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and the impact of what is published in these pages. But there is no such confusion when it comes to the annual Fiction 101 issue.

After 11 years, our short-fiction writing contest has gar-nered a fervent following, not just among writers, but those who love reading good fiction. It seems like every time the subject of Fiction 101 comes up, someone turns to me, eyes wide with excitement, and says, “I love that issue.”

None of us at BW would ever argue with them because it’s one of our favorites as well—although I admit I was rather surprised when I learned that groups of local writers get together regularly for the express purpose of working on their Fiction 101 entries.

Each fall, we receive more than 100 entries, and it’s my job to assemble a panel of judges whose experience, talent and passion bring a high level of credibility to the contest. Occasionally, as I moderate a judging session, I am struck by the assembly of literati seated around the table, and I geek out a bit.

It’s never too hard to get a full slate of volunteers, despite the hours it takes to read and review every entry. Though BW does provide some lovely snacks for the final round of judg-ing, each judge tackles the task because he or she truly wants to support local writers. And, luckily, Boise is home to an incredible amount of talent.

While we love being able to publish the cream of the crop each year, we also like being able to give our winning authors just a little more of the limelight they deserve. Luckily, the crew at Rediscovered Bookshop feels the same.

For the third year we will be heading to Rediscovered for a Fiction 101 reading and question-and-answer session with nearly all of our 2013 winning authors as part of First Thursday, Jan. 3. The event is free and open to the public and gives everyone not only the chance to hear each writer read his or her story, but to learn about the motivation or process behind the tale.

The reading begins at 7 p.m., but come early to snag a seat and maybe raise a glass of wine with the winners.

It’s somehow fitting that Fiction 101 is always the first issue of the year, because what better way for a newspaper to herald in a new year than by celebrating great writing?

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BILL COPE 5

TED RALL 6

NEWS Get ready for the 2013 Idaho Legislature 7

CITIZEN 7

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FOODBoise’s smoking ban turns 1 year old 25

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As you probably know, every year, Boise Weekly closes up shop for a period extending from a few days before Christmas to after New Year’s Day. As a result, the column you are reading now, plus the preceding two, were due on the editor’s desk well before my normal deadline day. This one, especially. As I begin to write what you’re now reading, Christmas is still nine days off, and New Year’s Eve is over two weeks out. It’s Sunday evening, Dec. 16. I just finished watching the memorial service in Newtown, Conn.

I have always tried to make my first column of the new year light and playful. Some of you, no doubt, would say “silly.” That’s OK. I don’t mind writing silly. In fact, I often wish I were more silly than I am. My nature is, frankly, not very playful. What little playing I do is usually with words and the fantasized eccentrics I concoct for what I intend to be your reading pleasure, whether it actually works out to that end or not.

This explains why in past new year col-umns, I have presented you with such fluffer-ies as fake predictions for the year to come or a phony newsletter from an organization (The Society for Making People Better) that exists nowhere but in my imagination. Think of it as a New Year’s resolution that I know can’t possibly last—a wish that both you and I begin a year with a lightened heart and maybe even a laugh or two.

With that in mind, and with the early deadline for this piece looming, I set out to come up with 1,000 words that fit the bill—light, playful, perhaps even silly. After hours of struggle, I gave up, having produced noth-ing that reached even the level of mediocre. I went at it again this morning with the same result. Everything I’d written was leaden instead of light, ponderous instead of play-ful, soggy instead of silly. And I knew why. I knew exactly why. I could not let those 20 kids go out of my mind.

You are reading this, at the earliest, 19 days after the abomination that took place in Connecticut. Maybe you’ve moved on. May-be you’ve already done what we all must do after such things happen, and maybe you’ve entered into 2013 with a heart almost back to being unbroken. Maybe you’ve already tucked Sandy Hook into that ribbon-tied bundle in your soul’s cedar chest where you keep Columbine, 9/11, Katrina ... all those sad, sad pin points in time when we know as a people that we’ll never be the same again but we have to keep slogging along anyway.

I’m not there yet, nor do I want to be. My heart does not want to be unbroken yet. I’m not ready to stash this one away yet. I still hear the wailing, the sobbing, the hopeless, desperate silence, coming on this night from 26 households in Newtown. I’m still imagin-ing what that level of pain would do to a fa-ther, a mother. I still cannot stop myself from thinking how I would have been destroyed

had something so unthinkable ever happened in my own life.

I was blessed to have been able to pick my daughter up from school throughout her elementary-school years. Blessed to be there when she and 25 pum’kins like her came bouncing out of their classrooms. Blessed, ev-ery day, to see her face go reliefhappybright-beaming when she saw her dad there waiting for her. It is a memory I wouldn’t mind being my very last, when that time comes.

Tonight I want to hold tight to the dread-ful vision of those little pum’kin faces in Connecticut asking, How can this be happen-ing?, as the understanding of their situation unfolds. I want to share in the terror of their teachers and I want to grasp what kind of bravery it took for those teachers to put their wards’ lives ahead of their own. I want to be one in grief with their mothers and fathers, stricken down as though their souls had been shriveled on the spot to a cinder by the notice their own little pum’kin is never again com-ing home. I want to be left dumbfounded by a horror so incomprehensible and I want the whole nation to be dumbfounded with me.

So, my friends, nothing silly coming from me this first week of the year. Nothing play-ful. It wouldn’t come even if I wanted it to.

Instead, I must do what I have done often on this page, to shift the weight off my heart onto a page full of the best, most appropriate words I can drag out of my innards. Writing has always been my way to heal. It is the only way I know to speak of the unspeakable.

In real speech, I neither talk like this, nor could I even if I tried. It is only through this slow, internal, reflective process, contemplat-ing each word, each phrase and sentence and image. How to get from what I wrote seconds ago to what I would wish to write next, that I can give those 20 little faces, those 20 little pum’kins, the final attention they deserve.

This is the last chance for me to tell them how sad we all are they’re not coming home, so I have to make it as right as I can. Tomor-row, the day after, sometime next week, that ache to keep my thoughts on them, on their bright little lives, will begin to drift away. Un-like their mothers and fathers, their brothers and sisters, I will eventually let them go.I hope this doesn’t sound silly, but right now, as this December night winds down, I want those 20 little faces inside of me living on as long as possible.

Back when this was happening, I hope they lived on in you, my friends, for as long as you could hold onto them. I hope when we all look back, we’ll know there were a few days when those little pum’kins belonged to all of us, all across this land and around the world. When we all mourned them as our own. I can think of no other response to such a thing as this.

20 PUM’KINSSome pain should never go away

BILL COPE/OPINION


After the election, Kerry Eleveld wrote a piece for The Atlantic titled “Why Barack Obama Will Be a More Effective Liberal in His Second Term.”

“In response to their initial disappointment with the president’s early performance, many progressives speculated that Obama was just waiting for a second term to be more liberal,” Eleveld wrote. That was true. They were.

“A more likely explanation is that Obama was still finding his groove, figuring out which levers worked best for him in the context of governing the nation. And in some ways, he was still developing the courage of his convic-tions,” Eleveld continued.

That was false. There was a time when lib-eral Democrats who chose to ignore Obama’s conservative first term, career in the Senate and pre-politics career as a University of Chi-cago law professor, believed that his re-election would lead to a progressive second term.

“It’s time for President Obama to assume the Roosevelt-inspired mantle of muscular liberalism,” Anthony Woods wrote in The Daily Beast. “This is his moment. He only has to take it.”

It’s his moment, all right. But Obama’s eco-nomic policies are closer to Herbert Hoover than Franklin Roosevelt.

Everything you needed to know about Obama boils down to the fact that he voted 10 times to fund the Iraq war. Everything became clear in December 2008, when his cabinet picks didn’t include a single liberal.

I thought Obama was a Democrat, so why appoint a Republican as secretary of defense? Not just a Republican but a homophobe? In 1998, Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel criticized

President Bill Clinton’s nominee for ambassa-dor of Luxembourg not only for being gay, but for being “openly, aggressively gay.”

The fiscal cliff negotiations have led to a replay of Obama’s 2008 sellout. Throughout the 2012 campaign, the president prom-ised to raise taxes on the top 2 percent of American households—those earning more than $250,000 a year. As of Nov. 9, he was still “sticking to his guns,” calling his stance nonnegotiable. On Dec. 17, however, he not only offered House Speaker John Boehner to protect the wealthy taxpayers who earn up to $400,000 from a tax hike, he quietly sold out senior citizens by gutting the system that calculates cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other entitlement programs.

At first, few would notice Obama’s switch to a so-called “chained consumer price index.” This year, the inflation rate under the chained CPI is .3 percent less. But inflation is exponen-tial and the effect is cumulative. By the time you hit age 92, you’d lose an entire month of Social Security benefits each year.

The good news is, the anticipation is over. Liberals can settle down for four more years of depressing Republican-lite kowtowing to corporations and the 1 percent.

They’re thinking things would be even worse if Mitt Romney had won. I wouldn’t be so sure. Policy-wise, a Romney administra-tion would have been pretty much the same as Obama’s second term. Romney would have galvanized liberals and progressives to fight for a fairer society that treats everyone equally and with dignity. Obama, his sellouts, and his faux liberal apologists represent two steps backward for progressivism.

FOOLED AGAINAfter re-election, Obama sells out liberal democrats

OPINION/TED RALL


It happened by accident. An employee of the Children’s Home Society of Idaho rou-tinely accessed the State of Idaho’s Medicaid website to verify billing codes – but she was stunned by what she discovered on Dec. 20.

“She said, ‘Oh my gosh, look at this. This reimbursement rate is significantly differ-ent,’” said Teresa Alexander, Children’s Home chief executive officer.

“That was our first indication. We had no prior notification.”

The change, effective at the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, unleashed a new formula that dramatically reduces Medicaid reim-bursement, instantly plunging scores of Med-icaid providers into a deep pool of red ink.

Simply put, the Medicaid battle has been lost in the ongoing political wars being waged in the chambers of the U.S. Congress, at odds over the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Buried deep in Congress’ reams of legislation is something called the Sustainable Growth Rate, which unless legislators override it, triggers drastic Medicaid payment reductions for 2013.

“Let me show you how this pencils out,” said Alexander as she walked to a flip chart filled with numbers. “Let’s use Code 90806 as an example: 90806 represents a code for psychotherapy services for a client or family member.”

In 2012, the Warm Springs Counseling Center would bill $100 for a therapy session with a child, but that amount would be reduced to $60 by Medicaid. After paying the counselor an average amount of $38 for the session, the center would net $22 for operat-ing expenses.

But the 2013 formula would see Medicaid pay only $30 for the same session, meaning that once the center pays the counselor $38, the Children’s Home is instantly in red ink, to the tune of $8 per session.

“This is what we don’t want to happen: children falling through the cracks, failing in school, diminished self-esteem, children in

detention or incarceration. And we certainly don’t want random acts of violence like …” Alexander took a long pause.

She needn’t finish the sentence. Alexan-der and her colleagues know all too well the trauma that the nation’s children have endured in the previous weeks in the shadow of a gunman killing 20 elementary school students in Newtown, Conn.

And if anyone thinks that Idaho is im-mune to such tragedy, Alexander reminded Idaho’s congressional delegation in a letter, pleading for action:

“Robert Manwill, the 7-year-old girl who was so badly bullied at school that she was on the verge of committing suicide, the 5-year-old boy who was so severely neglected that he resorted to violent tenden-cies,” wrote Alexander. “These are the faces of the hundreds of low-income children and families served by Children’s Home Society of Idaho.”

Alexander took another long breath.“That’s why we’re here,” she said softly.

“But we don’t have the people on staff to do our political battles for us.”

She’s hoping that enough Idaho constitu-ents agree that they’ll push Republican Reps. Raul Labrador and Mike Simpson and Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch to act sooner than later. Or at least, before it’s too late.

NEWS

AT WHAT COST?Congressional inaction causes fiscal crisis at Children’s Home Society

GEORGE PRENTICE

NEWS/CITYDESK

YOUR ROTUNDA DAY PLANNERDepending on your appetite for the

nobility of public service or the sublime ridiculousness of old white men demagogu-ing from sunrise to sunset, this may be your favorite time of year. While the rest of the populace nurses its New Year’s hangover, rotunda watchers are anxiously filling their day planners with all-important dates for the 2013 edition of the Idaho Legislature.

Thursday, Jan. 3-Friday, Jan. 4: Select legislators, making up the Economic Out-look and Revenue Assessment Committee, participate in two marathon session, being briefed by state officials and Idaho repre-sentatives from the agriculture, construc-tion, technology, timber and travel sectors.

Monday, Jan. 7, noon: Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter delivers his State of the State ad-dress, per Article IV, Section 8 of the Idaho Constitution. More important–but with a lot less fanfare–Otter’s minions unveil their boss’ proposed 2014 budget.

Tuesday, Jan. 8: The first meeting of the Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee, the budget-setting bluster house tasked with crafting a balanced budget, per Article VII, Section 11 of the Idaho Constitution.

Wednesday, Jan. 9, 1:30-5 p.m.: Ethics training for legislators. Somehow, we don’t recall this item being on too many previous legislature calendars.

Friday, Jan. 18: The deadline for state senators to introduce any of their per-sonal bills.

Friday, Jan. 25: The deadline for House representatives to introduce any of their personal bills.

Monday, Feb. 11: Deadline for State and House committee introductions of bills, con-stitutional amendments and joint resolutions.

Friday, Jan. 15: JFAC target to complete its budget hearings.

Friday, March 8: JFAC target to complete its budget.

Friday, March 22: Sine die target date. Yeah, right.

And finally, keep some key numbers at the ready as you watch the legislators hammer out a spending plan for Fiscal Year 2014, which begins in July;

The Idaho Division of Financial Manage-ment is projecting FY 2014 general fund revenue to come in at approximately $2.87 billion–a 6.5 percent jump over FY 2013. However, K-12 schools, higher education, Health and Welfare/Medicaid, Public Safety, Natural Resources and basic inflation and benefit increases are expected to easily top $2.9 billion.

Let the games begin.

—George Prentice

The Children’s Home Society’s Warm Springs Counseling Center serves 90 clients per day.

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Technically, our legislators are part-time. But reality tells us that you’ll be putting in very long hours during the session and you’ll have plenty of homework on weekends.

I’m accustomed to long days and long

weeks from my work in project development. I’m used to things that consume more of your life than the standard 8-to-5 workday. And while I don’t want to do that forever, when it’s broken up into a few months a year, it’s much more manageable.

Are you still going to hold down a separate job while you’re a legislator?

No. I didn’t renew any of my consulting work contracts that were up in June. I plan to be a legislator, a mom and a wife. Any one of those is huge.

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Rep. Holli High Woodings, fresh off her Nov. 6 election to the Idaho House where she’ll repre-sent Boise’s District 19, had a short wish list in the weeks running up to the 2013 Idaho legisla-tive session, which convenes Monday, Jan. 7.

“I would really like to serve on the Environment, Energy and Technology Committee,” she said. “That’s where my professional background is, and that would be pretty fascinating.”

Woodings, a renewable energy consultant, got her wish: She was appointed to the commit-tee of her choice by Democratic leadership, in addition to appointments to the State Affairs and Commerce and Human Resources committees.

Woodings, about to turn 34-years-old, is one of 44 newcomers to the Statehouse, representing 42 percent of the Idaho Legislature, a new record. But she’s one of only 12 new Democrats, nine in the Idaho House.

Prior to the start of her freshman year at the Capitol, she spoke to Boise Weekly about educa-tion reforms, keeping veteran legislators on her speed-dial, and the importance of bringing pie to election night festivities.

Gov. C.L. “Butch” Otter has a high noon State of the State appointment, Monday, Jan. 7.


Was door-knocking the most impor-tant element of your campaign?

Absolutely.

How many doors do you think you knocked?

Probably about 3,000.

What was that like?Sometimes overwhelming or intimidating.

But most of the time, it was invigorating and energizing. It was pretty great to hear that people were supportive of having younger, progressive candidates to vote for.

Remind us of the physical boundaries of your district.

On the western border of District 19, we hit Highway 55. On the eastern border, we encompass the Warm Springs Mesa. The northern border is the Ada County line, and then the southern border runs along the river to about 27th Street, cuts up to State Street, near Gary Lane and Pierce Park, and then out to Highway 55.

And how would you characterize the demo-graphics?

Incredibly diverse: extremely liberal areas in the North End and moderate areas in the East End, in Warm Springs and out toward Eagle.

Last summer, you told me that you thought ethics, how women were viewed during the 2012 legislative session and education would probably be the most important issues in your campaign. Did your conversations with voters confirm that?

Education mattered the most. And a lot of that was contingent on the Students Come First propositions either passing or failing.

In the wake of those propositions being shot down, is it fair to say that [Superintendent of Public Instruction] Tom Luna’s political stock has hit bottom?

From what I’ve heard from people in my district, I would agree with that. We expect more of our elected officials than to overrun public sentiment and push things through that

aren’t very popular. I think that extends to the Legislature as well, because by and large, citizen testimony really wasn’t considered in the passage of those bills.

But how do you explain the disconnect be-tween the propositions being shot down while the majority of lawmakers who supported them returned to office?

The only thing I can figure is that, as Demo-crats, we didn’t get our education message out strong enough. I think we could have focused on that more. We had several town hall meet-ings during the election in our district, and I must tell you that the majority of the discus-sion involved education.

How would you characterize the current state of the Democratic Party in Idaho?

We’re in a transitional stage. We have a tremendous opportunity to build and identify candidates for the future.

The Democratic Party lost quite a bit of ex-perience in 2012 with the retirements of Brian Cronin, Bill Killen, Nicole LeFavour, Edgar Malepeai and Wendy Jacquet.

All of those legislators you just mentioned should get used to the idea that freshmen legis-lators will have them on their speed-dial.

Are any of the old guard still at the State-house sharing any advice or inside informa-tion?

They share more advice than information. I’ve even had some really great conversations with some veteran legislators in the Republican Party. They, too, want balance in the Legislature.

Most of us are guessing that a renewed education debate will consume much of the upcoming session.

Education will be, by and large, the biggest deal. What I’ll continue to focus on is getting to know my fellow legislators and where we’ll have common ground and common values.

What does that mean? Identifying mod-erates?

Not necessarily. There are a lot of folks

serving in the Legislature that are extremely conservative on some issues and possibly a bit more open on others.

A fair number of lawmakers already have their own to-do lists for the session. At what stage do you think about sponsoring or co-sponsoring legislation?

I would be very surprised if I did any of that in 2013. It’s not a focus for my freshman session.

How confident were you on election night?The primary election was much more

stressful. I don’t want to say it was more gratifying but going into primary night, I was less confident. It was pretty surreal. I felt much more confident in the general election, but it was really gratifying.

And how did you spend election night?To be honest, I was really watching the

other races. But what really made me popu-lar was the fact that my stepmother brought several pies. She’s an amazing baker.

How did you celebrate your win?I slept. Not very glamorous. Honestly, it

was really nice to be at home with my family a whole evening. Do you know what I did? I made a nice, hot meal for my family and that’s pretty significant.

Now you know how much a campaign costs and how much shoe leather has to be worn down to get out the vote. In about a year, you’ll need to start thinking about whether you’ll run again.

I’m already thinking about it. You never stop thinking about it.

Would I be surprised 10 years from now if you ran for another political office in Idaho?

I wouldn’t put any bets on it at this point. I’m just getting started. I don’t even know if I’m going to like the Legislature.

But is it a possibility?It’s a possibility. I wouldn’t discount any-

thing at this point.

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It sounds easy—just 101 little words. Simple, right? But now paint a complete and compelling story with those measly 101 words, giving characters depth while drawing readers into your literary world. Not so easy, is it?

Therein lies the challenge and brilliance of the annual Boise Weekly Fiction 101 Contest. Writers must discard their tricks and strip down to raw ability. The winners of the 11th annual contest proved up to the chal-lenge, rising to the top of the more than 100 entries and again showing the depth of talent in the valley.

Now, it’s time to appreciate their skill.

—Deanna Darr

F I C T I O N 1 0 11 1 T H A N N U A L

2 0 1 3 J U D G E S

C O N T E S T

P A I N T I N G P I C T U R E S I N 1 0 1 W O R D S

C O R T C O N L E Y : Director of Literature at the Idaho Commission on the Arts

L A U R A D E L A N E Y : Owner of Rediscovered Bookshop

A L A N H E A T H C O C K : Professor of English at Boise State University and award-

winning author of Volt

C L A Y M O R G A N : Adjunct professor of English at Boise State University, au-

thor and former Idaho Writer in Residence

J O C E L Y N R O B E R T S O N : Director of marketing at The Cabin who helped edit the

organization’s new anthology of Idaho writers, Rooms:

Writers in the Attic

G E N G H I S

For his birthday I sent Genghis Khan my copy

of Leaves of Grass. I left the handful of dog-

ears folded.

He wrote back, “Wow! What a shot in the arm!

My fires had indeed been smouldering. I’ll write

again soon. All my love, GK”

Some years later, I get a postcard: “Aloha from

the Caspian! I’m about to take a dip, couldn’t help

but think of you. Hope you’re well. Ever vigilant,

GK”

One step at a time, I suppose. I just hope he one

day gets to catch a glimpse of his soul reflected

in a well-tended bed of azaleas.

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Ted’s right leg was numb by the time they landed at O’Hare.

He stumbled out of his loafer and caught himself on the

luggage carousel’s rim; his whole right side began to buzz.

Ted’s wife thrust his shoe at him. “Straighten up, people are

staring.” Her voice sounded like a dog barking underwater.

He slapped his thigh with his good hand to try and get feeling

back. When he did, a million atoms broke loose and floated

away. He freed a million more with every blow to his body. Ted

felt infinite. He struck with a white-knuckled fist, hell-bent on

salvation.

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There was no report of a struggle, just a shadow at the

bottom of the deep end. Nick unbuttoned his work shirt

and unclipped the ring of keys that hung on his belt before

wading into the warmth. The last of the swimmers had already

climbed out, fat and dripping; Now they stood along the edge

like steaming loaves of bread.

Nick put in his notice shortly after. Workers were busy prepar-

ing for a ball that evening, and he watched as they fitted the

last wooden sections of a dance floor across the length of the

pool. The water still simmering.

T H E


H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N S

R U G G E D W E S T E R N I N D I V I D U A L I S M

D I A N E R A P T O S H , B O I S E

A man who’s his own wife births his twin through

his belly button. For months, he thought it a cyst.

Fistula. Fir tree germinating in his spleen. He father-

mothers this shriven boy, fine as a walnut lung. With

equal parts sweetmeats and firm touch, he bathes

this babe in a spoon—wee, webbed blood of living

kin. Nights, the man daubs his nipples with tea bags,

lays a damp cloth on his eyes. He tugs the left swirl

of his mustache and wonders aloud: Is he famished?

Is this fullness? When he kisses his own hand, his wife

strokes his cheek.

R U N W A Y S

S T E P H E N H E L E K E R , B O I S E

Bernie shrunk a foot when he signed the divorce pa-

pers. He crawled into his parents’ vast basement

and assembled model airplanes while his mother

watched Jeopardy upstairs. Planes littered the floor.

Bernie built a knee-high airport, runways splaying

down the hallway. He slid from one wall to the other

perfecting his tiny world, imagined racing down the

terminals. Tiny trees grew at the airport’s entrance,

surrounding a molded plastic statue of a soldier

throwing a grenade. Bernie built benches where tiny

men and women sit next to each other. They watch

the planes come and go but never fall in love.

T E M P T A T I O N D R I V E - T H R U

G R E G L I K I N S , N A M P A

A t the drive-thru window, I ordered a salad.

“Today’s special is the Bacon Temptation with

fries.” This girl’s offer was so enticing I ordered the

burger instead.

I paid, and when she returned my change her fin-

gernails scratched my palm like ketchup packets.

Instinctively, I squeezed them.

I apologized profusely for my seeming flirtation.

“It’s alright.” She handed me my dinner. “It’s not me

you’re after. Everything you came for is right here, in

the bag.”

I parked beneath the Temptation Burger mural

of contented cows chewing in an open field. I un-

wrapped my burger and masticated along with them.

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The gringo missionaries sipped Jamaica in the kitchen, commenting on the drink’s

lack of sugar. Isis anticipated Agustin at the door and let him in discreetly.

“Why are they here?”

“To see what it means to be poor,” she whispered.

“Tell them it’s puta mierda.”

“No, me amor. We are feliz y contento despite our poverty.”

“Feliz y contento? PUTA y MIERDA!”

The gringos didn’t know mierda, but they knew puta. They thought he had called

her a whore, and they smiled inside to have witnessed machismo firsthand. An-

other cheap souvenir for the collection.

The translator did not bother to clarify.

T H E T I C K I N G C L O C K

S W A R N A L B O R T H A K U R , B O I S E C L A Y M O R G A N ’ S P I C K

I hear a clock ticking faintly but I cannot find it. I ask my father if he hears it too

and he shakes his head. He looks tired and sad.

I think it is in the terrarium and the turtle swallowed it. I was watching him swim

lazily around his enclosure yesterday. I had to lean forward in my wheelchair to

see his eyes. He knew I was watching him.

Was he wondering why a seven-year-old child was peering at him so wistfully?

He swam toward me and turned his head. I think he understood and I was glad.

A P A R T J E N N I F E R S A N D E R S P E T E R S O N , B O I S E

J O C E L Y N R O B E R T S O N ’ S P I C K

Charlie didn’t show for work today. They called. I

didn’t know where he was beyond this morning

when we woke at the same time, facing each other,

our feet hooked together beneath the covers. He

looked at me through half-crimped eyes, smoothed

my hair, said, “How are you still so sexy with your re-

tainer in?” Which made me laugh, made him laugh—

and the sun was coming in behind his head, through

his eyelashes. He sent one text though, Don’t worry

Jules. I’m fine. Just done. You understand, right? Love

you for whatever it’s worth. And I wonder what it is.

L A N G U A G E O F M Y D R E A M S

M A R I A G . E S S I G , B O I S E C O R T C O N L E Y ’ S P I C K

The new bedsheets. They required an entirely dif-

ferent vocabulary from my dreams. Suddenly, the

language of my dreams turned formal—“yes, sir” and

“no, ma’am,” “I do believe I shall,” no slang. Men now

wear hats, not caps but real hats with brims. Colors

have become darker and less defined—very film noir.

More blues and blacks, fewer greens. No pink. I wear

dresses (imagine that!) bordered with lace. On a

horse, I would probably ride sidesaddle. Fog swirls in

at odd times of the day. And I no longer dream of my

dog but of a bird I don’t have.

M O V I N G

M A R K P E R I S O N , B O I S E L A U R A D E L A N E Y ’ S P I C K

He picks up the last box and stands listening. This

now-empty room was once the nursery, then

playroom and finally office. The handyman comes

tomorrow to patch holes and paint, the buyers move

in Thursday.

The echoes—crying, laughter, music—are already

fading.

Then he sees it: the earring lost when Katie was

eight. A goofy, costume-jewelry cat she’d cried over

for days. He studies it carefully. If he sends it, she’ll

just toss it into some dorm-desk drawer. Widening a

hold in the drywall, he drops it in, a faint clack some-

where deep in the wall. Turning, he walks out.

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WEDNESDAY-WEDNESDAY JAN. 2-9grass on glass

THE ART OF NATUREWinter is not a good

season for plants. The Foothills, lush with native

grasses and freckled with sagebrush and desert shrubs, are barren, golden toes dusted with snow and frost. The winter chill has reduced your flowers to stiff, petal-less stocks, and your tomato plants have crumpled into piles of decaying organic matter.

Animals have it no better. The bears have retreated to their dens to sleep until the

snow melts. The yellow-breasted tanagers have fled along with the rest of birds smart enough to get out of the cold.

But at Boise Art Muse-um, the plants and animals are getting a few more days in the sun, thanks to the Art of Nature exhibit.

Art of Nature is a col-laboration between artists, William Morris and Alexis

Rockman, that celebrates the plant and animal worlds on canvas and on glass.

Rockman painted three large-scale canvases depict-ing figurines of animal and plant life—all of which are on display. The paintings served as Morris’ inspira-tion to create 38 glass vessels adorned with the essences of these themes.

The effect is an aesthet-ic statement about a world easily forgotten in winter, when we distract ourselves from the cold with winter sports and bad television.

The exhibit hangs through June 2, but this

slower time of the year is the perfect time to take it in.

10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$5. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseartmu-seum.org.

THURSDAYJAN. 3sanguine

MUSICIANS SAVE LIVES BLOOD DRIVE

Not to sound like some

Twilight-obsessed vampire wannabes or anything, but the Knitting Factory wants your blood. Not all of it, just about 1 pint.

Perhaps you’ve donated blood before and left feeling queasy, with nothing but some stale crackers and orange slices. But fear not, because this ain’t your grandmother’s blood drive.

On Thursday, Jan. 3, the concert house is teaming up with the American Red Cross for the Musicians Save Lives Blood Drive from 10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m. Besides starting 2013 with some major karma

BOISE WEEKLY PICKSvisit boiseweekly.com for more events

The expiration date on gingerbread houses is nearing.

WEDNESDAYJAN. 2donkey kong

7-ELEVEN TOURNAMENTSpacebar Arcade rapidly became Boise’s hot spot for showing off your old-school arcade

video game skills. It’s always on the lookout for new games to help its patrons reminisce about the good ol’ days, when a high score really meant something for a man’s self-esteem.

Luckily, the high score is making a comeback at Spacebar’s 7-Eleven tournament—along with a chance to score some extra dough.

The 7-Eleven is a classic competition in the gaming world. The rules are as follows: Pay a $5 cover at the door toward prize money. Ten games are announced at the beginning of the night, three of which are selected by contestants. Eligible games will be a mix of video and pinball machines, with five available seats on each.

Scores are based on the contestants’ highest point totals on their respective machines. Averages of the top three scores are calculated, thus computing the final tournament score. When the final tallies are presented, the top three finishers are awarded prize money. First place wins 60 percent of the prize money, second place wins 30 percent, and third place receives 10 percent.

Registration is done on a first-come, first-served basis between 7-8 p.m., with play begin-ning at 8:10 p.m. Battle will be waged until 10:30 p.m., when the victors will be crowned. Those who finish just outside the money can always bide their time and try again—Spacebar conducts 7-Eleven tournaments every other Wednesday.

The prospect of winning beer money—which we’re sure is good for things besides beer—should count as yet another reason to go old school in the new year.

7 p.m. $5. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., 208-918-0597, spacebararcade.com.

Do you have the skills to rule the arcade?

WEDNESDAY-FRIDAYJAN. 2-4frosty

WINTER WONDERLAND FESTIVALSanta came early to Sun Valley, gifting the resort with a Thanksgiving opening day. Brund-

age Mountain Resort and Pomerelle Ski Area didn’t open until Dec. 14 and Bogus Basin Moun-tain Recreation Area didn’t open until Dec. 21. But the gods of snow (and snow machines) looked down on Sun Valley and said, “Let there be gnar pow pow.”

The timely season opening and fresh dumps of blinding white snow give the Wood River Valley area an especially wintery feel, and the Sun Valley Resort has been celebrating with the Winter Wonerland Festival, an annual recognition that Ketchum and Stanley have a corner on the deep white stuff market, at least for now.

The festival filled the town with concerts, ice shows and holiday carolers. Children deco-rated gingerbread men and gingerbread houses while hot adult beverages occupied the adults.

All of these activities are, obviously, Christmas-themed, and Christmas is clearly, defi-nitely, finally over. Ditto with New Year’s. But the Winter Wonderland Festival persists, in large part because winter isn’t over yet. There’s still time to check out the Gingerbread Village—a mockup of the Sun Valley Village made from the titular foodstuff—the Village Light Display and the Sun Valley Village itself, filled with festive painted windows before the festival ends Friday, Jan. 4.

If you don’t take advantage of the festival soon, you’ll be stuck with skiing without ginger-bread villages, and how much fun would that be? OK, silly question.

9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Village, Sun Valley, 1-800-786-8259, visitsunvalley.com.


FIND

FITBITWant to get your bulging butt a bit more fit this New Year?

Then reach for your smartphone, not the dumbbells.A recent study in the Archives of Internal Medicine found

that “the addition of a personal digital assistant and tele-phone coaching can enhance short-term weight loss in com-bination with an existing system of care.”

The yearlong study tracked 70 overweight adults—one group was given a mobile device to log their daily calories and workouts, and the other was given pen and paper. Participants who used the app lost around 9-15 pounds, while the pen and paper crew barely lost any weight.

One app that will nudge you toward fit-town is Fitbit. The free iPhone and Android app lets you log your food and water intake, workouts and weight from your smartphone. But un-like other diet apps, Fitbit offers additional techie devices you can purchase to help you reach your goals.

The Fitbit Zip Wireless Activity Tracker ($59.95) tracks steps, distance and calories burned each day and syncs those stats to your smartphone. The tracker also allows you to “set goals, challenge friends and go farther—one step at time.”

Fitbit also offers the Aria Wi-Fi Smart Scale ($129.95), which “taps into your home wireless network to upload your information to your private account automatically each time you step on the scale.”

—Tara Morgan

fitbit.com

points—those will come in handy later—all donors receive some goodies in return. In exchange for your blood, you score pizza from Little Caesar’s and a pair of tickets to a future Knitting Factory concert.

But beware: The Red Cross folks are picky, they only accept blood from healthy adults age 17 or older who weigh more than

110 pounds. Visit the web-site for specific donation guidelines.

You need an appointment to donate blood, but it can easily be done online by visiting redcrossblood.org and using the keyword “knit-ting.” Remember to take your ID to the event.

We can’t speak for every-one, but there are very few things we wouldn’t do for

some free pizza and concert tickets, and giving blood to those who need it is hardly something to squirm about. Bonus: You will finally get to play out that weird Bella/Edward fantasy we know

you’ve always had.10:30 a.m.-6:30 p.m.

FREE. The Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-484-0138, redcross-blood.org.

Writers need love, too.

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

THURSDAYJAN. 3write on

BOISE WEEKLY FICTION 101 CONTEST READING AND Q&A

It’s hard to believe, but another Fiction 101 issue has rolled around. As Boise Weekly’s traditional kickoff to the new year, Fiction 101 has celebrated the best of the best among Boise’s short fiction writers for 11 years.

Each year, writers from around Idaho—and even occasion-ally from around the world—send in their best fiction stories in an effort to claim the sought-after title. Each story not only has to be compelling and show a clear mastery of the art, but it has to be done in exactly 101 words.

It ain’t easy—if you don’t believe us, try it yourself.Entries are judged by a prestigious panel made up of au-

thors, writers, teachers and general lovers of the written word. The results of this year’s contest can be found in this very issue of BW (see Page 9).

But with all the hard work that goes into creating a winning Fiction 101 entry, we think that the authors deserve a little more attention than just having their creations printed in these pages.

That’s why for the past two years BW has teamed up with the crew at Rediscovered Bookshop to host a reading and question and answer session with the Fiction 101 winners. We’re keeping the tradition rolling Thursday, Jan. 3 as part of the First Thursday events at Rediscovered.

The reading will begin promptly at 7 p.m. and feature nearly all of the winning authors reading their own works. The audi-ence will have the chance to pick the writers’ brains after the reading to discover the twisted tales of how the stories came to be.

The event is open to the public, so swing by, listen to some great fiction, meet some of the judges and raise a glass with the winning authors.

7 p.m.. FREE. Rediscovered Bookshop, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, rdbooks.org.

Idaho Botanical Garden will shine on for one more weekend.

WEDNESDAY-SUNDAYJAN. 2-6shiny things

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW Are you feeling a little deflated after the holidays? After

months of build up to the end-of-the-year festivities—all of the decorations, the lavish food and boisterous parties—hitting early January can feel like you just got smacked upside the head by reality. It’s kind of like that day after college gradua-tion when you realize you have to get a real job.

But the folks at Idaho Botanical Garden are helping us gen-tly detox from the holidays. There’s no need to go cold turkey, staring listlessly at the spot where the tree used to stand.

The holiday light spectacular known as the Winter Garden aGlow continues through Sunday, Jan. 6 at IBG. The garden has been a stalwart companion to Boiseans all season long—remaining open on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day—and it’s not about to let us down now.

Not only will the garden’s more than half-a-million lights blaze on through the weekend, but there will still be a few spe-cial vendors on hand to ease us off those high-fat diets we’ve been indulging in for the last few weeks. Both Dippin’ Donuts and Old West Kettle Corn will be on hand Friday, Jan. 4-Sunday, Jan. 6, helping to feed the holiday weary masses.

Unfortunately, the holiday model express train will no longer be on display, but maybe that will help with the transition out of the holidays.

It has been a good, long season at Winter Garden aGlow, but that season ends soon, so if you missed the lights since they were turned on just after Thanksgiving, this is your last chance to take them in.

6-9 p.m. $8 Adults, $4 children 5-12, FREE children under 4. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 Old Penitentiary Road, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

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PROMISE OF DEPARTURE BY LANDON W. MONTGOMERY

The single-page preface to Promise of Departure, Boise writer Landon W. Montgomery’s debut novel, begins like this: “Janet, I can’t do this. I won’t survive divorce.” Then, the entire first chapter is devoted to unloading a motorcycle from a boat.

This unbalanced back-and-for th between a very compelling story and the minutiae of motorcycles continues throughout the book.

Promise of Depar-ture’s protagonist Greg was a successful video game developer until he gave it up to focus on his family and inner life. But it isn’t long before Greg destroys both of those and ends up mired in di-vorce proceedings. Rather than fight it out with the wife he still loves, he signs everything over to her and his daughter, then disappears like a thief in the night. He makes his way to post-earthquake Haiti, where he concocts a half-assed plan to roll around the countryside repairing mo-torcycles as a way to reinvent himself.

It’s a compelling premise. And when Promise of Departure fo-cuses on that story, it’s a compelling narrative—especially since the details are vivid enough that readers get the feeling Montgom-ery actually spent time in post-quake Haiti.

But those details are buried in other, less compelling micro-examinations: those of motorcycle functions. Most of the first 100 pages are a narrative of the act of riding a hog with only snatches of exposition or plot dropped in.

While a functioning petcock may be essential to a motorcycle, it is not essential to a narrative. And Montgomery spends an almost prohibitively large amount of space on not only the details of motorcycle repair but on the act of riding. Checking mirrors, examining and discussing accessories, exploring the different kinds of hosing to use on long vs. short trips, all of this is from Greg’s inner dialog as he rides.

The author’s devotion to motorcycles is as evident as Robert Pirsig’s in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, which was a clear influence on the book. But just as Pirsig maintained that there are two types of riders, those that fix their own bikes and those that have someone else do it, there are also two types of reactions to motorcycle philosophy: “finally someone said it,” and “get over yourself.”

When Promise of Departure focuses on the story of a man searching for himself in a country that has lost its way, it’s a tender look at life and love. However, much of its built-up steam is lost in musings about oil pressure and air filters.

—Josh Gross

WEDNESDAY JAN. 2Festivals & Events

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW—This holiday tradition features more

than 250,000 lights, which turn the Idaho Botanical Garden into a winter wonderland. Enjoy lights, model trains, appearances by Santa and local choir performanc-es. See Picks, Page 12. 6-9 p.m. FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

WINTER WONDERLAND FESTIVAL—See the light show and gingerbread

village, and take in the Winterfest before it closes for the season. See Picks, Page 12. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley.

Kids & Teens

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

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

Odds & Ends

7-ELEVEN TOURNA-MENT—Play a selection of arcade games and

pinball machines for prize money and bragging rights. See Picks, Page 12. 7 p.m. $5. Spacebar Arcade, 200 N. Capitol Blvd., Boise, 208-918-0597, spacebararcade.com.

THURSDAY JAN. 3Festivals & Events

ARABIAN NIGHTS AT THE CAZBA—Enjoy music, drumming and food. Entertainment by local belly dancers. 7-9 p.m. Cazba Restaurant and Opa Lounge, 211 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-381-0222.

MUSICIANS SAVE LIVES BLOOD DRIVE—Give a pint of

blood in exchange for Knitting Factory concert tickets and Little Caesar’s Pizza. See Picks, Page 12. 10:30 a.m. FREE. Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S. Ninth St., Boise, 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

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LIT/REVIEW

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW—See Wednes-day. 6-9 p.m. FREE-$8.

Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanical-garden.org.

WINTER WONDERLAND FESTIVAL—See Wednesday. 9 a.m.-5

p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley.

Food & Drink

BEER AND WINE TASTINGS—Sample a rotating selection of European wines and beers. 5-8 p.m. $10. Tres Bonne Cuisine, 6555 W. Overland Road, Boise, 208-658-1364, tresbonnescui-sine.com.


Astute Boiseans may have noticed a fresh face among the Main Street storefronts—one they can count on staying fresh for an entire year. Squeezed between the former Blues Bouquet and Asiago’s at 1008 Main St., the spot is home to the Sesqui-Shop, headquarters for the city’s sesquicentennial birthday celebra-tion, Boise 150.

“Every month, we’ll have a new exhibition and a new opportunity to engage with it,” said Rachel Reichert, Sesqui-Shop operations man-ager. “It’s a fun way to engage with Boise 150.”

Each month, the Sesqui-Shop will feature a different theme for its exhibits and events.

“We found that not only was this a great opportunity for local artists, but it was a great opportunity to revitalize a downtown store-front,” Reichert said. “This space ended up being the perfect space, in kind of an underde-veloped part of downtown.”

Monthly programming for the Sesqui-Shop will mirror concurrent community activities. For example, there will be a music theme tied in with the Treefort Music Fest during the month of March.

On First Thursday, Jan. 3, the Sesqui-Shop will debut a collection of community-curated family photos, antiques and relics, all of which tell stories of Boise’s past. The exhibit will remain up through Saturday, Feb. 2.

The shop is also a place for Boiseans to participate in some of Boise 150’s yearlong projects including Share Your Story, a Web-driven effort to collect true stories from the past, present and future of Boise. While most story submissions are done online, the Sesqui-Shop also provides an alternative way to share.

“We have this great collection of personal accounts of living in Boise, and the great op-portunity in having the shop is, we can have people who want to share via typewriter or recorder or handwritten,” Reichert said. “They can come into the shop and share their stories, and those will be transcribed and shared online throughout the whole year.”

Reichert said many Boiseans have already participated in the project. Nearly 20 stories were submitted in the first two weeks follow-ing the website’s launch. She hopes the shop will encourage more locals to get involved.

The Sesqui-Shop will also serve as a space for local artists who received grants for projects related to Boise 150 to display work, hold lectures or facilitate workshops. Nearly 40 local artists and organizations received a total of $98,000 in grant money for their Boise 150 projects.

Photographer Melanie Flitton Folwell will debut her contribution, A Portrait Made: Modern Boiseans and the Frontier Spirit, in the Sesqui-Shop in May.

“Boise defies stereotypes about Idaho,” Folwell said. “There is this great community of people who are engaged in conservation, in the

local movement, in growing, in creating in a way that’s conscious and responsible. It’s kind of a rejection of the suburban sprawl. They’re in their city, making the city a better place by creating things.”

That’s the “pioneer spirit” Falwell hopes to

capture in her photos. A photo from Boise’s historical archives will inspire each image she plans to create for the project. One of her first subjects will be Brian Garrett, owner of the Saint Lawrence Gridiron food truck.

“I want to take his picture with a giant side of meat and his food truck. I have this really cool photo from the historical archives of a guy with his food truck in downtown Boise at the turn of the [20th] century,” Folwell said. “With every image I do, I’m going to try to marry it to an image from the archives.”

Folwell considers her photos to be less re-creations of historical images than modern im-ages inspired by the “ingenuity and thriftiness” of Boise’s pioneers.

“I thought about how a lot of the things people are doing now kind of mirror the things they were doing 150 years ago, when Boise was founded,” Folwell said. “They’re growing food in their yards. They’re raising chickens, canning is really popular, buying local. The pioneers who came here had to be responsive to this environment, and I feel like people are doing the same thing now in the interest of us having a better future.”

Local businesses also have opportunities to get in on the sesquicentennial celebration. Holly Funk, Boise 150 merchant specialist, is

coordinating efforts to commemorate the year in an authentic Boise fashion.

“The merchant program was developed as sort of an alternative to traditional commemo-rative merchandise,” Funk said. “We thought, ‘Why not utilize local businesses and support

our local economy?’”Instead of mass-produced commemorative

products, Funk is inviting local businesses to design products to be featured during the year including clothing from Indie Made, ac-cessories from Fosterweld and limited-edition artwork and products from the likes of Sector 17, Usful Glassworks, Olive Wicherski and Morgan Wolf. The product lines officially launch in January, but a handful have been pre-released for the holiday season. Featured products will be available at the Sesqui-Shop each First Thursday, but Funk hopes to drive customers to the businesses where they are already displayed, like Newt and Harold’s and Bricolage.

The merchant effort isn’t leaving out Boise’s food-lovers, either. Goody’s is offering a Boise 150 hot fudge ice cream soda, Big City Coffee will soon sling a special Boise brew, and Tree City Juice and Smoothie Cafe concocted a BOISEnberry Rose smoothie for 2013.

“The question we ask these artists and merchants is, what they think represents this event and represents Boise,” Funk explained. “The result is a spotlight of the creative minds we have. We’ll promote their products but keep the sales with each merchant to support the local community.”

SESQUI-SHOPBoise 150 opens multi-use downtown storefront

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East Side

BANDANNA WALKING AND RUN-NING—Join Boise’s running com-munity for stories, sharing and good times. 7-8 p.m. 504 W. Main St., 208-386-9017.

BASQUE MARKET—Warm up with a scrumptious plate of chicken, chorizo and seafood paella with Vino Especial (hot mulled wine). Also on the menu are lemon beef skewers and other tapas. 4 p.m. 608 W. Grove St., 208-433-1208, thebasquemarket.com.

1 BASQUE MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER—Enjoy free gallery tours of Hidden In

Plain Sight: The Basques and tours of the Jacobs-Uberuaga House every half hour from 6:30-8:30 p.m. and a Basque music jam session. 6:30 p.m. 611 Grove St., 208-343-2671, basquemuseum.com.

2 BOISE ART GLASS—Make your own paperweight for $40 per 30-minute session or watch art-

ist demos while enjoying snacks. 5-11 p.m. 530 W. Myrtle, 208-345-1825, boiseartglass.com.

THE BRICKYARD—Check out Home Grown Thursday with an American Revolution cocktail for $4 or Payette Outlaw IPA or Rodeo Rye Pale Ale for $3. 601 Main St., 208-287-2121, brickyardboise.com.

BRICOLAGE—Open for First Thurs-day. 5-8 p.m. 418 S. Sixth St., 208-345-3718, bricoshoppe.com.

DRAGONFLY—Enjoy free wine tasting while checking out Dragonfly’s clear-ance sale. 5-9 p.m. 414 W. Main St., 208-338-9234.

FLATBREAD COMMUNITY OVEN-DOWNTOWN—Kids younger than 12 eat free with a purchase. Every bottle of wine is on sale. 615 W. Main St., 208-287-4757, flatbreadpizza.com.

3 FLYING M COFFEEHOUSE—View art by Ryan Johnson. 500 W. Idaho St., 208-345-4320,

flyingmcoffee.com.

FRONT DOOR NORTHWEST PIZZA AND TAP HOUSE—Enjoy beer, cheese and chocolate pairings with Full Sail Brewing. 6 p.m. $16. 105 S. Sixth St., 208-287-9201, thefront-doorboise.com.

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4 GOLDY’S CORNER—Happy hour from 5-9 p.m., with 50 percent off beer and wine. View work from local artists. 625 W. Main St., 208-

433-3934, goldysbreakfastbistro.com.

5 HIGH NOTE CAFE—Enjoy live music, $3.50 beers and art hanging on the walls. 4 p.m. 225 N. Fifth St., 208-429-1911.

HUMPIN’ HANNAH’S—Prizes and bar tabs for the best jammers. 8 p.m. 621 Main St., 208-345-7557.

6 INDIE MADE—Local crafters and artists set up pop-up tents in the Pioneer Building until 9 p.m. 108 N. Sixth St., shopindiemade.com.

LE CAFE DE PARIS—Free wine tasting with purchase of an appetizer. 204 N. Capitol Blvd., 208-336-0889, lecafedeparis.com.

MELTING POT—Enjoy two glasses of wine and one cheese fondue for $22. 200 N. Sixth St., 208-343-8800, meltingpot.com.

OLD SPAGHETTI FACTORY—Dine amid antiques collected from around the world. 610 W. Idaho St., 208-336-2900, osf.com.

PENGILLY’S—The Frim Fram 4 play at 8:45 p.m. 513 W. Main St., 208-345-6344.

SILLY BIRCH—Drink up then participate in a Drunk-en Spelling Bee, hosted by Crooked Fence Brewing. 4-7 p.m. 507 Main St., 208-345-2505.

WISEGUY PIZZA PIE—Drop by for $6 pitchers of Rainier, $1 off other draft beers and $3 glasses of wine for First Thursday. 106 N. Sixth St., 208-336-7777, wiseguypizzapie.com.

South Side

ATOMIC TREASURES—Enjoy a mix of retro and found objects and art. 409 S. Eighth St., 208-344-0811.

7 BOISE ART MUSEUM—The museum will be open until 9 p.m. for First Thursday. Studio Art Exploration is from 5-8 p.m. 670 Julia Davis

Drive, 208-345-8330, boiseartmuseum.org.

CHIC BRIDAL BOUTIQUE—Check out the new expansion into the old Miss Molly’s space. 5 p.m. 404 S. Eighth St., 208-424-8900.

8 EIGHTH STREET MARKETPLACE AT BODO—Featuring work by Artist in Residence Mary Lantz. 404 S. Eighth St., Mercantile Building,

208-338-5212, 8thstreetmarketplace.com.

IDAPRO INDOOR GOLF—Use golf simulators to perfect your game when it’s too cold to play outside. Buy a VIP savings card worth $270 for $75. 333 S. Capitol Blvd., 208-336-4653, idaproindoorgolf.com.

IDAHO STATE HISTORICAL MUSEUM—Bring two cans of food and help end hunger in Boise. Free ad-mission First Thursday. 5-9 p.m. 610 N. Julia Davis Drive, 208-334-2120, history.idaho.gov.

9 LISK GALLERY—View Mark Lisk’s desert and wilderness landscapes, Carl Rowe’s Foothill paintings, and Jerri Lisk’s colored hills

and trees on aluminum. Wine tasting provided by Sawtooth Winery. 401 S. Eighth St., 208-342-3773, liskgallery.com.

LIQUID LOUNGE—Drink up during happy hour from 2-7 p.m. and laugh along with numerous comedians starting at 8 p.m. $10. 405 S. Eighth St., Ste. 110, 208-287-5379, liquidboise.com.

THE MONOGRAM SHOPPE—Check out gift ideas. 409 S. Eighth St., 208-853-0839, themono-gramshoppe.com.

10 NFINIT GALLERY—Check works by featured artists. 405 S. Eighth St., 208-371-0586, nfinitartgallery.com/

first-thursday.

11NORTHRUP BUILDING—Featuring work from Pam Demo, Tyler Bush and Abby Christensen. Eighth and Broad streets,

second floor, Boise.

QUE PASA—Check out Mexican artwork, including wall fountains, silver, Day of the Dead decor and cedar and leather sofas. 409 S. Eighth St., 208-385-9018.


12RENEWAL CONSIGN-MENT HOME-WARES—Renewal

Underground. Featuring work by artist in residence Tuong Anh Ens. 517 S. Eighth St., 208-338-5444.

SNAKE RIVER WINERY—Award-winning wines and Melting Pot chocolate fondue. 5-9 p.m. 786 W. Broad St., 208-345-9463.

13SOLID—Music from Robert Wissinger, happy hour from 4-6

p.m. and 10 p.m.-midnight, wine and liquor tasting, and art by Conrad Gardner. Free appetizers at 6 p.m. and Last Call Trivia at 8 p.m. 4 p.m.-midnight. 405 S. Eighth St., 208-345-6620.

SAROLI CHOCOLAT—Join Boise’s newest chocolatier for its grand opening. 5 p.m. 755 W. Broad St., 208-433-9432.

Central

BARBARA BARBARA AND CO.—Check out Barbara Barba-ra’s new location. Celebrate the new year with cookies and cider. 6-8:30 p.m. 807 W. Bannock St., 208-342-2002.

BERRYHILL & CO. RESTAU-RANT—Start the evening with happy hour from 4-6 p.m., fol-lowed by jazzy blues by Ken and Rico from 6-9 p.m. 121 N. Ninth St., 208-387-3553, berryhi-llandco.com.

14BLEUBIRD—Eat, drink and enjoy music by Boise Rock School

and the art of Olive Wicherski. Think Boise First receives 5 per-cent of all sales. 5-8 p.m. 224 N. 10th St., 208-345-1055.

CHOCOLAT BAR—Snake River Winery will pair with in-house chocolates. 805 W. Bannock St., 208-338-7771, thechocolatbar.com.

CITY PEANUT SHOP—Boise’s peanut provider and The Press team up for classic beer and peanuts combination. 803 W. Bannock St., 208-433-3931.

THE COLE MARR GALLERY/COFFEE HOUSE—View the photography of Sharyl Jackson. 6-9 p.m. 404 S. Eighth St., Ste. B 100, 208-336-7630, cmphoto-workshops.com.

COSTA VIDA—Open for First Thursday. 801 W Main St., 208-429-4109, costavida.net.

15ECIGS BY S. WICKS—Jason Dar-rah will be showing

his work at Boise Vapory’s grand opening. 5 p.m. 208 N. Ninth St., 208-331-3244.

GOLITE—Check out sales on ski and snowboard apparel during extended hours. 6-9 p.m. 765 W. Idaho St., 208-871-6352.

HEIRLOOM DANCE STUDIO—Laugh with Insert Foot Theater. 8 p.m. $5. 765 Idaho St., 208-871-6352, heirloomdancestudio.com.

16IDAHO POSTER AND LETTERPRESS—View a large collection of

antique wood sign and poster type. 280 N. Eighth St., Ste. 118, 208-761-9538, idahopos-terandletterpress.com.

LUX FASHION LOUNGE—Check out sales on designer jeans and jewelry. 785 W. Idaho St., 208-344-4589.

THE MATADOR—Sip Matador’s private label tequila First Thurs-day. 215 N. Eighth St., 208-342-9988, matadorrestaurants.com.

MAI THAI—Enjoy two-for-one handcrafted drinks during happy hour 5-6:30 p.m, and 9 p.m.-close. Appetizers are at the bar starting at 3 p.m. Buy two en-trees and receive a free dessert. Not valid during happy hour or with any other promotions. 750 W. Idaho St., 208-344-8424, maithaigroup.com.

MCU SPORTS—Check out the incoming 2013 Kona and Felt bikes. 822 W. Jefferson St., 208-342-7734, mcusports.com.

MIXING BOWL—Warm up with hot drinks and appetizers while you browse. Open late for First Thursday. 5-9 p.m. 216 N. Ninth St., 208-345-6025, themixing-bowlboise.com.

PLAN B LOUNGE—Imbibe during Skinny Cocktails Night while The Mixing Bowl gives away week-long passes to Axiom Fit-ness. 5-9 p.m. 121 N. Ninth St., 208-387-3553, berryhillandco.com.

THE PRESS—Enjoy free wine tasting. 5 p.m. 212 N. Ninth St., 208-336-9577.

17REDISCOVERED BOOKS—Celebrate the Boise Weekly Fic-

tion 101 contest with a reading and Q&A by the winners. 7 p.m., 180 N. Eighth St., 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

SUPERB SUSHI—Enjoy wine tasting and smoked salmon sampling. 6-8 p.m. 208 N. Eighth St., 208-385-0123, superbsushi-downtown.com.

18THOMAS HAM-MER—Featuring scenes from around

Boise and portraiture by Lindy Photography. 298 N. Eighth St., 208-433-8004, hammercoffee.com.

LISTINGS/1ST THURSDAY

ART WALKLocations featuring artists

1. Basque Museum

2. Boise Ar t Glass

3. Flying M Coffeehouse

4. Goldy’s Corner

5. High Note Cafe

6. Indie Made

7. Boise Ar t Museum

8. Eighth Street Mar-ketplace at Bodo

9. Lisk Gallery

10. NfiniT Gallery

11. Northrup Building

12. Renewal Consign-ment Homewares

13. Solid

14. Bleubird

15. ECigs by S. Wicks

16. Idaho Poster and Letterpress

17. Rediscovered Books

18. Thomas Hammer Coffee

19. The Ar t of Ward Hooper/Urban Garage

20. The Alaska Center

21. Ar t Source Gallery

22. The Gallery at the Linen Building


19THE ART OF WARD HOOPER/URBAN GARAGE—Check out

Ward Hooper T-shirt designs and newly acquired, funky items at the Urban Garage. 745 W. Idaho St. 208-866-4627.

West Side

20 THE ALASKA CENTER—Take in art by Chi E Shenam

Westin, Eric Obendorf, and Allan and Connie Ansell. Quick takes studio portraits $25. Featuring handmade Scandinavian quilts and table cloths. 5-9 p.m. 1020 Main St., Boise.

21ART SOURCE GAL-LERY—The second annual Tin-stallation.

See Downtown News, this page. Wine from Indian Creek Winery, music and appetizers. 5-9 p.m. 1015 W. Main St., 208-331-3374, artsourcegallery.com.

BEN & JERRY’S SCOOP SHOP—Enjoy $1 scoops in cups or cones. 103 N. 10th St., 208-342-1992, benjerry.com.

BOISE 150 (SESQUI-SHOP)—Stop in and check out art from the Boise Visual Chronicle. 1008 Main St., 208-433-5671.

THE CRUX—Open late for First Thursday. 1022 W. Main St., 208-784-1182.

FOOT DYNAMICS—Check out the Altra zero-drop trail shoes and browse shoe deals. 1021 W. Main St., 208-386-3338.

GAMEKEEPER LOUNGE—Enjoy specialty wine flights and live mu-sic with the Emily Tipton Band. 5-9 p.m. 1109 W. Main St., 208-343-4611, owyheeplaza.com.

THE HUDDLE—Drink $2 local beer, $4 glasses of wine and 50 cent wings for First Thursday. 205 N. 10th St., Ste. 110, 208-338-5454.

22THE GALLERY AT THE LINEN BUILD-ING—View Unfinished

at the gallery. 5-9 p.m. 1402 W. Grove St., 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

RADIATE MEDISPA—Celebrate a grand opening with discounts on services. 1023 W. Main St., 208-344-4310, radiatemedispa.com.

RADIO BOISE—DJs will be on hand to give studio tours. 1020 W. Main St., Alaska Building, Ste. 200, 208-424-8166, radio-boise.org.

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1ST THURSDAY/NEWS

TIN-STILLATIONS AND DRUNKEN SPELLING BEESAltoid tins—along with 35-mm film canisters—have expe-

rienced their fair share of nefarious appropriations. But this First Thursday, an array of Boise artists are refashioning these containers into much more legal mini art pieces.

Thursday, Jan. 3, from 5-9 p.m., Art Source Gallery hosts the second annual Tin-stillation at 1015 W. Main St.

“Artists were asked to create anything their imaginations could cook up, the only stipulation being that somehow an Al-toid tin be included,” Art Source wrote in a press release. “And all kinds of creative wonder and excitement was unleashed by artists who normally work in other mediums; painters, potters and glass artists stepped out of their comfort zones and the results were enchanting.”

This year, Boise Open Studios Collective Organization and Treasure Valley Artists’ Alliance members were also invited to participate in the show. The First Thursday opening celebration includes music by the jazz students from Fresco Arts Academy, along with wine from Indian Creek Winery.

In other group art show news, the Gallery at the Linen Building hosts the opening of Unfinished on First Thursday, Jan. 3, from 6-9 p.m. Nineteen Idaho artists will showcase their unfinished works on the gallery’s walls. According to the event’s Facebook page:

“Unfinished draws upon the value and beauty of the often-unknown rigor and struggle inherent in the creative practice. The exhibition features work that has been set aside, abandoned, unfinished, destroyed, left in limbo, reconstructed or reconfigured.”

Participating artists include Ted Apel, Jason Appelman, Brooke Burton, Maria Chavez, Eli Craven, Kirsten Furlong, Charles Gill, Amanda Hamilton, David Herbold, Elijah Jensen-Lindsey, Adrien Kien, Andy Lawless, William Lewis, Amy O’Brien, Kelly Packer, Troy Passey, Jon Sadler, Cheryl Shurtleff and Richard Young.

Unfinished will run through Thursday, Feb. 28, at 1402 W. Grove St.

Moving from unfinished art to unfinished sentences, Silly Birch, located at 507 Main St., has put together a Drunken Spelling Bee to entertain the First Thursday throngs. Hosted by Crooked Fence Brewing, spelling bee sign-ups start at 7 p.m. and the slurred word mutilation will kick off at 9 p.m. Crooked Fence will also debut a new brew at the event.

And if you’d like your First Thursday imbibing to be a little more low-key, swing by Bleubird at 224 N. 10th St. from 5-8 p.m. to check out art by recent Boise Weekly profilee Olive Wicherski and music by Boise Rock School. Five percent of all sales from the evening benefits Think Boise First.

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Sports & Fitness

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

LINE DANCE LESSONS—Begin-ners to advanced dancers of all ages are invited to line up some new moves at this class. 7:30-9:30 p.m. $5. Broadway Dance Center, 893 E. Boise Ave., Boise, 208-794-6843.

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

Kids & Teens

KINDERGARTEN READINESS—Prepare your children for kinder-garten. 1 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

Odds & Ends

THE MERIDIAN SINGERS—A group for women who like to sing a cappella in the barbershop style. The ability to read music not necessary. 7:30-9 p.m. The Music Den, 245 E. Blue Heron Lane, Meridian, 208-724-6311.

FRIDAY JAN. 4Festivals & Events

HOKUM HOEDOWN SQUARE DANCE AND OLD-TIMEY MUSIC SERIES—Enjoy music from the Hokum Hi-Flyers and learn square-dance moves, followed by a hoote-nanny featuring a cast of callers. Pie Hole pizza is served and a full bar is available with ID. 7 p.m. $5, $15 per family. The Linen Building, 1402 W. Grove St., Boise, 208-385-0111, thelinenbuilding.com.

WINTER GARDEN AGLOW—See Wednesday. 6-9 p.m.

FREE-$8. Idaho Botanical Garden, 2355 N. Penitentiary Road, Boise, 208-343-8649, idahobotanicalgarden.org.

WINTER WONDERLAND FESTIVAL—See Wednesday. 9 a.m.-5

p.m. FREE. Sun Valley Resort, Sun Valley Road, Sun Valley.

Concerts

ALL KEYED UP—Join musicians from Boise Philharmonic, Boise State University and Boise Baroque Orchestra for an evening of piano, organ and glockenspiel music. 7:30 p.m. $10 suggested dona-tion. Cathedral of the Rockies, First United Methodist Church, 717 N. 11th St., Boise, 208-343-7511.

BENEFIT CONCERT FOR BRON-SON BROWN—Bronson Brown is currently fighting aplastic anemia and his mother needs help with the bills. Featuring Young Eurnii, Big Ups, Rough Draft, Prentice, DJ Techstep and DJ Tucci from Brentwood, Calif. Ages 14 and older are welcome; full bar with ID. 7 p.m. $10. Revolution Concert House and Event Center, 4983 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-938-2933, revolutionconcerthouse.com.

Workshops & Classes

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

Art

FIRST FRIDAY ART IN EAGLE—Stroll through downtown Eagle and visit local merchants and galleries along the way. 4:30-8:30 p.m. Downtown Eagle, Old State Street and Eagle Road, Eagle.

Citizen

KEGS4KAUSE—50 percent of proceeds from beer sales will benefit the Ben Towne Founda-tion and research for a pediatric cancer cure. 5 p.m. FREE. Pay-ette Brewing Company, 111 W. 33rd St., Garden City, 208-344-0011, payettebrewing.com.

SATURDAY JAN. 5Festivals & Events

33RD ANNUAL WEDDING PARTY SHOW—Meet more than 100 mer-chants offering the services need-ed for a wedding. Photographers, caterers, florists, venue managers, wedding planners and many other merchants are on hand to offer creative ideas. For more info and a list of participating merchants, visit weddingparty-boise.com. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $7. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, boisecentre.com.



Workshops & Classes

VINTAGE SWING DANCE—In-structions on classic Lindy Hop moves. All ages. No partner required. 8 p.m. $5. Heirloom Dance Studio, 765 Idaho St., Boise, 208-871-6352, heirloom-dancestudio.com.

Sports & Fitness

AERIAL YOGA—See Thursday. 10 a.m. $15. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastudio.com.

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Odds & Ends

CLUB ISH—Club night created for plus-sized women and the men who adore them. Featuring DJs, a full bar and a VIP area. 9 p.m. $5. Quarter Barrel, 4902 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-322-3430.

SUNDAY JAN. 6Festivals & Events

33RD ANNUAL WEDDING PARTY SHOW—See Saturday. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. $7. Boise Centre, 850 W. Front St., Boise, 208-336-8900, boisecentre.com.



Concerts

LEGACY OF FLOYD CRAMER—Jason Coleman, grandson of Floyd Cramer, walks in the foot-steps of his forebear, with whom he appeared at the Grand Ole Opry and made his own debut at age 17. 7:30 p.m. $25, $65 for three-concert season. Boise High School, 1010 Washington St., Boise, 208-854-4270.

Odds & Ends

DANCE LESSONS—Learn some moves from members of the High Desert Swing Dance Club. 7 p.m. FREE. Varsity Pub, 1441 N. Eagle Road, Meridian, 208-906-0658, varsitypubmeridian.com.

THAT’S WHAT SHE SAID SUN-DAYS—Free pool tournament and karaoke. 8 p.m. Quarter Barrel, 4902 W. Chinden Blvd., Garden City, 208-322-3430.

MONDAY JAN. 7Calls to Artists

BOISE WEEKLY COVER ART SUBMISSIONS—Each week’s cover of Boise Weekly is a piece of work from a local artist. BW pays $150 for published covers. One stipulation of publication is that the piece be donated to BW’s annual charity art auction in November. Proceeds from the auction are reinvested in the local arts community through a series of private grants for which all art-ists are eligible to apply. To sub-mit your artwork for BW’s cover, bring it to BWHQ at 523 Broad St. All media are accepted. Thirty days from your submission date, your work will be ready for pick up if it’s not chosen to be featured on the cover. Work not picked up within six weeks of submission will be discarded. For more infor-mation contact Art Director Leila Rader at [email protected] or 208-344-2055. Boise Weekly, 523 Broad St., Boise, 208-344-2055, boiseweekly.com.

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Literature

SCBWI MEETING—Monthly meet-ing of the Society of Children’s Writers and Illustrators. Each month features a short presenta-tion on writing, illustrating or publishing. 6:30-8 p.m. FREE. Rediscovered Books, 180 N. Eighth St., Boise, 208-376-4229, rdbooks.org.

Sports & Fitness

AERIAL YOGA—See Thursday. 8 p.m. $15. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastu-dio.com.

TUESDAY JAN. 8Food & Drink

TUESDAY NIGHT BEER AND WINE TASTINGS—Enjoy appetiz-ers and selections from a differ-ent Idaho brewer or winemaker. 6 p.m. $5. Salt Tears Coffeehouse & Noshery, 4714 W. State St.,, Boise, 208-275-0017, salttears.com.

Workshops & Classes

BELLY DANCE CLASSES—Be-ginner belly dance classes. 6 p.m. $12. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastu-dio.com.

Art

SENIOR DAY—Guests ages 55 and older will receive half off their studio fees. Ceramica, 510 W. Main St., Boise, 208-342-3822.

Sports & Fitness

POWER PARTY SCULPT—See Thursday. 8:15 p.m. $7. Ophidia Studio, 4464 Chinden Blvd., Ste. A, Garden City, 208-409-2403, ophidiastudio.com.

WEDNESDAY JAN. 9Kids & Teens

HOW THINGS WORK—Explore the science of how all sorts of everyday things work. 4:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, Lake Hazel Branch, 10489 Lake Hazel Road, Boise, 208-297-6700, adalib.org.

KIDS EXPERIENCE—See Wednesday. 3 p.m. FREE. Garden City Library, 6015 Glenwood St., Garden City, 208-472-2941, notaquietlibrary.org.

MR. PATRICK’S WORKSHOP—See Wednesday. 6:30 p.m. FREE. Ada Community Library, 10664 W. Victory Road, Boise, 208-362-0181, adalib.org.

Ongoing

ART OF NATURE—See glass vessels with plant and animal motifs by

William Morris inspired by three large-scale canvases by Alexis Rockman. See Picks, Page 12. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. FREE-$5. Boise Art Museum, 670 Julia Davis Drive, Boise, 208-345-8330, boiseart-museum.org.


NOISE

Boise band Finn Riggins had a lot going on when it put out its Benchwarmers EP in April 2012. Keyboardist Eric Gilbert was working on Treefort Music Fest, drummer Cameron Bouiss was planning a European tour with Hillfolk Noir and guitarist Lisa Simpson was working on various side projects. Though the band had enough material to do a full album, it wasn’t just its schedule that drove the decision to make a shorter release.

“It just seems like a bite-size culture right now,” Gilbert told Boise Weekly.

Physical album sales have been on the decline for more than a decade because of growth in the digital download market. Even including digital album sales in the numbers, total album sales have dropped by more than half, 330.5 million in 2011, from their peak at 785 million in 2000. And that drop occurred despite the number of songs digitally downloaded increasing from 141 million in 2004—the first full year measured—to 1.27 billion in 2011.

From the moment that CDs were in-troduced music has moved toward a la carte offerings. It’s true that singles and 45s largely drove the market from the record industry’s very beginnings, but they still had to be sought out and pur-chased, whereas streaming audio and video services like Spotify and YouTube have turned the prix fixe album indus-try into a dim sum audio buffet. Now, an endless supply of new songs, videos, playlists and downloads are delivered instantly to casual listeners.

This has caused some pundits to label the album dead. Op-eds in The Guardian, Gizmodo, Minnesota Public Radio and countless blogs have said so. Radiohead said it would abandon the format after In Rainbows because it was too cumbersome a process.

In an opinion piece on CNET, Shark Tank investor Mark Cuban went so far as to suggest that musicians abandon bundled collections of songs altogether and convert to a television model in which they release songs on a week-by-week basis that listeners can subscribe to via RSS feeds. That idea’s not completely crazy or new. They Might be Giants gained notoriety with its Dial-a-Song answering machine started in the ’80s, which was updated regularly with a new song. UK beat-boxing artist THePETEBOX gathered his following by releasing a regular series of live-performance videos, and later bundling that audio into an album.

Despite whatever sentimental attachments bands may have to the album format, any current act looking to succeed should ask itself if it would be better off putting its limited

resources into high-quality singles and videos, and making the rest of its material exclusive to live performances rather than putting out a full record.

Across the board the answer is, “Prob-ably not.”

“I’ve had a lot of bands say ‘this is the model we’re going to do,’ and then they haven’t actually done it,” said Jim Merlis, co-owner of Big Hassle Media, a publicity firm representing everyone from Typhoon and Beat Connection to legends Tom Petty and Ornette Coleman.

Merlis explained that, while it seems like less is more, it’s actually far less effective.

“With an album, there’s always sort of an event,” he said. “When you’re releasing a single or an EP, it’s not as much of an event.”

Merlis explained that an album grants a greater level of legitimacy and interest from a promotional perspective, representing a com-plete artistic statement to journalists, promoters and fans. The album is more of a full meal, not just a snack.

Steve Fulton, co-owner of Boise recording studio Audio Lab, said full albums are also more efficient to record.

“In the last three or four years, there’s been more people coming in doing two songs, three songs, and they’re not necessarily making a CD, they’re putting them out on Reverb Na-tion, or whatever,” said Fulton. “I always sug-gest that if they’re going to take the time to set

up and get drum tones, they should track the songs, even if they’re not going to finish them. Then they can come back and not get charged for the same setup time.”

With studio time costing an average of $60 an hour, setup costs add up quickly. Fulton says the limited resources of independent bands are stretched further by recording in bulk.

Both Fulton and Merlis said that albums also represent complete artistic statements, al-lowing a musician or band to check those songs off their list, then move on and grow as artists.

But still, album sales are down. Current music industry economics seem to indicate the consumer wants more choice, less cost and wider availability.

Another theory is that what’s happen-ing to the music industry has less to do with the death of the album and more to do with the bifurcation of the consumer market. Casual listeners are gaining more ways to listen casually without much time or financial investment on their part, and audiophiles are sinking deeper than ever into their album collections.

“It depends on what kind of experience you’re looking for,” said Michael Bunnell, owner of The Record Exchange and execu-tive director of the Coalition of Indepen-dent Music Stores. “Do you want to have a rich experience or do you want to have a shallow experience?”

Vinyl album sales have quadrupled since 2006, even as quality and price have increased with the introduction of deluxe heavyweight editions of new albums.

“We’re seeing people come into the vinyl section that never bought CDs be-cause vinyl is sexy, and they like the way it sounds and they like the ritual,” said Bun-nell. “I think Record Store Day had a lot to do with the rebirth of vinyl. When that started five years ago, I would guess that 20 percent of people were putting vinyl

releases out, mainly indie-centric. And now, you’re not legitimate unless you put vinyl out.”

Bunnell also said the albums that move the most copies are often sold with value-added content such as posters, T-shirts, digital down-load cards, additional singles or DVDs.

Often, the value added is the quality of the album itself. Great albums are more than just a collection of songs, they’re a unique snapshot of an artist’s creative period. And albums that hit that high standard still do quite well, many as expensive deluxe editions collectors covet.

“I think a lot of kids are realizing that experience can be richer, deeper, and there’s a cultural side to it,” Bunnell said. “It’s like we lost them for 10 years, and now they’re going, ‘That scene looks pretty interesting.”

The album’s cultural clout may have dimin-ished, but in the words of Mark Twain, reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated.

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LOCAL SHOW-DOWN Look, we know your heads are still pound-

ing and your stomachs are still churning from New Year’s Eve. We’re right there with you, typing this column from a bed with a bucket nearby. But the show must go on, and that means you must go to the show.

What show? Well, if you’re hardcore, then local punks

Nude Oil and Diluted will shout themselves hoarse with touring punks Break the Cycle and Year of the Wolf at The Venue during the first punk-rock show of the year, Wednesday, Jan. 2. That show starts at 6 p.m. and costs $5 at the door.

But let’s say your hangover is seriously kicking and you need something smoother on the ears to ease into the week. Something like Classical Revolution: Boise, for example.

The ad-hoc collective of local classical musicians will be making its second local appearance at The Crux on Thursday, Jan. 3, as part of this month’s First Thursday festivi-ties. The performance is free and features a variety of players from local orchestras like The Boise Philharmonic, The Boise Baroque Orchestra, and the Boise Cello Collective, performing shorter pieces for smaller ensem-bles. That should get going around 7 p.m.

Once your stomach has settled, you might be ready to head back out into the world and par-tay. One place to do that is Red Room Friday, Jan. 4, when Audiomed-ics will be putting on its regular EDM-a-palooza event, Audiotherapy.

Audiotherapy features a rotating cast of house, EDM and dubstep DJs making with the dance party from 9 p.m.-2 a.m. That event is also free.

But if all that wub-wub and wicky-woop makes you chomp down on your corn cob pipe and grumble about the old days when dancing was for squares, then you’re not going to be left out on the cold. You can just shuffle on over to The Linen Building Friday, Jan. 4 and get down at the Hokum Hoedown with the Hokum Hi-Flyers. The monthly old-time event and square dance goes from 7-10 p.m. and costs $5 at the door or $15 per family. Make sure to wear your dress overalls.

Finally, take Saturday, Jan. 5 a little easier and a little tastier with Lee Penn Sky and Willy Dallas at The High Note Cafe from 8-10 p.m. The soothing tunes will fill your ears and heart, while a brunch burrito fills your belly. That’s a two-fer.

—Josh Gross

Break the Cycle kicks off the New Year in Boise.

REQUIEM FOR THE RECORDAre tanking album sales the sign of a dying musical format?

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CAMP, JAN. 8, NEUROLUXShould your New Year’s resolution call for consuming more

tunes, Radio Boise Tuesday returns Tuesday, Jan. 8, at Neurolux, with performances by Boise’s Lucid Aisle and Ugly Hussy, along with Twin Falls outfit CAMP, followed by a Radio Boise DJ set.

Headliners CAMP wield typical rock instruments: Cameron Andreas leads with guitar, Aaron Ajeti’s bass comes with a punch and Pops Miranda’s drums crash and rattle the sound into move-ment. On top of that, CAMP is willing to experiment, dabbling in electronic influences, adding a dash of distortion and regularly featuring a horn element via Shane Cox. Those elements flip the word “typical” on its ear.

This freshness can be found on the song “Drift,” as Cox pumps out a bluesy solo outro, with Ajeti’s bass adding thrum-ming punctuation. According to its Facebook page, the band hopes to record a follow-up to its 2012 No Smoking live EP in the coming months.

—Andrew Crisp

With Lucid Aisle and Ugly Hussy. 7 p.m., $3, Neurolux, 111 N. 11th St., 208-343-0886, neurolux.com.

WEDNESDAY JAN. 2B.I.P.P. PRESENTS: BREAK THE CYCLE—With Year of the Wolf, Nude Oil and Diluted. 6 p.m. $5. Venue

JIM FISHWILD—6:30 p.m. FREE. Highlands Hollow

KATIE MORELL—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown

LIQUID LABS—Featuring D Ron Groove and Mixstress Morning-star. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

PAUL DRAGONE—6 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

RYAN WISSINGER—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

STEVE EATON AND PHIL GARONZIK—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

STEADY RUSH—6 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

SUMMER BEACH BLAST—With the Rocci Johnson Band. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

THURSDAY JAN. 3BUDDY AND THE BB’S—6 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

DUELING PIANOS—9 p.m. FREE. Varsity

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

OPEN MIC NIGHT—With Dakota Mad Band. 8 p.m. FREE. New Frontier Club

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

THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m. FREE. Buffalo Club

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

FRIDAY JAN. 4BRET MOSLEY—9 p.m. $5. Reef

BUDDY AND THE BB’S—6 p.m. FREE. Shorty’s

DJ NIGHT—8 p.m. FREE. Club Max


GAYLE CHAPMAN—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

HOKUM HI-FLYERS—7 p.m. $5. Linen Bulding

JOHN CAZAN—5 p.m. FREE. Lock Stock & Barrel

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m. $5. The Buffalo Club

SPUDMAN—7:30 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

WORKING DJS—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s Basement

YOUNG EURNII—With Proctor and DJ Tucci. 7 p.m. $10. Revolution

SATURDAY JAN. 5DJ NIGHT—8 p.m. FREE. Club Max

DOUGLAS CAMERON—9 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown


GAYLE CHAPMAN—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

ROCCI JOHNSON BAND—9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

ROGUE GALLERY—7 p.m. FREE. Willi B’s

THE SALOONATICS—9 p.m. $5. Buffalo Club

TURNS OUT—Midnight. FREE. Liquid

THE WELL SUITED—8 p.m. FREE. Woody’s

WORKING DJS—10 p.m. $3. Grainey’s Basement

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SUNDAY JAN. 6BEN BURDICK—Noon. FREE. Grape Escape

JIM LEWIS—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

TURNS OUT—Midnight. FREE. Liquid

MONDAY JAN. 7ALIGATOR—With Wrong Answer, Comprimised, Blackcloud and Smuts. 6 p.m. $10. Venue

A-N-D FRIENDS—6 p.m. FREE. Moxie Java-Five Mile

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

OPEN MIC WITH REBECCA SCOTT AND ROB HILL—8 p.m. FREE. Pengilly’s

PUNK MONDAY—8 p.m. $3. Liquid

RILEY FRIEDMAN—6 p.m. FREE. Lulu’s

TUESDAY JAN. 8

LIQUID THROWDOWN—8 p.m. FREE. Liquid

RADIO BOISE TUESDAY—With Camp, Lucid Aisle and Ugly Hussy. See Listen Here, Page 22. 7 p.m. $3. Neurolux

WEDNESDAY JAN. 9BOURBON DOGS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Meridian

DAN COSTELLO—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Downtown

KEANE—With Youngblood Hawke. See Listen Here, this page. 8 p.m. $32-$65, Knitting Factory

LIQUID LABS—Featuring D Ron Groove and Mixstress Morning-star. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Liquid

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

PAUL DRAGONE—6 p.m. FREE. Shangri-La

RYAN WISSINGER—5:45 p.m. FREE. Solid

STEVE EATON AND PHIL GARONZIK—8 p.m. FREE. Chandlers

SUMMER BEACH BLAST—With the Rocci Johnson Band. 9:30 p.m. FREE. Hannah’s

WILSON ROBERTS—5:30 p.m. FREE. Flatbread-Bown

WOE IS ME—With Texas in July, Capture the Crown, Umbrellas and Too Close to the Sun. 6 p.m. $14-$16. Venue

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KEANE, JAN. 9, KNITTING FACTORYIt’s hard to argue that pop doesn’t have a bad name. Its

reputation for meaningless, irksome odes to focus group-tested emotions is well-earned. But there isn’t anything about a peppy beat or a catchy melody that mandates pop be throwaway filler. It just has to be emotionally and melodically relatable.

One band that is still proud to fly the pop banner is British trio Keane.

The band’s 2004 debut, Hopes and Fears, hit No. 1 on the UK charts its first week and went on to go platinum nine times over. The record put Keane in the same category as Brit-pop supahstahs Oasis and Coldplay.

But what sets Keane apart from other pop-rock bands is its keys-first approach to songwriting. Keane will be in Boise to promote its pro-piano agenda and its new album, Strangeland, on Wednesday, Jan. 9.

—Josh Gross

Keane with Youngblood Hawke, 7 p.m. doors, 8 p.m. show, $32-$65. Knitting Factory, 416 S. Ninth St., 208-367-1212, bo.knittingfactory.com.

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A PROMISE AND A NEW

DEALERPromised Land and Hyde Park on Hudson ring in

2013 with styleGEORGE PRENTICE

No one disputes that natural gas is clean ener-gy but some of the efforts to get to the gas are dirty. Filthier still are those who lie through their teeth denying that it might be unsafe.

Promised Land—a first-rate dramatization of what happens when an economically hob-bled community is given promises of jobs, better schools and untold wealth—is the first must-see film of 2013. More importantly, it’s required viewing for any Idahoan.

Regular Boise Weekly readers should know quite a bit about natural gas explora-tion and fracking—the method of shooting high-pressured fluids and solids into the Earth’s core to en-hance gas flow. For nearly three years, we’ve watched speculators hold sway in a series of Payette County town hall meetings, and we’ve sat at dozens of kitchen tables, listening to Idaho farmers and ranchers talk about offers to make them wealthy be-yond their dreams once they signed away their land and mineral rights. To date, natural gas exploration companies have snapped up hundreds of land leases—

more than a few from Idaho legislators.So viewing Promised Land was a bit like

watching a home movie. Exploring broad themes of decency and respect, the film’s screenplay, crafted by co-stars Matt Damon and John Krasinski, accomplish-es a rare feat: an honest, re-spectful portrayal of modern farming culture.

Promised Land will reso-nate with those paying close attention to the fracking debate and gas exploration. If the subject is new for you, this film may shake you to your core. Promised Land will no doubt come under attack from energy corpora-tions for what they will say

is its heavy-handedness. Don’t believe it. This is a promise worth keeping.

A different but equally noble type of cour-age is considered in this week’s other Oscar-caliber release: Hyde Park on Hudson.

In the genius casting move of the season, Bill Murray perfectly embodies President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in April 1939—a time when our nation inherently trusted its leaders to do the right thing.

“We have all learned the lesson that government cannot afford to wait until it has lost the power to act,” said Murray as FDR in a radio address to the nation, assuring an economically crippled United States that it was indeed proper for a government to come to the rescue and that federal bailouts were not a sign of weakness.

In Hyde Park on Hudson, we’re reminded that there was once a time in our his-tory when we were less concerned with the personal foibles of our chief executive or his unashamed embrace of intellectualism. What we truly needed, an ultimately received, was a leader in a time of peril.

Matt Damon (left) stars in Promised Land, and Bill Murray (right) portrays FDR in Hyde Park on Hudson.

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON (R)

Directed by Roger Michell

Starring Bill Murray, Laura Linney and Olivia Williams

Opens Friday, Jan. 4, at The Flicks

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Special Screenings

O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?—Boise Classic Movies presents the first in its January series of Coen Brothers films playing at the Egyptian Theatre. George Clooney, John Turturro and Tim Blake Nelson play three escaped convicts in search of love, riches and adventure in this comedic take on Homer’s Odyssey. Saturday, Jan. 5, 7 p.m., $9 adv., $11 door. The Egyptian Theatre, 700 W. Main St., Boise, 208-345-0454, egyptiantheatre.net.

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TEXAS CHAINSAW 3D—After the horror at the Sawyer compound years earlier, a young woman is bequeathed a Texas home in the will of a grand-mother she didn’t know. She embarks on a road trip with friends to the estate, only to discover that someone has been living in the mansion’s cellars. (R) Opens Friday, Jan. 4. Edwards 9, 12, 14, 22.

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON—It’s spring 1939, and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is hosting the British Royals—who lobby for him to side with Eng-land against Germany in the impending European war—at his estate in upstate New York. The visit is colored by Roosevelt shuttling between wife and mistress. Starring Bill Murray. See Review, this Page. (R) Opens Friday, Jan. 4. The Flicks.

PROMISED LAND—Matt Damon plays a salesman who has been sent to a small town to convince the locals to sell his company gas drilling rights, only to be met with stiff resistance. See Review, this Page. (R) Opens Friday, Jan. 4. The Flicks.

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DUCK DYNASTY: WHY ISN’T THIS SHOW TERRIBLE?We haven’t put a person on the moon in the past 40 years, but America

is still a nation capable of unfathomable feats. Take, for example, a South-ern family that got rich during the recession by selling duck-tricking tools.

The A&E show Duck Dynasty follows the owners and employees of a duck-call business in Louisiana. The show doesn’t sound good or smart, but it is.

Season 3 premieres in early 2013, but it’s worth catching up with the first two seasons online, if for no other reason than it’s funny and you’ll learn how to cook frogs. But most importantly, the show subverts expectations by pulling off something new to reality television: chronicling the lives of people who are perfectly functional.

The reality genre seems to require stupidity and

shrieking dysfunction. But even when buttered-up frog juice drips from their beards, characters on Duck Dynasty are nowhere near as gross—physically or intellectually—as anyone on Jersey Shore.

It’s refreshing to see the patriarch, Phil, condemn cellphones and video games with sincerity, and then, with a stoic glare and careful attention to his words, proclaim, “Kids in America today are fat.”

Others on the show are a bit more flippant. After Willie proposes an employee handbook, Uncle Si points out, “The Viet Cong had a bunch of rules and regulations, too. You see how that worked out.”

He then goes back to napping and “dreaming about beavers.” Which he means quite literally.

—Damon HunzekerThis show is all it’s quacked up to be.

PROMISED LAND (R)

Directed by Gus Van Sant

Starring Matt Damon, Frances McDor-mand and John Krasinski

Opens Friday, Jan. 4, at The Flicks


HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SMOKING

BANBar owners see sales decline one year after smoking ban passes

CARISSA WOLF

Phil Howard still drinks. And he still smokes. But one year after a citywide smok-ing ban extinguished the co-mingling of the once inseparable vices at Boise watering holes, the two are less intertwined and fre-quent for Howard and other local tobacco aficionados. Smokers, it turns out, are all right with that. Mostly.

“It takes me a lot longer to drink now,” Howard said.

Figure the average smoke break takes three to five minutes. Now subtract that time from a night of drinking and you’ll see a dent in the time devoted solely to imbibing.

“It now takes me four hours to drink as opposed to two efficient hours,” the 10th Street Station regular said. “As a whole, I do spend less money.”

And drink-slingers are not cool with that.“People come in and then go outside

to smoke and I’m losing business because they’re not smoking and drinking,” said 10th Street bartender Dan Krejci.

Business owners who used to operate inside a wall of secondhand smoke say the ban has snuffed out sales, causing a trickle-down of losses. And nonsmokers are not filling in the gaps.

The Boise city ordinance that prohib-its smoking in bars, parks and along the Greenbelt, put an immediate dent in 10th Street’s business during the early months of 2012, forcing what was once the unofficial smokiest bar in Boise to lay off an employee and institute novel business strategies.

“This is the first time in 30 years that 10th Street has had to reinvent itself,” Krejci said. “We heard the big rumors, ‘Oh, you’ll be back in six months.’ But that hasn’t happened.”

The Boise City Council passed the smoking ban in late 2011, citing overrid-ing health concerns for service employees and nonsmoking patrons despite opposition from area businesses owners who said the ban could hurt profits. Employees are inhal-ing cleaner air but local restaurant and bar owners say they’ve seen revenue dwindle since they were forced to go smoke-free.

Some smokers have found ways to ac-commodate the ordinance. Sales of smoke-

less e-cigarettes temporarily boomed at 10th Street in the early days of the ban. Others now flock to establishments with cozy, heat-ed patios or head straight to Garden City, where there is no ban. But for the most part, owners see smokers ducking outside for a quick, legal drag or not coming in at all.

“It’s been horrible. I’m sitting here right now trying to figure how I’m going to pay $8,000 in property taxes,” said Lisa Sullivan of Quinn’s Restaurant and Lounge. “I’ve robbed Peter to pay Paul all year long.”

Even the hair-of-the dog brunch at Quinn’s hasn’t been enough to keep patrons packing the booths to shake a hangover.

“The whole time I’ve been saying, ‘Where are all these nonsmokers who said that they would come to Quinn’s when it’s nonsmoking?” asked Sullivan.

Sullivan and her father, Gary Sullivan, have rolled with the smoking ban and the Great Recession, keeping Quinn’s in operation for more than four decades. They even erected a wall between the bar and restaurant of Quinn’s when the city passed a smoke-free measure for restaurants, but Lisa says there’s nothing they can build to fill the dent left by the absent smokers.

“We’ve been here 42 years and we’ve never experienced anything like this,” Lisa said.

Sales have fallen by 30 percent in the last year at Quinn’s. A 16-year veteran staffer lost her job in a subsequent layoff, a jani-tor was scaled back to part-time and food orders are down.

“There’s a ripple effect. The people and the companies that bring us the food and the liquor are suffering now, too, because they’re not making their quotas and they’re not getting their bonuses,” Lisa said.

“I don’t see a light at the end of the tun-nel. You name it and I’ve tried it” Lisa added.

Apparently, all roads now lead to Gar-den City.

“I dropped into the Ranch Club and I knew 80 percent of the clientele from here,” Krejci said.

Symposion is also losing some of its

clientele to Garden City.“The ban has caused a decrease in busi-

ness,” said Sympoison’s Carly Novis. “We are right next to Garden City, so the cus-tomers who might have come here are going to Garden City to smoke.”

By all measures, business is booming at the Garden City’s Ranch Club. Cars pack the club’s lot on Saturday nights and puffs of smoke greet a steady stream of patrons. But co-owner Al Vogt isn’t quick to credit the ban for a spike in business.

“I’m not a big fan of the law that went into effect in Boise,” Vogt said. “I have seen a slight increase in business. It hasn’t been as much as people think. ... In the three years since I’ve bought into the club, busi-ness has steadily been going up.”

Though a relocation to Garden City isn’t in the works for any of the businesses Boise Weekly interviewed, Sympoison does have a smoking patio on its agenda.

Smokers say live music remains a big draw, ban or no ban. Several chilly Decem-ber nights had the once notoriously smoky Neurolux packed with patrons. Metal riffs and thunderous beats blew out the front door along with smokers lighting Camels, Pall Malls and American Spirits.

But when the music comes from a juke-box, smokers need another draw.

Vista Bar manager Kyle Vorse said a heat-ed outdoor patio has helped prevent some smokers from leaving the bar, and Mulligans also has patios that lure patrons in.

Mulligans bartender Ben Spellman said a steady stream of drink orders and clean air is just fine for him. Years of bartending left him with chronic respiratory infections and sometimes pneumonia. Doctors said Spell-man’s lungs looked like those of a smoker.

“I love bartending, but my doctor said I have to quit. I said, ‘Are you going to pay my bills?’” Spellman asked. “This is the first winter season that I haven’t been sick. I attribute it to the ban. It’s the only thing that’s changed.”

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TEMPTING TEMPRANILLODerived from “temprano,” the Spanish

word for “early,” tempranillo is a reference to the grape’s tendency to ripen early. It’s a hearty, full-bodied variety that is especially well-suited to the Rioja region, though it has become widely planted across Spain and is gaining popularity in wine regions around the globe. Given Spain’s warm climate, tempranillo’s ability to achieve ripeness while still producing modest alcohol levels is a definite plus. Typically, the grape is blended with small portions of other variet-ies like garnacha and graciano to round out the flavors. That is the case with all three of our top picks.

2006 BERONIA RIOJA RESERVA, $18.99

Dark cherry leads off on this wine’s nose, fol-lowed by sweet vanilla, lightly toasted oak, herb and mint. Silky smooth in the mouth, this pick is filled with creamy, ripe, red fruit and impeccably balanced by lively acid-ity. Touches of spice, tart cherry, coffee and anise come through on the lengthy finish. Riojas that are labeled “reserva” spend at least one year in oak and two more in the bottle before being released.

2005 MARQUES DE CA-CERES RIOJA RESERVA, $20

The aromas in this wine are a light, enticing mix of dark berry fruit backed by leather, earth, green olive, cedar and a touch of game. There’s a rustic quality to the palate that offers a nice core of tart cherry and berry fruit. This wine opens up with time in the glass revealing dark chocolate, leather, ripe tannins and mineral. This is an elegantly com-plex rioja.

2009 POMUM TINTO TEMPRANILLO, $24

This wine is a New World interpretation of the grape, grown in Washington by a Spanish expat. The nose is rich and fruity with layers of dark fruit colored by pipe tobacco, game and soft oak. The wine’s flavors are intense and the texture velvety. Ripe cherry flavors play against the wine’s food-friendly, bright acidity. Touches of chocolate and licorice persist on the finish.

—David Kirkpatrick

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ACROSS1 Sewer, at times7 Dregs of society

11 “I’m not doing so well”15 ___ it up (dress

flamboyantly)

19 Sherpa’s tool20 Kind of street21

Accurse

22 Grams23 Drank quickly24 Allocated dollars for

digs26 &&&27 “___ time now”28 Smoker’s convenience30 Toiling away32 Santa’s bootblack?34 “___ ever!”35 Paisley refusals37 Gets up

38 Density symbol40 Anti-apartheid org.42 1970 hit for Neil

Diamond43 De novo44 Lies in the hot sun46 Shacks48 Marine rescue grp.50 Fancified52 Really desire, with

“over”53 Precipitate57 House of the speaker?58 Writer60 Big guns61 F = ma formulator62 Very wide shoe spec63 Text changes65 Rocket center, once66 ___ admin67 “Not doable”68 Govt. money guarantor69 Its capital is Sydney:

Abbr.70 “O Sole ___”71 Just ___ … or

“Just ’___”73 Crones74 From way back77 It’s needed for self-

checkout79 Alternative to

broadband81 Fixed rate82 Capital north of Cyprus83 Mat material84 Not yet out of the

closet?85 Attach a handle to87 Preceded89 Give a rude awakening,

say90 Flexible, electrically92 Derby features94 Turn blue, say95 Do wrong96 Bubbling up97 Ruination98 Leonard Nimoy’s “___

Not Spock”100 “Fish Magic” painter103 Rapper who played

Brother Sam on “Dexter”

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me”)112 Basically114 Breaks one’s back116 Boston player, for

short117 Triple Crown winners

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119 Roman tragedy writer120 Florida’s Sanibel, e.g.121 Zebra feature122 They’re run up123 Like some dough

DOWN1 Unhappy king of legend2 Prefix with -metrics3 Vegas casino4 Roseanne’s husband on

“Roseanne”5 Suit6 Made de novo7 Certain baby food8 So-called “Goddess of

Pop”9 Samovars10 It’s part this, part that11 Whom Shelley wept for12 “Water Music”

composer13 Fr. title14 “Watermark” vocalist15 Really bugging16 Woolly17 English royal18 Covers up25 Street opening29 Sports announcer’s

scream31 Lost-parcel inquiries33 Newspaper section36 It’s almost nothing39 Prefix with -porosis41 Took turns recklessly42 Things may be written

in it44 Cap’n’s mate

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the crease51 Seemingly forever54 Long-running TV show

featuring the Hortons and the Bradys

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animal59 Revolutionary 1960s

Chinese youth60 Open ___64 They’re often behind

glass67 Prompt68 Apocryphal69 ABC, for one70 Wall St. credential71 Small boat made of

wickerwork72 “___ / Had ’em”

(classic two-line poem about fleas)

73 Quibblers split them74 The Sun Devils’ sch.75 Sci-fi or western76 Result of a bang-up

job?78 One running

80 Beta carotene and others

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in bridge88 ___ beer90 Dwellings91 TV announcer who

broke the news of John Lennon’s murder

93 Earn hand over fist96 Firenze friends99 Rumpled101 Put up102 Lamb specialty104 Unwilling to budge106 Kick back107 People conquered by

the Spanish108 Wound protector109 Much merriment113 Heat org.115 Got ___ (did great)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 2013, I pledge to conspire with you to increase your mastery of the art of friendship. Together, we will concentrate on making you an even stronger ally than you already are. We will upgrade your skill at expressing your feelings with open-hearted clarity, and in ways that don’t make people defensive. We will also inspire you to help others communicate effectively in your presence. I hope you understand that this will empower you to accomplish feats that were never before possible.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Chickens and alligators share a common ancestor. That’s why chickens have a gene that has the ability to grow teeth. A few years ago, a biological researcher at the University of Wisconsin managed to activate this capacity, inducing a few mutant chickens to sprout alligator teeth. I predict there will be a metaphorically comparable event happening for you in 2013, Taurus. The chicken part of you will acquire some of the gravitas of an alligator.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “People wish to learn to swim and, at the same time, to keep one foot on the ground,” said French novelist Marcel Proust. An attitude like that is always a barrier to growth, of course, but in 2013, it would be especially ill-advised for you Geminis. In order to win full possession of the many blessings that will offer themselves to you, you will have to give up your solid footing and dive into the depths over and over again. That prospect may some-times be a bit nerve-racking. But it should also generate the most fun you’ve had in years.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s the horoscope I hope to be able to write for you a year from now: You broke free of the chains that kept you enslaved to your primary source of suffering. And now you have forged a resil-ient new relationship with your primary source of suffering —a relationship that allows you to deal with it only when it’s healthy for you to do so and only when you feel strong enough to do it. Very nicely done.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “In this world,” said Oscar Wilde, “there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.” I’m counting on you to refute the last part of that questionable assertion, Leo. According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, you will definitely be getting what you want in the next six months. You will receive your prize ... claim your birthright or find your treasure. When that happens, I trust you will make sure it is an enduring blessing. There will be no sadness involved.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): English poet Alfred Tennyson wrote so many memorable lines that he is among the Top 10 most frequently cited authors in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. One of his most famous passages was “’Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.” When he was on his death bed at age 83, his enigmatic last words were, “I have opened it.” Let’s make that declaration your mantra for the coming year, Virgo. In your case, it will have nothing to do with death, but just the opposite. It will be your way of announcing your entrance into a brighter, lustier, more fertile phase of your life.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Back in 1830, it was expensive to stay up and do things in your room after dark. In order to earn enough money to pay for the whale oil that would light your lamp for an hour, you had to work for 5.4 hours. And today? It’s cheaper. You have to put in exactly 0.001 second of hard labor to afford an hour’s worth of light. I suspect that in 2013, there will be a similar boost in your ease at getting the light you need to illuminate your journey. I’m speaking metaphorically here, as in the insight that arises from your intuition, the emotional energy that comes from those you care about, and the grace of the Divine Wow. All that good stuff will be increasing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life,” said Scorpio painter Georgia O’Keeffe, “and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” I think her declaration is excellent medicine for you. In 2013, you will have great poten-tial for upgrading your relationship with your fears--not necessarily suppressing them or smashing them, but rather using them more consistently as a springboard, capitalizing on the emotions they unleash, and riding the power they stir up.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Ambition can creep as well as soar,” said Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. That will be good for you to remember throughout 2013, Sagittarius. Later this year, the time may come for your ambition to soar—in the month of April, for example, and again in the month of August. But for the foreseeable future, I think your ambition will operate best if you keep it contained and intense, moving slowly and gradually, attending to the gritty details with supreme focus.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In Tom Robbins’ book Skinny Legs and All, one of the main charac-ters, Ellen Cherry, has a conversa-tion with a voice in her head. The voice gives her a piece of advice: “The trick is this: keep your eye on the ball. Even when you can’t see the ball.” I think that happens to be excellent counsel for you to heed during the next six months, Capricorn. You may not always be able to figure out what the hell is going on, but that shouldn’t affect your commitment to doing the right thing. Your job is to keep your own karma clean and pure—and not worry about anyone else’s karma.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ll be bold and predict that 2013 will be a time when you’ll discover more about the art of happiness than you have in years. Here are some clues to get you started. 1. “It is not easy to find happiness in our-selves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.” —Agnes Repplier. 2. “There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things that are beyond the power of our will.”—Epictetus. 3. “For the rational, healthy person, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from real-ity.”—Nathaniel Branden. 4. “Our happiness springs mainly from moderate troubles, which afford the mind a healthful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits.”—E. Wigglesworth. 5. “Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheart-edly, one-directionally, without regret or reservation.”—William H. Sheldon. 6. “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”—Charles Kingsley.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 2013, I pledge to help you feel at peace and in love with your body; I will do everything in my power to encourage you to triumph over media-induced delusions that tempt you to wish you were different from who you actually are. My goal is to be one of your resource-ful supporters in the coming months—to be a member of your extensive team of allies and facilitators. And I will be working with you to ensure that this team grows to just the right size and provides you with just the right founda-tion. If all goes well, your extra help will ensure that you finish almost everything you star t in the coming year. You will regularly conquer everyday chaos and be a master of ar t-ful resolutions.


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