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Art Therapy

Dream On

Round Earther

This program treats neuro disease with art

Biking the Dream Delivery Service to Boise

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DREAM DREAM DREAM

Anymore, it seems the way the word “dream” is used in contemporary parlance is as a reference to aspirations. They’re lived and chased. People buy dream homes and land dream jobs.

The emissions that bubble up from the unconscious are oddly neglected. Even when they’re pleasant, they can be unsettling, rarely propping up our senses of who we are or the easy verity of our waking hours.

Mathias Svalina writes dreams for a living. His project, the Dream Delivery Service, is coming to Boise, and starting in September he’ll write dreams, that he’ll personally deliver to subscribers to the service every morning for a month. Svalina doesn’t quite know where dreams come from, and resists the urge to interpret them, but these short, surreal prose pieces are muchlauded in the poetry world and a reprieve from the addlingly digital ways we communicate most of the time. I profile him and DDS on page 7.

On the topic of people who see the world through a different lens, Barbara Morgan has seen it through a porthole on the International Space Station from 250 miles above the surface of the earth, and she had a lot to say about the ultimate value of seeing our planet from that perspective, taking a job at Boise State University and Flat Earth conspiracy theories. Don’t miss our Q&A with her on page 10.

There’s some solid science behind using art as therapy, especially for people with neurodegenerative diseases. The treatment helps people suffering from Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and others strengthen connections to their pasts and slow the progression of illnesses that break down the mind. One such course of treatment is just this week wrapping up in the Wood River Valley, and Hayden Seder got into the gallery and met with some of the patients to discuss their experiences. I can’t wait for you to read her piece on page 6.

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GEORGE PRENTICE

SHORT CIRCUIT THE 9TH CIRCUIT COURT OF APPE ALS HAS RULED THAT THE STATE O F I DA H O M U ST PERFO RM A SE X RE AS SIGNMENT SURGERY ON TR ANSGENDER INMATE ADREE EDMO. E XPERTS HAVE SAID THE SURGERY IS MEDICALLY NECES SARY, BUT GOV. BR AD LIT TLE HAS SAID HE INTENDS TO APPE AL THE RULING TO THE U.S. S U PRE M E C O U RT. RE A D M O RE AT NE WS/CIT YDESK. GONE CAMPING The City of Boise has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a 9th Circuit ruling against its camping ordinance, which it says is necessary, but critics say violates the rights of Boise’s homeless population. Read more at News/ Citydesk.

THE BENNETT SITUATION University of Idaho Professor Denise Bennett’s fate is in President C. Scott Green’s hands after her dismissal hearing Aug. 26. The school said she had weapons and drugs—claims police say are unverified. Read more at News/Citydesk.

TROMP TALKS Dr. Marlene Tromp, Boise State University’s seventh president, delivered the State of the University speech last week, in which she issued a challenge to students, faculty and staff, and alluded to a fractious political climate. Read more at News/Citydesk.

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MAIL NERVOUS ABOUT BCT LEADERSHIP CHANGES Editor’s Note: On Aug. 19, Boise Contemporary Theater Founder Matthew Cameron Clark released an open letter recounting the events that led to his departure from the black box theater. Read Boise Weekly’s story online.

My name is Anika Bennett and I am a senior at Boise High School who has been involved in Boise Contemporary Theater’s Theater Lab program over the last few years. Before I begin, I am aware that no one outside the walls of BCT knows the full story of Dwayne Blackaller and Matthew Cameron Clark’s departure from the theater. This letter also does not reflect the opinions of any present or former members of the BCT staff or board, nor is it representative of the feelings of any theater lab students or alumni beyond those who have agreed to sign it.

My intention with this letter is merely to share my perspective based on my experiences with Dwayne and Matthew and to ask the Board for their perspective as well. I know I am not alone in my confusion about the events that have transpired in the leadership at BCT. I remember sitting in Dwayne Blackaller’s office in 2018, just Dwayne and a small group of students in BCT’s theater lab program spitballing ideas in a last-ditch effort to finalize the last few pages of our play the night before it opened. As our fellow student Sabine Englert clicked away on the desktop computer, Dwayne listened to us run around in circles. He interjected when he needed to, always pushing us to ditch the ordinary and deliver something truly great.

When we finished writing it was past 9 p.m., two hours after the class was scheduled to end that night. We packed up our things and gave each other a few pats on the back, and as we walked out the door Dwayne told us how impressed he was with our dedication and tenacity. He never failed to show any of us in theater lab how proud he was or how much he appreciated us. I hope he knows how much we appreciate him, too.

Anyone that knows Dwayne probably knows about his infamous “Dwayne Speeches.” Every time we reached the familiar breaking point where discouragement drowns out enthusiasm, Dwayne would sit us down in a circle and give us a speech. Often he talked for too long and got lost in tangents, but he always managed to make us feel proud where before we had felt ashamed, excited where we had felt terrified, and capable where the task felt impossible. He empowered us, even as kids and teenagers, to create authentic art inside and outside of theater lab. When a group of his students decided to venture off to create their own student-run theater company last summer, Dwayne encouraged our journey and guided us with his experience in the logistical side of the theater business. He believed in our vision. When so many people looked at us as nothing more than a group of delusional children with unrealistic dreams about theater, he spoke to us like we were adults, treated us like we were adults, and expected us to act like adults. He gave us the power to do so, and we did.

Yesterday morning, my good friend Samuel Gillespie and I sat reading Matthew’s email explaining that he and Dwayne were no longer moving forward with Boise Contemporary Theater, and not by choice. If you are not a theater lab student, you probably can’t fully understand how painful this news has been for us. All of my closest friends are people I met at BCT theater lab. Outside of the program the theater lab kids continue to support and encourage one another just as Dwayne always

THE BOISE HIGH ‘BRAVE?’ Editor’s Note: In early August, the Boise Independent School District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to change Boise High School’s mascot from the “Boise Braves” to “Boise Brave” at the request of community members and Native American tribes.

I [recently] heard news of my former high school changing their mascot to be less racist. As a graduate of Boise High, I was pretty excited to hear that my former school would be changing its outdated mascot from the Braves to the… Brave? Holy empty gestures, Batman—we’ve done it, we have solved racism with the removal of a single “S.” The name change feels like a pretty hollow gesture one would pose as a joke before moving on to brainstorming actual ideas for a replacement, “Heck, all we would have to do is cover up the “S” anywhere it appears and then no one can call us racist anymore—imagine the savings on paint!”

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did. Dwayne is real. He shared with us stories of joy and love, of defeat and sadness. He instilled in us his best philosophies, not just for theater but for life. He was honest with us. He pushed us to work harder than we thought we could. He taught us to make big choices and big mistakes. He taught us that those mistakes are not only okay, they are important. He taught us to be honest, to take chances, to listen and to give. He always had our best interests in mind, and I know that he still does.

When I first heard that both men were no longer working for Boise Contemporary Theater, my fear was that something truly bad had happened, that maybe they weren’t the kind-hearted people I had always thought they were. Of course, that was not the truth. They always have been and will continue to be the genuine, caring, outstanding individuals they both are. Samuel and I spent a long time calling our close friends, asking them if they’d heard, hearing their hearts break over the static on the phone line, the disbelief settling in all of our chests. We never imagined this could happen in the place we always felt the safest and most welcome. It felt like a kind of intimate betrayal.

Dwayne always told his students to “Hold on tightly and let go lightly.” Our apologies to Dwayne, but this is one time we can’t heed his advice. The theater lab students and the community of Boise will hold on to Dwayne and Matthew tightly, but we will surely not be letting go of them lightly. We’re holding on to them even tighter, and we will be making sure their legacies continue both inside and outside of BCT. Matthew Cameron Clark and Dwayne Blackaller represent, in all of their actions, everything that BCT stands for. They encourage themselves and everyone around them “to examine our perspectives and better understand ourselves, each other, and the world around us,” to quote BCT’s own mission statement. While we all know that a small theater company cannot survive unless it, to some extent, functions like a business, Boise Contemporary Theater’s successes have never been rooted in ticket sales or budget surpluses. The theater has thrived because of what it stands for, what it has done for the community and the artistic integrity it has always maintained. Dwayne and Matthew foster love, joy and a passion for the arts wherever they go. While we are deeply saddened to know their time at Boise Contemporary Theater has come to an end, we know they will continue to carry this spirit forward to their next great adventure.

BCT does not belong to a president, to a board, to Dwayne Blackaller, to Matthew Cameron Clark, to the students of theater lab, to any one person or group of people that leads it. BCT belongs to the community that has supported it for years. It belongs to all of us here in Boise, those that have dedicated their lives to it and those who have only seen a single show. It belongs to you and to me.

We are BCT.

in school government, I even helped attribute to this in trying to fund a statue of our mascot for the school’s quad that would have essentially been a 9-foot-tall looming stereotype. Thing is—I was 17 when I had that idea and the older I get, and the more I listen, the more I view that as a smudge on my time there and realize I was essentially a giant metal cigar store statue on campus. That said, in participating in student government, I did see the issue of our mascot being racist raised a few times, and even then, 10 years ago, the administration seemingly proud of themselves for their wit, said something to the effect of, “Well if anyone gets mad, we are just going to drop the S, no one can be mad at someone for being Brave!” Astounding logic, in fact it helped me with my idea to right the mascot wrongs of Notre Dame, we just call them the “Fighting Iris,” no one can get mad at fighting flower! Oh and also the school’s colors last time I checked still include red—c’mon do I really have to keep going on this?

In terms of replacing outdated mascots, I definitely understand the administration’s resistance to changing something so minor (honestly, who really cares what their high school mascot is) it’s a pain to design new logos, get new banners, make new

—Signed, theater lab students and alumni: Anika Bennett and Dana Kenney (co-authors); Olivia Seidl, Ethan Ellis, Rachel Gordon, Grace Johnson, Jillian Dinucci, Ali Abbot and Sabine Englert shirts etc… but if this was the idea they had to fix what they knew was an issue 10 years ago, we will probably be having this conversation again in 10 years. I understand and highly respect educators/administrators and know that this may seem like a lot of extra work on top of what they are paid far too little to handle, so I wanted to offer a few ideas of potential replacements to take some of the pressure off them: The Boise High: Braces (As long as we are posing letter change options, this one is a better descriptor of the student body) Hyde Park Hippies or Camel’s Back Stoners (Self Explanatory.)

Capitals (The mascot could just be BHS in big letters.)

Prospectors (I dunno something to be done with Yukon Gold Potatoes/Yukon Prospecting, okay I admit this one is pretty lazy.)

Poindexters (Y’all still have the highest GPA right?)

In all seriousness though, just dropping a letter off of what has been a historically charged word feels like a half measure, and we can find a better replacement than dropping a letter.

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HAYDEN SEDER

ARTS & CULTURE ART AS MEDICINE

Sun Valley Center for the Arts hosts a free museumbased art therapy workshop

BY HAYDEN SEDER Most who have had a friend or relative with Alzheimer’s or dementia knows how trying neurodegenerative diseases are, both for the afflicted and those around them. Memories are lost and simple interactions can lead to confusion. In a relatively new method of helping these types of patients, the Sun Valley Center for the Arts has offered a sixweek program of free, museum-based art therapy that it calls “Stepping Out of the Frame.”

The program was designed specifically for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia, but is open to anyone suffering a neurodegenerative disorder. Started on July 23, the program meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays through Thursday, Aug. 29, at The Center in Ketchum. Run by the center’s Art Therapist & Enrichment Educator Jordyn Dooley, each session focuses on a different activity or directive as well as a way of interacting with the center’s current exhibition, Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin.

Dooley first came to The Center as an enrichment educator, working mostly at local schools.

Her Master’s in art therapy that she received from Florida State University, one of the first schools to use museum-based art therapy, gave her the idea to present a therapeutic art program for people in Sun Valley who suffer from neurodegenerative diseases.

“I saw while working in one of my practicums in grad school that it was really helpful for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia to be brought to museums,” Dooley said. “In our community, we’re fortunate that people are so open-minded and open to alternative types of medicine and approaches.”

The center was receptive to the idea, especially since there’s programming for families, toddlers, young adults, children and teens—but little to none for the elderly residents of the Sun Valley area.

Some of the benefits of art therapy as shown through various studies are improving cognitive and sensory motor functions, fostering self esteem and self awareness, cultivating emotional resilience, promoting insight, enhancing social skills and reducing and resolving conflicts. The museum becomes a safe space for participants to be free of stigma and to foster community.

“It can almost give people a blank slate to work with, it’s non-stigmatizing,” Dooley said.

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Art therapy is said to help people with neurodegenerative diseases retain some cognitive ability.

“The artwork also become this third party that people can interact with and relate to. They can project onto the artwork and memories can stem from looking at it. It can be an opportunity for them to reconnect and have memories resurface. It can also reduce anxiety because there’s no context needed; part of the creation of artwork and looking at artwork is to be able to connect with it in your own way.”

Most of the participants in Dooley’s program also attend with a caregiver, and the program has been an opportunity for patients and caregivers to build their relationships or connect in new ways.

About seven participants have come to each of the two-hour sessions, and they vary widely in why they’ve attended and their ailments.

“John,” for example, had a skiing accident over a year ago and has been in physical therapy for a traumatic brain injury ever since. He also has Parkinson’s and has participated in programs similar to this. “Sharon” decided to participate in the program as well to put off any neurodegeneration that might happen to her.

“Both of my parents started having issues in their 90s. I’ll be 79 this year and want to get a jump on it and not lose it as badly as my mom.

I thought it would be interesting. I’m here to find out what I can do like crosswords, puzzles and things that are recommended,” she said.

Each session focuses on The Center’s current art exhibition, Mirage: Energy, Water and Creativity in the Great Basin.

“It’s all about place and landscape and how landscapes change,” Dooley said. “What we’re exploring in these six weeks is this general theme of place and trying to think of memories in places and recall those.”

On the program’s first day, Dooley and the participants did an activity typically called a “safe space,” but was framed as a “happy” or “special memory” place. Each person identified a place either recent or in the past where they would go to feel calm, relaxed and happy. On the second day, the group began by looking at Laura McPhee’s work, Desert Chronicle, a collection of photographs of places invoking the history of the Great Basin.

“When you look at these images, it makes you wonder what’s happened there; they almost tell a story,” Dooley said.

The group spent time looking at the photos and being guided by Dooley through questions like what it would feel like to be in each photograph, what the temperature would be, what kind of textures one would feel and whether it reminded anyone of places they had been before.

The second part of the session was devoted to creating a “fragrance record,” something inspired by artist Cathleen Faubert’s Aromatic Landscapes.

A table was set up with different smells and tactile surfaces like sage, mint, coffee, bell pepper and cloves for the participants to slowly sift through.

Then, using essential oils and perfume bottles, the group tried to recreate their “happy places” in the form of a fragrance record or aromatic landscape.

“Hopefully it acts as something they can keep and smell to remember,” Dooley said. “Your olfactory senses are what is most connected to memory. Smelling it will hopefully alleviate anxiety if they’re triggered or feeling sad. It will hopefully bring them back to this relaxing place where they were really happy.”

This is but one example of the kind of projects Dooley has presented over the course of the program. Engaging in the art and physically creating art as well helps neurodegenerative patients to communicate differently, especially since communication may be declining.

“As the communication parts of the brain decline, the other parts make up for it and they’re able to interact more visually than maybe they had in the past,” Dooley said. “Art becomes a way that they can still interact and communicate. It’s another opportunity to project onto the paper or canvas or into the clay, to explore, to continue learning.”

EDITOR’S NOTE: The names of participants in the program have been changed to protect their identities.

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DREAMWEAVER

ARTS & CULTURE

ANONYMOUSLY SINGLE

Mathias Svalina biked from Denver to Boise for the Dream Delivery Service HARRISON BERRY Mathias Svalina called Boise Weekly from an RV park laundry room in Rawlins, Wyoming—a quick stop on his bike ride from Denver, Colorado, to Boise.

“I remembered why everybody bikes across Wyoming from west to east,” he said, reflecting on the 40-mile-per-hour headwinds.

Svalina gets around everywhere by bike, and over the last few years, he said he has logged 30,000-40,000 miles, but said he hasn’t been Mathias Svalina is the man behind the Dream Delivery Service, which will come to Boise in September. keeping close track. He also doesn’t have a solid count on the staggering number of “dreams” he has written through his project, the Dream rator, and taught writing at a slew of universities cated buildup or the architecture is stripped Delivery Service, which he pegs at somewhere away and there’s more of an acuity to minor across the country, but DDS is arguably his in the neighborhood of 20,000. For the month things. I love being in the mountains, but it alhighest-profile venture. of September, he’ll be conducting the service ways feels like you’re picking through this huge “Venture” is an appropriate term given his from Boise. apparent fascination with business: In 2011, he and ornate landscape.”

DDS is what it sounds like: Subscribers pay For the people who subscribe to the service, published I Am a Very Productive Entrepreneur a flat rate for a month of “dreams”—short, surSvalina painted DDS as a reprieve from digital and owns a book of surrealist business plans. real prose pieces—that Svalina delivers himself. communication. An age of cell phone access to His mornings start at 2 or 3 a.m., when he bikes His own life is both in synch and at odds with Facebook and targeted advertising has cheapthe logic of capital. around the city dropping the dreams off on “It’s really intense labor that I do, and people ened the written word, and letters, postcards subscribers’ doorsteps. By 7 a.m., he’ll “drink and, in Svalina’s case, dreams, can be reminders wouldn’t care if I didn’t do it. It all seems kind as much coffee as humanly possible, and write of ridiculous, so that the written word can have value and be a as long as I can I like it,” he said. product worthy of consumption in ways that before I run out those same words on a computer screen cannot.

He’s less of juice.” Much “I feel like one thing that people like about sardonic when of the rest of his “IT’S REALLY INTENSE [DDS] and that I like about it is that it’s sort of it comes to his day is spent “in a counter to the ubiquity of texts on the intertravels themprocess,” packing LABOR THAT I DO, AND net,” he said. “I have 1,000 things bookmarked selves. His life the short works in Chrome and 40 tabs open on Safari on my is a see-saw into envelopes PEOPLE WOULDN’T phone, and I have texts I’m saving for later. between cities and re-upping There’s this swarm of digital texts that’s amazwhere he does supplies like CARE IF I DIDN’T DO IT. his work and the ing, but also, I think, makes the preciousness of paper and printer open road where ephemeral and personal stuff more interesting. toner. The work IT SEEMS ALL KIND OF Instead of emailing people or having a website he does his is gruelling, and RIDICULOUS, SO I LIKE IT.” thinking. Urban or something, I print [dreams] out and leave Svalina is someareas blend into them at people’s doors.” what pessimistic Dreams are sources of some of western his writing, and about it, but it’s culture’s most vaunted cliches. They’re chased, when he’s in a clear fit for his caught, lived and a metaphor for aspirations.

Austin, Texas, the dreams he writes feature tetalents and personality.

“It’s really intense labor that I do, and people chies; in the Pacific Northwest, there’s moss. On For Svalina, they’re a source of labor and ultimately sustenance. the road, landscapes hold a particular fascinawouldn’t care if I didn’t do it. It seems all kind “This is my only form of income,” he said. “I tion for him. Deserts, especially the Mojave and of ridiculous, so I like it. It’s better than 16 live entirely off of dreams.”

Sonora, are special places because they and his hours a day at a job,” he said.

Dream Delivery Service will be in Boise Svalina’s list of accomplishments is as long as vision for dreams share an aesthetic. through September. Dream packages run from “There’s something about the open landhis travels. He’s a winner of Bread Loaf fellow$45-$48.75. Find out more at dreamdeliveryscapes that fits into how a dream landscape ships and The Iowa Review, has released nine service.com. works for me, where a lot of the more complibooks on his own and a few more as a collaboBOISE WEEKLY.COM

X-THE BEGINNING I have started and stopped this column more times than I can count. X is my Mr. Big. The joy and pain I have felt over the last 5 years are nearly impossible for me to put into words. X will drift in and out of my story much like Mr. Big came and went in Carrie Bradshaw. This is our beginning, before all the make-up and breakups (Spoiler alert: I do not end up marrying him with a bird on my head or in a courtroom wearing Manolo Blahniks) I was downtown one night with some of my girlfriends. I had seen X around, but we had never introduced ourselves. After some liquid courage we made contact. We flirted some, but nothing really evolved. Well, that is until a couple more bars and too many drinks later when I decided to add him on Facebook and send him a message. Much to my surprise when I woke up sober in the morning, he had responded.

We exchanged a few messages that week and he invited me to join him at his favorite bar for drinks. I will call this bar the Bronco Bar and much of our story plays out at this establishment. X is a diehard Bronco and doesn’t stray often from his favorite bar stool (Red Flag #1). I was happy to join him for drinks that first night. I was so embarrassed by my previous behavior that I couldn’t believe he wanted to see me again.

That night was very low-key and when I left, I remember him watching me walk away and saying, “I hate to see you go, but I love to watch you leave.” I really hate that that quote is taking up space in my brain, but alas I cannot forget it.

Why are we blind to the red flags in the beginning? How do we get from red flags to green lights? Cheers to staying on track even after a few speed bumps and crashes.

—A.S. Email me at anonymouslysingle@boiseweekly.com or follow me on Instagram @anonymouslysingle.

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NOISE

Jesse Dayton is a mix of southern blues and punk rock.

JESSE DAYTON’S ALBUM OF COVERS IS ONE OF THE GREATS You may never have heard Jesse Dayton on the radio, but you’ve probably heard his music.

The outlaw country singer has 11 studio albums, a broad selection of licensed songs, and has written music for three Rob Zombie movie soundtracks. He has toured with punk bands like the Supersuckers and Social Distortion, and has played for Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson. Dayton has just released a cover album of his favorite songs called Mixtape Volume 1. He’s currently on tour promoting the new album, and will perform a Thursday, Sept. 5, show at Neurolux.

Dayton has consistently marched to the beat of his own drum, and the cover album packs in a slew of choice styles like old country, and the Texas/Louisiana blues, zydeco and punk rock. For Dayton, it’s not the draw of so many zeroes on a paycheck that allures.

“I never was into this for the money; I would have played for free,” Dayton said.

The result is the freedom to write and perform music the way he sees fit. It’s a recipe that brings it in line with classic cover albums, like David Bowie’s Pin Ups, Johnny Cash’s album produced by Rick Rubin or Weezer’s The Teal Album.

These collections are great because of the time and care put into the way the songs are reimagined.

That’s exactly what Dayton does on his album. Instead of just re-singing a classic, he arranged the songs in his own style. The motley collection of artists ranging from The Cars to AC/DC reflects the music he enjoyed the most growing up. The thread that binds it all together is Dayton’s passion for the music.

His baritone voice, arrangement style and eclectic background make all of these songs both a little bit country and a little bit rock and roll.

Dayton’s next move is writing a memoir that will come out next year. He shows no signs of selling out in order to pack the crowds in, but that’s something you’ll have to see for yourself.

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COURTESY HERMIT MUSIC FESTIVAL

R AY REDDING

NOISE EXTRA

HERMIT MUSIC FEST PLAYS FOR A SEVENTH YEAR HAYDEN SEDER A band of hermits is an oxymoron, kind of like “jumbo shrimp” or “reality television.”

And yet Hermit Music Festival is Boise is a yearly excuse for musical and artistic “hermits” to come out and mix with their own kind over a weekend of music, art, dance, camping, vendors and workshops at Indian Creek Winery over Labor Day weekend, Thursday, Aug. 29, to Sunday, Sept. 1.

The festival was started by Ava Honey and Travis Ward in 2013 as a way to bring an acoustic music fest to the Treasure Valley. With 29 bands, kids activities and plenty of beer and wine, it has grown considerably in its seven years without losing its distinctive character.

Ward and Honey had never put on a music festival prior to first Hermit Fest in 2013, but both had a similar vision: To bring their acoustic musician acquaintances to the area for a weekend-long music festival of blues, country, bluegrass, old-time and singer-songwriter tunes.

A member of Boise band Hillfolk Noir, Ward had come across enough bands and musicians to fill a festival. He met Honey at a local show where Honey was a square dance caller.

“I have a lot of musical friends across the Pacific Northwest and I’ve been a square dance caller for almost a decade,” Honey said. “I’ve met a lot of really wonderful people and I wanted to bring them to Idaho and Boise to show them off.”

A full-time hairdresser when not organizing the festival, Honey got started calling dances after attending a concert where the caller asked if anyone was interested in learning the trade.

According to Honey, she thought it sounded like fun and the hobby snowballed from there.

After learning they had a shared interest in establishing a music festival, the two started pooling resources.

Ward had a connection with Indian Creek Winery from playing shows there. Its open layout and atmosphere made it ideal for live music. The owners, whose taste in music aligned with Honey and Ward, were enthusiastic about the partnership.

A band of bluegrass songsters takes the stage at Hermit Music Festival.

It’s become such a community event and This year’s Hermit Music Fest kicks off on Thursday, Aug. 29, with 300-500 people rolling people look forward to it. It feels like we’re creating this community service for people in in to hear music, learn at workshops and dance multiple generations to just come and have their pants off. Bands from the Boise area like this peaceful environment and be entertained.

Hillfolk Noir, Sawtooth Serenaders and The It’s pretty sweet.”

Pearl Tones will join bands hailing from PortSeveral artist vendors will have booths land, Oregon; Austin, Texas; New Orleans; New York and everywhere in between. Six workshops including Sacred Wheel Pottery, The Garden City Projects, Wild in Love Photo and Fluff will take place on Saturday and six more on Hardware. Those looking for food and drink Sunday on topics like family-style songwriting, can enjoy Sweet N’ Saguitar maintenance, a vory, Hammer and Kettle, children’s writing sesERTH Beverage Comsion, beginning fiddle pany, Crisp Eats, Kanack techniques and Austrlian “ I ’V E M E T A LOT OF Attack and the Fly Food folklore. Often memtruck (Sunday only). bers of bands playing R E A LLY W ONDE R FUL Indian Creek Winery will the festival will take up also have wine for sale. teaching the workshops.

P E OP LE A ND I For fans, the festival In addition to children’s has become a tradition, writing sessions and the WA NTE D TO B R ING complete with people overall family friendly taking the music off nature of the event, the T HE M TO IDA HO the stages and into the Boise Rock School will A ND B OIS E TO parking lots and campbe there to conduct a grounds. kid’s camp. Ward’s son S HOW THE M OFF. ” “People camp and Reuban is an artist and there are groups of people will have an art booth set playing music all night up for kid projects. and all morning,” Ward With Honey and said. Honey added that they felt last year’s Ward splitting booking bands, the final linefestival was the right size for optimal enjoyment, up has sometimes surprised them. Though and hope it has a similar feel in 2019. they’ve been caught off guard by their own “We’ve got great bands, workshops in the choices, they—and fans—have always liked morning and music after the workshops,” Honthe outcome. ey said. “For some people, it’s a full weekend “I always look forward to the bands Travis event and people camp out and play music the is bringing,” Honey said. “Ninety percent of whole time. Other people spend an afternoon the time I’ve never heard their music before. hearing music they’ve never heard before.”

That’s one of my favorite parts of the festival.

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The astronaut opens up on Flat Earth theories, seeing Idaho from space and working at Boise State CAMERON RASMUSSON

or salty chicken or beef consomme. You have to build those electrolytes back up in the body so you don’t pass out.

BW: This may be a silly question, but as one of the few people who have seen Earth from space, what do you make of Flat Earther conspiracy theorists?

BM: The Earth is not flat! We were up about 250 miles up, and you cannot see the whole Earth from that view. So it’s not like the Apollo program, when we captured that beautiful view of the full Earth and also the Earth rise. From 250 miles up you can basically see across the entire United States and a little bit beyond. So you definitely see the curve of the Earth, and you know the Earth is round!

There aren’t many Idahoans who have seen the state like Barbara Morgan. For more than 12 days in 2007, she and six other crew members saw the United States from 250 miles up while aboard the International Space Station. Morgan, who began her career as an elementary teacher in McCall, was selected by NASA as a participant in the Teacher in Space program, training first in 1985 as a back-up candidate for the Space Shuttle Challenger crew. After the Challenger’s tragic explosion, she continued to work with NASA and train for a mission that ultimately took her to space two decades later. During our conversation with Morgan, we discussed her experiences in space, her work as a Boise State University professor and the state of science education in the United States today.

BW: There must be a million strange things about adjusting to a zero-G environment.

What was the weirdest one?

BM: For everyone, it’s a little bit different.

You get what’s called a fluid shift, where you don’t have gravity pulling on the fluid in your body. Everything shifts upward into your head.

That’s why if you look at pictures of people in space, you’ll see their faces look a lot rounder and fuller. Your digestive system shuts down, the fluid moves to your head and your brain thinks that you have too much in your body. So you spend the first couple days getting rid of that fluid. You’re actually kind of dehydrated even though it doesn’t feel like it. And before you come back down to Earth, you have to restore that fluid, so you drink lots of either salt water

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BW: And what a sight, too!

BM: I really wish that every single person could see it, because I do think it will help bring our world closer together.

You travel around the Earth in 90 minutes, so it’s 45 minutes of day, 45 minutes of night.

All those beautiful pictures that you see of Earth where it’s shining and glowing, and you see the clouds are all on the daytime side of the planet. … It is absolutely pitch black all the way down to the edge of the planet, and all that atmosphere we look at from our perspective on Earth that looks like it goes on forever. It’s like an eighth of an inch or a quarter of an inch. It’s like the skin on an apple. That’s a perspective I wish everyone could see. And that’s when you really understand we are all on this planet traveling through space.

We are on spaceship Earth.

BW: Shortly after the mission, you accepted a position at Boise State University.

What led you to choose Boise as your home following the mission?

BM: I have a commitment to education and had an opportunity to come to Boise State. It was transitioning into a metropolitan research university of distinction. It was a great honor and pleasure to be able to help with that transition and work full-time on education again. Boise is where our family is, also. I had a wonderful career at Boise State. I feel very lucky to have had three incredible careers: in elementary education, as an astronaut and higher education.

BW: Tell me about investing yourself in a community after something as momentous as space flight? How do you pass those experiences along to the next generation?

BM: I’ve been very lucky to work with kids and teachers across the state. We have wonderful students here, and it’s a pleasure to be able to do that. I am emeritus now at Boise State and am retired from my full-time position, and I love it. I love Boise, I love our whole state.

I love McCall and have been here for many years, too. I just think we’re very lucky to be able to live and work in Idaho.

BW: We face many challenges in society that can only be addressed by a strong scientific backbone. Do you have any thoughts or concerns about the state of science education and support in America today?

BM: I wouldn’t limit it to just science.

What I love about education is its work is never finished. And it’s constantly going to be improved upon. As times change, we adjust to the times. And with the new science standards, the focus is more than just memorizing facts.

It is about the work of scientists and the overarching themes and the process… I’m really excited about what we’re doing. I think we can never take education for granted, especially public education. I think public education is the foundation of our democracy, and I really worry when it is constantly under attack.

BW: Is there anything that excites you about the future of space travel?

BM: I hope that you can go into space someday. And I would say never say never. One of the things that excites me is the whole commercial space program. I know it seems like a long time—many, many years—but people are working very hard toward that. I always think about my grandfather, who was 90 years old when he died. He came over to this country on a boat before there were cars. And in his lifetime, he saw the development of cars … all the way to commercial airlines and even to see the first space shuttle launch, re-enter the Earth and be able to be used again. Anything is possible if we set our minds to it.

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Thursday, March 19, 2020 may seem like a long way off for most us; but remind a filmmaker that their movie will premiere in seven months and it’s a good bet that they’ll flash you a smile usually reserved for high-stakes poker.

“The adage in movie-making is: ‘There’s the movie you write, the movie you shoot, and the movie you edit.’ And those can be all very different films,” said Scott Burkhardt, director and Adrian Tafesh plays Saed in the film adaption of the 1 Potato Award-winning script, Girls Are Strong Here. screenwriter of Girls Are Strong Here, winner of the 2019 1 Potato Screenwriter Award at the Sun Valley Film Festival. When Burkhardt’s script won That meant Matika had to knock on the The conceit of Girls Are Strong Here the top prize at this past March’s SVFF, he and door at Naylor’s Auto Repair to ask a question couldn’t be more perfect for the times: It producer Celeste Matika knew that the clock was introduces Saed, a Syrian refugee eking out a not usually heard in these parts: “Can we film already ticking. The festival’s expectation is daunt- living as a mechanic in a modest garage in an our movie here?” ing: The 1 Potato winner must be financed, cast, “I was thrilled when they said, ‘Hmmm. unnamed American city (Naylor’s Auto Restoryboarded, shot, edited and scored in time for Well… OK, I guess.’ People have been very pair in Boise is the film’s all-important backits premiere exactly one year later. generous here. Let’s put it this way: We drop). Saed’s faith is tested in his new home “It’s not unusual to be tweaking a film right weren’t chased off the property,” said Matika, when an American teenager and her mother up the last minute before a film is screened at a followed by a hearty laugh. are stranded at his garage overnight. Already festival,” said Matika. “It’s not just the edit. It’s the unsure about raising his own daughter in The next biggest challenge was casting, parcolor correction. It’s the sound design.” ticularly the layered role of Saed. The central the U.S., the teen confirms Saed’s suspicions Matika flashed a smile character is played by Los Angeles-based actor that American girls to Burkhardt, soon after Adrian Tafesh. are “disrespectful” and their cast and crew had “It’s a pretty amazing journey for me. I was “headstrong.” But when “ T H E AD AG E IN M O VIEpulled an all-nighter of born in the States, but my own grandparents an abusive boyfriend shooting Girls Are Strong were refugeed from Syria some 70 years ago,” catches up to them, M AK IN G IS :’T H ER E’S Here on location in Boise. said Tafesh. “When I got an email from Scott Saed recognizes that T H E M O VIE YO U W R IT E, the teenage girl’s strong “It’s a fascinating about being in the film, it was one of those process to work with Scott moments that you dream about but think it T H E M O VIE YO U S H O O T will is what allows her because we consider all probably will never happen. But there was the to survive. It’s a story of AN D T H E M O VIE YO U of the different ways to email. I submitted a video to audition, the empathy that asks us to play a very specific beat ball started rolling and I got the part.” reconsider our ideologies ED IT.’ T H O S E C AN AL L in just one scene. We ask Tafesh said he’s particularly thrilled at how and assumptions. ourselves, ‘Why don’t we “No, when I wrote the Burkhardt’s in-the-moment directing can capB E VERY D IF F ER EN T shoot an alternative take screenplay, it was definite- ture some unexpected moments on film.

F IL M S .” on this same scene?’ That’s “My craft is all about how truthful you ly not by accident,” said one of the many ways that can be in the moment. It keeps it fresh, but it Burkhardt. “The things a scene can really come requires you to be malleable and athletic, in a we all have in common to life. In some ways, it’s almost as creative as the sense, and ready to take anything on,” he said. trump the things that separate us. And please writing. Wouldn’t you say so, Scott?”

Most on-location scenes for Girls Are not that small ‘t” from trump; not capital “T” “Absolutely,” Burkhardt said. “Yes, my script for Trump.”

Strong Here have wrapped in Boise, but there won the 1 Potato award, but a script changes is much work to be done to craft a movie The 1 Potato initiative has a major caveat: over time. The locations that we found here in worthy of the 1 Potato honor. But the clock The film must be shot in Idaho.

Boise, the cast that we brought together… we’re is ticking. Come hell, high water or anything “We scouted for weeks and weeks, and all finding these amazing moments while film Scott and I looked at a lot of Idaho locations,” equally dramatic, the cinema lights will dim that we were never expecting. You bet; it’s an on March 19, 2020, and the full filmmaking said Matika. “But we found this perfect spot evolving thing.” experience will be complete. in Boise we wanted to use for the garage.”

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DID SHOULDER PAIN RUIN YOUR SUMMER? Find Out If It’s Due To A Rotator Cuff Tear!

By Leading Physical Therapist, Bret Adams

BOISE (ID) - Do you have In most cases, yes…but it depends on, but not shoulder pain with any limited to the following factors: of the following day-to- • What is the grade of the tear? There are day activities: 3 grades.

• REACHING OVERHEAD? • REACHING BEHIND YOUR BACK? • REACHING INTO THE BACK SEAT? • WHILE YOU SLEEP?

If you answered YES to any of the questions above, you surely know that shoulder pain can be such a menace… √ It can ruin a good night’s sleep…and when you lack sleep, you get cranky.

• Which of the 4 muscles of the rotator cuff is torn?

Learn More at our Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Pain Education Seminar offered on 2 dates and details are as follows: Tuesday September 10, 2019 6 p.m.-7:30 p.m.

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√ It can stop you from enjoying daily simple tasks…making you frustrated…forcing you to take more pain pills than you would care to admit.

• Arm Yourself with Knowledge & Understanding • Perform Self Treatment w/Guidance of a Physical Therapist

Is your rotator cuff the culprit?

You will discover tips on how to: • Know which rotator cuff muscle is affected and the grade of the tear.

The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles that run from our shoulder blade into the top end of the bone in our arm. They help keep the ball end of our arm bone centered in the shoulder socket.

• Correct the cause of your pain and speed up the healing process.

When healthy, the rotator cuff allows us to reach in all directions smoothly and without pain.

If you’re currently seeing a doctor, thinking about it, or just don’t want to face the hassle of talking to your insurance, but still want to get some real help, then you need to consider attending this FREE Rotator Cuff and Shoulder Pain Seminar.

If you experience pain, weakness or difficulty during the tests mentioned here, it is highly likely that you are suffering from a rotator cuff tear.

Try These Now 1. The first test is called the Drop Arm Test.

With your arm relaxed by your side, turn your arm out so your thumb faces directly to the side. Slowly raise your arm to the side, then slowly lower the arm. Test is positive if the arm suddenly drops or you experience severe pain on the way up or down.

2. The Lateral Jobe Test. With this test, raise your affected arm (i.e. your right arm) out to the side by lifting your right elbow to 90 degrees, with your hand hanging down, fingers pointed to the ground, your thumb pointing to your tummy. With your left hand, push down on the right arm just above the elbow. Test is positive if you experience pain or weakness.

3. The 3rd test is called Lift-Off Test. The hand of the affected arm is placed on the lower back. The hand of the affected arm is placed on the lower back. Now try lifting the hand off the back without straightening your elbow. Test is positive if you’re unable to lift the hand off.

Now you may be asking…can a rotator cuff tear heal and will pain subside without medications, injections, or surgery?

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CALENDAR WEDNESDAY AUG. 28 Theatre

WILL I LIVE HERE WHEN I GROW UP—Clare Johnson’s reading Will I live here when I grow up mixes current life with themes of historical westward migration and family.

6:30-8:30 p.m. FREE. Surel’s Place, 212 East 33rd St., Garden City, 208-918-3591, surelsplace.org.

Visual Arts ART SOURCE GALLERY: ART

BY PEACHER—10 a.m.-6 p.m.

FREE. Art Source Gallery, 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-426-8499, artsourcegallery.com.

ISF: JULIUS CAESAR—Shakespeare’s classic drama of intrigue and allegiance is the ultimate political thriller. 8 p.m. $13-$52. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, idahoshakespeare.org.

DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts.

7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Trueblood Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208426-2541.

Film

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX group art exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT: PRESENTED BY THE BOISE FILM FOUNDATION AND PAYETTE BREWING—An exclusive screening of A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT. Bring your blanket, low back chair, $10 and your thirst. Kids under 12 are $5. 8-10 p.m. $5-$10. Payette Brewing River Street Taproom, 733 S. Pioneer St., Boise, 208-2837065.

SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Boise Art Museum, 670 E. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

THURSDAY, AUG. 29

Food & Drink LED PRESENTS RED HARE(ING)— Inspired by literary and historical representations of the rabbit, this immersive evening begins with hand-crafted tapas and drinks at Txikiteo, hops over to The Modern for farm-to-table dining and live jazz, and culminates with dance, live music, and dessert at LED’s new studio at 1420 W. Grove St. Featuring choreography from Lauren Edson, music by Andrew Stensaas, and an incredible cast of dancers and musicians. 7-11 p.m. Txikiteo, 175 N. 14th St., Boise, ledboise.com.

Teens OPERA IDAHO CHILDREN’S CHORUSES AUDITIONS—Opera Idaho Children’s Choruses provide

learning and performing experiences for ages 3 years to high school seniors. 4-6:30 p.m. FREE. Opera Idaho Studio, 513 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-3531, ext. 2, operaidaho.org.

THURSDAY AUG. 29 Theatre ISF: JULIUS CAESAR—Shakespeare’s classic drama of intrigue and allegiance is the ultimate political thriller. 8 p.m. $13-$52. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, idahoshakespeare.org.

STAGE COACH: CAHOOTS, A COMEDY—Filled with witty dialogue and hilarious one-liners, the play manages to maintain a farcical unreality while demonstrating that things usually do get worse before they get better—and that the vaunted dangers of street crime can pale beside the outrageous mayhem that can ensue when four “good friends” get together for a quiet dinner. 7:30

SATURDAY, AUG. 31

p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald St., Boise, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Visual Arts

Literary Arts

ART SOURCE GALLERY: ART

BY PEACHER—10 a.m.-6 p.m.

FREE. Art Source Gallery, 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-426-8499, artsourcegallery.com.

LAST THURSDAY ART PARTY—Renae Hill is our featured artist for our Last Thursday Art Party. Her watercolors are expressive and filled with gorgeous color. 5-8 p.m. FREE. Finer Frames, 164 E. State St., Suite B, Eagle, 208-888-9898.

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Boise

MONDAY, SEPT. 2

HITLER’S AMERICAN MODEL: COMMUNITY DISCUSSION WITH RABBI FINK—Rabbi Dan Fink leads a discussion on the unsettling history of American eugenics and legal subjugation. 7 p.m. FREE. Idaho Black History Museum, 508 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Comedy SOPHIE HUGHES—When Sophie Hughes talks, people listen—and laugh. 8 p.m. $12-$15. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, liquidboise.com.

Talks & Lectures CIVIL DISCOURSE IN AMERICA— Join Idaho Women in Leadership for a conversation on civility and civil discourse with leaders in govern-

WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 4

Idaho’s largest Latino gathering

A Japanese celebration

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America’s segregation policies influenced Hitler

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

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While World War II is often depicted as true good, the Allied Forces, versus true evil, the Axis Powers, the truth is much darker and convoluted.

America’s laws played a roll in shaping Germany’s anti-Semitic policies. James Whitman’s pivotal work, Hitler’s American Model, examines how the American political landscape influenced the Nuremberg Laws in Nazi Germany, a key component in Hitler’s crusade against European Jews. Rabbi Dan Fink will discuss the impact of American segregation policies of the Jim Crow era and how the laws inspired Hitler and the Nazis to craft key legislation against the Jewish people. The talk is co-sponsored by Rediscovered Books and the Idaho Black History Museum. Admission the the talk is free, and begins at 7 p.m.

7 p.m. FREE. Thursday, Aug. 29, Idaho Black History Museum, 530 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, rdbooks.com.

In its fifth year, Latino Fest has outgrown its previous home on the Basque Block. The festival, coordinated by the Idaho Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Consolate of Mexico in Boise, is the largest Latinx event in Idaho. The event seeks to heighten the cultural awareness of Boise and increase community relations with Idaho’s Latino residents. The event will include art, music and dancing from Latino cultures across the world. Musical performances from Danny Daniel, Special Reserve and Eddie Manzanares and the Cafe Blanco band will accompany the day-long celebration. There will also be activities for kids and food for purchase from Cuban, Colombian, Argentinian, Puruvian and Mexican traditions. Admission is free and open to the public.

4 p.m. FREE. Saturday, Aug. 31, Cecil D. Andrus Park.

Japan’s culture and history is spanning, captivating and stunningly beautiful, full of intricate art and unique and delicious foods. The City of Trees holds an annual celebration of Japanese culture each year, put on by the Idaho Japanese Association. The celebration, hosted at the Basque Center, will bring Japanese food, dance, music and cultural traditions to Boise. The event will also have martial arts demonstrations and a showcase of delightful Japanese calligraphy.

Among the performances will be Shishimai, also known as the Lion Dance. Versions of the Lion Dance are found throughout a number of Asian cultures including Chinese, Korean and Tibetan.

The performance is said to bring luck and fortune, and is often performed during the New Year to ward away evil spirits.

6 p.m. FREE. Monday, Sept. 2, Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, idahojapaneseassociation.org.

Growth in the Treasure Valley is on everyone’s mind. From increased traffic to inflated housing prices, residents of the Boise area are feeling the effects of the growing population. It seems Boise or one of the surrounding communities is added to a new list every week, whether it’s top places to move or top growing cities in the United States (hint: Boise is number one). Idaho Smart Growth hosts a monthly workshop, Citizens Planning Academy, to inform people on how to become advocates for Smart Growth in the Treasure Valley. The title of the Sept. 4 workshop is “Priced Out: How Planning and Zoning Affects Affordable Housing.” Guest speakers Daren Fluke, Boise’s Deputy Director for Comprehensive Planning, and developer Bob Taunton, will breakdown how the cities planning and zoning decisions changes the landscape of housing in the area.

6 p.m. FREE. Wednesday, Sept. 4, Idaho Water Center, 322 E. Front St., Boise, idahosmartgrowth.org.

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FRIDAY AUG. 30

ment, business and sports. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Zions Bank, 17th floor, 800 W. Main St., Boise, 208-8304303, i-wil.com.

VANDAL VOICES: THE BUSINESS CASE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION—The relationship between early education and the success of Idaho’s economy is the subject of the next Vandal Voices at 5:30 p.m. FREE. Amsterdam Lounge, 609 W. Main St., Boise, uidaho.edu.

SHOP THE ICHA WESTERN TRADE SHOW—Shop the ICHA Western Trade Show 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. FREE. Ford Idaho Center, 16200 Idaho Center Blvd., Nampa, 208-5392431, idahocha.com.

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BOISE FARMERS MOBILE MARKET—Support your local farmers every week at the Boys and Girls Club and enjoy fresh veggies, fruits, honey, eggs and more. 4:30-6 p.m.

FREE. Boys and Girls Clubs of Ada County Moseley Center, 610 E. 42nd St., Garden City.

COMEDIAN DAVID HUNTSBERGER—Host of Syfy’s Reactor, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, and co-host with Tig Notaro on Professor Blastoff. He’s the ultimate nerd comic. 9 p.m. $10-$15. The Lounge at the End of the Universe, Gem Center for the Arts, 2417 W. Bank Drive, Boise, 208-477-7546, loungeboise.com.

FLYING M SEASONAL MARKET—A collection of farmers and artisans sell local produce and goods Thursday evenings through Sept. 19. 6 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208467-5533, flyingmcoffee.com.

Festivals & Fairs

ISF: THE MUSIC MAN—There’s trouble in River City when a fasttalking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. By turns

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wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, The Music Man is family entertainment at its best. 8 p.m. $13-$57. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, idahoshakespeare.org.

STAGE COACH: CAHOOTS, A COMEDY—Filled with witty dialogue and hilarious one-liners, the play manages to maintain a farcical unreality while demonstrating that things usually do get worse before they get better—and that the vaunted dangers of street crime can pale beside the outrageous mayhem that can ensue when four “good friends” get together for a quiet dinner. 8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald St., Boise, stagecoachtheatre.com.

Visual Arts DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts.

7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Trueblood Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208426-2541.

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

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SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Boise Art Museum, 670 E. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

Comedy SOPHIE HUGHES—When Sophie Hughes talks, people listen-and laugh. 8 and 10 p.m. $12-$15.

Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, liquidboise.com.

Other MERIDIAN MAIN STREET MARKET—Shop over 50 local vendors featuring local produce, baked goods, artwork, handcrafted wares and more. 9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, meridianmainstreetmarket.com.

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SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Boise Art Museum, 670 E. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

Comedy LIVE GRIMACE HALF HOUR POWER HOUR PODCAST SHOW— For the first time ever The Grimace Half-Hour Power Hour is seeing the light of stage. 10-11:30 p.m. $5-$10. The Lounge at the End of the Universe, 2417 Bank Dr., Boise, 678-491-0079.

COMEDIAN DAVID HUNTSBERGER—Host of Syfy’s Reactor, Comedy Central’s Premium Blend, and co-host with Tig Notaro on Professor Blastoff. He’s the ultimate nerd comic. 9 p.m. $10-$15. The Lounge at the End of the Universe, Gem Center for the Arts, 2417 W. Bank Drive, Boise, 208-477-7546, loungeboise.com.

SOPHIE HUGHES—When Sophie Hughes talks, people listen—and laugh. 8 and 10 p.m. $12-$15.

Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, liquidboise.com.

ISF: THE MUSIC MAN—There’s trouble in River City when a fasttalking salesman gets his heart stolen by the town librarian. By turns wicked, funny, warm, romantic and touching, The Music Man is family entertainment at its best. 8 p.m. $13-$57. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, idahoshakespeare.org.

BOISE HAWKS HOME GAME—An evening at Memorial Stadium cheering on the Boise Hawks is a perfect, family-friendly summertime activity.

7:15 p.m. Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., Boise, 208-3225000, milb.com.

STAGE COACH: CAHOOTS, A COMEDY—Filled with witty dialogue and hilarious one liners, the play manages to maintain a farcical unreality while demonstrating that things usually do get worse before they get better—and that the vaunted dangers of street crime can pale beside the outrageous mayhem that can ensue when four “good friends” get together for a quiet dinner. 8 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald St., Boise, stagecoachtheatre.com.

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Other BOISE FARMERS MARKET—Find fresh local seasonal vegetables and fruit, locally raised protein, breads and pastries, honey, jams and sauces, fresh-roasted coffee, and a delicious selection of ready-to-eat foods. 9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Shoreline Drive, 1500 Shoreline Drive, Boise, theboisefarmersmarket.com.

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MARKET— At The Capital City Public Market, you’ll meet Treasure Valley farmers, artists, bakers and other passionate vendors. 9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. FREE. Eighth Street Corridor, Eighth and Idaho streets, Boise, capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

EAGLE SATURDAY MARKET—The Eagle Saturday Market is a handmade market located in the heart of downtown Eagle in Heritage Park.

9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Heritage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle, 208-4898763, cityofeagle.org.

MERIDIAN MAIN STREET MARKET—Shop over 50 local vendors featuring local produce, baked goods, artwork, handcrafted wares, and more! 9 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, meridianmainstreetmarket.com.

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DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts.

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LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

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STAGE COACH: CAHOOTS, A COMEDY—Filled with witty dialogue and hilarious one-liners, the play manages to maintain a farcical unreality while demonstrating that things usually do get worse before they get better—and that the vaunted dangers of street crime can pale beside the outrageous mayhem that can ensue when four “good friends” get together for a quiet dinner. 2 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald St., Boise, stagecoachtheatre.com.

JAPAN DAY 2019—Join the Idaho Japanese Association to experience Japanese culture and performances. 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m. FREE. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-779-0811, idahojapaneseassociation.org.

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208426-2541.

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SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. Noon-5 p.m.

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Comedy SOPHIE HUGHES—When Sophie Hughes talks, people listen—and laugh. 8 p.m. $12-$15. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, liquidboise.com.

DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts.

7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Trueblood Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208426-2541.

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

Sports & Outdoors BIKE NIGHT MONDAY—Ride your bike to the Garden City Taproom every Monday night and receive 10 percent off your tab. 4-9 p.m. FREE. Barbarian Brewing Garden City Taproom/Brewery, 5270 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City.

BOISE HAWKS HOME GAME—An evening at Memorial Stadium cheering on the Boise Hawks is a perfect, family friendly summertime activity.

5:15 p.m. Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., Boise, 208-3225000, milb.com.

Civic Benefit BOISE CT&LC LABOR DAY PICNIC—Annual Labor Day Picnic!.

Suggested Donation: $5 or 5 non-perishable food items per person. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Boise Municipal Park, 500 S. Walnut St., Boise, 208-284-5097.

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Sports & Outdoors BOISE HAWKS HOME GAME—An evening at Memorial Stadium cheering on the Boise Hawks is a perfect, family friendly summertime activity.

7:15 p.m. Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., Boise, 208-3225000, milb.com.

SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

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Visual Arts DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union Trueblood Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208426-2541.

DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union Trueblood Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

Comedy RAMAPONG COMEDY TUESDAYS—RamaPong and Red Mic Comedy teamed up to give comics a place to work out jokes. Go see what they’re working on this week.

9:30-11 p.m. FREE. RamaPong, 204 N. Capitol Blvd., Ste. 10, Boise.

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 4 Visual Arts DAVID HAYES: TRUEBLOOD MEMORIES—David Hayes’ homage to the inspiration of Ted Trueblood on the artist’s own conservation efforts. 7 a.m.-10 p.m.

FREE. Boise State Student Union Trueblood Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-2541.

LATINIX GROUP SHOW: WE CARRY INSIDE OURSELVES—LatinX Group Art Exhibition at Boise State SUB Fine Arts Gallery. 7 a.m.-10 p.m. FREE. Boise State Student Union Fine Arts Gallery, 1700 University Drive, Boise, 208426-2541.

SARAH SENSE: COWGIRLS AND INDIANS—Using traditional basket-weaving techniques, Sarah Sense questions the stereotypes of the Cowboy and Indian in American pop culture. 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

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

Talks & Lectures CITIZENS PLANNING ACADEMY: PRICED OUT-HOW PLANNING AND ZONING AFFECTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING—Join guest speakers Daren Fluke and Bob Taunton in a discussion about the ways in which planning and zoning affects housing affordability. 6-7:30 p.m. FREE. Idaho Water Center, 322 E. Front St., Boise, 208-333-8066, idahosmartgrowth.org.

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ALIVE AFTER FIVE: HILLSTOMP, THE GROVE PLAZA, AUG. 28

Hailing from Boise’s far western neighbor, Portland, Oregon, blues punk duo Hillstomp is set to close out the Alive After Five season. The band, formed in 2002, has a storied history of touring the U.S. and Europe, while also being featured in the popular show Sons of Anarchy. Much like fellow two-piece blues outfit The White Stripes, Hillstomp credits old bluesmen from the Mississippi Delta with inspiration, notably blues legend R.L. Burnside. Their sound spans from folky to distorted blues rock with a vintage aura. The band has released six albums, most recently Monster Receiver in 2018.

Hillstomp is joined by local songster Nick Delffs, who creates dreamy lyrical folk tunes. Delffs is taking off on a national tour in the weeks that follow the season finale of Alive After Five, hitting a few spots on the East Coast before coming back to the Pacific Northwest, according to his Bandcamp page.

—Xavier Ward With Nick Delffs. 5 p.m., FREE. The Grove Plaza, downtownboise.org.

ALIVE AFTER FIVE: HILLSTOMP— With Nick Delffs. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—7:30-10:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m.

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THURSDAY AUG. 29 CHUCK SMITH TRIO—7:30 p.m.

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In both appearance and sound, Wingtips is like a mix between A Flock of Seagulls and The Cure. Its sound is like a time capsule, a band somehow lost to the 1980s. The dream pop duo from Chicago is smooth, easy and captivating. The synth-laden tracks are sure to make just about anyone cut a rug. The band is joined by a few local acts. Sickwish, another band calling back to a time of sexy shirtless vampires and Pepsi Crystal, is a local new wave group. Sickwish’s sound is more similar to Joy Division or New Order. The music is considerably more guitar-driven than the night’s headliner, but still packs a synth-heavy punch. Before Sickwish comes DJ Joe Black, providing a house music set to kick the night off. DJ Joe Black’s music is upbeat and energetic. He’s a good way to set the mood for what’s to come.

—Xavier Ward With Sickwish, DJ Joe Black. 8 p.m. $8. The Shredder, 430 S. 10th St., Boise, shredderboise.com.

GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: HERMIT MUSIC FESTIVAL’S HOEDOWN AT THE GARDEN SQUARE DANCE— Featuring Rumblefish. 6 p.m. $8$12. Idaho Botanical Garden OPEN MIC WITH UNCLE CHRIS—7 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub and Grill THIRSTY THURSDAY—Every Thursday in the summer Telaya is open late! We will have local, live music playing and a food truck on-site. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Telaya Wine Co.

FRIDAY AUG. 30 ART AND BLUES ON THE BELT— Join BOSCO Artists for Art and Blues by the river at the Riverside HOtel’sSandbar, Riverside Hotel. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sandbar at The Riverside Hotel DANGER BEARD—Danger Beard to play first live music event at new 2C Family Brewing taproom in downtown Nampa! 8-10 p.m. FREE. 2C Family Brewing Company GARY TACKETT AND FULL MOON RUDE: BLUE EYED SOLE RECORD RELEASE—With Guest TBA Doors at 7 pm-Show 8 pm 21+ VALID ID REQUIRED $15 advanced ~ $20 at the door get tickets at 7 p.m. $15-$20.

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GUILTY PLEASURE—Classic rock, soul, funk, and disco with Guilty Pleasure featuring Mary Houston. 8 p.m.-midnight. FREE. Ironwood Bar and Grill JOSH GROBAN: BRIDGES TOUR—7:30 p.m. $67. Outlaw Field at the Idaho Botanical Garden JOSH GROBAN: BRIDGES TOUR—7:30 p.m. $75-$204. Knitting Factory JUNIOR BROWN—7 p.m. $25-$30.

The Olympic LLOYD AND BECKY BLAKE—WHAT NATE MAKES—that’s what’s for dinner! Great food, great music, and—Da planes! Da planes! 5-8 p.m.

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JOSH GROBAN, AUG. 30, BOTANICAL GARDEN

Josh Groban may be one of the last of his kind—a crooner commanding sold out crowds at massive venues across the United States. When thinking of his ilk, Frank Sinatra comes to mind. Singers who don’t peddle flashy performances, play loud and raucous music or are even particularly exciting. In true crooner fashion, he even has a Christmas album. Groban is crossing the country on his Bridges Tour, starting in Illinois and ending in California. Groban is known for his smooth, appealing voice and relaxed presence.

Nothing about Groban is particularly enthralling, but perhaps that’s where the appeal of his music comes from. He is simple, unassuming and very simply put, just a singer. Much of Groban’s music is heavily influenced by church tunes found at masses across the country. He’ll be in Boise at the Botanical Garden on Friday, Aug. 30.

—Xavier Ward $75, Friday, Aug. 30, Idaho Botanical Garden, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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76 Whirlpool subsidiary since 2006 79 Place to lace up 80 “It’s a snap!”

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ASTROLOGY VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shogun is a bestselling novel about an Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in seventeenth-century Japan. Written by James Clavell, it’s over 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s school book: “In 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.” I suspect it’s highly likely you will soon encounter a seed like that, Virgo: a bare inspiration that will eventually bloom into a Big Thing.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran athlete Mickey Mantle is in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame. He had a spectacular 18-year career, winning the Most Valuable Player Award three times, playing in 12 World Series, and being selected to the All-Star team 16 times. So it’s astounding that he played with a torn ligament in his knee for 17 years, according to his biographer Jane Leavy. She quoted an orthopedic surgeon who said that Mantle compensated for his injury with “neuromuscular genius.” I’m thinking that in the next few weeks you’re in a position to accomplish an equivalent of Mantle’s heroic adjustment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most people who belong to the Church of Satan neither believe in nor worship Satan. (They’re atheists, and don’t believe in the supernatural.) I think a comparable principle is true for many rightwing fundamentalist Christians. Their actions and words are replete with bigotry, hard-heartedness, materialism, and selfishness: so contrary to what the real Jesus Christ taught that they in effect don’t believe in or worship Jesus Christ. I mention this, Scorpio, in hope of inspiring you to take inventory of whether your stated ideals are reflected in the practical details of how you live your life. That’s always an interesting and important task, of course, but it’s especially so for you right now. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to purge any hypocrisy from your system and get your actual behavior in close alignment with your deepest values.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the right time for you to create a fresh mission statement and promotional campaign. For inspiration, read mine: “My column ‘Free Will Astrology’ offers you a wide selection of realities to choose from. With 4,212 years of dedication to customer service (over the course of my last 13 incarnations), I’m a reliable ally supporting your efforts to escape your oppressive conditioning and other people’s hells. My horoscopes come with an ironclad guarantee: If the advice you read is wrong, you’re under no obligation to believe it. And remember: a panel of 531 experts has determined that ‘Free Will Astrology’ is an effective therapy for your chronic wounds and primordial pain. It is also dramatic proof that there is no good reason to be afraid of life.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are good questions for you to meditate on during the next four weeks. 1. How can you attract resources that will expand your mind and your world?

2. Are you bold enough to reach out to wise sources and provocative influences that could connect you with useful tricks and practical treasures? 3. What interesting lessons can you stir up as you explore the mercurial edges, skirt the changeable boundaries, journey to catalytic frontiers, and make pilgrimages to holy hubbubs? 4. How best can you encourage lyrical emotion over polished sentimentality? Joyous idealism over astringent zealotry? Exuberant integrity over formulaic kindness?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by,” wrote author Wallace Stegner, “and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” That will be an excellent meditation for you during the coming weeks. I trust you are long past the time of fantasizing you can live without any rules. Your challenge now is to adjust

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Given the astrological omens that will symbolize your personal story in the coming weeks and months, I think Piscean author Nikos Kazantzakis articulated the perfect prescription for you. I invite you to interpret his thoughts to fit your circumstances. “We’re going to start with small, easy things,” he wrote. “Then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.” Here’s an additional prod from Kazantzakis: “Reach what you cannot.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are examples of activities I recommend you try in the coming days. 1. Build a campfire on the beach with friends and regale each other with stories of your most interesting successes. 2. Buy eccentric treasures at a flea market and ever thereafter refer to them as your holy icons. 3. Climb a hill and sit on the grass as you sing your favorite songs and watch the moon slowly rise over the eastern horizon. 4. Take naps when you’re “not supposed to.” 5. Sneak into an orchard at night and eat fruit plucked just moments before. 6. Tell a beloved person a fairy tale in which he or she is the hero.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The hardiest creature on the planet may be the bacterium known as *Deinococcus radiodurans*.

It can endure exposure to radiation, intense cold, dehydration, acid, and vacuum. I propose we make it your power creature for the coming weeks. Why? Not because I expect you’ll have to deal with a lot of extreme conditions, but rather because I think you’ll be exceptionally robust, both physically and psychologically. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to succeed at demanding challenges that require you to be in top form, now is a good time to do it. P.S. *Deinococcus radiodurans* is colloquially referred to as Conan the Bacterium, borrowing from the spirit of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian, who is renowned for his strength and agility.

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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the yearly cycle of many Geminis, retreating into a state akin to hibernation makes sense during the end of August and the first three weeks of September. But since many of you are high-energy sophisticates, you often override your body’s signals. And then nature pushes back by compelling you to slow down. The result may be a rhythm that feels like constantly taking three steps forward and two steps backward. May I suggest a different approach this year? Would you consider surrendering, even slightly, to the invitation to relax and recharge?

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you decide to travel to a particular place via hot air balloon, you must be prepared for the possibility that your route will be indirect. At different altitudes, the wind may be blowing in different directions: toward the east at a hundred feet high, but toward the southwest at two hundred feet. The trick for the pilot is to jockey up and down until finding a layer that’s headed toward the desired destination. I see your life right now as having a metaphorical resemblance to this riddle. You have not yet discovered the layer that will take you where you want to go. But I bet you will soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Considering how bright you have been burning since the Flame Angels designated you as the Hottest Cool Person of the Month, I hesitate to urge you to simmer down.

But I must. Before there’s a meltdown in your vicinity, please lower your thermostat. Not a lot. Just a little. If you do that, everyone will continue to see your gleaming charisma in the best possible light. But don’t you dare extinguish your blaze. Don’t apologize for your brilliant shimmer. The rest of us need your magical radiance.

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