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BACK TO LIFE
“Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way
back to life.”
This is a quote from Stephen King’s book “On Writing: A Memoir
of the Craft.” It seems like an appropriate line to kick off our 20th
Annual Fiction 101 Contest.
I’m thinking there are more than a few of you readers who have a
novel (or two) collecting dust in a drawer. C’mon, you know you’ve
got something to say — shake off those mental cobwebs and let your
imaginations flow onto the page.
Here’s another S.K. quote to stick under your hat: “Writing isn’t
about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or
making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who
will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well.” Get lost in the music. Find joy
So I’m challenging all you writers, writer wannabes and anyone
and everyone who likes to fool around with words to take the
plunge and send in your submissions. It only costs $15 a pop
and you can enter as many times as you like. We have gathered a
handful of local literary luminaries to do the judging and, oh, did
I mention we give cash prizes to the top entries? The deadline for
submissions is Friday, Dec. 31. All submissions must come digitally;
there is a link on our website.
In addition to pocketing some cashola, best entries will be pub-
lished in the Jan. 27 issue of Boise Weekly. And, a reading party is
tentatively slated for First Thursday, Feb. 3 at Rediscovered Books;
stay tuned for details.
And speaking of details, on page 4 Bill Cope gets down to the
nitty-gritty about a certain local professor who has been grabbing
headlines.
Lex Nelson spills the beans on a local couple who are roasting
them, plus talks about our Sikh community and its deep ties to
Boise, all on page 6.
Bowen West writes about The Modern’s new menu and the gas-
tronomical genius couple who whipped it up on page 7.
Merry & Bright
Two news stories, one on a protest by yours truly and another by
Carolyn Komatsoulis about an incident deserving one, are on page 8. Lloyd Butler conductor
West is back again on page 9 to tell you all about an upcoming
psychedelic event (psychedelics not required).
Boise Phil Orchestra
April Neale has been shopping around and brings you a ton of Boise Phil Master Chorale
ideas in the second installment of our gift guide on pages 10 and 11.
And if you need a bit more writing inspiration, I’ve got you
covered — read the top three winning submissions from last year’s Bundle up, bring the whole family, and celebrate the
Fiction 101 on page 12. joy and sounds of the holidays with the Boise Phil.
Be sure to check out our calendar so you don’t miss your favorite
holiday events plus Minerva, History Corner, FIND, puzzles and
horoscopes.
Until next week, I will leave you with one more quote.
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OPINION
THE YAP ON YENOR
By BILL COPE
It is vital that we stop encouraging men with
beards to enter college engineering programs,
med schools and the field of law. Since the ICM
movement (Involuntary Celibates Matter) took
hold, men with beards have become more an-
ti-social, groundlessly self-important, and toxic
than men need to be. For the sake of a greater
society, let us get men with beards out of higher
education and professional training, in gener-
al. It is not natural that men with beards keep
company with college grads. Period.
Oh, did my opinion offend you? Hey, don’t
take it personally. I’m just spewing it out to get
attention — hopefully followed by approval,
applause, and a fat speaker’s fee. Keep in mind,
the audience I’m going for is the anti-men with
beards crowd, and that’s how this works, see?
In a world where bladders of leaking intestinal
gas (e.g., Tucker Carlson) command mucho
attention, if you want to be noticed, you have
to pull what I call “a Quint.” Like in Jaws? You
scrape those fingernails across the blackboard
until everyone shuts up and listens, no matter
how disgusted they are.
Seriously, for any wannabe opinion trend-setter to
stand out in this briar patch of twisted perceptions,
stunted intellects, and insane conspiracy theories, he has
to jangle some nerves … slaughter a few sacred cows …
tip over a few outhouses. Whatever it takes.
Take that Boise State poli-sci guy, Scott Yenor. He’s
done one bang-up job of enraging at least half the pop-
ulation here-abouts by demeaning feminists, working
women, childless women, accomplished women — es-
sentially, any woman with aspirations of being more than
a contented broodmare. Remember that name — Scott
Yenor. We’ll be hearing it a lot more in the following
months, trust me. Mr. Yenor has proven himself more
than capable of getting some big-time recognition. Why,
he’s already been interviewed by T. “Butterball” Carlson,
investigated mythical indoctrination in Idaho public
schools (at the behest of Janice “Crazy McGeachin” Mc-
Geachin), and gained the backing of the sneakiest batch
of conniving bastards to ever carpet-bag their way into
our state’s governance, the Idaho Freedom Foundation.
And it wouldn’t surprise me if there are more Fox News
appearances in the works, lecture tours to all the usual
CPAC-ish circle-jerks, and a hefty book deal, in which
alt-right image spinners pre-order thousands of copies
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Italy, circa 1935: more examples of how great a
nation can get when men aren’t tripping over
some damn independent woman, right?
But let’s face it, the professor’s position on
how women should let men do all the master-
ing isn’t the real issue here. A lot of men have
those same sentiments — more, I fear, than we
want to know — only they aren’t intrepid (or
stupid) enough to speak at national conven-
tions, exposing their dumb misogyny for the
whole YouTube-viewing world to see.
Scott Yenor, on the other hand, has no
qualms whatsoever about exposing his dumb
misogyny, particularly to those who would
contribute to the self-promotion of Scott
Yenor. I expect him to ramp it up in future
performances because you don’t stay on top in
that game by rerunning the same sermon over
and over. (That’s why, over a 30-year span in
the rabid-right zeitgeist, Democrats have gone
from being easily-duped dumbos, to being
certifiably insane, to being Satan-worship-
ping pedophiles who eat baby parts. It’s called
to make it appear America is ready for his message. So “inflation,” duh!)
how’s a drab, mediocre thinker who’s spent the last 20 But does any of this mean that Yenor truly believes
years teaching at a school known far more for its football his fatuous dribble is going to change anything?
team than its academics going to get that level of right- That, outside the coocoo bird echo chamber, any
wing mojo working by preaching anything that makes serious, thinking adults will actually be persuaded to
sense? Huh? launch a crusade to turn back the clock on women’s
Instead, Yenor is pushing some dopey gunk about place in society?
how a nation is great only if its families are great. And Nah. Yenor may be stupid, but he’s no idiot. Unless
a family can’t be great as long as the little missus is gal- he has never … not in his whole life … spent more than
livanting around, pretending that being self-sufficient a few fleeting moments in the company of any woman
and competent makes her happy. Yenor insists that smart enough to stay far, far away from a man like him,
success in the workplace does not make women happy he has certainly accepted the reality that once Jeannie
— that, to the contrary, it makes them “more medicat- is out of the bottle — and Susan, and Betty, and Gloria,
ed, meddlesome and quarrelsome than women need Amelia, Eleanor, Hillary, Ruth, Michelle, et al — she ain’t
to be.” (I should tell you, after examining closely the going back in.
Yenor argument, I have found no hint of self-awareness No, Yenor’s shtick is nothing more than perfor-
that his unpleasant experiences with women may have mance art — only without any talent, originality, or
more to do with coming across him than it does any of art. Think of it as an old carnival freak show, with so-
their life choices.) cial media playing the barker, and YouTube providing
Yenor does not deny he would prefer America reverted the tent. For the lowly price of upping his view count,
to a male-dominated hierarchy, that being the only way you, too, can enter and see the geek regurgitate the
we can become great again. But what, in Yenor’s view, most shocking ideas.
is “great?” Great like Afghanistan and Iran, perhaps? Now excuse me. I have my own nest to feather. Cur-
… superb examples of what you get when men rule all rently, I am insisting we get those men with beards back
the roosts and women behave as small-minded, inse- into the singles bars and bowling leagues where they
cure males demand they do. Or great like Germany and belong. (wink wink)
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FOOD
LEX EATS LOCAL:
THE BEANS AND THE BEAR
Meet Wüfyre, a new coffee roaster
By LEX NELSON
When Joshua and Shayna Cox first lit the burner of
their new Giesen roaster, they had yet to come up with
a name for their coffee brand. Luckily, the flames were
inspiring.
“It’s a huge cast iron machine and it’s really cool, it
looks really old-worldy,” Shayna said of the roaster. “So
we lit it up for the first time — it has a big gas burner —
and we were like, ‘Whoo, fire!’ That’s where the name
came from.”
Wüfyre (pronounced “whoo, fire!”) was the consum-
mation of a three-year coffee obsession. Before firing
up their Giesen, Josh (a pricing analyst) and Shayna (a
property manager) spent years experimenting with a
single-serve air roaster. Most nights, they quaffed the
results until well after dark.
“Once we get off our day jobs we have a few things
that we do around the house. Then we go over to the
shop and we roast coffee until midnight pretty much
every night of the week,” Shayna said.
Josh is the bigger “coffee geek” of the pair and serves
as Wüfyre’s roaster. The motivation to start his own
brand was rooted in a 2017 trip to the Specialty Coffee
Association’s Specialty Coffee Expo in Seattle. There, the
couple tried their hand at cupping (aka tasting and grad-
ing) coffee for the first time.
“They were asking us to cup the coffees and we
had no idea, either one of us, how to cup. We were
like, ‘Okay, we’ll just try to follow the people in
front of us I guess,’” Josh said.
“He just handed us a spoon and he’s like, ‘Get in,
get it!’ And we’re like, ’Okay!’” Shayna remembered.
“We didn’t know what we were doing.”
The Coxes were hooked. Josh studied under cof-
fee experts Willem Boot and Marcus Young of Boot
Coffee, and when he started roasting for friends
and family they told him, “You should sell this.”
Today, Wüfyre operates a Boise-based roast-
ery and bean subscription service with biweekly
deliveries. They specialize in dark roasts, which LEX NELSON
Josh says most roasters underoast (failing to reach Joshua and Shayna Cox are self-professed ‘coffee geeks.’ Their
a sweet taste) or overroast (making charcoal). He company has a bean subscription service with biweekly deliveries.
enjoys the challenge of finding the middle ground.
“I think a really good dark roast is just as hard Wüfyre is still a micro-roastery, but the Coxes have
to achieve [as a light roast] or even more so,” purchased property to build a bigger operation in
Josh said. Mountain Home. They daydream about multiple Giesen
On Saturdays, locals can taste Wüfyre brews at roasters, a signature Wüfyre blend and their very own
Capital City Public Market in Garden City. One line of cold brew, which could be ready as early as Sum-
chilly morning in November the Coxes offered up mer 2022.
a dark roast Sumatra — with tasting notes of cedar, Asked if they plan to drive all the way to Mountain
earthy and sweet — and a medium roast Costa Home for midnight cupping sessions, the couple ex-
Rica, redolent of mulled wine and spice. changed a glance.

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BOISE MAYOR GIVES SIKH COMMUNIT Y A SEAT AT THE TABLE

One of the pillars of the Sikh faith
is “vand chhakna” or sharing with
others — which includes feeding
people for free.
“In the temples anyone can come
eat. Free food is provided all the
time,” said Robin Singh, a Sikh who
grew up in Boise. Robin’s father,
Rajdeep Singh, owns Bombay Grill on
10th Street.
The roughly 500 Sikhs in the City
of Trees don’t have a local temple, but
they still find ways to feed their com-
munity. Each month, the Singhs deliver
100-150 free meals to the River of Life
Men’s Shelter as part of their Share
Meals With Others project. They dish
up butter chicken and chicken tikka
masala to everyone who’s hungry.
On Nov. 22, Boise Mayor Lauren Mc-
Lean recognized this and many other
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Sikh contributions to Boise. Speaking
to a gathering of Sikhs at Bombay Grill,
she officially proclaimed November
Sikh Awareness & Appreciation Month
in Boise. At least 17 states including
Oregon, Washington, and Utah have
made similar dedications, according to
The Sikh Coalition.
“Not only should we be recognizing
your faith and community in November
but of course we should do it through-
out the year, because you’re incredibly
important to the cultural and social
fabric and faith fabric of our city,”
McLean said.
Among the listeners were Gurtej
Sandhu, a Boise-based Sikh inventor
holding 1,382 patents; Californian
Simran Kaur, Tracy Unified School
District Board president and deputy
district attorney of the San Joaquin
County District Attorney’s office; and
her father Rajdeep.
“It makes me incredibly proud of
Boise because they’ve done so much
for us, and it means a lot because
we’ve been here for 20 years. [We
are] being recognized and [they are]
making sure our voices are heard and
everyone knows who we are,” Rajdeep
said through a translator.
The proclamation is a step forward
in the Sikh community’s effort to build
a Boise temple and feed Boiseans in
need. It now hangs at Bombay Grill
(bombayboise.com) where McLean’s
teenage son, Aiden, is a regular.
“The butter chicken here with the
rice dish they have is incredible,”
LEX NELSON
he said. On Nov. 22, Boise Mayor Lauren McLean recognized the many Sikh contributions to
Boise. Speaking to a gathering of Sikhs at Bombay Grill, she officially proclaimed
—Lex Nelson November Sikh Awareness & Appreciation Month in Boise.
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OWN WAY’ AT THE MODERN
It’s the little things with a new
Modern menu and kitchen team
By BOWEN WEST
The Modern Hotel and Bar is having a
bit of a renaissance.
It’s still the same iconic hotel but it’s the
little things that charge the reinvention.
A new menu and kitchen and bar team
sounds tiny in the grand scheme of things
but it gives way to a new identity.
The new menu features seasonally
appropriate, locally-sourced dishes with
depth and unexpected taste notes. Pan-
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der, a rustic apple tart tatin with caramel
and crème fraiche ice cream, a cauliflower
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and pepperoncini and a country-fried pork
chop with fennel-apple chutney and house
kraut are just a few on the extensive menu.
The minds behind this mouth-watering
menu are the husband-and-wife team,
chef Kelly Grindstaff and Ariel Vasquez.
The couple was brought in last summer
to run the Modern’s food and drinks pro-
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 NEWS BRIEFS
HUNDREDS TURN OUT FOR
PHOTO OP, PROTEST OF BSU
PROFESSOR’S STATEMENTS
About 500 men, women, teens and children descended upon
the Boise State University campus on Saturday, Dec. 4 in protest
against Boise State political science professor Scott Yenor’s sexist
and misogynistic statements made at the National Conservativism
Conference held in October. In a lecture on “the evils of feminism,”
Yenor called women “medicated, meddlesome and quarrelsome,”
among other statements, and gained national attention through a
viral video posted Nov. 9 on TikTok. Yenor has since doubled down
on those statements, and in a response video on Twitter said femi-
nism has led to the “weakening of the family. … Things must change
if this country is to rebuild the family. While (women) medicate
themselves and their loneliness, we should rebuild a country where
men act with responsibility and purpose.” JEANNE HUFF
Boise State officials have issued several statements on the mat- Boise State students showed up to protest against the words of a BSU
ter. In an earlier statement, Boise State spokesperson Mike Sharp political science professor.
said the university supports free speech and academic freedom.
“Boise State University understands that the open exchange of Another protest, organized by the Anti-Racism Collective, was
ideas, which is fundamental to education, can introduce uncom- held on The Quad, behind the Admin Building, and encouraged
fortable and even offensive ideas. However, the university cannot people to speak out and voice their concerns.
infringe upon the First Amendment rights of any members of our “The students organized this,” said Dora Ramirez, a professor
community, regardless of whether we, as individual leaders, agree of ethnic studies at Boise State and director of the Anti-Racism
or disagree with the message,” Sharp said in an email response. Collective. “The students have a lot to say.” More than a dozen
“No single faculty member defines what Boise State — or any public current and former Boise State faculty and students, includ-
university — endorses or stands for.” ing several political science majors, talked for about an hour
On Dec. 1, a letter signed by Dr. Marlene Tromp and about two about how upset Yenor’s statements and presence on campus
dozen other school officials, said: “Women have made significant have made them feel. They also relayed stories about personal
and meaningful contributions to all areas of academia, industry, incidents that have happened to them and have made them feel
and society. Boise State University has a long tradition of supporting unsafe and even fearful, in regards to interacting with men who
women. We continue to do so across the university.” see them as “less than.”
The protests were held back-to-back on Saturday. The first at “I shouldn’t have to live my life in fear,” said a 13-year-old
11:30 a.m. was a silent photo op at the Boise State “B” in front of junior high school student. There were also calls to revoke Yenor’s
the Admin Building, organized by The Idaho 97% Project and state tenured status and for students to boycott him. The protest ended
Rep. Brooke Green. Green said she was compelled to be there. with two chants: “Say it loud, say it clear — Yenor is not welcome
“This struck a nerve,” she said. “The message is the photo and the here.” And: “Whose campus? Our campus. Whose? Ours.”
people who are present. … Here are the women in our community —
and we’re not going anywhere.” —Jeanne Huff

BOISE POLICE INVESTIGATING ANTISEMITIC GRAFFITI

Boise officials found graffiti in several tunnels on the Greenbelt
near downtown Boise last weekend, including swastikas and other
hateful graffiti, according to KTVB.COM.
The vandalism was near the Idaho Anne Frank Human Rights
Memorial and comes just a few weeks after a swastika was found
spray-painted downtown on the historic Idaho Building on the
corner of Eighth and Bannock streets.
“The antisemitic messages contained in the graffiti found along
the Greenbelt put a literal and figurative stain on our community.
This will not be tolerated,” Boise Mayor Lauren McLean said in a
statement over the weekend. “It is not who are as a city and is not
part of our shared values.”
Boise Police said on Twitter it was investigating. Boise Parks and JAKE KING/IDAHO PRESS

Recreation employees cleaned up the graffiti, Boise Police tweeted.
“We recognize the significance of this being the last Saturday of
Hannukah (sic),” Boise Police Chief Ryan Lee said in a statement
posted to Twitter over the weekend. “We are reaching out to Jewish
leaders in our community to let them know we will not stand for
such hateful and abhorrent behavior.”
Meridian City Councilmember Luke Cavener said on Twitter he
was offering a $1,000 reward to anyone with information that
leads to the arrest of those responsible.
Antisemitic graffiti was recently found and subsequently removed from
the Ninth Street tunnel section of the Boise Greenbelt near the Idaho
Anne Frank Human Rights Memorial in downtown Boise.
“Hate like this has no place anywhere in our country,” Cavener wrote.
The Anne Frank memorial was vandalized last December with Nazi
propaganda. Over the summer, swastikas appeared on a St. Luke’s
hospital in McCall and on signs at an anti-Joe Biden protest.
—Carolyn Komatsoulis

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TRIP TO THE LIGHT FANTASTIC
East Forest Ceremony-Concert is about a deeper connection of oneself and music
By BOWEN WEST
An East Forest Ceremony-Concert is
about more than just the sound.
It’s about how the audience members
feel, it’s about connecting every sense to
the experience. The journal given to audi-
ence members at the beginning isn’t just
for show — participants are encouraged
to journal their thoughts throughout the
concert-guided meditation fusion.
Trevor Oswalt, international musician,
producer and wellness leader, has released
psychoactive soundtracks like “Music for
Mushrooms,” “Ram Dass” and “Spores”
as East Forest. He hopes his concerts are
more than just a chance to listen to his
music but to connect to the experience on
a deeper level.
“I want it to be beautiful and fun,” Os-
walt said by phone. “Concerts are already
emotional. We want to make this deeper.
It’s about clearing the noise, which is a lot
in our modern world.”
Oswalt will be performing an exclusive
Ceremony Concert at 6 p.m. on Dec. 17 at
the restored historic Baroque Romanesque
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delic medicine is not endorsed for the
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event, Live Nite Events said in a press
The event is designed as an immersive music and tapping into something carnal.”
release. The group meditative experience
group meditative experience. Instead of a The space and provided yoga mats are
is designed to be as inclusive as possible
standard stadium where he is on a stage part of what makes the show a bit pricier
to make sure everyone feels welcome and
separated from the audience, Oswald is than your average concert but it leads to
comfortable.
“People sometimes put it in a box
which is a mistake,” Oswalt said. “It’ s a
harmonious experience of listening and
deepening our process of listening. At
“ I’M THE CAPTAIN OF THE SEAS OF THIS the end of the day it’s just good music.
Tickets are $100 for general admis-
EX PER IEN CE BU T YOU G ET TO D EC IDE sion and $150 for VIP seating. Due
to the layout of the event, attendance
W HER E YOU G O.” will be capped at 125 tickets so early
reservations are encouraged. Tickets
can be purchased at tixr.com/groups/
liveniteevents.
For those not able to make the concert
right in the middle of the group while they undivided attention to the music. but who are still seeking an ethereal
lay on yoga mats. No stage to divide on “Maybe I’m old and I just want to be opportunity, Oswalt has mirrored the
this spiritual journey. comfortable,” Oswalt said. “It feels more experience with Journey Space. His online
“I’m the captain of the seas of this human. People’s attention is a big gift that membership platform features non-dog-
experience but you get to decide where you can give and it feeds the performance.” matic, guided musical performances that
you go,” Oswalt said. “You kind of have to While the event is all about a spiritual are crafted for each individual. For more
pull them in. There’s nowhere to hide — psychedelic journey, the use of psyche- information, visit journeyspace.com.
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 Seduction Georges Bizet’s BW PRESENTS FOUR WEEKS OF GIFTS: WEEK II
Obsession
Tragedy CARMEN By APRIL NEALE
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Owner Laneil Jorgeson never gets tired of people exclaiming as
they enter, “It smells so good in here.” The scents of Idaho range
from fresh balsam to rare oils like Frankincense and Myrhh, river
rocks and fresh air, to cranberry and spice scents that hearken the
holidays. For great gifts, Laneil recommends a variety of easy to gift
items everyone loves. “The holiday hostess gifts are always top sellers. Christmas Fresh is a scent that
people love. Also, the traditional Frankincense and Myrrh are top sellers.” In addition, she has a wide
variety of bath and body items made for sensitive skin without harmful additives, home fragrances,
even locally made jewelry, and unique handbags and t-shirts. This spot in Caldwell delivers the stocking
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her dad, Norman. This spot is the sister store site of floral and
decor store Ruby Bloom, stuffed to the gills with never-before-seen
home goods and decor and so many must-have items; your visit will last three times longer than you
Star Garnets anticipated. The holiday decor veers to the handmade and rustic, as a giant brass deer head with spec-
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Stop in and save Owner Robin Stapp has the keenest eye and sense of color, pattern, and over-
all design for every conceivable type of home textile. And her enormous selection
on the perfect of fabrics is hands down the best in the state. But for the quick-hit wrap-it-up gift,
you cannot beat an Indigo Home Goods’ ready-made accent pillows. These are gifts to give this season.
stocking stuffer! “So many people are requesting MudCloth, and we are making throw blankets, accent blankets, and
pillow coverings,” says Stapp. She adds: “We just received two pallets of gorgeous cotton velvets — and
tons of custom pillows ready-made to spruce up homes for the holidays or gift-giving.” And Stapp’s sew-
ing and design expertise has her custom window treatments and reupholstering business humming like
crazy. People find unique antique sofas and chairs from estate sales, thrifts, and inherited treasures as
she reinvents and reimagines these wood frames with gorgeous fabrics, rebuilding the cushions and
creating masterpieces. If you are new to Idaho or not, you need to know about Indigo Home Goods.
405 S. 8th St. Boise
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 APRIL NEALE
UPSCALE RETAIL AND GREEN
FURNITURE RECYCLING
Thrifty Owl
➤ 1407 2nd Street S., Nampa / 208-546-4151 / On Facebook
✶ GIFT: You never know until you go!
Owner Janice Peterson has a creative eye and a thrifty soul, and her
customers know to look for unique decor and furniture pieces here first
before anywhere else. Curating mostly mid- and last-century finds in her shop,
Peterson’s cheerful upscale retail is no thrift store but a wonderful place to
score the perfect piece for your home. Peterson says for a quick gift and hot items: “Our collection of
vintage jewelry flies out of the store, and we add to that daily. Plus, the Fusion line of mineral paint is a
hot seller, too, for the DIY decorator.” If you know your gift recipient’s taste in home decor, the store is
constantly refreshed with incredible mid-century art, vases, dishes, and kitchenware too. Many people
find a great old chair or sofa and have Peterson’s nearby neighbor, Indigo Home Goods, reupholster the
piece for a stylish brand-new look.

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ART PIECES GALORE
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➤ 3520 Chinden Blvd., Garden City / 208-830-0481 / estatesales-
management.com
✶ GIFT: Decor, perfect sets of china, crystal, furniture, and more
On busy Chinden, owner Betty Lou Donnelly curates the items
missed when her standing-room-only local estate sales. People’s art
collections, precious keepsakes, and fine furniture that was over-
looked wind up here, and the best part? Betty Lou’s “treasure hunts”
where items in her store over a specific time are marked down from
an already low price to a ridiculously low price. Orrefors, Waterford, Steuben, Baccarat, Wedgwood,
vintage Franciscan, and other high-end brands are here. The store is also a consignment spot for no
longer needed fine goods, all very much upscale — a gift-giver with good taste’s paradise. You will steal
a treasure.
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Take me to the river, drop me in the Push & Pour where the coffee
is divine, the space a total hang, and the swag on point for Garden City
fans who love this quirky river-side city tucked up into Boise’s business.
Garden City is literally hugging the Boise river, and the boom in real
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estate and redone and newly built homes in this area make it a cool
cat place to call home. That fact is not lost on the stylish-casual little cafe within walking distance in ACCESSORIES, PUZZLES, TOYS
the neighborhood, and its fun swag for sale makes a perfect holiday gift. The ballyhooed Push & Pour
t-shirt is the gift to get and receive this year if you are Garden City proud. Throw in a bag of their freshly
roasted Sun Liner blend coffee, and you will be on the “nice” list.
AND MORE!
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The Twisted Ewe: Women of Wool
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✶ GIFT: Unique project and handbags, scarves, textiles, small unique goods Buy a $100 Gift Card for only $80
Outside of this store are the remnants of the former owner, a metal sculp-
tress extraordinaire. The parking lot is home to two feral yet friendly chickens.
Inside are all things soft, fuzzy, cozy and warm, including great gifts to give.
Manager Stephanie Carnes says: “The macrame kits, DIY Christmas ornament
kits, and the chunky knit chenille throw blankets are perfect for giving.” The
store also is a one-stop shop for knitting enthusiasts, including accessories
like Atenti bags Made in the USA. In addition, they have a generous assortment of project bags, bulky
hat kits, soft as kitten pom-poms, needles and notions, and crafting accessories for anyone who loves
their projects, yarns, and stitching accessories organized and at the ready. Make sure to get the hot gift
items like their fun t-shirts, body care, White Rock soaps, and the Shupaca brand Alpaca knit scarves in
beautiful tones, and the finest material around. 405 S. 8th St. Boise

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ARTS & CULTURE
CAN YOU?
Boise Weekly opens its 20th annual Fiction 101 contest and it’s all about brevity

By JEANNE HUFF HONORABLE MENTIONS

Seems everybody these days has something to say.
Well, bring it.
It’s time to throw open the doors and let all the writers
of our fair city have at it. In our annual Fiction 101 con-
test, writers can tell a story about anything (as long as it’s
fit for newspaper consumption) — and as long as they
tell it in 101 words. Every year it’s exciting, amazing and
magical to see how they do it and to read their stories.
It’s a window into our community’s collective imagina-
tions.
To prime the inspiration pump, we thought a little
looking back might be in order. So here are last year’s
top winners. Remember, you can submit as many stories
as you want (each submission is a mere $15). All sub-
missions must be in by Dec. 31. Winners will be judged
by acclaimed authors and literary luminaries. There will
be a reading party (details to be announced) and win-
ners will be published in the Jan. 27 Boise Weekly.
So pick up that quill, pen, keyboard or whatever writ-
ing implement you desire and … start writing!
FIRST PLACE 2021
“Seattle, 1975”
Carole Skinner
In the moonlight I see the doorknob turning. I cross
to the window and climb out onto the garage and down
the drainpipe. I run to the neighbor’s door. Larry, in
boxers, lets me in. He grabs a bedspread from the tat-
tered couch and wraps it around me, I am surprised that
I am shaking and naked in the living room of people
I have only met in passing. I ask him to call the cops.
“No can do, we have a kitchen full of pot plants.” In the
morning I wear the bedspread home. My front door is
wide open.
SECOND PLACE
“The Decline of Courtship: A History”
Greg Likins
[1865]
“Last night I dreamt you bid me lay waste to you. My
sword growing thick in its scabbard, I unsheathed that
rod and pierced you. Blooms of rose and jasmine tum-
bled from your open wound, and my face I buried in the
fragrance of their seeping nectar.”
[1945]
Western Union – the war is won! in paris now, return-
ing stateside soon. these parts of me that haven’t seen
action will have you in the family way by fall.
[1995]
AOL chatroom Nocturnal Encounters
User: HoosierDaddy
“A/S/L check. 24/m/Idaho here. Any ladies wanna
cyber??”
[2020]
Swipe… swipe…
“Damn bb ur hot. HMU.”
THIRD PLACE
“A New Man”
Greg Likins
In the alley behind Newman’s Appliances we’re free to
live like men.
I’m sorry, son, I just couldn’t take the suburbs—each
man stewing in his own despair. Here, I forage food.
Kelvin cooks. Raymond builds cottages from appliance
boxes.
Charlie brings us news. He goes on benders most
nights and returns shivering, wrapped in the Press-Tri-
bune. We peel back the pages and scoff at news of the
outside world.
Chaplain Bob—in the crate with the cross-shaped
window—says I should ask your forgiveness. And let
you know I’m always here, hoping you’ll visit, third
refrigerator box on the right.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY JEFF LOWE
“Brother John, After the Flood”
Dené Breakfield
The baptismal font must have been spewing rust-col-
ored holy water all night. When the plumbers showed
up, Brother John pointed to the choir loft and said, “I’ll
be up there.”
He watched the crew siphon out muck and expose
the church’s sad ruin while he gnawed at a loaf of stale
bread he’d intended to cut into communion squares,
and took long, desperate pulls of weak grape juice, the
sale bin stand-in for Christ’s blood.
His swollen gut ached. He propped himself against
the iron railing, squinted at the swirling hieroglyphs left
by receding water, and tried to fathom God’s message.
“The Butcher, His Widow, and Craig”
JSP Jacobs
The butcher survived ‘Nam, has two purple hearts.
A kid (Craig) (on drugs) robs the butcher, who
fights back (because ‘Nam) and is shot dead, a sala-
mi still in hand.
Craig gets away with $72 (and murder). A year
later, he’s reformed (Christian revival). He befriends
the butcher’s widow, mows her yard every Saturday.
He wants to confess, “Hey, I killed your husband,” but
strings her Christmas lights instead.
In June, the widow cooks Craig the last of the butch-
er’s steaks. Police solve the murder. Craig’s arrested
(relieved).
The widow dreams of meat, startles, paces the house
(talks to the dark).
“Avdo, My Boo”
Greg Likins
Avdo was mayor of his Bosnian town. In Boise now,
he vacuums offices while I mop.
At break, he unwraps a mustard sandwich, offers me
half.
“Life could be worse,” I say. “You could be named
Mahboob.”
Our coworker Mahboob waves from the stairs.
Avdo grins. “Because his name is like the radio song.
You’ll always be my boo.”
How can I not admire Avdo? He’s lost so much but
sees only good intentions in my tasteless jokes. Through
Avdo’s eyes, life is always good.
Break ends. “Race you to the janitor’s closet,” I say,
knowing Avdo will let me win.
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DEAR MINERVA:
My brother and his partner came to family Thanksgiv-
ing this year. This is a new partner for him. After dinner,
we were all hanging out, being social. Out of nowhere, my
father came up to my brother’s partner and said, “Why
DOBBY. 8 months. don’t you show some gratitude for this meal and go do
Tabby with white boy. the dishes?” I was gobsmacked that I heard this happen.
Love to follow my people I saw the color drain from my brother’s face and they left
around the house.
Snuggle time is my shortly thereafter. I tried to tell my father that he was wrong
favorite ! but he doesn’t think he was and my mother doesn’t want
to have a fight. I am worried my brother won’t be around
for Christmas now and I don’t blame him. I’ve half a mind
to do a separate dinner and boycott the parentals. Am I
overreacting?
—Sincerely,
Sister Bear
DEAR SISTER:
Your father behaved very poorly indeed. The way he
acted was the exact opposite of hospitality. He should be
ashamed of himself for ever thinking to say something
like that at all, much less to a first-time guest for a holiday
dinner. Yes, it is common and fine for families to pitch in
and help clean up. That’s normal. This high-stakes first
Thanksgiving is not the time to be degrading and demean-
GABE I need gentle
people that know to give
ing to a new partner that has been invited into someone’s
me plenty of treats and home. I don’t think you are overreacting and more family
places to run and climb! members need to realize that if they are miserable and rude
to be around then they can spend their holidays alone. Your
LISTEN TO THE RERELEASED 1983 SINGLE OF father needs to apologize, especially since my intuition tells
EARL YOUNG me he likely isn’t the type to be first in line to help out in the
kitchen himself.
With each passing year, I’ve become more and
more afraid of what’s with it. I used to be with it but
now I’m not and whatever is popular or trendy seems
weird and scary to me. SUBMIT questions to Minerva’s Breakdown at bit.ly/AskMinerva or mail them
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With each passing year, I look to the past to find sol- anonymous. Illustration of Minerva by Adam Rosenlund.
ace for the future. I love hearing rediscovered music.
Athens of the North is a label that rereleases hid-
den gems that would be lost to time. On Nov. 26, 2021
they rereleased the 1983 single of Earl Young.
Young performed in various gospel choirs and most PERUSE
famously did background vocals for Patti Labelle’s
song “Quiet Time.” He only released the one single but
it’s worth a listen. Regardless of whether you are spiri-
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“Let Him Be Your Everything” is something I implore
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HISTORY CORNER
UNDERGROUND TUNNELS
I enter the Chinese tunnels of Boise with some trepidation, knowing that opinions are
strong and documentation is weak. Actually, let’s say I enter the debate, since the tunnels
themselves are so elusive.
There were many newspaper mentions of tunnels built by Chinese laborers in the late
1800s. They weren’t in Boise, though. The stories that mentioned the tunnels were about
mining in the mountains.
Boise had a substantial Chinese population in the late 1800s and early 1900s, but
did they build tunnels? If they didn’t, where did the myth come from? There were Chinese
tunnels, most famously in San Francisco. Portland had a network called the Shanghai
Tunnels. Los Angeles had Chinese tunnels. Did Boise?
There were underground rooms that led off basements in the Chinese
section of the city. It was said that illicit activi-
ties sometimes occurred there,
such as the smoking of opium.
However, what did not seem
to be the case was that those
rooms connected in a network
beneath the city that would allow
someone to enter at one point
and pop up blocks away.
Over the decades, utility work
in the streets of Boise uncovered
unauthorized sewers and some
underground rooms. No tunnels,
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932–
1986) was experimental and innovative and
influential. His imagery was often dreamlike,
and his themes were metaphysical. He felt
that the most crucial aspect of his creative
process was his faith. If he could genuinely
believe in the work he was doing, he was sure
he’d succeed at even the most improbable
projects. But that was a challenge for him.
“There is nothing more difficult to achieve
than a passionate, sincere, quiet faith,” he
said. In accordance with your astrological
omens during the next 12 months, Aries, I
suggest you draw inspiration from his ap-
proach. Cultivating a passionate, sincere,
quiet faith will be more attainable than it has
ever been.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
“All journeys have secret destinations of
which the traveler is unaware,” said philoso-
pher Martin Buber. How true! I would add that
the traveler is wise to prepare for the challeng-
es and opportunities of those secret destina-
tions . . . and be alert for them if they appear .
. . and treat them with welcome and respect,
not resistance and avoidance. When travelers
follow those protocols, they are far more likely
to be delightfully surprised than disappoint-
ingly surprised. Everything I just said will apply
to you in the coming weeks, Taurus.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Gemini sleight-of-hand artist Apollo
Robinson may be the best and most famous
pickpocket in the world. Fortunately, he uses
his skill for entertainment purposes only. He
doesn’t steal strangers’ money and valuables
from their pockets and purses and jackets.
On one occasion, while in the company of
former US President Jimmy Carter, he pilfered
multiple items from a secret service agent
assigned to protect Carter. He gave the items
back, of course. It was an amusing and hum-
bling lesson that inspired many law-enforce-
ment officials to seek him out as a consultant.
I suspect that in the coming weeks, you
may have comparable abilities to trick, fool,
beguile, and enchant. I hope you will use your
superpowers exclusively to carry out good
deeds and attract inviting possibilities.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
Many sportswriters regard Michael Jordan
as the greatest basketball player ever. He was
the Most Valuable Player five times and had a
higher scoring average than anyone else who
has ever played. And yet he confesses, “I have
missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I
have lost almost 300 games. And I have failed
over and over and over again in my life.” He
says the keys to his success are his familiarity
with bungles and his determination to keep
going despite his bungles. I invite you to medi-
tate on Jordan’s example in the coming days.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
In his poem “Song of Poplars,” Leo author
Aldous Huxley speaks to a stand of poplar
trees. He asks them if they are an “agony
of undefined desires.” Now I will pose the
same question to you, Leo. Are you an agony
of undefined desires? Or are you a treasury
of well-defined desires? I hope it’s the latter.
But if it’s not, the coming weeks will be an
excellent time to fix the problem. Learning to
be precise about the nature of your longings is
your growing edge, your frontier. Find out more
about what you want, please.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
Black is your lucky color for the foresee-
able future. I invite you to delve further than
ever before into its mysteries and meanings
and powers. I encourage you to celebrate
blackness and honor blackness and nurture
blackness in every way you can imagine. For
inspiration, meditate on how, in art, black is
the presence of all colors. In printing, black
is a color needed to produce other colors. In
mythology, blackness is the primal source of
all life and possibility. In psychology, black-
ness symbolizes the rich unconscious core
from which all vitality emerges.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
In the first season of the animated TV se-
ries *South Park*, its two creators produced
an episode called “Make Love, Not Warcraft.”
The story lovingly mocked nerds and the
culture of online gaming. Soon after sending
his handiwork to executive producers, Libran
co-creator Trey Parker decided it was a terrible
show that would wreck his career. He begged
for it to be withheld from broadcast. But the
producers ignored his pleas. That turned out
to be a lucky break. The episode ultimately
won an Emmy Award and became popular
with fans. I foresee the possibility of compara-
ble events in your life, Libra. Don’t be too sure
you know which of your efforts will work best.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21):
Nobel Prize-winning Scorpio author André
Gide (1869–1951) had an unusual rela-
tionship with his wife Madeline Rondeaux.
BY ROB BREZSNY
Although married for 43 years, they never
ASTROLOGY
let him weasel his way into the studio. Mc-
had sex. As long as she was alive, he never Cartney later said that he was pretty sure it
mentioned her in his extensive writings. But wasn’t the real Jesus. But if by some remote
after she died, he wrote a book about their chance it was, he said, he didn’t want to make
complex relationship. Here’s the best thing he a big mistake. I bring this to your attention,
ever said about her: “I believe it was through Aquarius, because I suspect that comparable
her that I drew the need for truthfulness and events may be brewing in your vicinity. My
sincerity.” I’d love for you to be lit up by an advice: Don’t assume you already know who
influence like Madeline Rondeaux, Scorpio. your teachers and helpers are. Here’s the rel-
I’d be excited for you to cultivate a bond with evant verse from the Bible: “Do not neglect to
a person who will inspire your longing to be show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing
disarmingly candid and refreshingly genuine. some people have entertained angels without
If there are no such characters in your life, knowing it.
go looking for them. If there are, deepen your
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
connection.
According to Professor of Classics Anne
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Carson, ancient Greek author Homer “sug-
A fashion company called Tibi sells a gested we stand in time with our backs to
silver mini dress that features thousands of the future, face to the past.” And why would
sequins. It’s also available in gold. I wonder we do that? To “search for the meaning of
if the designers were inspired by poet Mark the present—scanning history and myth for
Doty’s line: “No such thing, the queen said, a precedent.” I bring this to your attention,
as too many sequins.” In my astrological Pisces, because I think you should avoid such
estimation, the coming weeks will be a fun an approach in the coming months. In my
time to make this one of your mottoes. You view, the next chapter of your life story will be
will have a poetic license to be flashy, shiny, so new, so unpredicted, that it will have no
bold, swanky, glittery, splashy, sparkling, and antecedents, no precursory roots that might
extravagant. If expressing such themes in the illuminate its plot and meaning. Your future is
way you dress isn’t appealing, embody more unprecedented.
metaphorical versions.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
“I have pasts inside me I did not bury prop-
erly,” writes Nigerian poet Ijeoma Umebinyuo.
Isn’t that true for each of us? Don’t we all
carry around painful memories as if they were
still fresh and current? With a little work, we
could depotentize at least some of them and
consign them to a final resting place where
they wouldn’t nag and sting us anymore. The
good news, Capricorn, is that the coming
weeks will be an excellent time to do just that:
bury any pasts that you have not properly
buried before now.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
In February 1967, the Beatles recorded
their album *Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts
Club Band* in London. A man claiming to be
Jesus Christ convinced Paul McCartney to
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1 Piles 19 20 21
43 Or greater 70 Hiking aids
15 Tablet purchases
44 Fall flavoring 72 Employees who work a lot 22 23 24
19 Setting for Banff National
Park 45 Some movie-theater 73 Bit of reading near a
cashier, in brief 25 26 27 28 29
21 Dealer’s enemy concession areas
50 Shattered 76 Grasps at straws?
22 Disney film with more 30 31 32 33 34
than a million hand-drawn 51 Eateries serving small 77 Not at all
bubbles plates 78 Big name in pasta sauces 35 36 37
24 Rap’s Run-D.M.C., e.g. 52 Spoils 79 N.B.A. coach ____ Unseld
38 39 40
25 Ostrich or kangaroo 53 Up Jr.
26 Amtrak service 54 Command center 80 Badly hurt 41 42 43
27 Emulate Ella Fitzgerald 55 Multiday event, for short 81 ‘‘Capisce?’’
44 45 46 47 48 49
29 Boxer Wolfe who played 56 2017 CVS Health 82 Rail in a dance studio
Artemis in ‘‘Wonder acquisition 83 Images on some 50 51 52
Woman’’ Australian silver coins
57 Profess
30 ‘‘Yes, indeed’’ 85 V.I.P. access points 53 54 55 56
58 Tough bass part?
31 Get-together 89 Mythos
60 Really grooves with 57 58 59 60
33 Rush something 90 Nutritional plan involving
35 Clear spirit 61 Quaint locale of first-aid controlled removal of 61 62 63
supplies foods
36 Seasonal fast-food
sandwiches that aren’t 63 Valorous 91 Predator frequently 64 65 66
halal appearing in Calvin’s
64 Bhikkhunis : Buddhist daydreams in ‘‘Calvin and 67 68 69
37 ‘‘Star Trek’’ virtual-reality monastery :: ____ : Hobbes’’
chambers convent
92 Special delivery? 70 71 72 73 74 75
38 San ____ (European 65 The C of C major, e.g.
enclave)
66 Word with zone or boots 76 77 78
39 [stern glare] DOWN
67 Actor Idris
40 Italian wine region 1 Put on pretensions 79 80 81 82
68 Error message?
2 Island home to Faa’a
International Airport 83 84 85 86 87 88

3 It’s located in the middle 89 90

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4 Drones, e.g. 91 92
5 Terse confession
6 Op. ____ 31 Foretold the future 50 Small drink of whiskey 75 Talk-show slate 84 ____-positive
7 Bad person to confess 32 Certain gasket 51 Zap, in a way 76 Harped (on) movement
bad things to 86 Contest
33 Deterrent to a 54 Items at T.S.A. 77 Unfashionable
8 Twisting together pickpocket checkpoints 87 Actress Mowry of
78 Time off, for short
9 Puerto Rico’s ____ 34 Behaves like a fool, 56 Boeing competitor ‘‘Sister, Sister’’
Telescope, formerly the 81 Slightly spoiled, in a
informally 58 What the waving of a way 88 Authority,
world’s largest single- metaphorically
aperture telescope 36 Drama linked to the white flag can indicate 82 Label signing
resurgence of the 59 Business brass
10 Impersonate at a name ‘‘Betty’’ for baby
Halloween party girls 60 Reduce in rank
L A S T W E E K ’ S A N S W E R S
11 Immune system 37 Remains tightly 62 Style pioneered by
component P A T R A S C A L S P E N S E P
secured Picasso
E C O E M M Y L O U W A G E A P E
12 Vegetable in bhindi 38 Acquired family 63 Works at the cutting T H E W * E A L B U M H I T O R M I S S
masala member edge? F E T A S R O D E P O R T D I D I T
13 Lens holder 39 Actress Meyer of 66 Hot, in Havana O D O R S T N T R E M E E T A B L E
‘‘Beverly Hills 90210’’ O F T A S I S A Y P E T R I M O O R
14 Fine crystals used in food 67 Evidence of a D O O R D I E L I V E R A N * N I O N S
preparation 41 Tested the censor, say crossword solver’s R E A D S M U N I P S S T
15 Symbol of industry mistake, maybe M E T R E S L O L T H R I L L
42 Vendors of e-cigs
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43 Cruise stop additive
slope M O U N T R U S H * M O R E O R L E S S
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column and 3-by-3 box (in bold 17 They get left in the dust 69 Butcher’s offering
45 Important sales for S T A S I S N S A N O S I D E
borders) contains every digit 1 to 18 Treat on a tea trolley tray 70 Quiver
growing businesses? S H A H T H O N A D D T O
9. For strategies on how to solve
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Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk. 46 Argument
1 hit for Travis Scott) A V E R A R T I E H E P C A T U T E
Look for the answers to this 72 Give a thumbs-down
47 Totally wipes out D A Z E T O N N E S S H E S A C H S
week’s puzzles in next weeks 23 Labyrinth builder of myth 73 Bespectacled E R O D E N E S T E A A B C S H O T
printed edition. 48 Like some very old ‘‘Peanuts’’ character
28 Tarot card said to W I N O R L O S E W H I R L * D T O U R
characters
‘‘radiate’’ positivity 74 Gives a thumbs-up A C E A I M S U S R O U T E F S U
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