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 LIKE A DOLL’S EYES
Sun Valley, Idaho’s Best Ski Crew You’ve Never Heard Of
By HAYDEN SEDER
Editor’s note: The following is an
insider’s peek into one of Ketchum’s
little-known-about raucous and
debauched ski crews.
It was a cold night when men and
women from all walks of life and cliques
of Ketchum descended on a Rus-
sian-themed house party in their best
interpretation of the theme: fur coats,
babushkas, tracksuits with wife beaters
and gold chains. Cries of “nostrovia!”
were yelled as shuttles transported people
back and forth to the party. The house
burst at the seams as more and more
people arrived and passed around shots of
Revolution Vodka — the party’s sponsor
— and the live five-piece band played fun
covers in the background.
Despite the sponsorship, the shuttles,
and the amount of planning that went
into this event, it was little more than a
local’s 27th birthday party. But that local
happens to be in the notoriously fun
ski crew (or more like everything crew)
Like a Doll’s Eyes. In addition to put-
ting on events like this Russian birthday
party, LADE is known for its other wild
shenanigans like naked ski runs, backyard
gelande quaffing tournaments, nighttime
viewings of ‘80s ski porn, and indoor
broomball at the local ice-skating rink.
The name “Like a Doll’s Eyes” (often
shortened to “LADE” by those in the
know) comes from a line in the mov-
ie “Jaws:” “Sometimes that shark, he
looks right into ya. Right into your eyes.
Y’know the thing about a shark, he’s got
… lifeless eyes; black eyes, like a doll’s
eyes.” The phrase started to get tossed
around within the group when some-
one at the bars had reached the point
of having black, lifeless eyes like a doll.
One member claims to have given the
group its name, though this claim has
yet to get him laid. Since its inception
five years ago, this crew has evolved from
other, smaller crews to form a pangea of
representatives of the Sun Valley lifestyle.
There are those who grew up here; those
who moved to be ski bums; writers, law-
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yers, bankers, real estate agents, a Ph.D.
candidate, a city council member — and
ages ranging from early 20s to late 30s. Of
course, there are also pretty girls added
to the group for a week because someone
is, or is trying to, bang them. At LADE’s
core is the group text of 32 members (the
limit on a group text, thus putting a cap
on who gets a coveted spot).
“LADE is great because it’s a lot of
people I don’t actually see or talk to all
the time, but it’s a quick place you can
reach out to get a crew rallied or people
together for a good cause that you can
rely on,” said S.M., one of the group’s
original members.
Another early LADE member, A.D.,
added, “I think it’s a lot of fun but it’s also
a really healthy group to be a part of be-
cause people support each other, whether
it’s helping someone move or helping
someone find housing. It makes it even
more fun to party with the group because
it’s more than that.”
While the members are the true heart
of LADE, it’s the enthusiasm for living
HAYDEN SEDER the stoke life every day and the events
In Ketchum there is a “notoriously fun ski crew” that goes by the moniker: Like a Doll’s Eyes. that help fire that stoke that make it truly
The name came from a line in the movie “Jaws.”
noteworthy.
Each winter, LADE plays a delightful-
ly-close-to-the-original version of Game
of Gnar on the mountain, a game played
in the ski video of the same name that
gives teams points based on doing acts
“WHEN I FIRST MOVED TO KETCHUM, ALL I that range from mild (ski backwards
HEARD ABOUT WAS HOW KETCHUM USED TO BE down a run) to moderate (call your mom
while skiing a hard line) to the bold (tell a
AN AWESOME PLACE TO BE A YOUNG PERSON. pro that you’re better than them).
This last task is made easy with the
I THINK ABOUT IT NOW AND KETCHUM IS AN plethora of pros in Sun Valley like Colin
AWESOME PLACE TO BE A YOUNG PERSON AND Collins, Banks Gilberti, or Lexi Du-
Pont and the satisfaction of seeing their
I’M PROUD TO THINK THAT LADE HAS KIND confused faces after throwing shade for
no reason is part of what makes the game
OF SPEAR-HEADED THAT BY HAVING BIG, FUN, so delightful. Sometimes original GNAR
movie participant and local Spencer Cor-
INCLUSIVE EVENTS ANYONE CAN COME TO.” dovano even makes an appearance. The
— A.D., LADE MEMBER first year that LADE played the game, the
group of roughly 30 who partici-
pated made the cover of the local 6
paper The Weekly Sun.
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In addition to putting on events like a Russian-themed birthday party, LADE is known for its other wild shenanigans like naked ski runs
While Game of Gnar is certainly
4 a winter treat, LADE maintains
their status as an epic ski crew by
partying on the mountain each and
every day, giving new meaning to “first
chair, last call.” Powder day lift line–wait-
ing begins at 7:30 a.m. complete with
chairs, blankets, and a grill for making
breakfast. Most days end with what’s
locally (and I’m guessing on most ski
mountains) referred to as “3:30 club” in
which everyone drinks beer at the top of
the mountain at 3:30 until the ski patrol
comes around and orders everyone off the
mountain. The 3:30 club run down the
mountain will often include many stops
for more alcohol (and maybe a toke), the
passing around of volleyballs and Frisbees
if it’s spring, and an attempt to take the
longest route down as possible to achieve
the status of “last skier on the mountain.”
“I can’t put my finger on what makes it
special or unique, but I know it is,” says
OG LADE member M.F. “The mountain
community is magical sometimes.”
Throughout the year there are a
variety of events — some planned, some
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that’s become a rarity in the millennial
generation. Often these events take place
at LADE’s unofficial clubhouse and hole-
in-the-wall Grumpy’s. This notorious
Ketchum beer-drinking spot is on the
map to the extent that it’s often cited in
profiles of Ketchum but remains simul-
taneously off the map in that it doesn’t
have a phone. Seriously. It serves burgers
and beer, usually in a schooner which is
a full 32-ounces of beer that no visit to
Ketchum is complete without. Events in-
clude weekly Friday night meet-ups com-
plete with rousing drinking games and
song requests on the jukebox, an annual
Christmas party, and a spring Grumpy’s
Prom where LADE members, their dates,
and anyone who wants to come descend
upon the small establishment in limos,
campers, trucks and bikes in their ‘80s
prom best and dance the night away.
When asked about his favorite mem-
ories, M.F. couldn’t pick just one, rather
cherishing all of them. “They all involve
a phenomenal crew of 5-100 people,
sunshine/snow/both, laughs (tears
from laughing so hard) and oodles and
oodles of joy.”
There you have it, the insider guide
to one of Sun Valley’s best ski crews —
though as a member, I’m fairly biased.
Keep your eyes peeled this winter for
that guy or gal cooking up sausages on
a hibachi grill in the lift line or someone
HAYDEN SEDER
yelling that they’re the best skier on the
and backyard gelande quaffing tournaments, like the one pictured above. mountain: you may have just spotted
Like a Doll’s Eyes.
impromptu — ranging from birthday
HAYDEN SEDER
scavenger hunts through town, renting At LADE’s core is the group text of 32 members (the limit on a group text,
out the local indoor skating rink for thus putting a cap on who gets a coveted spot).
some epic broomball, or just getting
together to dine with the finest for “mus-
sels a go-go,” an all-you-can-eat mussel
extravaganza at French eatery Michel’s
Christiania. But Out Cold Weekend is
a yearly tradition that many would call
LADE’s best as it ushers in the beginning
of the ski season. Held over a weekend in
November, Out Cold weekend includes
ski movie viewings (including, obvious-
ly, “Out Cold”), night sledding, and the
epic, all-day gelande quaffing tourna-
ment. With names like For Whom the
Beer Tolls, teams of four are assembled
in their ‘80s ski best for a daylong tour-
ney in a LADE member’s backyard. Ev-
eryone’s a winner at this event with most
so drunk there’s no choice but to either
go home and crash or continue to the
bars to ensure the buzz is maintained.
LADE also throws the best parties,
hands down, owing mostly to the fact
that the crew is willing to put in the work
to make the parties happen, something
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LEX EATS LOCAL:
THE SUNSHINE WHEN
HE’S GONE
At Sunshine Spice Bakery & Cafe, four sisters share Afghan
cuisine in their father’s memory

By LEX NELSON Although the Taliban features heavily in

Boise’s Sunshine Spice Bakery & Cafe is Homyra’s childhood memories, that trau-
filled with art, but perhaps the most mean- ma doesn’t undercut her love of Afghan
ingful piece in its sea of handmade jewelry, culture. No matter where they lived, the
ceramics, and drawings is a small painting Shams family carried a piece of Afghan-
of a middle-aged Afghan man hanging istan with them. They spoke their native
behind the counter. It’s a portrait of Seyed language of Dari at home and cooked
Amir Muhammad Shams — the father of traditional meals like aash (noodle soup)
the cafe’s four owners, sisters Homeyra, and mantoo (savory dumplings). The four
Bahar S. Amir, Khatera, and Narges. refugee sisters opened Sunshine Spice to
Without Seyed Amir Muhammad’s share their heritage and uplift those left LEX NELSON
strong principles, Sunshine Spice behind in their home country. Passionfruit and pistachio tart at Sunshine Spice Bakery & Cafe.
wouldn’t exist. “First, our intention was to create a
“We left Afghanistan because my father place that could help us and also help
was like, ‘I want my daughters to be educat- women in Afghanistan,” Homyra said. But the supply isn’t enough to fulfill the of COVID-19], but it was really hard for
ed, finish their schooling, and be [people] The bakery’s name, “Sunshine Spice’’ is Shams’ latest dream: launching their own us to stay at home and live with my dad’s
who can help the community and be help- an homage to the saffron the Shams sisters saffron green tea brand to further benefit memory. It was really hard, so we had to
ful in this world,’” said Homyra Shams. import from Afghanistan with the help of Afghan women. come to work and keep ourselves busy,”
At 29, Homyra is the youngest of five Sadeqa and her daughter. Buying the spice “We even made the boxes for it. We Homyra said.
Shams sisters, four of whom run Sunshine helps create jobs for Afghan women. were almost getting them out, and then Walking into Sunshine Spice, it’s clear
Spice. She was born in Afghanistan in the “In Afghanistan when women lose their the Taliban came,” Homyra said. that the Shams sisters have taken great
‘90s and was just 2 or 3 years old when the husbands to war, illness, or anything else If things don’t change in Afghanistan care with every aspect of the eatery, from
Taliban seized power in 1996. The oldest they become widows and then their family soon, Sunshine Spice may have to source the painstakingly crafted opera cakes and
of the Shams sisters, Sadeqa, was already a will not accept them. So they will be all by saffron from another country. Meanwhile, passionfruit and pistachio tarts in the
doctor and decided to stay in the country themselves with the kids, so they have to the sisters are helping their fellow refugees case — which look worthy of a French
to help her patients. But find a way to work. And in other ways. They collect winter clothes patisserie — to the paintings, hand-let-
the rest of the family the saffron field is one for local refugees and send a portion of tered Afghan special menu, and mural of
fled, immigrating to of the opportunities that their profits to Sadeqa in Afghanistan, a woman’s profile on one wall. Every sister
Iran, Turkey and finally SUNSHINE SPICE BAKERY & CAFE women [have to] work, along with customer donations collected lends her talents to the cafe differently:
the United States to 6911 W. Fairview Ave. because only women in a box at the register. She has used the Bahar develops recipes and does the food
escape the Taliban’s Boise, ID 83704 work in saffron fields,” money to support more than 15 families photography, Khatera is the chef and
forced child marriages Open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday; Homyra said. impacted by the Taliban. barista, Homyra manages the front-of-
and ban on education 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday-Sunday; When the Taliban Seyed Amir Muhammad Shams house and Narges runs the kitchen.
for women. closed Mondays retook control of passed away in 2020 from sudden car- “Because we moved to different coun-
“‘Girls 14 or over Afghanistan in August diac arrest, but he lived to see his four tries we didn’t get to make friends, so we
should marry,’ that’s 2021, Sunshine Spice’s daughters attend college at Boise State were kind of like each other’s friends. We
what they said. But imports ground to a University and open Sunshine Spice in have always been together,” Homyra said
my dad was like, ‘No, I can’t do this to my halt. The regime forced Sadeqa to stop December 2019. Continuing to run the of her sisters.
daughters; I want them to get educated.’ her hospital work, and exporting saffron cafe in his absence has been hard, Ho- Pre-COVID, Homyra and Narges also
He was a car mechanic in Afghanistan. He became too dangerous for her daughter. myra said, especially because COVID-19 invited local artists to hang their work in
had his own business, so we sold every- For now, Sunshine Spice has enough forced Sunshine Spice to close for five the bakery, but contributions slowed down
thing and then moved to Iran,” Homyra saffron on hand for its signature dishes months. But Seyed Amir Muhammad’s as the pandemic raged. For now, their own
remembered. like saffron lattes, saffron green tea, and memory pushed the sisters to reopen art in a variety of mediums lines the walls,
The Shams family arrived in Idaho in saffron pudding — a chilled dessert made and gave them fresh purpose. including Homyra’s portrait of their father.
2003 and learned to read, write, and speak from whole milk, rosewater, corn starch, “When we lost my dad we knew that Even in death, he’s behind the register
English. sugar, saffron, pistachio, and cardamom. we wouldn’t have business here [because cheering on his daughters’ success.

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 NOISE

BARBARA GUANAES ALBUM COVER BY GUSTAVO PIRES

Oruã is a Brazilian band with close ties to Boise. Oruã’s new album “Íngreme” came out Friday, October 29.

BRAZILIAN BAND ORUÃ DROPS NEW ALBUM ‘ÍNGREME’

By TRACY BRINGHURST harder sounding garage guitar. However, the band also
Oruã is a Brazilian band with close ties to Boise — has a bit of a funk feeling at times, moving in and around
they toured with Doug Martsch as Built to Spill in 2019. different beats.
The lead singer, Lê Almeida, makes a lot of music and “The lyrics for the most part deal with, reflect and pro-
the band has a new album titled “Íngreme,” that came pose thinking about some differences … social and racial,”
out on Oct. 29. said Almeida. “Some with a view from different perspec-
“I started recording this album in 2019, the year my tives and a better world, and some with wilder ones, almost
life took a giant turn. I was on a huge tour playing drums curses or prayers, in general it’s for morale to raise.”
with Built to Spill, a band that I’ve spent a good part of The band also launched a new video people can watch
my life listening to a lot and in no kind of dream would on Youtube.
I have imagined being a part of,” said Almeida in a
press release. “In the middle of the tour with BTS I was
putting together a series of recordings, things that gave
us paths. From these tracks we were arranging the new
lineup. Daniel Duarte, who had played on the first album, WE’RE NOT LATE —
returned to the band, which had two drums again. Bigú
Medine started playing bass and JC took over the synths,
mpc and arrangements. The base of the steep existed WE’VE MOVED!
before we came to live in Búzios, but it was living in a
calmer and greener region that the diamond was cut with
care and dedication. This was the first record I mixed in a
notebook. The previous ones were made on cassette tape.”
Look for BOISEWEEKLY
The album is available on Bandcamp and the band’s
website, Tranfusion Noise Records. The cover art is by at your favorite pickup
Gustavo Pires. It was recorded and mixed by Lê Almei-
da and João Casaes and mastered by Daniel Duarte at
Estúdio Terra. spot now on
The band’s original drummer Phil Fernandes left Oruã
and was replaced by Karin Santa Rosa. This album has 10
songs and flows very well. Almeida has a higher-pitched
THURSDAYS.
voice that always sounds good against the backdrop of

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NEWS
Left: With the Lost Diary Project, Kendal Brenneman attempts to reunite diaries to their families. The diary of Twila Montgomery details her life in Idaho circa 1946. In the diary she talks about her cousin
Homer Renfrow (pictured). Center: The Lost Diary Project’s most recent series follows Twila Montgomery chronicling day-to-day life in 1946 Idaho. Right: Kendal Brenneman’s most recent find for the Lost
THE LOST DIARY PROJECT
SETS ITS SIGHTS TO 1946 IDAHO
By BOWEN WEST
Kendal Brenneman isn’t a historian
but she’s found herself trying to solve a
puzzle from 1946.
Originally trained as an actor, she be-
gan buying diaries at thrift stores or off
eBay to discover interesting characters
from the past. When she started to dive
into the journals she found people and
stories that time has forgotten.
That’s when she started the Lost
Diary Project.
“Mostly when we read history books
we read about the important people
and events,” Brenneman said. “There
are so many people that disappear. I
got sad thinking we can just disappear
like that. Through these journals, we
can remember their lives and who they
were. We get to remember them.”
The Lost Diary Project is a mission
to rescue diaries, figure out who they
belonged to and reunite them with
their families. In part, it serves a way
for Brenneman to flex her acting mus-
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Diary Project is the diary of Twila Montgomery and her life in 1946 Idaho.
cles and entertain listeners with read-
ings about people from all walks of life.
It’s also an opportunity for Brenneman
to play detective.
While reading through the entries
she pieces together the various infor-
mation, the names, dates and events, all
in the hopes of contacting descendants
of the diary writers.
“I’ve got this puzzle piece and I’ve
got to find the rest of the puzzle,”
Brenneman said.
The Lost Diary Project had its first
success on Oct. 20 with reuniting
the 1931 diary of Marcus Marquard
with his New York family. Now,
Brenneman hopes to have a new suc-
cess story with her most recent diary
find — the 1946 diary of a young
woman living in Idaho.
The diary belonged to Twila Mont-
gomery, who was 18 years old at the
time of the 1946 journaling. Her writ-
ings dive into the mundane — getting
out of the school assemblies, traveling
COURTESY OF KENDAL BRENNEMAN
from Idaho to Oregon, her first dance
with a boy. It’s the minute details that
flesh out the person forgotten by time
— the ongoing challenge Montgomery
had with getting history homework in
on time and the way she writes sup-
posed as “suspose.”
Placing where Montgomery lived is
difficult. There are mentions of north-
ern and southern Idaho. The search for
her descendants could be a statewide
search.
“These diaries are just things that
happened — they aren’t leading up to
anything,” Brenneman said. “I guess it’s
stuff that doesn’t matter to world histo-
ry. It’s insignificant to most people but
they matter to the person writing it.”
Brenneman has yet to find the living
descendants of Twila Montgomery.
Brenneman’s diary readings can be
found on her Youtube channel. To have
access to all the diary reading videos
and PDF scans of every diary visit
buymeacoffee.com/kendalbrenneman.
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Friends of the Boise Public Library
Fall Sale
@ 10am
Nov 4th - Nov 6th
Boise Public Library, 715 South Capitol
Boulevard. kaylavchurch@gmail.com
Featured
Hand Turkeys and other Poultry- Treasure Valley Therapy Open
based Arts and Crafts! House
@ 5pm @ 5pm
Meriwether Cider House and Meriwether Treasure Valley Therapy, 1655 West
Taproom, 224 N 9th Street and 5242 Chin‐ Fairview Avenue, Suite 200A. treasureval
den Blvd. ann@meriwethercider.com, 970- leytherapy@gmail.com, 208-352-0370
260-2965

Albertsons Turkey Roundup - Adult Comedy Night Featuring the

November 4 November First Thursday Improv Insanity Troup
@ 5pm @ 8pm / $15
@ 10am
1322 W Main St, 1322 West Main Street. PLAYHOUSE BOISE, 8001 FAIRVIEW,
Albertsons Market Street & Other Loca‐
sales@deliadante.com, 208-810-6240 BOISE
tions, 3499 East Fairview Avenue, Merid‐
ian. aliciab@BoiseRM.org, 208-461-5030
Dorothy Hamilton Leithauser and Kevin
@ 7pm Morby
Featured Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glen‐ @ 8pm / $25-$75
wood St, Garden City Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise,
416 S 9th St
Rival Sons
@ 7pm Wavves, Flaural, CMMNWLTH
Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glen‐ @ 8:30pm / $20
wood St, Garden City Neurolux Lounge, 111 North 11th Street

Trivia with Game Night Live at Mad

Idaho Dance theatre Presents: Featured
Swede Brewing
@ 7pm Follow Your Passion,
Mad Swede Brewing Company, 2772 November 4-7, BSU Special
South Cole Road. info@madswedebrew Events Center
ing.com, 208-922-6883
@ 7:30pm / $20
Nov 4th - Nov 7th
Halestorm Special Events Center. info@idaho
@ 7pm
dancetheatre.org, 208-331-9592 Femme Von Follies !!
Revolution Center, ExtraMile Arena
Extravaganza !!
The BrewHaHa Comedy Open Mic
Fri 11/05 @ 9pm / $20
November First Thursday @ 8pm Lethal Force Gun Laws 2021 Nov 5th - Nov 6th
@ 4pm Mad Swede Brew Hall, 816 West Bannock Tactics & Strategies Conference Visual Arts Collective (VAC), 3638
Capitol Contemporary Gallery, 451 Street. info@madswedebrewing.com, 208- @ 8am / $3995 Osage Street, Garden City. fem
South Capitol Boulevard. capitol 514-2187 Nov 5th - Nov 8th mevonfollies@gmail.com, 208-
contemporarygallery@gmail.com, The Riverside Hotel, 2900 West Chinden 999-2263
208-384-9159 Boulevard, Garden City. glenda@oldschool
The Brew Haha Comedy Open Mic gunschool.com, 360-378-1776
First Thursday at the Idaho State
@ 8pm / Free
Mad Swede Brew Hall, 816 West Bannock
Sat 11/06
Museum Street First Friday Noodle Night w/ Crisp Laurel Tilzey
@ 5pm @ 5pm @ 9am
Idaho State Museum, 610 Julia Davis Barbarian Brewing, 5270 West Chinden Zion Lutheran School, 1012 12th Avenue
Drive. alison.espindola@ishs.idaho.gov, Boulevard, Garden City. Christy@barbarian Road, Nampa. vltilzey@hotmail.com, 208-
208-780-5194 brewing.com 463-9208

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Sensory Safari Idaho State Museum Ensemble

@ 9:30am
Children’s Museum of Idaho, 790 South
Progress Avenue, Meridian. info@cmi
daho.org, 208-345-1920
Hollapalooza
@ 10am
Center At The Park, 1920 North Records
Avenue, Meridian. boisezodiacevents@
gmail.com
WalkAbout Boise Historic Walking
Tour
@ 10am / $12
Basque Museum and Cultural Center, 611
West Grove Street. gaby@preservation
idaho.org, 208-353-2011
MEN
@ 10am
Revolution Concert House, 4983 N Glen‐
wood St, Garden City
Music Series: Luke Carter & Danny Mon 11/08 Thu 11/11
RESILIA Foundation 3 Days Trivia with Game Night Live at Mad
Beal
@ 7pm / $30 Training in Boise, ID Swede Brewing
Idaho State Museum, 610 Julia Davis @ 9am / $1,995-$1,695 @ 7pm
Drive. alison.espindola@ishs.idaho.gov, Regus - Idaho, Boise - Boise Downtown, Mad Swede Brewing Company, 2772
208-780-5194 950 West Bannock Street, #Suite 1100 South Cole Road. info@madswedebrew
ing.com, 208-922-6883
Lilly Hiatt
Editor's Pick The BrewHaHa Comedy Open Mic
@ 7pm
Meridian Symphony presents "The @ 8pm
The Olympic Venue, 1009 Main St
3 B's .... and Beyond" Mad Swede Brew Hall, 816 West Bannock
@ 7:30pm / $12 Street. info@madswedebrewing.com, 208-
514-2187
Centennial High School Performing Arts Tue 11/09
Center, 12400 West McMillan Road. info@
meridiansymphony.org, 208-891-2721 Surfbort
Featured @ 8pm
The Shredder, 430 S 10th St
Editor's Pick
Boise Phil Musical Masterpieces Granger Smith feat. Earl Dibbles Jr.
@ 7:30pm / $31.68 @ 8pm / $27.50-$75
Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise,
Lane. tickets@boisephil.org, 208-344-7849 416 S 9th St

Tropical Latin Party The Garden

@ 8pm / $10-$20 @ 8pm / $16-$18
Featured The Shredder, 430 S. 10th St
Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise,
416 S 9th St
Hasan Minhaj: The King's Levitation Room, Triptides
Deserta @ 8:30pm / $13
Jester Neurolux Lounge, 111 North 11th Street
@ 8pm @ 7:30pm / $37.50-$67.50
The Olympic Venue, 1009 Main St
Morrison Center for the Perform‐
ing Arts, 2201 W Cesar Chavez Fri 11/12
Alacranes Musical
Lane
@ 9pm Featured
Colombia Event Center, 3801 S Lake Ave,
Whiskey Myers with The Steel
Caldwell
Woods [TUESDAY]
@ 8pm / $27.50
Sun 11/07 Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise,
Sunset at the Zoo - Adult Boise Phil Musical Masterpieces
416 S. 9th St.
Program @ 2pm / $31.68
@ 4pm / $12 Brandt Center, 707 Fern Street, Nampa. Schizophonics
Zoo Boise, 355 Julia Davis Drive. tickets@boisephil.org, 208-344-7849 @ 8:30pm / $8 Wintry Market
Neurolux Lounge, 111 North 11th Street @ 6pm / $5
jagosta@cityofboise.org
Jeff Dunham: Seriously Nov 12th - Nov 14th
Harvest Dinner at The Bishops' @ 3pm / $48.50
House - Tri�es by the Boise Bard ExtraMile Arena, 1401 Bronco Lane Wed 11/10 Boise Centre, 850 West Front
Street. hello@wintrymarket.com,
Players and Old Pen presentation Whiskey Myers with The Steel
208-409-8282
@ 6:30pm / $50 Colossal Cinematic Showcase Woods [WEDNESDAY]
2420 Old Penitentiary Rd, 2420 Old Peni‐ @ 4pm / $15 @ 8pm / $27.50 Pinata Protest
tentiary Road. ameliamberg@thebishop Country Club Reel Theatre, 4550 West Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise, @ 7pm
shouse.org, 208-342-3279 Overland Road. colossalcs@gmail.com 416 S. 9th St. The Shredder, 430 S 10th St

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All Together Now Far Out West PROVOKER & DEATH BELLS, Sick We The Kingdom
@ 7pm / $10 @ 8pm Wish @ 7pm
Columbia Performing Arts Center, 301 The Olympic Venue, 1009 Main St @ 8pm / $15 Brandt Center, 707 Fern St, Nampa
South Happy Valley Road, Nampa. gcal Neurolux Lounge, 111 North 11th Street
houn@nsd131.org, 208-869-0583
Strange Hotels Creeping Death
@ 8pm @ 7pm
Oedipus Tremendous The Olympic Venue, 1009 Main St
Tue 11/16 The Shredder, 430 S 10th St
@ 7:30pm / $20 Idaho Job & Career Fair
Danny Peterson Theatre at the Morrison @ 2pm Bewitcher
Center, 2201 W Cesar Chavez Lane Pink Sweat$ Courtyard by Marriott Boise West/Merid‐ @ 7pm
@ 8pm ian, 1789 South Eagle Road, Meridian. info The Shredder, 430 S 10th St
The Powell Brothers Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S 9th @ibleventsinc.com, 208-376-0464
@ 8pm St Oedipus Tremendous
Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S 9th Yung Gravy: $uicideboy$ Greyday @ 7:30pm / $20
St Tour Danny Peterson Theatre at the Morrison
Featured @ 6pm Center, 2201 W Cesar Chavez Lane
Granger Smith feat. Earl Dibbles Jr. Ford Idaho Center Arena, 16200 Idaho
@ 8pm / $27.50-$75 Center Blvd, Nampa Bangarang
Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise, @ 8:15pm
416 S 9th St Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S 9th
JJ Wilde: Play Loud Tour
@ 7pm St
Sat 11/13 Knitting Factory Concert House, 416 S 9th
St Smokepurpp
Boise Sports Card & Memorabilia @ 8:15pm / $35-$120
Show Knitting Factory Concert House - Boise,
@ 9am 416 S 9th St
The Riverside Hotel, 2900 West Chinden
Featured
Boulevard, Garden City. mpvannoy@
aol.com, 208-941-6019 Thu 11/18
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked
WalkAbout Boise Historic Walking The World Documentary Screening
Tour @ 6pm / $8
@ 10am / $12 Idaho State Museum, 610 Julia Davis
Basque Museum and Cultural Center, 611 Shy Boys Drive. alison.espindola@ishs.idaho.gov,
West Grove Street. gaby@preservation @ 8:30pm 208-780-5194
idaho.org, 208-353-2011 Neurolux Lounge, 111 N 11th St
The Price Is Right Live Trivia with Game Night Live at Mad
King of Glory Holiday Bazaar He/lium She/lium @ 7:30pm / $42-$62 Swede Brewing
@ 10am @ 8:30pm Morrison Center for the Perform‐ @ 7pm
King of Glory Lutheran Church, 3430 North Neurolux, 111 N 11th St Mad Swede Brewing Company, 2772
ing Arts, 2201 W Cesar Chavez
Maple Grove Road. MaryKay.Tinker@ South Cole Road. info@madswedebrew
aol.com Lane
ing.com, 208-922-6883
Sun 11/14 $UICIDEBOY$
Boise Phil Youth Orchestra - Fall @ 9pm Oedipus Tremendous
Concert Oedipus Tremendous Ford Idaho Event Center, Nampa @ 7:30pm / $20
@ 2pm / $20
@ 2pm / $10 Danny Peterson Theatre at the Morrison
Danny Peterson Theatre at the Morrison
Morrison Center, 2201 West Cesar Chavez Center, 2201 W Cesar Chavez Lane
Lane. tickets@boisephil.org, 208-344-7849
Center, 2201 W Cesar Chavez Lane Wed 11/17
CandyCane Lane On-Line Auction The BrewHaHa Comedy Open Mic
Oedipus Tremendous Lynn Tredeau Solo Piano: Snake @ 9am @ 8pm
@ 7:30pm / $20 River Concert Nov 17th - Nov 19th Mad Swede Brew Hall, 816 West Bannock
Danny Peterson Theatre at the Morrison @ 3:30pm Nampa. stpaulsclwnampa@gmail.com, Street. info@madswedebrewing.com, 208-
Center, 2201 W Cesar Chavez Lane House Concert, Givens Hot Springs 208-989-5001 514-2187

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your best friend! I get dent girl who loves to ex-
so excited to say hi and plore and take naps in a
love getting attention! I comfy bed. Katniss can
am big and strong and be a little unsure about
very smart. I have been new people, but loves to
around dogs in the past get scratches and pets
and have done well, but and would prefer to be
I do love to play. the only pet.
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FRANK SINATRA “You RINGO “You can’t buy
are all I long for, all I me love” but that’s
worship and adore.” what you’ll get when
That’s how I’ll feel if you you adopt my brother,
bring me and my brother, Frank Sinatra, and me.
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Welp, it’s that time of the year again when
actual real daylight is at a premium.
Come Sunday it’ll be time to set our clocks
back, pulling the shade on our rush hour
mornings. And soon, it’ll be dark before clock-
ing out time, too.
With the darkness can come the blues.
Seasonal affective disorder is real. According
to mayoclinic.org, “seasonal affective disorder
(SAD) is a type of depression that’s related to
changes in seasons — SAD begins and ends at
FREYJA A lovely gal who
about the same times every year. If you’re like
loves to be the queen of
the castle. She loves her most people with SAD, your symptoms start in
catnip but doesn’t like
to share and will need the fall and continue into the winter months, sap-
to be the only cat in the
ping your energy and making you feel moody.”
home. Would love to
snuggle with her family The Mayo Clinic, like a number of other SAD
and watch movies!
experts, recommends treatment for those who
experience the yearly depression. One of the eas-
iest and least expensive is light therapy, bringing
sunshine back in to brighten our days.
One of the highest rated SAD lamps is the
Carex Daylight Plus light therapy lamp.
You can get it on amazon.com for $114.95.
It comes with a glare-free screen and a flexible
angle stand.
If you are one who is affected by the impend-
ing darkness coming our way, “don’t brush off
that yearly feeling as simply a case of the ‘winter
blues’” or a seasonal funk that you have to tough
out on your own,” says the Mayo Clinic.
Bring in some (artifical) sunshine to light
MISS MARY I’m a girl
with many names. Some up your world — at least until the real stuff
people call me Mama
Mary or Lil Miss Mary. comes back.
I got that nickname
because I like to chat. I — J.H.
am a loving cat and I will
never say no to pets.
DEAR BEN,
I have never
loved some-
one the way
I loved you.
You made me
want to be
vulnerable and
I let myself trust
and love you. In
a way, you brought
me back to life. I had
been so closed off for so
long and at times I told myself I wasn’t worthy of being
loved and wouldn’t ever get married or have a child.
Loving you made me see that I am worthy, and my
dreams of love and family are possible.
Unfortunately, due to some addiction and mental ill-
ness, we will not be starting that family together. I was
angry that you hid those sides of yourself from me and
ultimately the anger and distrust led to our demise. I
am no longer angry and instead I have compassion for
you. It had to be hard to want to share those parts of
yourself with someone but pretending to be someone
you thought I wanted had to be exhausting, too. I have
never had the struggles you are facing, and I feel for
you and the long road you have ahead. You deserve
to have all your dreams come true and I hope that you
get the help you need so that those become a reality.
The dreams we had for a future together are no more,
but because of the way you loved me, I know those
dreams can still come true for me.
Thank you for sharing the last year of my life with
me. I will never forget the way you made me feel and
how you helped me love myself again. I’ll treasure all
the memories I have of us together and the adven-
tures and travels we shared. You made me step out
of my comfort zone and explore places and parts of
myself I didn’t know existed. My life is better because
you were in it.
You have a long journey ahead of you and I hope
that on good and bad days you will remember that I
loved you and will care for and support you, always. I
know who you are and what you are capable of. You
are a strong man and can overcome any obstacle put
in your way. I’m sorry I wasn’t strong enough to walk
beside you. Please know how hard it was to walk away
from you. You will always be one the greatest loves of
my life.
Love, A.S.
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 RADIO BOISE TOP 10 NEW ALBUMS REDISCOVERED BOOKS TOP 10 RECORD EXCHANGE TOP 10
11/04/21 BEST SELLERS ALBUMS 11/04/2021
1. “Sympathy For Life,” Parquet 10/25–31/2021 1. “A Love Supreme:
Courts 1. “Cloud Cuckoo Land,” Anthony Doerr, Live in Seattle,” John
Simon & Schuster, 2021 Coltrane
2. “Mercurial World,” Magdalena Bay
2. “Dune,” Frank Herbert, Ace, 2005.
3. “Things Take Time, Take Time,” 2. “Let It Be Special Edition,” The Beatles
3. “Stories Behind the Stories: The
Courtney Barnett Remarkable Tales Behind Your 3. “My Morning Jacket,” My Morning Jacket
4. “Baby Don’t Cry,” Sunflower Bean Favorite Kid’s Book,” Danielle Higley & Stephanie Miles, 4. “White Blood Cells 20th Anniversary,” The
Bushel & Peck, 2021.
5. “Queens,” Aeon Station White Stripes
4. “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big Shot (Diary of a Wimpy Kid #16),”
6. “Et Hop,” Corridor Jeff Kinney, Abrams, 2021. 5. “Faces,” Mac Miller
7. “La Luz,” La Luz 5. “The Song of Achilles,” Madeline Miller, Ecco, 2012 6. “Sympathy for Life,” Parquet Courts
6. “The House in the Cerulean Sea,” TJ Klune, Tor, 2020.
8. “Year Of The Spider,” Shannon and the Clams 7. “Tattoo You 40th Anniversary,” The Rolling
7. “The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We
Stones
9. “The Last Dance,” St. Paul and the Broken Bones Can Prosper Together,”

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Heather McGhee, One 8. “Future Past,” Duran Duran
10. “Ookii Gekkou,” Vanishing Twin
World, 2021. 9. “Radical,”
8. “The Stahl House: Case

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Every Time I
Study House #22, The
Making of a Modernist
Die
Icon,” Bruce Stahl, Shari 10. “A View
Stahl Gronwald, Kim From the
Cross, Chronicle Chroma, Top of the
2021.
World,”
9. “Bookshop of
Dust and Dreams,” Mindy
Dream
Thompson, Viking, 2021. Theater
10. “Bear is a
Bear,” Jonathan
Stutzman, Balzer & Bray/
Harperteen, 2021.

Rick Just’s
HISTORY CORNER MMM... ART
Flying M’s artist of the month is Kim Rust
SEN. FRED T. DUBOIS
Did you every have to make up your mind?
There have been 21 U.S. Senators who have switched parties while serving since 1890.
Idaho Senator Fred T. Dubois was the switchiest of them all.
Dubois was elected as a Republican in 1890, the year Idaho became a state. He served
a six-year term, and even headed the state’s delegation to the Republican National Conven-
tion in 1892 and 1896.
At that 1896 convention, there was a major split in the Republican Party. The “Silver
Republicans” were in favor of an expansionary monetary policy, the core of which was the
minting of silver coins on demand, moving away from a gold-backed currency. It was a popu-
lar idea in Idaho where silver was plentiful. Dubois and other pro-silver Republicans left the
convention in protest, forming their own party. He lost his 1896 bid for reelection.
As the century turned, Dubois led Idaho’s Silver
Republicans into a coalition with
the Democrats. He became a
rising star in the Democratic PHOTO S C OURTESY OF FLYING M/ KIM RU ST

Party. Even so, he ran as a Silver Just in time for First Thursday is Flying M’s
Republican in 1900, and won. artist of the month, Kim Rust. Her show is
He was a Silver Republican when titled “Glassriver Mosaics.” Rust was an art
he was sworn in but switched to teacher for 25 years in Winnemucca, Nevada.
the Democratic party soon after. “Each summer I would pack up my art
Dubois served one term as a supplies and the dog and head to Lowman,
Democrat, from 1901 to 1907, Idaho,” Rust wrote in her bio. “I spent my
and did not seek reelection. days making mosaics and being outside in
the forest. My work reflects the love I have
for the outdoors and the joy I felt teaching
art to my students. It never felt like a job but
more like playing! I travelled to Ravenna,
Italy to study traditional methods of mosaics.
I was influenced by the use of mosaics in
architecture and formal art during my visit
and much of my work is decorative and
functional as a result.”
Her work features mirrors, plaques and
signs that are made from ceramics and
stained glass. People can see Rust’s art all
month long on exhibit at the downtown Boise
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Are you still hoping to heal from
psychological wounds that you rarely
speak about? May I suggest that you
consider speaking about them in the
coming weeks? Not to just anyone and
everyone, of course, but rather to allies
who might be able to help you generate
at least a partial remedy. The moment
is ripe, in my opinion. Now is a favorable
time for you to become actively involved
in seeking cures, fixes, and solace. Life
will be more responsive than usual to
such efforts.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20):
“The delights of self-discovery are
always available,” writes author Gail
Sheehy. I will add that those delights
will be extra accessible for you in the
coming weeks. In my view, you’re in a
phase of super-learning about your-
self. You will attract help and support
if you passionately explore myster-
ies and riddles that have eluded your
understanding. Have fun surprising and
entertaining yourself, Taurus. Make it
your goal to catch a new glimpse of your
hidden depths every day.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20):
Gemini novelist and philosopher
Muriel Barbery says, “I find this a
fascinating phenomenon: the ability we
have to manipulate ourselves so that
the foundation of our beliefs is never
shaken.” In the coming weeks, I hope
you will overcome any tendency you
might have to manipulate yourself in
such a way. In my view, it’s crucial for
your mental and spiritual health that
you at least question your belief system‚
and perhaps even risk shaking its
foundation. Don’t worry: Even if doing so
ushers in a period of uncertainty, you’ll
be much stronger for it in the long run.
More robust and complete beliefs will be
available for you to embrace.
CANCER (June 21-July 22):
In her book *Mathilda*, novelist
Mary Shelley (1797-1851) has the
main character ask, “What had I to
love?” And the answer? “Oh, many
things: there was the moonshine,
and the bright stars; the breezes and
the refreshing rains; there was the
whole earth and the sky that covers
it.” I bring this to your attention in the
hope of inspiring you to make your
own tally of all the wonders you love. I
trust your inventory will be at least ten
times as long as Mathilda’s. Now is a
favorable time for you to gather all the
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healing that can come from feeling
waves of gratitude, even adoration,
for the people, animals, experiences,
situations, and places that rouse your
interest and affection and devotion.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22):
Our memories are always chang-
ing. Whenever we call up a specific
remembrance, it’s different from
the last time we visited that same
remembrance‚ colored by all the new
memories we have accumulated in
the meantime. Over time, an event
we recall from when we were nine
years old has gone through a great
deal of shape-shifting in our memory
so much so that it may have little
resemblance to the first time we
remembered it. Is this a thing to be
mourned or celebrated? Maybe some
of both. Right now, though, it’s to be
celebrated. You have extra power to
declare your independence from any
memories that don’t make you feel
good. Why hold onto them if you can’t
even be sure they’re accurate?
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22):
In 1962, astronaut John Glenn
became the first American to orbit the
Earth in a spacecraft. His flight marked
the first time that NASA, the agency in
charge of spaceflight, had ever used
electronic computers. Glenn, who was
also an engineer, wanted the very best
person to verify the calculations, and
that was Virgo mathematician Kath-
erine Johnson. In fact, Glenn said he
wouldn’t fly without her involvement. I
bring this to your attention, Virgo, be-
cause I believe the coming months will
be a favorable time for you to garner
the kind of respect and recognition
that Katherine Johnson got from John
Glenn. Make sure everyone who needs
to know does indeed know about your
aptitudes and skills.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22):
According to an Apache proverb,
“It is better to have less thunder in
the mouth and more lightning in the
hand.” If you act on that counsel in
the coming weeks, you will succeed in
doing what needs to be done. There is
only one potential downfall you could
be susceptible to, in my view, and that
is talking and thinking too much about
the matter you want to accomplish
before you actually take action to
accomplish it. All the power you need
will arise as you resolutely wield the
lightning in your hands.
BY ROB BREZSNY
ASTROLOGY
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): responsibility. And in this way we learn,
To encourage young people to come over time, about what are our proper
to its shows, the English National burdens to carry and what are not. We
Opera has offered a lot of cheap tick- develop clear boundaries around how
ets. Here’s another incentive: Actors to hold our obligations with grace.”
sing in English, not Italian or French Sanaker’s thoughts will serve as an ex-
or German. Maybe most enticing for cellent meditation for you in the coming
audiences is that they are encouraged weeks. You’re in a phase when you can
to boo the villains. The intention is to make dramatic progress in embodying
make attendees feel relaxed and free the skills she articulates.
to express themselves. I’m pleased to AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):
give you Scorpios permission to boo the As author Denise Linn reminded us,
bad guys in your life during the com- “The way you treat yourself sends a very
ing weeks. In fact, I will love it if you clear message to others about how they
are extra eloquent and energetic about should treat you.” With that advice as
articulating all your true feelings. In my your inspiration, I will ask you to deepen
view, now is prime time for you to show your devotion to self-care in the coming
the world exactly who you are. weeks. I will encourage you to shower
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): yourself with more tenderness and gen-
“If we’re not careful, we are apt to erosity than you have ever done in your
grant ultimate value to something we’ve life. I will also urge you to make sure
just made up in our heads,” said Zen these efforts are apparent to everyone
priest Kosho Uchiyama. In my view, in your life. I am hoping for you to ac-
that’s a problem all of us should always complish a permanent upgrade in your
be alert for. As I survey my own past, I’m love for yourself, which should lead to
embarrassed and amused as I remem- a similar upgrade in the kindness you
ber the countless times I committed this receive from others.
faux pas. For instance, during one eight- PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20):
month period, I inexplicably devoted You have at your disposal a prodi-
myself to courting a woman who had giously potent creative tool: your imagi-
zero interest in a romantic relationship nation. If there’s a specific experience
with me. I bring this to your attention, or object you want to bring into your
Sagittarius, because I’m concerned that world, the first thing you do is visual-
right now, you’re more susceptible than ize it. The practical actions you take
usual to making this mistake. But since to live the life you want to live always
I’ve warned you, maybe you’ll avoid it. I refer back to the scenes in your mind’s
hope so! eye. And so every goal you fulfill, every
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): quest you carry out, every liberation
Capricorn author Asha Sanaker you achieve, begins as an inner vision.
writes, “There is a running joke about Your imagination is the engine of your
us Capricorns that we age backwards. destiny. It’s the catalyst with which you
Having been born as burdened, cranky design your future. I bring these ideas
old people, we become lighter and to your attention, dear Pisces, because
more joyful as we age because we have November is Celebrate Your Imagina-
gained so much practice in wielding tion Month.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
Snoozefest By Trenton 45 Ostentatious display 86 Opportunities to win a
Charlson 48 Kicked back vacation on ‘‘Wheel of
Fortune’’ 18 19 20 21
ACROSS 49 Singer Lisa
1 Goes wherever the wind 51 Pre-euro currency 90 Stocking stuffer
22 23 24 25 26
blows? 52 National tree of the U.S. 91 Actress Ana of ‘‘Love,
6 Person who likes all your Victor’’
53 Paradise lost 27 28 29 30
FB posts, perhaps 92 ‘‘Alas . . . ’’
54 Scatterbrains
9 Key with five sharps: Abbr. 93 Bistro sign word 31 32 33 34 35 36
56 Grandma, to Brits
13 Western film, in old slang 95 Francis’ tenure, e.g.
57 Frenzy
18 Harriet’s partner on 96 Lively, on a score 37 38 39 40 41
1950s-’60s TV 59 Rattlesnake’s warning
97 Collect little by little
19 China’s Chou En-____ 60 Ambrose Bierce defined 42 43 44 45 46 47
it as ‘‘A minor form of 99 Makes
20 Paul Simon’s ‘‘____ Rock’’ despair, disguised as a 101 ‘‘Which Disney Princess
48 49 50 51 52
21 Tree that Athena gifted to virtue’’ Are You?’’ and the like
Athens 62 Totally over it all 104 Big Ten powerhouse, for 53 54 55 56 57 58
22 Inaptly named bear of a 63 Final creature short
tongue twister encountered in ‘‘Dr. 107 Eye shade 59 60 61 62
25 Spanish rice Seuss’s ABC’’ 110 Basic skateboard trick
26 Letter-shaped 68 Far-right state 111 Quick nap . . . or a playful 63 64 65 66 67
construction piece 70 Buckskin, e.g. description of the
27 Endeavor 71 Something stretched out 64-Down here 68 69 70 71 72 73
28 Winter weather hazard in a yoga class 113 Conflagration
31 Little black ____ 74 Has over 114 Diamond who went 74 75 76 77 78 79
32 Art of verse 75 Go after platinum
33 Jurisdiction of a Catholic 115 Scottish denial 80 81 82 83 84 85
78 Like varnished wood
church official 79 ‘‘Pretty please?’’ 116 Popeye creator Segar
86 87 88 89 90 91
37 Get closer and closer 80 Sci-fi travelers 117 Footnote abbr.
40 Mapmaker’s subj. 81 Pan-fries 118 Icelandic work that
92 93 94 95
41 Literary traveler to Lilliput influenced Tolkien
84 Violated a code of silence
and Brobdingnag 119 Key for getting out, not in 96 97 98 99 100
85 Sportscaster Jim with the
42 Transfixed classic opening ‘‘Hello, 120 Like May through August,
43 Former telecom giant that friends’’ unlike the other months 101 102 103 104 105 106
merged into Verizon of the year
107 108 109 110 111 112
DOWN
THE MEPHAM GROUP | SUDOKU 1 What ‘‘piano’’ can mean 113 114 115 116
2 Côte d’____
117 118 119 120
3 Nickname for Isabelle or
Isidore
4 Fashion designer Lange 34 Kilt-wearing Greek 64 Sleep indicators 98 Woman’s name 104 Eleven, en français
5 Actress Amanda of infantryman 65 Counterfeit meaning ‘‘night’’ in 105 Parts of snowmobiles
2012’s ‘‘Les Misérables’’ 35 Fixed, as tiling Hebrew and Arabic
66 Spike the Beanie Baby, 106 Exploits
6 What B. B. King was king 36 Northern California e.g. 99 Pound and others 107 ‘‘The White Lotus’’ airer
of town once home to 100 Worshiper of the rain
67 Having some pep 108 View from Lake Como
7 Rattles the palindromic ____ god Tlaloc
68 Alternative to Advil or 109 Country music’s ____
8 Opposite of flatness Bakery Aleve 102 Took off Brown Band
9 Members of bevies and 37 Chain that sells chains 69 Birthplace of the 103 One of the Nereids of 112 In a bad way
broods 38 ‘‘Jeepers!’’ Franciscan order Greek myth
10 Tie the knot 39 Levels 71 Kind of ray
11 Mine: Fr. 40 Old fogy 72 Bit of tomfoolery L A S T W E E K ’ S A N S W E R S
12 Many a collaboration 41 Quiet valley 73 Nervous state T A C K S E A S T C A
P S D I T
between Louis Armstrong 43 Partner of glamour S W E A R I N G I N S A L
A T T O N E
74 Seven: Prefix
and Ella Fitzgerald A R C T A N G E N T A M I
G A H I T S
44 Comedian Fields 75 Football sideline
13 ‘‘C’est magnifique!’’ R Y E S T A S K E L I T
E S T A T U S
46 ____ garden reporter Kolber U S E R S P A T A H I T U N A
14 Spanish composer Isaac
47 When repeated, one of 76 Brand of pretzels and H A S U R D U O R I G I N M O P E
15 ‘‘How to ____ a ____’’ the Gabor sisters chips I N T E R N E T C O N N E C T I O N
(popular Google search)
50 Mercedes-____ 77 Electric ____ P I L A F E R R E L I T R E A D S
16 One of the Gabor sisters G A B R U D E S N O W H I C
54 Stupor 79 Kvetches
17 Radiation unit D U A L C I T I Z E N
S G P A J E E R
LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS 55 Multitude 81 Pointy-eared dog
23 Member in the genus E S T E E M S A D
O A S S U A G E
Complete the grid so each row, 57 Pac-Man navigates 82 Big name in car parts S T E T O A T R A
C H E L M A D D O W
Troglodytes, so named for
column and 3-by-3 box (in bold through one 83 Break away K O I D I R E T
A I L E M O
its tendency to enter dark
borders) contains every digit 1 to 58 Wood-shaping tool
crevices 85 Reason to hang up S O N O F A I R A L Y E O G R E S
9. For strategies on how to solve
24 ‘‘Jeepers!’’ 60 They’re taken out in 87 Victoria Falls river P O L I T I C A L A C T I V I S T S
Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.
alleys 88 Uniform adornment S V E N M E E T M E T I N A T A N
Look for the answers to this 25 Generational divide
61 Six-Day War leader S T A N D U P N A D A B O R N
week’s puzzles in next weeks 29 Former queen of Jordan 89 Center of L.A., once
Weizman C A N N A B I S O I L L I E N O M E N
printed edition.
30 Nintendo princess 94 Sufficient, informally U R I E O N E B C L A S T I N L I N E
62 No-nonsense TV judge
31 Order of roses 95 Aphids, to ladybugs B E S T A G A V E G R E A T B A S I N
63 Unsightly spot A S H T E R I A M E N A N O D E
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