Matisyahu Lives it Up in Live at Stubb's Vol. II
It is Matisyahu's ability to transition between styles, musical genres and even languages that make him a needle in today's musical haystack, in which so much sounds the same. by Alex Blackwell Have...
View ArticleCorporate Night: The Debut of Collapse Theater
The organizers of last year's Absurdist Film Festival turn their sights on live theater. by Josh Gross The leading contenders for Boise's anarchists-in-residence are Kelly Broich and the team behind...
View ArticleAgainst the People
At first glance, the uprising in Egypt puts the United States in an awkward spot. by Ted Rall Here is Egypt, America's neo-con dream come true. Democracy!… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on...
View ArticleMail and Commentary February 16, 2011
From mega-loads to nuclear reactors and tobacco ads, readers had a lot to say Property owners take it in the ... Residential property along the Clearwater Middle Fork of the Salmon and Lochsa rivers...
View ArticleIf You Go Looking, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Woody Allen looks at interpersonal relationships. Not sure he's the best judge . . . by Eric Austin Woody Allen examines themes of marital stagnation, family drama, self-delusion and all manner of...
View ArticleLearn the Soupy Secrets of Basque Cooking
Learn delicious recipes you can pass down to your children, and your children's children and your children's children's robots by Tara Morgan We're a bunch of Basque Market soup freaks here at BW. So...
View ArticleToni Hardesty
"The people who work at the Department of Environmental Quality are consummate public servants." by George Prentice Tonya Jones grew up in Kimberly, Idaho. Most everyone has called her Toni since she...
View ArticleSay Hi's Eric Elbogen Drops "Um, Uh Oh"
"I'm a perfectionist and a workaholic, and it takes a certain brand of human being to deal with my shit." by Amy Atkins If his bio is to be believed, someone might think Say Hi's Eric Elbogen is kind...
View ArticleMeet the Sugar Beet
The sugar beet is an inedible tuber that helped, in its small way to break the back of colonialism, sweeten lives (including those of dentists) and provide high desert farmers with a crop they could...
View ArticleCrumbling Foundations
This will be a most crucial societal challenge confronting Idahoans, this choice between our kids' best interests and a few extremists' dogmatic fever to privatize things that should never be reduced...
View ArticleSouth Africa: Song stirs bitter controversy
Bono says "Shoot the boer" is culture, but others say the song incites murder. by Erin Conway-Smith, GlobalPost JOHANNESBURG, South Africa To many South Africans, its perhaps the most dangerous...
View ArticleDeath in Bahrain, as Mideast protests continue
Four killed as Bahrain police raid Tahrir-style protest in capital. by GlobalPost Editors Bahrain riot police in Manama, the capital, raided a Tahrir-style protest camp in Pearl Square on Thursday,...
View ArticleAn Oscar Fit For a King
The 83rd annual Academy Awards will be televised Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. MST on ABC. by George Prentice If BW readers comprised the Motion Picture Academy, what a wonderful world it would be. According to...
View ArticleNeed Something to do Wednesday?
Don't think the apocalypse is nigh? New York does.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleAppalicious: InstaPaper
I bought Amazon's third iteration of the popular Kindle two months ago. Since then, I've read numerous editions of The New York Times, The Atlantic, a book by Mary Roach and texts for a philosophy...
View ArticleMeridian Bans Smoking in Parks. Is Boise Next?
Meridian has become the first municipality in Ada County to ban smoking in public parks. While the city of Boise moves forward with its effort to curb smoking, Tuesday night Meridian's City Council...
View ArticleCanadian Gas Driller Wants to Focus More on Payette Operations
A Canadian firm sold many of its North Sea assets today in order to focus more on its North American drilling operations, including some in Idaho. You may remember Bridge Resources and its efforts to...
View ArticleDemocrats: Luna 2.0 Isn't Any Better
Saying it's time for an "adult conversation," Idaho Democrats continued their push back today against Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Luna's proposals to reform classrooms across the Gem...
View ArticleBoise Bike Brigade Births Cycling Site
Russ Stoddard of advertising and design company Oliver Russell is "the force" (his words) behind the Boise Bike Brigade, or B3. The brigade wants to change the world "One Revolution at a Time." [...
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