Boise Weekly Vol. 27 Issue 40 by Boise Weekly

BOISE WEEKLY LOCA L A N D I N D E PE N D E N T

M A RC H 2 0 - 2 6 , 2 0 1 9

VO L U M E 2 7, I S S U E 4 0

Census Sensibility

Too Hot to Handler

City of Forts

Resort towns get anxious over growth

Expect the unexpected with Chelsea

BW’s unoﬃcal guide to TREEFORT MUSIC FEST

13-16 FREE TAKE ONE!

2 | MARCH 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY STAFF General Manager: Sally Freeman sally@boiseweekly.com Publisher: Matt Davison mdavison@idahopress.com Editorial Editor: George Prentice george@boiseweekly.com Senior Staff Writer: Harrison Berry harrison@boiseweekly.com Staff Writer: Lex Nelson lex@boiseweekly.com Listings Editor: Jay Vail Listings: calendar@boiseweekly.com Contributing Writers: Minerva Jayne, David Kirkpatrick, Cameron Rasmusson Advertising Account Executives: Shea Sutton, shea@boiseweekly.com Jill Weigel, jill@boiseweekly.com Classified Sales/Legal Notices classifieds@boiseweekly.com Creative Art Director: Jason Jacobsen jason@boiseweekly.com Graphic Designer: Sean Severud, sean@boiseweekly.com Contributing Artists: Jeffrey C. Lowe, Jeff Leedy, E.J. Pettinger, Ted Rall, Ashley Roshitsh, Jen Sorensen, Tom Tomorrow Circulation Man About Town: Stan Jackson stan@boiseweekly.com Distribution: Tim Anders, Char Anders, Becky Baker, Ken Griffith, Stan Jackson, Barbara Kemp, Warren O’Dell, Steve Pallasen, Zach Thomas Boise Weekly prints 39,000 copies every Wednesday, with 22,000 distributed free of charge at almost 1,000 locations throughout the Treasure Valley and 17,000 inserted in Idaho Press on Thursday. Additional copies of the current issue of Boise Weekly may be purchased for $1, payable in advance. Digital subscriptions: 12 months-$50, subscribe.boiseweekly.com If you are interested in getting a mailed subscription, please email subscriptions@boiseweekly.com To contact us: Boise Weekly’s office is located at 523 Broad St., Boise, ID 83702 Phone: 208-344-2055 • Fax: 208-342-4733 E-mail: info@boiseweekly.com www.boiseweekly.com The entire contents and design of Boise Weekly are ©2019 by PNG Media, LLC. Calendar Deadline: Wednesday at noon before publication date. Sales Deadline: Thursday at 3 p.m. before publication date. Deadlines may shift at the discretion of the publisher. Boise Weekly was founded in 1992 by Andy and Debi Hedden-Nicely. Larry Ragan had a lot to do with it, too. Boise Weekly is an edition of the Idaho Press.

EDITOR’S NOTE OUT ON A LIMB “Growth” appears to be the watchword of 2019. Economists remind us that new construction and development keep the unemployment rate low and revenues high. But purists complain that unbridled growth also means a diluted sense of place. Growth poses another, very particular challenge to Idaho’s resort communities. Simply put, if they grow too big, they may jeopardize their status as resort towns, eligible to collect local option taxes. BW contributing writer Cameron Rasmusson explores this dilemma on page 6. The quick-witted provocateur that is Chelsea Handler doesn’t disappoint on page 8. That’s where you can read about my unforgettable hour with the woman who has left her wildly popular television show and bestselling comedic tell-alls to forge a new path toward recovery. To say the least, she shared quite a bit in our conversation and, lucky you, we’ve included a few choice excerpts in this week’s issue. On page 9, BW’s Harrison Berry spends some time chatting with author Tommy Orange, just prior to his Saturday, March 23, Boise appearance as part of Storyfort. Orange’s bestseller There There is the subject of this year’s Treasure Valley Reads. BW’s Lex Nelson previews a Boise appearance from another world-class writer, poet Michael Bazzett, on page 10. On Wednesday, March 27, at Boise State, Bazzett will read excerpts from his new translation of the Mayan creation myth, The Popol Vuh. On page 11, I’ll preview the new film Gloria Bell, featuring a wonderful soundtrack and another amazing lead performance from Oscar-winner Julianne Moore. Harrison Berry returns on page 12 and brings us along on a visit with some Boise-based coffee roasters who curate an exclusive blend for Redd Square restaurant in Stanley. Yes, that means they drive the beans to Stanley each week. And in anticipation of this week’s Treefort Music Fest, don’t forget to pull out our unofficial Treefort survival guide on pages 13 through 16. You can thank us later. —George Prentice, Editor

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

ARTIST: Lindsay MacMillan TITLE: “Hulls Gulch in March” MEDIUM: Photography ARTIST STATEMENT: There is so much beauty surrounding us, don’t forget to slow down and take a look. My photographs are a way to document and learn about what I find in the wilds and grow in my garden. See more of my work at www.rockandfern. weebly.com or on Instagram @rockandfern.

SUBMIT Boise Weekly publishes original local artwork on its cover each week. One stipulation of publication is that the piece must be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in October. A portion of the proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all artists are eligible to apply. Cover artists will also receive 30 percent of the final auction bid on their pieces. Additionally, a portion of the proceeds support Boise Weekly’s continued mission of local journalism. To submit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. on Wednesdays or Thursdays. All original works are accepted. Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pickup if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded.

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 3

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

HARRISON BERRY

IT’S TREEFORT TIME BOISE WEEKLY IS YOUR VIRTUAL GOLDEN TICKE T TO THE 2019 EDITION OF TREEFORT MUSIC FEST. WE’LL SPRE AD OUR RESOURCES ACRO S S THE L ANDSCAPE, SHARING WITH YOU THE SIGHTS AND SOUNDS FROM COUNTLES S PERFORMERS. WE’LL ALSO KEEP YOU UP TO SPEED ON ALL THE OTHER FORTS. RE AD MORE AT BOISE WEEKLY.COM.

TRAVELING TAPS Sockeye Brewing is pulling up stakes from its longtime Cole Road locale on Saturday, March 30. It’s soliciting input for a future location. Read more at Food & Drink/ Food News.

AIRING THEIR GRIEVANCE Nearly 200 Boise area students walked out of class March 15 and made their way to the Idaho Statehouse where they staged a Youth Climate Strike. Read more at News/ Citydesk.

HANDING OVER THE DOUGH The owners of Boisebased pop-up Mission Donut have purchased Guru Donuts, a beloved Boise icon. They plan to keep Guru’s name and mission. Read more at Food & Drink / Food News.

OPINION

4 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26, 2019 | 5

NEWS A ‘LOT’ TO LOSE

If Idaho resort communities grow too big, local option taxes might be at risk CAMERON RASMUSSON Several Idaho towns have seen their populations rise in recent years, but like any growth spurt, those expansions have been accompanied by an awkward phase or two. While growth typically brings with it the benefit of a broader tax base, some Idaho towns could instead end up losing revenue, depending on the results of the allimportant 2020 census. For example, officials in the North Idaho city of Sandpoint are nervously eyeing growth projections that could jeopardize their access to local option taxing. Sandpoint is one of 14 Idaho cities allowed to use local option taxes. Originally implemented by the state in 1978 as a tool for counties with populations of 20,000 or less, LOT authority was refined in 1984 to benefit communities with populations of 10,000 or less. In particular, the LOT authority was intended to benefit resort communities and the state statute allows for qualifying cities to implement taxes on hotel stays and/or by-the-drink liquor sales. In effect, a good portion of the tax burden is shifted to tourists. But Sandpoint is rapidly approaching the LOT population limit of 10,000, at which point it no longer qualifies for resort city revenue. “The artificial population cap is contrary to the voice of our voters and is not in the best interest of our residents, businesses and visitors,” wrote Sandpoint City Administrator Jennifer Stapleton in a recent analysis, adding that the community is at real risk of losing LOT revenues. In 2010, Sandpoint’s population was measured at 7,457. The 2017 estimated population was 8,390, and based on city data, Stapleton believes that number will only grow higher. “Our own estimates, based on city utility and housing vacancy data, project that our city population will likely pass the 10,000 [resident] resort-city threshold in the 2020 census,” she wrote. “If not that year, then definitely within the next one to two years.” Sandpoint isn’t the only resort city in danger of losing the revenue mechanism. The Wood River Valley

community of Hailey is also creeping toward the population cap. Hailey’s 2010 population was 7,960, and it climbed to 8,282 in 2017. According to Hailey City Administrator Heather Dawson, that city’s officials aren’t immediately worried about crossing the line by the 2020 census. That said, she added that Hailey is keeping a close eye on growth patterns because losing LOT revenues would be debilitating. “Our local option tax changed the way we are able to deliver services,” said Dawson. “It made a huge difference in terms of quality of service to our community. It’s an important element.” Meanwhile, LOTs continue to be a source of tension between some Republican lawmakers at the Idaho Statehouse and a number of Gem State municipalities that yearn to institute their own LOTs. According to Mike Journee, spokesman for the City of Boise, LOTs would be a tool that could be used to great effect in the City of Trees, where LOT revenues might help

create and sustain improved public transportation options. In the current economic model, modest public transit options are funded via the city’s general fund. Public transit would just be one possible beneficiary of LOT revenues in Boise. Other projects, such as possible initiatives to promote affordable housing, could also stand to benefit. City of Boise officials have tried repeatedly for more than a decade to initiate a hearing on LOTs at the Idaho Legislature, but to little avail. “It’s a bit ironic that a state government that talks so much about local control is unwilling to give cities like Boise … the benefit of the doubt,” said Journee. Meanwhile, officials in some of those Idaho cities small enough to qualify for LOTs have used the revenues to open new horizons. For example, Sandpoint has relied on resort city taxes for nearly two decades. Voters there approved their first LOT, a 5 percent tax on local hotel stays, in 2002. Thirteen years later, voters increased the LOT to 7 percent, renewing for another 10 years. The hotel tax helps

fund public transportation, police and fire protection, parks, invasive species control and much more. Not all of Sandpoint’s LOT revenues are designed with tourists in mind. A sales tax approved by voters in 2015, for the purpose of funding recreation projects, impacts tourists and locals alike. Voters approved the new sales tax with a 73 percent majority. The subsequent revenues helped fund the reconstruction for the city’s War Memorial Field and its crumbling grandstands. Overflow funds were earmarked for other parks projects. To date, the tax has raised nearly $4 million in revenue, funding the grandstand construction and a forthcoming replacement of the field turf. Stapleton said she’s hopeful a legislative solution will prevent the community from losing resort-city tax dollars. To that end, she’s in communication with District 1 legislators. According to Idaho Sen. Jim Woodward (R-Sagle), and House Rep. Sage Dixon (RPonderay), Sandpoint and Hailey officials have at least one reason to breathe a temporary sigh of relief. According to a recent Idaho Attorney General opinion, resort-city taxes are legally permitted to run the course of their voterapproved lifespan, even if the city grows past 10,000 people during that time. That means that Sandpoint would have access at least until its voter-approved hotel tax expires in 2026. “This opinion gives us a little more time to consider a path forward should the 2020 census reveal that our population has exceeded 10,000,” said Dixon. While that gives the city some breathing room, Dixon was quick to add that it’s still not a permanent solution. Nevertheless, lawmakers said they have some conceptual ideas they’re eager to develop. “We’re still actively working on a legislative fix,” said Woodward. “We have a draft bill that I put together with a little help. Rep. Dixon is working with his House colleagues to clear a path for it. I think I can get it through the Senate.” JEFFRE Y C . LOWE

6 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

“I Get Back Pain When I Do Crunches, Is There Something I’m Doing Wrong?” By: Leading Physical Therapist, Bret adams

BOISE (ID) - A lady emailed ƚŚĞ ĐůŝŶŝĐ Ă ĨĞǁ ǁĞĞŬƐ ĂŐŽ ĂŶĚ ĂƐŬĞĚ͗ ͞/ ŐĞƚ ůŽǁ ďĂĐŬ pain doing crunches. Am / ĚŽŝŶŐ ƐŽŵĞƚŚŝŶŐ ǁƌŽŶŐ͕ Žƌ ƐŚŽƵůĚ / ĂǀŽŝĚ ƚŚĞŵ͍͟ /͛ŵ ŐůĂĚ this lady asked beĐĂƵƐĞ ƚŚŝƐ ƟŵĞ ŽĨ ǇĞĂƌ͕ ƉĞŽƉůĞ ďĞŐŝŶ ƚŽ ŐĞƚ ŵŽƌĞ ĂĐƟǀĞ ŶŽǁ ƚŚĂƚ ^ƉƌŝŶŐ ŝƐ ĐŽŵŝŶŐ ƐŽŽŶ͕ ǁĞ ƐĞĞ Ă ďŝŐ ƌŝƐĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ŶƵŵďĞƌ ŽĨ ƉĞŽƉůĞ ƐƵīĞƌŝŶŐ ĨƌŽŵ ďĂĐŬ ƉĂŝŶ͘ Even though crunches are one of the most common go-to exercise to get your “abs ƐƵŵŵĞƌ ƌĞĂĚǇ͟ Ͳ ĂƌĞ ƚŚĞǇ ƌĞĂůůǇ ƚŚĂƚ ĞīĞĐƟǀĞ͍ More importantly, can this exercise cause back ƉĂŝŶ͍ /Ĩ ǇŽƵ͛ǀĞ ĞǀĞƌ ƚƌŝĞĚ ƚŽ ĚŽ ĂŶ Ăď ǁŽƌŬŽƵƚ ĂŶĚ ƌĞĂůŝǌĞĚ ŚĂůĨ ǁĂǇ ƚŚƌŽƵŐŚ ƚŚĂƚ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ŝƐ ĨĞĞůŝŶŐ ƚŚŝŶŐƐ ŝƚ ƐŚŽƵůĚŶ͛ƚ ďĞ ĨĞĞůŝŶŐ͕ ǇŽƵ͛ƌĞ ŶŽƚ ĂůŽŶĞ͘ &Žƌ ŵĞ ;ĂŶĚ ŵĂŶǇ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ƉĂƟĞŶƚƐͿ ŝƚ͛Ɛ ĂŶǇ Ăď ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ ƚŚĂƚ ĂƐŬƐ ŵĞ ƚŽ Ɛŝƚ ƵƉ ŽŶ ŵǇ tailbone and move my legs that causes a slight ƚǁŝŶŐĞ ŝŶ ŵǇ ďĂĐŬ͘ tŚŝĐŚ ŝƐ ĨƌƵƐƚƌĂƟŶŐ ǁŚĞŶ ǇŽƵ ǁĂŶƚ ƚŽ ŬĞĞƉ ĂĐƟǀĞ ďƵƚ ĐĂŶ͛ƚ ďĞĐĂƵƐĞ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ŝƐ ŝŶ ƉĂŝŶ͊ dŽ ƵŶĚĞƌƐƚĂŶĚ ǁŚǇ ƚŚŝƐ ŚĂƉƉĞŶƐ͕ ǇŽƵ ŚĂǀĞ ƚŽ ƌĞŵĞŵďĞƌ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŚĞ ĂďƐ ĂŶĚ ůŽǁĞƌ back are part of your core. tŚŝůĞ ǁĞ ŽŌĞŶ ƚŚŝŶŬ ŽĨ ŽƵƌ ĐŽƌĞ ĂƐ ďĞŝŶŐ our abs, the abs are only one part of the ĞƋƵĂƟŽŶ͘ zŽƵƌ ĐŽƌĞ ŝƐ ŵĂĚĞ ƵƉ ŽĨ Ă ŐƌŽƵƉ ŽĨ ŵƵƐĐůĞƐ ƚŚĂƚ ǁŽƌŬ ƚŽŐĞƚŚĞƌ ƚŽ ƐƵƉƉŽƌƚ ƚŚĞ ďŽĚǇ͘ /ƚ ǁƌĂƉƐ ĂƌŽƵŶĚ ƚŚĞ ĞŶƟƌĞ ďŽĚǇ͕ ĂŶĚ ŝŶĐůƵĚĞƐ ŵƵƐĐůĞƐ ƚŚĂƚ ĂƌĞ ŝŶ ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ƚŽŽ͘ tŚĞŶ ǇŽƵ ĚŽ ĂŶǇ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞƐ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ĐŽƌĞ͕ ǇŽƵ͛ƌĞ ŝŵƉĂĐƟŶŐ Ăůů ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŽƚŚĞƌ ƉĂƌƚƐ ƚŚĂƚ ŵĂŬĞ ƵƉ ǇŽƵƌ ĐŽƌĞ ƚŽŽ Ͳ ŝŶĐůƵĚŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ͘ >ŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ƉĂŝŶ ĚƵƌŝŶŐ ĂŶǇ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ involving your core is usually a sign that your ĐŽƌĞ ŝƐ ƚŽŽ ǁĞĂŬ ƚŽ ĚŽ ƚŚĂƚ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ͘ ^Ž͕ ǁŚǇ ĚŽĞƐ ƚŚŝƐ ŚĂƉƉĞŶ͍ tĞůů͕ ŝĨ ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ŝƐŶ͛ƚ ƐƚƌŽŶŐ ĞŶŽƵŐŚ͕ ƚŚĞ ĐŽƌĞ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞƐ ǇŽƵ͛ƌĞ ĚŽŝŶŐ ǁŝƚŚ Ăůů ƚŚĞ ƌŝŐŚƚ ŝŶƚĞŶƟŽŶƐ͕ ŵĂǇ ũƵƐƚ ďĞ ĂƐŬŝŶŐ ƚŽŽ ŵƵĐŚ ŽĨ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ĐĂƵƐŝŶŐ ƚŚĞ ŵƵƐĐůĞƐ ƚŽ ƐƚƌĂŝŶ͘ ůƚĞƌŶĂƟǀĞůǇ͕ ŝĨ ǇŽƵ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ǁĞĂŬŶĞƐƐ ĂŶǇǁŚĞƌĞ ĞůƐĞ ŝŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďŽĚǇ͕ ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ŵĂǇ ŽǀĞƌĐŽŵƉĞŶƐĂƚĞ ďǇ taking on more than it can handle. Pain during ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ ĚŽĞƐŶ͛ƚ ĂůǁĂǇƐ ŵĞĂŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ Žƌ ĐŽƌĞ ŝƐ ǁĞĂŬ Ͳ ƉĂŝŶ ŝŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ĐĂŶ ĂůƐŽ ďĞ Ă ƐŝŐŶ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŚĞ ǁĂǇ ǇŽƵ ƉĞƌĨŽƌŵ ƚŚĞ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ ŶĞĞĚƐ ƚǁĞĂŬŝŶŐ͘ For many abdominal exercises, a small ŵŝƐƐƚĞƉ ŝŶ ŚŽǁ ǇŽƵ ƉĞƌĨŽƌŵ ƚŚĞ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ ĐĂŶ put pressure on your back, as the spine gets ŝƌƌŝƚĂƚĞĚ ĞĂĐŚ ƟŵĞ͕ ǁĞ ŵŽǀĞ ŝŶƚŽ Ă ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶ ƚŚĂƚ ŝƐŶ͛ƚ ĐŽƌƌĞĐƚ͘ KŶĞ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŵŽƐƚ ĐŽŵŵŽŶ ŵŝƐƚĂŬĞƐ ǁĞ ƐĞĞ ƉĞŽƉůĞ ŵĂŬĞ ǁŚĞŶ ƉĞƌĨŽƌŵŝŶŐ these types of exercises is “hyperextension” ;ƚŚŝƐ ŝƐ ǁŚĞŶ ǇŽƵƌ ŚŝƉƐ ĂƌĞŶ͛ƚ ƚƵĐŬĞĚ ƵŶĚĞƌ ĐĂƵƐŝŶŐ Ă ĐƵƌǀĞ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ƐƉŝŶĞͿ͘ /Ĩ ǇŽƵ ĐĂŶ ĨŽĐƵƐ ŽŶ ŬĞĞƉŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ƚĂŝůďŽŶĞ ;ŚŝƉƐͿ ƚƵĐŬĞĚ ƵŶĚĞƌ͕ ĚƌĂǁŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ďĞůůǇ ďƵƩŽŶ ƚŽǁĂƌĚƐ ƚŚĞ ƐƉŝŶĞ͕ ƚŚŝƐ ǁŝůů ŚĞůƉ ĂůůĞǀŝĂƚĞ ďĂĐŬ ƉĂŝŶ ĂŶĚ ƉƌĞǀĞŶƚ ŝƚ ĨƌŽŵ ŐĞƫŶŐ ǁŽƌƐĞ͘ ŶŽƚŚĞƌ ŚĞůƉĨƵů ƟƉ ƚŽ ŬĞĞƉ ŝŶ ŵŝŶĚ ŝƐ ƚŽ ƌĞŵĞŵďĞƌ ƚŚĂƚ ƚŚĞ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ŶĞĞĚƐ ƚŽ ƌĞŵĂŝŶ

͚ŐůƵĞĚ͛ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ŇŽŽƌ ĨŽƌ ƚŚĞ ŵĂũŽƌŝƚǇ ŽĨ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞƐ ŝŶǀŽůǀŝŶŐ ĂďĚŽŵŝŶĂůƐ͘ tŚĞŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ĐŽŵĞƐ Žī ƚŚĞ ŇŽŽƌ͕ ŝƚ͛Ɛ ŝŶ Ă ǀƵůŶĞƌĂďůĞ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶ͘ ^Ž͕ ďĞĨŽƌĞ ǇŽƵ ƉƌŽŐƌĞƐƐ ǁŝƚŚ ĂŶǇ ĐŽƌĞ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ͕ ŵĂŬĞ ƐƵƌĞ ǇŽƵ ĐĂŶ ƉĞƌĨŽƌŵ ƚŚĞŵ ǁŝƚŚ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ŇĂƚ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ŇŽŽƌ ĮƌƐƚ Ͳ ƚŚĂƚ ǁĂǇ ǇŽƵ͛ůů ƉƌŽƚĞĐƚ ǇŽƵƌƐĞůĨ ĨƌŽŵ ďĂĐŬ ƉĂŝŶ ĂŶĚ ǇŽƵ͛ůů ďĞ ƐƚƌĞŶŐƚŚĞŶŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ Ăƚ ƚŚĞ ƐĂŵĞ ƟŵĞ͘ EŽƚ ŽŶůǇ Ă ǁĞĂŬ ĐŽƌĞ͕ ďƵƚ ŵƵƐĐůĞ ƟŐŚƚŶĞƐƐ ĂŶĚ ĨĂƟŐƵĞ ĐĂŶ ĂůƐŽ ůĞĂĚ ƚŽ ƉŽŽƌ ĨŽƌŵ ĂŶĚ ůŽǁĞƌ back pain too. /Ĩ ǇŽƵƌ ŐůƵƚĞƐ ĂŶĚ ŚŝƉƐ ĂƌĞ ƌĞĂůůǇ ƟŐŚƚ͕ ĐŚĂŶĐĞƐ ĂƌĞ ǇŽƵ͛ůů ĨĞĞů ƚŚĞ ƐƚƌĂŝŶ ŝŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ĚƵƌŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ĚĂŝůǇ ĂĐƟǀŝƟĞƐ͕ ŶŽƚ ũƵƐƚ ĞǆĞƌĐŝƐĞ͘ Ɛ ǁĞůů ĂƐ ƟŐŚƚŶĞƐƐ͕ ǁŚĞŶ ǇŽƵ͛ƌĞ ƟƌĞĚ͕ ǇŽƵƌ ŵƵƐĐůĞƐ ƐƚŽƉ ĨƵŶĐƟŽŶŝŶŐ ƉƌŽƉĞƌůǇ ĂŶĚ ǇŽƵƌ ďŽĚǇ ǁŝůů ůŽŽŬ ĨŽƌ ŶĞĂƌďǇ ŵƵƐĐůĞ ŐƌŽƵƉƐ ƚŽ ĐŽŵƉĞŶƐĂƚĞ Ͳ ŵŽƐƚ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ƟŵĞ ƚŚĞ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ and hips being the ones that take the strain! So, what can you do to stop back pain ŐĞƫŶŐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ ǁĂǇ͍ First, stop doing any movements that cause you pain. Any pain is ǇŽƵƌ ďŽĚǇ͛Ɛ ǁĂǇ ŽĨ ƚĞůůŝŶŐ ǇŽƵ ƚŽ ƐƚŽƉ ǁŚĂƚ ǇŽƵ͛ƌĞ ĚŽŝŶŐ ŶŽ ŵĂƩĞƌ ǁŚĂƚ͘ ĂƐŝĐĂůůǇ͕ ŝĨ ŝƚ ĚŽĞƐŶ͛ƚ ĨĞĞů ŐŽŽĚ͕ ĚŽŶ͛ƚ ĚŽ ŝƚ͊ dŚĞ ŐŽŽĚ ŶĞǁƐ ŝƐ ƚŚĞƌĞ ĂƌĞ ƉůĞŶƚǇ ŽĨ ƐŝŵƉůĞ ǁĂǇƐ ǇŽƵ ĐĂŶ ƐƚƌĞŶŐƚŚĞŶ ǇŽƵƌ ĐŽƌĞ ǁŝƚŚŽƵƚ ƐƚƌĂŝŶŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ back. Exercises like dead bugs, glute bridges and planks, are all great examples of movements ƚŚĂƚ ǁŝůů ŚĞůƉ ƐƚƌĞŶŐƚŚĞŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ĂŶĚ ĞŶƟƌĞ ĐŽƌĞ ĂůŽŶŐ ǁŝƚŚ ĚĞĐƌĞĂƐŝŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ĐŚĂŶĐĞƐ ŽĨ ŐĞƫŶŐ ĂŶǇ ŝŶũƵƌŝĞƐ͘ dŽ ŐĞƚ ĨĂŵŝůŝĂƌ ǁŝƚŚ ƚŚĞ ĨĞĞůŝŶŐ ŽĨ ƉůĂŶƟŶŐ ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ŽŶ ƚŚĞ ground: ͻ >ĂǇ ŽŶ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ǁŝƚŚ ǇŽƵƌ ůĞŐƐ ŝŶ ƚŚĞ air, squeezing a block or tennis ball ďĞƚǁĞĞŶ ǇŽƵƌ ůĞŐƐ͘ dƌǇ ƚŽ ŇĂƩĞŶ ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ŐƌŽƵŶĚ͘ ŽŶ͛ƚ ƚƌǇ ƚŽ ďĞĂƌ ĚŽǁŶ ŚĂƌĚ ŝŶƚŽ ƚŚĞ ŵĂƚ Žƌ ŇŽŽƌ ĂƐ ƚŚŝƐ ǁŝůů ŽŶůǇ ŝŶĐƌĞĂƐĞ ƐƉŝŶĂů pressure and increase your back pain. dŚŝƐ ŝƐ ŚŝŐŚůǇ ƐƉĞĐŝĮĐ͘ zŽƵ ǁĂŶƚ ƚŽ ǁŽƌŬ ƚŚĞ ĐŽƌĞ ũƵƐƚ ĞŶŽƵŐŚ͖ ŶŽƚ ƚŽŽ ŵƵĐŚ ĂŶĚ ŶŽƚ ƚŽŽ ůŝƩůĞ͘ ͻ ^ůŽǁůǇ ƐƚĂƌƚ ƚŽ ůŽǁĞƌ ǇŽƵƌ ůĞŐƐ͕ squeezing around the block/tennis ďĂůů ;Ă ƐůŝŐŚƚ ďĞŶĚ ŽĨ ƚŚĞ ŬŶĞĞ ŝƐ ĮŶĞͿ͘ ͻ :ƵƐƚ ďĞĨŽƌĞ ǇŽƵ ĨĞĞů ǇŽƵƌ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ƚƌǇ ƚŽ ůŝŌ Žī ƚŚĞ ŐƌŽƵŶĚ͕ ƐƋƵĞĞǌĞ ƚŚĞ ďůŽĐŬ͕ ƉƵƐŚ ƚŚĞ ůŽǁĞƌ ďĂĐŬ ƚŽǁĂƌĚ the ground underneath you, and take three deep breaths. ͻ dŚĞŶ ƐůŽǁůǇ ƌĂŝƐĞ ǇŽƵƌ ůĞŐƐ ďĂĐŬ ƵƉ ƚŽ ƚŚĞ ƐƚĂƌƟŶŐ ƉŽƐŝƟŽŶ͘ ͻ ƌƵŶĐŚĞƐ ĂƌĞŶ͛ƚ ďĂĚ ĨŽƌ ǇŽƵ ǁŚĞŶ performed correctly. Just make sure ǇŽƵ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ƐƚƌŽŶŐ ĐŽƌĞ ǁŝƚŚŽƵƚ ǇŽƵƌ ďĂĐŬ ĐŽŵŝŶŐ Žī ƚŚĞ ŇŽŽƌ͕ ƵŶƟů ǇŽƵ progress to being able to perform ƚŚĞŵ ƐĂĨĞůǇ͘ /͛ůů ƐƉĞĂŬ ƚŽ ǇŽƵ ĂŐĂŝŶ ŶĞǆƚ ǁĞĞŬ͕ ŚĂǀĞ Ă ŐƌĞĂƚ ǁĞĞŬ͊ The author, Bret Adams, is a Physical Therapist ĂŶĚ ĐŽͲŽǁŶĞƌ ŽĨ /ĚĂŚŽ ^ƉŝŶĞ ĂŶĚ WŚǇƐŝĐĂů dŚĞƌĂƉǇ͘ /Ĩ ǇŽƵ ŚĂǀĞ ĂŶǇ ƋƵĞƐƟŽŶƐ ĂďŽƵƚ back pain, you can call (208) 991-2999 or email him at bret.adams@spinept.com

SHOW US YOUR TREEFORT WRISTBAND AND GET A FREE* PINT OF IDAHO BEER OR HOUSE WINE *WITH PURCHASE, MUST BE 21+

855 W. Broad St., Boise, ID 208.433.1234 F O R MO R E DET AI LS VI SI T B O NEFI SHGRI LL.CO M

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 7

JASON ME RRIT T R ADARPIC S FOR SVFF

CITIZEN CHELSEA HANDLER

On staying 9 years old, loss, recovery and Robert Mueller GEORGE PRENTICE

the words crossed my lips, I knew I had For the record, interviews really don’t make me botched the title of the book. nervous. Perhaps it’s the decades of interview“IT’S CALLED LIFE WILL BE THE ing everyone from Nobel Prize winners to serial killers, but more likely it’s the fact that the truth DEATH OF ME!” Handler screamed from just offstage. The audience burst is the truth. All that said, when I was invited into laughter, and my head hung so low to interview Chelsea Handler in front of a that it practically detached from my body. standing-room-only audience at the Sun Valley Handler walked out to a thunderous Film Festival, I felt the proverbial butterflies. While I immediately said yes, I reminded myself ovation from the still-laughing audience as I begged for mercy. What followed was that Handler doesn’t suffer any fools and is, more often than not, the smartest person in the nearly an hour of tender, tearful, joyful, room. Simply put, I knew I had better bring my hilarious conversation that I will not foring about Donald Trump being president. It felt A game if I was going to sit a few feet away from get anytime soon. Here are a few excerpts. good. Then, what we uncovered in the followone of quickest wits on the planet. ing sessions was my adult outrage was part of a In your memoir, you say that your dad used long-held outrage from my childhood, when my Before the event, publicists offered me an to tell you there was usually a line or two in advance copy of Life Will Be the Death of Me, brother died, and how everything was unhinged. any book that could summarize or define it. As Handler’s full-on, emotion-packed memoir. The book, which will hit bookshelves Tuesday, I was reading through your memoir, I continuYou were 9 years old then, and it seems a ally changed my mind, saying to myself, “That’s big part of you remained 9 years old for many, April 9, is devastating and unlike anything Handler has written before. Then came March the line” or, “No, that’s definitely the line.” many years to come. 14, the date of my inThe very last thing my the-spotlight conversabrother told me was, “I’m tion with Handler on never going to leave you with the stage of the Argyros these people. Don’t worry. Performing Arts Center I’m not going away. You’re in Ketchum. It’s a never going to be without major understatement me.” Then he died when I “ WHAT I RE A LIZED BY TALKIN G TO M Y to say I had over-prewas 9. Through much of my pared for the moment. life, I was like, “I’m indepenTHER APIST WAS THAT I WAS ALWAYS I stepped into the dent. Get away from me. I spotlight, was greeted RUNNING, RUNNING, RUNNING. NE VER don’t need anybody. I’m the with polite applause, only person I can rely on.” STOPPI NG. I JUST COULDN’T SIT STILL.” and began my fromthe-heart introduction. Your brother died I spoke of Handler’s when he was 22 years old. wildly popular televiTwenty-two years later, you sion shows, her five were faced with the loss of bestselling books, her your mother. unbridled honesty and When my brother died, Ultimately, I decided the line was something her newfound, heartfelt desire to share her it felt unrecoverable, like I would never get over your mother told you just before she died: “You it. When someone is snatched from your life, path toward healing. “It’s an unforgettable book,” I said, building don’t know your own strength. Please use it for you think there’s no amount of therapy that can something good.” to her big introduction. “And its title is…” make you feel okay. Twenty-two years later, when This book came after a bit of an emotional Then, it happened. Every ounce of blood in my mom died, she wanted me to help her die. I my body rushed to my head, muscling out any breakdown after the 2016 election, and I needed wanted it to be over with, because I didn’t want to see a psychiatrist. It was like a rug had been brain cells from my cerebellum. her to suffer and she’d struggled with cancer for pulled out from under me, and my outrage was “And the title of this jaw-dropping book so many years. really high. I was mad all day long. I would go to is…” I paused, then blurted out, “The title is work, film my TV show, go home and scream, Death Will Be the Life of Me.” I’m certain that I won’t be the first to tell “Can you believe this happened?” I spent my I felt myself turn white. My eyes froze, I you that I was not prepared for your book. Your first three sessions with my psychiatrist bitchforgot to breathe, and in the nanosecond after fans know your brilliant comedy, but this is so 8 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

personal and unexpectedly poignant. I didn’t want to write another silly, stupid book. I needed to do something authentic, something meaningful. Look, I’ve made a living by oversharing in my comedy, and I wasn’t really planning on writing anything like this unless I had something to say. You write that, before therapy, you had lost the joy from your life. What I realized by talking to my therapist was that I was always running, running, running. Never stopping. I just couldn’t sit still. My therapist told me over and over, “You have a deep, deep injury. Stop pretending. You’re not going to be any use to anybody until you are any use to yourself.” Can we talk for a second about Robert Mueller? I’m obsessed with him. I’ve always been attracted to older men, so watch yourself. He’s a Marine, and that’s hot to me. He’s an older man who can still keep his act together. He has a six-pack under that suit. I’m sure of it. In fact, it’s probably an eight-pack. Are you a little afraid of what the Mueller Report might not include? Not at all. I think we have a criminal on our hands. And anything that we suspect the president of doing, he’s already done. That report can’t come soon enough. I’m very horny for that report. I’m like a cat in heat. Your book is quite remarkable, and it’s one of the few books that I can’t wait to read again, as soon as possible. At the very least, you might want to read the title again. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

ELENA SEIBERT

CITIZEN TOMMY ORANGE

The author of There There talks about bucking stereotypes and the Gertrude Stein quote that gave his book its name HARRISON BERRY

with a nonprofit out of Berkeley, [California], and I came to respect and revere people’s stories, and so I never would have felt right about turning somebody’s actual story into a character. I generously pulled from my own life and from my family, and just from experience. I knew I wanted a dynamic range because it’s been so stunted by this monolithic image of Native people. It’s a New York Times bestseller, the winner of the 2018 National Book Critics Circle Award’s John Leonard Prize and it was shortlisted for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. There There, the debut novel from Tommy Orange, also won praise from luminaries like Margaret Atwood and Marlon James, and it’s this year’s Treasure Valley Reads title. It’s lauded for good reason: The novel, which takes the form of a short story cycle set in Oakland, California, ahead of the Big Oakland Powwow, is powerful, angry, sad, funny and sensitive, packed with vivid characters and a gripping sense of place, all of which dislodge the image of the “real, authentic Native American” stuck in a headdress that’s the permanently grimacing subject of black-and-white photos. Boise Weekly caught up with Orange ahead of his Saturday, March 23, visit to Boise, where he will talk at The Egyptian Theatre, courtesy of Treasure Valley Reads and Storyfort. The title of your book comes from a Gertrude Stein quote about Oakland: “There is no there there.” How did you find that quote, and how has that “there there”-ness resonated with you and your work? Gertrude Stein and Jack London are the most well-known [Oakland] authors and they’re both pretty old. [The quote] speaks to this rich tapestry and the history of its present state. [It] has been misused as saying that Oakland is lacking character, but [Stein] was really talking about how her home where she grew up was no longer recognizable. The theme of the book is characters trying to understand their own identity as Native people. How that makes sense living in OakBOISE WEEKLY.COM

land: Much of what used to be Native land has been transformed into what we see today. There are so many parallels and resonances that I felt when I read that quote that I knew it was going to be part of the title. There There is full of references to contemporary arts, from Radiohead and MF Doom to Louise Erdrich. Are you doing that deliberately?

How are you fighting against that monolithic image of the Native American? Any Native person is automatically up against this idea of what it means to be a “real, authentic Native person.” You’re facing this ridiculous stereotype of somebody in a headdress. Even now, movies that are coming out are historical and steeped in this idea that to be a “real” Native American means to be in history or in a headdress.

What does it take to do that well? Is that a story only a Native person can tell? I’d say in 2019, if a white person’s trying to write a Native story, I would say, “don’t.” If a white writer’s trying to write from a black experience, I’d say “don’t” also. I just wonder why people can’t find something in their own experience. It feels by nature a bit exploitative or [like] a failure of imagination. Who do you see as your audience? In regards to who I thought might be reading my book, the director of my school of my MFA program told me if I wrote a book, I could get a teaching job, so my only goal was to publish a book anywhere in order to get a teaching job. I imagined my peers, other teachers at my school, and maybe other Native people in the academic world.

What are you reading, and what, if anything, are you writing now? I just finished Heavy [by Kiese Laymon], which was really, really good. I’ve been reading “I FEEL STRONGLY THAT NOVELS SHOULD BE a bunch of memoirs lately. I just re-read Ada SPE AKING TO THE PEOPLE OF THE PEOPLE’S TIME. Limon’s The Carrying. I I DON’T CARE WHAT PEOPLE WILL THINK ABOUT just picked up Mouthful of Birds, a short story IT IN 50 YE ARS—I’LL BE DE AD. I’M INTERESTED collection by Samanta Schweblin. I’ve started IN SPE AKING TO PEOPLE NOW.” up two different novels since finishing There There. They’re both about 100 pages. I’m working on a short story collection. I’ve also started a memoir. I’m not fully comI feel strongly that novels should be speakmitted to any of them. What are your scruples about storytelling to the people of the people’s time. I don’t ing? care what people will think about it in 50 Did the success of There There surprise I think there are ways to write compelling years—I’ll be dead. I’m interested in speaking you? and interesting stories when it comes to ficto people now. Yes, definitely. You’d have to be a sociopath tion in ways that don’t exploit other people’s to not be surprised by this kind of thing. I details. I have a feeling that fiction can pull How do you source your fictional charoff anything, but it’s been done in ways where mean, the success is outrageous for any book. acters? For any novel to do what my book has done is the lens hasn’t been ours, and we haven’t had I did digital storytelling work for many absurd, almost. To think while you’re writing narrative control. Historically, it’s just not years in a Native community and other marit that that’s going to happen is insane. been done well. ginalized communities around the country BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 9

RE-MAKING CREATION Capitol Contemporary Gallery opened in January on Capitol Boulevard in Boise.

CAPITOL CONTEMPORARY GALLERY HELPS SPEARHEAD BOISE GALLERY GUIDE Randy Van Dyck never intended to open a gallery: At heart, he’s a frame shop man. But when he moved Boise’s Van Dyck Frame Design to Capitol Boulevard in late 2018, buying the vacant storefront next door just made sense. The two spaces seemed incapable of functioning alone—they only have a single back door and bathroom between them. Capitol Contemporary Gallery, which opened in January, showcases original work exclusively from Idaho artists, who pay an annual membership fee to claim a chunk of wall or floor space. “We can comfortably fit 24 artists in here, so 18 of those artists display on the wall, [and of] the other six, there are two that use display cases and four sculptors that use the floor space,” said Van Dyck. Memberships are in hot demand, with an estimated 15 names on the waiting list in March. That success has allowed Van Dyck to turn some of his attention elsewhere, and it landed on something he feels is sorely needed in Boise: an official, city-wide gallery guide. “Sun Valley has them, Seattle, Portland, all of the bigger art communities have a gallery guide so that visitors from out of town or people who actually live here can pick up a little brochure or whatever it is and know where to go and what to see,” he said. “... But for some reason, Boise has never really put a cohesive one together.” Along with Jake and Moriah Soper of Evermore Prints, Van Dyck is taking steps to change that. The trio has established an association and brought other local galleries, including Boise Art Museum, on board. There have been some participation hang-ups over sharing costs, but Van Dyck said he’s pushing through them to get the finished product into customers’ hands as soon as possible. “We missed the first quarter already so we’re going to try to hit the second quarter, which would put it out by April,” he said. An exact release date is still pending. If the guide pans out, Van Dyck teased the next item on his list: approaching the City of Boise with BAM to revive the trolly that once shuttled people from gallery to gallery on First Thursday. —Lex Nelson 10 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

Poet Michael Bazzett brings his lauded translation of The Popol Vuh to Boise State

LESLIE BA Z ZE T T

ARTS & CULTURE COURTESY MICHAEL BA Z ZE T T

L E X N E L SON

ART NEWS

LE X NEL SON Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf. Stephen Mitchell’s Gilgamesh. These aren’t exactly beginner texts. And yet, they were the works that poet Michael Bazzett turned to in order to plan a lesson on mythology for his 11th- and 12thgrade students at The Blake School, a college prep school in Minneapolis. They’re also the texts that, indirectly, inspired Bazzett to tackle crafting his own: an English verse translation of the Mayan creation myth, The Popol Vuh. “My students are bright, lively and curious: I craved a version of the myth that they could disappear into, a verse version that truly sang,” Bazzett explained in the introduction of his translation, which was eventually published in 2018, a full decade after he had first sought to introduce The Popol Vuh to his students. The Popol Vuh (pronounced “poe-pull woo”) has mysterious origins. It’s the story of the world’s inception, centered on the heroic twin brothers Hunapu and Xbalanque, who journey to the underworld and defeat the Lords of Death before the creation of man. Supposedly first written down by the K’iche’ (pronounced kee-chay) people of what is now Guatemala in the mid-1500s, proof of the book’s existence didn’t come about until the 1700s, when a Dominican Friar named Francisco Ximenez learned of the story from the K’iche’ natives and transcribed it. Since then, the tale has seen many iterations, though all more academic than poetic—until Bazzett’s, that is. He’ll bring his version to Boise State University for a reading on Wednesday, March 27, at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Building’s SPEC Center. Bazzett was first exposed to The Popol Vuh while on sabbatical in Mexico, and so to start work on his translation he traveled to the place nearby where it all began: Guatemala. “There are almost, I think, 2 million [K’iche’] speakers in sort of the western highland part of the country. It trickles over a little bit into [the Mexican state of ] Chiapas, where you can hear K’iche’ being spoken. I was trying to get a sense of what the cadences

Bazzett will read from The Popul Vuh at Boise State University on Wednesday, March 27, at 6 p.m. in the Student Union Building’s SPEC Center.

and the rhythms and just the music of that language sounded like, just in the abstract, you know—language as sound and music, and not necessarily as information,” Bazzett told BW in advance of his trip to Boise. From there, Bazzett spent years with a word-for-word translation of Ximenez’s transcription by Allen Christenson, four other translations and a K’iche’ lexicon, working to reforge the dense text into verse. It was his first time translating a full-length work. “Once it gets flowing it’s a little bit like a river, and I tried to let it go as long as I could before I kind of ran out of gas. And that’s how the initial draft came out,” he said, later adding, “... I felt I just needed to trust the story. My working metaphor as a translator is to be a bridge. I’m the thing that you don’t notice that maybe is utterly necessary to get to where you want to go, but what matters is where you’re coming from and your destination.” Even while translating The Popol Vuh, Bazzett never stopped writing poetry. In fact, working on the translation fueled his mental furnace, leading to the publication of three poetry collections—You Must Remember This (2014), Our Lands Are Not So Different (2017) and The Interrogation (2017)—while The Popol Vuh was still in progress. “I had a tremendous amount of fodder and imagery, and it was just very vitalizing to be reading the wonderful and yet strange story that was inspiring in the oldest sense of the

word.” Bazzett said. “... Every time you write a poem you’re translating anyway. You translate this thought, this energy, and distill it into language that is always somewhat imperfect. But being able to go write my own poems was sometimes a nice break, because it just seemed a lot more free.” Since The Popol Vuh’s publication, things have come neatly full circle: After it was named one of 2018’s best books of poetry by The New York Times, David Shook of World Literature Today compared Bazzett’s work directly to one of his inspirations, Heaney’s Beowulf. “That was pretty uncomplicatedly pleasant,” Bazzett said of the correlation. “I was delighted to read that. I think that there’s probably more than a little hyperbole there, but I was honored to be included in the same sentence as one of my heroes.” Bazzett’s next project is a horse of a different color—a book that he described as “a bit of a mashup” between poetry and translation that retells the myth of Echo and Narcissus through the lense of contemporary American culture. He’s calling it The Echo Chamber. “Late-stage capitalism, 21st-century America—I think the myth of Narcissus has a lot to tell us,” Bazzett said, adding that a selection of the poems will look at the concept of the selfie, which he calls “an interesting extension of a very old story, if you put it in that Greek, narcissistic context.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

DANCING WITH THE SCARS

COURTESY A24

SCREEN

When life smacks her down, Gloria Bell hits the dance floor GEORGE PRENTICE Gloria Bell’s comfort-food-for-the-soul soundtrack—including a half-dozen earworms from Olivia Newton-John, Bonnie Tyler and Laura Branigan—is a near-perfect playlist for anyone bumping or grinding their way through middle age. But may I humbly suggest the addition of just one more mid-70s classic to the soundtrack? For the life of me, while watching I couldn’t help but think of Linda Ronstadt’s 1975 anthem, “When Will I Be Loved?” Here’s a taste: “I’ve been cheated… / been mistreated. / When will I be loved? / I’ve been put down. / I’ve been pushed ‘round. / When will I be loved?” Such is the lot in life of Gloria Bell (Julianne Moore), a loving mother and amiable ex-wife Julianne Moore stars in Gloria Bell, a “cover version” of Sebastian Lelio’s 2013 Chilean ﬁlm, Gloria. who slides through life as if she were a secondary character in the stories of those around her. But Gloria washes away her nearly invisible year. In March 2018, co-star Jeanne Tripple“I’m often asked, ‘Why reimagine your existence when she kicks middle age to the curb horn told BW, “Julianne is amazing in this and own film?’ I could talk for hours as to why, but and unleashes her inner passions on the dance I can’t wait for you to see it.” And just a couple floor of a local club (where 70s and 80s pop hits there’s one very simple answer: my admiraof months ago, Rita Wilson, another Gloria tion for Julianne Moore,” said Lelio following set the mood). Gloria Bell is much more than an ode to middle age. The film’s rich screenplay Gloria Bell’s world premiere at the 2018 Toronto Bell co-star, bubbled that she was eager for the film’s national release. That’s about to happen International Film Festival. “Julianne told me, stands on its own as a fun-loving, empowering this month as Gloria Bell opens on screens ‘I would only do this if you salute to women of all ages across North America, including at The Flicks direct it,’ and I immediately and backgrounds, to the GLORIA BELL in Boise beginning Friday, March 22. replied, ‘And I would only joys of seeking your best (Rated R) “What I think people love so much about direct it if you are in it.’” life and to the alchemy Written and directed by Gloria Bell is that she doesn’t have to be rich Gloria Bell is not unlike that can make a pulsing Sebastian Lelio or powerful to be the hero of her own life, and the cover of a melody that dance floor a transformaStarring Julianne Moore, Jeanne it feels good to celebrate that,” Moore told Lelio originally created, tive place. Tripplehorn and Rita Wilson BW following her film’s September premiere. played again in a new moGloria Bell is also Opens Friday, March 22, at The Flicks, “She’s just a person searching for pleasure like ment and context. I bristle a playful cinematic 646 W. Fulton St., 208-342-4288, theﬂicksboise.com. the rest of us. Gloria doesn’t have any agenda at the term “remake,” but in undertaking that asks the this “reimagining,” Lelio and except living as much as she can. She goes question: “Can a filmout dancing, not because she feels she has to Moore honor the discovermaker do a ‘cover version’ meet someone, but because she loves to get ies and DNA of the original 2013 film while of his own beloved film?’” Indeed, Gloria Bell lost in the moment, whether by herself or with at the same time searching for new tones and is a brand-new riff on director Sebastian Lelio’s vibrations. Indeed, it’s clear as a bell (pardon the someone else.” Oscar-nominated 2013 Chilean movie Gloria. To pose the musical question from RonThat film ignited Lelio’s career, leading, in turn, pun) that Lelio and Moore created Gloria Bell for the sheer joy of making a great film, and for stadt’s 1975 anthem: “When will [Gloria] to A Fantastic Woman (2017) and Disobedience be loved?” Well, it’s a pretty fair bet Gloria’s the excitement of the risk and artistic challenge (2018), as he began building a gallery of comtrue love connection will come from audiof revisiting an already fully realized character. plicated women’s portraits. Simply put, Lelio ences, who we think will embrace this glorious Boise Weekly has been talking to a few memhad no real reason to look back. Well, maybe reimagining. bers of Gloria Bell’s supporting cast for a full there was one good reason: Julianne Moore. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

STARTS FRIDAY MAR. 22

CINEMA CAFE MOVIE RENTALS

nomi no omi m na nat nate te e yo your r fa avo vorite rite ri tes

MARCH 6–29 vote for winners

APRIL 6–30 publishes

MAY 29 TO VOTE VISIT: BOB.BOISEWEEKLY.COM OR TEXT “BOISEWEEKLY” TO 77948 BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 11

BEER GUZZLER NORTH COAST BREWING CO.

BERLINER WEISSE, $2.99-3.99 Brewed with peach and passion fruit juice, this limited release shows that North Coast can give a nod to what’s trendy. A hazy straw pour, the generous head collapses quickly, while the added fruit deﬁnitely comes through on the nose. Sweet fruit ﬂavors are balanced by the sour acidity you’d expect from this style. BROTHER THELONIOUS BELGIAN STYLE ABBEY ALE, $3.49-4.29 Inspired by the jazz legend Thelonious Monk, this is a chestnut-hued brew topped with a shortlived, mocha-colored froth. Caramel and currant aromas dominate, backed by touches of brown bread and spice. It’s a bit boozy, but there’s no trace of heat. The palate is a mix of sweet bread, raisin, date and creme brulee.

OLD RASPUTIN RUSSIAN IMPERIAL STOUT, $2.692.99 This beer is a dense ebony in the glass, with a light brown head that leaves a tight lacing as it slowly collapses. Dark chocolate and toasted malt aromas are colored by touches of blueberry and herb. It opens with lightly bitter chocolate and charred toast, with just the right touch of sweet malt and vanilla bean. Smooth and almost creamy, this is a classic stout and a benchmark for the style. —David Kirkpatrick 12 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

FOOD

HARRISON BERRY

Founded back in 1988, Fort Bragg, California’s North Coast brewing lacks the gee-whizz wonder of some of the new kids on the block. Instead, it has been quietly and consistently producing some of the best beers west of the Mississippi. If it has been ﬂying under your radar in recent years, may I suggest it’s time to get reacquainted with one of the craft brew pioneers.

THE ROAST OF STANLEY, IDAHO

How Redd Square is bringing home-roasted coffee to the mountain town HARRISON BERRY It was still the dead of winter, but Doug and Jocelyn Plass were snug in the break room of the Windermere Powerhouse in Boise, the former event center-turned-real estate headquarters, talking about the perilous drive between the City of Trees and Stanley. “There have been harrowing drives, but some people commute as much as I do,” Doug said. “I get this nice drive twice a week, where nobody can contact me on the telephone. I’ve done it so many times now that every bend in the road is like home.” That time of year, though, was especially treacherous. The last time he’d made the journey before speaking with Boise Weekly in February, he’d had close calls in his car with two deer and a fox, and shortly afterward, an avalanche had buried a stretch of Idaho Highway 21—one of the few roads into the mountain town. Doug makes the trip in a car stocked with cheese, condiments, vegetables, and, more recently, fresh-roasted coffee. He is the co-owner of Redd Square, a restaurant in the newly developed Stanley Town Square that opened in late June 2018, but since January, he and Jocelyn have taken advantage of an unusual appliance in the Powerhouse break room—a Diedrich coffee roaster—to roast their own beans, which they pour and sell exclusively at Redd Square. “This fell into our life, and now we’re trying to roast every week and learn as much as we possibly can,” Jocelyn said. “The idea is to parlay that into another business.” When Windermere took over the Powerhouse, the new owner renovated a space on the main floor into a lavish break room. Along with a full cooking range, stone-topped counter and cozy dining area, it also features the roaster and a metal rack overflowing with burlap sacks of coffee beans. Jocelyn, who is a Boise-based real estate agent with Windermere, has taken full advantage of the space. Redd Square joins a handful of other Boise-based roasters like Form & Function, Hammer & Kettle and Neckar Coffee, though Doug and Jocelyn admitted that they’re

The beans roasted at Powerhouse are only available in Stanley.

neophytes at the practice. Nevertheless, their Guatemala, which Dough described as “just shy of a Vienna roast,” and their lighter-roasted Sumatra both pass the taste test, and they said they’ve sold between 20 and 25 pounds of the stuff since they started offering it at Redd Square in January. Unlike their Boise peers, who lean toward lighter, fruitier roasts, the Plasses roast slightly darker, and in the cup, the coffee has a full aroma and rich flavor. So far, the Plasses have roasted from the store of beans at Windermere, and Jocelyn has described roasting at work as therapeutic—“If I get stressed out or if something goes haywire, sometimes I just come in here and I bang out a batch,” she said. “The smell, everything about it: I feel better”—but if the coffee side of their business takes off, they said they would consider buying a roaster and taking it to Stanley. “This works really well right now, but if we go into full production, that’s not the best situation for [Windermere],” Doug said. “We’re going to get our roaster and also get our own beans. I keep reading about the advantage of roasting at elevation, and I want to get up there and do it.” The Plasses are new to roasting, but they’re old hands in Stanley. They initially landed in the mountain town in 2006 after Jocelyn’s younger brother, who was a counselor at Luther Heights Bible Camp, died while climbing near Redfish Lake. At the time, the Plasses lived in California, but they left to join the search for his body, which took a year, and by the summer of 2007 they had begun to forge a lasting connection to the Stanley area. A year later, they moved to Seattle, Washington, but by 2010, they hopped back to the Gem State. “Really, Idaho was calling to us. We moved back to Stanley,” Doug said.

Once there, they opened The Redd, a boutique eatery in an otherwise steak-and-potatoes town, where Doug made everything from scratch. They eventually shuttered that venture, and they started splitting their time between Boise and Stanley as Jocelyn had begun working in real estate and they felt more comfortable having their two children educated in the City of Trees. Redd Square is different from its predecessor in many ways, but Jocelyn said her husband still makes “Doug food” the way he always has. Doug’s kitchen training has strong themes of Greek and Italian cooking, and though their current venture serves more pub food, he continues to put curry in the chicken salad, serve items with a side of rice pilaf and otherwise level-up seemingly ordinary foods. Their business partner at Redd Square is Wesley Savage, who has a penchant for nicknames: “Weasel K. Savage” and “Doc Savage” among them. He and Doug studied biology at the University of California-Davis together, and their passion for nature, and particularly fish, is the source of The Redd’s name and a pronounced theme at the restaurant. “We were playing BBC’s Planet Earth up on the TV instead of sports,” Doug said. “There have been times when eight people were bellied up to the bar and they were all snowmobilers, and they’re all watching the penguins and are having discussions about whatever animal group is on the TV.” Odds are, they had cups of coffee in front of them, and even though it may be some time before Boiseans can get their hands on Redd Square beans, the Plasses said it will be worth the wait. “We make as much as we can ourselves,” Jocelyn said. “This tips it over the edge. The coffee is so good.” BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26, 2019 | 13

Beer, Wine, Patio • Open Lunch & Dinner

Monday - Saturday 11am - 10 pm • Sunday 11am - 9pm 208-336-0681 • 1750 W. State St. Boise, ID

Boise’s Electric Bike Shop

883-245-3588 • 25TH & MAIN • WWW.MOTOVELOBIKES.COM 14 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26, 2019 | 15

16 | MARCH 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

CALENDAR WEDNESDAY MARCH 20 Festivals & Events BEST OF BOISE 2019 VOTING— It’s that time of year again when Boise Weekly readers hand out kudos to their favorites in local arts and entertainment, bars and nightlife, food and dining, goods and services, and sports and recreation. The ﬁrst round of voting through March 29 will assemble this year’s list of nominees, with the ﬁnal round of voting April 6-30 determining the winners. Get more info and cast your ballots online at boiseweekly.com. FREE. Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, 208-344-2055. GAURA PURNIMA—Celebrate the Advent of the Golden Avatar with Kirtan Yoga, music, dance and free vegetarian Indian food. 6:30-9:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Hare Krishna Cultural Center, 2470 W. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-344-4274, boisetemple.org.

On Stage MAYHEM MILLER AND FRIENDS—Join Mayhem Miller and Friends for a mix of live singing and impersonation. Minerva Jayne hosts, featuring Mayhem Miller, with Denimm Cain, Lady Delicious, Nikki Naugahyde, KloHe, Missfyre 208, Big Gay Paycen, Haley Street. Cyraphina Thunderpussy, J’Sha Delish and Elle. 10 p.m. $10-$15, $25 VIP. The Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-336-1313, thebalconyclub.com.

Art CROW’S SHADOW INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AT 25—This exhibition chronicles the history of the institute over the past 25 years as it has emerged as a nationally recognized printmaking studio. Situated on the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon, it is perhaps the only professional printmaking studio located in a reservation community in the United States. Through June 2. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art

SAT.-SUN., MARCH 23-34

Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. FOUR MAKE FORMS GROUP ART EXHIBITION—Rachael Mayer, Mandy Riley, Stephen Fisher and Jeremy Nordin-Berghuis explore color, texture, form, function and design through their unique approaches to clay and ﬁber. Through April 21. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Gem Center for the Arts, 2417 W. Bank Drive, Boise, 208991-0984, gemcenterforthearts. com. HIGHER GROUND: HIGH SCHOOL ARTISTS SHOWCASE— Boise Art Museum’s biennial juried exhibition showcasing artwork by high school students in the Boise and West Ada school districts features 52 two- and three-dimensional works of art by 48 artists. Through April 28. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. IDAHO BOTANICAL GARDEN LAND ART EXHIBIT—Join the Idaho Botanical Garden for the opening of a major new site speciﬁc Land Art Exhibit showcasing

TUESDAY, MARCH 26

10 ephemeral works using natural materials by local artists. Through April 30. 9 a.m.-7 p.m. FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org. KAREN BUBB AND JUDITH LOMBARDI SOLO SHOWS—Both exhibits run through March. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Capitol Contemporary Gallery, 451 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-9159, capitolcontemporary.com. LAY OF THE LAND PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION—Boise photographers present concepts of place through articulation and capture of the situation at hand. Through March 24. 3-7 p.m. FREE. MING Studios, 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-972-9028, mingstudios.org. DEJAH DEVEREAUX: SKETCHY SOMETHINGS—Dejah Devereaux explores an emotional life in her unknown future, here portrayed through line and form, each portrait a fragment of Devereaux’s personality. In the SUB Trueblood Gallery. Through May 12. 9 a.m.-9 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Gallery, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

Talks & Lectures

Food

PAUL ALLEN LUNCH AND LEARN: ENVISIONING A STRENGTHS-BASED COMMUNITY—Take advantage of this rare opportunity to learn from one of the nation’s most in-demand entrepreneurs, Paul Allen, the founder of Ancestry.com, who now connects people to their future through Soar.com and the power of coaching. 11:45 a.m. $15. Zions Bank Tower, 800 W. Main St., Boise, 208-344-5523, events. soar.com.

BARBARIAN TREEFORT QUADRUPLE BEER RELEASE—Kick off Treefort 2019 in Barbarian style with the release of four Barbarian Brewing beers for Day 1 of TreeFort: Mo’ Hops, Mo’ Poblems, hazy IPA; Ding Dong Stout on Nitro, and Imperial stout ﬁnished with real Hostess Ding Dongs and Ho Hos’; The Warg, Port and Brandy barrel-aged Wheatwine; and TYR, a Brut IPA made with Gewurztraminer grape juice. With Food delivery available from Calle 75 Street Tacos. Ages 21 and older. 3 p.m.-midnight. FREE. Barbarian Brewing Downtown Boise Taproom, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-387-2739, barbarianbrewing.com.

Kids & Teens BOISE WATERSHED SPRING BREAK DROP-IN PROGRAM— Hands-on block play for families will be set up in the theater. At 11 a.m., take a tour of the water renewal facility. Closed-toe shoes required for tour; no children under 4. Weekdays through March 29. 10 a.m.-noon FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, bee. cityofboise.org/watershed.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26

GUESS WHO IMPROV THEATRE—Playhouse Boise introduces a different kind of whodunit.

TUESDAY, MARCH 26

STORY STORY NIGHT’S BRAVE THE ELEMENTS: ALUMINUM

The Border Town Comic & Creator Con may technically be in Oregon, but it’s deﬁnitely geared toward Idahoans, claiming to focus on “the Treasure Valley’s Creator Community” during its two action-packed days. An estimated 2,000 pop culture junkies will make the pilgrimage to the fest this year to binge on merch from some of the best artists around. In addition to the usual fandom merchandise, costumes and cosplayers, the event will also feature panels, productions and a costume contest, and spotlight everything from classic sci-ﬁ and fantasy series to superheroes and pro wrestling. Plus, check out Breaking the Border, a display of comic art that’s free to browse with entry to the convention. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 9:45 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, $10-$15. Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, 676 S.W. Fifth Ave., Ontario, Oregon, 541-889-8191, 4rcc.com.

For its 2018-2019 season, Story Story Night is taking on the elements—and they don’t mean the element of surprise. Past events have given a platform to locallysourced true stories about copper and zinc, but on Tuesday, March 26, three featured storytellers will take the stage at JUMP to spin their atomic yarns about aluminum. First, Laura Coleman of RecyclePak will talk about the journey to going zero waste, and how she had to combat aluminum along the way. Then, Jenni Florendo will explain how aluminum pull tabs have sheltered her from the rain, and ﬁnally Jodi Eichelberger will talk about chasing a Pied Piper who has, as he put it, “run off with aluminum, not rats.” Plus, there will be live music, food and drinks. 7-9 p.m., $13-$15. Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 208-6396610, storystorynight.org.

Food for thought.

TVFC MARCH DINNER AND CONVERSATION: FARMERS MARKETS Farmers markets have played a vital role in the City of Trees’ summer food scene for years. For those and other reasons, the Treasure Valley Food Coalition is tucking in to the topic during its next Dinner and a Conversation meeting at Red Feather Lounge on Tuesday, March 26, through roundtable discussion facilitated by Boise Farmers Market Co-founder Janie Burns and TVFC Co-founder Susan Medlin. Fittingly, all of this farm-to-table talk will take place over a locally sourced meal courtesy of Red Feather. Whether you’ve had your eye on this year’s changes to BFM or are just a regular shopper, this meeting is sure to yield subjects you can sink your teeth into. 6 p.m., $36. Red Feather Lounge, 246 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-429-6340, facebook. com/treasurevalleyfoodcoalition.

WENDY RED STAR ( C ROW, BORN 1981) , ENIT,2010, COLLECTION OF C SIA . PHOTO : DALE PE TERSON

Soda cans are just the beginning.

BORDER TOWN COMIC & CREATOR CON

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

On Stage

L E X N E L SO N

1 2 3 RF.C O M

COURTESY BORDER TOWN COMIC CON

It’s worth the crossing.

THURSDAY MARCH 21

Fifty-one artists, 25 years.

CROW’S SHADOW INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS AT 25 If you’ve picked up a copy of this year’s Treasure Valley Read, There There by Native American writer Tommy Orange, then you just might ﬁnd Boise Art Museum’s latest exhibition, Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts at 25, a timely one. Like There There, Crow’s Shadow dives into a particular slice of the Native American experience, showcasing works from the archives of The Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, a printmaking studio located on a reservation near Pendleton, Oregon. The exhibition includes prints by 51 artists, some Native American, some not, who have worked at the institute over its 25year history. They will be on display at BAM through Sunday, June 2. Tuesdays-Saturdays 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Sundays noon-5 p.m., FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org. BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 17

CALENDAR The audience decides how the plot goes by determining subject content, actions and more, while the amazing Improv actors play out the scenes you create. 7 p.m. $TBA. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-7790092, playhouseboise.com.

and thoughful tribute to the city and what makes it home. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3764229, rdbooks.org.

Literature

BOISE WATERSHED SPRING BREAK DROP-IN PROGRAM— Weekdays through March 29. 10 a.m.-noon FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, bee.cityofboise. org/watershed.

ELISABETH SHARP MCKETTA: WE LIVE IN BOISE—Boise is a vibrant, bustling little city. And now there is ﬁnally a children’s picture book that does it some justice. Written almost like a love letter, this little book is a deeply sweet

ENGINEERING FOR A CAUSE AEROSPACE ENGINEERING: BOTTLE ROCKET—Students will learn how simple air pressure can propel a rocket more than 100 feet in the air, and how aerodynamics is important in rocket design. Plus, they will get the chance to build a large model rocket that is capable of launching using pressurized water and air. For grades 2-8. Friendship Square 610 Reserve St., 9 a.m.-midnight. $40. 208-640-6945, engineeringforkids.com/boise/programs/ workshops.

Kids & Teens

On Stage Food

CALENDAR EXTRA WHO LET THE DOGS OUT: MARY ARNOLD’S 100 DOGS! IS A CELEBRATION OF BOISE’S BEST FRIEND

COURTESY MARY ARNOLD

For Boise artist Mary Arnold, inspiration comes walking by all the time, usually on four legs. “I keep getting drawn back to dogs, because I love them a lot,” she said of the subjects of her paintings. Arnold works in tech, but a couple of years ago she started dabbling in art again after having mostly dropped the pursuit since high school, teaching herself techniques Arnold’s one-day exhibit opens Thursday, March 28. and taking community art classes. But she lacked confidence in her skills until meeting another local artist who told her that when it comes to art, hard work matters just as much as talent. “He was like, ‘You know, you just have to be disciplined about it.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, hard work? I can do that,’” Arnold said. So she set a goal, inspired by the experience of painting her black lab, Augie, at a “Paint Your Pet” class: To hone her craft, she would paint 100 dogs. The pups Arnold paints come in all shapes and sizes, from tongue-lolling labs to sweatshirt-wearing pit bulls. Though she started out painting her own dog, after setting her 100-dog goal every dog she came across in the Foothills or at a park was a potential subject. She started photographing those dogs, and when she put the word out about her project on social media pet parents started sending her their snapshots. Within a year and a half, Arnold had reached her goal of 100 dogs. She renders them in bright acrylics, in a style that merges surrealism and impressionism and gives her subjects a psychedelic twist. There are brown, yellow and white dogs, of course, but there are others with fur that’s bright blue, electric purple or flame red. Arnold’s exhibition, appropriately dubbed 100 Dogs!, will be on view for one day only on Thursday, March 28, from 5-9 p.m. in the Lake Harbor Events Center (3050 N. Lake Harbor Lane) in Boise. She plans to split the profits from sales with her favorite charities, donating 15 percent to the Land Trust of the Treasure Valley and 15 percent to the Idaho Humane Society. —Lex Nelson 18 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

appreciated and answered. This event is meant to challenge the labels we put on others by participating in a unique reading experience; where real people are on loan as “books.” “Readers” are given a positive framework for a 20-30 minute conversation to connect, inquire and challenge stereotypes and prejudices that separate us. 3-7 p.m. FREE. The Owyhee, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611, treefortmusicfest. com/fort/storyfort.

BARBARIAN TREEFORT RELEASES DAY 2—Join Barbarian Brewing for the release of two brand-new beers for Day 2 of TreeFort: Saison Avec Brett Trois, a fruity, funky version of their very ﬁrst barrel-aged beer in 2015, the Chardonnay Barrel Aged Saison; and Moscow Mule, a light kettle sour made with lime juice and ginger puree, just like the cocktail. Plus live, original Americana/bluegrass music with the The Sawtooth Serenaders from 7-9 p.m. Ages 21 and older. 3 p.m.-midnight. FREE. Barbarian Brewing Downtown Boise Taproom, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-387-2739, barbarianbrewing.com. CREATE COMMON GOOD SUPPERCLUB—Join Chef Kris Ott of the Culinary Collective Network for a delicious meal of Dungeness Crab fritter, asparagus salad, ﬁve-spice R&R Ranch tri-tip, and upside-down fruit cobbler at Create Common Good’s March Supperclub. Proceeds support CCG’s job raining programs. Tickets are available at createcommongood. org/supperclub. 6 p.m. $95. Create Common Good Kitchen, 2513 S. Federal Way, Ste. 104, Boise, 208-258-6800.

FRIDAY MARCH 22 Festivals & Events BOISE FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW—Check out the 23rd Annual Boise Flower and Garden Show, the perfect kickoff to spring with everything you need to make your garden beautiful, from outdoor furniture to greenhouses, tools, garden art, plants, bulbs and garden products. You’ll find new companies, new products, great ideas and expert advice. And you’ll still find spectacular display gardens; educational and fun gardening seminars and demonstrations; bonsai displays; and much, much more. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE-$8. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900. gardenshowboise.com. THE HUMAN LIBRARY—Sometimes the root of understanding one another’s stories is getting answers to the difficult questions, and during The Human Library, those questions are expected,

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—ComedySportz is fast-paced, family friendly improvisational comedy, played as a sport. Two teams take turns making up scenes, playing games and singing songs, and the “fanz” vote on which team they like the best. Suitable for all ages. 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. ComedySportz Boise, 6225 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-991-4746, boisecomedy.com. A KILLER ‘80S PROM: A RAD MURDER MYSTERY—Enjoy a night of mullets and mystery. From the preppie to the skater boy, the nerd to the stud, the jock to the jilted, all are suspected although only one is to blame. Can you ﬁnd the culprit in this madness ﬁlled with neon, naughtiness and narcissistic behavior? Dinner tickets must be purchased by 5 p.m. the day before your show. 7 p.m. $62$103. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-7790092, playhouseboise.com.

Odds & Ends WORLD WATER DAY: BOISE WATERSHED FRIDAY NIGHT ADULT EARTHWORKS—Create beautiful artwork at the Boise WaterShed. These classes are taught by a team of artists and scientists who will explore a science topic while instructing you in an art method to create a one-of-a-kind piece of art. Light refreshments provided. Preregistration required at bee. cityofboise.org. 6-9:30 p.m. $15. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300.

SATURDAY MARCH 23 Festivals & Events BOISE FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW—10 a.m.-8 p.m. FREE-$8. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, gardenshowboise.com. BORDER TOWN COMIC AND CREATOR CON—Get ready to dive into all things comics and fandom at the expanded Eastern Oregon/Southwest Idaho annual celebration. Enjoy two days jampacked with talented creators, popular vendors, rare ﬁnds, great costumes, and many of your best

loved characters from page and screen. From fantastic independent works on culture, equity and life’s experiences, to the Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Pro-wrestling and Super Hero Classics you’ve come to expect, this event spans the genres and generations. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. $10-$15. Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, 676 S.W. Fifth Ave., Ontario. 541-889-8191, 4rcc.com/event/border-towncomic-creator-con. THE HUMAN LIBRARY—Sometimes the root of understanding one another’s stories is getting answers to the difﬁcult questions, and during The Human Library, those questions are expected, appreciated and answered. This event is meant to challenge the labels we put on others by participating in a unique reading experience; where real people are on loan as “books.” “Readers” are given a positive framework for a 20-30 minute conversation to connect, inquire and challenge stereotypes and prejudices that separate us. 1-5 p.m. FREE. The Owyhee, 1109 Main St., Boise, 208-343-4611, treefortmusicfest. com/fort/storyfort.

MILD ABANDON By E.J. Pettinger

Sports & Fitness FULL MOON CANDLELIGHT FLOW YOGA SERIES—Each month on or near the full moon, Studio Move will be offering a special Full Moon Candlelight Flow Class so you can dive deeper into the energy surrounding each month’s full moon. This 90-minute class will leave you grounded, centered and energized. RSVP on Mindbody app. 7-8:30 p.m. FREE$18. Studio Move Boise, 6734 N. Glenwood Ave., Garden City, 208871-9129, studiomoveboise.com.

Kids & Teens BOISE WATERSHED SPRING BREAK DROP-IN PROGRAM— Weekdays through March 29. 10 a.m.-noon FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, bee.cityofboise. org/watershed. SPANISH-ENGLISH STORYTIME WITH LAURA CHICO—Take the whole family to explore Hispanic culture through a fun-ﬁlled morning with games, crafts, stories and food. All ages welcome. 11:30 a.m. FREE. Meridian Public Library, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 208-888-4451, mld.org.

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

CALENDAR Workshops & Classes

On Stage COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—ComedySportz is fast-paced, family friendly improvisational comedy, played as a sport. Two teams take turns making up scenes, playing games and singing songs, and the “fanz” vote on which team they like the best. Suitable for all ages. 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. ComedySportz Boise, 6225 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-991-4746, boisecomedy.com. DAISY’S MADHOUSE WILL ACT 4 FOOD 2019 24-HOUR PLAY FESTIVAL—The 10th Annual Will Act 4 Food is a short play festival and beneﬁt for The Idaho Foodbank. The plays are written only the night before and actors and directors rehearse the day of the performance. 7:30 p.m. $17. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, daisysmadhouse.com. A KILLER ‘80S PROM: A RAD MURDER MYSTERY—Dinner tickets must be purchased by 5 p.m. the day before your show. 7 p.m. $62.06-$103.46. The Playhouse Boise, 8001 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-779-0092, playhouseboise.com.

SOIL SCIENCE FOR GARDENERS—Soil is the living, breathing foundation of garden landscapes. IBG Assistant Horticulture Director and soil nerd Sierra Laverty will introduce basic soil structures, texturing skills, local soil types, and the impact of compost on soil biology necessary to plant health. 1-3 p.m. $20-$25. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org/event/ soil-science-for-gardeners.

Sports & Fitness GLOW IN THE PARK FUN RUN— Join the city of Eagle’s very ﬁrst glow-in-the-dark fun run featuring a live DJ, glowsticks, beer and prizes. Take the whole family down for the “who shines the brightest” contest for a chance to win a new pair of shoes, a gym membership, and so much more. Kanak Attack food truck and Crescent Beer and Wine will be on site ﬁlling all your food and drink needs. Choose between 1-mile and 2-mile run options; same-day registration at

THE MEPHAM GROUP

| SUDOKU

7 p.m.; race heats will begin at 8 p.m. Sponsored by Eagle Ultimate Fitness. 8-10 p.m. $10-$15. Guerber Park, 2200 E. Hill Road, Eagle, 208-489-8763.

Kids & Teens OLD BOISE MODEL RAILROAD CLUB TRAIN FORT OPEN HOUSE—In conjunction with Kid Fort 2019, The Old Boise Model Railroad Club will host an open house. Enjoy model trains running through scenic towns, mountains and industries. Featuring passenger, freight, steam, diesel and special model trains. For a complete schedule of Kidfort activities, visit treefortmusicfest.com/fort/ kidfort/#lineup. 10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE. The Pioneer Building, 106 N. Sixth St., Boise.

Go to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating. Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers. © 2013 Mepham Group. Distributed by Tribune Media Services. All rights reserved.

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS

2΍HULQJ PHQWDO KHDOWK HYDOXDWLRQV DQG PHGLFDWLRQ PDQDJHPHQW 6FKHGXOHG DSSRLQWPHQWV RU ZDON LQ KRXUV DYDLODEOH QRZ

5440 Franklin Rd., Suite 108, Boise, ID 83705

Odds & Ends OLD IDAHO PENITENTIARY CEMETERY TOURS—Experience a unique tour of the prison and its rarely seen inmate cemetery. Unlock the mysteries of the dead as guides explore where inmates died, what their final moments were like, and where they are laid to rest. Discover why more than half the cemetery is riddled with “Unknown” markers (or often no markers at all) and why some names cannot be found in any prison register. Your Cemetery Tour ticket also entitles you to a self-guided tour of the prison the day of your visit. Tours are offered on the hour from 3-6 p.m. each day through March 29, and are limited to 30 people each; reserve your spot by pre-purchasing them online. 3-7 p.m. $15-$17, $25 for two. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, history. idaho.gov/oldpen. TREASURE VALLEY FLEA MARKET—You never know what you’re going to find at the flea market, but one thing’s for certain, something will find you. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$2. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-939-6426, ext. 23, treasurevalleyfleamarket.com.

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Here to Listen. Here to Help.

BORDER TOWN COMIC CON THE TREASURE VALLEY’S PREMIER COMIC & POP CULTURE EVENT

THE TREASURE VALLEY’S PREMIER COMIC & POP CULTURE EVENT COMICS•ANIME•COSPLAY•MOVIES•ARCADE•501stLEGION•WRESTLING•AND MORE!

$10 Per DAy S $15 TWO-DAY PAS S

12 & UNDER FREE!

WATERSHED EXPLORATION SERIES: TURNING USED WATER TO BEER—Explore and learn more about the Boise River Watershed. You’ll stay active while learning from experts in our watershed. Preregistration is required. Class descriptions and registration information can be found at bee. cityofboise.org. 9 a.m.-noon. $15. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300.

SUNDAY MARCH 24 Festivals & Events 2019 VINTAGE MOTORCYCLE AND BICYCLE RALLY AND SHOW—Join the Idaho Vintage Motorcycle Club for their annual

Tickets AVAILIBLE IBLE AT THE DOOR AND ONLINE AT tinyurl tinyurl.com/vxgaxepw com/vxgga

FOUR RIVERS CULTURAL CENTER

676 SW. 5th AVE. ONTARIO, OR ON 97914 BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 19

CALENDAR 50% OFF WINTER GEAR

25% off Remaining New Icelantic & Moment Skis

CONSIGN & SHOP

HIGH QUALITY OUTDOOR ADVENTURE GEAR www.boisegearcollective.com | facebook.com/BoiseGearCollective

671 South Capitol Blvd | 208.429.1124

RV and Van Conversions

Free Estimates • 100% Guarantee

show and swap meet. You’ll ﬁnd classic motorcycles, antiques, road racers and dirt bikes from the early 1900s to 1998, along with a display of vintage bicycles. Noon. FREE-$5. O’Connor Field House/Caldwell Events Center, 2207 Blaine St., Caldwell, 208455-3004, facebook.com/theidahovintagemotorcycleclub. BOISE FLOWER AND GARDEN SHOW—11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$8. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, gardenshowboise.com. BORDER TOWN COMIC AND CREATOR CON—9:45 a.m.-5 p.m.

$10-$15. Four Rivers Cultural Center and Museum, 676 S.W. Fifth Ave., Ontario, 541-889-8191, 4rcc.com/event/border-towncomic-creator-con.

On Stage Odds & Ends

BNDS3 REUNION SHOW—The 2019 BNDS3 Reunion show features the 12 guests performing their favorite number of the year one last time, followed by a performance by Farrah Moan from RuPaul’s Drag Race. With Just Mary, Rosetta Slims, Gaia Indica, Penelope Windsor, J’Sha Delish,

OLD IDAHO PENITENTIARY CEMETERY TOURS—Experience a unique tour of the prison and its rarely seen inmate cemetery. Your Cemetery Tour ticket also entitles you to a self-guided tour of the prison the day of your visit. Tours are offered on the hour from 3-6 p.m. each day through March 29, and are limited to 30 people each; reserve your spot by pre-purchasing them online. 3-7 p.m. $15-$17, $25 for two. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-334-2844, history.idaho.gov/ oldpen.

CALENDAR EXTRA GRAVEYARD DOUSES TREEFORT WITH ITS UNOFFICIAL ‘GRAVY FORT 2.0’

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR DIGITAL EDITION! YOU CAN GET BOISE WEEKLY DELIVERED DIGITALLY EVERY WEEK BEFORE THE PRINT EDITION EVEN HITS STANDS. GET A ONE-YEAR SUBSCRIPTION FOR ONLY $50 NOW.

$50 FOR A YEAR! SUBSCRIBE.BOISEWEEKLY.COM 20 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

The self-styled “dirty gravy boys” of late-night biscuits and gravy pop-up GravEyard are at it again. From Friday-Sunday, March 22-24, foodslingers Zac Clark and Derek Freitag will open their walk-up window in the Zen Bento storefront on 10th Street from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. during Treefort Music Fest for what they’re calling Gravy Fort 2.0. “I’m doubling everything I have, and I’m opening 30 minutes earlier that usual,” said Clark, GravEyard’s polenta poutine, “Something Spicy”-style. GravEyard’s chef/ owner. Usually, the window opens at 9:30 p.m. and shutters at half past 2 in the morning. GravEyard has offered midnight revelers unconventional flavor combinations since 2017, when it first pedalled its non-traditional biscuits and gravy, mac-and-cheese and polenta poutine to tipsy ghost, ghouls and vampires on the downtown thoroughfare for Halloween. A year and a half later, the pop-up, which flings open its window sporadically on weekends, giving hungry fans a heads up through social media (facebook.com/graveyard208 and @ graveyard208), nearly always sells out by night’s end. Clark expects this year’s Gravy Fort to be an amplication of, rather than an exception to, that rule. “We’re pretty much running the same menu I always do, because if I add a special I’ll probably be overwhelmed,” Clark said. “It’s pretty crazy because last year the Gravy Fort event only had like 90 interested or going [on social media] and this year I’m up to like 560 or something.” For Gravy Fort 2.0, GravEyard will offer buscuit and gravy combinations like the “Something Spicy” (topped with chorizo and chipotle gravy), plus mac and cheese, and gluten-free and vegan options. For local “B&G” aficionados and adventurous out-of-towners alike, GravEyard is a must-hit spot to curb the hunger pangs brought on by dancing at a midnight concert. Just be sure to get there before the grub is gone. —Lex Nelson

Z AC CL ARK

208-985-4185 • 11000 W Fairview Ave. www.integrityfabricationandauto.com

Cyraphina Thunderpussy, Vice Diaz, Eartha Quake, Nikki Grimm, Elle and Rari Doll. VIP tickets available online at brownpapertickets. com only. 7 p.m. $11-$27. The Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-336-1313.

TREASURE VALLEY FLEA MARKET—10 a.m.-4 p.m. FREE-$2. Expo Idaho (Fairgrounds), 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208939-6426, ext. 23, treasurevalleyﬂeamarket.com.

Food SUNDAY FUNDAY—Celebrate Sunday Funday at Payette Brewing, with $10 bottomless mimosas, $3 NFL beer-mosas, $10 core beer

pitchers, and Big Daddy’s Meat Wagon. Play games, chill in the beer garden and sip on cold bevies before you dive back into your work week. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing River Street Taproom, 733 S. Pioneer St., Boise, 208-344-0011, payettebrewing. com.

MONDAY MARCH 25 Kids & Teens BOISE WATERSHED SPRING BREAK DROP-IN PROGRAM— Weekdays through March 29. 10 a.m.-noon FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, bee.cityofboise. org/watershed.

Odds & Ends OLD IDAHO PENITENTIARY CEMETERY TOURS—Experience a unique tour of the prison and its rarely seen inmate cemetery. Your Cemetery Tour ticket also entitles you to a self-guided tour of the prison the day of your visit. Tours are offered on the hour from 3-6 p.m. each day through March 29, and are limited to 30 people each; reserve your spot by pre-purchasing them online. 3-7 p.m. $15-$17, $25 for two. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old

EYESPY

Real Dialogue from the naked city

Overheard something Eye-spy worthy? E-mail production@boiseweekly.com

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

CALENDAR Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-3342844, history.idaho.gov/oldpen.

TUESDAY MARCH 26 Festivals & Events TVFC MARCH DINNER AND CONVERSATION: FARMERS MARKETS—Join the Treasure Valley Food Coalition for their ﬁrst-ever salonstyle discussion of farmers markets. Your ticket includes a locally conscious meal from Red Feather Lounge’s kitchen, an alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverage, and gratuity. 6 p.m. $36. Red Feather Lounge, 246 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-4296340, bcrﬂ.com/redfeather.

On Stage SHEN YUN—The global sensation returns to bring glorious legends and heavenly realms to life through classical Chinese dance. Note: Children under 4 years of age will not be admitted. 7:30 p.m. $86-$160. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com/events/detail/shen-yun-1.

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

STORY STORY NIGHT: BRAVE THE ELEMENTS—This season’s themes are based on elements from the periodic table. Featuring true storytellers and spontaneous story slammers. The theme for March 26 is Aluminum. 7 p.m. $12-$15. Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 917-495-5840, storystorynight.org/shows/mainseason.

Citizen 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. Volunteer at ilcdinners.ivolunteer. com. 5:15-7 p.m. FREE. Immanuel Lutheran Church, 707 W. Fort St., Boise, 208-344-3011.

Kids & Teens BOISE WATERSHED SPRING BREAK DROP-IN PROGRAM— Weekdays through March 29. 10 a.m.-noon FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, bee.cityofboise.org/ watershed.

Animals & Pets BEE CITY USA LECTURE: WASPS, FRIEND OR FOE?—Love them or hate them, wasps are an important part of the food chain. Learn more at this presentation by Dr. James Ryan, Ph.D., Curator of Entomology, Orma J. Smith Museum, College of Idaho. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Garden City City Hall, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2900.

Food BOISE BREWING $2.50 TUESDAYS—Enjoy $2.50 pints every

Tuesday, with food trucks on site beginning at 5 p.m. March 26: Foxy Franks Hotdogs, Sausages, Pretzels. Noon-10 p.m. $2.50. Boise Brewing, 521 W. Broad St., Boise, 208-3427655, boisebrewing.com.

WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 On Stage SHEN YUN—The global sensation returns to bring glorious legends and heavenly realms to life through classical Chinese dance. Note: Children under 4 years of age will not be admitted. 3 p.m. $86-$160. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1110, morrisoncenter.com/events/detail/shen-yun-1. VINTAGE MOVIE NIGHT: CADDYSHACK—The ticket price includes bottomless movie snacks with popcorn and theater candy favorites. 7:30 p.m. $13-$20. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room, 2900 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, sapphireboise.com.

Literature JESSICA BRODY AND JOANNE RENDELL: A SKY WITHOUT STARS—When the Last Days came, the planet of Laterre promised hope, a new life for a wealthy French family and its descendants. But 500 years later, it’s now a place where an extravagant elite class reigns supreme, and the poor starve in the streets. Power, romance and destiny collide in this sweeping reimagining of Victor Hugo’s masterpiece, Les Miserables. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-3764229, rdbooks.org.

Sports & Fitness CORKFIT AT TELAYA—Start with a 50-minute circuit style workout class in Telaya’s wine production space, then sit back and relax with a glass of red or white wine. 6 p.m. $20. Telaya Wine Co., 240 E. 32nd St., Garden City, 208-557-9463, telayawine.com.

Kids & Teens BOISE WATERSHED SPRING BREAK DROP-IN PROGRAM— Weekdays through March 29. 10 a.m.-noon FREE. Boise WaterShed,

11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-608-7300, bee.cityofboise.org/ watershed.

Odds & Ends OLD IDAHO PENITENTIARY CEMETERY TOURS—Experience a tour of the prison and its inmate cemetery. Your Cemetery Tour ticket also gets you to a self-guided tour of the prison the day of your visit. Tours are offered on the hour from 3-6 p.m. each day March 23-29, and are limited to 30 people each; reserve your spot by pre-purchasing them online. Through March 29, 3-7 p.m. $15-$17, $25 for 2. Old Idaho State Penitentiary, 2445 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208334-2844, history.idaho.gov/oldpen.

Food EASY KETO MEAL PREP—Get ready to cook, try new food, and have fun in this hands-on program. You’ll learn the basics of the keto diet, and how to prepare two easy recipes with spaghetti squash plus a side salad. After cooking, you’ll sit down to enjoy this delicious dinner together. Ingredients and recipes will be provided. Registration ends Monday, March 25. For ages 15 and up. 6-8 p.m. $35. Jack’s Urban Meeting Place, 1000 W. Myrtle St., Boise, 208-246-8964.

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 21

MUSIC GUIDE WEDNESDAY MARCH 20

THURSDAY MARCH 21

ALMOST FAMOUS KARAOKE— 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge

CENTENNIAL HIGH BAND BENEFIT: TOMORROW’S JAZZ TONIGHT—7 p.m. $15-$25. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room

BEN BURDICK TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse JENKINS HILL—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon

BIG WOW—8:30 p.m. $5. WilliB’s Saloon

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse GUILTY PLEASURE—8 p.m. FREE. Ironwood Social JEFF ENGELBERT BAND—Featuring Jennifer Lea. 7:30 p.m. $15-$20. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room

WILSON ROBERTS—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365

THE BOREDOM CORPORATION— The Boredom Corporation is a unique, one-man pop-punk band. Brock Glaisyer writes, records and performs every instrument on all songs. 7 p.m. FREE. Capitol Bar

SUNDAY MARCH 24

JAZZ MONDAYS: DAN COSTELLO AND BEN BURDICK—Presented in partnership with the Idaho Jazz Education Endowment. 5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365

BLAZE AND KELLY—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365

JIM KLOSS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

BUDDY DEVORE AND THE FADED COWBOYS—Treasure Valley Single’s Dance at the Nampa Eagle’s Lodge; all welcome: married couples, too; for ages 21 and older. 7:30 p.m. $6-$7. Eagles Lodge Nampa

LIVE MUSIC OPEN MIC JAM WITH JIMMY SHINN—6:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge

JENSEN BUCK—8 p.m. FREE. Quinn’s Restaurant and Lounge

MIKE ROSENTHAL—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

EKALI: CRYSTAL EYES TOUR— Entry will be free for Treefort pass holders; single show tickets are on sale now. 8 p.m. $10-$25. Knitting Factory Concert House

THE ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s

NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—6 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365

MIKE ROSENTHAL—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

SPENCER BATT—7 p.m. FREE. Old Chicago Pizza Downtown

OPEN MIC NIGHT—Celebrate Third Thursdays in Downtown Nampa. Musicians, poets and creative folks of all kinds share their unique expression in this gallery at 25 Wall St., Nampa, in the pedestrian walkway next to the PreFunk patio. Make an evening of it by visiting their neighbors: Mesa, a new taco and tequila bar; longtime favorite Messenger Pizza; and PreFunk. 7 p.m. FREE. Winging it Arts

PAMELA DEMARCHE SCOTT AND REX MILLER—6 p.m. FREE. Deja Brew Laugh a Latte

CRITICAL MASS VOCAL ARTISTS: SONGS OF LOVE AND DEVOTION—Featuring works by Nico Muhly, Eric Whitacre, Craig Hella Johnson, Gerald Finzi and more. For tickets, call 208-345-3531 or visit operaidaho.org. 7:30 p.m. FREE$15. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church

THE ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s

DEBORAH MICHELS GANG—8:30 p.m. FREE. The TK Bar

SOUL SERENE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill and Brewery-Cole

JUST ROOS—6 p.m. FREE. Deja Brew Laugh a Latte

SPERRY HUNT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Caffeina

MIKE ROSENTHAL—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

TREEFORT MUSIC FEST—The 2019 Treefort multi-venue music festival in downtown Boise features artists from across the globe, along with a host of other “forts.” Visit the festival website for a complete schedule of events. March 20-24. $125-$365. Downtown Boise

THE ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek Grill

STEVE EATON AND THE GRATEFUL DUDES—It’s probably not too strong a statement to say that Steve Eaton and The Grateful Dudes are an Idaho supergroup, combining years of experience playing in different parts of the United States and overseas. They recently came together for fundraisers and the audience response was so positive that they decided to stick together and enter the rich Southwestern Idaho music scene. With Ken Harris, vocals/keyboards; Mike Barriatua, vocals/bass; Rob Harding, vocals/ lead guitar; and Barney Southard, vocals/drums. 7:30 p.m. $13-$21. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room TREEFORT MUSIC FEST—The 2019 Treefort multi-venue music festival in downtown Boise features artists from across the globe, along with a host of other “forts.” Visit the festival website for a complete schedule of events. Through March 24. $125-$365. Downtown Boise VINCE STAPLES: SMILE, YOU’RE ON CAMERA—8 p.m. $30-$75. Knitting Factory Concert House

OPEN MIC WITH UNCLE CHRIS—7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub & Grill ROLANDO ORTEGA—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse TREEFORT MUSIC FEST—The 2019 Treefort multi-venue music festival in downtown Boise features artists from across the globe, along with a host of other “forts.” Visit the festival website for a complete schedule of events. March 20-24. $125-$365. Downtown Boise

FRIDAY MARCH 22 ADVENTURE CLUB—With Riot Ten, Dirt Monkey, Tynan, and Yakz. 8 p.m. $20-$50. Revolution Concert House and Event Center

LISTEN HERE

KEN HARRIS AND CARMEL CROCK—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365

SATURDAY MARCH 23 AARON GOLAY—8 p.m. FREE. Quinn’s Restaurant and Lounge

V E N U E S

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

SMOOTH AVENUE—7:30 p.m. $15$25. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room TAUGE AND FAULKNER—8 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub & Grill TREEFORT MUSIC FEST—The 2019 Treefort multi-venue music festival in downtown Boise features artists from across the globe, along with a host of other “forts.” Visit the festival website for a complete schedule of events. March 20-24. $125-$365. Downtown Boise

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

CHASE RICE: EYES ON YOU TOUR—8 p.m. $36.50-$90. Knitting Factory Concert House IRISH MUSIC—7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub & Grill NOCTURNUM LIVE INDUSTRIAL DJS—10 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge SAPPHIRE SUNDAY BLUES BRUNCH: CAPTAIN SNAFU—9 a.m.-12:15 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room THE SIDEMEN: GREG PERKINS AND RICK CONNOLLY—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse TREEFORT MUSIC FEST—The 2019 Treefort multi-venue music festival in downtown Boise features artists from across the globe, along with a host of other “forts.” Visit the festival website for a complete schedule of events. March 20-24. $125-$365. Downtown Boise WYNONNA AND THE BIG NOISE— The Country music superstar hits the historic Egyptian stage in support of her eighth studio album, her ﬁrst full-length studio album of original material since 2003’s What the World Needs Now Is Love. 8 p.m. $43-$63. Egyptian Theatre

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

TUESDAY MARCH 26 ACOUSTIC OPEN MIC—Join the Idaho Bluegrass Association, Idaho Sawtooth Bluegrass Association, and Liquid Lounge for this acoustic Open Mic on the fourth Tuesday of the month. If you are a band, or a group of friends with a few good licks, then show up and play, and have fun along the way. More information and a sign up form can be found on the Idaho Bluegrass Association’s website at idahobluegrassassociation.org. 7 p.m. FREE. Liquid Lounge BOURBON DOGS—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill and Brewery-Cole BUDDY DEVORE AND THE FADED COWBOYS—7 p.m. FREE. The ClubNew Plymouth FIONA LURAY—4:30 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365 IDAHO SONGWRITERS ASSOCIATION FORUM—6:30 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Sapphire Room

Don’t know a venue? Visit boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map.

10 p.m., $10-$30 without a Treefort pass. Treefort Main Stage, 1201 W. Grove St., Boise, treefortmusicfest.com/performer/angelique-kidjos-remain-in-light.

RUBBLEBUCKET, EL KORAH SHRINE/TREEFORT MAIN STAGE, MARCH 24

LISTEN HERE

New York-based band Rubblebucket has a story that’s undeniably human. Jazz musicians Kalmia Traver and Alex Toth have fallen in and out of love over the band’s 11-year history, and lept hurdles ranging from ovarian cancer to alcoholism. Still, their indie-pop music remains sunny, and they’ll bring that bright spot of optimism to Treefort on Sunday, March 24. On the Treefort website, Traver said that the title of Rubblebucket’s latest album, Sun Machine (Grand Jury Music, 2018), is “a reference to the sun as this abundant natural resource we all have available to us— but it’s also about the inner sun, the magma in our hearts.” Catch Rubblebucket’s set at El Korah (12:20 p.m.) or The Treefort Main Stage (4:30 p.m.) to hear life’s lemons become sonic lemonade. —Lex Nelson $10-$30 without a Treefort pass. 12:20 p.m. at El Korah Shrine, 1118 W. Idaho St., 208-343-0571, and 4:30 p.m. at the Treefort Main Stage, 1201 W. Grove St., treefortmusicfest.com/performer/rubblebucket. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

SHERVIN L AINE Z

FLICKR USER ACTIVESTE VE ( C C BY-ND 2.0 )

ANGELIQUE KIDJO, TREEFORT MAIN STAGE, MARCH 23

One of the most pleasant easter eggs of Wes Anderson’s 2004 ﬁlm The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou has to be Seu Jorge’s occasional acoustic covers of songs by David Bowie in Portuguese. The songs, plucked from context and their native language, take on an exotic but uncannily familiar beauty. The same is true of Angelique Kidjo’s take on Talking Heads’ album Remain in Light (Sire Records). The original 1980 TH album itself was heavily inﬂuenced by West African music, and Kidjo’s song-by-song take on the album was originally cut with members of Vampire Weekend, Blood Orange, Tony Allen and others, pulling the afrobeat out of the shadows and, well, into the light. Kidjo will perform at the Treefort Main Stage on Saturday, March 23. —Harrison Berry

22 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

MONDAY MARCH 25

ALL THAT REMAINS, AND ATTILA—With Escape The Fate, and Sleep Signals. 6:30 p.m. $25-$55. Revolution Concert House and Event Center

MUSIC GUIDE JAC K M C K A I N

LISTEN HERE

SUDAN ARCHIVES, LINEN BUILDING, MARCH 24

Musicians can be odd ducks, but Sudan Archives, a.k.a. Brittany Parks, is a swan. She began teaching herself to play the violin when she was in the fourth grade, and, according to a Q&A with Pitchfork, didn’t have friends to sit with at lunch in school, even though she was one of the most well-known people in class. She has never bought a CD or downloaded music, but at the witching hour on Sunday morning, her seamless weave of R&B, experimental electronica and Sudanese ﬁddling will ﬁll the Linen Building. The Los Angeles-based artist plays with whatever sonic toys she wants, and comes off like a natural. Hers is a late show, but folks with staying power and a yen for sounds sweet, inspiring or somatic won’t regret staying up past their bedtimes. —Harrison Berry 12:20 a.m., $10-$30 without a Treefort pass. Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, treefortmusicfest.com/performer/sudan-archives.

JIMMY LAWRENCE—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse MIKE ROSENTHAL TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse QUINN XCII—With Ashe, and Christian French. 8 p.m. $23-$83. Revolution Concert House and Event Center REBECCA SCOTT AND DEB SAGER—6 p.m. FREE. The Local RED ROCK ‘STORIES’ COFFEE HOUSE: STEVE FULTON AND THE MCCRACKENS—With featured artist Kari McCluey. 7 p.m. FREE. Red Rock Christian Church

SAWTOOTH SERENADERS—Food available from Calle75 Street Taco’s online menu for Barbarian Taproom delivery. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Barbarian Brewing Downtown Boise Taproom

DAN COSTELLO—7 p.m. FREE. Old Chicago Pizza Downtown

THE SUBURBANS—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon

MIKE ROSENTHAL—5:15 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse

WEDNESDAY MARCH 27 BEN BURDICK TRIO—7:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse BERNIE REILLY BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s Saloon BLAZE AND KELLY—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s Saloon

LUCA SORBINI

LISTEN HERE

EMILY TIPTON AND JONAH SHUE—6 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow Brewhouse

OLD SALT UNION—With The Trees The Trees. 7 p.m. $10. The Olympic THE ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9 p.m. FREE. Humpin’ Hannah’s SEAN HATTON—6 p.m. FREE. Willowcreek Grill STEVE EATON—5 p.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel Bar 365

BE FOREST, EL KORAH SHRINE, MARCH 23

Treefort Music Fest brings in international artists of all stripes, and for proof one need look no farther than Be Forest, the threepiece Italian shoegaze outfit that will play El Korah Shrine on Saturday, March 23. Formed in 2010, Be Forest’s music first cast ripples in Europe but swam across the pond in 2014 with Earthbeat (We Were Never Being Boring, 2014), its sophomore album. Some of Be Forest’s songs, like the moody “Atto 1,” are purely instrumental, while others, like “Empty Space,” feature slithering, ethereal vocals layered over drumbeats and ominous electronic murmurs. Listen to the band’s third and latest full-length album, Knocturne (We Were Never Being Boring, 2019) in one sitting, and the nine tracks bleed together into a seamless whole. This is music for standing dramatically in the rain, or running down night-slick city streets—a perfect fit for the experiential grab bag that is Treefort. —Lex Nelson 5:30 p.m., $10-$30 without a Treefort pass. El Korah Shrine, 1118 W. Idaho St., 208-343-0571, treefortmusicfest.com/performer/beforest. BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 23

B OI SE W E E K LY

PLACE AN AD E-MAIL | classifieds@idahopress.com CALL | (208) 465-8175

In Time Tec, LLC. has an opening for Senior Software Engineer in Meridian, ID. (Provide tech. architecture strategy, guidance & validation for client-related projects. Work with mktg team to understand reqs. Investigate feasibility of implementation. Plan & implement features as described in user stories) Req. BS/foreign equiv. in CS, CA, CIS, Eng (any), or rel. fields, + 5 yrs of exp. in a rel. occup. Mail resume to HR, 580 E. Corporate Drive, Meridian, ID 83642.

Playmates and soul mates...

Boise: 208-629-8302 18+ MegaMates.com

AIRLINE CAREERS begin – Get started by training as FAA certified Aviation Technician. Financial aid for qualified students. Job placement assistance. Call Aviation Institute of Maintenance 800725-1563

OUR CLASSIFIEDS GENERATE RESULTS! Contact us at 208-465-8175

Ada County HAS BEEN AWARDED FEDERAL FUNDS UNDER THE EMERGENCY FOOD AND SHELTER NATIONAL BOARD PROGRAM to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county. The Local Board was charged to distribute funds appropriated by Congress to help expand the capacity of food and shelter programs in high-need areas around the country. A Local Board will determine how the funds awarded to are to be distributed among the emergency food and shelter programs run by local service agencies in the area. To receive information of the terms of the grant or to apply, please contact: Amber Young at amber.young@usw.salvationarmy.org. Deadline for applications to be received is March 31st.

NYT CROSSWORD | THAT’S ANOTHER STORY BY SOPHIA MAYMUDES AND JEFF CHEN / EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ ACROSS 1 Most popular baby girl’s name of the 1960s, per the Social Security Administration 5 Squealer 9 Inside info 13 For fear that 17 Juul, e.g., for short 18 Old-time “The Price Is Right” announcer Johnny 19 Bit of greenery

21 Palindromic boy’s name 22 Ward of cinema 23 Biography of Ebenezer Scrooge? 25 “Castaway” director Nicolas 26 Bond tightly 28 Colleague of Gorsuch 29 Big name in chicken 31 Biography of Amelia Earhart? 33 “Decorates” on Halloween, say

23 26

37 42

57 64 69

76 80

45 49 55

50 56

61 66

99 104

105

111 115 119

24 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

106

103

118

12 20

47 51

114

28 32

110

47 What the “sans” refers to in Comic Sans 48 Diaper : U.S. :: ____ : U.K. 50 Oil magnate Leon who once owned the New York Jets 51 “Girls” home 53 Only mildly sweet 55 Get a Venmo request, say 57 Go through a window? 60 Obvious answer 61 Recreational sailboats 64 Excelled

34 Biography of Archimedes? 36 Beep-booping droid, for short 37 Two-year degrees, briefly 39 Tricked 40 Took out 41 Some endangered ecosystems 42 One-fifth of the Jackson 5 44 Jesus on the diamond 45 Note taker 46 Tip-off for an exam proctor

107

100

108

109

112

113

116

117 120

121

101

66 British miler Sebastian 67 Diner sign 69 Shrewd 70 Winged Greek goddess 72 Highest hand value in baccarat 74 Capital of France’s Côte d’Or 75 High points 76 Credit score, for short? 77 One side of the G.W. Bridge 78 Clever move 79 ____ monkey 81 Swimsuit material 85 “Step on it!” 86 Have a ____ for 87 Good name, informally 89 Xenophobe’s fear, with “the” 90 Pro 91 Verb that’s a homophone for a letter 92 Biography of the Venus de Milo? 96 One using a heater, say 99 Sound effects after some one-liners 103 Dramatic award 104 Pair of hearts? 107 Loudly project 109 Adidas competitor 110 & 112 Biography of Elvis? 114 With passion 115 Gate expectations, briefly? 116 Big dos 117 Quad/glute exercise 118 Wear away 119 Dramatic rebuttal 120 Poetic conjunction 121 Lets go of

102

DOWN 1 Picasso’s “____ Demoiselles d’Avignon” 2 Some Antarctic samples 3 They create soft c’s and g’s 4 Biography of Thomas Crapper?

APRIL 18 VOTE TODAY AT

boiseclassicmovies.com 5 Unvarying charge 6 Its national anthem is “Hatikvah”: Abbr. 7 Home to Bourbon St. 8 Showed allegiance, in a way 9 Some H.S. exams 10 “Yikes!” 11 Airport code for O’Hare 12 Elvis Costello hit that starts “I’ve been on tenterhooks / Ending in dirty looks” 13 Biography of Willie Mays? 14 Cajun dish of shellfish over rice 15 Increases in price 16 Dress (up) 18 Prefix with present 20 Major Argentine export 24 Chihuahua’s sound 27 Big features of reality TV 30 Model T competitors 31 John Irving title character 32 Retreats 34 Like the signatures of outgoing people, it’s said 35 Altar exchange 38 Author Larsson 39 Fiery look 43 & 44 Biography of Walt Disney? 47 Star turn 49 Hitch together 52 Doesn’t go overboard? 54 “You may not have asked me, but …” 56 Certain green-energy producers 57 Part of a Vandyke, informally 58 The title characters of 1988’s “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” e.g. 59 Iron ____

61 Kind of sheet 62 Tex-Mex offering 63 Stereotypical High Times reader 64 Lovecraftian 65 Pointers 67 Inky stone 68 Between: Fr. 71 Wham! 73 Nonreactive 80 Alaska Airlines hub 82 Suffix with doctor 83 Montreal is part of it: Abbr. 84 State on the Atl. coast 85 Onetime 88 Like the phase ending after 12 90 Why parodies can’t be sued for copyright infringement 92 Classic L A S T C P L S

O H O K

E A S Y

X R A Y C A M E R A

E S S O

D E E P

A L I S

P E N H

T Y R E S E

H E A L E R

G A V E I T A D G E O P R R E A S M S M O E R R S

93 Corrigenda 94 Daniel Webster, notably 95 Artist with seven posthumous platinum albums 96 ____ distance 97 Detest 98 Grandchild: Sp. 100 Like some flocks 101 Blush, e.g. 102 Seven ____ of Ancient Greece 105 Midwest capital, informally 106 Revenue alternative to subscriptions 107 Bosom buddy 108 Anglerfish’s light, e.g. 111 The Science Guy 113 Giant’s opposite

W E E K ’ S

I S T A O H N G E L G R E A Y M A R S O S S N T H G A M I M T O O R O O T E R T B O P E R O S I T E P O I T Y S E S I S P O S A M D E

T A C O S H A P E S T I O B O N R I A M E D C E E R A D E E C Z O O F A L R I P B S C A S A T H N T S H T A T I P O S W E R O A T E U R O S S

A N S W E R S N E M E S I S L O L S H O O P F R I

I C L Y E S T K F F C A D U E S E V R A I R D I G T A V D I A T R O

A D E L E H I F I V E L E T I N

G L I T T E R A T E I L A E N I D N E F A O V O O R P E A D C A T E R E R

R A D I A N

U R A N I C

B A N G L E

L O N E L I E S T

T R I O

E Y E S

K N E W

I D E A

A N N I

T E E M

H Y D E

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

PLACE AN AD

MINERVA’S BREAKDOWN N

E-MAIL | classifieds@idahopress.com CALL | (208) 465-8175

Find it Fast in the Boise Weekly Classified Pages

Become a Vendor at our 4/20 Boise Hempfest More info @ www.boisehempfest.org/vendors

Earn your Hospitality Degree Online at CTI! Restaurant, Travel, Hotel & Cruise Ship Management! A Degree can take you to the next level. 1-844-519-6644 TrainCTI.com

Need a roommate? Roommates.com will help you find your Perfect Match today!

Yoga Studio? Advertise Here Ask How 208.465.8175

Attention Viagra users: Generic 100 mg blue pills or Generic 20 mg yellow pills. Get 45 plus 5 free $99 + S/H. Guaranteed, no prescription necessary. Call Today 1-844-879-5238 PENIS ENLARGEMENT PUMP. Get Stronger & Harder Erections Immediately. Gain 1-3 inches Permanently & Safely. Guaranteed Results. FDA Licensed. Free Brochure: 1-800-354-3944 www.DrJoelKaplan.com Suffering from an ADDICTION to Alcohol, Opiates, Prescription Pain Killers or other DRUGS? There is hope! Call Today to speak with someone who cares. Call NOW 1-855-266-8685

DISH TV $59.99 for 190 Channels + $14.95 High Speed Internet. Free Installation, Smart HD DVR Included, Free Voice Remote. Some restrictions apply. Call Now: 1-800-373-6508

CASH FOR CARS! We buy all cars! Junk, high-end, totaled- it doesn't matter! Get free towing and same day cash! NEWER MODELS too! Call 1-866-535-9689

how does your garden grow? call

208-465-8175 to advertise your garden business

Shop Classifieds 208-465-8175

when is SMALL better? IN THE CLASSIFIEDS CALL 208-465-8175 exposure BOISE WEEKLY.COM

rates

A Man's Massage by Eric Special $30. FULL BODY. Hot oil, 6am-6pm & by appt. I travel. 208-880-5772. Male only. Private Boise studio. MC/VISA. Massagebyeric.com Come Experience MASSAGE BY SAM Hot tub available, heated table, hot oil full-body Swedish massage. Total seclusion. Days/Eves/Wknds. Visa/MC accepted. Male only. 208-866-2759 Relaxing Full Body Massage $40 for 60 min., $60 for 90 min. Quiet and relaxing environment. Now accepting Visa/MasterCard, Applepay & Googlepay. Call or text Richard at 208-695-9492.

$GYLFH IRU WKRVH H RQ WKH YHUJH FAMILY MAN DEAR MINERVA, I’m a 26-year-old transgender gender man in the middle of my transition while going to college. I’m torn over maintaining a relationship with most of my family. The last time we all got together, they said some hurtful things behind my back and it’s gotten to me since then. My grades aren’t as high as they should be and I’m talking myself down a lot more. I love them and I’ve only wanted to make them proud, but I wish they would accept that I’m doing what is truly making me happy. Should I try to reach out to them (again) in hopes they’ll change one day or should I move on with my life? Thank you, Mother Minerva. —Sincerely, Family Man

A MAN’S MASSAGE by Eric

Special • $30 FULL BODY • HOT OIL 6am-6pm & by appt Feel like a real man! MALE ONLY

Call 208-880-5772 I Travel Private Boise Studio

massagebyeric.com

GREEN SPA ASIAN BODYWORK 9am-10pm/7days Walk In • Park in Back Thank You

619 N. Orchard

DEAR FAMILY MAN, Congratulations on transitioning. Authenticity takes a lot of strength! Unfortunately, families sometimes don’t understand trans issues. I feel for you. I’m not close to much of my family. I have relatives who I couldn’t pick out of a lineup if my life depended on it who judge me behind my back. That’s why you should know that it doesn’t matter how much you want their approval, you cannot control what they say. Becoming the best version of yourself is the most important thing. Keep the doors to communication open, but realize that as much as you want to make them proud, pride is a two-way street, and they aren’t cutting it! Perhaps they’ll come around. Until then, keep working on you and good things will happen. SUBMIT questions to Minerva’s Breakdown at bit.ly/AskMinerva or mail them to Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, ID 83702. All submissions remain anonymous. Illustration of Minerva by Adam Rosenlund.

If you are reading this, so are your potential customers!

Spiritual Wisdom on Life After Death. This spiritual discussion class invites you to explore the eternal nature of you! Discover you are a unique, eternal Soul. Find out how love is stronger than fear and even death. Learn how to visit heaven. Free! Saturday, March 23, 2:00pm at the Eagle Public Library, 100 N. Stierman Way. For info 208-344-8137 Presented by ECKANKAR BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 25

ADOPT-A-PET

PAGE BREAK

Noodle Says...

These pets can be adopted at Conrad Strays. conradstrays.com |

ASLAN: Large, 5-yearold male. He is super lovable and gets along well with other cats. Looking for a forever home.

208-585-9665

JORDYN: 3-year-old female. Good with other pets, very sweet and likes to be held. Needs a safe, indoor-only home.

TIA: 6-year-old female. She is very shy and needs a patient, loving home. Good with other cats, adults only.

#boiseweeklypic

FIND LET THE MADNESS BEGIN

PL AY. G O O G L E. C O M

Always ask your veterinarian before giving human medications to your pets!

March Madness is such a common term in western popular culture that hardly anyone ever uses its formal name: the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. The 68-team, singleelimination tournament has become a bit of an obsession for sports fans, and is regularly the culprit of some of the most unproductive work days of the calendar year. Here are a few must-haves to make that madness complete: NCAA.com/brackets is the ofﬁcial website of the March Madness bracket. It’s your go-to online source to keep up with the blink-or-you’llmiss-it action. The NCAA March Madness On Demand app allows you to watch every game on your iPhone or iPad (free at the Apple app store). Consider a 120-can stainless steel Danby Minifridge to keep your favorite beverage close at hand ($215 on Amazon). No matter how chilled that beer is, it starts to warm as soon as you pop it open. Coozies may slow that a bit, but the way to go is the Yeti Rambler Colster to keep that brew frosty cold ($25 on Amazon). —George Prentice Taken by Instagram user @benjaben.

10 TTHINGS TO KNOW ABOUT MARCH MADNESS

These pets can be adopted at the Idaho Humane Society. idahohumanesociety.org | 4775 W. Dorman St. Boise | 208-342-3508

1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

The 2019 tournament began with 68 teams on Tuesday, March 19, and will run through Monday, April 18.

Fourteen U.S. cities will host games during the 2019 tournament. Boise will next host March Madness games in 2021.

JERRY: 2-year-old,

61-pound male Lab mix. Best in an active home with older kids. (#41004616 - Kennel 423)

FAWKES: 1.5-year-

JON SNOW: 1-year-

old, 7-pound male old male lionhead shorthair. Shy, rabbit. Curious, but very sweet. outgoing and gentle! (#41021765 - Cat(#40864498 - Small tery Kennel 105) Animal Room) Cat Care by Cat People

Eight teams competed in the ﬁrst NCAA men’s basketball tournament in 1939. The tournament was expanded to 68 teams in 2011.

6. 7. 8. 9. 10.

UCLA has won 11 championships, more than any other school. Kentucky is next with eight titles.

The lowest seed ever to win the tournament was No. 8-ranked Villanova in 1985. Only one No. 16 seed has ever beaten a No. 1 seed: University of Maryland, Baltimore County beat Virginia, 74-54, in the first round of the 2018 tournament. The odds of filling out a perfect March Madness bracket are about 1 in 9.2 quintillion. The phrase “March Madness” was first said by CBS sportscaster Brent Musburger in 1982.

These pets can be adopted at Simply Cats. simplycats.org | 2833 S. Victory View Way | 208-343-7177

CHARLOTTE: I’m turnPAISLEY: I’ve had reing into the nicest volving roommates, girl. I just need your yet I’m still here. love and patience... I’m happy that my preferably in a nice, friends get a home, cozy home, please! but I’d like one too! 26 | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | BOISEWEEKLY

ROXANNE: I’m the longest resident at Simply Cats, and I’m tired of the shelter life. I just need a family to call mine!

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): During the coming weeks, everything that needs to happen will indeed happen only if you surprise yourself on a regular basis. So I hope you will place yourself in unpredictable situations where you won’t be able to rely on well-rehearsed responses. I trust that you will regard innocence, curiosity and spontaneity as your superpowers. Your willingness to change your mind won’t be a mark of weakness but rather a sign of strength. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the animated kids’ film Over the Hedge, 10 talking animals come upon a massive, towering hedge they’ve never seen. The friendly group consists of a skunk, red squirrel, box turtle, two opossums and five porcupines. The hedge perplexes and mystifies them. It makes them nervous. There’s nothing comparable to it in their previous experience. One of the porcupines says she would be less afraid of it if she just knew what it was called, whereupon the red squirrel suggests that from now on they refer to it as “Steve.” After that, they all feel better. I recommend that you borrow their strategy in the coming weeks. If a Big Unknown arrives in your vicinity, dub it “Steve” or “Betty.” GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I urge you to locate a metaphorical or very literal door that will give you access to a place that affords you more freedom, healing and support. Maybe you already know about the existence of this door—or maybe it’s not yet on your radar. Here’s advice from Clarissa Pinkola Estes that might help. “If you have a deep scar, that is a door,” she writes. “If you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much that you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): Musician Carole Kaye is the most famous bass guitarist you’ve never heard of. Over the course of five decades, she has plied her soulful talents on more than 10,000 recordings, including gems by Frank Zappa, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra, Simon and Garfunkel, and the Beach Boys. Twenty-seven-time Grammy winner Quincy Jones has testified that Kaye has written “some of the most beautiful themes I’ve ever heard in my life” and that she “could do anything and leave men in the dust.” I trust this horoscope will expand the number of people who appreciate her. I also hope you’ll be inspired to become more active in spreading the word about the gifts that you have to offer the world. It’s high time to make sure that people know more of the beautiful truth about you. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “When you want happiness, what are you wanting?” asks aphorist Olivia Dresher. The repeat of an event that made you feel good in the past? A sweet adventure you’ve thought about but never actually experienced? Here’s a third possibility. Maybe happiness is a state you could feel no matter what your circumstances are; maybe you could learn how to relax into life exactly as it is, and feel glad about your destiny wherever it takes you. In my opinion, Leo, that third approach to happiness will be especially natural for you to foster in the coming weeks. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): There are old traditions in many cultures that pay special attention to the first brick or stone that is laid in the earth to initiate the construction of a future building. It’s called a cornerstone or foundation stone. All further work to create the new structure refers back to this original building block and depends on it. I’m pleased to inform you that now is a favorable phase to put your own metaphorical cornerstone in place, Virgo. You’re ready to begin erecting a structure or system that will serve you for years to come. Be sure you select the right place for it, as well as the best building materials.

BOISE WEEKLY.COM

BY ROB BREZSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Born under the sign of Libra, Ivan Kharchenko (1918–1989) was a military officer and engineer for the Soviet army. His specialty was disarming explosive devices before they detonated. Over the course of his career, he defused an estimated 50,000 bombs and mines. Let’s make him your patron saint for the coming weeks. Why? Because I suspect you will be able to summon a metaphorical version of his power: an extraordinary capacity to keep volatile situations from blowing up. You’ll be a virtuoso at waging peace and preventing strife. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There was a time, less than a century ago, when pink was considered a masculine color and blue a feminine hue. In previous eras, many European men sported long hair, wore high heels and favored clothes with floral patterns. Franklin D. Roosevelt, one of America’s most prominent 20th-century presidents, sometimes wore skirts and feather-bedecked hats as a child. With these facts as your keystone, and in accordance with astrological omens, I encourage you to experiment with your own gender expressions in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to have fun with the way you interpret what it means to be a man or woman—or any other gender you might consider yourself to be. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to estimates by population experts, about 109 billion humans have been born on planet Earth over the millennia. And yet I’m quite sure that not a single one of those other individuals has been anything like you. You are absolutely unique, an unmatched treasure, a one-of-a-kind creation with your own special blend of qualities. And in my prophetic view, you’re ready to fully acknowledge and celebrate these facts on a higher octave than ever before. It’s high time for you to own your deepest authenticity; to work with extra devotion to express your soul’s code; to unabashedly claim your idiosyncratic genius. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): We don’t know as much about European history between the sixth and ninth centuries as we do about other eras. Compared to the times that preceded and followed it, cultural and literary energies were low. Fewer records were kept. Governments were weaker and commerce was less vigorous. But historians don’t like to use the term “Dark Ages” to name that period because it brought many important developments and activities, such as improvements in farming techniques. So in some ways, “Lost Ages” might be a more apropos descriptor. Now let’s turn our attention to a metaphorically comparable phase of your own past, Capricorn: an era that’s a bit fuzzy in your memory; a phase about which your understanding is incomplete. I suspect that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to revisit that part of your life and see what new evidence and insights you can mine. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Why do some American libraries ban certain books, ensuring they’re unavailable to local readers? The reasons may be because they feature profanity or include references to sex, drug use, the occult, atheism, and unusual political viewpoints. Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis is one of the most frequently censored books. Others are Maya Angelou’s I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, Beloved, by Toni Morrison, and The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini. In my astrological opinion, these are exactly the kinds of books you should especially seek out in the coming weeks. In fact, I suggest you commune with a variety of art, ideas and influences that are controversial, provocative and intriguing. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): At the age of 97, Piscean cartoonist Al Jaffee is still creating new material for the satirical Mad magazine, where he has worked since 1964. There was one 63-year stretch when his comic stylings appeared in all but one of Mad’s monthly issues. I nominate him to be your role model during the next four weeks. It’s a favorable time for you to access and express a high degree of tenacity, stamina and consistency.

BOISEWEEKLY | MARCH 20–26, 2019 | 27