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6 Defective SystemWhile birth defects are a parent’s nightmare,

birth defect reporting remains spotty

8 A Weapon Against HateHow recent anti-LGBT violence has added heat to beefing up

Idaho’s hate crimes law

22 ZoologyCaldwell-born band Green Zoo is awesomely weird and great

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FRIGHT AND FUNIt’s been quite a week. From the slaughter in Orlando, Fla.; to

Boise’s immense showing of LGBT Pride and assessing the rami-fications of the massacre (see Page 8); to the start of summer; to the runup for our Big Le Boise 25th anniversary party, it’s shaping up to be a season of action, and we have plenty of it in this week’s edition of Boise Weekly.

First and foremost is BW Staff Writer Harrison Berry’s previ-ously mentioned closely researched and timely (tragically timely) report on the state of hate crime laws—or lack thereof—in Idaho.

On Page 6 you’ll find my own piece on another legal gap. When we think of laws protecting vulnerable populations, we often consider children. There are laws governing every aspect of childhood: from kids’ education to their diet, guarding them from abuse and neglect, saving them from exposure to everything from household cleaners to too much television. When it comes to birth defects, however, we have a bizarre blind spot.

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The news was full of it, a sort of 24-7 marathon of words and stories she’d never heard said aloud in Parma, Idaho. National TV personalities were saying “LGBT” like they’d said it their whole lives and like talking about gay people was as natural as talking about cars or baseball. But there was blood and people crying and this was about death, about anger and hate and making millions of people afraid.

She was not afraid. She’d found a ride to Boise on Craigslist and a place to stay with a Lesbian couple she’d found on Facebook. Friday, at the gas station, time could not have gone more slow-ly. Her polyester uniform itched and her name tag “Fatima” drew the usual number of stares.

“What’s that? A Muslim name?” It was closing time. The man was tall and wearing coveralls. His boots had tracked dried mud across the linoleum floor. Fatima watched as each chunk broke free and scattered or crumbled into a pile of dust. Her bag was packed and in the store room. Each of the man’s steps meant one more minute before she could leave to meet her ride, James.

The man banged something on the counter. The sound made her jump. She looked up from the floor to his face. Her instinct to smile was the first to kick in. It was a question she’d gotten most of her short life, at least since 9-11. That was what she always did when asked this, smile.

The man’s eyes had narrowed to tiny knife slits. He had a red plastic bottle of motor oil in his hand. “I don’t give money to Muslim whores.” This seemed to be a statement of fact, and, given the motor oil in his hand, Fatima know the man was going to have to give her money or she would have to press the button under the counter which let the Sheriff’s office know there was a problem. She fingered the button.

“Terrorist bitch,” the man hissed. Fatima watched in slow motion as the man leaned in to grab her. It was an oddly familiar motion that set off a panic in her. Her mind went to that time, that place, to the disgusting heat of breath on her neck and a man touching her all over. She saw the clinic where she went after, the men and women with signs who also called her a bitch and a whore. They said they’d prey to their god for her. She saw her own father’s face and his shame. It was an image which for two years now she’d blocked out.

“Sir. I have already called the Sheriff’s office. You need to leave.” He voice was dry and level, her finger still on the button ready to press it. The man leaned back from the counter, lowered the arm he had raised to hit or grab her. She stared at him. In the eyes.

He turned and left.

In the car with James, who turned out to be a clerk from the grocery store down the street, Fatima used the visor mirror to put on her rain-bow earrings. She dug in her bag and pulled out the “Queer as Idaho” T-Shirt that she had found at the Youth Ranch Thrift store.

James eyed her shirt. “What’s that?” “I’m going to Gay Pride. Aren’t you?” Her grin

was full of white teeth that flashed bright from her dark face.

James was not going to Pride. He was going to buy a new car stereo at a box store.

“Be careful out there,” he said as he pulled up to the curb in downtown. A rainbow pride flag hung at half mast in front of city hall and Fatima felt her hands shake. James went on, “I have friends who come down here on nights like this with baseball bats.”

Fatima stepped out and did a spin on the sidewalk in her black pants and the T-shirt she’d pulled over her tank top. “They’d have to catch me!” she laughed. Over the years, she’d found that laughing was the most effective response to threats. It was a way to make people think there was maybe something they didn’t know, some information that made her less of a perfect target than she seemed. It had worked in high school. Sometimes.

But she was there with the pride flag hanging motionless above the street. At home, her parents would be cooking dahl and filling the neighbor-hood with the smell of cardamom, ginger, garlic and garam masala. They would be setting the table under her mom’s little gold plastic statue of Ganesh and maybe bringing meals to their Muslim friends, the ones who’d stayed home for days since Orlando, afraid again of having their headlights bashed or the word “terrorist” scratched into the paint of their cars with a knife or a key.

Fatima looked behind her. The streets were filled with couples holding hands, men with men, women with women. Dance music blasted from an upstairs balcony, huge pride flags waved, and people smiled at her and laughed. Inside, for a moment, she felt something let go, unwinding like a spool of thread. Her wiry legs launched her into the air and through the crowd. Bodies swirled on the street and people sang. Here in this moment where she was safe and alive, she felt the warm shoulders of those near her press into her back and sides. She thought of the men and women in the Club in Orlando who she knew had gone there that night to feel just this thing. She felt her chest tighten and her eyes water, but she threw her arms in the air and her head back and began to dance.

FROM THE FAR MARGINSDefiance

NICOLE LEFAVOUR

OPINION


THE KIDS AREN’T

ALRIGHTIdaho has no means to

adequately track birth defectsZACH HAGADONE

The babies were born without brains and no one knew why. Between 2010 and 2014, dozens of infants in three central Washington counties died of anencephaly, a typically rare birth defect. The gruesome disorder results in underweight, undersized newborns lacking large portions of their brain and skull. Almost all babies born with the condition die shortly after birth.

Only three pregnancies in every 10,000 result in anencephaly each year in the U.S., so when more than 40 mothers in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties reported losing children to the defect, public health officials were perplexed.

Lacking data on birth defects in general, and anencephaly in particular, the state’s response came under fire. A December 2015 Seattle Times report said, “officials tasked with solving the mys-tery may have missed opportunities for answers.”

“They have not contacted most of the women who lost babies to anencephaly,” wrote the Times. “They have not reached out ... effectively ... to tell families how the disorder might be prevented.

The Washington birth defect cluster is still a mystery, as are a great number of birth defects: The Centers for Disease Control estimates as many as 3 percent of all births suffer a defect of one kind or another.

Unknowns dominate every aspect of birth defects—of the “thousands of different birth defects,” according to the National Institutes of Health, “birth defects go untracked—even unno-ticed—in most states,” stated to a report from the Annenberg Center for Health Journalism.

Considering that birth defects are a parent’s worst nightmare, the paucity of systematic, na-tional tracking of their occurrence is baffling. Dr. Penny Beech, chief clinical officer for the Family Medical Residency of Idaho agrees.

Beech worked as a family doctor in Canyon County for Terry Reilly Health Services from 2001 to 2010 and, during that time, she delivered 600 babies. Of them, she said “I couldn’t even tell you” how many were born with defects, but could recall five off the top of her head.

“When I was in practice in Canyon County, I felt like I was just this unlucky doctor because I would see all these kids with problems. I knew it

wasn’t the care I was providing,” Beech said. Beech, with her staff of community health

workers, practiced both obstetrics and pediatrics with a focus on serving the Latino communities in the western Treasure Valley farm country.

“Just my general sense working out in that area is that there was a higher prevalence of birth defects,” she said. “I wonder a lot about pesticide exposure in that population.”

Beech said she heard reports from others notic-ing the same thing: babies were suffering from disorders including transposition of the great arteries (in which the heart “gets connected totally backwards”) and bowel disorders (notably where the bowels don’t form right so there is a blockage in the intestines). Thrown in were vitamin defi-ciencies and a host of other complications.

“Those cases are all heartbreaking,” she said.Concerned about what health workers were

seeing, Beech started researching trends to track down a cause and, hopefully, come up with a plan to prevent further incidents. When she went to access historic data, however, she came up short.

“It was really hard to research,” Beech said. “I kind of hit a brick wall.”

As it turns out, her observation was backed by the data. According to the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare, 24 non-Hispanic babies were reported to have died in Health District 3, which

includes Canyon County, in 2014. Of those, 23 were white and one was black. In that same time-frame, 13 Hispanic babies died—a “significant difference in the rates of ethnicity based on the 95 percent confidence interval,” IDHW Research Analyst Supervisor Pam Harder wrote in an email.

Having ready access to that kind of data would be “really useful” to Beech.

“I could figure out whether my supposition could be totally wrong,” she said.

But Idaho is one of six states that do not have a birth defect registry—a system whereby specific birth defects are catalogued, the children are tracked for years to assess what kinds of inter-ventions are most effective, and the conditions surrounding their birth are reported to national birth defect data clearinghouses like CDC and the National Birth Defect Prevention Network. In total, 44 states have some kind of registry in place. Idaho received an “F” for its state monitoring program from the Trust for America’s Health.

“Despite the effectiveness and value of birth defects registries, too many states do not have adequate programs,” the organization wrote.

That includes the Gem State.“I’ve noted that Idaho is one of probably six

states that have basically never done anything to set up a registry,” said University of South Florida professor Dr. Russell Kirby, who serves on the

CITYDESK

ACHD AT CROSSROADS As Ada County Highway District Commis-

sioners promised that changes to the Broad-way/Warm Springs intersection—where nearly 1,150 vehicles traverse each hour—they still wanted to get the ball rolling on redesigning what nearly everyone agrees is a mess.

“There’s no rush for us to decide this right now. In fact, we shouldn’t even pursue this, even in concept, until the Broadway Bridge is finished,” ACHD Commissioner Jim Hansen said June 15, referring to the soon-to-finished rebuild of the span.

Hansen’s fellow commissioners disagreed as they voted to proceed with design plans for the intersection, even though they conceded that nothing concrete would happen in the near future.

“We’ve had a lot of meetings, a lot of public input on this, and we would be remiss if we punted on this,” said Commissioner Sara Baker.

Public input steered the the commission to its preferred design. After ACHD designers crafted options that included a raised median along Broadway, thus not allowing left-hand turns into local businesses, much of the public pushed back.

“We went back to the drawing board,” said ACHD Senior Transportation Planner Rod Ashby. “That’s why we came up with Alterna-tive D, which gives us back a middle lane. We learned that there was some acceptance in taking some additional right-of-way in order to keep those turn lanes.”

ACHD planners said the Broadway/Warm Springs redesign could cost more than $4 million.

“The price tag is huge,” said Hansen, “and we’re not talking about the largest elephant in the room, which we’ll be taking up next.”

He was referring to ACHD’s next big vote, slated for Wednesday June 22, when commis-sioners hear arguments on whether a section of Jefferson Street should be permanently blocked to traffic for the much-debated $400 million expansion of St. Luke’s Health System.

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executive committee of the NBDPN. Meanwhile, according to IDHW numbers,

Idaho’s infant mortality rate from birth defects has exceeded the national average 12 of the 16 years from 1999 to 2014, peaking in 2002 when the infant mortality rate of 241.3 per 100,000 births was nearly 100 deaths higher than the U.S. aver-age. In 2014, the most recent data available, that number was 135.4 deaths per 100,000—16.4 higher than the average.

While Idaho’s number of total birth defects is within range of the national average, its infant mortality is not. Much of that has to do with the rural nature of the state and its attendant health care challenges. Idaho has long suffered a shortage of doctors, “and that has to weigh into it,” said IDHW spokesman Tom Shanahan.

“There would be value there [to setting up a registry],” he said. “Seriously, it would be nice to participate.”

That’s where the politics enter the maternity ward.

“The registry would be valuable, there’s no question,” Shanahan said. “But the question is could we afford it and what would be the action-able items we could do from the registry?”

Kirby has helped set up 20 state registries and, while it is a boon to researchers to have such robust amounts of data with which to analyze occurrence, type and result of birth defects, he bemoans the fragmented nature of the system.

“What basically happened with birth defects is there were some methodologies that had been developed by individual states, and many earlier programs modeled their program after the CDC’s Atlanta [Ga.] program, which is really the oldest comprehensive program in the country,” he said, [but] few states were willing to allocate resources to implement the Atlanta approach comprehen-sively. … So we started having a variety of less comprehensive methodologies being established.”

To date, 14 states operate birth defect report-ing systems funded at least in part by CDC. Idaho, though it received upwards of $600,000 from CDC between 2010 and 2015 for birth defect-related efforts (including early hearing screenings), is not one of them.

In other words, while most states have some kind of birth defect reporting mechanism, the state-by-state approach is still a hodgepodge—so much so that it’s unclear even at the national level how many children are born with birth defects, much less how to prevent them.

Kirby said his organization is asked to in-vestigate birth defect clusters on a regular basis, including in Florida, where concerns about the Zika virus, which frequently causes microcepha-ly—similar to anencephaly in that it affects brain growth—are well founded.

Still, lack of reliable data is a hurdle.“Those kinds of things [investigations into

birth defect clusters] are really hard to come up

with any definitive conclusions,” he said. “The public has a right to know and we want to give them an answer, but it rarely works out that we can give a definitive answer.”

In the end, it all comes down to funding. Kirby makes a parallel to cancer data registries, on which birth defect registries have been modeled. Prior to 1990, only a few states had reporting systems to gather crucial data on the many variet-ies of the disease. Then between 1990 and 1992, CDC received funding from the U.S. Congress to disperse to states, setting up cancer data registries to be guided by a set of standardized rules.

“Twenty-five years later, they have an estab-lished structure that works well,” he said. “We have never had the resources that cancer has had.”

Kirby isn’t complaining—he understands more people will contract cancer than will suffer birth defects—but, “in the general scheme of things, the resources to actually do birth defects justice have not been there.”

Darkly, Kirby suggested pro-life politics may be in part to blame. Speaking of the anencephaly cases in Washington state, he said, “In our coun-try there’s a certain antipathy to abortion. Well, one of the conditions that people are most likely to get an elective termination for after having prenatal diagnosis is anencephaly. After all, you’re dealing with a fetus that basically has almost no brain, is definitely going to die. Would you want to carry that pregnancy to term? Some women decide no, they don’t, and so they have a termina-tion. Our birth defect surveillance is not geared up to catch those cases, so we don’t really know what the baseline is.”

The sparseness of coherent data is also due par-tially to the birth defect community itself. Kirby said unlike cancer, which is addressed in a global sense—that all cancers must be tracked, treated and prevented—the birth defect community is as fragmented as its monitoring systems.

“Families who have a child with a birth defect identify with support groups for that particular birth defect and not globally with the idea of birth defects in general,” he said. “So it’s been with the Spina Bifida Association … they were able to advocate before Congress and got several pro-grams set up for spina bifida. Likewise, there are programs supporting Down syndrome, more re-cently congenital heart disease. But the programs that end up being funded from those are specific to those particular conditions, and they don’t support the more general activity of birth defect surveillance. Somehow, with cancer, the American Cancer Society and other advocacy groups have been able to make a more coherent case for public health programs for cancer over all.”

The issue, ultimately, rests with the Idaho Legislature. Shanahan, at IDHW, said Idaho health policy experts have looked at establish-ing a registry in the past, but it was a non-starter because of budgetary concerns.

“We did look at the registry pretty carefully be-cause there was interest in it, but I think, honestly, the expense of it and the resource intensiveness of it for the people it would require is fairly high. It’s much like a cancer data registry, only on a smaller scale,” he said. “If you look at some of the states that are doing it and doing it well, they’re following these kids into their teen years, and that’s what you really need to do. We looked at it and we didn’t know how we would support that budget-wise.”

According to House Minority Leader John Rusche (D-Lewiston), who is also a doctor, “The Legislature has been hesitant to develop registries at all. Whether it’s illness-based studies or illness results of medications, due to concerns over privacy and cost.”

Part of that cost is setting up the structure under which birth defect data gathering would be conducted. Rusche said that while 95 percent of all births take place in a hospital, with detailed re-cord keeping, not all birth defects are immediately diagnosable—meaning birth defect tracking is a multi-year process, and one that Idaho has been reluctant to pursue in large part due to politics.

“Some of us have been pushing for better health care data for years and years, but [it] never gets anywhere,” he said. “This is more a concern about interference with personal freedom and personal information.”

The fragmentation—the inherent uncertainty of birth defects—has also been a barrier.

“Another thing we were concerned about is that the surveillance methods used by states are all different. … Some of them were just phenom-enal. New Jersey, California, they really did just a super job. Other states were fairly minimal and they didn’t verify data,” Shanahan said. “There’s no aggregate to show nationally what we’re look-ing at, and that is something Idaho would have been really interested in, for us to all do it the same way so we could use aggregate data.”

Until then, state health officials, like parents, will have to cross their fingers that everything turns out alright.

Recalling an epidemiology class he taught in the early ’90s, Kirby told a story about a colleague who delivered a guest lecture in which he asked students to imagine if they were “the king of Siam.” What would they do to organize health care in their country?

“If I was the king of Siam and could organize birth defect surveillance,” Kirby said, “there’s a couple of things that are problematic. One of them is that we have states and each state has its health authority unto itself. We need national standards. We basically need to change the para-digm for birth defect surveillance to where every-thing comes from CDC. They provide the funds but the states have to follow their procedures and protocols to collect the data. Now, that’s not what we have.”

NEWS


SWORD AND SHIELDAmid anti-LGBT violence, advocates demand stronger

hate crimes legislationHARRISON BERRY

RYAN JOHNSON


In the early morning hours of June 12, Omar Mateen, 29, opened fire inside Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., killing

49 and injuring 53. His own death brought the grim total of those killed to 50. The shooting is the deadliest in modern U.S. history and has added heat to national conversations about terrorism, anti-LGBT violence and guns. Debate about Mateen’s motivations will continue, but his choice of killing grounds was seen as intentional by LGBT communities around the country.

“The message I receive is, ‘You’re really just not welcome.’ We’re being persecuted,” said Joseph Kibbe during a June 12 rally at the Idaho Capitol to show solidarity with the victims of the massacre.

On the same day, Boise Pridefest organizers, deep in the plan-ning for this year’s Pride festival, received a violent threat on the organization’s Facebook page. Pridefest informed Boise police of the threat and there was additional security at this year’s events.

From Orlando to Boise, the Pulse shooting added a somber tone to otherwise celebratory and, most important, safe Pride demonstrations; but, in the Gem State, the LGBT community was already grappling with a gruesome case of anti-gay violence with the murder in April of Boise State University employee, local actor and openly gay advocate for equality Steven Nelson.

For many in the community, Nelson’s death highlighted a glar-ing lack of legal protections for LGBT people—beyond the Add the Words movement to include “sexual identity” and “gender ori-entation” to the state’s human rights law, Idaho’s “malicious harass-ment” law does not carry enhanced penalties for those convicted of targeting people based on their sexual or gender identities.

While Add the Words can be seen as a shield against discrimina-tion, strengthening Idaho’s malicious harassment law would serve a sword with which to punish those who specifically target people in the LGBT community.

Nationally, Mateen’s spree was a reminder of how dangerous America still is for LGBT people. For Idaho, it highlighted a group long ignored by state lawmakers and scarred by horrific recent violence.

Hate crimes are widely underreported. Every year, the Federal Bureau of Investigation collects data from participating law en-forcement agencies on hate crimes and issues a report as part of its Uniform Crime Reporting Program. The most recent report, based on data from 2013, showed 5,928 hate crimes involving 7,242 victims nationally, with 20.8 percent being committed on account of the victim’s sexual orientation and 0.5 percent on the victim’s

gender identity. Heidi Beirich, of the Southern Poverty Law Cen-ter, said the degree to which such crimes never see the light of day is extreme.

“In the U.K., which has about 80 million people, they record every year about 56,000 hate crimes,” she said. “Obviously, our country, with its racial history and all that, it’s just silly, right? The numbers just don’t reflect the extent of the social problem.”

Beirich referred to a number of problems with the FBI’s hate crime census, including that it relies on voluntary reports from po-lice departments and other law enforcement agencies. A more ac-curate reflection may come from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics. In 2012, the BJS published a study estimating the true number of hate crime victimizations at closer to 255,000-260,000 per year, and up to 60 percent of all hate crimes go unreported.

The count of hate crimes committed against LGBT people may be particularly inaccurate because of widespread social stigma. In May, the White House issued a letter to every school district in the United States directing them to allow students to use restrooms in accordance with their gender identities, rather than their birth sex. Blowback was swift, with Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter calling the order a “power play,” Lt. Gov. Brad Little calling it “unrea-sonable executive overreach” and other critics calling it an open door for sexual predators to exploit schoolchildren. According to a Pew study, overall public support for LGBT issues is high since same-sex marriage became the law of the land in 2015, but many Americans still harbor sentiments that equate LGBT people as “child molesters, sick, diseased.”

“There is a sector of our society that is radically opposed to these ideas, and that’s worrisome,” Beirich said.

Fear of re-victimization and retribution have been a de-moti-vating factor for reporting hate crimes motivated by LGBT status. Another is mistrust of the police. Nicole LeFavour, an author, Boise Weekly contributor, longtime advocate and openly LGBT former Idaho state senator, has worked with the LGBT community for years, hearing many of its stories of violence and abuse. She said a major problem with the reporting of violent crimes motivated by the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity is victims’ experi-ences with law enforcement.

“For some, they’re simply afraid. [Idaho is] a state where anti-gay attitudes are not uncommon, and they don’t think they’ll get sympathy from police,” she said. “They didn’t report it at the time,

but live with the consequences.”The situation has improved in the past few years, with nu-

merous cities across the Gem State adding nondiscrimination ordinances to local statute, which has sent a strong message to local police and city councils to take LGBT rights seriously. For several years, the Boise Police Department has had a liaison on staff to improve its relationship with the LGBT community. LeFavour said she’d have liked more public support from Boise City leaders, but that was before Mayor Dave Bieter’s Boise Pridefest speech on the Idaho Statehouse steps, where he acknowledged progress made and pointed to the shooting in Orlando as a reminder of “how far we have to go” before making a call to action.

“We need the people in this building behind me to also ‘add the words,’” he said.

LeFavour and Bieter agree: The fight is at the Idaho Legislature, where legislators have told LeFavour to “show [them] the numbers” proving LGBT people are harmed by the state not updating its human rights and malicious intimidation laws. Here are those numbers: According to the 2014 Idaho State Police Hate Crime in Idaho report, there were 26 reported hate crimes in the Gem State in 2014—a decrease of 18.7 percent from 2013. Sixteen of those incidents involved some kind of assault and three were committed against people based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, down half from 2013. Most (16) of the reported incidents were reported to ISP by the Boise and Nampa police departments.

ISP’s statistics reflect reported hate crimes, but those numbers may also be incomplete, as it’s up to individual police departments to charge crimes. Currently, 27 states’ hate crime laws have such requirements. Thirteen states have laws covering sexual orientation and 17 states cover both sexual orientation and gender identity. Idaho’s law covers race, color, religion, ancestry and national origin, but not sexual orientation or gender identity. Five states have no such laws at all.

Many of the laws in place harken back to an effort in the 1980s by the Anti-Defamation League, which states have adopted and updated over the years, including adding language about sexual orientation and gender identity.

ADL Civil Rights Vice President Seth Marnin said there was a time when “beating the crap” out of a gay man leav-ing a bar was totally fine.

“Over time, folks realized, actually, it’s not,” Marnin said. “The law sort of caught up, in many places, with that.”

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Particularly visible hate crimes, he said, can speed up that process. The murders of Matthew Shepard and James Byrd in 1998 spurred the creation of a federal hate crimes law, the Shepard/Byrd Act, in 2009. It re-mains to be seen what, if any, effect the mass shooting

in Orlando will have. “I think it caught folks attention in a way that other incidents of bias hadn’t,” Marnin said. “Folks started to understand [it’s] important to acknowledge that the community is targeted in a different way, and having laws that recognize that is important,” he said.

The Shepard/Byrd Act is a landmark law because it collected and streamlined the myriad federal hate crime laws on the books. At the time of its creation, it was hailed as a sign that lawmakers were beginning to take LGBT issues seriously on a national level. Be-tween its passage in 2009 and 2013, it was used to charge 44 people in 16 states with federal offenses. For Marnin, however, state laws are more effective because the law enforcement agencies that are typically the first on the scene investigating hate crimes can retain jurisdiction, and local prosecutors can press charges using state laws.

But it was to the Shepard/Byrd Act and U.S. District Attorney Wendy Olson that Better Idaho appealed in the case of the murder of Steven Nelson.

FINDING JUSTICE FOR STEVEN NELSONIn late April, Nelson was lured by the promise of sex for money

to Lake Lowell, where four men stripped, robbed and brutally beat him, kicking him in the head repeatedly. Though he ultimately died of his injuries, Nelson was able to describe his assailants to law enforcement. The four men have been charged with first-degree murder but, for Jordan Brady, a researcher at Better Idaho, that’s not enough. In May, Better Idaho delivered a petition with 1,500 signatures to Olson, asking her to press charges under the Shepard/Byrd Act on the grounds that there’s strong evidence Nelson was targeted for being gay.

“Nelson was lured to Lake Lowell by a group of individuals who were pretending to be another gay man,” said Brady. “They created a fake persona to lure a gay man to the middle of nowhere. If this was simply a ‘robbery gone wrong,’ if these individuals simply wanted to rob Steven Nelson, there are certainly ways they could have accomplished that, that don’t involve stripping him naked and kicking him over 30 times with a steel-toed boot,” he said.

The murder shook Idaho’s LGBT community. Numerous public demonstrations have condemned the act and many have called for changes to Idaho’s malicious harassment law. Kibbe, speaking at the rally for victims of the Orlando shooting, said Nelson’s murder and the absence of provisions for crimes committed because of the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity in the state’s malicious harassment law speak volumes.

“We don’t have a mechanism in place to prosecute those individuals,” Kibbe said. “What message does that send to the com-munity?”

There are some legislators who agree not making room for anti-LGBT hate crimes in state statute sends the wrong signal. For Boise Democratic Rep. Melissa Wintrow, Nelson’s murder was outright terror.

“People who commit violent acts against people based on their identities terrorizes people,” she said.

In the wake of Nelson’s killing, Wintrow said she was renew-ing her efforts to be an outspoken advocate in the Legislature for marginalized people and communities. Wintrow has a long history of bucking trends in political institutions. In 2000, she became the first full-time Women’s Center coordinator at Boise State University

and, in 2014, she was elected to represent District 19 in the Idaho Statehouse. She said for most people, calling out anti-gay language and aggression is an effective way for most people to confront the problem but, as a legislator, she will press for urgently needed changes to Idaho law that will provide coverage.

“Every day we don’t ‘add the words’ is a day we say, ‘You don’t have the same rights as someone else,’” she said.

The case of Nelson’s murder is an interplay between state and federal laws and law enforcement agencies. Brady believes Ol-son’s office is Nelson’s best hope for justice. Olson could, he argued, easily prove federal jurisdiction in the case because Nelson’s killers enticed him over the Internet. According to Olson, however, these cases can be more difficult to prosecute than they appear.

Her highest hurdle, she said is establishing the victim’s protected status—being a member of a group identified in the Shepard/Byrd Act—as the crime’s motive. In the past, this was much easier: She and other federal prosecutors would have to prove the crime was committed because of the victim’s protected status. Now, the bar is higher. Current case law says prosecutors must show the crime would not have been committed “but for” the victim’s protected status. In other words, hate must be the primary motivating factor in the crime, rather than one among several motivating factors.

“We’re in a position now that it’s more difficult to prove hate crimes than it was before,” Olson said.

Federal investigators have been looking into Nelson’s murder as a possible hate crime since it was first reported, and Olson’s office has been considering pressing charges. Typically, she said, such cases cross her desk when a law enforcement agency like the ISP or FBI tags a potential felony.

“The only determination we make is whether there’s sufficient evidence to prove all the elements of the offense beyond a reason-able doubt,” she said. “We’ll look at the facts and make a determina-tion whether there is such evidence, and that’s the standard we use in every single criminal case we determine we’re going to seek.”

While the gears of the law turn, tension within the LGBT com-munity has only increased. In light of Nelson’s murder, the terror shooting in Orlando and the threat to Boise Pridefest, there is wide concern more violence could be on the way.

“There’s a heightened fear, and after what happened in Orlando, it seems like something like that can happen here,” said activist Emilie Jackson-Edney.

Jackson-Edney was a panelist at a June 16 discussion organized by the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights, and stressed unity among civil rights organizations during trying times. The panels, which included advocates for the LGBT community, women and people with disabilities, sketched the landscape of issues-based lobbying at the Idaho Statehouse, winning hearts and minds in the public and offered a forum for people to air their concerns.

One concern

was the tenor of Idaho’s conversation

on LGBT rights, and there was consternation over how Mateen’s purported

ties to ISIS had overshadowed his choice to target a gay nightclub. Initial reports in The New York Times, Washington Post and even The Orlando Sentinel all dedicated more coverage to Mateen’s relationship with fundamentalist Islam than to the significance of his targeting of Pulse. Local Planned Parenthood field organizer and panelist Mistie Tolman reacted with outrage, saying the news framing had been used to sideline the LGBT community from the conversation.

“How dare they use this to erase us. How dare they ignore that this was a hate crime,” Tolman said.

At the core of the panelists’ discussion was the problem of invis-ibility. The way the national media framed the Orlando shooting, they said, pushed the issue of its impact on gay people to the side. What’s more, while Obama’s order on school restrooms was prog-ress, Jackson-Edney said, the argument from some that it allowed predators into school restrooms as well is “just a smokescreen—just an attempt to discount my existence.” The theme of invisibility has extended to the Idaho Statehouse, where advocates said they had the ears of lawmakers, but not much else.

“We don’t necessarily have their minds. They’re not going to change their hearts,” said Democratic field organizer Chelsea Gaona.

It amounts, they said, to a culture in which LGBT people are tolerated but not accepted and, for some, the solution to that prob-lem has been to make noise. During the 2013 legislative session, Add the 4 Words demonstrators clogged the entryways to the Idaho House and Senate chambers, staged sit-ins and hosted weekly rallies. Members of the insurgent movement wore black T-shirts and held their hands over their mouths to illustrate how they’d been silenced by the Legislature every year since the beginning of the movement to update the state’s human rights law. The protests resulted in hundreds of arrests.

At a rally after Nelson’s death, however, some lawmakers were urging the public to make more noise in order to be heard.

“Now is the time to shatter the collusion of silence. We must dis-turb the peace,” said Boise Democratic Sen. Cherie Buckner-Webb.

Buckner-Webb is a distinct voice in the Idaho Legislature. In a body comprising mostly white, conservative men, she’s a Demo-crat, a woman and a person of color. She’s also a victim of a hate crime: During her youth, white supremacists burned a cross on her lawn. For her, the problem of crimes targeting victims based on their identities isn’t an abstraction but an everyday reality.

When asked what has changed about hate crimes since her youth, she shrugged and gave a response that would have a maca-bre resonance in the following weeks.

“I would hope there would be a lot [of change],” she said. “But it’s not a one-off.”

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CALENDARWEDNESDAYJUNE 22Festivals & Events

CALDWELL FARMERS MAR-KET—3-7 p.m. FREE. Indian Creek Park, Corner of Seventh and Blaine streets, Caldwell, caldwellidfarmer-smarket.com.

PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE 2016—Pedal 4 the People features all kids of events celebrating two-wheeled transportation. Through June 25. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., 208-429-6520, pedal-4thepeople.org.

On Stage

ALIVE AFTER FIVE: CLUMSY LOVERS—With Deviant Kin. 5 p.m. FREE. Basque Block, Grove Street between Capitol Boulevard and Sixth Street, Boise, thebasque-block.com.

BOISE CLASSIC MOVES: THE PRINCESS BRIDE—Westley and Buttercup

are out to foil the plans of the six-fingered Count Rugen and Prince Humperdink (only 5 fingers for him) to start a war with Gilder, the sworn enemy of Floren. With a little help from a giant, a miracle worker, and a drunk swordsman, they’ll spoil the war plot and kindle a little twoo wuv while they’re at it. June 22 is sold out; second show added June 25. 7 p.m. $9 online, $11 door. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273. boiseclassicmov-ies.com/deals.

ISF: LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST—Through June 26. 8 p.m. $20-$27. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Workshops & Classes

SOLARIZE THE VALLEY PUBLIC WORKSHOP—Join The Snake River Alliance to learn about solar

technology, hooking into Idaho Power, pricing and financing 6:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Co-op The Village, 2350 N. Eagle Road, Meridian. 208-344-9161, solarizethevalley.org.

SUMMER EASY STARGAZING—Join Paul Verhage and learn how

to look for star clusters, satellites, meteors and planets. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library at Hillcrest, 5246 W. Overland Road, 208-972-8340, boisepubliclibrary.org.

Art

37TH ANNUAL IDAHO WATER-COLOR SOCIETY JURIED M EXHIBITION—Through June 26. All day. FREE. Boise State SUB, 1910 University Drive, Boise, 208-426-1242. finearts.boisestate.edu.

ELIZABETH HILTON: NEW WORKS—Through June 30. 11 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Cinder Winery and Tasting Room, 107 E. 44th St., 208-376-4023, cinderwines.com.

FOLK ART: THE DREW AND KATIE GIBSON COLLECTION—Through July 24. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org

IN APPRECIATION: NEW GIFTS TO THE BOISE ART MUSEUM—Through Aug. 28. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

KAREN WOODS: THE WAY TO WILDER—Through Sept. 11. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmu-seum.org.

SAMUEL PADEN: THE NARRA-TIVES—Through June 30. 10 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Evermore Prints, 780 W. Main St., Boise, 208-991-3837, facebook.com/SamuelLPaden.

STEWART GALLERY ANNUAL WORKS ON PAPER EXHIBITION: LINE—Through July 29. Noon-4 p.m. FREE. Stewart Gallery, 2230 Main St., Boise, 208-433-0593, stewartgallery.com.

TALL TALES: NARRATIVES FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION—Through April 9, 2017. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$6. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

TOMÁS MONTAÑO: EVERYTHING NEEDN’T ALWAYS BE SOME-THING—Through June 30. 11 a.m.-6 p.m. FREE. Gallery Five18, 518 S. Americana Blvd., Boise, 208-342-3773, galleryfive18.com.

TVAA: CELEBRATING PIPE-DREAMS—Through July 1. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Boise State Public Radio, Yanke Family Research Building, 220 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-426-3663, treasureval-leyartistsalliance.org.

WYTSKE VAN KEULEN: NOT SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT HERE—Through July 7. 3-7 p.m. FREE. MING Studios, 420 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-949-4365, mingstu-dios.org/exhibitions.html.

Literature

AUTHOR MICHAEL GLAUSER: MAIN STREET ENTREPRENEUR—Utah

State University professor Michael Glauser talks about the nine keys to a successful business. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library Hayes Auditorium, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-972-8200. boisepubliclibrary.org.

Sports & Fitness

BOISE HAWKS VS. SALEM-KEIZER VOL-CANOES—7:15 p.m.

$7-$20. Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-322-5000, boisehawks.com.

FLATWATER/REC KAYAKING—Check out this introductory course designed to acquaint new paddlers or be a refresher for people coming back to recreational and flatwater kayaking. 6-7:30 p.m. $37. Idaho River Sports, 601 Whitewater Park Blvd., Boise, 208-336-4844,

Take me out to the new ballgame.

BOISE HAWKS VS. SALEM-KEIZER VOLCANOES After a trio of away games against the Eugene, Ore., Emeralds,

the Boise Hawks, the Colorado Rockies’ short season single-A affili-ate, will soar back home for three games against the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes. It’s the start of a new season and the beginning of sev-eral changes for the Hawks. In addition to new players, the Hawks new manager is the team’s 2015 hitting manager Andy Gonzalez, games will now be broadcast on n TuneIn Radio and in the new dugout suite, you can keep your eye on the ball in style.

Wednesday is baseball bingo night, so when you get to Memo-rial Stadium, grab a card and watch the players in action for a chance to win a prize. If you’re looking for a fun family outing, the Boise Hawks have all your bases covered.

7:15 p.m., $12-20. Hawks Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glen-wood St., 208-322-5000, boisehawks.com.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22

The Dude abides.

THE BIG LEBOISE: BW’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY PARTYTurning 25 is a Big LeDeal and we’re celebrating the big two-five

with the Big LeBoise Festival—taking over the corner of Sixth and Broad streets for a full afternoon of food, drink and entertainment.

This family friendly block party will feature about 40 craft vendors; the Women’s and Children’s Alliance raffling off some awesome prizes; food trucks B-Town Bistro, Kanack Attack, Pie Hole and Wetos Tacos; locals Tiger Spittle, Blake Green, Vinyl Preservation Society and DJ Zuz spinning tunes; a full bar from Harbor Grill and Events Center; and, bonus, BW neighbor Boise Brewing will be tap-ping its new LeBoise Lager, brewed especially for the event.

The Big LeBoise is presented by 44 North Vodka and supported by Air St. Luke’s, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the WCA.

Noon-6 p.m. FREE. Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., 208-344-2055, boiseweekly.com.

SATURDAY, JUNE 25

Put your pedal to the metal.

PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLEYour bike might be getting rusty in the backyard, or hanging

from the ceiling of your garage, but wouldn’t it be fun to go back to the days when you could hop on your two-wheeled transporter and head to streets filled with good music, good food and good drinks? It would and it will.

Pedal 4 the People is back. This celebration of Boise’s vibrant bicycle community is filled with a variety of exciting and informa-tive events, and even though it kicked off last week, there’s still plenty of happenings, like a potluck, a chance to comment on the Jefferson Street closure, a whiskey-tango log pull, a race at the Helladrome and a ride to the party of the year, the Big LeBoise. If you’re people, this celebration is for you.

Through June 25. FREE. Boise Bicycle Project, 1027 Lusk St., 208-429-6520, pedal4thepeople.org.

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THURSDAYJUNE 23On Stage

A.K.A. BELLE I HEAR IT NOW RELEASE PARTY—Join the Boise rockers for

the release of their new album. I Hear It Now will be available for purchase, and Payette Brewing will be serving free quaffs beginning at 6 p.m. As always, this Record Exchange in-store event is free and all ages. 6:30 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange, 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010.

BOISE ALL-STAR COMEDY SOW-CASE—8 p.m. $10. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

COMEDIAN STEVEN BRIGGS—8 p.m. $10. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

FULL DRAW FILM TOUR—Enjoy bowhunting adventures on the big screen. 7 p.m. $8-$13. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273. fulldrawfilmtour.com.

ISF: LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST—Through June 26. 8 p.m. $20-$27. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

MR. X, MASTER MAGICIAN—Prepare yourself for fun, mystery, audience participation, mystifying magic and hilarious silliness. For all ages. 2 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Victory Branch, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org/victory.

STARLIGHT: FIDDLER ON THE ROOF—Through July 14. 8 p.m. $9-$24. Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middlefork Road, Crouch, 208-462-5523. starlightmt.com/fiddler-on-the-roof.html.

Literature

AUTHOR DON MIGUEL RUIZ JR.: THE MASTERY OF SELF—Don Miguel

Ruiz Jr. is a Nagual, a Toltec master of transformation, and a direct descendant of the Toltecs of the Eagle Knight lineage and is the son of don Miguel Ruiz. By combining the wisdom of his family’s tradi-tions with the knowledge gained from his own personal journey, he now helps others realize their own path to personal freedom. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Sports & Fitness

PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE WHISKEY TANGO LOG PULL—Head on down

(with your jortz on) for food, beer,

booze and log pulling, with prizes for first-third places. Registration in-cludes one beer, one brat, one shot and log pull entry. 6-11 p.m. FREE to play, $10 to race. The Lift 2, 1010 S. LaPointe St., Boise, 208-344-2176. pedal4thepeople.org.

Citizen

IDAHO HUMAN RIGHTS COM-MISSION MEETING—3 p.m. FREE. Idaho Human Rights Commission, 317 W. Main St., Boise, 208-334-2873, humanrights.idaho.gov.

FRIDAYJUNE 24Festivals & Events

DOWNTOWN NAMPA FOURTH FRIDAYS—Enjoy live music, danc-ing, food trucks, vendors, raffles, craft beer and wine tastings every fourth Friday through Sept 23. 6-9 p.m. FREE. Downtown Nampa.

IBG GROW THE GARDEN PARTY ANNUAL FUNDRAISER—Head over to the Idaho Botanical Garden for a beautiful summer evening, featuring spectacular local hors d’oeuvres, silent and live auctions,

and music by Silhouette String Ensemble. 6-9 p.m. $75-$85. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanical-garden.org.

SHRINE CIRCUS—Aerial-ists, a human cannon, clowns, jugglers and all

kinds of animals are coming to town June 24-26, with two shows each day. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. $7-$20. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, elkorahshrine.org

On Stage

BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: COUNTRY BOYS—Enjoy a very special country

concert that combines traditional songs of the past and modern musical numbers with BMC’s unique artistic excellence, campy comedy bits, choreographed dancing and authentic country costumes. No advanced or reserved seating available; tickets available at the door. 8 p.m. $15. First Presbyterian Church, 950 W. State St., Boise, 208-345-3441, boisemenschorus.org.

COMEDIAN STEVEN BRIGGS—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

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COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—Two teams of comics battle it out for your laughs. 7:30 p.m. $5-$10. ComedySportz Boise, 4619 Emerald St., Boise, 208-991-4746, boisecomedy.com.

COMIC CINEMA SH-EMIX: WHAT WOMEN WANT—Join the first-ever

all-women panel of comedy remix-ers as they demolish the 2000 Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt classic What Women Want. Featuring Emma Arnold, Alisha Donahue, Jynx Jenkins and Minerva Jayne. Midnight. $5 adv., $7 door. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459.

HWY. 30 MUSIC FEST—11 a.m. $50-$80. Twin Falls County Fairgrounds, 215 Fair Ave., Filer, 208-326-4398, hwy30musicfest.com.

ISF: AND THEN THERE WERE NONE—Through July 31. 8 p.m. $20-$75. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshake-speare.org.

STARLIGHT: SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS—Through Aug. 13. 8 p.m. $9-$24. Starlight Mountain Theatre, 850 S. Middle-fork Road, Crouch, 208-462-5523, starlightmt.com.

Sports & Fitness

DANIEL DOPPS MEMORIAL RAM PRCA RODEO—Enjoy profes-sional rodeo action while raising money for charitable donations in the community of Mountain Home, Elmore County and the State of Idaho. 7:30 p.m.-12 a.m. FREE-$10. Optimist Park-Mountain Home, Elmcrest and Fifth Ave. N., Mountain Home, 3drodeo.org.

FRIDAY EVENING SUP INTRO—Learn the proper stance for balance and control, basic paddle strokes and techniques from ACA-certified instructors. 6 p.m. $37. Idaho River Sports, 601 Whitewa-ter Park Blvd., Boise, 208-336-4844, idahoriversports.com.

Animals & Pets

IDAHO CAPITAL CITY KENNEL CLUB DOG AGILITY TRIALS—8 a.m. FREE. Canyon County Fairgrounds, 111 22nd Ave. S., Caldwell, 208-455-8500, icckc.org.

SATURDAYJUNE 25Festivals & Events

AMATEUR RADIO FIELD DAY—Each June, amateur radio opera-tors set up simulated emergency communications like would be used in a large-scale emergency or disaster. The goal is to make as many contacts across North

America as possible in 24 hours. The public is invited to observe and even make on-the-air con-tacts under the guidance of an amateur radio operator. Noon-8 p.m. FREE. Heroes Park, Ten Mile and Chinden, Meridian. arrl.org/field-day.

THE BIG LEBOISE: BOISE WEEKLY’S 25TH ANNIVERSARY PARTY—

Boise Weekly is turning 25 and you’re invited to our party. Change out of your bathrobe (or not) for this family-friendly block party featuring about 40 craft vendors, food trucks and entertainment from local DJs, plus plenty of bev-erages—both adult and otherwise. A portion of proceeds will benefit Women’s and Children’s Alliance. Presented by 44 North Vodka and supported by Air St. Luke’s. Noon-6 p.m. FREE. Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, 208-344-2055, boiseweekly.com.

BOISE FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. Continues through Dec. 17. FREE. Boise Farmers Market, 10th and Grove, Boise, 208-345-9287. facebook.com/TheBoiseFarmersMarket.

CANYON COUNTY CO-OP 2016 SUMMER COMMUNITY MARKET—9 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Canyon County Co-op, 1415 First St. S., Nampa, 208-960-0328, canyoncounty.coop.

CAPITAL CITY PUBLIC MAR-KET—9:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. FREE. Capital City Public Market, Eighth Street between Idaho and Jef-ferson streets, Boise, 208-345-3499, capitalcitypublicmarket.com.

EAGLE SATURDAY MAR-KET—9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Heri-tage Park, 185 E. State St., Eagle, 208-489-8789, cityofeagle.org

MERIDIAN YOUTH FARMERS MARKET—9 a.m.-noon. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208-888-4433.

NAMPA FARMERS’ MARKET—9 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Nampa Farm-ers’ Market, Longbranch parking lot, Front and 13th, Nampa, 208-412-3814.

OLA FLEA MARKET—Take a road trip into the hinterlands of Gem County for the inaugural annual Ola Flea Market. 8 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Ola Inn Cafe, 22001 Main St., Ola, facebook.com/OlaInnCafe.

PEDAL 4 THE PEOPLE HEL-LADROME GRAND FINALE—Hel-ladrome is a Mad Max bicycle obstacle course race on steroids (no steroids allowed) that’s wilder than a velodrome, wackier than cyclocross, and crazier than crite-rium. 5-10 p.m. FREE to watch, $5 to race. Whole Foods Market, 401 S. Broadway Ave., Boise, 208-287-4600, pedal4thepeople.org.

SHRINE CIRCUS—1 p.m. and 5 p.m. $7-$20. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, elkorahshrine.org/index.php/events/circus.

WALKABOUT BOISE HISTORIC DOWNTOWN WALKING TOUR—Join Preservation Idaho for a 1.5-hour guided walking tour through 150 years of history and architecture. Get starting location and details when you register or call 208-409-8282. 11 a.m. $10. Basque Block, Grove Street be-tween Capitol Boulevard and Sixth Street, Boise, 208-409-8282, preservationidaho.org.

WEST BOISE SATURDAY MAR-KET—10 a.m.-2 p.m. FREE. Art Zone 208, 3113 N. Cole Road, Boise. 208-322-9464.

On Stage

BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: COUNTRY BOYS—8 p.m. $15. First Presbyterian Church, 950 W. State St., Boise, 208-345-3441, boisemenschorus.org.

BOISE MUSIC FESTI-VAL—Enjoy a full day of national recording artists

and local bands performing a variety of genres; plus food, beer and wine vendor booths, carnival rides a kids’ area and more. 10 a.m.-10 p.m. $29-$125. Expo Idaho 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650. boisemusic-festival.com.

COMEDIAN STEVEN BRIGGS—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $10-$12. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

COMEDYSPORTZ IMPROV—7:30 p.m. $5-$10. ComedySportz Boise, 4619 Emerald St., Boise, 208-991-4746, boisecomedy.com.

ISF: LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST—8 p.m. $20-$27. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

ODD SATURDAYS IMPROV COMEDY SHOW—7:30-9:15 p.m. $6-$8, $25 Family Pack. Treasure Valley Children’s Theater, 703 N. Main St., Meridian, 208-991-4476.

RECYCLED MINDS IMPROV JAM AND A LA CARTE—Yuck it up as comics Sean Hancock, Austin Von Johnson, Steve Halvorson and Jon Buffington pull jokes out of thin air based on your suggestions, then hop on stage yourself for Boise’s Improv Jam. Hancock teaches some basic improv principles as you play and take back the license to be a kid again. All ages welcome and encouraged. 8 p.m. $5-$10. The Hub, 1408 State St., Boise. recycledmindscomedy.com.

Literature

AUTHOR MEREDITH FERN MESSINGER—Visit with the local author of 7% Chance of Sunshine. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. FREE. Rediscov-ered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

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Sports & Fitness

27TH ANNUAL MERIDIAN LIONS RODEO—Check out all the professional rodeo action at this annual event, which has moved its traditional dates to be a part of Meridian Dairy Days. 5 p.m. $7-$10. Meridian Lions Rodeo Park, Corner of McDermott and Cherry Lane, Meridian, meridian-lions.org.

DANIEL DOPPS MEMO-RIAL RAM PRCA RODEO—7:30 p.m.FREE-$10. Optimist Park-Mountain Home, Elmcrest and Fifth Ave. N., Mountain Home. 3drodeo.org.

Odds & Ends

NIGHT FROM THE ALHAMBRA—Join Idaho DanceSport for a night of ballroom dancing. 6:45 p.m.-1 a.m. $12 adv., $15 door. El Korah Shrine Center, 1118 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-345-2269.

Animals & Pets


PET-A-PALOOZA 2016—The Boise Police Depart-ment K9 Foundation and

Moonsong Malamute Rescue present K9 demonstrations, games, contests and more. Pets on a leash welcome. 11 a.m.-3 p.m. FREE. Julia Davis Park, 700 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, pet-a-palooza.com.

Food

HUSTON VINEYARDS FARM TO TABLE DINNER—Savor locally grown food prepared by Chef Aaron Horsewood, paired with a selection of Huston wines. 6 p.m. $95-$100. Huston Vineyards, 16473 Chicken Dinner Road, Caldwell, hustonvineyards.com. 208-860-2973.

SUNDAYJUNE 26Festivals & Events

SHRINE CIRCUS—1 p.m. and 5 p.m. $7-$20. CenturyLink Arena, 233 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-8497, elkorahshrine.org.

On Stage

COMEDIAN STEVEN BRIGGS—8 p.m. $10. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

ISF: LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST—7 p.m. $20-$27. Idaho

Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

SUMMERFIELD: BOS-TON 40TH ANNIVERSA-RY TOUR—Expect to hear

all the classic songs, along with a unique visual stage presenta-tion and plenty of extra-terrestrial sounds heard nowhere else on earth. 6:30 p.m. $40-$500. Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glen-wood St., Garden City, 208-322-5000, summerfieldconcerts.com.

Animals & Pets


Food

FOOTHILLS CIDER FOR THE FOOTHILLS—Stop by Meriwether Cider on Sundays to enjoy their Foothills Semi-Dry Cider, and $1 of every purchase benefits Ridge to Rivers programs. 2-6 p.m. FREE. Meriwether Cider Co., 5242 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-972-6725, ridgetoriv-ers.org.

MONDAYJUNE 27On Stage

STORY STORY LATE-NIGHT SUMMER ‘16: ROCK, PAPER, SCIS-

SORS—Watch raucous entertain-ment unfold in the heat of the night. Hosted by Jessica Holmes and Co., with DJ Stardust Lounge. Full bar, 21+ only. June 27, ROCK: And a Hard Place Stories. July 25, PAPER: Stories of Pulp, Paydays & Pulling One Over Aug. 29, SCIS-SORS: Hard-Edged Slice of Life Stories. 8 p.m. $12. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, storystory-night.org.

Sports & Fitness

MONDAY EVENING SUP YOGA—Idaho SUP Yoga classes bring your mind, body and spirit together while enjoying the serenity of the outdoors. Doing yoga postures on a paddle board brings in a whole other element of balance. Your full attention is needed, so it keeps you mindful and present. Price includes a complete SUP package including board, paddle and PFD. Classes held on Quinn’s Pond at Idaho River Sports. 7-8 p.m. $37. Idaho River Sports, 601 Whitewater Park Blvd., Boise, 208-336-4844, idahoriversports.com.

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Food

KEGS 4 KAUSE: BOISE CHORUS-ES—Enjoy your

favorite Payette brew and help raise funds for Boise Men’s and Women’s Choruses, with 50 percent of all beer sales donated to the LGBT singing groups. 5-10 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing River Street Taproom, 733 S. Pioneer St., Boise, 208-344-0011, boisemen-schorus.org.

TUESDAYJUNE 28Festivals & Events

ANNE FRANK HUMAN RIGHTS MEMORIAL TOURS—Join docents for

free 45-minute guided tours of the Anne Frank Human Rights Memo-rial every Tuesday, through October. Meet at the statue of Anne Frank in the Memorial. No reservation required. For all ages. 12:15 p.m. FREE. Anne Frank Human Rights

Memorial, 777 S. Eighth St., Boise. 208-345-0304, wassmuthcenter.org/events.

On Stage

COMEDY SHOWCASE—8 p.m. $5. Liquid Lounge, 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-941-2459, liquidboise.com.

HOMEGROWN THEATRE: BLIP READING SERIES—Homegrown Theatre

presents BLiP: Plays in a BLiP of Time, a monthly reading series that features work by local playwrights on the last Tuesday of the month. A talkback with the playwright and actors will follow the reading. June 28: The Dog Days of Summer 10-Minute Play Festival; July 26: SHOUT, SHOW, SHOVE, SHOOT by Evan Sesek; Aug. 30: Ladies First by Joe Golden; Sept. 27: Horrific Puppet Affair preview. 7 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org/event/blip-reading-series-0.

MR. X, MASTER MAGICIAN—Prepare yourself for fun, mystery, audience participation, mystifying magic and hilarious silliness. For all

ages. 2 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org/lakehazel.

Workshops & Classes

BOISE CO-OP COOKING CLASS: THE BEST OF THE WÜRST (AND BEER)—Join Wayne Elias and Brian Golden for an evening of sausage and beer. This class will include a segment on principles of pairing beer with sweet/spicy/savory food, a sausage-making demo and a beer brat recipe for you to try at home. Get tickets at the register or online at boise.coop/classes. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Boise Co-op The Village, 2350 N. Eagle Road, Meridian. boise.coop/classes.

FAIRY GARDENS—Make a minia-ture garden, complete with furnish-ings for your teeny tiny garden guests. Take a garden container not more than 12 inches wide or 5 inches deep. 6-8 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library Victory Branch, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181. adalib.org/victory/events.

Sports & Fitness

BOISE HAWKS VS. EUGENE EMERALDS—7:15 p.m. $7-$20. Memorial Stadium, 5600 N. Glen-wood St., Garden City, 208-322-5000, boisehawks.com.

Citizen

TUESDAY DINNER—Volunteers needed to help cook up a warm dinner for Boise’s homeless and needy population, and clean up af-terward. Event is nondenomination-al. 4:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. Immanuel Lutheran Church, 707 W. Fort St., Boise, 208-344-3011.

Odds & Ends

FLYING M TRIVIA NIGHT—Enjoy a spirited competition filled with your favorite music between questions. Prizes include a $30 Flying M gift card for first place, $20 for second, and $10 for third. Produced by Last Call USA. 7 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage, 1314 Second St. S., Nampa, 208-467-5533.

Food

TASTY TALES WITH REDISCOV-ERED BOOKS—Join Rediscovered Books every Tuesday morning for stories, donuts and fun. The book-sellers will be down at Guru Do-nuts reading their favorite picture books. If you can’t make it right on time, don’t worry. They’ll have a second storytime for latecomers. 10 a.m. FREE. Guru Donuts, 204 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise. 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org/tasty-tales-storytime-guru-donuts.

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Schedule is subject to change.VOL. 32, NO. 3

Opens June 24Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman, Laura Linney, Guy Pearce and Dominic West star in this biography of legendary book editor Maxwell Perkins, who edited Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway. Based on the book by A. Scott Berg; it was directed by Michael Grandage from a screenplay by John Logan (Hugo, Skyfall,The Aviator).

Opens June 24Set in a mining village in Wales, writer/director Louise Osmond tells the true story of a group of working class friends who decide to take up the sport of kings. They breed a foal and train him to be a champion.

“The special appeal of “Dark Horse” is that it’s about many more things, all of them fascinating,

than its starting point would suggest.” JOE MORGENSTERN, Wall Street Journal

Opens July 1From the novel by John le Carre,’ this spy drama centers on a British couple (Ewan McGregor and Naomie Harris) on holiday in Marrakesh who are approached by a Russian (Stellan Skarsgard) who asks them to deliver a message to the British Secret Service. Directed by Susanna White.

Opens July 8Brian De Palma candidly discusses the craft of filmmaking, working with actors and navigating the business of Hollywood. His eclectic career beginning in the 1960’s is explored in this documentary by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow.

“Steered by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, Brian De Palma holds court in a delightful, illuminating career reflection.”

GUY LODGE, Variety

Opens July 8Documentarian Alex Gibney was nominated for an Academy Award for Enron, The Smartest Guys in the Room (2006) and won that award for Taxi to the Dark Side (2008). His latest is an expose about Stuxnet, a cyber-attack on Iran’s nuclear program. Not Rated.

“…a white-knuckle nonfiction thriller …”

Opens July 15Yo-Yo Ma and The Silk Road Ensemble explore the power of music to inspire hope and preserve tradition in this documentary by Academy Award winning filmmaker Morgan Neville (20 Feet From Stardom.)

“The closer the documentary gets to individual musicians and their histories, the

more engaging it becomes.” DAVID D’ARCY, Screen International

Opens July 29A survivalist (Viggo Mortensen) who is raising his six children in the woods of the Pacific Northwest finds they do not fare as well in society when they have to leave their utopia. Matt Ross directs; Frank Langella, Ann Dowd and Steve Zahn co-star.

“Finely wrought and inventive.” Guardian

Opens July 22Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley star as the fabulous Edina and Patsy who depart for the French Riviera with paparazzi on their heels after they cause trouble at a London party. Mandie Fletcher directs from the screenplay by Saunders.


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award winning Romeo and Juliet starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Clare Danes. Richard Klautsch – Theatre Arts Department chair and Idaho Shakespeare Festival actor will lead a Q & A after the film. $7 Tickets are available in advance and at the door.

Special Event Hosted by Agency for New AmericansSEPTEMBER 8

At 7:00 PM on September 8th we will present an awareness and fundraising film event for this non-profit organization that does so much to help refugees that have settled in Idaho to become self-sufficient. Film and ticket information will be available on www.anaidaho.org and theflicksboise.com.


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Opens July 29or August 5Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell and Blake Lively star in this romantic comedy set in 1930’s Hollywood by writer/director Woody Allen. Legendary Academy Award winning cinematographer Vittorio Storaro creates a nostalgic glow.

“A small fiction of amiable appeal and vibrancy which goes down as

easily as a fizzy cocktail.” TODD MCCARTHY, Hollywood Reporter

August 5Award winning director Anne Fontaine (Coco Before Chanel) presents this powerful drama based on a true story. In1945 Warsaw a young Red Cross doctor is summoned to a convent to help a nun through childbirth. Lou de Laage stars. In French with English subtitles.

“A must-see film! Expansive, complex and subtly subversive.”

- Christianity Today

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August 12Set in 1951, this drama based on the novel by Philip Roth is about a brilliant, working class student from Newark on a scholarship to an Ohio college who hopes to avoid being drafted for the Korean War. Screenwriter James Schamus (Sense and Sensibility) directs; Logan Lerman and Sarah Gadon star.

“…exquisitely wrought.” DAVID ROONEY, Hollywood Reporter

Opens August 12New Zealand director Taika Waititi (What We Do in the Shadows) hits it out of the park again with this hilarious adventure tale based on the book by Barry Crump. Sam Neill and Julian Dennison star as a kid and his foster father who go on the run rather than let the authorities ship the boy back to the city.

“Hunt for the Wilderpeople is a comical, soul-searching tale from the bush that delights

around every leaf-covered turn.”MATT DONATO, We Got This Covered

Eat ThatQuestionOpens August 19Rare archival concert footage and interviews highlight director Thorsten Schutte’s documentary about the provocative performer, writer and musical genius. A must-see hit from Sundance 2016.

“Zappa’s prickly demeanor is on full display, and it’s to Schütte’s credit that he finds what Zappa doesn’t say as illuminating as what he does.”

SEAN MEANS, Salt lake Tribune

Frank Zappa in His Own Words

Opens August 19Director Werner Herzog explores the impact of the internet on our lives in this playful and revealing

documentary.

“Represents the latest of Herzog’s heady explorations of what it means to be human.”

JUSTIN CHANG, Variety

Opens August 26Writer/director Ira Sachs (Love is Strange) brings us a wonderful buddy movie about two precocious young teens (Theo Taplitz, Michael Barbieri) hoping to make it into LaGuardia High School for the Arts and trying to ignore the problems of their parents. Greg Kinnear, Jennifer Ehle, Alfred Molina and Paulina Garcia also star.

“A deceptively small movie that sneaks up and slays you with its emotional authenticity.”

DAVID ROONEY, The Hollywood Reporter

Opens August 26Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda (Like Father Like Son) has created a delightful story about three sisters who travel to the countryside for the funeral of their estranged father. They then take their shy half-sister under their wings. Based on the graphic novel Umimachi Diary by Akimi Yoshida. In Japanese with English subtitles.

“An intimate, warm embrace of a film.” DAVE CALHOUN, Time Out


Stellan Skarsgard stars in this Norwegian thriller-comedy about justice. When his teenaged son dies of a reported drug overdose, the father makes sure his son’s good name is restored by finding his killers. Bruno Ganz co-stars; Hans Peter Moland directs. Subtitled in English.

“A delightfully droll tale of bloody revenge.” MARK ADAMS, Screen International

An investment banker (Anna Gunn) after being passed over for a promotion at her Wall Street firm, tries to take a start-up public to rise to the top. James Purefoy, Sarah Megan Thomas and Alysia Reiner co-star for director Meera Menon.

“Meera Menon’s soph feature puts a welcome feminine spin on the financial-crisis drama.”

GUY LODGE, Variety

John Krasinski, who also directs, plays a cartoonist who returns to his home town with his pregnant girlfriend to see his ailing mother. Anna Kendrick and Margo Martindale co-star.

“Charming.” Screen International

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Naomi Watts stars as the mother of a genius (Jacob Tremblay) who is writing a book about a plan to help the girl next door who is being abused. Maddie Ziegler, Lee Pace and Sarah Silverman also star. Colin Trevorrow (Safety Not Guaranteed) directs from a script by novelist Gregg Hurwitz.

The Book of Henry

Coming SoonThe setting is 17th century Amsterdam where a painter (Dane DeHaan) falls in love with the married subject of his latest portrait (Alicia Vikander). Christoph Waltz, Judi Dench, Tom Hollander and Jack O’Connell co-star for Justin Chadwick. Tom Stoppard adapted the novel by Deborah Moggach.

T u l i p F e v e r

Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays the decade’s most controversial American in this thriller directed and co-written by Oliver Stone. Hailed as a hero by some and a traitor by others, you won’t want to miss the untold story of this politically charged figure. Shailene Woodley, Tom Wilkinson, Zachary Qunito, Rhys Ifans and Melissa Leo co-star.

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CLUMSY LOVERS, JUNE 22In the 23 years since Vancouver, BC-based quintet Clumsy Lov-

ers released its first album, the “bluesgrassified Celtic rock” band has racked up more than 2,500 shows. Aaron Harmonson (bass), Jason Homey (banjo, mandolin), Chandra Johnson (fiddle, vocals), Devin Rice (drums) and Trevor Rogers (vocals, guitar) have drawn heaps of praise from critics and listeners alike, who all agree: the Lovers’ sound is infectious.

On the band’s most recent album, Make Yourself Known (self released, 2009), listeners are treated to nitrous-fueled hootenanny tunes, bouncy folk-pop and laid-back toe tappers perfect for sashay-ing along the promenade. So if you’re looking for a tears-in-your-beer, sadster indie folk act, you’re looking in the wrong place.

—Zach Hagadone

With Deviant Kin, 5 p.m., FREE. Basque Block, Grove Street between Capitol Boulevard and Sixth Street, downtownboise.org.

WEDNESDAYJUNE 22ALIVE AFTER FIVE: CLUMSY LOVERS—With Deviant Kin. 5 p.m. FREE. Basque Block

BIG BUSINESS—With Andy The Doorbum. 7 p.m. $12 adv., $14 door. Neurolux BPL SUMMER FEST CONCERT SERIES: MARIMBA BOISE—7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library

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

COUNTRY CLUB—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow Brewhouse

DOUGLAS CAMERON—7:30 p.m. FREE. Piper

ELISE NICOLE—8 p.m. FREE. Reef

THE INVADERS—7 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s

JEFF CROSBY AND JAMIE LIN WILSON—7 p.m. $7. The Local

JEREMY STEWART—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LAKE AND 2X2—With The Very Most. 7 p.m. FREE. The Olympic

PAMELA DEMARCHE TRIO—6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

TOM TAYLOR—10 p.m. FREE. Varsity

TYLOR AND THE TRAIN ROB-BERS—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

WILSON ROBERTS—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

THURSDAYJUNE 23A.K.A. BELLE I HEAR IT NOW RELEASE PARTY—6:30 p.m. FREE. The Record Exchange

BEN BURDICK TRIO WITH AMY ROSE—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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

GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: SONO FUEGO—6:30 p.m. $6-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden

JEREMY STEWART—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

KLEINER PARK LIVE: SOUL PATCH—5:30 p.m. FREE. Kleiner Park

RYAN WISSINGER—10 p.m. FREE. Varsity

SEAN HATTON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

ZACH FORSMAN—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

FRIDAYJUNE 24ANDY BYRON AND FRIENDS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

BILL RECTOR—8 p.m. FREE. Piper

BLAZE AND KELLY—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: COUN-TRY BOYS—8 p.m. $15. First Presbyterian Church, Boise

BRETT WELTY BAND—10 p.m. $5. Reef

CHUCK SMITH AND CLAY MOORE—5:30 p.m. FREE. Ber-ryhill

THE DANCING PLAGUE OF 1518—8 p.m. $5. Flying M Cof-feegarage

FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

HWY. 30 MUSIC FEST—Enjoy two days of live music by 21 bands. 11 a.m. $50-$80. Twin Falls County Fairgrounds

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

LYNN TREDEAU: A NEW DREAM—7 p.m. FREE. Welch Music Center

OLD DEATH WHISPER—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

THE OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND MOSQUITOES—7 p.m. FREE. High Note

PLAGUE VENDOR AND THE GARDEN—With Kim and The Created. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

RIPCHAIN—With Fault Paradox, We Were Giants, Order Through Chaos, and Time 4 Change. 7 p.m. $6-$12. Knitting Factory

ROB HARDING—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

SHON SANDERS AND DANIEL JUMP—6 p.m. FREE. Courtyard by Marriott Boise West-Meridian

SMOOTH AVENUE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye-Cole

STE. CHAPELLE WINERY AFTER-HOURS—6 p.m. $10. Ste. Chapelle

UNCLE CHRIS—6 p.m. FREE. Meriwether Cider

THE VERTIGO—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s

SATURDAYJUNE 25BLAZE AND KELLY—8 p.m. FREE. WilliB’s

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BOISE MEN’S CHORUS: COUN-TRY BOYS—8 p.m. $15. First Presbyterian Church, Boise

BOISE MUSIC FESTIVAL—10 a.m.-10 p.m. $29-$125. Expo Idaho

BOISE ROCK SCHOOL—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District

BREAD AND CIRCUS AND JUPITER HOLIDAY—

BRENT MARCHBANKS—7 p.m. FREE. High Note

BROOK FAULK BAND—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

BUCKSKIN—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye-Fairview

CHUCK SMITH TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

CYMRY—11 a.m. FREE. Canyon County Co-op, Nampa

DAVE MANION AND BERNIE REILLY—5 p.m. FREE. Bar 365

DJ STARDUST LOUNGE—11 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

DOOBIOUS COBB—9 p.m. FREE. Bodovino

FRANK MARRA—5:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

HWY. 30 MUSIC FEST—11 a.m. $50-$80. Twin Falls County Fairgrounds

JEREMY PARRISH—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

MIKE CRAMER—11 a.m. FREE. Sandbar

NICK WALKER’S ACID GUIDE SERVICE—With Lord Master and Get Wet. 7 p.m. $5. Neurolux

OLD DEATH WHISPER—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

POKE—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

REVEREND OTIS—With Spike Coggins, Atlas Novus, and The Honey Shivers. 8 p.m. $6-$12. Knitting Factory

REX MILLER AND RICO WEIS-MAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

ROB HARDING AND CLAY MOORE—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

ROOFTOP REVOLUTION: A BEATLES TRIBUTE—7:30 p.m. $20-$15 adv., $15-$20 door. Sapphire

SHON SANDERS—8 p.m. FREE. Piper

SPACE CADETS AND THE 4 SKIN FIVE—10 p.m. $5. Reef

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TOGETHER PANGEA—With Patsy’s Rats. 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux

WENDY MATSON—11 a.m. FREE. Sandbar

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A.K.A. BELLE, JUNE 23, THE RECORD EXCHANGEYou can’t make this stuff up: In the 1980s, A.K.A. Bellelead

singer Catherine Merrick played in bands with Doug Martsch and Curtis Stigers in the 1980s. She lived in Manchester, England, for several years, performing as Belle of Les Bois. BBC called her mu-sic “genuinely beautiful.” Lead guitarist Sam Merrick played with Los Angeles-based hard rock band The Nymphs, which signed to Geffen Records in 1989. After the group broke up, his bandmates went on to perform with artists like Jeff Buckley and Iggy Pop.

Despite the different paths their lives took, the two Idaho na-tives both returned to Boise. They married and formed a.k.a. Belle, and the couple’s country tunes, jazzy swing, raw guitar and sultry vocals have been a welcome part of the local scene. The release of a.k.a. Belle’s new EP, I Hear It Now—which features guitar work by Brett Netson—should make for an exciting new chapter.

—Ben Schultz

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HOUSEThe Green Zoo examines life’s absurdities through

The Adventures of Johnny Nihilist

BEN SCHULTZ

Back in 2011, College of Idaho student Thomas Newby assembled a group of musicians to record an album he’d written for his senior project. He hadn’t yet come up with a name for the project, though.

“I don’t know about you… but names are the worst,” Newby said. “It’s like nothing’s ever perfect.”

Eventually, he found inspiration in “In the Green Zoo,” a Polish song performed by Basia Bulat.

“It starts out as a sort of love song between these two lovers going to the zoo and checking out the monkeys,” he said. “It’s just kind of a nice, romantic love song, but at the end, the last lines are something like, ‘It’s great fun going to the zoo, but I’m not sure if we’re here to watch the monkeys or the monkeys are watching us.’”

In Newby’s mind, the uncertainty in those lyrics—as he put it, the question of “Which side of the bars are we on?”—suited his project, what would become The Green Zoo’s first album, Crow Songs: An Auditory Exploration of Exis-tential Themes (self-released, 2011). The song’s balance of tenderness and pessimism also fits the band’s sophomore effort, The Adventures of Johnny Nihilist (self-released, 2016), which The Green Zoo will celebrate with a release party on Fri-day, June 24 at Visual Arts Collective—local post-rock bands Red Hands Black Feet and The Western Mystics open the show.

The Adventures of Johnny Nihilist, which Northwest Music Scene praised for its “masterful use of a variety of musical styles and techniques,” tells the story of an angry young intellectual who falls in love with a girl. He settles down and sheds some of his misanthropic tendencies but when she dies from unspecified reasons, he struggles to cope. The album ends with his resolve to carry on life

in spite of his sorrow. This kind of a story could easily turn cloying or maudlin but the detail, restraint and wry humor of Newby’s lyrics keep it grounded, as in “Coffee and Chamomile Tea”: “Now I’m a whore / With a perfect credit score, / But the way she looks at me / Leaves me com-ing back for more.”

Johnny Nihilist wouldn’t be nearly as effective without the music, though. Newby, drummer Kieran Padilla, bassist Jeff Young, keyboard-ist Anthony Perry and guitarists Mike Ward and Ricardo Osuna shift effortlessly between somber ballads and intricate, thunderous rock. The deft musicianship and broad range of styles

and moods would be enough to land the album on a list of this year’s best local releases—coupled with the narrative, it would definitely be near the top.

Someone who knows Newby might see a little something

of him in Johnny Nihilist’s protagonist, “I was a pretty antisocial kid,” he said. “I’m still rela-tively antisocial but better now.”

An interest in theater at a young age helped Newby connect with his peers.

“People have to talk to you because you’re

putting on a production,” he said. “And then you have to stand and say those lines in front of people, so it’s like forced interaction.”

Inspired by Samuel Beckett and other Theatre of the Absurd writers, Newby started writing his own plays. His songs share a sense of existential dread with Green Zoo Theatre productions like Child Killers (2015), which combines the stories of Abraham, Medea, real-life child murderer Susan Smith and a young office worker who discovers she’s pregnant.

“I always thought I was going to do theater professionally in some form or another, which we sort of have,” Newby said. “But the music is there. At this point, it’s all kind of folding into each other, which I’m really excited about.”

Newby’s interests extend beyond music and theater. The Green Zoo’s set at the release show will include a montage featuring Red Light Variety Show dancers Frankie McDonald and Aayla DuBois. He plans to film the show for a concert video and said The Green Zoo has other ideas in the hopper as well.

“One of the things we’re working on right now is a podcast,” he said. “A scripted, narra-tive, sitcom-style podcast that’s got really trippy, surreal imagery. There’s hipster robots and secret NAARP meetings where they decide how many women they’re going to allow on TV this year.”

One would expect nothing less from The Green Zoo.

Let The Green Zoo be your guide on The Adventures of Johnny Nihilist.

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Early on in Genius, an unexpected cinema ad-miration for all-things literary, a young girl peers over her father’s shoulder and sees a dense page of words with little punctuation or space.

“That’s a very long paragraph, daddy,” says the daughter.

“Yes, and it started four pages ago,” responds editor Max Perkins (Colin Firth).

It’s a funny albeit painful, example of the uneasy relationship between author—in this case, Thomas Wolfe (portrayed with potent vigor by Jude Law)—and editor. In another of Genius’ many scenes revealing that professional tension, Wolfe bursts into Perkins’ office and pronounces he has finished his latest book. Wolfe then ushers in two laborers, hauling a stacked-to-the-brim crate of handwritten pages. Moments later, a second crate comes in and then a third. Perkins’ anxiety builds because he knows all too well only he stands between this heap of Wolfe’s ramblings and a possible bestseller. Wolfe was always Perkins’ greatest challenge. The writer was notoriously undisciplined and uncompromisingly verbose, always thinking “more” meant “bet-ter.” Heaven help the editor who had to thrash

through Wolfe’s adjunct jungle, but it’s a fact that the rarely-heralded Perkins wielded his red pencil with the precision of a surgeon, from which literary classics emerged: The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway, Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton, From Here to Eternity by James Jones.

“You might want to read this one. Every other editor turned it down,” a colleague tells Perkins before dumping a huge manuscript on his desk.

“Is it any good?” asks Perkins.“No, but it’s unique.”

In Perkins’ adept hands, the original manuscript, O Lost, became Wolfe’s late-1920s literary sensation, Look Homeward, Angel.

Firth embodies Perkins in one of his better performances since his Oscar-winning turn in 2010’s The King’s Speech. Firth’s close-to-the-vest por-trayal of the enigmatic Perkins leaves us wanting more, like

his working relationships with Fitzgerald and Hemingway, for example, but Genius zeroes in on the Perkins-Wolfe tug-of-war. Wolfe saw Perkins—who had five daughters—as a father figure, but the editor’s role of a surrogate parent

caused serious friction in both men’s families. For Perkins, a lot of burden landed on the shoulders of his wife Louise, portrayed by the under-used Laura Linney. For Wolfe, his drama was a slap in the face to lover Aline Bernstein, portrayed by the overused Nicole Kidman, though Bernstein’s story is intriguing: She was a world-class stage designer, 18 years older than Wolfe, married and the mother of two, yet she chose to live in scandal and, to a large degree, in Wolfe’s shadow. There are a lot of scenes between Law and Kidman and, while it’s fun to see two gorgeous actors chewing up the scenery, the scenes are a bit of a waste and divert the audience from the much more compelling story of the writer-editor relationship.

Genius is a quintessential art-house movie. It celebrates intellectualism and features a particu-larly strong performance by Firth. It also provides a short but nice taste of Perkins’ relationships with F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, portrayed by Guy Pearce and Dominic West, respectively. Pearce is especially strong in his performance of a Caribbean-era Hemingway.

I highly recommend Genius. It looks great and honors the art of superior editing. After all, do you think only I wrote this review? To some degree, I did. But make no mistake, dear reader. This, too, has been ably edited.

Who’s the true genius? Editor extraordinaire Max Perkins (portrayed by Colin Firth, left) or Thomas Wolfe (portrayed by Jude Law, right)?

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Starring Colin Firth, Jude Law, Nicole Kidman and Laura Linney

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THE PAGE TURNER: GENIUS AT WORKColin Firth portrays an expert editor

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For Sharon Robinson, civil rights is the family business. The daughter of baseball great Jackie Robinson—the Brooklyn Dodgers second base-man who broke the color line in the 1940s—is the author of several books about her father, including children’s books. She visited Boise as part of a tour for her latest book, The Hero Two Doors Down, a story about what happens when Jackie Robinson moves into 8-year-old Dodg-ers fan Steven’s neighborhood.

You released a new book this January. How did you choose this story?

I grew up with this story of this year when my parents moved into this Jewish neighbor-hood in Brooklyn, and how my father and Steve [Satlow] became friends. It’s always been a part of my life, but it has all these great mo-ments that I just wanted to share with kids.

What was one of those moments?I asked Steve, “Can you tell me about a

trauma you had? Was it when the Dodgers left Brooklyn?” He said, “It was when my father died.” I didn’t remember that story, and that’s how I got the opening of my book.

Several of your books for young read-ers deal with the theme of absent fathers.

I was a single parent, and I raised my son without his father—his father was in his life, but he lived across the country. When [his father] would step into his life, how important it was to my son—that certainly played out. I was a nurse midwife, and I’ve heard that story played over and over.

Why this genre of literature? Why speak to young people?

I love answering their questions and helping them look through both sides of things. I had a school visit with our Breaking Barriers program I do with MLB and Scholastic. The kids had just seen the 42 movie, and one of the ques-tions was, “Why did your father let them bully him?” It was such a great discussion.

How do you feel about how your father has been depicted on screen?

I was never a fan of the 1950 version [The Jackie Robinson Story], and I came to under-stand that it was released during a time when if you were black and in the movies, you were in a subservient role. I didn’t get my father’s voice or his behavior in the film. When they were producing 42, my conversation with them was about showing them the importance of his character. This wasn’t a meek man who would just take injustice.

Did your father bring his activism home?

After he met Dr. King in 1963—and he discussed all of this at the dinner table—he came home and said, “I’ve been traveling South, and I want you to find work you love and keep family important, but we need to have a family mission, and that family mis-sion is going to be social justice issues.” It did launch a family mission which continues to this day.

There were news reports you had come out against Major League Baseball retiring Roberto Clemente’s jersey number, as it had also been your fa-ther’s number.

I did not come out—that was a misun-derstanding. I’m very supportive of anything [having to do with] Roberto Clemente. I was just explaining why the commissioner had taken that stance. I called the Clementes. They get it. They know. I wouldn’t deny him any honor whatsoever.

How do you think your father would have responded to current events like those in Ferguson, Mo.?

He’d be out there in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and very vocal on it. He’d be writing a column, talking to people. He’d be a 97-year-old man, but in his heart, that’s where he’d be.

SHARON ROBINSON

Jackie Robinson’s daughter on the legend and his legacy

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after London29 ___ vu30 Food item a cook might flip32 Prescription pain

medication35 Nos. in a directory37 Look for38 Several, in Seville40 Cool with what others are

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an artist?47 Batman villain51 What Mississippi

cheerleaders ask for a lot52 How you might do

something gross53 Cagney or Lacey: Abbr.54 Daughter of

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from Indiana61 More yang than yin: Abbr.62 Monetary bribes, in slang64 What a star probably has65 N.R.A. piece?: Abbr.68 Artist’s favorite Broadway

musical?70 Revival meeting miracles

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72 Atlantean superhero of DC Comics

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the Vampire Slayer”76 Vista opener?77 Roman of film81 Michigan college82 ___ generis83 Part of an umpire’s count86 Put in writing87 Parts of an orrery89 Artist’s expression for “Such

is life”?92 Easter purchase93 Worth all the hype, as a film94 Snorkeling aids95 “Tsk!”98 Finger99 Cuts some slack103 “Zero Dark Thirty” locale105 Castaway’s construction107 Rough position?108 Sedona maker111 The Roman way112 How the expert artist

passed her exam?116 “The Cosby Show” boy117 Last word in the Torah118 Rain man?119 Inclination120___ Club121 River that “sweats oil and

tar” in T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land”

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Wars” saga2 What’s big at the movies?3 Like old unrecyclable bottles4 Certain Jaguar5 Pre-exam feeling, maybe6 Playground retort7 South Korea’s ___ Tae Woo8 Buffet cabinet9 Key of Schubert’s “Trout”

Quintet: Abbr.10 Bronze11 Topper12 Ancient

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14 “Good point”15 Artist’s line of weary

resignation?16 “On This Night of a

Thousand Stars” musical17 Capone’s top henchman18 Wintry mix24 Flawed, as mdse.25 Party host’s convenience31 Reposed33 “Laborare ___ orare”

(Freemasons’ motto)34 What Morehouse College

lacks36 Before, poetically38 Home of Kings Peak39 Little muchacho41 What the tipsy artist had at

the bar?42 Liz of “Garfield,” e.g.44 Pay to cross town, maybe45 First chimp to orbit Earth46 Pay to cross town, maybe47 Pop icon?48 “The Odd Couple” role49 Daft50 “Phooey!”53 Gauntlet thrower’s

challenge56 What the artist confused

people with?58 Norse source for Loki lore59 Dash60 Dairy consumer’s enzyme62 Erotic63 Good wife in “The Good

Earth”65 Org. protecting music

copyrights66 “Congress ___ make no

law …”67 Actress Hayek69 Prefix with poise

74 Pain and suffering77 “Gay” capital78 Summer lawn sight79 New Jersey’s ___ University80 QB mistakes: Abbr.82 Holy mlle.84 Turn to bone85 Apiarist’s woe88 Watchful ones?89 Holy city of Iran90 Access charge, of a sort91 Debatable sighting93 Words to live by95 Blurts (out)96 ___ yoga97 Arabic name meaning

“wise”98 J. Carrol ___,

Oscar nominee for “Sahara”

100 Phycologist’s study101 Some templegoers102 Pro vote104 Birdbrain106 “___ fair …”109 Discoveries of Michael

Faraday110 Regarding113 Easter purchase114 ___’easter115 “Boardwalk Empire”

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These pets can be adopted at the Idaho Humane Society.

www.idahohumanesociety.com4775 W. Dorman St. Boise | 208-342-3508

CLARK: 5-year-old, male, Chihuahua. Mellow, loves to be a lap dog. Walks well on a leash for short strolls. Would do best as the only dog in the home. (Kennel 319 – #31812375)

JAKE: 13-year-old, male, tricolor beagle. Would be a perfect mellow buddy. Social guy, enjoys meeting new people and dogs. (Kennel 304 – #25150396)

MARLEY: 7-year-old, male, Labrador retriever mix. Strong and energetic. Needs a responsible, car-ing family. Best with older children or teens. (Kennel 324 – #31531096)

BELLA: 9-year-old, female, domestic shorthair. Sweet senior girl. Will roll over and purr when she’s get-ting some attention. Loves feather toys. (Kennel 26 – #12186945)

PERSEPHONE: 1-year-old, female, domestic longhair. A little shy at first, but warms up quickly. Will need to spend the night to be spayed. (Kennel 3 – #31871156)

TOBY: 1-year-old, male, domestic shorthair. Came to the shelter as a stray. Loves to explore and play. (PetSmart Everyday Adoption Center – #31227135)

These pets can be adopted at Simply Cats.

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DAKOTA: My favorite things are snuggling people and playing with toys, in that order.

ROWDY: Gentle giant with beautiful mesmer-izing eyes, ready to steal your heart.

PINKIE: Polite and calm gentleman waiting to charm my way into your home.


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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “The past lives on in art and memo-ry,” writes author Margaret Drabble, “but it is not static: it shifts and changes as the present throws its shadow backwards.” That’s a fertile thought for you to meditate on dur-ing the coming weeks, Aries. Why? Because your history will be in a state of dramatic fermentation. The old days and the old ways will be mutating every which way. I hope you will be motivated, as a result, to rework the story of your life with flair and verve. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Critics of text-messaging are wrong to think it’s a regressive form of communication,” writes poet Lily Akerman. “It demands so much concision, subtlety, psychological art—in fact, it’s more like pulling puppet strings than writing.” I bring this thought to your attention, Taurus, because in my opinion the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to apply the metaphor of text-messaging to pretty much everything you do. You will create interesting ripples of success as you practice the crafts of concision, subtlety, and psychological art. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During my careers as a writer and musician, many “experts” have advised me not to be so damn faithful to my muse. Having artistic integrity is a foolish indulgence that would ensure my eternal poverty,

they have warned. If I want to be successful, I’ve got to sell out; I must water down my unique message and pay homage to the generic formulas favored by celeb-rity artists. Luckily for me, I have ignored the experts. As a result, my soul has thrived and I eventually earned enough money from my art to avoid starvation. But does my path apply to you? Maybe; maybe not. What if, in your case, it would be better to sell out a little and be, say, just 75 percent faithful to your muse? The next 12 months will be an excellent time for you to figure this out once and for all.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My meditations have generated six metaphorical scenarios that will symbolize the contours of your life story during the next 15 months: 1. a claustrophobic tunnel that leads to a sparkling spa; 2. a 19th-century Victorian vase filled with 13 fresh wild orchids; 3. an immi-grant who, after tenacious effort, receives a green card from her new home country; 4. an 11-year-old child capably playing a 315-year-old Stradivarius violin; 5. a menopaus-al empty-nester who falls in love with the work of an ecstatic poet; 6. a humble seeker who works hard to get the help necessary to defeat an old curse.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Joan Wasser is a Leo singer-songwriter who is known by her

stage name Joan As Police Woman. In her song “The Magic,” she repeats one of the lyric lines 14 times: “I’m looking for the magic.” For two reasons, I propose that we make that your mantra in the coming weeks. First, practical business-as-usual will not provide the uncanny transformative power you need. Nor will rational analy-sis or habitual formulas. You will have to conjure, dig up or track down some real magic. My second reason for suggesting “I’m looking for the magic” as your mantra is this: You’re not yet ripe enough to secure the magic, but you can become ripe enough by being dogged in your pursuit of it.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Renowned martial artist Bruce Lee described the opponent he was most wary of: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” In my astrological opinion, you should regard that as one of your keystone principles during the next 12 months. Your power and glory will come from honing one specific skill, not experimenting restlessly with many different skills. And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to set your intention.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): To celebrate my birthday, I’m tak-ing time off from dreaming up original thoughts and creative

spurs. For this horoscope, I’m bor-rowing some of the BOLD Laws of author Dianna Kokoszka. They are in sweet alignment with your astrological omens for the next 13 months. Take it away, Dianna. 1. Focus on the solution, not the problem. 2. Complaining is a gar-bage magnet. 3. What you focus on expands. 4. Do what you have always done, and you will get what you have always gotten. 5. Don’t compare your insides to other people’s outsides. 6. Success is simple, but not easy. 7. Don’t listen to your drunk monkey. 8. Clarity is power. 9. Don’t mistake movement for achievement. 10. Spontaneity is a conditioned reflex. 11. People will grow into the conversations you create around them. 12. How you participate here is how you partici-pate everywhere. 13. Live your life by design, not by default.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): No pressure, no diamond. No grit, no pearl. No cocoon, no butterfly. All these cliches will be featured themes for you during the next 12 months. But I hope you will also come up with fresher ways to think about the power and value that can be generated by tough assign-ments. If you face your exotic dilemmas and unprecedented riddles armed with nothing more than your culture’s platitudes, you won’t be able to tap into the untamed creativity necessary to turn problems into opportunities.

Here’s an example of the kind of original thinking you’ll thrive on: The more the growing chamomile plant is trodden upon, the faster it grows.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The royal courts of Renaissance England often employed profes-sional fools whose job it was to speak raw or controversial truths with comedic effect. According to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Queen Elizabeth once castigated her fool for being “insufficiently severe with her.” The modern-day ombudsman has some similarities to the fool’s function. He or she is hired by an organization to inves-tigate complaints lodged by the public against the organization. Now would be an excellent time for you to have a fool or ombudsman in your own sphere, Sagittarius. You’ve got a lot of good inklings, but some of them need to be edited, critiqued, or perhaps even satirized.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn journalist Katie Couric is a best-selling author who has interviewed five American presi-dents and had prominent jobs at three major TV networks. What’s her secret to success? She has testified that her goal is to be as ingratiating and charming as she can be without causing herself to throw up. I don’t often recommend this strategy for you, but I do now.

The coming weeks will be prime time for you to expand your web of connections and energize your relationships with existing allies by being almost too nice. To get what you want, use politeness as your secret weapon.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The water cannot talk without the rocks,” says aphorist James Richardson. Does that sound like a metaphor you’d like to celebrate in the coming weeks? I hope so. From what I can tell, you will be like a clean, clear stream rippling over a rocky patch of river bed. The not-really-all-that-bad news is that your flow may feel erratic and jerky. The really good news is that you will be inspired to speak freely, articulately, and with creative zing.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every now and then you may ben-efit from being a bit juvenile, even childlike. You can release your dor-mant creativity by losing your adult composure and indulging in free-form play. In my astrological opin-ion, this is one of those phases for you. It’s high time to lose your cool in the best possible ways. You have a duty to explore the frontiers of spontaneity and indulge in I-don’t-give-a-cluck exuberance. For the sake of your peace-of-soul and your physical health, you need to wriggle free of at least some of your grown-up responsibilities so you can romp and cavort and frolic.

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IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF

IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Caleb Thomas Atwood. Legal Name of child Case No. CV NC 1608862NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME

CHANGE (Minor) A Petition to change the name of

Caleb Thomas Atwood, now re-siding 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 Caleb Mackenzie Atwood. The reason for the change in name is: Caleb prefers this new name. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on July 19, 2016 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: May 16, 2016. CHRISTOPHER D. RICH, CLERK

OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: DEIDRE PRICE, Deputy Clerk

PUB June 1,8,15, 22, 2016.IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE FOURTH

JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA

IN RE: Nicole Katheryn Scown. Legal Name

Case No. CV NC 1609076 NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME

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A Petition to change the name of Nicole Katheryn Scown, now re-siding 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 Finnian Kristopher Scown. The reason for the change in name is: I’ve never preferred or used my legal name and the name I’ve used for a year is what I want to change it to. A hearing on the petition is scheduled for 130 o’clock p.m. on July 19, 2016 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: May 19, 2016. CLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURT By: CHRISTOPHER D. RICH Clerk of the district court.

Deirdre Price Deputy ClerkPUB June 10, 17, 24 and July 1,

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Free to good home: think Abercrom-bie and fitch model with a little less aber and none of the fitch. But seriously, I’m a good looking guy and just bored out here in my cage. If you love to laugh hit me up, Charles Reed Walters #76805, ISCI PO Box 14 Boise, ID 83707. And if you’re Megan, hit me up! I’ve been trying to get a hold of you like a crazy person Megan!

People change!! I’m Available!! Looking for a friend maybe more 30 year old blond hair, blue eyes, female. I lost myself along the way but am stronger now more than ever. Love the outdoors, hunting, fishing, and also cozy nights on the couch. Been through some hard time and I’m getting back up. I’d love a friend, pen pal, just anyone real!! Willing to relocate. Please contact me Adina Ahlers 1451 Fore Rd Pocatello, ID 83204.

I’m a 33yr old kinky Hispanic woman who is currently incarcer-ated. I’m 5’5 dark brown eyes, dark brown hair, with multiple tattoos. If your interested in knowing more please write: Adriana Dominguez #106572 Unit 1 1451 Fore Rd Po-catello, ID 83204.

Single white female 35 looking for someone to write to me at south Boise woman’s correction center. I have blond hair w/ blq blue eyes a big heart love to laugh, and have a good time. I’m just hoping for a pen pal, I have nobody my family

doesn’t’ write me there very disap-pointed in me. My time here is go-ing so slow I never get mail. I work and go to class anyways thank you so much! Cyann Knudson #96021 SBWCC 13200 S Pleasant Valley Rd Kuna, ID 83634.

S.W.F 33 currently incarcerated for the next 3 yrs. I am looking for M or F 30+ yrs old to correspond with. I am missing that connection to the outside world. You can find pictures of me on Facebook. Shari Widaman #101383 1451 Fore Rd Pocatello, ID 83205.

Fun, 26 y.o Butch lesbian ISO mature companion to write and maybe more Christine Herzet @ BCJ 605 N Capitol Idaho Falls, ID 83402.

My name is Sandra Norgaard #86795. Currently in search of a pen pal. Someone who isn’t afraid to be themselfs. Who would also like to get ot know someone new. I’m currently doing a short time in South Bois. I am 34 yrs old, and looking forward to hering from someone. Sandra Norgaard #86795 SBWCC 13200 S. Pleas-ant Valley Rd Kuna, ID 83634.

Wanted new friendships, 35 year old female currently incarcerated for 9 months, releasing to Boise. I have a sense of humor, am open minded, and love adventures. I have long curly brown hair, blue eyes and a great smile; pictures available- contact Tammy Jennings #95464 1451 Fore Rd PWCC Po-catello, ID 83204.


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The high forehead and wild hair look familiar. Is it The Donald? No, it’s The Dognald, a $16 “doggedly determined Republican,” ready for your pet to play with. An original creation from Bark & Co., which is based in New York City (or, as they are fond

of calling it, Poo York City), this 9-inch dog toy is stitched with reinforced seams and is, according to its manufacturers, “perfect for tough debates.” According to manufacturers, “you’ll never hear this plush guy squeak. Squeaking is for wimps. When chewed, The Dognald grunts… like a winner.”

And that hair? It’s “borderline indestructible,” according to Bark & Co., which adds,

“The Dognald is ready to lead… your pup to playtime.”

—George Prentice

$16, barkshop.com

FROM THE BW POLL VAULT Should semi-automatic weapons be banned?

Yes: 512 votes (11.34%)

No: 3,990 votes (88.37%)

I don’t know: 13 votes (0.29%)

Disclaimer: This onl ine pol l is not intended to be a scienti f ic sample of local , statewide or nat ional opinion.

RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10 SELLERS

1. “HOME,” BLUE OCTOBER

2. “WHY ARE YOU OK,” BAND OF HORSES

3. “CLEOPATRA,” THE LUMINEERS

4. “I STILL DO,” ERIC CLAPTON

5. “TIRED OF TOMORROW,” NOTHING

6. “GOOD TIMES,” THE MONKEES

7. “STRANGER TO STRANGER,” PAUL SIMON

8. “PURPLE RAIN,” PRINCE

9. “FALLEN ANGELS,” BOB DYLAN

10. “COLVIN AND EARLE,” SHAWN COLVIN AND

STEVE EARLE

42%The percentage of

LGBT youth who say the community they live in isn’t accepting of LGBT

people.

(Human Rights Cam-paign)

26%The percentage of LGBT

youth who say their biggest problems are

not feeling accepted by family, bullying and a fear

of being open.

(HRC)


youth who say they are more honest about

themselves online than in real life.

(HRC)


youth who say they hear negative messages

about being LGBT at school, on the Internet and from their peers.

(HRC)

77%The percentage of LGBT youth who say they know

things will get better.

(HRC)

35%The percentage of LGBT people in the U.S. who

live in the South.

(Williams Institute of Law, UCLA)

8.4XThe number gay teens are more likely to have attempted suicide than

peers from families reporting no or low levels

of family rejection.

(PFLAG NYC)

30%The percentage of adult

LGBT people polled who say they have been

physically attacked or threatened.

(PRC)

PAGE BREAKMINERVA’S BREAKDOWN

SUBMIT questions to Minerva’s Breakdown at bit.ly/MinervasBreakdown or mail them to Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, ID 83702. All submis-sions remain anonymous.

DEAR MINERVA,My partner and I are currently expecting double trouble. We are

over-the-moon excited, but here is the problem: We can’t seem to agree on names and they can be born at any moment. We don’t know the gender of our little ones. If you were to pick two boy and two girl names what would they be?

Sincerely,—The Name Game

DEAR NAME GAME,I am certain that by the time I came across this question in my

queue of “Minerva’s Breakdown” topics and questions, your new babies had already made their grand debut. Let me extend a huge congratulations to you and your family on their arrival and I wish you all the happiness in the world. Now for the fun! Names are a special way to pass along something of yourself to your children, besides DNA. Whether they grow to appreciate that or not, only time will tell. So you have asked me what I would name your sweet little babies if I was to choose. Here are my choices and, for fun, I am going to mix it up a bit.

Boy twins: Gable and CashFraternal twins of different genders: Porter and DollyGirl twins: Minerva and JayneAll kidding aside, what I might also suggest is being under-

standing if your children end up disliking their names as they get older. Names are very personal and sometimes as we change and grow, our given names no longer fit who we are. Happy naming!

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