as you make decisions that affect your destiny for years to come. The first of these heart-tohearts should come very soon. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): During these past weeks, you may have sometimes felt like smashing holes in the wall with your head, or dragging precious keepsakes into the middle of the street and setting them on fire, or delivering boxes full of garbage to people who don’t appreciate you as much as they should. I hope you abstained from doing things like that. Now here are some prescriptions to help you graduate from unproductive impulses: Make or find a symbol of one of your mental blocks and bash it to pieces with a hammer; clean and polish precious keepsakes and perform rituals to reinvigorate your love for them; take as many trips to the dump as necessary to remove the congestion, dross and rot from your environment. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Singer-songwriter Tom Waits has a distinctive voice. One fan described it this way: “Like how you’d sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and

swallowed a pack of razor blades. Late at night. After not sleeping for three days.” Luckily, Waits doesn’t have to actually do any of those self-destructive things to achieve his unique tone. In fact, he’s wealthy from selling his music and has three kids with a woman to whom he’s been married for 36 years. I foresee a similar potential for you in the coming weeks and months. You may be able to capitalize on your harmless weirdness... to earn rewards by expressing your charming eccentricities... to be both strange and popular. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Was punk born on June 4, 1976? A fledgling band known as the Sex Pistols played that night for a crowd of 40 people at a venue in Manchester, England. Among the audience members was Morrissey, who got so inspired he started his own band, The Smiths. Also in attendance was a rowdy guy who would launch the band Joy Division, despite the fact that he had never played an instrument. The men who would later form the Buzzcocks also saw the performance by Johnny Rotten and his crew. According to music critic David Nolan, these future pioneers came away from the June 4 show with the conclusion, “You don’t have to be a virtuoso or a musical genius to be in a band.” I see parallels between this event and your life in the coming weeks.

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DEAR MINERVA, My husband’s family does not like me so I’m never invited to his family functions. On the flip side, my family hates him and recently told me he’s not invited to family functions. We ended up eating out on Thanksgiving because we had nowhere to go. Now Christmas is coming up and I feel like I have to choose between spending the day with my husband or with my family. I already missed Thanksgiving and now we’re fighting because we will both be bummed if the other person chooses their family. I don’t know what to do for Christmas. Help! —Christmas Misfits

DEAR CHRISTMAS MISFITS, No matter how much we want to believe that families stick together, it isn’t the reality for many people. Your families can’t overcome their own feelings and, now, because of their hatred, you are ﬁghting with each other. Show your families that it is unacceptable for them to be putting you in this position. Start making your own holiday traditions together—without them. Don’t spend Christmas with either family. Let them miss your presence in their lives. If they can’t overcome their personal problems for a few hours a year, then I would question their ability to love you unconditionally. I’ve said this before: Just because you are related by blood doesn’t mean you have to let your family into the VIP section of your heart. Yes it may be painful, but your family needs some tough love this year. Good luck, doll. SUBMIT questions to Minerva’s Breakdown at bit.ly/MinervasBreakdown or mail them to Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, ID 83702. All submissions remain anonymous.

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BETTY THE WASH WOMAN 2017 CALENDAR Since around 1950, Betty the mechanical woman has been perched atop the sign at 1504 S. Vista Ave., perpetually toiling over a tub of laundry. Both her longevity and distinctiveness have garnered her star status. When Paul and Mary Jean Wegner opened Cucina di Paolo in the former Maytag Laundry building over which Betty had long presided, they happily assumed stewardship, raising funds when Betty’s machinery needed a tune-up. Now, Betty is giving back with the Betty Calendar 2017. Each month features Betty, dressed as be$20, Cucina di Paolo, 1504 ﬁts the time of year, and is sponsored S. Vista Ave., 208-345-7150, by a different local business. Sales cucinadipaolo.com beneﬁt the Idaho Foodbank. “We hope to feed as many people as possible this holiday season with the proceeds,” the Wegners said in an email. The Betty Calendar 2017 costs $20 and is available at Cucina di Paolo, so you can pick up some of the best homestyle food this side of the Mississippi, check a name (or two or three) off your list, and join Betty in doing some good. —Amy Atkins

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18 Number of F-35s that could be housed at Gowen Field if the Air Force approves a proposed Idaho mission. (Boise Weekly)

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Low-end estimated value of debts held by Trump in 16 loans, as of May 2016.

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(Mother Jones)

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