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XMASON THE DIALThe business of Christmas music

FIRST THURSDAY 15

END OF YEAR CHEERLast First Thursdayof the year

NOISE 20

HIT MEExploring the Finer Points of Sadism

FOOD 26

KIMCHISEASONWhip up a batch of Korea’s iconic dish

“I urped up a little on the way over here.” COPE 5

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SAY GOODBYE, SAY HELLOWe have some good news, some big news and some more

good news. The good news: After 12 years of accepting cover art

from local artists and paying $150 per published work, we’re changing how we do things. Starting January 2014, we are suspending the $150 payment in favor of cutting artists in on the results of our annual Cover Auction. Rather than pay each individual artist the same amount, they will receive 30 percent of the proceeds from the sale of their piece at the auction.

That might sound like we’re forgoing payment to our brilliant local artists, but really we’re sweetening the pot. Consider that the average piece of original art sells at auction for about $500—that’s $150 right there—but pieces routinely go for between $600-$1,000, giving artists the chance to take home as much as $300 for their efforts.

In addition to our Cover Auction Grant, which would remain unchanged, we think this new percentage plan is one more chance to reward artists whose talents grace the cover of Boise Weekly each week.

The big news: After 12 years at BW, Art Director Leila Ramella-Rader will be leaving the paper effective Friday, Dec. 6. This could very easily be bad news—and it is sad news for us—if not for the fact that Leila is leaving for an opportunity at BodyBuilding.com that could not be passed up.

Leila’s impact on this paper can’t be overstated; it looks the way it does, feels the way it does and (on some weeks) comes out the way it does because of her leadership. Personally, it’s been an enormous privilege to work with her, and I know that local artists feel the same.

Rather than getting maudlin, I’d like to publicly congratu-late Leila on her new position, thank her for being the best kind of collaborator there is and wish her well.

The other good news: With Leila’s departure, we have two stellar graphic designers who will be taking over the visual component of BW. Tomas Montano, who has actually been with us for a few months, and Kelsey Hawes, who joined Boise Weekly in November, will be sharing design/art direc-tion duties from now on. Both are incredibly talented—some may recognize Tomas’ name as a past cover artist and BW grant recipient—and already great parts of the team.

As we say goodbye to Leila, we also welcome Tomas and Kelsey, who will be handling all graphics needs, available at [email protected].

—Zach Hagadone

NOTE


SOS RACEAnother lawmaker is

considering joining the race for Idaho secretary of state, following the retirement of longtime SOS Ben Ysursa. Find out who on Citydesk.

CHARACTER STUDY

Do you ever think, “I’m so hip I could be a char-acter in a Kerouac novel”? Find out if that’s true with a quiz from the Scottish Book Trust on Cobweb.

REFORMED MEGA-DRAMA

With Canada tar sands-bound mega-loads now heading through Southern Idaho, protests are heating up. Read more on Citydesk.

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


“Bob! Baaaawwwwwwb! Help me! Help meeeeeee! Baaawwwwb!”

“What in the everloving f*** are you do-ing, Cope? Gee-zuss, get in here. And shut the f*** up!”

“Oh, Badger. Oh, ooooh, Badger. You got a beer or something? I am soooo upset, Bob. If I don’t have a beer or something, I feel like I’m gonna just dissolve. Dissolve, Baawwb!”

“And you come here screaming like a drunken banshee outside my camper at three in the f***ing ... oh, you are drunk, aren’t you?”

“Golly Bob, I didn’t mean to be. I was just so darn upset and I thought maybe a mango daiquiri might calm me down. And it tasted so good, I had another one. And that one tasted even better than the first one, so I had another. And I had a cucumber vodka chaser with that one. And then I had another cucumber vodka chaser, only I ordered a peach schnapps chaser to go with the other chaser. And then…”

“I get it, Cope. You cleaned out the fruit section of the bar. Smart.”

“Yeah. And then the bar closed and I walked over here because I’m still so upset, Bob. Baawwb, I just feel like cry-yi-yi-yi-yi-yin’.”

“OK, what happened? Your wife leave you? Somebody die? You lose your f***ing car? What!?”

“It’s the Obamacare rollout, Bob. It didn’t work so good at first and the people aren’t signing up as fast as Barack was hoping they would, and now those darn Republicans are making fun of my president like he’s nothing but a failure. Baaawwb, my president ain’t no gosh darn fail-yu-yu-yu-yu-yuuur!”

“Quit bawling. I can’t stand to be around a blubbering drunk. And wipe that s*** off your chin, would you?”

“Oh yeah, Bob. Saaaw-ry. I urped up a lit-tle on the way over here. But you know what they’re saying, Bob? Those darn Republicans, I mean. They’re saying Obamacare is Obama’s Katrina. Ka-treen-a! Like my president is as big a screw-up as that stupid George Bu…”

“I know, Cope. I’ve heard it. Like some-how trying to help vulnerable Americans is as f***ed up as totally ignoring vulnerable Americans. Or that it’s Obama’s Iraq. Like the lie about being able to keep those fer-s*** policies is as terrible as the lie that got a hun-dred thousand people blown up. Why are you even listening to those jackals, Cope? There’s not a f***ing Republican left that’s worth taking seriously.”

“But they’re hurting him, Bob. They’re try-ing to make him look like he’s as crappy and awful as they are. And it ain’t true, Baawwwb. It just ain’t t-t-t-troooo.”

“Listen to me, Cope. Shut up and listen. I’ll tell you what Obamacare is, and it isn’t Obama’s Katrina or Obama’s Iraq. Obam-acare is Obama’s Gettysburg, that’s what.”

“Whaaaah-t?”

“This whole thing. Obamacare, the f***ed-up rollout, the sniping and the sabotage and the full-out assault on everything Obama is and stands for and cares about? It’s his Get-tysburg.”

“You mean like the address? Like in ‘Four shcore and . . . ”

“No, no, no. I mean like the battle. Back then, the president was in deep s***, just like now. Everything he’d worked for... fought for, cared about, dedicated his presidency to... it was all on the edge, Cope. Ready to go over in defeat. Everything Lincoln stood for was under attack from an army of the worst Americans ever. The most vicious, the most traitorous, the most anti-freedom Americans this country has ever spawned. At Gettysburg, those treasonous bastards were on the verge of clawing their way right up Lincoln’s a**hole and ripping out his guts. And it didn’t look like there was anything the greatest president in our history could do to stop it because the traitors were so much better at tearing decency and honor down than they were at building anything decent and honorable up.

“The day that sonovab**** Lee marched into Pennsylvania may have been the blackest, the most desperate day in all of America’s history. Everything we were before then, and everything we’ve been since then was on the ropes, Cope. And it looked bad. It look like it was going to go the way of misery and dread-fulness and evil... all the things the president had been fighting against.

“But it didn’t. It didn’t go that way. It tipped to the side of good and decency and honor. And you know why?”

“’Cause Lincoln’s soldiers beat Lee’s sol-diers, that’s all I know.”

“It’s more than that, Cope. It’s because eventually, Americans choose what’s right over what’s wrong. It may take a while to sort out, but sooner or later, Americans have always figured out what they need to do. What will make this country better. And however long it takes, they do it. There isn’t always a big battle with thousands and thousands of soldiers getting wiped out. But there’s always a big confrontation of some sort when jackal bastards are trying to destroy what good men have made. And that’s what we’re going through now with Obamacare. When decent Americans finally see through the smoke and horses*** the Republicans use to confuse them, they will understand it will be a healthier, better, more moral country with Obamacare than without it. And the bastards will lose, Cope. The jackals always lose when the lion stands and fights.”

“Golly, Bob. I hope you’re right. I sure do.”“Yeah, so do I, Cope. Now s***head, I’m

going back to bed. You can have the bean bag. And no more urping up, understand?”

“You bet, Bob. No urping up.”

DICKETT’S CHARGEThe Blue, the Gray, the Drunk and the Badge

BILL COPE/OPINION


If a traveler from a distant land—Sawtooth Valley, for instance—were to visit Greater Boi-se these days, he could be forgiven for thinking that there’s a frenzied religious revival going on. Huge cathedrals are being built. Pious statements about serving humanity are being made by priests, some of them in white robes. Saints are involved. Thousands of worshippers submit to vows of poverty and dedicate their lives to an all-powerful God, without whom eternity would be an impossible dream.

But Boise’s frenzy has nothing to do with the spirit. While the cathedrals might be named after St. Luke and St. Alphonsus, the spiritual salvation they provide and $5 will get you a cup of coffee at Starbuck’s. What they do offer, for a price, is a temporary salvation of the flesh, after which the flesh can get back to work to pay off the hospital bills.

The traveler from Sawtooth Valley might wish for a little truth in advertising. If a hospi-tal billboard were to read “Charging What the Traffic Will Bear and More,” or “Home of the Four-Dollar Tylenol,” or “Capitalism Red in Tooth and Claw,” the traveler might conclude that at least some people in the Treasure Valley health care industry understand what health care looks like from below.

Instead, the traveler reads that two great hospital corporations are doing battle in the courts over who cares more about the public interest. Phalanxes of opposing lawyers are trumpeting a noble dedication to a healthy, happy and well-cared-for public. That sort of hypocrisy is reminiscent of the Fourth Cru-sade, whose soldiers sacked Constantinople in the name of Christ.

The traveler from Sawtooth Valley is insured, of course, and much of his life has been organized around getting and keeping health insurance. It’s been far more important than any salary he has ever been paid, simply because an illness or an accident would have beggared his family, whose members would have tried to pay his hospital bills if he wasn’t able to, and they would have lost everything they had ever worked for.

But if you asked this insured traveler if he would willingly enter a hospital these days, you would get a resounding, shuddering, “No. Thank. You.”

He has a horror of the places, not just because he’s read too much about hospital-borne infections and emerging super-bugs, but because even if insurance is paying for it, he’s appalled by the prices charged for simple procedures and overnight stays. He’s disgusted by laws that send poor families to emergency rooms when it would be far less expensive to provide them with good insurance and health education.

He lives in terror that age or accident will leave him witless and incapacitated but alive for as long as his insurance represents a profit to the hospital he ends up in. He’s upset that a system that denies preventive care to the poor

will keep demented and immobile old people hanging on long after their souls have left for somewhere else.

He’s nauseated by people forced into bankruptcy by collection agencies when their only fault was to get sick, and he can see that an unpaid and unpayable hospital bill can destroy people’s will to work or even maintain a home, effectively imprisoning them in poverty, and worse, in a no-hope mindset that makes them a permanent drag on the whole economy.

He’s horrified by the sinners in this new religion: people who have insurance but refuse to maintain their own health. They smoke, don’t exercise, eat too much, drink too much and refuse to do the hour’s research on the In-ternet that would teach them to avoid lifestyles indistinguishable, over time, from suicide.

He wonders if his medical insurance makes him complicit. He wonders about the medical systems of countries like Great Britain and Canada, who spend half as much per capita on health care but whose citizens live longer and healthier lives. He wonders if Obama, who had majorities in the House and Senate for his first two years in office, missed his single fleeting chance for greatness by not pushing through a single-payer system.

He thinks that the Affordable Care Act is by the insurance companies, of the insurance companies and for the insurance companies, so that they would not pass away from the earth. He understands that the very existence of insurance companies proves that money—lots of it—can be squeezed from human ills. He understands that the Affordable Care Act is an extension of an inhumane system, not a cure for it.

He thinks, sadly, that the current state of health care reflects a shallow financial solu-tion to a deep moral problem. Further, given money’s proverbial connection with evil, he wonders if the whole system isn’t a Satanic device, and that naming hospitals after saints isn’t a kind of diabolic joke, and that the small chapels on hospital critical-care floors shouldn’t have walls of stained glass backlit by fire. (It’s a train of thought that suggests another of Boise’s new cathedrals, Zions Bank, should replace the temple-inspired spire on its rooftop with a giant mechanical figure of Luci-fer pitchforking an unseen foreclosure victim.)

In short, the visitor from Sawtooth Valley reacts like any other innocent from the sticks who encounters the worldly, amoral, richer-than-rich, poorer-than-poor Big City: He wants to go back home, where the air isn’t subject to inversion, the water isn’t tainted with cleaning fluid, where money doesn’t curse or even talk much, and not everybody sees material gain as the highest form of grace. But he cannot go home again, at least not in a spiritual sense, at least not as long as he has his Blue Cross card, and before he’d give that up, he’d give up life itself.

IT’S ALL RIGHT, OBAMAWe’re Only Bleeding

OPINION/JOHN REMBER


SLEIGH BELLS RING,

ARE YOU LISTENING?

But some bristle at radio’s ‘Christmas creep’

GEORGE PRENTICE

It was more like an orchestral freight train than a simple musical intro—a steam engine of brass instruments blasting out of the radio speakers on Nov. 16—and then came the voice of everyone’s favorite Christmas-sweatered crooner, Andy Williams, ushering in 1,119 hours of nonstop Christmas music on Boise’s 107.9 Lite FM.

“It’s the most wonderful time of the year…”There’s no subtlety in the 1960s-era

chestnut of a pop tune, deemed the fifth most popular holiday song of all time by Billboard magazine.

“It’s the hap-happiest season of all…”Lisa Adams, Lite FM’s program direc-

tor and morning drive host, wouldn’t have it any other way. In early November, when Boise Weekly visited her broadcast booth at Townsquare Media’s Boise headquarters (the corporation recently acquired six Treasure Valley affiliates from Peak Broadcasting), we couldn’t help but notice that her studio was already adorned with plenty of Christmas decorations. Which prompted the question: When, exactly, did she put up all of her lights and Christmas tree?

“Five years ago,” she said with a laugh. “Don’t laugh at me! I’m a Christmas freak. People ask, ‘Are you kidding me?’ But I just to have to do this.”

Adams took the programming reins of Lite FM and sister station WOW Country 104 FM in 2008, and one of her first priorities was to gin up the station’s all-Christmas-all-the-time ratings.

“We came screaming out of the December 2009 ratings in our numbers of adults, ages 25 to 54,” said Adams. “Our listening audi-ence usually triples, even quadruples, with the Christmas format. When I walked in the door a few years ago, Lite FM probably had about a 39,000 weekly cume (the total number of dif-ferent persons who tune to a station for at least five minutes). But that peaks to over 100,000 with our Christmas format.”

And there you have the No. 1 reason why so many of the nation’s radio stations think it’s the hap-happiest season of all. Love it or loathe it, the 24/7 Christmas format—which gained steam right after the turn of the 21st century—is a Christmas T-Rex, translating into a generous, albeit temporary, bump in ratings and increased sales revenue.

“And I’m seeing a lot of my counterparts in

other cities flipping to Christmas music earlier and earlier,” Adams told BW.

Indeed, Milwaukee’s WZTI-AM began jingling it bells as early as Oct. 31. Hundreds of other stations across the United States followed, including Lite FM, which went chestnuts beginning Nov. 16, continuing until midnight Dec. 25.

But further down the dial, the radio hosts at Boise’s Journal Broadcast Group said they’re anxious to capitalize on Lite FM’s seasonal fixation.

“There’s definitely an opportunity for me to take some of their audience,” said Ron Harris, Journal’s radio operations manager, who shepherds Variety Rock KJOT 105.1 FM; K-Hits 107.1 FM; The River 94.9 FM; and The X 100.3 FM. “If our stations can become someone’s new favorite while the other guys are playing nothing but Christmas, I win. It gives me a dramatic opportunity.”

It’s not as if Journal broadcasters don’t have the Christmas spirit.

“Christmas is a very careful balance,” said Tim Johnstone, The River’s program director and midday host. “We’re never playing more than two Christmas songs an hour. And our listeners have told us they don’t want to be hit over the head too early. There’s a definite pushback to the Christmas creep.”

But Johnstone quickly added that The River’s “biggest night of the year” was a big slice of fruitcake—the station’s annual Concert for the Cause, slated this year for Wednesday, Dec. 18, at The Knitting Factory.

“Concert for the Cause perfectly encap-sulates what The River is all about, and this year’s headliner, Tyrone Wells, is releasing his new Christmas CD just in time for the concert,” said Johnstone. “Plus, The River is one of the few stations in the Treasure Valley to give airplay to the Idaho artists from the annual Idaho Ho Ho CD [Johnstone is also a co-producer on this year’s compilation]. As

we get closer to Christmas, the holidays mean more and more to our listeners.”

Meanwhile, Johnstone’s counterpart, Jeremy Nicolato, who programs Journal Broadcasting’s The X, couldn’t be further away from all of the eggnog-laced merriment.

“We’re doing something that we call the ‘No Christmas Music’ format. Our listeners told us that they want The X to be the one place where they’re not hearing all of that stuff. As a matter of fact, we’re giving away prizes, including a PlayStation and Xbox, to people who catch any Christmas on our air-waves. We make a big deal out of the fact that we’re not changing our music at all. We’ll rock through Christmas, no matter what happens.”

Down the hall at Journal Broadcasting’s Variety Rock KJOT, they’ll be sticking to their classic rock format this season after a one-and-done attempt with a holiday-themed format in 2012.

“We tried the all-Christmas last year,” said Variety Rock and K-Hits Program Director Jim Allen. “And yes, there were lessons learned. And we’re staying right where we are. Some-body else can do the all-Christmas thing.”

That “somebody else” is Lite FM. Adams said that in addition to all of the Bing Crosby and Nat King Cole favorites, the holiday rotation will include an increasing amount of Christian-based music as they get closer to Dec. 25.

“Boise is wonderful because it’s such a conservative market,” said Adams. “How do you separate the religion from the holiday? You don’t.”

Each year, more pop artists are being added to the rotation: new Christmas CDs were released this year by Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige and even the Duck Dynasty clan (don’t laugh, it debuted at No. 1 on the Country album charts).

“What can I say? You can never play enough Christmas music,” said Adams.

NEWS

NEWS/CITYDESK

CLOCK TICKING FOR TVCTVViewers of either public access Channel

11 or arts and government affairs Channel 98 in the past week may have noticed the occasional plea for financial contributions, as Treasure Valley Community Television closes in on the end of the year. That’s when, un-less the station can put together a revenue stream equivalent to at least $5,000 a month, TVCTV will go dark.

“The clock is ticking,” TVCTV Board Presi-dent Bob Neal told Boise Weekly.

BW first reported in November that the station was facing closure in the wake of state legislation eliminating funds funneled to TVCTV from fees paid by cable subscribers and the cancellation of a service agreement with the city of Boise that swept away a com-bined $54,000 of the station’s $60,000-a-year operating budget (BW, Citydesk, “TVCTV May Go Dark,” Nov. 13, 2013).

Now, with a deadline of Dec. 31—when bridge funding from the city of Boise ex-pires—TVCTV is scrambling to stay on the air.

For Jon Adamson, longtime host of the Channel 11 show Property Line Today, that means appealing to area businesses. He is trying to find 50 local businesses willing to commit $150 a month to the station in exchange for 60 “mentions”—as a nonprofit, TVCTV can’t air advertising.

Neal reported that just prior to a meeting with the city last month, an unnamed party expressed interest in buying the station—ownership of which would revert to the city should TVCTV close its doors. The deal didn’t go any further than discussion, but Neal said it “brings up a whole new ball of questions.”

Ideally, according to Neal, the station would be sold to a public institution of some kind—preferably for educational ends.

“Somebody with the institutional where-withal to make such a purchase, as well as the pool of labor behind it,” he said, adding that students of journalism, broadcast tech-nology or emerging technology could benefit.

For Adamson, who characterized his posi-tion with the station as “acting, volunteer, unpaid, willing-to-resign-at-any-time executive director”—a title Neal seemed surprised to hear Adamson was using, though Adamson maintains Neal asked him to serve as acting executive director—the future of TVCTV is to diversify with robust events coverage.

“If we can be the place to go to find out what’s going on and what you missed, people will start tuning in more,” Adamson said. Otherwise, losing the station would be a blow to free speech in the Treasure Valley.

“If we lose TVCTV and [Channel] 98, we don’t think there’s a way for the public to have a voice,” he said.

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Is this bakery your life for the foreseeable future?

Isabelle: I hope so. I would love to go to culinary school some day. It would be a privilege to go.

Gabrielle: Isabelle has always been a bit shy; we’re thinking that she should be 18 before she goes.

What was the first thing you

became pretty good at baking?Isabelle: Macarons—a French

butter cream cookie. What item gives you particular

joy to make?Isabelle: Something I call Coco

Cakes—chocolate vegan cupcakes. I substitute avocados for butter.

I find it hard to believe that I would like a chocolate cupcake made with avocados.

Isabelle: Everyone’s reaction is, “It’s the best chocolate cupcake I ever had.” And when they find out there isn’t any butter, egg or cream inside, they’re astounded.

What else are you proud of?Isabelle: My Sassy Punkin’

Bread. It’s made with root beer to give it a hint of sarsaparilla. And then there are the S’more Treats: made with toasted marshmallows, butter, big chocolate chunks and homemade graham crackers.

Was there a particular moment

when you knew you could make a

go of this business?Gabrielle: In April 2012, The

Boise Family Y asked if she would be interested in catering an event.

Isabelle: A full dessert banquet. Five hundred individual desserts.

Gabrielle: I asked her, “Do you see yourself doing this every day?”

Isabelle: I was tired, but yes.Gabrielle: When we asked her

to put a business plan together, we thought she would be 20, maybe 25 years old before she could operate a bakery.

With your recent opening [the

doors swung open in October], you’ve timed this perfectly for the holidays.

Isabelle: But it’s still a bit of a mystery, because we don’t know how many customers I’ll have.

Have you thought about your

marketing message?Isabelle: I use a lot of social me-

dia. I have a blog and send out a lot of pictures through Instagram.

I’m curious about how your

contemporaries are reacting to you being a business owner?

Isabelle: My friends love com-ing here.

Gabrielle: A woman stopped in the other day to talk about her

daughter, who has some severe dietary issues; the mother asked if the daughter could spend time with Isabelle in the kitchen. I think Isabelle is really an inspiration.

Are you putting your profits

back into the business?Isabelle: It will be about seven

months before profitability. Your tip jar looks pretty full.Isabelle: My customers can

nominate someone in need and 75 percent of the tips will go to those people. I’m saving the other 25 percent for culinary school.

A baker’s life usually means

very early mornings.Isabelle: We’re here at 6 a.m.

Cinnamon rolls have to be fresh. Even the pictures of your cin-

namon rolls look good enough to eat.

Isabelle: I even make our own butterscotch caramel for the rolls. Plus I make a Snicker Bun with chocolate, peanuts and caramel.

Oh my God.Isabelle: We open at 9 a.m. on

weekends, but people can knock on the door if they smell the rolls.

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ISABELLE AND GABRIELLE KRAKE

Lovin’ from the ovenGEORGE PRENTICE

Isabelle Krake’s sweet-as-pie sensibility is perfectly matched by the confectionary delights that pounce from the ovens at Boise’s newest and perhaps unlikeliest bakery: Just Baked.

The bakeshop’s mouth-watering menu is impressive enough. But the fact that the proprietor is 15 years old is stunning.

“I also like to sew a lot of my own clothes, play the piano and take care of our animals,” Krake said. “We have chinchillas, two dogs, a cat and six chickens.”

But it’s all about the baked goods when Krake and her mom, Gabri-elle, go to work in the pre-dawn hours at the family’s Soda Works Shop on State Street. Tucked in the back of the store is Isabelle’s Just Baked shop, with a logo that promises things that are “yummy everyday.”

Isabelle was home-schooled by Gabrielle, along with three siblings. But for her final math project (she finished her high-school requirements in 2012), Isabelle put together a five-year business plan for a bakery. What followed was a delicious journey.


THURSDAYDEC. 5yesteryears

BOISE AND ITS PEOPLEAging is tough. Things start to

ache and sag; sunny dispositions become cloudy perspectives. But each birthday brings an excuse to celebrate, and there has been no better example of how to

stretch out a party than Boise’s 150th birthday. The Boise 150 Sesqui-Shop unveils Boise and Its People: Sharing Stories of Place, an exhibit that “celebrates and explores personal stories of living, working and playing in Boise.” Boise and Its People is part of the sesquicentennial swan song in the waning days be-fore our fair city turns 151, which includes a performance by local author/playwright/poet Heidi Kraay. Share your own stories of

life in the City of Trees or step into the Inst-O-Matic photo booth to create some memories—af-ter all, our state motto is esto perpetua or “let it be perpetual.” Eat, drink and be merry. You only turn 150 once.

5 p.m. FREE. Boise 150 Ses-qui-Shop, 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-384-8509, boise150.org.

FRIDAY- SATURDAYDEC. 6-7humbug

LIPSINC!’S HUMBUG HOLIDAY SHOW

Scrooges unite. If you loathe holiday cheer and need a break from the tinsel, music and shopping, the ladies of LipsInc!

invite you for a night of bawdy lip-syncing fun at The Balcony Club that will exchange your Christmas sneer for a snicker.

Idaho’s first professional female impersonation troupe performs its biggest show of the year Friday, Dec. 6-Saturday, Dec. 7, and it may well be the best anti-Christmas show in town. The Humbug Holiday Show features buxom babes Marilyn, Nikoa Mak, Victoria, Martini and Brenda Starr per forming Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as you’ve never seen it before.

The holiday show is LipsInc!’s most popular of the year, so make reservations soon.

Doors 7:30 p.m., show 8:30 p.m. $20. The Balcony, 150 N. Eighth St., Suite 226, Boise, the-balconyclub.com, 208-368-0405.

BOISE WEEKLY PICKSvisit boiseweekly.com for more events

Put on your (solar-powered) thinking caps.

THURSDAYDEC. 5theory of colours

THE ART OF SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCE OF ARTFew people have disagreed with Isaac Newton and walked away

unscathed. In 1810, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe did just that when he published his Theory of Colours, in which he described color in terms of how it’s perceived, rather than providing an analytical (New-tonian) treatment of the subject. The work was immediately scorned by physicists—and embraced by artists, philosophers and logicians.

Students at Foothills School of Arts and Sciences will demon-strate the fundamental link between art and science with “The Art of Science and the Science of Art,” Thursday, Dec. 5, from 5:30-7:30 p.m., showcasing student projects that tie the two disciplines together.

The event—part of First Thursday—is broken down by grade levels: Seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders compete in “First Lego League,” in which they present robots they’ve programmed. Mean-while, the fifth- and sixth-graders regale audiences with science and song during “David Bowie Space Oddity,” the wrap-up of their studies in the universe and Earth systems.

The Art of Science will display student art and science exploration in the school setting, but the subtext is how students feel about the things they’ve learned in school. It’s an event that shows the paths students take when they’re inspired by their new understanding of the world around them. For Foothills students and parents, as well as First Thursday-goers, “The Art of Science” is a chance to experience their sense of wonder.

5:30-7:30 p.m. FREE. Foothills School for the Arts and Sciences, 618 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-331-9260, foothillsschool.org.

Sciart? Artience? Whatever it is, it’s awesome.

THURSDAYDEC. 5greener

10 BIG IDEAS TO MAKE BOISE GREENEROver the years, Boise Weekly has reported on dozens of issues

that affect Boise’s environment. From wildfires and mega-loads to the Foothills and fights over state and federal lands, this humble paper has been Boise’s source for local environmental reporting.

One thing BW has learned over the years—and this is a fact that’s readily available to anyone—is that Boise isn’t exactly “green.” It’s pretty brown, actually; but it can be both.

10 Big Ideas to Make Boise Greener, an event put on by Conser-vation Voters for Idaho at the Egyptian Theatre Thursday, Dec. 5, at 6 p.m., has that intention in mind: Speakers from the likes of Boise Bike Share, the Sierra Club, Trout Architects and the YMCA get five minutes to share with Boise their big ideas for making this city more sustainable.

This isn’t the same old shtick about how Boiseans should stop hurting the environment; instead it’s a chance for some of the city’s notable proponents of natural spaces to put forth proactive plans for helping Boise jibe with the world around it—and that has quality of life implications for denizens of the City of Trees.

6 p.m. $5. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-387-1273, egyptiantheatre.net.

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INTERIORS FLOOR PLANSLess is more. This is the lesson of the Digital Age, in

which spare design has found its way into consumer elec-tronics, automobiles and interior decorating.

That’s how those prodigies of minimalism—floor plans—went from being the province of draftsmen, engineers and

contractors to that of the aes-thete looking for something to adorn unoccupied wall space.

Enter Interiors, a ’zine that analyzes deliberate use of interior space in film and televi-sion. The articles themselves are fairly academic, but a selection of floor plans accompanying them are for sale on Interiors’ BigCartel site.

Fans can buy blueprints of Breaking Bad’s RV and su-perlab, the bedroom from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and the bank scene from Batman: The Dark Knight. There’s even a diagram of the infamous hotel room in Psycho.

The prints run between $15 and $25 and come in a couple of different sizes to suit the needs of the wannabe interior decorator in all of us.

—Harrison Berry

$15-$25interiors.bigcartel.com

Pulitzer? Check. MacArthur Fellowship? Check. Professorship at MIT? Check. You can probably learn a thing or two from this guy.

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

TUESDAYDEC. 10a story to tell

JUNOT DIAZDominican-American Junot Diaz, who writes of immi-

grants’ struggles through personal experience and alluring prose, will share his gift for words on Tuesday, Dec. 10, as part of The Cabin’s 2013-2014 Reading and Conver-

sations, where he will discuss his experience as a writer, read passages from his works, explain his struggles with the cre-ative process and open the floor to Q&A with the audience (so make sure you read all his books and come prepared to dazzle him with questions). Diaz is a 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a 2012 MacArthur Fellowship recipient and is praised as one of the most com-pelling voices and writers of the 21st century. He teaches creative writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the fic-

tion editor for the Boston Review and serves on the board of advisers for Freedom University, a volunteer organization that supports immigration reform and defends the rights of undocumented immigrants seeking American citizenship.

Diaz describes his own writing style as “sort of like describing a kiss versus having a kiss. To read the book is to have it.” Diaz will sign books at a meet-and-greet after his reading.

7:30 p.m. $21.25-$58.50. Morrison Center, 2201 W Ce-sar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

Lights, camera, holidays.

FRIDAY-SATURDAYDEC. 6-7christmas comes early

WINTER LIGHTS PARADE/CHILDREN’S WINTERLAND FESTIVAL

If seeing Christmas lights on department store shelves in September wasn’t enough to get you thinking about the holi-days, then the Winter Lights Parade and Children’s Winterland Festival should fill you to the brim with cheer. The celebration takes place on Main Street in Meridian and is packed with festive eats and a ton of participating businesses, vendors and Christmas floats. Claim your spot on the curb early and burn a couple Yule logs for warmth because this parade starts after sunset and ends with the lighting of the Meridian Christmas Tree in Generations Plaza. If the march down Main doesn’t smooth the jagged pre-Christmas malaise, perhaps the smiling faces of Santa-believing youth will. The Children’s Winterland Festival on Saturday, Dec. 7, will hopefully avert any overzeal-ous kiddos from searching the house for presents. Finally, there’s an event that lets us live out the childhood fantasy of working in Santa’s workshop as benefits-bereft, no-wage elves. The reason for the season is as much about a joyful mood as it is about helping those with less. The volunteers at the festival will be collecting numerous items for the Meridian Food Bank, so keep that in mind as Saint Nick checks his list more than twice. There will be numerous activities and edibles for children and adults, along with pictures with the jolly old dude and some of his magical reindeer.

Winter Lights Parade: Friday, Dec. 6, 6:30 p.m. FREE. Downtown Meridian, Main Street, 208-888-3579, meridiancity.org. Children’s Winterland Festival: Saturday, Dec. 7, 10 a.m. FREE. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., 208-888-3579, meridiancity.org

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WEDNESDAYDEC. 4Festivals & Events

CHANDLERS HOLIDAY SHOP-PING EVENT AND COCKTAIL PARTY—Pick up holiday gifts and enjoy cocktails in the Vintage Room at Chandlers. 5 p.m. FREE. Chandlers Steakhouse, 981 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-383-4300, chandlersboise.com.

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW—Tour the Idaho Botanical Garden light display. Through Jan. 5. 6 p.m. FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobo-tanicalgarden.org.

On Stage

ALICE IN CULTURE-LANDIA—Join Alice, the white rabbit and the Mad Hatter as they tell the story of Alice in Wonderland through various cultural lenses. 7 p.m. FREE. Jewett Auditorium, The College of Idaho, 2112 E. Cleveland Blvd., Caldwell, 208-459-3405 or 208-454-1376, caldwellfinearts.org.

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE—See Frank Capra’s masterpiece come to life with a contemporary perspective. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

Workshops & Classes

SOUTHWEST IDAHO MANUFAC-TURER’S ALLIANCE KICK-OFF EVENT—Join local manufacturers and discuss various aspects of facilitating business growth. 10 a.m. FREE. University of Phoenix, 1422 S. Tech Lane, Meridian, 208-898-2000, phoenix.edu.

THURSDAYDEC. 5Festivals & Events

SPIRIT NIGHT WITH SANTA—Show your Boise State pride by donning blue and orange apparel and having your photo taken with Santa. He’ll be wearing his blue and orange, too. You’ll also have the opportunity to enter your photo in the Most Memorable Santa Photo Contest to win a $500 gift Card. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Towne Square, 350 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-378-4400, boisetownesquare.com.

On Stage

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—Enjoy this Christmas comedy that is more fun than a joyride in a one-horse open sleigh as a colorful parade of eccentric guests arrive at the Snowflake Inn and deck the halls with holiday hilarity. Purchase tickets online at eventbrite.com/org/2762190930. 7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

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CULTURE/STAGE REVIEW

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE NOT SO WONDERFULThis Wonderful Life, which opened Nov. 30 at Boise Contem-

porary Theater, whipped up Christmas spirit right as attendees walked through the door. That’s where a ceiling-mounted machine blew acrid-smelling bubbles in imitation of snow. In the foyer, attendees snapped photos at a mockup of the steel bridge made famous by the film. The performance itself, however, was less interesting and complete than its source material.

The play is a dramatic retelling of that canonical Christmas tale, the 1946 Frank Capra film It’s a Wonderful Life, in which Tom Ford—the only actor in the production—gave a scene-by-scene recap of the life, despair and redemption of George Bailey (James Stewart in the film) from Bedford Falls, N.Y., with occa-sional help from prop-bearing stagehands and images and stills projected onto a screen behind him.

At 70 minutes in length, This Wonderful Life was a cascade of only occasionally witty dialogue and often slick pathos, with Ford opening the play as a raconteur who was able to deliver about 10 minutes of gushing over his favorite movie before losing much of the crowd’s interest. The audience quickly became wise to the unoriginal, effusive commentary, and laughter at the narrator’s jokes thinned; one person left the theater mid-performance.

Ford’s talent—and he has plenty, as evidenced by a stellar run as the title character in this summer’s Idaho Shakespeare Festival production of Sweeney Todd—hindered the audience’s suspension of disbelief. His were the practiced movements, easy emotions and fluid speech of a professional thespian, and the lack of other characters—anything to which Ford might have reacted—made the hard work of memorizing lines and portraying multiple characters evident, rather than invisible.

Though the play received a standing ovation, the most vocal enthusiasm from the audience came early on when Ford made explicit the emotional and sexual tensions underpinning Bailey’s courtship with Mary Hatch. It was telling that, for a play based on a sophisticated film about Christmas and the value of human life, its best laughs came from explaining away the magic of young love so lovingly presented in the film.

From a technical standpoint, however, This Wonderful Life was a marvel, with its movie screen backdrop and nifty pre-recorded voiceovers from Ford occasionally layered atop various speeches. From sound to stage, BCT put together a setting for a play that boasted style and simplicity.

The play’s superb production values, however, couldn’t make Ford’s mimicry of Stewart’s signature, all-American drawl any less grating or predictable, nor could it save the play from being a rehash that added little to the film on which it’s based.

Writer Steve Murray wanted to tickle people’s Christmas spirit by narrating an iconic Christmas movie, but in writing his play, he set—and in this case sprang—the trap of creating nothing new, relying on audience recognition to fuel interest in it.

—Harrison Berry

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THE NUTCRACKER—Experience the story of The Nutcracker with the Ballet Idaho Academy during an interactive lecture and youth performance. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Boise Public Library, 715 S. Capi-tol Blvd., Boise, 208-384-4200, boisepubliclibrary.org.

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE—See Wednesday. 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

WE NEED A LITTLE CHRIST-MAS—Get into the holiday spirit with an evening full of music, readings and fun, from Broadway musicals and classic television specials to modern Christmas films and a few surprises. Enjoy dinner and a show on Friday and Saturday for $39. Dinner/show tickets must be ordered at least one day in advance online. 7 p.m. $15-$20. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproduc-tions.org.

Talks & Lectures

10 BIG IDEAS TO MAKE BOISE GREENER—Hear 10 speakers from local

organizations and nonprofits discuss their “big idea” to make Boise greener. The event is focused on abstract, innovative ideas on sustainability. Talks are fast-paced, informational and leave the audience feeling excited. See Picks, Page 10. 6 p.m. $5-$10. Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, cvidaho.org.

FRIDAYDEC. 6Festivals & Events

HOKUM HOEDOWN SQUARE DANCE AND OLD-TIMEY MUSIC SERIES—Enjoy music from the Hokum Hi-Flyers while you learn square-dance moves, followed by an old-time hootenanny featuring a cast of callers. Pie Hole pizza will be for sale and a full bar is available with ID. 7 p.m. $7. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

LIVE NATIVITY—Start the Christ-mas season by experiencing the Bethlehem marketplace, the inn, shepherds, animals and baby Jesus. There will be music and the Nativity movie in the church, plus crafts and a puppet show for the kids, with hot drinks and soup provided for everyone. Bring nonperishable food items for the food bank. 6 p.m. FREE. Eagle Seventh-day Adventist Church, 538 W. State St., Eagle, 208-939-6625, eagleadventist.com.

MERIDIAN WINTER LIGHTS PARADE—Start-ing at the corner of Main

and Franklin, the parade will head north down Main Street until just before Fairview Avenue. The evening will culminate with the lighting of Meridian’s Christmas Tree in Generations Plaza. More info available online. See Picks, Page 11. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Downtown Meridian, Main and Franklin streets, meridiancity.org.

On Stage

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—See Thursday. 8 p.m., $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY—Enjoy the story of idealistic George Bailey as he considers ending his life one fateful Christmas Eve brought to life as a live 1940s radio broadcast. 7:30 p.m. $14-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

LIPSINC! HUMBUG! HOLIDAY SHOW—Join LipsInc! for a special

holiday show. Featuring full service bar; 21 and older. Call 208-368-0405 for reservations. See Picks, Page 10. 8 p.m. $20. Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-336-1313, lipsinc.com.

WE NEED A LITTLE CHRIST-MAS—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproduc-tions.org.

Kids & Teens

HOLIDAY CARNIVAL—Join this holiday celebration that will include cookie decorating, a treat walk, face painting and crafts. Santa will be available for pictures. 4 p.m. FREE. Children’s Therapy Place, 6855 W. Fairview Ave., Boise, 208-323-8888, childrenstherapyplace.com.

TEEN TAKEOVER—Kids ages 12-18 get together for games, reading and more. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

SATURDAYDEC. 7Festivals & Events

HANDS-ON HISTORY PIONEER CHRISTMAS—Start the holiday season off with a walk back through history. The December Hands-on History, “Pioneer Christ-mas,” will feature crafts and presents that pioneer families would have shared, holiday music and a chance to see the Pioneer Marionette show, “Bertha Goes West,” at 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. Noon. $3-$5. Idaho State Histori-cal Museum, 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, history.idaho.gov.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—Get in the holiday spirit with this 50-minute ride aboard the decorated vintage Ms. Molly Trolly, accompanied by classic holiday music. Limited seating. Check website for avail-ability. 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. $4-$16. Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, corner of Cole and Ustick, Boise, american-heritagetrolleytours.com.

8 DAYS OUT

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

L A S T W E E K ’ S A N S W E R SGo to www.boiseweekly.com and look under odds and ends for the answers to this week’s puzzle. And don’t think of it as cheating. Think of it more as simply double-checking your answers.

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Along with good cheer and charity, the holi-days can also bring anxiety and depression. Livers bulge like Santa’s bag of toys as people boozily cope with shopping, cooking, enter-taining, family and financial struggles, among other stressors. This First Thursday, set aside your stress and take a stroll through brightly lit downtown Boise. Below, we’ve highlighted a few First Thursday events that might help you forget about the hassles of the holiday for a little while, and where you might even be able to cross a couple of names off your gift list.

BLOCK PARTY ON SOUTH EIGHTH STREET

For the past few months, navigating the sidewalks around Eighth and Fulton streets required slogging through the dirt and mud of some major new landscaping. Renovations are done and the block is ready to unveil its facelift with the South Eighth Street Block Party, including neighbors Ballet Idaho, Renewal Home, Foothills School of Arts and Sciences, Boise Farmers Market, Opera Ida-ho, Boise Philharmonic, Boise Contemporary Theater and more. Swing by Ballet Idaho and the Academy to see flash mobs with mini mice, Clara, Fritz and other beloved charac-ters from The Nutcracker, and warm up with a bonfire, marshmallow roasting and hot chocolate. BCT opens This Wonderful Life, a one-person reimagining of holiday classic It’s a Wonderful Life. Drew Barr directs Tom Ford, who portrays more than 30 characters in the story of how an angel helps everyman George Bailey realize how different life would have been had he never existed. Renewal

offers wine tasting and hosts local artist Ed Anderson as he shares new outdoor-inspired works. Boise Farmers Market holds it indoor winter market, featuring live music, artwork, fresh-from-the-farm delights and more. Foothills School opens its doors for The Art of Science and the Science of Art, in which upper school students share projects from this semester. Ballet Idaho, 501 S. Eighth St., 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

BRICOLAGE AND BOISE ART GLASSFor the eighth year, these two neighboring

hotspots are hosting what has become a desti-nation event: the annual Holiday Open House. Even folks who don’t usually head downtown for First Thursday make a point of hitting this lively party at the corner of Myrtle and Sixth streets. This year’s shindig includes live music by The Two Tones, free beer and scrumptious baked goods by H Bakery. At Boise Art Glass, $40 and 30 minutes nets a cool take-home from a “Make Your Own Ornament” session. At Bricolage, check out the opening of Taking Liberties: 60 Seconds, an exhibit of new work by Erin Cunningham. The works, which will be on display through New Year’s Eve, are paintings of fireworks, and Cunningham will add new pieces each week in a metaphorical build-up to a grand finale. Bricolage, 418 S. Sixth St., 208-345-3718, bricoshoppe.com; Boise Art Glass, 530 W. Myrtle St., 208-345-1825, boiseartglass.com.

MACLIFEDowntown’s nerd nirvana opens its annual

student photography show with work from

Timberline High students. These picture-taking prodigies and their teacher will be on hand to answer questions and the photos will be on display through Sunday, Dec. 15. 6-8 p.m., 421 S. Eighth St., 208-323-6721, maclifeboise.com.

WASHINGTON TRUST BANKUnlike It’s A Wonderful Life’s Mr. Potter,

these Boise bankers are in the giving spirit this holiday season. Washington Trust is offering free carriage rides around downtown (rides leave from the corner of Ninth and Bannock streets); or be one of the first 20 people in line at Aspen Leaf Yogurt from 5-6 p.m. or City Peanut Shop from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and get $20 from Washington Trust to spend in the store. 5-9 p.m., 901 W. Bannock St., 208-343-5000, watrust.com.

WINTER WINDOW GALLERY STROLLBig-city department stores have nothing

on downtown Boise businesses when it comes to displays. Each year, the Downtown Boise Association asks local artists to lend their uniquely creative skills to the holiday land-scape. From Flying M to The Modern Hotel, artists such as Ellen Crans-DeAngelis, Bryan Moore, Rick Walter and more have festooned storefront windows with everything from cute to classy to a little creepy, all in the spirit of the yuletide. See the windows (see First Thursday Listings, Pages 16-18) and then, through Sunday, Dec. 15, vote on your favorite at Downtown Boise Association’s Facebook page. downtownboise.org.

FIRST THURSDAYAdd some cheer to the last First Thursday of the year

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Have horse, will travel, with Washington Trust Bank’s carriage walk around downtown Boise.Taking Liberties: 60 Seconds, an exhibition of new work by Erin Cunnigham, shows at Bricologe.

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1BASQUE MUSEUM AND CUL-TURAL CENTER—Check out the

holiday sale. Members will receive 20 percent off and nonmembers receive 10 percent off. 5:30 p.m. FREE. 611 Grove St., Boise, 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

2BOISE ART GLASS—Check out the eighth annual Holiday Open

House and make your own ornament for $40 per 30-minute session while enjoying beer, wine and snacks. 5 p.m. FREE. 530 W. Myrtle, Boise, 208-345-1825, boiseartglass.com.

3BRICOLAGE—Check out the Christmas party. With goods

from H Bakery and new work by Erin Cunningham. 5 p.m. FREE. 418 S. Sixth St., Boise, 345-3718, www.bricoshoppe.com.

4DHARMA SUSHI & THAI—Featur-ing work from local artists Joel

Parmer, Kaley Addison and Lane Smith. 5 p.m. FREE. 624 W. Idaho St., Boise.

5FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—Fea-turing abstract paintings by Sven

Brown and window art by Rick Walter. 5 p.m. FREE. 500 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-345-4320, flyingmcoffee.com.

6GOLDY’S CORNER—Featured artist this month is Elizabeth

Gibson, plus window art by Julie Rumsey. Happy hour from 5-9 p.m., with 50 percent off beer and wine. 5 p.m. FREE. 625 W. Main St., Boise, 208-433-3934, goldysbreakfastbis-tro.com.

HANNAH’S—Latin night featuring free salsa lessons with Joel Hunter from Heirloom Studios and music by Rosa dos Ventos. 8 p.m. FREE. 621 Main St., Boise, 208-345-7557.

7HIGH NOTE CAFE—Enjoy live music, $4 local pints, $3 mimo-

sas made with homemade seasonal juices and local art hanging on the walls. Payette Brewing beer tasting begins at 7 p.m. 6 p.m. FREE. 225 N. Fifth St., Boise, 208-429-1911.

OLD BOISE—Check out window art by Michael Bryant and Ronnie Cyr. 5 p.m. FREE. Sixth and Main Streets, Boise.

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South Side

8BOSCO AIR STUDIO—BOSCO’s Artist in Residence Program. Bonnie Peacher will paint

portraits of Red Light Variety Show members on acrylic, Anne Watson Sorenson will give a water-color technique demonstration, and Geoff Everts will give an airbrush demonstration. 5 p.m. FREE. 3527 S Federal Way, Ste. 103, Boise, boiseopen-studios.com.

9BALLET IDAHO—Check out a flash mob with mini mice, Clara, Fritz and other Nutcracker

characters, and enjoy a bonfire and treats. With window art by Tahirih Cahill. 5 p.m. FREE. 501 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-343-0556, balletidaho.org.

10BOISE ART MUSEUM—Check out the exhibition Lisa Kokin: How the West

Was Sewn and make artwork from book pages during Studio Art Exploration. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. By donation. 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

11BOISE FARMERS MARKET WINTER MARKET—Check out the holiday open

house featuring local farmers, artists, music and refreshments. 5 p.m. FREE. 1080 W. Front St., Boise, 208-345-9287, theboisefarmersmarket.com.

12EASTMAN STUDIOS—View the work of contemporary oil painter Karen Eastman.

5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St. Ste. 202, Boise.

13FOOTHILLS SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES—Check out “The Art of Sci-

ence and the Science of Art” and see what the upper school students have been working on this semester. 5:30 p.m. FREE. 618 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-331-9260.

HAMPTON INN & SUITES—Check out window art by Shelley Needles. 5 p.m. FREE. 495 S. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-331-1900.

14IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM—Check out Bertha Goes West during the

final season of the marionette program and view holiday-themed window art by Laci McCrea. 5 p.m. FREE. 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-334-2120, history.idaho.gov.

15LISK GALLERY—Pick up holiday gifts crafted by 21 local and regional artists

exhibiting new work through December. 5 p.m. FREE. 401 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-342-3773, liskgallery.com.

16MACLIFE—Check out “Beneath the Surface,” a photography showcase from

Timberline High School students. 6 p.m. FREE. 421 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-323-6721, maclife-boise.com.

17NFINIT ART GALLERY—Join Nfinit for a holiday bash featuring work from Sherri

Stehle and Virgia West. Works by 22 local artists in various mediums on display for the holiday season. 5 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 131, Boise, 208-371-0586, nfinitartgallery.com.

18PROTO’S PIZZA—Featuring work from various artists and a raffle for Banana Ink

apparel. Happy hour includes $5 select personal pizzas and specials on beer, wine and cocktails. 6 p.m. FREE. 345 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-331-1400, protospizza.com.

19QUE PASA—Check out a selection of Mexican artwork, including wall fountains,

silver, metal wall art and blown glass. 5 p.m. FREE. 409 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9018.

20R. GREY GALLERY JEWELRY AND ART GLASS—See handcrafted wedding rings

from Todd Reed, Alex Sepkus, Sarah Graham and George Sawyer. 5 p.m. FREE. 415 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-385-9337, rgreygallery.com.

21RENEWAL CONSIGNMENT HOME-WARES—Fulton Street Showroom and

Renewal Underground. Featuring work by Ed An-derson and wine from Indian Creek. 5 p.m. FREE. 517 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-338-5444.

22SALON 162—Featuring Boise-based artist Tyler Davis. 5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth

St., Boise, 208-386-9908.

23SERENITY ARTS BY MARY—Featuring fiber art, mixed media, photography and

more. Enjoy a snack and a glass of wine while you peruse the art. 5 p.m. FREE. 404 S. Eighth St., Boise.


24SOLID—Enjoy live music from Kay Leigh Jack,

happy hour food from 4-6 p.m. and 10-midnight, free tasting by Payette Brewing and liquor tasting from local vendors. Art by Sylvia Cohen. Free appetizers at 6 p.m. and Last Call Trivia at 8 p.m. Window art by Lauren T. Kistner. 4 p.m. FREE. 405 S. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-6620, solidboise.com.

Central Downtown

ARTISAN OPTICS—Featuring the Barton Perreira Trunk Show and holiday-themed window art by Julie Rumsey. 1-8 p.m. 190 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-338-0500, artisanoptics.com.

BANNER BANK BUILDING—Check out window art from Brian Schriener. 5 p.m. FREE. 950 W. Bannock, Boise.

BITTERCREEK ALE HOUSE—Check out holiday-themed window art by Ian DuVall. 5 p.m. FREE. 246 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-345-1813, bcrfl.com/bit-tercreek.

CHEERS—Join Kirk Anderson of Sun Valley for a book signing of his new photography book. 5 p.m. FREE. 828 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-342-1805, cheersin-vitations.com.

CITY PEANUT SHOP—Boise’s peanut provider will pair with Payette Brewing and Proletariat Wines to raise funds for the Women’s and Children’s Alli-ance. 5 p.m. FREE. 803 W. Ban-nock St., Boise, 208-433-3931.

D.L. EVANS BANK—For a small donation, kids can tell Santa what they want for Christmas. Proceeds benefit the Children’s Home Society. Featuring holiday window art by Michael Casias. 5 p.m. 213 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-331-1399.

25HOFF BUILDING—Check out gift items made by

refugees at Artisans4Hope, with 90 percent of proceeds directly benefiting the artists. 5 p.m. FREE. 802 W. Bannock St., Boise.

LE CAFE DE PARIS—View holiday-themed window art by Jennifer Burdin. FREE. 204 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-336-0889, lecafedeparis.com.

26LUX FASHION LOUNGE—Check out re-

sale clothing, jewelry and more. Featuring seasonal art and live music. 5 p.m. FREE. 785 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-4589.

PORTSCHE’S JEWELRY BOUTIQUE—Enjoy hot chocolate and cookies and check out the jewelry selection and window art by Lisa Flowers Ross. 5 p.m. FREE. 224 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-343-4443, portsches.com.

27THE PRESS—Featuring the work of artist Tom

Bicak. Proceeds benefit Canyon County Parks and Rec. 5 p.m. FREE. 212 N. Ninth St., Ste. B, Boise, 208-336-9577, facebook.com/thepressboise.

28SAGE YOGA AND WELL-NESS—Featuring Land-

scapes for Idaho, a collaboration between artist Rachel Teannal-ach and the Idaho Conservation League. With music by DJ Chakra Khan and Vinyasa Yoga with Lori Tindall. 5:30 p.m. FREE. 242 N. Eighth St., Ste. 200, Boise, 208-338-5430, sageyogaboise.com.

29STILLWATER FLOAT CENTER—Featuring

window art from Lois Chattin and Renaissance High School art students. 5 p.m. FREE. 213 N. 10th St., Boise.

THE VANDAL STORE—Featuring holiday-themed window art by Ellen Crans-DeAngelis. 5 p.m. FREE. 821 W Idaho St, Boise, 208-433-1889.

30THE ART OF WARD HOOPER GALLERY—

Featuring 25 percent off all Christmas items and prints and holiday treats. 5 p.m. 745 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-866-4627, wardhooper.com.

WASHINGTON TRUST BANK—Enjoy a free carriage ride. Departs from the corner of Ninth and Bannock streets. 5 p.m. FREE. 901 W. Bannock St., Boise, 208-343-5000.

31ZIONS BANK—Enjoy refreshments at the holi-

day open house while listening to music from Sounds. 5 p.m. FREE. 100 N. Ninth St., Boise, 208-344-5523.

West Side

32THE ALASKA CENTER—At Give a Night of Shelter,

participants can donate $10 and provide a night of shelter and a meal at Interfaith Sanctuary. Also, check out Allan Ansell’s new exhibit, Textures, about the physical character or appearance of the world surrounding us. Also featuring Eric Obendorf’s panoramic photography, and Chi E Shenam Westin’s new oil paintings of the desert West and a collection of miniatures. Be sure to check out the Buy Idaho holiday market. 5 p.m. FREE. 1020 Main St., Boise.

LISTINGS/FIRST THURSDAY

ART WALKLocations featuring artists

1. Basque Museum

2. Boise Ar t Glass

3. Bricolage

4. Dharma Sushi & Thai

5. Flying M Coffeehouse

6. Goldy’s Corner

7. High Note Cafe

8. Bosco Air Studio

9. Ballet Idaho

10. Boise Ar t Museum

11. Boise Farmers Market Winter Market

12. Eastman Studios

13. Foothills School of Ar ts and Sciences

14. Idaho State Historical Museum

15. Lisk Gallery

16. MacLife

17. Nfinit Ar t Gallery

18. Proto’s Pizza

19. Que Pasa

20. R. Grey Gallery

21. Renewal Consignment

22. Salon 162

23. Serenity Ar ts by Mary

24. Solid

25. Hoff Building

26. Lux Fashion Lounge

27. The Press

28. Sage Yoga and Wellness

29. Stillwater Float Center

30. The Ar t of Ward Hooper Gallery

31. Zions Bank

32. The Alaska Center

33. Ar t Source Gallery

34. Boise 150 SesquiShop

35. Boise Creative Center

36. The Crux

37. The District Coffee House

38. Gallery 601


33ART SOURCE GAL-LERY—Featuring Wild

Ideas in Glass, the exhibit by Pacific Northwest glass artist Laura Johnson. 6 p.m. 1015 W. Main St., Boise, 208-331-3374, artsourcegallery.com.

34BOISE 150 SESQUI-SHOP—Featuring Boise

& Its People: Sharing Stories of Place and take a picture at the the Sesqui-Snaps: Inst-O-Matic Swinging Holiday Postcard booth and see a story performance by Hidi Kraay.. 12-9 p.m. FREE. 1008 Main St., Boise, 208-433-5671.

35BOISE CREATIVE CEN-TER—Featuring work from

more than 15 artists and live music. Alex Vega will be painting live murals. 5 p.m. FREE. 1214 W. Front St., Boise, 208-371-9697, facebook.com/boise.creative.center.

36THE CRUX—December’s theme is Vitalize, featur-

ing work from artists Lauren Kistner, James McKain, David Anderson, Tony Caprai and Karl LeClair, with an artist reception at 6:30. 5 p.m. FREE. 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3213.

37THE DISTRICT COFFEE HOUSE—Featuring a holi-

day art show and music courtesy of a live DJ. 8 p.m. FREE. 219 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-343-1089, districtcoffeehouse.com.

ECHELON FINE HOME—Enjoy hot toddies, a dessert bar and Christmas specials. 5 p.m. FREE. 1404 W. Main St., Boise.

38GALLERY 601—Check out Mulled Swine, an

evening with watercolor artist Will Bullas and the holiday show and fundraiser for the Idaho Food Bank. 5 p.m. FREE. 211 N. 10th St., Boise, 208-336-5899, gallery601.com.

IDAHO MOUNTAIN TOUR-ING—Check out holiday-themed window art from Julie Rumsey. 5 p.m. FREE. 1310 Main St., Boise, 208-336-3854, idaho-mountaintouring.com.

THE LINEN BUILDING—At Detour: Writers in the Attic, authors read their stories and sign copies of the book. 5 p.m. FREE. 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

MODERN HOTEL AND BAR—Featuring holiday-themed window art by Bryan Moore. 5 p.m. FREE. 1314 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-424-8244, themodernhotel.com.

PREFUNK—Old Salt joins Pre-Funk for First Thursday. 5 p.m. FREE. 1100 W. Front St., Boise, 208-331-3865.

PRESTIGE SKATEBOARDS—Meet Carrie Semmelroth. 5:30 p.m. FREE. 106 S. 11th St., Boise, 208-424-6824, prestiges-kateboards.com.

THE RECORD EXCHANGE—Hear selections from the Idaho benefit album by buskers in the store. 5 p.m. 1105 W. Idaho St., Boise, 208-344-8010, therecord-exchange.com.

ROLLING IN DOUGH—Enjoy holiday treats and a glass of bor-deaux for a taste of the season. 5 p.m. FREE. 928 W. Main St., Boise, 208-720-4096.

FIRST THURSDAY/LISTINGS

FIRST THURSDAY/NEWS

GIVE THE GIFT OF FOOD AND SHELTERThis First Thursday, the Interfaith Sanctuary hopes people

perusing downtown will drop by the Alaska Building at 1020 W. Main St., Ste. 100, and remember the homeless by participat-ing in its Give a Night of Shelter drive.

The average cost of a night at Interfaith Sanctuary and a hot meal is $10 per person. For each Give a Night of Shelter gift, the sanctuary will present a card to the recipient of that evening’s meal and bed space, letting him or her know that a friendly neighbor helped make that evening possible.

During the Alaska Building event, First Thursday-goers can nosh on appetizers and sip on holiday beverages while perusing art by Allan Ansell, Eric Obendorf and Chi E Shenam Westin.

A meet-and-greet will accompany the art show.This is the second year that the shelter has put on the Give

a Night of Shelter drive on a First Thursday during the holiday season. According to Shannon Wills, Interfaith Sanctuary development and fiscal assistant, the shelter has decided to make this event the beginning of its holiday season fundraising campaign, and its ambitions are two-fold:

“One of them is to kick off our holiday fundraising cam-paign. It’s also a way to bring visibility to the shelter and what we offer. This First Thursday allows us to connect with people,” Wills said.

The sanctuary has few opportunities to show its work to the public, and the Give a Night of Shelter campaign is where people can meet the folks who run it and better understand services available to the homeless. The shelter has 160 beds and fills nearly all of them every night of the year.

That’s part of the reason it tries to diversify the kinds of donations it receives through campaigns like Give a Night of Shelter. During the holiday season, donations of coats, shoes and day-to-day materials are popular, but keeping the sanctu-ary’s doors open is of equal importance, and donors are asked to give, regardless of the size of the donation.

“There’s a great deal of interest in providing in-kind dona-tions; they’re welcome and appreciated, but money keeps things running,” Wills said. “This year, we’re asking people to just give at their level because no donation is too small.”

—Harrison Berry

The gift that keeps on living.


IMAGINATION ON ICE: A JOURNEY OF DREAMS—A three-part show on ice, featuring a tribute to Boise Figure Skating Club member

Shauna Hill, who passed away in an accident last year. 3 p.m. and 6 p.m. $5-$10. Idaho IceWorld, 7072 S. Eisenman Road, Boise, 208-331-0044, idahoiceworld.com.

LIVE NATIVITY—See Friday. 5 p.m. FREE. Eagle Seventh-day Adventist Church, 538 W. State St., Eagle, 208-939-6625, eagleadventist.com.

On Stage

COMEDYSPORTZ: WHOS VS. GRINCHES—Get ready for the ha-ha holidays with improv com-edy. See the Whos take on the Grinches in the season’s biggest showdown. 7 p.m. $5-$10. Com-edySportz, 3250 N. Lakeharbor Ln., Boise, Ste. 184 A, 208-991-4746, boisecomedy.com.

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—See Thursday. 7:30 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY—See Friday. 8 p.m. $14-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittletheater.org.

LIPSINC! HUMBUG! HOLIDAY SHOW—See Friday. 8 p.m. $20.

Balcony Club, 150 N. Eighth St., Ste. 226, Boise, 208-368-0405, lipsinc.com.

THIS WONDERFUL LIFE—See Wednesday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $15. Boise Contemporary Theater, 854 Fulton St., Boise, 208-331-9224, bctheater.org.

WE NEED A LITTLE CHRIST-MAS—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15-$39. Knock ‘Em Dead Dinner Theatre, 415 E. Parkcenter Blvd., Boise, 208-385-0021, kedproduc-tions.org.

Kids & Teens

MERIDIAN CHILDREN’S WINTERLAND FESTIVAL—Kids will

enjoy a variety of Christmas-themed games and activities, including pictures with Santa, cookie decorating, face painting, toy building, ornament making, Christmas card making, letters to Santa, free hot chocolate and coffee and much more. See Picks, Page 11. 10 a.m. FREE with food donation for Meridian Food Bank. Meridian City Hall, 33 E. Broadway Ave., Meridian, 208-888-4433, meridiancity.org.

SUNDAYDEC. 8Festivals & Events

CHRISTMAS AT SUNNYS-LOPE—Enjoy a light display, pho-tos with Santa, a bonfire, Clyde the Camel and hot drinks. Be sure to check out the holiday gift shop. 5 p.m. FREE. The Orchard House Restaurant, 14949 Sunny-slope Road, Caldwell, 208-459-8200, theorchardhouse.us.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—See Saturday. 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. $4-$16. Evergreen Business Mall-Library Plaza, cor-ner of Cole and Ustick, Boise.

On Stage

DASHING THROUGH THE SNOW—See Thursday. 2 p.m. $15. Stage Coach Theatre, 4802 W. Emerald Ave., Boise, 208-342-2000, stagecoachtheatre.com.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A LIVE RADIO PLAY—See Friday. 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. $14-$16. Boise Little Theater, 100 E. Fort St., Boise, 208-342-5104, boiselittle-theater.org.

MONDAYDEC. 9Festivals & Events


TOYS FOR TOTS PAJAMA PARTY WITH SANTA—Break out your favorite pajamas and join a PJ party with Santa. There will be bedtime stories, treats, crafts and gifts. Take a new unwrapped toy to donate to Toys for Tots, and with a $3 donation you’ll get a letter from Santa on Christmas Eve. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Towne Square, 350 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-378-4400, boisetown-esquare.com.

Animals & Pets

PET PHOTO NIGHT WITH SANTA—Take your furry friends to visit Santa and get their photos taken, then enter your pet’s photo for a chance to win the Most Memorable Santa Photo Contest and get a $500 gift card. 6 p.m. FREE. Boise Towne Square, 350 N. Milwaukee St., Boise, 208-378-4400, boisetown-esquare.com.

TUESDAYDEC. 10Festivals & Events


Literature

THE CABIN PRESENTS JUNOT DIAZ— Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Junot Diaz shares thoughts about his work and perspectives on issues of our time. See Picks, Page 11. 7:30 p.m. $35-$55. Morrison Center for the Performing Arts, 2201 Cesar Chavez Lane, Boise, 208-426-1609, mc.boisestate.edu.

WEDNESDAYDEC. 11Festivals & Events

CHRISTMAS AT SUNNYS-LOPE—See Sunday. 5 p.m. FREE. The Orchard House Restaurant, 14949 Sunnyslope Rd., Caldwell, 208-459-8200, theorchardhouse.us.

HOLIDAY LIGHTS TROLLEY TOURS—See Saturday. 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. $4-$16. Evergreen Plaza, Cole and Ustick, Boise.

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NOISE

STRANGE ANIMALSThe Finer Points

of Sadism find comfort in chaosBEN SCHULTZ

In 2008—when he and his wife Ashley were in local indie-rock band The Murders—Ja-cobb Sackett wrote a song titled “The Finer Points of Sadism.” Not all of his bandmates approved of the composition.

“We never actually played it at all,” Jacobb said. “We had a guitarist at the time that refused. He said that any of his friends and family would be appalled at a name like that [for] a song. He didn’t want his friends hearing that.”

Though his band never played it, Jacobb held onto the tune. Following The Murders’ breakup in 2009, the Sacketts named their next project after the erstwhile song and worked as a duo, which they felt suited the more experimental nature of their new music.

“I don’t think you should be in a band if you just want to be in a band,” Ashley said. “You’re not going to go anywhere with it. … But when you have somebody who has that passion of being a part of something so abstract or different, it’s going to work.”

That shared passion has kept The Finer Points of Sadism productive over the past few years. Since 2009, the band has released eight albums on Bandcamp and built an interna-tional fan base. FPS released its latest album, Banned Standards, on Sept. 30, and has since expanded to include three additional mem-bers: Tyson Cooley, Nate Slavick and Gage Steinburg. The band will play its first show in more than a year on Tuesday, Dec. 10, open-ing for La Puente, Calif.-based art-pop act Pale, and Seattle-based electro-dance group Dionvox at The Crux.

A “near-death experience” for Jacobb in-spired the Sacketts to switch from indie-rock to experimental music after The Murders broke up. While working as a corrections officer, Jacobb witnessed abuses that he said pushed him into “a place of, like, ‘I don’t know how to live. I don’t know how to be a person anymore.’”

He drove out to Swan Falls and took more than 40 Xanax pills. Then he started hearing low, humming sounds. The world went to “negative, like a photo negative,” he said.

The sounds and hallucinations scared him. He managed to drive to downtown Kuna, where he was met by the police and received medical help.

“But after all of that and coming out of all of that, the sounds stayed,” Jacobb said.

“And then I hear [British performance-art band] Throbbing Gristle, and it’s like I’m hearing the same things I heard that day.”

The sounds don’t scare Jacobb.“It just relaxes me,” he said. “It puts me

back in a moment that shouldn’t be relaxing, but for some reason, it is. I feel at peace. ... I was at a moment where I was ready to let go, and I chose to live. And so when I play that music, I feel like I’m back in that moment. And so there’s a lot of power there; there’s a lot of energy there.”

Blending bizarre, ear-wrenching electronic noises with improvisational, post-punk-influenced songwriting, FPS’s music is not for all tastes. The Sacketts readily admit this, acknowledging as well that the difficulty of categorizing their music has probably limited the number of shows they’ve played.

“I think people are a little scared of book-ing us because we are so different and they think that the bands need to match [and be] in the same genre,” Ashley said. “But once we get something going and we find these other bands that want to do something differ-ent, I think it’ll be easier.”

As unconventional as it is, FPS has found an enthusiastic audience. A perusal of the band’s Facebook page—which has more

than 1,800 likes—will show that it has fans in numerous countries, including France, Italy, Germany, Greece, India, Japan and the Philippines. In August and September, FPS held a giveaway on rafflecop-ter.com for a hand-crafted art book that included an ex-clusive 37-minute track. The

giveaway received more than 200 entries—Ja-cobb estimated that translates to between 70 and 80 people.

Radio stations and independent music labels have taken notice of FPS, as well. The band’s music has received radio play on WMUC in College Park, Md.; WSLR in Sarasota, Fla.; and Australian Public Radio.

FPS songs have appeared on compilations by Scottish netlabel Itsu Jitsu and Canadian netlabel Murder Gore Records.

Jacobb started playing drums when he was 9 years old and moved to guitar in his teens. Thanks to music videos, he discovered post-punk and new wave music. An especially crucial influence was new wave group Wall of Voodoo, which Jacobb first heard when he was 7 years old.

“It stuck with me,” Jacobb said. “And then when I was about 13, I found [“Mexi-can Radio,” by Wall of Voodoo] on some ’80s music compilation [at] the mall. I still found it so innovative and just different from the typical new wave sound that you’d hear [from] other bands at that time.”

Ashley, by contrast, didn’t really start playing music until high school, when she and Jacobb started dating. At the time, Ja-cobb was in indie-rock duo The Tables.

“They were looking for a bass player, and I said, ‘Oh, I could be your bass player,’” she said. “Totally joking. I mean, I had played flute before that. … And [Jacobb] was like, ‘Oh yeah, you could. Here, play.’”

Jacobb hopes to bring that spirit to FPS’s new lineup. He believes that “when you’re coming into something that’s so improvisa-tional or so off-the-wall … you feel kind of uncomfortable when it should be such a lib-erating experience. And that’s what I have to keep telling them. I say, ‘This is liberating.’”

Ashley sees the advice sinking in. “I think they’ve enjoyed it,” she said.

“We’ve all meshed together really well.”After the Crux show—which FPS plans to

film and post on Youtube—the band hopes to release an EP with Laudanum Productions in January. FPS is also looking to play shows in Portland, Ore., and Seattle next year.

But while Jacobb is eager to tour, he still takes a certain pride in coming from Boise.

“For the last few years, they’ve called Boise a barren wasteland in the music scene,” he said. “But barren wastelands can be home to strange animals.”

Jacobb (left) and Ashley Sackett (right) are happy to instruct in the Finer Points of Sadism.

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FINER POINTS OF SADISM With Pale and Dionvox,

Tuesday, Dec. 10, 8 p.m., $5. The Crux, 1022 W. Main St., Boise, 503-784-1182,

facebook.com/ thecruxcoffeeshop

NEWS/NOISE

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND IN THE LAND OF THE RISING SUN

For longer than some of our readers have been able to read, the Rocci Johnson Band has been rocking the rafters as house band at Humpin’ Hannah’s. Rocci Johnson is a consummate frontman, as comfortable with banter as she is belting out covers of rock classics, particularly when there are servicemen and women in the crowd.

“[Hannah’s has] a lot of Air Force, Navy and Marines come in and we have the Ma-rine Corps Ball every year. We’re supportive of troops in general. They’ve got it pretty tough right now. I don’t feel like we’re taking care of our veterans… They’re the frontline, the people having to deal with what our po-litical leaders decide to do,” Johnson said. “If I know there’s anyone that’s come back from overseas, I make sure to get them on-stage or send a song out and acknowledge their service.”

It looks like military communication systems are in working order because word of Hannah’s military support made its way to the top and Johnson received a phone call that will have the Rocci Johnson Band celebrating New Year’s Eve by performing for thousands of troops at Japan’s Misawa Air Base, which is about 400 miles north of Tokyo.

When Idaho-based event company Aard-vark Entertainment (whose founders met in the Air Force) called on behalf of Misawa to invite the band to perform, Johnson thought her brothers were pranking her. Once she got over the initial surprise, however, she and the band were all in.

“I talked with a retired Air Force colonel and he said they’ll ‘roll out the red carpet’ and treat us like real rock stars,” Johnson said, with a laugh.

With security clearance and a replace-ment band secured—Soul Purpose will ring in 2014 at Hannah’s—there was only one thing left to do to make this a trip of a lifetime.

“We want to see the sights, so the agent over there said to put in our rider that we want to take a bullet train to To-kyo,” said Rocci. “I did and now we have a bullet train to Tokyo. We already feel like real rock stars.”

—Amy Atkins

Rocci Johnson and her band will take a break from Boise, ringing in the New Year in Japan.

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LISTEN HERE/GUIDE

METALACHI, DEC. 11, NEUROLUX Sometimes being first is how you make your mark: the first

man on the moon, the first transatlantic solo flight, the first to swim the English Channel. Los Angeles-based Metalachi joins the ranks of firsts as the self-proclaimed world’s first and only metal-mariachi group. There’s something to be said about not taking yourself too seriously, and Metalachi has embraced the underlying humor in replacing classic metal riffs with the clarion blare of a trumpet and the signature sounds of an accordion. Hear Metalachi go loco with the likes of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train.” See the melding of denim, leather, spikes and animal print with the rich ornamentation of a charro suit. It’s a surreal sensory explosion.

—Paul Hefner

With guests, 8 p.m., $10. Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com

WEDNESDAYDEC. 4ALEX RICHARDS—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

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

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

JEFF MOLL—7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub

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

KEVIN KIRK—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

KOPECKY FAMILY BAND—8 p.m. $10. Neurolux

OPHELIA—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

PATRICIA FOLKNER—7 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

POLYRHYTHMICS LP RELEASE

PARTY—10 p.m. $7. Reef

REX MILLER AND SANDRA CAVANAUGH CD RELEASE PARTY—With MC Cory Mikhals of Nash FM and special guests. Get CD with ticket purchase. 7 p.m. $15. Sapphire Room

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

THURSDAYDEC. 5

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

FRANK MARRA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

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

KEN HARRIS AND RICO WEIS-MAN—6 p.m. FREE. Berryhill

KG3 AND MICHAEL PREN-TICE—11 a.m. FREE. Boise State SUB

OPHELIA—10 p.m. FREE. Grainey’s

SONS OF THUNDER MOUN-TAIN—8 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock and Barrel

STEVE EATON—6 p.m. FREE. Rice Contemporary Asian Cuisine

FRIDAYDEC. 6CHURCH OF MISERY—With Mariana, Crowbath and Sun Cat Brothers. 8 p.m. $10. Shredder

DJ MAXIM KLYMENKO—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s Basement

HOLLOW WOOD—With A Sea Of Glass and King Brat. 7 p.m. $5. The Crux

IROCK—10 p.m. $5. Reef

JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock, Stock and Barrel

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


NEW TRANSIT—8:45 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

THE OAK RIDGE BOYS CHRIST-MAS SHOW—7:30 p.m. $40-$50. Morrison Center

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

SCOTT PEMBERTON TRIO—10 p.m. $5. Grainey’s

SOULPATCH—9 p.m. FREE. The Ice Bouquet

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES—With Terror, Trash Talk and Inspector Cluzo. See Listen Here, Page 23. 8 p.m. $20-$40. Knitting Factory

TAMBALKA—6:30 p.m. FREE. Salt

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LOOSE ENDS‘Blue’ finds a Boise home

GEORGE PRENTICE

We’re in the homestretch now.Only a few weeks remain before we put

a bow on another year at the movies, but before we compile our “best of” list, we still have some housecleaning to do—an update on the most controversial film of the year and some passing thoughts on a few heavyweight projects that we didn’t want to slip by with-out weighing in on.

BOISE WARMS UP TO BLUE

Following a minor “brew”-haha, because Idaho lawmen don’t want alcohol near the premises if an NC-17 movie is being shown, Blue is the Warmest Color will finally find an on-screen home in Boise, when it opens for a special engagement, Friday, Dec. 13, at the Edwards Boise Downtown Stadium 9.

Soon after Boise Weekly reported (BW, Screen, “Banned in Boise?” Oct. 9, 2013) that one of the year’s best films wouldn’t be open-ing at The Flicks, Boise’s favorite art house showcase for award-winning (and often con-troversial) films, due to the fact that The Flicks’ liquor license was tied directly to Idaho’s archaic code on indecency and obscenity, our story was trumpeted by The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter and Variety. “Banned in Idaho,” screamed The Guardian’s headline.

Meanwhile, insiders at IFC/Sundance Films were in regular contact with Boise Weekly, telling us that they were trying to convince another venue to show a film that was appar-ently too hot to handle. And indeed, the film’s distributors confirmed that Blue is the Warm-est Color will show in downtown Boise—albeit only for those 17 and older.

STILL HUNGRY

Having been sorely disappointed by the first installment of The Hunger Games. I was certain that the second installment had to be an improvement.

I couldn’t have been more wrong—this dull-as-a-butter knife enterprise just keeps getting worse. With such worthy themes as violence, independence and economic repression, I kept thinking: “Remind me again: Why exactly are these people fighting?” The screenplays are silly, the acting is embarrassing and the special effects are some of the worst examples of excess in recent memory.

OSCAR-BAITINGI bristled at two recent blockbusters—The

Butler and Captain Phillips—as tiresome and heavy-handed attempts for Oscar glory.

I take a backseat to no one in my admira-tion for Tom Hanks. In fact, I think his work in Charlie Wilson’s War and The Terminal were sorely underestimated. But Captain Phil-lips left me stone cold. The good news is that I’ve seen Hanks’ next major release, Saving Mr. Banks (scheduled to be released in a couple of weeks), and he’s back in fine form.

And The Butler? Please. While I found it to

be mildly entertaining, it was another manipu-lative piece of Hollywood revisionism, and the worst piece of claptrap since The Help.

BW READERS ARE AHEAD OF THE CURVE

The Independent Spirit Awards, which hand out their hardware in an avant-garde ceremony the day before the Oscars, have already unveiled their nominees for 2014. And Boise Weekly readers should take note of some familiar titles, not the least of which is 12 Years a Slave, which we’ve been crowing about since September. The brilliant Steve McQueen-directed movie picked up Indepen-dent Spirit noms for Best Feature, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor and Supporting Ac-tress. Other prime nominees include a number of BW-championed titles: All is Lost, Before Midnight, Blue Jasmine, Dallas Buyers Club, Enough Said and Frances Ha.

Stick with us; we try really hard not to steer you wrong.

Anticipation ran high for (left to right) Captain Phillips, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and The Butler but, alas, they were a tiresome trio.

SCREEN/DVDTHE MODERN HOTEL’S 39 ROOMS ‘FILM FESTIVAL’

Boise’s Modern Hotel is adding a new twist to the familiar concept of the in-room movie:

Imagine a short-film festival running in a continuous loop, with new submissions being beamed into the mix in real-time.

That’s the concept behind the 39 Rooms Film Festival, which The

Modern is hosting in cooperation with the Sun Valley Film Festival. Until November 2014, filmmakers can submit short works to The Modern. Winning entries

will be plugged into a loop of other winning entries on the hotel’s closed-circuit television system in all of its 39 rooms. Three entries—Judith by Takahisa Shiraishi, Shel-tered Love by Alex Italics and Cross the Line by Charles

Ancelle—have already been submitted. Hotel manager and festival organizer

Michal Lloyd told Boise Weekly the chan-nel (fittingly, Channel 39) is currently showing footage from the annual Modern Art showcase.

“I don’t think these filmmakers have a place to show short films,” she told BW. “It occurred to us to put some really good content on there.”

—Harrison Berry

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GIMJANG STYLE

For Korean families, winter is kimchi season

TARA MORGAN

Young Ju Rainey held a floppy piece of napa cabbage between her thumb and forefinger.

“If you bend [it] over and it breaks, there’s not enough salt,” said Rainey—originally from Daegu, South Korea—explaining that she had quartered about 40 heads of cabbage, slathered them in sea salt overnight, then rinsed them.

A handful of Rainey’s daughter’s friends had gathered in her Boise kitchen to learn the art of making kimchi: a spicy, fermented dish that’s prepared in hundreds of different styles and considered the soul of Korean cuisine.

Kimchi-making parties, known as Gimjang, are common this time of year in Korea, when families and friends converge to assemble giant batches of the bright red fermented pickle to last them through the winter.

In Rainey’s kitchen, someone grated daikon radishes into matchsticks, while another chopped green onions into three-inch segments. Someone else ripped kale and mustard greens into bite-sized chunks.

Rainey kneaded a fragrant mound of ground fresh ginger, garlic, dried red pepper powder, sugar, salt and fish sauce into paste, folding in the chopped ingredients and a splash of cold water.

“You mix it all together like you’re washing

clothes,” said Rainey, wearing a pair of sturdy yellow rubber gloves. “That way you get all the ingredients mixed.”

“That’s funny,” said her daughter, Hannah. “None of us wash clothes by hand, Mom.”

But most Koreans still make kimchi by hand, in the home, and the average Korean adult consumes more than a quarter pound of kimchi every day.

Not only is it a good source of vitamins A, B, C and fiber, but the lactic acid created during fermentation (also found in yogurt) aids digestion.

Sitting on the floor, Rainey rubbed generous amounts of the pepper paste under the leaves

of the quartered cabbages, tucked them into balls and stacked them in a large, lined plastic tub. She massaged the pepper paste into a bowl of coarsely chopped cabbage, then stuffed the mixture tightly into mason jars.

Everything in the process—from the salting to the dense pack, which keeps the veggies submerged in their juices—contributes to the magic of kimchi’s fermentation. And while kimchi was traditionally buried in clay pots to ferment, most modern Korean families, like the Raineys, age their kimchi in a small fridge.

Though they eat kimchi all through winter until March, Rainey prefers it freshly made.

“When I was younger, I liked the sour one, I didn’t like the fresh one,” said Rainey. “But getting older, I like the fresh one better.”

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FOOD TRUCK RALLIES AND WOOD-AGED BEERS If you missed Payette Brewing’s raucous Black Friday dark beer extrava-

ganza last weekend, you can still get in on some high-potency barrel-aged action. This weekend, Bier:Thirty is hosting Weekend in the Woods, a celebration of wood-aged beers, which include imperial stouts, sours, barleywines, porters and IPAs.

The lineup so far includes Stone Brewing Co.’s Old Guardian Oak-Smoked Barleywine, 2012 Double Bastard Ale aged in red wine barrels, 2013 Firestone Walker Parabola, Deschutes’ Black Butte XXV, Widmer Brothers’ Old Embalm-er aged in pinot noir barrels, North Coast’s Old Rasputin XV, Grand Teton Brewing Company’s Barrel-Aged Huckleberry Sour, Crooked Fence’s Barrel-Aged Sins of our Fathers Imperial Stout and Payette’s Imperial Saison aged in chardon-nay barrels.

The event runs from Saturday, Dec. 7, at 11 a.m. until Sunday, Dec. 8, at 8 p.m. For more info, check out the Weekend in the Woods Facebook event page.

And in other food event news, the Food Truck Rally is hosting two happenings in December, each featuring a different lineup of trucks. The first rally goes down Saturday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. at the Eagle Sports

Complex during the Idaho State Cyclocross Championships. Trucks include Brown Shuga Soul Food, Kilted Kod, Bel Cibo, Voluptuous Vittles, Boise Fry Company, Basilios Tacos and The Funky Taco.

The following day, Sunday, Dec. 15, there will be another rally at the North End Organic Nursery from 12-6 p.m. Trucks include Riceworks, Mythical Munchies, Saint Lawrence Gridiron, P. Ditty’s Wrap Wagon, Free Range Brewery, Cacicia’s Old World Sicilian Foods, A Cupcake Paradise and Archie’s Place.

NEON encourages biking or walking due to limited parking and is also collecting toys for the Toys for Tots program.

For more info, visit the Food Truck Rally Face-book event page.

If all the kimchi talk above got you salivating for Korean cuisine, you’ll have to wait a little while longer to get a bowl of bibimbap in a Boise res-taurant. K-Fusion Korean Barbecue and Grill was originally supposed to open at 1716 S. Broadway Ave. in the beginning of November, but the open-ing has been delayed. Owner Joon Park said he is still waiting on permits from the city before he can announce the restaurant’s new opening date.

For more info and to check out a menu, visit k-fusion.com.

—Tara MorganEat, be merry.

A TUSCAN THROWDOWNWhen it comes to reds, sangiovese rules

in Tuscany. It’s the primary grape behind that region’s best known wine, chianti, and it also dominates blends from Montepulcia-no. In neighboring Montalcino, in order to be sold as Rosso di Montalcino, the wine must be 100 percent sangiovese. Both regions, in the south of Tuscany, are much smaller than the widespread Chianti region. Rossos are their value-priced, entry level wines. In the panel’s most recent tasting, three wines from each Italian region went up against each other. Here are the top three.

2010 ALTESINO ROSSO DI ALTESINO, $22

Although this wine is from Montalcino, it can-not be labeled as such since it includes 20 percent cabernet and merlot. Still, stylistically, it’s true to the region with earthy, meaty aromas wrapped around smooth blackberry and spice. That meaty quality carries through on the palate, blending nicely with bright berry and plum fruit. A touch of minerality comes through on the finish.

2011 FOSSACOLLE ROSSO DI MONTALCINO, $31

This is an excep-tionally well-made and beautifully integrated wine, which means its components are difficult to pull apart. There’s a lovely hint of caramel on the nose, coloring crisp cranberry and ripe boysenberry aromas. On the palate, it’s an elegant mix of red fruit flavors with Bing cherry, raspberry and a subtle touch of strawberry.

2011 POLIZIANO ROSSO DI MONTEPULCIANO, $15.99

Old World aromas meet a New World flavor profile in this wine. On the nose, dark berry fruit is mixed with a combo of leather, earth, mineral and spice. The flavors are round and supple, opening with ripe berry and tangy cherry, backed by spicy mocha, anise and creamy plum. Find bright acidity and velvety tannins on the long finish.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Sometimes I think too fast and too much. My logic gets sterile. My ideas become jagged and tan-gled. When this happens, I head off to Turtle Back Hill for a hike through the saltwater marsh. The trail loops around on itself, and I arrive back where I started in about 15 minutes. Sometimes I keep walking, circumambulat-ing four or five times. Going in circles like this seems to help me knit together my fragmented thoughts. Often, by the time I’m finished, my mind feels unified. I recommend you find your own version of this ritual, Aries. From what I can tell, you need to get rounder and softer. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the mid-19th century, French art was dominated by the govern-ment-sponsored Salon, whose conservative policies thwarted upcoming new trends like Impressionism. One anti-author-itarian painter who rebelled was Camille Pissarro. “What is the best way to further the evolution of French art?” he was asked. “Burn down the Louvre,” he replied. The Louvre, as you may know, was and still is a major art museum in Paris. Judging from your current astrological omens, I surmise that you might want to make a symbolic statement equivalent to Pissarro’s. It’s time for you to graduate from traditions that no longer feed you so you can freely seek out new teachers and influences. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Lead us not into temptation, and deliver us from evil,” is a request that Christians make of God when they say the Lord’s Prayer. If we define “temptation” as an attraction to things that feel good even though they’re bad for you, this part of the prayer is perfectly reasonable. But what if “temptation” is given a different interpretation? What if it means an attraction to some-thing that feels pleasurable and will ultimately be healthy for you even though it initially causes disruptions? I suggest you con-sider experimenting with this alternative definition, Gemini. For now, whatever leads you into temptation could possibly deliver you from evil. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks,” said the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. But you don’t have to worry about that outcome, Cancerian. The storm might howl and surge, but it will ultimately pass. And although your tree may bend pretty far, it will not break. Two weeks from now, you won’t be mourning your losses, but rather celebrating your flexibility and resilience. Congratulations in advance!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): It’s a perfect time to start reclaiming some of the superpowers you had when you were a child. What’s that, you say? You didn’t have any superpowers? That’s not true. Before you entered adolescence, you could see things and know things and feel things that were off-limits, even unknown, to most adults. You possessed a capacity to love the world with wild purity. Your innocence allowed you to be in close touch with the intelligence of animals and the spirits of the ancestors. Nature was so vividly alive to you that you could hear its songs. Smells were more intense. The dreams you had at night were exciting and consoling. Your ability to read people’s real energy—and not be fooled by their social masks—was strong. Remember? VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Not all darkness is bad. You know that. Sometimes you need to escape from the bright lights. It can be restorative to sit quietly in the pitch blackness and drink in the mystery of the Great Unknown. The same is true for silence and stillness and aloneness. Now and then you’ve got to retreat into their protective sanctuary. Dreaming big empty thoughts in the tranquil depths can heal you and recharge you. The magic moment has arrived for this kind of rejuvenation, Virgo. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In the movie Clueless, the charac-ter played by Alicia Silverstone describes someone as a “full-on Monet.” What she means is that the person in question is like a painting by the French Impressionist artist Claude Monet. “From far away, it’s OK,” says Silverstone. “But up close, it’s a big old mess.” You may still be at the far-away point in your evaluation of a certain situation in your own life, Libra. It appears interesting, even attractive, from a distance. When you draw nearer, though, you may find problems. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should abandon it altogether. Maybe you can fix the mess so it’s as engaging up-close as it is from far away. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Your power animal for the coming months is the Bateleur eagle of Africa. In the course of searching for its meals, it covers about 250 square miles every day. It thinks big. It has a spacious scope. I hope you get inspired by its exam-ple, Scorpio. In 2014, I’d love to see you enlarge the territory where you go hunting for what you want. Fate will respond favorably if you expand your ideas about how to gather the best allies and resources. As for this week, I sug-gest you get very specific as you identify the goals you will pursue in the coming months by exploring farther and wider.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): The standard dictionary says that “righteous” is a word that means virtuous and highly moral. The slang dictionary says that “righteous” describes someone or something that’s absolutely genuine and wonderful. Urbandictionary.com suggests that “righteous” refers to the ultimate version of any type of experience, especially “sins of pleasure” like lust and greed. According to my analysis, the coming week will be jampacked with righteousness for you. Which of the three definitions will predominate? It’s possible you will embody and attract all three types. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the dreams you’re having, Capricorn, I bet you’re traveling through remote landscapes in all kinds of weather. Maybe you’re re-creating the voyage of the Polynesian sailors who crossed hundreds of miles of Pacific Ocean to find Hawaii 1,500 years ago. Or maybe you’re hik-ing through the Darkhad Valley, where the Mongolian steppe meets Siberia’s vast forests. It’s possible you’re visiting places where your ancestors lived or you’re migrating to the first human settlement on Mars in the 22nd century. What do dreams like this mean? Your deep self and your higher wisdom are conspiring to flood you with new ways of seeing reality. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It wouldn’t be too extreme for you to kiss the ground that has been walked on by people you care about deeply. And it wouldn’t be too crazy to give your special allies the best gifts ever, or compose love letters to them, or demonstrate in dramatic fashion how amazed you are by the beau-tiful truths about who they really are. This is a unique moment in your cycle, Aquarius—a time when it is crucial for you to express gratitude, devotion and even reverence for those who have helped you see what it means to be fully alive. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway described his vision of paradise. It would have a trout stream that no one but him was permitted to fish in. He’d own two houses, one for his wife and children and one for his nine beautiful mistresses. There’d be a church where he could regularly confess his sins and he’d have great seats at an arena where bull fights took place. From my perspective, this is a pretty vulgar version of paradise, but who am I to judge? I suggest you draw inspiration from Hemingway as you come up with your own earthy, gritty, funky fantasy of paradise. It’s an excellent time for you to get down to earth about your high ideals and dreamy hopes.

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