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NEVERMOREInside the plan to killravens to save sage grouse to kill sage grouseNEWS 7

FASTER, STRONGERBoise Weekly spends some quality time with Lee Majors, the SixMillion Dollar ManCITIZEN 10

BEE WORRIEDThe bees are strugglingto survive, but experts still don’t know why FEATURE 11

THE BOTHTalking duohood with Aimee Mann and Ted LeoCULTURE 21

“The world really is being run by lizard-people.” REMBER 6

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BEES AND BW

By now it’s a familiar story. When Pennsylvania beekeeper David Hackenberg went to check his hives, he discovered vast numbers of them had failed—either the bees were dead, or simply missing. That was in 2006. Hackenberg didn’t stay quiet about his catastrophic bee loss, raising the alarm with enough fellow beekeepers and experts that the phenomenon—now known as Colony Collapse Disorder—made its way into the media. By early 2007, with reports of similar occurrences around the world, CCD became international news.

Seven years later, scientists and apiarists still don’t know what’s gone wrong with the bees, but they’re certain that it’s continuing. Climate change, pollution and parasites have all been fingered as culprits, though without definitive evidence. Now blame is being shifted to a family of chemical pesticides known as neonicotinoids.

Neonics, as they’re called, work by overloading the same cell receptors that, in humans and other mammals, are stimu-lated by nicotine—in essence, the bugs are buzzed to death.

The chemical family has been lauded by agriculturalists for its specificity—neonics are far more damaging to insects than mammals—but many researchers now fear that bees are being caught in its snare. And that snare is wide: The neonicoti-noid imidacloprid is today the most heavily used insecticide worldwide.

Neonics came into use in 1994, and Idaho was one of the places where they were first applied to crops. The Gem State has not been immune to mass bee deaths in that time.

As with pollution, parasites and climate change, the evidence linking neonics with CCD is still inconclusive, and the debate over whether the chemicals are responsible for bee mortality goes all the way from international researchers to individual beekeepers in the Treasure Valley.

On Page 11, staff writer Jessica Murri delves into the contradictory world of neonics and their alleged threat to bee populations. What could have been a story of beekeepers vs. big ag turned out to be much more complicated. The only point no one seems to be debating is that without bees we’re busted, and the bees are most definitely not alright.

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OPINION

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


Hideeho, SFMPBers! Welcome to another issue of The Flutter, the official, uncensored and award-winning newsletter of our dear Society for Making People Better. And pardon us all to heck for repeating the entire Flutter subtitle in that last sentence, but your Rajah fears it may not come out quite intact in the printing. We have been pushing our luck with the subtitle for quite some time, seeing as how our benefactors at the Boise Weekly still insist that the words we submit fit into the hole they provide. It worked out just dandy when it was merely “The Newsletter of the Society for Making People Better,” but then Rajah Bill added first the word “Official,” then the word “Uncensored.” Now, with the latest addition—“Award-Winning”—we have almost certainly crossed some sort of formatting Rubicon, and who knows what it will look like on real paper?

But dear SFMPBers, how could we not mention “award-winning” now that we have won an award? Oh my golly, it is so exciting! Rajah Bill is so proud, we fear he could pop the button on his Dockers. And even bet-ter, the award we’ve won is the prestigious Award for Superb Excellence announced by The Society for Making People Better “Excellence in Newsletters” Association (SFMPB“EIN”A), just formed about three weeks ago.

You see, every year since The Flutter fulfilled Rajah Bill’s dream of having his own newsletter, we have submitted entry after entry to the Gem State Association of News-letter Publishers (GSANP) for consideration in their annual GSANP Awards Banquet and Silent Auction. And do you think they ever gave us even the consideration of notifying us they had received our entries?

No, they did not! The snooty brats! As Rajah Bill explained, the GSANP is such a consortium of good old “newsletter noodg-ies,” as we call them in the trade, that they will hardly even look at anything that hasn’t been around since the establishment of the creaky old Idaho Newsletter Code of Expecta-tions, especially when that entry comes from any organization that, like us, prefers to stay above the squalor of paying dues to GSANP.

So guess what? Your Rajah decided (about three weeks ago) to start our own newsletter association, the SFMPB“EIN”A, complete with an annual awards banquet, the first of which was held about three weeks ago in the Party Room of a nearby Chuck E. Cheese.

And guess what again!? Our dear The Flutter took the top honor! Isn’t that fabu-lous? And we can hardly wait until next year’s banquet to see if we can repeat the ac-complishment. In fact, even as we speak, your Rajah is in deep contemplation as to whether we should invite any other newsletters to par-ticipate, or to leave it as it is—uncomplicated by tawdry competition and exclusive only

to those entries that have a proven record of winning SFMPB“EIN”A awards.

And now, on to other news.

Other News: Rajah Bill has the highest of hopes that there will soon be another SFMPB chapter! If you’re counting, that would bring the chapter count up to two! Perhaps even more exciting is this new chapter would be located in Florida. And who could use a Society for Making People Better more than Florida?

Here’s how it happened, if it indeed hap-pens: Last week, Rajah Bill and his wife—around SFMPB headquarters, we fondly refer to her as Mrs. Rajah Bill—played host to her brother and niece from that state which dan-gles off the underbelly of America like some enormous, alligator-infested skin tag. This brother-in-law of your Rajah is a fine man, upstanding in every way, and his daughter is well on her way to becoming a fine young lady. (We are not making this up: Simona just last month became the winner of the Miss Pre-Teen America Contest. How many of those do you have in your family, huh?)

During an evening of barbecued meat selections, freshly clipped potato bits and some food substance that we could not read-ily identify, the Rajah’s brother-in-law—let us call him “Larry” until he is officially installed as Rajah of the Tampa Chapter—innocently inquired into the nature of the SFMPB, prompting your Rajah (Boise Chapter) to loquaciously explain what this thing of ours is all about. He even provided a copy of the SFMPB Rule Book to “Larry.”

We must say, “Larry” was greatly im-pressed, exclaiming that, “My goodness, you must be beating back would-be SFMPBers with a stick!” to which Rajah Bill replied, “Uh, yeah. Sure.”

It wasn’t until the next day that it oc-curred to your Rajah how “Larry” might make a wonderful Rajah in his own right, and approached his guest with the oppor-tunity to carry the SFMPB message back to the land of mold and murder acquittals. In his pitch, Rajah Bill outlined all the advan-tages of belonging to our dear Society—the strength of beneficent purpose, the brother/sisterhoodness of being part of such a com-pelling brother/sister hood, the prospects of winning major awards for excellence in newsletters and, of course, the monthly potlucks—and suffice it to say “Larry” was intrigued. His enthusiasm was overwhelming in his response, “Uh, yeah, Sure.”

Keep your eye on The Flutter for further developments.

One last note: Rajah Bill has decided to award an honorary Rajahship to Robin Williams. Posthumously, of course. We don’t think he’d mind at all.

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In journalism classes at the College of Idaho, I talked about the pitfalls of cover-ing politics. I told my students those pitfalls came with sharpened, feces-smeared bamboo stakes at their bottoms.

“Really?” they would ask.“It’s a metaphor,” I would say. “But that

doesn’t mean you can write about politics and come away with cherished bits of your anatomy intact.”

Then I’d get specific:Politicians gain office by following rules.

Then they take delight in enforcing the rules they once had to follow. Don’t expect to get through to them by pointing out that the rules might be insane, unjust or harmful.

In spite of the above, tell the truth. Telling the truth takes priority over getting through to your audience. If you have to sweeten the pic-ture, it’s not worth it, even if you lose all those readers who think the picture should consist entirely of high-fructose corn syrup.

In politics, the truth is always relative. Postmodern literary theory says truth is a construct tied to language, tribe and class, and is a tool of social oppression. Postmodernists, thinking they were freedom-loving revolution-aries, showed how to use language to destroy the dubious “truths” of hierarchy, patriarchy and oligarchy. Then reactionary politicians discovered postmodernist theory and used it to steamroll anything that got in their way.

Here’s New York Times writer Ron Suskind writing about Bush adviser Karl Rove in 2004: “[He] said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge after your judicious study of discern-ible reality. … That’s not the way the world re-ally works anymore,’ [Rove] continued. ‘We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study, too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors … and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’”

We all know what kind of reality that go-dawful language resulted in. If you spend your life in the political arena—even as a reporter—you will have lived in an entirely artificial world, one you might think you can change arbitrarily because it was arbitrary in the first place. You may decide you can ignore the laws of physics or mathematics or forgo common decency. Don’t do that. There’s an objective reality out there that you can perceive if you’re careful and humble enough.

George Washington warned his country-men against the pathology of party politics. Whether it was good advice for politicians we’ll never know, but it’s good advice for journalists. If you call yourself a Republican or Democrat, or Green, or Tea, or Green Tea, you won’t be as good a journalist as you would be if you don’t identify with a party at

all. If you resist this idea, write the phrase “A Pox on All Your Houses” 50 times in your reporter’s notebook.

If that doesn’t work, try imagining elected officials as lizard-people from Uranus. Think of their lofty language as coded alien argu-ments about how best to divvy up humans as a harvestable protein source.

The world really is being run by lizard-people. That’s because we all have, under our neocortex, a lizard brain—one that springs into action when we run for office.

Lust for power always comes wrapped in noble rhetoric. Remember Lord Acton’s dictum that “Power Corrupts, and Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.” Writers have so little power that we usually choose less glam-orous paths to corruption, but sometimes we shrink the world to fit the scope of our power. Then we have to watch our tendency toward corruption just as much as if we were ambi-tious congressmen or Lockheed lobbyists. The lizard brain is always waiting to act, no matter how small the arena.

Some language is designed for lies—for ex-ample, the language of bureaucracies and press secretaries. Truth is not a construct. It’s turn-ing up the light in a room where the spots on the carpet are slick, squishy and disgustingly mobile. Choose language that exposes rather than obscures. Your shoes will thank you.

We live in a typical dying empire. We’ve hocked the future to maintain an unjust status quo. We’ve spent blood and treasure on wars that have put our enemies in power. We’ve turned our currency into one vast unsecured derivative. We’re not educating our children well. Our churches have become mighty fortresses of oppression and greed. Presidents morph into their predecessors. Any decision comes with huge unintended consequences. The cost-benefit ratio of government has gone into the toilet, and passionate arguments about the trivial have become the stoop de jour. Politicians have come to prefer deni-ability to truth, which means they will co-opt journalists at every opportunity.

It takes deep courage to be a writer. It takes deep faith in your perceptions. There are strong taboos against writing down what you see. Most of us have had those taboos burned into our frontal lobes by families, schools, po-litical parties and religions. They are designed to keep us happy, but also in the shallows. Neither state is where you want to spend your writing career or your life.

A career in journalism requires a desire to make conscious the dark things that happen in this world and in human hearts. Not everyone takes satisfaction in putting those things on page or screen, but you should. In the end, it’s the only thing that will make objective reality a well-lighted place, with a clean carpet.

Adapted from John Rember’s MFA in a Box blog, mfainabox.com.

LYING DOWN WITH FLEASGetting up with dogs

OPINION/JOHN REMBER


IDAHO’S VIEW TO A

KILLThe bizarre plan to

kill ravens to save sage grouse which, in turn,

will be killed by hunters KELSEY MEEKER

No matter what, the bird gets it in the end.Yes, the Idaho Department of Fish and

Game delayed its plans to kill 4,000 ravens in an effort to “monitor and evaluate” ravens’ impact on sage grouse. But while the tens of thousands of people who petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stop the kill drew a breath of relief this past spring, Fish and Game was quick to say that it has every inten-tion to move forward with its plan to poison or shoot the ravens. Anyone thinking that Fish and Game was a benevolent protector of the sage grouse—which federal officials said in 2010 warranted endangered species status—need only look to Saturday, Sept. 20, when Fish and Game will sanction yet another sage grouse hunting season. According to IDFG estimates, hunters shoot an average of 2,317 sage grouse each year.

“Quoth the raven: knock it off already,” wrote John Shea, when signing the online petition.

“Are you insane?” wrote Steve Timm.“Are you freaking serious?” wrote Cor-

mael Lia.More than 66,000 signed the online docu-

ment at the Care2 petition site.Even Fish and Game biologists don’t give

the most convincing argument that the raven kill is based on good science.

“We can’t directly say that [sage grouse population decline] is from ravens, because we don’t have that information,” IDFG wild-life biologist Ann Moser told the Twin Falls Times-News last April. “There’s anecdotal information.”

The Idaho Legislature wasn’t anecdotal in its blessing of the raven slaughter. Tucked deep inside of Senate Bill 1171 during the Legisla-ture’s 2013 session was a $100,000 appropria-tion for the project. In fact, every member of the House and Senate save one—Coeur d’Alene Republican Sen. Bob Nonini—voted in favor of the appropriations measure.

IDFG officials convinced lawmakers of their plan to kill the ravens by baiting the birds with chicken eggs laced with something called Starlicide, technically known as DRC-1339.

Proponents of the raven kill say DRC-1339 is designed to be expelled by the ravens before they die, so if an animal ate a dead raven, it would not ingest the poison.

A coalition of conservation groups, includ-

ing the American Bird Conservancy and National Audubon Society, were having none of it, asking U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and USFWS Director Dan Ashe to pull the plug on the plan.

“The [Idaho plan] fails to fully examine the direct, indirect and cumulative impacts of us-ing the avicide DRC-1339 across the southern Idaho landscape,” the coalition wrote.

DRC-1339 is designed to take effect three days after consumption, but since it is a slow-acting toxicant, a number of dead birds are not found and counted for good data. According to a 2005 U.S. Fish and Wildlife report, “the slowness of the toxicant to act, combined with the birds’ mobility, leaves researchers with few targets and non-target species to retrieve.” Ad-ditionally, the 2005 report said, “With respect to the use of [DRC-1339] to control pest bird populations, it is highly problematic, if not impossible to conduct a field baiting study and subsequently determine the number or percent-age” of exposed birds.

In February 2008, a Winchester, Ind., man said he picked up five dozen dead or dying starlings in his backyard with a pitchfork after FWS poisoned a nearby dairy feedlot. In March 2008, a Yakima, Wash., woman said she picked up three trash bags full of dead birds following a similar poisoning. And no, the pitchforks full of dead birds were never included in any official study.

Idaho’s plan shows a “lack of science,” Katie Fite, biodiversity director for the Western Watersheds Project, told the Times-News.

Officials at the College of Idaho are all-too familiar with the effects of DRC-1339. It was used a few years ago, but the poison’s toxicity was a bit too effective.

“When the crows started coming, it was a

like a remark of The Birds,” said Allan Laird, who, as head of C of I Campus Safety, is in charge of managing bird-related problems. “The crows were roosting in the school’s trees when there was an influx of starlings. Local farmers placed [DRC-1339] in their feedlots. However, the crows also ate from the same lots as the starlings, and when the crows started returning to their nests on our campus, they would die in the trees and fall to the ground.”

According the U.S. Department of Agri-culture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, DRC-1339 affects different levels of birds, depending on their sensitivity to toxins. So-called “target birds” are considered “pests” but owls and felines are “known exceptions” to be as sensitive to the bait as the target birds. APHIS is quick to add, however, that toxicity to most mammals is low.

IDFG has pointed to previous studies in Utah and Montana predation management plans to prop up its raven-kill plan.

“Utah and Nevada have been doing this work for years,” Todd Sullivan, IDFG eastern district supervisor for Wildlife Services, said in April. “They have shown there have been significant improvements in the areas where they have done the work on sage grouse recruitment.”

But that work in Utah and Nevada only pertained to land predators—coyotes and foxes—and even the Nevada Wildlife Commis-sion said it was unsure how significant raven predation was to its sage grouse population.

Meanwhile, in Montana, researchers with that state’s Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency wrote in 2013 that that predator control efforts only had “local short-term effects” on the sage grouse, and that nest success and bird survival rates

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THREEBoise school board

candidates compete for three seats

GEORGE PRENTICE

The 2014 Boise School Board election is a high-profile contest. One need only look at the slate of candidates—seven competing for three seats—to be put before voters Tuesday, Sept. 2. Compare that to the 2012 election which really wasn’t a contest at all: Because only three candidates vied for three seats, the polls were dark. Looking back to 2010, ap-proximately 1,500 voters showed up for that trustee election and about 1,100 showed up in 2008, representing 1.5 percent (in 2010) and 1 percent (2008) of registered voters.

But with Common Core, Luna Laws and an increasing need for supplemental levies cast-ing long shadows over education, how Idaho teaches its children has never been so politi-cal. In fact, the current president of the Boise School Board of Trustees, A.J. Balukoff, is knee-deep in what is already a contentious race against incumbent Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter.

Indeed, Common Core was moved to the front burner Aug. 26 as the six men and one woman who want to join the board appeared at a rare opportunity to size up the candidates prior to the Sept. 2 district-wide election. Vying for one two-year term are marketing consultant and former Idaho legislator Brian Cronin and Travis Jones, executive director of the Idaho Grain Producers Association. Voters will select from a slate of five to fill two other, six-year terms. They include two incumbents: Nancy Gregory and Doug Park, and three challengers: John Hruby, Anthony Shallat and Grant Walden. To the person, each said they supported the core standards, but struggled with Smarter Balance Assessment Consor-tium—or SBAC—which requires marathon

testing of students to gauge their core skills.“I think the jury is still out,” said Gregory.Hruby said he was concerned that a “core

standard test took longer than a college en-trance exam,” while Park said he was proud of the district’s record of student achievement but, “the pilot of SBAC showed that it’s costly and takes too much time away from instruction.”

Shallat agreed that there had been “a lot of hysteria about SBAC and some of that was warranted,” but ultimately the core standards would be good for the district and the state.

The controversy over so-called “tiered licensure” also surfaced at the forum. Boise Weekly readers have already heard from nu-merous teachers about their concerns for tiered licensure (BW, Feature, “Lessons Learned,” Aug. 20, 2014), a controversial proposal that could put a teacher’s license in jeopardy on the challenge of a single administrator.

“They’re demonizing teachers again, by tying a teacher’s license to a local evaluation,” IEA President Penny Cyr told BW this month.

“The devil’s in the details,” said Gregory, would added she wasn’t a fan of the plan. “If you’re confused, welcome to the party.”

And Park siad tiered licensure was a “one-size-fits-all policy that typically doesn’t work.”

Another hot topic is the lack of early child-hood education in Idaho, which inspired Cro-nin’s most impassioned moments of the forum.

“We have economists from both sides of the

aisle who support this. It’s absurd that there’s even a debate over this,” said Cronin. “It’s an obvious investment we have to make and I’m committed to finding any possible loophole to make this happen.”

Jones said the key would be to craft public-private partnerships to help fund pre-kinder-garten, but Walden chose to focus his remarks on Boise kindergarten classes.

“We need full-day kindergarten throughout the district,” said Walden. “It’s not right that it’s only available at some of the schools, mak-ing children go across town to go to class.”

When candidates were asked to weigh in on the district’s recent long-term strategic plans, Hruby had some faint praise for the blueprint.

“It has a lot of good concepts, but I’m not sure how many of them are measurable,” said Hruby. “I would offer something more bold, more aggressive.”

Shallat said while he “reaped the ben-efits” of being a graduate of the Boise School District, he quickly added, “I think we can do better though.”

Walden particularly criticized district ad-ministration for doing a poor job of getting the word out on the upcoming election.

“I talked to 40 people yesterday. Two of them knew there was an election,” he said.

Which drives home the theory that district residents’ votes may count more than ever Sept 2.

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AUDIT: CITY OF BOISE UTILITY BILLING NEEDS IMPROVEMENT

The city of Boise’s utility billing depart-ment rakes in more than $50 million in charges and fees for sewer, solid waste and recycling services. But how it man-ages that billing is a significant reason for concern, according to a July audit. In fact, the formal review of bookkeeping practices that service more than 130,000 customer accounts each year revealed “significant deficiencies in both core and related areas,” and the “deterioration” of timely reconciliations.

Overall, utility billing systems were tagged with a “needs improvement” rating, but citizens should know that the grade is one notch above “unsatisfactory,” the bot-tom rung of a five-tiered ranking system.

Auditors noted that Public Works recently converted its utility division to a new billing system, but “internal control mechanisms do not appear to be com-pletely operational in some areas where they should be.”

Among the findings:Policy and procedural guidance was

outdated.Significant general ledger control ac-

counts were not reconciled.Policy changes that had been ap-

proved in 2012 still hadn’t been imple-mented.

Among the more egregious findings was the fact that some month-end balances of both the sewer and solid waste funds—typically exceeding $4 million—were not reconciled. In March of this year, some general ledger accounts had not been reconciled for up to six months.

Additionally, auditors found deficiencies in management of two initiatives where customers can donate funds to parks land-scaping or to assist those experiencing difficulty in paying their utility bills. In fact, the audit revealed that no external agency had been selected to administer the assis-tance and it turns out that no funds have been disbursed to either initiative for six months or more.

In each instance, city management promised to update policy manuals and to catch up with account reconciliations. But auditors still noted that “some long-term increase in staffing levels may prove to be necessary” to clean up the problems.

—George Prentice

The seven candidates vying for three seats on the Boise School Board of Trustees were joined by mod-erator Molly Lenty (third from left) at the Aug. 26 forum sponsored by the Boise Metro Chamber.

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are higher when there is large, intact sagebrush habitat. Instead of future poisoning, Montana FWP recommended to “remove tall structures and attempt to restore the altered habitat,” among

other options. One of the nation’s only successful studies

in increasing sage grouse numbers was not done by a government agency. Instead, it was a Nevada Boy Scout troop that placed so-called “flight diverters” on fences of rural farms. It turns out that sage grouse often fly at night or during low light sunrise/sunset periods during spring breeding season. The diverters—vinyl

markers with yellow, green or orange reflective tape—have proved to save countless sage grouse from death against the fences. By December 2013, the scouts had placed more than 5,400 flight diverters across miles of live-stock control fencing. According to Bureau of Land Management wildlife biologist Ken Wilkinson, studies showed that the diverters could reduce measurable sage grouse mortal-ity by nearly 60 percent.

Nonetheless, IDFG is moving forward with its plan to kill thousands of ravens—they’ll be poisoning eggs over two years near the Idaho National Laboratory, the Curlew

National Grasslands in Oneida and Power counties, and in Washington County near the Oregon border.

“The raven program is a bit like a Band Aid on a compound fracture,” Dr. Eric Yensen, C of I emeritus professor of biology, told Boise Weekly. “The Band Aid can help stop the bleeding and protect the wound, but it doesn’t address the fundamental problem.”

That fundamental problem—how, or even if, Idaho manages sage grouse and ravens—takes an ironic twist in 2015, as many of those birds ultimately find themselves in Idaho hunters’ crosshairs.

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Had you spent any time in Idaho before this summer?

Steve McQueen was a very good friend of mine. He was building a cabin over in Ket-chum and I would fly in to visit him there. The last time I was here was to spend Thanksgiv-ing with his wife, Barbara, and son, Chad, after Steve had passed. He was quite a man. I admired him very much.

What year is on your Screen Actors Guild card?

1963, my very first film. I played Joan Crawford’s husband in a picture called Straight Jacket. Everybody from my home-town of Middlesboro, Ky., came to see it. But she chopped my head off before the opening credits. So all my friends wasted 25 cents.

We Baby Boomers remember your early days in TV Westerns, like The Big Valley and The Virginian.

Wow, that’s when I worked with Barbara Stanwyck. She was tough, but she took me under her wing and taught me to be on time, learn all your lines and keep your mouth shut. There were only three TV channels back then, so we had some pretty huge audiences.

Did you do your own stunts?More than 80 percent, over the years.

Did you suffer serious injuries?I’m looking at a left knee replacement. Let’s

put it this way: If somebody yelled “Fire” right now, I would be the last one out the door. You know, I’m 57 years old… (long pause and smile), but I’m at an age where I can flip those numbers around.

Many of us grew up seeing you on lunch-boxes and action figures from The Six Million Dollar Man.

And they’re still selling big on eBay.

Did you ever get a piece of the merchandise royalties?

Not a penny. I had a contract with Univer-sal Pictures that said I should have 8 percent

of the merchandise. But Universal kept saying they were in the red.

I don’t believe for a second that they lost money. Studios were notorious for mysterious bookkeeping.

The last time I tried to fight them was years ago. I gave up. A lot of that Six Million Dollar Man stuff came out long after the series went off the air. Do you remember the doll? When it first came out, it was about a foot tall; then it was about 6 inches, and then the other day I saw this tiny little thing.

Didn’t The Six Million Dollar Man start out as a TV movie?

I got a script called Cyborg. The first script was pretty campy, like Batman, and I had no desire for that. Eventually it was a lot like James Bond: flashy with a lot of girls. We ended up making three different movies; by the third one, it was a lot smarter. But by the time the series was on for three years, I was a little tired of looking at hairy legged guys on the crew. So, they wrote me a love interest. That was Lindsay Wagner. She was the Bionic Woman. I remember I even wrote a song and sang it in that episode that introduced her.

Tell me about your singing career.I don’t have a singing career.

But you sang the theme from The Fall Guy, and that’s one of the all-time great TV songs.

That song was No. 1 in Germany.

Sorry, but David Hasselhoff was No. 1 in Germany, too.

Exactly. That means nothing.

Were those good years?Great fun. I was also the producer of

The Fall Guy and we had amazing cameos: everyone from Richard Burton to Roy Rogers. I would do every stunt except the large truck jumps. But I think I still hired every stunt man in Hollywood. Even when I did the stunts, we made sure that they all got paid.

Tell us about your latest acting assignment in The Other Side of September.

I play Chet; he’s a pretty classy guy living in a Boise retirement community. He and a friend try to help out a young man with his love life.

Did you enjoy your time at the Plantation Place Retirement Home?

Loved it. I’m going back there, when we’re done shooting, to spend some time with the folks there. I want to have some one-on-one time, pose for pictures, sign some autographs.

What kind of work do you look for at this stage in your career?

It’s all about the script. This movie could turn out to be a good little film. Lately, I’m more on board with smaller, independent projects.

I must say that you’re looking pretty good for 75. You must come from amazing stock.

Well, my mom and dad died in separate accidents when I was very little. I really don’t know my true stock, but I’ve seen pictures and they were very good looking people. As for me, I was an athlete. I played a lot of football, ran most of my life and maybe those stunts were good for me.

Do you still love show business?Let me tell you, this has been a very pleas-

ant shoot and I loved being in Boise.

LEE MAJORSThe Six Million Dollar Citizen

GEORGE PRENTICE

The voice was familiar and, when he took off his sunglasses, there he was: Steve Austin (The Six Million Dollar Man), Colt Seavers (The Fall Guy) and Heath Barkley (The Big Valley). And yes, he looks very good for his age (75).

Majors has spent this summer, rather quietly, mind you, in Boise. He’s co-starring in a new romantic comedy drama (“Please don’t call it a dramedy,” said writer-director-actor and Boise native William von Tagen), entitled The Other Side of September. Majors, et al. have been film-ing at Zoo Boise, The Record Exchange, The Owyhee, Tenth Street Station and the Plantation Place Retirement Home, where Majors was playing a retiree who gives plenty of romantic advice to the lead character, played by von Tagen.

As the film was wrapping up principal shooting, Majors sat down with Boise Weekly to talk about his career and drop more than a few famous names.

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Mac McNeil is a tall man with large hands, but he handles his bees gently.

He slipped into a white Boise State Broncos pullover his wife gave him for Christmas—a light protection from his bees. Like him, his bees are gentle, and he rarely wears a full bee suit. Whenever a hive turns aggressive, he replaces the queen.

“Nice bees makes for good neighbors,” McNeil said. “A residential beekeeper’s responsibility is to keep nice bees.”

McNeil keeps two beehives near ParkCenter Boulevard in Boise, as well as a handful more at his home off Hill Road. He likes keeping bees for his own homemade mead, harvesting some 200 pounds of honey every year. He likes knowing where his honey comes from and what’s in it. But he started his own colonies for another, more selfless reason—to help a struggling creature.

“You want to help the bees because they’re experiencing trouble,” he said.

He traded his extensive saltwater fish tank for a few hives two years ago, taking on a hobby that lets him practice his skills as a woodworker. He made each box, built every frame and crafted miniature shingled roofs for them all.

On a clear spring day at the end of April, McNeil went to

check on his hives near ParkCenter.When he reached his bee boxes, McNeil found more than

two-thirds of his bees—nearly 10,000—dead.“Just to see them on the ground...” McNeil said, his eyes

cast downward. He didn’t finish the sentence.McNeil blamed pesticides for such a significant kill. He said

spring is the time of year when landscapers and homeowners spray ornamental plants and trees. Since both hives were hit at the same time, he said they didn’t die from something that had been brewing in the boxes. It was an external cause.

He can’t say for sure what kind of pesticide it was that killed his bees, but he worries about a class of pesticides that have been drawing widespread attention over the past few years. They’re called neonicotinoids—neonics, for short—and they’re a synthetic chemical similar to nicotine. Ada County was one of the places in the United States where neonic prod-ucts were first used back in 1994.

“You can’t blame everything on neonics. Bees are hit by a whole host of things,” McNeil said. “But I believe neonics are overused. If people knew more, I think they would use a whole lot less of them.”

A FATAL STINGA swarming debate over pesticides and their role in bee deaths

BY JESSICA MURRI


Worldwide sales of neonicotinoids in

2006/percentage of global insecticide market

Xerces Society for Invertebrate

Conservation, xerces.org

$1.6 billion/ 17 per-cent

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cides per acre (though not all neonicotinoids)

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agri.idaho.gov

11.5 million/ 16-24 ounces

A POTENTIALLY WONDERFUL DISCOVERYThe pesticides that fall under the neonicotinoid class are a

group of intimidating and difficult-to-pronounce words. They include acetamiprid, clothianidin, dinotefuran, imidacloprid, thiacloprid and thiamethoxam.

They came around about 20 years ago and quickly gained popularity among crop growers and landscapers because they’re much less toxic to people and animals than other insecticides.

They’re present in more than 400 products on the market, and, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conserva-tion, worldwide sales of neonics rose to $1.6 billion in 2006—at least 17 percent of the global insecticide market. In 2009, imidacloprid was one of the most used pesticides in California, being applied to hundreds of thousands of acres of crops.

According to a recent national report from the Minne-apolis, Minn., Star Tribune, 615 pounds of neonicotinoids were sprayed on plants and crops in Ada County from 1994 to 2011, with 160 pounds sprayed in 2011. Following that trend—and throughout Boise Weekly’s reporting, nothing alluded to a slowdown—that would mean more than 900 pounds of neonicotinoids have been applied in the county in the past 20 years.

That number doesn’t include the most common use of the pesticide: seed treatment. Seeds are coated in the chemicals be-fore they’re planted, and the pesticide becomes systemic. That means the chemicals absorb into the plant, offering protection against insects that feed on the leaves. It’s touted as another benefit of neonicotinoids.

“You can put a small amount on the seed instead of having to spray every 10 days,” said George Robinson, administrator of the Agricultural Resources Division at the Idaho Depart-ment of Agriculture. “It’s a one-time treatment, then you don’t have to come back for a year. That’s a big advantage for a grower.”

Not having to spray also reduces direct contact to non-target insects during treatment—another plus. But concern is growing about the effects neonicotinoids might be having on insects that rely on nectar or pollen—mainly honeybees.

Fact sheets from the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Con-servation explain that neonicotinoids operate by paralyzing insects. They block a specific chemical pathway that transmits nerve impulses in the central nervous system. Scientists are also starting to question sublethal effects on bee behavior such as memory, navigation and task allocation.

But no one is quite in agreement on how neonics are affect-ing the bees.

POTENTIALLY GOOD, POTENTIALLY BADThe controversy surrounding neonicotinoids is not so

cut-and-dried as farmers versus beekeepers. Even scientists from Harvard University disagree on whether neonics are detrimental.

Chensheng Lu, a professor of environmental exposure biology at Harvard, released a study in May 2014 that strengthens the link between neonicotinoids and the collapse of honeybee colonies.

“Two widely used neonicotinoids,” the study stated, “ap-pear to significantly harm honeybee colonies over the winter, particularly during colder winters.”

In so-called Colony Collapse Disorder, bees abandon their hives over the winter and eventually die. In the study, six of the 12 neonicotinoid-treated hives were lost. In a similar study conducted in 2012, the mortality rate was much higher: 94 percent.

Many remain skeptical of studies such as these, including longtime beekeeper Randy Oliver. The Californian started keeping bees in 1967 and writes regularly for American Bee Journal. He also writes extensively on his research pertaining to neonics.

He summed up the contention between those for and against neonicotinoids on his website, but not before delving into his personal philosophy.

“I came of age in the ’60s, and was profoundly influenced

by Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which detailed how humans were poisoning the environment with pesticides,” he wrote. “I became an environmental activist, subscribed to Mother Earth News and Organic Gardening, moved into the woods, and began a lifelong quest to ‘walk the walk’—go-ing solar, avoiding pesticides and manmade toxins ... and am considered in my community to be about as green as you get.”

He recalled the first time he heard of neonics, labeling his beliefs biased.

“When I first heard reports from France that some new insecticides—the neonicotinoids—were causing massive bee mortality, I of course assumed, ‘Here we go again—the corporate recklessness of the chemical industry, coupled with government regulators asleep at the switch, has created yet another environmental catastrophe,’” he wrote. “So, having a background in biology and chemistry, in my usual manner I began to investigate the subject deeply.”

His pages and pages of findings came back mixed. He pointed out that bees subjected to the pesticides were sometimes even more productive than untouched bees—like humans nicotine users, it creates a literal buzz for the bees.

One thing he stressed was the highly artificial nature of the studies pertaining to bees and neonicotinoids.

Bees who serve as test subjects are captured from their natural habitat, chilled to sedate them, then given stimulants to make them behave normally while they’re studied. Some argue that placing bees under so much stress during study elevates their mortality rate.

“Imagine that if we wished to determine the effects of a pesticide on humans … we used as test subjects young chil-dren that had been ripped away from their families, chilled, starved and held in isolation, then knocked out and revived, dosed with a stimulant and then watched to see how well they performed some arbitrary test,” Oliver wrote. “Would we feel the results of such a test were applicable to the human com-munity in the real world?”

Theresa Pitts-Singer, a research entomologist in the Agri-cultural Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture in, gave similar words of caution to BW.

“One thing to be careful of,” she wrote in an email, “[is that] not all studies accurately represent the true exposure to the bees in ag settings. You can demonstrate a lot of terrible things in the lab or greenhouse, but what really happens on the farm is difficult. This is where new focus needs to get a handle on how to safeguard the bees, as well as the crop.”

More studies continue to be written on the topic through the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The most current report evaluates honeybee exposure to neonicotinoid insecticides and colony health in agricultural and non-agricultural areas. It began in Tennessee in September 2013 and will run through September 2018.

For beekeepers in the Treasure Valley Beekeepers Club, neonicotinoids are a hot-button issue.

“Just in our club, there’s so many different opinions,” McNeil said. “We don’t talk about it.”

One member of the Treasure Valley Beekeepers Club with a dissenting opinion from McNeil’s is longtime beekeeper Steve Sweet.

“If you’re looking for the naysayer, the guy who’s going to cry end-of-the-world over neonics, I’m not your guy,” Sweet told BW.

Sweet has some 25 large hives and 15 smaller bee boxes. He started beekeeping in 1973, “since long before there were neonics.”

“Back then, we had crop dusters dropping God-forsaken pesticides, stuff used in World War I and II to kill people in the trenches,” Sweet said. “I’m not seeing a decline from these particular [neonicotinoid] pesticides.”

Sweet said his bees are dying of other causes, specifically a mite called the Varroa destructor (BW, Food, “Bee In His Bonnet,” Aug. 14, 2013). The mites showed up about 60 years ago, according to Sweet. The species lays eggs that hatch and then feed on bee larvae, leading to bees emerging weak-ened and deformed.

50,000Number of bees found dead in a Wilsonville,

Ore., Target parking lot after neonicotinoid spraying in

June 2013oregonlive.com


615Number of pounds of

neonicotinoids sprayed in Ada County, 1994-2011

Star Tribune, July 2014,

startribune.com

8,085 Number of com-

mercial and back-yard bee colonies in

IdahoBee Informed, beeinformed.org12.77

percentIdaho bee deaths in the winter of 2013-2014

Bee Informed, beeinformed.org

“It decimates the colony,” Sweet said. “Every beehive has these damn mites and the bees don’t know how to deal with them.”

Sweet is working on a possible solution to the mite prob-lem with Washington State University, in Pullman, Wash., where researchers are gathering bee semen from Europe, Asia and Africa because live bees can’t be imported into the U.S. They’re hoping to breed more hygienic bees, that will clean themselves more regularly in order to fight off the parasite.

The current study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking to see if incidents of Varroa mites increase with exposure to neonicotinoids.

While Sweet doesn’t jump on the bandwagon with other beekeepers in predicting that neonicotinoids will kill off the bees, he did say the miracle pesticides aren’t exactly miracles. He said neonics do pose some threats—they’re not “as clean as everyone would like to think.”

For example, residue from neonics is starting to show up in groundwater in the Midwest, and some bee advocacy groups like the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation claim the pesticides stay in the soil for anywhere from six months to three years.

Sweet, like many other farmers, beekeepers and research-ers, is not so sure that’s the heart of the problem threatening bees today.

“The bees have been around for millions of years,” Sweet said. “But they don’t know how to cope with problems they are facing today. The fighting is tough.”

NOT TAKING ANY CHANCESIn June 2013, a neonicotinoid pesticide was sprayed on

several linden trees in a Target parking lot in Wilsonville, Ore. Shortly after, 50,000 bees were found dead at the site. After that, there were two more incidents of bee kills coincid-ing with use of the same pesticides.

Although evidence remains inconclusive as to how devas-tating neonics can be to honeybees, that one kill was significant enough for Oregon to take measures against the pesticides.

The Oregon Department of Agriculture started requiring neonics carry a warning label stating they cannot be used on linden trees when bees may be present or when trees are in bloom.

When a similar incident occurred this year in Eugene, Ore., the depart-ment went a step further.

“The latest action we took was to prohibit the use of those pesticide products on linden trees, period,” said Oregon Department of Ag spokesman Bruce Pokarney. “We’re not banning them completely. We’re just saying you can’t use them on linden trees.”

Pokarney said this problem runs deeper than bees getting killed because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time. He said these bees weren’t directly sprayed.

“The trees were treated and then the bees came to the trees, attracted by the blossom. The bee activity was not tak-ing place at the time of the application,” Pokarney said. “We needed to change our law to keep that from happening again. We needed to address what was an acute problem. There’s an awful lot of attention being paid on pollinator protection right now.”

Pokarney did add that there has been a bit of an “explo-sion” of aphids on linden trees this year in the area. He said they leave sticky residue on cars parked under the trees, “and people don’t like that.” But he added that there are other, more pollinator-safe, products out there.

“We didn’t cut off all alternatives,” he said. However, if someone is caught violating the label and mis-

using the pesticide, the fine could be as much as $10,000—though Pokarney said it would probably be far less than that in reality.

While Oregon only banned the use of neonics on linden trees, the European Commission adopted a proposal to restrict the use of three pesticides in the neonicotinoid family through December 2015.

The action came after a report from the European Food Safety Authority, identifying “high acute risks” for bees near crops sprayed with neonicotinoids like corn, cereals and sun-flowers, as well as neonicotinoids found in pollen and nectar in crops like oilseed, grapes and sunflowers.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is nowhere near banning—or even restricting—neonicotinoids at such a broad level, but officials said the agency is currently re-eval-uating the class of pesticides as part of the routine review all registered pesticides periodically undergo to ensure they meet health and safety standards.

One lawmaker is pushing for more, though.Oregon Congressman Earl Blumenauer introduced the

Save America’s Pollinators Act of 2013, which would sus-pend the use of certain neonicotinoids—especially the ones possibly playing a role in bee die-offs happening in Oregon and around the world. The proposed suspension would re-main effective until the EPA reviews the pesticides and makes “a new determination” about their proper application and safe use.

The bill was introduced and assigned to a congressional committee on July 16, 2013, where it would be considered before going to the full House or Senate. It has yet to go anywhere.

AN IMPORTANT TOOLIdaho has nearly 8,085 commercial and backyard bee

colonies, according to Bee Informed, a partnership working with beekeepers to understand best management practices. The organization reported that Idaho’s colony loss for the 2013-2014 winter was 12.77 percent—the lowest in the country.

With numbers that low, it’s hard for farmers in the state to be willing to give up neonicotinoid pesticides, a very useful tool for several of Idaho’s key crops like sugar beets and po-tatoes. Idaho has almost 11.5 million acres of farmland, with some 16-24 ounces of pesticides sprayed per acre—though not all of those are neonics.

“We haven’t had any complaints on bee kills from those products at this point in time,” said Robinson, with the Idaho Department of Agriculture. His job is to regulate pesti-cides and ensure they are used according to the label, as well as register pesticides for use in the state.

But Robinson said Idaho doesn’t require dealers or ap-plicators to report use of pesticides. He said he doesn’t have any information on where or how much of a pesticide is used in the state.

“We register a lot of pesticides,” Robinson said. “It’s hard to be experts on any of them.”

John Thompson, of the Idaho Farm Bureau, said growers are protective of the tools that work for them.

“Farmers certainly don’t want to hurt the bees,” he said. “They depend on bees. But they don’t want to lose the use of another important chemical—they would just want to make sure it was taken away for the right reason.”

Uncertain science isn’t the “right” reason for many of

“FARMERS CERTAINLY DON’T WANT TO HURT THE BEES. THEY DEPEND ON BEES. BUT THEY DON’T WANT TO LOSE THE USE OF ANOTHER IMPORTANT CHEMICAL—THEY WOULD JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT WAS TAKEN AWAY FOR THE RIGHT REASON.”

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Idaho’s farmers. For example, the Amalgamated Sugar Com-pany, which processes more than 5 million tons of sugar beets per year in three factories in Southern Idaho—drawing from the approximate 200,000 acres of sugar beets in the state.

Amalgamated Sugar was founded in 1897, and uses neo-nicotinoids to help prevent Curly Top Disease, an infection caused by leafhoppers in which the plant becomes stunted and its leaves and fruit deformed. The leaves curl, twist and become discolored.

John Schorr has been with Amalgamated Sugar for more than two decades and is adamant in his opposition to a ban on neonicotinoids. But there’s something that sets Amalgam-ated Sugar apart from other crops and ornamental flowers that are allegedly harming honeybees.

“We don’t allow the sugar beets to flower,” Schorr said. “They’re dug up before then. So bees aren’t coming into our fields.”

Amalgamated Sugar also never uses the neonics in foliar fashion, where the leaves are directly sprayed. Schorr said because of that, the company is using the pesticide as safely as possible. He doesn’t want to see that tool lost.

“There is a controversy,” Schorr said. “We would like to make sure that the facts that come out are scientific. It’s important. It’s an important chemical for us.”

Thompson, with the Idaho Farm Bureau, seconds that. He said the decline of bees has been a hard problem to solve with no clear answers. He called it “frustrating.”

“These chemicals were already approved in the first place,” Thompson said, stressing that means they were already deemed safe. “This family of chemicals replaces a chemical that was more harmful to the people applying it. But a lot of chemicals come and go for various reasons. If there’s one thing farmers do well, it’s adapt.”

McNeil, the beekeeper who lost 10,000 bees this past spring, said he can sympathize with growers who want to use pesticides. He said pests have kept his organic garden from ever yielding corn. He also doesn’t like the way the agricultural industry may be causing “collateral damage” to the environment.

“Pesticides are a resource,” he said. “But the industry uses it as a tool, and it becomes blunt. They don’t ask if they need it, they just think they’re better safe than sorry. That, to me, doesn’t make any sense.”

A DEATH OF 1,000 CUTSThere is one man in Idaho that has his hands in all of

these pots. Kirk Tubbs is soft spoken and mild mannered—constantly concerned about accidentally offending someone. He strives to be kind.

Down a dirt driveway in Twin Falls, Tubbs and his wife have a small plot called Tubbs’ Berry Farm. They have two girls and two boys—their oldest is 13, their youngest is 2.

“A lot of the reason why we started this farm is so I can teach my kids how to work,” Tubbs said. “On the farm, we do things natural. We find alternate ways to control pests.”

Folks come to pick berries on the farm throughout the summer and browse the pumpkin patch in the fall. Commu-nity supported agriculture shares are also available through Tubbs’ Farm. The operation is completely organic and Tubbs even started a farm school to teach other people how to grow organically. Families come out to the farm a few hours a week.

“And they get to see the whole process from planting seeds to harvesting,” Tubbs said. “The kids look at the plants every week. They might see a little melon growing at first. Then, one day, we crack open a watermelon.”

The farm also has almost 50 beehives, which, like his gar-den, Tubbs keeps all natural. He focuses on raising bees with hygienic behavior to protect them from mites and parasites. He teaches beekeeping classes.

As far as neonicotinoids go, Tubbs tries to avoid them—which is sometimes hard, because many seeds are already coated in them. But he also strives to understand other people’s viewpoints. He has to, because it’s his job.

After 10 years as a biologist, Tubbs was hired to manage the Twin Falls County Pest Abatement District six years ago.

“There’s animosity between people who spray for a living and beekeepers,” Tubbs said. “Beekeepers want to protect their bees and folks who work for the abatement district are just doing their job.”

Tubbs has worked hard to use safe products and under-stand the biology of mosquitoes and blackflies, rather than having to use chemicals that attack them as adults. He said avoiding pesticides is the best-case scenario.

At the same time, he understands that it is hard for com-mercial farmers to lose any crops to pests.

“[Neonicotinoids] are very effective pesticides for little plants. There’s nothing worse than looking out over your crops and saying, ‘Why didn’t that grow?’” Tubbs said. “I can accept some losses, but people in commercial farms, not so much.”

Like Sweet, with the Treasure Valley Beekeepers, Tubbs isn’t sure that the science of neonicotinoids is completely damning. He said if it wasn’t controlling certain pests, farm-ers would be aerial spraying pesticides that are even more lethal to bees and other non-target insects.

He said it’s a concern, though, because, “I don’t know if we know how they work or how long they last yet.”

Tubbs hasn’t dealt with any serious losses in his colonies, but the scientist in him is always looking at new pesticides and wondering how they will affect his bees. He even runs his own experiments at home to see what bees are and aren’t attracted to.

“You have a lot of people who are concerned and want to shut the spigot off on everything, but in the practical world, that’s not going to happen. So arguing for all those pesticides to go away, that’s not going to happen,” Tubbs said.

Ultimately, he doesn’t think neonicoti-noids will be the downfall of bees. He said it will comes from mites, from loss of natural habitat—from a host of pesticides.

“I don’t think it’s just one key thing,” he said. “They’re going to die a death of 1,000 cuts.”

In 2012, a report on findings from the National Stake-holders Conference on Honey Bee Health further clouded the debate. That organization, too, could not reach agreement on the role pesticides play in the health of honeybees.

What is clear though, is that some sort of response must address the problem of bee die-offs. Also clear is that no one is sure what that response should be.

“When I was a kid, my grandma kept bees, but I didn’t pay as much attention as I wish I would have. I like to think it was easier back then,” Tubbs said. “The beekeeping world is changing.”

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FRIDAY-SUNDAYAUG. 29-31come out of your cave

HERMIT MUSIC FESTIVAL Boise Old Time’s second annual Hermit Music Festival starts

at the Linen Building on Friday, Aug. 29, with a square dance and a series of workshops on old-timey dancing, singing and playing: Appalachian Flatfooting, Clawhammer Banjo, Old Time Singing, Old Time Fiddle Tunes from the Great Plains and the Missouri River Valley, Musical Saw Demonstration, Pennywhis-tle, Basque Styles of Playing Music and more.

Saturday, Aug. 30, head to Indian Creek Winery and back in time as musicians pick, pluck, strum and sing. Hear The Tallboys, The Barn Owls and the Hi-O Revelers, the Roe Family Singers, Hillfolk Noir and The Oliphants, to name a few. Catch two days of Stump Stage Sessions, a low-fi audio/video project Travis Ward, of Hillfolk Noir, which is what it sounds like: a per-formance on a stump. More info at hermitmusicfestival.com.

4 p.m., $7-$45, camping available Saturday-Sunday. Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., thelinenbuilding.com; Indian Creek Winery, 1000 N. McDermott Road, Kuna, indiancreekwinery.com.

Old timey, good timey.

SATURDAYAUG. 30see you in the funny pages

LIBRARY COMIC CONThough the 1984 cult-classic Revenge of the Nerds idealized

life as a smart outsider, it was the beginning of a nerd nirvana, where guys like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs were respected for their genius, instead of ridiculed. Now, it’s cool to be a little—or a lot—nerdy, as evidenced by the popularity of conventions for, by and about the people who were once considered uber uncool. Boise’s own inaugural Library Comic Con in 2013 drew hundreds to the Boise Public Library, and the second annual event will likely see even more. The costume contest returns (as does BW’s own Amy Atkins as a judge), along with bigger pan-els, programs and more, covering comics, animation, anime and science fiction. Along with an Artist’s Alley almost impossibly full of talent, this year’s super-special guest is Paul Pope, a highly regarded cartoonist and American Council of the Arts’ master artist. Library Comic Con has something for fans of everything from J.R.R. Tolkien’s work to My LIttle Pony, and you don’t have to be a geek to have a good time. As Gilbert Lowell’s best friend Lewis Skolnick said in Nerds, “Whether you think you’re a nerd or not, why don’t you just come down here and join us.”

10 a.m., FREE, Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-384-4076. Find a full schedule of events at boisepublicli-brary.org.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27THE BOTHOpening Act: Matt Hopper and The Roman Candles

’80s pop-rocker Aimee Mann and ’90s mod-punker Ted Leo had been “mildly friendly” for about 10 years before Leo opened for Mann during a leg of her 2012 Charmer album tour. Some-thing clicked and the two turned into The Both, an amalgam of Leo’s power and Mann’s pop sensibilities.

For more on The Both, see Boise Weekly music writer Ben Schultz’s in-depth profile on Page 21.

5 p.m. Grove Plaza, 900 W. Grove St., downtownboise.org.

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Livescribe 3 comes in sharp-looking black or chrome, costs $149.95 and comes with a 50-page starter notebook and a USB charging cable. The Livescribe 3 Pro Edition, at $199.95, includes all of the above, plus 50 more pages, extra ink cartridges and a premium subscription to Ever-note, software that helps organize handwritten notes.

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Learn about the Land of the Rising Sun.

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

SATURDAYAUG. 30dou itashimashite

JAPAN DAYThe Idaho Japanese Association describes itself as “cul-

tural volunteers, sharing our Japanese heritage and traditions within Idaho schools and organizations … a network, where other expatriate Japanese can find friendship, visa advice and support while living in Idaho.” IJA doesn’t limit its cultural shar-ing to Japanese people only, though. Not only is membership open to any nationality, IJA’s annual Japan Day is an oppor-tunity for the organization to share Japanese culture in a fun, informal setting. On Saturday, Aug. 30, you won’t need a ticket to Tokyo to experience the Land of the Rising Sun: The Basque Center is turning Japanese from noon to 2 p.m. with the sights, sounds and tastes of Japan. See the arts of ikebana (flower arranging), calligraphy and origami, and the martial arts of aikido and kendo; listen to Japanese taiko and koto music; eat some sushi and shop the Japanese flea market.

Noon, FREE for ages 11 and younger; FREE with purchase of raffle ticket for adults. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., idahojapaneseassociation.org.

Lions and tigers and beers, oh my.

SATURDAYAUG. 30welcome to beerkat manor

BREW AT THE ZOOBeer has been paired with practically everything. From food

and bike races to running and indie movies at the Flicks, the world’s most popular alcoholic beverage has woven itself into the fabric of everything else. Boiseans have long been sipping suds while admiring wildlife, but for the first time ever, they’ll be able to drink at the zoo.

That’s because Idaho Brewers United and Zoo Boise have teamed up for Brew at the Zoo, which goes down Saturday, Aug. 30. From 5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m., attendees can nosh on appetizers—additional food is available for purchase—listen to live music, check out the animals and, of course, drink. Wander by the warty pigs or peep the penguins: Nobody will stop you for having a beer in your hand.

This event is for adults 21 and older, so no kiddies, please. Designated drivers get in for $10.

5:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. $10-$40. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-608-7760, zooboise.org.


WEDNESDAYAUGUST 27Festivals & Events

SPIRIT OF BOISE BALLOON CLASSIC—Through Saturday, Aug.

31, everyone is invited to watch hot-air balloons be inflated and launched from Ann Morrison Park. Wednesday, Aug. 27 is Kids Day, which means young-sters can take a short, tethered lift. All launches are weather permitting. 7 a.m. FREE. Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boule-vard, Boise, spiritofboise.com.

On Stage

LES MISERABLES—International smash-hit that may be the most popular musical in the world. Suitable for all ages. 6:30 p.m. $12-$46. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Workshops & Classes

CANNING BASICS AND TOMATO PRODUCTS—Learn the basics of canning at home safely while using a boiling water canner. Also find out how to preserve tomato products and the importance of acidity. For more info or to register, call 208-287-5900 or visit extension.uidaho.edu. 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. $15. University of Idaho Ada County Extension Office, 5880 Glenwood St., Boise, 208-377-2107, uidaho.edu.

FALL VEGETABLE GARDEN-ING—Learn how and what to grow in cool fall months, including site selection, appropriate plants and season extension techniques. 6 p.m. FREE. North End Organic Nursery, 2350 W. Hill Road, Boise, 208-389-4769, northend-nursery.com.

Kids & Teens

BALLET IDAHO ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE—Take a tour of the facili-ties, and enjoy raffles, snacks and more at both the Downtown Acad-emy (Boise) and Academy West (Meridian) locations. Save $50 off registration when you sign up for classes during the open house. 4-6 p.m. FREE. Ballet Idaho, 501 S. Eighth St., Boise; and Ballet Idaho West Academy, 12554 W. Bridger St., Ste. 100, Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

Odds & Ends

SOCIAL DANCE—Social dancing with music by Randy & Linda. 7 p.m. FREE. The Buffalo Club, 10206 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-321-1811, myspace.com/boisebuffaloclub.

THURSDAYAUGUST 28Festivals & Events

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SPIRIT OF BOISE BAL-LOON CLASSIC—See Wednesday. 7 a.m. FREE.

Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise, spiritofboise.com.

UNCORKED IN THE GARDEN: SPLIT RAIL—Chat with vintners and discover your new favorite Idaho wine. 6 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

On Stage

COMEDIAN SEAN PEABODY— 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

INSERT FOOT THEATRE—Improv comedy. 9 p.m. By donation. Reef, 105 S. Sixth St., Boise, 208-287-9200, reefboise.com.

THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND-SOR—One of the Bard’s funniest comedic masterpieces. Suitable for all ages. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

Kids & Teens

BALLET IDAHO ACADEMY OPEN HOUSE—See Wednesday. 4 p.m. FREE. Ballet Idaho, 501 S. Eighth St., Boise; and Ballet Idaho West Academy, 12554 W. Bridger St., Ste. 100, Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

FRIDAYAUGUST 29Festivals & Events

HERMIT MUSIC FESTI-VAL—Enjoy a full slate of music-related workshops,

followed by a square dance at 7 p.m. On Saturday, Aug. 30, festivi-ties move to Indian Creek Winery for two days of old-timey music, vendors and camping. Get tickets and info at hermitmusicfestival.com. 4 p.m. $12 seminar pass, $7 square dance, $35-$45 three-day pass. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.


Ann Morrison Park, Americana Boulevard, Boise.

On Stage

COMEDIAN SEAN PEABODY—8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND-SOR—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, box office: 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

MURDER ON LONG ISLAND—The Great Gaspy is found dead in his private office, and partygoers must help reporter Fitzgerald Scott solve the murder. 6:30 p.m. $17-$38. AEN Playhouse, 8001 Franklin

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Road, Boise, 208-658-3000, aenplayhouse.com.

PICNIC AT THE POPS—Take a blanket and a picnic basket and enjoy an evening of Boise Philharmonic performing Patriotic Pops, including “Stars and Stripes Forever,” “1812 Overture,” “Armed Forces Salute” and more. Concerts are for all ages. For tick-ets, visit boisephilharmonic.org. 8 p.m. $5-$20. Eagle Island State Park, 2691 Mace Road, Eagle.

RED LIGHT WILD WEST BURLESQUE—The vaudevillian cabaret

troupe takes the stage with saucy acrobatics and killer dance moves, while Coolwater Creek provides marinated tri-tip, barbecue chicken breasts, green salads, potatoes, beans and a selection of desserts. Friday performances are show-only, Saturday are dinner and show. All performances are 21 and older only. 7:30 p.m. $20 show only. Coolwater Creek Event Center, 7355 S. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-887-7880, cool-watercreekevents.com.

STACEY WAYNE AS ELVIS—En-joy a prime rib dinner and a show by the best Elvis in the Northwest. 6 p.m. $12. Caldwell Eagles Lodge, 815 Arthur St., Caldwell, 208-454-8054.

Literature

AUTHOR TOM SPANBAUER READING—Local and nationally acclaimed author Tom Spanbauer will read, sign and talk about his new novel, I Loved You More.

6:30 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

SATURDAYAUGUST 30Festivals & Events

8 FEATHERS DISTILLERY TOUR AND TASTING—Stop by for a tour of the distillery, meet the head distiller and sample some Idaho whiskey. 10 a.m. FREE. 8 Feath-ers Distillery, 272 N. Maple Grove Road, Boise, 208-968-9988, 8feathersdistillery.com.

ANNUAL FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT FAIR—Check out the ven-dors of the unique, vintage and just plain old. With music by Les and Nancy. 9 a.m. FREE. Snake River RV Resort, 4030 River Re-sort Drive, Homedale, 208-337-3744, snakeriverrv.com.

BREW AT THE ZOO—Receive a commemora-tive cup, appetizers and

unlimited sampling of beer while enjoying the zoo free of children. Presented by Idaho Brewers United. See Picks, Page 17. 5:30 p.m. $30-$40. Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-608-7760, zooboise.org.

INTERMOUNTAIN PRO RODEO ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS—Watch the best of the best professional cowboys in the Intermountain West compete in the final rodeo of the summer season. 6 p.m. FREE-$12. Hailey

Rodeo Grounds, 791 Main St. S., Hailey.

JAPAN DAY—Get a taste of Japanese culture, with Japanese drums, Aikido

and Kendo, flower arrangements, Japanese harp, Japanese cal-ligraphy, origami, flea market, su-shi, raffle and more. See Picks, Page 17. Noon. Adults FREE with purchase of raffle ticket, FREE for ages 11 and younger. Basque Center, 601 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-331-5097 or 208-342-9983, basquecenter.com.

LIBRARY COMIC CON—If you love comics, anima-tion, anime or science

fiction, you’ll want to attend Boise’s second annual Library Comic Con. See Picks, Page 16. 10 a.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4076, boisepub-liclibrary.org.

OLD FASHIONED ICE CREAM SOCIAL—Ice cream, hot dogs, hamburgers, lemonade and pastries will be served all day. Plus antique engine and equip-ment demonstrations; an antique and classic car show; and hay, buggy and tractor rides. Crafts for the kids and Scandinavian music round out the experience, which includes a live auction at 2 p.m. and a quilt raffle at 3 p.m. Proceeds benefit the Long Valley Preservation Society. Noon. FREE admission. Roseberry Townsite, 2598 E. Roseberry Road, McCall, McCall Chamber 800-260-5130 or 208-634-7631.



WARBIRD ROUNDUP—Here’s your chance to get a look at a P-38 Lightning

and an F4U-1A Corsair, plus P-40s, P-51s, an N3N, O-1 Bird Dog, and more. Special guest speaker will be Bob Cardin of Glacier Girl restoration fame. Flying begins at 10 a.m. 9 a.m. FREE-$15. Warhawk Air Museum, Nampa Airport, 201 Municipal Drive, Nampa, 208-465-6446, warhawkairmuseum.org.

On Stage

COMEDIAN SEAN PEABODY—See Thursday. 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. $12. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

CONCERTS ON BROADWAY—Built-in seating is limited at the City Hall amphitheater. Attendees are welcome to take their own folding chairs, blankets, picnic items and beverages. Presented by the Meridian Arts Commission and other community sponsors. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Merid-ian, 208-888-4433, meridiancity.org.

IDAHO PRIDE TOUR: CARAVAN OF GLAM—Portland troupe per-forms drag, burlesque, acrobatics and live singing. Get more info, tickets at ticketelm.com. 7 p.m. $15. Lucky Dog, 2223 Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-333-0074, lucky-dogtavern.com.

THE MERRY WIVES OF WIND-SOR—See Thursday. 6:30 p.m. $12-$42. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box

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office 208-336-9221, idahoshake-speare.org.

MURDER ON LONG ISLAND—See Friday. 6:30 p.m. $17-$38. AEN Playhouse, 8001 Franklin Road, Boise, 208-658-3000, aenplayhouse.com.

OPERA CONCERT: MEZZO SO-PRANO CARLA LEPPANIEMI— 7 p.m. $17. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, 208-387-1273, egyptian-theatre.net.

RED LIGHT WILD WEST BURLESQUE—See Friday. 6 p.m. $20 show

only, $45 dinner and show. Coolwater Creek Event Center, 7355 S. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-887-7880, coolwater-creekevents.com.

Workshops & Classes

SATURDAY ART AFTERNOON: NATURE PRINTING—Amy Nack, art educator, local printmaker and Wingtip Press owner, will explore the possibilities of printing using the process of foilography nature collage. Take your own leaves or plants if desired, up to 5” x 7” in size. Adults only. 1 p.m. FREE. Library at Collister, 4724 W. State St., Boise, 208-562-4995, boise-publiclibrary.org.

Literature

BOOK BINGO AT THE SATUR-DAY MARKET—Pick up a BINGO sheet at the register during the Saturday Market and winners who complete a BINGO row win a Blind Date with a Book, a wrapped book with a few descrip-tive words written on the front. 11 a.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

GRAPHIC NOVEL BOOK CLUB—Join the new graphic novel book club and discuss the month’s picks. Call for titles. For ages 18 and older. 2 p.m. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

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JIMMY DRISCOLL FUN RUN—Fundraiser for the Bishop Kelly High School Cross Country Team. Awards to top three finishers for both men and women. 9 a.m. $20-$55. Bishop Kelly High School, 7009 W. Franklin Road, Boise, 208-375-6010, bk.org.

Kids & Teens

SHOP TALK FOR KIDS: MEET THE BOISE FIRE DEPART-MENT—Explore Boise’s fire en-gines and other lifesaving devices, like the Jaws of Life. 1 p.m. FREE. Arts and History Sesqui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150.org/sesqui-shop.

Odds & Ends

TIME ZONE TOYS OUTDOOR TOY SHOW—Buy, sell, trade and network with other collectors in Idaho. 9 a.m. Time Zone Toys, 2945 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-6358, timezone-toys.com.

SUNDAYAUGUST 31Festivals & Events

ANNUAL FLEA MARKET AND CRAFT FAIR—See Saturday. 9 a.m. FREE. Snake River RV Resort, 4030 River Resort Drive, Homedale, 208-337-3744, snakeriverrv.com.

INTERMOUNTAIN PRO RODEO ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS—See Saturday. 2 p.m. FREE-$12. Hailey Rodeo Grounds, 791 Main St. S., Hailey.



WARBIRD ROUNDUP—See Sat-urday. 9 a.m. FREE-$15. Warhawk Air Museum, Nampa Airport, 201 Municipal Drive, Nampa, 208-465-6446, warhawkairmuseum.org.

On Stage

COMEDIAN SEAN PEABODY— 8 p.m. $10. Liquid, 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, Boise, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

LES MISERABLES—See Wednesday. 6 p.m. $12-$46. Idaho Shakespeare Festival, 5657 Warm Springs Ave., Boise, 208-429-9908, box office 208-336-9221, idahoshakespeare.org.

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KEGS4KAUSE—Fifty percent of beer sales benefit Advocates

for the West, a local nonprofit environmental law firm. Featuring Archie’s Place grub. 5:30 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing Company, 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City, 208-344-0011, payettebrewing.com.

TUESDAYSEPTEMBER 2Festivals & Events

BOISE SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE ELECTION—Visit boiseschools.org for complete election information. 8 a.m. FREE.

WEDNESDAYSEPTEMBER 3Festivals & Events

IDAHO JOB AND CAREER FAIR—Check free workshops on resumes and interviews for job seekers. 9 a.m. FREE. Riverside Hotel, 2900 Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-343-1871, idahobusinessleague.com/idaho-job-career-fair.

Citizen

TRANSPORTATION PUBLIC COMMENT OPEN HOUSE—COM-PASS is seeking comments on projects, plans and reports that will shape the Treasure Valley’s transportation system over the next five years. Review materials, ask questions and submit com-ments. Learn more at compas-sidaho.org/whatsnew.htm. 10 a.m. FREE. COMPASS: Community Planning Association of Southwest Idaho, 700 N.E. Second St., Ste. 200, Meridian, 208-855-2558, compassidaho.org.

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In 2012, Aimee Mann was touring behind her album Charmer (SuperEgo Records, 2012). For a leg of the tour, her opener was an artist she had respected for a while: Ted Leo.

“We’d been kind of mildly friendly—as close friends as you could be living on totally different coasts,” Mann said. “We’ve known each other for maybe 10 years but definitely been aware of each other’s music for longer than that.”

Touring together didn’t merely deepen their friendship. When the duo sat in on each other’s sets, an unexpected chemistry revealed itself.

“Those small forays into that were just so much fun that I think it was an obvious idea to start working together, to do some kind of project together,” Mann said.

The idea blossomed into The Both, a band that combines Mann’s and Leo’s strengths as songwriters and musicians. Rolling Stone’s Will Hermes gave The Both’s 2014 self-titled debut album three-and-a-half stars, observ-ing how Leo’s “unfussy attack benefits from Mann’s melodic and harmonic touch.” Spin’s Dan Weiss called the album “a pleasant late-career surprise from an auteur who needed more power [Mann] and a rocker who needed more pop [Leo].”

Boise music fans get to hear the fusion of power and pop when The Both plays the grand finale of this year’s Alive After Five series on Wednesday, Aug. 27. Matt Hopper and the Roman Candles will open.

At first glance, Ted Leo and Aimee Mann might not seem like ideal partners. Fronting the ’90s mod-punk group Chisel and playing with his backing band The Pharmacists, the New York City-based Leo has built a reputa-

tion as a fiery, socially conscious rocker. The Los Angeles, Calif.-based Mann, on the other hand, is best known for her work with the ’80s pop group ‘Til Tuesday and the tender, Oscar-nominated ballad “Save Me” from the 1999 Paul Thomas Anderson movie Magnolia—fans of the IFC show Portlandia will remember the episode in which Mann, playing herself, turns up as Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein’s housekeeper. As divergent as their careers had been, Leo found a kindred spirit in Mann, who started out in punk band The Young Snakes and who founded her own label, SuperEgo Records.

“Look, at the risk of overstating this and possibly offending some people,” Leo said, “if you’ve spent time in that world—as a working musician, if you’ve spent time in the punk-ish world doing that kind of thing—you tend to be able to tell who else has and who else hasn’t sometimes.”

Proof of the rapport between Leo and Mann can be found throughout The Both (SuperEgo Records). Listeners familiar with each songwriter’s solo work will recognize the album’s themes of social engagement (“Volunteers of America,” “Hummingbird”) and dysfunctional relationships (“The Gambler,” “You Can’t

Help Me Now”). But the connection comes through clearest in the music itself—specifi-cally, in the duo’s sweet yet bracing harmonies and the way in which Leo’s galvanizing guitar solos complement Mann’s fluid basslines. With Scott Seiver’s muscular drumming providing a solid foundation, the album feels uplifting regardless of how grim some songs get.

Mann and Leo agree that being in The Both allows them to step outside their established

personas. Mann said what she’s trying to say doesn’t always match how she says it.

“I think that you’re sort of stuck with the voice that you have,” Mann said. “And I think my voice just doesn’t have a lot of ag-gression in it, so things that I think are more hard-hitting—as soon as I sing them—inevi-tably sound a lot more delicate or morose than I intended. That’s one of the reasons I like working with Ted so much: It’s because I know that I can write certain things and he will sing them and then it’ll be like, ‘Oh, this is how it’s supposed to sound.’”

Leo said he and his bandmate are more alike than people might think.

“I think from my own end of things, the brush that I tend to get painted with is actually not broad enough,” Leo added. “I certainly have my depressive, morose and even quiet, acoustic moments on my records. So there’s more in common [with Mann] than I think often gets represented.”

Not only has the pairing been good for the two musicians, fans seem to like it, too. The response that The Both has received from audi-ences has been pleasantly surprising.

“It’s been pretty great, I gotta say,” Leo said. “I went into it hoping and expecting that fans from either side of the aisle would enjoy what we were doing together, but what I did not expect was just how many people were there to see The Both.”

Fans can expect more music soon. Mann and Leo are working on songs for a second The Both album and a musical now.

The chorus for the song “Milwaukee”—which describes Mann and Leo’s decision to start The Both—sums up the spirit of their col-laboration: “You can tell / By the laugh in the dark at the sound of the bell / You can tell / It’s the nucleus burning inside of the cell.”

1+1=The Both.

THE BOTH Wednesday, Aug. 27, 5-8

p.m., FREE. The Grove Plaza, on Eighth Street between Front and Main streets,

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HI-TOPS, AUG. 30-31, VISUAL ARTS COLLECTIVEReunion shows are a mixed bag. We want to see that our be-

loved bands or teen idols have grown and matured as we have, but we also want to be transported back in time with songs that meant so much to us.

The Hi-Tops came around in the early ’80s, a time defined by big hair and big colors. They were loved by young Boiseans because every Hi-Tops show promised a night of big fun.

Though Earth Wind and Fire pulls it off every time, a reunion show can often leave an audience reminded of how much their tastes have changed. But the Hi-Tops are able to successfully de-liver a show that combines the nostalgia of youth with musician-ship gained from 30 years experience.

This is the band’s third reunion show, and the two-day event features original members Steve Fulton, John Laufenburger, Ancel Schoberg, Craig Sofaly and Sandon Mayhew, with Tim Willis sitting in on drums because Dave Browne couldn’t make it (via recordexchange.com).

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With The Swiveltones. 8 p.m., $21, 21 and older only, tickets available at hitops.bpt.me. Visual Arts Collective, 3638 Osage St. Garden City, visualartscollective.com.

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WEDNESDAYAUGUST 27

ALIVE AFTER FIVE END-OF-SEASON PARTY: THE BOTH—With Matt Hopper

and The Roman Candles. 5 p.m. FREE. Grove Plaza

BRANDON PRITCHETT—7 p.m. FREE. Reef

COUNTRY CLUB—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

DJ HOUSE MUSIC—8 p.m. FREE. Mode Lounge

DOUGLAS CAMERON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

GEORGE DEVORE—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

JACOB CUMMINGS—6 p.m. FREE. Edge Brewing

KEVIN KIRK AND FRIENDS— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY—Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

RAWLEY FRAY—7:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

RYAN WISSINGER—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

SAN FERMIN—7 p.m. $12. The Crux

SPEEDY GRAY—9 p.m. FREE. Solid

SYLVAN ESSO—With Dan Buoy (Akron/Family). 7 p.m. $10. Neurolux

TREASURE VALLEY ALL-STAR JAZZ NIGHT—6:30 p.m. $10 per car. Still Water Hollow

THURSDAYAUGUST 28AMUMA SAYS NO—7 p.m., FREE, Modern

BARBARA LANG—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

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

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

GREAT GARDEN ESCAPE: FABULOUS CHANCELLORS—6 p.m. FREE-$10. Idaho Botanical Garden

HANDMADE MOMENTS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

JESSICA HERNANDEZ AND THE DELTAS—With Innocent Man. 7 p.m. $7. The Crux

STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar


TERRY JONES SOLO PIANO— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

THURSDAY THUNDER: PILOT ERROR—6 p.m. FREE. Boise Spectrum

FRIDAYAUGUST 29AARON CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. End Zone

ALTURAS—With Broken Outlaws. 10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

ANDY BYRON AND THE LOST RIVER BAND—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

B3 SIDE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

BILLY BRAUN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

BLUES ADDICTS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

DJ FOOSE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement


DJ VERSTAL—10 p.m. FREE. Neurolux

THE HEAD AND THE HEART—With San Fermin. 7 p.m. $20-$85. River Run Lodge, Sun Valley

HERMIT MUSIC FESTIVAL—See Picks, Page 16. Noon. $20-$25 single day pass, $35-$45 three-day pass. Linen Building

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

KEVIN KIRK SOLO PIANO—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

LEE PENN SKY AND THE OLIPH-ANTS—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

MARK HOLT—6 p.m. FREE. Mile High Marina

MARSHALL MCLEAN—With Cur-tis Sutton & the Scavengers and Gunsafe. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

MOTTO KITTY—9 p.m. FREE. Cylos-Eagle

PAT RICE—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

ROCK THE VILLAGE: RADICAL REVOLUTION ‘80S TRIBUTE BAND—With Doug Petcash. 6 p.m. FREE. Village at Meridian


SOUL SERENE—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

SATURDAYAUGUST 30HERMIT MUSIC FESTIVAL—See Picks, Page 16. Noon. $20-$25 single day pass, $35-$45 three-day pass. Indian Creek Winery

208RAPCOLLAB/4MYCITY MIXTAPE RELEASE—9 p.m., $5, Bouquet

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BRANDON PRITCHETT—8 p.m. FREE. End Zone

DAN COSTELLO TRIO WITH NICOLE CHRISTENSEN—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers


DJ ODIE—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

DON HOLTON—6 p.m. FREE. Artistblue

FRANK MARRA SOLO PIANO— 6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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

HARDING, MOORE AND TRANE—9 p.m. FREE. O’Michael’s

HI-TOPS REUNION III—With The Swiveltones. Advance tickets available online at hitops.bpt.me. See Listen Here, Page 22. 8 p.m. $20. Visual Arts Collective

THE HOOCHIE COOCHIE MEN— 5 p.m. FREE. Clear Creek Lodge

KAYLEIGH JACK—1 p.m. FREE. Solid

THE LIKE ITS—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

MARK HOLT—6 p.m. FREE. Mile High Marina

NAOMI PUNK—7 p.m. $5. The Crux

NED EVETT—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

PIRANHAS BC PUNK ROCK PARTY—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

REBECCA SCOTT—6:30 p.m. FREE. Salmon River Brewery

THE RHYTHM RANGERS—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar


SHAKIN NOT STIRRED—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

SHELLSHOCK LULLABY—7:30 p.m. FREE. The District

SHON SANDERS—8:30 p.m. FREE. Piper Pub

SUNDAYAUGUST 31THE AFGHAN WHIGS—CAN-CELED. Tickets purchased through Ticketweb will be automatically refunded. All other tickets can be refunded at point of sale. 8 p.m. $25-$40. Knitting Factory

HERMIT MUSIC FESTIVAL—See Picks, Page 16. Noon. $20-$25 single day pass, $35-$45 three-day pass. Indian Creek Winery

HIP HOP SUNDAY RAP BATTLE CHAMPIONSHIPS—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s Basement

HI-TOPS REUNION III—With The Swiveltones. Advance tickets available online at hitops.bpt.me. 8 p.m. $20. Visual Arts Collective

IRON LUNG—With Hummingbird of Death, Deep Creeps and Gro-cery List. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

JAZZ AT THE RIVERSIDE—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

THE NAOMI PSALM BAND—2 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

NOCTURNUM! INDUSTRIAL GOTH DJS—10 p.m. FREE. Liquid

ROOFTOP PARTY SUNDAYS WITH DJ—10 p.m. FREE. Reef

MONDAYSEPTEMBER 11332 RECORDS PRESENTS PUNK MONDAY—9 p.m. FREE. Liquid

ENTRANCE BAND—With Gen-ders and Thick Business. 7 p.m. $10 adv., $12 door. The Crux

HOKUM HI-FLYERS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Payette Brewing

MONDAY NIGHT JAM—Hosted by For Blind Mice. 8 p.m. FREE. Jo’s Sunshine Lounge

TUESDAYSEPTEMBER 2ADAM CHAVARRIA—6 p.m. FREE. Solid

LIMEHOUSE—7 p.m. FREE. Sockeye Grill

PORTER ROBINSON—With Lemaitre. 8 p.m. $26-$50. Knit-ting Factory

TOGETHER PANGEA—With Guantanamo Baywatch and Roller Snakes. See Listen Here, this page. 7 p.m. $8 adv., $10 door. The Crux

WEDNESDAYSEPTEMBER 3BOSTON—With Night Ranger. 7 p.m. $40-$60. Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater

LIQUID WETT WEDNESDAY—Electronic music and DJs. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

PATIO CONCERT SERIES—With Rex Miller, Lawson Hill and Rico Weisman. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Berryhill



STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Sandbar

GUIDE

GUIDE/LISTEN HERE

TOGETHER PANGEA, SEPT. 2, THE CRUXAs the shape of music changes, often so do its geographic

origins. Scenes have long been born in the undergrounds of New York City and Nashville, Tenn., but cities in Minnesota, North Carolina and even our own Idaho have also been sound and style incubators. Los Angeles would have been in the list right next to NYC but lately, the City of Angels seems to grow only two-dimensional mainstream cash machines that play it safe. Just below the surface though, there are bands well worth unearthing. LA-based Together Pangea has re-sown the seeds of its punk and rock forebands, and with its third full-length, Badillac (Harvest Records, 2014), Together Pangea is a reminder writ large of why LA is still a musical Mecca.

Many of the songs on Badillac are NSFW and artist Shelby Hohl’s brilliantly animated video for “Cat Man” is definitely not—but throw a little caution to the wind.

In another togetherness note, this all-ages show at The Crux is presented by Neurolux.

—Amy Atkins

With Guantanamo Baywatch and Rollersnakes. 7 p.m., $8 adv., $10 door. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., facebook.com/thecruxcoffeeshop.

V E N U E S Don’t know a venue? Visit www.boiseweekly.com for addresses, phone numbers and a map.


ARTS/CULTURE

THE LADIES OF STEEL

MAGNOLIASISF pours some Southern

comfort in SeptemberGEORGE PRENTICE

We didn’t have an appointment at Truvy’s Beauty Spot, but we did take a bottle of wine. By the time Boise Weekly arrived at Idaho Shakespeare Festival on a hot August night, the Louisiana ladies had already popped the cork on a nicely chilled Chablis.

“Come on in,” the women said. “Hope you don’t mind; we started without you.”

Hell’s bells, no, we didn’t mind. We were tickled pink just to sit a spell among the bottles of pink nail polish and cans of Aqua Net hair-spray as the beauteous bevy prepared to open up shop Friday, Sept. 5, for 21 performances of Steel Magnolias, the final show of Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s 2014 season.

“Honestly, I think Steel Magnolias is on its way to being a classic,” said Carole Healey.

Healey plays Clairee Belcher; Lynn Allison is Ouiser (“Yes, that rhymes with geezer,” she said with a sly smile) Boudreaux; Becca Ballenger is Annelle Dupuy Desoto; Kathryn Cherasaro plays Truvy Jones (her in-home salon is where much of the play’s action takes place); Laura Perrotta is Mary Lynn “M’lynn” Eatenton; and Allegra Edwards is Shelby Eatenton Latcherie, the role that, in the play’s screen adaptation, catapulted Julia Roberts into stardom and her first Oscar nomination.

“A lot of people know the movie, but the play feels quite different,” said Ballenger. “Yes, those great lines are the same, but this feels so genuine. It has an amazing energy.”

It also has some amazing hair.“I actually start out the play with a mullet

when I first walk into Truvy’s,” said Ballenger with a huge laugh. “But I end up with a big perm, as do a few of the ladies.”

The wigs of Steel Magnolias should probably get their own star billing.

“Oh, yes, the hair is a very big deal,” says Edwards.

And it is very big hair—Louisiana wedding hair, in particular. The first scene in Steel Magnolias is set in Truvy’s salon on Shelby’s wedding day.

“We’ve been working a lot on my wedding-day hair. Miss Kathryn (Cherasaro) gave me my first ‘updo’ yesterday—the first updo of many updos I’ll have over the next four weeks. And that hair is so helpful in rounding out our characters. I think our hair reflects a lot of what’s going on inside, for Shelby in particular. She’s super romantic in that first scene.”

Anyone who has seen Steel Magno-

lias—either the play or immensely popular film—knows Shelby’s life dramatically alters through this emotional opus. She has Type 1 diabetes and some of Shelby’s choices, realistic and unrealistic, will test her family, friends and ultimately, the audience.

“Some part of me wants to believe that everything with Shelby will be all right,” said Perrotta, who plays Shelby’s mother M’Lynn, a woman whose faith and courage are lost and restored. “This play was written by Robert Harling, in large part, because he was afraid that memory of his sister might be lost.”

Harling penned Steel Magnolias follow-ing the 1985 death of his sister. who died of diabetic complications after giving birth to Harling’s namesake nephew. In 1987, the play was an instant off-Broadway smash and became a 1989 Oscar-nominated film.

“He wrote that play in 10 days; think of that, 10 days,” said Sari Ketter, director of ISF’s production. “But I think what’s truly ex-traordinary is that a man wrote these amazing female characters.”

In December 2013, Ketter got a phone call from ISF Producing Artistic Director Charlie

Fee asking her to spend a good chunk of summer in Boise, helming Steel Magnolias.

“The first thing you need to know about how Sari directs is how much research she does,” said Perrotta, pointing to a huge stack of binders that could double as a small law library.

“What I found was that the characters of Steel Magnolias are surprisingly deep—their histories, their relationships with one another and of course, the men in their lives,” said Ketter.

That’s an important distinction from the movie: The original play doesn’t include male characters. The women of Chinquapin (CHEEK-ah-pee-in) Parish dish about men, but the play’s pulse beats from the hearts of these six diverse women. And one of the things that makes them so unique is the particular accent

of their community.“As soon as I said yes to directing, the very

next thing I told Charlie [Fee] was that I had to have Ann Price,” said Ketter, referring to the production’s voice and dialect coach. “Ann is with us every day of rehearsal, and I told Charlie that I wouldn’t do this if she wasn’t available.”

Right on cue, Price walked into the room, bouncing 9-month-old grandson, Mason, in her arms, a rare male entering this all-female domain. The cast took turns cuddling Mason as Price pulled up a chair to talk about the voice of Steel Magnolias.

“It’s so charming,” said Price. “There’s a little bit of drawl from the Louisiana Delta and a little bit of twang because it’s close to Texas.”

Healey offered an example.“In the Delta, you’ll hear people say ‘mo-

tha,’ ‘fatha,’ or ‘brotha.’ [mother, father or brother],” Healey said. “But this accent adds the R, because we’re closer to Texas. But that R has a lilt. It’s not one of those hard R’s that make you sound like you’re in the Ozarks. Our accent is like being in a comfortable, lovely old chair.”

(For the record, Healey said everything in a spot-on Chinquapin accent, much to Price’s delight.)

As the wine bottles emptied, the ISF rehearsal space—fully converted to become Truvy’s beauty salon, complete with swivel chairs, mirrors and an endless list of all-things-pink—had become filled with the warm relationships between the women of Steel Magnolias. Cherasaro, as Truvy, was feeling right at home.

“This shop is an extension of who Truvy is. You take the make-up off and put the curlers in. And it’s a safe, intimate place,” said Ch-erasaro. “You come in and you’re family.”

When BW asked to take a parting photo-graph, the ladies of Steel Magnolias made sure their family photo included Ketter, Price, light-ing designer Raquel Davis and stage manager Sarah Kelso—plus one lucky guy to fuss over: 9-month-old Mason.

Front row: Allegra Edwards; second row: Lynn Allison, Laura Perrotta, Carole Healey, Kathryn Cherasaro and Becca Ballenger; third row: Raquel Davis, Sari Ketter, Sarah Kelso, Ann Price and 9-month-old Mason.

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NEWS/ARTS

THE BIRDS AND THE (H)BEESWhen local artist Heather Bauer—HBee

to her former students—said, “I have a per-fectly preserved crow in my freezer,” it made absolute sense, particularly in light of her new exhibit, Corvus in the Void, which opens Wednesday, Sept. 3, at local eatery State and Lemp (2870 W. State St., stateandlemp.com). The exhibit will be comprised of about 24 beeswax encaustic panels—Bauer’s first encaustic series—and will include Corvus works that recently hung at Woodland Empire, as well as new pieces, most of which are part of a diptych or triptych.

Along with being a visual artist, Bauer is also a poet and writer and often includes text in her encaustic works.

“Embedded in the show [is] the story of Corvus, a crow who comes to terms with the zen of death and the void and mystery that follows,” Bauer explained. “It’s about the life, death and rebirth of this crow.”

Long drawn to art, Bauer suggested some of her talent may have been inherited from her grandfather who, as a graphic designer for the Bureau of Land Management, contrib-uted to the creation of the Guberif (“firebug backward”), a character in the Keep Idaho Green campaign, which started in 1946—you can still find ”Don’t Be A Guberif” painted on Idaho highways. Though she had little formal training, Bauer worked as a graphic designer for a number of years before teaching art at Foothills Learning Center and Sage Interna-tional School. But after experimenting with wax encaustic and a 36-foot triptych commis-sion, she found her stride.

The Corvus series, Bauer said, is the “first time I feel I have really hit my own mark, and I am ready to kick some ass. I poured my heart and soul into the work for this show.”

A self-described “boat rocker,” Bauer explained that the Corvus series was also a way for her to explore a deep connection to birds (and bees), which are, for her, symbols of “taking back my own power” and “not letting the little things get crushed under the weight of progress” literally or figuratively. Bauer got the crow in her freezer from the Idaho Bird Rehabilitation Center after it was killed in an accident. She had originally intended to remove the wings for use in another art project and then bury the crow ceremonially under the medicine wheel at Draggin’ Wing farm. But when Bauer pulled the crow out of the bag, it was in perfect con-dition, “a beautiful bird in repose.” She took a photo instead and used that for the image gracing the cover of the Aug. 27 edition of Boise Weekly and said she plans to donate a portion of proceeds from future work to the Idaho Bird Rehabilitation Center and the National Bee Conservancy.

—Amy Atkins

Not your common crow.


THE BIG SCREEN/SCREEN

HE’S THE NEXT BIG

THING IN SHOW

BUSINESSWhat you should know

about likeable actor James Corden

GEORGE PRENTICE

Boise Weekly met James Corden a year ago. We think that’s a pretty big deal. You may disagree because you may not know who he is but in about four months, we really think you’ll like him. He’s immensely talented—a fine comic actor with an off-the-charts like-ability factor—and he’s a nice, humble fellow.

It was the night of Sept. 9, 2013. The scene was glitz and glamour at the Toronto International Film Festival, two weeks full of world-premiere screenings. The evening’s gem of a comedy was One Chance, starring Corden and the always-fine comic talents of Colm Meaney and Julie Walters. Sadly, paparazzi practically ran Corden over to get closer to Taylor Swift, who had recorded a song for the film’s soundtrack and was also walking the red carpet that night. Corden could have been an usher for all the press corps knew—an easy mistake to make because of his genuine every-man quality—so he had a pretty good laugh that evening, in spite of himself, while much of the press (particularly TV cameras) zoomed right past for a glimpse of Swift, who was all too pleased to pose.

Since that night, we’ve been telling anyone who will listen about how great One Chance is. We even listed it as one of our favorite mov-ies of 2013 yet, a year later, it still hasn’t found proper distribution and has been pulled from Boise’s schedule multiple times. In the mean-

time, you might want to get a glimpse of Cor-den in a small supporting role in Begin Again, another musical and one of this summer’s few movies worth paying full admission for.

And there is another reason to sing Cor-den’s praises: He is set to star in this year’s big-gest movie musical, Into the Woods, a twisted take on fairy tales, which opens nationwide Christmas Day. Corden plays the Baker op-posite Emily Blunt as his Wife.

The all-singing cast also includes Anna Kendrick, Johnny Depp, Chris Pine, Meryl Streep and Tracey Ullman. (If you were lucky enough to see Idaho Shakespeare Festival’s delicious 2008 production of Into the Woods, you’ll remember that the role of the Baker is the male lead.)

From the silver screen to the Great White Way, Corden gained some major acting cred in 2012, when he took home the Best Actor Tony Award for his sold-out Broadway run in the comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, beating renowned actors Frank Langella and Philip Seymour Hoffman for the Best Actor trophy.

Dr. Who fans might remember Corden from his 2010 turn in the Tardis in an episode called “The Lodger,” and for a TV treat, watch Gavin and Stacey, a British sitcom that aired 2007-2010. Corden had a scene-stealing

supporting role as Gavin’s best friend Smithy, but few people know that Corden co-created and co-wrote the show with Ruth Jones (who played Stacey’s best friend Nessa). Gavin and Stacey became a cult classic and is available for streaming on our side of the pond on Amazon, Hulu and Netflix.

But here’s the real Corden stunner: The Londoner is set to become late night televi-sion’s next big thing, joining Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers. It’s common knowledge that in 2015, David Letterman will be retiring from the Late Show. It’s less known, however, that Letterman’s CBS col-league, Craig Ferguson, who has hosted The Late, Late Show since 2005, is set to leave his gig at the end of this year and, accord-ing to the BBC, CBS has been not-so-quietly hinting it wants Corden as his replacement, which would complement Stephen Colbert’s upcoming assignment as the new host of the Late Show.

“Will James Corden take America by storm?” asked the UK’s Telegraph earlier this month.

“Who is James Corden?” asked E Online.“Where did he come from?” asked Vul-

ture.com.Now you know.

Musical comedy screen star, soon-to-be late night TV talk show host and all-around nice guy James Corden.

TRAILER PARK BOYS: EIGHT ISN’T ENOUGHPot, kitties, Bubbles, cheeseburgers, liquor, Ricky, pepperoni, Julian.If the above looks like a list of people to invite and things to take

to a frat party, you have some homework to do.* If, however, you immediately recognize those words as coming

from Canadian TV show Trailer Park Boys, you’ll be happier than a bottle kid on recycling day to learn that the long-awaited Season 8 (Season 7 ended in 2007) of TPB begins airing Friday, Sept. 5, on Netflix—Season 9 is in the works. Seasons 1-7 are available for streaming, as are films Trailer Park Boys: The Movie, Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day and more.

THE SMALL SCREEN/SCREEN

Mike Smith (Bubbles), John Paul Tremblay (Julian) and Robb Wells (Ricky) have also been working on other projects, like Swearnet: The Movie, scheduled to hit theaters Friday, Aug. 29. Visit swearnet.com for more on that. Before you do, though, here’s a little caution from your friends at Boise Weekly: Absolutely nothing TPB-related is safe for work. Nothing.

—Amy Atkins

*Your homework assignment is simple: Visit splitsider.com, look for a post titled “The Beginner’s Guide to the Canadian Mockumentary Series

Trailer Park Boys” and read it. There may or may not be a quiz later.


Brooklyn transplant Jodi Eichelberger wants his steampunk-y Stream Coffee and Tea Bike to feel like a caffeinated mirage—appearing seemingly out of the ether to quench the thirsts of passersby.

“I like being in off-the-beaten-path sort of places where it’s a surprise. … Everything is self-contained; I don’t use any power or water sources. I pedal it all to where I go,” Eichelberger said.

Though Eichelberger pops open his black-and-white-striped umbrella at random locales—next to the 36th Street footbridge, in front of Chandi Lighting, on the back patio of Healthwise off Bo-gus Basin Road—his cold-brew coffees are anything but random.

“I use a Japanese Yama tower, which has three chambers so the cold water goes on top, drips one drip every second and a half,” he said. “It goes through a paper filter and slow-ly descends through the coffee grounds and then through a ceramic filter and collects. So it takes about six hours to brew about 750 milliliters. The coffee tower pretty much runs 24/7, but it makes a really delicious, clean coffee.”

Reaching into a maritime-grade mahogany finished cedar box attached to the front of his bike, Eichelberger pulled out a glass bottle filled with Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, a light Dawson

Taylor roast with berry notes. Pouring the brown elixir over ice, he explained that his elaborate cold-brew system eliminates about 70 percent of the coffee’s acid.

“When you experience the coffee with all the acid, it kind of rushes to the acid receptors, which are in the back of your mouth,” said Eichelberg-er. “When you take that away, you get to experience the coffee more on the front and sides of your tongue, so you’re tasting more of the sweet and sour as opposed to just the acidic fin-ish. You get to have a really different flavor profile from some of the same

beans.”In addition to his

cold brew coffees, Eichelberger also of-fers a number of other unique beverages.

“I do cold-brewed teas as well, and infused waters,” said Eichel-berger. “Today I’m doing a sweet mint-infused water and I also have a cucumber-infused water. The cucum-ber comes from a local refugee farmer from Global Gardens. … And then I do pour-over for hot coffees.”

He said the idea for his Stream Coffee and Tea Bike came to him on a long hike.

“I just really wanted to turn a corner on the hiking path and experience like a big tea tent because I don’t like to

FOOD/PROFILE

BEERGUZZLER/DRINK

FOOD/NEWS

FRESH CREPES AND WOOD-FIRED PIZZAS AT THE WEST END FOOD PARK

After a bit of a rough patch, The West End Food Park is now in full swing at 2419 W. Fairview Ave. The formerly vacant parking lot now boasts a barn-like shaded dining area with picnic tables, lights and a couple of porta-potties. Though a bit off the beaten path, the spot has attracted a number of food trucks looking to break into Boise’s street eats scene. Boise Weekly stopped by to chat up a couple of these new truck owners.

Mosaic World Crepes, which launched June 5, specializes in thin flour crepes—everything from dessert crepes filled with fresh strawberries and mascarpone cheese to savory Indian coconut curry crepes with chicken.

“We’re doing fusion crepes,” explained owner Cale Rule. “We originally intended to do a lot more world-type foods. … We intended to do some additional Indian sides and some Spanish sides and then we realized it’s a tiny food truck, so we’re doing crepes and crepes alone right now.”

Rule, said he got the idea to open a crepe truck after traveling to Eu-rope, where they sling sweet crepes “on every street corner.”

“Our most popular, honestly, is the Cajun one. … That one is chicken, Andouille sausage, potato, bell pepper and Cajun sauce that I make in the truck with tomato and Cajun seasoning,” said Rule.

Though Rule said business has been hit-or-miss at the West End Food Park, he said he’s not getting discouraged.

“We’re just going to work really hard at it and see if it sticks,” he said. “Boise is not the most educated on what a crepe is. Once they have them,

they’re pretty happy with us. But at first, they’re like, ‘What’s a crepe?’”Nearby, Il Segreto Wood Fired Pizza specializes in thin-crust, brick-oven

pizzas. Before launching his self-contained pizza cart Aug. 15, owner Paul McClanathan worked in rock ’n’ roll for 25 years, selling merch for artists like Justin Timberlake, Duran Duran, Creed and Van Morrison.

“I’ve been all over the world and I just got tired of it, to be honest,” said McClanathan.

Il Segreto’s pizzas are 8-10 inches and options include The PETA Pesto Special—with pesto, mozzarella, artichoke hearts, garlic, Kalamata olives and spicy salsa—and the Salt Lick City Special with spiced-up sauce, moz-zarella, pepperoni, sliced ham, Kalamata olives and shaved parmesan. Il Segreto also serves bacon-wrapped dates stuffed with local goat cheese.

Though McClanathan also said business at the West End Food Park can be slow, especially around dinner-time, he hopes that the food truck owners will band together to drum up interest.

“Everybody in this park is really cool, we’re all doing the same thing so there’s a lot of camaraderie,” said McClanathan.

Other trucks with regular shifts at the food park include B-Town Bis-tro—which offers everything from fresh pasta to fish tacos—Idaho’s Best Corn Dogs, The BBQ Guy and Stream Coffee and Tea Bike (see above).

To check out the West End Food Park’s weekly schedule, visit facebook.com/westendfoodpark or westendfoodpark.com.

—Tara Morgan

BRAVE NEW BOMBERSIs beer better bottled in a bomber? May-

be. But one thing is for sure: The 22-ounce size is just right and it’s the preferred container for many special releases. Here are three new entries that just hit the Valley:

ANCHOR BREWING ZYMASTER SERIES NO. 6, SAAREMAA ISLAND ALE, $6.49-$8.49

The story behind this pale ale is on a bottle neck ringer, but the gist of it is that it’s based on an Estonian island brew and is fermented with that locale’s native yeast. This beer pours a light gold with a thin head that holds. There’s a definite spiciness on both the nose and the palate, which I’m guess-ing comes from the yeast. Fruity malt flavors combine with very light hops in this smooth, quaffable brew. At 24 ounces, this one is a bit bigger than a bomber.

FORT GEORGE NORTH VII, $6.99-$8.89

The two-finger head that tops this hazy, amber brew collapses quickly but leaves a beautiful lacing. Based in Astoria, Ore., Fort George calls this brew a “Belgian-inspired IPA,” and it’s definitely unique. The beer opens with lightly sour fruit and vanilla aromas backed by soft hops and lac-tose. The flavors are a delicious mix of creamy malt; earthy herb; lightly bitter, resiny hops; and an intriguing touch of pineapple and coconut. This brew is a must try.

SIERRA NEVADA HAR-VEST SINGLE HOP IPA, $5.49-$6.99

A copper-tinged gold in the glass, this beer’s three-finger, frothy-white head persists nicely. The hops are a fairly new variety, Equinox, and the aromas are on the light side, built around herbal hops, fresh grass and grain. This brew is laid-back on the palate for a West Coast IPA—with soft caramel malt, citrus and pear up front—but the hops amp things up. The brew turns smooth again on the finish, with grapefruit and a touch of lemon zest.

—David Kirkpatrick

Never run out of st(r)eam again.

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STREAM COFFEE AND TEA BIKECold-brew coffee and tea on the go

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pack things; I don’t like to prepare,” said Eichelberger, a smile spreading across his face. “I kind of designed it for someone like me, who would really love to have a cup of tea or coffee, but didn’t prepare anything and also doesn’t have any cash. So I do take cards as well.”

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

AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Brittany Mary Ramos

Case No. CV NC 1413810

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A Petition to change the name of Brittany Mary Ramos, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Zara Zirena Zsa. The reason for the change in name is: because domes-

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THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Louise Alice WoodLegal Name



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THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Richard John LaMorteLegal Name

Case No. CV NV 1414796


A Petition to change the name of Richard John LaMorte, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Richard John Rydzewski. The reason for the change in name is: because my step-parent raised me.

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PUB Aug 13, 20, 27 & SEPT 3, 2014.


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NIKKO HUMPHRY

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NIKKO HUMPHRY, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to NIKKO HARMON HUMPHRY. The reason for the change in name is: Nikko Humphry’s middle name was inadvertently left out of the Order and Decree of Adoption that was entered on March 19,2002, and he wishes to reinstate his legal name to his full name of Nikko Harmon Humphry.

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Date AUG 08 2014CHRISTOPHER D. RICHCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURTBy: DEIRDE PRICEDEPUTY CLERK

PUB Aug. 20,27, Sept. 3, 10, 2014.


AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADAIN RE: Danielle Marie Hanratty3-1-77Legal Name



A Petition to change the name of Danielle Marie Hanratty, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Dani James Dayton. The reason for the change in name is: I do not intend to marry again and wish to take my nickname and great-great grandmother’s surnames.

A hearing on the petition is sched-uled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) SEP. 30, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date AUG 01 2014CHRISTOPHER D. RICHCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURTBy: DEIRDE PRICEDEPUTY CLERKPUB Aug 20, 27, Sept 3, 10, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE

ACROSS1 In most cases8 Stomach settler14 Fasten, as a rope19 “But wait … there’s

more!” items20 Truck-driving

competitions22 The Roman poet Ovid,

once23 Paintball gun?25 “Keep climbing”

sloganeer26 Hankerings

27 Maintains the border, say

28 Device that can tell if someone’s recently vacationed in Hawaii?

30 U.K. news source, with “the”

31 Trifling amount32 Dated33 Narrow shaft in a

mountain?38 The Cardinals, on

scoreboards39 Eschew modesty

43 Big name in trucking44 Item from the

Victoria’s Sweetness catalog?

49 Nautical command50 Collective effort51 Boccaccio wrote a

biography of him52 Union general Wallace53 Shingle sealant55 Poker set?56 Like many hospital

patients getting visitors

57 Anne Frank, e.g.?61 Ones manifesting

Manifest Destiny63 Wash. Square

campus64 Some credit-card

rewards66 Aerodynamic67 Site of many IVs70 One in a tight space,

perhaps73 “Hee Haw” heyday,

say?76 Rock growth

79 Director of the “Dark Knight” trilogy

81 Salt source82 Make do with, say83 Figure skater Mao84 Microscope part87 Absorb89 Novelist Danielle

without her glossy dress?

92 “A Streetcar Named Desire” role

93 ___-Ball94 Channel-surfing

catalysts95 Honey Bunches

of Oafs, e.g.?97 Set a price of98 Beaver Cleaver

exclamation100 Yom Kippur War

figure101 Soup after it’s been

taken off the burner?

107 Semidome site108 Care providers,

for short112 Given113 What might

determine if the moon hitting your eye like a big pizza pie is truly amore?

116 “A Journal of the Plague Year” novelist, 1722

117 ___ Lane, acting first lady during Buchanan’s tenure

118 Send to the ocean bottom

119 Goes downhill?120 Cells displaced them121 British eatery

DOWN1 Pen name of columnist

Pauline Phillips2 Where the rubber

meets the road?3 In a moment4 Reasons to resurface5 Miss ___6 “Lolita” subject7 Honor8 Family business abbr.9 Particle in a salt

solution10 Connie’s husband in

“The Godfather”11 Last thing bid?12 Mortgage adjustment,

briefly13 Willing to take risks

14 Dampen, perhaps15 Higher-up16 “Rock-a-bye Baby,”

e.g.17 ___ clef18 It starts with a

celebration21 Handles24 Take a shot?29 Masseur’s supply30 “Bugsy” star31 Fashion lines33 Burn34 Peaceful protest of

the 1960s35 Kind of36 Bugs that weigh tons37 Brady Campaign

opposer, for short38 Cheat39 Kind of rock40 Sound off41 Palindromic name42 Grieve openly45 Work with a number46 Garbage collection?47 Driven group48 Sign of rot50 Be behind54 Modern-day capital

that King David ordered besieged

56 Sri Lanka export58 “Joseph Anton:

A Memoir” autobiographer

59 Absence justification60 Game drawers62 Letter arrangement?65 Black Friday events68 Candlelight diners,

perhaps69 Phoebe’s twin on

“Friends”71 Have in mind72 Spellbound74 When repeated,

cry before “They’re catching up!”

75 High country76 Miss77 Author Dinesen

78 Blanchett of “Blue Jasmine”

80 One who may be grand?

85 Slithery swimmer86 Walks noisily88 Poetic contraction90 Whip tip91 Ex-mayor seen in

“The Muppets Take Manhattan”

92 “It’s true whether or not you believe in it,” per Neil deGrasse Tyson

96 Stop it97 Summits98 ___ Cantor, German

mathematician who invented set theory

99 Kovacs of comedy101 Heels102 Rink maneuver103 Long sentence

104 Grammatical concept

105 Close the set?106 TV “explorer”107 Kennedy Center

focus108 Humble dwellings109 “Breaking Bad”

commodity110 Home of the first

U.N. secretary general111 Walking distance114 Poetic contraction115 Who: Lat.

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4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA

IN RE: Legal Name Lindsey Suzanne Wan-

manCase No. CV NC 1414375NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME

CHANGE(Adult) A Petition to change the name of

Lindsey Suzanne Wanman, now re-siding in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Adam Tyler Wanman. The reason for the change in name is name doesn’t fit gender identity.

A hearing on the petition is sched-uled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) October 7, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date August 1, 2014CHRISTOPHER D. RICHCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURTBy: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERKPUB Aug. 27, Sept. 3, 10 & 17, 2014.

LEGAL NOTICE TO CREDITORS FOR PUBLICA-TION. IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE FOURTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT OF, THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN

AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA,In the Matter of the Estate of: STE-

VEN PATRICK MOORE, Deceased, BECKY ERICKSON, Personal Representative. Case No. CV-FE-2014-08006. NOTICE IS HERE-

BY GIVEN that the undersigned has been appointed personal rep-resentative of the above-named de-cedent. All persons having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to present their claims within four months after the date of the first publication of this Notice or said claims will be forever barred. Claims must be presented to the un-dersigned at the address indicated, and filed with the Clerk of the Court. DATED this 22nd day of August, 2014. Becky Erickson c/o Gary L. Davis, MANWEILER, BREEN, BALL & DAVIS, PLLC, P.O. Box 937, Boise, ID 83702, (208) 424-9100.

Pub. Aug. 27, Sept. 3,& 10, 2014.

IN THE DISTRICT COURT FOR THE 4TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE OF IDAHO, IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF ADA

IN RE: Legal Name Stephanie Bistritz Carr, Is-

rael David Carr, and Rosella Milagros Avialoha Carr

Case No. CV NC 14 14792NOTICE OF HEARING ON NAME

CHANGE (Adult) A Petition to change the name of

Stephanie Bistritz Carr, Israel Da-vid Carr and their daughter Rosella Milagros Avialoha Carr, a minor, now residing in the City of Boise, State of Idaho, has been filed in the District Court in Ada County, Idaho. The name will change to Stephanie Bistritz Catz, Israel David Catz, and Rosella Milagros Avialoha Catz. The reason for the change in name is our

family is combing the last names Carr and Bistritz to create a new shared last name: Catz.

A hearing on the petition is sched-uled for 130 o’clock p.m. on (date) October 14, 2014 at the Ada County Courthouse. Objections may be filed by any person who can show the court a good reason against the name change.

Date August 19, 2014CHRISTOPHER D. RICHCLERK OF THE DISTRICT COURTBy: DEIRDE PRICE DEPUTY CLERKPUB Aug. 27, Sept. 3, 10 & 17, 2014.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks it will be important for you to bestow blessings and disseminate gifts and dole out helpful feedback. Maybe you already do a pretty good job at all that, but I urge you to go even further. Through acts of will and surges of com-passion, you can and should raise your levels of generosity. Why? Your allies and loved ones need more from you than usual. They have pressing issues that you have special power to address. Moreover, boosting your largesse will heal a little glitch in your mental health. It’s just what the soul doctor ordered.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The Icelandic word hoppípolla means “jumping into puddles.” I’d love to make that one of your themes in the coming weeks. It would be in sweet accordance with the astrological omens. You are overdue for an extended reign of freelance play… for a time of high amusement mixed with deep fun and a wandering imagination. See if you can arrange to not only leap into the mud, but also roll down a hill and kiss the sky and sing hymns to the sun. For extra credit, consider adding the Bantu term mbuki-mvuki to your reper-toire. It refers to the act of strip-ping off your clothes and dancing with crazy joy. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): During the course of its life, an oyster may change genders numerous times. Back and forth it goes, from male to female and vice versa, always ready to switch. I’m nominating this ambi-sexual creature to be your power animal in the coming weeks. There has rarely been a better time than now to experiment with the pleasures of gender fluidity. I invite you to tap into the increased resilience and sexy wisdom that could come by expanding your sense of identity in this way. CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’m getting the sense that in the com-ing days you will be more casual and nonchalant than usual. More jaunty and unflappable. You may not be outright irresponsible, but neither will you be hyper-focused on being ultra-responsible. I sus-pect you may even opt not to be buttoned and zippered all the way to the top. It’s also possible you will be willing to let a sly secret or two slip out, and allow one of your interesting eccentricities to shine. I think this is mostly fine. My only advice is to tilt in the direction of being carefree rather than careless. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo chose to write a convoluted sentence that was 823 words long. American novel-ist William Faulkner outdid him, though. In his book Absalom,

Absalom!, he crafted a single rambling, labyrinthine sentence crammed with 1,287 words. These people should not be your role models in the coming weeks, Leo. To keep rolling in the direc-tion of your best possible des-tiny, you should be concise and precise. Straightforward simplic-ity will work better for you than meandering complexity. There’s no need to rush, though. Take your time. Trust the rhythm that keeps you poised and purposeful. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As you know, real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It’s not rooted in a desire to seem bet-ter than everyone else and it’s not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline. And as I think you already sense, Virgo, the time has come for you to claim a generous new share of real confidence. You are ready to be a bolder and crisper version of yourself.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As I understand your situation, Libra, you have played by the rules; you have been sincere and well-mean-ing; you have pressed for a solu-tion that was fair and just. But that hasn’t been enough. So now, as long as you stay committed to creating a righteous outcome, you are authorized to invoke this declaration, originally uttered by the ancient Roman poet Virgil: “If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell.” Here’s an alternate translation of the original Latin text: “If heaven I cannot bend, then hell I will stir.” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Start every day off with a smile and get it over with,” said the misanthropic comedian W.C. Fields. I know it’s weird to hear those words coming from a pro-fessional optimist like me, but just this once I recommend that you follow Fields’ advice. In the near future, you should be as serious and sober and unamus-able as you have ever been. You’ve got demanding work to attend to; knotty riddles to solve; complex situations to untangle. So frown strong, Scorpio. Keep an extra sour expression plas-tered on your face. Smiling would only distract you from the dogged effort you must summon. Unless, of course, you know for a fact that you actually get smarter and more creative when you laugh a lot. In which case, ignore every-thing I said. Instead, be a jugger-naut of cheerful problem-solving. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972) was a renowned African-American gospel singer who lent her talents to the civil rights

movement. Martin Luther King Jr. often called on her to be an opening act for his speeches. She was there on the podium with him in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963, when he delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. In fact, it was her influence that prompted him to depart from his prepared notes and improvise the stir-ring climax. “Tell them about the dream, Martin,” she politely heckled. And he did just that. Who’s your equivalent of Mahalia Jackson, Sagittarius? Whose spur would you welcome? Who might interrupt you at just the right time? Seek out influences that will push you to reach higher. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): When Europeans first explored the New World, ships captained by Italians led the way. But none of them sailed Italian ships or represented Italian cities. Cristoforo Colombo (today known as Christopher Columbus) was funded by the government of Spain, Giovanni de Verrazzano by France, and Giovanni Caboto (now known as John Cabot) by England. I see a lesson here for you, Capricorn. To flourish in the coming months, you don’t neces-sarily need to be supported or sponsored by what you imagine are your natural allies. You may get further by seeking the help of sources that are not the obvious choices. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Walter Kaufman had a major role in clarifying the meaning and importance of Friedrich Nietzsche. His English transla-tions of the German philoso-pher’s books are benchmarks, as are his analyses of the man’s ideas. Yet Kaufman was not a cheerleader. He regarded Nietzsche’s Thus Spake Zarathustra as brilliant and tri-umphant, but also verbose and melodramatic: a “profusion of sapphires in the mud.” I love that phrase, Aquarius, and maybe you will, too, as you navigate your way through the coming weeks. Don’t just automatically avoid the mud, because that’s probably where you will find the sapphires. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m not tolerant of greed. Acquisitiveness bothers me. Insatiableness disgusts me. I am all in favor of people having passionate yearnings, but am repelled when their passionate yearnings spill over into egomani-acal avarice. As you can imagine, then, I don’t counsel anyone to be piggishly self-indulgent. Never ever. Having said that, though, I advise you to be zealous in ask-ing for what you want in the com-ing weeks. It will be surprisingly healing for both you and your loved ones if you become aggres-sive in identifying what you need and then going after it. I’m confi-dent, in fact, that it’s the wisest thing for you to do.

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