Recently added articles from Boise Weekly:
ME GONE NORTH
Mar 11, 2009; ... CPAC gone south During the last week of February, on those very days the nation's most prominent right-wingers were soaping one another up at the CPAC convention, desperately seeking a leader who can reanimate them out of the grumbling dead condition in which they currently molder, my ...
SUICIDE VIA COMFORMITY
Mar 11, 2009; ... How top newspapers are killing editorial cartooning NEW YORK-An editorial cartoon is like nothing else in a newspaper. Editorial cartoonists don't need any special degrees. Unlike reporters and editorial writers, they don't even have to pretend to be "fair." Moderation in what Jules ...
NOTE
Mar 11, 2009; ... Tackling the main feature is a serious undertaking for the writer lucky enough to get stuck with the task. A few weeks back, while apparently suffering from a serious case of over-ambitiousness, I volunteered to write the annual food feature. What I thought I was going to write about and where I ...
MIC V. KEYBOARD
Mar 11, 2009; ... Radio and Web battle, over free speech For a pair of bloggers, Zeb Bell is a talk radio host who has crossed the line. "The issue with talkers like Zeb Bell is not that they are expressing conservative opinions. The issue is that the hate speech they are broadcasting daily is ...
CITY DESK
Mar 11, 2009; ... LIBRARY BLOCKS DELAYED Capital City Development Corp. board of commissioners voted Monday to give developer Mark Rivers until December 2011 to start work on his Library Blocks development. Rivers requested the two-year extension on the project - part of which would be built on ...
RUBBER STAMPS
Mar 11, 2009; ... Tax committee affirms commission settlements Sometime between July 1, 2007, and Dec. 31, 2008, the Idaho State Tax Commission settled a tax case with an unnamed multi-state corporation, giving the company a $489,153 discount on the amount that state auditors had determined it ...
OBAMA'S SCHEMER
Mar 11, 2009; ... The Real World: White House edition The guy who has Karl Rove's old job deputy chief of staff to the president was in Boise last weekend as a guest of the Idaho Democratic Party ... and of his mother in Nampa. While Jim Messina, 39, bragged of being a "private schemer" (as ...
RECOVERY 101
Mar 11, 2009; ... The stimulus has begun in Idaho The recovery in Idaho has already begun. Promises of $1 billion in stimulus generated $5.47 billion in ideas from cities, counties, school districts and Idaho entrepreneurs, not to mention significant billions more in brainstorming at most state ...
CURIOUS TIMES
Mar 11, 2009; ... HOW TO START THE NEXT ICE AGE The incomprehensibly ludicrous plan to stop global warming by surrounding the Earth with trillions of tiny mirrors to reflect back the sun's rays Is still being advanced by scientists. The main proponent of this Idea is astronomer Dr. Roger Angel of the ...
AN ISOLATED IDAHO
Mar 11, 2009; ... From harvest to home: rethinking how we eat Idaho's borders have been sealed. Interstates 84, 15 and 90 were closed this morning at the Utah, Washington, Montana and Oregon state lines. All state highways have been blockaded. In-" and outbound flights at Boise Airport have been grounded ...
BIG BLUESMAN
Mar 11, 2009; ... John Nemeth's new CD and new direction Musician nicknames like Chubby, Jellyroll, Dizzy and Whitey often have a genesis in a personality trait or a physical attribute. As a teen, John Nemeth regularly performed in Boise under the moniker Fat John. It was a clever attention-catching name ...
NOISE NEWS
Mar 11, 2009; ... FORTHCOMING WESTIVALS While it's easy to justify forking over $5 to catch a show at the Lux, trying to rationalize dropping a couple hundred for a ticket to an outdoor megafestival is more tricky. But with so many bands squeezed into one weekend, they can be a cost-effective vacay ....
LISTEN HERE
Mar 11, 2009; ... PARENTHETICAL GIRLS, MARCH 14, NEUROLUX In a recent video shot in Vienna's Museum of Sound, the Parenthetical Girls' fey frontman Zac Pennington flits around in a tiny blue sweater embroidered with the words "Butterflies are free," alternating between pounding a small xylophone and ...
DON'T WATCH THESE MEN
Mar 11, 2009; ... DON'T WATCH THESE MEN Brilliant comic book isn't super on screen WATCHMEN (R) Directed by Zack Snyder Stars Jackie Earle Haley, Billy Crudup, Malin Akerman Now playing at Edwards 9, Edwards 21, Northgate Watchmen presents a different side of ...
AUSTRALIA
Mar 11, 2009; ... AUSTRALIA Before watching this, the only movies I could think of in which Australia was featured prominently were the Crocodile Dundee films. Knowing only this, let me say that director Baz Luhrmann's newest film is now my third favorite about the goings on In Oz. Not wanting to ...
THE VILLAGE BARBERSHOP
Mar 11, 2009; ... THE VILLAGE BARBERSHOP Since Boise is painfully underutilized as a setting for modern movies, it's kind of exciting when someplace familiar, like Reno, Nev., shows up in a film once in a while. And it's especially nice when the story told therein Is a sweet one with relatable and ...
CHEAP THRILLS
Mar 11, 2009; ... No money, no problem While most of us involuntarily cringe when we hear the term "staycation," the situation that had everyone looking for ways to cut back on travel costs while still having a little fun has only intensified. This time around, it's not the price of gas that has ...
REC NEWS
Mar 11, 2009; ... COASTAL STATE It's hardly a surprise when Idaho ends up among the top 10 best ... whatever, but rarely does that distinction involve the ocean. But that's just what set Coeur d'Atene's Sea Kayak Adventures apart for the editors of National Geographic Adventure ...
FLY AWAY
Mar 11, 2009; ... Birding Is so passe. Why wander the woods and fields, binoculars and camera in hand, looking for the next species you can check off your life list when you can wander the woods and fields looking for butterflies to check off your list? OK, so maybe it's not the hot, new activity that has ...
POLLO REY MEXICAN ROTISSERIE
Mar 11, 2009; ... POLLO REY MEXICAN ROTISSERIE Like cigars and swaddles, the key to the burrito is the efficiency of its wrap. And I will testify that after all these years, Polio Rey's burritos have never failed me. They are tight. They do not fall apart, nor leak. Leaned up against the side of a ...