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EDITOR’S NOTE JOURNALISM ON JOURNALISM It’s a rare opportunity for us to stick our nose into the tent of another news organization, but we were particularly anxious to learn more about Idaho Matters, the ambitious and muchanticipated daily talk show on Boise State Public Radio. Senior Staff Writer Harrison Berry spent some time with the men and women who put on the midday show, which BSPR launched April 23. Read more about what matters to the people who produce Idaho Matters on pages 6 and 7.

We also take a deep dive into the precedent-setting number of political contributions that are fueling campaigns in the Tuesday, May 15, gubernatorial primary. Some very familiar names, businesses and political action committees have been pumping hundreds of thousands of dollars into the race. We share our review of campaign disclosure forms on pages 6 and 7.

Next, Ben Schultz introduces us the band awakebutstillinbed, currently on what it calls a “two-and-a-half-monthlong DIY tour” which will bring the band to Boise’s High Note Café Thursday, May 10. The title of its debut album is another mouthful: what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you. Read more on page 14.

This week’s citizen is Pastor John Pavlovitz, once a youth minister at a North Carolina megachurch and author of the provocative blog, Stuff That Needs to Be Said. Read our conversation on page 15 prior to his Sunday, May 20, visit to Boise.

In this week’s screen section, we sit down with local filmmaker Gregory Bayne, whose 6 Dynamic Laws for Success has garnered rave reviews at film festivals in Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Texas and Washington, and took home the top prize for Best Feature at the Barbados Independent Film Festival. Just before its Thursday, May 10, debut at The Flicks, get a preview on page 16.

Finally, Staff Writer Lex Nelson visited a number of Boise restaurants that are ditching plastic straws. It turns out that plastic straws are contributing to the massive pollution of our planet’s oceans—but changing over to paper straws isn’t as easy or cheap as you might think. Read more on pages 17 and 18.

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HIGH PROFILE NAMES, BUSINESSES, PACS FUEL IDAHO PRIMARY WAR CHESTS When the polls close at 8 p.m. for the Tuesday, May 15, Idaho Primary—set to be one of the most expensive gubernatorial primary contests in recent memory—a few of the losing campaigns might be tagged as some of the worst investments in history.

A review of campaign expenditures from the five major candidates for governor— Tommy Ahlquist, Rep. Raul Labrador and Lt. Governor Brad Little on the GOP ballot, and A.J. Balukoff and Paulette Jordan on the Democratic ballot—revealed significant dollar amounts and familiar names of individuals, businesses and political action committees fueling the campaign war chests.

It’s not a surprise that Ahlquist has been his campaign’s biggest contributor, pouring more than $700,000 of his own cash into his gubernatorial effort. Because Ahlquist is one of Idaho’s highest-profile developers, it’s also no surprise to see numerous construction, building and contracting firms on his donor list, including Advanced Heating & Cooling ($5,000), American Construction Supply ($5,000), Industrial Builders ($5,000), Northwest Equipment Sales ($5,000) and Shilo Automatic Sprinklers ($5,000). Individual Ahlquist donors include Zions Bank President and CEO Scott Anderson ($5,000); Harry Bettis, one of Idaho’s wealthiest ranchers ($8,500); Greg Burkhart, president of Rule Steel ($5,000); Ryan Deluca, founder of BodyBuilding.com ($5,000); and Blake Hansen, managing partner of Alturas Capital ($5,000). Other notable donations to the Ahlquist campaign came from Community Care, an eastern Idaho primary and urgent care provider ($10,000); Scentsy ($5,000); Boise-based hazardous waste disposal firm U.S. Ecology ($5,000) and the Zions Bank Political Action Committee ($2,500).

Labrador’s campaign donors include a long list of out-of-state political action committees including Georgia-based Action PAC ($5,000), Florida-based America Unlimited PAC ($1,000), Kansas-based American Freedom PAC ($1,000), Washington-based Associated Build7 ers and Contractors PAC ($5,000), North Carolina-based Battleground 6 | MAY 9-15, 2018 | BOISEweekly

BSPR’s Idaho Matters is a news talk show years in the making HARRISON BERRY Richard Copeland, senior producer for the Boise State Public Radio news talk show Idaho Matters, sat at a conference room table at the BSPR headquarters, pitching a story to the editorial team that would involve interviewing a Syrian Refugee for an upcoming show.

“It’s just people telling their stories,” he said. “It will all emerge. Tape it. Trust me.

Shotgun [mic] this stuff—the gems are within.”

It was a juicy story. According to the Agency for New Americans, 12,587 Syrian refugees were admitted into the United States in Fiscal Year 2016. In FY 2017, just over half that number were admitted, and in FY 2018, just 44 Syrian refugees resettled in the U.S., even as the civil war that has displaced them by the millions continues. The opportunity to talk with one of them, to shine a light on their plight for a listening audience in Idaho, is a tough one to decline.

As topical and newsworthy as the refugee crisis is, however, host Gemma Gaudette had practical concerns: how her team might overcome the language barrier for the story, and who would ultimately pay for a translator to render the subjects’ Arabic into English. The radio show, she noted, couldn’t exactly rely on subtitles.

“You have to have more than, ‘We’re going to bring them in,’” she said.

Copeland has produced radio programs in Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; as well as in Las Vegas, Nevada. Gaudette has decades of experience as a television journalist across Idaho and in Tampa, Florida. To say their five-member team, which also includes longtime BSPR reporter Samantha Wright, and volunteers Robin Rausch and Norman Gunning, is well seasoned would be an understatement, but a few weeks into its run, Idaho Matters is still a laboratory—a radio talk show feeling out news values, technical abilities, limitations and the personalities of the staff that pumps it onto the BSPR airwaves at noon and 8 p.m., Mondays-Fridays.

The hour-long program, which officially kicked off April 23, neatly embodies the

Gemma Gaudette is the host of Boise State Public Radio’s Idaho Matters.

double entendre of its name. “Idaho Matters” could refer to matters of significance to Idaho, but it’s also a statement that Idaho has a significance all its own. In that respect, it’s a promise to localize national issues and unpack stories from communities across the Gem State, which it does in a four-segment format that includes pre-recorded and live interviews, 12-minute news reports and other story packages.

The show began generating buzz with its first episode, when it invited Idaho Statesman reporter Sven Berg in to discuss his April 22 feature story about a Southern Poverty Law Center report on hate groups, including a north Idaho church. The segment prompted one BSPR listener, Facebook user Jennifer Enriquez, to write about her disappointment: “You and your guest spent most of the time questioning a charitable organization and [less time] about the specifics of these churches on the Hate Watch.” Speaking to Boise Weekly, Gaudette said inviting Berg onto the show was a chance to talk to a journalist about his story, not an independent news report.

“We got some feedback on it, like, ‘You didn’t show the other side of it,’ and the goal of talking to the journalist for us was, he could be a neutral voice, and he could just talk about the story and the facts and what he uncovered,” Gaudette said. “He said something about [how] the goal of this was to ask, ‘Was the [SPLC] being fair when it made this list?’

and I said, ‘Well, so are they being fair?’ and he said, ‘It’s not my job to decide if it’s fair or not. It was my job to write about the facts.’”

Berg was among the first, but certainly not the last, reporter to appear on the show.

Thus far, Idaho Matters has invited Statesman reporter Rocky Barker to talk about environmental issues, Melissa Davlin and Seth Ogilvie of Idaho Public Television’s Idaho Reports program for a conversation about gubernatorial debates, and others, including BW’s George Prentice. During the editorial meeting, reporters Kevin Reichert of Idaho Education News and Betsy Russell of the Idaho Press Tribunes were mentioned as likely recurring guests.

The program will rely heavily on newsies from across the BSPR coverage area for storysharing and analysis, and since it’s a talk show, the tone is conversational, giving in-the-know listeners an added dimension to the stories they’ve been following. For others, it’s a point of entry for the news of the day. Most of the guests have hailed from the Boise area—the City of Trees is, after all, the state capital, as well as its largest city and media market—but Idaho Matters aspires to break the habit of leaning on Boise by reaching out to newspaper and television reporters in other markets north and east of the Treasure Valley.

In this regard, the flexibility of radio as a medium will give the Idaho Matters team an edge. Gaudette said she plans to make use of its portability and “take the show on the road” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

NEWS to the Magic Valley and beyond to report directly on matters of local importance. When packing up the team for a road trip isn’t an option, she can conduct interviews by phone.

“You can do a phone interview and it can be live, and that gives us so much more reach; it broadens who we can talk to,” Gaudette said. “We can talk to someone in Rupert and someone in Bellevue and all we have to do is pick up the phone. I think that’s how we create that sense of place. It’s not about the Great State of Ada; it’s about Idaho. We just happen to be based in Boise.”

The show is designed to meet listeners where they are—to, according to an introduction penned by Gaudette on the BSPR website, create “the local news/public affairs show of record.” To that end, it will elicit listener participation via phone, email, Twitter, Facebook and the Idaho Matters email account, which has already begun receiving tips and input. In one early episode, correspondence from a listener was discussed on the air.

It’s in this arena that BSPR General Manager Tom Michael expects Idaho Matters will distinguish itself from other call-in or talk radio programs. Being responsive to listeners is part of the station’s mission, but there are perils to giving an open mic to callers.

“If you listen to sports radio in our market, you get the same group of people calling. [It’s] oftentimes white, middle-aged males who pick up the phone,” Michael said. “We find on the internet there’s a lot of people on Twitter and diverse people doing stuff. We think with the callouts and the emails we’ll reach people. It’s not your father’s call-in show.”

A news talk show has been on the wish lists of numerous program directors, news directors and general managers for nearly 20 years, and Michael recalled the topic being broached early on in his tenure.

“It was part of a continuum of ideas we’ve had in the past, so we executed it,” he said.

Michael was able to turn the show into a reality in part because of his prior experience. He came to Boise following more than 10 years at Texas-based Marfa Public Radio, which he helped found, and where he launched West Texas Talk, a daily interview program similar to Idaho Matters. In all, Michael said he interviewed “probably 1,000 people” during his time at MPR. West Texas Talk isn’t the only parent of the new BSPR program. Michael said it was influenced by numerous shows around the country, particularly Texas Standard, a national news show that reports on public affairs affecting the nation through a Lone Star State lens, and Think Out Loud, an Oregon Public Broadcasting show meant to “create a space in Oregon and southwestern Washington for BOISE WEEKLY.COM

Gaudette (right) interviews a guest in a Boise State Public Radio broadcasting booth.

a civil, engaged, far-ranging dialogue.” The latter program has perhaps the strongest case for paternity. Its emphasis on community discourse provided a concrete model for Idaho Matters, and Michael noted that while Think Out Loud originated as a call-in program, it has since begun to embrace social media and

“IT’S NOT ABOUT THE GRE AT STATE OF ADA ; IT’S ABOU T IDAHO. WE J U ST HAPPEN TO BE BASED IN BOISE.” other forms of audience engagement—strategies he and his team at BSPR built directly into Idaho Matters.

What sets Idaho Matters apart from its precursors is its four-segment format. It opens with a hot, newsy topic, but can segue into a longer-form interview, news analysis or, significantly, original reporting. In recent months,

BSPR began working with Mountain West News Bureau reporter Amanda Peacher, an Idaho native with a long resume of reporting work across the region. Her addition is part and parcel to the station flexing its muscles in the newsroom.

“If someone were to say, ‘Here’s (blank) amount of money, I’d just as soon hire a news reporter,” Michael said. “I came to the conclusion, and others convinced me, that [Idaho Matters] is a good use of our investment. If it doesn’t amplify our news efforts, we’re not doing things right.”

Every week, Idaho Matters will generate five hours of original, local news and cultural content: approximately 1,000 segments per year.

Its inclusion has been made possible by cutting one hour a day from the National Public Radio program All Things Considered, but Michael said framing it as a tradeoff between national programs listeners are accustomed to and his station’s role as a local journalism powerhouse may be putting it too simply.

Segments for Idaho Matters may become fodder for national programs, which will still get airtime on the station, and are accessible on the internet or the NPR One app.

“You can get those national shows easily,” Michael said. “What makes Boise State Public Radio any different? We have to prove why you should listen to us, and I think the way to do that is through local impact, local journalists and community engagement.”

CITYDESK (CONT.) PAC ($1,000), Utah-based Beehive PAC ($1,500), Washington, D.C.6 based Citizens United Political Victory Fund ($5,000), Massachusettsbased Do Right Bayou PAC ($1,000) and the Texas-based Jobs Freedom and Security PAC ($5,000). Among the other big-ticket donors to the Labrador campaign were Boise-based 3 N Investments ($5,000); parent education instructors Gaylon and Maryann Ball of Boise ($10,000 each); eastern Idaho businessman Doyle Beck and his wife, Lynn ($10,000 each); eastern Idaho trucking company CE Hawkins and Son ($5,000); Boise-based DeBest Plumbing ($10,000); Employers Resource of Boise ($5,000); Dr. Jeffrey Feingold, founder of MCNA Dental, the largest privately held dental care insurance company in the nation ($5,000); Stefan Gleason, president of North Carolina-based Money Metal Exchange ($5,000); James Kissler, CEO of Norco ($10,000); former Idaho Power CEO Lamont Keen and his wife, Vicki ($10,000 each); Mark Peterson, owner of the largest auto group in Idaho, and his wife, Cathy ($5,000 each); and Milford Terrell, longtime member of the Idaho State Board of Education, and his wife, Grace ($10,000 each).

Among the political action committees that donated to Little’s campaign are the Idaho Prosperity Fund, the PAC affiliated with the influential Idaho Association of Commerce and Industry ($5,000); FEAPAC ($3,000); Idabankpac Fund ($5,000); Idaho Wheat and Barley PAC ($2,700); and outgoing Idaho Governor C.L. “Butch” Otter’s own OTTERPAC ($5,000). Other big donors include Campo Oil of Fruitland ($5,000), CenturyLink ($5,000) and CenturyLink Idaho PAC ($5,000), Clear Springs Foods ($5,000) and Clear Springs CEO Larry Cope ($5,000), Idaho Power ($5,000), Intermountain Gas ($2,950), former Idaho governor Dirk Kempthorne ($2,700), Boise City Councilman Scot Ludwig ($2,100), Lynch Oil of Burley ($5,000), Midas Gold ($5,000), Micron Technology ($5,000), Mountain View Hospital of Idaho Falls ($5,000), Rocky Mountain Power ($5,000) and Bronco Motors CEO Grant Petersen ($5,000).

An interesting side note: Lobbyist Roy Eiguren, a regular fixture at the Idaho Capitol, donated to each of the Republican campaigns, pledging $1,500 for Ahlquist, $1,000 for Labrador and $1,000 for Little.

On the Democratic side, the two main competitors in the gubernatorial primary have nowhere near the number of donations as their Republican opponents, but candidate A.J. Balukoff is head and shoulders ahead of other donors to his campaign, having put $175,000 of his own money into his war chest. To date, one of the largest donations to Paulette Jordan’s campaign was $1,000 from Planned Parenthood Votes.

—George Prentice

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY MAY 9 Festivals & Events IDAHO JOB FAIR—Job-seekers will have the opportunity to network with over 50 companies.

Register online at ibleventsinc. com. 9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555.

JOYCE GREEN, JESSICA TOOKEY AND PETE MAUPIN: THE WATER SHOW—Through May 10. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. The Gallery at Finer Frames, 164 E. State St., Ste. B, Eagle, 208-888-9898, finerframes.com.

KAREN EASTMAN AND ANNE PETERSON: BRANCHING OUT— Through May 31. FREE. Eastman Studio + Gallery, 1429 W. Idaho St., Boise, 760-445-4870, keastmanstudios.com.

Kids & Teens Art DAVID R. DAY: HORIZONS— Through May 26. 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

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

JAMES CASTLE: EIGHTEEN ARTIST BOOKS—7 a.m.-7 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Albertsons Library, 1865 W. Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1204, art. boisestate.edu.

BOTS AND BUILDERS—Learn the basics of robotic logic and computer programming. For ages 8-18.

4-5:30 p.m. FREE. Nampa Public Library, 215 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-468-5800, nampalibrary.org.

CARD MAGIC TRICKS—Take your own deck of cards or borrow some from the library. For ages 8-11.

4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-2976700, adalib.org/lakehazel.

THURSDAY, MAY 10

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Talks & Lectures

THE DAFFODIL TEA—The Daffodil Tea historic luncheon event benefits the Booth Marian Pritchett School Program for Pregnant and Parenting Teens. Check out vintage fashions, live music, prizes, great food and more. 11:30 a.m. $40. Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 208383-4235, boothdaffodiltea.com.

BCT SPRING 2018 THEATER LAB—7 p.m. $5-$10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater. org.

MUSIC THEATRE OF IDAHO: DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST—7:30 p.m. $18-$22.

Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, mtionline.org.

THURSDAY MAY 10

COMEDIAN HANNIBAL BURESS—7 p.m. $33-$80. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

FOOD SECURITY: THE TRANSPORTATION FACTOR—Everyone needs a job and a food supply.

How does geography or development impact that? Speakers: Elaine Clegg, Boise City Council member, and Stephen Hunt, principal planner for Valley Regional Transit. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Building, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208426-4636, sub.boisestate.edu.

Festivals & Events

COMEDIAN MATT BRAGG—8 p.m. $12-$15. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-9412459, liquidboise.com.

7TH ANNUAL BOISE TECH SHOW—Hear from some of Idaho’s most innovative business leaders. With 15-20 seminars, 25-plus technology demonstrations and plenty of opportunities for questions. 11:30 a.m.-7 p.m. $25-$45. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-375-4410, fisherstech.com/techshow.

BOISE CLASSIC MOVIES: PULP FICTION—For ages 21 and older.

7 p.m. $9-$11. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, boiseclassicmovies.com.

OPERA IDAHO OPERATINI: GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK—5:30 and 8:15 p.m. $22-$30. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, 1718.operaidaho.org.

IDAHO PREMIERE OF GREGORY BAYNE’S 6 DYNAMIC LAWS FOR SUCCESS—Join writer-director Gregory Bayne for the premiere of this Idaho-made comedic noir feature film. Includes Q&A with cast and crew, plus a no-host cocktail hour. 7 p.m. $15. The Flicks, 646

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PLAYHOUSE BOISE: TONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING—6:30 p.m. $35. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-7790092, playhouseboise.com.

Literature HUMAN RIGHTS BOOK CLUB: RADIUM GIRLS—7-8:30 p.m.

FREE. Idaho Black History Museum, 508 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Kids & Teens IDAHO YOUTH RANCH GROWING GREAT KIDS PARENTING SERIES—Join Idaho Youth Ranch’s parenting gurus for a free five-week series about growing great kids. The class focuses on developing and strengthening happy, healthy relationships with your kids. Sign up at youthranch. org/parenting-classes. 6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Idaho Youth Ranch Family Services, 7025 W. Emerald St., Boise, 208-947-0863.

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MOMMY DEAREST: A MOTHER’S DAY ROUNDUP

THE 4TH ANNUAL POOCH PAGEANT

Hannibal Buress is always joking, to the extent that even his website biography is a subtle riff on his stand-up theme: In the first line, the bio claims Burress is “a mildly popular comedian,” only to add a sentence later that the New York Times has called him “one of the most ‘supremely gifted and respected’ comics around.” But really man, no big deal. In all seriousness, The Times had it right.

When it comes to comedic resumes, Burress’ is the gold standard, with not only plenty of stand-up gigs including Netflix cuts like Comedy Camisado, but a podcast (Handsome Rambler), screenwriting jobs on shows like 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live, and blockbuster film appearances ranging from Spider-Man: Homecoming to the new gut-busting comedy, Blockers. His upcoming Boise show is an evening that shouldn’t be missed.

7 p.m., $33-$80. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

According to the Boston Globe, the Boston-based website Moms Who Need Wine has over half a million members—a statistic that just might have something to do with the plethora of wine-related events slated for Mother’s Day weekend in the Treasure Valley. Saturday and Sunday, May 12 and 13, will see wine-related outings at Huston Vineyards, Cinder Wines, Hell’s Canyon Winery, and Wine and Branch Ranch, among others. Some of them are stepping up their games with additional offerings—Wine and Branch Ranch, for example, is combining its tasting with a plant sale at Peaceful Belly Farms. Plus, some events will center on other kinds of drinking, like a tea and fashion show at the Bishops’ House, and a pop-up shop at Form & Function featuring flowers, cupcakes and jewelry. Whatever beverage floats your mom’s boat, there’s sure to be something nearby.

Find all of these events online by searching our calendar at boiseweekly.com.

We’ve all seen dogs wearing clothes—whether it’s a Chihuahua cozy in a sweater during a winter walk or a pug sporting a superman costume for Halloween. At The Pooch Pageant, these outfit choices are not just approved but celebrated. Now in its fourth year, The Pooch Pageant seeks out every “vivacious, talented and beautiful pooch” whose pet parents want to put him or her on stage to raise money for the Idaho Humane Society’s Pet Food Pantry. Canines dressed in everything from bowties to tutus have taken to the pupwalk in years past, and the event has raised more than $10,000 to provide food, treats and even kitty litter to pets in need, and given away thousands in prizes. It costs $25 to enter your pet, and tickets to the show run $5 with a food donation.

11 a.m. vendor showcase, 1 p.m. competition, $5-$10. Wyndham Garden Hotel, 3300 S. Vista Ave., 208-343-4900, poochpageantboise.com

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CALENDAR Food ANNUAL BOISE PHIL PUB CRAWL—Enjoy a beer or cocktail while listening to Boise Philharmonic musicians perform beautiful music. Start at one venue, then move to the next, less than a 10 minute walk away. Ages 21 and older. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Downtown Boise, Downtown Corridor, Boise, 208344-7849, boisephil.org.

CRATER LAKE SPIRITS BLOODY MARY BRAWL— Watch your favorite local bartenders from 20 different bars try to come up with the best Bloody Mary inspired by a Crater Lake Spirit. 6-9 p.m.

FREE. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

FRIDAY MAY 11 Festivals & Events NATIONAL PUBLIC GARDENS DAY AT IBG—Plants and fun gifts will be available for purchase in the Garden Store. Plus, find food trucks and live music. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage BCT SPRING 2018 THEATER LAB—7 p.m. $5-$10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater. org.

BROADWAY IN BOISE: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER—8 p.m. $35-$63.

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COMEDIAN MATT BRAGG—8 & 10 p.m. $12-$15. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-9412459, liquidboise.com.

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MUSIC THEATRE OF IDAHO: DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST—7:30 p.m. $18-$22.

Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, mtionline.org.

PLAYHOUSE BOISE: TONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING—6:30 p.m. $35. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-7790092, playhouseboise.com.

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STAN STEINER COLLECTION GIANT BOOK SALE—Dr. Stan Steiner, Boise State Professor of Children’s/YA Literature, is selling his lifetime collection of more than 40,000 children’s and young adult books to fund scholarships.

Friday-Sunday. 5-9 p.m. Friday, noon-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

FREE. Boise State Student Union Simplot Grand Ballroom, 1910 University Drive, Boise, education. boisestate.edu.

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Festivals & Events BOSNIAN AND HERZEGOVINIAN HERITAGE DAY—All your favorite things about Bosnian culture are back: music, dance, soccer and food. Plus, enjoy a cooking demonstration and tasting of traditional Bosnian cuisine for a small donation. 10 a.m.-7 p.m. FREE. Julius M. Kleiner Memorial Park, 1900 N. Records Ave., near Fairview Avenue and Eagle Road, Meridian, facebook.com/BHCCID.

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BOISE MUSIC WEEK This is it, everyone. This year marks the big three-digit anniversary for Boise Music Week, the event that celebrates all things harmonious in the City of Trees. For 2018, the festivities centering around dance, music and theater will include not only a performance of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man, which follows the exploits of a con man and features more than 70 performers, but also an international dance night, organ recitals at St. Michael’s Cathedral, barbershop quartet performances at Boise High School, a silent movie screening accompanied by music at the Egyptian Theatre, a concert at Grove Plaza and much, much more. The festival is the longest-running event of its kind in the United States—and did we mention that it’s free? With such a low price tag, there’s no excuse not to check it out.

Dates, times and locations vary. Visit boisemusicweek.org for a full schedule of events.

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IDAHO PRESERVATION MONTH CELEBRATION: DIG INTO IDAHO—Celebrate Idaho Preservation month with geode cracking, gold panning and other fun activities. Noon-5 p.m. FREE$5. Idaho Museum of Mining and Geology, 2455 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-368-9876, idahomuseum.org.

On Stage BCT SPRING 2018 THEATER LAB—6 p.m. $5-$10. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

BROADWAY IN BOISE: A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER—2 and 8 p.m. $35-$63. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-4261609, morrisoncenter.com.

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CALENDAR COMEDIAN MATT BRAGG—8 and 10 p.m. $12-$15. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-9412459, liquidboise.com.

COMEDIAN RYAN HAMILTON—8 p.m. $32. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-3450454, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.

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COMEDIANS JULIE GOLDMAN AND BELINDA CARROLL—8 p.m. $15-$22. Lucky Dog Tavern, 2223 Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-3330074, luckydogtavern.com.

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SUMMERWIND SKIPPERS JUMP ROPE CLINIC—Learn jump rope skills from the National and World Champion Summerwind Skippers.

Enjoy two hours of instruction in single rope and double dutch jumping. For ages 6 and up. 9-11 a.m. $10. Summerwind Elementary, 3675 N. Jullion Way, Boise, summerwindskippers.org.

Animals & Pets 4TH ANNUAL POOCH PAGEANT—11 a.m.-4 p.m. $25 to compete, $5 with pet food donation to watch. Wyndham Garden Boise Airport, 3300 S. Vista Ave., Boise, 208-343-4900, poochpageantboise.com.

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MUSIC THEATRE OF IDAHO: DISNEY’S BEAUTY AND THE BEAST—1:30 and 7:30 p.m. $18$22. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-4685555, mtionline.org.

PLAYHOUSE BOISE: TONY N’ TINA’S WEDDING—6:30 p.m. $35. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-7790092, playhouseboise.com.

Workshops & Classes FLOW PAINTING WORKSHOP—4-5:30 p.m. $40. Gem Center for the Arts, 2417 W. Bank Drive, Boise, 208-991-0984, gemcenterforthearts.org.

Talks & Lectures LECTURE: WHAT DO THE HOLY BOOKS OF MAJOR WORLD RELIGIONS SAY ABOUT WOMEN?—1:30-5 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-972-8340, facebook.com/ BoiseBahai.

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Sports & Fitness 2018 KOMEN BOISE RACE FOR THE CURE—Funds raised provide vital breast health services to those living without health insurance and fund research to diagnose, treat and cure breast cancer. 7-11 a.m. $20 and up.

Albertsons Headquarters, 250 Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-3840013, komenidahomontana.org.

Kids & Teens ENGINEERING FOR KIDS: ROBOT RALLY—Engineering for Kids is bringing their VEX IQ Robots to the shop for mini challenges. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

ROARING SPRINGS OPENING WEEKEND—11 a.m.-7 p.m. $25-$32. Roaring Springs Water Park, 400 W. Overland Road, Meridian, 208-884-8842, roaringsprings.com.

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M.O.M SHOW: MOTHER OF ALL MOVIES BURLESQUE—9 p.m.

FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon, 513 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-6344, facebook.com/PengillysSaloon.

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MOTHER’S DAY AT VINE AND BRANCH RANCH, PEACEFUL BELLY FARM—9 a.m.-5 p.m.

FREE. Vine and Branch Ranch (Peaceful Belly), 20021 Hoskins Road, Caldwell, 208-345-8003, peacefulbelly.com.

The first FREE TROLLEY will depart from 2250 S Vista Ave parking lot on Vista and Targee at 1:30 p.m.

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MOTHER’S DAY AT VINE AND BRANCH RANCH, PEACEFUL BELLY FARM PLANT SALE—9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Vine and Branch Ranch, 20021 Hoskins Road, Caldwell, 208-345-8003, peacefulbelly.com.

BOISE BIKE WEEK 2018— Through May 19. Find details at facebook.com/BoiseBikeWeek.

MOTHER’S DAY BRUNCH AT ZOO BOISE—Enjoy a buffet breakfast, animal presentation, zookeeper talk, and a special gift for all mothers, then take the rest of the day to explore your zoo.

RSVP by Wednesday, May 9. 9-10 a.m. $16-$34. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-6087744, zooboise.org.

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CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET—9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Main and State streets, Boise, 208-345-3499, capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

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1-3 p.m. $40. Paint ‘n Sip, 5626 W. State St., in The Shops at State and Bloom, Boise, 208-505-0004, paintnsip.com.

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Bishops’ House, 2420 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-3423279, thebishopshouse.com.

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MOTHER’S DAY POP-UP AT FORM & FUNCTION—10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. Form & Function Coffee, 511 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-922-7824, formandfunctioncoffee.com.

MONDAY MAY 14 Kids & Teens AMIGUITOS BILINGUES! BILINGUAL STORYTIME—Enjoy our bilingual stories, songs and fun in English and Spanish. Children of all ages are welcome. 10:15 a.m.

FREE. Nampa Public Library, 215 12th Ave. S., Nampa, 208-4685800, nampalibrary.org.

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OUTDOOR CONVERSATIONS: STEVE STUEBNER—Steve Stuebner has produced a new edition of Boise Trail Guide, featuring 95 hiking and running trails in the greater Boise area. Learn about Greenbelt trails, mountain trails in the Boise Foothills and more.

7-8:30 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Odds & Ends BEESWAX SALVE AND CHAPSTICK—Participants will make a salve and lip balm using beeswax.

Registration ends Sunday, May 13.

For ages 13 and up. 6-7:30 p.m. $30. Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 208639-6610, jumpboise.org.

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THE LAST REVEL, THE OLYMPIC, MAY 12 Lee Henke, Ryan Acker and Vincenzio Donatelle are The Last Revel—a quintessential Americana/folk band that, in keeping with its name, seems to craft each of its songs with urgent care.

The group claims to create “cutting-edge front porch Americana soundscapes,” though a peek at its music videos reveals “lakefront” might be more applicable than “front porch.” Filmed on-location in spots like the shores of Lake McDonald in Glacier National Park, the videos meld nature shots with aching vocals and bluegrass instrumental combinations including everything from acoustic guitar to banjo, harmonica and fiddle. With three albums under its belt, most recently Hazard & Fate (self-released, 2017), the Minnesota-based group will make an appearance in Boise in advance of a performance at the 45th Telluride Bluegrass Festival in June. Head over for a night of foot-stomping and soul-searching.

—Lex Nelson With Hillfolk Noir. 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Olympic, 1009 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-0176, theolympicboise.com.

BOISE BLUES SOCIETY: TERRY HANCK BAND—Terry Hanck spent 10 years as a member of the Elvin Bishop Band before heading out on his own. He is the 2017 recipient of the Blues Music Award for best saxophone player. Hanck has led his own band for over 28 years, creating classic songs that ache with yearning, explode with joy and keep the young and the young at heart on dance floors across America and around the world. 7 p.m. $15-$20.

The Playhouse Boise CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse JIM KLOSS—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse KARAOKE—7 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe SONS OF THE RAINIER—With Idyltime. 9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon SOPHIA GRIFFIN—7 p.m. FREE. Busters Bar and Grill SPEEDY GRAY—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow Brewhouse

BEN BURDICK TRIO—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse CHUCK SMITH—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse CLAY MOORE—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365 FRIM FRAM FOUR—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon GLEN HOWE—7 p.m. FREE. Deja Brew Laugh a Latte JEREMIAH JAMES— 7 p.m. FREE. Dwellers Public House KIP ATTAWAY’S COUNTRY MUSIC AND COMEDY DINNER SHOW— 7 p.m. $10. The Ranch Club LADIES NIGHTS WITH DJ ZUZ— With Mateo from 103.5 Kiss FM. 10 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub A METAL MASS IN MAY, DAY ONE—With Pseudogod, Hellfire Deathcult, Abysmal Lord, Possessive, and ViciousFvck. 7 p.m. $15, $35 three-day pass. The Shredder

SIGNAL HOUSE MUSIC MONTHLY CH. 10—With Bond, Buhkini, Dirty Apache, Dose Amigos, and ohbrando. 9 p.m. FREE. Fatty’s VAN WILLIAM—7 p.m. $10. The Olympic

FRIDAY MAY 11 BLAZE AND KELLY— 5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365 BLISTERED EARTH: THE ULTIMATE TRIBUTE TO METALLICA— With Traitors Gate, and Hate Spell.

8 p.m. $10-$25. Knitting Factory Concert House BOISE WOMEN’S CHORUS: WE WILL NOT BE SILENT—Join the Boise Women’s Chorus for a special performance presented in support of the Idaho Coalition Against Sexual and Domestic Violence. 7 p.m. $10-$15. The Linen Building CAMDEN HUGHES—5:15 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse DJ ZUZ—10 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub EMILY TIPTON MUSIC—5 p.m.

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FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION, DAY ONE—Join Pinto Bennett and his Famous Motel Cowboys for their 15th annual reunion. You’ll enjoy three days of music featuring 19 bands and over 60 incredible musicians. 5 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective FREAK HEAT WAVES—With Darto.

7 p.m. $8. The Olympic GARY TACKETT BAND—9 p.m.

FREE. The Ranch Club GAYLE CHAPMAN—7 p.m. FREE. Deja Brew Laugh a Latte A METAL MASS IN MAY, DAY TWO—With PILLORIAN, Tulpaa, Mariana, Epistolary, and Chaosmonaut. 7 p.m. $15, $35 three-day pass. The Shredder MOODY JEWS—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon QUINN AHN LUCAS—With Math’s Arcana. 8 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe RED LIGHT CHALLENGE—7 p.m.

FREE. Curb Bar and Grill SECUESTRADO—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill and Brewery-Cole SHOT GLASS—8 p.m. FREE. Ha’ Penny Bridge Irish Pub and Grill THE WANDERERS—With Don’t Drop D. 10 p.m. $5. Reef

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MUSIC GUIDE WINEWOOD—7:30 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon

SATURDAY MAY 12 BROOK FAULK DUO—7 p.m.

CULLEN OMORI—With The Gloomies. 8 p.m. $10-$12.

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Proceeds eneďŹ t Brave Hearts. 7 p.m. $15. Nampa Civic Center

DJ LENNY LENS—10 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub EMILY TIPTON MUSIC—6 p.m.

FREE. Piper Pub and Grill FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION, DAY TWO—4:30 p.m. $15. Visual Arts Collective FUNHOUSE—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon

LONESOME JET BOAT RAMBLERS—5:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow Brewhouse

GHOSTBOX—With Break Surface, Faded Leroy, and Basement. 8 p.m. $6-$12. Knitting Factory Concert House

TYR—With Orphaned Land, Ghost Ship Octavius, Aeternam, Madrost, Silent Scream, and Krystos. 7 p.m. $10. The Shredder

TUESDAY MAY 15 CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse KAYLEIGH JACK AND KENNY SAUNDERS— 7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill and Brewery-Cole MIKE ROSENTHAL—5:15 p.m.

FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse THE SUBURBANS—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon TGTG—7 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

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OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND EMILY TIPTON—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon

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LONESOME JET BOAT RAMBLERS—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon

SEAN ROGERS—2 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

WE OUT HERE SUMMER SERIES—10 p.m. FREE. Reef

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THE LAST REVEL—With Hillfolk Noir. 7 p.m. $10. The Olympic

MIKE ROSENTHAL—5:30 p.m.

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

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KARAOKE WITH DJ ADDICTIVE SPIN—8:30 p.m. FREE. The TK Bar

PATRICK DANSEREAU BAND—1 p.m. $10-$15. Vizcaya Winery

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SUNDAY MAY 13 BLUES JAM—3 p.m. FREE. The Playhouse Boise THE FABULOUS CHANCELLORS—1 p.m. $10-$12. Ste. Chapelle Winery FAMOUS MOTEL COWBOYS REUNION, DAY THREE—2:30 p.m.

FREE. Visual Arts Collective IRISH MUSIC—Enjoy Traditional Irish Session Music Sundays through May 20. 7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub & Grill KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEISMAN—9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room NOCTURNUM LIVE INDUSTRIAL DJS—10 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge

GHOSTBOX, KNITTING FACTORY, MAY 12 The Knitting Factory Concert house is known for bringing big national names to downtown Boise, but sometimes it looks closer to home for high-quality bands to spotlight. One of those localsonly nights is coming up Saturday, May 12, and the slate of rockers is sure to shake the Knit to its foundations. Ghostbox, a darkly experimental band formed in 2013 with the self-declared intent to “consume the planet,â€? will headline, followed by high-energy metal group Break Surface and post-hardcore rock band Faded Leroy. The rock/jazz crossover collective Basement will wrap up the night. While each band will bring its own avor to the stage, a solid core performance from Ghostbox featuring its signature doom-tinged mix of melodic bridges and riff-heavy choruses will anchor them all. Stop by to help the headliner celebrate the release of its new EP, Visions of the Sky (1332 Records, 2018). —Lex Nelson With Break Surface, Faded Leroy, and Basement. 8 p.m., $6-$12. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., 208367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

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NOISE THE POWER OF NEGATIVE THINKING awakebutstillinbed opens eyes with powerful debut album BEN SCHULTZ After Shannon Taylor finished writing awakebutstillinbed’s debut album, what people call low self-esteem is really just seeing yourself the way that other people see you (Tiny Engines, 2018), she was completely drained. Its songs draw inspiration from some of the darkest days in her life.

“I felt like the album was me forcing myself to look at a lot of hardships and trauma that I’ve gone through,” she said. “More intently than I’d ever allowed myself to before. And more publicly—allowing myself to be more awakebutstillinbed’s show at Boise’s High Note Cafe on Thursday, May 10, is part of what the band calls a vulnerable with it than I ever have before.” “two-and-a-half-monthlong DIY tour.”

It was a hard process, but it proved therapeutic. Taylor hopes that low self-esteem will do the same for others when they listened to it. music with him, but we’ve never really been in a online on Jan. 3. Taylor is still amazed at the “It’s all about really specific life experiences response the album has received over the past project together.” that were really traumatic, but I like to talk Outside of her family, Taylor was inspired four months. about them in ways that are vague enough by emo-affiliated bands like At the Drive-In, “It’s been really bewildering how everythat people can relate to them,” she said. thing has been going with the band,” she said. American Football and The Hotelier. She cited “Because if I just told you guys straight-up The Hotelier’s second album, Home, Like No“I don’t know, it really kind of caught me by verbatim exactly what I went through, no one surprise. We’ve just been adjusting to it.” place Is There (Tiny Engines, 2014), as having would relate to it because it’s my own personal an especially profound effect on her.

In a way, the 26-year-old singer has been experience. If I talk about the way that trauma working toward this point for more than half her “I first heard that album very shortly after has made me feel or the ways that I’ve reacted life. She got her first guitar when she was 12. a friend of mine committed suicide,” she said. to it, people can relate more to the feelings “A lot of the songs on that album deal with “My first instrument was bass—I know than they can the actual experiences.” that subject, and I just got really attached to that’s kind of weird, but that was my first The San Jose, California-based band the album.” instrument—and then I picked up the guitar complimented Taylor’s pained lyrics and raw awakebutstillinbed’s show at High Note is after that,” Taylor said. vocals with ringing guitars part of a cross-country tour that will stretch Music runs in Taylor’s and propulsive rhythms, through mid-July. It won’t be an easy trip, but family—her mother plays and low self-esteem has had a piano and her father used to Taylor’s passion for music should help carry awakebutstillinbed With Slurm Flirty Worm and greater impact than the group her through. play drums. An even bigger Crush Smokes expected. Pitchfork contributor “We’re going on this two-and-a-halfinfluence on Taylor was her High Note Cafe Ian Cohen gave the album a monthlong DIY tour,” she said, “and so many older brother, who studied 9 p.m. Thursday, May 10 rating of 7.7, calling it “a unipeople have been like, ‘Why would you ever music composition and has fication of sound and vision, a want to do this?’ But from my perspective, a vaporwave project with a vivid rendering of a life spent this is what I’m looking forward to.” sizeable following. Taylor standing on a precipice, where Taylor is also excited about the new songs declined to mention the project’s name on the the weight of guilt is somehow the only thing record, explaining that her brother keeps his she has been writing. Some of them have alkeeping you from jumping.” ready become part of awakebutstillinbed’s set. identity a secret.

The band will bring its sound and vision “I’m glad that I’ve been hit with more in“He taught me a lot of music theory when to Boise on Thursday, May 10, with a show spiration,” she said. “For a while, it felt like it I was growing up,” she said. “When I was first at High Note Cafe. Local punk bands Slurm starting out, I didn’t know anything. He taught took everything out of me to write this album.

Flirty Worm and Crush Smokes will open.

But I’ve been writing again recently, and it’s me a lot of the things that help[ed] me to learn awakebutstillinbed released low self-esteem how to write music. … I always wanted to play good. It’s good to be back at it.”

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CITIZEN JOHN PAVLOVITZ

Shared values, bigger tables and how loving your own child isn’t enough

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John Pavlovitz was born into what many might consider a typical Catholic family in upstate New York. He studied graphic design at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia, but changed course after a stint in seminary and became a youth minister at The Good Shepherd United Methodist Church, a socalled megachurch in North Carolina.

While working at Good Shepherd, Pavlovitz began writing provocative posts on his blog, Stuff That Needs to Be Said. When the posts came to light he was fired, after being told by the head pastor, “You don’t fit in here.”

Following his post “If I Have Gay Children,” he began ministering to more people than he ever imagined.

“One day you’re unemployed; the next day CNN calls,” Pavlovitz said.

He has since blogged about the intersection of faith, culture and politics, and authored the book, A Bigger Table: Building a Messy, Authentic, and Hopeful Spiritual Community.

Prior to his Wassmuth Center for Human Rights-sponsored visit to Boise on Sunday, May 20, Pavlovitz took a few minutes to chat with Boise Weekly about how no one should have to sit alone.

How would you describe the Catholicism that you were born into?

Gluten and guilt. What my Catholicism did was give me a sense of God’s presence and that I was created intentionally. I grew up feeling that God loved me, but I was also taught false stories about other communities: the LGBTQ community, people of color, even atheists. I was taught that I was more loved

by God than they were. But when I first went away to college in Philadelphia, I was exposed to diversity and poverty in way that I had never been before.

Let’s fast forward to your assignment at the megachurch. How big was that congregation?

We would easily have 2,000 people at a service. Our youth program had several hundred students every week.

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And then 2014 happened.

I had already begun my blog, talking more about LGBTQ issues and pushing for racial and gender diversity. When I was fired, I found that I had a new freedom to speak openly. All of a sudden, my posts are going viral. I’m on CNN and I found that there was a much bigger table than I had ever imagined.

Donald Trump has any interest in perpetuating the life and teachings of Jesus. It’s one thing to say, “I’m a Christian and I have these values and I voted for this person.” It’s another to say, “I’m in alignment with that person’s Christianity.” I try to lay it out there and ask, “What is it about Trump that you believe is inherently Christian?

Show me where you see those things.”

Take me back to the moment you were fired. Were you scared?

It was terrifying and personally devastating.

My personal identity had been tied to being a pastor in a church. For a short time, it was incredibly disheartening. In retrospect, I should have seen it all coming. I knew that if I was

A more recent blog post of yours that is equally challenging is, “Just Loving Your Own Child Isn’t Enough, America.”

Through the years, I’ve heard a good many people say that they love their families deeply and they’re trying to do good in the world. The distinction I see right now is that there are a lot of people who say, “I want those things for me and my family, but I’m not really concerned beyond that.” As a result, a sense of nationalism or tribalism has taken over. What I’m trying to say is, ensuring other people have the same blessings as you doesn’t have to take away any of your own blessings. Empathy and compassion are shared values.

“ YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT WHO MIGHT BE WE LC OM E WHERE YO U A RE. WHO S E STORIES AREN ’T REPRESENTED? ” going to keep sharing my innermost thoughts, I was probably going to preach my way out of a job. But then my blog went viral, and I started setting up appointments via Skype and FaceTime, listening to people all over the world who said, “I want to talk to a pastor and, up until now, I hadn’t felt like I could talk to anybody.”

Your new book explores how, and even where, we choose to sit at God’s table and if we have enough open chairs.

Being a pastor in a local church for 20 years, I saw things that are beautiful and life-affirming; but I also grieve over how segregated the church can be and how many barriers there are. In my book, A Bigger Table, I ask, “Can we create a spiritual community where no one has to go elsewhere, where everyone can find a place?”

Obviously, in the wake of the election of Donald Trump, that’s even more of a challenge.

Can I assume you believe the table needs to be more inviting, and therefore bigger?

Let’s talk about a provocative blog post that You have to look at who might be welcome you wrote in February 2016, “It’s Time We where you are. Whose stories aren’t represented?

Stopped Calling Donald Trump a Christian.” Whose stories aren’t you hearing right now?

Many evangelical church pastors and ChrisFor people who might consider themselves to tians who supported Donald Trump wanted to be progressive, they need to be as open to the place his faith out there, something he had never people on the right as the people they’re achimself done before. I don’t think most people customed to sitting with. That’s why the table outside of his political base get a sense that has to be ever-expanding.

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Gregory Bayne comes home to Boise with 6 Dynamic Laws for Success GEORGE PRENTICE A snappy screwball comedy that keeps you guessing as much it keeps you entertained, 6 Dynamic Laws for Succes (in Life, Love & Money) isn’t just the best Idaho-based film in recent memory; it’s one of the best original big-screen comedies of 2018 to date. Idaho writer/director extraordinaire Gregory Bayne, whose deep dive into documentary filmmaking included the much-acclaimed Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man, leaves the dread of death row behind with this film, which winks and nods to the foolishness lying just below life’s surface.

“People ask if it’s laugh-out-loud funny. I usually tell them, ‘It’ll make you giggle,” he said.

“And I just think a giggle is better anyway.”

The word “giggle” is spot on. Bayne’s turns of phrases in 6 Dynamic Laws reminded me of other class screwball comedies—and when I told Bayne that I kept thinking of 1973’s Paper Moon while watching his film, well, I might as well have told him he won the lottery.

“Oh my god. Paper Moon is one of my all-time favorites,” he said. “As we’ve been screening 6 Dynamic Laws at film festivals around the country, some reviews have compared our movie to Coen Brothers’ films, or something from Steven Soder-

6 Dynamic Laws for Success has already had a succesful spin on the film festival circuit, appearing in festivals in Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Texas , Washington and Barbados.

bergh, or even David Lynch. But Paper Moon?

Wow. I love [Director] Peter Bogdanovich. I can tell you that this movie is absolutely an homage to those screwy comedies.”

Therein lies some of Bayne’s own magic in 6 Dynamic Laws. At his story’s foundation is a crazy-quilt of a bank robbery gone bad, a self-help book that doubles as a treasure map and a poor schlub of a leading man (Travis Swartz), ironically named Ulysses. Double- and triple-crosses follow in a sly search for a missing $2.5 million. Along the way, hostages are taken (too many to count), there’s a poisoning and a few heads are hammered. Somehow Bayne keeps the whole thing floating along on a fizzy air of sweetness.

“It has been a fascinating experience, watching festival audiences react to the film,” said Bayne.

“I’ve had a number of people say, ‘I had no idea what to expect, but I feel completely entertained.’

That’s the highest compliment I could ever get.”

The film has already had a successful spin on

the festival circuit, appearing at film festivals in Florida, Georgia, Oregon, Texas and Washington. It even took home the top prize for Best Feature from the Barbados Independent Film Festival in January.

“But I can’t begin to tell you how fun it is to come home to Boise and get a full theatrical run at The Flicks,” said Bayne.

The Boise premiere of 6 Dynamic Laws is set for the evening of Thursday, May 10, when Bayne, along with his cast and crew, will rub elbows with attendees. Multiple daily screenings at The Flicks will follow beginning Friday, May 11.

“After that, we’ll open the film in other cities, including Los Angeles in June, but being here in our hometown is pretty great,” said Bayne.

Boise audiences should love 6 Dynamic Laws for Success. Sure, it’s a tale of murder, intrigue and betrayal, but it’s sweet despite those odds. Besides, it’s doubly fun to see such a great local film.

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Standing behind the small group assembled at Ming Studios on May 4, Development Director Teal Gardner announced that due to technical difficulties, there would be an interruption in the First Friday Films lineup, and though the delay would be only 15 minutes, she would “blame no one” if they left.

It was a comment on the strength of the films themselves that nobody did. First Friday Films sent up a trial balloon earlier this year when MING

screened a reel-to-reel cut of the Soviet silent film, Mother, and despite the interruption, the May installment showcasing three female-directed art films fulfilled its mission to bring abstract, non-narrative and boutique movies to a Boise audience.

“The hope is to choose films that are a little bit more accessible,” said Alex Hansen, who selected the shorts. “It’s an introductory course in experimental film.”

His choices reflected that ambition. “The Dragon is the Frame,”

by Mary Helena Clark, layered city

sounds, images from YouTube videos and evocative shots, but provided little in the way of plot or character development. “Silk Tatters” by Gina Telaroli explored a mood through a handful of characters, and Jennifer Reeder’s “A Million Miles Away” followed a substitute teacher who bonded with her wary students over a breakup via text message, and featured some extraordinary child acting.

Hansen said he chose the films because they represented a variety of styles and challenges

to the audience, and reflect art concepts not often given full voice in commercial cinema.

For future installments in the First Friday Films series, MING and Hansen hope to make use of Canyon Cinema’s 50 Film Tour: 43 16-millimeter films from the San Francisco, California-based collection that are being circulated in the U.S. and abroad through 2018.

“It’s a chance to see films you’re not going to see—ever,” he said.

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FOOD Boise bars and restaurants join the movement to replace plastic straws with paper LEX NELSON At this point, it may be difficult to find an American citizen who hasn’t heard of Trash Island, the nickname for the Great Pacific Garbage Patch between California and Hawaii. The pile, which sits at the center of what National Geographic calls the “Pacific trash vortex” and reportedly reached three times the size of France this March, is a massive calling card for the dangers of single-use plastics and their destructive impact on landfills and oceans worldwide. Though Boise is more than 400 miles from the nearest coastline, local restaurants and bars have been doing their parts to reduce waste by switching from plastic straws to paper straws on request, joining an international movement that seeks to cut down on single-use plastics one piece at a time.

One of the leaders of that movement is Jackie Nunez, founder of the Santa Cruz, Californiabased campaign The Last Plastic Straw. A trained kayak guide with an environmental activist bent, Nunez decided to dedicate herself full time to the reduction of single-use plastics following a kayaking trip she lead to the Glover’s Reef Atoll World Heritage Site in Belize, where her group saw the pristine waterway become “a river of trash” following a storm.

“I started talking about plastic straws back in 2009, just bringing it up with my friends,” Nunez said. “I volunteer with [Save Our Shores] beach cleanups and things like that, and I got to a point where I got very overwhelmed by the problem. … The analogy I had was if there’s a boat that was sinking, we kept bailing the boat with a teaspoon. We weren’t plugging that hole, but I didn’t know how to stop the flow.”

Inspiration struck following her Belize trip.

Back home in Santa Cruz, Nunez was sipping a drink at a beachside bar when she realized that the plastic straw she was using might soon become one of the many she’d kayaked past.

That straw, she said, was her own personal “last plastic straw,” and the spark of what would soon become a movement.

Nunez calls straws “the gateway issue” and “the poster child” for single-use plastic reduction.

According to Eco-Cycle, a nonprofit recycling company, U.S. citizens use some 500 million straws every day—enough to fill 46,400 40-foot school busses each year. They’re a staple in landfills because many are too thin and lightweight to make it through recycling machinery.

“The plastics problem, especially in the environment, has just increased exponentially,” Nunez said. “And if you start looking into it you see the production rate of plastics is just skyrocketing, yet our reclamation rates are flatlining over the last 40, 50 years. We can’t keep up with the rate we’re producing these.”

In 2010, Nunez started The Last Plastic Straw to raise awareness of the plastics problem, and how easy it is for an individual to make a difference by turning down plastic straws at bars and restaurants. For the retailers themselves, she referenced California’s Water is Precious campaign, which mandates that

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A cringe-inducing video of a straw being removed from a sea turtle’s nose helped boost awareness for the dangers of single-use plastics.

water only be served on request for drought conservation, and advised that they only offer straws made from paper, bamboo, metal or some other non-plastic material on request. In 2011, she ramped up her presence on social media, but it wasn’t until a 2015 video of a sea turtle having a plastic straw gruesomely extracted from its nose turned the world’s collective stomachs that her campaign really took off. The video, filmed by Texas A&M marine biologist Christine Figgener, went viral, and now has over 24 million views. Following that increase in public interest, Nunez joined up with the Plastic Pollution Coalition, a global alliance that shares her goals and provides her a larger platform.

“I work on this premise that nobody starts out to pollute the planet, they’re just not aware,” she said.

In Boise, the movement may have started with Ted Challenger, the owner of The Tailgate Taphouse, Dirty Little Roddy’s, China Blue and Amsterdam Lounge. In a March 28 Facebook post, Challenger wrote that his bars would stop serving plastic straws, posting, “All my bars are going to be without plastic straws and stir sticks.

We will offer paper straws on request.”

Amy Lyons, sustainability director for the local environmentally-minded restaurant duo Bittercreek Alehouse and Red Feather 18 Lounge, said Challenger inspired her to push owners Dave Krick and Jami Adams

FOOD/NEWS Breakfast for dinner has been around at least as long as easypour boxed cereal, but it has grown in popularity in recent years, with fast food chains like McDonald’s and Jack in the Box expanding their breakfast menus to all-day affairs. But what about breakfast for happy hour? James Long, head brewer for Barbarian Brewing, has a plan to make that happen in a very Boise way: by adding Guru Donuts maple bars and Form & Function espresso to his latest brew.

“I had the idea because a more popular style of beer that’s been surfacing these days is breakfast stout,” said Long, “and I thought it would be cool to do something with [Guru’s] donuts because they’re just a couple of doors down from our downtown spot. So I reached out to Angel [Moran, co-owner of Guru] and she was like, ‘Yeah, I’ll get you a bunch of maple bars.’”

After picking up the donuts from Moran in mid-April, Long added them to the Barbarian mash tun—a vessel used by brewers to mix grains with temperature-controlled water—to give the brew a hint of maple sweetness. To up the flavor even more, he threw in some maple syrup.

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“We’re going to age [it] in bourbon barrels for probably about six months, depending on how fast it picks up that character from the barrel,” Long said, adding that he’d imported barrels from Kentucky for the project.

Four or five months into the process of aging the brew, Long will start on the next step: aging green coffee beans in bourbon barrels, which will be sent a month later to local coffee shop Form & Function for roasting and ultimately added to the maple-infused stout.

“It’s different elements of breakfast all thrown into one beer,” Long said.

This isn’t the first time Barbarian has gone out on a conceptual limb with its suds, or even the first time Long has barrel-aged coffee beans. Right now, the brewery has a sour beer on tap called Toothstains made with blueberries and Ethiopian Harrar coffee beans aged in a Tempranillo barrel. Long brewed another, the Pisco Sour, with Sauvignon Blanc juice, grapefruit and lime, and it’s served on nitro with a dash of bitters to give it the sour punch and creamy mouthfeel of the cocktail that inspired it.

The donut and coffee breakfast stout hasn’t been christened yet, but Long says that despite the ingredients, he wouldn’t recommend

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BARBARIAN BREWING CREATES BREAKFAST STOUT WITH DONUTS AND COFFEE

Barbarian Brewing will spend six months aging its new breakfast stout.

starting your day with a mug of it.

“Well, If you want to start that early...” he joked, adding, “It’s going to be like a 9-percent beer, so pretty hefty, and it’s not going to have that much caffeine in it. If [customers] want to do that, good for them, but I feel like it will be more of a dessert beer.”

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WINESIPPER SPRING ROSE ROUNDUP

DAMILANO ROSATO, $23 There’s no vintage on the label, but the Syrah, Merlot and Barbera grapes for the rose from this Italian Barolo house are all from 2017. Sweet cherry and strawberry fruit on the nose is backed by an aromatic touch of five-spice powder. Crisp citrus balances the ripe peach and berry flavors. The long finish has a nice saline-tinged minerality.

2017 MOULIN DE GASSAC, GUILHEM ROSE, $9.99 Made with a 50/50 blend of Syrah and Carignan harvested from small hillside vineyards in France’s LanguedocRoussillon region, this wine is a definite bargain. It pours the palest pink with delicate aromas of floral strawberry.

The palate is round and ripe, offering a mix of bright strawberry, cherry, peach and rhubarb, backed by soft spice and a touch of mineral.

2017 PATTON VALLEY VINEYARD ROSE, $20 This rose of Pinot Noir from Oregon opens with creamy stone fruit and soft cherry aromas.

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FOOD for a straw changeover at both restaurants. A past transition attempt before 17 her hiring failed, but Lyons said the onrequest model she implemented in April has allowed the restaurants to make the switch while keeping costs down. The eateries now order paper straws through Aardvark, but while they cost more than 10 times what the plastic ones did (half a cent versus more than 6 cents), the number requested is low.

“One of my largest jobs within the company is really trying to analyze our waste, what we’re throwing away and how we can be better,” said Lyons, “... So I started looking around at single-use plastic products and single-use paper products, just trying to see what had the biggest impact, which is how I found The Last [Plastic] Straw movement.”

On April, Lyons made the local news when she asked Bittercreek and Red Feather staff to make a Boy Scouts-style pledge marking the conversion at a staff meeting; they recited a jokey oath while holding their hands aloft making the peace sign.

“We recorded this thing just to be cute and throw it up on Instagram, and then all of a sudden it had like 5,000 views in like two days, which was crazy because it legitimately was just supposed to be a funny, cute staff thing to get everybody in the know and engaged, but our guests just adored it,” Lyons said.

Aardvark topped Lyon’s list because its products are made in the U.S. from paper that’s in compliance with the Forest Stewardship Council and the Sustainable Forest Initiative. Plus, they can last up to an hour in an alcoholic beverage and three hours in a glass of water without breaking down.

“But while that’s really cool, and in your drink it won’t affect your experience, it actually only takes these paper straws 30 to 60 days to fully decompose in the landfill,” Lyons said. She added that offering straws on request will also significantly lower their yearly order: before, the two restaurants purchased a total of 130,000 plastic jumbo straws and 90,000 plastic stir straws a year.

“And that’s normal,” Lyons said. “That’s kind of the crazy thing. Those numbers sound massive, but that’s actually normal practice for most restaurants.”

Eureka, another restaurant on Eighth Street, will make the same change in early June. According to Beverage Director Trevor Tyler, the Hawthorne, California-based company has been preparing for the switch for a while.

“It’s actually something that I’ve been trying to initiate at Eureka for the past year,” said Tyler, who works out of the company’s Los Angeles office. “We’ve slowly been testing it in certain markets for the past six months, and we’ve just seen so much great feedback and success … Even though it’s probably a small effect, every little thing helps.”

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Eureka’s paper straws (shown above) will be sourced from Aardvark at a cost of 3.2 cents per straw.

Boise’s restaurant wasn’t a test market, but Tyler said the Eighth Street eatery will transition to paper next month. Because the chain is ordering straws for all 23 restaurants from Aardvark, it will score a price of 3.2 cents per straw (as opposed to .4 cents for plastic), making the change both environmentally savvy and relatively affordable.

Colin Hickman, the communications manager for the City of Boise Department of

A M Y LYO N S’ S TA F F S T R AW PL ED GE “O N M Y H O N O R, I WI L L D O M Y B EST TO D O M Y D U T Y FO R O U R PL ANE T AND OCE AN, TO ONLY PROVIDE STR AWS U P O N RE Q U EST, TO CALL IN MY TE AMMATES AND G UESTS AS NEED BE, TO KEEP O UR PL ANE T GREEN AND HE ALTHY.”

Public Works, said city officials are on board with restaurants ditching single-use plastics, and are looking into ways to make them more recyclable. These changes hinge on the city’s recently implemented recycling initiative in partnership with Renewlogy, a Salt Lake City company that has agreed to turn Boise’s plastics into biofuel.

“It’s residential-only at this point, but [the city is] hopefully looking to expand the Hefty

energy bag program to commercial in the long term,” said Hickman. “And things like plastic straws are accepted in the energy bags … We’ll be sending out materials to all the commercial customers in the next few weeks about some of the recycling changes, but then also offering ourselves up as a resource. Within Public Works we have a few staff, one in particular, dedicated to commercial recycling.”

Though these are big steps for a mid-sized city, on a national and global scale, Boise is still a bit behind the curve. In 2011, 9-yearold activist Milo Cress started a movement in Burlington, Vermont, called the Be Straw Free campaign, which went so far as to influence both the National Park Service, which has stopped using plastic straws at more than a dozen of its properties; and the National Restaurant Association, which now advocates the use of paper straws on request as a “best practice.” Plus, The New York Times reported in March that entire cities—including Malibu, Davis and San Luis Obispo in California, Miami Beach and Fort Myers in Florida, and Seattle—have banned or restricted restaurant use of plastic straws.

Abroad, a ban of all single-use plastics will go into effect in Taiwan by 2030, and Scotland will say goodbye to plastic straws by 2019.

In the United Kingdom, the New York Post reports fast food giant McDonald’s will start trial runs of paper straws in May. Still, thanks to local innovators, Boise is getting on the environmental track.

“I really think that in the next five to 10 years you’re going to see plastic straws being less and less used, and hopefully obsolete in the next 10 years or so,” said Tyler. “We’re just doing our part.”

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ASTROLOGY TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Born under the sign of Taurus, Edmund Wilson was a renowned twentieth-century author and critic who wrote more than 30 books. He also served as editor for Vanity Fair and The New Republic, and influenced the work of at least seven major American novelists. When he was growing up, he spent most of his free time reading books: 16 hours a day during summer vacations. His parents, worried about his obsessive passion, bought him a baseball uniform, hoping to encourage him to diversify his interests. His response was to wear the uniform while reading books 16 hours a day. I trust you will be equally dedicated to your own holy cause or noble pursuit in the coming weeks, Taurus. You have cosmic clearance to be single-minded about doing what you love.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): It’s possible you could pass for normal in the next three weeks; you might be able to fool a lot of people into thinking you’re an average, ordinary contributor to the dull routine. But it will be far healthier for your relationship with yourself if you don’t do such a thing. It will also be a gift to your less daring associates, who in my opinion would benefit from having to engage with your creative agitation and fertile chaos. So my advice is to reveal yourself as an imperfect work-in-progress who’s experimenting with novel approaches to the game of life.

Recognize your rough and raw features as potential building blocks for future achievements.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Paradise is scattered over the whole earth,” wrote the scientific poet Novalis, “and that is why it has become so unrecognizable.”

Luckily for you, Cancerian, quite a few fragments of paradise are gathering in your vicinity. It’ll be like a big happy reunion of tiny miracles all coalescing to create a substantial dose of sublimity.

Will you be ready to deal with this much radiance? Will you be receptive to so much relaxing freedom?

I hope and pray you won’t make a cowardly retreat into the trendy cynicism that so many people mistake for intelligence. (Because in that case, paradise might remain invisible.) Here’s my judicious advice: Be insistent on pleasure!

Be voracious for joy! Be focused on the quest for beautiful truths!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): These days, your friends and allies and loved ones want even more from you than they usually do. They crave more of your attention, more of your approval, more of your feedback. And that’s not all. Your friends and allies and loved ones also hope you will give more love to yourself. They will be excited and

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): One of the advantages you get from reading my horoscopes is that I offer confidential information about the gods’ caprices and leanings. For example, I can tell you that Saturn—also known as Father Time—is now willing to allot you a more luxurious relationship with time than usual, on one condition: that you don’t squander the gift on trivial pursuits. So I encourage you to be discerning and disciplined about nourishing your soul’s craving for interesting freedom. If you demonstrate to Saturn how constructively you can use his blessing, he’ll be inclined to provide more dispensations in the future.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Vincent van Gogh’s painting “The Starry Night” hangs on a wall in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. He created it in 1889 while living in a French asylum. Around that same time, 129 years ago, a sheepherder in Wyoming created a sourdough starter that is still fresh today. A cook named Lucille Clarke Dumbrill regularly pulls this frothy mass of yeast out of her refrigerator and uses it to make pancakes.

In the coming weeks, Libra, I’d love to see you be equally resourceful in drawing on an old resource. The past will have offerings that could benefit your future.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Love everyone twice as much and twice as purely as you ever have before. Your mental health requires it! Your future dreams demand it!

And please especially intensify your love for people you allegedly already love but sometimes don’t treat as well as you could because you take them for granted. Keep this Bible verse in mind, as well: “Don’t neglect to show kindness to strangers; for, in this way, some, without knowing it, have had angels as their guests.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): After meditating on your astrological aspects for an hour, I dozed off. As I napped, I had a dream in which an androgynous angel came to me and said, “Please inform your Sagittarius readers that they should be callipygian in the next two weeks.” Taken back, my dreaming self said to the angel, “You mean ‘callipygian’ as in ‘having beautiful buttocks’?” “Yes, sir,” the angel replied. “Bootylicious.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now is a favorable time to discuss in elegant detail the semi-secret things that are rarely or never talked about. It’s also a perfect moment to bring deep feelings and brave tenderness into situations that have been suffering from half-truths and pretense. Be aggressively sensitive, my dear Capricorn. Take a bold stand in behalf of compassionate candor.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In his 1931 painting The Persistence of Memory, Salvador Dali shows three clocks that seem to be partially liquefied, as if in the process of melting. His biographer Meredith EtheringtonSmith speculated that he was inspired to create this surrealistic scene when he saw a slab of warm Camembert cheese melting on a dinner table. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life, Aquarius. Be alert for creative inspiration that strikes you in the midst of seemingly mundane circumstances.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “My whole life is messed up with people falling in love with me,” said Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. She spoke the truth. She inspired a lot of adoration, and it stirred up more chaos than she was capable of managing. Luckily, you will have fewer problems with the attention coming your way, Pisces. I bet you’ll be skilled at gathering the benefits and you’ll be unflummoxed by the pitfalls.

But you’ll still have to work hard at these tasks. Here’s some help.

Tip #1: Stay in close touch with how you really feel about the people who express their interest in you. Tip #2: Don’t accept gifts with strings attached. Tip #3: Just because you’re honored or flattered that someone finds you attractive doesn’t mean you should unquestioningly blend your energies with them.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Torah is a primary sacred text of the Jewish religion. It consists of exactly 304,805 letters. When specially trained scribes make handwritten copies for ritual purposes, they must not make a single error in their transcription.

The work may take as long as 18 months. Your attention to detail in the coming weeks doesn’t have to be quite so painstaking, Aries, but I hope you’ll make a strenuous effort to be as diligent as you can possibly be.

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