Boise Weekly Vol. 22 Issue 13

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COAL HARD TRUTHIdaho Power’s coal dependence

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BACK WITH THE BLUEThe Blue Review is back with its latest issue

ARTS 22

SHE’S BACKLauren Weedman debuts new work at Boise Contemporary Theater

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FALL ESCAPESThree hiking options to take advantage of the season

“The guy never told us that it was magical, but we always felt like it was.” NOISE 18

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BURNED OUT ON COALA few years back I was sitting in a conference center listen-

ing to a bunch of energy experts talking about the future of coal. They all seemed to agree that coal was the least prefer-able source of power on Earth, but we’re stuck with it for some reason. “Every time a light gets switched on, it means somewhere coal is being burned,” shrugged one of the experts.

That statement stuck in my mind—making me extra guilty for leaving lights on in unused rooms—but not as much for the content as the subtext. The suggestion was that coal is so engrained in our energy consumption practices (let’s go ahead and call it what it is: the energy industry) that no matter what we do, it’s still going to be a part of activities as mundane as turning on the bathroom light.

At the same time as we’re inundated with “go green” initiatives and encouraged—very often by our own utili-ties—to save energy, we have billionaires like Warren Buffett, who should know better, pushing as hard as he can to ship the lowest grade coal not only through our communities, but to China and India, where it will be burned with absolute disregard for any after effects.

And let’s not forget our own Idaho Transportation Depart-ment, which is all too eager to open Idaho’s most scenic road-ways to heavy loads en route to the Alberta oil sands—even as those shipments have been shut down by a federal judge.

On Page 8, freelancer Matt Furber takes a look at Idaho Power’s continued reliance on king coal—a crutch that has continued despite a national moratorium on construction of new coal-fired power plants and widespread opposition to anything (be it mega-loads or rail shipments) having to do with fueling the hydrocarbon beast.

Idahoans have it good, though. As Idaho Power struggled to meet record-setting power usage this summer, it went to out-of-state coal plants to make up the difference. This summer, every time you turned on a light—or cranked up the AC—somewhere coal was being burned. Lucky for us, it wasn’t in our backyard, but it was certainly in someone else’s.

That’s maybe what makes it so easy to fall into shrugging acceptance. We don’t have to see coal dust stain our hillsides or cloud our skyline, and we don’t have to stare down into the yawning pits out of which the resource is pulled.

We’ve heard all this before, of course, and it’s starting to sound like a lot of hand-wringing. The fact remains that while ignorance might be bliss, happiness isn’t everything.

—Zach Hagadone

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BIG SCREENBW just returned

from the Toronto Inter-national Film Festival with all the scoops on what to watch over the next year. Get an early preview at Cobweb.

DEATH FACTSThe AP got the U.S.

Air Force’s report into the death of Kelsey Ander-son, the Idaho woman whose parents were fighting for the truth behind her death. Get the latest at Citydesk.

ON HOLDThose mega-loads

that have caused so many legal questions have stopped—for now—as a fed-eral judge told the U.S. Forest Service to take a closer look. Read it at Citydesk.

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“ I WOULDN’T ALLOW A STRAY DOG TO SLEEP ON MY DOORSTEP AND DEFECATE

IN FRONT OF MY PLACE OF BUSINESS, LET ALONE A STRAY HUMAN.”

—Boisentv (BW, Note, “Politicians Do the Darndest Things,” Sept. 11, 2013)

MAIL

IRRIGATION IRRITATION

My husband and I own a business called Bounding Hound Farm, and we were impacted by the early irriga-tion shutoff.

Every day, I see examples of egregious over/misuse of water: sprinklers running in the heat of the day, caus-ing much of the water to evaporate before it provides any benefit to the grass; large swaths of landscaping along busy streets, providing noth-ing but water-guzzling road adornment for travelers by; decorative waterfalls at count-less subdivision entrances, cascading into ponds that serve no purpose.

Where are our priorities? If we as an arid-climate city will allow our water to be used for purely decorative purposes but will cut usage for the farmers of our community, what does this say about our values?

Boise touts itself as a pro-gressive and small business-friendly community, but mine is one of many feeling the impacts of the shutoff. For as many people that I know who claim to love buying local produce and supporting local business—note how large the Capital City Public Market has become, not to mention the various other markets that have popped up in the last few years—I am deeply disap-pointed in our city’s seeming apathy on this issue.

I am asking for a call to action from Mayor Dave Bieter and the city of Boise, United Water and the Idaho Department of Water Re-sources. Please do your jobs

and work to appropriately address water usage in the Treasure Valley; Boise’s invaluable water is worth far more than decorative grass and pointless water features.

—Anna DemetriadesBoise

BEG AND FORTHOur BW Watchdogs

story about the potential legal impacts—and costs—of Boise’s aggressive panhan-dling ordinances (BW, News, “The Hidden Costs of Civil Sidewalks,” Sept. 11, 2013) triggered a flood of comments online. Here are just a few:

“We still don’t understand why the city seems deter-mined to follow a course that many devoted homeless advocates warn will be coun-terproductive and that will assuredly result in expensive litigation.” All rightly then... so what do these “devoted homeless advocates” say would be productive? If you’re gonna shoot down proposed solutions, you should have a counterproposal.

—Andy Hill

It is the wrong solution, but no one wants to confront why homelessness became a big problem in the late 1970s and early 1980s: the well-intentioned efforts to close mental hospitals and make it difficult to hospitalize the seriously mentally ill that started in 1963 by President John F. Kennedy, with the support of much of the psy-chiatric profession. Other side effects including a more than doubling of the hypothermia (freezing to death) death rate

between 1974 and 1984; the rise of random acts of mass murder, usually by people with serious mental illness problems that were recognized well in advance by family, mental health workers and police; and the general degradation of urban life.

Most homeless people in Idaho are not mentally ill, but it is certainly a large fraction of our homeless population. On the coasts, severe mental illness is usually a majority of the homeless. Banning aggressive panhandling may seem like the only solution that the city can actually take, much like when Scottsdale, Ariz., some years ago banned eating out of garbage cans. Wrong solution—but the ACLU played a major role in creating the current problem with a series of court deci-sions in the 1970s.

My book, My Brother Ron: A Personal and Social History of the Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill (2012), gives a detailed history of the good intentions that turned out so wrong.

—Clayton E. Cramer

First Amendment trumps freedom of unobstructed travel because there is no right to unobstructed travel. There is a right to freedom of travel, but nothing about unobstructed.

Otherwise I would be very wealthy considering how my being in a wheelchair means that my ‘right to unobstructed travel’ is violated pretty much any time I leave my home.

A person has a right to come up to you and make a request. They do not have a right to assault you, physically block you, or anything else of the sort. That would range in offense from harassment to assault or higher crimes.

So long as they just make the request and accept your answer your rights have not been violated.

—Neal Feldman

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“Cope, y’r lawn’s looking a tad ratty. What’s goin’ on? You got too dumpy t’ get up off’n y’r bum an’ mow it?”

“My mower broke, Red. And I haven’t gotten around to getting a new one. And who are you to talk, anyway? The only water your lawn has gotten all summer is when the neighbor’s rottweilers come over to pee on it. It looks like the kind of place mobsters go to dump dead bodies.” “You ain’t got no perhoozah to be critical-izing my yard, Cope! Jus’ acause it ain’t all hoity-toity green an’ such. I happen to like yeller, an’ if’n that’s the color I chose f’r my lan’scapin’ scheme, it ain’t none o’ your gull durn ears wax! An’ what’re you doin’ look-ing at my lawn for, anyhows?”

“I’ve been wondering where you’ve been all summer, so I drove by.”

“You mean ya’ missed me?”“Uh, don’t think I’d go that far. But I was

curious why you haven’t come over to bitch about anything lately.”

“Cope, I got lots t’ do what don’t invol-vorate around you. I been busy. I ain’t even read your smelly ol’ column since ‘bout Inde-pendence Day, I been so busy. Why, I been so gull durn busy, I ain’t hardly had time t’ tune in Rush on m’ radio. Busy, busy bizzzz-eee.”

“OK, I’ll bite. What exactly is it that’s had you so busy?”

“Gatherin’ up singitchers, Cope. That’s what I been doin’. I spent a week in Kuna alone, gatherin’ up singitchers. Then I went down t’ Melba, then Homedale, then Fruit-sland, then Marsling, then... “

“I get it. You went all over the place, gathering signatures. And what, exactly, were people signing, Red?”

“A perdition to ‘mpeach that president o’ yourn. Sometimes I had three... four folks at once waitin’ in line t’ sign up. ‘Specially out in Kuna”

“I might of known. Red, tell me some-thing. Why is it you have to dive head-first into all the gunkiest glop that drips off the right-wing dump truck? You’re like a magnet for stupid ideas, you know that? You hear about some brain fart out of some degenerate down in Texas... or Florida... or Nampa... and you always have to join the loon line. Impeach Obama, my ass! Do you even have a grounds in mind? Let me tell you something, Red. Impeachment is the penalty for a mis-deed that actually has to happen first! It’s not some political pissy-fit you throw whenever your joker can’t win an election.”

“We can fill in somethin’ later on the line where it says what he done. The ‘mportant thing right now is to get him ‘mpeached. An’ I guaranteeze ya’, sooner ‘r later, he’s gonna do somethin’ worth the effort. Whats ‘bout him gettin’ us into another war wit’ that there other country’s Arabs?”

“Syria’s?”“Dang right, I’m serious! That oughta do

f’r grounds. I think they call it ‘missapproba-tionin’ of guv’mint resources.’ Or something like that.”

“Red, you dope. At this point in time, we have no idea how this Syria thing is going to play out. So what are you going to say if he doesn’t go to war?”

“Then I’d say that’d be grounds f’r ‘mpeachment, too! If’n he lets that Basher Ass-Hat feller get away with gassin’ chil-runs, that’s plen’y reason t’ ‘mpeach ‘im!”

“No matter what he does about that situa-tion, then, it’s a crime?”

“That’s how it is, Cope. First off, he thinks he can get away with startin’ up a war with-out telling Congress what he plans t’ do... which is breakin’ the rules about who gets to start a war... then he goes an’ ennuncitates what he plans t’ do... which is givin’ aids an’ comforts t’ the enemy, plain as day. I tells ya’, Cope, ever mornin’ that man gets out o’ bed, he’s committin’ an act o’ traitorness.”

“OK, Red, what would you do about that Syria mess?”

“It ain’t my gull durn job t’ figure out stuff like that, Cope.”

“Just pretend for a second it is your job, and you have definitive evidence of a monstrous atrocity, and that it could happen again any day. And I don’t mean the kind of cooked-up crap George W. Bush used to get us into Iraq. I mean real evidence that even the Tea Party clowns can’t deny. Only, any action you take... or don’t take... is going to piss off at least half the world. What would you do? Huh, Red, come on, What would you do?”

“Gull durn it, Cope! I’m tellin’ ya’ I don’ know! I gets all turmoiled up inside jus’ thinkin’ ‘bout it. How’s ‘bout you tell me what you’d do if’n you were pretendin’ t’ be president?”

“I don’t know, either, Red. I truly don’t. But Obama isn’t pretending to be president. And he’s far too moral a man to do nothing, as that slippery worm Jim Risch suggested, or to ‘Let Allah sort it out,’ like Palin said. However, I’m confident whatever he decides to do, the right will swarm him like the ver-min they are.”

“Wull whate’er he ends up doing, I’d call that a case o’ ‘Alienatin’ Above an’ Beyond the Call of Affection,’ an’ if’n that ain’t grounds for ‘mpeachin’ him, I don’ know what is.”

“Now you’re just making stuff up, Red. and it’s making you look stupid. Can’t you see that?”

“Cope, you already thought I was stupid. So whats I got t’ lose?”

“Mmmm... impeachment on the grounds of ‘We Got Nothing Left to Lose.’ I suspect that’s sufficient grounds for a good many people.”

“Dang right it is. ‘Specially out in Kuna.”

‘MPEACHY KEENRed’s been gatherin’ up singitchers

OPINION/BILL COPE


The paper was in a stack of late-September English Comp essays, all of them written to fulfill this assignment:

“Contrast your public persona with your private self. Don’t lie. Not even a little bit.”

The prompt was designed to bring self-consciousness into my students’ liberal arts experience, because a month into college, self-consciousness—and its attendant self-forgiveness—comes in handy. By then, high-school GPAs have become burdens instead of talking points. SAT scores have been com-pared and found wanting. Carefully murdered high-school identities have lurched up out of obscure graves. Facades have fallen apart in embarrassing ways.

It’s always nice to know you’re not the only one these things happen to. So when these essays were handed in, I offered extra credit to anyone who would read their work to the class. No one raised a hand.

That’s because, among other things, the words you choose to introduce yourself to your English professor are not the words you use to introduce yourself to new classmates.

Still, struggling through my assignment showed my students that parts of the same person could detest each other, speak in differ-ent tongues, or have mutually exclusive needs.

Such discoveries are good for people. Reconciling yourself to yourself is an exercise in depth, one that lasts a lifetime. If, at 70, you end up with a private self and a public persona peacefully coexisting in the same skull, you’ve lived a meaningful and honest life. If a long-ago English Comp assignment gave you a head start on that deepening path, so much the better.

But this paper that I pulled from the pile—it was different from the rest. It began with a psychological insight more appropriate to a world-weary film star than a college freshman.

“Most people don’t see me,” he wrote. “They see a nice boy with a short haircut and nice clean preppy clothes who smiles at them. They supply the small details. They think I’m who they would be if they had been reincar-nated in my family, in my body. Even if they don’t like themselves, they like me. I’m young. I’m handsome. I have a clear complexion. I’m not fat. My grandparents bought me a Mer-cedes ML320 to drive to college. My tuition is paid for. I have $200,000 in a trust fund. People can’t help liking me.”

I crossed out “People can’t help liking me,” and wrote “Redundant” in the margin. I didn’t write, “Some people can help it,” but part of me wanted to.

The next paragraph had a subtitle: “My Mercedes ML320.”

“My Mercedes,” it read, “is how people see me when they need a ride to Fred Meyer. All I am to them is an expensive SUV with leather seats that can hold the stuff they buy for their dorm rooms. I have a full tank of gas.”

“My Trust Fund,” was the heading on the

next paragraph. “It’s what girls see when they need a date. I’m a bank account. I can take them out to an expensive restaurant. How could they not help liking me?”

“Redundant,” I wrote, and underlined the question.

“But what I see when I look at my Mer-cedes,” he wrote, “is air bags and seat belts and a roll cage. It has electronic stability control and weighs 4,614 pounds. I can get in a head-on collision and walk away from it, but the people in the other car would be very dead. I drive down the road and if someone crosses into my lane, even a little bit, I steer over toward the center line and hit the gas.”

I stopped grading. Across the top of the front page, I wrote, “Grade Withheld. See Me.” I usually wrote that when I suspected plagiarism. But in this case, he was follow-ing the assignment and understood far too well the gulf between private self and public persona. A product of psychotherapy gone rancid, I decided. He was messing with my mind for something to do while he waited for sophomore year and a political science major.

I passed the papers back and waited for him in my office. When he walked in, smiling, with his notebook and pen in hand, I sat him down and told him, “Don’t write this stuff. Even if you’re not serious, it says more about how you look at other people than you want.”

“You told us to be honest,” he said.“Let your public self be honest,” I said.

“That’s who’s getting the grade from now on.”For the rest of the semester, he turned in

conventional papers, well researched and factual, and if there was a private self behind them, I never saw it. For my part, I quit in-venting assignments that smacked of psycho-therapy.

He passed the class but I never saw his name on a grade roster again. He dropped out after a couple of years. A decade later, he was my waiter at a not-so-expensive Boise restaurant.

A decade hadn’t done him much good. Bad skin. Excess weight. Stress wrinkles. The Mercedes must have gotten rear-ended, his grandparents must have died and given their money to Planned Parenthood, his trust fund must have gone to drugs and low companions, and his therapist must have written him off as a disordered character. I tipped him more than I should have.

“You know that first paper I wrote for you?” he asked me when he handed me back my credit card. “I made it up. Every word was fiction.”

By that time I had spent large portions of my life writing fiction and essays, developing my private self at the expense of my public persona. It had been hard work to keep it an entirely benign process. I had also been a defensive driver for years.

“Good for you,” I said. “You had me fooled there for a while.”

ASKING FOR TRUTH And other hazards

JOHN REMBER/OPINION


At the Boise Airport July 1, air temperature reached 110 degrees Fahrenheit, just one degree shy of Boise’s all-time, high-temperature record set in 1960. Under the sweltering conditions of the heat wave, Idaho Power, thanks in large part to its coal-fired power plants in Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming, pumped out record amounts of power to run air condition-ing through hundreds of thousands of its customers’ homes.

A previous low snowpack season quickly diminished the Gem State’s much-heralded hydropower, said Mark Stokes, Power Supply Planning manager for Idaho Power Corp. Stokes joined company executives, shareholders and members of the pub-lic for a series of summer meetings on the—quite literally—hot topic at Idaho Power’s downtown Boise headquarters.

“Public input hasn’t changed in a long time,” Stokes told BW. “ICL [Idaho Conservation League] and the Snake River Alliance would like to see us burn less coal because of the implications for the environment. If coal runs less, we rely more on other, more expensive sources. It gets more media attention, but a [recent] poll of Idaho Power customers said they were more concerned with the cost of electricity. It was the biggest issue.”

Stokes and other workshop par-ticipants spoke a great deal about “demand response,” which attendees quickly began referring to as “DR.” In short, DR is a method for reducing the load on the electri-cal grid and offsetting the need for additional generation sources. Idaho Power officials are quick to say that reliability is the company’s No. 1 goal. For example, linemen and women have been working around the clock this summer to restore power where wildfires have been crippling or, in some cases, destroying power poles. Idaho Power says it is constantly exploring numerous options for improv-ing efficiency and conservation as part of its mission to deliver uninterrupted power to its customers. The company, for example, has negotiated about 330 megawatts of DR with regional irrigation users, and 35 megawatts with air-conditioned residents who have the

greatest need of power in the summer, but the company learned that the intermittent energy savings were not fully utilized this summer. In fact, the company specifically cancelled DR deals last winter because they were deemed unneeded to meet projected demand, accord-ing to company press releases and statements at the summer DR workshops.

It is an area of operations that makes industry watchdogs prick up their ears. Their main question: “Why is it not being used?”

The debate was raised during DR work-shops and leads to deeper discussions about motive and method for producing carbon-free power in the near and distant future.

On July 2, Idaho Power’s average instan-

taneous electricity output set a new demand record: 3,402 megawatts, between 3 p.m.-4 p.m. Idaho Power said so-called “thermal fuels”—stuff you burn, like coal and natural gas—were

the majority of the load source used to meet the peak demand and

keep customers cool for another day.Stokes explained that with the

lacking capability of hydropower plants (due to low snowpack), wind

(he said sometimes it doesn’t blow when it is most needed) and solar panels (Idaho doesn’t have many in place), the company has been utilizing more out-of-state, coal-generated power, diesel genera-tion near Mountain Home and its

new $400,000 Langley Gulch natural gas power plant in Payette County.

On July 3, demand for electricity kicked things up another notch, beating the previous day’s record by 5 mega-watts, scratching the ceil-ing, yet again, of Idaho Power’s load capacity of 3,594 megawatts. How-ever, demand response was only minimally employed (35 megawatts that were already com-mitted under third-party contracts). The average sys-

tem load on July 3, between 3 p.m.-4 p.m., was 3,407

megawatts. Idaho Power said its power was derived from coal

(947 megawatts), hydroelectric (925 megawatts), natural gas (641

megawatts), wind (57 megawatts) and market purchases (about 800 megawatts

that can include any mix of electricity sources, but includes some 200 megawatts from alternative sources like wind, solar and geothermal producers transmitted via power lines largely from the Pacific Northwest, where larger percentages of green electricity generation is being required).

Hydroelectricity, which is the closest thing to having a huge storage battery for on-de-mand power, helps keep Idaho in the bottom half of the list of polluting utilities in the country (Idaho Power ranks 37th out of 100 for U.S. carbon dioxide emissions).

But Idaho still derives all of its coal-gener-ated electricity from plants out of state, which helps with in-state air quality. The out-of-state plants each have retrofits scheduled to bring them up to stan-dards or are planned for decommis-

COAL HEARTED Idaho Power’s hot potato

MATT FURBER

NEWS

CITYDESK/NEWS

POST-FIRE DAMAGE STUDY: IT’S GOING TO BE A WHOLE LOT OF WORK TO FIX

Sharon LaBrecque of the Planning and Natural Resource Office for the Sawtooth National Forest doesn’t even know how many hours she’s worked in the past few weeks. Since the Burned Area Response Team landed to assess the Beaver Creek Fire near Sun Valley, it’s been from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. or 9 p.m. every day.

“I’m very tired,” LaBrecque said.The 18-person team included hydrolo-

gists, biologists, soil scientists, geologists, engineers and archaeologists, coming from as far as Florida. One week, 18 people, 116,000 acres to study.

The report will be submitted to the regional office, then onto the Washington office, where the U.S. Forest Service will ap-prove funding for proposed treatments.

Archaeologists focused on the heritage sites within the burned area. Between fire burning away the vegetation and soil ero-sion, some sites became exposed.

“The whole Ketchum district is filled with historic mining sites,” LaBrecque said. One exposed site is an old mining mill built in the late 1800s and used until around 1910, when it was abandoned.

The team also found 64 miles of road within the burned area and 112 miles of trail. Nearly 61 miles of trail are in land that has been moderately to severely burned. LaBrecque said the damage renders the trails unsafe and unusable, requiring a number of them be closed until next season at the earliest.

“Trails that go through the bottom of val-leys along creeks where floods can happen really put people at risk,” LaBrecque said.

Leftover debris from the fire can be swept up in those floods, more likely to hap-pen in burned areas from lack of vegetation, putting hikers in a very bad situation.

“We want to get [the trails open] as fast as possible; we have a huge job,” she said.

The report recommends aerial reseeding and mulching the area by mid-October. Road work has already begun, as well as unplug-ging culverts.

LaBrecque said the most difficult part of the fire came after, with the heavy rains. She called the flooding and mudslides a traumatic event for the whole community. She’s worked for the Sawtooth National For-est for 22 years, so she sees burned areas all the time, “but it’s always a shock when you see your own forest burned up.”

She added that the rehabilitation costs will be considerably less than putting out the fire, “but it won’t be inexpensive.”

—Jessica Murri10

ADAM ROSENLUND

A truck travels a muddy Deer Creek Road north of Hailey after recent wildfires and heavy rains

caused several mudslides in the area.

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sion, but coal remains an integral part of Idaho Power’s electricity generation plan for at least the next 20 years.

Here is the outlook for each of these plants:

Nevada—The North Valmy plant has not been not required to install controls for regional haze. The plant is scheduled for retirement.

Oregon (Boardman plant)—This plant is scheduled to close in 2020; it is required to control haze-forming sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides in the interim.

Wyoming—In June, the U.S. Environmental Protec-tion Agency proposed to par-tially approve and partially disapprove the state plan for addressing regional haze. The agency also proposed a federal plan to cover deficien-cies in the state plan, until the state plan can be fully approved. The plan would require controls on the Jim Bridger plant.

Idaho Power does have some forward-looking language on its website, extolling some examples of efficiencies, but the company also steadfastly defends its dependency on coal:

“Coal is nature’s energy storehouse. This geologic legacy is the foundation of Idaho Power’s three coal-fired plants: the Jim Bridger Power Plant in Wyoming, the Boardman Coal Plant in Oregon, and the North Valmy Generating Station in Nevada. These facilities convert one of nature’s most bountiful energy sources into reliable, low-cost electricity while adhering to some of the strictest standards for protect-ing the environment.”

On average, coal is the fuel source for producing about one-third of Idaho Power’s electricity. Although the company talks about improving efficiency, green-power advocates say that the company could be doing more to move forward with energy production that will take less of a toll on the environment. The pressure is turning the ship around, as one might gather even from Idaho Power’s language about effi-ciency and alternative power source planning, but advocates like ICL simply want that ship to turn faster.

The Snake River Alliance and ICL point

to scientific studies that conclude that carbon emissions trigger more rapid global warming and growing public and corporate support for fewer coal-powered generators.

“We use products that are environmentally sensitive, particularly in re-gard to electricity,” said Rob-ert Hart, former president of Kennedy Wilson Multifamily Management Group, who recently launched an invest-ment firm called TruAmerica Multifamily that focuses on acquiring, managing and rehabilitating housing in the Western U.S. to become more efficient.

“Many municipalities give incentives for energy conservation. It is definitely a driving force in residential construction and the compo-nentry that goes into apart-ments. We certainly make every effort to do things where we can,” he said.

Hart said as his company markets to generations X and Y; they seek LEED certifi-cation because “that’s the demand.”

Plans for coal-fired solu-tions to Idaho’s electricity demand, according to plan-ning documents published in 2009, pushed parent com-pany IDACORP sharehold-ers to recommend a carbon reduction plan. The aim was to keep emissions under 2005 levels through this year. The company says it has achieved the goal, although emissions are already higher this year than in 2012, when hydro-electric production was more robust and more DR was employed. The company has extended the goal of keeping emissions below 2005 levels through 2015, but coal is still central to meeting peak demand.

Idaho Conservation League spokesman Ben Otto, aka “Captain Kilo-watt,” stood before an Aug. 19 public workshop at the headquarters of Idaho Power and asked: “Is that a smart investment? Should we invest in or phase out coal?

Otto told Boise Weekly that it would help to envision an older model car.

“It needs new brakes, a new muffler,” Otto told BW. “It’s very easy to nickel and dime yourself to death. Maybe it’s time for a new approach and stop chasing good money after bad and start investing in wholly cleaner resources.”

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A megawatt (MW) is 1,000 kilowatts (KW) or 1 million watts. Powering a 100-watt light bulb for four hours con-sumes 400 watt hours (WH) of energy. The average home in the Idaho Power service area consumes 1,050 kilo-watt hours (KWH) per month

or 12,600 KWH per year.

In 2012 Idaho Power served 416,020 residential custom-ers, 66,039 commercial and

industrial customers, and 19,045 irrigation customers.

Demand Response (DR) is defined by the Federal

Energy Regulatory Commis-sion as “changes in electric usage by end-use customers from their normal consump-tion patterns in response to changes in the price of electricity over time, or to

incentive payments designed to induce lower electric-ity use at times of high

wholesale market prices or when system reliability is

jeopardized.”

Although there are no coal-burning power plants

in Idaho, Idaho Power does own a portion of three coal-burning plants in Nevada, Oregon and Wyoming (see idahopower.com/aboutus/

energysources/coal).

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JOHN DOE NO MOREHis name is John Elliott. No longer silent

or anonymous, Elliott told Boise Weekly that soon enough, his work colleagues and even some family members would learn what happened to him 36 years ago.

“I’ve only told a handful of people. It’s not something you really want to share.”

Elliott is one of eight Idaho men, seven of them choosing to remain anonymous as “John Doe,” suing the Boy Scouts of America and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints for not adequately protect-ing them as boys when they were, according to the suit, victims of sexual abuse. The suit, initially filed in June, was amended to include more plaintiffs, including Elliott.

“The basis of the lawsuit is fraud,” said Boise-based attorney Andrew Chasan. “[The Boy Scouts and LDS Church] knowingly didn’t disclose problems with pedophiles that had infiltrated their ranks.”

Elliott said he was molested in 1977 at Camp Morrison in McCall. That’s where he said one of his scout leaders, James Schmidt, insisted that Elliott stay in Schmidt’s tent.

“He said there was a wolverine outside. He was creating complete fear,” said Elliott, who added that other scouts told him that they too had been abused by Schmidt.

Elliott immediately quit the scouts while his mother sent a series of letters of complaint to the BSA, but two years later, Schmidt was spotted at the Boise Zoo with more boys in his charge.

“He was there with uniformed Cub Scouts, and I became very angry,” said Elliott. “I went and bought a Coke, poured it over his head and took off running.”

Elliott said he spotted Schmidt later at Julia Davis Park fondling another little boy.

“I kicked him in the butt as hard as I could,” he said. “Again, we reported this to the Boy Scouts, but I understand that he continued to lead scouts after that.”

Schmidt was eventually convicted of sexually related crimes against children in 1983 in Idaho and in 1996 in Maryland.

“In preparation for this lawsuit, we were able to document 16 different pedophiles from 1964 through 2000 here in South-ern Idaho,” said Chasan. “In addition to Schmidt, there were three other pedophiles that molested plaintiffs in this lawsuit.”

Chasan told BW that he expected the liti-gation to take at least a year. The plaintiffs are seeking damages to be determined by a jury. Chasan said that he expected the list of plaintiffs to grow, sooner than later.

“We already have two more people,” he said. “There will be at least 10 plaintiffs.”

—George Prentice

John Elliott (right) is flanked by his Boise-based attorney Andrew Chasan (left).

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RON PISANESCHIThe other man in the big yellow hat

GEORGE PRENTICE

All in the Family might be a good title (if someone hadn’t already used it) for Ron

Pisaneschi’s television bloodlines. He met his wife, Virginia, 27 years ago when the two were working at Idaho Public Television, and their daughter, Madeleine, is a graphic designer (where else?) for the PBS affiliate in Seattle.

And Pisaneschi’s career at Idaho PTV (which began in 1985) has been renewed for quite a few more seasons: In August he assumed the general manager position, replacing Peter Mor-rill, who announced his retirement earlier this year.

“Peter has very big shoes to fill,” Pisaneschi told Boise Weekly. “He is well-loved.”BW sat down with Pisaneschi, 58, as he was packing up his old office (where he served as

director of content) for the move to the one next door, where he’ll oversee one of the most successful broadcast operations in the nation.

What’s the biggest difference between Idaho Public Television today and the day you first set foot here in 1985?

Is was and still is an organization with incredibly creative people, but the biggest difference is the technology. Back in the day, it was a single channel. Now we have four digital channels, an additional cable channel for kids and online streaming, where people can watch anytime they want.

But isn’t that generational? I think you’re right. Mid-50s and older is

just about the break point to how much web-streaming we access. The real key for the gen-eral manager role is to determine how much energy and effort to put into new media.

Give an example of taking a risk on that

technology that resulted in some success.We were the first station in the country to

negotiate a deal with the BBC to get stream-ing rights to a large catalogue of their con-tent. In a sense, we were offering full seasons of programs long before [Netflix’s] House of Cards ever became a hit. Take MI-5 for an example. It’s a big hit and the third season may be playing on one of our channels, but

we have viewers watching the entire run of the series online.

There’s a huge number of binders lining

your walls, representing years of television ratings. Talk to me about the science and art of considering that data.

Whoever comes into my old job will have to have an appreciation for the pure Nielsen rating numbers and see what worked and didn’t work but, yes, there’s an art to know-ing what genre works in this market that doesn’t work somewhere else.

Isn’t it true that performing arts programs

don’t get the ratings in Idaho that they get in an East Coast market? Yet you still provide a home for the performing arts programs.

It’s a tapestry. You can’t feed people des-sert all the time. We have blockbuster shows but we also want to introduce content that may not always get a huge audience.

Doesn’t Antiques Roadshow represent a

good amount of your top 10 programming?It’s the most watched ongoing show on

PBS. Our top shows include Antiques Road-show, Outdoor Idaho, Downton Abbey.

And what new program do you see on the horizon as a possible hit?

We’re adding something called Last Tango in Halifax, a contemporary BBC drama. It’s great. At the heart of great television programming is a good story, well-told, rich relationships and first-rate actors.

Your radar must be fairly well tuned.I don’t have to watch six hours of a drama

to know if it’s going to click. I’ve read that IdahoPTV is one of the high-

est-rated broadcast operations in the nation.We’re the most watched, per capita, PBS

station in the country. We’ve been in the top 10 for the last 10 years.

Tell me about the big yellow hat in the

corner of your room. I’m guessing that has something to do with another George.

I’ve been on the children’s programming advisory committee for PBS for the past 25 years. Almost every children’s show that you now see on PBS, I had a little hand in sched-uling. That hat is from when we launched Curious George [in 2006].

Am I right in assuming that you have the

best job in Idaho?There will always be challenges, but when

you go home at the end of the day, you think you’re doing something to make society a little bit better. It’s an intrinsically rewarding job.

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THURSDAYSEPT. 19grape juice for grownups

DISCOVERY CENTER ADULT NIGHT

Oenophiles and philomaths, rejoice. Discovery Center of Idaho has brewed up a night for members of both groups—especially those who would land in the venn diagram intersection of “People Who

Love Wine” and “People Who Love To Learn.”

With exhibits and events geared toward grownups, Adult Night has become a wildly popular event, letting the 21-and-older set to feel like curious kids again.

In DCI’s upcoming Adult Night: The Science of Wine, that inner child gets to learn about one of the outer adult’s favorite pastimes. They can celebrate har-vest season by supping on samples from Indian Creek, Periple, Sawtooth and Split Rail wineries while watching demonstrations and learning

about the vinicultural sci-ence of creating and blend-ing wine, as well as how to properly drink it. Folks can move their wine-loosened legs to the totally danceable sounds of Jonathan Warren and the Billy Goats, and food trucks and raffle prizes are also part of deal.

For a mere Hamilton, you can afford to leave the wee ones home with a sitter and enjoy a night of learning that will feel like anything but. Get your tickets early, though. You don’t want what could be a revelatory “ah-hah” moment of discovering

BOISE WEEKLY PICKSvisit boiseweekly.com for more events

Spencer Myer tickles the ivories with Boise Philharmonic.

THURSDAY-SUNDAYSEPT. 19-22eat up

SUN VALLEY HARVEST FESTIVALHarvest time has historically been a big deal for the entire community. In days of yore,

everyone would be out working from dawn until dusk to bring in the crops that would see them through winter. After weeks of backbreaking work, tools would be put down and the party would start, with wild celebrations of feasting and bonfires—the country dweller’s fireworks.

Though few of us actively participate in the harvest anymore, we’re still down for the party, hence the plethora of harvest-oriented festivals that kick off this month. And one of the best ways to jump headfirst into celebrating food (and a fair amount of drink) is the annual Sun Val-ley Harvest Festival.

The four-day festival runs Thursday, Sept. 19-Sunday, Sept. 22, and fills the Wood River Valley with a full-blown celebration of food—from meeting local food producers and joining a restaurant walk, to watching chefs’ cooking demonstrations and swilling martinis and caviar.

Events kick off on Thursday, Sept. 19, with several discussions and panels, but festival favorites begin on Friday, Sept. 20, when a tasting of Idaho wines leads directly into the Restaurant Walk. Unfortunately, the popular event has already sold out, so if you don’t have tickets, you’ll have to create your own restaurant experience for the night.

On Saturday, Sept. 21, guest chefs will offer demonstrations throughout the day at Dollar Lodge, while the Harvest Marketplace runs from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. at the same location. The market will feature food and produce from area producers, as well as some of the latest and greatest kitchen tools you never knew you needed.

Sawtooth Brewery hosts an Oktoberfest celebration from noon-10 p.m. in Ketchum Town Square with live music, traditional German food and, of course, plenty of beer. Admission is free, but you must buy a stein for beer tasting. If you need more excuses to party, the Martini and Caviar Party runs from 5:30-8 p.m. at The Roundhouse. Participants must fork over $125 for the ticket, but that includes a gondola ride to Roundhouse, as well as sturgeon caviar hors d’oeuvres by Sun Valley Company Executive Chef John Murcko and handcrafted cocktails.

More partying can be found at the new 5B Party—boots, beer, bourbon and barbecue at B—featuring barbecue from around the world, live bluegrass and bourbon tastings from 5-8 p.m. Tickets cost $50.

A river guide cooking demo starts off Sunday, Sept. 22, followed by the grand finale, The Grand Tasting from noon-3 p.m. at Dollar Lodge. Ticket holders can sample food from area eateries, sample wines and attend breakout sessions on all sorts of foodie topics throughout the afternoon. Tickets cost $75 for this event.

Those traveling for the festival can take advantage of lodging specials being offered throughout town, so check online for deals.

Times, locations and prices vary. Ketchum and Sun Valley. Sunvalleyharvestfestival.com.

Sun Valley knows how to party.

FRIDAY-SATURDAYSEPT. 20-21espana

BOISE PHILHARMONIC OPENING NIGHTSummer’s pivot into fall mirrors an anticipated wardrobe change: shorts to pants, sandals

to shoes, skirts to dresses. And it’s time to break out the formal wear for fall high-society gigs. Boise Philharmonic is getting the ball rolling for its 2013-14 classical concerts season Fri-

day, Sept. 20, and Saturday, Sept. 21, with Maurice Ravel’s Bolero, a one-movement piece for large orchestras, along with American composer Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1 and Ravel’s “Piano Concerto for the Left Hand” and “Piano Concerto in G.” Friday’s performance is in the Swayne Auditorium at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, and Saturday’s concert is at the Morrison Center. Both performances begin at 8 p.m. and tickets cost $20-$70.

Pianist Pianist Spencer Myer will join the Philharmonic for both piano concertos—including the one for the left hand, reportedly commissioned by a pianist who lost his right hand in WWI.

It’s a fitting start for a new season: Ravel’s most recognizable work—most people have already heard it even if they can’t identify it by name—Bolero is the apex of the composer’s habit of tweaking dance pieces to suit new ends. Like summer’s creeping transition into fall, Bolero is a slow and winding series of subtle transitions.

Bolero is also a clever choice for Boise. Ravel was born in Ciboure in the French Basque country, and his music leans toward the lively tempos and hearty beats found in that region, as well as having nods to Slavic and Arabic themes. An evening with Ravel is a great way to pack away the summer and make way for the reddening leaves and sweater weather of fall.

Friday, Sept. 20, 8 p.m. $20-$70. Swayne Auditorium, Brandt Center, 623 University Blvd., Nampa; Saturday, Sept. 21, 8 p.m., $20-$70. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise; 208-344-7849, boisephilharmonic.org.

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MONOPRICE.COMIn the same way

technology is everywhere, so are the accoutrements required to make it work (or make it look good). A cellphone needs a colorful case. A laptop needs a cool bag. An Internet con-nection needs a router. A new flat-screen TV needs about a million cables. Gathering all of these accessories, however, can be frustrating as you click from site to site trying to find the best deal. But no more. Monoprice.com is a

one-stop, low-price technology shop for both the tech-saavy shopper and the luddite.

For example, over-the-head DJ headphones can cost more than a mortgage payment. If you’re Deadmau5, you probably should have the highest quality, most expensive cans around. Or if you care about name brands, you can drop $99-$400 on Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones. However, if you’re simply a person who wants a good pair of head-phones at a decent price, the Monoprice branded Premium Hi-Fi DJ Style Over-the-Ear Pro Headphones are an incred-ible deal at $23 and, like everything else at monoprice.com, cost even less when you buy in bulk (although we don’t know why you’d want 50-plus pairs of headphones). A local singer-songwriter gave these headphones two thumbs up, scream-ing “THESE SOUND GREAT! I COULD TOTALLY RECORD WITH THESE! AM I YELLING?”

Yeah, they’re kind of noise-canceling, too.

—Amy Atkins

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something new about your favorite beverage to become an “uh-oh” moment because the evening is sold out.

6-10 p.m. $10. 21 and older. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, scidaho.org.

SATURDAYSEPT. 21bring on the bier

OLD BOISE OKTOBERFEST

Strap on your lederhosen, dust off your stein and gird

yourself for the Old Boise Oktoberfest. Old Boise is resurrecting its belief in classic German beer and food in a celebration sure to leave sauerkraut in the Sixth Street gutters and polka ring-ing in your ears.

Dance through the autumn night with live music by Treasure Valley Music Mysters, Wolfie and the Bavarians and Pilot Error. Maybe dancing isn’t your thing and you need to flex your Bavarian bravado in a two-man, 100-pound, keg-rolling competition across the blacktop of Sixth Street. After a little competitive

excitement make sure you check out the beer garden while you marvel at the 21 kegs of Spaten lager.

And while, yes, in true German tradition, beer is a big part of the celebration, the underage crowd is wel-come at Oktoberfest—just don’t expect to drink. So while mom and dad enjoy a refreshing German beer, the

kids can play in a bounce castle and get glitter tattoos by Twinkle Tattoos.

Whether you’re dancing ‘til your feet hurt, sucking down glass steins of German lager or waiting in Jenny’s Lunch Line, anything you do is sure to be wunderbar.

3 p.m. FREE. Sixth and Main streets, Boise, 208-345-7852, oldboise.com.

It was either Repticon or Lizardpalooza.

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

SATURDAY-SUNDAYSEPT. 21-22snake charmed

REPTICON BOISEYou can’t afford a plane ticket to the Amazon but des-

perately want to see a Bolivian bleating frog or an emerald tree boa. You have two options: either save your cash and run headlong, machete swinging, into the forest, or come to Boise’s Repticon. We’d recommend the latter, although the first could lead to some really interesting dinner party stories.

Reptiles of all shapes and sizes will be on hand through-out the two-day event and those who want to scope out the cold-blooded scene can find helpful things like fun and creative ways to decorate your terrarium.

The whole family can check out live animal presentations or learn about the importance of reptiles to our ecosystem. Even if you’ve never touched a snake and don’t know the dif-ference between a toad and a frog, come learn about each and every reptile with a presentation on basic reptile care.

Buy your tickets online and get automatically registered for the VIP treatment that not only includes a VIP raffle filled with loads of reptile swag (yes, there is such a thing), but also gets you access to the Nampa Civic Center one hour before it officially opens. This early entrance and celebrity treatment also makes you eligible for a free ZooMed tote bag. Maybe your dial-up is iffy and your computer is on the fritz—not a problem. Tickets are available at the door. But what about those sweet prizes? Raffles will be held every hour for non-VIP guests.

Saturday, Sept. 21, 10 a.m.-4 p.m..; Sunday, Sept. 22, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. General admission $5-$10, VIP $5-$12, two-day tickets $5-$15. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5500, repticon.com.

Spacebar celebrates with bonus points.

SATURDAYSEPT. 21forget the quarters

SPACEBAR ARCADE FIRST ANNIVERSARY PARTY

Every kid has a friend who, in spite of being insufferably boring and a suspected booger-eater, threw the best birthday parties. Flying in the face of floppy, lukewarm cheese pizza, dry, generic cake and lame party favors—“What’s this? A ka-zoo?”—his or her birthdays were awesome because he or she was stocked to the gills with the most exciting video games.

Spacebar Arcade isn’t a snotty little kid, but it is throwing its first birthday party Saturday, Sept. 21, starting at 4 p.m. and running until 2 a.m. Admission is free, as are the games. DJ Cosmonaut lays down spacey beats as gamers coast through a history museum of classic arcade games, from Don-key Kong to Mortal Kombat and beyond. Pinball wizards keep their wrists supple with drink specials all night long.

In a location where a succession of nightclubs have failed, Spacebar has thrived, catering to a generation nostalgic for the early, heady days of electronic entertainment—a generation that is now old enough to take advantage of Spacebar’s stock of beer. Rather than drawing the partiers who throng Eighth Street on Friday and Saturday nights, it has tapped Boise’s seemingly endless supply of 20- to 40-year-olds who expect more from their bar hangouts than beer on tap and Internet radio tunes.

A full list of arcade consoles at Spacebar can be found on-line, but the classics are always there, making this a birthday party not to miss.

4 p.m.-2 a.m. FREE. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-918-0597, spacebararcade.com.

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BLITZEN TRAPPER: VII (VAGRANT RECORDS)With its upcoming release, VII, Blitzen Trapper dares

listeners to ask whether or not the band is officially “back.” After taking a critical pummeling for its last effort—the deeply nostalgic and surprisingly emotional American Goldwing—it would have made sense for someone to wonder whether the Portland, Ore.-based band was losing touch with the wild, uninhibited spirit that coursed through its earlier albums. But VII proves Blitzen Trapper is still a musical maverick that is going to do whatever the hell it wants. Opening tracks “Feel the Chill” and “Shine On” hint at what is to come, with hip-hop-tinged rock grooves mixing seamlessly with DJ scratches and random harmonica flourishes. Singer Eric Earley weaves his way through songs like a master kayaker calmly navigating Class V rapids. When it comes to the full-on rap in “Oregon Geography,” Earley does it to the combination of a scratchy banjo recording, hypnotic beats and a background otherwise filled with white noise. When he isn’t channeling a lighter, slightly less kooky-sounding version of Eels’ Mark Oliver Everett, Earley turns in a soulful performance here and there as well, as on the bluegrass rock closer “Don’t Be a Stranger.” Despite the variety on this record, it is charmingly cohesive. It’s not surprising that the same person who waxes philosophi-cal with lyrics like, “It’s better to love and lose than to gain a world on a string” in “Thirsty Man,” follows up by rapping about womanly wiles on the hip-hop/honky-tonk hybrid track “Neck Tatts, Cadillacs.”

The beauty of VII lies in the band’s ability to effortlessly span genres, mash them together, not take itself too seri-ously—or too lightly—and do it all with the skill and precision expected of seasoned veterans.

There is no point in trying to predict where the album is go-ing to go as it plays; Blitzen Trapper is going to gleefully plunge down the rabbit hole of musical eccentricity. You might as well come along for the ride.

If American Goldwing wasn’t exactly your cup of tea and you found yourself longing for the Blitzen Trapper of old, VII will meet your expectations.

—Brian Palmer

WEDNESDAYSEPT. 18On Stage

THE FOREIGNER—Froggy con-vinces the locals of a rural Geor-gia town that his friend Charlie Baker doesn’t understand English, making Charlie privvy to some of the town’s most hilari-ous secrets. 7:30 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshake-speare.org.

THURSDAY SEPT. 19Sports & Fitness

FIT ONE BOISE—Join the St. Luke’s Women’s Fitness Celebration with a 5k or 9k run/walk, benefiting the St. Luke’s Children’s Hospital. 8:30 a.m. $12-$50. Capitol and Bannock streets, fitoneboise.org..

On Stage

THE FOREIGNER—See Wednes-day. 7:30 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

LES MISERABLES—The well-known musical drama set during the French Revolution. 7 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Din-ner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

Food & Drink

ADULT NIGHT AT THE DISCOVERY CENTER: SCIENCE OF WINE—

Learn about the science behind wine making. Featuring a tasting, food trucks, live music and more. See Picks, Page 12. 6 p.m. $10. Discovery Center of Idaho, 131 Myrtle St., Boise, 208-343-9895, dcidaho.org.

SUN VALLEY HARVEST FESTIVAL—Featuring guest chef demos, a

restaurant walk, food trends panel and more. See Picks, Page 12. Noon. $10-$380. Sun Valley, sunvalleyharvestfestival.org.

Workshops & Classes

LYNN C. MILLER: FIND YOUR STORY—Lynn C. Miller, author of Find Your Story, Write Your Memoir, will run a memoir writing workshop. 6 p.m. FREE. Redis-covered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

WRITING GREAT DIALOGUE IN FICTION—Join short story writer and Boise State University cre-ative writing professor Christian Winn for a look at writing great dialogue in fiction. 7 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, boisepubliclibrary.org.

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Literature

NANCY PEARL READS—Join in a discussion of books picked by author, book reviewer and book enthusiast Nancy Pearl. Noon. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

POETRY WORKSHOP WITH DI-ANE RAPTOSH—Join Diane Rap-tosh, Boise’s poet laureate and a 2013 Idaho writer in residence, for a poetry writing workshop and a reading from her new collection, American Amnesiac. 7 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boisepubliclibrary.org.

FRIDAY SEPT. 20Food & Drink

GURU DONUTS POP-UP SHOP—Check out a selection of donuts crafted with local ingredients. 7:30 a.m. $1.50-$4. Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-433-5671, gurudo-nuts.com.


IDAHO PREFERRED: RECIPE AND COOKBOOK SHOW-CASE—Enjoy samples from the Idaho Preferred 10th Anniversary cookbook. 4 p.m. FREE. Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-433-5671, boise150.org.

SUN VALLEY HARVEST FES-TIVAL—See Thursday. Noon. $10-$380. Sun Valley, sunval-leyharvestfestival.org.

On Stage

BOISE PHILHARMONIC OPENING NIGHT—Ravel, Bolero. Featuring Pianist

Spencer Myer. See Picks, Page 12. 7 p.m. $30-$70. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 W. Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.


IMAGINARIUM: SIDESHOW AND CIRCUS ODDITIES—

Red Light Variety Show’s latest production. Featuring circus arts, acrobatics, burlesque and more. 8 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, redlightvari-etyshow.org.com.

LES MISERABLES—See Thurs-day. 8 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

SATURDAY SEPT. 21Festivals & Events

20TH ANNUAL KOI AND GOLDFISH SHOW—Check out hundreds of koi and goldfish, as well as art vendors and Bonsai displays. 10 a.m. FREE. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Peni-tentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

FIT ONE BOISE—See Thursday. 8:30 a.m. $12-$50. Capitol and Bannock streets, fitoneboise.org..

HIDDEN TREASURES YARD AND BAKE SALE—A special sale organized by volunteers from US Bank to benefit the Women’s and Children’s Alli-ance. 8 a.m. FREE. Women’s and Children’s Alliance, 720 W. Washington St., Boise, 208-343-3688, wcaboise.org.

HIGHLAND GAMES AND FESTIVAL—Check out the 16th Annual Scottish American Society of Treasure Valley Celtic Festival and Highland Games. 9 a.m. $7-$12. Expo Idaho, 5610 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-287-5650, idahoscots.org.

OLD BOISE OKTOBER-FEST—Enjoy an evening of real German beer,

food, live music and more. See Picks, Page 13. 3 p.m. FREE. Old Boise, Sixth and Main streets, Boise, oldboise.com.

REPTICON BOISE REPTILE SHOW—Check out Repticon, a reptile

event featuring vendors offering reptile pets, supplies, feeders, cages and merchandise. Participate in free raffles held for enthusiasts, animal seminars, and kid’s activities. For more info, email [email protected]. See Picks, Page 13. 10 a.m. $10 adults, $5 kids 5-12, FREE kids 4 and younger. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccen-ter.com.

SCARECROW STROLL—Stroll through the garden while it’s dec-orated with scarecrows designed by local school children. 10 a.m. $5, $3 seniors, youth 5-12, FREE members. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

A SHOUT-OUT TO LIBRARY AMBASSADORS—The Boise Public Library Foundation unveils a colorful new eight-window graphic recognizing library am-bassadors on the veranda of the Main Library. Boise Rock School student band Know Reaction will kick off the event, and Sen. Che-rie Buckner-Webb speaks. 1 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, boisepubliclibrary.org.

SPACEBAR ANNIVER-SARY PARTY—Cel-ebrate the one year

anniversary of Spacebar with arcade games, beer, music and more. See Picks, Page 13. 10 p.m. FREE. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., 208-918-0597, spacebararcade.com.

TREASURE VALLEY BUSI-NESS SUMMIT: RECEIVE TRUE SUCCESS—Featuring business consulting, coaching, network-ing and more. The main topic will be “Balancing Your Personal Life with Your Business Life.” Call for more info or to register. 9 a.m. $47-$97. Courtyard by Marriott Meridian, 1789 S. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-392-0806, bringthefamilytogether.com.

On Stage

BOISE PHILHARMONIC—See Friday. 7 p.m. $30-$70. Mor-rison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 W. Cesar Chavez Ln., Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.


IMAGINARIUM: SIDESHOW AND CIRCUS ODDITIES—Red Light Variety Show. See Friday. 8 p.m. $15 adv., $20 door. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St., Garden City, 208-424-8297, redlightvarietyshow.com.

LES MISERABLES—See Thurs-day. 8 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproductions.org.

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STELLAR MOMENTS: FLASH-BACK—Mixing burlesque, dance, comedy and vocal performance with clips from some of the most memorable movies of the last 30 years, Boise legend Minerva Jane immerses you in one totally tubular stage experience. Also featuring Laydee Bravado, Irides-sa Blossoms, Cyanide Cupcake, Lisa Luscious and a triumphant dude Keno Kekana. 7:30 p.m. $10. Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-336-1313, thebalconyclub.com.

Food & Drink

B’ARC AND BREW CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL—Dogs and people are invited to taste some delicious craft brews in the parking lot. Featuring beer from Payette, Sockeye, Highlands Hollow, Kilted Dragon, Slanted Rock, Ninkasi, and Salmon River breweries, along with doggy parade and best dressed contest and live music by Willison Roos, Terry Peoples and The Oliphants. Proceeds support employment opportunities at The Arc. 1:30 p.m. $15. Crescent “No Law-yers” Bar/Grill, 5500 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-322-9856, no-lawyers.com.

MUSE AND PERIPLE GRAND OPENING—Purchase fresh goat’s milk cheese and super-premium, Idaho-made wines in one location, courtesy of Muse Creamery and Periple Wines. Half of ticket sales benefit Gen-esis World Mission, a nonprofit based out of Garden City that provides primary health care to lower-income, uninsured patients in Idaho and Kenya. Visit website for more info and to purchase tickets. 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. $40. Muse & Periple Marketplace, 1435 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-377-7976, idahocheesean-dwine.com.


Kids & Teens

WATERSHED WEEKENDS SCI-ENCE EXTRAVAGANZA—Young scientists have an opportunity to meet scientists and participate in fun, hands-on activities in the fields of hydrology, geology and biology. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise WaterShed, 11818 W. Joplin Road, Boise, 208-489-1284, cityofboise.org/bee/watershed.

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FIT ONE BOISE—See Thursday. 8:30 a.m. $12-$50. Capitol and Bannock streets, fitoneboise.org..

REPTICON BOISE REPTILE SHOW—See Saturday. 10 a.m. $10 adults, $5 kids 5-12, FREE kids 4-younger. Nampa Civic Center, 311 Third St. S., Nampa, 208-468-5555, nampaciviccen-ter.com.

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LECTURE: TWO SIDES TO HONEST ABEPresident Abraham Lincoln abused his power as the

nation’s commander in chief. He was racist, supporting a program to deport freed African-Americans. Lincoln waged war on civilians and suspended basic rights. His actions during the Civil War were treasonous.

But he was a dignified man who used the power of the presi-dency to protect freedom and hold the country together during tenuous years. Lincoln sought to protect the rights of his fellow countrymen while trying to end slavery.

The complexities of Lincoln’s legacy were laid bare by Loyola University Professor Thomas DiLorenzo and former Lt. Gov. David Leroy, who battled it out Sept. 10 at the Ann Morrison Center, hurling academic research, fiery accusations and impassioned entreaties in their attempt to win audience members to their view of the Great Emancipator.

DiLorenzo, a heavyweight intellectual among libertarians and author of The Real Lincoln and Lincoln Unmasked, at-

tacked the infallible legacy of the country’s 16th president, rail-ing against what he saw as destructive policies that tore apart the United States and killed hundreds of thousands Americans. Leroy, an amateur Lincoln historian with a collection of memo-rabilia so vast that it will be displayed at the Idaho History Cen-ter, went toe to toe with his opponent, arguing that DiLorenzo’s revisionism was skewed.

The debate, hosted by the libertarian Ralph Smeed Founda-tion, brought out plenty of reactions from the audience, which nearly filled the lower half of the Morrison Center. Applause, jeers and side conversations trailed the remarks of both men.

“Freedom is not an abstract concept,” said Leroy—who also served as Idaho attorney general from 1979-1983—holding up ankle chains used to restrain slaves. “It can be lost. It can be chained. It can be sold. And in the right circumstances, with the right leader, it can be gained.”

“We must not rewrite history,” he said.DiLorenzo painted Lincoln as the equivalent of a K Street

lawyer—supporting corporate welfare, bailouts and protective tariffs for the big industries of the time. Lincoln’s was the big-gest house on Old Aristocracy Road when he was a trial lawyer in Illinois, DiLorenzo said. “Deification and worshipping of politi-cians is a sickness in any society,” he added.

The debate, which included a question-and-answer session, drew out a wide array of opinions from audience members. Some thought DiLorenzo was too aggressive in his arguments, attacking personal aspects of Lincoln’s life while others thought Leroy’s arguments relied too heavily on rhetoric.

“The [lieutenant] governor appealed to your emotions more,” Boise resident Justin Deeg said after the debate. “The professor was more factual in his argument.”

The two men covered much in their discussion, tackling whether Lincoln would fit with today’s Republican Party, his true role in ending slavery and even addressed comparisons between Lincoln and President Barack Obama.

“These are points that aren’t argued in West Virginia,” said Jordan Crain, who’s working on a masters’ degree at Boise State University.

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“WE MUST NOT REWRITE HISTORY.”

—former Lt. Gov. David Leroy

04Keeping Boise Slow

05The “Good” City and Time

07A Foot-Wide Idaho Town

11Power to the People

09TJ’s on the Champs- Élysées

Ignore the rhythm of the city at your peril

Gambling, zoning and prosperity in Garden City

Suburbanization creeps into the city center

Engaging citizens in urban planning

Exit Only? “That’s not good. That’s a mistake. I think that’s a terrible mistake.”

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the urban universityBY MELISSA LAVITT

At a meeting of the Rocky Mountain Urban Partnership earlier this year, keynote speaker Edward Glaeser, author of

Triumph of the City, described the connection between population density and individual income. Across the planet, the greater the number of people per block, the bigger the individual paycheck. This strong correlation makes sense because of what Glaeser saw as the perfect fit between “tall cities” and our “flat world.” Economic development and collec-tive and individual prosperity are more likely to thrive in cities, regardless of national policies or boundaries. Density is associated with higher wages and higher productivity.

Cities, at their best, provide easy access to lots of ideas from a variety of people with di-verse skills. As Glaeser described, the “chain of genius” is more likely to occur in cities, thereby fueling human innovation.

Urban centers are also the site of com-plex, seemingly intractable problems such as climate change, unsustainable food supplies and poverty. The Denver meeting included representatives from business, government and higher education who convened to discuss ways to create and sustain vibrant urban cent-ers which support economic development with an abundant supply of well-educated young adults.

“In the rest of this century, I suspect that getting our cities right will be one of the most pressing of the many lines of research that universities will have to engage with,” Nigel Thrift wrote for the Chronicle of Higher Educa-tion.

“Getting our cities right” entails, first, that cities and universities embrace their con-nected future by sharing resources, agendas and sometimes addresses. Urban universities are well served by the “unpredictability of learning” that a downtown location provides. There are many creative examples of using the

city as an urban lab, from downtown Las Vegas and Phoenix to Boise State’s new location in BoDo.

A city’s success, in turn, is ultimately based on the quality and sustainability of its human capital. According to Carol Coletta of ArtPlace, a national consortium of urban-focused foundations, income levels in cities are strongly correlated with education levels. Therefore, getting cities right means that uni-versities educate students to lead, work and contribute to a city that provides an attractive quality of life. There are educational and civic partnerships, including academic fellowships, to support education and job placement for this supply of younger talent.

Second, getting cities right means we need to broaden the conversation on economic development to go beyond the usual suspects of technology, engineering and business. Our messiest problems, such as access to clean drinking water, will require both technological and social innovation and social scientists are in the best position to help translate science research into policy.

Finally, getting cities right means finding ways to be organizationally nimble, to allow for experimentation with new initiatives and unconventional partnerships. Cities and univer-sities possess formidable bureaucracies which can quickly kill innovation if not kept in check. Downtown campuses can offer a unique area for innovation and experimentation.

As this issue of The Blue Review confirms, cities offer a lot of grist for the scholarly mill. Our urban centers are expected to be an economic engine, business incubator and idea generator. At urban public universities, we must pay attention to fueling this engine. In fact, anyone interested in the future of the city should also be interested in sustaining a successful university.

We hope you enjoy this issue.

Melissa Lavitt is executive editor of The Blue Review, dean of the College of Social Sciences and Public Affairs at Boise State University and a doc-tor of social work.

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On a recent summer weekend, 7,000 Boiseans donned tiaras, gorilla masks and other sundry disguises, hopped

on their bikes and slowly toured downtown together in a corporate sponsored parade that is bigger than its corporate sponsor. Colo-rado beer brewer New Belgium invented this summer bike festival, but in Boise, it is one of

-ple of Boise—new, old and native born—just do stuff, in a big way.

It’s a feature that is perplexing to students of cities, those who call themselves planners, because it depends upon spontaneity, indi-viduality and rule breaking.

For a generation or two, Americans moved in droves to suburbs, where life is neat and orderly and well planned, at least on the out-side. And for a decade or so, city planners and

cities recognized that suburban sprawl was a harmful trend, destroying rich farmland, erod-ing ties between neighbors, leaching bodies from once-vibrant city centers and reinforcing America’s racial and class animus.

In this issue of The Blue Reviewthat the forces which prospered in America’s suburban era have caught on to the counter-vailing trend quicker than cities can respond. On the one hand, this means new investment in downtowns. On the other hand, purveyors of suburban aesthetics and values are crafting downtown America in their own image.

Using Boise as our lab, our writers see creeping suburbanization everywhere they look. Starting with a historical review of Boi-se’s gritty, urban neighbor, Garden City, histo-

always positioned itself as a more responsible,

sensible, bourgeois uncle. TBR graduate fellow

popular grocer chain, Trader Joe’s, slated to open a downown Boise outlet early next year, easily skirted the city of Boise’s weak urban zoning requirements to build a suburban-style strip mall at the corner of Capitol and Front.

Political scientist Brian Wampler examines the role of public participation in long-term transportation planning in the Boise valley,

disadvantaged populations. And my own es-say on the future of the underdeveloped 30th

one path forward for the city in terms of at-tracting what Boise Mayor David Bieter calls, “a more urban form,” that we don’t yet have the language to describe.

Finally, Jaap Vos, director of Community

on the planning conundrum that is downtown

Boise right in so many interesting ways—a Mountain West conception of time that allows for spontaneous work and play and a cavalier disregard for the way things are supposed to be in favor of self-determination.

One of the features of the Tour de Fat sum-mer bike festival in Boise is a slow bike race. Participants ride the 25-foot course as slowly as possible, without ever coming to a com-plete stop. They ride creaky old bikes—staged for a certain urban cycle chic aesthetic, to be sure—but their forward momentum serves as

forward in the 21st century: slow and steady, suspicious of their own corporate backers and spontaneous within a deliberately creative and methodically urban framework.

Keeping Boise SlowSuburbanization creeps into the city center

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The Tour de Fat, 2013, raised more than $55,000 for local charitable causes. It’s a study in

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Boise has a penchant for being listed. In 2011, CNN Money listed Boise as the third-best retirement city. Last year, Forbes ranked Boise as the second-

best city in the United States in which to raise a family. In July, the San Francisco Chronicle published an article stating that Boise was the seventh safest city in the U.S. According to the city’s economic development team, since 2008, Boise has made it onto more than 50 top-10 lists. While some of these lists are just plain silly, others are an indica-tion of the qualities that make Boise a remarkable city. And although these lists are subjective and not the result

on demonstrates the elusive intrigue of this isolated Western hamlet.

Despite all this listmania, Jeff Speck, a national authority on walkable com-munities, told Boise Weekly in June that, “given the impediments that your downtown streets currently impose—in-cluding all the one-way streets—it is a bit befuddling to me that things are as good as they are.” Add that to the list of lists: top-10 befuddling cities. But dishearten-ing as it may be, a consultant of Speck’s pedigree is unlikely to tell a client that the city’s success is befuddling unless what he saw in Boise truly befuddled him.

Speck does have some solid planning ground to stand on. Look at a satel-lite map of Boise on Google and you will notice many surface parking lots, undeveloped parcels and the emergency exits out of downtown that are Front and Myrtle streets. Walk around and you cannot help but notice a lack of connectivity between different parts of downtown, a lack of signage for out-of-town visitors and opening hours at some downtown stores which are indeed befuddling. Throw in an anemic airport, suburban sprawl, troubling air quality

fodder for befuddlement.Despite all the things that Boise could have done

better, despite all these things that don’t quite work right—the little inconveniences of living “in the middle of nowhere”—the success of downtown Boise does not, in fact, befuddle.

Speck, in his short visit to Boise, realized that there is something that makes Boise work. In the interview with Boise Weekly he stated: “Quite honestly, I was not that

hopeful that Boise would be the kind of place that could keep its millennials from going to Denver or Portland,” he said. “Now that I’ve been here, I feel entirely the opposite. Boise has what it takes.”

So what is it that makes Boise work, despite the obvi-

New Urbanism Conference in Salt Lake City, a panel of

faith-based community leaders inadvertently shed some light on it. They touched on qualities of cities that are typically not on the forefront of a planner’s mind: The social and spiritual aspects of the city.

Bradford Houston, one of the panelists and the man-ager of architectural design in the Temple Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, com-mented that a good city should provide you with time. For planners, this statement is somewhat puzzling; streets are

opportunity. The idea that a city exists to provide us with

befuddling.Yet it seems to describe life in Boise. Going to the

Saturday market is part of an enjoyable routine that in-cludes a cup of coffee at Flying M, tasting wine from local wineries and enjoying a freshly made “stroopwafel” at the

market. While, the city is not intentionally manufacturing additional time, it allows residents to easily combine chores with free time and enjoyment. One rarely feels as though they are wasting time in the city.

There is surprisingly little written about “time” in the mainstream planning literature. In the 1970s, planners were con-cerned about increasing leisure time. Some even started thinking that with fewer hours spent at work, cities could be redesigned,

replaced with amusement parks. More recently, Donald Shoup, distinguished professor of urban planning at UCLA, has argued that cities should charge more for on-street parking to increase business vol-ume downtown, an argument with which

transportation planning, so called “conges-tion based pricing” and high occupancy lanes provide incentives to carpools and hybrids.

It appears that most of our plan-ning considerations with regard to time are about streamlining and minimizing its waste. Planners, like most people in modern society, see time as a scarce com-modity. With clever designs and schemes, they try to make our use of time in cities

and architecture have been preoccupied

into a predictable, frictionless, scheduled environment. Different districts of the city were assigned different functions through zoning regulations. Space was homog-enized and our daily activities were divided

into buckets: work, live, recreate, shop, eat, etc. Each district was maximized for its designated use with ample parking for big retail, fast food courts in shopping malls and cul-de-sacs for suburbs with white picket fences. All this produced predictable landscapes where every activity has its own special, designated place.

Of course, creating different spaces for different activities during the day—“cities of places”—meant that we needed one additional district, the transportation corridor, to allow people in cars to move as quickly as pos-

Making Time in BoiseEmbracing the befuddling city

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sible between these different spaces. Over the years, our freeways became more and

cost was that roads increasingly resembled subway tunnels, a district as disconnected from its surroundings as possible.

In this context, Bradford Houston’s remarks that a city should provide us with time starts making much more sense. Plan-ners, designers and architects have been so

that they ignored the time involved in the simple act of changing activities, which involves getting into the car, entering the

wasting time en route to the next activity. In fact, any time you enter the transporta-tion district you are effectively losing time.

So let’s get back to Boise and Jeff Speck’s befuddlement. The city’s awkward mix of uses and abrupt changes between blocks is disorienting and certainly not

that fade to noth-ing, the random one-way grid, the lack of signage, stores that open at random hours—Boise is a planner’s worst nightmare. And yet Boiseans are blessed with the gift of time.

The sheer number of cy-clists, unhelmeted and off-lane; cafes full of laptops and meetings; noon-hour and any-hour exercisers; and alterna-tive and creative career seekers may have impressed upon Speck. Boise’s natives and exiles from the coasts alike bask in the out-of-doors, out-of-the-rat-race culture that is Boise. Perhaps that is part of what Speck saw in his brief visit here.

We linger. We hang out. We extend the day downtown in local restaurants, listen to local bands, attend shows and free concerts and festivals. These numerous events are as important to Boise as the layout of its streets. Great cities, places that we want to

they have some combination of place, peo-ple and programs. Downtown Boise might

and empty storefronts, but it feels like a place full of people and activity.

What makes this city work is not the orientation of its buildings, nor the width of its streets, nor the quality of the street furniture. It is the people and the way the

people use the city. It does not matter that some things are somewhat awkward in its design. We simply enjoy it because it is home; it is comfortable; it is fun; it is where our past, present and future meet on a daily basis.

There is more to the success of Boise as a place than a refusal of its residents to waste time. Boise has a rhythm; there is a pattern to life in the city. We look forward to Bogus Basin opening for skiing, or the

with the change of seasons. We eat in local

seasons. We live in a city but still talk with the local farmer, the brewer, the rancher, the winemaker.

To understand Boise, planners must understand its people and the way they use and program the city. We do not necessar-

ily look the same as other cities, we do not need the same street

layouts, the same stores, the same street furni-

ture, the same banks or the same restau-rants. Many would argue that we do not want to be the same.

The city should be a place where

we are comfort-able, a place we like

to come back to after a long trip. It is not a model

in an architect’s rendering, with

a home—functional, comfortable, with its quirks and all kinds of bizarre little things that make it unique. In our quest to codify places with setback requirements, road widths and color schemes—often in an attempt to increase property values—we planners think about buildings, streets and economic development. We ignore the fact that the city is not just an economic engine; it is the place where we live, eat, drink, walk, listen to music or just hang around. Most planners and designers take owner-ship of the physical manifestation of the city—believing in the “if you build it they will come” refrain. But we ignore the city’s rhythm, its people and its notions of time at our own peril.

Jaap Vos directs the Department of Com-munity and Regional Planning at Boise State University. His research interests include environmental planning, sustain-able development, community involvement and planning education.

We linger. We hang out. We extend the

day downtown in local restaurants, listen to local

bands, attend shows and free concerts and festivals. These

numerous events are as important to Boise as the

layout of its streets.


Bmight seem a minor matter warranting only the brief-est notice. Merle Wells, the dean of Idaho historians,

devoted less than a single paragraph to the subject in his history, Boise: An Illustrated History. Following Boise’s banning of the slots, Wells noted, gambling interests created

a few years before state law prohibited all gambling. That left Garden City with little reason to exist “except as a haven from Boise’s municipal taxes and zoning laws.” Its continued existence, however, led to an “uneasy relationship of Boise and Garden City” resulting ever since in “ineffective and inef-

drawing a discreet curtain over what many Boiseans saw as its inexcusably sleazy suburb. That utterly misses the

TAKING THE HIGH GROUNDBoise’s prohibition of slot

-ing moment in the city’s history. Confronted with the moral challenge of easy money at the cost of reprehen-sible side effects, Boise quickly and

to be the high ground. This moral steadfastness, however, has frequent-ly been accompanied by a blind self-righteousness, unable to see, let alone empathize with, the needs and interests of people who cannot or choose not to share Boise’s values.

Boise’s sense of vindicated honor at banning slots in 1949 soon turned to infuriated chagrin when gambling interests persuaded residents a few hundred yards west of Boise’s city limits to incorporate as Garden City. Immediately thereafter it began to license slot machines. Out-raged Boiseans took no comfort from the fact that Garden City was only one of 17 “foot-wide towns” in Idaho, as Life maga-zine called them, popping up to provide gambling venues. Nor did they, either at the time or later on, have any taste for the notion that Garden City simply amounted to an anachronistic throwback to a time when suburbs were slums for undesirable activities and people.

Boiseans condemned Garden City as nothing more than a “robbers’ camp,” a “community sore,” a place where “its main and almost only business is liquor and gambling.” The original core of Garden City, known as Fairview Acres at the time and now referred to as Old Town, occupied a wedge-shaped area west of the junction of Highways 20/26 and 30, hemmed in by the Bench and the river. Residents had considered incor-

poration in 1947 but had not pursued the idea. Then, on April 28, 1949, barely three weeks after Boise voters had repudiated slot machines; the county commissioners received a petition signed by 177 people requesting incorporation of the area from 32nd to 38th Streets.

The proposed village began with a population of 542, including 247 under the age of 18. The incorporators denied they had any personal connections with gambling, but they showed no reluctance to do business with casino operators.

Undeterred by this transparent ploy to thwart Boise’s opposition to slots, the commissioners speedily approved Garden City’s incorporation on May 21. For Boiseans it was

gain from the hundreds of slot machines crammed into its bars and casinos. Within six months of its founding it had become the “richest village of its size in the state,” reported John Corlett in the Idaho Statesman, with its slot machines “grinding out revenue at a fantastic rate.” Garden City had already gained an “unsavory, ‘sin city’ reputation” that would linger for decades. Over the past half-century, Garden City has epitomized the “dark side” to its many critics. It has shown a lamentable readiness, in the eyes of Boiseans proud of their standards, to accept both people and businesses found objec-tionable by so-called “nice” neighborhoods and conventional business parks.

A staff report, released by then-Boise Mayor Dick Eardley in October, 1977, summed up with undiplomatic bluntness

number of undesirables live in and operate out of Garden City. We do not want that area to expand.”

The acceptance of marginal or questionable businesses emerged only after the statewide prohibition of all gambling as of January 1, 1954, but Garden City’s social tolerance dates from its very beginning, resulting from a variety of factors. In part, it arose from the pre-existing social composition of the area. Fairview Acres had been a place where people could build inexpensive homes which might not meet city building codes or middle class expectations. In 1952, Marjorie Moon, later the publisher of the Garden City Gazette, -pect of the village rarely seen or understood by most Boiseans. Behind the “bustling clubs and motels, interspersed with a

few grocery stores and gas stations” strung along the main street lay the “real” Garden City: “a town for all the world like a frontier community of the Old West, with modest homes, oiled streets... and a two-and-a-half acre grass-covered park.”

ZONING FOR THE ‘LITTLE FELLOW’Towns in the frontier West had rarely

been sticklers for building codes. Follow-ing in that tradition, Garden City quickly retracted its initial adoption of Boise’s build-ing code. “I don’t think we’re ready for those restrictions yet,” Bud Owens told the village trustees in June, 1949. “We have to think of the little fellow that wants to get started.” A poll of the trustees revealed three of those present preferred no restrictions at all, “but the majority favored light restrictions.” Concern for Bud Owens’ “little fellow” had never been a strong point in Boise. People who failed to meet middle class standards of propriety were guilty, in the eyes of many Boiseans, of slothful indolence and deserved neither sympathy nor tolerance.

The consequences of such an attitude could be seen in the history of the River Street area, a neigh-borhood housing not only Boise’s tiny black population but also a variety of other outsiders. Pam Demo has carefully documented the working class tolerance for social diversity to be found in the River Street area, as well as the shacks in which some its residents found themselves forced to live. The

-thing useful, such as an industrial area, according to the 1946 zoning proposal. Not until the 1970s, tantalized by the lure of money from the federal Model Cities program, did Boise make any attempt to respond to the needs and interests of River Street residents. Nothing equivalent to Demo’s study has yet appeared for Garden City, but evidence can be readily found that the new village had no intention of attempting to gentrify itself to meet Boise’s approval. Its founders utterly rejected

A Foot-Wide Idaho TownGarden City as study in alt planning

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the notion advanced by Reverend Hartzell Cobb, president of the Boise Ministerial Association: “Boise and Garden City were almost one insofar as common interests are concerned.”

new village, the question arose whether it might not be best to

up Warm Springs Avenue and Harrison Boulevard,” James Titmus jeeringly responded. The class antagonism so obvious in Titmus’ statement would continue to typify Garden City at-titudes toward Boise until the 1990s when a growing number of upper-end subdivisions altered the town’s social mix. Gar-

their own community. Unlike Boise’s Council, which managed the city’s money with all of the caution typical of small-town businessmen who, in fact, made up most of its membership, Garden City’s trustees displayed the kind of open-handed generosity one might expect from working people suddenly

money. Sometimes, such as a case in September, 1949, that meant sim-ply allotting $15 for groceries to an unnamed person in need. At a time when 23 cents would buy two cans of Campbell’s tomato soup and a loaf of raisin bread cost 16 cents, $15 could buy a lot of groceries. On other occa-sions the trustees decided they needed to do more than give a handout for food or rent. On October 17, 1949, they discussed the case of Joseph Buenes,

some work for him.” The trustees also stood ready to support local charities. A week after the Buenes case, they voted to supply the $1,000 which the local Christian Community Center re-portedly needed to complete its build-ing. Learning a week later that the Center needed only $800, the trustees diverted the remaining $200 to “the Church of God in our own village.” As long as gambling remained legal, there was little danger the trustees’ generos-ity might overtax the village’s resources. In February, 1950 the treasurer reported a balance of $15,000 in the checking account. Six months later the village’s unappropriated surplus had jumped to $86,380. By July, 1953 the trustees could authorize the purchase of $300,000 in U.S. bonds.

ONE MAN’S JUNKYARDNo one reading the Boise paper would have any inkling

that Garden City represented a town far different from Boise. Not only did it enjoy, at least temporarily, a level of municipal wealth unlike anything Boise had ever experienced, but Gar-den City, from its very beginning, also chose to regulate itself in ways which Boiseans have always failed to understand. In June, 1949, the Statesman compared Garden City to a boy who had eaten too many green apples. It “came into being too quickly” and “lacks the foundation and not even slot machines can build it.” As if to prove the editorial’s case, the same day it appeared the trustees voted to “shelve all building restrictions

its own merits, instructing the building inspector to submit all building proposals to the trustees for approval. Thus began a venture into city planning so alien to Boise’s way of thinking as to defy all reason as Boiseans understood it.

The trustees did enact a building code in the fall of 1949, but they continued to make decisions inexplicable to many

sense was there in creating a commercial zone encompassing

banning all junkyards from residential areas when the whole

politics evident in the village’s turbulent, controversy-ridden trustees soon became the laughingstock of many Boiseans. Boise had only a few years to indulge in the luxury of dismiss-ing Garden City as an inconsequential travesty. The chickens

an immediate crisis—it had saved enough during the salad days of gambling to be able to coast a bit before it even needed to assess any property taxes on its residents. Nevertheless,

town. “The principal problem,” as Henry Reed, the village at-

to provide the essentials of municipal government.”The leaders quickly decided on two major departures from

previous patterns. The results of those departures not only determined the character of Garden City for many years to come; they would also bedevil Boise’s conception of itself and

begun with gambling. State law might prohibit gambling, but Garden City would continue accepting businesses rejected by Boise. Prior to 1954 Garden City used its zoning powers to minimize the intrusion of marginal businesses and those offending middle-class householders. Thereafter, it threw

open the door to any business it could possibly accommodate. In September, 1954, Guy Robinson, chairman of the Garden City Planning Commission, recommended rezoning the entire village for industrial use. “No use trying to make it residen-tial,” he said. Two weeks later, Gerald Sherwood, the commis-sion secretary, removed all doubt about its intentions: “The Planning Commission has been thinking mostly in terms of promoting Garden City as a well-known industrial city... We will, in fact, help any business in any way that we can, if they wish to locate in Garden City.”

The implications of this industry-friendly policy can be seen in the handling of junkyards. The trustees had previ-ously looked askance at them. In 1952, they banned junkyards from residential areas. Under the new policy junkyards soon cropped up all over the town.

Boiseans shook their heads in disgust and paid as little attention to Garden City as they could. Boise prided itself on being a clean and attractive city. Rarely has Boise shown any

awareness that a city must have a place for recycling establishments, such as wrecking yards and low-end used furniture stores, and for start-up businesses able to survive only in low-rent areas such as those provided by Garden City. Beginning in the 1990s, Garden City’s urban renewal program aimed to upgrade areas previously al-lowing spurned uses such as wrecking yards. Boiseans have applauded that effort, without asking where the dis-placed businesses might go. “Regional planning” continues to be as myopic, in that regard, as in 1964, when the city plan prepared for Boise by Atkin-son & Associates never mentioned Garden City.

Boise has never suffered gladly any opposition to what it sees as the wise and moral thing to do. Regardless of whether it is facing the small and sullied Garden City or the Ada County

it very hard to accept the legitimacy of any opponents, preferring to question

their rationality or morality rather than accept the existence of well-founded policies and values markedly differing from

moral thing by banning gambling, Boiseans looked at Garden City and found nothing worthy of acceptance. As we have seen, a similar blend of integrity and blind self-righteousness has frequently characterized Boise’s relations with its neigh-bors in the second half of the 20th century.

J.M. Neil is a retired historian with a Ph.D. in American studies from Washington State University. He is the author of several books, including a recent history of a century of orchestra life called Boise Pops. This essay is excerpted from his manuscript, City Limits, about the development of Boise. A longer version of this story is available at thebluereview.org.

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Boise’s Capitol Boulevard was designed to emulate grand, Old World streets, but since the day city fathers cut it from sagebrush frontier, the street has shared

little with the Champs-Élysées. Built during an era promoting urban revitalization by way of pageantry, known as the “City Beautiful” movement, engineers aligned Capitol along an axis to provide stunning views of two Idaho architectural jewels—the Boise Depot and Idaho State Capitol. Today, views of the growing city skyline, with Boise’s foothills as backdrop, are still quite majestic.

But years of ho-hum development have wrought havoc on the city’s premier entranceway, creat-ing a perplexing relationship between Boiseans and their once grand vision. Wide travel lanes, the incessant din of

of poorly coordi-nated architectural styles and a scarcity of cafe patios or bike lanes are inconsist-ent with its “boule-vard” moniker.

It’s a problem that plagues city centers across America. Massive roads and thousands of cars eviscerate original street grid systems in major urban centers, fun-neling impatient motorists through thin strips of right-of-way. Urban residents are left with a constant struggle to attract potential consumers whizzing by their windows.

retailer like Trader Joe’s, the trendy grocery chain slated to open in Boise by 2014. The Monrovia, Calif., grocer will be primary tenant of a multi-million dollar development on the site of a former parking lot, where Capitol Boulevard meets Front Street, a short walk from bustling shops on Eighth Street, stores in BODO and from the Eighth and Main tower, the city’s newest skyscraper.

But downtown workers, weekenders and lunch-goers may

Unlike popular shops nearby, Trader Joe’s front door won’t face the sidewalk, but an asphalt parking lot, sure to be jam-packed with cars.

Occupying a single-story structure, with a design not much different than a Rite Aid, Trader Joe’s downtown storefront will be offset by an 80-stall parking lot and three small, single-story buildings. Chain eateries Chipotle and Panda Express

are proposed for two of those locations, while Starbucks may occupy a small structure with a drive-through window.

It’s a design that shirks city plans stretching back four

to force the company, intent on setting up shop in Boise, to build better.

A SUBURBAN DESIGNIn Berkeley, Calif., New York City and San Francisco,

-towns—in New York, the company tucked a store into an East Village skyscraper. Developers in New York can’t afford the

takes place on foot, in corner bodegas, making car-focused development far from the norm for grocery stores.

prefer the perceived convenience offered by a large footprint with ample parking. In some city centers, market forces, zon-

ing ordinances or government-sponsored incentives exist to make those designs less desirable, factors which may convince retailers to become tenants in larger developments.

In Boise, Trader Joe’s will stand in harsh contrast to the stated desire for people-focused places, building a center that would feel more at home in suburban Los Angeles. Surpris-ingly, the lot at 300 S. Capitol Boulevard wasn’t the company’s

Carley told Boise Weekly News Editor George Prentice he proposed installing Trader Joe’s on a different downtown parcel, with a plan to build an attached parking garage and—in a later phase—a hotel.

“Trader Joe’s said, ‘Nope. We don’t want any construction going on around us after we’re open. We need to move in a year and you would have to build it all now,’” Carley told Prentice. “I was crushed. What a great anchor that would have been for that property. And Trader Joe’s has a lot of other urban projects which are vertical, so I couldn’t

understand that.”The Trader Joe’s design is disappointing for city of Boise

planners as well. They envision downtown as an accessible place for bike riders, pedestrians and families with strollers, not just vehicles. In a Jan. 7, 2013 report to the Planning and Zoning Commission, city planners cited concern with the “suburban style” of the project, which “might be an underu-tilization of the site.” Then-chair of the commission Jennifer Stevens agreed, and told architect Andrew Erstad as much at a hearing that same evening. P&Z commissioners ultimately moved the project forward.

Bryan Vaughn, project manager for Hawkins Companies,

The Rise and Fall of Capitol BoulevardA Long and Treacherous Route to Trader Joe’s

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the developer contracted by Trader Joe’s, told The Blue Re-view he had signed a nondisclosure agreement and couldn’t comment on this story. In an email, Alison Mochizuki, director of public relations for Trader Joe’s, also declined to comment.

“Thank you for the opportunity but unfortunately we do have to pass as we don’t talk about our business or real estate practices,” she wrote.

WHAT’S A TOWN TO DO?Planning and zoning departments strive to incentivize tall

buildings in downtown cores. Modern urban planning sug-gests dense buildings, constructed on a predictable street grid,

people is a more sustainable growth pattern than planning around the personal automobile.

For numerous reasons, Boise does not require density. But -

provements to sidewalks along Capitol Boulevard. City plans codify a vision for the boulevard as “a ceremonial visual cor-ridor to the State Capitol,” with “trees and other landscaping added to make the street stand out as an entrance to Boise.” In code, standards call for red brick pavers,

for shade and other requirements. Hawkins is re-quired to add those elements along the new Trader Joe’s development to help beautify the street and make Capitol Boulevard more “walkable.” However P&Z can’t, per current city code, force Hawkins to give visitors walking to Trader Joe’s a convenient, pedestrian-friendly entrance on Capitol Boulevard.

Despite red brick pavers, despite a wide setback and rows of planters, despite street trees, expensive landscaping and decorative steel panels, the small doorway located on the corner of Capitol Boulevard and Front Street isn’t an entrance. In the building’s architectural drawings, the doorway is designated as “EXIT ONLY.” Trader Joe’s sole entrance faces an 80-stall parking lot.

That detail was news to Elaine Clegg, a member of the Boise City Council and Idaho Smart Growth project coordinator. She regularly champions dense, mixed-use projects and better urban form. By procedure, city leaders see applications only after approval, or to consider a variance. Clegg is disap-pointed with the project, particularly the lack of a pedestrian-friendly entrance.

“Yeah, that’s not good. That’s a mistake. I think that’s a terrible mistake, and if our staff approved that, frankly, they know that we wouldn’t support it as a city council,” she said.

The result is a street that zoning code dictates should be walkable, but in practice will be anything but. City code requires well-designed sidewalks, but does not currently ad-dress building ingress and egress.

“It might be that they had no tools not to approve it, because we haven’t gotten our code changed yet,” Clegg explained. “We’ve got standards that aren’t up to date. If they’re meeting the minimum standard, it’s hard to require something else.”

zone designated for dense development, Hawkins and Trader Joe’s is instead building a low-intensity project destined to

project installed in what should be Boise’s most walkable part of town, shirked street-facing storefronts in favor of a wide parking lot.

“Like Whole Foods, it could have been done better. I’m not picking on Trader Joe’s. Whole Foods has all of the same problems, even more so because the building isn’t at the street,” said Clegg.

On the Whole Foods site, an adjacent dirt lot, slated for a mixed-use tower that never materialized, was converted into more parking. City of Boise planners have few tools to require more from developers. As written, the city of Boise’s zoning code doesn’t mandate dense projects, lacking a “minimum de-velopment standard” requiring even a two-story structure. But the city does provide some incentives, often for more density, incentives that are attractive only when the market is good.

“The option was there. They could have gone higher,” said Sarah Schafer, city design review and historic preservation manager. “If it was their desire, they could have been part of an overall mixed-use project, vertically, if they had wanted. A lot of times they’ll say it’s driven by [the] market, and that

Boise’s market just isn’t there yet. You wonder what it is that would get them to that point.”

Clegg would have preferred a Trader Joe’s that takes better advantage of prime downtown real estate.

“I’m not afraid to be on the record saying I think that’s a real underutilization of a very prime site,” said Clegg. “And yeah, it’s a great use; I love that Trader Joe’s is coming here, but I think that site could have been much better utilized, and frankly, much better designed. I’m not convinced you have to have the suburban design to make it successful.”

Density is important to downtown, Clegg explains. In ad-dition to promoting walking, which is better for human and

use of city services than endless miles of single story develop-ments. A city grid system peppered with buildings of varying size, and featuring a dense network of places to go, promotes

street life. It’s why P&Z strives to push buildings to the side-walk, rather than in a sea of parking.

“The closer you get front doors to the sidewalk, the closer those destinations are in fact, and not just in theory,” said Clegg.

WALKING IN BOISE’S FUTURENumerous factors beyond mere zoning explain why

downtown Boise looks different than Manhattan. Cheap land and an abundance of cars leads to single story development, siphoning off demand for diverse services in city centers. If Idahoans want to see a future with better land use, better air quality, better public health, adequate city services and farmland preservation, investing in walkable cities provides an answer.

Planners and policymakers in Portland, Ore., are better equipped to deal with urban issues than their Boise counter-parts. The two metropolitan areas have undergone extensive growth, but where Boise has doubled down on cars in the past 30 years, in the same time period, downtown Portland has been reborn as a thriving market, and a place where residents

and tourists can travel on foot and by alternative transportation. Part of the city’s smart growth stems

-Call, and the creation of urban growth boundaries around Oregon’s cities—a mechanism that controls urban expansion at the fringes, frequently contested in the state’s courts.

If Boise’s city leaders want to see better develop-

-ers have asked the Idaho Legislature for local option taxation for years) and better zoning tools—like active use requirements, which stipulate that developments incorporate features like sidewalk cafes and vendors’ stands to encourage street life—may help make

factor in building a better Trader Joe’s would have been nearby residents to walk to the store—Boise is remarkably empty of any downtown housing other than luxury condos.

Yet, recent studies show that even in the American West, with its well-documented addiction to urban sprawl, people are starting to come around to the idea of living in a place that provides walking as an option.

One study from the Sonoran Institute found that in Boise, over 10 years and more than 40,000 home sales, homes sold in neighborhoods considered walkable fetched prices 45 per-cent higher, on average, than their less walkable counterparts. Survey respondents in six cities, including Boise, indicated they would pay 12.5 percent more to live in a neighborhood where they could walk to schools, parks, restaurants and shops.

“I think people everywhere are beginning to intuitively understand that spending 10 or 15 or 20 minutes in a car to get to everything they want to go to is not a really desirable lifestyle,” said Clegg.

Andrew Crisp is a graduate fellow at The Blue Review and student at Boise State’s community and regional planning program.

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Plans for the new Trader Joe’s in Boise show the door at the corner of Front and Myrtle as an exit only, meaning pedestrians will have to take the long way in.


Citizen involvement in public life is vital to the vibrancy of any metropolitan re-gion. It expands the breadth and range

of ideas, preferences and interests included in public debate, which, in turn, improves democratic governance and accountability. But all public participation is not created equal—most local governments in the United States accept testimony from citizens and may occasionally seek broad citizen input, but it is

decision-making authority to citizens. For the past 20 years, there has been a growing inter-national trend that seeks to increase citizen participation in government policy-making by giving citizens direct control over budgets

-ing citizens to help governments decide how

involving citizens in monitoring government

The Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho, or COMPASS, is an example of a local government agency that seeks to incorporate citizen input into public decision-making as a means to improve the scope and quality of its projects. COMPASS is a metropolitan planning organization that prioritizes major transportation projects that

will cost in the hundreds of millions dollars in coming years. The agency is responsible for a wide range of planning activities in Southwest Idaho, including infrastructure improve-

-ties in Motion 2040) and encouraging air

In order to receive federal funding, COM-PASS is obligated to involve citizens in re-gional transportation planning. Over the past decade, the agency has done an admirable job of it. COMPASS won a series of national, regional and local awards as it creatively incorporated citizens into its incremental planning processes. COMPASS planners used innovative programs including a Community Café, a Meeting in a Bag and Communities in Motion workshops. A common feature of these programs is that COMPASS provides in-formation to the public, which is followed by an effort to help clarify citizens’ understand-

-PASS receives input from citizens regarding what should be done.

Despite the efforts of COMPASS staff to encourage participation, there are several fac-tors that dramatically limit citizen participa-tion. Although there are hundreds of millions of dollars at stake during the next 30 years,

Power to the PeopleEngaging citizens in urban planning

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public participation is better described as anemic.My research over the past decade on participation

demonstrates that there are four crucial components which encourage participation in public life: voice, vet, vote and veto. Citizens have voice and they can vet COMPASS plans, but there is no real vote or veto.

Voice consists of the ability of citizens to express their ideas and policy preferences in public forums. Vet allows citizens to use information to assess the government’s activities. Vote

issues. Veto allows citizens to formally block government initiatives.

WE THE PEOPLEDirect citizen involvement in local politics predates the

U.S. Constitution, as states and cities across New England experimented with new forms of incorporating citizens di-rectly into public institutions. The famed New England “Town Halls” brought citizens together to publicly make decisions re-garding how limited public authority and resources should be used. These small town meetings were developed in the 17th and 18th centuries and continue to be used today. Currently, citizens in the U.S. and across the world are being incorporat-ed into formal policymaking venues in order to design cities, plan long-term transportation, monitor government spend-ing, oversee police activities and help allocate public resourc-es. There is a growing recognition that improving democratic governance involves promoting transparency, accountability and citizen participation.

-pate in public life for a few basic reasons. People have busy lives, they don’t see how their participation would have any

feel that they lack the knowledge to contribute. Ongoing par-

ticipation is easier to sustain when individuals are intensely passionate about issues, especially social issues like abortion, gun rights, marriage and privacy.

In order to better understand the nature of public partici-pation in Southwest Idaho, a research team at Boise State University held a series of focus group meetings in 2010 and 2011, with citizens who had participated in COMPASS meet-

ings. We found that their principal criticism of COMPASS was a lack of feedback; citizens who made the effort to participate didn’t know if their efforts had any impact on the decisions

focused on COMPASS, we should note that this criticism could be made of most public agencies which seek to incorporate citizens. The federal, state and local governments often use consultative formats that allow citizens to express voice as well as to vet government programs, but they don’t allow citizens to exercise a vote or veto.

Although COMPASS has made consid-erable effort to incorporate citizens, most of the citizen participation involves citizens

providing feedback. Citizens are not empowered to directly decide what COMPASS should do, and COMPASS hasn’t been able to systematically provide citizens with any real responsibilities.

-resentative democracies are not interested in supporting policies that would increase the decision-making power of

the rules and principles of representative democracy, which is a political system designed to limit citizen participation

considerable leeway to make decisions on behalf of their con-stituents. One of the most important policy innovations of the past 15 years is the creation of new participatory institutions

delegate certain parts of policy and budgetary processes. The parameters of the authority exercised by citizens is thus set

citizens, it is often because they are political outsiders who are trying to build a new po-litical coalition or they are ideologically committed to empowering citizens.

A very real problem faced by COMPASS is that

-ing in a regional planning context have few incentives to promote new policies that might empower citi-zens. In addition, political competition between the

-ferent jurisdictions also discourages public partici-pation. For example, the mayors of Boise, Meridian and Nampa, who all sit on the COMPASS board, have different interests and

cooperate. When there is limited cooperation among partners,

policies that would increase citizen participation.A classic problem related to citizen participation is that

a small number of socially and politically powerful citizens capture the participatory venues. In 2011, our research team

administered a survey to a random sample of COMPASS par-ticipants. In comparison to the general population, COMPASS participants are much more highly educated and with higher levels of income. Political scientists have demonstrated that political organizing to protect one’s interest is more easily

done by middle and upper middle classes because they have the necessary skills to overcome the

“collective action problem.” Basically, people don’t participate because they don’t want to be the “sucker”—giving their time or money when everyone else “free rides.” Better-off individuals tend to be better connected and are more likely to have their voices heard, which reduces the likelihood that

they will be a “sucker.” COMPASS ap-pears to be falling into a trap known as “elite

capture” whereby it is the best organized and well-situated members of a community who have the

because long-range planning is slow and painful, often taking decades to accomplish. Participants need to be committed to a process that won’t bear fruit for 20 to 30 more years.

Participatory democracy complements representative democracy as it expands the breadth of ideas in the public debate and increases the authority given to citizens. But citizens’ authority remains within parameters established by representative democracy. These involved citizens are

voters. Participatory democracy broadens the surface area of representative democracy, allowing citizens to have a more meaningful engagement in public life.

Brian Wampler is an associate professor and chair of po-litical science at Boise State. He focuses on participatory institutions at the subnational level in Brazil and Latin America and wrote Participatory Budgeting in Brazil.

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The Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho is the feder-

ally mandated metropolitan transportation organization for the Treas-

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budget and long-term transportation plans are essential steps for secur-

ing federal funding for state, county and local transportation agencies.

For some of Wampler’s solutions to the problems

of public participation, see thebluereview.org.

Excerpt from a response posted at thebluereview.org by Matt Stoll, executive director of COMPASS

COMPASS is a representative democracy. As Dr. Wampler points out, “[c]itizens are not empowered to directly decide what COMPASS should do.” This is true. Decision-making authority is delegated to the elected

-thing from a school board to the state legislature to the president of the United States.

Dr. Wampler offers suggestions to provide citizens with a more direct say in COMPASS decisions—a par-ticipatory democracy.

COMPASS always strives to engage as many citizens as possible, from all walks of life, in COMPASS plans and programs, so the idea of citizens becoming more directly involved in how their tax dollars are spent on their transportation infrastructure is appealing, but is a participatory democracy realistic, and equally compel-

What is COMPASS?


In an obtuse triangle at the far western corner of downtown Boise, hemmed in by freeway and river and surrounded

by cyclone fencing, sits a former petroleum storage yard. From the 1920s through about 2009, it was the Northwest base of operations for Goodman Oil Company, which owned gas stations in Idaho, Oregon and Washington. In 2000, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency found 35 chronic underground stor-age tank violations on Goodman’s proper-

ever issued in the region.Until this summer, the Goodman Oil prop-

erty along West Fairview in Boise was run-down and abandoned, thought to be highly polluted and a general thorn in the side of city

technology corridor just west of downtown. Today, the Goodman property is scraped

clean, under new, local ownership and deeded

of Environmental Quality promising not to sue and providing protection to any lenders who may acquire the property in the future.

So far, the reclamation of the Goodman Oil

redevelopment: a property troubled with both real and perceived pollution has been cleaned to an agreed upon standard—future owners will not be able to use groundwater at the site—and cleared for prime development at the vertex of a new, proposed western gateway to downtown Boise.

Goodman sits at the southwest corner of the newly created 30th Street Urban Renewal District, just west of downtown Boise. The district starts at State Street and the newly aligned Whitewater Park Boulevard at 30th Street, a wide thoroughfare that diverts

past what will soon become Esther Simplot Park and a roiling whitewater park.

City plans call for an ambitious mix of housing and technology jobs and creative/

calls it “a new urban form” that we don’t even have the language to describe yet, though a 200-plus page master plan for the area de-scribes it in great detail. But the master plan and years of studies of the 30th Street area have paid almost no attention to one potential roadblock to development: the existence of dozens and maybe more than 100 brown-

Building Boise WestThe promise of environmental cleanup for

near-downtownBY NATHANIEL HOFFMAN

Beautiful blight: Boise’s West End, next in line for redevelopment, is home to massive vacant lots and a mess of old underground storage tanks.

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including properties that at one time stored petroleum, manufacturing sites, former dry cleaners and other such uses.

The most recent master plan for 30th Street mentions Goodman, though it’s mis-takenly called “Goodwin,” and dedicates only one paragraph to the possibility that “other

DEVELOPMENT FOR RECLAMATION

mostly urban problem, often contrasted with

agricultural land or open space. The concept came into vogue in England in the 1960s as a strategy for reusing former mining lands. According to a 2010 study by U.K. plan-ners David Adams, Christopher De Sousa and Wisconsin urbanist Steven Tiesdell in Urban Affairs, British planners remain more concerned about ways to reclaim abandoned or derelict land than with the conditions that caused it to be abandoned or the type of con-tamination. The United States, on the other hand, has long focused on the contamination itself. In 1980, the U.S. Congress passed the Superfund Act, which put developers on the hook for toxic cleanup and actually ham-pered the reuse of former industrial sites for many years. In 1995, the EPA, recognizing that developers had been discouraged from

because of the environmental liability that the Superfund Act had created, launched a

program sought to relieve some liability concerns on contaminated land and provide

and cleanup. It also provided a less harsh way of describing contamination, a key factor for image-conscious developers.

The 30th Street area in Boise is not home to any Superfund sites—the contamination or potential contamination is at a much more manageable level. At the Goodman site, the Idaho Department of Environmental Qual-

funds, found that the most problematic

bullet casings) from an old homestead on the property. The petroleum contamination was not as severe as imagined. Eric Traynor,

to many investors about the property, but all -

ing. Since Goodman still owed EPA from the

and environmental studies and a local inves-tor emerged, comfortable with the guaran-tees and incentives, including a temporary tax exemption, that the state’s voluntary cleanup program offered. The Yanke family

three investors in Micron) bought the prop-erty from Goodman and agreed to clean it up

A representative of the Yanke family de-clined to discuss plans for the property, but the fact that a local investor with an existing relationship with the city of Boise and an

of the city picked it up may be more than

not for everyone—even though DEQ and the feds make certain guarantees about liability,

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and former petroleum storage tanks as monitored by the Department of Environmental Quality


the certainty may not be enough for some national banks or large investors not used to the intricacies of environmental cleanup.

BROWNFIELD AS MARKETING PLANJust east of the 30th Street area, on the

way in to the downtown core, is another emerging neighborhood dubbed The Linen District. The area’s anchor tenant, The Linen

and also the pet project of another local developer with a stake in downtown. Google “David Hale” and dozens of results pop up lauding his work cleaning up an old laundry, restoring the building and creating a vibrant neighborhood that has become a destination and primary venue for the Treefort Music Festival.

“There was a market that was not being served in this town before 2000,” said Hale. “Locally owned businesses were important.”

possible in many ways and helped foster the mix of funky, local businesses that has given the area its character, including a boutique hotel, bustling coffee shop and used building materials store that doubles as a training program for people in drug and alcohol rehabilitation. The area has also resisted

inherently depressed nature of the areas, but the promise of increased affordable housing has not materialized either.

a level of comfort with the liability and clean-up costs he’d be taking on, but it was slow—it took three years for him to close on the building, more time than large, out-of-state interests may be willing to invest. Making

type of development—Hale thinks national retailers stayed away both because of the lack

-nated project,” he said.

Perhaps the biggest boon of going brown-

Several smart growth and green building groups wrote up the Linen District, the Boise Weeklytrendy clothes, the oversized shades, the meticulously messy hair”— and Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo continues to cite the project in

-gram, including at a Senate hearing earlier this year.

A STRATEGY FOR RENEWALThough the city has many key elements in

place including a new urban renewal district, new leadership at the redevelopment agency

and most recently, a point person assigned

articulated a complete vision for the large number of vacant lots—including two large city owned lots—in the area. In a state loathe to interfere with private sector investments, city boosters from the mayor down are cau-tious not to “get out ahead of the market.”

pick the catalyst,” said Boise City Councilman David Eberle, a Ph.D. economist and direc-tor of the Environmental Finance Center at Boise State. “You do not try to pick who you want; that is truly a market decision. It is rare that a government gets that right.”

designations could be seen as a stigma to de-velopers. Fellow city council member Lauren McLean, who also worked at the EFC a dec-ade ago and in the conservation movement

them and consider an area-wide approach if eligible. The EPA and state environmental regulators—not to mention Sen. Crapo, a conservative Republican and former state

primarily economic development funds.

redevelopment referenced in the latest bill

Street area well. A 2004 discussion paper published by Resources for the Future, a D.C.-based environmental policy think tank,

community level, rather than parcel level.-

tainable practice, practitioners need to move beyond a property-by-property approach and

that seeks to revitalize a wider area of the community,” argued the paper.

As Crapo put it in an op-ed earlier this

threat to human health, the mere perception of contamination can discourage redevel-

these properties is by working together in a timely manner to clean up and redevelop the properties.”

not been completed on the 30th Street area DEQ and historical data indicate that many of the properties slated for new development are potentially contaminated in some way. If the Linen District is any indication, that may be a condition the city and potential west side developers would do well to embrace.

Nathaniel Hoffman editor of The Blue Re-view. This article is adapted from a Boise State Public Policy Center White Paper due out later this fall.

This issue of The Blue Review asks critical questions about what makes

urban development in the West urban? From street grids to building height to the very fonts used on shop signs, what does urban mean to you

and what does it mean for Boise.

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SCANDINAVIAN SOCIETY 90TH ANNIVERSARY FALL PICNIC—All Scandinavians, Germans and other interested people are invited. Featuring smorgasbord/potluck with music and dancing and annual quoit/rope toss tournament and other activities. 12:30 p.m. FREE. Municipal Park, 500 S. Walnut St., Boise.


VELMA V. MORRISON: A CELEBRATION OF HER LIFE—A celebration of Velma V. Mor-rison’s life and her contributions to the community and the arts. Featuring music from the Boise Philharmonic, directed by Robert Franz. 3 p.m. FREE. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

On Stage

THE FOREIGNER—See Wednes-day. 7 p.m. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

MONDAYSEPT. 23On Stage

STARRY STORY NIGHT—Fea-turing true stories from Alan Heathcock, Nicole LeFavour, Mat-thew Cameron Clark and more. 7 p.m. $20 adv., $25 door. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Ful-ton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, storystorynight.org.

TUESDAY SEPT. 24On Stage


Food & Drink

TOMATO BEER GARDEN—Something magical happens when locally brewed beer (cour-tesy of Payette Brewing Co.) is combined with the fresh juice of locally grown heirloom tomatoes. 3 p.m. FREE. Boise Co-op, 888 W. Fort St., Boise, 208-472-4500, boise.coop.

Talks & Lectures

BECOMING WATER WISE WITH WENDY PABICH—Come hear Pabich tell the captivating story of her personal quest to extract and implement day-to-day solutions to reduce water use in her life. 6 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Kids & Teens

DIVORCE CARE FOR KIDS—This 13-week divorce support group is for children ages 5-12. DC4K is a nondenominational program featuring biblical teach-ing to help children recover from the hurt of parental separation and divorce. Call for dates and registration information. 6 p.m. $25. ParkCenter Church, 270 E. Pennsylvania St., Boise, 208-336-1925, parkcenterchurch.com.

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 25Festivals & Events

FIRE PREVENTION DAY—Enjoy a fire prevention skit for younger children, featuring a puppet show, clowns, the firefighters and their engine, plus appear-ances by Sparky and Smokey Bear. 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. FREE. Meridian Speedway, 335 E. Main St., Meridian, 208-888-2813, meridianspeedway.com.

TREASURE WELLNESS OPEN HOUSE—Tour the new Treasure Wellness location and meet the staff, who offer family and group professional counseling ser-vices. In the 1655 Main Building at the corner of 16th Street. 5 p.m. FREE. Treasure Wellness, 1655 Fairview, Ste. 115, Boise, 208-515-7661, treasurewell-ness.net.

On Stage

THE FOREIGNER—See Wednes-day, Sept. 18. $12-$41. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Kids & Teens

CINDERELLA’S CLOSET—A philanthropy of the Assistance League of Boise, provides dresses to rent to Ada County high-school students during homecoming. A large selection in all sizes is available. Just take your current Ada County student ID. 3:30 p.m. $15. Assistance League of Boise Philanthropic Center, 5831 Glenwood St., Gar-den City, 208-377-4327, boise.assistanceleague.org.

KIDS EXPERIENCE—A science and art program for children ages 6 and older held in The Se-cret Garden. 3 p.m. FREE. Gar-den City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

MR. PATRICK’S WORKSHOP—Young designers, inventors and engineers can bring their cre-ations to life with Legos. Bring a shoebox full of your own if you’ve got them. Some will be provided for you if you don’t. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

BUSINESS BENEFITS OF ERP SOFTWARE—Learn about the added value an ERP software suite can provide for your busi-ness. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise State Micron Business and Economics Building, 2360 University Drive, Boise, boisestate.edu.

TEA MEDITATION—Relax with tea, Qigong breathing exercise, and guided meditation. Routine practice will expand your aware-ness, improve you sense of well being and reduce stress. Held weekly on Wednesdays and Sun-days. 7 p.m. $5. Pudge’s Place, 2726 W. Smith Ave., Boise, 208-550-8327.

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NOISE

MAGIC AND GOODNESSShook Twins do some growing up, celebrate

good fortuneBEN SCHULTZ

The story goes that Katelyn and Laurie Shook were in Seattle watching a friend’s band when they saw a man holding a big golden egg. When they asked him about it, he said some-one else told him to sign the egg and pass it on.

“The guy never told us that it was magical, but we always felt like it was,” said Katelyn.

As it turns out, they might have been right. The 29-year-old twins discovered that the egg—which shows up in quite a few of their promotional photos, takes center stage at their concerts and serves as a percussion instru-ment—was one of 40 created by Seattle per-formance artist Lucia Neare for an event held on May 1, 2008 (you can see pictures of the eggs on lucianeare.org). Neare and her fellow performers gave the eggs away to children in the audience, telling them that the eggs could grant wishes.

“Since we know it has magic in it, we tell people to make a wish on it,” Katelyn said. “People have written us, saying, ‘I made a wish on the egg and it came true!’”

A certain magic seems to have graced the Shook twins’ career so far. Since emerging from Sandpoint, this self-proclaimed “quirky folk band”—which blends folk melodies, an-gelic harmonies and literate lyrics with subtle looping and beat-boxing—has earned rave re-views and played with esteemed acts like Ryan Adams, Michelle Shocked and The Head and the Heart. The Shooks’ third studio album, tentatively titled What We Do, was recently recorded and mastered, and they’ll headline the Egyptian Theatre on Friday, Sept. 20.

Although they sang in choir and their father sings and plays guitar, music didn’t play an especially large role in the sisters’ early years.

“I remember just riding my bike when I was 7 or 8 or so all day long, down to the beach and everything. … We just rallied around all the time,” Katelyn said.

As the Shooks got older, their musical talent became apparent. In high school, Laurie learned beat-boxing from a member of a visiting a capella group called The Standards.

“There was a big perfor-mance ... in the gym that night, and they called her up and she beat-boxed in front of the whole school,” Katelyn said. “And she was just exhilarated and [has been] hooked ever since.”

Meanwhile, young love prompted Katelyn to take up the guitar.

“It was a boy I had a crush on [who] even-

tually became my boyfriend,” she explained. “He started teaching us guitar, and I wanted to get better so I could be his girlfriend.”

That relationship led to the Shooks’ first gig. Taking a year off from their studies at the University of Idaho, the sisters followed their then-boyfriends out to Virginia. A restaurant gig earned them $300, which encouraged the twins to focus more on music.

“After we graduated in 2006, we started doing a weekly gig at this winery in Sandpoint and started realizing, ‘Oh man, we could to-tally make a living at this. Let’s just do this for a little while,’” Katelyn said.

Even before they had made that decision, they had scored a career highlight. In 2005, the Shook Twins opened for Ryan Adams at the Festival at Sandpoint. The set didn’t go entirely well, Katelyn remembered—their equipment broke down midway through—but “it just really worked out great because Ryan Adams really sucked that night and made us look a lot better. … The next day, his band quit and then he went to rehab.” (Katelyn added that she and Laurie are still huge Ryan Adams fans.)

Other well-respected acts drifted into the Shook Twins’ orbit over the next few years. After moving to Portland in 2009, the group—whose lineup now includes bassist Kyle Volkman, guitarist Niko Daoussis, fiddle

player Anna Tivel and drum-mer Russ Kleiner—built up a large following within about a year. The Shooks have per-formed with respected Portland writer-musician Nick Jaina and, more recently, sang harmonies for Minneapolis, Minn.-based songwriter Mason Jennings.

“We’ve met a lot of really cool people [in Portland],” Katelyn said. “The whole music scene there is just so supportive and so wonderful. There’s so much room for growth. It’s surprising because it’s kind of a smaller city and there’s a lot of bands.”

The latest big name to connect with the

Shooks is Ryan Hadlock, who produced What We Do at his family’s Bear Creek Studio in Woodinville, Wash. James Brown, Eric Clapton and Soundgarden have all re-corded there. Hadlock himself has produced albums by The Moondoggies, The Lumineers (whom the Shooks hosted at a house show in their Portland basement in 2010) and Stephen Malkmus.

Although the Shooks enjoyed recording their first two albums with producer Brody Bergholz in Santa Cruz, Calif., they felt that a change was in order.

“We definitely needed to go somewhere closer to get [the full band] on the record, too,” Katelyn said, “and we just wanted to check out a new producer and see what they could bring to the team.”

She and Laurie are bringing something new to this record. “There’s some dark, eerie songs. There’s songs about death. … We’ve just grown up and realized, ‘Oh, the world’s not totally [light and fluffy],” she said.

“Some buddies and family members [died] that weren’t supposed to at that time in their lives,” Katelyn explained, “and that’s really changed my whole perspective on things.”

Still, she recognizes that she and her sister’s lives are “pretty damn blessed.”

“We have a really good attitude and a really good energy around us, and we attract good energy toward us. So it’s kind of easy to keep track of that good stuff because we’re just always in it,” she said.

The Shook Twins hope to release What We Do this winter. Hadlock and the Shooks’ manager, Phil Einsohn, will work together to determine the best method for distributing the album. In the meantime, the Shooks are look-ing forward to playing the Egyptian.

“I’m so pumped,” Katelyn said. “I love that venue.”

And when the Shook Twins take the stage, the golden egg should be front and center. In Katelyn’s words, “It’s kind of like our physical manifestation of magic and goodness.”

The Shook Twins, from Sandpoint by way of Portland, Ore., bring their brand of quirky folk to the Egyptian.

SHOOK TWINS Friday, Sept. 20; doors at 7 p.m., show at 8 p.m. $15 advance, $18 day of show. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise. 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.

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LOOK WHO’S TURNING FIVEIt’s time to wish Liquid Lounge a ha-

ha-happy birthday. Five years ago, owners Jeremy Aevermann and Elizabeth Olden-kamp opened Liquid—which is attached to Solid, their other establishment. It started out as a working-class bar but the ghosts of the space’s former tenant (The Funny Bone), Boise’s clubless comedians and the owners had other ideas. Before long, the club was the go-to place for comedy, as well as music.

Liquid is celebrating its fifth birthday Tuesday, Sept. 24, by throwing a party—this one is not for other 5-year-olds. From 6-8 p.m., the appetizers and the cover charge are free. At 8 p.m., cover is $5 but well worth it. Live music by Idyltime, Fiddle Junkies and Alturas will be interspersed with comedy, magic and bad dancing. Door prizes, giveaways and drink specials hap-pen all night. There might even be cake. liquidboise.com

Local band Uintahs (you-IN-tuss) also turns five this year, and while it wasn’t planned this way, the band celebrates by releasing its debut album Parts. Vocalist Marcus Youngberg is the brainchild behind Uintahs—something all of the members agree on—and Parts is an amalgam of his influences (the likes of Kings of Leon, Beach House, Grizzly Bear and Fleet Foxes) run through the Rube Goldberg machine of his mind. Brother and drummer Malcolm describes Uintahs’ music as “cinematic reverb rock,” an appropriate description since the album feels like an emotional soundtrack to a movie not yet made. Look for more on Uintahs and the breathtaking Parts in an upcoming issue. You can hear the entire album at uintahs.bandcamp.com. We recommend listening to “Virgins of the Sun.” uintahs.com

Speaking of releases, local band New Transit dropped its sophomore effort Coun-try Music Dead on Sept. 17. To support their rockin’ new release, New Transit will be joined by friends Hillfolk Noir and AKA Belle on Friday, Oct. 11, at the Sapphire Room. Tickets are $10 and are available at The Record Exchange and at the door. reverbnation.com/newtransit

—Amy Atkins

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STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES, SEPT. 25, EGYPTIAN THEATRE

Texan-born Steve Earle is one of those rare crossover art-ists. Unlike today, when Earle’s debut album hit shelves in the late ’80s, country artists were known by country fans. Rock and pop fans might only know a country music star from their parents’ or grandparents’ record collections. But long before music genre lines expanded and blurred, Earle was a trailblaz-er, his music running the gamut of country, folk, roots, indie and rock. In his website bio, Earle is described as a “protege of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark,” artists who also defied a cut-and-dry classification. Earle is also an accomplished author and actor, crossing over to a whole new fanbase with his role as musican Harley Watt in the critically acclaimed HBO series Treme (and as himself, singing “The Ballad of Kenneth Parcell” on an episode of 30 Rock). If you don’t know Earle’s music, see him live. You’ll crossover—as a fan—too.

—Amy Atkins

With The Mastersons, 8 p.m., $45. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., 387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net

WEDNESDAYSEPT. 18DOUGLAS CAMERON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

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

KEN HARRIS—With Rico Weis-man and Lawson Hill. 6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

KIRTAN—With Gina Sala and Daniel Paul. 7:30 p.m. $12. Muse Yoga Studio

THE OLIPHANTS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

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

WRINGER—With Sandusky Furs, Upinatem and Position High. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

THURSDAYSEPT. 19DEISTO—With System and Sta-tion and Revolt Revolt. 8 p.m. $6. Shredder

FREUDIAN SLIP—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

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

GAYLE CHAPMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

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

WILD BELLE—With Hey V Kay and Saint Rich. 7:30 p.m. $12. Neurolux

FRIDAYSEPT. 20BLAZE & KELLY—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

COOLZEY—With Muscle, Mad Dukes and Fresh Kils. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

DALE CAVANAUGH, SCOTT MC-CORMICK AND MICHAEL HUNT-ER—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

DIZZY WRIGHT—With Emilio Ro-jas. 8 p.m. $20-$35. Revolution

THE FEATURES—With The Rich Hands. 8 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. The Crux

GALAPAGOS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JERRY JOSEPH AND THE JACKMORMONS—8 p.m. $10. Neurolux

JUKE DADDY’S—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

MOTTO KITTY—9 a.m. $3. 127 Club

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

REBECCA SCOTT—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

RIFF RAFF—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

RIO GRANDS—With James Orr. 10 p.m. $5. Reef

SHOOK TWINS— See Noise, Page 18. 8 p.m. $15 adv., $18 door. Egyptian

TERRY JONES AND BILL LI-LES—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

WEEK OF WONDERS—With Merkin and Teton Avenue. 8 p.m. FREE. Flying M Coffeegarage

SATURDAY SEPT. 21BRANDON PRITCHETT—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

CARMEL AND THE CLOS-ERS—6 p.m. FREE. Land Trust of the Treasure Valley

CALABRESE—With Trinomikon, Demoni and old One Two. 8 p.m. $8. Shredder

CYMRY—9:45 a.m., 2 p.m. and 4:15 p.m. FREE. Expo Idaho

GALAPAGOS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

IDAHO SONGWRITERS HEAD-LINER CONCERT—Featuring John Hansen and Corri Conners. 8 p.m. $7-$13. Sapphire Room

JOSHUA TREE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

LAKE—With With Child. 9 p.m. $7. The Crux

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MARHSALL POOLE—2 p.m. FREE. High Desert Harley-Davidson

MOTTO KITTY—9 a.m. $3. 127 Club

PIGS ON THE WING: A TRIBUTE TO PINK FLOYD—7:45 p.m. $12-$30. Knitting Factory

RIFF RAFF—9 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

SONS OF THUNDER MOUN-TAIN—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

A TASTY JAMM AND BRAN-DON YOUNG—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

SUNDAY SEPT. 22BLAZE & KELLY—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

GUTTERMOUTH—With Agent Orange and Pinata Protest. 7:30 p.m. $15. Neurolux

HIP HATCHET—With Heart Hunter, Jenna Ellefson and Scott Gallegos. 8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

RIVERSIDE JAZZ JAM—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

MONDAY SEPT. 23GARTH OLSON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JANKA NABAY & THE BUBU GANG—7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. Neurolux

THE QUEERS—With Business Venture, The Copyrights and Teenage Bottlerocket. 9 p.m. $13 adv., $15 door. Shredder

TUESDAY SEPT. 24BOURBON DOGS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

EMMA HEARTBEAT—With Sword of a Bad Speller and Big O. 8 p.m. $5. Shredder

LIKE A ROCKET—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye

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

PHOSPHORESCENT—7:30 p.m. $15. Neurolux

REBECCA SCOTT—8 p.m. FREE. Ice Bouquet

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 25COUNTRY CLUB 2—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

EMILY TIPTON BAND—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

ESOTERIC—With Velnias, Satur-nalia Temple and Uzala. 8 p.m. $8. Shredder

GAYLE CHAPMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

GORDON LIGHTFOOT—See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $35-$65. Morrison Center

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

LEARNING TEAM—With A Sea of Glass. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

MATT NATHANSON—With Joshua Radin. 7:30 p.m. $25-$50. Knitting Factory

POKE—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

RAHASYA—7:30 p.m. $12. Muse Yoga

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

STEVE EARLE AND THE DUKES—With The Mastersons. See Listen Here, Page 20. 8 p.m. $45. Egyptian Theatre

YOU, ME AND APOLLO— Noon. FREE. Boise State Student Union

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GORDON LIGHTFOOT, SEPT. 25, MORRISON CENTER

If Gordon Lightfoot really could put time in a bottle, chances are he wouldn’t change a thing. The legendary Canadian singer-songwriter helped define the folk sound of the ’70s and his career spans five decades, throughout which he recorded more than 20 albums and saw hundreds of his songs recorded by other legendary artists.

Now in his 70s, Lightfoot is still performing—often at sold-out shows. Moreover, his songs still have legs: thousands of hopefuls have uploaded covers of Lightfoot’s songs to YouTube—most notably “Sundown”—giving the classic tune a country, reggae, rock, orchestral, indie, pop or rap makeover. And isn’t imitation the sincerest form of flattery?

—Amy Atkins

Wednesday, Sept. 25, 8 p.m., $35-$65. Morrison Center, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, 208-426-1110, mc.boisestate.edu.

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FAMOUS SOMEWHERELauren Weedman brings

new play about Boise to BoiseAMY ATKINS

After taking Lauren Weedman’s order, a barista at the BoDo Caffe D’Arte calls her co-workers into a corner and whispers some-thing to them. Weedman doesn’t notice and as she steps away from the counter to wait for her drink, she spots someone she hasn’t seen for a while and goes over to say hello. When she returns to the counter for her espresso-heavy beverage, the smiling young woman hands it to her and excitedly says, “You were on Reno 911 and Arrested Devel-opment, right? I loved you in those shows.”

That Los Angeles-based Weedman is rec-ognized in Boise isn’t totally surprising. The performances of her 2007 solo play, Bust, at Boise Contemporary Theater were hugely successful, as were those of her follow-up solo play No… You Shut Up, commissioned by BCT. She was at the coffee shop in BoDo during a several-day visit to the Treasure Valley to gather material for Boise: You Don’t Look a Day Over 149, her new-est—and most Boise-centric—work for BCT, which runs Saturday, Sept. 21, and Saturday, Sept. 28.

But the brilliant comedic actor lives somewhere in the in-between. She is both unknown and known; and, although she hasn’t had a career-launching role (compared to Melissa McCarthy’s turn as Megan in Bridesmaids), in the past decade, she has regularly appeared in a handful of films and a number of high-profile TV shows like The Daily Show, Reno 911, New Girl, Arrested Development, the VH1 I Love The… fran-chise, and HBO shows Curb Your Enthusi-asm, Hung and True Blood. She’s been doing theater even longer.

Yet she was visibly surprised at being recog-nized—and, in a rare moment, almost speechless. Outside on the patio, however, the loqua-cious Weedman recovered, speaking in staccato as the ideas came faster than she could express them.

“I never get that. No one has ever, ever asked me for an autograph except for after shows sometimes,” Weedman said. “I don’t think I’m famous enough. I’m surprised she recognized me from Arrested Development. Every time I see myself in anything, I’m like, ‘That was short.’”

At 44, Weedman’s personal life is in a kind of limbo as well. When she spoke with

Boise Weekly, her husband had been working out of town all summer, so it had been left to her to care for their 4-year-old son, Leo, a tall, bright, inquisitive towhead with the energy of a thousand suns. In shows like No… You Shut Up and the award-winning Bust, Weedman made audiences privy to her frenetic, conflicted feelings about marriage and children. Her gut-wrenching revelations of fear and feelings of inadequacy allowed for a connection between actor and audience, blurring the boundaries of the fourth wall and making her plays feel more like authen-tic—albeit uncomfortable—conversations. But once Weedman was a wife and a mother, experiencing the magic and the mundanity of both, she seemed to begin turning the micro-scope outward.

The idea for Boise, You Don’t Look a Day Over 149 came on the heels of a 10-week run (with eight shows per week) of People’s Republic of Portland, commissioned by Portland Center Stage. It wasn’t a Portlandia remix but it was a look at the peccadilloes particular to Portland. And it was quite dif-

ferent from Weedman’s previ-ous works. That shift wasn’t universally adored. Portland Monthly Mag wrote that it lacked “stakes and a narrative arc,” as well as the “vulner-ability, personal exploration, transformation, and recurring cast” of No… You Shut Up.

But by all accounts, Peo-ple’s Republic was a success and a learning experience.

“It did ferociously [well],” Weedman said. “It was like Bust was here.”

It was also exhausting. Weedman said she doesn’t want to do long runs anymore; what she does want is to repeat the fun, comedic, improvisational nature of People’s Republic. And although she was only weeks away from

debuting Boise, You Don’t Look… during her August visit, she hadn’t yet pinpointed much about her newest creation, other than its name.

But the same day the barista recognized her, she had plans to start doing research on Boise for Boise. She had plans to visit a lesbian couple and meet their new baby, have dinner with a friend and take her son to the Western Idaho Fair. The 100-degree-plus temps and smoky skies prompted a few people to urge Weedman to forgo the Fair, even though it would be a rare opportunity to see such a diverse range of the area’s citi-zenry, all in one place. That was certainly an impetus for going, but Weedman had a more important reason.

“I promised Leo I’d take him,” she said. Although at one point, after meeting a

particularly engaging ride operator, Weedman muttered, “I wish I’d brought my notebook,” the afternoon’s outing—complete with a visit to the petting zoo, and standing in the hot sun as she watched Leo ride a (shaded) merry-go-round for what seemed like an hour—was mostly about spending time with her son.

Motherhood is no longer the big, bad unknown for Weedman. It’s now a big part of who she is. And, in some way, it’s how People’s Republic and Boise came to be: Weedman has been looking for a new home.

“I can’t raise a kid in L.A.,” she said, matter-of-factly.

But Weedman won’t make a decision on that right away. She can’t—a project she was working on may have been greenlit and it may be the thing that propels her into star-dom. Not that she’s too worried about that.

“People say it to me all the time: ‘I’ve seen you, I just don’t know where. But I know I’ve seen you in something.’ That’s cool,” Weed-man said. “I’ll take that on my tombstone: Famous Somewhere.”

You probably recognize Lauren Weedman from somewhere. Think hard... or read the story below.

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Sept. 21, 2 p.m. and 8 p.m.; Sept. 28. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $25. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St.,

208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

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PUBLIC ART ROUND ABOUTSThe 30th Street Roundabout Art Project

has rounded a corner. In June, Boise Weekly reported that an

art installation was set to accompany the construction of a roundabout at Whitewater Park Boulevard. Now, the city of Boise is ac-cepting public input on the proposals for the art that will adorn the structure.

The three pieces being considered went on display at Jerry’s Market, located at 819 N. 27th St., Monday, Sept. 16-Wednesday, Sept. 18, and are also set to go on display at Bee Wise Goods (3019 W. State St.) Thursday, Sept.19-Saturday, Sept. 21, and at Idaho River Sports (3100 W. Pleasanton Ave.) Sunday, Sept. 22-Tuesday, Sept. 24.

The public is invited to view the propos-als and fill out comment forms to help the city determine which it will install.

Pieces being considered were created by Dirk Anderson, Ben McCall and Reham Aarti, and Blackrock Forge.

Funded by the Mayor’s Neighborhood Re-investment Grant program, the roundabout project is intended as an entrance to the still-in-development Esther Simplot Park.

“[The artwork] will be designed for people, not cars,” Veteran’s Park Neighbor-hood Association Chair Erin Sorenson told BW in June.

In other public art news, a mosaic wall by artist and journalist Anna Webb is set to be dedicated at 6 p.m., Friday, Sept. 20, in front of the refurbished Biomark warehouse at the corner of Ninth and River streets. Titled “Botanica,” the installation is described as “a contemporary interpreta-tion inspired by the palette and motifs of classical Roman mosaics.”

Featuring twisting vines set against a backdrop of multi-colored tiles, Webb’s work “is a nod to the industrial nature” of the Biomark site and paired with a nearby traffic box, also designed by Webb in mosaic style.

The project was paid for with $18,000 from Capital City Development Corporation.

Webb is also working with fellow artist Reham Aarti on another public art installa-tion in the roundabout by the Boise Depot.

That project, also being paid for with $30,500 Mayor’s Neighborhood Reinvest-ment grant and championed by the Depot Bench Neighborhood Association and the city’s Visual Arts Advisory Committee, will be an art deco-inspired mosaic compass featuring trees representing the four sea-sons.

According to a project description from the Boise Department of Arts and History, the Depot roundabout installation will help “slow traffic and provide a beautiful neigh-borhood amenity.”

—Harrison Berry and Zach Hagadone

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TIFF: THAT’S A WRAP

The best of the festGEORGE PRENTICE

For the record, watching 40-plus movies in 10 days is… well, it’s a bit insane. Having said that, over the years I’ve also endured more than my share of legislative filibustering (either is capable of inspiring the better part of ourselves or a giant time-suck). I’m very happy to report that, having survived the marathon that was the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival, that this year’s showcase was neatly packed with smart, engaging, challenging, tearful and cheerful enterprises.

TIFF organizers told me that approximate-ly 432,000 people watched hundreds of films this year. Simply put, TIFF was not, by any means, an exclusive experience. Considering that audiences pleasantly cued for 90 minutes to watch a film that was almost as long, TIFF really is a bit of a love affair between movies and the masses. And that’s my chief reason why, in addition to attending press screenings, I chose to watch at least a third of the films with the general public. It’s a bit humbling when a paying audience confirms or rejects your own critical assessment.

Here are some of this year’s headlines:

YES, THE BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR PREMIERED AT TIFF THIS YEAR: 12 Years a Slave is, far and away, the finest film I’ve seen in years, and TIFF audiences, quite appropriately, honored the movie with its People’s Choice award (previous year’s audi-ences singled out The King’s Speech, Slumdog Millionaire, American Beauty and Chariots of Fire).

BIG IS BETTER: Big movies made a come-back, and by big I mean films with massive budgets. I’m usually skeptical of bloated productions, but a steady string of blockbust-

ers were pretty great, led by Gravity, Rush and Prisoners.

ACTING UP: TIFF included a galaxy of Oscar-caliber performances, including Sandra Bullock (Gravity), Dame Judi Dench (Philomena), Matthew McConaughey (The Dallas Buyers Club) and two shoo-ins for Oscar gold: Chiwetel Ejiofor and Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave).

And here’s my scrapbook of pressed leaves from my Toronto visit:

12 Years a Slave

Blue is the Warmest Color, Can a Song

Save Your Life?, The Fifth Estate, Gravity, The Lunchbox, One Chance, Philomena,

Prisoners, The Railway Man, Rush, Sunshineon Leith, The Wind Rises

August: Osage County, The Dallas Buyers

Club, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Enough Said, Gloria, Night Moves, Parkland

Bad Words, Belle, Devil’s Knot, The Invis-

ible Woman, Fading Gigolo, The Grand Se-duction, Labor Day, The Love Punch, Right Kind of Wrong, Therese, Words and Pictures

Blood Ties, Don Jon, The Last of Robin Hood, Life of Crime, Third Person, Under

the Skin, You Are Here

12 Years a Slave, far and away the best movie of the year, is worthy of five maple leaves.

Special Screenings

THE PRINCESS BRIDE—When a boy falls ill, his grandfather tells him a story about a peasant-turned-Dread Pi-rate Roberts who will do anything—in-cluding recovering from being “mostly dead”—for the love of Princess Butter-cup. Friday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m. FREE-$5. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Peni-tentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

SALINGER: A FILM SCREENING AND DISCUSSION—Join Professor Ralph Clare for a look into the life of J.D. Salinger. Monday, Sept. 23, 7 p.m. $7-

$9. The Flicks, 646 Fulton St., Boise, 208-342-4222, theflicksboise.com.

Opening

BATTLE OF THE YEAR 3-D—The American dance team, who hasn’t won an international championship for 15 years, goes to Battle of the Year to re-claim glory for the country that started the sport. Starring Josh Holloway and Chris Brown. (PG-13) Opens Friday, Sept. 20. Edwards 9, 22.

FILL THE VOID—Shira, an Orthodox Israeli woman, is expected to call off

her marriage and marry her brother-in-law when her older sister dies. (PG) Opens Friday, Sept. 20. The Flicks.

PRISONERS—When Keller Dover’s young daughter and her friend go miss-ing, the line between seeking justice

and vigilance is blurred as he looks for answers. Starring Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal and Paul Dano. (R) Opens Friday, Sept. 20. Edwards 9, 22.

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HIKING INTO FALLThree hikes to find autumn colors

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Escape is easy at Taylor Canyon Loop (top left), the West Mountain Trail (lower left) and Fish Hook Creek (above).

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RACING TO FALLIf you wake up early enough, you can

actually start to feel a little chill in the air—and that means it’s OK to start thinking about fall sports.

Sure, when most people think of outdoor activities in the fall in Idaho, thoughts turn toward hunting season. But fall is also the perfect time to hit the trails—be it of the dirt track or paved variety.

The Idaho Waffle Cross series is gearing up for its first race Saturday, Oct .19, and Sunday, Oct. 20, at the Eagle Bike Park. The four-race series is when local cyclocross riders can show off their skills.

For the uninitiated, cyclocross is a cross between mountain bike and BMX racing and obstacle course running. Riders tackle courses that include challenging obsta-cles—some of which require getting off and carrying bikes—vying for the best time. The sport is also spectator friendly, since most of the course is visible and fans are encour-aged to boisterously support their favorites.

The series continues with races on Saturday, Nov. 9-Sunday, Nov. 10, with the Turkey Cross, followed by the Idaho State Cyclocross Championship on Saturday, Dec. 14, and the Kringle Kross Sunday, Dec. 15.

Racing begins at 11 a.m. each day, and pre-registration costs $20 in advance or $30 day-of. For those who want to take on the series, an $80 season pass is available through Saturday, Oct. 19. All races also re-quire riders have a $10 USA Cycling license.

For more information, check out idahow-afflecross.com.

Those who prefer to do their racing on two feet can run/walk to their heart’s con-tent while racing for a good cause.

The SueB Memorial 5K Run/Walk on Sunday, Oct. 6, honors the memory of Susan Elaine Brubaker Bredeson Newby, who died in a mysterious horseback riding accident in 2008. After her death, her family and friends realized she was in an abusive relationship, and during the investigation of her death, her husband committed suicide.

The race coincides with National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and proceeds from the event will go to support the Women’s and Children’s Alliance.

The route follows a loop course along the Greenbelt beginning at the Rose Garden in Julia Davis Park, and the day includes music and family friendly activities starting at 1:30 p.m. The race itself gets going at 2 p.m., and music, a bungee trampoline, rock wall climbing and food vendors will be in the park until 5 p.m. Individual registra-tion costs $25 or teams of 10 or more can register for $20 per person.

For more info, visit wcaboise.org.—Deanna Darr

Hit the road for the SueB Memorial Run.

No bugs. Impressive color. Mild tempera-tures. Falling leaves. Empty trails. How can you not love the serenity of fall hiking? Most people associate Labor Day with the end of mountain play, but veteran hikers know this is the most spectacular time of the year to enjoy the woods.

Depending on where your fall itinerary takes you, here are three excellent hikes in our local mountain havens. Your best bet for peak fall foliage is the third week of Septem-ber through the first two weeks of October.

TAYLOR CANYON LOOPLOCATION: Near Ketchum

TRAILHEAD: From downtown Ketchum, drive north on Highway 75 for 3.2 miles and turn right onto Lake Creek Road. Follow the road 1.4 miles and turn left onto FR 249 (Taylor Canyon Road). Follow the road 0.5 mile to its end and the trailhead.

Not only does this loop offer outstand-ing fall color, you will also find superlative views of Bald Mountain, the Big Wood River Valley and the Pioneer, Bounder and Smoky mountains. Total distance for the loop is 4.1 miles with 1,300 feet of elevation gain.

From the trailhead, hike north through Taylor Canyon. At 0.7 mile, bypass a large aspen grove and at 1.2 miles turns left (west) gaining over 300 feet through Douglas fir forest to a saddle. The trail contours around a knoll with outstanding views of the Boul-der Mountains and turns south at 2.2 miles. Follow the route along the open ridge, enjoy-ing the outstanding vistas down into the Big Wood River Valley and west to the Smoky Mountains, to a series of five switchbacks at 3.2 miles. At the bottom of the switchbacks, arrive at a four-way unsigned junction. Turn left, and descend 400 feet to the trailhead.

WEST MOUNTAIN TRAILLOCATION: Near Smith’s Ferry

TRAILHEAD: From Smith’s Ferry, turn left onto the well-graveled Forest Road 644 and proceed 1.9 miles to a signed junction. Turn right on Forest Road 626 following the sign to Sagehen Reservoir. Follow Forest Road 626 4.1 miles to an unmarked dirt road on the right. Turn right and follow the road 0.1 mile to the unmarked trailhead.

In addition to fall foliage, observant hik-ers are apt to see deer, elk and other wildlife. This long trail meanders through meadows, over forested hillsides and eventually climbs to Tripod Peak. You can hike a few miles or all the way to Tripod Peak (6.3 miles one-way with 3,200 feet of gain) for some of the most spectacular views of the Salmon River and West mountains, Long and Round valleys, and on clear days, distant views to the Sawtooth, Seven Devils and Wallowa mountains.

From the trailhead, hike along the dirt road for about 100 feet and turn right onto a singletrack trail. Descend into dense forest and eventually trek past rock outcroppings and aspen. At 1.5 miles, enter dense forest and pass through several small meadows. At 2.2 miles, enter a large meadow that offers the first views of the 8,082-foot Tripod Peak. This is an excellent destination for a short hike. To continue to Tripod Peak, con-tinue along the undulating trail to another meadow at 4.4 miles. Veer left (west) and ascend to the signed junction with Joe’s Trail at 5.5 miles. Turn right, and follow the signs to Tripod Peak.

FISHHOOK CREEK TRAILLOCATION: Near Stanley

TRAILHEAD: From Stanley, travel south on Highway 75 for four miles and turn right onto Redfish Lake Road. Follow the road 1.7 miles to a large parking area on the right. The Redfish Lake Trailhead is lo-cated on the north side of the paved road that leads to Redfish Lake Lodge.

This easy hike parallels Fishhook Creek and terminates in the beautiful Fishhook Creek Meadow. Although a popular hike in the summer months, the fall sees a fraction of the visitors, and hikers will likely have the trail to themselves. What makes this an exceptional fall hike are the numerous gold and yellow aspen on the neighboring hillsides. In addition to the aspens, Fishhook Creek Meadow is a sensational destination that offers dazzling vistas to the more no-table peaks in the Sawtooths, including Mt. Ebert, Mt. Heyburn and Horstmann Peak.

Out-and-back distance is 4.2 miles with 200 feet of elevation gain. If you are looking for a longer trek, turn right 0.7 mile into the hike at a signed junction. The trail ascends 500 feet to another signed junction (Alpine Way Trail) at 1.3 miles from the Redfish Lake Trailhead. For some of the best views near Stanley, turn left (west) at the junction and hike the Alpine Way Trail along an ex-posed ridge. Views down to Fishhook Creek Meadow and beyond to the jagged peaks in the Sawtooths are spectacular. The trail eventually leads to Marshall Lake in another 3.5 miles from the Alpine Way junction.

Scott Marchant is the author of four

Idaho hiking guides, including Hikers Guide Greater Boise. Visit hikingidaho.com for more information.


Sports & Fitness

AERIAL YOGA—Stretch out in wraps of silk suspended from the ceiling for a fun, de-stressing workout. Mondays 8 p.m., Thursdays 7 p.m., Saturdays 10 a.m. $15. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastu-dio.com.

CURVESQUE—Curvesque is designed to whittle your middle and accentuate your curves. You can expect to break a sweat with easy-to-learn dance-inspired moves and reconnect with your feminine side through lots of flu-id movements. For women only. Tuesdays, 7-8 p.m. $9. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastudio.com.

DANCE FITNESS WITH JER-EMY—Workout featuring one hour of nonstop dance that can burn up to 800 calories. For more info, email [email protected]. Tuesdays, Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. First class FREE. Array Dance Studio, 3099 N. Cole Road, Boise, 208-880-7702, arraydancestudio.com.

FIRE DANCING CLASSES—Learn the beautiful art of fire dancing from expert instructors in a safe environment. Fridays, 6-7 p.m. $9. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastudio.com.

POWER PARTY SCULPT—Get a workout with disco balls, Top 40 music and dancing. Tuesdays 8 p.m., and Thursdays 8:15 p.m. $7. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastu-dio.com.

Events & Workshops

BOISE CYCLOCROSS CLIN-ICS—Those new to cyclocross can learn the basics, and those needing to refine techniques can enjoy a refresher course during these weekly clinics. Open practice begins at 5:30 p.m., fol-lowed by a specific skill session which will explore a different concept each week. Multi-lap training will begin at 6:45 p.m., in an attempt to integrate new knowledge in a race-like setting. Wednesdays, 5:30 p.m. FREE. Quarry View Park, 2150 E. Old Penitentiary Road, Boise.

SUNSET AND MOONRISE MONTHLY HIKE—Watch the sun set and the moon rise with Mar-tha McClay during a strenuous 90-minute hike. Thursday, Sept. 19, 7:15-8:45 p.m., and Friday, Oct. 18, 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Military Reserve, Mountain Cove Road and Reserve Street, Boise, parks/cityofboise.org.

ZIP LINE TOUR—Travel to Zip The Snake, located in the scenic Snake River canyon in Twin Falls. Certified guides will lead you on a minimum of five zip lines through the canyon. Detailed trip info on the website. Thursday, Sept. 19, 9:30 a.m. $65. Nampa Recreation Center, 131 Constitu-tion Way, Nampa, 208-468-5858, namparecreation.org.

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TACKLING THE LOLO MOTORWAYPeering over the endless expanse of the Clearwater National

Forest from my 7,000-foot perch above the Lochsa River, the realization that I had waited all these years to explore one of the coolest places in Idaho settled in. I have reported on dozens of epic stretches across the Gem State, but the Lolo Motorway might take the cake for scenery, solitude and sheer enjoyment.

It may have been the perfect weather that made the trip especially good, but most folks would feel a similar apprecia-tion on their first trip out. Its rugged ascent from Highway 12 to countless mountain lakes and overlooks which provide a peace

hard to find elsewhere. This is the backcountry, so staying aware amid the temptation to let your head float off your shoulders is paramount.

My early September run on the Lolo Motorway was with the folks from Happy Trails Products in Boise, a dual sport motorcycle gear company. The second installment of their annual Lolo Motorway Rally utilized the town of Kamiah as home base, which proved the perfect location for each eve-ning’s meeting of the minds.

Each morning, dozens of hardcore dual-sport and enduro enthusiasts convened in small

groups to decide which way to go. Some chose remote single-track routes. Others (like myself, coming off a recent knee surgery) chose one of myriad Forest Service roads to explore. While I only completed a roughly 50-mile segment of the Lolo Motorway, there are hundreds of miles of rides/drives in the area that are sure to adequately whet your adventure whistle.

DETAILS:A good orientation point is the Lochsa Lodge on Highway

12, just a stone’s throw from the route’s eastern origin. We ac-cessed our route from Road 107, between Lowell and Lochsa Lodge, and came out at the Powell Junction. Side routes include scenic Horseshoe Lake and the overlook at Indian Post Office. The more adventurous can get off the Motorway and head toward Superior, Mont., from routes adjacent to the North Fork of the Clearwater River. A long weekend is best to cover a respectable amount of ground, but you could spend a week in this region and not scratch the surface. Bring fishing gear. Lastly, be prepared for anything and make sure you have a back-up map in the event that your GPS leaves you hanging.

I have no clue why Lewis and Clark ever ventured any fur-ther west after stumbling across this pristine gem.

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ward the Harpster Grade and take Highway 13 to Kooskia

to the Middle Fork of the Clearwater River and High-

way 12. You can head left to Kamiah or right toward Lolo,

Mont. The Lolo Motorway (officially dubbed Road 500)

runs parallel to the north of Highway 12, with a hand-

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along the way.

The Lolo Motorway provides the adventurous with access to countless mountain lakes and viewpoints.


On sprawling farms clustered around Wilder and Greenleaf, thousands of green Humulus lupulus vines snake vigorously skyward. A relative of marijuana, these hop plants pro-duce resiny, cone-shaped flowers prized for their use as a bittering agent in beer.

Idaho is the nation’s third largest hop producer behind Washington and Oregon, representing about 15 percent of the national market, according to the Idaho Hop Com-mission. The majority of the state’s ap-proximately 3,000 hop acres—which include varieties like Cascade, Chinook and Centen-nial—are in Southern Idaho, while the rest hover up north near Bonners Ferry.

On a recent Saturday, a bus packed with Boise brewers and hop heads motored out to Wilder to two large hop farms: Gooding Farms and Jackson Hop Farm.

“There’s a huge disconnect between the people who are producing hops—which is what craft beer is currently crazy about—and the craft beer lovers. The hops that they want so much are just 45 minutes away,” said David Roberts, beverage direc-tor at Bittercreek Ale House. “Just seeing the reactions of people on the bus as they for the first time saw these big, beautiful hop farms. … There are mountains of these hops and the aroma is overpowering.”

That afternoon, Bier:Thirty owner Chris Oates used hops plucked fresh from the vine to fla-vor a keg of Payette Brewing Co.’s North Fork Lager, which tour-goers tipped back while listen-ing to live music by Hillfolk Noir.

“They literally just went and picked the hops off the vine and we filled them up inside of this filter and we ran a keg through it,” explained Oates.

Brewers from Kilted Dragon also gathered about 10 pounds of fresh hops and carted them back to Boise

to brew two beers: Bonnie Heather, an amber with heather tips, and the sea-sonal Kilted Pale Ale.

“Those two beers were ones that we were producing anyways, so it was a good opportu-nity for us to not only experiment but also add that local flair of the hops themselves,” said Kilted Dragon co-owner Jeremy Can-ning. “Up until now, we don’t usually get hops locally because they’re just not as plentiful or available to small guys like us.”

Most of Idaho’s 4 million-pound, $11.3 million hop crop is dried and shipped to large commercial breweries that have long-standing contracts with local farmers. But during the fall harvest, local craft brewers can get their hands on a limited amount of fresh hops, which need to be used within a day to preserve their flavors.

“Most hops that are used in beer, and this is

part of why fresh-hop season is so cool, have been processed in a plant where they’re ground up and then packed togeth-er,” said Roberts. “A result of all that friction is heat. And at a certain tempera-ture, the active ingredient in hops—the lupulin, the pol-len ... that gives the flavor and bitterness to beer—will begin to degrade.”

Due to these pro-cessing factors,

dry-hopped beers have a different taste than wet-

hopped brews.“A dried hop is

more concentrated in flavor whereas

a fresh hop to me is more floral,” said

Oates. “It depends on the hop that you’re

using, but with the fresh hop, green pastures is what

always comes to me.”In addition to those aromas,

Roberts said fresh hop beers, because of essential oils, have a unique mouth-feel.

“[I]f you use them fresh, you have that maximum amount of organic oils ... and I think they translate in the finished product into this really resinous, oily, coating mouth-feel,” said Roberts.

Because wet-hopped beers can only be brewed and consumed during a short win-dow in early fall, their release has become cause for celebration across the Northwest. In late September and early October, towns like Yakima, Wash., Portland, Ore., and Hood River, Ore., all host fresh-hop festivals.

In that spirit, Oates and Roberts have organized Hop Moon, an inaugural Idaho fresh-hop celebration Saturday, Sept. 21, dur-ing which more than a dozen fresh-hop beers will be released simultaneously at Bittercreek Ale House, Bar Gernika, Whole Foods River Room and Bier:Thirty. The event, which organizers plan to repeat yearly, will also act as a kickoff for Boise Beer Week, which runs Saturday, Sept. 21-Saturday, Sept 28.

“We see the hop harvest, and the embrac-ing of it in craft beer culture, as kind of a counterpoint to Oktoberfest,” said Roberts. “In the recent past, there’s been giant at-tempts at Oktoberfest celebrations … and while I don’t think there’s anything wrong with that, and I do like light German lagers, I think that a more appropriate celebration of beer at this time of year where we live is fresh-hopped beers.”

FRESH-HOP HARVESTKick off Boise Beer Week with a celebration of Idaho’s hop harvest

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BOISE BEER WEEKruns Saturday, Sept. 21-Saturday, Sept 28, at venues across Boise. For a full schedule, visit

boisebeerweek.com. Here are some highlights:

HOP MOON Saturday, Sept. 21, all day, various locations.

More than a dozen fresh-hop beers will be released simultaneously at Bittercreek Ale

House, Bar Gernika, Whole Foods River Room and Bier:Thirty.

DAGGER FALLS FIVE WAYS Wednesday, Sept. 25, 6 p.m.-until gone.

Bier:Thirty, 3073 S. Bown Way, 208-342-1916, bierthirty.com. Bier:Thirty will pour five different versions of Sockeye Grill and Brewery’s Dagger Falls IPA: Regular, Double Dagger, Fresh Hop Dagger, Belgian Dagger and Bourbon Dagger.

COLORADO VS. CALIFORNIA IPA COMPETITION

Thursday, Sept. 26, 6-10 p.m. Whole Foods River Room, 401 S. Broadway Ave., 208-287-4600, wholefoodsmarket.com. Odell and New Belgium will face off against Firestone Walker and Sierra Nevada at this blind tasting of eight IPA flights, two from each brewery. Drinkers will judge the IPAs in three categories: Best Single

IPA, Best Double IPA and Best Overall IPA. Brewery reps will be on hand.

ODELLEOKE Friday, Sept. 27, 10 p.m.-midnight. Terry’s State

Street Saloon, 3301 N. Collister Drive, 208-331-8225, statestreetsaloon.com. This karaoke competition at Terry’s State Street Saloon will feature Odell draft beer specials, as well as Odell beer and gear as prizes for the winning

contestants.

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FALL SEASONALSFall seasonals are starting to arrive,

and the trend seems to be toward Oktober-fest and pumpkin brews. I’ll be weighing in this week on a few of the former, but will take a pass on the latter. I prefer my pump-kin baked in a pie with whipped cream on top. In the meantime, there are some breweries bucking that two-fold trend. Here are three worthy of your attention, all in 12-ounce bottles.

KONA BREWING PIPELINE PORTER, $1.39-$1.69

Blended with fresh-brewed Kona coffee, this is the fall release in Kona Brewing’s Aloha series. As you’d expect, it’s a dark coffee color with aromas of toasted grain and an intriguing hit of sauteed mush-room. Fairly light bodied for a porter, this beer tastes of roasted barley and caramel malt with just a soft hint of hops, backed by light coffee and a crushed coffee bean bitterness on the finish.

LAGUNITAS LITTLE SUMPIN’ WILD LIM-ITED ALE, $1.69-$1.99

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tournaments?105 Kind of kick106 Pixar title character107 Like some excuses108 Pseudonym preceder110 Change112 Short-winded115 Turning point116 Diminutive Aborigine?121 Engage in excessive

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “If Taylor Swift is going to have six breakups a year, she needs to write a new song entitled ‘Maybe It’s Me,’” observed comedian Bill Maher. He was referring to Swift’s habit of using her romantic mis-adventures to stimulate her lyric-writing creativity. With that as your prompt, Aries, I’ll ask you to do some soul-searching about your own intimacy issues. How have you contributed to the problems you’ve had in getting the love and care you want? What unconscious behavior or conditioned responses have undermined your romantic satisfaction, and what could you do to transform them? The next eight weeks will be prime time to revolutionize your approach to relationships.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Philosopher Alan Watts used to talk about how the whole world is wiggling all the time. Clouds, trees, sky, water, human beings: Everything’s constantly shimmying and jiggling and waggling. One of our problems, Watts said, is that we’re “always trying to straighten things out.” We feel nagging urges to deny or cover up or eliminate the wiggling. “Be orderly,” we command reality. “Be neat and composed and predictable.” But reality never obeys. It’s forever doing what it does best: flicker-ing and fluctuating and flowing. In accordance with astrological omens, Taurus, I encourage you to rebel against any natural tenden-cies you might have to fight the eternal wiggle. Instead, celebrate it. Rejoice in it. Align yourself with it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Author Elaine Scarry defines “the basic impulse underlying education” as follows: the “willingness to con-tinually revise one’s own location in order to place oneself in the path of beauty.” Consider making this your modus operandi in the coming weeks, Gemini. Always be on the lookout for signs that beauty is near. Do research to find out where beauty might be hiding and where beauty is ripen-ing. Learn all you can about what kinds of conditions attract beauty, and then create those conditions. Finally, hang around people who are often surrounded by beauty. This approach will be an excellent way to further your education.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Life is either always a tight-rope or a feather bed. Give me the tight-rope.” So declared writer Edith Wharton. But she was an Aquarius, and more temperamen-tally suited to the tight-rope. Many of you Cancerians, on the other hand, prefer to emphasize the feather-bed mode. I suspect that in the next nine months, however, you will be willing and even eager to spend more time on the tight-rope than is customary for you. To get primed for the excitement, I

suggest you revel in some intense feather-bed action in the coming weeks. Charge up your internal batteries with an extra-special deluxe regimen of sweet self-care.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Half of a truth is better than no truth at all, right? Wrong! If you latch on to the partially accurate story, you may stop looking for the rest of the story. And then you’re liable to make a premature decision based on insufficient data. The better alternative is to reject the partially accurate story and be willing to wait around in the dark until the complete revelation comes. That may be uncomfortable for a while. But when the full truth finally straggles in, you will be very glad you didn’t jump to unripe conclu-sions.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A Chinese entrepreneur named Nin Nan dreamed up a unique way to generate capital: He sold dead mosquitoes online for $1 apiece, advertising them as useful for scientific research and decora-tion. Within two days, he received 10,000 orders. Let’s make him your patron saint and role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. May he inspire you to come up with novel ways to stimulate your cash flow. The planetary omens suggest that your originality is more likely than usual to generate concrete rewards.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The most important thing is to find out what the most important thing is,” wrote Shunryu Suzuki in his book Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. That’s your assignment for the next three weeks. Do whatever it takes to find out beyond any doubt what the most important thing is. Meditate naked an hour a day. Go on long walks in the wildest places you know. Convene intense conversations about your-self with the people who know you best. Create and sign a contract with yourself in which you vow to identify the experience you want more than any other experience on Earth. No waffling allowed, Libra. What is the single most important thing?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Sometime in the next nine months you may feel moved to embark on an adventure that will transform the way you understand reality. Maybe you will choose to make a pilgrimage to a sacred sanctu-ary or wander further away from your familiar comforts than you ever have before. Right now is an excellent time to brainstorm about the possibilities. If you don’t feel ready to actually begin your quest, at least formulate a master plan for the magic moment when you will be ripe.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In the indigenous culture of Hawaii, “mana” refers to a

spiritual power that may abide in people, objects and natural loca-tions. You can acquire more of it by acting with integrity and excel-lence, but you might lose some of it if your actions are careless or unfocused. For instance, a healer who does a mediocre job of curing her patients could lose the mana that made her a healer in the first place. I believe that similar prin-ciples hold true for non-Hawaiians. All of us have an ever-shifting rela-tionship with the primal life force. What’s the current state of your own personal supply, Sagittarius? It’s time to make sure you’re tak-ing full advantage of the mana you have been blessed with. Your motto: “Use it or lose it.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Have you been getting enough? I doubt it. I think you should sneak a peek into the hiding place where your insatiable cravings are stored. If you’re brave enough, also take a look at your impos-sible demands and your unruly obsessions and your suppressed miracles. Please note: I’m not suggesting that you immediately unleash them all; I don’t mean you should impulsively instigate an adventure that could possibly quench your ravenous yearnings. But I do believe you will benefit from becoming better acquainted with them. You could develop a more honest relationship, which would ultimately make them more trustworthy.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Don’t tape your thumbs to your hands and stalk around pretend-ing to be a dinosaur. Don’t poke three holes in a large plastic gar-bage bag and wear it as a tunic while imagining that you are a feudal serf in a post-apocalyptic, sci-fi dystopia. Don’t use a felt-tip marker to draw corporate logos on your face to show everyone what brands of consumer goods you love. To be clear: I would love you to be extravagantly creative. I hope you will use your imagina-tion in novel ways as you have fun playing with experimental scenarios. But please exercise a modicum of discernment as you wander way outside the box. Be at least 20 percent practical.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic,” says the poet Marty McConnell. That’s good advice, Pisces—not just in regards to your intimate relation-ships, but about all your other alliances, too. If you’re seeking a friend or consultant or business partner or jogging companion or new pet, show a preference for those creatures who look at you like maybe you are magic. You always need to be appreciated for the sweet mystery and catalytic mojo you bring to your partner-ships, but you especially need that acknowledgment now.

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