Tickets On Sale: Elton John, Iron & Wine, Ray LaMontagne, Sheryl Crow
February has brought us unusually seasonable sunny days and unfortunately copious amounts of wind, freezing temps and graupel (a word that sounds made up but that means "snow pellets or soft hail")....
View ArticleChairman of House Tax Committee Will Sponsor Cigarette Tax
Republican Rep. Dennis Lake, chairman of the House Committee on Revenue and Taxation, confirmed today that he will sponsor a bill in favor of increasing Idaho's sales tax on tobacco but that it is far...
View ArticleNew Devotchka Album Preview
Denver-based Devotchka—known for their notoriously difficult-to-describe amalgam of Eastern European-esque polka pop punk—returns to Boise at the Knitting Factory on Wednesday, March 2. BW Staffer...
View ArticleFirst Luna Reform Bill Passes Senate 20-15
The first of Tom Luna's controversial three-pronged sweeps of Idaho classrooms has passed through the Idaho Senate on a vote 20-15. Among other things, Senate Bill 1108—which guts teacher contract...
View ArticleSecond Luna Bill Passes State Senate 20-15
It didn't take much longer for the second of Tom Luna's three bills to pass through the State Senate. Again, by a 20-15 vote, Republicans opted to support Senate Bill 1110, institute a new merit-pay...
View ArticleTeacher Protests Scheduled for Tonight Throughout Idaho
The Idaho Education Association, representing some 13,000 unionized teachers across the Gem State, said late today that there will be at least 16 candlelight vigils tonight, protesting the Senate...
View ArticleAnonymous Strikes Again: This Time, The Westboro Baptist Church
Ladies and gentlemen: there is an Internet war on. And it's raging with all the maturity of a fourth grade "he said-she said" match.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleUpdate on Berryhill’s New Ventures: Bacon and Plan B
Together, Plan B and Bacon sound like the shameful brunch of a Hollywood starlet. Apart, they’re the names of two new ventures Chef John Berryhill will be opening in the coming months in the same...
View ArticleTeachers Mourn Senate Passage of Education Bills
Symbolically or not, scores of Treasure Valley teachers stood with their backs to the Statehouse tonight in a somber vigil protesting the Senate vote to approve two of Tom Luna's plans to reform...
View ArticleBoise's Comedy Scene Still Funny Business
It's tough for any arts scene to flourish without a dedicated venue. And with the closing of the Funny Bone and its successor, Hijinx, Boise's comedy scene took some serious hits.… [ Read more ] [...
View ArticleThe Projector: Movies opening Friday, February 25
Husbands with frightening free will, Nicholas Cage escaping from where he belongs and Dakota Fanning's younger sis taking a star turn, it's all at the movies. by James Ady OPENING Drive Angry...
View ArticleHightail it Through the Sand City 100
Idaho motorcycle club the Desert Rats will host the 10th annual Sand City 100 on Sunday, March 6. This year’s race format will be a timed event over 100 miles of sand and sage.… [ Read more ] [...
View ArticleVAC Audience Puzzled By Nera
Though they would like to think they do, bands never truly defy description. But sometimes they do make it difficult.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleNullification Bill Dies in Senate Committee
The controversial "nullification" bill, which attempts to declare the Affordable Care Act "null and void" in Idaho, has been defeated in a State Senate Committee. By a voice vote, members of the State...
View ArticleNeed Something To Do Today?
Remember in Pretty In Pink when Andie couldn't afford a prom dress so she turned Iona's '60s prom dress into something rad to wear to her own prom 20 years later? What was a financial necessity for...
View ArticleScenes From a Scene #022—Eligh of Living Legends
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View ArticleGeorge Knight Cycles Through Race Officiators
There are no cheerleaders in cycling exhibitions. No sponsored onside kicks, no ceremonial first pitch and no half-time performance.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
View ArticleHow To Grow a World Record Bull Elk
A few weeks ago, we told you about the World Record Bull Elk that was shot behind a high fence operation in Southern Idaho. Many questioned the legitimacy of the “world record” claim made by...
View ArticleEastern Oregon flash trip // La Grande + Cove
woke up at 4:30 am yesterday to brave some snowy snowy roads and hustle over to little Cove, OR between the Wallowa and Blue Mountains for a day of hanging with the kids at the K-12 Cove School....
View ArticleMoving From South Park to The Book of Mormon
It's been a couple of good days for Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park. First, the man who encouraged their murders after they penned an episode that portrayed the Muslim prophet...
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