Friends With Kids
Wait a minute. Is that Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig? Yeah, but they're not the stars. by George Prentice Friends With Kids, Hollywood's new likeable but not lovable rom-com, is very pleasing to watch, if...
View ArticleBaseball Meets Theater With Damn Yankees at the Morrison Center
The Tony-Award winning musical Damn Yankees heads to the Morrison Center as part of the Broadway in Boise series. by Amber Clontz Damn Yankees is Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust in seven innings....
View ArticleWhat Do Super Tuesday's Results Mean?
Gingrich takes Georgia and Santorum takes North Dakota, Oklahoma and Tennessee. by David Tifunov, GlobalPost Super Tuesday results didnt become clear until early Wednesday, when Mitt Romney edged...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - The Donkey in the Room
Kate Scanlin is a lifelong Idahoan who goes to church every Sunday. When she came through the security checkpoint for the Ada County GOP Caucuses at Boise State's Taco Bell Arena, she was asked if she...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - Gem State Transplants
Originally from Texas, Bill Wade moved to Idaho from Southern California three years ago. After getting laid off from his job as an internal auditor with Citigroup in 2008, Wade and his family moved...
View ArticleNeed Something To Do Wednesday?
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View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - The Weed-Friendly Court the Right Wing
Josh Rinehart and Monica Hanna spent Tuesday evening trying to convince Republican voters of the benefits of medical marijuana. Since GOP supporters aren’t typically the most weed-friendly folks, it...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - Ballot Bonnets
The Idaho GOP Caucus filled the Taco Bell Areno March 6 in as much a way as any concert does: with throngs of boisterous, riled-up politicos and some very quirky attire. It was a zoo, and Terry...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - And the Band Played On
“We’re a little greasy,” said The Best Lyares’ guitarist Nick Skillings. “Judge us when you hear us.” The grease accounted for some of the band’s polish when it played at the Idaho GOP caucus Tuesday...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - The Latecomers
Thousands filtered into the Taco Bell Arena Tuesday night to take part in the first-of-its-kind Ada County Republican Caucus. But Luke Roberts and his wife weren't among the more than 9,000 that got...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - Youth Is Served
In a sea of people populated predominately with middle-aged baby boomers, the faces of youth stuck out like a sore thumb at Tuesday night's Ada County GOP Caucuses. Gathered in a bottom corner of the...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - The Volunteers
Judy Carson, 46, of Boise, sat near the top row of the second tier of seating in Taco Bell Arena Tuesday night with her 17-year-old daughter Emily. Judy was there not only to cast her vote for the GOP...
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - Who's Minding the Babies?
Voters Kari Conser, Michelle Hagner, Charity Cockcroft, and Jane Pinkerton are friends from church who made a plan one week in advance to attend the first-of-its-kind Idaho GOP Caucuses together....
View ArticleThe Idaho Caucuses - One For the History Books
If you're a Republican and you made it, you saw history unfold. If not, well, it looks like Idaho Republicans favor Romney. Thank the 9,000-plus Ada County Republican denizens who spoke on your behalf...
View ArticleBridge Resources Poised to Sell Assets From Idaho Gas Drilling Operations
Bridge Resources, the Canadian-based company that proceeded to drill for natural gas in Southwest Idaho while its financial strength came into question (its stock, which traded at $1.50 a share on the...
View Article25 Days of Treefort: Dinosaur Feathers
Though it features both surfer rock guitar and synth percussion, Brooklyn's Dinosaur Feathers bears no vestigial instrumental elements. The band's sound evolves from track to track with influences...
View ArticleRoad to SXSW: Personalized Weather
Finn Riggins picked me up at 3 a.m. this morning to join the band on its tour to the SXSW Music festival in Austin, Texas. I fell asleep in the van almost immediately.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to...
View Article'Faux' Loko Lives On
Just when we all thought that the toxic medley known as Four Loko was out of sight and out of mind, the booze wizards at Gizmodo decided to come up with a homemade version that is perhaps worse than...
View ArticleLa Belle Vie's Nick Duncan Nominated as People’s Best New Chef Finalist
Local chef Nick Duncan of Nampa’s La Belle Vie has been nominated as one of the top 100 finalists in Food and Wine magazine’s The People’s Best New Chef competition. Food and Wine selects 10...
View ArticleSlideshow: Ada County Caucus 2012
Idaho Republicans showed up in record numbers to back their candidate for president last night. In fact, Ada County's caucus at Taco Bell Arena, with just more than 9,000 participants, was the largest...
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