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YOU ARE WHAT YOU EATSpending a few weeks in Greece about 13 years ago, I first

encountered the combination of Greek yogurt and honey. I won’t say it changed my life, but it certainly improved it. Little did I know that that seemingly simple meal sums up a lot of problems with the modern agricultural industrial complex.

This week’s edition of Boise Weekly features two stories exploring the intricacies and outcomes of bringing us the food we so often take for granted.

On Page 11, freelance writer Carissa Wolf brings us an investigation from South-Central Idaho, where the mam-moth Chobani yogurt plant is reshaping the Twin Falls-area economy but having less desirable effects on a neighboring farming community.

The second investigative story funded by the BW Watch-dogs program, which dedicates readers’ financial contributions to in-depth reporting efforts, “Away With the Whey” focuses on the conundrum of acid whey—a byproduct of Greek yogurt manufacturing that is blowing an ill wind through the product’s otherwise rosy reputation among consumers.

On Page 26, BW roving food writer Tara Morgan digs into the challenges faced by beekeepers. In “Bee in his Bonnet,” Morgan profiles local beekeeper Steve Sweet and nationally known apiarian activist John Miller. Both paint a dire picture: From murderous mites to competition with agri-industry giants like corn and soybeans, honey bees everywhere are find-ing it increasingly difficult to do their job, which is, of course, to make sure about one-third of all U.S. crops are pollinated.

Both pieces, in their way, pull back the curtain on just a few high costs of industrial food production. In the case of Greek yogurt, sales of which have exploded in recent years, meteoric growth has turned a byproduct that, on a smaller scale, is at worst a nuisance into a potential groundwater threat. With bees, the problem is similar: Capitulation to industrial ag has led to an overabundance of certain crops and forced the pollinators into becoming a kind of winged migrant labor force.

When I dip into my bowl of honey-drizzled Greek yogurt, I will still think back to the shores of the Mediterranean, but after reading Wolf’s and Morgan’s dispatches from the food front, those feelings will be a little more complicated. But, as everybody knows, “You are what you eat.”

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WWW.BOISEWEEKLY.COMWhat you missed this week in the digital world.


To: bill i ceeSubject: new KGAG direction

I have been added to the G.A.G. Media Group’s “Keeping Up” Division (KUD) to help refreshen the GAGNews@5&10 brand and pump up our Youth Interface Potential (YIP). Our news programming has fallen far behind in the race to keep up. The latest Idaho Venue Position Evaluation Directory (IDVEPEVDI) gives GAGNews@5&10 a pathetic +3/.3Qª positional share. Even The Senior News has a +4/.2ª share, and from what I have been told, they don’t even have a KUD!

It has fallen upon me to develop strategies—or what I call Start!-egies—to bring GAG-News@5&10 up to its full potential as a forceful presence among overall Boise Media (BM). I am convinced the solution to our sagging trendline is to accelerate our A.I.R. (Auxiliary Index-ing Ratio). Though you might not be acquainted with the A.I.R. paradigm, you have undoubt-edly noticed its imprint. A.I.R. will infix users to a venue’s content by emphasizing a broad array of, what I call, la compendia d’ artifactum. Or as you would call them, lists.

You’ve surely seen them on Buzzfeed.com, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, Gawker, Cosmo. Lists of the summer’s best movies; the summer’s worst movies; 32 Diaper Options For Prince George; 19 Superfoods To Vigorize Your Sex Life; 7 Reasons to Own a Storage Shed—lists are, to what I call, the “Cloud” generation what Walter Cronkite was to my great-great-granddad’s generation.

List saturation has proven to be a mega-motivator of younger users’ attention away from old-school media venues such as newspaper print and the traditional Q&A reporting. My YIP Start!-egy is to influx intensive metro-buzz indexing energy into GAGNews@5&10. There is no lose-lose on how much a, what I call, “Kick-Ass Producing Team” (KAPT) can convert to list format.

Every broadcast will start with a list, end with a list, with liberal listing material ingrained throughout. I’m just off-topping here, but consider: “12 Ways To Keep Toddlers Out of Irriga-tion Canals” as a lead-in, while something on a lighter note—e.g,“5 Marshmallow Makes For S’more Madness.” For the weather segment, “Cumulus or Cirrostratus: 11 Key Differences.” And for sports: “16 Bronco Starters You Should Know By Name.”

My Start!-egy has been approved by my mid-level peeps. All I need to go ahead with this A.R.B. (Awesome Re-Boot) is a good KAPT. bill i cee, I intuit from your moniker mutating choices that you are, what I call, a “Hyper-Creatomatronic Up-Loader” (HCUL). Let’s you and I do a java face-to-face and co-share some input on what it would take to get your HCUL on board.

Alanah Bronahnah, KGAG

Return: Alanah BronahnahSubject: new KGAG direction

Dear Alanah, You have me confused with another bill i cee. I understand he is a local performance artist

known for piercing his flesh with mobile devices, thereby transforming himself into a poetry-re-citing collection of apps. Not for the faint of heart, I hear. I can’t imagine how my email address got mixed with his, but we are easy to tell apart, as he calls himself bill i cee, and I call myself Bill Cope.

However, this is not to say I wouldn’t be delighted to join your KAPT. I have indeed noticed the trend to turn everything into a list and I agree: pointless groupings of trivial fluff do seem to typify what you call the “Cloud” generation, just as Cronkite represented, what I call, the “As Good As It’s Ever Likely Gonna Get” generation.

I have thrown together a few preliminary compendia d’artifactum titles to demonstrate I super-hip to the A.I.R. paradigm. Consider them free thought droppings from my creatoma-tron, hah-hah: “17 Best Reasons To Skip Adam Sandler Movies”; “17 Ways to Get To Oregon Without Having to Go Through Canyon County”; “17 Amazing Side-Boob Pics of First Ladies, from Eleanor Roosevelt to Barbara Bush”; “17 Ways to Poison a Tapeworm Without Killing Yourself”; “17 Most Adorable Still-Living Kittens You’ve Seen Today”; “17 ex-Mouseketeers Who Have Not Spent Time in Jail.”

When we do a face-to-face, I will have more titles prepared. And never mind that every list starts with the same number. It’s simply a generic figure I pulled out of my creatomatron, and once I’ve been added to your KAPT, I will do real research and fill out the titles with however many items I can steal from the Internet.

I should warn you, Ms. Bronahnah, that bill i cee and I are different in many ways, not the least of which is that he is 23 years old, and I am, uh, somewhat older than that. Yet I still consider myself a Hyper-Creatomatronic Up-Loader—or whatever that would be equivalent to in real talk—and would welcome the opportunity to influx some of that intensive metro-buzz indexing energy. Sounds like a hoot.—Yours Truly, Bill Cope

17 WAYS TO G.A.G.With his HCUL and her KUD, it’s BM magic, baby

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Julie and I just spent three days in the Saw-tooth Mountains, and while the trip wasn’t a Pilgrim’s Progress, it had moments when we were tempted toward allegory.

We got lost in a swamp when I insisted on getting off the beaten path.

We almost climbed a peak, but it was a peak whose vertical spires were disintegrat-ing into sand before our eyes. We decided that arriving at the summit would require more luck than skill, and getting back down would require pure luck. We stopped a few hundred feet from the top, ate our lunch and walked back down.

We dove headfirst into lakes that had last winter’s snow lining their banks.

The mosquitoes drove us into the tent while it was still light. We woke at 4 a.m. to a sky bright with stars. It was cold. The bugs weren’t moving. We stepped out onto the lakeside tundra, naked and shivering, and stared out into space. At 9,000 feet, the air is clear. The Milky Way presents as a glowing cloud on a scale somewhat larger and colder than the human.

We avoided trails, but still walked up on a group of 10 with their guide, who had just told them they were all alone in the wilder-ness. Three college kids on a bouldering expedition showed up as we pitched our tent the second evening, wondering if we’d seen the food they’d stashed near our campsite the week before. We hadn’t.

On the last day, we got back on a trail and ran into 73 people. One was a young environmental studies major sitting in the lotus position on a huge foam pad next to the trail. He was reading The World Without Us, an assigned text about what Earth would look like if humans suddenly disappeared.

I’ve already mentioned Pilgrim’s Progress. I could have mentioned Mount Analogue, A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in Mountain Climb-ing. It’s an unfinished work, because the French Surrealist Rene Daumal died in the middle of writing it. But he did finish this passage:

“You cannot always stay on the summits. You have to come down again. … So what’s the point? Only this: what is above knows what is below, what is below does not know what is above. While climbing, take note of all the difficulties along your path. During the descent, you will no longer see them, but you will know that they are there if you have observed carefully. There is an art to finding your way in the lower regions by the memory of what you have seen when you were higher up.”

It’s hard to write about a trip to the mountains and not let your writing slip toward the too-sincere expression of too-grand truths. Any moment of Julie’s and my trip could have inspired a meditation on life’s journey. That’s not always a good thing

when you’re backpacking.I was repeating Frost’s “Road Less Trav-

eled” as justification for taking a new route just before we get lost in the swamp.

It’s not for nothing that most people who study literature retreat from the literal world to their study, their dissertation or their tenured professorship. A literary education is too dangerous if you start exploring its literal applications.

It’s much safer to go the other way, from the literal to the literary. Metaphors are seldom lethal on the page. It’s easier to read Kafka’s “A Hunger Artist” than to realize someone has stolen your food cache. It’s easier to reach heaven by climbing Mount Analogue than it is by having your last, best handhold break off as you slip toward a 1,000-foot fall. It’s easier to read Jack London’s “To Build a Fire” than it is to dive into water with ice floating in it. It’s easier to imagine the end of civilization than to wan-der around naked in cold starlight, which is what people did before there was civilization.

Still, it’s a good thing to reduce the meta-phorical content of your writing, because metaphors can get old and goofy long before the end of a book or poem.

You wouldn’t think that reducing the amount of metaphor would increase the amount of meaning in your writing, but it does work that way. Sometimes meaning is increased so much that it’s possible to see that the metaphors you’ve eliminated from your writing constitute a habit of mind indis-tinguishable from compulsive lying.

Julie and I came out of the mountains and were shocked by the amount of people and noise in the world. We had a compensatory margarita in the Redfish bar, went home, cleaned up, went out for a compensatory dinner, went home and slept for 10 hours on a compensatory real mattress. Did not check email. Did not turn on a computer. Did not find out that the stock market was falling. Did not watch videos of war and revolu-tion. Did not know that American politics had gotten three days more corrupt and the world economy three days more in debt.

What sort of meaning is safe to make on a camping trip?

A decade and a half ago, Julie and I came out of the Sawtooths after a solid week. The first thing I did was turn on the car radio for the news. Julie made fun of me and said, “I’m sure the world hasn’t ended in one week.”

Then the news came on and we found out Jerry Garcia had died.

“The world has ended,” I said.“No it hasn’t,” said Julie.“It has for Jerry Garcia,” I said.

This column was adapted from Rember’s MFA in a Box Blog, and was inspired by a backpack trip a couple of years back.

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It was a full house. “In addition to the people operating

the gambling operations, there were probably nine or 10 in one loca-tion and another seven or eight at the other,” said Boise Police Sgt. Mike Harrington. “And there were two operations running, not just one.”

All bets were off when Harrington and his vice-narcotics unit raided two locations July 16—one in the 4400 block of West Emerald Street and the other in the 4700 block of Emerald.

More than a few eye-brows were raised when the Boise Police Department an-nounced that it had busted up the operations, resulting in a slew of citations for al-leged gamblers and criminal charges against four adults, three of them members of the same family: 59-year-old Timothy Lough; his 60-year-old wife, Jo Anne Lough, and their 33-year-old son, Travis Lough, all from Meridian. Along with 32-year-old David Deboer, also of Meridian, all four were each charged with a misdemeanor count of gambling. Deboer has already pleaded not guilty and faces a jury trial, set to begin Thursday, Oct. 3. The three Loughs will first face a judge during their Wednesday, Aug. 14, arraignment at the Ada County Courthouse.

Apart from the rarity of seeing a father, mother and son arrested at the same time, it was equally surprising to see a gambling bust on the BPD police blotter.

Harrington ought to know; he’s been on the force for 30 years, 20 of them with the BANDIT unit—that’s the Boise Area Narcot-ics Drug Interdiction Team.

“We’ve had very, very few gambling ar-rests,” said Harrington, who has led BANDIT since 2003. “This is the first time I personally participated in the bust of a gambling opera-tion. Most of the time, we send our communi-ty policing team to a gambling complaint and they usually issue a warning,” he said.

When Boise Weekly and other media outlets reported the July 16 bust, some online comments pushed back against the arrests.

“This disgusts me that this is news,” wrote blogger Barden Barnes at boiseweekly.com.

“We sure have become extremely conserva-tive,” wrote a blogger dubbed Biglar.

“Very lame to have a law making this ille-gal, even worse spending the money to enforce it,” wrote Wilson at idahostatesman.com.

“I read the blogs,” said Harrington. “For those people thinking Boise Police is regu-

larly going after gambling operations, we’re not. We’re addressing the complaints of our citizens. Maybe some people don’t care. But the businesses next door to these particular gambling operations did care.”

And that was what made this bust differ-ent, said Harrington: The alleged gambling operations were in a business park.

“[It was] complaints from businesses that triggered our investigation,” he said.

Boise Weekly also learned that a month-long investigation into the alleged gambling operation included detectives who infiltrated the gambling ring undercover.

“It’s going to be pretty hard for the opera-tors to dispute this,” said Harrington. “We had people inside.”

Harrington said it’s typical for his crew to give a verbal warning when they first call on a complaint of gambling.

“When we address a complaint, we tell those people that may have been gambling to shut it down and we won’t take any further action. Well, most of them shut it down,” said Harrington. “But in this case, it was my deci-sion that we were going to give citations to the gamblers and arrest the facilitators.”

When police started reading people their rights, Harrington said some of the alleged gamblers were incredulous.

“People inside those gambling establish-ments said, ‘You warned us last time. Why didn’t you warn us again?’” said Harrington.

“Our job is to protect the community and that’s all we did here. Citizens complained. We’re not going to say, ‘Sure, they’re gambling next door, but we’re not going to enforce that.’ We had to do something.”

Meanwhile, legal staff at the city of Boise attorney’s office is preparing its prosecution.

“But I would definitely say that this is not common,” Assistant City Attorney Kevin Borger told Boise Weekly. “I really don’t remember having a whole lot of these cases.”

Idaho State Code 18-302 prohibits anyone from participating in gambling, or knowingly permitting any gambling to be played. Those convicted of the misdemeanor face a fine not to exceed $300 or no more than six months behind bars.

“[The three Loughs’] first court appearance, something

called a pro-se arraignment, is where an Ada County mag-

istrate judge would tell them their rights,” said Borger.To those who think that gam-

bling is a victimless crime, others tasked with dealing with problem gamblers say illegal betting has a considerable cost to families and employers.

“We estimate that a problem gambler costs society $715 per year. A pathological gambler costs society $1,200 a year,” said Megan Fludd, founder and executive director of the Idaho/Utah Council on Problem Gambling. “It affects their jobs and it certainly affects the amount of time they spend with their family.”

IUCPG’s parent, the National Council on Problem Gambling, estimates that there are 23,000 Idahoans with a gambling problem; another 11,500 are considered pathologi-cal gamblers, meaning that they continue to gamble even after they have developed social or economic problems as a result of their habit.

“It’s a chemical or neurological rush, very similar to drug addiction,” Fludd told Boise Weekly. “But there’s something worse about a pathological gambler. They chase losses.”

Fludd, who has worked for four years on efforts to curb problem gambling, said a drug addict doesn’t necessarily pursue an overdose, but a gambling addict will keep going until they are nearly or completely ruined.

“Most of the time, it’s not about money at all. They don’t care about getting their money back. They just want to win,” she said. “It’s a

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ABC TO IDAHO BARS: NO DEALThey’ve been warned.Cautioning that he will “be actively pursu-

ing investigation,” Lt. Russell Wheatley, chief of the Idaho State Police Alcohol Beverage Control Bureau, has fired a warning shot across the bow of Gem State restaurants and taverns that have added a little too much variety to their surroundings.

“We have received various complaints of illegal gambling activities within licensed establishments,” wrote Wheatley in a June 14 letter to each licensee.

Wheatley said that just because his department had been understaffed lately doesn’t mean that the law changed.

“The Idaho State Police regards any ille-gal gambling or uses of illegal video gaming devices or casino activities or activities that simulate of [sic] any form of casino gam-bling as violations of the laws of the state and are not permitted,” wrote Wheatley.

He told Boise Weekly that, “It became almost urban myth” that licensees hadn’t gotten into trouble for 10 or 12 years, in spite of the fact that there were illegal slot machines at some locations.

“They’re flat-out illegal,” Wheatley told BW. “We have establishments that have de-cided to have slot machines. We call them 8-liners in our world.”

Wheatley said his crew isn’t going to be pulling anyone’s license—yet.

“But this is a notification that we’re get-ting serious about this, and at some point, it’s going to come down on them. Right now, we’re looking for voluntary compliance rather than go that route.”

And it’s not just slot machines, or 8-lin-ers, that have become a problem.

“We’re having a heck of a time with card games as well,” he said. “Poker has really taken off since they start putting it on TV. Well, that’s completely fine. But where people get in trouble is when they gamble. And in a licensed establishment, well alco-hol licensees are held to another standard. That’s Idaho statute.”

Idaho Code 23-928 prohibits any licensee that sells liquor by the drink from gaming, including any premises that are connected to the licensed location by a door or hallway. Operators of bingo or pari-mutu-el licensees are exempt.

“For those that decide they don’t want to go that route, we’ll institute procedures, either administratively or criminally,” Wheat-ley told BW.

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progressive action; they want to bet more money more frequently and they experience a restlessness or irritability when they attempt to stop.”

Fludd said there is no poster child to represent the problem gambler.

“We’re talking about pastors and grand-mothers,” she said. “Most recently, I’ve heard of an 11-year-old calling our national helpline [1-800-522-4700]. That’s terribly young.”

Fludd said the ever-expanding popularity of Internet-based gambling is a chief culprit.

“It’s the next big thing,” she said. “You’re seeing it on social media sites. Take, for in-stance, Facebook. It has games on its site that you can buy into and can play for rewards. It’s there in your home anytime you want it. And this way, the addict becomes very isolated.”

The National Center on Problem Gambling helped create the Idaho/Utah chapter because of what Fludd called increasing risks to resi-dents of the Intermountain West.

“We’re seeing many people in the state of Idaho who just can’t deal with the problem effectively,” she said. “And we’re connected closely with Gamblers Anonymous in Idaho.”

But when Boise Weekly tried to access an Idaho chapter of Gamblers Anonymous, we could only find four ongoing meetings in the entire state, none of them in the Treasure Val-ley. Three of the weekly GA meetings, in Coeur d’Alene, Pocatello and Twin Falls, are closed —reserved for addicts only—and one, in Idaho Falls, is considered open, meaning friends and family of an addict are welcome to attend.

Fludd was quick to add that her organiza-tion takes “a neutral stance” on legalized gam-bling, understanding, for example, that betting on state lotteries are legal forms of recreation.

“But even lotteries can be compulsive. We’ve heard people call our national hotline that have spent an entire paycheck or entire Social Security check on a lottery,” said Fludd, who added that the state of Idaho has never spent a dime of public funding for the treat-ment or prevention of problem gambling. She said she was anxious to reach out to the Idaho Lottery Division to have an ongoing dialogue.

The man tasked with overseeing Idaho’s lottery doesn’t see any tangible connection between compulsive gambling and the Gem

State lottery.“But yes, we’re in contact with the National

Center for Problem Gambling and we have regular dialogue,” said Jeff Anderson, who since 2007 has served as the dual-director of both the Idaho Lottery and Idaho State Liquor Commission (BW, Citizen, “Jeff Anderson,” March 6, 2013).

Anderson said the lottery division was not the go-to agency to deal with compulsive gambling issues.

“We have ‘play responsibly’ messages on all of our lottery tickets and in our advertis-ing, but statutorily, we’re not charged with overseeing or funding [gambling prevention] programs,” he said.

By all accounts, Idaho State Lottery is a successful business model—perhaps the most successful in Idaho. With no revenues from Idaho’s General Fund, the lottery grew to near-ly $198 million in sales for FY 2013. And the lottery returned record annual dividends to the state, totaling $48.2 million, the largest return in Idaho’s history. The dividends were divided among the Idaho Department of Education, the state’s Permanent Building Fund and Bond Levy Equalization Fund.

“Our mission is to maximize that dividend for our beneficiaries,” said Anderson. “If we can responsibly manage the ticket portfolio to make sure we’re meeting consumer needs and interest, then we’re doing our job. But there’s not a lot we can do about jackpots.”

And for those who think the record-setting jackpots in recent Powerball drawings drive lottery sales—on Aug. 7, winners shared a jackpot of $448 million—Anderson said the real winner for the lottery were instant win-ners, such as scratch tickets.

“Of the $198 million in Fiscal Year 2013, $108 million were scratch games,” said An-derson, who added that the lottery was always looking to introduce new, “fresh” games. “A scratch game is something we can control. When the last top prize is claimed, another takes its place. We introduce as many as 50 games each year.”

Anderson said the lottery regularly ramps up its “play responsibly” message, especially when the jackpots get considerable.

“When that jackpot gets big, like it did recently, you start to hear more messages on

the radio and television that encourage people to play what they can afford. It’s supposed to be fun.”

But he cautioned that the lottery is a very sober enterprise.

“We take our job very seriously. It’s a ter-ribly complicated business,” said Anderson.

A part of Idaho Lottery’s responsibility includes management of charitable gaming. In fact, a full-time position at the agency is dedi-cated solely to the oversight of the scores of raffles, bingo operations and casino nights that fill the social calendar throughout the year.

“There are limits to what those opera-tions can allocate to administrative costs and the minimums that must go to charity,” said Anderson. “If you’re continuing to run afoul of the statute, we have to deal with it.”

Boise-based Aardvark Entertainment runs many of the larger casino nights for charities.

“We’ve done several casino nights for the large fundraisers, like the Idaho Foodbank,” said Aardvark employee Ruth Wagner. “Rou-lette, craps, blackjack, you name it. We just did a big event for St. Luke’s.”

Wagner told Boise Weekly that her com-pany’s employees serve as professional dealers but understand all of Idaho’s limitations—which set charity casino nights apart from the illicit games that the Lough family and Deboer were charged with operating.

“We have to be very careful,” she added. “No money ever crosses hands. But everybody gets great bragging rights. And that’s better than cash. It’s all about the charity.”

Anderson said charitable gaming events require a license obtained through his division. And for those that aren’t on the up-and-up, they face possible prosecution.

“We have our own enforcement division,” he said. “There have been instances in the past where people have been doing illegal things. They’ve been shut down and prosecuted.”

Meanwhile, Boise Police Sgt. Harrington said his BANDIT unit isn’t going to be “look-ing at everybody’s poker night,” charitable or not.

“That will never happen,” he told BW. “We understand it’s an old law, but it does exist. Perhaps it will be changed in the future. Who knows? But we’re sworn to uphold the law.”

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(Left to right) Jo Anne Lough, 60; Timothy Lough, 59; Travis Lough, 33; and David Deboer, 32, were all charged with gambling during a raid by the Boise Police Department’s BANDIT unit July 16.


How did the two of you meet?Hurley: On horseback. We

took a ride out in the country, back when there were no fences.

Evelyn: It was 1946. I was still in Meridian High School, and when I graduated in 1950, we were married that same year.

How many children do you

have?Hurley: Two boys and a girl.Evelyn: Plus six grandchildren

and three great-grandchildren. Hurley, I hear that you still go

to work every day.

Hurley: I’ve worked for Wheel-er Farms for 63 years. Today, I do whatever needs to get done. I’ve been mowing hay lately, now it’s time to start baling.

How long have you been show-

ing your mules and horses?Evelyn: In 1977, he started ex-

hibiting mules, and then he went to draft horses.

Hurley: One year, I had nine head at the fair.

Did you have favorite draft

horses?Hurley: You have good ’uns

and bad ’uns. But which were the best?Hurley: That had to be Belle

and Blackie. I used them 15 years. And how about this year?Hurley: I’ve got Kate and Kim.Evelyn: They’ll be driven in

four different classes: Hurley, the kids, the grandkids and this year, our great-grandson, Trevor, is go-ing to give it a try.

What was it like for you,

Evelyn, working at the fair year in and year out?

Evelyn: When I first started, everything was done by hand with paper. I always thought it was fun, as long as your work was planned out ahead of time. I worked for seven different managers.

You must have known thou-

sands of competitors over the years.

Evelyn: I used to be pretty good, but now, I see them and I can’t remember their names, but I can usually tell you what kind of animal they showed.

Do you like fair food? [Evelyn

let out a big laugh.] Why are you laughing?

Hurley: She would walk from here to the fair for a Pronto Pup.

Evelyn: It’s true.Hurley: I like the hamburgers. What else do you like to do?Evelyn: I like the carnival. To watch?Evelyn: Goodness, no. To ride.Hurley. You name it, she’ll

ride it.Evelyn: I love that tilt-a-wheel.

I went on twice last year with my granddaughter.

How about you Hurley?Hurley: No. But don’t you watch?Hurley: No. Evelyn, the kids must love that

you like the rides.Evelyn: Some of the older kids

won’t do it, but my granddaughter goes with me.

Hurley, I must point out that

we’ve got a steer looking at us from the other field.

Hurley: He was the son of a grand champion. He probably weighs 1,100 pounds now.

Did you name him?Hurley: Oh, no. He’s for eatin’

You don’t name the steer. He’ll end up as T-bones. I know; I’ll call him Mr. T.

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God only knows where he would put another trophy.“Yeah, I’ve got one or two,” said Hurley Legg, 89, with a grin.But when we stepped inside the home of Hurley and Evelyn, his

bride of nearly 63 years, practically every square inch of countertops, shelves and mantle space overflowed with trophies.

Hurley has shown numerous animals, particularly draft horses, for decades at the Western Idaho Fair, which runs Aug. 16-25 at the Expo fairgrounds in Garden City.

“I haven’t missed one in 37 years,” he said.But the real fair veteran is Evelyn, who will turn 81 years old on

Aug. 18, when the fair will be going full-tilt. She worked in the fair’s premium office for 35 years and served as the office’s manager for 26 years, overseeing all bookkeeping for each of the fair’s departments before retiring in 2007.

When Boise Weekly asked fair officials to talk with someone about the annual event, past and present, they didn’t hesitate a moment before suggesting Evelyn and Hurley.

BW visited the Leggs’ back porch to sit a spell—in rocking chairs, of course—and talk with this fair-minded couple, while no less than a mule, draft horses, giant steer and their dog, Tuff, looked on.


Mike and Deb Courtnay say they would have

chosen a different location for their new

home if they knew nearby land would become

an acid whey wash water pond.

Mike and Deb Courtnay can count miles between their neighbors’ homes east of Hollister, where nameless, numbered roads stretch straight and remain off the GPS grid. On some days the only sighting of life near the Courtnays’ Southern Idaho farmstead comes in the form of deer that wander down the South

generations, the Courtnay family relished the peace and quiet in what Deb calls the “sub-urbs” of Hollister.

“Suddenly, we had trucks going day and night,” Deb said of the usually desolate sage- and scrub-lined roads, which last spring were

the outskirts of Hollister.

The trucks hauled the Greek yogurt industry’s biggest quandary and a smelly secret: gallons and gallons of acid whey-spiked wash water.

opening of a Chobani processing plant—the largest yogurt factory in the world. According to CNN Money

from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s ap-

item and Washington, D.C., lobbying efforts that made Chobani a top supplier.

Along with the economic impact that comes with the roughly 1,000 full- and part-time workers

Chobani now employs in the area came hun-dreds of thousands of gallons of acid whey—a manufacturing byproduct of Greek yogurt—to Hollister-area farmland.

hasn’t found the same embrace consumers and -

bani reported record earnings while neighbors near its upstate New York plant complained of

Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo stood before the press

public relations tout Idaho as the new yogurt

place for the whey that left Hollister-area neigh-bors desperate for fresh air and answers about

disposal in their community.Until science catches up with Americans’

demands for Greek yogurt, much of Chobani’s -

bors the Courtnays, where it’s dumped into an ir-rigation pond, mixed with water

soil amendment.

tanker truck, suspended in a wash water slurry that picks up traces of whey as Chobani workers douse the factory in water for cleaning. Roughly 86 percent of the whey and wash water concoc-tion that Chobani pays one local business to unload goes to area farmers to use as a feed sup-

into Hollister-area farmland.

is nasty. Really nasty,” Mike Courtnay said.“I was raised on a farm that had 3,000 pigs

and we had whey,” Deb said. “And it is not a bad

and it’s a horrible, horrible smell.”

home they built three years ago, looking through the picture window, trying to describe the smell of whey on a warm day as the southern winds blow across the arid landscape. Just below the

pointed to two trees. Between them lay the irriga-tion pond that Reed Gibby bet his future on.

When land next to the Courtnay property went up for sale, Gibby saw economic opportu-nity. He bought the land, installed the irrigation

-bani’s whey waste.

“Instead of wasting it, let’s use it,” Gibby said.That’s exactly what he did, applying the

whey-infused contents of his irrigation pond to

chemical soil amend-ments.

-ply acid to soil to release

nutrients,” he added.As whey soaked

the soil, temperatures climbed and the wind blew across the land, prompting neighbors to grill the Idaho

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“I don’t know

if you’ve smelled

whey or not.

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Really nasty,”

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food science director at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research. “Then industry found new

Generations of babies suckled on formula and body builders buffed up thanks to the extrac-tion of lactose and protein from cheese whey, a

than its more acidic cousin, yogurt whey, or “acid whey” as it’s often called because of its roughly

-ing out how to extract and concentrate sweet

-able that producers began manufacturing cheese just to sell the whey as a food supplement. The

similarly useful second life for yogurt’s acid whey.“The Greek yogurt side of [whey] is a new

phenomenon in the U.S.,” he said.

eat our curds, we prefer to pass on the whey. Traditional European diets include a good

of acid whey in its wake. Much of the whey

goes down the hatch in many parts of the world,

drink. Sans an American penchant for sipping

products, Greek yogurt companies end up with a lot of whey on their hands.

50 percent surge in Greek yogurt sales in 2012 at $1.6 billion—an increase that took Greek yogurt

from just 1 percent of yogurt sales in 2007 to 35 percent of sales in 2012. Chobani would not

the Twin Falls Times News that the company’s New Berlin, N.Y., plant uses almost 4 million pounds of milk to produce 1.7 million cases of yogurt weekly. A Chobani spokesperson told the Times News

growth in mind.

prosperity; to those in the Hollister “’burbs,” they mean yet more truckloads of whey shipments.

The Way to Hollister, IdahoAddresses don’t mean much in Hollister. And

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operation up the road. The questions paral-leled concerns from neighbors near Chobani’s New York plant.

“There’s the potential for mismanagement that could cause some groundwater concerns,”

-ter and engineering manager, noting that while the Gibby operation complies with all state regulations, mismanagement potential remains inherent in any farming practice—pesticides

and things could leak. And farming almost always stinks, Gibby said.

worse than a hog farm,” Mike Courtnay said of

to warm, rotting beer.“Sometimes in the mornings, I can smell it

in my house,” Mike added.

Protein, Pain and ProfitA chobani.com cartoon paints a picture

of how milk becomes a container of Chobani yogurt. “Our local farmers bring us fresh milk,”

to your local grocer.”

area neighbors worried about where Chobani trucks away its whey.

comes from a high concentration of solids

whey. Homemakers of Greek yogurt start with a batch of regular yogurt, pack it in cheese-cloth and let it strain for a couple of hours. An

laden acid whey that often goes down the kitchen drain.

whey is more complicated.

and bodybuilding supplements, acid whey

It’s the latter use of acid whey and milky whey-spiked wash water from the Chobani plant that put Hollister neighbors in a malodor-ous maelstrom. Where Gibby smells a business boost, neighbors smell a nuisance.

they’re basically just trying to get rid of it,” said Mike Courtnay.

One container of yogurt yields about three containers of whey plus a dose of whey-infused wash water from factory processing. And that 3-1 ratio keeps milk scientists busy.

“Whey produced in cheese making has a different composition, pH balance and nutri-tional make-up. These differences mean our

than cheese whey,” said Chobani spokeswom-

uses for acid whey.If you step back 30-plus years, cheese

producers shared a lot in common with today’s yogurt producers. Making cheese produced millions of gallons of whey that had few uses.

That’s basically what they were doing with it


A halfway point between gambling and Twin

with the Nat-Soo-Pah Hot Springs and RV Park, to the east.

Absent names and numbers—much less GPS

directions in relation to Nat-Soo-Pah and the

hot soak. The local moniker for whole swathes

there, as in, “The Smith Place” or “The Courtnay Place.” Some places still bear the names of folks who occupied the farmland in generations past when gopher hunting, canal swimming and

Hollister and many neighbors step up for each other like family in times of need. Deb Courtnay remembers when the father of a new immigrant

family was seriously injured in a farming ac-cident. Neighbors kept the family dairy running for months in his absence.

“We really are genuine people,” Deb said of her neighbors. “Most of the farms that are out

Much of Hollister and the surrounding area quietly slept through decades of state growth, where shells of old buildings from a genera-tion ago still stand and neighbors notice little changes like a new porch addition on a house. Alfalfa, wheat, irrigation and cows still occupy most people’s time. A local ordinance that limits residential building to one unit per 160 acres makes the Hollister area a quiet place, neighbors say.

The quiet ended in March, said Hollister

The Jones Place sits slightly north and across the road from the irrigation pond that took in shipments of Chobani’s cast-off whey. The

loads ran 24/7 and shook Jones’ trailer. In three months, neighbors guess that 1,000 truckloads passed Jones’ home. He couldn’t sleep.

“There really wasn’t anything you can do,” Jones said.

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solutions to what Mike Courtnay puts in the nuisance category. Calls to Chobani represen-

“They just played dumb,” Jones said.Neighbors also wanted answers. What was in

the tanks? Was the irrigation pond lined? Why

started? What about spills, seepage and water quality?

feet,” Deb Courtnay said. “We don’t want to -

hoods to change either.”Mike Courtnay farms wheat. He also drills

stands at as little as 4 feet to 5 feet.

will leak into the soil and it’s going to change the

water,” he said.As spring wore on,

questions went unan-swered and business dropped downwind from the irrigation pond at Nat-Soo-Pah.

“There were trucks run-ning all night long and there

were campers who complained and pulled out early,” said Nat-Soo-Pah owner Jim Herman.

And the farmland festered.“I did smell it a couple of times. It was pretty

rank,” Herman said.At one point, a Nat-Soo-Pah maintenance

worker thought something had died in the

agencies were told to look the other way and let Chobani do what it wants.

“If I hauled 2,000 loads of crap and dumped it in Boise, I’d be sitting in a courtroom,” Jones said.

“They saw [Hollister] as a small little town

people screaming about it, rather than 100 or

a little guy compared to them. They look at

A way with the whey

region raising dairy cows, growing wheat and

feed and tending to the demands of agriculture.

Some land jobs at the canal

at the now defunct Dell call center. There are no McDon-

“If we can figure

out how to handle

acid whey, we’ll

become a hero.”

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producer

The largest yogurt factory in the world sits on

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alds for teen workers but plenty of factory jobs at the meat packing plant, sugar beet processor

The December 2012 opening of the Chobani plant earned a nod on the Congressional

Mike Crapo, who joined lobbying efforts to get

“I don’t know that there’s one kind that jumps out at me more than the others, but I can tell you that the kind I just had was blueberry and it was delicious,” Crapo told reporters.

The company promised the opening of the

and Chobani reports that it currently employs more than 1,000 full- and part-time workers

numbers don’t include contract labor from busi-nesses that haul Chobani whey and wash water

added to his ag business payroll at Carne Inc. Carne’s Chobani-spurred growth started with

the hiring of additional staff, the acquisition of new equipment and the purchase of land just outside Hollister, up the road from Nat-Soo-Pah, slightly north and across the street from

The Courtnay Place. He dug the pond and -

the operation, he said.

the Hollister area land that holds his irrigation

whey wash water. Still, he said, “We want to

[community].”

calls from neighbors.“We had some concerns; it’s mostly con-

cerns about trucks,” he said.

radar screens, especially after learning that the Gibby pond isn’t lined.

And toxic worries spiked following New York Post and Modern Farmer reports detailing

noted that acid whey holds the potential to turn waterways into a “dead sea,” killing aquatic life and rendering drinking water unpotable.

whey, we’ll become a hero,” the Post quoted a Greek yogurt producer saying at a recent New York yogurt summit.

to worrying about milk that hasn’t spilled. Whey is simply food, he said, and while the pH of yogurt whey puts the semantically charged ad-

is no more toxic than orange juice. But Hollister farmers say they wouldn’t pour

orange juice into their groundwater, either.

be too late,” Mike Courtnay said.The application of whey and whey-tinged

U.S. Department of Agriculture as a soil amend-ment and the Gibby operation complies with all

county commissioners, city leaders and state

sometimes stinks and the Chobani way with

stinks, too.“The waste water that comes out of a factory

is totally different than an agricultural product. It’s industrial waste,” Jones said. “The dairy lobby is so strong and I don’t think they’ll get any laws to change.”

According to Mike Courtnay, “I think the

nuisance suit.”-

Boise Weekly

agreed to answer pre-submitted questions

the Hollister area whey disposal contract.“Chobani is committed to being a good

community partner. That extends to the respon-sible use of whey, which is a natural byproduct of our authentic straining process,” read a writ-ten statement Chobani issued Boise Weekly.

-ment,” the statement continued.

Hollister neighbors said they started seeing

the potential threat of acid whey to the city’s groundwater supply. Hollister Mayor Dixie Cho-ate, who could not be reached for comment, called a June town hall meeting, drawing out

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and operations.“People were concerned about the issue,”

Zoning administrator. “They addressed the issue.”

Neighbors said they came away with a differ-ent impression of the meeting.

but we’ll be nicer about it,’” Jones said.The meeting yielded some concessions,

Gibby said. He agreed to stop night shipments, -

bors’ homes, add odor-reducing amendments to the wash water and line the irrigation pond.

beyond what we need to do, and I want to do more,” Gibby said.

On a mid-July day in the Hollister outskirts, the roads stood desolate and the air smelled

The whey wash water shipments stalled for a moment. The supply just wasn’t coming in, Gibby said.

Hollister, we worked in partnership with our contractor to slow hauling to the Hollister site in order to allow time to fully assess and address the concerns of the community,” Herbert wrote.

along with supplemental anaerobic digestion, processes much of Chobani’s whey and wash water for now. And for the moment, Hollister-area neighbors cling to their respite of quiet and fresh air.

“Currently, there’s no need to go to Hollis-ter,” Gibby said. “When there’s a need, we’ll go there. There’s just no need now.”

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WEDNESDAY-SATURDAYAUG. 14-17giddy up

CALDWELL NIGHT RODEOYou don’t have to be a cowboy

to appreciate watching one go head to head with a buck-ing bronco, and you need not have grown up around cattle to appreciate the guts it takes to

climb aboard a full-grown bull. Of course, it doesn’t hurt, but all you really need to enjoy the Caldwell Night Rodeo is a love for adrenaline-fueled sports, cold beer and a worthy cause.

The CNR kicked off its 79th annual slate of events on Tuesday, Aug. 13, but there are still four nights of bull riding, steer wrestling, cattle roping and rodeo queen crowning until it all wraps up Saturday, Aug. 17. Wednesday is family night, when up to four children younger than

12 accompanied by an adult can get in for free. Thursday is Power of Pink night, when patrons are encouraged to wear the color for breast cancer awareness, while Friday’s Patriot Night benefits veterans and their families.

To keep up the giving spirit, Canyon County’s Man-Up Cru-sade against domestic violence will be auctioning a custom-made CNR belt buckle to support Hope’s Door women’s shelter. The CNR closes with the Satur-day night finals.

Those who can’t get enough rodeo action can buy an event-long pass for $75, while adult admission Wednesday-Thursday costs $15, or $18 for Friday and Saturday performances.

Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m.; Rodeo 8 p.m. $8-$75. 121 N. 22nd Ave., Caldwell, 208-459-2060, caldwellnightrodeo.com.

SATURDAYAUG. 17caliente

PICNIC AT THE POPSSummer nights are perfect for

breaking out the picnic baskets, sipping a few glasses of wine and liberally applying insect repellent. That combination also happens to be perfect for the Boise Philharmonic’s annual Picnic at the Pops.

The Philharmonic kicks off the second annual outdoor concert series, Saturday, Aug. 17, at 8 p.m. Conducted by Musical Director Robert Franz, the series opens with Latin Fever. With the assistance of Mexican folk artists Mariachi Tleyotltzin, Ballet Folklorico Lindo Idaho and danc-ers from Ballet Idaho, Latin Fever is a night of mariachi and Latin

BOISE WEEKLY PICKSvisit boiseweekly.com for more events

Cuisine to go at Boise’s Food Truck Rally.

FRIDAYAUG. 16imbibe

WINEFEST“Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world,” wrote

Ernest Hemingway, and let’s face it, he knew his booze. Yet wine tasting and appreciation seem to be as divisive as one

of those Magic Eye pictures—you either get it or you don’t. But even those who can’t tell a Chateauneuf-du-Pape from a Chambolle-Musigny and couldn’t care less whether it’s served in an old boot or a fancy flute should find a variety they like among the more than 100 bottles—both domestic and imported—covering the gamut of wine styles at this year’s Wine Fest fundraiser for the Basque Museum and Cultural Center.

In its 16th year, the event combines the rich culture of the Basque community with a seemingly endless supply of reds and whites. En-suring that nobody will be drinking on an empty stomach, a selection of restaurants along the Basque Block will lay out traditional pintxos, the Basque equivalent of tapas.

Boise’s own Oinkari Basque Dancers will put on a show for the drinkers, featuring their energetic routines. A silent auction will also run through the evening, and any wines that tickle your palate can be bought by the bottle or case.

Advanced tickets cost $30, with entry on the day-of for $35. Admission includes a commemorative wine glass, which will no doubt be thoroughly seasoned by the end of the night.

5:30 p.m. $30-$35. Basque Block, 611W. Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

Do we really need an excuse to enjoy wine?

FRIDAYAUG. 16chow down

FOOD TRUCK RALLYThe big dilemma with take-out is that there is so much choice.

Maybe tonight’s the night to chow on some Chinese. Or perhaps a pizza. Tacos take your fancy? What about a burger? It’s just too hard to decide. If they all sound good, then Friday, Aug. 16, is the perfect night for a round-the-world tour at the 36th Street Garden Plaza, where Boise’s monthly Food Truck Rally sets up shop.

Seven of Boise’s top food trucks will circle their wagons with a range of cuisine to satisfy even the fussiest eaters. Ever wonder what a Reuben sandwich would taste like in an egg roll? Voluptuous Vittles will be on hand to answer with its eclectic menu. For something more traditional, queue up at the solar-powered Po’ Bois truck for some classic Louisiana-style eats—Idaho meats with a N’awlins touch.

Fans of authentic Asian food can grab a tray of stir-fry from Rice-works, while Italian lovers can check out Free Range Pizza’s mobile wood-fired oven. Bringing it back to the U.S. of A., Saint Lawrence Gridiron’s “gastrotruck” has but one goal: a rotating Southern-inspired menu that goes well with bourbon and beer. Finally, Calle 75 Street Tacos will fuse Idaho and Mexico into one glorious shell (corn or flour). How about a brisket taco braised in local craft beer?

And speaking of local craft beer, make sure you have your ID for some suds courtesy of Payette Brewing Company.

5 p.m. 36th Street Garden Plaza, 3858 N. Garden Center Way, Boise.

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FIRE AND VOIDGuitar picks are like pennies: nearly worthless and

almost always found in couch cushion crevices and under refrigerators. Not so with Boise-based Fire and Void Studios, which elevates the guitar pick to an art form.

Using materials like ornate Brazilian agate and mor-risonite—a rare jasper

found in the Owyhee mountains of Idaho

and Oregon—Fire and Void owner and craftsman Hauns Smyver creates rounded jazz picks and traditional guitar picks that truly put the rock in rock ’n’ roll.

Painstakingly shaped from stones whose hardness lends each one a unique strum-ming sound, the intricate color

patterns of quartz and obsidian created through millions of

years of heat and pressure truly put cheap, plastic picks to shame. While your common guitar pick runs about 25 cents nowadays, these cost between $15-$55, prompting you to treat them better than pocket change.

To add the finishing touches to your musician’s get-up, peruse Fire and Void’s selection of volcano-forged jewelry—handcrafted using quartz and obsidian from just under our feet.

Whether it’s body decorations, art pieces or a one-of-a-kind guitar pick, you’ll feel one with the Earth.

—Ryan Thorne

fireandvoid.com$15-$55

music performed by a full orchestra and accompanied by traditional dance.

This year, Picnic at the Pops has relocated to Wo-odriver Cellars off Highway 16 in Eagle, and since it is a winery, there will be plenty of vino (as well as beer) avail-able for sale. While audienc-es are encouraged to bring picnics, no outside alcoholic

beverages are allowed, nor are glass containers.

Music lovers can pur-chase a reserved table, chair or lawn seating, or try their luck with general admission lawn seating. Blankets are welcome, but keep the lawn chairs to the low-backed variety. Food will also be available for purchase at the venue, as

will special bottles of wine bearing the orchestra’s own label. Proceeds from the sale of these bottles will go to support the Phil.

Parking is free, and tickets are available online and at the orchestra office in Boise until 4 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 16. Kids ages 12 and younger can get in for $5.

The series will con-

tinue with two more shows: Space, featuring the music of Star Wars, Star Trek and ET, on Saturday, Aug. 24; and Americana on Friday, Aug. 30, featuring Copland’s “Lincoln Portrait.”

8 p.m. $20 lawn, $35 chairs, $275 reserved tables. Woodriver Cellars, 3705 Highway 16, Eagle, boisephilharmonic.org.

Let your freak flag fly at Tour de Fat.

S U B M I T an event by e-mail to [email protected]. Listings are due by noon the Thursday before publication.

SATURDAYAUG. 17bikes and brew

TOUR DE FAT Riding bikes is fun, but throw in costumes and beer and

it’s a party. Mark Saturday, Aug. 17, on the calendar, raid the back of the closet for a suitably ridiculous outfit and don’t forget to pump up the tires on your best two-wheeled, pedal-driven contraption for the return of Tour de Fat.

Events kick off with the costumed bike parade through downtown. Registration begins at 10 a.m. in the park, fol-lowed by the parade at 11 a.m.

Crowds spend the rest of the day at Ann Morrison enjoy-ing beer from event sponsor New Belgium Brewing—includ-ing the 8.5-percent Rampant Imperial IPA, a hoppy treat that is sure to make your pedals wobble with joy.

Check out live performances, including Honeymoon Caba-ret, juggler and contortionist Scot Nery and husband-and-wife yo-yo team Yo-Yo People, as well as music by Slow Ride, Fierce Bad Rabbit and Devotchka. The signature event will take place at 3:30 p.m., when one Boisean hands over his or her car for a year, vowing to only get around via bicycle.

While admission is free, proceeds from a suggested $5 donation for the parade will benefit Boise Bicycle Project, Southwest Idaho Mountain Biking Association and the Trea-sure Valley Cycling Alliance.

10 a.m. FREE-$5. Ann Morrison Park, 1000 Americana Blvd., Boise, newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat.

FRIDAY-SUNDAYAUG. 16-25deep fried fun

WESTERN IDAHO FAIRLoad up the family and follow the smell of corndogs and hay

to Garden City for the 2013 Western Idaho Fair, running for 10 days Friday, Aug. 16-Sunday, Aug. 25.

The fair is nothing if not good, old-fashion fun with plenty of livestock shows and enough fair food to make your digestive system go on strike. This year’s carnival features two new rides to thrill the bejeezus out of adrenaline junkies young and old. The White Water Log Flume sends riders up steep embank-ments before careening down at high speeds for a thorough drenching. If swings are your thing, hop on the 100-foot-high Vertigo ride. This contraption dangles riders above the crowds in individual swings then, you know, swings them around.

After you’ve fully shocked your central nervous system, get back into your groove with one of the concerts included with the price of admission. Seven shows are set to fill Les Bois Park, including rock legend Foreigner on Tuesday, Aug. 20, and platinum-selling country artist Clay Walker on Friday, Aug. 23. All concerts begin at 7:30 p.m.

If all of this fun gets your stomach rumbling, fill your belly at the Bob-e-Que battle Friday, Aug. 23, at 1 p.m. Professional grillers square off in a battle to cook the finest animal proteins with signature sauces and flavors.

Tickets cost $8 for adults, $5 for children age 6-11 or free for kids ages 5 and younger, although fairgoers can get special deals during sponsored nights throughout the run of the fair. Check the website for details.

Noon. FREE-$8. Expo Idaho Fairgrounds, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com.

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FREYLEKH FANSFor most of Fleet Street Klezmer Band’s Thursday, Aug. 8

show at the Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel synagogue, the band’s leader sat off to the side of the stage.

Rashe Kostenko—Shlomo and Victoria Kostenko’s oldest child—thinks she’s the leader, anyway.

“She’s 10, but she’s already 14,” said Victoria Kostenko, rolling her eyes.

Rashe was far from the only child in the crowd. An audience composed mainly of parents and children cheered, whistled and clapped to the beat as Fleet Street Klezmer Band cel-ebrated the release of its debut album, Vodka and Pickles.

The fervent reception reflected the strong support that the local band has received from its fanbase in recent months. In May, Fleet Street Klezmer Band launched a Kickstarter cam-paign to raise funds for printing CDs. On May 29—22 days into the campaign’s 27-day funding period—the group announced on Facebook that it had already reached its $1,300 goal. The album is now available from Amazon and CDbaby.com.

The release party performance was worthy of such sup-port. The set began with “Hongu and Freylekhs,” a traditional klezmer song which Shlomo Kostenko said he first heard on the 1996 compilation Klezmer Music: A Marriage of Heaven and Earth (the song also appears on Vodka and Pickles). This was fitting: Kostenko credits the tune with igniting his love for klezmer music—a free-wheeling melange of folk music styles performed in, and drawn from, Jewish communities in the United States, Europe and Central Asia.

Local group Hillfolk Noir opened for FSKB; and, while bass-ist Mike Waite didn’t play this gig, the nimble country-blues guitar, sprightly washboard playing and the spooky musical saw work of Travis and Allison Ward managed just fine on their own.

The concert also featured skillful solo and group perfor-mances by Starbelly Dancers, a local belly dance ensemble led by Cecilia Rinn. Rinn—who also runs Starbelly SEEDs, an after-school program that offers lessons in dance and self-suffi-ciency to teenage girls—performed during Fleet Street Klezmer Band’s set, along with local belly dancer Za’Nyah Zi.

Fleet Street’s set featured some impromptu dancing as well. Rashe Kostenko twirled around during a few songs, em-ploying a pink parasol and a light blue shawl. Brianna Lad, the 6-year-old cousin of FSKB accordion player Matthew Vorhies’ wife, Charlotte, mimicked Rinn and Zi’s graceful moves, much to the delight of the crowd.

“I think someone just stole the show,” said Shlomo Kostenko.

—Ben Schultz

WEDNESDAYAUG. 14Festivals and Events

CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO—Check out calf-roping, bucking

broncos and more. See Picks, Page 16. 17. Pre-rodeo 6:30 p.m., Rodeo 8 p.m. $15-$75. Caldwell, caldwellnightrodeo.com.

On Stage

KING RICHARD III—Shake-speare’s tale of the bloody rise and fall of the last monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty. 8 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Talks & Lectures

GEOTHERMAL BOISE—A discussion of Boise’s geo-thermal system. Presented by John Gardner and John Tensen. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Micron Business and Economics Building, 2360 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

THURSDAY AUG. 15Festivals & Events

CALDWELL NIGHT RODEO—See Wednesday. Pre-rodeo

6:30 p.m., Rodeo 8 p.m. $15-$75. Caldwell, caldwellnight-rodeo.com.

SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL—Featuring The Tem-pest. 6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington, Ketchum, 208-726-8118, nextstageth-eater.org.

On Stage

KING RICHARD III—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshake-speare.org.

Literature

ADULT SUMMER READING FINALE—The Meridian Library’s Adult Summer Reading program ends with singer-songwriter Dan Costello, Boise poet laureate Diane Raptosh, author Alan Heathcock and humorist Amanda Turner. Hyde Park Books will sell books and CDs by the special guests. Refreshments will be served. Recommended for ages 16 and older. 7 p.m. FREE. Meridian Public Library, 1326 W. Cherry Lane, Meridian, 208-888-4451, mld.org.

AUTHOR ALLY CONDIE—Award-winning author of the bestselling Matched trilogy shares insights into her books and writing process, followed by a signing. Books available for purchase

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from Rediscovered Books. 2 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, boisepubliclibrary.org

FRIDAY AUG. 16Festivals & Events

30TH ANNIVERSARY OPEN HOUSE CELEBRATION—Gem State Developmental Center cel-ebrates its 30th anniversary with a ribbon cutting, talent show, facility tours and refreshments. Call for more info. 1 p.m. FREE. Gem State Developmental Cen-ter, 818 N.W. 15th St., Meridian, 208-888-5566, gsdcdda.com.

AMERICAN PI HACKSPACE TOUR—Featuring an informal talk and Q&A session with Rasp-berry Pi Foundation developer Rob Bishop and a hands-on work-shop. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Boise State Micron Engineering Center, 1000-1098 S. Manitou Ave., Boise, coen.boisestate.edu.



SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL— See Thursday. 6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington streets,

Ketchum, 208-726-8118, next-stagetheater.org.

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—Get your fill of deep fried goods,

carnival rides and live concerts.See Picks, Page 17. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

On Stage

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT—Come-dian, actor, writer and director Bobcat Goldthwait unleashes his one-of-a-kind brand of comedy. See Arts, Page 24. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET—A barber returns to London to exact revenge on the judge who abducted his wife and sentenced him to exile in this musical thriller. 8 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Food & Drink

FOOD TRUCK RALLY—Check out offerings from Calle 75

Street Tacos, Riceworks, Free Range Pizza and more. See Picks, Page 16. 5 p.m. FREE.

36th Street Garden Plaza, 3858 N. Garden Center Way, Boise.

HAIL TO THE QUEEN—Learn to prepare clams cooked with co-conut milk, fried chicken patties with red curry paste, cucumber salad, Asian long beans in chili sauce and rice with peaches. 6:30 $60. Fuel for the Soul, LLC, 1941 N. 18th St., Boise, 208-342-7118, fuelforthesoulboise.com.

PREFAT 2013—Featuring live music from The Dirty Moogs, Blvrred Vision and more. 3 p.m. FREE. Downtown at Eighth and Idaho streets, Boise, radioboise.org.

WINEFEST AT THE BASQUE BLOCK—Pre-sented by the Basque

Museum and Cultural Center, featuring more than 100 domestic and imported wines. See Picks, Page 16. 5:30 p.m. $30-$35. Basque Block, 611 Grove St., Boise, 343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

Kids & Teens

LOCK-IN FOR KIDS—Stay locked in at the Nampa Rec Center all night. Kids enjoy movies, swimming, games and a pizza party. A male and female supervisor are with the children all night. Children should bring a sleeping bag, swim suit, towel and clothes to sleep in. For ages 6-12. 7 p.m. $20-$25. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitu-tion Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation.org.

SATURDAY AUG. 17Festivals & Events



SAWTOOTH SHOW AND SHINE—Check out classic cars and enter a raffle to win a 1996 Ford F100. Raffle tickets are $50, car registration is $10. 10 a.m. FREE. Mountain Village Resort, 3 Eva Falls Ave., Stanley, 208-774-3661, mountainvillage.com.

SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL—See Thursday. 6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington streets, Ketchum, 208-726-8118, next-stagetheater.org.

TOUR DE FAT—Get your drink on at this festival featuring musical acts,

comedy, bicycle events, as well as food and beer. See Picks, Page 17. 9 a.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise, newbelgium.com/tour-de-fat.

WESTERN IDAHO FAIR—See Friday. Noon. $5-$8. Expo Idaho

Fairgrounds, 5610 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, idahofair.com

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On Stage

BOBCAT GOLDTHWAIT—See Friday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $20. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.


Concerts

BOISE PHILHARMON-IC’S PICNIC AT THE POPS: LATIN

FEVER—Enjoy mariachi and Latin music with Boise Philharmonic. See Picks, Page 16. 7:30 p.m. $5-$35, $275 table of four. Woodriver Cellars, 3705 N. Hwy. 16, Eagle, 208-286-9463, woodrivercellars.com.

SUNDAYAUG. 18Festivals & Events

SAWTOOTH SHOW AND SHINE—See Saturday. 10 a.m. FREE. Mountain Village Resort, 3 Eva Falls Ave., Stanley, 208-774-3661, mountainvillage.com.

SUN VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL—See Thursday. 6 p.m. Forest Service Park, First and Washington streets, Ketchum, 208-726-8118, nex-stagetheater.org.



On Stage


Concerts

MUSIC FROM STANLEY—Fea-turing Interstate with Fiona Luray. 4 p.m. FREE. Redfish Lake Lodge, Hwy. 75 to Redfish Lake Road, Stanley, 208-774-3536, musicfromstanley.com.

MONDAY AUG. 19Festivals & Events



Workshops & Classes

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL CAMP—A week of free rocking for at-risk

youth, refugees and kids who couldn’t otherwise afford to go to summer camp. For ages 6-18. 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-559-0065, boiserock-school.com

THE CABIN LATE SUMMER CLASSES-URBAN INK—Explore your town, coffee shops, public art and urban life while learn-ing to write stories and poetry rooted in observation. Call to register. 9 a.m. $135-$165. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabini-daho.org.

THE CABIN LATE SUMMER CLASSES-WORDPLAY—Explore nearby parks, the rose garden, the library and take a field trip to the zoo for inspiration. Call to register. 9 a.m. $135-$165. The Cabin, 801 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8000, thecabini-daho.org.

TUESDAYAUG. 20Festivals & Events



On Stage


Talks & Lectures

THE DEAD AND BURIED—Am-ber Beierle discusses inmates buried at the Old Idaho Peniten-

tiary cemetery. 7 p.m. FREE-$5. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanical-garden.org.

Workshops & Classes

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL CAMP—See Monday. 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-559-0065, boiserockschool.com

WEDNESDAYAUG. 21Festivals & Events



BEER AND WINE TASTINGS—A rotating selection of wines and beers. 5 p.m. $10. Tres Bonne Cuisine, 6555 W. Overland Road, Boise, 658-1364, tresbonnescui-sine.com.

On Stage

SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET—See Friday. 8 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Workshops & Classes

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL CAMP—See Monday. 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Rock School, 1404 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-559-0065, boiserockschool.com

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WE’RE ALL MAD HERE

Wicked Wonderland Empire taking over the underworld

BEN SCHULTZ

It started with Ginger Christiansen’s birthday party.About 12 years ago, Christiansen was dancing and tending

bar at the Torch 2. She approached the club’s owner, Darrell Barrett, with an idea for a fetish-themed event that would tie in with her big day.

“It happened, and it was a massive hit,” she said. “[Barrett] was really happy, and so he put me in charge of running events for the club.”

Eventually, Christiansen began booking shows at other bars with the help of her then-boyfriend, a fellow goth scene regular known as The Mad Hatter. These efforts led her to form her own production company, Wicked Wonderland.

Now called Wicked Wonderland Empire, Christiansen’s company has organized or sponsored events in Boise; Seattle (her current home base); Bellingham, Wash.; New Orleans; and Winnipeg, Manitoba. It has booked two upcoming local events, Red Room’s Sunday, Aug. 18, release party for Italian industrial-techno band XP8’s album Adrenochrome, and The Shredder’s Electric Tea Party on Saturday, Aug. 24. The latter will feature Chicago-based EDM artist V1rtual D3scent.

In addition to promoting live shows, Wicked Wonderland Empire launched a music label this year with assistance from Seattle-based independent recording company Grammercy Records. Its debut release, The Death of Alice: A Compilation of Goth, Industrial and Other Dark Music from Beyond the Looking Glass, appeared in May. Featuring artists ranging from local groups The Acrotomoans and Satyr Co. to Russian indus-trial band Roppongi Inc. Project, it is available on Amazon and iTunes, as well as at the local clothing store Subspace.

While Christiansen dubbed her company—which now has branches in Boise, Seattle and New Orleans—an “empire,” James Soward (better known in the Boise goth scene as DJ Bones) was less sweeping in his description.

“Ginger’s passion is seeing the scenes grow in the goth world [or] the goth/industrial world,” he said, “and going from being a scene to being a community.”

According to Soward—who currently books, promotes and handles sound for Wicked Wonderland Empire’s Boise events—local goths were split before Christiansen began promoting.

“We all had a common frame of mind, but we didn’t really talk to each other,” he said.

In those days, he added, Christiansen served as “the ambassador between all the little cliques, scenes and groups.”

Today, Boise’s goths are a more cohesive group. Wicked Wonderland Empire even offers a membership card via its website and Facebook page. Cost-ing $30 to purchase and $25 to renew, the cards allow holders to attend many major events for free, including the Elec-tric Tea Party and the annual Fetish Ball. Cardholders also receive discounts on purchases from select local vendors such as Subspace and Oh Look! Shiny Creations.

Trina Lockary, a longtime member of the Boise goth commu-nity, experienced Christiansen’s ambassadorial efforts firsthand back in 2004. She went downtown one night “dressed all goth-y” and was being harassed. Christiansen introduced herself and invited Lockary to join her at the Balcony.

“Within six months of then, we had a birthday party at the Cafe Ole and 35 people showed up,” Lockary said. “All of a sudden, I had friends.”

Lockary now volunteers with hospitality for major Wicked Wonderland Empire events, which average about six or seven a year, by feeding and sheltering touring performers at her house.

Wes Malvini, booker for Red Room, characterized Chris-tiansen and Soward as “extremely professional [and] polite.”

“They put the needs of their community above anything else, that’s for sure,” he said. “Even before money or anything like that.”

Malvini cited the deals that come with Wicked Wonderland Empire’s membership card as examples of the company’s gener-osity toward the local goth community.

“Anybody with those cards gets in for free to their events or for extreme discounts,” he said. “And obviously, there’s ex-penses that need to be paid, so they’re going to make a little bit of money back. It’s not charity work. But by no means would I say that they’re a greedy group.”

Malvini’s only difficulty in working with Christiansen and company involved advance notice of booking.

“They don’t think ahead a whole lot on stuff,” he explained. “So a lot of times, I’d have to pass on an event that I knew would be successful because I was already booked up. But they only gave me a month notice, and usually, I book six to eight weeks out.”

By her own admission, Christiansen didn’t think ahead much when she moved from Boise to Seattle, but some-thing drew her to the Emerald City.

“I went and visited several cities to ... make up my mind and decide where I wanted to go. And there were a lot of

good choices [but] this one called to me right now,” she said.Christiansen added that she hadn’t planned to start a music

label after moving to Seattle, either. When the people at Gram-mercy Records encouraged her to do so, she jumped at the chance.

Vaughn Kiefer, co-owner and president of Grammercy Re-cords, said that he first encountered Christiansen while she was

touring with her Boise-based (now Seattle-based) band Lithium Dolls. They met after a show at the Highline Bar and got to know each other during Christiansen’s subsequent visits.

Her savvy handling of concerts persuaded Kiefer that she could manage her own music label. “She was smart and she didn’t seem like she was too crazy—or inappropriately crazy—because I think everyone is in the music business, no matter what aspect you’re involved with,” he said.

From there, it wasn’t too much of a leap to running a label.“When you’re doing live promotion,” Kiefer added, “you’re

already halfway there—if not more than halfway there—to being able to start a record label, publishing company, things like that.”

For her part, Christiansen said that Grammercy’s straightfor-ward business practices attracted her.

“Even if it’s a $2 check, you pay your checks on time. Don’t be dicks; just because you can take an extra 2 percent by calling it something doesn’t mean that you should,” she said.

Kiefer coached Christiansen on the legal aspects of the music business, such as copyright and intellectual property law. Gram-mercy Records also handles distribution for Wicked Wonder-land Empire, manufacturing CDs for sale, as well as employing its direct agreements with iTunes, Rhapsody and other online retailers. In exchange for these services, Grammercy receives a percentage of Wicked Wonderland Empire’s net income from its music label.

Neither Christiansen nor Kiefer could provide exact sales fig-ures for The Death of Alice—various outlets were still sending them records for first quarter sales, they said—but Christiansen estimated that they had sold “a few hundred [copies] at least.”

Wicked Wonderland Empire’s second release, Lafayette, La.-based SINthetik Messiah’s EP Revelations of the Nintendo Generation, appeared in July. Christiansen and Soward declined to give precise details but said that new music and concerts would be coming soon.

But for all of her ambition, Christiansen—who remains close with people in the Boise community—keeps her ultimate goal modest:

“Getting to hang out with freaky people, doing freaky things, having fun, making art and just being together with those sorts of people,” she said.

Ginger Christiansen: From Boise goth scene ambassador to empress of Wicked Wonderland.

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WICKED WONDERLAND EMPIRE

XP8 CD release party. Sunday, Aug. 18, 9 p.m., $2. Red Room, 1519 Main St.

Electric Tea Party with special guest V1rtual D3scent. Saturday, Aug. 24, 9 p.m., $5 adv.,

$7 door. The Shredder, 430 S. 10th St.

More info at facebook.com/pages/ Wicked-Wonderland-Empire.


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THE MELVINS, AUG. 14, NEUROLUXWe live in a time of brevity. We transmit our thoughts in 140

characters. We don’t chuckle or guffaw; we LOL. Everything is fleeting. Sticking with something for a day is laudable. Sticking with something for 30 years exhibits a tenacity and resolve that should be celebrated.

The Melvins’ swampy distorted sound has been oozing across the rock music landscape for the past three decades, playing around 100 shows a year. The seminal post-punk band is celebrating with a 30th-anniversary tour this year, and this is a party you don’t want to miss.

—Amy Atkins

With Honky, 8 p.m., , $17 adv., $20 door. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., neurolux.com.

WEDNESDAYAUG. 14ALIVE AFTER FIVE—The Clumsy Lovers with Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza

BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Reef

BARBARA LAING—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

CARTER FREEMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

JONATHAN WARREN AND THE BILLY GOATS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JOSH RITTER AND THE ROYAL CITY BAND—With The Milk Carton Kids. 7 p.m. $30-$40. River Run Lodge

KEN HARRIS AND CARMEL CROCK—7 p.m. FREE. High-lands Hollow

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LEE COREY OSWALD—With Sed Non Satiata, Carrion Spring and Reverie. 9 p.m. $5. The Crux

LEON RUSSELL—7:30 p.m. $28-$50. Knitting Factory

MELVINS—With Honky. See Lis-ten Here, this page. 8 p.m. $17 adv., $20 door. Neurolux

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

PATIO CONCERT SERIES: GREG AND JOHNNY—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

RACHEL BEAL—6:30 p.m. FREE. Cosmic Pizza

REBECCA SCOTT—7:45 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

THE RIDGELANDS—With Skitish-Itz. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOW-CASE—6 p.m. FREE. The Crux

SPEEDY GRAY—With Johnny Shoes. 6 p.m. FREE. Salt Tears

THURSDAY AUG. 15ADAM CHAVARRIA—8:30 p.m. FREE. Reef

ADVENTURE CLUB—8 p.m. $23-$50. Knitting Factory

CHUCK SMITH TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

ESCAPE 2 WHICH MOUNTAIN? TOUR—With Oso Negro, Zac HB, John Weighn, Finemin and Cogent. 8 p.m. $5. The Crux

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

FRIM FRAM 4—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

GAYLE CHAPMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JENNIE WAYNE—8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

JOSH RITTER AND THE ROYAL CITY BAND—8:30 p.m. SOLD OUT. Egyptian Theatre

L’ANARCHISTE BOISE CELLO COLLECTIVE—8 p.m. $5. Visual Arts Collective

LIONSWEB—With Grandma Kelsey. 7 p.m. FREE. Modern Hotel and Bar

THE SILENT COMEDY—With Jonathan Warren & The Billy Goats and James Plane Wreck. 8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door, Neurolux

WAYNE COYLE—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

WITCHAVEN—8 p.m. $6. Shredder

FRIDAY AUG. 16ANDY CORTENS—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

BROCK BARTEL—6 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

THE COUNTRY CLUB—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JACK+JILL—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

JOHN JONES TRIO—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

JUICY KARKASS—7 p.m. $5. The Crux

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LIMEHOUSE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

MERICA—7 p.m. $5. Shredder

UINTAHS—8 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

REILLY COYOTE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

STEPHANIE REARICK AND KEVIN HALL—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue Gallery

SUMMER HOTBOX TOUR—Fea-turing PASSAFIRE, Stick Figure and Tatanka. 8:30 p.m. $10. Reef

VAGABOND OPERA—With Fleet Street Klezmer Band, Storie Grubb, and Sharon and Don Mur-ray. See Listen Here, Page 23. 9 p.m. $10. Visual Arts Collective

SATURDAY AUG. 17BEN BURDICK TRIO—With Amy Rose. 8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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DIRTY FEW—With Zebroids and Gayze. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

J. MARTIN—With Allan Boothe and Holy Weak. 8 p.m. $3. Flying M Coffeegarage

JACK LOYD GISH AND TT MILLER—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

HILLFOLK NOIR—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

KADY Z—8:30 p.m. FREE. High Note Cafe

MARSHALL POOLE—8 p.m. $3. The Crux

PAUSE FOR THE CAUSE—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

REILLY COYOTE—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s Pub

RIFF RAFF—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

SPIKE & KRISTA AND DOUBLE J—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue Gallery

TEMPLE STEP PROJECT—10 p.m. $5. Reef

TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE, Berryhill

THOMAS PAUL AND FRIENDS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

TRIPLE THREAT—9 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

WHISKEY SHIVERS—With Wild Child and guests. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

SUNDAY AUG. 18BAD WEATHER CALIFORNIA—With Sauna, Skating Polly and Deaf Kid. 7 p.m. $7. The Crux

BLAZE & KELLY—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JAGERMEISTER MUSIC TOUR: MOLOTOV—8 p.m. $32-$70. Knitting Factory

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s Pizza

PHILIP BELZESKI—6:30 p.m. FREE. Cosmic Pizza

THE ROBERT CRAY BAND—8 p.m. $30-$35. Egyptian Theatre

TERRY JONES—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

WICKED WONDERLAND EMPIRE—XP8 CD release party. See Noise, Page 21. 9 p.m. $2. Red Room

MONDAY AUG. 19DAN COSTELLO—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

SACRAMENT OV IMPUNITY—7 p.m. $7. Shredder

TUESDAY AUG. 20THE BLAQKS—7 p.m. $3. Neurolux

BLAZE & KELLY—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

BOISE OLD TIME’S OLD TIME JAM—With The Country Club. 6 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SAM AND JEANNE—5:30 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

OPHELIA—With Emily Tipton Band. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

RED MUFFS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

SPEEDY GRAY—6:30 p.m. FREE. Cosmic Pizza

WEDNESDAY AUG. 2125TH ANNIVERSARY OF DANZIG: DANZIG WITH DOYLE—7:30 p.m. $25-$45. Revolution

ALIVE AFTER FIVE—Chuck Prophet and the Mission Express and The Juke Daddys. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza

BARBARA LAING—8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

BOURBON DOGS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JONATHAN WARREN & THE BILLY GOATS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

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VAGABOND OPERA, AUG. 16, VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVE

Accordions were once the reserve of embarrassing relatives and Lawrence Welk marathons. Charmed by European street performers, backpacking college kids have helped propel the formerly dorky instrument to the forefront of a new-ish genre mashing Greek/Balkan/Roma/French folk music with vintage Americana, early jazz and 19th century British vaudeville.

The squeezebox is center with Vagabond Opera, a six-piece “Bohemian cabaret” based in Portland, Ore. Sporting period duds like stovepipe hats, the Vagabonds dress like they should be drinking rot-gut from Mason jars, but their sound is smooth, polished, almost show tune-y. The exuberant, theatrical songs are an attractive blend of rollicking ethno-European styles, but with an unmistakable fresh-faced feel.

—Zach Hagadone

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RICHARD’S REVIVALFor a guy who’s been dead for a few

hundred years, it’s been a big year for King Richard III. First his grave was re-discovered under a Leicester, England, parking lot and now Idaho Shakespeare Festival is bringing the Bard’s version of Richard’s blood-soaked tale to audiences in a thoughtful and nuanced production of King Richard III.

Taking the lead as the ruthlessly ambi-tious king, Lynn Robert Berg offers a power-ful performance, stepping out of his typical character roles to show his versatility. Taking on one of Shakespeare’s greatest villains is not for the faint of heart, but Berg’s strong physical presence on stage is tempered by the ease with which he slips between ruthlessness and charm.

He’s joined by a strong cast of sup-porting actors, including Sara M. Bruner as Queen Elizabeth, J. Todd Adams as Richard’s brother George, Tom Ford as an ill-fated Lord Hastings and David Anthony Smith as Richard’s greatest supporter and eventual victim, the Duke of Buckingham. With less than a week of rehearsal time, Eva Barnes—who stepped in for an injured Laurie Birmingham—is a standout as Queen Margaret, the widow of King Henry IV whose prophetic curse and haunting presence saturate the production.

Set in modern day, the clean glass and steel set has the feel of the cold, corpo-rate world. Rotating signs that dominate the center of the set—bearing the initials of whomever is ruling the kingdom at the

time—are not only strong stagecraft, but a nice guidepost for audiences.

Admitted-ly, following the revolving cast of char-

acter in the War of the Roses is a bit like following the “Who’s on First” joke. During opening night of the production, audience members were clinging to their programs like cheat sheets in an attempt to figure out who was who. Spoiler: Everyone is either re-lated to someone Richard III has murdered or will be murdered by Richard themselves.

To say that King Richard III is bloody is an understatement—ISF must have gotten a bulk rate on fake blood between this production and Sweeney Todd. Dressed in a blood-stained white gown, Barns is a maca-bre presence as she totes a bucket of blood each time Richard has someone killed. This simple approach to dealing with the many executions, as well as the culminating battle scene, is not only effective but allows the language of the play to take the forefront.

Even audience members who are unfa-miliar with the carefully interwoven tragedy are drawn into the downward spiral insti-gated by generations of greed and Richard’s own boundless ambition. Credit must go to director Joseph Hanreddy, who has built a platform for strong performances and rich characters to shine.

King Richard III is one of the best Shakespearean productions ISF has staged in recent years and another sign pointing to the long-dead king’s comeback.

—Deanna Darr

ARTS/STAGE

BOBCAT ON BIGFOOT

The comic-turned-director is full of

surprisesAMY ATKINS

“Bobcat should try to make time for more stand-up gigs. He’s clearly still got it.” “HOLY SHIT he’s still got it, brutal stuff!”

Just two opinions, from YouTube com-menters, after watching a clip of Bobcat Goldwaith’s stand-up routine at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. The sense that “he’s still got it” might indicate that Goldthwait was thought to have lost it. When he performs at Boise’s Liquid Lounge Friday, Aug. 16, and Saturday, Aug. 17, however, expect to see a man who not only still has it but has taken “it” a big(foot) step further.

Goldthwait is best known by many for the semi-demented personae he perfected in the early ’80s as a stand-up, regularly appearing on late-night television and on Comic Relief, an annual televised char-ity event benefiting the homeless in Los Angeles. He even parlayed the long-haired wild-man character into Zed—a gang leader-turned-cadet—in some of the Police Academy movies. Now, the 50-something comic is bald and usually sports a driv-ing cap and glasses. He is clearly not what people expect. Goldthwait often opens a stand-up set with, “You don’t look the same either,” using that phrase as the title of his 2012 comedy special.

Even more surprising than his appear-ance, though, is the breadth of Goldth-wait’s offstage work, as a director, in the past decade. Goldthwait directed Jimmy Kimmel Live for about six years, directed several episodes of Comedy Central’s Important Things with Demetri Martin, directed some episodes of IFC’s Maron, and recently helmed Patton Oswalt’s upcoming Comedy Central stand-up special. In the 2000s, Goldthwait directed several offbeat, dark comedies, including Windy City Heat, Sleeping Dogs Lie, World’s Greatest Dad and God Bless America. His latest, Willow Creek, is currently making film festival rounds and is probably his biggest step in a different direction—not only from his early stand-up, but from the canon of his film creations: Willow Creek is a found-footage film about Bigfoot. And although it is not without humor, Willow Creek, is definitely a horror movie.

“It’s a scary movie. It’s a departure from my other movies. There’s comedy in the

beginning but then it goes pretty straight-up horror,” Goldthwait told Boise Weekly.

Willow Creek, which was shot on loca-tion, is about a couple who hikes into the remote woods near the small hamlet of Wil-low Creek, Calif., searching for the site of the famous Patterson/Gimlin footage—the few seconds of grainy film showing a giant, hairy man-like creature walking through the trees.

Comparisons to Blair Witch Project are inevitable. Found-footage is a well-trod genre and Goldthwait’s film contains the standard ingredients: young people, scary place, mythical creature. Goldthwait said he knows the found-footage format is kind of played out, but his take on it is different.

“I only have 67 edits in this movie,” Goldthwait said. “Usually you have 1,200-1,400 in a movie, but I wanted it to feel like they really were just turning the camera on and off.”

Goldthwait also included something he felt was missing from other movies in the genre.

“I think sometimes in found-footage movies, they don’t concentrate too much on the chemistry of the [char-acters]. And that was really important to me—that you believe these are real people,” he said.

That authenticity was important to Goldthwait, which might be an odd thing to consider in the context of Bigfoot, but makes perfect sense considering Goldth-wait’s longtime love of the legend.

“I took a Bigfoot vacation,” Goldthwait said, with no trace of irony. “I actually put 1,400 miles on my car just driving around to all the famous Bigfoot sites in Califor-

nia. And when I got to [the community of] Willow Creek, I was kind of thinking of a different movie. But when I got to WIllow Creek, this just seemed to be the movie to make because of the people I met there. And I found the town very interesting.

“The other thing was, I always wanted to try my hand at a suspense movie. I’m always jealous when I watch a Tarantino movie and you’re at the edge of your seat most of the time and there’s nothing going on. I’m like, ‘How do you do that? How do you make suspenseful stuff?’ That was my goal.”

Reviews of Willow Creek would indicate Goldthwait achieved his goal.

Indiewire.com called it “the monster movie of the summer,” adding that the film is “a unique representation of the tension between those who scoff at the Bigfoot legend and others willing to accept the mythology as gospel.”

Fearnet.com said Goldthwait’s film “is a refreshingly matter-of-fact horror/thriller … a calm, cool, creepy little winner.”

While Goldthwait has no plans to retire from stand-up, it’s anyone’s guess what Willow Creek may mean for his career. Regardless of what happens, he has a new subject to mine for stand-up material and, in making the film, Goldthwait learned something about himself.

“[The vacation] was a gift to the 8-year-old me,” Goldthwait said. “ I’ve always been fascinated by [Bigfoot] and what it represents and how it shows up over and over again in so many different cultures. And it took me a while to realize it, but I like the outdoors. If you go looking for Big-foot and you don’t find him, the byproduct is you went camping.”

Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait busts expectations.

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HOW WOODY GOT HIS GROOVE

BACKBlue Jasmine is tragically

superbGEORGE PRENTICE

Forget Paris. While he’s at it, Woody Allen can say cheerio to London, arrivederci to Rome and (gasp) tell New York to fuggedaboutit. The prolific filmmaker has found his 21st cen-tury mojo in San Francisco.

Allen has been globetrotting lately, straying far from his halcyon days in New York (by my count, he framed 25 feature films against a Manhattan skyline). He used London as a backdrop for a moderately successful trio of films—Match Point, Scoop, Cassandra’s Dream; he won the Best Screenplay Oscar for Midnight in Paris, and just last year, he ventured To Rome With Love. But an exhausting amount of those efforts were overly familiar, with Allen (or another actor as his on-screen id) as a nebbish foil colliding with lovely co-stars.

I’m happy to report that in Blue Jasmine—his latest and best film in decades—Allen, who has built a career on poking fun at his and others’ neuroses, pres-ents a refined and highly watchable construc-tion of personality disorder. It may not sound like your idea of an ideal Saturday night at the movies; trust me, it is.

Many actresses have successfully surfed the

tide of Allen’s screenplays—his movies have won actresses five Oscars—but in his complex and elegant Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett navigates the title role like a steamship through

turbulent waters. Her performance, which secures her an aisle seat at the 2014 Academy Awards, is the most fully realized Allen character to-date.

When we first meet Jasmine, she is winging her way from New

York to San Francisco. She’s all high-wattage energy, constantly tugging at her pearls while boring her first-class cabin mate to tears with tales of shopping, parties, Pilates and more shopping. Ninety minutes later, we see her pale, sans makeup, unkempt hair and in full meltdown. In between, we meet Jasmine’s husband Hal (Alec Baldwin), her other-side-

of-the-tracks sister Ginger (Sally Hawkins), and diplomat (and Jasmine’s new paramour) Dwight (Peter Sarsgaard). Spicing things up are the neanderthal boyfriends in sister Ginger’s life—Al (Louis C.K.), Chili (Bobby Cannavale) and Augie (Andrew Dice Clay). Yes, I just said that Andrew Dice Clay is in a Woody Allen movie. And you know what? He’s terrific.

Jasmine is a 21st century Blanche Dubois, and while she may not necessarily depend on the kindness of strangers, she exploits any amount of altruism that bumps up against her. In a previous film, Allen might present Jasmine to us as bubbly or absurd in a full-throated comedy. Here, she’s a fully realized study in pathology. I winced more than once watching her spiral, and therein lies the courage of this amazing film.

Be forewarned: Don’t expect a comedy. Yes, there are laughs aplenty here, but this is a tragedy of the highest order. And it should not be missed.

Beauty by the bay: Cate Blanchett and Peter Sarsgaard smooch it up with an idyllic San Francisco serving as a backdrop in Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine.

BLUE JASMINE (PG-13)

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Starring Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard, Sally Hawkins and Louis C.K.

Opens Friday, Aug. 23 at The Flicks

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LIGHTS, CAMERA, JAZZ When the Preservation Hall Jazz Band

takes the stage of Boise’s Egyptian The-atre—with a special appearance by the Trey McIntyre Project—Wednesday, Sept. 11, a film crew will be on-hand to capture some of the expected magic. The filming is part of a long-term project, expected to wrap in Summer 2014, Ma Maison.

“Ma Maison is the same name as a 2008 ballet commissioned to TMP and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band,” Kyle Morck, TMP’s digital content manager, told Boise Weekly. “And the Trey McIntyre Company toured with the band with over 40 performances.”

Ma Maison was an emotionally charged ballet inspired by Hurricane Katrina and

its impact on the cultural landscape of New Orleans. The new documentary will chronicle its inception and performances before audiences across the nation.

“On Sept. 11, we’ll be shooting some of the performance at the Egyptian, plus we want to get audience interaction with Preservation Hall,” said Morck. In late Oc-tober, the Boise-based film crew, headed by director Trey McIntyre, will travel to New Orleans to follow the historic jazz ensemble to its home base.

“The film will premiere in January 2015. We’re looking for a wide distribution and yes, we’ll start looking at the major film festivals,” said Morck. “But we want to get it in front of as many people as we can.”

—George PrenticeThe Preservation Hall Jazz Band will appear at Boise’s

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BEE IN HIS BONNET

Commercial beekeeper John Miller discusses the perils facing the industry

TARA MORGAN

Steve Sweet removed his hat and veil, the sweet smell of smoke and lavender wafting from his backyard beehive in Southeast Boise. In one hand he held a frame filled with drone cells—male honey bee larvae. Using a fine-toothed fork, he dug under the waxy caps covering the cells and pulled out 50 buttery larvae.

“It’s just loaded with mites, see those little brown dots moving around? That’s a high mite count,” he said, squinting at the fork.

The mite, known as the Varroa destructor, is a plague facing the beekeeping industry and a large factor in the much publicized Colony Collapse Disorder. The female mites catch a ride into the hive on the backs of honey bees then make their way into brood cells, where they lay eggs that hatch and feed on the bee larvae. The bees emerge deformed and weak-ened, and the mites spread.

“Without some sort of management, that amount of mites indicates that this hive next year, or this wintertime, will die,” said Sweet, shaking his head.

In the summer, Sweet’s bees collect pollen a mile upstream from Barber Park, creating stores of honey to last the long winter. Though Sweet usually harvests excess honey twice a season, the mites and a dearth of pollen have drastically reduced his yield. While he took 100 pounds off his backyard hive last year, he’ll likely get about two pounds this year.

“There’s just a touch of honey,” he said. “They’ve been weakened by the mites.”

Last year, Sweet lost two of his 25 large hives and 13 of 14 nucs, or smaller queen-rais-ing hives. That level of loss can be a setback for hobbyists, but downright disastrous for commercial beekeepers like John Miller.

“If the beekeepers of America stopped treating their hives, there would be no bees in America probably in about two years,” said Miller. “There’s no feral swarms in Boise anymore; they’re dead.”

Miller is the subject of Hannah Nordhaus’ 2011 novel, The Beekeeper’s Lament, and plays a leading role in the new documentary, More Than Honey, which the Treasure Val-ley Beekeepers Club will screen at a sold-out event at The Flicks Saturday, Aug. 17. Miller will give a post-film talk in honor of National Honey Bee Day—for which Mayor Dave Bieter has declared Boise the “City of Bees.”

Miller, a self-proclaimed “media slut,” has become the de facto mouthpiece for the com-mercial beekeeping industry, partly because of his 40-plus years in the business but also because he’s not afraid to speak his mind.

“Varroa has been and is the central chal-lenge. She’s just like a tick ... but she’s more like the size of a beagle instead of a tick, rela-tive to a honeybee,” said Miller. “She’s murder-ous; she’s a bad bug.”

Though Miller’s bees spend their summers in North Dakota, he moves 90 percent of his hives—around 10,000—to the Southeast Idaho town of Blackfoot every winter.

“We put them in a—the $10 word is ‘climate controlled storage,’ the $5 word is ‘potato cellar,’” said Miller. “A potato is a lot like a beehive, they want to be about 40-41 degrees, dark and quiet, low humidity.”

In late January, Miller’s hives make the trek to California’s Central Valley almond orchards, where 80 percent of the world’s almond crop is produced. Miller calls it the “biggest pollina-tion event on the planet.”

In The Beekeeper’s Lament, Nordhaus notes that importing honey bees increases yields from 40 pounds of almonds per acre to 2,400 pounds per acre. “To build an almond, it takes a bee,” she writes.

While pollinating the almond crop might be the biggest annual moneymaker for com-mercial beekeepers—raking in $150-$170 a hive—it also poses some problems. Not only are the hives more susceptible to mites and other parasites while the bees are mingling, but they’re concentrated in one spot long before other crops are blossoming.

“Once that pollination event concludes, you’ve got 2 million hives looking for work and they scatter across the country, but the blueberries are not in bloom in Maine and the cranberries are not in bloom in Wisconsin and the apples are not in bloom in Washington for another six weeks,” said Miller. “It’s like, where can you go?”

That question speaks to a larger problem: Bees are suffering from a real estate shortage.

“One of every four acres in America is in corn and another 65 million acres is in soy-

beans, and neither one of those crops are any good to bees,” said Miller.

But here’s the irony. Because of the shrink-ing availability of open land where bees can forage wild pollen, beekeepers have to supple-ment their hives with other sugars—often from the very crop that encroached on the bees in the first place: high fructose corn syrup.

“In the United States of America in the past three years, beekeepers have fed more calories to their hives than they have harvested from their hives,” said Miller, who opts for sucrose.

Miller continued: “I don’t know what in the hell they’re thinking in Washington, D.C., but conservation programs are suffering and with them, the bees.”

Deadly Ms. Varroa is perhaps a wilier ad-versary than the government. While beekeepers have found a number of ways to kill the mites, they have grown resistant to the treatments.

So Miller and Sweet are putting faith in scientists at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash., who have developed a bee sperm bank with stock gathered from Europe, Asia and Africa. The new genes might boost parasite resistance for American bees, whose genetic pool has grown stagnant during the 90-year U.S. ban on importing live honey bees.

“I started beekeeping in ’73 before the mites and all that stuff, and then the mites came and everything just went in the tank,” said Sweet. “Now we’re kinda learning to deal with it, but if we get rid of the mite, it will just give another birth to beekeeping again.”

Miller agrees, and hopes to continue talking about the threats facing bees—which are re-sponsible for pollinating a third of U.S. crops.

“Globally, Ms. Varroa is swaggering across the planet like a colossus, imperiling this relationship between humans and bees, thus imperiling the relationship between bees and flowers,” said Miller. “People should sit up and pay attention. The honey bee is the canary in the coal mine.”

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FORMER GRAPE ESCAPE TO BECOME THE MODE LOUNGE

Ever since Grape Escape shut its doors in late June, there has been consistent chatter about what might fill the highly vis-ible storefront at Eighth and Idaho streets. Those seeking answers need look no further than Russ Crawforth, owner of next-door neighbor Pie Hole. Crawforth recently signed a lease on the space, which is in the same building that once housed the iconic Mode department store.

“It’s going to be an upscale lounge; we’re going to tie in a little bit of the history of the building with the lounge itself,” said Crawforth. “It doesn’t really have a theme but it’s going to be influenced a little bit by some Art Deco.”

Though Crawforth was hesitant to give too much away, he said the concept will be called The Mode Lounge—with the old Mode signage featured prominently on the building—and it will undergo a significant remodel.

“The Grape Escape as you know it, it’s not going to look anything like that anymore,” said Crawforth. “There will not be a kitchen there where there is currently a kitchen. I want to create what I’ve kind of deemed as a ‘micro-kitchen’ that’s going to be behind the bar.”

The micro-kitchen will serve cheese and charcuterie plates along with what Crawforth coyly calls “some really nice ap-petizers.” The place won’t be open for lunch and it won’t sling food late—Crawforth says the focus will be on cocktails, which will be served until 2 a.m. every night.

“Basically, it’s going to be the latest in craft cocktails—there’s a lot of new trends out there with ice and with herbs and fresh fruits and vegetables.”

Crawforth continued: “It’s not a college bar; it’s not a pub; we will not have draft beer. It is a lounge. There will be some bot-tled beers and there will be a nice selection of wines, but I don’t want it to be confused with the pub, which is kind of Boise’s trend right now.”

Crawforth hopes to have the space open by Wednesday, Jan. 1, if not sooner. Check back with Boise Weekly for more details as they develop.

—Tara Morgan

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDI-CIAL DISTRICT FOR THE SATE OF IDAHO, IN

AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Walter Keith AlbrechtLegal NameCase No. CV NC 1311934NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME

CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of

Walter Keith Albrecht, now resid-ing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the Dis-trict Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Keith Walter Albrecht. The reason for the change in name is : I have al-ways been called Keith. I want my first name to be that name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) August 29, 2013 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date Jul 10 2013CHRISTOPHER D. RICHCLERK OF HE DISTRICT COURTBy: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERKPub. July 24, 31, Aug. 7 & 14, 2013.


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CASE NO. CV OC 12 14587, IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE

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Moon Lake Ranch Owners Asso-ciation, Inc., Plaintiff, v. Mitchell Buich and Janet Buich, Defen-dants.

TO: MITCHELL BUICH AND JA-NET BUICH

You have been sued by Moon Lake Ranch Owners Association, the Plaintiff, in the District Court of the Fourth Judicial District in and for Ada County, Idaho, Case No. CV OC 12 14587. The nature of the claim against you is for unpaid homeowner association assessments, more particularly described in the Complaint. Any time after twenty (20) days fol-lowing the last publication of this Summons, the Court may enter a judgment against you without further notice, unless prior to that time you have filed a written response in the proper form, in-cluding the Case No., and paid any required filing fee to the Clerk of the Court at: Clerk of the Court Ada County Courthouse 200 W. Front Street, Boise, Idaho 83702-7300, Telephone: (208) 287-6900 and served a copy of your response on the Plaintiff’s attorney at:

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Normally, International CAPS LOCK DAY happens only once a year, on June 28. But in alignment with your current astrological omens, you have been granted the right to observe the next seven days as your own personal International CAPS LOCK DAYS. That means you will probably be forgiven and tolerated if you use OVERHEATED ORATORY and leap to THUNDEROUS CONCLUSIONS and engage in MELODRAMATIC GESTURES. You may even be thanked—although it’s important to note that the gratitude you receive may only come later, AFTER THE DUST HAS SETTLED.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): William Turner was a 19th century English landscape painter born under the sign of Taurus. His aim was not to capture scenes in realistic detail but rather to convey the emotional impact they made on him. He testified that on one occasion, he had himself tied to the mast of a ship during a snow-storm so that he could experience its full effects firsthand. The result was “Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbor’s Mouth,” a painting composed mostly of tempestu-ous swirls. What would be the equivalent for you, Taurus? I’m trying to think of a way you could be perfectly safe as you treated yourself to an up-close encounter with elemental energies.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some years back, the Greek government launched a huge anti-smoking campaign. In response, cigarette sales spiked dramatically. When my daughter was 6 years old, I initiated a crusade to ban Barbie dolls from our home. Soon she was ripping out pictures of the accursed anti-feminist icon from toy catalogs and leaving them on my desk. With these events in mind, I’m feeling cautious about trying to talk you into formulating a five-year master plan. Maybe instead I should encourage you to think small and obsess on transi-tory wishes.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Wings are a constraint that makes it possible to fly,” the Canadian poet Robert Bringhurst reminds us. That will be a good principle for you to keep in mind during your own adventures dur-ing the coming weeks. I suspect that any liberation you achieve will come as the result of intense discipline. To the degree that you cultivate the very finest limita-tions, you will earn the right and the power to transcend inhibitions that have been holding you down.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” When I came across that quote, I felt that it jibed perfectly with the astrological omens that are

currently in play for you. Every website I consulted agreed that the speaker of this wisdom was Socrates, but I thought the lan-guage sounded too contemporary to have been uttered by a Greek philosopher who died 2,400 years ago. After a bit of research, I found the real source: a character named Socrates in Way of the Peaceful Warrior, a New Age self-help book by Dan Millman. I hope this doesn’t dilute the impact of the quote for you, Leo. For now, it is crucial that you not get bogged down in quarreling and brawling. You need to devote all your energy to creating the future.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Do you know that you are a host for more than 10,000 different species of microorganisms? Many of them are bacteria that perform functions essential to your health. So the stunning fact of the matter is that a large number of life forms share your body and constantly help you in ways about which you have no conscious awareness. Might there be other examples of you collecting benefits from unknown sources? Well, do you know who is responsible for providing you with the water and electricity you use? Who sewed your clothes and made your medicine? Who built the roads and buildings you use? This is an excellent time to take inventory of all the assistance, much of it anonymous, that you are so fortunate to receive.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More often than not, your fine mind does a competent job of defining the problems that need solving. It comes up with concise questions that lead you in the right direction to find useful clues. It gathers evidence crisply and it makes smart adjustments as the situ-ation evolves. But after studying the astrological factors currently at work, I’m a little concerned that your usually fine mind might temporarily be prone to suffering from the dreaded malady known as paralysis through over-analysis. To steer yourself away from that possibility, keep checking in with your body and your feelings to see what alternate truths they may have to tell you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By the standards of people who don’t know you well, the triumph you achieve in the coming days might seem modest. But I think it will actually be pretty dramatic. Here’s my only concern: There’s a slight danger you will get grandiose or even a bit arrogant in the after-math of your victory. You could also get peeved at those who don’t see it for the major achieve-ment it is. Now that I’ve given you this warning, though, I’m hoping you will avoid that fate. Instead you will celebrate your win with humble grace, feeling gratitude for all the help you got long the way.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.” So said French writer Andre Breton. I suspect that many of us feel the same way, which is kind of depressing. But the good news for you, Sagittarius, is that there will be times in the coming months when you will get as close to nam-ing that mysterious thing as you have ever gotten. On more than a few occasions, you may be able to get a clear glimpse of its true nature. Now and then, you might even be fully united with it. One of those moments could come soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Paris Review did a story on novelist William Gass. The interviewer asked him why he wrote his books. That was “a very dumb question,” he sneered. Nevertheless, he answered it, say-ing, “I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.” In other words, his primary motivations for expressing himself creatively were loathing, malice and hostility. I beg you not to use him as your role model, Capricorn. Not ever. But especially now. It is essential to your long-term health and wealth that you not be driven by hate in the coming weeks. Just the opposite, in fact: The more you are driven by love and gener-osity, the better chance you will have of launching a lucky streak that will last quite a while.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Until we have seen someone’s darkness, we don’t really know who they are,” said author Marianne Williamson. “Until we have forgiven someone’s darkness, we don’t really know what love is.” Your assignment, Aquarius, is to seek out the deep-est possible understanding of these truths. To do that, you will have to identify the unripe, shad-owy qualities of the people who are most important to you. And then you will have to find it in your smart heart to love them for their unripe, shadowy qualities almost as much as you do for their shiny, beautiful qualities.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Aldous Huxley was the renowned 20th century intellectual who wrote the book Brave New World, a dystopian vision of the future. Later in his life, he came to regret one thing: how “preposterously serious” he had been when he was younger. “There are quick-sands all about you, sucking at your feet,” he ruminated, “trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling. ... Learn to do every-thing lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.” I would love for you to put this counsel at the top of your prior-ity list for the next 10 months, darling Pisces. Maybe even write it out on a piece of paper and tape it to your bathroom mirror.

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Telephone 208-629-4567Facsimile 208-392-1400. A copy of the Summons and

Complaint can be obtained by contacting either the Clerk of the Court or the attorney for Plaintiff. If you wish legal assistance, you should immediately retain an at-torney to advise you in this mat-ter. DATE: JULY 18 2012.

BY: CHRISTOPHER D. RICH, CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: /s/ LUTOLEDO, Deputy Clerk Pub. July 24, 31, Aug. 7, & 14,

2013.IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4 JUDI-CIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO,

IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Madison Ann SchulerLegal NameCase No. CV NC 1312421NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME

CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name

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Madison Ann Marie Snyders. The reason for the name change in name is: take my Dad’s name.

A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 1:30 o’clock p.m. on (date) SEP 05 2013 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good rea-son against the name change.

Date: Jul 19 2013CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURTBy: DEIRDRE PRICEDeputy ClerkPub. August 7, 14, 21 & 28, 2013.

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